Crusader Kings 2

[mikkel the great]

Your avatar and that comment just blends so well...

[Taalen]

1066 - Count of Melgueil
1261 - Emperor of the Arabian Empire

Not too shabby.

[Dryvus]

Goddamn Moops!

[Si-A-erra.]

[Dent]

6,000 gold gone. 10,000 Russians, Swedes, and Lithuanians dead. Several dukes and king Sven of Sweden lost their heads in my dungeon. Novgorod, the most stable power in the east, is ruined.
All for the two-province duchy of Polotsk, which my second son stole after I was murdered less than a year after the war ended.
**** gavelkind.

[Rebelknight]

6,000 gold gone. 10,000 Russians, Swedes, and Lithuanians dead. Several dukes and king Sven of Sweden lost their heads in my dungeon. Novgorod, the most stable power in the east, is ruined.
All for the two-province duchy of Polotsk, which my second son stole after I was murdered less than a year after the war ended.
**** gavelkind.

Medieval great war? 

[mikkel the great]

6,000 gold gone. 10,000 Russians, Swedes, and Lithuanians dead. Several dukes and king Sven of Sweden lost their heads in my dungeon. Novgorod, the most stable power in the east, is ruined.
All for the two-province duchy of Polotsk, which my second son stole after I was murdered less than a year after the war ended.
**** gavelkind.

 

Could have been worse, you could have died while in the war, that would have been utter shit But at least the land stays within your dynasty.

[dustbiter]

Playing as count of Buchan is pretty fun and easy.You'll pick up the dukedom of Moray, which gives you claim on two more countries. Anyway my character ended up supporting some other Scottish vassal against our liege. Close matched war that dragged a bit and I think I was losing a battle - lucked out with killing the scot king in battle.

War ended inconclusively. Oh really?

All the Scottish vassals were unhappy with the reign of the new king who had little diplomacy skill (thanks to being only a few years old). He picked up an Irish country and I got him to hand it over to me.

My wife was the bastard child of a Scottish king and I pushed her claim for the throne. Most of the vassals were on my side, so my wife became queen at almost 35 after the war which lasted a few years.

Wife croaked after almost 20 years as queen, our only son became King. I'm still a duke with most of the power in Scotland. Picked up a teenage wife at about 50 and popped out 4 kids in 10 years. Scotland currently includes Irish and Welsh land. When my current character croaks and power passes to my son, I''ll support the duke of lancaster(controlling almost half of English land) in his bid for independence.

[Orchid]

^ I dub thee Moray the Kingmaker.

Did the teenage wife hold any claims to her name?

[dustbiter]

Nope no claims, then my character only had 1 son, and a daughter born of a lover who I legitimised as she was genius. I was marrying off the young women of my court, had one left and my queen wife croaked so I married the 17 year old with midas touched. She was the daughter of a Abyssinia princess who married to my court.

[Orchid]

I love keeping a gigantic court, filled with interracial marriages. Darwin would have been so proud.
Too bad the more courtiers you have, the lower your court's fertility drops.

[mikkel the great]

Oh?

[Orchid]

Up until 1.03 at least I'm sure there's was a negative multiplier on court fertility (not affecting you, but only your courtiers) dependent on the number of courtiers. Could have been taken out I suppose, but haven't seen any mention of it in the patch-notes so far as I can recall.

[Kobrag]

I love keeping a gigantic court, filled with interracial marriages. Darwin would have been so proud.
Too bad the more courtiers you have, the lower your court's fertility drops.

Surely irl the fertility rate would increase?

[Crroatian]

it only affects max children and not fertility.