r/CrusaderKings

I declared war, marched, and keeled over.

One of my favourite starts in CK3 is to be King Phillipe of France, who usually loses a big chunk of his lands within the first year of the game when Duke William conquers England and gains a kingdom title (equal to your title, so he goes independent).

However if you swear fealty to the HRE immediately on game start, then William becomes an HRE vassal, and becoming king is still a lower tier than Emperor so he gets stuck in the HRE – and you get to play in a mega HRE which includes France and England.

I chose to give a gift to the HRE emperor so I could get low taxes and low vassal contribution, and within a few years I was chancellor of the HRE. A few pilgrimages, befriend schemes on the electors, and a murder later I was emperor – and William was back as my vassal, cursing his luck and doing sterling work as my marshal.

If you are trying this please note that Phillipe has random personality traits, so you might want to reroll the start a few times - becoming Emperor is much harder when he's a glutinous craven!

So I was hit by random inspiration, when I remembered the John Brown Isekai exists, and wanted to do this.

What would you make for a John Brown build, and where would you put start at?

Base game, AGOT, and other Submods you play.

Thinking he would be a military Landless traveling around, but would like to hear other people's ideas.

Edit: Also, does anyone know, or have, a good John Brown DNA?

The Arabian empire has drifted all of Persia and much of Africa into its de jure, and I was planning on conquering Persia, creating the empire title, and giving its de jure territories back to allow them to drift back to Persia, but that's simply no longer possible, given it's been wiped off the fucking map.

I see folks asking about John Brown, Gustavus Adolphus, etc.

But what about the legendary THRILLHO?

Surely he's a Loyal Inbred (Involutary) Celibate Misguided Warrior with Clouded Eyes, but what else?

I know there were some famous eunuch in history, like the son of Emperor Romanos I Lekapenos, Theophylact who became a patriarch, and famous general Narses, but does it really make sense to give them such significant buffs, especially when it comes to military stats?

So, what had happened was I married off my son to this African girl a couple rulers ago. I inherited some lands via this. Two rulers later I get attacked by an African duke, beat them demand their son as hostage and make a nice little story of a hostage becoming the son of the Emperor of Italy. The only problem is that now he's my heir which I didn't want. Ive been grooming my actual son to become a learning genius. My adopted son does have the learning trait but my actual son is already higher and he's not even 16 yet. How can I take him out of the inheritance that doesn't involve murder?

Edit:I have decided that for the sake of role play I will be continuing the game as my African boy.

Hey everyone, I don't post often but I figured I would ask reddit if there was anything I can do to fix an apparent bug that happened to me in this playthrough. I only say bug because I might be misunderstanding the game mechanics. I had roughly 15 thousand horse riders and all the sudden, I lost nearly all of them and now I only have around 500.

To be honest I am not sure when it happened, I was not paying close enough attention to my troop count for years and lost my prior save files so I cannot go back. I think it happened when I died on my first character. It isn't a big deal if I cannot fix this, I am not that far into my game. But it would be nice if I could because this was about as good a start as I have had.

One of the choices was to have sex and lower stress but there was a 20% chance to die. The other choice was to gain a massive amount of stress. The choice was obvious haha.

I'm afraid to say no

So I was inspired by some recent posts to do a CK3 playthrough as one of my favourite historical figures: William the Bastard, a Norman warlord who conquered England.

What traits would William have if he were in CK3?
Should I start as an adventurer or insert myself in as a custom Duke of Normandy? It’ll be difficult to conquer all of England in one war as my first character just starting as Normandy, but I’m not sure how else to fulfil my RP plans.

Also does anyone have any pre-made character DNA for Big Willy B? I want to make him look as historically accurate as possible, which means absolutely fucking nothing like this painting

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Got an odd fascination with this guy lately, and thought about building him in CK3.

What would a build with him look like. I know he is most famous for his military history, but I know he is also responsible for political, religious, and administrative changes as well.

What would you build him like?

R5: Thought it would be a fun long term challenge to try and revive every dead religion in CK3, as in every religion which existed before the earliest start date, but has no counties or characters following it, so no religions founded during the games time like Lollardy or the Yazidis, but it can include religions revived during the games time like todays entry, Adamitism.

Adamitism was described as a Christian heresy in the 100s-300s present in North Africa, however sources on them aren't great and are very biased. In Epiphanius' account he mentions only hearing second hand accounts of the group and he considers them little more than a joke, particular he points out the hypocrisy of wanting to return to Adam and Eve's innocence yet living in heated homes and having heated churches, which apparently they called "Paradises".

Epiphanius also describes how they only went naked during sermons, which differs from the depiction in game but is also pretty hypocritical and would be less fun in game. Another aspect of their faith not shown in game is their rejection of marriage, which wouldn't really work mechanically but for an extra challenge i decided to not marry anyone and not marry off any of my children (some did marry when i gave them land though) which was an extremely fun rule i definitely 100% absolutely do not regret.

Several later medieval movements would draw inspiration from the Adamites but by the games start they where truly long gone, if they where ever a real unified movement.

Decided to form Carthage this game, becuase well what else do you do in North Africa, so started as Nestorian Syriac character, went on a massive pilgrimage across India and used the Open minded perk to covertly cheaply before using the Claim throne scheme to take Alger. I was then extremely lucky with getting the conqueror event which made expanding so much easier.

I, the Gallic Emperor, want to revoke the Kingdom of France from my rebellious vassal. I cannot, because a single county in the utter south of France is constantly occupied because of a war that has been going on for seventeen years, with the war score at 100% for years on end, with no end in sight. Does anybody know how I am supposed to revoke the Kingdom of France with this happening? How do I end this forever war?

I get the event that she has Lover Pox but I don't have it.

So she can't get it but yet she did.

This bug needs to be fixed ASAP.