Paradox games but definitely NOT GAMES OF THRONE

[Mick]

 

Maybe it'd be a better idea to make the Kingdom of God instead  . 

[Mick]

Be Rhaegar

Show interest with Cult of the Stranger.

Get recruited by....Olena Tyrell.

WTF

 

So, new idea. Crowned Stag start, as Littlefinger. He's going to join and lead the Cult of the Stranger.

[Mick]

 

Not bad for my first recruit  . 

 

AND THAT'S WHY YOU DON'T FUCK MY WIFE   

[Mick]

So, after spending a weekend toying with Monks and Mystics...

 

I can't say I'm a huge fan of the evil secret societies. While having the powers are cool and what not, I think it makes the game way too easy, since I can sacrifice any prisoner with impunity, as well as inflicting illness on various undesirables. The hermetic society's pretty neat, but I haven't messed around with that too much, and I really need to investigate what benefits there are to joining the Dominicans or the Benedictines. 

 

I did find a fun start on AGOT. The Faith Militant Uprising. The realm slowly crumbles thanks to Maegor Targaryen. From a gameplay perspective, this guy is worse than Aerys, since not only is he a great commander, he also rides...Balerion, and he has the full loyalty of Visenya, riding an older and stronger Vhaegar. Have fun dealing with that mess. If the guy wins, then the other Lord Paramounts are going to start shit to get rid of him. 
 

It just seems very difficult for me to get into an extended game of AGOT, due to the bugginess and that it almost always ends up the same. I'm thinking for the time being I may just stick with vanilla. 

 

 

 

[Schlitzbrille]

Agree with you on the devil worshippers front, hence why I have a ruleset saved specifically to disable it (and secret religious cults and supernatural stuff )

[Mick]

7 minutes ago, Doctor Bigfoot said:

Agree with you on the devil worshippers front, hence why I have a ruleset saved specifically to disable it (and secret religious cults and supernatural stuff )

 

The supernatural stuff is fun though. I really wish that through the option to have a demon's child, that it would turn into the Antichrist as presented through the Old Golds event, but no  . 

[Mick]

Is it still murder if the entire court is in it?  

[Schlitzbrille]

15 minutes ago, Mick said:

Is it still murder if the entire court is in it?  

Is the targets wife in on it? 

[Mick]

19 hours ago, Doctor Bigfoot said:

Is the targets wife in on it? 

 

Yep. Jewish steward. Ended up being marrying him to a courtier spawned by the witch event. Ugly and a hunchback  . 

 

Anyway, my game's going pretty well. Started in 769 as the Chief of Dublin, united Ireland. Gave my sons except the eldest a duchy (excluding two which are being used for the capital, it's like Mide and Lienster I think). Currently making plans to invade Britain, but I'm thinking of restarting the game since I thought up a new goal. 

There's an achievement for recreating the Roman Empire. So, I go to thinking, why not to try restore Carthage? I mean, yeah, I'll be up to my knees in Muslims, but still, could be fun...

[Schlitzbrille]

36 minutes ago, Mick said:

There's an achievement for recreating the Roman Empire. So, I go to thinking, why not to try restore Carthage? I mean, yeah, I'll be up to my knees in Muslims, but still, could be fun...

I'm messing around with that myself for a Cube game.

My Wessex game is wonderful at the moment. 1092 and have set myself a challenge to not expand beyond Britannia's dejure borders (outside of Shetland, the Faroe Islands, Rom , and just enough territory in the northwestern part of France to form the Kingdom of Brittany. All those were grandfathered into this challenge)

Won three Crusades in a row. Burgundy and Middle Francia are doing fine post-independence, whereas Jerusalem was already swallowed up again by the Abbasids.

The Cerdicing dynasty not only controls Britannia but also Francia, who somehow vassalized most of Scandinavia and are (for now) my only serious threat.

Have only faced one serious threat to my rule when some low-level punk tried pressing his fabricated claim on my empire, had the Kings of Ireland and Wales backing him up. They failed.

