Just absolutely gorgeous.

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In my current run for the papacy, the reigning Pope Leo V. just received the cancer trait.

Hi fellow Christians, I'm still trying to be a dutiful servant and get the Pope to sleep with my wife, but no matter how much I stack the deck, it is proving next to impossible.

My Pope is my puppet. I tell him to start a seduction scheme against my wife. Okay, so far so good. I even fired my exceptionally talented spymaster (he's pissed, I'm afraid) to reduce the risk that anyone blows up his scheme.

Now, my beautiful wife is also my puppet. She's amazing, really. She instantly agreed to try seducing the Pope while he is also trying to seduce her. For some reason, she was expected to fail miserably. This is truly her only flaw as a spouse.

I did what I could to smooth the road. I even hosted an Ecumenical Council just to get female adultery accepted by Christendom. Nonetheless, my puppets both failed to seduce one another.

Why can't mutual seduction schemes simply...work out for both parties? Like hypothetically, if someone was trying to convert you to witchcraft, NOT THAT I WOULD KNOW, but you are already a witch. HYPOTHETICALLY. Wouldn't that make sense?

tl;dr what kind of zany romcom hijinks are going on here? Why can't I just make my puppets kiss??

Made a post about this abhorrent and blasphemous spelling error pre-dlc. The devs listened. Christ be praised. Long live Pope Leo.

So this war has been going for 20 years, I kept stalling the war until the original leader died, and my old character died as well, and the war is still on , there's no option for a white peace since it's a great war , WHAT SHOULD I DO ? 😶‍🌫️

Hello everyone.

Today, I’d like to talk to you about what is essentially an update to my historical mod for CK3—though it’s not so much an update as it is a port.

While 867 is a very tempting starting date, I’ve always preferred to begin as far back as possible for a Mega Campaign.

The era of the Great Barbarian Invasions is the perfect setting for this.

Consequently, I’ve developed an equivalent version of my mod for The Fallen Eagle, allowing for gameplay during this period.

But that’s not all: I’ve also adapted the mods I used in my base-game CK3 playthrough so that they work within The Fallen Eagle.

PLEASE NOTE: I do not, in any way, claim to have originated the Historical Bloodlines, Historic Invasions, Greater Historic Invasions, or Historical Figures mods. These mods belong to their respective creators; while I have expanded upon them for my own personal gameplay, I am neither their owner nor their creator. A huge thank you to those authors for helping me get my start in historical modding.

Let’s begin with what I have added separately:

- A system for historical births and deaths: Rulers—and other significant figures—are born and die on their actual historical dates. If they die prematurely due to causes outside the player's control, they are recreated the following year with the same family ties and ID, allowing them to resume their original position.

- A system for historical marriages: All historical marriages will take place, ensuring that historical children are born to their actual historical parents. This is particularly useful when using the "Historical Bloodline" mod, as it prevents the loss of a bloodline if it is held only through the maternal line.

- A system for historical events and annual checks: In addition to historical invasions, various other historical events will occur. The succession of Clovis, the Justinian Code, the rise and spread of Islam—all these will take place to further enhance historical immersion during this period. Furthermore, the game performs an annual check of the map to ensure that lands and titles are held by their correct historical owners. This ensures that successions and reigns remain purely historical, and that the map evolves in strict accordance with actual history. Areas directly affected by the player’s actions are left untouched.

And as mentioned above, I have recreated the Historical Bloodline, Historical Invasion, Greater Historical Invasion, and Historical Figures mods for The Fallen Eagle. The mods themselves remain unchanged; they simply add content covering the period from 476 to 867.

Example for Historical Figures :

Example for Historical Bloodline :

Example for Historic Invasions and Greater Historic Invasions :

All of my additions span the timeframe from 476 to 867.

Thank you for following and supporting me as I develop all of this; it brings me great joy to share it and to see that you enjoy it just as much as I do. I am working on creating several major mods for Paradox titles—getting them ready for release—and I am also working to ensure the Mega Campaign is released soon. Thank you all!

We all already hear about many of the most-requested expansions (Warfare comes to mind), but what are some lesser-requested or niche things you think would work well in game?

For me personally: With non-Dynastic lowborns officially being playable under By God Alone, it would be really immersive and interesting for a minor peasantry overhaul, perhaps being able to 'play' as a peasant or something equivalent within clusters of cities or baronies, with new and more immersive, role-play focused methods of peasant and populist revolts being added!

I'm curious what other non-priority expansions or DLCs that people would want to see in game one day, whether by an official release or a mod.

Yeah, seems like I am a very lazy player, and that every CK3 player decided to get about 50ish achievements while I slept tonight

this is my second playthrough ever so im very proud

I don’t think I can play this game now without dark ages and more interactive vassals. Started a new save as prince of Salerno 1066 and for the first time in a while I’m genuinely having a blast! New patch is also great. But honestly these 2 mods are game changers in the best possible way.

