Lol yeah man they are a pain - always acting like little babies. I had reformed my culture and religion to specifically avoid that issue in the mid/late game :)
When I saw you were starting CK3 I honestly expected you to have a hard time with it. Having seen your ability to gather (and more importantly understand and apply) data from your Bannerlord videos I should have known better 😂.
I also have about 5k hours into EU4 so I think that made a huge difference :) I struggle so much with EU4 when I first started - I don't think I really understood what I was doing for 1k hours or so since it was my first Paradox game. Thanks for watching!
Thank you! It feels odd to have spent more time researching than actually playing, but it was a fun experiment (and I still get to use the database for future videos)!
if you attack a one county nation its pretty much nonimportant how strong their allies are, only how far away they are. If you siege it down before they arrive at the location, you get instantly 100% warscore
the mongols were a beast in CK2, less so in CK3. the Horse Lord expansion hasn't dropped yet, and that pretty much determines if they are a threat that punches above their weight or below it. currently they are tough due to numbers, so if you have anywhere close to the same numbers you can curb stomp them. they get a bunch of troops that do not need supply, which has a decent amount of horse archers. horse archers are the toughest light cav, and the second strongest light cav. they are weak compared to heavy cav or heavy infantry, but if they win they cause a ton of casualties. since a lot of players cheese the retreat mechanics, losing a battle to whittle down the numbers of the enemy until they can defeat it the mongols are insanely powerful against such players. the empire really needs to get a foothold due to the lack of Horse Lords DLC to be any sort of threat, but after a couple of generations the empire breaks up on its own and you can gobble it up piece meal. this means that it is more of a speed bump to cheesers than a real threat.
Interesting, I was wondering why they were able to speed through the mountains in large numbers lol that makes sense now. They were easy to fight against, but holy crap their siege speed was FAST! That's a good point since they have a ton of pursuit. Thanks for watching, hopefully I didn't make a fool of myself on my first CK3 video (the beginner's guide doesn't count... lol)
@@Strat-Gaming you did pretty good for a newer player, much better than most players out there unless they are hardcore veterans of CK2. there is a trait called "Greatest of all Khans" which makes light cav and horse archers act as half an onager each. you can get this trait if you are a mongol and get enough land while still being tribal, which is usually how people speed run the game (not this one specifically since you have to be tribal with a ton of land which is hard, relative to other paths). there are a lot of variables to plot, so next speed run i would pick one variable you think would give a big edge and figure out how to stack that to ungodly proportions.
@@Strat-Gaming typically tribal conquests are done with the norse or african tribals. the africans have mines to help with money and norse can raid. once you get going it should be pretty easy since prestige makes people like you and tribals are all about prestige.
When you spend hours on CK3 just to say "Fuck you Cancer". Truly, we have found the GOAT. Thank you Strat Gaming, you magnificient, yet not fluent in chinese, bastard.
@@wiwersewindemer4437 I think most people will look up a couple things on Wikipedia and call it a day lol It's not that fun (for most) to spend dozens of hours with your face in a database :)
Another really excellent video. The meme edits are a joy and the telling a CK3 world conquest story, showing some of the methodology and keeping it under 20 mins is a delight.
Thanks, glad you liked it!! Yeah keeping it under 20 minutes was really hard to do lol I had about 55 hours of recording to cut down, but most of a world conquest is pretty boring so I didn't feel bad cutting most of it out!
And I thought my world conquest that finished at the 1300s was impressive. Man you need to make your research public. I had no idea about the By the word perk.
Any world conquest is impressive, no matter how long it takes! It's a really show of willpower :) I'm working on a guide for the guide channel on everything I learned from this campaign, it's going to be a big video!
What an amazing ending! Such a simple message with alot of meaning and emotion behind it just found out 5 days ago my gran has it and we’re all hoping she pulls through, great video bro thanks for some entertainment through a rough period.
Awesome, recently started playing CK3 myself, my first Paradox game, except for a few hours of Stellaris, which we apparently don't talk about. Really cool what you could accomplish already and great editing as always. For most videos I wish they were a bit more cut, but for yours it's almost the opposite and they leave me wanting more!
Nice! I picked up Stellaris a month or two ago but have yet to try it out (sounds like a rough one to learn lol) Thanks, I appreciate it! Yeah this one was really difficult to edit - CK3 world conquests aren't very fun to watch TBH. It's extremely repetitive and not that often do interesting things happen. This one was about 55 hours of gameplay cut down and even this was a struggle to find interesting stuff to show haha. Thanks for watching!
@@Strat-Gamingim a Stellaris player, and i can confirm, it takes a long time to understand everything the game has to offer. I have yet to try grand admiral, cuz i kinda suck
Please continue with these videos, I find your approach extremely exciting and very entertaining, feel free to go into more detail about your methodology.
Thanks! Yeah I think I cut a bit too much out of this one. I feel like the sub-30 minute should be fine for a video like this as I had to cut down 60+ hours of campaign down and 15 minutes isn't enough
Thanks for watching! Yeah I just recently started this channel - my other channel is mostly guide content, but I want to get more into entertainment so I figured I would separate the two. I've got plans to do another big video like this for Starfield once it's out!
Would you consider doing a lets play series in CK3? Your tutorials were so helpful would be great to see an ep by ep playthrough to learn more :) My playthrouhgs alwyas fall apart once the first ruler dies haha
Yeah I've got some CK3 planned before end of the year! There are a few more KCD videos I need to prepare and one or two Bannerlord, then I'll get back to CK3
“I'm the new cancer, never looked better” Panic! At The Disco - There’s a Good Reason These Tables Are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven’t Thought of It Yet
I'm glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching! I've got a video on Starfield that I would love to make as soon as that hand comes out, by well see once it's out. If that idea won't work then I've got 3-4 more ideas for ck3 I want to try out!
