u/Fit_Trainer1878

Thinking of modding CK2 retinue names as it's always been real awkward for me to have doomstacks of "Bar Kokhba Guards" as a catholic & roman empire.

Pls no judgement as I love culture shifting to the jewish cultures because they give extra buildings for Silk Road Tradeposts

Thinking of naming them "Samsonite Duffel Carriers" or something

Feel free to contribute for any cultures so I or someone else can include it in their own mod. Please keep it historical. Don't be like Paradox naming the assyrian retinues freakin "guerriers". Is this a Fate Stay Night reference I am not getting?

Any particular way to exempt traits for Character Pruning? I want to fuck these characters not sacrifice them for the sake of my processor. Is there something I can edit in Performance++ or sumn?

I am a slave to the meta and every time i'm not playing a gavelkind-only/meme Pagan I find myself almost instantly converting to Catholic (or its heresies) because Crusades are OP for free money, artifacts, and CBs into Silk Road trade posts.

Even WHEN I play other religions I temporarily convert to Catholic to join ongoing crusades to get me some land and bloodlines. I had an Abbasid doge who was the Shia, Sunni, and Yazidi Caliph/Sheikh (in that sequence) and a 2-time crusader (also latin emperor) in the same lifetime. He and his entire family are also Ashkenazis for reasons that will be mentioned.

I have about 3000 hours in this game and about a total 6 of that has been spent as a Nestorian Tamil with the other branches of Christianity not even logging at least an hour.

Speaking of Cultures, about a generation in (or less) I start getting some thoughts of "maybe I should kidnap that jew or arab so I can force him to educate my kids in his cultures now". Why? The meta is Ashkenazi/Sephardi for the extra Silk Road Trade post buildings (Radhanite Quarters) and Arab for the excellent camel retinue.

I see these screenies on the reddits of people playing Han characters and I keep saying things like why not just play a Jewish Tangut who has better retinues and then I stop and ask myself what the fuck is wrong with me.

THAT PERSON is having the time of their lives claiming the Mandate of Heaven in West Africa while i'm here miserable expending a large amount of energy making a Sephardi Karling Antioch

Thank goodness the game has Nomads that I can burn down the world with so I can detox