Reacting to r/CrusaderKings... 

i feel personally attacked

This is going to affect LeBron's legitimacy

6:32 I think craven is a good trait for a spymaster since you only need to gain a bit of dread and they will be too scared to oppose you.

“I never thought the plagues would affect MY realm!” Sobs ruler who voted for the Plagues Ruining Realms Party.

The best part of the untrustworthy spymaster was highlighting the fact that he's french

the amount of tabs you have open in that window is doing a lot for my self esteem, 13 doesn't feel so bad anymore

I did have a weird character pop up that had a, shall we say, odd heritage. So much so that I had to plot out on paper to make sense of what was going on. I'm talking mother, aunt, sister, cousin, and niece all rolled into one.

If I'm not taking part in the crusade it's probably going to fail and even then I need an army large enough to solo it.

One thing that really bothers me with CKIII: In CK II Paradox acknowledged how braindead their AI is and made you tell them what to do (siege certain counties ect) which made the wars somewhat manageable. They totally forgot about that system in CKIII. Now you have to hope your allies are only 50 % braindead instead of 100 %.

If soneone uses a hook to get a council position, you can't fire them, but you can swap them into another positionon the council that might not hurt as much as going from 40 down to 2 stewardship.

5:14 I like the straight trait for the I made myself character vs the asexual trait for the average player IRL 😂😂

4:13 im more impressed that she managed to get a decent education while in prison

Cara confirms the male fantasy about lesbians…that discuss the relative centralization of the HRE extensively…

Higher crown Authority should increase your max holdings. Also, there are arguably 2 regions that are the best for playing tall, and one of them is... India! Southern India has some regions with insane devellopment and a fairly large domain and huge counties, generally a great start. The other is (imo) Cornwall, having a two county culture means you can beef up your devellopment to insane amounts. Currently, due to plagues the top 3 develloped counties in my game are: Genoa 34, Cornwall 56, Devon 64. For reference, Rome is at 28. Everyone is sending levies and spearmen whilst I'm slaying with my armored horsemen, crossbowmen, hobbelars and bombards.

My only complaint about the plagues is that there aren't more ways for characters to get them, heh heh. If everything always went according to plan, the game would be boring and I think plagues are the perfect wrench in the works

You mentioned in this video you hadn't done an Indian playthrough and want to change that. I often enjoy playing areas such as India, Africa, Middle east etc and I can definitely recommend Sri Lanka in 867 as an enjoyable first run. It's set up so you can play tall really easily, but also gives you plenty of options to play invade and conquer from your island of doom! Not to mention, with three concubine slots and changing succession to equal, there's loads of opportunities for family drama once you die and pass things to your heir! Case in point, I changed my succession to women preferred and had like 5 sisters. 3 of them wanted to kill me, one nearly succeeded! Had a lot of fun with faction uprisings lead by said sisters also!

And that’s why you have the spymaster. 1:49

“It’s too close to home” and yet INCEST isn’t?!?! 😭😭😭

“Why does this look like Ben Shapiro wrote this?” Hahahaha! 😂

I love your meme reviews

one of my fav if ur video types

I didn't ask for plagues to come back. They weren't fun in 2, why would they be fun in 3?

Is it not possible to hold a superspreader feast or use smallpox as a weapon because it falls under the Geneva Convention on bioweapons? It wouldn't be the first game to breach it (eg. every video game that ever used the Red Cross logo)

Sunset invasion in AGoT happened to me a few times too, glad it wasn’t just me

Gen Z mod was posted on April Fool's day it seems, thankfully.

I played as an Empress of Scandanavia for 86 years the other day. When she got married at 16 he husband gave her lovers pox. She then passed the pox on to SO MANY people as she outlived 9 husbands/concubines. The best part, she had the paranoid trait so she would lay with her new, young emperor, infect them then ban them from ever entering her bed in disgust or else suffer massive stress debuffs. Classic CK 😂

Holy fuck the Northernlion reference. Egg has been that way since he was 18, apparently. Baldness value off the charts.

4:10 Did they throw her into the oubliette by mistake? 😅

3am is definitely that time 💯

5:41 not the picture of northernlion!!!

Loved this!

I liked plagues because of the performance increase when it happens lol. I actually dont loathe going to endgame because I know mongols and black death will just purge half of the character list. I also like the legacies too mainly for roleplay reasons if I wanna do a bit of RP

I didn't expect to see NL on screen :D

Northern Lion copping strays 🤣

For a note on the Mongols - they're only a threat if you're in the steppes. They will try and dismantle whatever empire you hold. However, they only start at like 20% strength - stop them from gaining any land and they are instantly no longer a threat. They do terribly in mountainous terrain, so Tibet's Mountaineers tend to keep them out of going south. Central Asia is a 50/50 on if they go down there.

16:23 This man beats the Heart of Darkness.

