Crusader Kings Tutorial Tuesday : March 16 2021

So I was running as an Immortal Empress who reformed the slavic faith to become the leader of the religion. At 315 years old, I decided enough was enough and had a devil child to inherit my massive empire directly. I tried to commit suicide via duel because Warrior Lodge.

Unfortunately she became incapable and the next person I asked to smother me refused. It has been 10 years now and I cant try to kill myself again because of some arbitrary rules, and Ironman means no cheats.

I AM NOW A CRIPPLED IMMORTAL GOD-EMPRESS SAT UPON MY GOLDEN THRONE IN MY PALACE, SHRIEKING FOR A DEATH THAT WILL NEVER COME, WHILE MY EMPIRE FALLS APART FROM OUTSIDE FORCES OF CHAOS BECAUSE THERE IS NO ONE TO LEAD IT!

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Our Education System In Action!

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A very NSFW bug

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I can only assume she's so perfect she can barely mate with humans

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Sacrificing the Pope in a Blot

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AVE MARIA Dev Diary - CK3 Roman Administration

Posted: 21 Mar 2021 09:10 AM PDT

Introduction

Hello ! Welcome to a new wall of text where I talk about the Crusader Kings 3 follow up of my crazy Crusader Kings 2 modding project dubbed very concisely: A Very Extensive Modification for Appropriate Realism and Improved Authenticity.

9 months ago I started to post about what I had in mind for the rework of the Roman Empire in Crusader Kings 2. With the release of Crusader Kings 3, I decided to migrate considering the benefits of improved moddability (especially long term) outweighted the drawbacks and costs.

I am happy to say that a baby has arrived on term with the current ingame implementation checking several of the boxes I originally planned, and we are following the roadmap initially planned.

Roman Administration

The idea to mod CK3 in order to better represent the bureaucracy of the time and especially the Romans/Byzantines is old (that is why it is doubly frustrating to have the vanilla CK3 Romans/Byzantines function similarly to their feudal french contemporaries).

In order to succinctly contextualize the situation of the Empire in 1066, the defensive posture adopted in earlier centuries has largely been abandoned and by the mod's start date, they had mostly won the endless war they had been fighting for about four centuries against the caliphate. But this was not to last as dramatic military reversals and political instability were to come in the next years.

Thanks to ~~infamous rituals~~ science and experimentation, and the invaluable help of Scarecrow, I managed to have a system that works within the CK3 framework and represents some key contextual realities of the time.

How it works:

In 1066, the armies of the Empire are centralized once more and salaried by the state with the elite tagma at their head, Scholai, Excubitors, Arithmoi, Hikanatoi and others.

For now, until Paradox re-introduce modding tools for the military, the holders of the Tagma titles will automatically join the Basileus's wars (unless it is a revolt) and have event spawned troops for the duration of the war (Mostly Cataphracts Men At Arms).

The provincial government is still placed in the hands of the Strategos, but contrary to the previous period, their power is much less important and lean towards fiscalisation of military service as well as a reinforcment of the power of the Krites, the local judge of the theme, sometimes with superseding authority.

Title Succession:

Titles are not entirely for life. The terms of office I initially planned has been removed as it led to too many technical issues (chiefly among them, character numbers expansion) and has been replaced by a decision for characters above 50 to retire from office. The AI should usually take it if they are not the ambitious type.

Each ducal title in the empire has a special succession law, where your successor is "elected" in game terms with the electors being you, the title holder, the local landed vassals and potential landed claimants (landless characters cannot vote in those elections).

As a fallback if you happen not to have your heir/son being in office when you die or just from other circumstances, you can "buy" some lands in the form of adding a special succession law to a county title where you are the sole elector and the candidates are member of your dynasty.

Additionally, you can decide to compete for an office, by in game terms getting a claim on the title, allowing you to vote either on yourself, or on a family member you also pushed the candidacy.