[Mick]

Oh, dude, I just had an epic idea. 

Make custom character. Full on Littlefinger type. Have him become a Satanist. Use his high intrigue and dark powers to destroy the Abbasids. For Jesus. You Monster. 

[Mick]

TMW when your king dies and you go from Crusader Kings to King Lear....

[Mick]

[Mick]

AGOT 1.5 Is released. 

Changelog:

Events, jobs, plots and decisions:

• Added many canon books as artifacts, and an event to buy them
• Added a glass candle artifact, with assocaited decisions/events
• Dragon riders may now move courts more often
• Added an event for wine cellars
• Enabled some regency decisions for when the regent has their liege imprisoned
• When Stannis wins the war for The North, the new Lord of Winterfell must choose whether to convert and burn the Godswood
• Added an event where a Faith of the Seven high valyrian ruler may take on an extra wife
• Added the remaining planned alchemist society missions/powers
• Unlanded husbands can now ask for dowries
• Disgruntled Blackfyres can now leave to join the Golden Company
• Added an event where a proud/ambitious lord can demand a commander title
• The Household Guard is now represented by a building in the capital holding. The AI can now also build this building. Added some canon Household Guards to some houses.
• Added more options to reward service
• Added an event informing old host when a claimant is invited to another court
• Added events informing the world of realms in interregnum or kingsmoot
• Added some missing religions to the renounce piracy options
• Allys and relatives of rulers who concede to faction ultimatums will now be informed of the event
• Improved some vanilla trait_effects events
• Lowborn military commanders can now be raised to nobility
• Added an option for Aegon to accept the Storm King alliance in The Conquest scenario
• When a family member asks for a military command you can now instead promote a previously unknown commander
• The conscript merchant ships decision is now more readily available
• Added a few new tourney events, and tweaked a few existing events
• The player can now place bets for the winner of tournies (including needlessly elaborate odds calculations )
• Feasts should now properly occur during tournies
• Going on a foreign tour can now relieve stress/depression
• Nghai culture/religion can now slave and sacrifice prisoners
• Improved destitute noble event

Character/Database setup (WARNING, SPOILERS AHEAD):

• Arlan III's conquest of The Riverlands is now ongoing in The Century of Blood
• Jorah Mormont is now Lord of Bear Island during Robert's Rebellion
• Jaime Lannister has a golden hand in AFFC for The Reaper's Due owners
• Updated history/traits for Steffon Fossoway, Helicent Uffering, Mark Mullendore, Ben Bushy, Cranes, Patchface
• Added Elston Tully, Lymond Mallister, Manfryd Lothston
• Added Simon Toyne and the Smiling Knight, as well as their small rebellion
• Fixed Ossifer Lipps' dynasty
• Added Urrathon Night-Walker
• Revised the traits/history of Gareth the Grey, Marston Waters, Lysono Marr, Small Paul, Malwyn Frey, Amerei Frey, Joyeuse Erenford, Sybell Spicer
• Fixed birth dates of Ermesande Hayford,
• Added dull trait to Victarion
• Added House Holt to The North
• Fixed some Frey birth dates
• Added sympathy for drowned god trait to Baelor Blacktyde
• Added some adjusted DNA for stark characters
• Fixed highgarden history around 8054
• Made Aerys and Rhaella abominations of incest
• Added a few riverlander houses to the correct side in the Dance
• Added opinion malus between Renly and Stannis in ACoK
• Jeor Mormont now becomes Lord Commander in 8288, also fixed longclaw handover date
• Other misc character updates

Balance:

