Attempting to form the HARDEST EMPIRE - CK3 Uniting Africa 

You should've started as that one woman leader who's one of the featured characters. Might as well get the "Mother of us all" achievement if you're going to virtually flagellating yourself.

"what, why am I insane?" *In the middle of the jungle casually invades neighboring tribes and charges into a battle he is unsure he will even have a chance of winning*

As a Nigerian, hearing him pronounce things like Igbo is just hilarious

The reason Mali got land off of you was because one of your vassals (who, fun fact, was the dynasty of your first character’s friend) used a subjugation casus belli against Mali. So they became the new king, and since a king cannot be a vassal of a king, they became independent from your realm and took their original holdings with them

0:16 I'm actually from the Bassa/Grebo tribe in Liberia, West Africa. My mom is Bassa, and dad is Grebo. It's customary for the children to take on their father's tribe.

I’d love to see a literal wide empire. Spanning the length of the map in one long line.

Did Mother of us All this morning after feudalazing and uniting Africa. Whatever you do grab all three Mali's gold mines (including the one in the temple) and stablish your capital there as well for extra development, also you might want to go with a Warmonger faith.

Just an fyi, if your new ruler is hated throw a feast. The courtiers will have huge opinion boosts across the board. Might save some headache

You killed me with "He does have a son who will be taking over and I am not pronouncing *that!*" The sheer smoothness of the segue has me in stiches.

The campaign we've all be waiting for!!!!

Here I was enjoying the video to the end, frantically looking for the next part and just realizing this was released yesterday. Great video!

The new random death events make uniting Africa much more difficult. Sometimes the game will insist on killing your character and there is little you can do.

I discovered your channel yesterday and I've been binging all your videos since ! You got yourself a new sub :)

That was the most effort I have seen someone put in to avenge someone, it was actually really sweet

New subscriber. Very interesting to see how this progresses!

My first ever playthrough in west Africa was with the following goal,,as a kingdom/empire tier realm,feudalize",the first half of the campaign was really fun,reforming the faith and so on,but then the latter part was just waiting 5 generations to get all the cultural inovations needed

I’m glad you’re back! I was missing your vids

Love from Nigeria 🇳🇬 you earned a subscriber ❤

So really the best strategy for this is to speedrun the Kingdom with one character, and if you can manage it, the Empire, but that might be difficult depending on RNG, so it can be safer to just leave the Empire to the second succession and avoid splintering. Once you have an Empire, you can speedrun reforming and feudalizing since you really want to be off of confederate partition once you are an empire. This is not so much for you more than it is for anyone reading the comments and wants to attempt this. And speaking of, people have already said this, but really if you are going for this on your own, play as the special Hausa countess and get Mother of Us All while you are going to the trouble of uniting Africa, you might as well get an achievement for your efforts. Her start is not perfect, but with the alliance with your husband and her skill at diplomacy allowing for easier vassalage and MAA generation, forming the Kingdom is essentially guaranteed, and even the Empire of Kanem-Bornu is fairly doable in her lifetime even with meh RNG. One downside is that if you go for the RP of female-dominated game and reformation, the AI is still very bad at matrilineal marriages, at least it was back when I did this, so you might land a bunch of spare daughters in the hopes of keeping Kingdoms under your empire as dynastic-only (the best strategy now that RC has enabled renown gain from vassal king-tier dynasts again) but they might just lose the dynasty after 2-3 successions because they didn't prioritize dynastic succession.

I took ghana within 20 years. Just simply being a smart steward, building my riches, expanding and taking petty kingdoms and expanding my levies. 100+ opinion with the king, waited until he died to press my claim on the throne easily took it, and no one even revolted because I had spent the entire 20 years making friends. He’s now 72 years old and is in three different wars. The ANBU clan is going to fall.

Been waiting for this one a while, looks like it was worth the wait

Finally, i was wondering where you have gone

Welcome back snap ! Good to have you back ❤

Always have a physician....will save you losing knights in your wars! Also worth getting an Antiquarian, and paying 100 gold to create basic items. Can help with prestige/prowess.

Great to have you back!

glad to see you back uploading

very good job, i understand how much time and effort it took to create such a video.

Id like to see you do the Ganges river decision! Super fun location

To manage succession better, if you stick with the African faith you started with and end up reforming it, grab monasticism. It’s such an OP tool for managing succession before primogeniture can be unlocked.

Dude, that was INSANE!

CK3 Idea: Start as an Anglo-Saxon Catholic ruler in West Africa. Rule is you and your kids can only marry other Anglo saxons, plus all your vassels have to be anglo saxons too. If you survive to an empire level, then I'll be very surprised. I managed to become a king till all my neighbours jumped on me in a holy war.

This is one of the few achievements that's eluded me in ck3 so far

Can't wait to see the rest!

This is a stupidly hard challenge, great job!

Great video!!

I did this too and ended up with a hole Africa full of Witchkings.

