Attempting to form the HARDEST EMPIRE - CK3 Uniting Africa

[@eriktherik]

"what, why am I insane?" *In the middle of the jungle casually invades neighboring tribes and charges into a battle he is unsure he will even have a chance of winning*

[@SnapStrategy]

Thats fair haha

[@Theproclaimed]

While trying to unify an entire continent as a small tribal leader

[@resentfuldragon]

@@Theproclaimed To be fair, wanting to unify the world was a common aspiration even for weak leaders. That wouldn't have been insane, even today most leaders want their ideology to at least be strongest in the world.

[@kringle7804]

​@@resentfuldragonclaiming you'll be the one while your just some random guy might be why

[@michaelfuentesfina8220]

​@@SnapStrategyw😊😊😊😊s😊😊😊😊

[@Naijaboy_Kish]

As a Nigerian, hearing him pronounce things like Igbo is just hilarious

[@Naijaboy_Kish]

@bum_fozman7068. E-Boh

[@notBoyMilli]

​@@Naijaboy_Kishu mean E-Boh

[@RaphaelAmbrosiusCosteau51]

Oh my God I can only imagine lmao

[@void_fruit212]

Yeah but to be fair we do pronounce it ebo

[@leofranco296]

​@adika7174 Nigerian Citizens of Nigeria or people with ancestry from Nigeria.

[@The_Crimson_Lion]

You should've started as that one woman leader who's one of the featured characters. Might as well get the "Mother of us all" achievement if you're going to virtually flagellating yourself.

[@cavveman]

Mother of us all in combination with Lingua Franca. Now that is nightmare achievement combo :)

[@dr0g_Oakblood]

Was literally about to comment this lmao, there's no reason to not start as her if you are going for this, no reason to not just stack that achievement on top of all this is you are going to bother with the effort.

[@The_Yukki]

@@cavveman Honestly by the point you have mother of us all, it's just a matter of snowballing for lingua franca

[@SnapStrategy]

Honestly, for whatever reason, i thought the achievement was just for taking all of Africa lmao, but now the name makes sense haha!

[@sirnetflix7162]

@@cavveman Gonna be honest with you, those achievements are easy lol

[@gearheadJR]

0:16 I'm actually from the Bassa/Grebo tribe in Liberia, West Africa. My mom is Bassa, and dad is Grebo. It's customary for the children to take on their father's tribe.

[@anyoneatall3488]

Interesting

[@Kylesatre]

That’s really cool :D

[@1888-til-infinity]

Im from jamacia in the caribbean, what is a dad?

[@xaryous3530]

The reason Mali got land off of you was because one of your vassals (who, fun fact, was the dynasty of your first character’s friend) used a subjugation casus belli against Mali. So they became the new king, and since a king cannot be a vassal of a king, they became independent from your realm and took their original holdings with them

[@SnapStrategy]

all that makes a lot of sense!! Yeah noticed the dynasty while editing! think ill try be nice to them leave them be until we can vassalize them!

[@ThePurpleParis]

This whole subjugation causus belli is a bit insane in my opinion. I had a small count under me who subjugated an entire kingdom somehow! But fortunately I was a emperor so he still remained my vassal.

[@501meganinja]

I’d love to see a literal wide empire. Spanning the length of the map in one long line.

[@SnapStrategy]

Honestly, might actually give that a go!!

[@averageinternetchad1652]

@@SnapStrategy do it

[@FairlyFatherless]

The Longolian Empire run!

[@undercover9515]

This is the best idea I’ve ever seen

[@LEE3R0Y]

Is it possible to control the entire map? I know you're suggesting a line but is that even plausible too? 😂

[@felipevega484]

Did Mother of us All this morning after feudalazing and uniting Africa. Whatever you do grab all three Mali's gold mines (including the one in the temple) and stablish your capital there as well for extra development, also you might want to go with a Warmonger faith.

[@AxHost]

did you feudalize before you became an empress? im trying to get the achievement too but have not heard to feudalise early. would love your suggestions!

[@felipevega484]

@@AxHost I feudalized after becoming an empress, getting a reserve of money that I could later invest in buildings and getting the mines (which work in tribal) . You should be careful with succession , heresys， vassals that revert back to their old faith after being overthrown (specially if you go for righteous) and grab false conversions and medicant preachers .

