If you want to see more CK3 guides, let me know! I'm already working on challenge videos, but there are enough people interested in learning the game I'll be happy to make a series of guides for this.
Thanks bro, my Grandma just invaded wales thanks to your guide. This is high quality man, I don’t know how you organize these massive info rich guides. Well done!
@@Strat-Guides To be honest i have an unhealthy obsession with conquering Wales. My Fathers side of the family originally came from Welsh nobility that was disgraced in the 1600's and fled to America. So in every game i play i stake my claim to the throne. Also i always attack Poland.
Thank you SO MUCH for this! I just started recently, and while I love the idea of an open ended history game with no end goal, it's very overwhelming to try and get anything done. The tutorials are fairly well crafted but there's still so much it seems they can't teach you without otherwise overwhelming you. This is a huge help!
I have a habit of trying to cram as much as I can into a short video to respect people's time, but for videos like this it doesn't work as well. I'll work on it for the next one!
My favorite strategy guy doing my most played game. Love it. There’s really not a top Ck3 TH-camr putting out consistent videos. Best of luck filling the niche!
@@Strat-Guides I know you mentioned possibly doing Stellaris, it is JUST as dense as this game is in all different ways. This feels like a good segue into this type of game though from Bannerlord - I've not played any CK games but I look forward to watching and hoping one day you do cover Stellaris!
I absolutely love your deadpan sense of humor - please make more CK3 guides, I've always wanted to get into the game but it sounds pretty intimidating for a newbie. This video should help a ton!
I'm 5 minutes in and I had to pause to put CK3 on my Wishlist - excellent delivery this is the exact content I want when trying out a new game. I will return when I play the game! Excellent work yet again Strat!
It's really a fun game and I highly recommend it! Be prepared to spend a couple dozen hours learning it, but of the Paradox games I've played I feel like this was the easiest to understand. Thanks Bim!
Thank you so much!! I have been looking for ages for a guide JUST like this! CK3 is such an incredible game, but it's HUGE and I find myself sitting there often not knowing what to do, so this was incredibly helpful! Please make more in this series! :D
That's a great start to the video "If you're brand new to CK3"...I'm not "or if you're just terrible"...now you're speaking my language. Also, yes to more CK3 guides, your videos on Bannerlord are the only ones I can bother watching when I get the time, lol.
Sup! Uí Mháine [ee-wahn-ya] used to be one of the oldest and largest kingdoms in Ireland and it was in Connacht. It was very large, and it had around a thousand square miles, and it had two tribes - Tethbae and Connacht - that were separated by the Shannon River.
Thx man, i bought this game on release and tried several times to learn and play, but your guide was the first one who worked. Guide watched 2 times and conquered Ireland. HOLY MOLY, THX
great vid but as someone who spent weeks IRL time playing this game, I would say that there is definitely few simple and crucial tricks that weren't mentioned 1- The house guard perk is OP early game so as knights and should be rushed 2- you can hire/find good knights without spending gold by giving them any kind of land (same for council and vassals) 3- when your opponent's embarks he loses 30 advantage for a month which is a huge debuff early game (that's why the AI plays a game of tag while embarking sometimes) 4- making alliances with children 5- a good marshal is a must especially early game, a good steward is also useful 6- giving council positions to incompetent characters can be worse than not having any 7- CK3 favors quality rather than quantity so looking to build an army with strong knights and MAA with high advantage would easily cause you to win when outnumbered 8- terrain WIDTH (This one is overlooked by most CK3 players but it plays a huge role in certain cases 9- warscore and how it works 10- recruiting prisoners and more... It's seems like a long list for a beginner plug and play guide but it really isn't, they could easily fit with in those 40 mins
Thanks for the input! My goal with this video was to literally cut everything out that wasn't necessary. Sadly I haven't had time for the follow up to this video that includes much of what you've typed out!
I'll be covering a TON of mechanics soon! I just finished the world conquest recording and I have to edit that up, but once that's done I'll make some guides (assuming I have time before Starfield launch)
Really excited to see this channel cover this game. Pdx games are just so complex and after self learning HOI4 I have lost all patience and really need someone to guide me through other games! Thanks again XD
Great video - overwhelming to get started even with the tutorial, but this helps to focus what to start with. Would love to see a continuation of this or a series that would go into the other features of the base game.
Thanks! My wife is editing it as we speak actually :) it will cover succession and taking over Britannia to become an emperor. I actually did two to show how much rng is in the game. It's pretty wild
This is wonderful! This is EXACTLY what I've been looking for! Something that shows me step-by-step how this game works and what I'm supposed to do! Thank you!
Set your court marshal to train commanders. Your knights/shorveers will gain prowess an martial skill, and if your marshal has high enough martial skill, will eventually give special traits that boost prowess even more. It also acts as a recruiter of knights/shorveers. A pop up will happen and you can decide to accept the up and coming guy or not. Just click on the dude and see his stats, if prowess is 10 or above snag him. The more prowess knights you have, the more “quality” your overall army will be.
