Provences to spawn intuitions. Like a combo list based on trade goods, cost in mana, country ideas that could help. And, how hard or easy they are to conquer
actually characters of any culture/faith can form the kingdom of livonia, you just get the nickname "the scourge of the baltics" instead of "the father of the batlics"
as a Latvian, it was one of my first playthroughs to get Father of the Baltics, hard game start, but incredibly interesting and fun, especially uniting the Baltic Empire and developing it into the most scientifically and infrastructure developed empire, then of course conquering Moscow for fun.
@@紫の羊-c3g Oh it wasn't a mod - I just made a bunch of rulers based on various anime characters, then stuck them in various countries and sat back to see what happened. Only mod I used was "Spouse Designer," so I could mess with family trees enough to make characters that are supposed to be related actually BE related in game
I can only imagine the cultural-linguistic clusterfuck that would have resulted if the Crusader Empire was an actual, long term thing IRL. Like the Norman Invasions x1000
@@joeroganstrtshots881 they weren't rivals and they didn't took them down, Costanza of Hauteville, the last Norman ruler of Sicily, married the emperor Henry IV and their son Frederick II became king of Sicily after her death.
Forming Greater Armenia is one of my favorite runs, and I had this dream run where I started as Rurik, got the duchy of Cilicia by a Varangian adventure, proceeded to form Greater Armenia, and finally became the Saoshyant.
I formed the Roman Empire by starting as King Sancho II of Castille in Ironman Mode. It took me until 1419 to reform the Roman Empire and it took me until 1450 to reclaim all lost land.
There is a hard one you missed, the empire of the northern sea . It involves parts of england ,denmark and norway. I usually transition from mann and the isles into it
That one probably isn't particularly rare, because it has an achievement that pushes you to do it (if you have the Northern Lords DLC, which is required to form it in the first place) and is about the coolest semi-plausible alternative history thing you can do with the Norse. Plus it gives you some incredible good boni for further conquest, so I guess about anyone who tried a Viking World Domination campaign probably formed it. It's also not that difficult if you start in Scandinavia and take England last.
@@doxxedmichael Tsavd tanem! Lived in Armenia for almost two years. Great people, great place, and absolutely why its become my main playground in PDX games.
Rome is actually one of the few states here that I formed. Basically took the easy path by starting as Byzantium in 867, focusing on mending the schism and picking up the missing duchies between peace timers. It was oddly satisfying to see the west turn orthodox, even if I never conquered any more land than the required amounts.
As a noob to this game a find it interesting that the Roman Empire was #1. I found it relatively easy to accomplish because you’re starting as a powerful nation to begin with. Anything that requires starting smaller is much more difficult for me
I played as Sicility the other day and formed the Kingdom of Baleo-Tyrrhea. That was pretty interesting. You just need to hold all the islands in the Western Mediterranean Sea basin (Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, and the Balearic Islands) and the title basically gives you a casus belli to conquer all coastal counties of the Mediterranean Sea, and I mean all of them, including those in the Eastern basin.
I don't know if anyone knows about the Duchy of Thessalia, it requires you to play as a count of Thessalia for 100 years to form, because it can only be formed when the country of Thessalia is no longer a de jure of the Duchy of Hellas. I think its one of the rarest to form.
There's also the Kingdom of Baleo-Tyrhennia, which can be formed by holding the whole of Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily and the Balearic islands. It gives you an automatic casus belli for any county on the Mediterranean coast for 100 years after the title is formed.
The Kingdom of Mann & The Isles can make for a pretty fun and challenging playthrough, but no mention of The High Kingdom of The North Sea? It's one of the rarest achievements in the whole game!
I formed the Empire of Slavia using Novogorod. It was rather fun and fairly simple. Mainly just had to time my attacks against the Steppe faction, and Bulgaria when they where warring/had a new ruler that was a kid with little units.
Started as Athelred Mucel, earl of Lincolnshire in Mercia in the 867 start. After taking 3 Mercian shires, i attacked Northumbria took the south half of the kingdom Became the Independent King of Diera which my cort and kings had some awesome attire and looked like they were the richest empire around. Then after conquering East Anglia Kent, and then a part of Frisia, i politically conqoured Mercia and made Deira the supreme kingdom of England, working on getting Wessex to accept me as their overlord its a fun and unique playthrough never seen the Deiran kingdom on any other gameplay.
The Austrian Archduchy is also pretty cool to obtain. The only hard part of obtaining it is that you have to be a vassal of the HRE, meaning it can’t fall apart, and your player character can’t be the HRE emperor. With other conditions as well obviously. But it was hard for me because every time I tried, I would be elected as the emperor because everyone loved me because of my virtuous traits and congenital beautiful trait.
Starting as Apulia in 1067 with the Sicilian culture and the kingdom of Sicily, you can empower Sicilian Parliament and form the title once you move your capital to Naples.
You can do it as other italian rulers, I had the decision pop up in my Duchess Matilda playthrough, I don't remember why I didn't take the decision, it was either because I would need to remain sicilian for the building to work, or for rp reasons, but while it was greyed out because I didn't have all the necessary requirements, it still showed up.
On the Cornwall one, I actually saw it once as a Wessex game. They were a reliable ally for a generation, then the new king merged with Brittany and allied with France and became a torn in my side for 150 years. You have no idea how terrible it is for my map painting of England to be ruined by that little tail nation.
You should do a video on Archduchy of Austria. Arguably one of the coolest kingdoms because of the special name. But I've yet to find a way to form it in iron man because of its unrealistic requirements.
