My understanding is that christians are the only ones who always work to actively convert the realm, other religions only do so if they have a zealous ruler which leads to a lot of religion gore.
Muslims get extra taxes from infidels, so they, even historically, didn't try to convert the populace too hard. Pagans are shit at conversion by default, and that leaves India, which usually gets invaded by muslims. It's not that christians are actively working at conversion, it's that muslims aren't and everyone else is shit at it.
No, it's actually that christians are basically always working at converting everything
in 00_religions.txt:
christian = {
ai_convert_same_group = 2 # always try to convert
ai_convert_other_group = 2 # always try to convert
}
muslim = {
ai_convert_same_group = 2 # always try to convert
ai_convert_other_group = 1 # try to convert if ai_zeal is high
}
indian_group = {
ai_convert_same_group = 1 # try to convert if ai_zeal is high
ai_convert_other_group = 2 # always try to convert
}
jewish_group = {
ai_convert_same_group = 2 # always try to convert
ai_convert_other_group = 1 # try to convert if ai_zeal is high
}
pagan_group = {
ai_convert_same_group = 2 # always try to convert
ai_convert_other_group = 0 # never try to convert
}
If you are reforming as pagan then your reformation decisions affects these values.
Eh, my game the Pope never seem interested in retaking Hispania. So the Muslims formed an Empire there.
We did take back Egypt - but as usual it's getting gangbanged post-Crusades with not much hope of surviving for long.
Hispania is pretty low on the crusade priority list, but its still higher than Norway.
Basically, if you are playing Norse and the Catholics take control of Spain, you are pretty much fucked.
So how does Vassal retraction work? I want to clean my borders a little to form some more norse kingdoms, but chunks of land are divided between different kings.
Regarding crusades, once you get low on the list its basically random. It's not a strictly ordered list, it's only a weighting towards the target and at that point you have dozens of low-weight options. Also it only goes after Kingdoms which are considered sufficiently "powerful" I think.
Vassal retraction is tyranny-free with imperial administration IIRC.
For those who play Catholic Western Europe powers, what are they missing from not owning Jade Dragon?
Uhh, rally points for your raised levies and the new generic CBs which are kind of meh. Unless you wanted to explicitly disable the range restriction rule from China so that you can Skype the Emperor from the other side of the globe and have Amazon deliver your gifts back and forth with their medieval overnight shipping.
It's time to clean house again. But first to impregnate my 27-year-old strong cousin I took as my wife.
