r/crusaderkings2

My dynasty finally claimed the whole kingdom Eire rightfully after an excruciatingly long revolt, but it didnt last long. I was replaced by a ruler who was set forcefully by a faction after the prev ruler(me) died. I revolted, failed, revolted again, failure. i thought it was over for me. two of me died in jail, my sons carried the house. from ruling 3 duchies and several counties, to becoming a vassal of 2 counties. it was all falling apart, all my effort, in vein. but finally, after many generations, i revolted again, thousands of souls sent to god. Finally, the crown was on my head, one of my son was landed, other one was betrothed to a foreign duchess. Shortly after, tragedy struck, the landed son died, without my notice, my daughter also died of illness, the other son, although in my court, was refrained from taking the crown. everything that was rightfully mine was given back to that one fucking house, Estridsen, who initially started all the ruckus.

(Estridsen ruled my de jure kingdom for 5 generations. my victorious revolt was during the initial phase of 5th generation, whom i executed after claiming the crown back.)

This was my first play-through of the game, lasted a month, till today.

Hello. I need help. Recently I started a new run, more like a challenge, as Northumbria in 867 start. I knew it would be a pain in the ass, but I'm getting a bit stuck and frustrated. To be honest with y'all, although I have quite a few hours in this game, there are still some things that go over my head. So that's why I'm here. First, the armies. At the very start, you have two wars going on. The Sons of Lodbrok invasion of Northumberland; lead by Halfdan and supported by Ivar, you only have two allies by default, which are Mercia and Wessex; and then you have the Sons of Lodbrok Invasion of Lothian, lead by Ivar, supported by Sigurdr, no allies by default. Naturally, nearby christian kingdoms will join you in either of these wars. But to make the allied armies group is a problem. Vikings have a 23k-ish warriors at first, but allies from Scandinavia can also join. You have to group the armies to even wish facing the viking. Since there is very little space to maneuver and basically no ships at all, you have to move your troops with a DEVIOUS army of 20k+ angry norsemen just next to you and pray that you don't get attacked. Or go the other way around and cross all of Ireland and Wales to finally get to England, just behind them, but it takes too long and the allies usually disperse. Now, if somehow I manage to build up a nice army of allied christian forces between the anglo-saxons, the bretons, the scots and irish, of over 10k people, there is another problem. Because I never get the full strength of that army. If I attack a fraction of Halfdan's army with those 10k troops, maybe only 60% of them will actually fight against his 4000+, because there are 4 fucking retarded rulers that signed up to fight Ivar, not Halfdan. The other issue is that there is another invasion going on, which is the Sons of Lodbrok Invasion of East Anglia. And Mercia will usually focus on that conflict instead of moving to help me stop the angry viking warlord absolutely scorching my lands in the north. And even when they repel Ivar from East Anglia, FOR SOME DAMN REASON, THEY WON'T GO FIGHT WITH ME AT NORTH (attached image !!). And East Anglia will NEVER EVER EVER join me in any of the two wars mentioned. So.. any tips?

Here's my Northumbria run in the Viking Age start after throwing like 5 attempts at it.

Longtime (~520 hours since like 2014) Player here, I often think I play the game “wrong” because instead of going on world conquests I love roleplaying as my characters and building up my realm. Just a funny observation I finally decided to share.

My current game I started by picking a random leader in 769 and ended up with the Chief of Vychegda. Pretty early on swore fealty to Perm when I saw my neighbors getting invaded, watched one Dynasty assassinate the king and two sons to become king themselves and really kind of take over the place. Anyway, when I left last time, the Black Death had just finished ravaging my Court (haven’t taken a full tally but court went from ~30 at onset of the Plague to 9 when the epidemic ended). I left with my first Female Ruler, I’ve stuck with elective gavelkind and been swapping between branches of my dynasty to keep succession fair - although now that one branch should have their own County/Chiefdom now I can focus on one branch and any of their cadet branches. Hoping to adopt Feudalism if I can with my Chieftess, but at least want to get a hospital (again tech permitting). This world has been having an interesting time, while I just chill and hope to keep surviving and thriving out in the Siberian frontier.

Anyway, just kinda wanted to share my experience, this peaceful builder and roleplay is kinda my general playstyle in strategy games, to the point I have notably been slow to progress when playing PvAI with my friends in Age of Empires 2 lol.

Never posted here before. Started a new run as Pisa at 1100. I plan to make the Roman Empire as a merchant republic. I got first place in a crusade against Egypt and got lots of money. Then I defeated the HRE and got Tuscany and Spoleto (sorry Matilda de Canossa). Afterwards, I border disputed the Papacy for Rome before the pope build temples on it. Since I eventually plan to make that my capital. I turned off historical great works so I can eventually build a Great Harbor at Rome. Currently attempting to forge peace architect bloodline. I am in year 7 of 15 but I doubt the pope will give me peace. He deservingly excommunicated me for stealing Rome. Slowly been improving our relationship so I can no longer be excommunicated. But he can declare war anytime to get back Rome. If I fail I will attempt with a future character. Got genius twins hopefully they survive. Long term I plan to marry my heir to a Byzantine princess with a claim that can be inherited so I can steal the empire. Then get the required duchies to form the Roman Empire as a merchant republic. I plan to make every county into a republic if possible and establish a long chain of connected trade post from Safi to Tana and connect them to Rome.

Edit - The youngest genius died at age 6 by pneumonia but at least I was able to form peace architect.