I'm so glad to see you pick up CK3, Your videos on Bannerlord made me think that you would have a field day with Ck3 as it's right up your alley. (Please pronounce alba as "Al-e-pa")
Nice, you're in for some fun! I'm working on a guide for this campaign right now that will go in depth with all the tactics and builds I used for this campaign, so that should be helpful :)
I only just started playing today and I married my daughter to the heir of France, he is now king and it is a very strong alliance for my slow expansion.
I run 3 channels and this one has been getting neglected sadly :( These videos take up so much time to make, it's been hard to dedicate 100 - 200 hours to edit these
Nice, my strategy was a bit different. I captured constaninople and Sardinia to get a huge income and a gold mine, used norse culture to hybridize with greek culture, reformed my religion and ended up with: 1. Me being a head of the state everyone pays indulgence to. That's how I ended up with infinite money 2. Top tier techs 3. Cataphracts steamrolling everything. 4. A dynasty that is almost guaranteed to inherit all positive traits (used moderate incest to reinforce some traits, creating a race of gigachads). So, I had a slower start, but from then on just steamrolled the whole game. Sadly, after I declared a crusade myself, all of my vassals were called into a war and the game ran at one day per minute, so I had to end the run.
Ouch! It surprised me how slow the game ran at times given my PC's specs. I'm not sure if it's not optimized or it's just too big for it's own good lol. That's a solid strategy you laid out.
@@Strat-Gaming Rushing Constantinople is free real estate, you can easily beat them if you invade Thracia early, from then on you can snowball easily.
Thanks! I do plan on making more videos for the guides channel that will cover this. I did make a 90-minute video on this campaign specifically and all the strategies I put together for the campaign.
For all of your big battles you forgot to mention that starving and recently disembarked gives advantage malusses so bad winning 2:1 or even 3:1 with some delayed reinforcements becomes an easy task.
I'm sure Zieley would be proud. From the videos I've watched of his the mongols do have one of the best units the horse archer which has a high pursuit stat to kill off more troops when they are routed. I've never played though because this game looks like a lot of brain power.
It's a really fun game, but you're right about the learning curve - it's quite steep. If you have a few dozen hours to learn it, then I think it's worth it. But for a casual game, it's definitely not worth it lol Back when I was working 14 hour days, I wouldn't have played this because it would have taken me over a month just to learn wth is going on lol
Yeah this game can be pretty brutal until you get past the steep learning curve! I think having the database made a huge difference as well. Thanks for watching!
I know I’m a bannerlord ape who likes breaking the game as much as possible, Hearts of Iron campaigns crush my soul crusader kings is more entertaining in my opinion
ngl the problem you faced was kinda like aggressive expansion in EUIV but then with counties you conquered, it's a weak peasant army but every time it sieges down a holding they grow. best way to get rid of them is raising an army of mercs next to the rebellions leader. 9/10 you capture him and end the war in a week!
Btw troop count doesn't matter because of the way battle mechanics work. You can stack men at arms and knight bonuses and an army of 1000 can stack wipe a 10k strong levy army. Even early game an army of 2k huskarls can defeat anything.
Does it have to do with combat width? I've got thousands of hours into EU4 and I'm familiar with it in that game, but wasn't aware it was in CK3 as well (assuming it is). Thanks for the heads up!
@Strat-Gaming I'm not sure how the combat actually works. I think it is more like HOi4 naval combat there is a screening unit, a unit that attacks, and then in the late battle you have a pursuit stat that determines how many casualties the enemy takes. From my personal experience it seems that removing levies from an army makes it better even when it means you have less troops. I think there is combat width
Just goes to show that it’s not just the hours, it’s the knowledge that you gain in those hours lmao. In what could take a thousand hours of more manual trial and error to slowly learn the game, you can accomplish in much less by simply understanding the maths and data that make the spreadsheet go brrrrrrrrrr.
Haha I love that line "Spreadsheet go BRRRrrrR" - It's a great point. Reminds me of a quote I heard from a concert pianist - "practice doesn't make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect". I know a lot of people just play to have fun, so it's a pretty inefficient way to learn (acceptable since it's just for fun). For me, I love to study and collect data which cuts the learning curve by a lot. It's especially true for these games with long-term feedback loops (50 hours for a campaign is a LONG time to learn a hard lesson lol)
Impressive, I've learned 2 things watching your video. 1st is that I can kill my mediocre sons by sending them alone to the enemy. 2nd is that I can expect less rebellions if I choose lazy content dukes.
Thanks for watching! I did a video on my guides channel on this campaign where I covered a lot more details (it's about 90 minutes with timestamps). I ended up cutting most of the info here because it was more for entertainment and story. Thanks for watching!
Just a little note from a scot, it’s not pronounced “Alba”, in Gaelic it’s pronounced like “Al-UP-pa” or “Al-UP-ba” it’s not an issue as everyone gets it wrong.
I just finished up all my other projects and finally started editing another campaign! I've got 3 for this channel already recorded and just need to edit them :)
Thank you! I'm working on another Bannerlord video next and then KCD challenge after that - both are recorded but I need several weeks each to edit them.
I'm working on a video for that now actually! I'm going to make a guide for this video, then after I'll work on a video on how to use this database. I also have to add a few more things - I forgot to include the innovations (woops!)
Thanks! I've got 2 campaigns recorded and I'm just in the process of editing them. One is a solo-person world conquest in Bannerlord and the other is an extreme hardcore challenge in Kingdom come deliverance. They should be good fun as well!
is there a place I can find the compilation of the data you've compiled in that 150 hours? I'm super impressed by the work you put into this, but I couldn't even get that done in 300 hours, let alone 150.
I'm working on it - I'm trying to host it on my website to make it easier to use, but if I can't then I'll make it public and able to duplicate so you can have it on your own notion account. Either way, I'll make a video on how to use the database quickly.
Awesome video, as always, and I am super happy that you are also doing some CK3 stuff next to Bannerlord. Do you have a VOD or something of the entire playthrough? I would love to watch it.
