CroatianKnight

While I like the idea I doubt pagan rites would be taken seriously by already very organised monotheistic religions. This is why I also don't think paganism should just spread on its own, especially across borders, it is not heresy. Reverting back to paganism would make sense only in newly Christianised areas (where Christianity still needs to root itself into society) but after several generations of Christians paganism as faith would practicly be dead there.

This is very interesting, I really like the options! I have to admit when I read the dev diary I actually had a dream I was selecting a kingdom in KOHII last night. However I am not fully sure what does number of provinces does exactly... Does it mean that all players have to play as a kingdom of x number of provinces or does it change the amount of provinces in this case Genoa has? Does it create more provinces? What if I change it to 1? Would it merge all Genoan provinces?

I am actually surprised Anatolia doesn't have more provinces. As for central Asia... Well this would mean extending map to India too. However I could imagine to extend it to whole of Persia. Sahara does seem to have a lot of provinces that is true. I wish they included Iceland and Faroe as province. And make some provinces borders a bit different.

That sounds nice

I too hope they add expansions in the future

I doubt. I can see it labeled as Heresy if they add it

I do like the flavours pagans get! However I am not sure about it spreading by itself.. I mean I can see it happen but it feels more suiting for heresy, especially spreading over borders. Paganism spreading like that would make more sense if there are more pagan faiths so it happens between them as some gods would be similar. However considering the year of early start date it makes no sense to add different pagan faiths at all as paganism was already on decline. And it would make it too complex for KoHII and weird because there is no Judaism, Coptic nor Zoroastrianism.

This would be quite cool though! I hoped KoHII would make it possible but it appears it would be mostly the same as KoH - not possible.

Ah, I see. Well it would be nice to have some controll over it. Maybe those who have "zealous" should be more likely to go to crusade. And yes Papal elections should definitely be a thing. Papacy itself should have its own mechanics and, as I seen on the map, correct shape of the province. I think border with Naples is a bit weird.

I also found it annoying how you were not able to choose which marshal of yours will go to crusade unless you had pope in your court. So many times I would have all of troops have 3 stars and then pope calls for crushade. If I say no sooner or later I will be excommunicated. So I have to accept and then click x to return my marshal but his original troops now have no stars.

In the first game crusade states did exist and they were able to be created. Although crusader states created during gameplay were not playable unless one uses cheat "bsswitch" (This also applies to Papacy which is unplayable). However the biggest problem with KoH I new crusader states is if they were founded on a province of different religion than Catholicism they will be that religion. So for example if Crusade conquered some Pagan province the new state will be Pagan both by population AND government. I hope in KOH II they will fix this and make government of the newly created state Catholic. It would be also cool to be able to continue to play the game as newly created state.

I too have to agree I would rather see gunpowder than elephants.

Neat. I am really forward to this! On the other hand I too wonder how is crusader selected. Please don't make it random like in KoH1 but rather something like electing ecumenical patriarch like shown on the image. And I too wonder what happens if Papacy loses Rome but is still extant somewhere on the map?

I would also suggest that restoration of Byzantium by one of the Byzantine successor states should only require taking Constantinople and what remains of the Latin Empire. This is better than having to take out both latins and the remaining Byzantine successor states which I believe was the case in KoH1. It would be also more historicly correct as both of the states still existed when Byzantium was restored by Nicea.

Oh neat. I think I saw somewhere a mod for more formable states but that was a long time ago.

Yes. I think KoH1 had that option if your general was crusader. The other option was to create a vassal. This was the closest thing to creating a loyal state by yourself or liberating kingdom. I remember once Hungary was conquered by Bulgaria and pope called for a crusade. It was successful and it restored Hungary back on the map.

Also too add something about Greenland, the south western coast is habitable. This will make most of the game map Atlantic ocean and will make western edges of the map very close to Newfoundland. But I think even without Iceland Faroe Islands should definitely be a province. In KoH1 it was big enough for a castle. This will also make Norway not so isolated by only having relations with Denmark and Sweden.

Oh I hope they didn't take it personally! The reason is understandable, no sane person wants to march over a wast desolate areas. But I feel that cutting off Scandinavia and Iceland is a bit too much of a sacrifice. Maybe not even all of Scandinavia can be included but also they can shrink it too, but not too much. Although this will open up north Russia... Maybe shrink it too along with northen Scandinavia? But all in all the map seems exciting! Especially now that there is Malta and Rhodes.

I wonder will there be Gothic culture on Crimea. It would be really cool to see a successful revolt there and Gothic Kingdom appears on the map or create it as someone else.

Yes it really is a bit too much. I would honestly shrink it a bit but also expand the map too. On the topic of maps I wonder how will culture map look like. This is definitely the best thing about KoHII map, besides more provinces. I also hope that in KoHII we will be able to restore Rome as Byzantium. It would be cool to play as Nicea and then Byzantium and then Roman Empire.

Lovely!

This is excellent! I am really looking forward to it! May I ask, do you plan to make a map for Adriatic sea? I would love to see it!

Understandable. Well I hope there will be map editor so one can just add them as provinces. I totally agree that devs should take that into consideration. It should be very damaging to cities and maybe a martial can specialise in destruction. Lets say that the city may even lose some buildings and have population drop. The surviving buildings should be damaged and would need money to repair. Along with making puppet states or vassals out of conquered lands or maybe even restoring lands that were conquered by the enemy. For example Lithuania conquers Poland and I as Germany conquer Lithuania and decide to bring Poland back and maybe even Lithuania but now as a loyal state.

Interesting idea but I doubt they will be in the game

I see. Well I really hope we will be able to edit some borders and add provinces! While I support enlarging or shrinking parts of the world to fit on the map, Arabia is just shrinked too much! Although I like that Sahara is not just 2 provinces! I think they should have included Iceland and a bit more of Scandinavia. They can just move it a bit south and Faroe islands should definitely be a province and islands just north of Britain. Although not sure of Isle of Man but it sounds neat for the complete Kingdom of the Isles. Greenland tho is very unlikely and even if included would be an empty area. Overall the map seems nice!