Crusader Kings 3 - The Angevins - Ep.1 Humble Beginings

Welcome to my new Crusader Kings 3 let's play series, where we try to establish the Angevin dynasty in Crusader Kings 3. In this episode, we take a look at the first Angevin we will begin with in France. This Crusader Kings 3 Angevin series is using the Tours and Tournaments DLC
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[@Apollo1989V]

Based on my experience so far, tour and tournaments is the kind of expansion that Royal Court should have been. The free update breaths some new life into the game. Grand weddings make me feel more invested in the characters. Tournaments are a great peace time activity. Tours are a great way to stabilize your realm or gain some extra gold.

[@Cigmacica]

And it also gives something meaningfull to do in peace times

[@HierophanticRose]

But is it enough to warrant full DLC price? They should have added societies with it as well

[@tevarinvagabond1192]

@@HierophanticRose chap, the only thing added for the paid DLC was the tournaments, weddings, and grand feasts. The free part of the update, while not having the tournaments, still has the ability to host feasts and the standard version of hunts (DLC has the falconry), the new travel system for characters, all of the new buildings, massive QoL changes/tweaks, redone character models (they look so much better now) with more clothing choices, new vassal archetypes that actually heavily change how you play, the regent system (which is MASSIVE), and more. Safe to say the free update actually has MORE things then the DLC, lol...the DLC just adds some flavor to that free update, though admittedly missing out on the tournaments is a bummer for those that don't get the DLC as you miss out on some fun activities

[@HierophanticRose]

@@tevarinvagabond1192 they are all great don’t get me wrong, but boils down to one extra mechanic you need to pay attention to but otherwise highly conditional experiences based on events when they happen. It’s like the Iberian struggle, cool interactions but doesn’t really add much besides and especially if you are not playing a specific play style. UI/UX changes are great welcome though not gonna lie

[@tevarinvagabond1192]

@@HierophanticRose Huh? The vassal changes alone are a big change to how you have to play...you can't just do one action to make all your vassals like you, the different archetypes mean that doing most actions in-game will make some vassals happy and others unhappy...if you don't manage this, you WILL have vassals rebel constantly. I'm beginning to think you haven't played the update

[@seraphinaaizen6278]

I've started to really enjoy starting out as a country ruler and slowly working me out. It feels a lot more rewarding than just starting out as a King or Queen and all the hard work's been done for you.

[@adronius147]

I've used to play that way exclusively for a while, but I've gotten an appreciation for starting out as a king too. It's nice if you're looking to roleplay your characters rather than work towards some goal over generations of characters.

[@tja713]

Having all the hard work done for you and starting as a king/queen is how most kings and queens have started out😂

[@ArthieLefort]

Hey Matthias, I'm an enthusiastic noobie and was looking for starter vods. Your style and patience helped me -- also, your voice is so plesant to listen to. Thank you from Brazil 😊

[@jinglepleb]

Welcome back to CK3. Hope you have a wonderful time playing it and enjoy all the content you put out there. I am excited to watch what happens. I love the Plantagenet history up to wars of the roses, so looking forward to seeing what happens in your series.

[@justoaguirre5520]

So glad to see you back in CK3! Great start

[@garthgourdon643]

Happy to have found your channel, been searching for this kind of Crusader Kings 3 content.

[@asphaleios6197]

Hooray!! I'm so happy to see you back. Super thrilled for this series.

[@Suspect333]

So good to see a video again, I hope you never leave.

[@rootbeerfloathaspop3301]

I love the role playing idea, can’t wait to see this!

[@christopherbenedetti1338]

Great episode! Looking forward to seeing more ck3.

[@gocryptic]

Glad to have you back in CK3! Excited to see how this campaign plays out!!

[@ash9788]

I was looking for the game but I found a good youtuber. Double wammy on the nail baby.

[@RealmBuilderGuy]

Thanks 😊

[@NotLeftarded1]

My family use to be called Langevin dit La Croix , yeah this subject interests me it ticks all my bias boxes.

[@NotLeftarded1]

My modern day Identity is Acadian.

[@rickroyal3839]

Had to watch your Guide to france Video for Inspiration on who to Play as, Great Stuff

[@neoceun]

Looking forward to the Angevins Ascendant!

[@m.aimanhafiz4532]

good to see you again

[@steves7373]

Welcome back to CK3! Looking forward to this series

[@RorchaksRevenge]

"Realm Builder Guy" yeah. that's a sub for sure. looking forward to great adventures my new found friend!