Thanks! CK3 has been so much fun trying to figure out and learn. I actually started this one off as a let's play, but after my 3rd failed attempt I got frustrated and skipped the voice over and played on speed 5 lol. Most of these videos will get posted in full with voice over on the let's play channel, but not this one because of the difficulty. I am working on a more in depth guide for everything I learned while doing this campaign, so hopefully I can get that out this weekend
Could u do with other paradox games? I think a lot of mount and blade players are also paradox game enjoyers. You cover a good niche here. I never played ck 3, yet here i am, enjoying this vid :D (+ nice memes :D)
Definitely! I'm planning on doing a World Conquest for EU4 at some point as well as more CK3 videos and possibly HOI4 (I've only got 100 hours in that one). Thanks for watching!
Welcome to the CK fields my friend. I conquered the world as the Dutch by two strategies: 1. MAKE BABIES 2. DEVELOPMEEEEEENT. every piece of land you conquer that you cannot directly own give to a family member. You start of as a vassal of Lotharingia, so you don't need to fear the big boys. Once you've got all the historical territories of the Dutch within that realm and it starts to implode, break free and become a vassal of France (to gain even more duchy titles in the southern lowlands). Keep all of your duchy titles yourself, despite the penalties. Wage quick wars to gain them back in case of succession. You will quickly reach a point where you're superior to France thanks to Alliances and your own high dev. This is where you wage war to break free so you can establish your own kingdom. Generally the big boys get split up with Aquintane, Bavaria, etc. They're not so big after a few decades. Marry daughters off matrilineally initially for alliances, never marry your sons for alliances, only for good traits, especially primary heir. Once you have your own kingdom, make sure you keep the three primary duchy titles of Holland, Cologne and Aachen as your own. Focus on Steward and Intellectual educations for your sons and daughters. Culture convert provinces to Dutch once you reach a development cap due to techs. Keep building up the lands with many cities so as to increase dev growth (historically what made the lowlands so incredibly rich). Make sure to build pastures and later on embrace pastoralism as a cultural tenant to truly embrace the Hyperborean-Frisian Oera Linda Larp. When you are strong enough to start gobbling up the territories of the pathetic kingdoms in Europe, make sure dedicate that life work to a high Martial stats son. Begin by initially encroaching onto the pagan territories of Denmark, Sweden, Norway around the Baltic and give all land to your family. This will start giving you many levies through your vassals there. You however must rely on your incredible men at arms legions that are funded through your massive wealth. You will at some point reach a stage where you can form the Empire. Make sure you have as much territory in your kingdom as you can when you do this. Also, once you get more and more kingdom-vassals remember to invest perks in diplomacy to befriend and gain more opinion from gifts. Avoids a lot of rebellions. Good luck!
Thanks for watching! Your idea for a campaign sounds really fun as well, I'll definitely have to give it a try. I like the idea of having a massive family that expands with the kingdom.
@@Strat-Gaming I wrote my comment before watching the video so you probably want to add another challenge on top that you're forced to culture convert the capital county of a kingdom you conquer to Dutch culture. Regardless of other matters. This also has an in game advantage, as the greater tech level and dev boosts of the culture will mean it'll be richer than anything around it, ensuring succession of said kingdom title will remain with that county. Also prevents those family members from culture converting to the subjects, ensuring you don't suffer happiness penalty with them. Other challenges for this run that I did: "Putting the Habsburg legacy to shame" PHASE 1 - Saintly Lineage -remain catholic -remain Dutch (no cultural merges, ever.) -consecrate bloodline -get all the best traits and pick the decision for blood father -Annex all territories belonging to historical Lowlands (This includes provinces belonging to modern day France such as Artois. Yes, this is a massive larp game.) PHASE 2 - Dunking on Charle"magne" -Before forming Empire, Annex kingdom titles of: Denmark, West Francia (enough land to make modern day France), East Francia (enough land to make modern day Germany), Lotharingia for any leftover territories in between (nobody gets the Elzas!) Italy (Just the north for now), Scotland, Ireland, England, Wales, Burgundy (Rename to Purplecow kingdom and just feed it Swiss lands), Navarra (Rename to "North-Hispania and feed all of northern Spain to it) PHASE 3 - Dunking on the Romans -using any method, conquer enough byzantine land to usurp and dismantle the empire after one war (sorry not sorry romaboos) -expand your empire to include all of historical roman lands -cu.. I mean vassalize his holiness to mend the schism PHASE 4 - World conquest -the good old slogfest to conquer all. Have fun.
I made a longer video covering this campaign on my guide channel in case you haven't seen it yet! I was trying to keep this one short because world conquests are quite boring for like 90% of the campaign lol Thanks for watching!
I underestimated how much work it would be to run 3 channels at once lol I've got several videos recorded for this channel, but I need to find the 100 - 200 hours it will take to edit it like these videos :D
Thanks! I'm working on 2 video for my guide channel - one covering everything I learned from this campaign and another video showing how to use the database (I'll make it public and for free for everyone to use)
Thanks! Mostly by taking breaks to cry and flagellate myself. It was quite painful turning 55 hours into 18 minutes lol but I think the project turned out decent enough so well worth the pain!
@@TacticatGaming I had a lot of things planned out, but once I got past taking Britannia, nothing really went to play LOL There were soooo many more rebellions and crusades than I thought would pop up, so that threw me for a loop. Most of them were 2x - 3x my army size too, so it was really scary and I played it really passive until I knew they were attritioned down a bunch. I was actually trying to record this as a let's play campaign, but after failing so many times and restarting I said fk it and just went without voice over. I spent a good 2 days straight watching recordings back at 8x speed to get the story/clips out.
@@TacticatGaming I definitely learned some lessons from the Bannerlord video that made this one a little easier and I suspect the next one will be a little easier than this one. It's hard not to learn something after spending 100 hours in the edit lol
Yoooo that data software looks neat! mind sharing your method with a fellow data nerd? You just rekindled my interest in CK3 with your magisterial display
Yeah, it's called Notion! I'm a huge fan of Notion and use it for just about everything now (and it's free) :) I'm working on a video to explain how to use the database and then I'll publish it for all to use. I've got a website for the guide channel and just trying to get the page built out for that and it will be ready.
