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Or at least, castles. Cities are pretty easy to assault.Yes, but big cities have plenty of LI and A, which are good for skirmish, so it can incurs big losses for assault (I sometimes lost more soldiers by assaulting a 2k city than a 2k castle).
If only there was a "Strongest heir wins" style. So you try and get a genius each generation and, since he has a +5 bonus and hopefully good education/stats, he should be "strongest".I'm pretty sure that's muslim open agnatic right there for you. With more blood (and less kinslayer !).
I mean, if I have a son which is strong, and one which is genius (and one quick, but I won't bother with him), which do I choose as an heir ?On genetics : Strong or Genius ? They're nearly equal for me, so I don't really know how to choose.Genetics are too random to bother trying to get. The chance of spreading is really small, something like 20%, so just go for whoever you like.
) though even if I killed him, I didn't loot it (sure it was a crappy assault rifle that did 4-5 damage per hit, but that would still have been nice).I did. It's not, as long as you don't have a huge empire (more than a dejure empire, except byz and arabian empire). They are much better indeed, but you can go around.It's mostly unlocking mechanics that are a bit different, so you're better off playing the vanilla game before. If you like it and want to try something different in the game, then DLCs are interesting. I'd recommend Legacy of Rome though, it unlocks retinue, but it's not mandatory.Ever tried playing without retinues? Its mandatory. You just don't know it yet.
It's equally hard to believe that the AI has such a massive stockpile of admin points and still keeps up with technology. What if they don't take stability hits, but instead lose a percentage of their admin points?It's really easy to have too much monarch points as a western nation. The AI wastes a lot of them, but if you don't, you'll be at 999/999 most of the time. Seriously, as a western (or even eastern, hell, I was leading tech by 1-2 with PLC), it's harder to find where to spend your points than getting some. Western have rich lands (advisor), low cost tech, lots of universities from the start, neighbor bonus.
). I got my ass handed to me in the desert (at the border africa/egypt), since I had 2 split stacks of 12k to avoid attrition. Anyway, I lost that war, assassinated a dozen abbassid badshah to cause unrest and lo ! there was a survivor sunni abbassid. Meanwhile, there was a huge civil war still in that empire. So, I won't get the sunni caliphate any time soon, but at least we'll have jihads and MA and stuff.They actually don't. A nation with 3 stability declaring war on you with a peace treaty, and if they have no CB, and if they have a marriage, it will result in them still having 3 stability. Go ahead. Invoke one of these scenarios and tell me I'm wrong.Tag switch and you'll see that their adm reserve points will take a hit. They will just be back up to max stab in no time because it's quite high priority and they always have a sizable reserve of monarch points. Or you can even cheat your way in getting the 'ai' bonus (got it once thanks to a bug), and declaring war with no cb will still give you stab hits, despite having every other advantage an AI has.
