Sorry if this gets posted here often. I am playing as the High King of Ireland, and I was leading troops in Scotland when I made myself my daughter's guardian. When she arrived, I received the above letter from my character.
Hi there!
So, like the title says, I'm still wrapping my head around the game, and im not sure if I'm doing well or not.
With my initial character, I managed to go all the way from a county to a kingdom, but to try and manage my domain limit, I gave a few titles to my second son, which was fine as they seemed to remain as apart of my kingdom.
When I died and my heir took over, though, I suddenly had no prestige and was losing it at a rapid rate, and somehow the second son managed to take over half of my kingdom with the county/duchy that I had given him and it was no longer apart of the kingdom at all.
I'm sure that I've missed a step somewhere, but I'm not sure which one.
If anybody has any ideas, I would appreciate the help.
Thanks!
To hybridize I like to abduct a very far away courtier, turn them into a vassal, convert their land to their own culture, promote cultural acceptance with my steward and then do grand tours.
However, is the converting their land step here important? When doing a grand tour to their counties, is the ruler's culture the one you gain acceptance with or their land's culture? Just want to make sure that I am not wasting time converting their lands.
I recently got the game and have been enjoying it a lot and am thinking about getting some DLC to expand the game but theres a lot of options and I know some just arnt as good as others so which DLC would you suggest I start with?
This is an update post to my first one where I was super paranoid about Ghengis Khan curb-stomping me: https://www.reddit.com/r/crusaderkings3/s/QWut3h3w8I
So, yeah, I had no reason to be concerned about him. I thought he would immediately take over all of Mongolia when he spawned; it was pretty trivial capturing his single county Empire. It was even easier considering the game thought it would be a great idea to make my character a Conquerer a few years after Seizing the Mandate of Heaven. However, I decided to have some fun with him. After stomping out his Invasion War and then Force Vassalizing him, I made him my Minister of War and Master of the Hunt, made him my best friend via Ritualized Friendship, and married my kids off to his. What made it even funnier was that my ruler at the time was gay and he was bisexual. And so, after both of our wives died, we ended up becoming soulmates on top of that. It was equal parts hysterical and surprisingly wholesome.
After taking China, the rest of the map was pretty easy; tedious and time-consuming (especially with the lag I was experiencing), but easy. Because I still had 200 years to achieve total world conquest, it mostly became a background goal. My primary goals after claiming China became entirely development-focused: fully building out every county I could and bringing them to 100 development, making my entire realm Celestial, spreading my culture to as many counties as possible, and acquiring every Innovation in the game, including those from the Silk Road and all of the regional ones.
For most of those goals, the greatest challenge I faced was one I was not expecting nor prepared for: The Hans. These guys completely overran my realm in the years following my rise as the Son of Heaven; kingdoms and empires long held by my dynasty were swiftly and easily usurped by men and women far more familiar with our new form of government. I'd revoke their titles and give them back to my dynasty only to check back on them a few years later to see another Han having taken their place. It resulted in me gaining enough renown via Mystical Ancestors to complete every Dynasty track, but it took almost 100 years for my dynasty to catch up to them in Merit.
The second greatest challenge I faced was one I'm sure you could already guess: the lag. I was going as fast as the slowest setting at max speed until I turned every setting to its lowest, and even then it was only a little faster. I don't blame Paradox for this, tbh; A game as complex as CK3 is obviously going to lag when the entire map is a form of Administrative and a third of the world's 60k population is of your dynasty. Shockingly, while the game did stutter and freeze a LOT, I think my game only crashed 2 or 3 times after taking China. Also, the amount of time it took for the game to load when I wanted to start a Great Project was staggering; Though I will say, it was a good way to force myself to get up and stretch, use the bathroom, or get something to eat.
