Imaging how one-sided it would be and how brutal the Industrialized Crusaders inflict defeats on the Muslims, Pagans, Heretics and later the Mongols
The riots spreading across the island of Malta appear to be the work of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, a Catholic Order linking back to the Crusaders of the middle ages. The Order had spent many centuries infiltrating world governments and organizations like the freemasons and Illuminati. They have now deemed it necessary to strike. Malta is the island where we made our stand against the heretics 600 years ago, and now it will be God's citadel on earth as we move to purge the un-faithful.
The new regime seeks good relations with the Christian League and hopes cooperation between different sects of Christianity can be achieved.
Hi! For a long time, I've been thinking about how unsatisfactory combat(specifical warfare) feels in CK3 but didn't know how to phrase it. Well, I finally think that I have a somewhat coherent reason for why.
In short, I believe wars in ck3 feel far too in the background, rather than the glorious thing it should feel. I must note that I have very little experience with paradox games, maybe this is the case for all paradox games, and I am simply missing a theme or a vision of ck3.
1; Unreliable Ai, Uncertainty is a founding principle of strategy games, but trying to outmanoeuvre the Ai in ck3 feels either frustrating or just exploitative. To put it simply, it feels less like fighting a sane figure and more like fighting a drunk algorithm. The crusades exemplify this, with absolutely no sense of coordination, line of command, nothing. Just imagine the intrigue possibilities with this. Some lords might follow some random count from Bavaria, but if you murder him, why they might like you instead! Maybe your diplomacy means you can find a way to unite the disparate crusaders under your banner, or maybe your high martial carries you through easily. Compare the tactical possibilities of this to say, mount and blade Warband, where you can order lords to do certain things, and they would do so only if they liked you. Something like that, I think would add to the games coalition battles, and make relying on your armies far more viable.
The Ai might attack you, it might not, It might put itself in a mountain, it might not.
Now, This isn't an inherently bad idea, mind you, it could actually be pretty brilliant, but in its current form, the Ai is horribly opaque and just weird.
2. Men At Arms.
Pretty much the same as before, far too opaque, It took me far too long to get into compared to diplomacy or been stewardship. Besides that, I am relatively satisfied, though I strongly believe they should scrap the counters system and use a more polished version of the tactics system since it would be more clear on what each ruler is going for. Say you're an Armenian vassal and don't want to let the Byzantines lose everything, so you would prepare to counter the Seljuk MAA comp.,now let's say you are a slightly safer vassal, and aren't afraid of losing your land to the Seljuks, but need to destroy the Armenian vassals easily since they are allied to a rival. So you develop a counter to Armenian strategy. and so on and so on. Make it feel like an arms race, make it
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Hey guys,
Is there an event or a way to loose the order member trait ?
Context: There was a crusade for the Egyptian kingdom and I selected my Hospitaler son as my beneficiary. When the crusade ended, he was rewarded with the newly created kingdom, and became this epic crusader king/knight hospitaler in Egypt but because of his trait he cant marry and have kids, so the realm gonna get back to my first born which I found to be less cool.
Thanks for help
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I am looking feedback for overall general. Like is the idea is good enough? What do you think of the characters? I shared this story to my friends and co-workers, they seem really enjoy the story so far. But I need know on the internet that if I am cool enough to become a full writer job someday. I know my grammar is not great. I am beginner amateur writer.
Genre: Action-Fantasy-History
The link to the short story: State Crusaders (short story link)
I often see the legacy of the many Crusaders and lords in the Holyland to be portrayed in modern media as very French (à la langue d'oïl), but from my understanding most notable French crusaders were Occitan or came from the spoken area of langue d'oc. Wouldn't it mean that Hugues de Lusignan, who arrived to marry into the role of king, spoke a langue d'oc as his mother tongue since he was from Poitou? Does that mean that the chief communication among the lords and cultural heritage was Occitan rather than from Northern France?
I dont know much about the crusades or the history of france in this time perod. It just seems odd to me that the kingdom of Jerusalem or the principality of Antioch were set up and given to a frankish noble as an independant ruler rather than being a part of the frankish realm or perhaps a subject to the pope or Holy Roman Emperor.
What were the reasons for this?
I'm not referring to the various crusader made states in the Holy Land or carving up Byzantium. Or the Norman Roger creating the kingdom of Sicily out of whole cloth.
I'm talking about the more mundane moving countries and switching lords.
For example, someone like a baron, count, or even duke; someone with a solid position; say a count from northwestern France who traveled through southern Germany and just fell in love with the place. What issues would he face in buying an estate (I know land deals happened all the time) and wishes to serve the Emperor instead of the King of France?
Would he be considered an oathbreaker and traitor to the French king? Would his French territory be confiscated?
Would he be considered a foreign mercenary in service to the Emperor by the german nobility and distrusted?
Or would there be no conflict seen? Just someone with dual titles and various estates?