[@SnapStrategy]

Didn't realise there was three! Yeah i think warmonger faith will have to be the play! otherwise it will go until game end haha, appreciate the advice!

[@PerfectAlibi1]

@@SnapStrategy Two in the same duchy, and then a bit to the West of that duchy

[@justdirt]

For anyone doing Africa Campaigns, get the Dutchy of Manding first. That area has 2 gold mines, and that alone can carry you through all of western Africa. Going into mid game, getting Timbukto and the university there is another great county to get. Getting a foarder or desert warrior commander is also very important when moving north through Africa. Supply limits in the mid game are brutal

[@thy_lordcastiel7127]

Just an fyi, if your new ruler is hated throw a feast. The courtiers will have huge opinion boosts across the board. Might save some headache

[@SnapStrategy]

Thats true! since they moved Feasts i always forget to use them now haha

[@poiuytrewq11422]

My ass too broke to be throwing feasts.

[@Ohioboies]

The campaign we've all be waiting for!!!!

[@malte7382]

Yeah

[@mordreek]

You killed me with "He does have a son who will be taking over and I am not pronouncing *that!*" The sheer smoothness of the segue has me in stiches.

[@zephaniahgreenwell8151]

The new random death events make uniting Africa much more difficult. Sometimes the game will insist on killing your character and there is little you can do.

[@venustrap3030]

They should remove it

[@greenacadian4197]

I found that I can turn that off in the Game Rules (changing the setting to "safe"), and it doesn't break achievements or ironman.

[@zephaniahgreenwell8151]

@@venustrap3030 in principle, I like it. It makes the game more interesting. In practice, I absolutely hate it because I love all my characters so much and hate to lose them to BS.

[@SnapStrategy]

Is that a new thing? i havent played much since the update

[@grandfathernurgle2840]

I played in Pagan had my 40-year-old kill duke die to smallpox right 1 county away from being a kingdom. It was a fun battle royal amongst 7 toddlers for the scraps and managing to rebuild to a king.

[@simbachvazo6530]

That was the most effort I have seen someone put in to avenge someone, it was actually really sweet

[@dr0g_Oakblood]

So really the best strategy for this is to speedrun the Kingdom with one character, and if you can manage it, the Empire, but that might be difficult depending on RNG, so it can be safer to just leave the Empire to the second succession and avoid splintering. Once you have an Empire, you can speedrun reforming and feudalizing since you really want to be off of confederate partition once you are an empire. This is not so much for you more than it is for anyone reading the comments and wants to attempt this. And speaking of, people have already said this, but really if you are going for this on your own, play as the special Hausa countess and get Mother of Us All while you are going to the trouble of uniting Africa, you might as well get an achievement for your efforts. Her start is not perfect, but with the alliance with your husband and her skill at diplomacy allowing for easier vassalage and MAA generation, forming the Kingdom is essentially guaranteed, and even the Empire of Kanem-Bornu is fairly doable in her lifetime even with meh RNG. One downside is that if you go for the RP of female-dominated game and reformation, the AI is still very bad at matrilineal marriages, at least it was back when I did this, so you might land a bunch of spare daughters in the hopes of keeping Kingdoms under your empire as dynastic-only (the best strategy now that RC has enabled renown gain from vassal king-tier dynasts again) but they might just lose the dynasty after 2-3 successions because they didn't prioritize dynastic succession.

[@rogofos]

- declares two wars the moment the game starts, on people who literally didn't do anything to deserve that - "why am I called insane?"

[@aroma13]

My first ever playthrough in west Africa was with the following goal,,as a kingdom/empire tier realm,feudalize",the first half of the campaign was really fun,reforming the faith and so on,but then the latter part was just waiting 5 generations to get all the cultural inovations needed

[@JackOfGears]

This can be made to go faster by intentionally hybridizing with other cultures, but... in general it does tend to be very slow.

[@RaphaelAmbrosiusCosteau51]

@@JackOfGears i’m planning on doing something like this so could you explain what you mean?

[@JackOfGears]

@@RaphaelAmbrosiusCosteau51 When you hybridize with another culture, you get all of their innovations. By choosing cultures with innovations you lack, you can jump ahead in technology pretty fast if you're starting at a deficit. What I did was hybridize with I think the Egyptians, which got me four or five innovations 'for free'.