Feel like you have done this before but you should built a powerful kingdom or empire and then play as a count or something like that and go against the empire, idk if I have explained it right, Idk how to explain my ideas properly but hopefully you get the message😅

I've done this challenge a couple times and you'll find that getting light calvary is actually a little more beneficial because most of your opponents will also have bush hunters. You won't be low on prestige at any point, so having men at arms that counter the men at arms of just about every NPC faction can be really beneficial for when you're significantly outnumbered.

always love your videos

- declares two wars the moment the game starts, on people who literally didn't do anything to deserve that - "why am I called insane?"

been waiting for this day

good to see you back !!! That was worth the wait :) EDIT: I guess you had to wait a bit for CK3 to have a stable version, as in, with the latest major changes for some time.

I can't hear this music without thinking of Spirit of the Law

"He will always be remembered for his cordial and just nature in the face of all odds." Yeah, the insane cannibal, sure.

22:40 A paragon, except that one time on the mountain.

Challenge: Napoleon's conquests in the medieval version XD

Heyy you're back!

ladies and gentlemen, he is BACK!1!1!1!1!!!

Lmao Snap I did basically the same thing yesterday. My character has all of Western Africa rn

Hi I’m grebo apart of the greater kru people the bass’s are our brother tribe it’s pronounced bassaw thank you for playing as them

Genuinamente apreciei isso.

Could you please try to establish the Zoroastrian Persian Empire in 867? There is a vassal of a ruler in Persia who is descaanded of Sassanids.

How are you managing the prestige, as tribal i lose a lot of prestige because of unraised man at arms, you seem to have plenty and im not understanding

I’ve noticed Infirm happens a lot more than it used to.

I heard when being an Emperor its best not to have kingdoms just dukes. Kingdoms become powerful where as Dukes not nearly as much

This looks fun

he's back

chairismastic

started playing yesterday (skipped the tutorial) and I didn't know you could just make up claims, I was fully surrounded by other kings when I realized

You should ofer vasalige insted of fighting the couts as a duke. Its so much faster then concvering all of them.

I started watching with my sheep thinking it's a just a one video campaign

Suggestion: Custom character named King of the house Kong. Start in Kong and make him King King Kong of Kong.

Drylands and floodplains are very economic, the Empire of Kanem-Bornu is very sustainable and has all the holy sites that you need. That, or just start as Nubia and have an infinite money glitch.

Wakanda Forever !

this was just what i needed to procrastinate my morning thank you 🫶

in 867 scenario, do restore carolingian borders decision.

You can attack multiple weak counties at once. Easy way to take land faster, without having to disband over and over

Hey do yoy use any mods in your playtroughs ? Love ur vids btw 💯❤️

You should always make your rival's wife your concubine.

Great video! I was wondering how do you have so many options when you are hosting a hunt for example, I don't have that many hours but back when I used to host hunts in my saves, it would only give me a single option... P.S - I've only played in feudal saves and "european" lands so that might have to do something with it

very nice friend

I tried to get the Hohenzollern count to Prussia the other day. Went down the fertility tree cos I figured the dynasty should be expansive from the progenitor. Had 4 daughters, then a son who died of smallpox before he was 1, then 3 more daughters, then finally a son who ascended to the duchy at age 5 when I died at age 70. Fucking ridiculous.

I attempted mother of all once, where I literally got about 3 wars away from success and I accidentally had a son (who I’d accidentally had married into someone else’s family) inherit, and since I’d used his daughters for alliances (again by accident) I unintentionally ended the family. So many hours, so many freaking kids that I’d stopped caring 😢

sankara and lumumba would be proud

Nana Kwandoh would usually be a fante or Ashanti name, looks like the CK team didn't do their research

Wait, did they change the mines to not require Feudal? Is that a new update?

I tried this one before. I couldn't do it. In fact, it was easier to conquer all of the British Islands with an African kingdom than to unite all of Africa... Next time I'm going to try and conquer all of Italy with an African kingdom... Would love to see you do either one of those things.

did this by playing vikings and immediately invading and i was just instantly the most powerful country in africa

Almost forgot about this one 😂

dude the way you play is so fast

What an honor to be the King of Kong!

Are you using any mods for the African aesthetics and court?

16:08 Says conquering a province will finally give him a border with Ghana, while showing a clear border with Ghana that splits Manding in half

this is going be so long

do u use a mod for character and castle design???

Yo..them Gold mines tho.

You sure do seem to "get lucky" a lot

Bro all I do is try to unify Africa and fail every time but my current play through may be my closest

Id love to point out that Togba earned the Loyal trait

You could convert to Islam, marry to a descendant of the prophet and as a sidequest, dismantle the papacy

africa

Got it

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unite the world next xD

Make a vdeo with the egypt mamluk count or sheikh to dominate the middle east and create therashidun borders or more

43:12 .... I'll send you a save where i only give land to my sons, you'll see how worth it it is

What were the mods used for this video?

Grant lands only to your direct family, then to same dynasty(Trusting preferable). If not 10:49 shit is inevitable.

Noice

i am from the Kru peoples of Liberia and Ivory coast