r/crusaderkings3

I'm newish to the game, only been playing for less than 6 months and I'm kind of obsessed. Last night I finished my world conquest campaign with Danelaw! To be fair, I did change a bunch of the game rules when I started the save file (because as I said, I'm a pretty new player and honestly I just wanted some easy wins while I'm still learning how to play. I really didn't intend to do a total conquest game until I got about halfway through and realized I could definitely do it lol) but I'm proud anyway.

It took me 1049 game years (obviously one of the game rules I changed at the beginning was getting rid of the end date), probably about 3-4 irl months. I don't have a screenshot handy but I also went ahead and tried to convert as much of the map as I possibly could to a reformed asatru religion while I was conquering, and it ended up becoming the top religion in the world by a long shot (although I didn't end up getting to convert every single county).

I was surprised at how buggy the game got after the 1600s! I ran into a lot of issues that I feel like actually probably made it more difficult to complete around that time, and they all got worse as more time moved along. I get it though, the game wasn't really meant to be played the way I was doing it.

Towards the end of my game I did a bit of googling, wondering how many total counties there are to conquer, and I got a few different answers. Seems like the differences in answers are whether or not you use mods, if you have dlc, the version of your game, etc. For anyone who's curious, I don't use mods, I have all dlc, my current version is 1.18.1, and I finished with 3476 counties.

Obviously no achievements for me in this save since I'm a dirty filthy cheater who tweaked the rules before starting but I don't even care, I just wanted to be able to say I did it anyway. 😌 Even though I cheated I feel oddly proud lol. I just wanted to share.

I made it to 1453! Took me weeks of my life to get here. It was so much fun! Here are some shots of the end.

I was sad when the reign of Maria Joao Thumbalina and her dynasty finally came to an end. Her memory will last forever in the multiverse!

I’m having a massively successful game, started as King Louis II of Italy and only on my second generation and formed the Empire of Italia, consolidated an epic amount of land (inherited Lotharangia and then conquered East and West Francia) and just survived the black plague. I don’t want my luck to run out though and I was wondering if forming the HRE at this point will help or hinder me?

If I do form the HRE, should I do it now before my current character dies (which will be soon) or should I let my heir do it? Also just wondering in general if Italia is better in someway than the HRE would be. My ultimate goal is to reform the Western Roman Empire which I’ve never done before and I don’t know if being HRE or Italia is the right path towards that.

Any and all feedback is welcome!

Edit: forgot to mention that I also got conqueror trait so this play through has been EXTREMELY lucky

i just wanted son to be my heir

R5: Not sure which mod I would have to trigger this or if this is in vanilla, but I got this event last night and thought it was cool.

Here’s the movie reference, in case anyone was curious:

https://youtu.be/r-odIIQORQ4?si=un6u4SnhIIusjmLB

Since I am the head of my house shouldn't I be independent from the head of the dynasty?

R5: Doing historical roleplay in CK3 and made Philippe IV and Jacques de Molay, for simulate the infamous 1307 hunt of templars by Philippe irl. (kinda disappointed with me cuz i wanted to do a better looking Philippe, but i got that T-T)

So I sent a legendary quality adventurer to the western steppe and she got me the fucking throne of solomon.

I do not know why it looks that bad tho, maybe my graphic settings?

Been playing for less than 50 in-game years, I'm Italia and I'm just about to conquer a new country, deciding between Bavaria and lotharingia