Did a play through of the last Karling with the ambition to build up Valois and become king of France, after that manage to be voted on as the Kaiser of the HRE, and ended up ruling of most of Europe with one of my son in line to become emperor of the Byzantine empire!
One of the best channels on CK3 I have ever followed. Very educational, both in terms of the game and history. As a PhD student in History, I love your channel and have never skipped an episode. Keep up the good work!!!
Crazy to see the growth of this channel over the past few months. Congrats man, happy to be one of the first 120😁 Only a matter of time til it snowballs.
I've been wanting to do a Folques of Anjou playthrough just to see if I can fulfill his line's destiny and get that sweet sweet Lionheart title. Previously did the last Karling as well which was a fun playthrough that started out pretty stressful due to everyone ending up liking the king of France and not backing me in independence. I ended up gaining the achievement for them by having the highest contribution in a crusade for the Daneland and swapping to the new king of Catholic Daneland. We then successfully gained Egypt and Jerusalem in separate crusades for a very fun game.
Started as Duke of Anjou 867. Went all in on Burgundy and granted Duchy of Anjou to my brother. Eventually formed the Kingdom of Burgundy and then invaded West Francia. By mid 11th century, Burgundy occupied all the lands west of HRE, and I was deciding whether I'd prefer to eat Iberia, Ireland or England.
Thank you for these guides, I enjoy especially the historical info. :D My only game in France so far was as Count Eudes of Anjou in 876 because I wanted to get that Starting as Eudes, become King" achievement. I re-loaded the initial character traits of Eudes a couple of times prior to starting the game until I got good intrigue skills. Took a bit of a risk and chose a high-intrigue courtier somewhere in Northern France as my tutor and got a very good intirgue education. A couple of small wars until Eudes was grown up and then the full-on murder and kidnapping spree began. Managed to grab the Duchy of Anjou and the surrounding lands very fast and actually even make Eudes King of France (or rather West Francia?) within a lifetime! After that I did not continue though since I mainly quickly wanted to play around with intrigue for the first time and get that achievement. I was a bit dissapointed however to see that Carcasonne (the famous old and huge castle) is no special county... neither has good development nor a special building. By the way, do you intend to make a kind of "special building counties"-Guide? Where you for example talk about interesting special counties like Cordoba and Alhambra in Spain or the special mines in Bohemia and so on? I am really interested to see what kind of special places there are but unfortunately I never found a good list and in-game you would have to manually click on every single county (or even barony) that exists.
Thanks for the kind words and that sounds like a fun save. Yes, I want to make a guide on special counties, but that’s gonna have to wait a bit due to time right now
It was a good guide. Next part of France guide i would like to hear about The House of Boulogne and Godfrey of Bouillon. I'm sure it will be very interesting talking + guide not only for me, but also for others too and this is why: 1. Godfrey of Bouillon who was one of the four leaders of 1th crusade, also was son of Eustace II, Count of Boulogne. 2. He was first ruler of Jerusalem, after 1th Crusade, but not for a long. (I'm not go into the specifics, because i will wait next episode). etc.
Great job! I would just like to add that most of the time the AI playing William loses to Harold but Harold is then over thrown by Harald. I've only seen William win twice and that was at the launch of the game before any patches.
Of course! I totally get these take a while to make, especially with the historical info and everything. I guess byzantine has two start dates too so that makes that guide even more complicated haha Take your time dude; the videos are great. Cant wait for more!
There are two key factors when it comes to who should be your allies when starting as William: 1) Marry one of your daughters to the king of Denmark, so he wouldn't ally with Norway. 2) Marry another daughter to the king of France. He can't help you as long as you're his subject, but after conquering England you are independent and France can bring in 4.400 fresh troops to fight off the Norwegians.
Playing as Harold, you can win by rallying both France and the HRE. They will accept all calls to your wars (except France can't fight Normandy as William is still technically a vassal of theirs). The trouble is, you have to rely on the allied AI doing the right things...
