I am a medieval history buff, and a genuine Grandma. I can confirm that this guide IS old person-friendly. Thank you for this effort. At last I have a decent grasp of the game.
35:25 the marshal that got killed was also commanding your army. You forgot to assign the new marshal or yourself as commander of the army before going back into battle. Great seeing another one of your guides! 🥳
I bought CK3 Royal court yesterday and when starting i was overwelmed, not knowing what to do or start. Looked up some vids but they where all plain basic. But then i got this one. 3H.45M of explanations! I watched the full lenght and i just got king of Ireland. I actually understand what i am doing! I hope you make another one with slight more indept mechanics, like setting up the royal court or how to play UNDER a Liege bc i got stuck on what to do. Keep it up!!
Nice, I'm happy to hear that! I know it's a big video, but I did my best to add timestamps and split it up into logical sections to make it easier to digest. If you want something a bit more in-depth, I made a "Everything I learned" video last year from a world conquest campaign I ran. There are a TON of good nuggets in there, but it's not like this where it goes in the exact order. It's long as well, but I put timestamps on everything so skip around :)
Playing along with a guide, is how I learned HOI4, honestly if you have a job it might be the only way to learn a paradox game in any kind of a reasonable timebox.
Im only 30 minutes in but I i have to say you clearly have a knack for this. you touch on little details for people who are a touch more experienced but dont dwell on them to prevent overwhelming grandma. you did good work here
18:58 - Ah we cut this guy's foot off, it's kinda cool" - a legend also thank you. I've started my adventure with CK3 yesterday and your video helped me solidify all most important questions I had at the beginning and how all it works. Considering how much info is being bamboozled at you at all times, it is great you explain what is what and why.
I really appreciate that you show two attempts at this. It shows newer/ less experienced players what to expect and not go in thinking everything will go smoothly. Loved run #1, I will hit up #2 in a bit
What an awseome informative video! I absolutely LOVE your "Grandma" guides and they are so so helpful! I find myself "knowing" what to do in the beginning, but then I hit a stalemate where I just dont kow what to do any more. The whole granting lands and the succession thing is something I struggle with so that was very helpful to me and I learned a lot. It was also informative to see that you could just throw the AI off by going close and kinda just playing chicken with him hehe.
I have over 2000 hours in ck3 so I already employ 99% of the strategies and maxims present in this video, however, I had no idea you could sort by prowess in the marriage screen. For over 2k hours I have sorted by martial and clicked through the candidates manually to find the ones that happen to also have decent prowess. Even though I cringed at tiny things being forgotten from time to time, the level of care and thought put into this video make it very very worth the runtime. Well done
Thanks for watching! I bet you were bored out of your mind lol but I appreciate it. Yeah I left a lot out as this was supposed to be for beginner/intermediate players who are trying to get the hang of things. I've got a World conquest guide that has a lot more advanced stuff in it
Thank you for making this. I started CK3 just two days ago. I finished the tutorial with the Petty King on Ireland, was able to make a Kingdom. From there on out, it just fell apart. I started to struggle. I watched this video twice now. I started a new game without tutorial, took the same start as you did. I restarted more than 10 times, until I got a decent roll on my stats. Got lucky with a wife and all of my Council spots. Thanks to you I am getting better and better. This game is addictive as hell tho. You are great brother, keep up the good work. Deserve the sub.
Started my first play through following your last guide and managed to secure all of Brittania but now stuck with my grandson as the ruler and he is a horribly rolled lol. Been fun, so excited to check out this video
Explaining as you go and the pace your going at for whatever reason made this game so much easier to understand. Good stuff mang! Edit: I was really confused on the Accolades thing because I didn't have the "tours and tournaments" expansion and it took me a bit to figure out why I didnt have access to it.
Hard to express how thankful I am, I wanted to love this game but I just couldn't get any reference points to know if I was doing anything important at all. Now I've finally started a useful campaign! Thanks man
You are probably the only “guides” channel I would trust blindly. You never fail to impress with your guides. Although, I would love to see you making more in depth guides and more advance guides for CK3, literally everyone has basic and beginner friendly guide. Would love to see some rags to riches or playing tall guides
Thanks! I'm not sure if you've seen it yet, but I made a World Conquest guide late last year on this channel. It covers several advanced techniques like stacking modifiers, hybrid cultures and creating/reforming religions. I plan on making more guides for CK3 this year!
@@Strat-Guides yes I have seen all your ck3 guides and infact I sometimes listen to it as podcast if I am returning to the game after awhile. When you explain stuff, its kind of therapeutic for me. Looking forward to your ck3 videos!! I would say bannerlord as well but I kind of moved on from that game
Found you on your main account bc of your „Cancer-Raid“-video. I‘m in love with your Ck3 guides. Most of the other guide videos just talking too much and still say less, but you coming straight to the point. Much love from Germany
@@littledh7516 my next ck3 video will either be a Feudal only world conquest or a champion only world conquest. I'm not sure either are possible so I need to do some testing and research first lol but they sound like fun! I'll make sure there's a full let's play with any campaign I do moving forward. The cancer campaign i couldn't do voice over because my kids were going nuts lol but since we moved, I have an office built into the garage and they can't get in there :)
Dude thank you for doing another guide! I am just getting back into this game and your original "Grandma's Guide" made it possible for me to start this game a year ago.