It's really fun once you can get past the initial shock lol There are so many things you can do in the game, so I find it helps to ignore 90% of them and just focus on taking land and making an army. Then from there you can branch out, but if you try to learn too much too quick it's overwhelming and not at all fun
Just... WOW! This guide is so clear and well explained. Please, please, please do more CK3 videos! This was so informative and helped me a lot on my own first playthrough. Now that i've got armies and combat under my belt, i'd like to learn more about the management of domains, etc... Again, extremely well made video!
Yea I didnt want to be rude but when I played stellaris the guides told me what everything did and I chose what to do with that info, telling me what to do teaches me nothing
Strat. My dude. Perfect timing with a video AGAIN. I've been using your Bannerlord guides for ages, started CK3 for the first time last night but quickly gave up with all the new mechanics to learn. Knew I needed to watch some guides, then you drop this one on exactly the day I needed it. Thanks for all the work you put in man 👍
I got rather frustrated with the rng of CK3 a few months ago and uninstalled it. Seeing you give such a well put together guide gave me the motivation to give it another go. My game lasted all of 20 minutes, because the first guy I went to war with allied with a far superior force. I love the look and feel of CK3, but god its rng is game killing for me.
I've got a couple queued up for next year, hopefully in January! I have to finished editing a few campaigns (solo-unit WC in Bannerlord and ultra-hardcore one life Kingdom Come deliverance) but once those are done, I would like to get another CK3 and Project Zomboid challenges going.
This was so helpful. Just downloaded the console version and spent a solid hour and a half on the tutorial just to be completely lost afterwards lol. Your tutorials helped me piece a lot of the intricate pieces with what I have figured out just playing through
Man, thank you so much! I had tried playing like 3 different times and every time I would just get totally paralized trying to understand all the different dynamics and stuff and literally never even clicked unpause because I had no idea what to do. I took your advice (although I started with the Petty King Murchad campaign and things were a little bit different) and I quickly grabbed some land and have just created the Kingdom of Ireland. Thank you so much! Please make more CK3 guides.
Superb guide. I've been playing a lot of Vic3 lately and just the UI reminds me a lot of that. Side panel, total values of stuff on the top, % chance of different things happening in tooltips etc. I also like the rpg elements, with handling heirs etc. Got some of the stuff off Quill18 streaming it earlier today. You both have convinced me to give this a try! :)
For sure would be interested in more mechanic videos. I like this game a lot but theres so much that's not super well explained. This was very helpful to get a basis for some of the game mechanics. Thanks Strat
Nice, CK3 is a lot of fun as well! It's a bit more complicated upfront, but once you get past the first couple of rulers it's not too bad. I'm working on a couple more CK3 guides this weekend, so that should help some
Glad it was helpful! I did the continuation to this (conquering all of Brittania) in another Grandma guide if you're interested :) It's split into 2 campaigns btw, it's not all one long video lol use the timestamps to find the spots you need most th-cam.com/video/NOlIw7iBqzg/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=StratGamingGuides
Saved this to watch later. Just spent about 6 hours in game with the tutorial trying to get to grips with it. My brain has melted and I'm still completely clueless. My good God I had no idea games could be so complicated.
@Malachor01 Yeah paradox games are notorious for this. CK3 is actually the easier one to learn lol EU4 is like 2x to 3x worse imo (but also just as fun)
Thanks a lot for this GED lvl guide, amigo! I've been eying this game on the Xbox for a while but was so intimidated by its vast scope. I'm taking it bit by bit. Decided to download now. I'll be watching more of your videos. You have a new Sub!!
Thanks! I'm working on part 2 for this soon where I'll do a similar start (without custom character though) and go from 1 county up to an Empire. We'll have to deal with succession a couple times and managing vassals, etc.
I love you!!!! I want to play this game so bad on xbox, but don't really know anyone that does guides like you, the time you spend doing this is huge. Keep up the good work and never forget to rest. Love from Portugal! ❤
Hopefully this one helps! It's only covering the absolute basics, so I'll need to do more detailed videos as a follow up, but I think if you can get through this on your own then you'll have a solid foundation
Sorry to tell you, but ck3 on console is busted to all hell, I love the game but lab42, the people who port it from pc have screwed the game since launch and has yet to fix any of it. Constant save files deleting and game crashes every 10 minutes... it's sad
38:10 would have been an ideal time to attack as you also had the defensive bonus from the castle, low on supply, and recently embarked, not sure if you would get a debuff from the river though.
Another good option to strengthen your army is to do activities like feasts or hunts, during this era troops cost glory, not gold so you can gain a ton of notoriety early by employing a master of the hunt and do a higher risk hunt. Helped me take over all of Ireland in my second generation, the only reason it wasn’t my first was because I got bit by a spider 😂
Make sure you pick 867 start date so you can start as Tribal Government (Irish minors are all Tribal). Tribal does not need a CB to declare war like Feudal governments do. You'll flip to Feudal later, but for the early game your job is to conquer as much as you can as fast as you can, then get setup for Feudal :)
Thanks, glad to hear this was helpful! I was thinking about doing EU4 and HOI4 at some point - I'll be sure to do a Grandma's guide for each of the Paradox games I know how to play well. I still need to learn Stellaris though :(
Good old "Newbie Island". Ireland was great to start in for new players in CK2 as well. I'm a veteran player, but I haven't played CK3 in a while and it has changed a fair amount. I hope you choose to dive in and continue to share your insights on this game.
