Here's how to become OVERPOWERED in CK3 

The true chad was the High Chieftain of Estonia for ignoring the game rules and just capturing you. Actual CK3 AI Grindset!

Getting Halfdan of Jorvik as your heir is actually insane, because hypothetically, it would allow you to VERY quickly form the North Sea Empire.

82 year old Jarl Haesteinn randomly conquering the kingdom of Novgorod to let Laith know who the REAL most powerful character is was a highlight for me.

Here we see Laith doing what in scholarly circles is known as *"the koifish"*

Technically you don‘t even have to declare one war in Asatru Scandinavia. With gifts and befriending everyone can be vassalized. The first war I declare as Björn is against Scotland so I can border Jorvik and Ivar to vassalize them. Björn is OP af.

Laith you should do achievement runs for some of the better ones in CK3, I just got 'Canute the greater' and 'faster than the fox' recently. Both were really fun campaigns

The Uppland start is pretty much my favourite in CK3 because of all the different things you can do and tbh I'd love to see you take the "Secure the High Kingdom of the North Sea" decision! Amazing videos, keep it up!

Your mistake was starting to ransom everyone for the prestige instead of executing the Catholics to get your dread up. Once you're at dread 100, very few factions rise up other than tiny peasant factions.

I did this strat once. Didn't even think about it going in but it was awesome when i realized i could

This kingdom will make a fine addition to my Imperial collection

Maybe the kingdoms were created due to succesion laws? Confederate partition does create titles if possible to the secondary heirs so that could be it, but iirc it doesn´t do that for the primary heir

Great video! suggestion for ck3 videos would be to put camera on top left so everyone can see war score while you're fighting!

1:34 there is a mod that if you get captured and then defeat the army that captured you you get free, i think the name is like prisoners of war of smt like that

Honestly, It'd be really interesting to see you go for the "King of all the Isles" achievement.

Adjust to let you know if you're leaving your army either in a raid or War which is more likely to happen during wartime that your character can be captured because they're technically fighting on the battlefield which they can be taken captive and it's one of the risks of having your character lead the army upon also being injured if not killed

I recently started a campaign to form Austria with a diplomacy focused character but it's really hard because he keeps getting elected as emperor

You might think Bjorn is the most powerful af Sigurd but I'd wager its actually Dyre. Dyre can inherit from halfdan if you restore inheritance, so you can get about 3-5k event troops, essentially inheriting the great heathen army and all of jorvik. He's also a genius. Because he starts in Kiev, he's out of diplo range but you can instantly conquer gotland. He starts with 2k event troops and its half varangian veteran, so he can just delete any other army for the first ten years. You can take 3 alliances, Halfdan, Ivar the boneless, and Basceg. You can subjugate Bjorn Ironside (or sigurd) then declare a varangian Invasion. At this point you will have diplo range from Egypt to Iceland, and with your allys and event troops you can wipe out anyone, even Byzantium (wink wink). You should try to be careful with halfdan. You can inherit a massive army but it doesn't reinforce, so if he trashes it you'll be left with useless empty regiments. They are just levies after all but they are very useful as diplo weight. If you never raise them you will always have enough troops to keep the dynasty head, and the ai will NEVER attack you. You can just sit on 1 province and have like 10k event troops and the AI thinks your the Abbasids. You get 3-5k from halfdan. You start with 2k. When you do a Varangian Invasion you will get 3k-5k event troops. Diplo bank these troops never raise them just use Maa. Now what I do is varangian invade on the Dutchy with the gold mine in the byzantine empire. Then you offer to become a vassal with religious protection. You can become hellenic for 1700 piety. Might as well hybrid the Greek culture, take Greek language and eastern empire legacy. Then use meritocracy to claim the byzantine empire. Once you are emporer you can take Alexandria and reform hellenism. Force all vassals to convert. 40 years into the game now your the Byzantine emporer with your own highly advanced hybrid culture, a reformed pagan religion, and your also have a starting point in jorvik and you can finish off all of England with relative ease. And bc your Hellenic you can form the roman empire. Do try out my Boi Dyre before you go making ridiculous statements like "Bjorn Ironside is the strongest norse" or "Haestening is the best adventurer" Jarl Dyre is intended to be the strongest start in the game. But none of his potential can be achieved without advanced strategies, so as an ai he just dissapears without ever accomplishing anything of note. However a skilled player can accomplish any achievement in the game with him. (Just don't forget to click on yourself and select "legitimize bastard" before you unpause. When you become dynasty head you can "restore inheritance"... and the wife is hard-coded to be trash go on a pilgrimage divorce her asap and marry a genius)

Great vid as always, Koifish!