Yeah I know what you mean. I feel like playing tall is quite advanced and hard to learn with. Oddly enough, fast expansion isn't as hard and you can "outgrow" your problems relatively easily. It also exposes you to a lot of different mechanics, so I thought it would be helpful without being overwhelming.
Thanks These "Grandma" guides got me into Crusader Kings 3 - I never thought id have the mental capacity to ever get into a Paradox game. I ask that you continue to make these "Grandma" games on other Paradox games Specifically HOI4 if you ever get the time
Glad to hear they are helping! It's a complicated game, but only because there are thousands of options. For me personally, I can't handle that much when I first start so I do the same thing when I learn a new game. Ignore 90% and learn the core 10% really well. My goal is to cover all the paradox games at some point! I've only got a couple hundred hours into hoi4 but once I have time to focus on it, I'll make Grandma videos for it (and eu4)
Man I was having a ton of issues. I made comment on the year old 40 minute version you did that I was unable to ransom anyone, had to be terrible rng. I played another save and took all of Ireland in about a decade. The succession went pretty well, except the vassal I had died around the same time and those kids hated my kids who took over. Currently still have that save and despite their hatred of me they're staying under my control. I'm only half way thru this vid as I comment and I've learned so much more.
I'm glad this was helpful! There's a lot of RNG with this game, so if you're ever having a bad run just restart and see if that helps. Even as an experienced player, you can still lose everything in Ireland if the AI decides to dog-pile you. Not much you can do in that instance other than restart lol
Now you tell me you can reroll children's traits👀 Great video. Although I have over 1000 hours of gameplay, I still found plenty of useful info. You're awesome👑
Good question - I'm pretty sure that's RNG until it actually happens, so if you savescum you can probably reroll the traits. I'm just thinking back to when I've crashed around the time they come of age and I'm almost positive that happens. I remember either getting a good trait, then crashing and getting a bad one and being pissed or the opposite lol
On 32:25 , if you want to spend a bit more time if you could find ones with good congenital traits (green icons next to their name) so you can have a better spouse pool for your kids later on. Great vid.
Yeah I rushed to get the king title then distribute the titles then emperor title as soon as I could, was able to keep it good for 2 deaths, but am probably gonna loose 3 Dutchies in Ireland to my 3 sons do to being a tribal still.
@@swefress Its still considered old anywhere not poisoned by western femizism that wants to destroy the western culture as a whole. Any culture that is not so developed and needs to grow its populace sees that younger women are more fertile (each year women loose like 100.000 eggs or something like that) and above 30 the risks of illness starts to rise in babies (as women health is crucial for baby health.) it skyrockets past 40 though so yea (still if you are focused on making a proper family you need time so starting at 30 just rises the risk of your children being autistic or having other problems.). I could elaborate more but i don;t even know if this comment survives the yt bots that often delete comments in 2 seconds. So yea no point.
Awesome video. I know you're trying to fit as much info into a short length video, which I commend you, but it's too fast, which is fine. Since you're going fast, we can't keep up with what you're saying & doing (clicking). So a suggestion would be to use a larger mouse pointer size, and with flourescent color. So we know where the mouse pointer is as you're talking. About 60% of the time, I hear you talking, & then a screen pop up. I have no idea what you did or how you did to get the screen to pop up. But overall, a great video. I know it took many hours & days for editing. Edit -- I didn't have Vikings in my play thru. I was playing way down southeast, around India / Madagascar area. Guess its too far for Vikings to make it down there.
I used your guide for taking over Ireland even though I had to do it a bit slower but after my adulterous son and his wife got killed my grandson is suddenly the king of France and I was overwhelmed 😭
"52, you're about to die". Me, 53... "Oh." Maybe I should go back to getting Foehammer in BG3 again. ~ RL Grandma. :D Seriously, though, good guide. I like Desmond as a start, but there's usually a kinda useless heir, even if your starter bloke is pretty good.
Nice, good luck with CK3! Just keep in mind, there is a lot of RNG in this game and sometimes you just get dumped on by the AI while other runs you'll have 0 problems rolling everyone. If you get stuck or ganged up on, just restart and try again. Don't give up!
I watched this video as a follow up to the other grandma video after your recommendation, and actually everything ran extremely smoothly! I conquered all of Ireland, got tons of money, absolute control over counties, a ton of prestige… and then my ruler died at 44 years old, of gout. Playing as his heir, I was stumped, because his focus was on intrigue and I had no clue what to do. I married a lady with high stewardship to at least maintain my kingdom… and then I couldn’t grow it any further because of a massive shortage of prestige. Spent close to 15 years just raiding to get money and prestige, held a grand tournament, got a ton of prestige that ran out immediately, back to square one, no prestige, no way to expand my territory. Should I just keep raiding or what? It makes no sense :/ I would highly appreciate a guide on what to do after your ruler dies and your heir takes over! As well as possibly a video explaining the difference in gameplay with different lifestyles. Until then, what can I do to get unstuck from being unable to expand due to low prestige (and stays negative no matter what)?
