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I managed to keep a shy emperor kicking and not past the first stress bar with shy. Idk how lol 😅 helped. I had a dog and a cat, and they got along lol
Besides diplomacy allows you to peacefully vassalize your neighbors, one time I had kingdom of italy title and both lotharangia and east francia were dissolved so me being the neighboring kingdom with high diplomacy, high legitimacy and catholic allowed me to vassalize the entire HRE region and form HRE in record time. Same goes for tribes too, create a custom ruler with correct diplomacy perks etc. In any of the polish duchies at the start and then they will all be willing to be your vassals after first couple wars.
Canarias island kingdom represented? I was the one who added that to the wiki, I spend hours trying to find help to form it and realised it wasn’t there…
My favorite was when i was throwing a feast and somebody convinced me to try cannibalism which then led to my character chopping off his own arm with the intention of cooking and eating it only to die of blood loss immediately. As a player i literally said to myself "ive never played as a cannibal before but whats the worst that could happen."
The only thing northumbria has going for it is that Ælla is really good at murder, usually as the AI he will murder one or two of the members of the opponent families before he gets taken out. I was playing a Dyre The Stranger game off in Kyiv, and by the time he was killed, he had murdered two of my brothers and my uncle. I ended up accidentally inheriting denmark, sweden, and Danelaw for it.
Underrated bad trade is greedy, you can't send gifts to people, you can't give artifacts to people you can't give titles to people, you can't even transfer vassals to your vassals.... Essentially, you have to play a greedy character as a duke or count, because if you play as a king or an emperor that's greedy, you're going to spend your whole life being stressed out of your mind.
You just need to be a kidnapper, the emperor's spymaster and start ans scheme, then when the time comes and you have 85% rate, press your claims, kidnap the ruler and win the war within ans instant. Intrigue is op.
My just family is looking down on all you intrigue gamers out there. Who needs intrigue when you can rock your empire with even the worst just family member. (In all fairness I also get lots of devotion from it so I can just declare myself a baltic pope and rip away titles like that.) Being a goody two shoes rocks!
As an introverted shy who is recovering from social anxiety, shy is way too intense. Even at my worst I could still enjoy a good party (actually the alcohol helps to forget being socially anxious)
I typically play righteous characters, so all of the virtues are great to have. Shy is definitely the worst trait, though. The things I will do to avoid an heir with that trait...
CK is such a great series. This vid autoplayed and I missed the first part, my attention dropping in around the time you were talking about disolving byzantium. I genuinely had to stop my cleaning just to see waht batshit dimention I had fallen into.
I would be curious how you would rank them for difficulty learning from a new player perspective. Or, I know some people like to start with a certain focus on their first ruler, then rotate on succession. Your take on rotating or starting preference? As a new player myself, I've dabbled in just a few. A marshal focus is pretty straight forward I think. Diplomacy I feel like you get into some deeper concepts and how things are affected, but I did appreciate being able to increase the sway of gifts to create instant deals basically and arrange marriages. And being able to attack multiple kingdoms in one life time with the force vassalage thing I think or whatever that is saves so much prestige and time I feel. I can see the appeal to the learning focus but that seems less intuitive on what it affects so I haven't tried it yet but sounds good. The intrigue assassin schemer I tried in a short go and started with a small county. I tried marrying off my kids and killing those in front. It was fun, lots of time passing in the beginning, but I ended up tossing an entire kingdom into chaos pretty quickly after I help assassinate a king. Haha.
The issue with the civ like game, theres many different versions of civ like already, so its a rough market, and its all been done. Also if there isnt a game out with a mode you wanna play, theres a mod for you anyway. Sims, yes it could be samey same, aslong it doesnt become cringe it will gain alot of sales!
This video inspired me to do the same, murdered my way through the byzantine til a woman took over the empire, seduced and married her, then gave the title to the HRE and watched everything fall apart 😈
Cara I like your CK videos I play on Xbox and unfortunately the game crashes a lot but I have a couple thousand hours on the CK3 you should do a video on the last karling in 1066 and see if you can reclaim France and form Francia I managed to do it within 20 years with only one county but the game crashed and deleted my save 😢
Im not a challenge run guy, but Ive always like diplo. Being friends with vassals and neighbors is really strong. Also, Groomed to Rule is a really fun skill that makes your kids have better stats
@@PuddingXXLif you just want to be friends with vassals, Norse legacy works, but the 3 middle perks are kinda bad. Sending to Varangians is op for elections. Instant stats and gets prestige once finishes. Ritualised friendship tenet well worth a slot for best friend synergy just need to choose friends. Grand marriages give a lot of bonuses, 50-100 xp per level of education so half a perk per event, can even repeat 3-4x worst case need like two. That's why I don't even do 5 years in Diplo, can make the perks delay and you wanna reset after you got old and plan for no more kids. With elections in tribal I marry for prestige and get concubines that are good. In my experience whichever legacy you go from the 5 third perks 10% education xp, the database slightly changes. That's why I go steward and law even if it isn't the best perks, last one op. But first two Diplo better normally. But I was able to breed people in cities and get 27 stewardship geniuses of my branch with 3 op traits and the kid got back to back events for ponds, roads , aquaducts etc. even without artifacts maxed 3 trees by 42 and could go scholar. Together with wife like 18 domains (+3 ok from settings, everyone gets +3 so easier to manage bigger chunks and hold all capital duchy counties at start) with the son holding like another 12+ I didn't even wanted to live more than 45-50 years just inherit early, repeat. So like 30+ counties were always mine at inheritance and grandson prepped.
Intrigue is awesome for new rulers for realm stability if they take throne with dread. Also, the vassal tax increase from dread works really well. But after finishing up the dread tree, we have to switch to learning or stewardship. Still haven't found a use for martial or diplomacy though
Martial is great at the start of the game, when you need to start conquering to expand and the bonuses for MaAs and knights come really handy when you're on par or even below army troops than the enemy, not to mention that all the conties you get will have low control and you need to bring that up ASAP. The marriage acceptance bonus from chivalry is also not bad, it opens doors that you normally wouldn't have as a count or a duke. Diplomacy is great for when you have a big empire with lots of vassals, become friends with your more powerful ones and you can stop worrying about factions all together, you can also get an extra alliance without having to marry off one of your children, so you can focus more on marrying for traits or stats, not to mention that the extra prestige can come in handy for a tribal ruler and true ruler can also let you expand quickly in the early to mid game if the conditions are right. Finally, the patriarch tree line gives you a lot of stress mitigation and free stats, not as much as learning, but still pretty nutty.
It’s frustrating that basically only a strong hook gets people to join a disillusion faction. Independence factions are a bit easier but again it annoys me that friends or allies can’t be asked to join your faction.
Whenever I get the "The Beating" ward event, I take Shy every single time. There's ways of working around it, such as matrilineally marrying off courtiers to get the dudes that you want in your army or court or council. I think the worst trait is Imbecile by a long shot.