I plan on doing a lot more with CK3 in the near future! I wanted to start off with something easy since I know a good amount of my subs don't play, but might try to pick it up soon so I figured this would help :)
Glad this helped! I just released the follow up to this one this morning actually - I redid this in two more runs, but continued to take the big island and form Britannia. It goes over more stuff like courtiers, succession and fighting really tough wars.
Please continue the guides on using this save. Would be great to see you finish this series with putting yourself in a position that you can call the save as ‘completed’
Thanks! I've managed to unite all of Ireland, but boy was it TOUGH. I fought the vikings THREE TIMES and had to battle a huge nation in england. One war with the vikings was declared on me, so I just beat them back and sued for white peace, the seconds was an offensive war, which I lost lol, and by the third war I noticed that I can murder their king with a 95% in two years, also killer his heir for good measure, and the once great vikings were led by a 7 year old girl and I ABSOLTELY DESTROYED THAT TODDLER, which got me my piece of land 😊. What was supposed to be the final war on a weakling irish guy turned out to be a nightmare because out of nowhere vikings in the middle of england with 6k troops decided to deny me my dreams and joined the war (idk how, they weren't allied), I lost the war and had to wait ANOTHER 8 YEARS for the truce to expire, so I could promptly kick their ass the second time around and, finally, earn my dominion over all of Ireland. My twisted mind found it fun, I'll probably do it again 😢 Also if you're wondering this run was completed in 23 in-game years
Thank whoever (u) this video exists, I have watched countless videos and red many guides trying to figure out how to play this game beyond a few months in of getting raided consistently. I have never had a successful game I've never really made much money or expanded no matter what difficulty I'm on or traits that I acquire... But this video is eue opening to the early game.
Yeah I know what you mean! What I did personally is I just kept replaying and Irish start with a custom ruler until the basic mechanics felt comfortable, then I slowly branched out adding more things to the campaign. Now I feel pretty confident I could handle most challenges. It's not the most exciting way to play, BUT if you keep trying new starts all over the place, it's really hard to learn because there's so many variables. By playing the same (easy) start a few times in a row, it's much easier to get a basic foundation of knowledge
I usually wait the first year before attacking anyone because there is a lot of raiding going on that first year. Build your army and defeat the raiders first (and perhaps do some raiding yourself, even raiding your eventual target to weaken them first). Then when any potential raiders are too weak to raid you is when you start conquering.
Bought CK3 a few days ago. First game: playing as Thurmond, Ireland, following your guide. Took over Ireland and about a quarter of Great Britain before trying a new game. Second game: Attempted a Kurdistan dynasty. Died in twenty minutes before having any wars, after eating a poisoned plant on my Hajj to Mecca. Third play through: Started as the Byzantine Empire and was making progress expanding east and west, but then Khazaria decided to annihilate me. Fourth playthrough: Started as the lord of Yamama and pretty quickly established the kingdom of Arabia. I have all of Arabia south of the Abbasid Caliphate, and most of eastern Africa. When I went to invade Oman, the Abbasids went to war with me, but fortunately I had allies in Iran and Egypt, and I was pretty much rolling over the Abbasid Empire, pushing close to Kufa before they gave up the war. Everything looks to be going well. Gold rolling in, got prestige, faith, I granted a bunch of vassals so they all like me now. My leader is pushing 60 so I'm going to have my first transition of power soon (I have 11 children). Eager to see how it plays out. I'm thinking of continuing to push into Africa as well as maybe taking on the Byzantine Empire, or I could venture into India instead. I'm still very new at the game (and playing on Easy difficulty) so am probably doing a thousand things wrong. Just trying to learn something new each time I play. It's fun so far. Update: ... Okay, my sultan died like literally two minutes into my next time playing. Kingdom split up into like 8 pieces and I had wars everywhere. Had allies but it was all too much. Decided eh, now I know to limit my heirs. Also almost all my vassals were ambitious which I know now is a major red flag. Now gotta pick where to next. I may try... Let's try Pegu. Start at one corner of the map. Don't need to worry about fighting on two fronts. Quickly establish one corner of the map for myself and expand however possible.
@@Strat-Guides In my 6th or 7th play through, playing as a Polish country. I'm on my third king (both lived into 60s-70s), managed two heir successions well, and have control of most of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe as well as Scandinavia. I'm not even sure how I got it. I thought Sweden was about to go to war with me, went to declare on Sweden, then realized I now controlled it. And THEN I realized my wife was queen of Norway and I was 1st in line, so I had my wife murdered, but my son and heir became king instead (thought it'd be me. Oops). But he's my ally and heir and set to inherit my whole kingdom, so my next player will get Norway anyway. Presently though I've intervened to save my son & heir from like 6 nations invading him. It's a tough war but I think I've stabilized it. Keep my son in power if I can, then continue taking over Europe. I think I've finally got this game figured out.