If you're going through that much prestige, it sounds like your army is too big to maintain. I prefer to prioritize archers for this reason - they don't cost nearly as much as the armored footmen. Try disbanding some of the more expensive units you have and change them out for archers and light infantry?
@@Strat-GuidesI’ve got a thousand armored footmen, 2 sets of 500 each, the rest is bowmen. I burn through prestige like crazy because of “Unraised Men-at-arms”. By the time I’ve managed to raise my prestige gain again, I’m 40 years old, and it resets next time my heir takes over :/ Is there a way to get to feudalism more quickly? Since I heard that Men at arms cost money to upkeep once you make the switch.
Possibly - it also depends on a few other things like modifiers to health. You can extend your ruler's life by going down the learning tree (the one on the left that gives health modifiers) or getting a rat catching cat (RNG on getting it or not), etc. 82 is good for the early game!
You mention wanting to install a "powerful" vassal so he will be safe from his own vassals, but what does this mean? High prowess? Or high "leadership" stats, or whatever you call those. I notice you chose your Steward rather than a powerful knight, so I figure the latter, but just wanted to make sure.
When you look at the person you're declaring war against, you have to look at the land they PERSONALLY own, the land they directly control. Personally controlling land is not the same as "Realm within your kingdom" which basically means you own the highest title, but someone else owns the actual land. If you declare on someone, you can only get the land they directly own, but anyone else will become a vassal of yours. If you declare war for a dutchy that the rulers doesn't own anything in, you'll get 100% vassals. If they own all the land within a dutchy, then your dutchy war will give you direct ownership of all those lands. Hopefully that helps clear it up!
Using the first version of this video where you only took over Ireland I invaded all of Britannia and subjugated Norway, also placed one of my kids on the kingdom of Brittany, Albion has risen
In your first run when your brother died you said you forgot to marry him. How would you do this marriage? Matrilineal? What skills would you look for?
For the brother just do a regular marriage - Matrilineal is for when your female courtiers and family members are married off so you can pull capable males into your court. As for skills, females will mostly use intrigue (spymaster) or learning (court physician) so either of those would be good if you don't already have the positions filled. Otherwise, you literally just want a young female with any stats - the important thing with females is they can pull capable males into your court who can then fill any position (including champions with high prowess).
Awesome video, up until I couldn't find the royal court :( LoL! It's a cool game but Paradox charges 50$ and decided to add a 30$ DLC that should be in game. Oh well
@MAXIMUMintheHORMONE yeah that's paradox for you lol they do put a lot of effort into their games though so at least it's not a scam like a lot of early access games
Heey, first of all, many thanks for the great explanation, it has helped me a great bit! However, I have run into a problem in my save. I started in in Sweden and ended up becoming the king of Northern Sweden... all was good... then death came and my son took over... all is still well... except that I now for some reason lost the Steward position in the council... its just a "black box" if i click in it the character search appears but no characters are a available... the "steward" title is completely gone... any idea why this is? Also my wife doesnt show up in the council... both of us are above 18...
With the new legitimacy mechanic, it really hits you hard if you marry a commoner woman. Are the stats still worth that hit or should we just find the best spouse from a noble house?
Im very noob at the game and I have a question. Why choosing a ruler that already exists? What is the the problem of creating one by zero and choosing the traits you want? (Sorry if the english is bad, its not my 1st language)
i dont understand, you can just declare wars on other countries but when im playing i have to use the priest guy to justify and get only a very small piece of land
You picked the later start date - make sure you change the start date to 867 (very beginning of the guide). That will make your starting government Tribal, which means you can attack anyone without having to fabricate a claim first.
Maybe I'm having trouble because I'm not a grandmother. Also, wouldn't having a massive court full of people who resent you give hostile schemes free agents?
What are you having trouble with? I can try to help. Yeah that can potentially be an issue - but if you have a good spymaster and you keep your close courtiers and wife on good terms then it will be much harder for any scheme to go through. You'll usually run into issues when your wife hates you or the court physician.
Weirdest run I had was that I had a mistress and her husband had my wife as his mistress, then in the end they ended up having a kid who had my surname. Then I sent this kid to study abroad and became the foundation of my eugenics program. XD In the end my house had superhuman descendants.
Wait so how come do you have a casus belli against literally every single county and Dutchy and everyone, but I have to wait 9 months for my bishop to forge one? Like what am I doing wrong why can you declare war left and right while I have to wait forever between every single declaration I’m confused
It's because you're picking the later start date, which forces you into a Feudal government. At the start of the video I mentioned talking the earlier start date of 867 which let's you play as a tribal government who don't need CB to declare war on everyone. It's really strong in the early game and makes learning the game so much easier!
I do plan on making a video like this for each of the Paradox games! I've got close to 5k hours into EU4 so that should be an easy one. I've got a couple hundred into HOI4 so I need more time with that and Stellaris 0 hours - need more time :)
It's technically half that length, but I decided to put both play throughs depending on which one you might need help with more. The smooth run is easier to follow, but the 2nd playthrough is more accurate since this game loves to dump problem after problem on you at the same time lol I also put a ton of timestamps to help jump around to the spots you might be struggling with the most.