What would recommend for a 1066 start, wanting to role play as eventually going to the Holy Land on the first crusade? Picturing some sort of holy warrior type...? I'd want to start ideally as a lowly French count.
@@RealmBuilderGuy also any good achievement runs, and good starter points, and like speculation on how you can expand or focus to get like 5 achievements in that run. Just ideas
@@RealmBuilderGuy I mean he studied it sure, but does he hold a phd? (I am not entirely sure about the English academic system) Or maybe I am just sceptical because he has such smoldering looks 😄
Technically yes and technically no...I explained so in the video. This is the 1st House of Bourbon. It died out in the male line, but the daughter married on. Her son then founded the 2nd House of Bourbon that went on to rule France after 1589. So the 2nd House clearly traces its lineage back to the 1st House, but is considered separate since it went through the female and not male line. So again...technically it’s both yes and no.
@@RealmBuilderGuy I think you're getting mixed up between the Bourbon-Dampierres and the actual House of Bourbon, which was a Capetian cadet branch founded by a son of Louis IX. That's the one the Bourbons stemmed from. It's complicated because there were numerous Bourbon dynasties. For an example of what you're speaking of, the house of Courtenay (a branch of which still exists today as earls of Devon) was 're-founded' by a woman of the original lineage marrying a son of Louis VI. This is where the Capetian house of Courtenay begins, although technically you could also call it a matrilineal continuation of the original house.
Raymond VI and Raymond VII both fought against Catholic crusaders in 1209 when the Albigensian crusade started. Both were Catholics but they refused to obey the Popes orders to get rid of the Cathar’s. During the crusade they fought on the side of the Cathar’s against the crusaders. It was the first crusade against other Europeans. So many Cathar’s were burned at the stake by 1305 they were extinct. The Dominican Order was also founded during the Albigensian crusades, they were in charge of the inquisition and converting Cathar’s. Albi has a special cathedral you can only build if you convert to Catharism. Which is honestly ironic of paradox to add, as Cathar’s were anti-materialistic so they didn’t build any fancy cathedrals.
Sorry for it being late, but you mention how you don't want to do Brittany, and just do France, but Brittany is a part of France, and if you were going to exclude that, you should have excluded everyone in Aquitaine as well, considering that's as much ":France" as Brittany or Burgundy.
oughh there is nothing I hate more than when an english speaking person pronounce "capet" like "capete". The t is not pronounced at the end of a word in french...Samething for "Valois", you dont pronounce the s in valois.
@@RealmBuilderGuy I'm French too and on contrary I appreciated the good effort you made, don't mind the snobs like this guy. There are like 100 languages in this game, are people supposed to pronounce all of them perfectly before they are allowed to make a video?
Did a play through of the last Karling with the ambition to build up Valois and become king of France, after that manage to be voted on as the Kaiser of the HRE, and ended up ruling of most of Europe with one of my son in line to become emperor of the Byzantine empire!
Very cool
Well played Sir, well played indeed! 👏🏻
How did you get your son to be Heir of Byzantium, if it's already an Empire, with its own kingdoms?
Clicked on this for gameplay tips, got a really fascinating history lesson.
One of the best channels on CK3 I have ever followed. Very educational, both in terms of the game and history. As a PhD student in History, I love your channel and have never skipped an episode. Keep up the good work!!!
Thanks!
Crazy to see the growth of this channel over the past few months. Congrats man, happy to be one of the first 120😁
Only a matter of time til it snowballs.
Thanks!
I've been wanting to do a Folques of Anjou playthrough just to see if I can fulfill his line's destiny and get that sweet sweet Lionheart title. Previously did the last Karling as well which was a fun playthrough that started out pretty stressful due to everyone ending up liking the king of France and not backing me in independence. I ended up gaining the achievement for them by having the highest contribution in a crusade for the Daneland and swapping to the new king of Catholic Daneland. We then successfully gained Egypt and Jerusalem in separate crusades for a very fun game.
