When I saw you were starting CK3 I honestly expected you to have a hard time with it. Having seen your ability to gather (and more importantly understand and apply) data from your Bannerlord videos I should have known better 😂.
I also have about 5k hours into EU4 so I think that made a huge difference :) I struggle so much with EU4 when I first started - I don't think I really understood what I was doing for 1k hours or so since it was my first Paradox game. Thanks for watching!
Lol yeah man they are a pain - always acting like little babies. I had reformed my culture and religion to specifically avoid that issue in the mid/late game :)
When you spend hours on CK3 just to say "Fuck you Cancer". Truly, we have found the GOAT. Thank you Strat Gaming, you magnificient, yet not fluent in chinese, bastard.
if you attack a one county nation its pretty much nonimportant how strong their allies are, only how far away they are. If you siege it down before they arrive at the location, you get instantly 100% warscore
Thank you! It feels odd to have spent more time researching than actually playing, but it was a fun experiment (and I still get to use the database for future videos)!
the mongols were a beast in CK2, less so in CK3. the Horse Lord expansion hasn't dropped yet, and that pretty much determines if they are a threat that punches above their weight or below it. currently they are tough due to numbers, so if you have anywhere close to the same numbers you can curb stomp them. they get a bunch of troops that do not need supply, which has a decent amount of horse archers. horse archers are the toughest light cav, and the second strongest light cav. they are weak compared to heavy cav or heavy infantry, but if they win they cause a ton of casualties. since a lot of players cheese the retreat mechanics, losing a battle to whittle down the numbers of the enemy until they can defeat it the mongols are insanely powerful against such players. the empire really needs to get a foothold due to the lack of Horse Lords DLC to be any sort of threat, but after a couple of generations the empire breaks up on its own and you can gobble it up piece meal. this means that it is more of a speed bump to cheesers than a real threat.
Interesting, I was wondering why they were able to speed through the mountains in large numbers lol that makes sense now. They were easy to fight against, but holy crap their siege speed was FAST! That's a good point since they have a ton of pursuit. Thanks for watching, hopefully I didn't make a fool of myself on my first CK3 video (the beginner's guide doesn't count... lol)
@@Strat-Gaming you did pretty good for a newer player, much better than most players out there unless they are hardcore veterans of CK2. there is a trait called "Greatest of all Khans" which makes light cav and horse archers act as half an onager each. you can get this trait if you are a mongol and get enough land while still being tribal, which is usually how people speed run the game (not this one specifically since you have to be tribal with a ton of land which is hard, relative to other paths). there are a lot of variables to plot, so next speed run i would pick one variable you think would give a big edge and figure out how to stack that to ungodly proportions.
@@Strat-Gaming typically tribal conquests are done with the norse or african tribals. the africans have mines to help with money and norse can raid. once you get going it should be pretty easy since prestige makes people like you and tribals are all about prestige.
@@wiwersewindemer4437 I think most people will look up a couple things on Wikipedia and call it a day lol It's not that fun (for most) to spend dozens of hours with your face in a database :)
And I thought my world conquest that finished at the 1300s was impressive. Man you need to make your research public. I had no idea about the By the word perk.
Any world conquest is impressive, no matter how long it takes! It's a really show of willpower :) I'm working on a guide for the guide channel on everything I learned from this campaign, it's going to be a big video!
Please continue with these videos, I find your approach extremely exciting and very entertaining, feel free to go into more detail about your methodology.
Thanks! Yeah I think I cut a bit too much out of this one. I feel like the sub-30 minute should be fine for a video like this as I had to cut down 60+ hours of campaign down and 15 minutes isn't enough
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I run 3 channels and this one has been getting neglected sadly :( These videos take up so much time to make, it's been hard to dedicate 100 - 200 hours to edit these
Nice, you're in for some fun! I'm working on a guide for this campaign right now that will go in depth with all the tactics and builds I used for this campaign, so that should be helpful :)
I'm glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching! I've got a video on Starfield that I would love to make as soon as that hand comes out, by well see once it's out. If that idea won't work then I've got 3-4 more ideas for ck3 I want to try out!
Would you consider doing a lets play series in CK3? Your tutorials were so helpful would be great to see an ep by ep playthrough to learn more :) My playthrouhgs alwyas fall apart once the first ruler dies haha
Yeah I've got some CK3 planned before end of the year! There are a few more KCD videos I need to prepare and one or two Bannerlord, then I'll get back to CK3
I underestimated how much work it would be to run 3 channels at once lol I've got several videos recorded for this channel, but I need to find the 100 - 200 hours it will take to edit it like these videos :D
I know I’m a bannerlord ape who likes breaking the game as much as possible, Hearts of Iron campaigns crush my soul crusader kings is more entertaining in my opinion
For all of your big battles you forgot to mention that starving and recently disembarked gives advantage malusses so bad winning 2:1 or even 3:1 with some delayed reinforcements becomes an easy task.