@@Strat-Guides That's very cool of you. I just can't get over the fact that Paradox Games need feature length movies as tutorials to even start playing 😂
It's because we're starting as a Tribal Government, which gets a CB against anyone in diplomatic range. That's why I recommend starting as Tribal when you're first learning the game - it simplifies things a lot!
Im sorry, byt are you playing on normal difficulty? Seems to me this is on easy mode. Played similar campaigns and not once I had such a long time without at least one plague. Also the surplus of resources even in early years seems like ease/very ease difficulty.
So the truce means you attacked them, but they can still raid you. You can try to catch them while they are raising (raise army in the red flag, send them into the raiders and profit). Otherwise you just have to wait until the truce is over and then attack them again.
@HenriqueRJchiki Sadly the game doesn't like running in max speed and crashes all the time for me. Lol there's definitely no reason to savescum a beginners guide - the more problems that pop up, the better the guide will be because it covers a wider range of issues that people will encounter.
Man j got the nastiest of rng done everything perfectly was about to start taking top part of Ireland and bam I got stuck in between 3 armies fighting I got fkd then they toke my land fastest play I ive had 😂
You didn't make a custom ruler and go over the points or anything? I think most games default to allow achievements so unless you messed with the settings, it should pop up
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The title sold me. If even a GRANDMA can understand this guide, then I am in the right place! Thank you for all the insightful information.
Lol exactly! That's the hope anyhow :)
You get it now, sunny!? After learning this we took out a bigger life insurance policy.
Totally clickbait. How many grandmas out there finished the game using this guide?
thank you so much, that matrilineal courtier thing is invaluable to know
Yeah it's huge! There are a ton of ways to get good courtier, but that's probably the easiest and most reliable way
Us Grandpa's feelin sad...we have brains too! :) Still happy to watch and learn.
Lol maybe I should have made this one grandpa since the other video was grandma :P
I am a medieval history buff, and a genuine Grandma. I can confirm that this guide IS old person-friendly. Thank you for this effort. At last I have a decent grasp of the game.
Glad it was helpful!
35:25 the marshal that got killed was also commanding your army. You forgot to assign the new marshal or yourself as commander of the army before going back into battle. Great seeing another one of your guides! 🥳
Lol woops, that makes sense!
I bought CK3 Royal court yesterday and when starting i was overwelmed, not knowing what to do or start. Looked up some vids but they where all plain basic. But then i got this one. 3H.45M of explanations! I watched the full lenght and i just got king of Ireland. I actually understand what i am doing! I hope you make another one with slight more indept mechanics, like setting up the royal court or how to play UNDER a Liege bc i got stuck on what to do. Keep it up!!
Nice, I'm happy to hear that! I know it's a big video, but I did my best to add timestamps and split it up into logical sections to make it easier to digest.
If you want something a bit more in-depth, I made a "Everything I learned" video last year from a world conquest campaign I ran. There are a TON of good nuggets in there, but it's not like this where it goes in the exact order. It's long as well, but I put timestamps on everything so skip around :)
Playing along with a guide, is how I learned HOI4, honestly if you have a job it might be the only way to learn a paradox game in any kind of a reasonable timebox.
It was really helpful guide thanks man
Im only 30 minutes in but I i have to say you clearly have a knack for this. you touch on little details for people who are a touch more experienced but dont dwell on them to prevent overwhelming grandma. you did good work here
Thank you! I'm glad this was helpful and not overwhelming
18:58 - Ah we cut this guy's foot off, it's kinda cool" - a legend also thank you. I've started my adventure with CK3 yesterday and your video helped me solidify all most important questions I had at the beginning and how all it works. Considering how much info is being bamboozled at you at all times, it is great you explain what is what and why.
Yooo I was folded when he said that shit 🤣 ive made it my goal to collect feet 😂
I really appreciate that you show two attempts at this. It shows newer/ less experienced players what to expect and not go in thinking everything will go smoothly. Loved run #1, I will hit up #2 in a bit
What an awseome informative video! I absolutely LOVE your "Grandma" guides and they are so so helpful! I find myself "knowing" what to do in the beginning, but then I hit a stalemate where I just dont kow what to do any more. The whole granting lands and the succession thing is something I struggle with so that was very helpful to me and I learned a lot. It was also informative to see that you could just throw the AI off by going close and kinda just playing chicken with him hehe.
I'm happy to hear these are helpful! Paradox games can be tough to learn, especially if you don't have 50 - 100 hours to dedicate to it.
I have over 2000 hours in ck3 so I already employ 99% of the strategies and maxims present in this video, however, I had no idea you could sort by prowess in the marriage screen. For over 2k hours I have sorted by martial and clicked through the candidates manually to find the ones that happen to also have decent prowess. Even though I cringed at tiny things being forgotten from time to time, the level of care and thought put into this video make it very very worth the runtime. Well done
Thanks for watching! I bet you were bored out of your mind lol but I appreciate it. Yeah I left a lot out as this was supposed to be for beginner/intermediate players who are trying to get the hang of things. I've got a World conquest guide that has a lot more advanced stuff in it
Thank you for making this. I started CK3 just two days ago. I finished the tutorial with the Petty King on Ireland, was able to make a Kingdom. From there on out, it just fell apart. I started to struggle. I watched this video twice now. I started a new game without tutorial, took the same start as you did. I restarted more than 10 times, until I got a decent roll on my stats. Got lucky with a wife and all of my Council spots. Thanks to you I am getting better and better. This game is addictive as hell tho. You are great brother, keep up the good work. Deserve the sub.
