• Ck2 Old Gods Tips

Crusader Kings II is a game that, at the time of writing, is three years old. Yet we are still seeing expansion after expansion for the game, and thanks to a number of steam and humble bundle sales the player base is still growing. The number one question I get asked is, how do you actually play it? Well, here are my Top 5 Tips for getting started in Crusader Kings II.1. Start as an Irish countAny veteran player will give you this advice.

Ck2 Old Gods Tips

Crusader Kings II: The Old Gods Expansion. If you remain at peace for too long, your people will grow restless. New special start date in 867 AD: The Viking Rurik has founded the kingdom of Rus and the Great Heathen Army under the sons of Ragnar Lodbrok rampages through England. Play as a Zoroastrian lord and restore your ancient religion to prominence. Crusader Kings II: The Old Gods has just been announced, and will add playable pagans and Zoroastrians to Paradox's grand medieval strategy sandbox. It's fair to say I was just a tiny bit out of.

With the base game the earliest you can start is 1066, so go ahead and pick the Stamford Bridge start date then pick a Count in Ireland to play as. It’s not important which one, any of them that aren’t too old really. Here you will be able to learn the mechanics of the game without worrying about any of the bigger nations coming to impose their rule on you, especially on the West coast. In 1066 each county in Ireland is its own ruler, and you can fairly easy work your way up from Count to Duke and finally on to declaring yourself as King or Queen.Once you are loaded into the game, leave it paused and familiarise yourself with the UI, especially the top left panels, as those are where the majority of your gameplay options are held.2. Get married and reproduceI added Queen to the end there not just as a nod to the opposite sex. In 1066 all the counties in Ireland are ruled by males, but it doesn’t have to stay that way. In Crusader Kings II you are not playing as a nation, nor even as a single character, but as an entire dynasty.

Family and lineage are the most important things in Crusader Kings II. When the character you are playing as dies, through the various ways that it will inevitably happen, you take over as their heir. Rule for long enough and you can make a variety of charges to succession laws to affect the type of heir you will have, but most likely you will be handing the reigns to the first born son. The only way to “lose” a game of Crusader Kings II is to have your character pass away with no heir of your dynasty to inherit. This is why the absolute first thing you must do when starting a new game is to marry and secure yourself an heir.3.

Fabricate some claimsNow that your dynasty is safe it’s time to improve your realm so that it may grow for future generations. You can’t just go to war wherever you please though. You need a valid claim, a “Casus belli” before you can think about raising your troops. There are various ways to gain a claim, but at the early stage your going to have to fabricate one. This is what your Chancellor is for. The first button to the right of your portrait in the UI is your council.

Doom 2019 multiplayer maps. You should make sure you always have a full council, and will get a notification at any time that you don’t. Each councillor has three tasks that you can assign them, and for the chancellor one of those is to fabricate claims.Before you jump in though, this is a good time to take a look at the different map modes available in the game.

You want to take a look at the De Jure Duchies view. Then take a look at which duchy your current county is part of. In Ireland, odds are you will be part of a two county duchy, so you want to fabricate the claim on the other county. Issue the order to your diplomat, finally unpause the game, then sit back and wait until that claim comes through.4. Now you are ready to War!Got that claim now? Good, time for war!

This is where some regular strategy gamers might get a bit disorientated. You don’t specifically train troops. Every county in your realm provides levies that you need to raise (and dismiss) to make use of. Your own holdings are always going to provide you the maximum troops they can, but once you get later on into the game where you have vassals below you then they will provide you with troops from their holdings based on how much they like you and the laws you set.

For your own holdings you can build and improve buildings that will increase the number of troops available, and for your vassals you will want to keep a good relationship to maximise your troop count. Hovering you mouse over your vassals troops counts in the military panel you can see exactly the break down of the troops they can provide.Once you have declared war using your claim, raise your troops, beat down the opponent army and then sit on his holdings to siege them.

Hopefully you win the war and can claim your neighbour as part of your realm. This is where playing in Ireland becomes a good place to start as you will be able to claim yourself as Duke and raise your prestige, so long as you can raise the funds to claim the title.Now repeat stages 3 and 4 around the rest of Ireland until you can bring the entire country under your rule. You may not do it all with your original character, but you can get there fairly easily. Once you do, you can safely say you know what you are doing and can move on to the final tip.5. Get some DLC.No, seriously. I’m not someone who buys a lot of DLC, but in Crusader Kings II there are a couple that really make a difference to the game. Just check out some of our, but I would definitely recommend that once you are a bit familiar with the game you go ahead and pick up, and to add a huge amount of content to your game.

Both the Old Gods and Charlemagne put back the earliest start date of the game to add about an extra 300 years, plus raiding as the Vikings is great fun. The Rajas of India almost doubles the size of the playable map too. The image here shows a good overview of what each DLC has added to Crusader Kings II over its three years of existence.Aside from these tips, if you are still struggling to get to grips with the game I would highly recommend you go and watch some YouTube gameplay videos., but check out and and look for their Crusader Kings II playlists.

CURRENT VERSION: v2.1LETS PLAY SERIES USING GODS MOD:TL;DR:Gods! OP Culture / Religion / Traits / EventsIF WORKSHOP ISN'T WORKING DIRECT DOWNLOAD HERE (Currently v2.1.2):Check out my other mod - FANTASY! IT ADDS ELVES, DWARVES & DRAGONS into the Game!Gods is a minor mod that adds new cultures, religions, events and traits into the game. Making compatible with nearly anything.Gods was completely inspired by the Elvhenan Mod, which adds Elves & Magic into the game.That mod is created by e-l-l-i-i and can be found here:I highly suggest you download and play it if you enjoy having something different in CK2.Gods is slightly influenced by the Greek Gods as well, but is meant to be a stand alone basic mod to allow the player to create their own history of the Gods regardless of real life mythology.This is my first mod and my first version. Please give me feedback if you enjoyed it on how I could change it to best fit a fun play style.Keep in mind that this mod does throw the game out of balance for the player due to the fact that Gods are suppose to be stronger than men. The balance is brought back through some adjustments on the max levy and by creating two adversary God cultures and religions that fight each other.Start the game by adding either 'God' or 'Evil God' in the Ruler Designer setup screen.Lets get into the features.MAIN FEATURES- Adds 'High God' & 'Evil God'Both have a unique building, special troops, and retinue to go with. Evil God has Dark Angels, High God has Good Angels.

High God can build a 'Light Source', while Evil God can build 'Dark Vacuum'. All have wonderful upgrades and are exclusive to God traited characters.- Adds 'Good' & 'Evil'Both can marry close relatives without risk of inbred and awful deformities (as long as you have a God trait). Unique Holy Wars between religions also.- Adds 'God', 'Goddess', 'Evil God', 'Evil Goddess, 'Demi God' and 'Demi Goddess'Each having their own 'Elvhenan' inspired Young version.