• Pirate dens and wildling barracks no longer spawn at the start of shattered realm scenarios
• Fixed being able to punish defeated rebels post mega war before the relevent events popped up
• Added more restrictions on when landless dragon riders can choose sides in a mega war
• Reduced power of some cityguard modifiers
• Reduced valyrian religion opinion bonus with other religions
• Paranoid characters will no longer go into seclusion for no reason at all
• Bad province modifiers arising from debt now also reduce prosperity
• If Dany loses a liberation war she now loses her eastern titles
• Mega war related justice now effects fear
• Can no longer plot to release slaves who are unrelated and like their master
• Made it impossible to diplomatically vassalise rulers made temporarily independent via mega war
• Stealing a slave no longer results in a opinion malus with the slave
• Added more negative consequences for northerners ignoring a call to arms from The Night's Watch
• Prisoners are now grateful for being released from a siege
• Just rulers take a smaller prestige hit and are less liekly to gain stressed or depressed if they lose a trial
• Defensive coalitions now apply to kingdom claim wars
• It is no longer possible for the Night's Watch to accept vassalisation
• Added a cooldown to seeking raiding redress after a successful vengeance war. Also reduced amount of wealth seized
• Increased Seek Raiding Redress diplomatic action cooldown
• Realms in favour of slavery can now be called into a defensive coalition for realms defending an anti-slavery war, plus the same for pro-slavery and anti-piracy wars
• Made some adjustments to ruler designer trait costs
• The republic seize city casus belli can now only be used in locations of the same culture or religion group, or against other merchant republics
• It is now cheaper to hire the golden company, but only king tier or above can now hire them
• Dawn can no longer be inherited
• Rebalanced wealth gained from province extortion
• Military commands can now be freely revoked, also updated ai military commander selection AI
• There is now a small chance of being unable to flee a battlefield duel
• Made large tournies slightly cheaper
• Added a small amount of attrition to White Walker stacks
• Redcued chance of Red Death ruining provinces in Sothoryos

AI:

• Adjusted AI logic of funding claimant adventurers (made more picky)
• Made the AI more aggressive with claim wars in shattered realm starts
• Arbitrary or lunatic AI rulers may now sometimes tyranically imprison people
• Added a script that makes non-indepedent AI try to find allies
• Making a marriage with a neutral AI lord during a mega war will now prompt them to re-evaluate their neutrality
• Made some adjustments to AI casus belli weighting
• AI rulers with full slave camps may now sell some slaves so they can raid for more

Graphics and portraits:

• Added an icon for declared incapable trait
• Applied the heremetic clothing to the alchemist guild (with a green recolour)
• Added a greyscale trait icon

Map:

• Made The Sandship a military command
• Added peasedale as a sept in The Riverlands
• Tarbeck Hall is now known has Bramhope after its destruction
• Added Misty Isle as a barony in Deddington

Misc:

• The devil worshipper game rule now defaults to off
• Renamed devil worshipper rule options
• Female pirate heirs are now accepted if the pirate is a traditional cognatic culture and their capital province is the same culture
• Removed the road buildings and combined all their effects into one province modifier
• Changed the effects of The Great Crypt to something that actually works
• Adjusted almost-spamlike cheating spouse punishment event
• Fixed women not getting any reaving events. Also optimised the events
• Brienne changes nickname to "the Blue" if Renly wins
• Beric now gets Blackhaven upon beating the Iron Thhrone
• The iron throne can now use bodyguards if the kingsguard is not active
• Added the Bronze Armor of House Royce as an artifact
• Added some more wildling dynasty names
• Made tooltips concerning high lord tier clearer
• Added tooltips to traits/cultures listing effects on dragon hatching/taming
• More males can now be commanders in Hyrkoon
• Made dragon dreams slightly more common
• Added tooltips to post mega war punishment events showing when any liege loans are cancelled
• Added feminist = yes to all Dornish cultures so they tolerate female liegs and heirs in all situations
• More rulers are now informed when Rickon is found in AFFC
• Added more trial charges for trial flavour event text

Internal Scripting:

• Added scripted effects: excommunication_chance_effect and excommunicate_effect
• Added custom loc for different iron throne names (iron throne or westeros)
• Unified use of kidnapping opinion modifiers, only use kidnapped_me and attempted_kidnapping not the old depreciated ones
• Hid Seaworth and High Valyrian trait
• Added a military command government for cities, looks the same as the castle one but allows for separate taxing