Holy crap I am seeing this video 3 years too late. Thank you a thousand times over!!!!! So quick and so easy to get details!!! Btw under rated comment at 29:20 ‘no love here just stats’. Sounds like my 1st wife.
Glad it was helpful! I'm going to make the next video this month for this series, going from a single county up to starting an Empire (owning all of Britannia). It's a little harder than this one, but not by too much actually
If you want to see more CK3 guides, let me know! I'm already working on challenge videos, but there are enough people interested in learning the game I'll be happy to make a series of guides for this.
Love this man! Also you misspelled the title. Might tick off a few people but otherwise love it!!!
@@johnnystace2175 got it, it's fixed now! I appreciate the heads up
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da view count will say ya more bout ppl's wishes.
Bring on the CK3 guides! I have ck2, and have been thinking about getting ck3 as well, so the more guides the better it is for me and my decision.
Thanks bro, my Grandma just invaded wales thanks to your guide. This is high quality man, I don’t know how you organize these massive info rich guides. Well done!
Haha why Wales?! Ottawa Welshman will hear of this... Thanks Tacticat!
@@Strat-Guides To be honest i have an unhealthy obsession with conquering Wales. My Fathers side of the family originally came from Welsh nobility that was disgraced in the 1600's and fled to America. So in every game i play i stake my claim to the throne. Also i always attack Poland.
@@TacticatGaming lol!
Hopefully grandma will but the speed limit from 20mph back 30. Labour our grandma in
lol
If my grandma plays this, she'll be sure that all the Irish are good catholic boys.
Lol well they start out as Insular, so she's got her work cut out for her :D
Based grandma.
@@philjohnson1744 🇬🇧
@@TheMoneyTourTMT *laughs in carbomb*
Thank you SO MUCH for this! I just started recently, and while I love the idea of an open ended history game with no end goal, it's very overwhelming to try and get anything done. The tutorials are fairly well crafted but there's still so much it seems they can't teach you without otherwise overwhelming you. This is a huge help!
Spent 2 hours last night just staring at my monitor in confusion, had no idea what to do. Makes more sense now 😂
@@bigsam5171 Same. But even worse bc i have the console edition
@AttaMan question were you able to copy his skills? Mine kept going over the trophy cap.
@@AttaMan Is it even playable on console?
Grandma said she spent more time pausing and rewinding than actually watching because he was going so fast!
I have a habit of trying to cram as much as I can into a short video to respect people's time, but for videos like this it doesn't work as well. I'll work on it for the next one!
I slowed it down
Hope grandma is a fearsome global conqueror by now ❤
My favorite strategy guy doing my most played game. Love it.
There’s really not a top Ck3 TH-camr putting out consistent videos. Best of luck filling the niche!
Thanks! It's such a fun game, I'm really excited to dive into the deep end on this one :)
@@Strat-Guides I know you mentioned possibly doing Stellaris, it is JUST as dense as this game is in all different ways. This feels like a good segue into this type of game though from Bannerlord - I've not played any CK games but I look forward to watching and hoping one day you do cover Stellaris!
I absolutely love your deadpan sense of humor - please make more CK3 guides, I've always wanted to get into the game but it sounds pretty intimidating for a newbie. This video should help a ton!
I'm 5 minutes in and I had to pause to put CK3 on my Wishlist - excellent delivery this is the exact content I want when trying out a new game. I will return when I play the game!
Excellent work yet again Strat!
It's really a fun game and I highly recommend it! Be prepared to spend a couple dozen hours learning it, but of the Paradox games I've played I feel like this was the easiest to understand. Thanks Bim!
Stellaris is a great space 4X strat game by Paradox. Also Victoria and Europa Universalis is good as well. @amogus360noscope3
Hope u saw the sale!
Reason the battle was lost at 39:00 was because they had way more champions, good to know for beginners.
Thank you so much!! I have been looking for ages for a guide JUST like this! CK3 is such an incredible game, but it's HUGE and I find myself sitting there often not knowing what to do, so this was incredibly helpful! Please make more in this series! :D
That's a great start to the video "If you're brand new to CK3"...I'm not "or if you're just terrible"...now you're speaking my language. Also, yes to more CK3 guides, your videos on Bannerlord are the only ones I can bother watching when I get the time, lol.
Hahaha it's all good, we've all been there at one point or another :)
Sup! Uí Mháine [ee-wahn-ya] used to be one of the oldest and largest kingdoms in Ireland and it was in Connacht. It was very large, and it had around a thousand square miles, and it had two tribes - Tethbae and Connacht - that were separated by the Shannon River.
