Recent content by CenturionMagnus

It's 2021. Some big TV network (doesn't actually have to be HBO) seeking to emulate the success of shows like Game of Thrones and Vikings, is looking to the past for inspiration for a drama series, and has settled on Gaul and Britannia during the Gallic Wars from 58 BC to 52 BC ending with the...

It's the 14th of October, 1066 at Hastings. The now legendary Battle of Hastings rages on. As we know, at one point in the battle, William was believed by his troops to have been struck down, and to prevent his army from going into a full panicked retreat, William raised his helmet to show his...

As a guy who lives in Hartlepool, County Durham just north of Teesside, I'd put Hartlepool and all of Teesside in Northumbria. Hartlepool is in County Durham IRL. Middlesbrough and the Teesside area are in North Yorkshire technically, but their being in Yorkshire is just... I don't know, it...

I imagine it'd still take at least another century or two. You could very well see the Achaemenid Empire survive right into the 2nd century BC. As Shahrasayr said, Alexander really did just come out of nowhere and topple everything. He smashed the status quo. The empire was already on a decline...

To be fair, my Empire of Britannia has a few Karlings in it, and I even made one of them the Duke of the Hebrides I think, but that's not really out of any desire to preserve the dynasty. There's plenty of them still in Europe, despite the collapse of the Carolingian Empire :) I just granted...

Meh, why try to preserve the Karling dynasty? Let it wither and die as it should, for all the CKII Old Gods games it has made so terribly difficult.

That's a fair few blobs you've got in your game there. It seems like everything in central Europe and the Balkans at least has managed to unify into just a handful of countries as opposed to being broken up into fucktonnes of duchies. I still can't wrap my head around the Byzantines losing...

Lapsed Pacifist, that gave me a bit of a chuckle. So did your character actually get syphilis? I'm not sure how it works in CKII and whether or not the trait is 100% certain to pass on. Presumably yes but, worth a check I think :) Anyway, I think I found out exactly why the Byzantine Empire...

How on earth did that come about? Ruled by a Muslim emperor of some Asian ethnicity who is a part of the Doukas dynasty? Was that the result of a Holy War against the Byzantines or something? And how much land does the Muslim Byzantine Empire rule over?

So in that game I mentioned a page or so back about father-daughter incest, this is an update on the status of that game. So like I said, I led the Duchy of Northumbria to forming the Kingdom of England with my father, King Aelfgar the Great, and in 932 I formed the Empire of Britannia with my...

Speaking of incest and potential incest, this just happened in my game as King of a Northumbria-led Kingdom of England, in 928. Yes, that is my daughter who literally JUST came of age. As good as her traits are, I can't afford a family scandal, nor can I afford to have an inbred, bastard son...

Yeah it works for me, I've used it multiple times in the past with no problems. Last time I used it, the Byzantines went ape from 1070 onwards and ended up conquering the Balkans, AND pushed east to the Caspian Sea, as you do. HRE ended up buttfucking France into rebellion, so Aquitaine formed...

"Smith", you say?

Oh good Lord, I've seen that a number of times :') I'm sure the developers of the mod are going to fix this at some point, right? It's funny to see male characters getting the honor, but it's still a bug that needs to be fixed.

So I'm playing the Game of Thrones mod as Tywin Lannister, Lord Paramount of the Westerlands and all-around badass. No nonsense, to be taken seriously at all times, etc. Then this happens. I'm sure this has happened to a few of you, but it always gets a chuckle from me when male characters...