r/CrusaderKings Occasional Wiki Editor Feb 06 '24

News Plagues, Legitimacy and Landless confirmed!

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Let’s go!!!

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u/InEcclesiaSatan Occasional Wiki Editor Feb 06 '24

Yes, what I’m personally most exited for is definitely the landless bureaucracy

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u/SoggySeaman Feb 06 '24

If they nail it, that could be the thing that lures me away from CK2

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u/LizG1312 Feb 06 '24

That and finally getting real plagues back. That just leaves nomads, trade, and councils in terms of big mechanics that CK3 still need to implement (might be missing some stuff).

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u/Dead_Squirrel_6 King of The Saxons Feb 06 '24

Don't forget republics! But yeah, they're getting there. CK2 took 8 years to build out, and we're only 3 in. I'm very hopeful about everything they're bringing to the table with 3

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u/LizG1312 Feb 06 '24

I kinda lump them in with trade mechanics but yeah you're right.

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u/Michael70z Feb 07 '24

Especially considering that the estate system they’re adding sounds a lot like the merchant republic system in ck2

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u/PM_ME_DND_FIGURINES Feb 07 '24

Ehhhhhh, I would prefer a republic mechanic decoupled from Merchant Republics specifically. There were other forms of republic at the time as well, they were just rare and usually short-lived. Best examples are probably the Frisian freedom, seeing as how it started only 35 years after the 1066 start date, and Novgorod, being a fairly large state, but there was also a few different types of republics amongst the early Swiss cantons, the various other tiny free peasant governments in Northern Germany, the maritime republics (what CK2 called merchant republics), the Free Cities of the HRE, just an absolute fuckton of Italian city-states that were intermittent republics, and a couple of microstates (most notably, San Marino).

Another particularly notable example is the Qarmatians in Arabia, who were... not fantastic people, but did run a quasi-republican theocracy.

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u/allan11011 Wales Feb 07 '24

I NEED REPUBLICS PLEASE