[@wastelander89]

Im so glad i found a good lets play series

[@treehobo7585]

Hell yea dude first video of yours I watched, super entertaining strategy game lets play. Cant wait to check out the rest of ur channel!

[@RealmBuilderGuy]

Thanks! I’m glad you liked it.

[@Bets2719]

Ah someone playing my favorite Medieval family! I did a long CK2 AAR on the Paradox forums with the Angevins, starting with Fulk le Rechin, so I'm looking forward to see how this pans out! Will be doing some binging.

[@stexi1079]

finaly my friend... a lets play from you 🤩🤩

[@attrage7545]

Just started in France so I'll be rewatching these. Will try to leave a like on every video as by the looks of it I neglected that first time through. I'm doing a run as the de Carrouges dynasty. I've had to start in Anjou as Alencon was taken of course by William the Conqueror. Chartres was also out as it's Duchy level as well and I definitely needed to start this run as a Count and in a county that stays French after William's English adventure! Should be fun, I love starting with a more obscure figure. My Robert the Bruce playthrough was great but had of course more goals and constraints. Jean de Carrouges is a bit more of a blank slate so other than loyalty to the French throne I'm pretty free to make decisions based on the characters' personality. Will let you know how it goes!

[@attrage7545]

Loving this series, up to ep 30. You actually inspired me to do a run as Robert the Bruce. His historically accurate start as Robert I, a Norman in Annandale is incredibly interesting to try to pull off, the early game can be very (enjoyably) messy

[@RealmBuilderGuy]

Nice!

[@MSharkey616]

Inspired by this I decided to give going Touraine a go. Within seconds of gameplay Geoffrey went to war with King Philip, lost and Anjou became mine pretty much instantly. I love this game

[@mattheweble5550]

So...this is the first time I found your channel and liked that you were pretty knowledgable with history....I clicked like and also subscribed when you mentioned Dan Jones. Not many people over here in the states know of him. I've read a little of his stuff, but I mainly know him from his documentaries Britain's Bloodiest Dynasty as well as Bloodiest Crown....also his Castles series and his team up with Suzannah Lipscomb about the fire of 1666(she also has a great series of Henry VIII and his six queens).

[@RealmBuilderGuy]

Thanks! I came across his Magna Carta book years ago and then it kinda snowballed from there.

[@yourhost3101]

welcome back king

[@Weiswolfe]

this is a way i should play, i feel bad when i go out of the 400 limit when building my character, i get mad for the confe partition, i want to win, i hate my character dying cause i love them, and i hate disinheriting or murdering my children, i should play more like you, going with the flow and the character i got and see how far can i go, CK3 doesnt have a victory slide

[@sxeeth]

In my playthrough Geoffrey III’s Great Grandchild became the king of France but under a different dynasty

[@iandent4274]

I just found your channel, and I’m so happy that I found another Dan Jones enthusiast! I have all his books, and they’re awesome! If you want the story from a different perspective try reading “A History of English Speaking Peoples” by Winston Churchill. Yes this is THE same Churchill who was PM of England in WW2. There are four volumes in his histories, and the first one goes all the way through Richard III. I absolutely love his style, and it’s a great compliment to Dan Jones’s histories

[@thetrustysidekick3013]

I love roleplay based gameplay. Glad I found you.

[@mrXOwarrior]

I just started to watching and I’m excited to see this series. I’m surprised that you didn’t mention that Count Fulk of Anjou is the father of future King Fulk of Jerusalem who was the father of the Anjou kings of Jerusalem. I mean this is crusader kings.

[@RealmBuilderGuy]

Yeah that was an oversight

[@jackharvey5613]

Some nice classic RBG CK3 gaming!

[@jaydenthomas3104]

Keep this going

[@roberthembree7328]

I'll watch to the finish

[@Galaick]

I'm a couple weeks late to the start, but it's pretty interesting how count Foulcques, or 'Fulk' as he's apparently called in English, actually has a pretty decently documented wikipedia page, which you might use to plan your campaign, because it includes his successors, who eventually also became kings of Jerusalem en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulk_IV,_Count_of_Anjou

[@mortache]

Oh wow got your video suggested after a long time

[@corentinboxho]

A qualitative start to what seems like a very promising series! 😄 And coming from a native French speaker, don't worry, you're fine with the pronounciation! 😉

[@RealmBuilderGuy]

I appreciate that. I’m trying my best. 😊

[@teemum.9023]

Ah, life in the old castle. I love the Feodal courts. They had all the officials of a small state

[@teemum.9023]

16:30 nobody can be greedy and humble at the same time. Also a 16 year old healthy girl will not be greedy. 23:19 Duke Thibauld is both fearless atheist and french catholic? MeH!