With this system you can play the nepotist aristocrat and push for your sons into high posts in the Empire and who knows, to be the next Emperor...

The Emperor can also decide various actions at various costs (Popularity that will be covered below). If you happen to suddenly be in possession of the imperial throne and all your political ennemies happen to control the armies, it might be a good idea to replace them...or reward them with a Dignity title.

Most importantly, when a character succeeds into the new office, that is the ducal title, he will automatically get all the empire controlled de-jure counties of the duchy as well as a Newly Appointed modifier.

Basileus Mechanics:

The Basileus, the emperor of the romans, now has two new "currencies" related to his status: Legitimacy and Popularity.

Legitimacy, the Basileus perceived's right to the throne can be gained over time, from traits or from military victories. Characters gaining the throne with low legitimacy will need to quickly assert theirs, through generous church donations, fastuous imperial coronations if they do not want to face factions to replace them on the throne.

Legitimacy is also used by military high officials that acquire a small amount of Legitimacy over time or after a victorious war, if they are leading armies a higher amount that could ultimately pose a threat to the Basileus if their ambition is high enough...

Popularity, is rather self-explanatory. It can be increased by winning wars, performing triumphs if the Emperor decided to go on a military expedition, that is lead the army in person as well as other various means. Again here, an unpopular Emperor can quickly lose his throne (and other body appendices) if he fails to take into account his Popularity.

Conclusion

We are not finished with the Romans yet of course, as you could guess there are a lot of things that can be integrated/added, but for now the core of the system is here. It needs polishing and even more flavour content (there is a long list of possible events...) but for now, if I could cite some of the existing flavour content, there are Church renovation events, the Emperor Military Expeditions, the new Tzykanion game activity as well as the new Basileus Lifestye Tree.

All of the new features have also their in-game encyclopedia entry so you are not totally lost.

The mod has been recently updated to 1.3 (still some bugs remaining) and is playable and work has started on Islamic Empires and the upcoming "Opus Ruralium Commodorum" economic rework.

Anyway I hope you appreciated this, next week we will post a new progress report on the upcoming economic rework prepared by Diogenes.

There is also the discord if you want to hop on in the latest.

If you want to contribute to the project, we need:

Junior modders for localization (creating new localization entries for various variables/modifiers and others)
Junior modders to implement flavour events (coding events from an already existing written structure)

Cheers and have a good day in those troubled times :)

Sources

^1. ^J.-C. ^Cheynet, ^Byzance. ^L'Empire ^romain ^d'Orient, ^Paris, ^Colin, ^Cursus, ^2001.

^2. ^Cormack, ^Robin ^& ^Haldon, ^J.F. ^& ^Jeffreys, ^E.. ^2012. ^The ^Oxford ^Handbook ^of ^Byzantine ^Studies. ^{10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199252466.001.0001.}

^3. ^AHRWEILER, ^H. ^i960. ^'Recherches ^sur ^{l'administration} ^de ^l'empire ^byzantin ^aux ^ixe-xie ^siecles', ^BCH ^84:1-10

^4. ^CHEYNET ^Jean-Claude. ^{L'aristocratie} ^byzantine ^VIIIe ^- ^XIIIe ^siècle. ^In: ^Journal ^des ^savants, ^2000, ^n°2. ^pp. ^281-322.

^5. ^Constantine ^{Porphyrogenitus.} ^De ^{Administrando} ^Imperio ^{= ^Dumbarton ^Oaks ^Texts. ^Bd. ¹ ⁼ ^Corpus ^Fontium ^Historiae ^Byzantinae. ^Bd. ¹}. ^Greek ^text ^edited ^by ^Gy. ^Moravcsik. ^English ^translation ^by ^R. ^J. ^H. ^Jenkins. ^New, ^revised ^edition, ^2nd ^imprint. ^Dumbarton ^Oaks ^Center ^for ^Byzantine ^Studies, ^Washington ^DC, ^1985.