How does it feel
posted 2/22/2012 3:57:21 PM

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The Queen-Consort (in the case of the Holy Roman Empire, Kaiserin) of France, Leon (which grants me an automatic alliance to all the Christian kingdoms in Iberia) and the Holy Roman Empire are daughters of mine.

HOW DOES IT FEEL GODWINSON, HOW DOES IT FEEL

(Yes, because I forfeited Barcelona save, Moors have too many numbers, in real life what happened is great heroism, and great tactics won Iberia for "God", but CK2 doesn't feature those so it's pretty impossible, long parenthesis no?

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(I am now playing as Duke William of Normandie, of course now, 16 years after the Battle of Hastings, you'd call me King William the Conqueror of England)

How Crusader Kings 2 makes me sad
posted 2/19/2012 12:46:00 PM

So my character, the Duke of Barcelona, had several sons, from 3 wives in fact. One of them, the eldest and hence heir to my throne, rebelled, and declared war on me with his 2 considerably poor counties. They were so poor that he could only actually raise less than 60 men to fight my ~1500 men strong army.

He was defeated.

Then, since he just caused a mini-civil war, I am forced to imprison him. He remains so for several months, until he complains about the conditions of his cell.

He died 6 days later.

His son became my heir, though one of those 2 counties did not go to his son, but to another member of my family, considerably younger and bound to not be of age (16) until the new heir would be long past that stage of his life. My spymaster then, epic one that he is, discovers a plot from my son's son, my new heir, to assassinate the young family member who kept his father's 2nd county.

I neglect it, not wanting to arrest my son's son, since his father died in my cell because of it's poor conditions, despite him complaining of these.

Several years after the plot of assassination was first uncovered by my, strangely enough, Portuguese spymaster (Portugal and most of Galicia got conquered by the Moors of Seville, so they're spreading throughout the European noble houses, some remaining with their Moorish conquerors, some remaining imprisoned over 10 years after the end of the war, long parenthesis, no?), he kept insisting on the plot, pledging for me to take action against my grandson. I neglect it once again.

On the year my family member who inherited the 2nd county turned 16, the plot against him by my grandson was successful, and so he kept his father's 2nd county.

So, my son causes civil war, loses it and then is sent to prison, complains about cell conditions and dies 6 days later, his son doesn't inherit all of his father's land and then successfully plots to take it back, when again I could have stopped it? Or just prevented the whole situation from happening if I had released my son from prison or improved his cell conditions?

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