[@RaphaelAmbrosiusCosteau51]

@@JackOfGears ohhhh ok thank you

[@MrOuned]

I discovered your channel yesterday and I've been binging all your videos since ! You got yourself a new sub :)

[@sandersonstreamingnetwork7380]

Here I was enjoying the video to the end, frantically looking for the next part and just realizing this was released yesterday. Great video!

[@BlueSky-uf6oy]

Great to have you back!

[@SnapStrategy]

Thanks blue!!

[@micahpickus5142]

To manage succession better, if you stick with the African faith you started with and end up reforming it, grab monasticism. It’s such an OP tool for managing succession before primogeniture can be unlocked.

[@duphasdan]

22:40 A paragon, except that one time on the mountain.

[@Entropy__]

Always have a physician....will save you losing knights in your wars! Also worth getting an Antiquarian, and paying 100 gold to create basic items. Can help with prestige/prowess.

[@jaronwilliamson551]

Been waiting for this one a while, looks like it was worth the wait

[@SnapStrategy]

Thankyou!! :)

[@daedalusdreamjournal5925]

good to see you back !!! That was worth the wait :) EDIT: I guess you had to wait a bit for CK3 to have a stable version, as in, with the latest major changes for some time.

[@SnapStrategy]

Thankyou! appreciate you watching!

[@WorLadCiz]

Welcome back snap ! Good to have you back ❤

[@SnapStrategy]

Thankyou!:)

[@FairyTail4998]

I did this too and ended up with a hole Africa full of Witchkings.

[@krakenlakkin]

You should always make your rival's wife your concubine.

[@ChargeQM]

Aggressive NTR is just asking to be poisoned

[@grammar.1888]

very good job, i understand how much time and effort it took to create such a video.

[@farinozcelik]

16:08 Says conquering a province will finally give him a border with Ghana, while showing a clear border with Ghana that splits Manding in half

[@wishes_._]

Love from Nigeria 🇳🇬 you earned a subscriber ❤

[@nathanmckay2998]

I’m glad you’re back! I was missing your vids

[@mkg6459]

Finally, i was wondering where you have gone

[@SirSquier]

This is a stupidly hard challenge, great job!

[@wifren]

Its more time consuming challenge, cant say its that hard)

[@thetaikonaut8397]

I think forming The Roman Empire is harder being Hellenic.

[@SirSquier]

@@thetaikonaut8397 done it it's not too bad, best start is king of Italy

[@aeddonevans7144]

I've done this challenge a couple times and you'll find that getting light calvary is actually a little more beneficial because most of your opponents will also have bush hunters. You won't be low on prestige at any point, so having men at arms that counter the men at arms of just about every NPC faction can be really beneficial for when you're significantly outnumbered.

[@bad-people6510]

"He will always be remembered for his cordial and just nature in the face of all odds." Yeah, the insane cannibal, sure.

[@simracer3551]

New subscriber. Very interesting to see how this progresses!

[@ifellowsz]

Can't wait to see the rest!

[@SnapStrategy]

Hoping to get next part out friday! but no promises on that, but hopefully haha!

[@ifellowsz]

@@SnapStrategy take your time, your videos are definitely worth the wait 😊

[@ZoMbi5lAy3r]

This is one of the few achievements that's eluded me in ck3 so far

[@SuperSteden]

"Mother of us all" was difficul and i learn a lot while doing this achivement. But "Lingual franca" where you have to conquer the World it's just stupide and boring

[@SnapStrategy]

Yeah one day i would like to get all the achievements. but doubt ill ever get that one haha

[@ZoMbi5lAy3r]

@@SuperSteden I didn't actually conquer the whole world for Lingua Franca. I started as Charles the Bald in 867 and conquered most of the Western Map, and luckily the Indian and Mongolian courts decided that my Empire was prestigious enough so they changed their court language to French

[@endulus.]

Could you please try to establish the Zoroastrian Persian Empire in 867? There is a vassal of a ruler in Persia who is descaanded of Sassanids.

[@lucavenezia5208]

How are you managing the prestige, as tribal i lose a lot of prestige because of unraised man at arms, you seem to have plenty and im not understanding

[@mortache]

I can't hear this music without thinking of Spirit of the Law

[@kiro4279]

34:25 unless you are tribal you can't build mines in a tribal holding Aka if you're feudal you can't create mines in a tribal holding

[@persona2293]

Grant lands only to your direct family, then to same dynasty(Trusting preferable). If not 10:49 shit is inevitable.

