I go CRAZY with the new men at arms stationing mechanics 

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Wait does the spreadsheet take the regiment size into account or is it just cost to dmg

Could you check some type of playtrough with Raska in 867 or something, you literally have 2, 3 mines available in your starting positions

​@@weasel9498 One cant be built until the third era though

​@@blastedtheking813 yes

Not to mention that all the buildings are multiplicative modifier’s, so higher damage maa are much more cost effective for the building build cost.

All my MaA are free to maintain and 1/10 of the cost to recruit at year 1100. I don’t even know what modifiers I stacked aside from Easter Roman Legacy and a bunch of Regimental Grounds which still can’t explain the free recruitment.

How did he get to 20k gold so quickly? That's what I missed. Is it a Tours and Tournaments thing? I'm playing vanilla on Xbox (when it's not crashing every other month) and I can't get anywhere near that figure by that timeframe.

@@Bolano75 I know that with T&T came the taxation tour, which gives a lot of gold, especially when you have a large realm. But otherwise, Zieley afaik min maxes his economy buildings (incl. Duchy buildings), uses characters with high stewardship to have more holdings (counties and baronies), and restricts himself to having holdings within his two duchies to gain the maximum benefits. There is probably more, although I can't think off the top of my head. A number of elements of this are still possible with vanilla however.

The problem with his calculation is that he forgot to multiply the base damage by the number of units at each MaA level. For example, the Heavy Cavalry deals 100 damage, but only 50 units per level, for a total of 5000 damage to that MaA. While Heavy Infantry has 32 Damage, but has a total of 100 units, totaling 3200 Damage. This way, his calculation would only be correct if he calculated the Total Damage and Toughness, and not just the Unit value. Why Toughness? Because there are troops that serve as punching bags for other troops to use as damage. Knights have no Toughness, and only occupy 1 unit slot, if you have more units for your knights to take less damage, it is much better, protecting them from being wounded or even killed. Therefore, there are MaA that are more focused on dealing damage, some are more hybrid and others are more focused on taking damage. Remembering that here we are removing 100% of the land bonus, and also the Climatic Period of war, as this would certainly increase even more how much better or worse each MaA is.

The hand to Laith spreadsheet shall spREAD

This is why I love Zieley. So practical and clever

Mfw Zieley spreads all over the sheets 🥵🥵🥵

Actually i get the impression Balkans is now better due to how close there are mines in vicinity, like 4 or 5

@@weasel9498 yeah, time to make Slavia😍 The biggest empire in the game! Although I still love starting as Dyre or in Bohemia (also has a mine). And in Sardinia there are now 2 castles in the capital barony. 1 w the mine and 1 regular😁😁😁

You should try to capture one or (later in the game) two mines anyways as they give a huge bonus to Siege weapons stationed there.

And how do you do that on console???

@@nikolaitregouet Slavia is bigger than tibet???

100% it's easier. Love the roleplay elements of ToT, but it's really put the game on easy mode in terms of strategy. Of course, it's made it easy mode for the CPU too, so it's led to some interesting scenarios like no mercenaries being available in the late game because they're all always rented out due to everyone being flush with cash...

@@justinpayne2654 Whats the best strategy to focus on 876 start date? Focus on research for extra building slot, build your domain limit and usually whats best combination of buildings for castles? 2 eco 2 military?

It's become so easy, it is a joke! Have you noticed the new heavy cavs? They are special like the houseguard, but as strong as knights! I managed to get their power up to 1500 and their defense to 500! In defense they are as strong as a 50 prowess knight and you have 300 of them! Absolutely bonkers!

I dunno how hard or easy the game is really. I don't have the depth of experience you guys have I'm afraid, so I don't know how certain things work, or how to use some things to their fullest. I've watched people take on massive armies many times their size with T&T (and even before) but I still am not able to bait enemies to fight where I want and things like that. I can still win wars or take over massive swathes of land. I usually can avoid succession crises and keep everything together, but I can't pull off crazy development rushes or make oodles of gold or make stack wiping monster armies. I guess I just have to keep learning.

@@danieljung5862 where do you get those?

yup, not sure how he is not more popular

@@Dan-pm4hd cause CK3 is a nitch in terms of game popularity of what i can see

Might be a bit weaker if they haven't tweaked land of the bow extra dmg from hunting grounds :( It's on my to do list to check with getting a crossbowmen accolade in tribal era (han courtier with aggressive attacker if I remember correctly)

Makes sense. Not only the player is enslaved by RNG but the AI too

This makes the most sense to me. I had noticed it for the archery contests as well

That's not quite how probability works, but sure

Others having relatively lower chances doesn't change your own chance of winning. You could have 25% chance alongside 750 dudes with 0.1% chance, but you should still only win 1 out of every 4 times if these numbers are actually showing the real values.

@@betoh7140 amazingly over 75 people liked his comment...

If your faith has human sacrifice you can declare war to "raid for captives"

Yes! I want wars of vengeance. My heir is assassinated by the Fatamids and I can’t invade full force? Come on

@@joshuatoland4228 If they balance intrigue around this; it could be fun. Greater base chance for plots; but heavier repercussions when successful.

​@@EinFelsbrocken killing someone is easy. The hard part comes with the angry families.

​@joshuatoland4228 there is a mod called rescue and vengeance that allows you to do just that

They are also meat grinders with that 60 base pursuit. You only need to win once.

​@@PuskasMartonthe equivalent of medieval wood chipper

The english lose Herds which is kinda sad so i rather make my own Culture

@@keyos4398 Herds is terribad IMO; the hit to Cultural Fascination is brutal.

im pretty sure you can reform anglo saxon and add longbowman

@@Kelso540 its a big hit but you get the best Units in the Game. Besides the Konni in my opinion And if you keep the Culture small i your High development area lessen the Penalty

@@mussyeg Yeah thats how i do it most times

In CK3 only Indian cultures normally have access to War Elephants and afaik the buildings that buff them are mostly only buildable in India so I don't think there's anything weird with that. As for their historical effectiveness, it's really not fair to say they're "easily countered" if you're primarily basing it on western/middle eastern history. There is a significant difference between Indian kingdoms' use of war elephants vs. powers like Carthage and Persia. Not only did the Indians have way more elephants, the fact that elephants are more integral to their military doctrine means they'll have more infrastructure and support units to support the war elephants. Not to mention the different terrains would hugely impact what units would be more effective.

Having +10 damage in taiga/forest is what makes them great, having pursuit is what makes stacking them and only them a viable strat.

Is it really?! That's awesome. I've been binge listening to the audiobooks

But it's different, during a hunt animals are stuff you're *allowed* to kill.

That's not what my Spymaster said...

Ahh, Paradox games. The only time taxes are fun.

Because it also affects vassals and even barons

Damage is much more important if you have a decend amount of levies that will soak up most of the damahćge.

Search the workshop for a mod called 'Holding Sprawl'. I think you'll like the results.

@@brucesim2003 you need dlcs for it to work

@@MichusubPl Ah ok. I have them, so I never noticed.