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somebodynobody10 Oct 2, 2022 @ 5:46am
Is converting to Orthodox as Sweden a valid strategy?
As Lion's of the North added bunch of stuff for Sweden, I've been trying them out.

As part of their mission tree makes you conquer Novgorod's lands I get Orthodox provinces which I could use to rebel-convert to Orthodox, and since their mission tree allows an humanist option it wouldn't even break the mission tree.

My question is if it's worth it, or would I be better of waiting for Protestantism to spawn?
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Medicles Oct 2, 2022 @ 5:53am 
Catholic is the best religion in the game, Orthodox is good as well. Protestantism is bad compared to them.

But what does valid mean to you? Its even valid to change to Totemism.
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somebodynobody10 Oct 2, 2022 @ 5:56am 
Originally posted by Medicles:
Catholic is the best religion in the game, Orthodox is good as well. Protestantism is bad compared to them.

But what does valid mean to you? Its even valid to change to Totemism.
I'm not planning on wrestling with the Curia against all the larger nations, albeit that isn't really an absolute. I suppose I could stay catholic, but I've also often heard the opposite that Orthodox is the best christian faith around.
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Medicles Oct 2, 2022 @ 6:16am 
Orthodox was the best until catholic got that extreme buff that made it by far the strongest one. Not sure anymore when that happened, i believe in Emperor.
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Marquoz Oct 2, 2022 @ 7:57am 
I've always liked Catholic and thought that it was pretty much the equal of Orthodox even before the buff--as long as you played a colonizer or conqueror, that is. You've always needed a steady stream of provinces to convert for papal influence points to really benefit from Catholicism. But now, after the buff, Catholic is by far the best religion in the game. And the curia has little to do with it. Being papal controller is nice, but it's not something you can pull off consistently. It's the other bonuses that are really powerful.

If you want to go Orthodox for roleplaying reasons, great, but you'll be quite a bit weaker than if you stay Catholic.
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Rodi Oct 2, 2022 @ 8:56am 
For sp
Stay catholic
In MP, its debatable
Stay catholic early, switch ortho later
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RCMidas Oct 2, 2022 @ 11:11am 
Catholic is mechanically the best IF you can maintain a solid conversion impetus for no other reason than being able to increase Stability and thus save stupid amounts of ADM mana. Orthodox comes in second for maintaining lower Unrest (and a base -10% Stability cost) and for the extra manpower you get out of their provinces.
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bri Oct 2, 2022 @ 11:53am 
Originally posted by Medicles:
Orthodox was the best until catholic got that extreme buff that made it by far the strongest one. Not sure anymore when that happened, i believe in Emperor.

Yes, it was emperor. Just another in the litany of bad things about that patch. Sure, catholicism was weak and needed some buffs but they went way overboard with it and turned it into the PLC of religions-historical loser but ridiculously over-powered in the game...
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Medicles Oct 2, 2022 @ 11:55am 
Originally posted by bri:
Originally posted by Medicles:
Orthodox was the best until catholic got that extreme buff that made it by far the strongest one. Not sure anymore when that happened, i believe in Emperor.

Yes, it was emperor. Just another in the litany of bad things about that patch. Sure, catholicism was weak and needed some buffs but they went way overboard with it and turned it into the PLC of religions-historical loser but ridiculously over-powered in the game...

Indeed. Seems like they want to go the overpowered route considered what we got since Emperor.
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