Interesting! Thanks for the clarity :) There's no way I would have ever gotten the pronunciation lol I appreciate it
Awesome and straight to the point. 50 hours in and never really thought to move my rally point. Thanks for the guide!
Thanks for watching! I'm glad this was helpful
Thx man, i bought this game on release and tried several times to learn and play, but your guide was the first one who worked. Guide watched 2 times and conquered Ireland. HOLY MOLY, THX
Nice job taking Ireland! It should be much easier moving forward :)
great vid but as someone who spent weeks IRL time playing this game, I would say that there is definitely few simple and crucial tricks that weren't mentioned
1- The house guard perk is OP early game so as knights and should be rushed
2- you can hire/find good knights without spending gold by giving them any kind of land (same for council and vassals)
3- when your opponent's embarks he loses 30 advantage for a month which is a huge debuff early game (that's why the AI plays a game of tag while embarking sometimes)
4- making alliances with children
5- a good marshal is a must especially early game, a good steward is also useful
6- giving council positions to incompetent characters can be worse than not having any
7- CK3 favors quality rather than quantity so looking to build an army with strong knights and MAA with high advantage would easily cause you to win when outnumbered
8- terrain WIDTH (This one is overlooked by most CK3 players but it plays a huge role in certain cases
9- warscore and how it works
10- recruiting prisoners
and more...
It's seems like a long list for a beginner plug and play guide but it really isn't, they could easily fit with in those 40 mins
Thanks for the input! My goal with this video was to literally cut everything out that wasn't necessary. Sadly I haven't had time for the follow up to this video that includes much of what you've typed out!
I'd love to see a continuation of this series, especially since I suck at making the most of my holdings in Crusader Kings 3
I'll be covering a TON of mechanics soon! I just finished the world conquest recording and I have to edit that up, but once that's done I'll make some guides (assuming I have time before Starfield launch)
Cheers! Have fun, whatever it is you're doing.@@Strat-Guides
Please! continue the guide on this particular save if you still have it 🏰⚔@@Strat-Guides
Really excited to see this channel cover this game. Pdx games are just so complex and after self learning HOI4 I have lost all patience and really need someone to guide me through other games! Thanks again XD
Great video - overwhelming to get started even with the tutorial, but this helps to focus what to start with. Would love to see a continuation of this or a series that would go into the other features of the base game.
Thanks! My wife is editing it as we speak actually :) it will cover succession and taking over Britannia to become an emperor. I actually did two to show how much rng is in the game. It's pretty wild
Teaching through a play through is so much better than clicking through every single option and mechanic and explaining things. Thanks
This is wonderful!
This is EXACTLY what I've been looking for! Something that shows me step-by-step how this game works and what I'm supposed to do!
Thank you!
I'm glad it was helpful!!
I've always wanted to get into CK3, but it's always felt more complicated. Please do more of this!
Great stuff as always Strat! Haven't played this game myself but always fun to see your insight and strategy in these kinds of games!
Set your court marshal to train commanders. Your knights/shorveers will gain prowess an martial skill, and if your marshal has high enough martial skill, will eventually give special traits that boost prowess even more. It also acts as a recruiter of knights/shorveers. A pop up will happen and you can decide to accept the up and coming guy or not. Just click on the dude and see his stats, if prowess is 10 or above snag him. The more prowess knights you have, the more “quality” your overall army will be.
MORE GUUUUIDES, honestly would love to see a huge Guide Playlist in CK3 from you.
I've got plenty in the works :)
This video was really helpful. I was getting overwhelmed with the options but this has helped narrow down what I need.
I'm glad it helped you out!
Very happy with the paradox stuff along with bannerlord!
a REALLY solid guide; TY. absolutely would love to see more and a continuation
Great now I might get into CK3. Always looked interesting from some other creators but now I can see the basics.
It's really fun once you can get past the initial shock lol There are so many things you can do in the game, so I find it helps to ignore 90% of them and just focus on taking land and making an army. Then from there you can branch out, but if you try to learn too much too quick it's overwhelming and not at all fun
Just... WOW! This guide is so clear and well explained. Please, please, please do more CK3 videos!
This was so informative and helped me a lot on my own first playthrough. Now that i've got armies and combat under my belt, i'd like to learn more about the management of domains, etc...
Again, extremely well made video!
I wish you would explain WHY you do what you do
It's like 'Ikea bookshelf' level of instruction.
@@ciscoytube5352 I’m told what to do but an explanation of what benefits I get from doing what would be helpful
Yea I didnt want to be rude but when I played stellaris the guides told me what everything did and I chose what to do with that info, telling me what to do teaches me nothing
Strat. My dude. Perfect timing with a video AGAIN.
I've been using your Bannerlord guides for ages, started CK3 for the first time last night but quickly gave up with all the new mechanics to learn. Knew I needed to watch some guides, then you drop this one on exactly the day I needed it. Thanks for all the work you put in man 👍
I just bought the game and i am terrible. i wasted my money on upgrading the buildings and not the armies…
thank you for this guide
I got rather frustrated with the rng of CK3 a few months ago and uninstalled it. Seeing you give such a well put together guide gave me the motivation to give it another go. My game lasted all of 20 minutes, because the first guy I went to war with allied with a far superior force. I love the look and feel of CK3, but god its rng is game killing for me.
