In this video I discuss all of the strategies, tactics and builds used in my recent world conquest campaign! If you want to see the full campaign video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0HYoU-Ikj0&ab_channel=StratGaming
0:00 – Intro
0:11 – Starting Character RNG
0:52 – Lifestyle Selections
6:14 – How To Deal With Tough Opponents
13:45 – Rebellions
16:13 – Vassal Management
27:22 – Culture
38:03 – Religion
46:39 – Accolades
51:52 – Court Types
53:24 – Tribal to Feudal (How, When, Why)
1:00:03 – Economy & Buildings
1:05:05 – Succession
1:11:37 – Items (Personal & Court)
1:15:14 – Councillors & Spouse
1:20:01 – Innovations (Research/Techs)
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ive been checking your channel everyday for this video since the other one came out
would love to see you play terratech or even cosmoteer, 2 games which are perfect for guides like these and also need some attention
Bannerlord video? I dont know how to get high teir troops
I'm Almost up to 1500 hours in CK3 (only 350 in CK2) and I'm already wondering how well you would do in a PvP situation. You certainly have a talent for strategy games Strat 😉
At the very start of the video, you "reroll" your character. If you are doing that, might as well make a custom character no? If you think 400 points is too high, no one is forcing you to use all of them.
While talking about alliances, you mention that killing one of the rulers will dissolve the alliance, But ti doesn't really.
The person who takes over can immediately renegotiate it. You need to kill the family member whose marriage is creating that alliance.
9:00 Crusades are unlocked if your faith has a tenet or a pillar that allows for great holy wars and atleast two of their holy sites are occupied by hostile/evil faiths. So if you don't want to deal with crusades, just strategically keep the holy sites out of your realm until you are ready.
10:30 counties only lose control if they are sieged down. I try to avoid siegeing my war target if I plan on keeping it for myself.
12:30 Losing liberty faction wars gives every vassal that participated a hook on you. It is awful.
If you know that a war that you will lose is about to start, raise your armies preemptively near the strongest members capital. When they rise up, immediately catch their armies and defeat them, and siege down the capital. This will give you enough warscore to white peace out of the war.
24:00 What? Only the top 5 vassals are considered powerful vassals. They have a closed fist icon in the bottom right of their portrait. Your powerful vassals change all the time. They want to be on the council, if they are not, they get a -40 opinion malus.
26:30 To get divine blood, you need to be the head of your faith and take the consecrate bloodline decision.
45:20 Temporal Revocable still sets a 10 year timer for when you can change them again.
It's not just you, accolades have a really bad UI right now. Still waiting for pdx to rework it.
55:20 Counties that have been raided recently have a "red crossed swords" symbol below the terrain symbol. The loot in that county is low because it is undeveloped, doesn't have many buildings in it, nor is it anyones' capital. 4 gold is how much it will have until the things I mentioned change. Temples have more gold, and peoples capitals have a minimum of 15 gold.
When you convert to feudal, the buildings keep their type. Econ buildings "upgrade" to econ buildings, military to military, and fortification to fortification.
For the trinkets, "old signet ring" has a very high chance of having +5 vassal limit on it. My characters always have 4 old signet rings by the end game where there is no use for renown anymore.
Tired of garbage illustrious or famed (purple or blue) items clogging your inventory? Get the anicomism tenet which will allow you to destroy them too.
A good tip for the spouse councilor is to get the polygamy religious doctrine which will let you marry 4 wives, each of which can focus on one skill and you can swap them around as needed. Be mindful tho, this will add a lot more characters to your game and may cause extreme lag in the late game even on decent computers.
tribal can do wars back to back without needing 'by the sword'. as far as rebellions go, having a ruler of the land that matches the culture makes a big difference. you can work on keeping that one person happy and thus not worry as much for populist rebellions, though one could stack populist opinion and end up not dealing with populist issues.
as for the women being better on average, there was an issue in CK2 which it was an even split and since men tend to be in position that meant they developed more skills than the women making men being better overall. this time a decision was made at the executive level to make women better so that it balances out on average. once you let women get positions they end up developing to quite high levels relative to men (higher starting skill helps develop the skill faster). accolades is a newer thing from one of the DLCs (Paradox updates the base game with some features from the DLCs).
the norse can raid overseas, which lets them raid the richer provinces far away, and with more targets you can raid constantly. the cultural techs can be gained via hybridization with a culture with that tech. you can reform your culture back and still keep the tech.
I don't speedrunning world conquest but , playing tall and rp are much better
Top notch as usual. Thank you, Strat!
Thank you very much. I love it
I find Mongolia the easiest to achieve world conquer, just click "Become the Greatest Khan" and you can have Genghis Khan before he was born.
Big thing, this is a paradox game so stacking modifiers is massively powerful even if the initial modifier isnt very large or impressive looking, first few playthroughs dont stress it too much just have fun but once you want to set out and do something "grand" think about what thing you want to focus on and stack baby stack.
Strat, I could kiss you. Figuratively, not literally 😝
I always struggled with fighting large armies, cause I rushed in also not paying too much attention to the terrain bonuses and in later years I always had problems with internal wars, either from vassals or religious revolts. and yes, I did get a lot of useful tips from other YouTubers, but I was too impatient or when fighting with huge numbers my game would lag to a snails pace and it's very difficult to properly react in time
thank you very much. your step by step, idiot proof guides are a godsend. I learned more from you in the last few weeks than from any other guide and your min-maxing style really tickles what most people like about this game. keep up the great work🤌
hi … Can i get this save game for me
You gotta get into hoi and make a guide for it. Me and my friend love it but none of our other buddies quite understand it yet.