Started as Duke of Anjou 867. Went all in on Burgundy and granted Duchy of Anjou to my brother. Eventually formed the Kingdom of Burgundy and then invaded West Francia. By mid 11th century, Burgundy occupied all the lands west of HRE, and I was deciding whether I'd prefer to eat Iberia, Ireland or England.
Another awesome CK3 story
Well, that's actually nice to see my city (Lille) in there :D Still in France today but definitely has Flemish architecture.
Thank you for these guides, I enjoy especially the historical info. :D
My only game in France so far was as Count Eudes of Anjou in 876 because I wanted to get that Starting as Eudes, become King" achievement. I re-loaded the initial character traits of Eudes a couple of times prior to starting the game until I got good intrigue skills. Took a bit of a risk and chose a high-intrigue courtier somewhere in Northern France as my tutor and got a very good intirgue education. A couple of small wars until Eudes was grown up and then the full-on murder and kidnapping spree began. Managed to grab the Duchy of Anjou and the surrounding lands very fast and actually even make Eudes King of France (or rather West Francia?) within a lifetime! After that I did not continue though since I mainly quickly wanted to play around with intrigue for the first time and get that achievement.
I was a bit dissapointed however to see that Carcasonne (the famous old and huge castle) is no special county... neither has good development nor a special building.
By the way, do you intend to make a kind of "special building counties"-Guide? Where you for example talk about interesting special counties like Cordoba and Alhambra in Spain or the special mines in Bohemia and so on? I am really interested to see what kind of special places there are but unfortunately I never found a good list and in-game you would have to manually click on every single county (or even barony) that exists.
Thanks for the kind words and that sounds like a fun save. Yes, I want to make a guide on special counties, but that’s gonna have to wait a bit due to time right now
You also always have to build notre dame so disney can make millions of a film about it
It was a good guide. Next part of France guide i would like to hear about The House of Boulogne and Godfrey of Bouillon. I'm sure it will be very interesting talking + guide not only for me, but also for others too and this is why:
1. Godfrey of Bouillon who was one of the four leaders of 1th crusade, also was son of Eustace II, Count of Boulogne.
2. He was first ruler of Jerusalem, after 1th Crusade, but not for a long. (I'm not go into the specifics, because i will wait next episode).
etc.
Great video! Hope your channel keeps growing
Thanks!
Your channel is so good, it's gonna blow up homie
Thanks! That would be nice 😊
my fav parts of the guides are learning the history!!!
Great job! I would just like to add that most of the time the AI playing William loses to Harold but Harold is then over thrown by Harald. I've only seen William win twice and that was at the launch of the game before any patches.
Yeah the game is stacked against William
Great guide as always! :D
I know you said that you were thinking about making some shorter ones but I'm fiending for that Byzantine guide :))
😂 it’s in the works
Of course! I totally get these take a while to make, especially with the historical info and everything.
I guess byzantine has two start dates too so that makes that guide even more complicated haha
Take your time dude; the videos are great. Cant wait for more!
There are two key factors when it comes to who should be your allies when starting as William:
1) Marry one of your daughters to the king of Denmark, so he wouldn't ally with Norway.
2) Marry another daughter to the king of France. He can't help you as long as you're his subject, but after conquering England you are independent and France can bring in 4.400 fresh troops to fight off the Norwegians.
"The Bourbon, who then were the last line of French kings"
*The July monarchy disliked this*
The Orleans were just a cadet branch of the Bourbon house
@@jeremiahtisdell4823 a cadet branch of a cadet branch which was also a cadet branch of a cadet branch
Playing as Harold, you can win by rallying both France and the HRE. They will accept all calls to your wars (except France can't fight Normandy as William is still technically a vassal of theirs). The trouble is, you have to rely on the allied AI doing the right things...
