Ruling Europe from the SHADOWS | Crusader Kings 3 

"let's murder him.... wait.. no..... her!"

"Grandfather it is truly impressive how quickly we rose to the top! Surely God has smiled down on us!" _Gramps is just looking at his grandkid with the thousand-yard stare, whispering something about voices_

This has me chuckling. 😆

things can arise that lower the chance of success. Also, I have had the 5% chance of failure hit way more than 5% of the time. So, I also overshoot the 95%, just to be sure.

hiring another agent makes the scheme go faster, which i think was his intention

And you just discovered how Ukraine and Georgia became part of the Russian Empire....

@@EvanJTao ''We need this to succeed'' yeah no

@@vrabb9030 quicker it finishes, less chance for it to be discovered.

Bro same, must be a good starting area, I just map painted though and granted kingdoms to family. Wasnt my intention but I was just always stronger than my rivals and kept being able to vassalize the small states inbetween kingdoms, Most of England and all of Scandinavia were gonna be push-overs but again i wasnt aiming to map paint, when that king eventually died I somehow was able to fight off all the vassal wars and keep all of mainland western Europe only conceding an authority level as I had lost 2/3 of my vassals and levies, think I had 6 wars going and 30000 strength through kingdom alliances despite most the vassals being at war with me, had 60,000 enemy troops roaming my capital before conceding the authority level. All before 1066- best playthrough thus far.

I hate that about this game. I don’t get why itd all just fall apart when the regular ai doesn’t as quickly.

@@cialnorthall8796 Wouldn't it just be due to culture differences and things like that? Most regular ai rulers are already the culture and religion of their people

Thank you man appreciate it a lot! Was one of the most fun games I’ve had, it’s my fault for not getting into intrigue properly before but it’s a great

Will definitely look into Intrigue after this

Agreed

@@SnapStrategy Yes, for a minute I thought I was on the Spifin Brit channel.

Gotta go for the style points lmao

@@SnapStrategy pirates did it to help them see in the dark of under the deck by not letting one eye acclimate to light. You are doing the same.

​@@SnapStrategyI thought British were supposed to be good at speaking English? You can't pronounce fucund

Yeah, it's best to do this to try and get your player heir installed somewhere, and/or just do this while at the same time growing your own empire by declaring war, kidnapping the enemy leader, and forcing surrender.

Yeah best to do this in the background while going for an emperor rank somewhere in your own backyard by doing the whole abduct-declaration

This is why you need to make cadet branches

@@iceman5117 why

@@Ahrone1586 if you make a cadet branch, you become house head, but your dynasty head remains the same. _but_ if you muster up a significantly larger military force than your dynasty head, you become dynasty head again, as far as i understand it at least I think that's why he said that

He wasn't physically scary. It's just knowing how dangerous this dude was truly was...

Thanks man! Hope you have a nice day

Glad to hear! Hope you like the video!

Prowess matters, and Title ranked portrait borders! i recently made a about the best graphics mods for ck3, so could be worth checking that out for more similar changes! :)

Its most probably the Interaction Icon Project you're looking for!

@@SnapStrategy Thank you very much. Amazing content btw I enjoyed the video a lot, keep at it 😊

If its not in CFP it must be in Ethnicities and portraits expanded then im pretty sure!

@@SnapStrategy It is. didn't work for me as I didn't install the compatibility patch as well.

your culture likes telling stories or values honesty, i dunno

That does seem strange, someone mentioned in my livestream a week or so ago that they kept having failing schemes that were at 95% i've never had it happen and I've played the game with a bunch of mods, but yeah i suppose it could be one? or maybe some sort of bug? im sorry i got no clear answers for you!

@@SnapStrategy I did notice that it was almost impossible to keep a high positive relationship up with my spy master, it kept slipping down to positive thirties only, which was also odd as no mention of issues, rivalries and the like. So I swapped out the spymaster for one of my sons who had way less intrigue. But that seemed to increase my odds of success to something a bit better. However, I still suspect one of my AI mods, as I've also begun to notice nofications of significant people to me dying who are from far flung places that I've never met or interacted with 🤔 Will try an Ironman on my next run through.

I might be wrong but isn't it just clicking on the barbershop button and changing your character's looks?

@@edgar7456 hold on I'll check

Pretty sure its apart of Ethnicities and Portraits Expanded

I also wondered about this, but if I've understood the plan correctly, spare sons won't matter in the succession because you're not going for multiple holdings, rather staying as a small defensible power base that you will always inherit or can easily retake. And should any brothers become overly bothersome then I guess we know what happens to them = )

Adding to this son's inherit less if they already own holdings and such especially if you can get to high partition ur set and ur holdings are mostly safe

More children

Checked the auto generated subtitles and it says 59 times lmao

wait no 118 actually wtf

@@SnapStrategy thats 2.6 times per minute dude... what was your characters kill count at the end?

ethnicities & portraits expanded mod, "Western Spymaster" clothes

@@abdal-Uzza-kt8zn Thank you, I've been waiting 1 year for this

Oops didnt even know lol, got it from the Cats Coat of Arms mod