In the early game you can mostly ignore them. Mid game, I would typically give them land, boost relations however possible (donations, diplomacy, etc.) and in the late game I picked people who had good traits to be a vassal. Loyal, content, etc. are good traits that will usually keep them in check. There's a lot more to it, but hard to cover in a comment section - I made a 90 minute video on the guide channel covering all the strategies I used in this campaign (with timestamps, nobody has time to watch a 90 minute video lol).
This is a new channel actually! I'm putting the high effort, heavily edited stuff on here and all the guides and other stuff will go on the guide or let's play channel :)
Unless you can force your enemies to smoke 2 packs a day, I don't think you can cause people to get cancer in game lol I know what you mean - I figured I would take a different approach though :)
Damn. I can hardly keep my court happy in CK3 and here you are playing Plague Inc in it. 😂
Lol yeah man they are a pain - always acting like little babies. I had reformed my culture and religion to specifically avoid that issue in the mid/late game :)
The trick is to have a rebellion every few decades to clean the air :)
Keep them happy, pfft, no, no mercy, slaughter them all, they dare defy the king
@@molybdaen11 Or just simply murder them or even kidnapped them and then strip their titles and lands
When I saw you were starting CK3 I honestly expected you to have a hard time with it. Having seen your ability to gather (and more importantly understand and apply) data from your Bannerlord videos I should have known better 😂.
I also have about 5k hours into EU4 so I think that made a huge difference :) I struggle so much with EU4 when I first started - I don't think I really understood what I was doing for 1k hours or so since it was my first Paradox game. Thanks for watching!
Ck 3 is the most easy paradox game, you don't even need a brain to play it
Cancer😂😂😂
CK3 is actually really easy all things considered.
@@DRL_LRLyou clearly haven’t played stellaris
"the terrain in Spain is a real pain with very little to gain..." you're a poet and you didnt know it!
Lol I got the first couple on accident, then spent 10 minutes trying to figure the rest. Thanks for watching!
I'm a poet
And I didn't even realise it
But his feet show it because they're Longfellows.
Actually insane run. Well researched and amazingly executed!
Thank you! It feels odd to have spent more time researching than actually playing, but it was a fun experiment (and I still get to use the database for future videos)!
if you attack a one county nation its pretty much nonimportant how strong their allies are, only how far away they are. If you siege it down before they arrive at the location, you get instantly 100% warscore
That's a great point!
Also if they’re already at war with someone else, they’ll straight leave their allies out to dry 😂
the mongols were a beast in CK2, less so in CK3. the Horse Lord expansion hasn't dropped yet, and that pretty much determines if they are a threat that punches above their weight or below it. currently they are tough due to numbers, so if you have anywhere close to the same numbers you can curb stomp them. they get a bunch of troops that do not need supply, which has a decent amount of horse archers. horse archers are the toughest light cav, and the second strongest light cav. they are weak compared to heavy cav or heavy infantry, but if they win they cause a ton of casualties. since a lot of players cheese the retreat mechanics, losing a battle to whittle down the numbers of the enemy until they can defeat it the mongols are insanely powerful against such players. the empire really needs to get a foothold due to the lack of Horse Lords DLC to be any sort of threat, but after a couple of generations the empire breaks up on its own and you can gobble it up piece meal. this means that it is more of a speed bump to cheesers than a real threat.
Interesting, I was wondering why they were able to speed through the mountains in large numbers lol that makes sense now. They were easy to fight against, but holy crap their siege speed was FAST! That's a good point since they have a ton of pursuit.
Thanks for watching, hopefully I didn't make a fool of myself on my first CK3 video (the beginner's guide doesn't count... lol)
@@Strat-Gaming you did pretty good for a newer player, much better than most players out there unless they are hardcore veterans of CK2. there is a trait called "Greatest of all Khans" which makes light cav and horse archers act as half an onager each. you can get this trait if you are a mongol and get enough land while still being tribal, which is usually how people speed run the game (not this one specifically since you have to be tribal with a ton of land which is hard, relative to other paths). there are a lot of variables to plot, so next speed run i would pick one variable you think would give a big edge and figure out how to stack that to ungodly proportions.
@@jamoecw interesting that you bring that up, I was considering a Tribal only WC run but then dealing with unhappy vassals is quite a task lol
@@Strat-Gaming typically tribal conquests are done with the norse or african tribals. the africans have mines to help with money and norse can raid. once you get going it should be pretty easy since prestige makes people like you and tribals are all about prestige.
@@jamoecw Not having innovations like more men-at-arms and siege weapons is going to be painful though :(
When you spend hours on CK3 just to say "Fuck you Cancer".
Truly, we have found the GOAT.
Thank you Strat Gaming, you magnificient, yet not fluent in chinese, bastard.
Dude my thoughts exactly. This is the kind of man who should be famous. Much love and good luck SG. NEED more of this.
"F*ck cancer"
*becomes cancer*
You have become the very thing you swore to destroy, Anakin!
That is truly impressive. The thought of collecting and organizing that data from scratch made my brain hurt. Plus the 4:05 meme is spectacular.
Lol poor Asatru, usually gets gobbled up by the BBC squad :D Thanks for watching!
> The thought of collecting and organizing that data from scratch made my brain hurt.
...isn't that how everyone plays?
@@wiwersewindemer4437 I think most people will look up a couple things on Wikipedia and call it a day lol It's not that fun (for most) to spend dozens of hours with your face in a database :)
@@Strat-Gaming ...right, yes, I forgot that.
And since when are there numbers in my name?
@@wiwersewindemer4437 TH-cam changed from channel names to "@" names a few months ago so I assume it has to do with that.
Jesus not even a minute into the video and I'm already cackling. I don't even have to finish the video to know it's a great one, well done!
Glad you're enjoying it so far! Thanks for watching :D
Another really excellent video. The meme edits are a joy and the telling a CK3 world conquest story, showing some of the methodology and keeping it under 20 mins is a delight.
