Week 1 of
the Powernexing Ireland Campaign for Crusader Kings II, Holy Fury (3.0.1.1)
Last week I
started a new Iron Man campaign for the latest DLC of Crusader Kings, Holy
Fury, in order to help friends get up to date with the latest mechanics and
some other interesting features I am seeing with other DLCs that we have not
properly tried out since the time Horse Lords came out, at this point all
available official DLCs from Paradox Interactive are active and the purpose of
the Campaign is to Powernex Ireland as fast as possible, some explanation is in
order.
What is Powernexing?
Powernexing
comes from Diplonexing, I’m not sure if I heard it first from Arumba or Quill18,
which in turn means to quickly and without consequence annex territory from
your neighbors without getting yourself in the middle of the crosshair, basically
this means that we will get territory through border disputes, fabricated
claims, intrigues, marriages or any other method that will get us more
territory under our belt, but there is more to it than simply saying it,
applying it is a whole different story but let me put this into context as we
are slightly cheating here by choosing the right scenario.
Setting up the battleground:
As an old
tradition I always start as a Count in either Ireland or England, it is not so
much that I start as a Feudal or Tribal Count but rather this position allows
me to experiment on different techniques and ideas that I have, in one
playthrough I decided to start moving south instead of consolidating inside the
islands so I eventually ended up with territory in northern France and northern
Spain, in another instance I invaded Norway and Sweden then was crushed by the pagans
in Finland, a fun playthrough, and as another old tradition we have done a
playthrough in Russia and managed to get an Empire so large it was becoming
very complicated to govern everything without more than two human players.
Agenda and Objectives for the Playthrough:
I always
keep ideas in mind about how and what I want to do for a playthrough, for this
particular one I came up with the following agenda:
Agenda:
1) Test new mechanics from the DLCs past
Horse Lords, this means using and abusing old mechanics too to accomplish our
objectives
2) Iron Man mode only, if I fail I
fail, no reloading, no rage quitting, no cheating, nothing, it is what it is
and the world keeps moving on with or without my intervention
3) This is a single player campaign and
no other players will intervene, for other playthroughs this could be different
though
Objectives:
1) Start as a Count and go all the way
up to Emperor, this does not mean the title of Emperor must come from being the
Emperor of Britania, it can be from any other Empire or forming our own
2) The original culture of the founding
character shall remain the same, any characters who do not have this culture
will have it pushed into them
3) The same applies for the culture
inside Ireland, it shall always remain the same as well as religiously it shall
remain Catholic, adjacent territories to Ireland shall eventually become of the
same culture
4) Only family shall control the
counties, duchies and kingdoms under the main ruler, as the expansion continues
everything shall temporarily remain under the hands of others but at a minimum,
every mechanic shall be used to bring everything under the rule of the same dynasty
5) Prisoners will be ransomed when
possible otherwise released, traitors will be executed when no titles are under
their belt otherwise it will be removed from them, this also applies to family
6) The dynasty needs to be at least one
hundred members big by the turn of the next century from the start date, in
this case 869, through any means possible
7) Council members should only be
family when possible and applicable, otherwise other members may be part of the
council
8) The ruling member of the family will
always have the largest amount of territory possible for the rank it possesses,
always, which also means that Centralization shall be performed as soon as
possible in order to get more territories under the same ruler, other family
members shall have equal amounts of territory to avoid major confrontations
between them
9) Peace shall always be enforced
inside the realm and as soon as it is possible the vassals shall have all power
removed including the council
Here are
the links to the videos:
Ireland Pt.
1 - https://youtu.be/2WUdL1iDBjA
Ireland Pt.
2 - https://youtu.be/bXLrcRJgWWY
Ireland Pt.
3 - https://youtu.be/UAHOH7_30hA
Ireland Pt.
4 - https://youtu.be/tKX07S3voqw
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