We’ve seen you play Upland but I think you should play Downland next.

If you do the Kingdom of Mann, you should also go for the High Kingdom of the North Sea, essentially making a Norse-Roman kind of campaign :)

I did the exact same a Month ago after a koifish video and built the Scandinavian empire

Damn you can still make Bjorn Ironside CK3 videos in 2022

Please play again. Would love to see a come back and then conquest of isles nations, southern France and Germany.

While expanding through vassals is great, it means that when your character dies, everyone rebels

I think Jarl Haestings of Montague has to be in the running for Most OP start, with the amount of household guards he gets for being a 1 county minor is pretty OP

the spead up warhorn is hilarious

I want a part 2

Should rule as King Arnaud uniting Northern France and try taking Aquitaine as well forming a new Realm. “French Scandinavia”

Yes

Björn💪🔥

lol this is what I did on my first playthrough except that I managed to fight the uprisings and continue to conquer countries and empires. I also ended up beating up the pope and kick him out of his home after reforming the asatru.

Laith shines in speed x10

diplomacy is nice

ya uh as a new player i am so fucking lost, i wanted to do a bjorn playthru but found it impossible to keep track of what you were doing lmfao

0:24 actually you can easily just vassalize the guy north of you

If your game isn't Ironman I'd love to see you pay as that French peasant leader and see how far you can get.

Damn I’m here early

When you inherit the lands the titles are automatically created.

WAS THAT JARL HAESTEINN IN NOVGOROD?!

King of Isle of Man but in 1066

I love how the game devs actualy made it say "(nice)" when ever you have 69 in any stat lol

I have tried many times to play this game but im so confused what should i do in this game?

Heja Sverige! 🇸🇪

You wanna see real game breaking? Lothair II forming HRE using intrigue murders only

Pls play ottoman algeria in eu4 Day 3

Everyone know Hasteinn is op, Watch Koifish

try to make the empire of tibet

Typical CK3. Be doing well in every other regard, and the game just decides you don't get to have an heir, thus causing the entire run to collapse on itself

I find Britain to be the most OP start, at least on the first start date. If you start as one of the Norse kings you can easily secure the empire of Britannia and then invade all of France. You can easily do that in 2 generations if the pope doesn't come for you.

haha the ultimate "learn ck3" start!!!!!! i probably blew 300 hours or so just on uppland

Stockholm, when ???

Play albania into greece/byzantuim (orthodox)

Wait, this ain't a Galicia-Volhynia conquest

when is ulm special

Day 21 of asking Laith to play Imperator: Rome with the Invictus mod.

Hey this looks like koifish strats 🤣

похож на Ивана Золо

did they patch this strat? i cant enforce divorce the daughter

You should have reformed the religion

i hate how he distributes land one county to one person instead of making an ai with many counties who then like him...

Sjaelland is pronounced more like shellan than sharland

Day 26th of asking you to play Georgia

And this video proves why you shouldnt vassalise your way to empire, it brings unstability and disorder to the realm upon sucession. You should vassalise as little as possible while conquering most of the land and giving it to hand picked skilled loyalists

Yeah this goes too fast for a text based game.

Playing a viking? Are you koifish?

No views? 🥺

Vikings? Cringe, I'll play tall as Mali and conquer the world by taking all their money.

Me when this is not the top comment: 😔

Everytime I hear an english speaker pronounce "Skåne" as "skain" it makes my brain vomit. Either pronounce the fucking e at the end, or use the english translation "Scania". Please.