um actually AlzaboHD you missed one character which is a( serb that I created in custom character it has the best stats, you should play as my serbian character)
One of my favorite starts is in 1066, Alexios Komnenos, Duke of Boukellarion. In history he went on the become emperor of the Byzantine Empire, and play a huge role in the first crusade.
I wish that non catholic Christian faiths could participate in crusades, even if the benefits aren’t as good for a trade off of not being excommunicated for saying no. Especially the ones who can ask the pope for money anyways lol.
Here’s a historical character in the 1066 start date : Godefroy of Boulogne, second legitimate son of the count of Boulogne, he would become Duke of Lower Lorraine and then he will be first king of Jerusalem.
Quick historical correction : born a de Boulogne (actually not really because his ancestors were from the House of Flanders so he's technically a de Flandres), he gained the title de Bouillon after he inherited it from his uncle, and wich is the title he's the most known under. And he actually refused the title of King of Jerusalem, as he considered it was the property of Jesus.
One of the most interesting for me is the Count of Samosata who in just 2 decades manages to form the Sultanate of Rum and capture Nicea through smart use of his "mercenary" status.
The radhanit culture makes for some super fun alan campaigns, raid the hell out of georgia for gold and prestige with horse archers, merge cultures with the radhanites, keep the good perks, keep raiding. Conquer georgia, merge cultures to get monaspa and boom you have one of the best armies and cultures in the game before 1066
You have to switch the cultural background from byzantine to israeli when you do this in order to be able to merge with other byzantine cultures I forgot to mention
Harald yngling of the county of vikin in 867 is one of my favorites. 16 yo Norse with great martial and a quick trait and has a unique trait called the vow of tangled hair. You get a special event and extra diplomacy when you create the first kingdom of Norway.
The Emir of Baqlin in 867 near Abyssinia is quite interesting, as the only duke-level practitioner of the ancient egyptian faith. Starts in a really good spot to expand, too
It's called kushitism and kush is an ancient name for Ethiopia so it seems like it's more supposed to be Ethiopian but it is definitely the closest thing to ancient egyptian religion you can get in the game since the gods your character mentions are also egyptian gods and when in events where characters mention the afterlife they call it the duwat which is from ancient egypt religion. The picture is also either a picture of anubis or maybe the wolf god wepwawet that events in that faith always mention. I find that more likely since anubis isn't really mentioned and characters will say "praise wepwawet" or "glory to wepwawet" which makes it seem like he's the chief god
I don't know if you're covered this in one of the other videos, but a notable character I'm playing right now is the Borjigin dynasty that Temujin has in the 867 start date all the way near Karakorum. He is a bastard but you can convert to a religion without bastards or give your brother land then wait to die, or when you die play a his mother. she can still get a child technically but it is difficult. Eventually I plan to stop the Mongol invasion the moment it spawns. Trying to develop land in one of the worst places and get the culture traditions to create a strong army with knights and men at arms to counter them. Without taking the Great Khan decision myself.
you can also play as van vlaanderen dynasty in 1066 and conquer kingdom of thessaloniki and change its name to latin empire cuz historically they were the monarchs of latin empire
Zachariah and Yeldem Ashina should have been on the list, supposedly they're the last two living members of Ashina dynasty (Gokturk ruling family). If you check the family tree it goes back to Muhan Khan the 3rd Khan of Gokturks if im not wrong. Sidenote: Bulan dynasty and their founder Khan Bulan are also Ashina descendants, you can see that by checking the father of Khan Bulan but as nomads cant create cadet branch of their dynasty it appears as a total new dynasty and house. This also applies to Dulo and Balgarsko.
As a biased Burmese, I propose you try out Pagan Kingdom with the character, King Anawrahta. It's from the golden age of Myanmar/Burma when the country was prosperous (reflected in-game with it's rich legendary tier court artifacts; the court is covered in the color purple), and the kings were building temples for fun (reflected with it's religion fervent temple builders which yields piety and renown; that result is the today's Ancient city of Bagan which is a famous top tourist attraction of Southeast Asia and one of the UNESCO's heritage sites) and military might when Burma was invading neighbors in CK3 map painting style (reflected in game with superpowered elephant cavalry and military readiness right from the get-go).
Funnily enough in ck3 it's the mother that goes get the milk For some reason the family generator for obscure characters doesn't think mothers are needed when generating a child for the ruler lmao
@@miguelpadeiro762 I mean, it depends, does the family generator just leaves the space open or is the mother just not in the game? If the generator leave the space for the mother, thats hilarious if shes just not in the game (but is mentioned by name) it could be explained with death by birth 🤷♂
@@gandalf_thegrey The generator generates children but not a wife so when you do get up to marrying and having more children you have a couple motherless kids and the rest are just half-siblings because they do have a mother lol It is kinda wack
I just did a Count Herby game and lost the “restore carolignian borders decision because everybody wanted me to be the new emperor. 😭 200 years later all those kingdoms still aren’t Dejure lands and require bribes and alliances to not rebel.