Nice, I'm happy to hear that! The RNG can be a bit frustrating at times, but I'm glad you stuck with it.
i cant believe i would ever actually watch a 3 hour guide to a paradox game in one sitting but here i am. great video 🙏🙏🙏
Oh my - I only expected people to watch one play through or the other! Hopefully it was helpful :) Thanks for watching
Started my first play through following your last guide and managed to secure all of Brittania but now stuck with my grandson as the ruler and he is a horribly rolled lol. Been fun, so excited to check out this video
Nice, that's a big accomplishment for a first run! Yeah bad heirs are tough to deal with
@@JacubMorris maybe it's time for him and the smallest group of levies you have, to go have some adventures in France.
Explaining as you go and the pace your going at for whatever reason made this game so much easier to understand. Good stuff mang!
Edit: I was really confused on the Accolades thing because I didn't have the "tours and tournaments" expansion and it took me a bit to figure out why I didnt have access to it.
You give some extremely good tutorials. I'm digging the ck3 content.
Glad this was helpful!
Oh hell yes, i fucking love Irish starts in CK3. Still feels casual enough to be called tutorial Island, but more involved than in CK2
@@PoisonI.V. it’s also used in the ck3 tutorial, that’s why it’s called tutorial island
@@zancudoescape I uh, know that? That's why I said it's called tutorial island.
@@PoisonI.V. ☝️🤓
Hard to express how thankful I am, I wanted to love this game but I just couldn't get any reference points to know if I was doing anything important at all. Now I've finally started a useful campaign! Thanks man
I'm really happy to hear that! Good luck on your campaign :)
Your tutorials are great! You keep a great pace up while not feeling overwhelming or confusing. Thanks!
@@PlatyPosh glad to hear that! I'm going to tackle more paradox games next year
You are probably the only “guides” channel I would trust blindly. You never fail to impress with your guides. Although, I would love to see you making more in depth guides and more advance guides for CK3, literally everyone has basic and beginner friendly guide. Would love to see some rags to riches or playing tall guides
Thanks! I'm not sure if you've seen it yet, but I made a World Conquest guide late last year on this channel. It covers several advanced techniques like stacking modifiers, hybrid cultures and creating/reforming religions. I plan on making more guides for CK3 this year!
@@Strat-Guides yes I have seen all your ck3 guides and infact I sometimes listen to it as podcast if I am returning to the game after awhile. When you explain stuff, its kind of therapeutic for me. Looking forward to your ck3 videos!! I would say bannerlord as well but I kind of moved on from that game
Found you on your main account bc of your „Cancer-Raid“-video. I‘m in love with your Ck3 guides. Most of the other guide videos just talking too much and still say less, but you coming straight to the point. Much love from Germany
Oh nice, I'm glad you're finding my guides helpful! Danke Shoen :D
I‘m so sorry… my gf made my phone autocorrect „Love“ to hate and forgot to change it back 😂
Anyway I’d love to watch a let’s play of you conquering the entire world again. No time skips, just pure gameplay
@@littledh7516 my next ck3 video will either be a Feudal only world conquest or a champion only world conquest. I'm not sure either are possible so I need to do some testing and research first lol but they sound like fun! I'll make sure there's a full let's play with any campaign I do moving forward. The cancer campaign i couldn't do voice over because my kids were going nuts lol but since we moved, I have an office built into the garage and they can't get in there :)
@@Strat-GuidesYou got my full support 🤌🏼
Dude thank you for doing another guide! I am just getting back into this game and your original "Grandma's Guide" made it possible for me to start this game a year ago.
@kgeo2686 I'm glad to hear these are helping! Good luck on your next campaign :)
Oh thank god, you’ve also made a tutorial for this game. Played like 20 hours without looking at guides and everything. Now let’s go on a guide binge
I have 1200 hours on this game and I still picked up a ton of tips from this video, thanks!
I really like that this guide starts from tribal. Many beginner guides go something like "yeah, take this feudal county and play tall"
Yeah I know what you mean. I feel like playing tall is quite advanced and hard to learn with. Oddly enough, fast expansion isn't as hard and you can "outgrow" your problems relatively easily. It also exposes you to a lot of different mechanics, so I thought it would be helpful without being overwhelming.
At 32:55 I was thinking in my head the exact words you said😂
Reminds me of mowing down armies with hordes of fians
Only in CK3, the Fians are cheap too! :D
Instructions unclear it became a Largest galactic empire of the Galaxy
Lol wrong game :D
Thanks
These "Grandma" guides got me into Crusader Kings 3 - I never thought id have the mental capacity to ever get into a Paradox game.
I ask that you continue to make these "Grandma" games on other Paradox games
Specifically HOI4 if you ever get the time
Glad to hear they are helping! It's a complicated game, but only because there are thousands of options. For me personally, I can't handle that much when I first start so I do the same thing when I learn a new game. Ignore 90% and learn the core 10% really well.