Thanks, glad you liked it!! Yeah keeping it under 20 minutes was really hard to do lol I had about 55 hours of recording to cut down, but most of a world conquest is pretty boring so I didn't feel bad cutting most of it out!
I'm a Virgo, myself.
Lol for some reason I read virgin at first, but Robin Hood's wife is proof that that's not the case you savage man you :D
Gotta love that data driven gameplay. I'm glad I found your channel!
I'm glad you liked it! I've got more data-driven challenges coming up soon :)
And I thought my world conquest that finished at the 1300s was impressive. Man you need to make your research public. I had no idea about the By the word perk.
Any world conquest is impressive, no matter how long it takes! It's a really show of willpower :)
I'm working on a guide for the guide channel on everything I learned from this campaign, it's going to be a big video!
Umm, may I peek at that gorgeous spreadsheet? My lord, man. So logical and precise. Love it. Great video. Thank you!
I'm working on a video for the database and will release it soon for all to use :D
@@Strat-Gaming you are awesome, sir! We appreciate it very much.
My first ever time watching anything related to crusader kings! Was not disappointed 😎
Oh cool, it's a really fun game! It's definitely not as fun to watch tbh lol this was like 55 hours cut down to 18 minutes
@@Strat-Gamingdamm. Yeah I know the feeling aha, but i extremely enjoyed it, loved the editing!
What an amazing ending! Such a simple message with alot of meaning and emotion behind it just found out 5 days ago my gran has it and we’re all hoping she pulls through, great video bro thanks for some entertainment through a rough period.
Sorry to hear that! I hope things are better these days for you guys
Most dedicated video in a long time, love the editing
Thanks, I'm glad you liked it!
Awesome, recently started playing CK3 myself, my first Paradox game, except for a few hours of Stellaris, which we apparently don't talk about.
Really cool what you could accomplish already and great editing as always. For most videos I wish they were a bit more cut, but for yours it's almost the opposite and they leave me wanting more!
Nice! I picked up Stellaris a month or two ago but have yet to try it out (sounds like a rough one to learn lol) Thanks, I appreciate it! Yeah this one was really difficult to edit - CK3 world conquests aren't very fun to watch TBH. It's extremely repetitive and not that often do interesting things happen. This one was about 55 hours of gameplay cut down and even this was a struggle to find interesting stuff to show haha. Thanks for watching!
@@Strat-Gamingim a Stellaris player, and i can confirm, it takes a long time to understand everything the game has to offer. I have yet to try grand admiral, cuz i kinda suck
Stellaris my beloved
Please continue with these videos, I find your approach extremely exciting and very entertaining, feel free to go into more detail about your methodology.
Thanks! Yeah I think I cut a bit too much out of this one. I feel like the sub-30 minute should be fine for a video like this as I had to cut down 60+ hours of campaign down and 15 minutes isn't enough
Great video! Was surprised to not find a big backlog when I clicked on your channel given til quality. Looking forward to the next video :)
Thanks for watching! Yeah I just recently started this channel - my other channel is mostly guide content, but I want to get more into entertainment so I figured I would separate the two. I've got plans to do another big video like this for Starfield once it's out!
Would you consider doing a lets play series in CK3? Your tutorials were so helpful would be great to see an ep by ep playthrough to learn more :) My playthrouhgs alwyas fall apart once the first ruler dies haha
Yeah I've got some CK3 planned before end of the year! There are a few more KCD videos I need to prepare and one or two Bannerlord, then I'll get back to CK3
@@Strat-Guides let's go :D
You put more thought into one run than i put into my last ten.
For me, I think I enjoy the planning stage even more than the actual playing lol Thanks for watching!
“I'm the new cancer, never looked better”
Panic! At The Disco - There’s a Good Reason These Tables Are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven’t Thought of It Yet
Well well well is it the man himself strat the world conquerors through all the games
Hey Forsaken! My goal is to do a WC in each of the Paradox games eventually :) EU4 next I think! Thanks for watching!!
@@Strat-Gaming looking forward to it :)
I really enjoy your longer content but, this is great too!
Thanks! I've got more of both in the works :)
This was so interesting! Such great quality too. Can't wait to see more from you. Thank you for this!
I'm glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching! I've got a video on Starfield that I would love to make as soon as that hand comes out, by well see once it's out. If that idea won't work then I've got 3-4 more ideas for ck3 I want to try out!
I'm so glad to see you pick up CK3, Your videos on Bannerlord made me think that you would have a field day with Ck3 as it's right up your alley.
(Please pronounce alba as "Al-e-pa")
For sure, I'm having a lot of fun with CK3! So much data to look over and make plans for :)
Oh interesting, I didn't know that. Thanks!
WOW!! Just... WOW!! Im new in CK3 and this is AWESOME!! Excelent work my friend!!! WOW!
Nice, you're in for some fun! I'm working on a guide for this campaign right now that will go in depth with all the tactics and builds I used for this campaign, so that should be helpful :)
@@Strat-Gaming wow! Thanks for that!! My friend, you are awesome!!
This video it's amazing a literal MASTERPIECE in terms of Quality💯💯💯💯💯💯
You are truly the data lord
Thank you!! I'm glad you liked it :D
I only just started playing today and I married my daughter to the heir of France, he is now king and it is a very strong alliance for my slow expansion.
Nice, that should help keep people off your back!
You're telling me this channel doesn't have a million subs... And only has 2 uploads? This is illegal!
I run 3 channels and this one has been getting neglected sadly :( These videos take up so much time to make, it's been hard to dedicate 100 - 200 hours to edit these
I would give up arm and a leg for access to that ck3 database
I'm going to make it public soon! I'm trying to get it on my website, but having issues with Notion. Either way, I'll get it out to the public soon.
