Thank God for dread!

[Shampoo]

Having lots of prisoners ready to be executed upon succession removes all of the pain of managing factions every time I die and lets me focus on securing the kingdom without being burdened by the politics of my vassals.

Is it better for a King to be feared or loved? Obviously, feared!

And now that I have the Pope on my side, I can excommunicate my enemies with full approval from God, does excommunicating them means Catholic kings won't ally with them?

I tried to excommunicate the Holy Roman Emperor but that didn't work. Oh well.

[Messsucher]

Originally posted by Shampoo:

Having lots of prisoners ready to be executed upon succession removes all of the pain of managing factions every time I die and lets me focus on securing the kingdom without being burdened by the politics of my vassals.

Exactly. You can just drool in your castle. And people say now the game is easy because there is tooltips. No. The game is easy because there is godmodes. Kings in my game are threatened by my bookworm dukes, making it trivial to unstabilize the kingdom and overthrow king instead of getting revoke duchy order from King and if refuse 10 000 men army roflstomping you.

CK3 is not a game, it is godmode of CK2.

[Pazoozoo]

I haven't tried a dread playthrough yet, but with all the lifestyle perks that support dread it definitely seems viable. Maybe it's because of my time in CK2 but I feel like this game's realm management/war aspect is easier in general.

[Night]

Originally posted by Messsucher:

Originally posted by Shampoo:

Having lots of prisoners ready to be executed upon succession removes all of the pain of managing factions every time I die and lets me focus on securing the kingdom without being burdened by the politics of my vassals.

Exactly. You can just drool in your castle. And people say now the game is easy because there is tooltips. No. The game is easy because there is godmodes. Kings in my game are threatened by my bookworm dukes, making it trivial to unstabilize the kingdom and overthrow king instead of getting revoke duchy order from King and if refuse 10 000 men army roflstomping you.

CK3 is not a game, it is godmode of CK2.

CK 2 was trivial, this game is actually challenging.
You can't do that with every ruler. First of all you have to actually HAVE those prisoners in the first place which requires you to engage in a war you know you can win and have the kings approval (or low crown authority to do so).

There's also the stress mechanic where if your character has an issue executing a bunch of people then you will almost certainly have a mental break.


people forget that in CK 2 you could literally bait every enemy into attacking into mountains and shift around all of your troops to a single flank just for the LOLBONUS of 'tactics' and laugh as your shieldwall units crush their flank and defeat an army 10 times their size.


CK 2 was easy AF. This game at least requires some forethought.

If you're going to execute a bunch of people to terrify your king that seems like a pretty good tactic.

It also though depends on the kings personality. Some characters will literally not scare at all even if your dread is 100.


To gain a kingdom in CK 2 I could literally hole up on a mountain and goad everyone into attacking me there while I shift all my units to the right flank and do that over and over again until I beat literally the entire kingdom/empire.

I'd also prefer this system over the complete absence of fear mechanics. Why *wouldn't* people be afraid of me if I just executed 15 people in the public square?

[Messsucher]

Originally posted by Night:

Originally posted by Messsucher:

Exactly. You can just drool in your castle. And people say now the game is easy because there is tooltips. No. The game is easy because there is godmodes. Kings in my game are threatened by my bookworm dukes, making it trivial to unstabilize the kingdom and overthrow king instead of getting revoke duchy order from King and if refuse 10 000 men army roflstomping you.

CK3 is not a game, it is godmode of CK2.

CK 2 was trivial, this game is actually challenging.
You can't do that with every ruler. First of all you have to actually HAVE those prisoners in the first place which requires you to engage in a war you know you can win and have the kings approval (or low crown authority to do so).

There's also the stress mechanic where if your character has an issue executing a bunch of people then you will almost certainly have a mental break.


people forget that in CK 2 you could literally bait every enemy into attacking into mountains and shift around all of your troops to a single flank just for the LOLBONUS of 'tactics' and laugh as your shieldwall units crush their flank and defeat an army 10 times their size.


CK 2 was easy AF. This game at least requires some forethought.

If you're going to execute a bunch of people to terrify your king that seems like a pretty good tactic.

It also though depends on the kings personality. Some characters will literally not scare at all even if your dread is 100.


To gain a kingdom in CK 2 I could literally hole up on a mountain and goad everyone into attacking me there while I shift all my units to the right flank and do that over and over again until I beat literally the entire kingdom/empire.

I'd also prefer this system over the complete absence of fear mechanics. Why *wouldn't* people be afraid of me if I just executed 15 people in the public square?

I haven't killed a single prisoner. I have ransomed or released them.

[The Former]

Originally posted by Messsucher:

Originally posted by Shampoo:

Having lots of prisoners ready to be executed upon succession removes all of the pain of managing factions every time I die and lets me focus on securing the kingdom without being burdened by the politics of my vassals.

Exactly. You can just drool in your castle. And people say now the game is easy because there is tooltips. No. The game is easy because there is godmodes. Kings in my game are threatened by my bookworm dukes, making it trivial to unstabilize the kingdom and overthrow king instead of getting revoke duchy order from King and if refuse 10 000 men army roflstomping you.

CK3 is not a game, it is godmode of CK2.

It's also easy to beat a Pokemon game if you trade for a party full of legendaries and curbstomp the entire world.

[Messsucher]

Originally posted by World's Coolest Old Guy:

Originally posted by Messsucher:

Exactly. You can just drool in your castle. And people say now the game is easy because there is tooltips. No. The game is easy because there is godmodes. Kings in my game are threatened by my bookworm dukes, making it trivial to unstabilize the kingdom and overthrow king instead of getting revoke duchy order from King and if refuse 10 000 men army roflstomping you.

CK3 is not a game, it is godmode of CK2.

It's also easy to beat a Pokemon game if you trade for a party full of legendaries and curbstomp the entire world.

You are on the winning side. I am on the losing side. You should not try to rub anymore salt in my wounds :D

You affected in that I pre-ordered this kiddy CK2 game. But remember I pre-ordered this so that I am entitled to raging rights as a disappointed consumer when the product does not meet expectations at all :D

[Jotun]

Originally posted by Messsucher:

Originally posted by World's Coolest Old Guy:

It's also easy to beat a Pokemon game if you trade for a party full of legendaries and curbstomp the entire world.

You are on the winning side. I am on the losing side. You should not try to rub anymore salt in my wounds :D

You affected in that I pre-ordered this kiddy CK2 game. But remember I pre-ordered this so that I am entitled to raging rights as a disappointed consumer when the product does not meet expectations at all :D

Well then, don't use the godemodes? Play in harder difficulty? Start with a more difficult character?

[Messsucher]

Originally posted by Jotun:

Originally posted by Messsucher:

You are on the winning side. I am on the losing side. You should not try to rub anymore salt in my wounds :D

You affected in that I pre-ordered this kiddy CK2 game. But remember I pre-ordered this so that I am entitled to raging rights as a disappointed consumer when the product does not meet expectations at all :D

Well then, don't use the godemodes? Play in harder difficulty? Start with a more difficult character?

*yawn*

[Mad Max]

I played a little around with Dread and being as scary as possible but it seems even at 100 Dread some people will never be 'Terrified' just 'Intimidated' (I think that's what its called, the lower tier of Fear)

Anyway to make those people full on terrified crap their pants?