The Hohenstaufens are also a unique and hidden little family you could play that are note worthy in history and would eventually become some of the best and well known Emperors and hes a count within swabia
One fun start I have is Eadgifu Swanneshals, or "Edith" the Fair/Edith the Rich, one of the richest people in England at the time, supposedly a very distant great-great-etc-grandmother of Elizabeth II together with Harold II Godwinsson, and starts off as the only member of her very cool house which is literally a swan.
I played a campaign starting as Sheikh Rostam and it was the most fun I've had in CK3 to date. I highly suggest it if you're looking for some cool roleplay or just a fun, challenging campaign. He is the last landed member of the Sassanid Dynasty as well, I'm not sure if it was mentioned in the video. Very cool starting position.
I tried that, too, a few times. I conquered my neighbour Gilam first and then some vassal of my liege to usurp his power. But after 200 or so years, my neighbours start to holy war me to dust, while I do not find any alliances.
I've been having fun lately trying to form Normandy, convert to Catholocism, then become King of France, then form the French Empire conquering England and giving it to a dynasty member, crusading against Sicily, switching to the Sicilian beneficiary, and then going to Jerusalem with another crusade, switching to that beneficiary and forming Outremer. It's very fun, good events, variety, it has it all.
Erik the Heathen is definitely my favorite Viking ever. I have a really badass strat for him, and if you can reform Asatru with Christian Syncretism while going down the "Strange Gods" perk on the adventurer legacy tree and keeping the pluralist religious stance - you get +60 relations with everyone of a different religion (with apostate*). So of course, your ally Emperor Heinrich of the Holy Roman Empire will join any war you want - even holy wars against other catholic kingdoms, he doesn't care - after all, the pope comes to all your feasts because he's your number one bud. It's an absolute madhouse. Take Dublin early on and you can even flip back to Norse culture - which allows you to hybridize other cultures you conquer and make your daughters into shieldmaiden berserkers. But you better be ready, even though they love you like a brother, that crusade is always brewing in the background. My ultimate goal is to form the empire of the north sea, this is very very difficult to do as you have a very limited time frame before Norse culture hits the High Medieval, and you must hold 3 kingdoms for 30 years. But being a vassal is a huge advantage, and as long as you MURDER WILLIAM THE CONQUERER, it is actually quite easy to take advantage of Norway and England while they fight each other - all you must do is conquer county on your holy sites. For this part you may want to ally a bunch of pagans, then break betrothals later after you reform. Do all this as a vassal, then with your reformed "Christian friendly" version of Asatru, declare for your claim to the kingdom of Sweden. Christian Syncretism is OP in 1066, it even lets you qualify for Christian artifact bonuses. With the dynasty bonus and the learning tree bonus you will have way better relations with hostile faith than your own, and because you are no longer evil you get a -30 marriage acceptance instead of -1000.
I live in the islands shown in 9:52. The name of the ruler is spelled wrong, this is a traditional name from the Indigenous tribes of my island, to which we Islanders are very connected. The original indigenous name is "Guanarteme", it was actually the name of one of the Leaders of the Tribes (or Mencey) during Spanish Conquest and here in Tenerife we have various statues dedicated to him and other Mencey from the time.
In the 1066 start, the Duke of Vaspurkan and Mets Hayk in Armenia belongs to the Pahlavuni house that is a cadet branch of the Arsacid dynasty of the Parthian empire (rulers of Persia before the Sassanids). The house also exists in 867 by means of unlanded courtiers of the king of Armenia.
I loved the Emir Denha start, I love starting in the corner of the map and just slowly expand while keeping my kingdom stable. Great to see it on your list!
Look at the county of besancon in the 866 statting date, there is a single county vassal of lothirangia there who is Frankish, definetly worth checking out.
You need to mention the Nestorian Duke in the far end of Asia! Imagine a Mongol Christian empire Centered in the Heart of India and capital in the Holy site for Nestorianism. Genuinely the funniest campaign I've had
One of my favourite starts is the counties of the Duchy of Carinthia in 876 cause they're ruled by a Babenberg, the original Austrian dynasty and predecessors of the Habsburgs. They are historically significant insofar as that it was under them that Austria became an own independent duchy and, well, we know how history played out.
In my latest 1066 start campaign through no fault or intervention of my own, the Karlings not only managed to break away from the French and rejoin the HRE, but two descendant houses managed to reclaim the Kingdom of Lotharingia, and later on the HRE itself including most of Italy.
