CK3 Beginner's Guide To Becoming An Emperor Even Grandma Would Understand

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Published 2024-03-21
*USE THE TIMESTAMPS*
0:00:00 - Intro
0:00:27 - Run #1: Starting Ruler
0:03:02 - Run #1: Opening Moves
0:11:55 - Run #1: First Wars
0:26:29 - Run #1: First Dutchy Title & First Vassal
0:39:20 - Run #1: Becoming A King
0:41:04 - Run #1: Accolades (They are really OP)
0:49:43 - Run #1: How to get LAND instead of VASSALS from dutchy wars
0:52:20 - Run #1: Getting invaded by Vikings while in another war
0:57:23 - Run #1: Taking Big Chunks of Land on the Big Island
0:59:02 - Run #1: Dealing With Peasant Uprising
0:59:56 - Run #1: Educating Our Heir
1:03:50 - Run #1: Long Term Vassal Planning
1:29:47 - Run #1: Upgrading Buildings (finally)
1:34:31 - Run #1: A War, Rebellion and Viking Invasion at once
1:50:38 - Run #1: Raiding for Prestige and declaring Kingdom Level war
1:55:20 - Run #2: Start of the 2nd Run
2:07:02 - Run #2: First Wars
2:09:29 - Run #2: Take Advantage of Prisoners
2:11:56 - Run #2: Assign Marshall to Increase Control
2:19:41 - Run #2: Toggle Wife for Stats Boost
2:20:30 - Run #2: Upgrading to Dutchy Rank
2:21:23 - Run #2: Picking First Lifestyle Perk
2:22:06 - Run #2: Creating 1st Vassal
2:23:58 - Run #2: Truces & How To Avoid Them
2:25:03 - Run #2: Single Female Prisoners are the Best
2:26:25 - Run #2: How to Properly Manage first vassal
2:27:08 - Run #2: Becoming A King
2:29:21 - Run #2: Dealing with Viking Invasion
2:31:02 - Run #2: Creating First Accolade
2:32:59 - Run #2: Taking More Than 1 Piece of Land Per War
2:36:07 - Run #2: Ireland Conquest Done, Start Attacking Main Island
2:37:48 - Run #2: Planning for Succession with 3 Sons
2:41:36 - Run #2: Dealing With Peasant Uprising Rebellion
2:43:28 - Run #2: Educating Primary Heir
2:48:22 - Run #2: DON'T Usurp title, Wait To Create Title
2:55:46 - Run #2: Don't Pick Level 1 Dynasty Legacy
2:57:08 - Run #2: Combat Vs. Large Enemies
3:01:21 - Run #2: How to Convert Gold Into Prestige
3:06:40 - Run #2: Raid When There Aren't Good War Targets
3:10:00 - Run #2: Satisfying 2nd & 3rd Sons' Succession Through Gifted Titles
3:15:31 - Run #2: Sending Kids To Death To Avoid Succession Issues
3:18:24 - Run #2: Massive War for England
3:20:55 - Run #2: Why Marrying Older Women Is Better
3:28:33 - Run #2: Dealing With Worst Case Scenario (War, Viking Invasion, Rebellion, Ruler Death All At Once)
3:41:27 - Run #2: Declaring Multiple Wars At The Same Time

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All Comments (21)
  • @Mstrzelecki
    The title sold me. If even a GRANDMA can understand this guide, then I am in the right place! Thank you for all the insightful information.
  • @shannon208
    Us Grandpa's feelin sad...we have brains too! :) Still happy to watch and learn.
  • @PoisonI.V.
    Oh hell yes, i fucking love Irish starts in CK3. Still feels casual enough to be called tutorial Island, but more involved than in CK2
  • @trustdad3786
    I bought CK3 Royal court yesterday and when starting i was overwelmed, not knowing what to do or start. Looked up some vids but they where all plain basic. But then i got this one. 3H.45M of explanations! I watched the full lenght and i just got king of Ireland. I actually understand what i am doing! I hope you make another one with slight more indept mechanics, like setting up the royal court or how to play UNDER a Liege bc i got stuck on what to do. Keep it up!!
  • @DBVP
    35:25 the marshal that got killed was also commanding your army. You forgot to assign the new marshal or yourself as commander of the army before going back into battle. Great seeing another one of your guides! 🥳
  • @koli4213
    i cant believe i would ever actually watch a 3 hour guide to a paradox game in one sitting but here i am. great video 🙏🙏🙏
  • I used your guide for taking over Ireland even though I had to do it a bit slower but after my adulterous son and his wife got killed my grandson is suddenly the king of France and I was overwhelmed 😭
  • @joeytoofly5139
    You give some extremely good tutorials. I'm digging the ck3 content.
  • @innieplays
    What an awseome informative video! I absolutely LOVE your "Grandma" guides and they are so so helpful! I find myself "knowing" what to do in the beginning, but then I hit a stalemate where I just dont kow what to do any more. The whole granting lands and the succession thing is something I struggle with so that was very helpful to me and I learned a lot. It was also informative to see that you could just throw the AI off by going close and kinda just playing chicken with him hehe.
  • @missfunerella
    “She’s 28, she’s not young.” As a thirty something year old woman I’m glaring at you. 😂
  • @AlexTClark
    I have over 2000 hours in ck3 so I already employ 99% of the strategies and maxims present in this video, however, I had no idea you could sort by prowess in the marriage screen. For over 2k hours I have sorted by martial and clicked through the candidates manually to find the ones that happen to also have decent prowess. Even though I cringed at tiny things being forgotten from time to time, the level of care and thought put into this video make it very very worth the runtime. Well done
  • @DerpaholicGaming
    Explaining as you go and the pace your going at for whatever reason made this game so much easier to understand. Good stuff mang! Edit: I was really confused on the Accolades thing because I didn't have the "tours and tournaments" expansion and it took me a bit to figure out why I didnt have access to it.
  • @JacubMorris
    Started my first play through following your last guide and managed to secure all of Brittania but now stuck with my grandson as the ruler and he is a horribly rolled lol. Been fun, so excited to check out this video
  • @lungkoygallo7351
    Instructions unclear it became a Largest galactic empire of the Galaxy
  • @ryankoch504
    Hard to express how thankful I am, I wanted to love this game but I just couldn't get any reference points to know if I was doing anything important at all. Now I've finally started a useful campaign! Thanks man
  • @liviuursegr
    Now you tell me you can reroll children's traits👀 Great video. Although I have over 1000 hours of gameplay, I still found plenty of useful info. You're awesome👑
  • @CallMeAl411
    thanks to this run 1 guide i got to conquer all of Britannia and then move on to conquer most of Europe within 60 or so years.
  • At 32:55 I was thinking in my head the exact words you said😂 Reminds me of mowing down armies with hordes of fian