What are your goals?

[Cubiz]

Waddup

I played already several hours of this game and somehow, after 3 generations the game feels repetitive. Same events, my kingdom/coutnry gets split up between my children and yee. So I kinda lose interesting because when my character dies I'm like:"Well, all I did was useless." Especially after you expanded a bit you literally win every war because the Ai is pretty dumb when it comes to war/fighting.

Maybe I just need some input or main goals what to do.
I already formed a kingdom (as a tribe) and reformed my religion.

Tell me about your games :)

[spasti696969]

Warfare is pretty easy in this game, just like Stellaris and Hearts of Iron to a lesser extent. It's the Sun Tzu philosophy where the battle is won or lost before you step on the battlefield and all that. You could try turning the difficulty up if it's a real problem.

For me I found that playing on Ironman and being honest about not savescumming with task manager makes the game a lot more fun. Save scumming essentially makes the game like playing baseball where you're promised to hit a home run every time you're at bat. Pretty exciting the first few times but gets boring quick because there's no drama and tension.

[Cubiz]

Originally posted by spasti696969:

Warfare is pretty easy in this game, just like Stellaris and Hearts of Iron to a lesser extent. It's the Sun Tzu philosophy where the battle is won or lost before you step on the battlefield and all that. You could try turning the difficulty up if it's a real problem.

For me I found that playing on Ironman and being honest about not savescumming with task manager makes the game a lot more fun. Save scumming essentially makes the game like playing baseball where you're promised to hit a home run every time you're at bat. Pretty exciting the first few times but gets boring quick because there's no drama and tension.

Isn't normal the highest difficulty? I always play on Normal.
So the benefit of Ironman is that you can't save as far as I understand? It doesn't give the bots a bonus?

[spasti696969]

Originally posted by Cubiz:

Originally posted by spasti696969:

Warfare is pretty easy in this game, just like Stellaris and Hearts of Iron to a lesser extent. It's the Sun Tzu philosophy where the battle is won or lost before you step on the battlefield and all that. You could try turning the difficulty up if it's a real problem.

For me I found that playing on Ironman and being honest about not savescumming with task manager makes the game a lot more fun. Save scumming essentially makes the game like playing baseball where you're promised to hit a home run every time you're at bat. Pretty exciting the first few times but gets boring quick because there's no drama and tension.

Isn't normal the highest difficulty? I always play on Normal.
So the benefit of Ironman is that you can't save as far as I understand? It doesn't give the bots a bonus?

Ironman automatically saves the game every 6 months and disables manual saving. It really alters the game fundamentally because when you can just reload the game it essentially gives every murder you try to pull off a 100% success rate, which might be why so many people think the Intrigue tree is bad.

[Cubiz]

True.
What are your goals in the game?

Btw., i love your username lol

[spasti696969]

Originally posted by Cubiz:

True.
What are your goals in the game?

Btw., i love your username lol

Well I've already done the big blob thing a couple times. I've kinda pigeonholed myself into feudal Asatru because I love the "build" so wherever I am on the map my strategy is to use my priest and steward to just force "my way" on the local area. Ironically in my current game I've only done like 2 small raids, but the raiding has just been so good to me in the past it's hard to give up.

Right now I'm playing as a Duke (duchess actually) in Bulgaria, and instead of blobbing the map out with a 200K army I'm just letting things happen "naturally". So actually letting the confederate partition happen instead of using disinherits or feudal elective to get around it. Once you get past the first ruler its pretty difficult to actually "game over". You can lose land and drop down to a single county, but even that's recoverable. I've never actually made it to 1453 either because of boredom, so I want to try to go all the way this time. Once you blob past Siberia and kill the Mongols it becomes quite tedious. My girlfriend calls this "the baby clicking game" because all she ever sees me do is arraigning marriages for my master race dynasty to keep the super soldier knights flowing.

[Uhrenkerl]

But ironman does barely increase the difficulty whatsoever and not at all if you just dont savescum (+ if you are a person that cant resist savescumming for whatever reason you can do that anyway in ironman)

You could do levies only, its such a dumb idea. It should work against the AI anyway

[Rex is back, baby!]