The duchies of Luxembourg and lower Lorraine is in Karling cadet branch hands in 1066. So Lotharingia makes sense. Also Sigismund of this Luxembourg house became the HRE in irl years later
one of my favorite starts is the 1066 count of achen. not only do they control the powerful county of achen right from the start (with a good starting building) they also are in a perfect position to CB the county of cologne and cleves to take all of the valuable farmland from there. in my campaign i started as french and hybridized with dutch to form belgian. specifically to pick up agrarian. I would give it a try. grants you a strong anchor to project your power
I’d be interested in a most interesting characters from the newest Elder Kings and ATE mods. I spend more time trying to decide who to play than playing quite often lol
Ppl just mad cause they can’t rhyme, drop s-tier puns, or succeed past the Duke stage in CK3. As someone who fits that description, I don’t accept them as my people lol. Great vid. You’ve earned this sub
@@AlzaboHD mdrr en vrai elle est trop cool cette petite ville, je l'aime beaucoup aussi, mais putain j'aurais jamais cru que tu me répondrais en français, c'est incroyable ;) en tout cas, continue tes vidéos, elles sont top
actually alzabohd... the most interesting character is a (serb that I made in custom creation, it has the best stats, you should play as my serbian character please.)
May I just compliment you in your scriptwriting and poetic prose. Video after video are lyrical and fun to listen to and must take a lot of creative thought to put together. Bravo Sir.
Thats a coincidence, i did the Habsburg opening over the weekend lmao. Managed to diplomatically take over Austria and Styria and form the Archdutchy. Later took over the kingdom of Bohemia and Hungary. The HRE was practically dead after a huge peasant revolt that split it into two so I jump ship and formed the Habsburg Empire
Exactly its miles ahead of early ck2 already. So far I think this is the most fleshed out Paradox game in a while. It is pretty easy tho gotta give it to you
If you play it like a game it's bound to be easy. But i find that as long as you bring in some roleplay via limiting yourself in expansion and events to what makes sense for your traits, relationships and situation, add mods into the mix, and potentially even consider swapping characters to mix up the world and create little stories around the map, it can be fine difficulty wise. Essentially just consider it more of a simulator than a strategy game
@@Donlot_ i feel like the relatively tiny amount of events really limits roleplaying, forcing my rulers to continuously deal with the same (often outlandish) situations over and over and over again is not good for immersion
Just when you think you are having a bad day with not enough lubbas, babbas, and jabbas in a world full of pain, in comes one jabbabbalabbahabbabba and it's all worth living for, once again.
I'm surprised they didn't do a campaign mode with otger, he was the promo guy has a story at the start to avenge his brother could have has him take Poland used him as the tutorial
What's funny is you were talking about Sheikh Rostam of Mazandaran, but I think his liege is more interesting. Sure Rostam is one of the only Zoroastrians left and is one of the last living members of the Sassanid Dynasty, but his liege is literally the descendant of the prophet Muhammad. He is the only landed member of the Hashimid dynasty (the prophet Muhammad's dynasty that later founded the Abbasid Dynasty) and the Prophet Muhammad is his 6x great grandfather (according to the game). His 4x great grandfather is the son of Muhammad's daughter, Fatimah, and his 5x great grandfather, Ali, who is also Muhammad's cousin. So you could play as the Zoroastrian Sassanid, or you could play as his descended-of-Muhammad liege.
I started playing as a count in Georgia at 866, Bagrat of Tblisi. His house is Bagrationi, a Georgian branch from Bagratuni dynasty. He's an old guy, 60 or 70 if I remember. But his son is an important person, King David, who'll reform the Georgian Kingdom. You'll only had 1 county tho, and you'll be fighting 2 georian dukes and Byzantine in your west, Khazar Empire to your north. Abbasid to your South, and Armenian and Muslim dukes to your east. So yeah, playing as him is like playing in hell difficulty.
You're old, your wife is old, you only had 1 son and 1 brother. So if your son and brother died, there will be no alliances. The Armenian High Prince might allied you because your wife is his sister and you're from a branch house. You had claims to the georgian dukedom in your west, but without alliance you cant do anything.
I need some restarts to make that the Armenian Prince wont drag me into his war with the abbasid and without the muslims attacking me in the first few months lmao. What I did was sway the Caliph, became his vassal with low obligation, raise it so he wont force me to convert. Expand into some georgian counties by getting rid of the armenian counties in the east, the ruler had a ton of counties but not yet a duke at start, so divide his realm and pick his lands. Take the western duchies. And just kept assasinating the caliph. I eventualy became a pretty strong duke at my first life. At King David life I started a revolut to destroy the caliphate and succed by attacking in the mountains (all hail the monaspa, georgian "mountain" cataphract). Swear fealthy again to the Armenian High Prince, carve out my lands under him, and then take it the High Princedom from him (he got converted into Islam for failing the rebellion), basically unting the dynasty again.
