#CK2 FOUND A NEW KINGDOM HOW TO#

To be successful in CK2, you need to rid yourself of that notion, because it didnвЂ™t exist in the medieval world. If youвЂ™ve played strategy games before, or really if you grew up anytime after the year 1648, itвЂ™s natural to think of your kingdom in terms of a nation - a cohesive political entity that has a unique identity transcending whomever happens to be ruling it at the moment. Think like a Godfather, not like a President. And all the Irish provinces have a natural goal - unification of the island into a single Kingdom of Ireland - that makes for an ideal вЂњtutorial questвЂќ once youвЂ™ve learned the game enough to bring the rest of Ireland under your control, youвЂ™ll have learned all the essential skills you need to run a kingdom of any size. There are powerful nations in the region, like the Normans but theyвЂ™re all separated from you by ocean, which makes it harder for them to invade you and thus defers the day when youвЂ™ll have to deal with them.

In 1066, Ireland is divided pretty equally among several small kingdoms, so you donвЂ™t have a big, powerful neighbor threatening you right away all your neighbors are just as weak as you are. Most of them only have a couple of provinces you need to manage, which reduces the number of variables you have to juggle to the absolute minimum. ThereвЂ™s lots of opinions about which kingdom is the best for new players to start with, but the consensus in the forums is that (if youвЂ™re starting the game at its earliest start date, 1066) any of the provinces of Ireland are ideal вЂњstarter kingdoms.вЂќ Choosing a smaller nation lets you learn the ropes by dealing with a much smaller cast of characters. CK2 is a game about relationships, and when youвЂ™re running a huge empire, you have a lot of relationships to manage all at once, which can be overwhelming. The assumption theyвЂ™re making is that itвЂ™s easier to play a big, powerful kingdom than it is to play a small, weak one. New players have a natural tendency to want to start the game playing one of the larger empires - France, say, or Byzantium. Finally, if you want more of a tutorial walkthrough than a collection of general tips, thereвЂ™s an excellent thread at Something Awful that walks you through the game in great detail. ThereвЂ™s also a Wiki where players are gathering information to make a comprehensive reference on how CK2 works. If youвЂ™re interested in talking CK2, you should definitely create an account and join the discussion there. The community that posts there is thoughtful, respectful, and really, really smart. ThereвЂ™s lots of people who have delved far more deeply into the gameвЂ™s mechanics than I ever have, and you can find them all in one place: the indispensable Paradox forums.

Next, IвЂ™m hardly one of the worldвЂ™s foremost experts on CK2. First, the tips below all assume youвЂ™re playing a Christian king Sword of Islam allows you to play as a Muslim, and introduces some new mechanics for Muslim characters, but thatвЂ™s a subject for another post. I should preface this with a couple of notes. So, hereвЂ™s a post that will do just that.

#CK2 FOUND A NEW KINGDOM HOW TO#

Those posts led to a discussion on Facebook asking me to expand on them a bit, by taking them down to a more concrete level: strategies for how to play them and win. IвЂ™ve written in this space before about how impressed IвЂ™ve been with the latest strategy game from Paradox Interactive, Crusader Kings II, and its first expansion, Sword of Islam. How to crusade like a king in Crusader Kings II

Ck2 found a new kingdom