Not much of a beginner's guide tbh. You conquest Ireland in the tutorial. Now keeping that kingdom is where the real troubles begin.
Great video - would love to see a CK3 play through series from your channel. Love your Bannerlord content - great work!
I've got a couple queued up for next year, hopefully in January! I have to finished editing a few campaigns (solo-unit WC in Bannerlord and ultra-hardcore one life Kingdom Come deliverance) but once those are done, I would like to get another CK3 and Project Zomboid challenges going.
Great tutorial. This was exactly what I needed to start playing CK3--thank you!
Love ck3. I have hundreds of hours in thr game and its so awesome seeing you pick it up. Cant wait to see more!
Hey im on ps5 when i added all of correct amount of skills i ended up with 536 customisation points... How to fix ?
@@bilbo301 saaaaaaame I had to come down from brilliant strategist and a few skill points
This was so helpful. Just downloaded the console version and spent a solid hour and a half on the tutorial just to be completely lost afterwards lol. Your tutorials helped me piece a lot of the intricate pieces with what I have figured out just playing through
Man, thank you so much! I had tried playing like 3 different times and every time I would just get totally paralized trying to understand all the different dynamics and stuff and literally never even clicked unpause because I had no idea what to do. I took your advice (although I started with the Petty King Murchad campaign and things were a little bit different) and I quickly grabbed some land and have just created the Kingdom of Ireland. Thank you so much! Please make more CK3 guides.
Superb guide. I've been playing a lot of Vic3 lately and just the UI reminds me a lot of that. Side panel, total values of stuff on the top, % chance of different things happening in tooltips etc. I also like the rpg elements, with handling heirs etc. Got some of the stuff off Quill18 streaming it earlier today.
You both have convinced me to give this a try! :)
Me: (has played 500+ hours and a world spanning empire)
Also me: “ooh new tutorial vid, let’s watch during lunch break!”
Lol I do that too - I'm curious how other people approach their campaigns :)
For sure would be interested in more mechanic videos. I like this game a lot but theres so much that's not super well explained. This was very helpful to get a basis for some of the game mechanics. Thanks Strat
My dude I have been waiting for a video like this that breaks down the immensity of a world wide micro intensive macro game
Never thought would end up watching your video on CK3. Now I will have hell of a ride through CK3 like I had with Bannerlord. Thank you very much.
Nice, CK3 is a lot of fun as well! It's a bit more complicated upfront, but once you get past the first couple of rulers it's not too bad. I'm working on a couple more CK3 guides this weekend, so that should help some
Great guide! Love how you keep it movin'.
Glad it was helpful! I did the continuation to this (conquering all of Brittania) in another Grandma guide if you're interested :) It's split into 2 campaigns btw, it's not all one long video lol use the timestamps to find the spots you need most th-cam.com/video/NOlIw7iBqzg/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=StratGamingGuides
Finally a Video about CK3!!! I WAS WAITING SO LONG!!!!
I hope you will make plenty videos about this game
I've got more in the pipeline to do :)
Just got this game last night on gamepass to give it a try, but got kinda overwhelmed. This was a good starting point! Thanks for making it
Keep at it! It's a very complex and overwhelming game. I think it took me 40 - 50 hours before I felt comfortable to run a full campaign.
Saved this to watch later. Just spent about 6 hours in game with the tutorial trying to get to grips with it. My brain has melted and I'm still completely clueless. My good God I had no idea games could be so complicated.
@Malachor01 Yeah paradox games are notorious for this. CK3 is actually the easier one to learn lol EU4 is like 2x to 3x worse imo (but also just as fun)
Would love to see a continuation of this series !!
You're in luck :D th-cam.com/video/NOlIw7iBqzg/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=StratGamingGuides
this is such an amazing AMAzing tutorial, thank you! try to make for every game ever
Thanks a lot for this GED lvl guide, amigo! I've been eying this game on the Xbox for a while but was so intimidated by its vast scope. I'm taking it bit by bit. Decided to download now.
I'll be watching more of your videos. You have a new Sub!!
Thanks! I'm working on part 2 for this soon where I'll do a similar start (without custom character though) and go from 1 county up to an Empire. We'll have to deal with succession a couple times and managing vassals, etc.
This tutorial was super helpful, I managed to conquer all of Ireland in my first game of CK3 using it. Thanks!
@@oatoil6232 Nice work! Next, all of Britannia :D
Thats is a good beginner guide. I have a big problem with the vasals. Hope you make more like this. Thank for your time to do this
I'll definitely cover that soon!
14:02 thats a quote for the ages right there! Lmao😂
Lol don't hate the player, hate the game :D
This video was great. A follow up on how to run a kingdom, or how to deal with neighboring kingdoms would be great!
