Crusader Kings II: A Game of Thrones

It's always a good time! I tend to play Total War more just because it's generally a quicker game but the Westeros mod hasn't been updated in about two years now (though it should be almost at v1.0 by now and an Essos version is quickly coming together), but it also tends to be far more frustrating than CKII because the AI is a bit fucky.

Played as Stannis in Clash of Kings, won against Renly, Joffrey and Robb. Decided to exile Cersei rather than execute her. She joined a Dothraki Khalasar and eventually became "Khaleesi Cersei of _____ Khalasar"

I just played a game as Dany in A Feast for Crows, didn't want to go to Westeros since I'm just getting back into it, plus I wanted to see how they handled Daznak's. Yunkai declared war on me immediately, I declined Xaro and Quentyn, took Daario as my lover and married Hizdahr just to keep with what we know. Then after Daznak's, Dany gets the "Missing" trait and you basically control the armies through Barristan while getting pop up events for what Dany does. I had Barristan name Reznak as Hand and the Green Grace as Master of Coin to keep them on my side, Drogon killed Jhaqo and Mago and I took the Khalsar to break the siege of the Demon Road while Barristan, Grey Worm, and Belwas commanded in Meereen. Hizdahr was arrested when I got back to Mereen and I found out that the Stormcrows left while I was away. You can find Daario through some means and press the "Character Location" button, which showed me that the Stormcrows were sailing to Westeros for really no reason at all. Anyway, I was wounded in the battle and Barristan died. Grey Worm became my top commander and I kept Arch and Drink around event though Quentyn died, they fought for me as well. There was relative quiet for a while, other than Yunkai trying sieges with like 1000 men and then Hizdahr demanded a trial by combat. My choices to fight him were Grey Worm, Drink, Arch, and Hero. I chose Hero since he was the only one I wasn't using as a commander at the time and of course he fucking lost and Hizdahr went free. Meanwhile, Arch had a baby born to some Dornish bastard, who I found out was part of a plot to kill me for some reason, so I had her imprisoned and Arch abandoned me. I tried to arrest Hizdahr again later on for starting a revolt, but it failed and he went to war with me, which was quickly ended and then his entire family was imprisoned. The rest of the time was spent fighting off sieges and taking back Meereen, which I had apparently lost to Hizdahr when the war started. I used Drogon at one point and he had a 5% chance to get the maimed trait and of course he got it and died a few months later. Viserion and Rhaegal also had a few incidents since I was never able to tame them and Meereen barely made any money since their crops were burned. I eventually ended up dying in some random battle and I never had an heir, so game over.

The Sons of the Harpy weren't a huge deal in this, which was kind of sad but it would have meant that the revolt stat for Meereen would have to be 100% the whole time so I get it.

Anyway, that's my story. Good to be back playing! I might try taking Dany to Westeros later on or playing as Robb.

In one of the games I played as Rickard Karstark, and because I had the Way of Life DLC I could invite people to carouse, so I invited half the court of King's Landing. Eventually, Bronn became my friend and I married him to Alys.
Robb lost the war, Winterfell, the North and his life. Hoster Tully decided to wage war against Joffrey to name Edric Storm as king, and he won. Stannis wasn't involved so he became independent: "Storm King Stannis".
Back home, two of my nephews decided they wanted to join the Night's Watch and I imagine the third would have left if he wasn't married to Arya Stark.
When I checked in what was happening in the south, I looked at Dorne to see who Arianne was married to, and it was to Oberyn. What's even weirder is that they had a son called Doran.
Then, the game crashed (thankfully I don't have to enter that crazy world again)

I'm thinking the Whitehill family tree needs some redoing after their history lesson in Sons of Winter. Also, I've noticed a lot of the age differences of characters is quite odd. For example theres know a six-year difference between Pod and his father

Dany has never invaded Westeros in any of my saves. She just casually hangs out in Slaver's bay.

Is it even possible for me to seize the Iron Throne? I claimed the Reach for my wife and now I'm a Storm King and Lord Paramount of the Reach (obviously I can't control this area). Is there any way of adding Reach to my Kingdom? Since I'm it's Lord Paramount and my wife has full control of it?

No I didn't, but I realized that my nephew has a claim to the IT (I wed my brother to a Targaryen, they had a kid and then she died). I declared war, my wife Lady Paramount of the Reach joined the IT and I got absolutely smashed, it wasn't really wise. I also realized that dragons couldn't be killed. Sigh..

How can you improve martial skill when you're an adult? I can't fight in tourneys, because I always get knocked out in the first round. Leading my armies myself wasn't smart since I got maimed and wounded. My character is 22 now and he's absolutely shit (6). Even my 7 year old son has a better rating. Embarrassing..

With a skill level of 6 in martial arts. Even a bloody septon kicks my ass.

I once fought a Septon who had like 2 personal combat skill compared to my 12, and he rolled to dodge my attacks like 10 times in a row. It's even more frustrating when I sometimes don't even get the option to roll out of the way!