Nice, my strategy was a bit different. I captured constaninople and Sardinia to get a huge income and a gold mine, used norse culture to hybridize with greek culture, reformed my religion and ended up with: 1. Me being a head of the state everyone pays indulgence to. That's how I ended up with infinite money 2. Top tier techs 3. Cataphracts steamrolling everything. 4. A dynasty that is almost guaranteed to inherit all positive traits (used moderate incest to reinforce some traits, creating a race of gigachads). So, I had a slower start, but from then on just steamrolled the whole game. Sadly, after I declared a crusade myself, all of my vassals were called into a war and the game ran at one day per minute, so I had to end the run.
Ouch! It surprised me how slow the game ran at times given my PC's specs. I'm not sure if it's not optimized or it's just too big for it's own good lol. That's a solid strategy you laid out.
@@Strat-Gaming Rushing Constantinople is free real estate, you can easily beat them if you invade Thracia early, from then on you can snowball easily.
I'm sure Zieley would be proud. From the videos I've watched of his the mongols do have one of the best units the horse archer which has a high pursuit stat to kill off more troops when they are routed. I've never played though because this game looks like a lot of brain power.
It's a really fun game, but you're right about the learning curve - it's quite steep. If you have a few dozen hours to learn it, then I think it's worth it. But for a casual game, it's definitely not worth it lol Back when I was working 14 hour days, I wouldn't have played this because it would have taken me over a month just to learn wth is going on lol
ngl the problem you faced was kinda like aggressive expansion in EUIV but then with counties you conquered, it's a weak peasant army but every time it sieges down a holding they grow. best way to get rid of them is raising an army of mercs next to the rebellions leader. 9/10 you capture him and end the war in a week!
Just goes to show that it’s not just the hours, it’s the knowledge that you gain in those hours lmao. In what could take a thousand hours of more manual trial and error to slowly learn the game, you can accomplish in much less by simply understanding the maths and data that make the spreadsheet go brrrrrrrrrr.
Haha I love that line "Spreadsheet go BRRRrrrR" - It's a great point. Reminds me of a quote I heard from a concert pianist - "practice doesn't make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect". I know a lot of people just play to have fun, so it's a pretty inefficient way to learn (acceptable since it's just for fun). For me, I love to study and collect data which cuts the learning curve by a lot. It's especially true for these games with long-term feedback loops (50 hours for a campaign is a LONG time to learn a hard lesson lol)
Just a little note from a scot, it’s not pronounced “Alba”, in Gaelic it’s pronounced like “Al-UP-pa” or “Al-UP-ba” it’s not an issue as everyone gets it wrong.
Thank you! I'm working on another Bannerlord video next and then KCD challenge after that - both are recorded but I need several weeks each to edit them.
Unless you can force your enemies to smoke 2 packs a day, I don't think you can cause people to get cancer in game lol I know what you mean - I figured I would take a different approach though :)
I made a longer video covering this campaign on my guide channel in case you haven't seen it yet! I was trying to keep this one short because world conquests are quite boring for like 90% of the campaign lol Thanks for watching!
I just finished up all my other projects and finally started editing another campaign! I've got 3 for this channel already recorded and just need to edit them :)
is there a place I can find the compilation of the data you've compiled in that 150 hours? I'm super impressed by the work you put into this, but I couldn't even get that done in 300 hours, let alone 150.
I'm working on it - I'm trying to host it on my website to make it easier to use, but if I can't then I'll make it public and able to duplicate so you can have it on your own notion account. Either way, I'll make a video on how to use the database quickly.
Yoooo that data software looks neat! mind sharing your method with a fellow data nerd? You just rekindled my interest in CK3 with your magisterial display
Yeah, it's called Notion! I'm a huge fan of Notion and use it for just about everything now (and it's free) :) I'm working on a video to explain how to use the database and then I'll publish it for all to use. I've got a website for the guide channel and just trying to get the page built out for that and it will be ready.
Lol it's coming soon! I forgot to input innovations and a couple buildings, but once it's done I'll make a video on how to use it and release it for all to use (for free of course)
Could u do with other paradox games? I think a lot of mount and blade players are also paradox game enjoyers. You cover a good niche here. I never played ck 3, yet here i am, enjoying this vid :D (+ nice memes :D)
Definitely! I'm planning on doing a World Conquest for EU4 at some point as well as more CK3 videos and possibly HOI4 (I've only got 100 hours in that one). Thanks for watching!
Yeah I'm trying to get it hosted on my website, but I'm having issues integrating Notion there, so I might just have to let people copy it and use their own Notion database for it. If I can't get it working soon, I'll just make a video on how to use Notion and the database together.