[@AdzkaMumtaz]

ladies and gentlemen, he is BACK!1!1!1!1!!!

[@tykethepup2288]

I’ve noticed Infirm happens a lot more than it used to.

[@BloodyKnives66]

You can attack multiple weak counties at once. Easy way to take land faster, without having to disband over and over

[@faara663]

Challenge: Napoleon's conquests in the medieval version XD

[@bulldogger1467]

did this by playing vikings and immediately invading and i was just instantly the most powerful country in africa

[@hainleysimpson1507]

Which is that her insulting.

[@countbenjamin1442]

I heard when being an Emperor its best not to have kingdoms just dukes. Kingdoms become powerful where as Dukes not nearly as much

[@thetaikonaut8397]

Maybe, but you could have the kings under you deal with peasant wars and your Kings might invade other kingdoms for you. Also you have less vassals to deal with.

[@SnapStrategy]

Yeah! i think what ill do is hopefully do a decent amount of expansion each life, then once i die, give out some kingdoms and grant vassals to them, so i have few vassals hopefully making them easier to manage, but ofc if they revolt im in big trouble haha

[@SqueakingLion]

Wait, did they change the mines to not require Feudal? Is that a new update?

[@SnapStrategy]

Ahh so that was a thing? i thought so haha, seems you can get the first level while tribal now!

[@SqueakingLion]

@@SnapStrategy Today, I learned! I've never tried to go for mines before feudal because everyone said it wasn't possible. Either they were wrong, or it was changed at some point. :)

[@SnapStrategy]

@@SqueakingLion yeah I think it must have recently changed! I wasn’t expecting to be able to use them! Unless maybe it’s just certain mines that work as tribal? Not sure

[@jeffqyzt2582]

It was changed in the 1.7 release, IIRC.

[@julianespersen6631]

always love your videos

[@SnapStrategy]

Thanks!

[@Gusty.]

glad to see you back uploading

[@footballshortsarena]

I started watching with my sheep thinking it's a just a one video campaign

[@samuraidiem1767]

Feel like you have done this before but you should built a powerful kingdom or empire and then play as a count or something like that and go against the empire, idk if I have explained it right, Idk how to explain my ideas properly but hopefully you get the message😅

[@aleisterj.r8848]

started playing yesterday (skipped the tutorial) and I didn't know you could just make up claims, I was fully surrounded by other kings when I realized

[@vipza72130]

You could convert to Islam, marry to a descendant of the prophet and as a sidequest, dismantle the papacy

[@germssssss]

Id like to see you do the Ganges river decision! Super fun location

[@Jack-kb5nb]

I attempted mother of all once, where I literally got about 3 wars away from success and I accidentally had a son (who I’d accidentally had married into someone else’s family) inherit, and since I’d used his daughters for alliances (again by accident) I unintentionally ended the family. So many hours, so many freaking kids that I’d stopped caring 😢

[@vortex_1336]

Yeah. he can't get that achievement. You have to start as Daurama Daura to get it.

[@PaulRGauthier]

Dude, that was INSANE!

[@PuskasMarton]

Drylands and floodplains are very economic, the Empire of Kanem-Bornu is very sustainable and has all the holy sites that you need. That, or just start as Nubia and have an infinite money glitch.

[@madzulu3598]

Hi I’m grebo apart of the greater kru people the bass’s are our brother tribe it’s pronounced bassaw thank you for playing as them

[@henriquemedeiros9254]

Great video! I was wondering how do you have so many options when you are hosting a hunt for example, I don't have that many hours but back when I used to host hunts in my saves, it would only give me a single option... P.S - I've only played in feudal saves and "european" lands so that might have to do something with it

[@antitwist6624]

No it doesn't, it's from the new update (also because he probably has all DLCs)

[@marcospaulomarinho8056]

do u use a mod for character and castle design???

[@cantalope6980]

this was just what i needed to procrastinate my morning thank you 🫶

[@SnapStrategy]

Thanks for watching!!

[@cantalope6980]

@@SnapStrategy loved the video and channel can’t wait for the next episode of the series 🙌

[@jacobite2353]

Heyy you're back!