Bugfixes:

• Made some fixes/adjustments which should hopefully with some mac problems
• Made some validator fixes
• Fixed littlefinger Harrenhal grant in ACoK
• The first Lord Commander of the Kingsguard can now be manually selected
• Fixed bug where sometimes colonies would not properly revert to nomads when destroyed
• Fixed Greyjoys having a traditional claim on the Iron Islands in the Century of Blood scenario
• The Night's Watch can no longer be called into defensive coalitions
• Councillors fired during a mega war should no longer be readded to the council at the end of the war
• Fixed dothraki being able to declare war on ruins
• Fixed not being able to form the kingsguard before 7999
• Lowborn or landless rulers no longer get event to marry local commoner
• Fixed kingdom title maintenance event localisation
• Fixed special king titles (e.g. Dragon king, Shadow king)
• Can no longer force train maimed children
• Fixed Dany AFFC tangent
• Fixed some landless foreign tour event text
• Fixed kingsguard death notification
• Fixed tooltips on weapon forging events, also adjusted prestige/command bonuses from weapons and reduced their cost
• Fixed anti-nomad casus belli giving the attacker an empire tier nomad title on victory
• Fixed Daeron bastardisation in the Blackfyre Rebellion
• Fixed emperor tier sometimes being able to select the become emperor ambition
• Fixed the wrong justiciar being killed by fabricate claims event
• Valyrians can no longer read 'Valyrian for Dummies' on the sword quest
• Fixed cost of level 4 camel building
• Fixed events where claimant faction joins an adventurer's war. Factions can now also join griff/blackfyre invasions
• Courtiers can no longer elope with underage courtiers
• Can no longer befriend young children at feasts
• Fixed seclusion lover event
• Must wait a few days in game before using call for dragon rider decision so dragons are added to their riders correctly before using it
• Councillors can no longer improve relations with themself when using statecraft job
• Fixed day 0 dynast generator sometimes creating relations not connected to the family tree
• Fixed Asshai monarchy event spam
• Fixed grant kingdom decision not transferring vassals
• Fixed being able to force train dragons and other mythical creatures
• Fixed some custom locs not working (weight_multiplier cannot be less than 1)
• Fixed flag saying Aegon's crown being forged not being set during his conquest events
• Fixed kingsguard LC selection event not cycling the possible new LCs correctly Fixed Aurion not invading Volantis if they had already lost New Valyria if it was the player
• Fixed White Walkers not using their government type
• Fixed councillor title management decision being available if liege didnt have spare title to give away
• Fixed skinchanger animal battle events
• Added check to annexation event that checks annex target is still available
• Fixed dynast war request event targetting invalid titles

 

Yet the Karstarks still declare themselves legit Starks in AFFC . 

[Mick]

Went to make a custom character. Littlefinger type etc. Count of Leon, with the goal of making him the Emperor of France. 

Things go well. Join the Satanists, advance pretty fast. Lose the immortality quest, oh well. Have two daughters and a son. The son is slow. 

Then...my second daughter, middle child doesn't cry or fuss, but laughs when someone gets hurt. 

 

Shit. She's the Antichrist :| . 

[Schlitzbrille]

Is the AGOT bookmark still an April Fool's joke?

[Mick]

Be head of the Satanic order

Catch wife in bed with another count. 

Nod slowly. 
 

Tainted touch everyone in count's family. 

[Mick]

Flu was so bad it made her possessed....

[FestiveJack]

Invasion CBs are fun. If you occupy all the target's territory that's not in the de jure kingdom you're invading, you take out entire countries. Did this with Bulgaria in the 867AD start, reduced Boris to a single county in my realm and then took that by choosing to settle as feudal there.

Also Rurik is the easiest character I've ever played as. Formed the Rus within three years of game start.

[Schlitzbrille]

State of Europe, AD 1200.



Went from four counties held by my dynasty to having three empires, the Knights Hospitaller and the Knights of Calatrava under their control.