Mid game I just fought them off as they popped up. Late game there weren't many because I was giving land to people who were lazy and wouldn't join them lol plus I had a ton of boosts to relations which put everyone at +100 no matter what I did
You have to own specific counties to be able to do that, which would have forced me to fight many big wars for 1-2 counties at a time and I didn't think it was worth it. In hindsight, maybe it would have been... but I felt like my time was better spent fighting for full kingdoms at a time.
It's called Notion - I'm making a video on how to use it soon and will publish this database for all to use! I'll make a community post with a link as soon as it's ready.
I know you don't do so but I had to ask;;... any save save scumming during this play through.. I know I do as an an old man gaming I forget certain aspects of ganes... thank you for all you do.
Thanks for watching! Not this campaign, but I did restart several times lol I have about 15 hours of failed campaign recordings before I got to this one :)
Not yet, it was supposed to be hosted on my website, but the web dev I hired has been MIA for a month now and I haven't had time to find a replacement. I might just post it on the discord so I can get it out there, will make a community post when it's ready!
Thanks! Mostly by taking breaks to cry and flagellate myself. It was quite painful turning 55 hours into 18 minutes lol but I think the project turned out decent enough so well worth the pain!
@@TacticatGaming I had a lot of things planned out, but once I got past taking Britannia, nothing really went to play LOL There were soooo many more rebellions and crusades than I thought would pop up, so that threw me for a loop. Most of them were 2x - 3x my army size too, so it was really scary and I played it really passive until I knew they were attritioned down a bunch. I was actually trying to record this as a let's play campaign, but after failing so many times and restarting I said fk it and just went without voice over. I spent a good 2 days straight watching recordings back at 8x speed to get the story/clips out.
@@TacticatGaming I definitely learned some lessons from the Bannerlord video that made this one a little easier and I suspect the next one will be a little easier than this one. It's hard not to learn something after spending 100 hours in the edit lol
Partly from inexperience and partly because I didn't want to spend time clearing out smaller duchies to get all of Italy. I thought taking out the Pope would do it, but I guess he just goes into exile and still declares crusades lol Next time I'll definitely handle it differently.
It's on the Guides channel! Most video will go on the guides channel - only let's plays will go on the let's play channel and the heavily edited stuff will go here. Everything else will go on the guide channel. I know it's confusing, but that's how RU-vid works best sadly
Funny video man, just wanted to ask how you even build such a huge army (by yourself)? My personal soldiers are always like 4,000 max even though I’m literally emperor of britannia.
may I inquire as to how you got your data?, did you just google it or where there any more specific ways that you gathered data. I'm interested in researching this type of thing in a game
It's all from in-game. I was planning on using the Wiki, but I made sure to compare the data first before spending all this time and it turns out some of the Wiki is outdated (shocking, I know lol).
If you increased the amount of knights you have and increased their effectiveness as high as possible you will quite literally never really lose a battle, as long as you maximize your men at arms. Walking around with 14k worth of troops and defeating troop counts of 500k+ is fucking hilarious
Thanks! I'm working on 2 video for my guide channel - one covering everything I learned from this campaign and another video showing how to use the database (I'll make it public and for free for everyone to use)
It's in the works! Sorry for the delay, I usually just post them on my discord but I'm trying to build out my website to host all the data and guides (should be easier to find). My web dev is working on the database as we speak, so as soon as it's done I'll make a post!
All I want to know is how did you prevent your land from getting split up everytime your character died? Did you just keep sending your kids to die? And what do you do if they are female? I've tried searching everywhere else and I can't find the answer to these to the point I began to wonder if you even could until I saw this.
I have a guide on my guides channel going live in about 6 hours from now where I talk about it, but in case you don't have time: - Early game I used a few methods like killing kids off in battle or giving them enough conquered land to satisfy their inheritance. If your top-level title is kingdom and you personally own 2 dutchy titles, then all of your heirs will need to have AT LEAST 2 dutchy titles in order to keep your personally owned dutchy titles together upon death. - Mid game when your top level title is Kingdom and you own multiple kingdoms, OR empire title and own multiple empire titles, the only option is to disinherit to avoid breaking up. I would say I used disinherit 90% of the time past the early game. - If they are female, it's the same steps. I reformed my religion to be equal inheritance, so there was no negative-relations hit for female rulers. It's actually REALLY good to have equal inheritance (covered in the guide). I don't have time to write much else, but I hope this helps! If you have time, I recommend checking out the guide when it goes live.
@@Strat-Gaming Thank you that is actually a massive help! I did notice the disinherit button I was thinking there may have been a different way (doesn't seem like there is). I appreciate you going out your way to help me don't worry I'll be there for the video for sure.
I'll have it ready soon! I forgot to include a few things so I'll update that this weekend and then make a video on how to use it. It will go up on the guide channel, but i'll make a post on it here as well