Oh yeah, Georgia irl would become one of the superpower in the middle ages, they even manage to took the tittle of "protectors of the Holy Land" from the Romans. They managed to beat up the Turks too and even got called by many crusaders as the defenders of believers. Lmao all 3 churches, Orthodox, Catholic, and Miapisyte adores and respected them.
One of my favorite CK2 playthroughs was as the Karlings in Vermandois. I started as Herbert, whose rule was uneventful. My eldest son received wounds that caused his eventual death. My next son, Boson Karling, went from the count of Vermandois, to the King of France in his life time. He lives to be in his 70s, All while leading armies and winning duels with “Etoile” a sword made from a meteorite that fell in our family’s court yard. That campaign still hypes me up just thinking about it.
My favourite start is always Count Radboud of Holland in the Viking Age, the last landed member of the Folcwaldings, the House of the last Kings of Frisia before it fell to the Franks. While the Dev's decision to display all the regions that have never converted from Frisian to Dutch (Frisia, Dokkum, Groningen, West-Friesland and East Frisia), as well as the lack of Heligoland in the Sea of Heligoland frustrate me greatly, the turbulent times allow for quick Divergence or Hybridization with the Anglo-Saxons to a new Frysk culture, as well as Hybridization with the Norse or Danes for the North Frisian culture, allowing you to restore the (still to this day existing and never having died) Frisian culture to the Frisian lands in your own way. For anyone wanting to replicate this, I suggest taking West Germanic from the first method, as it not only makes more sense, but also allows you to Hybridize with the Saxons for the East Frisian culture later.
Yeah, I'm only at number 8 and all of these have been great. Wanna especially mention how fun playing the feudal Jew is, and converting to Khazar means you can (possibly) also grab the holy site near there in Crimea, that's controlled by Byzantion
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um actually AlzaboHD you missed one character which is a( serb that I created in custom character it has the best stats, you should play as my serbian character)
One of my favorite starts is in 1066, Alexios Komnenos, Duke of Boukellarion. In history he went on the become emperor of the Byzantine Empire, and play a huge role in the first crusade.
I wish that non catholic Christian faiths could participate in crusades, even if the benefits aren’t as good for a trade off of not being excommunicated for saying no. Especially the ones who can ask the pope for money anyways lol.
his daughter was pretty cool too
Epic boi. Just want Byzantine government though, since the western European feudal system definitely was not in place there.
@@BloodRider1914 Agreed.
@@BloodRider1914have I got some news for you one year later
Here’s a historical character in the 1066 start date : Godefroy of Boulogne, second legitimate son of the count of Boulogne, he would become Duke of Lower Lorraine and then he will be first king of Jerusalem.
And his brother Baldwin would become the second king of Jerusalem
An achievement in ck2 is exactly this
@@wizardcat733 sad that there is no achievment for this in ck3
Funny thing was apparently he didnt like being called king cause Jesus is king of Jerusalem
Quick historical correction : born a de Boulogne (actually not really because his ancestors were from the House of Flanders so he's technically a de Flandres), he gained the title de Bouillon after he inherited it from his uncle, and wich is the title he's the most known under. And he actually refused the title of King of Jerusalem, as he considered it was the property of Jesus.
One of the most interesting for me is the Count of Samosata who in just 2 decades manages to form the Sultanate of Rum and capture Nicea through smart use of his "mercenary" status.
not to mention there is an achievement about him forming the sultanate of rum.
The radhanit culture makes for some super fun alan campaigns, raid the hell out of georgia for gold and prestige with horse archers, merge cultures with the radhanites, keep the good perks, keep raiding. Conquer georgia, merge cultures to get monaspa and boom you have one of the best armies and cultures in the game before 1066
You have to switch the cultural background from byzantine to israeli when you do this in order to be able to merge with other byzantine cultures I forgot to mention
You aren't Able to raid though, you own a feudal owning. And all the titles around are tribal so you can't own them
@@braydenebel8799 Yeah but if you start as the alans and form the culture you dont become feudal
Harald yngling of the county of vikin in 867 is one of my favorites. 16 yo Norse with great martial and a quick trait and has a unique trait called the vow of tangled hair. You get a special event and extra diplomacy when you create the first kingdom of Norway.
The Emir of Baqlin in 867 near Abyssinia is quite interesting, as the only duke-level practitioner of the ancient egyptian faith. Starts in a really good spot to expand, too
This sounds promising, thanks for the recommendation!
My Ra...
Wait that exists? Do you know what He is in CK2?