Paradox I want Lucifers Own to return to CK3. I want my Satanic cult Paradox Also 8:06 Koifish would be proud

Egg jumpscare

The classical "veni vidi uwu" pronunciation is *chef's kiss*

dunno what happened, my last 2 playthroughs I get murdurdeded every time. I don't even play any differently and I'm not being a dick usually. other than losing a bit of legitimacy and getting tyranny for extorting, but I even limited that. I don't even want to play without saves. managed to play a long life with Jarl Dyre. My next heir had to be a rando trough elections. Grandsons werent eligible for some reason. I had a purple intrigue book around 15 years left on the repair. I didn't plan to repair it, playing steward or maybe learning. Got 6 people killed and that book saved me from 1-1 plots, bugged out and stood in my court on 0 endurance. that was within 6 years. A king steward got a stress level, had an option to kill the son (who was disfigured 1 year old) or something crazy, like burning down stuff? ended up with reclusive and kicking out my courtiers. which was around 106 people including 20ish badass knights with buffs, 3-4 accolades with trait xp specific dependent buff and culture specific limitation, family business pillar so it was even buffed toward bonuses, but everyone was good/excellent. Got hit with a plague right in the capital while raiding, or taking sick prisoners while raiding, knights getting sick from plagues breaking out in areas where I raid. Getting into -800 just to sell all my bad artifacts, just to be hit with 400-500 cost options, legendary and famous greek lady producing a 15% book using a 20% one (to be fair, she made a -10% temple and temple holding construction book with 20% learning before that) and a 8 plague resistance book from physician. When you get tired of marry every courtier and manage every detail, and just set a goal to occupy an empire, and then plague hits you over and over and over, then swap capital, get hit with another plague again, then again. I even swapped capital from plague event 2nd time just to be hit with another plague. Is totally related to raiding I suppose. Doesn't let you gain gold. Repetitions are also scary, had the same courtiers killing people during hunts and cucking their husbands 2nd time. I did a hunt to break out the loop of getting murdered, first the lover of my mother tried killing me then another guest I did not invite to the hunt, then the first guy tried saving me? killed em both. ended up with a 3 diplomacy 66 prowess guy with like 8 learning xD 4 star martial. swapped capital just for a cheap university visit. got literally nothing for it. before reload, with another caracter, he learned norse, my religion was the same and heritage too, next time I even learned the language of the place to get a better reward (wards and wardens). I'm really not enjoying whatever happening. Maybe I need to drop the friends and foes dlc, not sure if that is what makes so many plots.

16:18 CARA IN INDIA!👏🏽 CARA IN INDIA!👏🏽 PREFERABLY👏🏽 SOUTH or MOUNTAIN INDIA 👏🏽 16:18

Haha yeah, "Charles the Bald" meant he didn't inherit much of his dad's land, "bald" as in "bare".

Who hasn't Studied Italian Medieval Past for Duchess Matilda?

Paradox fans screaming for things, and then being mad because it wasn't as perfect the imagined is a constant cycle. Even the free patches (which they also pretend don't exist because it goes against the meme of PDX being greedy)

Ye was a fun video

Thank you Mommy Autumn for your excellent editing as always.

I play this game way too much. 😆

CK2's implementation of the Roman Empire is so incredibly jank. The devs basically years later as an afterthought just forced a system of government that doesn't mesh well with the mechanics onto the game in an attempt to be more historically authentic to appease their armchair historian customers, but only went half way, despite the fact Republic mechanics at the time were already in the game and the amount of effort it would of taken to adapt them for Byzantium would of been minimal. So, instead we got a stupid system where everyone is county landed, but duchies' are treated as governorships. So the Emperor gets back each duchy upon the deaths of the holder then re-issues. Also, when an Emperor dies, whoever is now elected inherits Constantinople. All of this combined with how the AI operates results in CONSTANT civil war when the player isn't involved. Because A) When the emperor AI inherits duchies, they don't re-issue, causing vassals to get pissed off, double so with too many duchies debuff. Then B), if any other family BUT the starting family is elected, the new Emperor will automatically take the Constantinople title, then the previous family will immediately form a claimant faction for either Constantinople or the Emperor title and declare with with the backing of their allies. So the Byzantines ever since a couple of years before CK3 released, with the Byzantine Empire succession and government type are now in constant civil war when not controlled by the player. All of which could be avoided if only Paradox did the following: Tied families to estates on polities as opposed to being tied to counties permanently. Made county holders elected by duchy holders and they too lost the post on death (this doesn't stop generational re-elections from the same families, which is exactly what happened historically). Then finally, make it so previous family holders of titles lost their claim to that title once their parents died, so family members of ex-Emperors can't contest, they must fabricate. It's not hard, Paradox just couldn't be bothered. Looks like in CK3 things will be different, this time around they look like they're willing to be bothered now.

Southern India in 867 = massive development headstart Possible challenge: a campaign where you make a seriously overpowered Queen of India and use your technological superiority to take over the whole Deccan Empire in one lifetime (title is a partial success, controlling every province in the empire is a win)

Imagine having 💯baldness in your DNA.. Right here, with my brother and all my male cousins 😅

Um, actually, UWU in latin would be UVU, because V and W were the same 🤓👆

Heyy I made it into the video

why you have to do enelle like that. lol

I know I'm in the minority here, but I liked how paradox did their plagues. I enjoyed that. Sure the AI needs to be fixed and that all the development doesn't vanish from the world, but that's an AI issue. The plague mechanic itself was great.

Yooo