In my opinion, it is best to consider your character the dynasty and not the king. Your ultimate goal is to turn your family name from rags to riches, and often it becomes a habsburg simulator.


The goal im currently working on is making a "Holy Slavia" with the Bulgaria language the main language and I im refining the penultimate Slavic culture to be a mix of all the Slavic cultures.

[VipreRX]

It's a sandbox, embrace the sand.

Consider thinking real hard about the current character and playing them in a "semi-realistic" manner based on their traits.
Are they a just and righteous person, then maybe focusing on searching for and punishing the one behind your brother's murder might be more engrossing than conquering yet another county.
Are they a despicable rogue, then perhaps no wars at all, seek to expand by manipulation and intrigue alone.
Most people play every ruler like they're Dracula with a dungeon full of tortured corpses and a war of the week, "You get a bloody rampage...and you get a bloody rampage...everyone gets a blood rampage." That gets old fast.

[dwarfpcfan]

currently I've set myself the goal to recreate the Kingdom of Ancient Egypt (at least as much as the game allows). Basically start in the region where Ancient Egypt was located then reform the kushite religion and shape my realm's culture to be as close to Ancient Egypt as possible.

It's fun so far, I've just managed to form the Empire of Abyssinia and reform my religion to feudalize. And once I capture the Nile delta, I'll move my capital there and rename my empire to something appropriate to Ancient Egypt, same for my ruler's title

[Cubiz]

Cool answers, thanks

[Mati_Lublin]

Currently I decided to complete overhaul Norse from rabid adventurers to chill isolationists. Asartru doesn't fit, so I have plans for custom Christian faith (because every other religion renders special buildings useless).

[Kv_AuraGod]

Personally I take a break for a month when the game feels repetitive. I change the region I am playing in or play for achievements. I am planning to go for El Cid's achievement next.

[spasti696969]

Originally posted by Kv_AuraGod:

Personally I take a break for a month when the game feels repetitive. I change the region I am playing in or play for achievements.

I love how each part of the map almost feels like a different game. I'm down in the Bulgaria / Serbia area right now and it's just wild.

[Rex is back, baby!]

Originally posted by spasti696969:

Originally posted by Kv_AuraGod:

Personally I take a break for a month when the game feels repetitive. I change the region I am playing in or play for achievements.

I love how each part of the map almost feels like a different game. I'm down in the Bulgaria / Serbia area right now and it's just wild.

Seriously yes.
I was doing an augsburg vassal run, but the Karlings being Karlings has made me scrap that idea, and adapt. Now on my fourth generation, I have become king of Bavaria (I could be emperor, but meh) with a decent chunk of East Francia (Switzerland, Swabia and Fracia dutchies) into my domain, as well I have Bohemia and Croatia. I don't know how I lucked out, but I got Croatia to vassalize into me while it was run by a young girl who I married a uncle off to. Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria all have been a fun ride and my focus so far. If the remnants of East Fracia, Lotharingia, or West Francia ever decide to retake Bavaria... I might be screwed xD. (I'm not including Italy, because...that kindom ALWAYS breaks and is suffering from internal strife/peasants.)

I reformed my culture even, to fuse with the Carantanians who neighbored by dutchies of Augsburg/Tyrchol (the mine province southeast of Augsburg), so my people have slavic routes to them! It really is a wild ride playing with/against the south slavs.

Even though... technically half the bulgarian royals are distantly related, because my great aunt was married to a king and produced four heirs before the king killed her for alleged adultery and married some greek!

[Uhrenkerl]

Originally posted by spasti696969:

I love how each part of the map almost feels like a different game. I'm down in the Bulgaria / Serbia area right now and it's just wild.

Are we playing the same game? It feels the same in all places, the start is slightly different at best due to different neighbours and lands controlled

I am not sure right now, but I am fairly certain that there are not even any unique events that can pop up in that area