My goal is to cover all the paradox games at some point! I've only got a couple hundred hours into hoi4 but once I have time to focus on it, I'll make Grandma videos for it (and eu4)
Just started playing this and streaming a Game of Thrones playthrough. The timing is perfect! Going to consume this.
Thanks!
Thank you for the support!!
Man I was having a ton of issues. I made comment on the year old 40 minute version you did that I was unable to ransom anyone, had to be terrible rng. I played another save and took all of Ireland in about a decade. The succession went pretty well, except the vassal I had died around the same time and those kids hated my kids who took over.
Currently still have that save and despite their hatred of me they're staying under my control.
I'm only half way thru this vid as I comment and I've learned so much more.
I'm glad this was helpful! There's a lot of RNG with this game, so if you're ever having a bad run just restart and see if that helps. Even as an experienced player, you can still lose everything in Ireland if the AI decides to dog-pile you. Not much you can do in that instance other than restart lol
Now you tell me you can reroll children's traits👀
Great video. Although I have over 1000 hours of gameplay, I still found plenty of useful info. You're awesome👑
Good question - I'm pretty sure that's RNG until it actually happens, so if you savescum you can probably reroll the traits. I'm just thinking back to when I've crashed around the time they come of age and I'm almost positive that happens. I remember either getting a good trait, then crashing and getting a bad one and being pissed or the opposite lol
On 32:25 , if you want to spend a bit more time if you could find ones with good congenital traits (green icons next to their name) so you can have a better spouse pool for your kids later on. Great vid.
What a great video, the tutorial gets you on your feet but this shows you how to walk, thank you
Glad this was helpful!
I've watched this vid over 10 times.
Thank you
thanks to this run 1 guide i got to conquer all of Britannia and then move on to conquer most of Europe within 60 or so years.
Wow that's huge! Nice work :D
Yeah I rushed to get the king title then distribute the titles then emperor title as soon as I could, was able to keep it good for 2 deaths, but am probably gonna loose 3 Dutchies in Ireland to my 3 sons do to being a tribal still.
“She’s 28, she’s not young.” As a thirty something year old woman I’m glaring at you. 😂
Same for 48 old man being not that old
Is it, “funerella” as in funeral or fun times at the fun place?
To be fair, apparently during medieval times, that was considered old for a woman
@@swefress Its still considered old anywhere not poisoned by western femizism that wants to destroy the western culture as a whole. Any culture that is not so developed and needs to grow its populace sees that younger women are more fertile (each year women loose like 100.000 eggs or something like that) and above 30 the risks of illness starts to rise in babies (as women health is crucial for baby health.) it skyrockets past 40 though so yea (still if you are focused on making a proper family you need time so starting at 30 just rises the risk of your children being autistic or having other problems.).
I could elaborate more but i don;t even know if this comment survives the yt bots that often delete comments in 2 seconds. So yea no point.
@@swefresswomen over that would die since medicine wasn't advanced
Your gameplay is really good
Awesome video. I know you're trying to fit as much info into a short length video, which I commend you, but it's too fast, which is fine. Since you're going fast, we can't keep up with what you're saying & doing (clicking). So a suggestion would be to use a larger mouse pointer size, and with flourescent color. So we know where the mouse pointer is as you're talking. About 60% of the time, I hear you talking, & then a screen pop up. I have no idea what you did or how you did to get the screen to pop up. But overall, a great video. I know it took many hours & days for editing.
Edit -- I didn't have Vikings in my play thru. I was playing way down southeast, around India / Madagascar area. Guess its too far for Vikings to make it down there.
I used your guide for taking over Ireland even though I had to do it a bit slower but after my adulterous son and his wife got killed my grandson is suddenly the king of France and I was overwhelmed 😭
Oh wow! That sounds like a huge success :D
You are a legend.
"Make sure you toggle your wife" 😂
giggidy
Damn, respect for your work bro
You sir, are terrifying! Good stuff.
Your humour is on point 👌
Bro I needed this definitely saving it
"52, you're about to die". Me, 53... "Oh."
Maybe I should go back to getting Foehammer in BG3 again. ~ RL Grandma. :D
Seriously, though, good guide. I like Desmond as a start, but there's usually a kinda useless heir, even if your starter bloke is pretty good.
Thanks! Yeah I really like the positioning of Desmond as well, but the heir can be tough to deal with.
Amazing video 🙏
Thanks for watching!
"Merry him off to someone that's old" "Yeah, 35, that's perfect" xD
Well we don't want them TOO old, cause they won't have any kids :)
“We cut this guys foot off so that’s pretty cool.” 💀
Excelent guide. Thanks
Glad it was helpful!
*Vision meme* Maybe I am a Grandma. haha. Great guide.
Before you press play at start its always good to start a personal scheme , be it learning a language or romantic pursuit. No time to waste
Yeah that's a great point - I always forget until several years in lol
Gonna need more of this
Thank you sir
My Bannerlord hero rescues me as soon as I buy CK3
Nice, good luck with CK3! Just keep in mind, there is a lot of RNG in this game and sometimes you just get dumped on by the AI while other runs you'll have 0 problems rolling everyone. If you get stuck or ganged up on, just restart and try again. Don't give up!
