Quote Originally Posted by JeffHCross View Post
Sadly, I agree.

Though there's no financial sense in buying games for computers that can't run them.
I know. I was just bustin' your balls. I definitely wouldn't have purchased what I did if I hadn't recently upgraded my PC and decided to make it my main gaming machine (once again, REALLY glad that I did - I would have missed out on some AWESOME games if I hadn't).



Case in point:


Quote Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes View Post
Sounds good, just let me know and I'll help out best I can.
So, FINALLY, started playing a game last night. Boy, two hours haven't flown by as fast! Started out as Duke Aed I of Connact (a small province of Ireland). He starts out 51 years old so I figured he'd last for a few years and then die. Nope! He's 63 now and still going strong with a son that's 39 (who also has two sons - one that is of age and another that's about to be). I laid my de jure claim on Breifne around 1070 or so and was repelled by their forces for quite some time, until I got fed up with it, hired some Mercenaries with the money the Pope gave me (Pope fuckin' LOVES me) and crushed them. Breifne and their little brat of a leader are my vassels now (she thinks the fuckin' world of me) and I'm not trying to come up with a claim from another county to help spread my unifying love.

That leads me to a question for ya Smooth, when I was trying to take Breifne while having claimed their lands via my de jure claim, I was invading with a slightly larger force but I was getting QUICKLY repelled when I would attempt to sack their holding (with, from what I could tell, no upgrades beyond it being the normal main castle holding that those places have). My force that was basically the same size or slightly bigger than their defenses would get annihilated while I attempted to do anything. Do you just have to have a MUCH big force than the defending castle to have a chance (like when I hired 1500 mercs and obliterated them) or was I missing something? I think, what might have been the issue was I was leading with my Duke and he isn't a very good military leader, but I couldn't apply my awesome military leader to lead the force instead (could it be because I had him training troops in the county instead of just being idle?).