Most Fun Game

[Captain Kirk]

What's the most fun game of CK2 you've played? What made it fun?

[Sweet Tooth]

Most of games are fun. For example, in my currents game its about year 800... and guess what? I have Emperor of Byzantine and Emperor of Abbasid in my prison, waiting for next Great Blot. Cant catch Pope, but watevah. Norse Germanic Merchant Republic of Denmark.

[gregoryk64]

The one I've got going now is quite interesting. Started with Wessex in 769. Formed the kingdom of England in about 70 years, with Wales coming soon after. Ireland took some time as the northern part of the island was claimed by the PIcts, with the petty kingdom of Munster held by a Norse Christian high chief. Took the south first, which was cool because my new Norse vassal had a couple chiefdoms in Sweden giving me a small toehold in Scandinavia. Then came the Black Death about 200 years into the game. Thanks to marriage ties and some untimely deaths due to the plague, I ended up with a couple of duchies in Lombardy, which I wasn't really expecting.

So now it's early 11th century, I've just formed the Empire of Britannia with England, Wales and Ireland. As I've tried to continue the strategy of taking Lombardy through marriage and inheritance I control the duchies of Spoleto and Ferrara and a couple of other counties, giving me a decent shot at eventually taking Lombardy. And since the rest of western Europe is nowhere close to being united (Pictland, which is still independent, holds a large portion of France that it gained in a crusade against the Lollards) I stand a really good chance of forming the HRE with Britannia. Personally, that's something I've not seen happen in the game before. And the fact that it was completely unplanned for the most part makes it even more fun.

UPDATE: I finally got a shot at getting the kingdom of Lombardy. One of my younger sons had a weak claim on it, and since it was ruled by a queen who was fighting wars on two fronts (why do the Lombards have such an obsession with taking North Africa?) and her troop strength was currently about 5K less than mine, I went for it. It was a long war, but I won. Now I had the kingdom of Lombardy within the empire of Britannia, but since I didn't own it directly I still couldn't form the HRE. What to do? Obviously, I immediately revoked the kingdom from my son while he was still weak and my troops were alerady raised in the kingdom. Took a huge opinion hit for that across the realm, but it was worth it as I quickly won. Threw a few coins to the pope to increase his opinion of me, the all I had to do was sit back and manage a couple of factions while I collected enough gold to finally create the HRE from Britannia. Almost there... 23 gold away... just a few more days...

Then suddenly my emperor starts talking about all the pretty colors. He became incapable at age 49. 23 gold pieces away from creating the HRE, and my emperor becomes a pants ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ idiot. Under a regency, can't create the HRE, Lombardy is gavelkind so his heir won't inherit anything except a claim, the only useful thing he has left to do is die.

So that's what I did. I had him commit suicide and his regent smothered him with a pillow. Now his son has the empire, kingdom of England with Ireland and Wales under viceroyalties, and his brother is the vassal king of Lombardy. So once the coucil discontent passes away I'll have to fight that war all over again and it will be mugh more difficult.

Enough of this game for now. I'm too depressed to keep playing and I need a break.

[p.sahlstroem]

The most fun game I had what when my inbred, clubfoot, slow, hunchback, dwarf, lustfull, gluttonous, lunatic, sadist, impaling cannibal of a bishop almost became pope. I really don't want to imagine what his bishopric looked like... He wasn't an insane monster when he got appointed bishop after a nasty bout of the Plague wiped out all other candidates, but it became to much for him after a while...

[barracuda-rostigraben]

Current Noob Island playthrough. Year is 1172 and my current character Saerbrethach is nearing 58, which seems to be almost a curse in this iteration of the Ua Briain dynasty, seeing as his father and grandfather both died at that same age. Steadily gaining power back from my council with the full intent to abolish it once possible.

Fact: My plans for Britannia are complicated by the existence of Holy Roman England.

Update: Ol' Saer died of cancer at 55.

[La Lumière]

My 16 yo zorostrian daughter insisted on banging her 56 year old father (me) even though i married her to my son because I wanted THEM to make incest babies. I think I impregnated her rip. But how else are you going to keep pure blood in the family?

[Yakub]

kirbeth thats pretty spicy

[La Lumière]

Ik ;)

[jfoytek]

The first Ironman game I managed to complete starting in 769...

In that game I had some of the best events fire....

Werewolf
Speaking in Tongues
Voice of Jesus
Glitterhoof

Won every Crusade

My Dynasty Controled Orthodox Byzantines
Orthodox Kingdom of Jerusalem
Tengri Mongolian Empire
Muslim Kingdom of Egypt
Catholic Hispania
Catholic Italy
Catholic Ireland
Catholic England
Catholic Scottland

I Controlled the Custom Kingdom of Deutchland which was made up of
Dejure Friesland and a french duchy!
(I refuse to become an emperor game gets dull then)

I had 8 popes from my dynasty.

And all 12 of my Castles were fully upgraded I could pull up more troops then any other empire or kingdom and my Lands were a fraction of there size ofcourse!

But yeah it was a great game so many awesome events infact I am pretty sure at one point my lunatic werewolf king accepted a carousing offer from a cannibal and ended up killing the cannibal who attempted to eat him....

[mitchincredible]

Originally posted by Captain Jacob T. Kirk:

What's the most fun game of CK2 you've played? What made it fun?

I had the Pope, the Paulician Patriarch, the miaphysite patriarch and the Ecumenical patriarch as vassals and subvassals under their sworn denominal enemies by landing them with other titles other than the main ones.

I just found that hilarious that I de-schismed Christianity so hard.

