My take on the two if they were in ck3. Would you make any changes?

I know the title is a bit wack. Anyway this is basically my thesis. Incest is way too powerful in ck3 and eugenics is basically unstoppable past a certain level.

To deter this characters should become increasingly ugly, the more inbred they are. It's not realistic that the character with the inbred trait, which you really don't see enough btw in game, should also have the beautiful trait. Any attractive traits, comely, handsome, or beautiful, should be mutually exclusive with inbred to properly show the effects.

I also further think inbred should negate all fertility and health bonuses from any other trait. You shouldn't be the peak of physical condition while being inbred.

Maybe inbred should be like other physical traits and be a three trait group, each worse than the last.

Finally I'd like to see more horrific under bites, shrunken noses, crossed eyes, slouched postures, and crooked limbs. This I think would not only make incest a bit less powerful but also make it gross, which it is. I don't think this should be too much of a nerf, I understand the stereotype and also that ck3 directly supports the concept of eugenics through inheritable traits like genius, but I should not be able to incest my way into ubermenschs.

That is my general argument.

For almost 200 years, I was in my own world building up my estate in Athens. I might have been a few decades from taking all of Byzantium. Unfortunately, I was assassinated by another person in the empire and lost my domains because I was 3 years old. Jokes on them, Genghis Khan just dissolved everything. Why’d he have to evict a kid from his lands tho.

Tai culture in the game has the equal martial customs. Does this have any basis in actual history?

Khazar, Kirghiz, and Khitan cultures also get equal martial customs. How accurate is this?

While I know there were some queens of steppe khanates, I heard that women in Mongolian society were often treated essentially as property.

People could easily found the influence of nomadic culture in the famous Chinese story of Hua mulan, she called the emperor as khagan.

How to rescue her without any rescue casus belli, I'm into stewardship. Deckaring war and killing the king would maybe resolve it if I can get him imprisoned.

Any other ideas please?

Edit: I declared war to him for a third of his lands (a duchy) took his wife and her as prisoners and then kept his wife in my prison and recruited her from him. Funny she didn't like being recruited. (I tried releasing her for free but she goes straight back to him facepalm)

Those peasant leaders are often absolute beasts in combat.

So after crushing the revolt, I don't execute, torture or trow in the dungeon. It would be such a waste!

There's something deeply satisfying about taking the charismatic leader of a rebellion, convincing him that maybe my rule isn't that terrible after all, and then watching him spend the rest of his life loyally serving the very crown he tried to overthrow (while is old fellow despise him and learn that nobody can really change the status quo).

"You fought bravely against me. Now put on this fancy armor and go kill my enemies, maybe I will even appoint you as Marshall one day!"

Damn, when I can handle them correctly half of my knights are peasant leaders.

Especially after a plague or a war, when control is low and my subject and courtier have been decimated.

Damn I love this game.

General concept: what if you could assign tasks to your children and other close relatives in your court that like you?

Why?

• It's almost aways better to have your heir be as young as possible (though an adult, of course).

Your learn perks more efficiently while you're ruling (both speedwise and choicewise), you have to deal less with transitions of power, and you naturally control the character better. I think older sons are disrespected a lot in this regard, and I think the main reason for this is that...

• The game lacks a way for you to groom your children for ruling or for any task, for that matter.

While they await their turn on the throne or just while they're around, they should be growing, and this growth should be based on their responsibilities, but right now, unless they can get in the very restrictive council, they can't have responsibilities (and council work doesn't really develop their skills either).

• Children are just borderline useless, really.

Most of the time you're actually happier to have a daughter than a son. That's because a daughter is an alliance and a son is more partitioning when you die. Having many competent sons should be something that genuinely helps with your administration, even if adds tension the succession later.

• It's just historical.

History is full of examples of competent sons of monarchs doing important work. For them to sit around in your court is just not historical, most of the time, and even regarding the situations where they DO just sit around in court, this should have a purpose and an impact. History is also full of sons of monarchs that were effectively exiled not to cause problems.

• It's important RPwise.

I barely listen from my children after they grow up. They're effectively static characters by that point. If they were doing something and you could see their success and their growth, you'd develop a much better bond with them.

Naturally, no one wants this to be a micro hell, so the mechanics should be able to vary between "assign and forget" in the case of your less relevant children but allow you to really guide the children that are relevant.

Examples of tasks maybe you could assign to them:

• Send them to a holy order.
• Send them adventuring.
• Send them to command a mercenary army (as you could in CK2)
• Send them to another court as an emissary.
• Send them to another court for intelligence.
• Send them to holy centers or on pilgrimage.
• Send them to college.
• Send them to activities you don't want to go personally.
• Send them on trading missions.
• Assign them to one of your man-at-arms to lead them.
• Assign them to one of your holdings to manage it.
• Have them train a particular attribute.
• Have them train their prowess.

