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How would that even work?

One person hosts the game, and others can join by IP address. Players join a lobby to select starting positions. Host controls game speed. Anyone can pause.

I've only played a few games this way, and it isn't fast. We manged to get rather far over the course of weekend.

Would anyone be interested in playing a Crusader Kings 2 multiplayer game?

I'm not a ruler and I can see it on FEI.

I like this, but I don't know how much work it's worth. We can see the regions of any duchy as it stands.

I just !@#$ed the entire Sorrainian army... oops.

What is bad luck but another man's good fortune?

Erm, Arcaea and Cathay won that battle. By a lot. We were in Ansopen and Zonasa were trapped in Zarimel. They tried to break through, but didn't have the numbers. You're thinking of another battle in Ansopen, which was Zonasa vs Cathay, which Zonasa won.

They had 5000 CS there, so probably closer to 40% of their army, rather than 25%.

The North has won four major battles (I don't count the win in Haul, as few Zonasan troops were there). The South has won two.

Looks like I left out one battle in Ansopen. They won when they defended, lost when they attacked, and lost when they weren't there.

Ah, I was thinking something like 4000/13000CS left behind for that battle. Either way, they were refitted in about 2 days so I don't think it was all that significant.

I would like to see an overall tally of how many battles Kindara and friends have lost/Cathay and friends have won. You'd think them southerners would give up already.

Kindara lost a battle against Arcaea in Edairn, but dealt about even casualties despite being outnumbered.
Zonasa lost a battle against Arcaea and friends in Ansopen, but it really wasn't a battle because 3/4 of the army had already moved to Palanos.
Zonasa lost a battle against Arcaea and friend in Ansopen when attempting to break out from Zarimel.
Kindara lost a battle against Cathay in Pates, but dealt higher casualties. Also destroyed the walls and drove the region rogue.
Zonasa won a battle against Arcaea and friend in Ansopen despite being out numbered, and drove the region rogue.
Kindara won a battle against Arcaea in Hatdhes.
Zonasa lost a battle against Cathay and friend in Haul. I'm not sure about the impact of that yet.

The battles have been won by the defender in every case but one, which was the Arcaea victory against PoZ rearguard.

I would say the war score is about even.

Eh . . . yes and no.  Yes in that most people hearing 'warrior monk' would probably think of something fantasy or Asian, no in that many priests and bishops led troops into battle in Europe . . . not sure how many actually fought, but I'm sure some knew how to.

So, really, the fact that priests in the game can't lead troops at all is more against the spirit of the game's setting.

Oh I'm sure some priests knew how to fight. I think it would really depend on how warrior monk is defined. If it's simply a priest that could fight, like a hero/priest then sure that isn't really unusual. The cliched warrior monk RPG class wouldn't really do. For the most part players don't get special abilities, and all are normal humans, which means that in all likelihood a solo priest isn't going to fight a group of bandits.

They should develop a "warrior monk" sub-class as a compromise. You could still get robbed but you have a chance of putting up a fight depending on your swordsmanship.

I might be wrong, but I don't think a warrior monk class is in the spirit of the game at all.

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Do note that currently, priests cannot command any paraphernalia, and the UI infrastructure to handle them simply does not exist.

I thought they could have scouts, I guess not. That makes it way more difficult, and probably not worth it.

All of which I'm sure is fiendishly complicated: so maybe just a simple paraphernalia, "Bodyguards," or maybe "Constables."

I mentioned this earlier. I'd really like for priests to have the option to hire guards( maybe templar). Guards would protect priests from being attacked when preaching, reduce the chance of successful arrest, and stop robberies. Maybe hire them from a sufficiently large temple?

Yes, with my abundant supplies of gold that I had left over after repairing 80% damaged walls.

Problem is the travel to Palnasos is so long that I can rarely get back in time to cash bonds, and, as a trader, I end up with LOTS of bonds. And managing a citadel in a border war, I have lots of expenses.

I forgot about not being able to cash bonds at strongholds. That makes might make things somewhat more difficult.

Forum propaganda has reached a whole new level!  8)

Titling it the Annual Far Eastern War might be more accurate, but less interesting.

I think it happens when a region hasn't been visited by a priest for some time, and if a region lacks a temple.

I think the founding of Kindara was mostly Jenred and Ziode. Alpha was involved some once the actual founding was close, but not too much. We had the benefit of the power vacuum of Soliferum's collapse. Then we took Masashakon when the Sartanians decided to act like Sartanians. We took C'thonia when Thain spoke out of turn. We annexed old Cathay because of the coronation Conan-lite. Overall, Kindara has been lucky to have a string of rather successful High Lords, and a good alliance with PoZ. I think Edmund has done very well so far.