I love you!!!! I want to play this game so bad on xbox, but don't really know anyone that does guides like you, the time you spend doing this is huge. Keep up the good work and never forget to rest. Love from Portugal! ❤
Hopefully this one helps! It's only covering the absolute basics, so I'll need to do more detailed videos as a follow up, but I think if you can get through this on your own then you'll have a solid foundation
Sorry to tell you, but ck3 on console is busted to all hell, I love the game but lab42, the people who port it from pc have screwed the game since launch and has yet to fix any of it. Constant save files deleting and game crashes every 10 minutes... it's sad
38:10 would have been an ideal time to attack as you also had the defensive bonus from the castle, low on supply, and recently embarked, not sure if you would get a debuff from the river though.
So simple but helpful! Best easy to learn tutorial i have seen yet 🙌
Glad it was helpful!
I know this is 5 months old. But that might have been the best beginners guide of any game I have played.
Grandma's going to have a heart attack once the king dies lol
Its been a while since I played CK3 but i might just start playing again. Can't wait for more guides.
I just got the game yesterday and now you post this guide haha
Another good option to strengthen your army is to do activities like feasts or hunts, during this era troops cost glory, not gold so you can gain a ton of notoriety early by employing a master of the hunt and do a higher risk hunt. Helped me take over all of Ireland in my second generation, the only reason it wasn’t my first was because I got bit by a spider 😂
Downloaded this game on PS5 as it's currently free. I loved this guide. Quick question, why did you not need a Casius Bell for declaring wars?
Make sure you pick 867 start date so you can start as Tribal Government (Irish minors are all Tribal). Tribal does not need a CB to declare war like Feudal governments do. You'll flip to Feudal later, but for the early game your job is to conquer as much as you can as fast as you can, then get setup for Feudal :)
@@Strat-Guides oh that makes so much sense. I had just tried to continue the in game tutorial and wondered why it was different.
Best video, been struggling as new and this allows me to excel.
Wow, your guide is amazing. I love it! 100/100!
please do a tutorial like this for other paradox games. I'm struggling to learn the others but this tutorial made this game so clear
Thanks, glad to hear this was helpful! I was thinking about doing EU4 and HOI4 at some point - I'll be sure to do a Grandma's guide for each of the Paradox games I know how to play well. I still need to learn Stellaris though :(
This already helped me. Ive lived so long and yet did not advance at all. This will change, thank you.
You got this!
Good old "Newbie Island". Ireland was great to start in for new players in CK2 as well. I'm a veteran player, but I haven't played CK3 in a while and it has changed a fair amount. I hope you choose to dive in and continue to share your insights on this game.
I plan on doing a lot more with CK3 in the near future! I wanted to start off with something easy since I know a good amount of my subs don't play, but might try to pick it up soon so I figured this would help :)
Cheers man, your guide was just what I needed to get stuck into this game
Glad this helped! I just released the follow up to this one this morning actually - I redid this in two more runs, but continued to take the big island and form Britannia. It goes over more stuff like courtiers, succession and fighting really tough wars.
Bring more. I love how you bring it now to the core level. Just got CK3 because of your guide.
This was so helpful! Thank you!
Yes finally!!! I can't wait to see your videos covering this wonderful game!
Please continue the guides on using this save. Would be great to see you finish this series with putting yourself in a position that you can call the save as ‘completed’
Really happy to see you play this game !
Hopefully you'll do it again 😊
Thanks! I've managed to unite all of Ireland, but boy was it TOUGH. I fought the vikings THREE TIMES and had to battle a huge nation in england. One war with the vikings was declared on me, so I just beat them back and sued for white peace, the seconds was an offensive war, which I lost lol, and by the third war I noticed that I can murder their king with a 95% in two years, also killer his heir for good measure, and the once great vikings were led by a 7 year old girl and I ABSOLTELY DESTROYED THAT TODDLER, which got me my piece of land 😊. What was supposed to be the final war on a weakling irish guy turned out to be a nightmare because out of nowhere vikings in the middle of england with 6k troops decided to deny me my dreams and joined the war (idk how, they weren't allied), I lost the war and had to wait ANOTHER 8 YEARS for the truce to expire, so I could promptly kick their ass the second time around and, finally, earn my dominion over all of Ireland.
My twisted mind found it fun, I'll probably do it again 😢
Also if you're wondering this run was completed in 23 in-game years
Was there a follow on to this video? Want to see if he maintains and eventually moves into an Empire.
Im glad you actually EXPLAIN why you should do something instead of just telling us what to do.
I need this video for eu4 now
I'll probably tackle EU4 sometime next year! I'm running out of time this year :*(
YESSSSS. Was just looking for new guide to this game!
Thank you. A great and fast paced informational video. 💪🏻
just subbed, your guides are amazing, and funny
Bout to watch this on my breaks at work, thanks m8
Thank whoever (u) this video exists, I have watched countless videos and red many guides trying to figure out how to play this game beyond a few months in of getting raided consistently.