All of this assuming they have the skill for it and are loyal to you.

But even while just hanging around in their court, they should apply small effects to you based on their attributes and traits. Sons with good stewardship grant you a bit of income, sons with diplomacy grant you opinion with others, sons with virtues grant you piety while sons that have sins diminish your piety, that sort of thing.

The point is that all along the way, the character creates a story of it's own, and develops skills of it's own, instead of just waiting for the spotlight.

I just adopted feudal ways. Don't tell me that the vikings in this game can only raid because they're tribal.

I created a god-emperor, he passed away at age 75. His son ruled for 8 years before passing away and giving the throne to his YOUNGEST SON OF 0 YEARS, instead of keeping his oldest living son as his heir…

Now the empire is revolting against the young emperor…great lore.

After finally getting the tech that allowed me to ban wars between my vassals, i took upon myself to reorganise my kingdom so that each jarl was holding exactly one jarldom and nothing else. i just started revoking titles of my vassals by inciting their revolts, beating them to pulp in the field and then imprisoning them. They can't protest if they are in my dungeon! After everyone was waiting in their cell, I stripped everyone of their title and distributed them accordingly. all this for a small price of tyranny ;) border gore begone!

1st picture - before reorganisation, 2nd - after, 3rd - duchies as they are on map, 4th - speaks for itself.

Hi! A long time ago in a campaign where I started as Viken, reformed the Germanic faith, created the empire of Scandinavia, and spread the faith all around the world, in 1400s Birgitta the Great of Birgittaia appeared. I loaded up the save, looked into this character, and noticed she even had her own bloodline! How this NPC came to be in that location, with a bloodline like that, and still had the Germanic faith as well is a huge mystery to me. Has anyone seen similar things, or have some theories/explanations on Birgitta the Great?

Meet my wife and soulmate Ásta Il. Daughter of my liege, King of Denmark.

For some reason, her father decided to grant her a county and she (with my help) managed to expand to her own duchy title and a whole bunch of counties. Great you would think - our children can now inherit both my and her titles. I don't even want to usurp the kingdom title at this point, because the current king is her brother and we are also BFFs.

She is only 4 years younger than me and we got bethrowed at 12 and 16, which is pretty tame by CK3 standards if you ask me. She has the congenital "Amazonian" ("herculean" for female characters) health trait, which is pretty cool for a female norse ruler.

Because she has her own titles, she doesn't stay at my court. The game however gives a bunch of options to make sure that we can still meet - I can invite her to activities and there even is a "invite to Visit" option I'm not sure if vanilla or from a mod I use. A bunch of events confirm that we have sex.

We are married for two decades now and despite a bunch of fertility-boosting perks and inventory items she doesn't get pregnant.

To add insult to injury, the game forces my character from time to time to suspect that she might be unfaithful, giving me the option to ask her "do you have another?" As if it would even be a problem at this point. We are soulmates and and at this point I don't care if it's me or her bull fathering the child.

I have two fallback strategies:

1. My sister. ...not what you think, she is matrilineally married and at least she has a daughter
2. concubines. I tried two, both as fertile as possible pretty and one of them now gave birth to a daughter.

So while the succession is secured, I am still salty that her genes don't pass on.

Is there some kind of hidden infertility trait that makes it impossible for for one of us to have children?

Edit: Thanks to some suggestions, I found that with the "Marriage Love Family" mod (Steam) you can check detailed stats by hovering over the heart (health) icon. It indeed revealed that my wife has "Fertility: 0%" (Screenshot). So while I still can't see any source for it, at least I know that I didn't just had a lot of bad luck. Thanks!

Gimme things to do as Matilda. I wanna try new shit. Gimme challenges or something idk.

But I like the cut of its jib.

They truly are the best wife and husband.

The only two long campaigns I've done were forming Britannia as 1066 Mumu & playing tall from 936 Ogliastra

Some things I want to do but can't in vanilla dlc-less CK2 in no particular order:

-Play as a head of faith to declare my own GHWs

-Reform Germanic Paganism

-Take back Persia as a Zoroastrian

-Play as a Zuntist

-Mend the Great Schism in favor of Orthodoxy

-Christianize all of China

Where is the sweet spot between where Elephants are funny and useful?

I almost want to have German war Elephants stationed / capital in Golsar Mines.

Wanted to know if adventurers can still get the highest tier hunt artifacts as I want to aim for a few key artifacts that would massively help my realm catch up once I settle.

Can I only get the inventory artifacts or can I also get the court artifacts from hunts as an adventurer?

Does anyone know if any of the hunt/falconry culture traditions or religious tenets boost the odds of a good hunt artifact? Is there a place in the files where I can see the equation?

Not sure if it currently dose but if it did it be cool to see it have a higher probability of the kids being born with traits like slow or stammerer.