It's called kushitism and kush is an ancient name for Ethiopia so it seems like it's more supposed to be Ethiopian but it is definitely the closest thing to ancient egyptian religion you can get in the game since the gods your character mentions are also egyptian gods and when in events where characters mention the afterlife they call it the duwat which is from ancient egypt religion. The picture is also either a picture of anubis or maybe the wolf god wepwawet that events in that faith always mention. I find that more likely since anubis isn't really mentioned and characters will say "praise wepwawet" or "glory to wepwawet" which makes it seem like he's the chief god
I don't know if you're covered this in one of the other videos, but a notable character I'm playing right now is the Borjigin dynasty that Temujin has in the 867 start date all the way near Karakorum. He is a bastard but you can convert to a religion without bastards or give your brother land then wait to die, or when you die play a his mother. she can still get a child technically but it is difficult. Eventually I plan to stop the Mongol invasion the moment it spawns. Trying to develop land in one of the worst places and get the culture traditions to create a strong army with knights and men at arms to counter them. Without taking the Great Khan decision myself.
I've played Socotra in CK2 a couple times, but not in CK3. The secret societies made it slightly easier to get people to interact with you.
Hell yeah, a new entry in my favorite series of yours.
Been dying for this! Love the unique secret characters
I just need to say, im apreciating the pun ^^
I liked that you showed koifish when you were talking about asatru
I've played Mazandaran a lot. Fun and just the right level of challenge.
yeah its fun i remember converting my culture to tajik and escaping iran to establish empire of bactria
you can also play as van vlaanderen dynasty in 1066 and conquer kingdom of thessaloniki and change its name to latin empire cuz historically they were the monarchs of latin empire
Meh I’d recommend people get the historic invasions mod to play the Latin Empire
Zachariah and Yeldem Ashina should have been on the list, supposedly they're the last two living members of Ashina dynasty (Gokturk ruling family). If you check the family tree it goes back to Muhan Khan the 3rd Khan of Gokturks if im not wrong.
Sidenote: Bulan dynasty and their founder Khan Bulan are also Ashina descendants, you can see that by checking the father of Khan Bulan but as nomads cant create cadet branch of their dynasty it appears as a total new dynasty and house. This also applies to Dulo and Balgarsko.
As a biased Burmese, I propose you try out Pagan Kingdom with the character, King Anawrahta. It's from the golden age of Myanmar/Burma when the country was prosperous (reflected in-game with it's rich legendary tier court artifacts; the court is covered in the color purple), and the kings were building temples for fun (reflected with it's religion fervent temple builders which yields piety and renown; that result is the today's Ancient city of Bagan which is a famous top tourist attraction of Southeast Asia and one of the UNESCO's heritage sites) and military might when Burma was invading neighbors in CK3 map painting style (reflected in game with superpowered elephant cavalry and military readiness right from the get-go).
Top ten hidden characters in ck3:
1. father
Funnily enough in ck3 it's the mother that goes get the milk
For some reason the family generator for obscure characters doesn't think mothers are needed when generating a child for the ruler lmao
@@miguelpadeiro762 I mean, it depends, does the family generator just leaves the space open or is the mother just not in the game?
If the generator leave the space for the mother, thats hilarious
if shes just not in the game (but is mentioned by name) it could be explained with death by birth 🤷♂
@@gandalf_thegrey The generator generates children but not a wife so when you do get up to marrying and having more children you have a couple motherless kids and the rest are just half-siblings because they do have a mother lol
It is kinda wack
I just did a Count Herby game and lost the “restore carolignian borders decision because everybody wanted me to be the new emperor. 😭 200 years later all those kingdoms still aren’t Dejure lands and require bribes and alliances to not rebel.
The Hohenstaufens are also a unique and hidden little family you could play that are note worthy in history and would eventually become some of the best and well known Emperors and hes a count within swabia
One fun start I have is Eadgifu Swanneshals, or "Edith" the Fair/Edith the Rich, one of the richest people in England at the time, supposedly a very distant great-great-etc-grandmother of Elizabeth II together with Harold II Godwinsson, and starts off as the only member of her very cool house which is literally a swan.
I played a campaign starting as Sheikh Rostam and it was the most fun I've had in CK3 to date. I highly suggest it if you're looking for some cool roleplay or just a fun, challenging campaign. He is the last landed member of the Sassanid Dynasty as well, I'm not sure if it was mentioned in the video. Very cool starting position.
I tried that, too, a few times. I conquered my neighbour Gilam first and then some vassal of my liege to usurp his power. But after 200 or so years, my neighbours start to holy war me to dust, while I do not find any alliances.
The Sheikh Rostam start was really fun, one of the best I've played. Glad you included it
I've been having fun lately trying to form Normandy, convert to Catholocism, then become King of France, then form the French Empire conquering England and giving it to a dynasty member, crusading against Sicily, switching to the Sicilian beneficiary, and then going to Jerusalem with another crusade, switching to that beneficiary and forming Outremer. It's very fun, good events, variety, it has it all.