I watched this video as a follow up to the other grandma video after your recommendation, and actually everything ran extremely smoothly!
I conquered all of Ireland, got tons of money, absolute control over counties, a ton of prestige… and then my ruler died at 44 years old, of gout.
Playing as his heir, I was stumped, because his focus was on intrigue and I had no clue what to do. I married a lady with high stewardship to at least maintain my kingdom… and then I couldn’t grow it any further because of a massive shortage of prestige.
Spent close to 15 years just raiding to get money and prestige, held a grand tournament, got a ton of prestige that ran out immediately, back to square one, no prestige, no way to expand my territory. Should I just keep raiding or what? It makes no sense :/
I would highly appreciate a guide on what to do after your ruler dies and your heir takes over! As well as possibly a video explaining the difference in gameplay with different lifestyles.
Until then, what can I do to get unstuck from being unable to expand due to low prestige (and stays negative no matter what)?
If you're going through that much prestige, it sounds like your army is too big to maintain. I prefer to prioritize archers for this reason - they don't cost nearly as much as the armored footmen. Try disbanding some of the more expensive units you have and change them out for archers and light infantry?
@@Strat-GuidesI’ve got a thousand armored footmen, 2 sets of 500 each, the rest is bowmen. I burn through prestige like crazy because of “Unraised Men-at-arms”. By the time I’ve managed to raise my prestige gain again, I’m 40 years old, and it resets next time my heir takes over :/
Is there a way to get to feudalism more quickly? Since I heard that Men at arms cost money to upkeep once you make the switch.
"So he's just going to rot in our dungeon" 🤣
it took me about 3 days to watch the full vid, but i learned quit a lot... any other vids you might recommend for learning the game?
You mentioned 60ish being old, was I super lucky having my first king live to 82?
Possibly - it also depends on a few other things like modifiers to health. You can extend your ruler's life by going down the learning tree (the one on the left that gives health modifiers) or getting a rat catching cat (RNG on getting it or not), etc. 82 is good for the early game!
Just got the game, thank you for the detailed guide. What DLC should I buy?
My Grandma said : This is guud... Thumbs Up
Can you make a guide on how to stabilize after taking the empire?
Do you ever do multiplayer games? Ive started trying them and they are fun. all different ways to play and gives the game a challenge again.
I haven't tried any Paradox game online, but it does seem like a lot of fun! I've seen a few videos and they get up to some wacky stuff lol
You mention wanting to install a "powerful" vassal so he will be safe from his own vassals, but what does this mean? High prowess? Or high "leadership" stats, or whatever you call those. I notice you chose your Steward rather than a powerful knight, so I figure the latter, but just wanted to make sure.
So why is it keeping the vassals in charge of what I’m capturing I’m so lost 😅
When you look at the person you're declaring war against, you have to look at the land they PERSONALLY own, the land they directly control. Personally controlling land is not the same as "Realm within your kingdom" which basically means you own the highest title, but someone else owns the actual land. If you declare on someone, you can only get the land they directly own, but anyone else will become a vassal of yours. If you declare war for a dutchy that the rulers doesn't own anything in, you'll get 100% vassals. If they own all the land within a dutchy, then your dutchy war will give you direct ownership of all those lands. Hopefully that helps clear it up!
Me with 400+ hours in the game. Ahh yes this is for me
Lol hopefully there was something interesting here for you, but I have my doubts :P
@@Strat-Guidesactually has good useful info 👍🏻
Using the first version of this video where you only took over Ireland I invaded all of Britannia and subjugated Norway, also placed one of my kids on the kingdom of Brittany, Albion has risen
Holy crap, that's a big expansion! Well done :) Subjugating Norway is a big move - time for all of Scandinavia next!
In your first run when your brother died you said you forgot to marry him.
How would you do this marriage?
Matrilineal?
What skills would you look for?
For the brother just do a regular marriage - Matrilineal is for when your female courtiers and family members are married off so you can pull capable males into your court. As for skills, females will mostly use intrigue (spymaster) or learning (court physician) so either of those would be good if you don't already have the positions filled. Otherwise, you literally just want a young female with any stats - the important thing with females is they can pull capable males into your court who can then fill any position (including champions with high prowess).
1:01:38 "Anybody that's sieging a fief down..."" They aren't fiefs!!!
how do your armies get better quality mine stay the same at 2 stars even after i got alba and ireland etc,
Great video mate, can you make challenge video hoi4😊?,
i just like watching your video playing game.
Awesome video, up until I couldn't find the royal court :( LoL! It's a cool game but Paradox charges 50$ and decided to add a 30$ DLC that should be in game. Oh well
@MAXIMUMintheHORMONE yeah that's paradox for you lol they do put a lot of effort into their games though so at least it's not a scam like a lot of early access games
Good morning sir strat gaming guides
Good morning!
This is exactly why I just hit all my adjacent enemies on tribal 866 start I never want enemies sieging my capital for free.
Main learning, "it's not a big deal" :D
Heey, first of all, many thanks for the great explanation, it has helped me a great bit!
However, I have run into a problem in my save.