As you can see from the screenshots, I mostly achieved my goals. The Bubonic Plague swept across the entire map and chunked the development of many of my less developed counties, on top of nearly killing 10k people. I got every Innovation other than Peerage because I didn't feel like converting to or hybridizing with a Frankish culture. Most but not all of the map was converted to my culture (thanks China). I wasn't even the only independent ruler on the map or completely Celestial; there was a single unlanded nomad left after having feudalized the entire Steppe over 100 years ago and some random Meritocratic noble who was somehow an unlanded king in Tibet. I'm not upset about all of this tho, I think it's more funny than anything else.
And so, after 3 months of gameplay, I finally completed a full 867 to 1453 playthrough as well as my first successful world conquest! Will I ever do either of these again? Probably not; I mostly had the game on in the background while I did other things the last 100 years after the Bubonic Plague died out. As satisfying as it was to have a hyper-stable, hyper-developed realm with the most "Benevolent Scholar-King" Culture-Religion combo I could think of, it got pretty boring just kinda watching the clock tick down while the system mostly ran itself. I gleaned some amount of fun hosting Grand Tournaments and achievement hunting where I could, but still.
I'll probably be taking a break from the game until By God Alone drops, I am still very excited for it. I might stream it as well once I get back into Twitch. But this run has kinda burnt me out on the game.
These are all currently living coptic characters, they also have no counties
It’s funny watching movies and TV that highlights not just the glory of conquest but how the minute pain in the ass aspects of actually managing a realm/dealing with vassals is so relevant and you can totally feel how much that sucks from playing this game enough.
Two great conquerors, one island. And guess what!?! They're allies.
Ivar and my custom character both gained great conqueror. I also control Norway, and still officially Tribal, so now its just about who will outlast the other.
Going to try and get Paderborn so I can reform Ásatrú and gain control of ALL Europe
I bought the game a few months ago, and I wanted to test myself by getting an achievement in the very hard category. I'd never played the nomad government, so I said to myself, "ok I'm going to try and get this one because I love painting the map and making the world weep".
Anyway, I realized very quickly the Great Defiance War to actually become Genghis Khan was pretty difficult. I tried to do it with most of the steppe conquered as Temujin, and I was hopelessly flattened on 2 fronts (China and the Middle East). After a couple of generations waiting for empires to crumble and conquering more land, I was able to get China (claim all land under heaven cassus belli came in clutch) and become Genghis Khan when my character was in their early-mid 30s. I made a save here so I could come back and try again if my heirs didn't finish the job. Well, I did two tries, and there's always a couple sections of the world I wasn't able to conquer before the generation timer ran out and I lost my mongol onslaught cassus belli, my submission or ruin interaction, and my dominance level.
First try, I was able to get everything conquered but southwest Africa and Iberia. Second try, I got all of Europe except for a chunk of north Scandinavia, India, a couple of pieces of Iberia, and again southwest Africa. So a bit worse, actually.
I heard that Temujin gets extra buffs and events for being Genghis Khan, and I did get the conqueror trait to buff him while my other heirs weren't able to trigger it, so was it a mistake to have Temujin die before I tried to conquer the world? Keeping super-large independence wars from happening was a huge problem too, as I'd be in the middle of another war and have to split the horde and usually lose one or both wars. At times I had like 4-5 wars active between conquering, claim defending, and independence wars.
If they were all in the same region, it would be simpler, but it would always be: "I'm trying to make Portugal submit, and Oh No, China Wants to Be Free, and There's So Many People That It's Impossible to Lower Discontent".
For those who have gotten the achievement, what decisions/habits helped? Did you start the conquering right away with Temujin so you could avoid the Black Plague/take advantage of weaker walls? Or is it mostly RNG?
With Christianity getting a BIG overhaul this year does this mean any other religions are getting changes? Will the way religion works be changed?
I'm both really excited for all the updates this year but also very scared some places are gonna be left behind even more than ever now... Cough cough Africa cough cough...