[barracuda-rostigraben]

Same playthrough as before. Year is now 1196. I'm now King Rumann, grandson of Saer (Rumann's dad Feirgil died in battle after less than three years on the throne). Fought and won a third Crusade and figures that the one time I get the highest contribution in the war I won't get the titles upon victory. Happened to notice I had a weak claim on the Kingdom of Leon and their current King was 1. Pressed it and won, and that's how there's a single Irish holding in the Iberian. (Leon was apparently swallowed up by Galicia in this game)

[football5680]

Probably the game I am playing right now. I started as the Byzantine Empire in 769 then became the Roman Empire in 920. Now it is about 1040 and I have reconquered almost all of the land of the Roman Empire except for about half of Spain because I have to keep waiting out 10 years truces before I can attack again. Almost all of Europe is under the Roman Empire.

The most hectic time period was when the Sunni's and Shia's declared a Jihad on me at the same time. The Shia's were in Persia and the Jihad was for Anatolia. I took care of them pretty quickly so I could focus on the Sunni's but I lost a huge amount of my army doing this. The Sunni Jihad was for Jerusalem and I saw no way of winning it. The war score eventually got to -50% against me but then a decadence revolt broke out which drew their soldiers away and I was able to quickly unsiege my land and then get a white peace which saved me.

Before I started this game, my favorite game I had played was starting as a count in Ireland in 769. I became King of Ireland, then Wales, then Britain and eventually had enough territory to create the British Empire. I then conquered all of Scotland, won Hispania in a Crusade and cleared out the rest of the Muslims, won Jerusalem in a crusade, Won Sicilly in a crusade and then landed a character with a claim to the Kingdom of Italy and then pressed his claim to take it. I was then able to kill him and claim the Kingdom for myself and this allowed me to form the Holy Roman Empire.

[Scrapper-Lock]

Well I am only on my 2nd game but both games have been an absolute blast. What I love about CK 2 are two big things:

1. There are an incredible number of ways to play. Just taking a different succession law (e.g., gavel vs. primo vs. elective) can dramatically change how it plays, for instance. Let alone tribal vs. feudal, pagan vs. Catholic vs. Muslim, etc. So no two games are anything close to similar.

2. There is really no 'disaster' that can happen to completely end the game for you... I mean other than your dynasty dying off, which of course *can* happen. But things like, if your heir loses elective monarchy on the kingdom, you still will probably have your old duchy and can keep going and try to win the kingdom back.

The 2nd point, it took me a bit to figure out. I started with Ireland 1066 since it is newbie land, and the first 2 play-throughs, I screwed things up and since it was IM, I resigned and started over. I was still in the mentality that, if the perfect thing I want to happen doesn't occur, I have to start over. I thought about just giving up on IM so I could save scum.

But then I finally said, OK, this time, IM and no stopping unless I actually 'lose' by having my dynasty wiped out. Bad stuff happened, mistakes made? Keep going.

And you know what? It was so much fun that way. I learned to laugh about things instead of being angry over them. I learned to roll with it instead of giving up.

My current play-through, I started in Lombardy earliest start date, count of Revenna. Plan was CB/conquer Blogna, usurp Ferrara duchy, De Jure war for the last county, then start eating up more territory, become a double, triple duke, then declar independence/revolt against the king. Instead, my fellow dukes rebelled for elective, got it, and because I had high diplo/was popular, my grandson became king. Way faster than I expected. Then right after that, Byzantium CB'ed on me and took a county, and I realized he was just way too strong to keep fighting. Again I thought about resigning but instead, I vassalized myself to him. Now I have expanded into Croatia, completely taken most of the Italian boot, part of Africa, and an getting ready to attack Serbia. I am currently the highest powered vassal in the empire, 34% of leige... when I hit over 50%, he's going down, and I will either become independent or take over the B.E.

So... every time there is a so-called disaster, I have learned to keep going and you can often make lemonade out of lemons. I know of no other game that is quite like this. Usually if you lose territory or get an heir deposed, it is just game over.

[barracuda-rostigraben]

Re-redid my Poland 1066 game. Boleslaw II lived up to his "Bold" nickname, conquering most of Pomeralia within the first three years. Would've gone for all of it, but the HRE took the last county while I was resting my army. So...Romuva lands it is. Steadily chip away at them over the next two to three decades, until I control most of their land.

Then I goof up and create the Kingdom of Lithuania before I saved enough piety to form the Wendish Empire immediately afterwards. Boleslaw dies, loses Lithuania to...I think it was either his brother or my player character Kazimierz's brother. Press my claim on it, win the war, 30+ threat level. Multiple pagan attempts to take back land. Fend them off, depeleting my warchest while I'm at it. Died, not entirely sure who I played as afterwards. More pagan wars, everyone hates me and now there's a war over elective succession and I can barely raise 1k troops and what's that I'm broke from mercenaries?

In retrospect, should've held off on creating the Kingdom of Lithuania. Had I done so, the guy who I fought to reclaim the title from would've gotten the crown anyway.

[Random]

Started in germany in nassau in 769, hollowed out karling germany from the inside and managed to usurp it by 850. while doing that I ensured my ruler was a lunatic via necronomicon study for my legalism 3 rush, and once glitterhoof showed up I immediately had him educate my heir on heritage focus allowing him to convert to HORSE culture.

Once I died my horse kid took over and I then adopted fractelli from my bishop heracy find, allowing me to revoke every catholic vassal in germany and replace them with fractelli horses. by 900 I formed the empire of germania, and then immediately took rome to install a fracetelli pope. He then called a crusade for italy allowing me to take the kingdom in a blitzkreig by crusing the italian army in a single major victory, and then quickly attack seiging down holdings before all the other catholics could show up to defend.

My horse nation then spread throughout western europe, wiping the human scourge from the lands and replacing them with the enlightened horse master race.

[Stevcorp]

I started a game as Harold Godwinson. A week later, William the Conqueror had a heart attack. His army went home and the Anglo-Saxon Empire was born.