I’m sure everyone already knows about them lol. But if not you need to try them, especially dark ages. Big shout out to all the modders but especially these two!

Dark ages makes me wish the devs made CK3 a bit more gritty and realistic. Reminds me of CK2 a lot

Noticing that the 867 Mogyer migration has gone exceptionally weird post-patch? I’d post screenshots but I’m on my phone right now but had to ask.

Pre-Patch most cases either they migrate to Pannonia/hungary or just stay nomads and get absorbed into Khazaria. However since the patch I’ve played three games and each time:

1) Arpad conquered Lithuania, then shattered without ever creating an empire creating a weird group of Taltoist kingdoms that took forever to be wiped out.

2) he went south this time and died a horrible death fighting for Thessaloniki and Byzantium for some reason.

3) my current game I’m playing Mali, dealing with constant conquerors and basically enjoying myself when I see Europe to find Arpad conquered SWEDEN of all places, then Norway, Finland, Sapmi, Scotland, Lithuania, Estonia and Novgorod creating Scandinavia and his son has blobbed further, absorbing Italy and Germania as well as west-Slavia into his empire. Currently Europe is him (still taltoist) the French Rite Holy Roman Empire whom rules almost all of Iberia and france, England which is also the ruler of Ireland, Iceland and Rome for some reason and finally a weird mishmash of random Islamic States in south Iberia and Italy.

Did something in the patch turn Arpad into the next Haesteinn? I feel next time I play he’ll become the Shogun or something.

I noticed after playing on the new DLC that theocratic vassals no longer give an absurd amount of tax like they used to. Is that no longer a viable strategy or is it a doctrinal thing?

I decided it was time to reveal my secret faith, and obviously i got a civl war after i ordered the imprisonment of everyone who didn’t convert, I hoped i could rush the war before the popular rebellion which WILL HAPPEN but i didn’t manage to get it fast enough over it, and the rebellion is way worse than i could have ever imagined. I lost to the popular rebellion 6 years later :(

hello. i don't know what's going on, but the game's achievements aren't being tracked on Steam, not even in the game.

the game say achievement unlocked (pop-up). i tried 3 times and those 3 times always give me the achievement again.

i really need a solution for this :(

I cannot find the option anywhere to hire one, yet the game keeps telling me I should, pls help!

Hey everyone! I’ve been working on a Terra Obscura mod, and it’s coming along pretty well so far.

The idea is to calculate diplomatic range and use a map mask to hide realms beyond it under clouds, while also preventing interaction with them, similar to how Europa Universalis V handles unexplored areas.

If you’d like to follow the development of this mod and my other mod, Simple Holding Sprawl, or share ideas and feedback, feel free to join my Discord: https://discord.gg/BX7m2G3sJ

Okay you want to play the hardest recommend character in the iranian struggle scenario? He’s a rough guide how to play!

first you want to restart a lot, why? Because your starting characters commander ability is random and you need to have eather rough terrain expert or Organiser I advise Organiser more because of the less fatal casualties, okay now?

now you marry your half brother to one of the Abasids for a alliance, yes it works even though he is Zoroastrian, if that doesn’t work then use your character.

now you want to buy some men at arms with your money, preferably some with good mountain bonuses.

now pick chilvary lifestyle and try to skill the first point of galant, you will need the less chance to die in battle, already got it? Start skilling to home advantage for plus 5 defender advantage.

now you wait for enough money for a funeral, why? Because your father always dies after game start giving you a funeral opportunity, because you need piety, why? You are on the opposite side of the struggle, and you need the abasids help and for them to help you you need to be a calatpit supporter.

next you wait, usually you won’t be able to get the abassids suport before your overlod tries to revoke your title, but don’t fall for the noob trap! Because if he demands conversion you will convert away from suni to Shia making you unable to call in the abasids.

if you eventually decline raise your troops and wait, make shure you are the commander but otherwse nothing else is needed because you are on home teretory defending on a castle, and even if the game thinks you will lose you normally always win unless your overlord got some allies or mercs but that usually doesn’t happen.

now to be clear you CANT win this war normally, in 8/10 games where i tested this you eventually lose because of ticking warscore, but here comes the entire setup together, because of battle warscore you can eventually get a white piece, that is what you want because it gives you ~5 years where you can do other stuff.

now over this time you should have collected money from income and potentially if you have been losing money getting some from ransoms, you now need to spend this money to get more prestige, why? To claim your overlrods title.

when you have a claim you declare war, by this point you should have switched struggle sides and can call in the Abbasids for the war winning it.

now after you have won the war try to get a rebellion to revoke titles, for which you get a free abasids call in.

at this point you are free to do whatever! I recommend staying suni until kingdom title, and make sure you are allied with the abasids before switching religion because the alliance stays and you will not get a new one.

I hope this is helpful, sorry for my bad English it’s not my first language, have funn!

R5: Why is it that when a woman ascends to the Papal throne, she becomes the mother of her own brother? This is the second time this has happened in this playthrough. It’s so strange