[@CommonSwindler]

I’m mad you didn’t assemble a collection of territories stretching from the Pyrenees to the Scottish Highlands in the space of a year or two like the peerless Henry II, haha. This promises to be an interesting series, though.

[@rah.rightbfhibs1920]

Let’s goo

[@christopherr.561]

Glad to see a play through for this game. Will be watching. Any idea of the upload schedule for this series or if there is one?

[@RealmBuilderGuy]

Thanks! I’m not sure on an upload schedule just yet. If I can get 3+ per week that would be great, but it’ll also be dependent upon real life stuff a bit.

[@christopherr.561]

@@RealmBuilderGuy thank you. Looking forward to it

[@Snakepit92]

"I don't do min max optimized gameplay, if that's what you're here for I'm not your youtuber" Sounds like you're my youtuber!

[@RealmBuilderGuy]

😁

[@StarlasAiko]

I'd like to see a Crusader Kings style game playing in the age of Arthur, starting with the rule of Ambrose and ending after the death of Arthur and the Quests.

[@cellitha4906]

First time visitor here! I really like your voice and you mentioned you’ve got some actual rpg stuff. Got a campaign you narrate or something? I’d love to listen/see it but all I find are reviews and tutorials (kinda). Recommendations?

[@SheikhMawini]

I love this game but I can never finish a playthrough. ADHD is rough. Also, I read The Plantagenets by Dan Jones a few years ago and it was so good. I found it in the book store of a London airport. Devoured it in the 17 hour flight back to the states lol. I haven’t read anything else from him, I need to check him out.

[@RealmBuilderGuy]

All of his books are great

[@toddmichaellane2904]

New to the channel but love the story telling!

[@RealmBuilderGuy]

Welcome to the channel and thanks!

[@kevinvelado9907]

OK WHAT?! This episode, I stumbled upon and it said it was posted two days ago. Then I get a notification that episode 26 was posted not that long ago. What the crap KZbin.

[@RealmBuilderGuy]

That’s really weird

[@kevinvelado9907]

@@RealmBuilderGuy I know right, I'm also really liking this series. You barely see anyone who does nice paced formats for CK3 on its roleplay, so I hope it continues and garners it's deserved views. Hope you keeping making more! 👍

[@RealmBuilderGuy]

@@kevinvelado9907 Thanks! I appreciate the kind words.

[@przemekjanczewski9487]

My favorite character to play as

[@przemekjanczewski9487]

Btw he's actually a geat great grandfather of Henry II if I remember correctly

[@jeffbuckler4180]

This is fortuitous I was online last night hoping to find somebody using the angevin duchy as a starting point in hopes of creating the angevin Empire I will be looking forward to this play out

[@RealmBuilderGuy]

Thanks! At least I’ll show how NOT to do it. 😂

[@jeffbuckler4180]

@@RealmBuilderGuy hoping for the best I will enjoy either way thanks

[@reek459]

Tbh im here to. Opy everything you do because idk how to play and iys been a long 3 days 😆

[@davidyunghans3569]

aptitude tells you how good they are at their jobs, their skill stats play some role but look at aptitude to base whether or not they are good

[@RealmBuilderGuy]

Yes

[@outere24]

Ok this game is confusing asf 🤣

[@RubberToeYT]

the plantagenets by dan jones is a great book

[@Seleanis]

Your French pronounciation is quite good!

[@RealmBuilderGuy]

Thanks! I’m working on it.

[@reek459]

Bojur ye Me took lots of France

[@teemum.9023]

Diarch is not French, it means the other part of the shared regency, Archy means power, Di means two

[@arniepage1662]

In my opinion the tours are a bit weak the tourneys make it a s tier dlc. The traveling system is incredible. Accolades are very fun to do and it’s like a mini dynasty legacy you can personal to you. I know what dlcs we have coming up but I’m hoping at one point (next year) that we get a Barons and Bastards dlc that fixes the ranks (since you can ascend to an emperor very very quickly) and a more detailed view for what’s it like to be a bastard/not the main inheritor (this would maybe let’s us play the 3rd or 4th in line to inherit not just the first born/main inheritor all the time)

[@00martoneniris86]

I have two books from Dan jones the templars and the plantagenets have you any sugestions of what books I should buy from him And coud you thel my what books has he written and Coud you name your son in the game Geoffroy and your daughter in the game Eleonore Great that you are doing an playthrough walkthrough again ❤

[@RealmBuilderGuy]

I’d also recommend his books: Powers and Thrones, The Wars of the Roses, and Crusaders. All excellent. Duly noted on the names!