Bruh, I loved the System of a Down reference
Erik the Heathen is definitely my favorite Viking ever. I have a really badass strat for him, and if you can reform Asatru with Christian Syncretism while going down the "Strange Gods" perk on the adventurer legacy tree and keeping the pluralist religious stance - you get +60 relations with everyone of a different religion (with apostate*). So of course, your ally Emperor Heinrich of the Holy Roman Empire will join any war you want - even holy wars against other catholic kingdoms, he doesn't care - after all, the pope comes to all your feasts because he's your number one bud. It's an absolute madhouse. Take Dublin early on and you can even flip back to Norse culture - which allows you to hybridize other cultures you conquer and make your daughters into shieldmaiden berserkers. But you better be ready, even though they love you like a brother, that crusade is always brewing in the background. My ultimate goal is to form the empire of the north sea, this is very very difficult to do as you have a very limited time frame before Norse culture hits the High Medieval, and you must hold 3 kingdoms for 30 years. But being a vassal is a huge advantage, and as long as you MURDER WILLIAM THE CONQUERER, it is actually quite easy to take advantage of Norway and England while they fight each other - all you must do is conquer county on your holy sites. For this part you may want to ally a bunch of pagans, then break betrothals later after you reform. Do all this as a vassal, then with your reformed "Christian friendly" version of Asatru, declare for your claim to the kingdom of Sweden. Christian Syncretism is OP in 1066, it even lets you qualify for Christian artifact bonuses. With the dynasty bonus and the learning tree bonus you will have way better relations with hostile faith than your own, and because you are no longer evil you get a -30 marriage acceptance instead of -1000.
does christian syncretism make the religion monotheistic?
In 1066, there is a decision to create archduchy of Austria, playing as duke of Bobenberg house
I live in the islands shown in 9:52. The name of the ruler is spelled wrong, this is a traditional name from the Indigenous tribes of my island, to which we Islanders are very connected. The original indigenous name is "Guanarteme", it was actually the name of one of the Leaders of the Tribes (or Mencey) during Spanish Conquest and here in Tenerife we have various statues dedicated to him and other Mencey from the time.
By the way, the tribes were collectively referred to as Guanches. And they were most likely of Bereber descent, although experts disagree.
In the 1066 start, the Duke of Vaspurkan and Mets Hayk in Armenia belongs to the Pahlavuni house that is a cadet branch of the Arsacid dynasty of the Parthian empire (rulers of Persia before the Sassanids).
The house also exists in 867 by means of unlanded courtiers of the king of Armenia.
Love starting as Count Werner & just doing a Hapsburg run.
11:14 wild koifish spotted
I loved the Emir Denha start, I love starting in the corner of the map and just slowly expand while keeping my kingdom stable. Great to see it on your list!
Look at the county of besancon in the 866 statting date, there is a single county vassal of lothirangia there who is Frankish, definetly worth checking out.
i already told u alzabo pls make serbian custom character
The rhyming and references are almost as thick as with Ssseth.
You need to mention the Nestorian Duke in the far end of Asia! Imagine a Mongol Christian empire Centered in the Heart of India and capital in the Holy site for Nestorianism. Genuinely the funniest campaign I've had
One of my favourite starts is the counties of the Duchy of Carinthia in 876 cause they're ruled by a Babenberg, the original Austrian dynasty and predecessors of the Habsburgs. They are historically significant insofar as that it was under them that Austria became an own independent duchy and, well, we know how history played out.
You forgot that Rostam is the last descendant of the Sassanid dynasty
Well spotted! Completely forgot lol
@@AlzaboHD I know this because I actually did become sahosayant starting as him and restored the Sassanid Empire's borders under Shapur II
In my latest 1066 start campaign through no fault or intervention of my own, the Karlings not only managed to break away from the French and rejoin the HRE, but two descendant houses managed to reclaim the Kingdom of Lotharingia, and later on the HRE itself including most of Italy.
The duchies of Luxembourg and lower Lorraine is in Karling cadet branch hands in 1066. So Lotharingia makes sense.
Also Sigismund of this Luxembourg house became the HRE in irl years later
one of my favorite starts is the 1066 count of achen. not only do they control the powerful county of achen right from the start (with a good starting building) they also are in a perfect position to CB the county of cologne and cleves to take all of the valuable farmland from there. in my campaign i started as french and hybridized with dutch to form belgian. specifically to pick up agrarian. I would give it a try. grants you a strong anchor to project your power
Watch at 1.5 speed or faster for AlzaboHD dropping rhymes edit: Sometimes
Pfft, the zooming in on Count Werner's chin when you said Habsburg made me laugh.
The rarest character is the one who will not become an incestuous fat schizophrenic (the character doesn't exist)
Challenge: Impossible
easy, dont do indbreed in your own dynasty...
@@donkarnage6986 but where is the fun in that?
@@EdmundSkye you think is fun to do your sister or mom?