More Videos on Decisions that people aren't familiar with or don't get often. Videos like how to get Shrewd would be cool and where the best Universities and Renown Special Buildings are etc
Meanwhile I formed Cornwall in my first playthrough 😂 Now I've moved on to have all of England, working on the rest of Brittania, but that was my first kingdom!
Good video, even though it did have some errors. As someone who really like to start somewhere in Italy and try to recreate the Roman Empire, I know that being the Emperor of Italia and taking the "Unite Italy" decision also enables you to reform Rome. Also, only your former empire titles get replaced and only the "Dismantle Greek/German pretenders" decision increases the de jure empire size without drift.
I am blown away by your pronunciation of Grzegorz whateveritwaz. I say that as an English speaker, so I guess it doesn;t mean much, but it sounded pretty accurate to me.
I really wanna see a video on expanding Georgia. I imagine it is one of the hardest countries to develop and expand as it has many enemies with loads of allies with them.
First Empire I ever formed in CK3 was the Indian Empire and I just completed the "Unite Africa" decision on Ironman Mode. In this same game that I united Africa, the Slavic Empire seems to be forming, with West-Slavia being the biggest power, Byzantine fractured and dead, and France consumed by my vassals.
I actually have made the empire of India in a normal game once. It took me forever. I always start out as a tribal county if possible, so going from a count,to a duke, to a king, to an empire,to the Chakvarati was very tedious.
I don’t know if anyone knows about this because I haven’t been able to find anything about this online but Crusader___ Nations. I was playing as Catholic Cornwall when a crusade was called, I didn’t want to go all the way to Israel for it so I redirected it to Ireland which at the time was split between a Norse Viking nation and the insular kingdom of Ireland. When we won the crusade a totally new kingdom teir relm was formed, Crusader Ireland. I don’t know if people know about this or if it counts as a “rare nation” but I thought it was worth asking about.
My Rumans are a hybrid of Muroma and Permian cultures. Volga-Finnic Heritage with Ugro-Permian language.I specifically created the characters of these cultures in Byzantium in order to marry them and spread them across the territory of Rum in the first generation Muroma, and in the second Permian.
I'm holding on to the hope they'll put in some more Byzantine-specific mechanics before doing some Roman restoration. It's kinda crap they don't have archivements for the harder ones, like greater Armenia (maybe with that incapable one for masochists lol) or Bactria.
It seems like each DLC is focused on a specific region so eventually they'll do that. If they follow a similar schedule to that of ck2, we won't even see a roman specific DLC until very late into the game's life.
you can also form rome as the empire of italia if you've taken the unify italy decision by holding the regions of Illyricum and Italia in full. extra step but it's a pleasant one to be sure
I would like to add the kingdom of daneland. This is different to the kingdom of the danelaw you get after initially taking the decision to partition england, and requires you to hold onto your particular slice of england for 200 years, whilst not expanding into the rest of de-jure england and making sure the kingdom of england still exists but is not held by you or your dynasty.
I accidentally formed Isreal last week. It gave me a second kingdom title instead of replacing the Jerusalem one, which was weird. I wasn't interested in it so I gave it to a family member and used the spare kingdom title to turn my measly county of Malta into a 1-county kingdom. Unfortunately my plans of creating a de-jure Maltese kingdom were thwarted by Jerusalem's de-jure borders being set to _never_ change in the game's code.
I managed to restore the Roman empire in ironman, starting as a custom Hellenic ruler of the duchy of Crete. Super satisfying when you finally make it.
Most don't make it past 100 years i imagine is cause alot play for conquest and after a few short wars, you tend to get into a position of steamrolling the AI from that point on
After getting all the achievements (before royal court that is) I did s run from one province count - to ruler of India - to as much as you can conquer. Was fun, would highly recommend trying
Playing as the Ghurids, catching some punjab land down in the basin and hybradasation (cant spell it lol) with he punjab lets you get war elephants, cant rightly establish bactarian supremasy and become the Soajasha without war elephants! :)
I’d mention the Kingdom of Bene-Israel, where you need to control two duchies on the west coast of India and be a specific Jewish sect (Malabarism), and the faith needs to have a head. You’ll get a unique culture.
I reformed the SPQR with a Polish Slavia Emperor. Switched to orthodoxy for a second then went back to original faith. Also before that, married myself to byzantine empress and the heir got the throne of byzantium.
I formed the empire of Slavia as a polish count in my last game, started in 867 and took until almost 1200. I was disappointed there was no achievement for it
I'm currently trying to recreate the Mongolian empire as a keriat vassal in 867 start. I successfully made the kingdom but still haven't conquered enough to make the empire xD
I’ve restored the Kingdom of Cornwall with the 2 or 3 English duchies becoming dejure. It was really fucking hard. Lots of restarts, England starts off so strong.
Why shouldn't Trinacria exist? IRL the Aragonese meddled in the politics of the Kingdom of Sicily and it really did get split into Kingdom of Sicily (Naples) and Kingdom of Sicily (Trinacria/an alternate name for the island of Sicily). That's why it was called the Kingdom of Two Sicilies when these territories were brought together again.
converting armenia as a hungarian ruler, renames it to Dozsa kingdom. you can read about György Dózsa. fun story. not sure if there is a connection. I saw several names for counties or duchies depending who holds it. but that's quite far.
Terra Mariana (Livonia) should definitely be a dejure kingdom under Scandinavia, the changed to the empire map mode in splitting the 'southern Baltic empire' make little sense to me