Ah yes...the AI...🤪
Best ck3 vids out there the history is so 👌
nice goodwork like the video withe all the history a new sub
Thanks!
great guide!!!
Thanks!
I want this game seems fun.
It's a blast!
Once more here for another algorithm comment✌🏻
Francia is beast mode. Literally 3 wars and the empire is made with Charles the Bald still alive
What would recommend for a 1066 start, wanting to role play as eventually going to the Holy Land on the first crusade? Picturing some sort of holy warrior type...? I'd want to start ideally as a lowly French count.
Check out Lusignan. Good historical start for that.
@@RealmBuilderGuythanks!
They've fixed Harald taking england from William they made Harald weaker and made william stronger and use alliances, its now quite rare
Could you do an Iberia 1066 vid?
For sure!
@@RealmBuilderGuy also any good achievement runs, and good starter points, and like speculation on how you can expand or focus to get like 5 achievements in that run. Just ideas
Is it possible to create the house Plantagenet and become king if so how ?
So you say these Dan Jones books are worthwhile to read? I am always hesitant because he is a television guy and no professional historian
He’s a professional historian
@@RealmBuilderGuy I mean he studied it sure, but does he hold a phd? (I am not entirely sure about the English academic system) Or maybe I am just sceptical because he has such smoldering looks 😄
hi hows everyones day?
bad, my grandfather died of covid
Real good day my man.
@@ataberkuzun9582 I’m very sorry to hear that
Wrong house of Bourbon mate.
Technically yes and technically no...I explained so in the video. This is the 1st House of Bourbon. It died out in the male line, but the daughter married on. Her son then founded the 2nd House of Bourbon that went on to rule France after 1589. So the 2nd House clearly traces its lineage back to the 1st House, but is considered separate since it went through the female and not male line. So again...technically it’s both yes and no.
@@RealmBuilderGuy I think you're getting mixed up between the Bourbon-Dampierres and the actual House of Bourbon, which was a Capetian cadet branch founded by a son of Louis IX. That's the one the Bourbons stemmed from. It's complicated because there were numerous Bourbon dynasties.
For an example of what you're speaking of, the house of Courtenay (a branch of which still exists today as earls of Devon) was 're-founded' by a woman of the original lineage marrying a son of Louis VI. This is where the Capetian house of Courtenay begins, although technically you could also call it a matrilineal continuation of the original house.
@@mandead that’s a possibility. I’ll need to dig into it again. I appreciate the heads-up
Raymond VI and Raymond VII both fought against Catholic crusaders in 1209 when the Albigensian crusade started. Both were Catholics but they refused to obey the Popes orders to get rid of the Cathar’s. During the crusade they fought on the side of the Cathar’s against the crusaders. It was the first crusade against other Europeans. So many Cathar’s were burned at the stake by 1305 they were extinct. The Dominican Order was also founded during the Albigensian crusades, they were in charge of the inquisition and converting Cathar’s. Albi has a special cathedral you can only build if you convert to Catharism. Which is honestly ironic of paradox to add, as Cathar’s were anti-materialistic so they didn’t build any fancy cathedrals.
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Thank you!
Sorry for it being late, but you mention how you don't want to do Brittany, and just do France, but Brittany is a part of France, and if you were going to exclude that, you should have excluded everyone in Aquitaine as well, considering that's as much ":France" as Brittany or Burgundy.
Yeah I formed France, then immediately surrendered to Germany, just to keep it historical
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oughh there is nothing I hate more than when an english speaking person pronounce "capet" like "capete". The t is not pronounced at the end of a word in french...Samething for "Valois", you dont pronounce the s in valois.
I apologize for offending you
@@RealmBuilderGuy I'm French too and on contrary I appreciated the good effort you made, don't mind the snobs like this guy. There are like 100 languages in this game, are people supposed to pronounce all of them perfectly before they are allowed to make a video?
@@Coeurebene1 I appreciate that. Thank you.