But this could also open up the door to even more updates! Like a full overhaul to the pagan religions, maybe even bring some culture elements and be able to make hybrid religions or expand the way divergent religions work especially in the East.
I for one would love more customizability for reforming or creating religions, maybe you could even make rites with the Buddhist religions but instead of rites they're called "Schools" where prominent heads of the Buddhist religions can meet and debate with one another to gain fervor and special bonuses.
I'd also really love a rework of the county religion map, instead of an entire county just changing from 100% Christian to 100% Dualist or vise versa maybe we could have religious minorities within counties? Like 30% Christian, 20% Islam and 5% Judaic and the religion that has the majority can dictate the county's future and prosecute the minority religions. Also minority religions could attempt to sabotage the county and swing the advantage and percentage to their favor and attempt a revolt. There's just so many opportunities for paradox to take this I feel so giddy just thinking about it lol
I've been playing CK3 through Xbox Game Pass for quite a while, but I picked it up on Steam during the Summer Sale so I can finally use Workshop mods.
I've got no idea where to start, so I'm curious what everyone is using these days. What are your favorite mods? Could be quality of life stuff, immersion, UI improvements, new mechanics, total overhauls, anything really.
If you've got a mod list or a Workshop collection you're happy with, I'd love to take a look. I'm basically starting fresh and looking for ideas.
I have 12 hours in the game, bought it yesterday, all this time I played in Ireland trying to take over the whole island (and failed) at 867, I tried several times in several playthroughs and failed.. only one time did I somewhat succeeded when I chose to become a Cheiftian instead of a Duchy, I made the kingdom of Ireland (I didn't take over the whole of Ireland only like half, and then Ivar the freaking boneless came with 6,000 soldiers and kidnapped my wife...
I tried several approaches to do it, Marshal focus, stewardship focus, at the end of all of them I ended up in debt..
What am I supposed to do? Should I not conquer anything in my first lifetime, focus only on money and allies and making children to marry them off, then when I die and become my heir and have enough money and shit should I focus on conquest, or what?
A fine contest!
I got the DLC that adds tutors. With a tutor I now don't seem to get your child lacks a guardian messages, so I keep missing when they have come far along enough to know what they are good at, which is super annoying.
Do I really just need to micromanage every kid now? Seems like a massive QoL downgrade.
Hi, im new to strategy games like this, i tried HOI4 but wasnt a fan, i am enjoying the medieval and historical style of this game.
I have 1 friend atm after a year of betrayals and ngl i get jealous of hearing him chat to his ck3 friends who he does rp with, they play tons of friendslop games which frankly i do want to be apart of. He knows this and suggests me learning ck3 because then there will be no issues with some outsider being in a ck3 group just to play other games. That being said, i still DO want to learn and play this game.
So anyone got any ideas? the tutorials and how to vids i see are always like an hour long which i know i will lose interest in. Also cant get my friend to teach me as he doesnt really teach as much as he just points to where i should click to do whatever he thinks is the best for me to do, i aint learning much like that besides where menus are
This is my first post on here, I just wanted to put this out because I’m very proud. I do this playthrough a lot (I’m a basic bitch.) I start as a Norse in Alania. The Khazars are always a mf to get past. I start with good congenital traits always keeping under 400 for iron man. Go for dissolution and then scoop up what I can. Sometimes it goes horrible and sometimes like this play through it goes very well. I’m waiting for the mongols so I can lose it all and Adventure for the last 200 years or so. I integrate Norse and Alan for mostly the Horse Lords. Varangians and Horse archers are a lethal combination. Shield Maidens for my Amazonian warrior daughters. I love it. Not really sure what I’m trying to get out of this maybe just some discussion and feedback. But I absolutely love this playthrough and culture mixes. I also went Taltoism for the holy sites and custom religion. Plus the tenants are great. I would’ve liked to keep Bellicose but I integrated with Russian to limit rebellions. My next thing for culture is Horse breeders to cut down on horse archer cost.