I have never had a successful game I've never really made much money or expanded no matter what difficulty I'm on or traits that I acquire... But this video is eue opening to the early game.
I'm really happy to hear that!
THANK YOU.This was the first video when i get it.Others just talk and talk and talk and i just don't get anything.You save my day,bro. 👍👍👍.
Strat, thank you. I knew of this game but didn't know much about it. Added to wishlist after this. Your guides are sleek af and legit useful.
Great video. I was quite intimidated when I tried CK3. Might give it another shot after this
Yeah I know what you mean! What I did personally is I just kept replaying and Irish start with a custom ruler until the basic mechanics felt comfortable, then I slowly branched out adding more things to the campaign. Now I feel pretty confident I could handle most challenges. It's not the most exciting way to play, BUT if you keep trying new starts all over the place, it's really hard to learn because there's so many variables. By playing the same (easy) start a few times in a row, it's much easier to get a basic foundation of knowledge
Thank you very much, new to the game and helped me so much to get started
I usually wait the first year before attacking anyone because there is a lot of raiding going on that first year. Build your army and defeat the raiders first (and perhaps do some raiding yourself, even raiding your eventual target to weaken them first). Then when any potential raiders are too weak to raid you is when you start conquering.
Bought CK3 a few days ago.
First game: playing as Thurmond, Ireland, following your guide. Took over Ireland and about a quarter of Great Britain before trying a new game.
Second game: Attempted a Kurdistan dynasty. Died in twenty minutes before having any wars, after eating a poisoned plant on my Hajj to Mecca.
Third play through: Started as the Byzantine Empire and was making progress expanding east and west, but then Khazaria decided to annihilate me.
Fourth playthrough: Started as the lord of Yamama and pretty quickly established the kingdom of Arabia. I have all of Arabia south of the Abbasid Caliphate, and most of eastern Africa. When I went to invade Oman, the Abbasids went to war with me, but fortunately I had allies in Iran and Egypt, and I was pretty much rolling over the Abbasid Empire, pushing close to Kufa before they gave up the war. Everything looks to be going well. Gold rolling in, got prestige, faith, I granted a bunch of vassals so they all like me now. My leader is pushing 60 so I'm going to have my first transition of power soon (I have 11 children). Eager to see how it plays out. I'm thinking of continuing to push into Africa as well as maybe taking on the Byzantine Empire, or I could venture into India instead. I'm still very new at the game (and playing on Easy difficulty) so am probably doing a thousand things wrong. Just trying to learn something new each time I play. It's fun so far.
Update:
... Okay, my sultan died like literally two minutes into my next time playing. Kingdom split up into like 8 pieces and I had wars everywhere. Had allies but it was all too much. Decided eh, now I know to limit my heirs. Also almost all my vassals were ambitious which I know now is a major red flag.
Now gotta pick where to next. I may try... Let's try Pegu. Start at one corner of the map. Don't need to worry about fighting on two fronts. Quickly establish one corner of the map for myself and expand however possible.
Wow you went hard from the start lol! Good job, sounds like you've got a solid understanding of how the game works :)
@@Strat-Guides In my 6th or 7th play through, playing as a Polish country. I'm on my third king (both lived into 60s-70s), managed two heir successions well, and have control of most of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe as well as Scandinavia. I'm not even sure how I got it. I thought Sweden was about to go to war with me, went to declare on Sweden, then realized I now controlled it. And THEN I realized my wife was queen of Norway and I was 1st in line, so I had my wife murdered, but my son and heir became king instead (thought it'd be me. Oops). But he's my ally and heir and set to inherit my whole kingdom, so my next player will get Norway anyway. Presently though I've intervened to save my son & heir from like 6 nations invading him. It's a tough war but I think I've stabilized it. Keep my son in power if I can, then continue taking over Europe.
I think I've finally got this game figured out.
I came by when you started with BL2, now I am back here for CK3. You indeed have a good taste my man. I Love ya!
Holy crap I am seeing this video 3 years too late. Thank you a thousand times over!!!!! So quick and so easy to get details!!!
Btw under rated comment at 29:20 ‘no love here just stats’. Sounds like my 1st wife.
LOL It's interesting how life doesn't change much even after thousands of years! Thanks for watching
Amazing! Thank you so much!
Massive help thank you mate, great guide.
Glad it was helpful! I'm going to make the next video this month for this series, going from a single county up to starting an Empire (owning all of Britannia). It's a little harder than this one, but not by too much actually
@Strat-Guides Awesome. Its a steep learning curve but your vid is a big help!
No fluff no bullshit, just what the title says. Thank you so much!
I'm glad this was helpful!! Thanks for watching
I was struggling tp get my grandma into CK3, but thanks to this guide she is now a crusader granny. Thanks mate
i have 200 plus hours and i never knew you could station units. this guide is extremely helpful.
Thank you . This was very helpful New Player. Do you have other videos about this game?
@Engineer_Eric_59 yeah i did this style of guide, but showed how to continue and start an empire! The thumbnail looks very similar