[@MizzDrizzley]

I took ghana within 20 years. Just simply being a smart steward, building my riches, expanding and taking petty kingdoms and expanding my levies. 100+ opinion with the king, waited until he died to press my claim on the throne easily took it, and no one even revolted because I had spent the entire 20 years making friends. He’s now 72 years old and is in three different wars. The ANBU clan is going to fall.

[@perceptoshmegington3371]

I tried to get the Hohenzollern count to Prussia the other day. Went down the fertility tree cos I figured the dynasty should be expansive from the progenitor. Had 4 daughters, then a son who died of smallpox before he was 1, then 3 more daughters, then finally a son who ascended to the duchy at age 5 when I died at age 70. Fucking ridiculous.

[@gyuhwanyi475]

in 867 scenario, do restore carolingian borders decision.

[@christopherhales1831]

Great video!!

[@Bigchuk85]

CK3 Idea: Start as an Anglo-Saxon Catholic ruler in West Africa. Rule is you and your kids can only marry other Anglo saxons, plus all your vassels have to be anglo saxons too. If you survive to an empire level, then I'll be very surprised. I managed to become a king till all my neighbours jumped on me in a holy war.

[@Fearmongr]

I did this but I started as spain. 300 years later after almost conquering everything except 5 duchies i was dethroned and my empire was gone.

[@gognok]

You should ofer vasalige insted of fighting the couts as a duke. Its so much faster then concvering all of them.

[@danielc9967]

Nana Kwandoh would usually be a fante or Ashanti name, looks like the CK team didn't do their research

[@ProductofWit]

Funnily, the first empire I ever created was the Empire of Kanem-Bornu and proceeded to mess around conquering European duchies and taking European men as concubines as an African empress. Haha. I proceeded to make the Empire of Africa while I was at it.

[@thanezz]

Your man at arms don't seem stationed in the video? Pretty sure you don't use them if you don't station them at provinces

[@vortex_1336]

You use them. They're just weaker.

[@mgmstudies7022]

been waiting for this day

[@cadenvanvalkenburg6718]

Lmao Snap I did basically the same thing yesterday. My character has all of Western Africa rn

[@bobbiin1]

Hey do yoy use any mods in your playtroughs ? Love ur vids btw 💯❤️

[@plopyxX]

43:12 .... I'll send you a save where i only give land to my sons, you'll see how worth it it is

[@bdawgrise6961]

I did this once… Africa was all of the German culture when I finished…

[@j.j.acosta8319]

What an honor to be the King of Kong!

[@J0krswy1d]

Suggestion: Custom character named King of the house Kong. Start in Kong and make him King King Kong of Kong.

[@CSLucasEpic]

I tried this one before. I couldn't do it. In fact, it was easier to conquer all of the British Islands with an African kingdom than to unite all of Africa... Next time I'm going to try and conquer all of Italy with an African kingdom... Would love to see you do either one of those things.

[@Lordmikejay]

Bro all I do is try to unify Africa and fail every time but my current play through may be my closest

[@felixkimani5375]

This is called PanAfricanism, it's difficult in actual sense😂😂😂😂

[@SimplyStormy]

You couldn’t have uploaded this a week ago…. When I was doing research on KZbin and nobody had really completed the challenege

[@S0LIDSNEK]

Managed this for the first time a few days ago and it did not go as planned! Not recommended for beginners.

[@braveheart2232]

Make a vdeo with the egypt mamluk count or sheikh to dominate the middle east and create therashidun borders or more

[@alnaru3358]

7:21 Me after finding a gf that doesnt like astrology :

[@katmannsson]

Id love to point out that Togba earned the Loyal trait

[@dobimonk4813]

What were the mods used for this video?

[@RainbowUmbrella-cj8lg]

sankara and lumumba would be proud

[@Andulvar]

"Uniting Africa" A feat only possible in a video game.

[@1noduncle]

Theyve had 10000 years. I don't think it's gonna happen. Wakanadia forever!

[@headslayer_7077]

Can you play in the Coptic age in Egypt

[@jakegarner4548]

You should start out as a custum character with the roman culture and Hellenic faith and remake the Roman empire

[@scumdawgzee6050]

To keep the immersion, change its name back to Alkeban

[@siviwematikinca9401]

how do you make the characters move?

[@pistol_price]

Where u from, im up the valleys 😊

[@kazuhira9867]

Thank you Snap Strategy for helping clueless people finally be right when they say Africa is a country 😂