@@donkarnage6986 but how will you get Genius Herculean Beautiful monsters??
I’d be interested in a most interesting characters from the newest Elder Kings and ATE mods. I spend more time trying to decide who to play than playing quite often lol
There's a criminally underrated mod in ck3 called Godherja and it would be pretty cool if you could do a video on it
my ears are bleeding from the YYYYY'S
Ppl just mad cause they can’t rhyme, drop s-tier puns, or succeed past the Duke stage in CK3.
As someone who fits that description, I don’t accept them as my people lol. Great vid. You’ve earned this sub
I would get count NordVPN ngl
Koifish makes me spill all over phone
‘Count Herbert cursed to reign « chez les chtis »´ cracked me. so i’m subscribing. that’s all
"Is cursed to live near Belgium, chez les ch'tis", I felt that ! 😂thanks for representing my homeland 😉
mdr j'ai habité a lille avant en vrai j'aime bien!
@@AlzaboHD mdrr en vrai elle est trop cool cette petite ville, je l'aime beaucoup aussi, mais putain j'aurais jamais cru que tu me répondrais en français, c'est incroyable ;) en tout cas, continue tes vidéos, elles sont top
@@AlzaboHD attend, tu sais parler Français?
Ouais MahouGaming j'habite en France (mais j'ai un accent!)
@@AlzaboHD en anglais on entend pas du tout l’accent!
actually alzabohd... the most interesting character is a (serb that I made in custom creation, it has the best stats, you should play as my serbian character please.)
Listen, Greg the Serb is the best character in the game, hands down.
May I just compliment you in your scriptwriting and poetic prose. Video after video are lyrical and fun to listen to and must take a lot of creative thought to put together.
Bravo Sir.
Love these fun starts! Always good stuff mate.
Thats a coincidence, i did the Habsburg opening over the weekend lmao.
Managed to diplomatically take over Austria and Styria and form the Archdutchy.
Later took over the kingdom of Bohemia and Hungary.
The HRE was practically dead after a huge peasant revolt that split it into two so I jump ship and formed the Habsburg Empire
A shame that CK3 isn't being developed a little more enthusiastically. It's pretty barebones and easy tbh.
Exactly its miles ahead of early ck2 already. So far I think this is the most fleshed out Paradox game in a while. It is pretty easy tho gotta give it to you
If you play it like a game it's bound to be easy. But i find that as long as you bring in some roleplay via limiting yourself in expansion and events to what makes sense for your traits, relationships and situation, add mods into the mix, and potentially even consider swapping characters to mix up the world and create little stories around the map, it can be fine difficulty wise. Essentially just consider it more of a simulator than a strategy game
@@Donlot_ i feel like the relatively tiny amount of events really limits roleplaying, forcing my rulers to continuously deal with the same (often outlandish) situations over and over and over again is not good for immersion
Actually AlzaboHD, the best character in CK3 is Bogdan Serbović a custom character I made
Jk
I always enjoy these videos and the superb puns
I already told alzaBOB, play my custom *CROATIAN* character.
I bet that Serbian custom character is the best of all!
🇷🇸 SERBIA #1!
You can play as a Hohenzollern in the county of Zollern in Swabia. They of course would become the kings of Prussia and german emperors.
Just when you think you are having a bad day with not enough lubbas, babbas, and jabbas in a world full of pain, in comes one jabbabbalabbahabbabba and it's all worth living for, once again.
Love this man!
Fantastic video keep it up you're doing amazing job
I can appreciate how much ck3 you have to play through to give us this content. Good game but man I couldn't do it lol. Great video!
I had never noticed that your french accent were so good👌
thanks! I live in France, trying my best
Very good
Love the video. More CK3 in the future please or maybe even Elder Kings 2???
Rollo is the Marshal of a Norway count. Forget who exactly but that would be a neat play
I'm surprised they didn't do a campaign mode with otger, he was the promo guy has a story at the start to avenge his brother could have has him take Poland used him as the tutorial
You can play as my ancestor in the country of Berg in the later years, that’s obviously my favorite start!
Citation needed on Konni being the strongest cultural MaA. Mubarizun and Longbowmen are far more cost effective.
I agree
My favourite is kruto, who rules veletia on 1066, he starts out as a slovakskan ruler who has to contend with he hre, making it an interesting game.
That "chin dynasty" quip got me rollin' rollin' rollin' rollin'
my dude dropped a subtle 'chez les ch'tis' that probably 5% of his viewers got
deserves respect
This video is hilarious and so entertaining great job brother!
