#Crusader kings iii forum skin#

5 years before I died, I discovered that this motherfucker was a honest to god *cannibal* and tried to blackmail him. Ultimately, that brother remained a powerful count throughout my whole reign, with us despising each other and me refusing to give him any positions or power in the court or the like. The main challenge was my now brother that I had gone to war with to get both dukedoms back under control in a succession war ripped straight from the history books. When he died, that meant every one of his holdings was split equally between his male children. My story for today is that I had a very illustrious Gascon duke who made immense sums and built up the two dukedoms he controlled hugely, but he was actually in love with his skilled and accomplished wife so he had like 8-10 children. It helps now that CK3 has gotten out of its own way and everything works and is documented-the most bizarre and difficult to parse cruft of CK2 is gone. So your learning is extremely high up front, but then is an extremely pleasurable low to medium that I could truly just play for twelve hours at a time without stopping. So once you do that hour of 'where the fuck am I, politically?' you are in a place, time, and situation that is eminently readable because the state evolves over time but you're never just thrown into a completely new state.

#Crusader kings iii forum skin#

It takes about an hour of play to get into the skin of your ruler and their particular challenges and get your schemes and plans in play. Each time you start you enter an unknown situation, with unknown neighbor and ruler relationships. It's very intimidating to start a game even if you know the mechanisms, I think, is the main thing. I think a lot of people here can relate to that. Just one of the best games in existence, especially if you are an experience gamer who loves narrative. I missed it, don't know why I stopped playing. And you could have just submitted to whoever is kicking your ass.ĭove in on this again this week. at which point you get stripped of your titles and otherwise reduced to very little. If you play that way you're not going to have a good time with CK3 because in one of your first wars where you're just terribly outnumbered or otherwise long odds from your liege or vassals and you'll fight until you literally can't anymore. I find one of the biggest temptations I run into in this game is to take everything to the wall as if it's some sort of WWII existential political dispute/total war. It is ok to get knocked back down to Duke or be forced to give into a faction who wants more liberty. You'll have shitty heirs and get into terrible situations and you have to roll with it. On the flip side, you really need to be prepared to take the L in this game. I picked such a good moment, he just straight up allowed me out! I have been waiting several short generations as the 3rd most powerful vassal of the West Francian king to finally take my chance and declare my independence, a faction I sat on for a long time. The big thing is being super careful and always, always waiting until the right time.

Overall, I've finally gotten into the groove. Stress is pretty dangerous and can even lead to death, it fucks you up and gives you bad traits beyond health effects.

So stress points build up when you make your character do stuff they don't want to do.

They also determine what event choices and actions are 'stressful' to you, because they go against your nature. So, your personality traits don't just determine your stats. One big addition which really works is a new stress mechanic. It has gotten me way more into CK3 than Ck2, but I'm not sure vets need to get into it yet if they're happy with CK2. My sense is that they streamlined and exposed more of the engine in a much friendlier way. This game is great! Don't quit if you have a shitty ruler or 30-40 bad years where you're just hanging in. I've invested heavily in Lollardism, I'm doing quite well, but I'm still a vassal of the French King and our movement is on the run. Things were going swimmingly until Lollardism started to lose ground and the King of Bavaria, the bulwark of Lollardism, started to get Holy Warred by the Pope and lose ground. Not being Catholic has huge advantages-you can directly control your religious properties and make money from them, no more bullshit externally imposed bishops. When 'Lollardy' heresy popped up in Central Europe and got traction, I immediately jumped on. I dealt with it for about 10 years but it really fucking sucks. Now I'm reasonably powerful but am in a huge pickle.Īt some point in my first ruler's reign, the Pope excommunicated me for no real reason other than that my diplomacy sucked and my King (West Francia) was mad at me. Things were rough for the entire duration of my first ruler, but CK3 is all about *biding your time* for just the right moment when your ruler and/or your neighbors are weak. Still playing a game of this with Zurich.