Knights of Honor

[bbmike]

Can't seem to install the mod with Steam.  :(

[Toonces]

LOL.

Purchased: 12/27/2010

Not installed.

Hours played: 0

::)

[Anguille]

Can't seem to install the mod with Steam.  :(

You have to start the installer from the Knights of Honor folder.

[bbmike]

Yeah, that's where it is. It doesn't want to install the official patches and when the HD patch comes up it says it can't find KoH.exe. It creates a folder called "New Folder" in my Knight of Honor directory but that's about it.

[bbmike]

Tried it with my non-Steam version (GamersGate) and it worked just fine.  O0

[jomni]

Can't seem to install the mod with Steam.  :(

You have to start the installer from the Knights of Honor folder.

:(

[jamus34]

I thought I had this...lo and behold I do.


Still haven't had time to play yet.

[Bardolph]

Here's the AAR that got me to buy Knights of Honor a while back. Good read:

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/the-merchant-of-alexandria-%E2%80%93-a-fatimids-aar.193321/

[airboy]

I won as Poland.  I had the largest kingdom (25 provinces) and got a minor victory as an "achievements win."

To win a straight military/diplomatic victory you have to control militarily all of the provinces of Europe.  Or you can win the election of Emperor of Europe.  You win that by being one of the two largest (in terms of controlled provinces) kingdoms and then winning the election.  You become very powerful and gain a diplomatic alliance with at least 3 of the other top 7 kingdoms in terms of size. 

I may have been able to do this with Poland - but it would have taken days more of play.  I had enough economic and military clout to keep crushing my enemies.  But getting your population back to happy requires converting the religious to your religion (very slow) and rebuilding your military units after the conquest (also slow).  It can be done in a methodical pace - but you cannot quickly grow your empire and do everything necessary to stop the rebellions.  This is not a complaint about the game design - overcoming the disruption of a succession to the throne and reconciling populations and keeping rebellions down was not easy in that time period.

After a lot of grief, you can finally reach an economic take-off point.  But to get to this point you have got to purge out all of the spies in your leadership (very hard to do) and win enough battles and economic development to have a politically stable kingdom through the reoccurring succession crises.  I found a critical factor was having a king to had at least 2 princes as heirs who reached maturity before the old king dies.  You make the 2nd heir head spy.  Then you "almost certainly" have a head spy that is loyal.  Get the head spy up to level 5 and they finally start identifying the enemy spies in your court.  You can eventually, slowly, build up a court that is loyal to your kingdom.

Anytime you get two adult princes you must make the 2nd one a knight.  Every once in a while your king dies with no heirs.  If you don't have a member of the royal family in the distant past as one of your knights then your best military leader will become king.  Then it will take forever to get somebody else up enough ranks to be an effective military commander in the mid to late game.

This was a fun game.  But their are multiple layers to the game and if you forget to execute on one of those you are eventually going to see your sandcastle fall.

Even the great historical leaders of Europe during this time period had to keep putting down rebellions.  No kingdom was ever able to keep away from fights for the throne for multiple successions after the death of the king.

[Gusington]

Has anyone used the mod mentioned above with the Steam version? I'm getting ready to mod this up and play.

[Gusington]

Alright so I did install the KoH Ulitmate Mod and it installed without issue. But the game is running only in the lower right half of my monitor. Any suggestions? 

[AchillesLastStand]

You installed the 1.05 patch correct? Here is a thread that may help in getting it to run in fullscreen. http://steamcommunity.com/app/25830/discussions/0/350540973995696301/

Also might try fiddling with the Fullscreen option in the ini files maybe change it from a 1 to a 0, or vice versa. I believe the games ini files are in "your documents folder".

[undercovergeek]

Has anyone used the mod mentioned above with the Steam version? I'm getting ready to mod this up and play.

I did but I had to amend the registry - totally worth it, it's my current game of choice

[bbmike]

Alright so I did install the KoH Ulitmate Mod and it installed without issue. But the game is running only in the lower right half of my monitor. Any suggestions? 

Yeah, I think there was an .ini file in the KoH directory that needs editing. Can't remember exactly what. Google Knights of Honor full screen and there should be some solutions about it.

[bbmike]

Found this thread on Steam. I think it's the one I used to fix the full screen issue.