Nice, my strategy was a bit different. I captured constaninople and Sardinia to get a huge income and a gold mine, used norse culture to hybridize with greek culture, reformed my religion and ended up with:
1. Me being a head of the state everyone pays indulgence to. That's how I ended up with infinite money
2. Top tier techs
3. Cataphracts steamrolling everything.
4. A dynasty that is almost guaranteed to inherit all positive traits (used moderate incest to reinforce some traits, creating a race of gigachads).
So, I had a slower start, but from then on just steamrolled the whole game. Sadly, after I declared a crusade myself, all of my vassals were called into a war and the game ran at one day per minute, so I had to end the run.
Ouch! It surprised me how slow the game ran at times given my PC's specs. I'm not sure if it's not optimized or it's just too big for it's own good lol. That's a solid strategy you laid out.
@@Strat-Gaming Rushing Constantinople is free real estate, you can easily beat them if you invade Thracia early, from then on you can snowball easily.
Alright, now you have to do it using only defensive wars, marriage, and intrigue.
Oh man, I can only imagine how long that would take... lol I barely had the patience for this one!
@@Strat-Gaming haha nice to see you play CK3 again though!
Awesome game play! Hope to apply that onto my campaign 😂. I mostly like the end part of the video 😂
Good luck with your campaign!
This video was crazy 😭 loved it sm
Thanks, I'm glad you liked it!!
Criminally underrated channel
I appreciate it! I'm still new to these edited "story telling" videos and have a lot to learn, but I'll keep putting in the work :)
Extreme nice video dude💪🏼 stroooong.
Greetings from Germany, du geiler Typ😂❤
Danke!
as a fellow data nerd and ck3 enjoyer, i loved this
Thanks, glad you liked it! I'll be making the database public soon, just waiting on some help to get it on my website :D
Thus is great.... Wouldn't mind watching how u strategized tho
Thanks! I do plan on making more videos for the guides channel that will cover this. I did make a 90-minute video on this campaign specifically and all the strategies I put together for the campaign.
@@Strat-Gaming thanks I'll check it out ❣️
For all of your big battles you forgot to mention that starving and recently disembarked gives advantage malusses so bad winning 2:1 or even 3:1 with some delayed reinforcements becomes an easy task.
Yeah that's a good point I probably should have mentioned - those debuffs really add up and stack.
It seems I'm here before this channel blows upward!
I appreciate that! It might take some time since each of these take about a month to make lol but hopefully someday :) thanks for watching!
I got carpal tunnel syndrome watching this. Love you strat
Incredible! I really loved this one. Almost got me tearing up on that last note, you silly boy.
Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed it :D
Great video, you deserve more subs
Blood for the blood... empire? anyways, much blood, techno would be delighted
You are insane. I dont know if thats good or bad yet. But insane ^^
2:32 thankfully I recently watched game of thrones.
Lol poor Jeoffrey - he would have made an interesting character if he survived into adulthood!
winter is coming
I'm sure Zieley would be proud. From the videos I've watched of his the mongols do have one of the best units the horse archer which has a high pursuit stat to kill off more troops when they are routed. I've never played though because this game looks like a lot of brain power.
It's a really fun game, but you're right about the learning curve - it's quite steep. If you have a few dozen hours to learn it, then I think it's worth it. But for a casual game, it's definitely not worth it lol Back when I was working 14 hour days, I wouldn't have played this because it would have taken me over a month just to learn wth is going on lol
I struggle with the basics and this man is out here casually eating everything up like it's nothing, lol.
Yeah this game can be pretty brutal until you get past the steep learning curve! I think having the database made a huge difference as well. Thanks for watching!
Fucking love this channel, I hope to watch grow
I appreciate it, glad you like this one! I went super-try-hard on this one because world conquests in Paradox games are SO BORING lol
I know I’m a bannerlord ape who likes breaking the game as much as possible, Hearts of Iron campaigns crush my soul crusader kings is more entertaining in my opinion
@@ocean9699 Yeah and I'm not really sure how to make a HOI4 campaign fun to watch... lol It would be a fun challenge I guess
ngl the problem you faced was kinda like aggressive expansion in EUIV but then with counties you conquered, it's a weak peasant army but every time it sieges down a holding they grow. best way to get rid of them is raising an army of mercs next to the rebellions leader. 9/10 you capture him and end the war in a week!
Interesting, that's a really good idea!
Once again proving that even Paradox can't stop the power of nerd.
We cannot be stopped :D
11:03 Ash'ari baltics and finland is just so cursed
Lol yeah they spread all over somehow! I'm wondering if one of my vassals hired them as their vassals for some reason??
Btw troop count doesn't matter because of the way battle mechanics work. You can stack men at arms and knight bonuses and an army of 1000 can stack wipe a 10k strong levy army. Even early game an army of 2k huskarls can defeat anything.
Does it have to do with combat width? I've got thousands of hours into EU4 and I'm familiar with it in that game, but wasn't aware it was in CK3 as well (assuming it is). Thanks for the heads up!
@Strat-Gaming I'm not sure how the combat actually works. I think it is more like HOi4 naval combat there is a screening unit, a unit that attacks, and then in the late battle you have a pursuit stat that determines how many casualties the enemy takes. From my personal experience it seems that removing levies from an army makes it better even when it means you have less troops. I think there is combat width
Now you should make a surviving cancer run where you start as a single spot
1917 was the year, when hell begun to reign on Earth...
Just goes to show that it’s not just the hours, it’s the knowledge that you gain in those hours lmao. In what could take a thousand hours of more manual trial and error to slowly learn the game, you can accomplish in much less by simply understanding the maths and data that make the spreadsheet go brrrrrrrrrr.
Haha I love that line "Spreadsheet go BRRRrrrR" - It's a great point. Reminds me of a quote I heard from a concert pianist - "practice doesn't make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect". I know a lot of people just play to have fun, so it's a pretty inefficient way to learn (acceptable since it's just for fun). For me, I love to study and collect data which cuts the learning curve by a lot. It's especially true for these games with long-term feedback loops (50 hours for a campaign is a LONG time to learn a hard lesson lol)
Impressive, I've learned 2 things watching your video.
1st is that I can kill my mediocre sons by sending them alone to the enemy.