What's funny is you were talking about Sheikh Rostam of Mazandaran, but I think his liege is more interesting. Sure Rostam is one of the only Zoroastrians left and is one of the last living members of the Sassanid Dynasty, but his liege is literally the descendant of the prophet Muhammad. He is the only landed member of the Hashimid dynasty (the prophet Muhammad's dynasty that later founded the Abbasid Dynasty) and the Prophet Muhammad is his 6x great grandfather (according to the game). His 4x great grandfather is the son of Muhammad's daughter, Fatimah, and his 5x great grandfather, Ali, who is also Muhammad's cousin. So you could play as the Zoroastrian Sassanid, or you could play as his descended-of-Muhammad liege.
Love your CK3 video, man.
Thanks Carl!
Maybe some Tier-List vids? :D always fun to watch
Straight bars!
I started playing as a count in Georgia at 866, Bagrat of Tblisi. His house is Bagrationi, a Georgian branch from Bagratuni dynasty. He's an old guy, 60 or 70 if I remember. But his son is an important person, King David, who'll reform the Georgian Kingdom.
You'll only had 1 county tho, and you'll be fighting 2 georian dukes and Byzantine in your west, Khazar Empire to your north. Abbasid to your South, and Armenian and Muslim dukes to your east. So yeah, playing as him is like playing in hell difficulty.
You're old, your wife is old, you only had 1 son and 1 brother. So if your son and brother died, there will be no alliances. The Armenian High Prince might allied you because your wife is his sister and you're from a branch house. You had claims to the georgian dukedom in your west, but without alliance you cant do anything.
I need some restarts to make that the Armenian Prince wont drag me into his war with the abbasid and without the muslims attacking me in the first few months lmao.
What I did was sway the Caliph, became his vassal with low obligation, raise it so he wont force me to convert. Expand into some georgian counties by getting rid of the armenian counties in the east, the ruler had a ton of counties but not yet a duke at start, so divide his realm and pick his lands. Take the western duchies. And just kept assasinating the caliph.
I eventualy became a pretty strong duke at my first life. At King David life I started a revolut to destroy the caliphate and succed by attacking in the mountains (all hail the monaspa, georgian "mountain" cataphract). Swear fealthy again to the Armenian High Prince, carve out my lands under him, and then take it the High Princedom from him (he got converted into Islam for failing the rebellion), basically unting the dynasty again.
Oh yeah, Georgia irl would become one of the superpower in the middle ages, they even manage to took the tittle of "protectors of the Holy Land" from the Romans. They managed to beat up the Turks too and even got called by many crusaders as the defenders of believers. Lmao all 3 churches, Orthodox, Catholic, and Miapisyte adores and respected them.
sheik rostam is the only landed sassanid left but is of a cadet branch
8:30 Rostam also belongs to the Sassanid dynasty
U got bars dude
One of my favorite CK2 playthroughs was as the Karlings in Vermandois. I started as Herbert, whose rule was uneventful. My eldest son received wounds that caused his eventual death. My next son, Boson Karling, went from the count of Vermandois, to the King of France in his life time. He lives to be in his 70s, All while leading armies and winning duels with “Etoile” a sword made from a meteorite that fell in our family’s court yard. That campaign still hypes me up just thinking about it.
Ruprecht von Nassau, that dynasty is still in power today
My favourite start is always Count Radboud of Holland in the Viking Age, the last landed member of the Folcwaldings, the House of the last Kings of Frisia before it fell to the Franks.
While the Dev's decision to display all the regions that have never converted from Frisian to Dutch (Frisia, Dokkum, Groningen, West-Friesland and East Frisia), as well as the lack of Heligoland in the Sea of Heligoland frustrate me greatly, the turbulent times allow for quick Divergence or Hybridization with the Anglo-Saxons to a new Frysk culture, as well as Hybridization with the Norse or Danes for the North Frisian culture, allowing you to restore the (still to this day existing and never having died) Frisian culture to the Frisian lands in your own way.
For anyone wanting to replicate this, I suggest taking West Germanic from the first method, as it not only makes more sense, but also allows you to Hybridize with the Saxons for the East Frisian culture later.
I have noticed Otger ends up getting murdered very early on. And his county revoked from his kid.
There should absolutely be an Usama ibn Munqidh as a courtier in the courts of Nur al-Din
Volcano gods are also egalitarian. Everyone burns equally well I guess.
Don't forget the one remaining Zunbil and the last Zunist courtier
I played Thomas becket in ck2. That was fun
I always liked to play tall as Socotra in CK2, but it's not so interesting in CK3.
I was born in gubin, Poland. I think it was once callef guben on the Polish side before the Stalin migrations
A top ten of best cultures?
That koifish reference tho? Yeet!
Please try a austria into hre run from 800 onwards
Bros spitting bars in jars from mars
Lars?
Yeah, I'm only at number 8 and all of these have been great. Wanna especially mention how fun playing the feudal Jew is, and converting to Khazar means you can (possibly) also grab the holy site near there in Crimea, that's controlled by Byzantion