CroatianKnight

Seeing the game is getting better and better I plan on buying it in the near future! I can't wait to try to see what are all the possiblities of each kingdom! Especially forming new ones!

Maybe if they add earlier start dates in dlc. I remember I played as Wessex, York and East Anglia and was puzzled I could not form England. I then realised Normandy is the only one that can form it. Maybe if they add Anglosaxon kingdoms they can form England too but with different flag and colour maybe and normal England can be formed with Normandy. It would be interesting to see Anglosaxon England formes but then Normandy conquers it and forms it again.

Well I can understand the appeal of the first game mechanic however I wish player had more control over it. So you ask for x-province and they demand y-province for that, pretty much ususal. But if you don't want to give them y I would suggest that, instead of it being a final deal, you should be able to offer z-province instead or a lot of money. That is better than constantly asking them x-province and cancelling in hope they may finally demand some other province instead of ones you don't want to give up.

Oh I actually kind of like that like some sort of claim mechanic

Well we have formable nations in the game which is quite fun. The list I could find from site gameplay. tips is: Bulgaria Ireland Spain Italy Serbian Empire Russia Byzantine Empire Ottoman Empire Kalmar Union Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Armenian Empire However in the dev's gameplay they formed Latium which really makes me hope there are more nations to be formable. If you find any please do add onto the list.

Well Zeta already is Crna Gora in a way

Personally I don't mind it however many others do so yes why not Truly it is! I too really like it! That would be a nice touch although I don't mind it too much how it is I very much agree. There should be another province that would be a part of Aragon on later start dates. London can be smaller and northen part may be Norwich. Paris shrinked a bit too. This is always a good thing and yes especially option to sell or buy provinces but it may hurt your opinions perhaps. I completely agree! It is one of the things that I really don't like about KoH2. And especially Portugal looks bad and some places too (like Silesia and Prussia) . Although I think this can be fixed in a patch or at least DLC if they plan on it.

I guess it was more of a hint to you that you can invade the province and you won't really have to bother much with rebels

Update: I think it may already be on the map now when I looked at it better. Well then they could just make it owned by Britanny

Hm maybe they could make it an another province (maybe slightly bigger than Calais) and owned by Brittany. This would also make conquering Britanny a bit more difficult.

I think they should have made it so that skills are obtained with battles. Although books are ok for some basic skills

You mean that some reources should always appear in some provinces in every game? It would be cool. Why not

I think it should be tied to culture for sure. Even if cultural power is low I don't see the reason why would paganism spread all over Europe unless you conquer Europe as Lithuania and enforce it or if you convert to paganism (which is impossible for the some reason, probably because of the reason I started in my post above!) I honestly hoped religion will be much deeper than it was in KoH I. But however I was disappoined as it did not change much. Why is there no Coptic Christianity? Because the first game did not have it. Even tho KoH I with more religions would be so good to play and I would say everyone would like it. Of course not every single religious movement that existed in medieval era should be in game but just 2,5 Christianities, 2 Islams and generic Paganism is not really enough for a sequel game. So I will probably install many mods if I buy KoH II. Especially for map and more religions.

I wonder what was the reason for switching the colours of islam and paganism? Because catholicism and orthodoxy stayed the same colour like in the original game, just lighter in case of catholics.

I think it just means they are "Independent orthodox" or something like that. Although DLC for religion would be very neat.

Oh wow this is exactly what I was worried will happen when I read dev diary about paganism. Paganism acts like some Christian heresy here spreading easly or like some new organised religion. I can understand if newly Christianised provinces suddenly revert to paganism in some sort of revolt but it is a bit ridiculous to think it can spread easly to places where organised religions existed for centuries.

I think it is because first game called it Germany too. The game is faithful to the first game, a bit too much in this case. Inaccuracies of KoH 1 were ok to me because the game is from 2004. But it is weird to see these things today.

The best way not to lose your knight is to send another one too just to help him seige the town if you want him to capture a city. However I agree I think we should have more agency over crusades.

To elaborate I generally liked maps and some things are just impossible not to be noticed. And I am not even watching mapping videos. And especially in grand strategy games the map should aim to be close to reality as possible.

The UI is alright in my opinion. Interesting, the first thing I noticed is the map... I think it is because I spent a lot of time looking at political view in the first game. I still did not buy the game but I would give it a try. In the first game it was perhaps a bit too easy to conquer a town with just 2 knights with good amount of archers and swordsmen and a few bonuses. So I never really had a reason to put a long seige as it would just end up damaging my soldiers more than direct attack on a city

Well at least it seems to be a vassal to Hungary in the game. Maybe there is a way to annex it besides the spy action

I fully agree with this. I really like the looks of cities and nature. It just has a feel of KoH I but better. This I completely disagree. I personally find the political map very much an eyesore when it comes to province borders. First KoH had more realistic borders.

Yes there is Volga Bulgaria now. I think I saw it on Aragon lets play on Youtube.

Finally indeed

Personally I would like to see how it is like with other kingdoms. However continuing with Saxony is neat too. As for new kingdom maybe play as some more formable nations. They are very interesting! I would like to know what are some others formable nations in the game