2nd is that I can expect less rebellions if I choose lazy content dukes.
Thanks for watching! I did a video on my guides channel on this campaign where I covered a lot more details (it's about 90 minutes with timestamps). I ended up cutting most of the info here because it was more for entertainment and story. Thanks for watching!
the editing keeps getting better in these videos
I appreciate that! I'm going try-hard mode for these videos lol
Just a little note from a scot, it’s not pronounced “Alba”, in Gaelic it’s pronounced like “Al-UP-pa” or “Al-UP-ba” it’s not an issue as everyone gets it wrong.
I was just thinking about this last night lol thanks! Someone left a comment correcting this before and I already forget about it. Thanks!
you did the good choice making it short i watched the video like 5 times
Sweet! I'm finally back to making videos for this channel again - just started working on the next video this week actually
I randomly found your bannerlord video on reddit and I'm so sad to see you only have these two gems on your channel :(
Please come back :'(
I just finished up all my other projects and finally started editing another campaign! I've got 3 for this channel already recorded and just need to edit them :)
@@Strat-Gaming HEHEHEYESYESYES NOTIS ARE ON
Brava! That ending was a masterpiece!
Thanks, I'm glad you liked it!!
mark my words, your channel will reach a few hundred thousand subs one day
Thank you! I'm working on another Bannerlord video next and then KCD challenge after that - both are recorded but I need several weeks each to edit them.
Sooooo.... Will you you post that list from 12:08? If you do i will literaly subscribe
I'm working on a video for that now actually! I'm going to make a guide for this video, then after I'll work on a video on how to use this database. I also have to add a few more things - I forgot to include the innovations (woops!)
Cannot wait to see more videos from you man
Thanks! I've got 2 campaigns recorded and I'm just in the process of editing them. One is a solo-person world conquest in Bannerlord and the other is an extreme hardcore challenge in Kingdom come deliverance. They should be good fun as well!
is there a place I can find the compilation of the data you've compiled in that 150 hours? I'm super impressed by the work you put into this, but I couldn't even get that done in 300 hours, let alone 150.
I'm working on it - I'm trying to host it on my website to make it easier to use, but if I can't then I'll make it public and able to duplicate so you can have it on your own notion account. Either way, I'll make a video on how to use the database quickly.
that is so cool and impressive! I love CK games, and it was very fun to see a good WC by you
I'm glad you enjoyed it! My goal is to eventually do a WC in each of the Paradox games - I think that would be fun :)
Awesome video, as always, and I am super happy that you are also doing some CK3 stuff next to Bannerlord. Do you have a VOD or something of the entire playthrough? I would love to watch it.
Thanks! CK3 has been so much fun trying to figure out and learn. I actually started this one off as a let's play, but after my 3rd failed attempt I got frustrated and skipped the voice over and played on speed 5 lol. Most of these videos will get posted in full with voice over on the let's play channel, but not this one because of the difficulty. I am working on a more in depth guide for everything I learned while doing this campaign, so hopefully I can get that out this weekend
12:06 the ultimate way to play Paradox games
Yes! Data and math rule everything :D
Could u do with other paradox games? I think a lot of mount and blade players are also paradox game enjoyers. You cover a good niche here. I never played ck 3, yet here i am, enjoying this vid :D (+ nice memes :D)
Definitely! I'm planning on doing a World Conquest for EU4 at some point as well as more CK3 videos and possibly HOI4 (I've only got 100 hours in that one). Thanks for watching!
great video enjoyed your use of data to out wit your opponents
Thanks! It's the main way I enjoy games these days :)
That’s why he’s the goat, THE GOAT!
Welcome to the CK fields my friend.
I conquered the world as the Dutch by two strategies: 1. MAKE BABIES 2. DEVELOPMEEEEEENT.
every piece of land you conquer that you cannot directly own give to a family member.
You start of as a vassal of Lotharingia, so you don't need to fear the big boys. Once you've got all the historical territories of the Dutch within that realm and it starts to implode, break free and become a vassal of France (to gain even more duchy titles in the southern lowlands). Keep all of your duchy titles yourself, despite the penalties. Wage quick wars to gain them back in case of succession. You will quickly reach a point where you're superior to France thanks to Alliances and your own high dev. This is where you wage war to break free so you can establish your own kingdom.
Generally the big boys get split up with Aquintane, Bavaria, etc. They're not so big after a few decades.
Marry daughters off matrilineally initially for alliances, never marry your sons for alliances, only for good traits, especially primary heir.
Once you have your own kingdom, make sure you keep the three primary duchy titles of Holland, Cologne and Aachen as your own.
Focus on Steward and Intellectual educations for your sons and daughters.
Culture convert provinces to Dutch once you reach a development cap due to techs.
Keep building up the lands with many cities so as to increase dev growth (historically what made the lowlands so incredibly rich). Make sure to build pastures and later on embrace pastoralism as a cultural tenant to truly embrace the Hyperborean-Frisian Oera Linda Larp.
When you are strong enough to start gobbling up the territories of the pathetic kingdoms in Europe, make sure dedicate that life work to a high Martial stats son. Begin by initially encroaching onto the pagan territories of Denmark, Sweden, Norway around the Baltic and give all land to your family.
This will start giving you many levies through your vassals there. You however must rely on your incredible men at arms legions that are funded through your massive wealth.
You will at some point reach a stage where you can form the Empire. Make sure you have as much territory in your kingdom as you can when you do this.
Also, once you get more and more kingdom-vassals remember to invest perks in diplomacy to befriend and gain more opinion from gifts. Avoids a lot of rebellions.
Good luck!
Thanks for watching! Your idea for a campaign sounds really fun as well, I'll definitely have to give it a try. I like the idea of having a massive family that expands with the kingdom.
@@Strat-Gaming I wrote my comment before watching the video so you probably want to add another challenge on top that you're forced to culture convert the capital county of a kingdom you conquer to Dutch culture. Regardless of other matters.