I started in in Sweden and ended up becoming the king of Northern Sweden... all was good... then death came and my son took over... all is still well... except that I now for some reason lost the Steward position in the council... its just a "black box" if i click in it the character search appears but no characters are a available... the "steward" title is completely gone... any idea why this is? Also my wife doesnt show up in the council... both of us are above 18...
With the new legitimacy mechanic, it really hits you hard if you marry a commoner woman. Are the stats still worth that hit or should we just find the best spouse from a noble house?
Im very noob at the game and I have a question. Why choosing a ruler that already exists? What is the the problem of creating one by zero and choosing the traits you want? (Sorry if the english is bad, its not my 1st language)
In the previous beginner's guide, I did a custom ruler. I figured for this one, I would make it a little more challenging and do the generic rulers!
i dont understand, you can just declare wars on other countries but when im playing i have to use the priest guy to justify and get only a very small piece of land
You picked the later start date - make sure you change the start date to 867 (very beginning of the guide). That will make your starting government Tribal, which means you can attack anyone without having to fabricate a claim first.
Maybe I'm having trouble because I'm not a grandmother. Also, wouldn't having a massive court full of people who resent you give hostile schemes free agents?
What are you having trouble with? I can try to help. Yeah that can potentially be an issue - but if you have a good spymaster and you keep your close courtiers and wife on good terms then it will be much harder for any scheme to go through. You'll usually run into issues when your wife hates you or the court physician.
My grandmother wont live long enough for this vid tho
Then she will go out trying, in a blaze of glory! All hail your Grandma :D
Weirdest run I had was that I had a mistress and her husband had my wife as his mistress, then in the end they ended up having a kid who had my surname. Then I sent this kid to study abroad and became the foundation of my eugenics program. XD In the end my house had superhuman descendants.
Wait so how come do you have a casus belli against literally every single county and Dutchy and everyone, but I have to wait 9 months for my bishop to forge one? Like what am I doing wrong why can you declare war left and right while I have to wait forever between every single declaration I’m confused
It's because you're picking the later start date, which forces you into a Feudal government. At the start of the video I mentioned talking the earlier start date of 867 which let's you play as a tribal government who don't need CB to declare war on everyone. It's really strong in the early game and makes learning the game so much easier!
@@Strat-Guides I have been scouring comments for this. im hours into trying to figure this out. THANK YOU!!!!
3:04:52 lol I heard "They got pride month, we got hormones"
More ck3 please
I've got more challenges and guides coming this year for CK3!
Do you not neec casus bellis when you are tribal?
Nope! Tribal can attack anyone in diplomatic range.
@@Strat-Guides Cheers!
This just begs for "out of context" compilation!
There used to be a series for Arumba’s old ck2 series. I remember one about the Ethiopian Jews that was pretty funny
would you happen to make a eu4 video like this in the future?
I do plan on making a video like this for each of the Paradox games! I've got close to 5k hours into EU4 so that should be an easy one. I've got a couple hundred into HOI4 so I need more time with that and Stellaris 0 hours - need more time :)
>Beginner's Guide
>3:45:17 hours long
😭
It's technically half that length, but I decided to put both play throughs depending on which one you might need help with more. The smooth run is easier to follow, but the 2nd playthrough is more accurate since this game loves to dump problem after problem on you at the same time lol I also put a ton of timestamps to help jump around to the spots you might be struggling with the most.
@@Strat-Guides That's very cool of you. I just can't get over the fact that Paradox Games need feature length movies as tutorials to even start playing 😂
@@cavemann_ feature length is 90 minutes
How do you determine land you 'want to keep' in the early game
Im wondering how do you declare wars without casus beli?
It's because we're starting as a Tribal Government, which gets a CB against anyone in diplomatic range. That's why I recommend starting as Tribal when you're first learning the game - it simplifies things a lot!
@@Strat-Guides Thank you! Great guide
Watching this at .75 speed.....now my slow brain can keep up with you...lmao.
Im sorry, byt are you playing on normal difficulty? Seems to me this is on easy mode. Played similar campaigns and not once I had such a long time without at least one plague. Also the surplus of resources even in early years seems like ease/very ease difficulty.
Also nearly every time the Vikings conquer big part of England, with alliances of 6k+ armies before years 5-10 of gameplay
hello. very good tutorial but i have a question. i have truce with someone but he raided me even when we have a truce :D what should i do ?
So the truce means you attacked them, but they can still raid you. You can try to catch them while they are raising (raise army in the red flag, send them into the raiders and profit). Otherwise you just have to wait until the truce is over and then attack them again.
@@Strat-Guides aaah ok thank you
47:40 "crash" forsenCD sureeeeee
@HenriqueRJchiki Sadly the game doesn't like running in max speed and crashes all the time for me. Lol there's definitely no reason to savescum a beginners guide - the more problems that pop up, the better the guide will be because it covers a wider range of issues that people will encounter.
Man j got the nastiest of rng done everything perfectly was about to start taking top part of Ireland and bam I got stuck in between 3 armies fighting I got fkd then they toke my land fastest play I ive had 😂
why are there two videos with the same title by you, what is the difference
Wich version and which DLCs are used?
I have a big guestion how do i get the acollade? Im a King And i dont have it.
You didn't make a custom ruler and go over the points or anything? I think most games default to allow achievements so unless you messed with the settings, it should pop up