[@00martoneniris86]

COUD You Thel my what are the books about?

[@RealmBuilderGuy]

@@00martoneniris86 Powers and Thrones is a general history of the middle ages. The Wars of the Roses is about that conflict in England. Crusaders is about the crusades from different perspectives.

[@TheIlandarLegacy]

Do you have the ability to enter our custom characters into the game mid-playthrough?

[@RealmBuilderGuy]

I need to check that. The easiest is of course when a child is born. That’s how I did it in the past.

[@davidringmann3395]

Just a minor correction: Your caracter is the grandfather of Geoffry Plantagenet not the son.

[@RealmBuilderGuy]

Yes. I misspoke

[@teemum.9023]

Do they all have a viking crown?

[@historyafficionado478]

You were lucky you didn't die day one, I avoid that start and play as his brother and die childless because champagne starts with a claim on you and normally day one kills you. Very sad.

[@MJZA93]

I really love this style of game but i feel like it needs udemy course to be able to play.

[@carllangevin6538]

😳

[@arthurmoraud9234]

Hai, why did you not marry your courtiers if you wanted new knights instead? Thanks for the video

[@RealmBuilderGuy]

I don’t usually do that. Feels too “gamey” if that makes sense:

[@BenDPB]

Filter your character search by unmarried ppl on your court, easy way of brining in new males for the council or females to tutor or use for genetic traits.

[@RealmBuilderGuy]

Good tip 👍

[@ninasurr3902]

I was coming in here to say that. One of the best things you can do at the start of the game is find all the unmarried people in your court and marry them to people with useful skills. Even better if you can get spouses with inheritable traits. Thirty/forty years down the line you'll have a supply of people to marry your unlanded cousins to.

[@Nekitamo22]

any chance you play the game of thrones mod? would be lovely to see you there

[@RealmBuilderGuy]

It’s definitely on my list. I played it quite a bit on CK2

[@Ghastly_Grinner]

I think the stress mechanic is your role play built in you dont have to do what the traits say its like in real life am man may be shy but if he wants a thing he may push himself to be outgoing in a situation in order to do the thing he wants. More realistic role play would be remember you are playing a game of dynasties and play accordingly. not trying to tell you how to play just a random guy throwing out two cents on a youtube comment section

[@RealmBuilderGuy]

Fair point

[@mandead]

I wish I got this for free.

[@RealmBuilderGuy]

I honestly wasn’t expecting it, but am happy I did.

[@JacksonOwex]

0:17 Oh! A D&D guy, even after all the WotC/Hasbro drama late last year up to now. I wish people would stop supporting that crappy company and play other TTRPGs. Not sure what to replace Magic with if one plays that!

[@RealmBuilderGuy]

When I say D&D I don’t mean 5e. It’s games like Castles & Crusades, AD&D 2e, Old School Essentials, etc.

[@teemum.9023]

Crusader Kings is like Neoliberal individuals. Everyone is a privateer who is making money. The game has an appalling interpersonal system and learning of personality through interaction. I wish they would have at least made it according to social psychology and sociology books. 24:53 i was wrong, the feast!

[@KrakenStudiosGames]

Good game but too complex for my taste.

[@AB-xc7qh]

Loved this game but on Xbox it’s just basically unplayable with crashes and save issues I just don’t understand why paradox doesn’t listen to us console players and the community and help fix it. Instead they just constantly release new dlc’s which doesn’t help the community which can’t play

[@RealmBuilderGuy]

I’ve never tried it on the console. Sorry you have to deal with that.

[@Lovethyself01]

You could have gotten a better wife 😅

[@RealmBuilderGuy]

In theory. I looked through a few and this was the best bet to produce an heir ASAP.

[@Lovethyself01]

At the end of the day if you are decisive on a choice and are happy with the results that’s what matters

[@redlionkeg6654]

Why not just marry off the women on your court to get better knights or council members? 😅

[@RealmBuilderGuy]

It’s definitely an option