This also has an in game advantage, as the greater tech level and dev boosts of the culture will mean it'll be richer than anything around it, ensuring succession of said kingdom title will remain with that county. Also prevents those family members from culture converting to the subjects, ensuring you don't suffer happiness penalty with them.
Other challenges for this run that I did:
"Putting the Habsburg legacy to shame"
PHASE 1 - Saintly Lineage
-remain catholic
-remain Dutch (no cultural merges, ever.)
-consecrate bloodline
-get all the best traits and pick the decision for blood father
-Annex all territories belonging to historical Lowlands (This includes provinces belonging to modern day France such as Artois. Yes, this is a massive larp game.)
PHASE 2 - Dunking on Charle"magne"
-Before forming Empire,
Annex kingdom titles of:
Denmark,
West Francia (enough land to make modern day France),
East Francia (enough land to make modern day Germany),
Lotharingia for any leftover territories in between (nobody gets the Elzas!)
Italy (Just the north for now),
Scotland,
Ireland,
England,
Wales,
Burgundy (Rename to Purplecow kingdom and just feed it Swiss lands),
Navarra (Rename to "North-Hispania and feed all of northern Spain to it)
PHASE 3 - Dunking on the Romans
-using any method, conquer enough byzantine land to usurp and dismantle the empire after one war (sorry not sorry romaboos)
-expand your empire to include all of historical roman lands
-cu.. I mean vassalize his holiness to mend the schism
PHASE 4 - World conquest
-the good old slogfest to conquer all. Have fun.
@@Strat-Gaming By the end game you will have over 1500 family members and well over 120 cadet branches to your dynasty.
Honestly i would of watched the full 400 years this took, great work and amazing research!!
I made a longer video covering this campaign on my guide channel in case you haven't seen it yet! I was trying to keep this one short because world conquests are quite boring for like 90% of the campaign lol Thanks for watching!
Bro dropped 2 fire vids then dipped
I underestimated how much work it would be to run 3 channels at once lol I've got several videos recorded for this channel, but I need to find the 100 - 200 hours it will take to edit it like these videos :D
Now, convert the save to EU4 and march onwards
We shall never end
Cool video, can you make one talking about the results from the data you compiled on the catalog?
Thanks! I'm working on 2 video for my guide channel - one covering everything I learned from this campaign and another video showing how to use the database (I'll make it public and for free for everyone to use)
Great video! How did you organize something this massive?
Thanks! Mostly by taking breaks to cry and flagellate myself. It was quite painful turning 55 hours into 18 minutes lol but I think the project turned out decent enough so well worth the pain!
@@Strat-Gaming Did you film everything and then add commentary and organize it, or did you have a general idea while you were filming?
@@TacticatGaming I had a lot of things planned out, but once I got past taking Britannia, nothing really went to play LOL There were soooo many more rebellions and crusades than I thought would pop up, so that threw me for a loop. Most of them were 2x - 3x my army size too, so it was really scary and I played it really passive until I knew they were attritioned down a bunch. I was actually trying to record this as a let's play campaign, but after failing so many times and restarting I said fk it and just went without voice over. I spent a good 2 days straight watching recordings back at 8x speed to get the story/clips out.
@@Strat-Gaming That's dedication man haha. You did a great job, that's a monster of a project to organize.
@@TacticatGaming I definitely learned some lessons from the Bannerlord video that made this one a little easier and I suspect the next one will be a little easier than this one. It's hard not to learn something after spending 100 hours in the edit lol
Yoooo that data software looks neat! mind sharing your method with a fellow data nerd? You just rekindled my interest in CK3 with your magisterial display
Yeah, it's called Notion! I'm a huge fan of Notion and use it for just about everything now (and it's free) :) I'm working on a video to explain how to use the database and then I'll publish it for all to use. I've got a website for the guide channel and just trying to get the page built out for that and it will be ready.
@@Strat-Gaming Oof, Delightful. Subbed to keep track of it, then!
I have 1.3 thousand hours and I'm still impressed
Thanks for watching!
@@Strat-Gaming Your welcome I used to make a few ck3 vids on another channel and would get like 50 views maximum so I like supporting other channels
Could you share your research of Perks and Bonuses? 12:07
"The terrain in Spain is a real pain with very little to gain"
I should have used chat GPT to get something better lol it was kinda lame. But I liked it at the time :)
@@Strat-Gaming i like it too, Shakespeare
Subbed for the Bonobo jokes alone
Lol they are crazy! I thought teenage boys were bad...
This is just amazing🔥🔥
Thank you!!
I swear if this is another one of those astrological sign videos
Nope, the disease known as cancer lol I don't know the astrological signs :P
The end was peak
Crazy stuff great video 😁
Thanks for watching!
What are some of the strategies you used to keep your vassals happy and increasing your vassal limit?
In the early game you can mostly ignore them. Mid game, I would typically give them land, boost relations however possible (donations, diplomacy, etc.) and in the late game I picked people who had good traits to be a vassal. Loyal, content, etc. are good traits that will usually keep them in check. There's a lot more to it, but hard to cover in a comment section - I made a 90 minute video on the guide channel covering all the strategies I used in this campaign (with timestamps, nobody has time to watch a 90 minute video lol).
You have achieved cracked status
Noice!
Looks like you pulled a classic US of A move 😂 MERICA....or ALBA
Murica!! F%$# Yeah!
14:03 Epic Rhyming
Lol half of that was an accident, figured I would keep going as I was writing it :D
what happened to you all of your old videos?
This is a new channel actually! I'm putting the high effort, heavily edited stuff on here and all the guides and other stuff will go on the guide or let's play channel :)
14:03 nice
You're an absolute datalegend
The data will never let you down :D
Here when this channel has 4.6k subs
Thanks for the support!
Masterpiece video good shit!
Thanks!!
Not that i know of a plan like this, but I originally thought by the title you were talking about biological warfare
Unless you can force your enemies to smoke 2 packs a day, I don't think you can cause people to get cancer in game lol I know what you mean - I figured I would take a different approach though :)