How to raise 124,455,024 Levies in CK3:

[@monkeydetonation]

100 million peasants is still weaker than stacking bonuses on 12k varangian veterans

[@jesusduron1511]

My horses with every hill and forest barony with haunting place laughs at your varangian. (just need a little to counter).

[@whydontyouhandledeez]

@@jesusduron1511 You need half to counter, and if you go Greek Norse hybrid like a true Varangian you can get +4 max heavy infantry size, which means it would be much easier to counter your horses than it would be to counter heavy infantry. Not to mention Varangians have insane toughness, so the battle would skew in favor of them over whatever you're using to counter after the first phase, especially since light infantry have the lowest toughness and damage out of all the unit types.

[@kueapel911]

​@@jesusduron1511 a 34 size of 7 stack crossbowmen stationed in forest baronies with an accolade of archer+crossbow captain combo would ruin your day.

[@adam422]

Are you guys hoi4 players? Because I've only played ck2 and didn't know that ck3 combat was so much more complicated than ck2...

[@chnb517]

virgin MAA bonus spammer vs chad knight effectiveness stacker

[@insertobject4002]

Average Chinese army be like:

[@accurategamer7085]

Smallest chinese army

[@acrustaceannamedfish7976]

@@accurategamer7085smallest local Chinese militia

[@Grid-the-goofy]

Smallest farmers commune

[@Amibingus]

Smallest chinese Group of friends

[@eusoueu2816]

​@@Amibingus "me and the boys" in china be like:

[@sykles8589]

Scrapping the barrel in year 1000? That what i wanna see

[@ruqweirsa]

700k infantry equipment deficiency hits different tho

[@Riebeck-the-Archeologist]

Medieval Times; Who will win: a 100 million troops, or some rat flees

[@Grason20]

Rat. Ironically the rat has a better chance to win when the enemy is in larger numbers.

[@omaraboal-azm8705]

I was struggling to keep a 30,000 men army from starving

[@Skull.man00]

I once played as some slavic tribe. Created Baltic empire, conquered Bayern. Reformed slovianska pravda, send colonial troops from kingdom of venice and conquered Tunis. Began the conquest of Iberia, made vassal states there. Still, no way I can attack Khalifat having 20 k troops. They have over 50 k soldiers at disposal. Not to mention they control entire middle east. Same problem with Iberia. Single sultanate there posses over 30 k troops (Btw. England ,Finland and parts of Sweden are also under my control. Novgorod is controlled by my dynasty since over 100 years.)

[@frogss7725]

I once restored the Roman Empire and ended with 50k levies but had to keep putting down factions due to not being the de jure ruler

[@superorangebody]

I love the part where he explains how to raise 124 million levies

[@TheArklyte]

Ah, new update for primitive and pre-FTL empires looks cool. I still doubt that even 124 million soldiers in plate armor with early firearms and some local tamed animals as mounts can fight off single one of my assault armies.

[@spartancobra1187]

huh

[@Irfan-uz3tg]

​@@spartancobra1187 stellaris reference

[@arcturus960]

LET THE CIRCLES CHANGE COLOURS!

[@Skull.man00]

Determined Exterminator laughing in Machine

[@EgnachHelton]

I think the overflow issue is probably partly due to the underlying engine, which is also used by Victoria 3. Coincidentally Victoria 3 is also known for nasty overflow issues.

[@baronbrummbar8691]

tell that to my utopia that fell apart when the political power of the people hit a negative

[@EgnachHelton]

@@baronbrummbar8691 It's the universe's fault!

[@Skull.man00]

In CK 3, unlike how it was in history, you and ai, can and will upgrade their provinces. That gives everyone more and more manpower during the game

[@ConvexSpys]

My dynasty has 500 people I started as Bjorn Ironside. I know he's an easy character, but I just love him so much. I became king of Sweden and then became the empire of Scandinavia in my second character and currently on my 4th in the bloodline with a goal of destroying all the Christian kingdoms and so far I have destroyed most of them just have to take over Lotharingia then my next goal is to restore the Roman empire which I'll be forced to become Christian for a second to get that done then I'll be converting back to the one true faith to keep a Viking Roman Empire.

[@fishermanwastakin]

Ahh yes peak paradox gaming

[@carineho2990]

GOD DAMN 124 MILLON TROOPS I COULD TAKE ON THE WHOLE WORLD IN A WW3

[@Arthurwellesley12]

Another op way if conquest is kidnapping. Get really good at it & plot your kidnappings in the right moments and you can instantly win a war without a single battle.

[@shadowbadgercat]

Once I had a rebel leader with 100 stats, like holy shit

[@prestonjones1653]

At that point, surrender. Your grandkids can probably kill off his.

[@papastalin5974]

why dont you moblize a girlfriend

[@caniblmolstr4503]

That's impossible

[@daroaminggnome]

@@caniblmolstr4503 Yeah they're exempt from the draft.

[@Swedishmafia101MemeCorporation]

When you can micro-manage the entire Eastern Front in WW2 but can't manage a single conversation with a woman

[@thewampire4640]

Thats illegal

[@captainrex1923]

He has.

[@changedpace9169]

I have 235 hours in ck3 and have never had an overflow error

[@bigboi7407]

I got 98 hours and never seen it

[@changedpace9169]

@@bigboi7407 that's dope man, I really don't intend to sound disrespectful but I honestly didn't know there were many black players. You just changed my perspective on the community lol. Do you play any other map games?

[@stevqtalent]

i've got 1538 hours and also never had one

[@xxsgt_tomaxx8432]

Overflow errors may either be caused by: the number of bits for the data type being smaller than other paradox games in order to reduce computational costs, assuming that no overly large numbers would be encountered in this game Or Some people went too negative and overflowed that way.

[@EinFelsbrocken]

100m peasants? Damn, Ill need some more knights for this 😄

[@ghenry85]

My current game has 1.6 million troops. Biggest single army on the map. But how do you get 124 million?

[@Navyman5000]

My best guess is that he somehow got less than 0 levies, which caused the number to wrap around. Its the same thing as the original nuclear gandhi in civ 1

[@paulverse4587]

@@Navyman5000 Sid Meier revealed it wasn't actually a bug, but intended. He just found the idea of the bug funny so he never really corrected it before.

[@lemangeur2poulet248]

Probably massively up-ed ruler (at max 25 domains) with maxed development and full feudal de jure vassals with max opinion with scrapping the barrel in levies

[@kkvv3699]

Not just the men, but the women and the children too

[@GettingMyLifeTogether2024]

An interesting thing about eu4 is that it was probably designed to have an earlier startdate. You can see that if you look at the country data.

[@yolkonut6851]

me with my custom war culture, religion and 10 castles all with blacksmiths and military academies waltzing up along with my knights and MAA

[@CountHasting]

I once had a character that Lived to a 122.

[@colminerojoshuab.8155]

You know the game is great when some values lead to stack overflow.

[@User-g2c7t]

Now they have to make the continent of Aman so we can send our army of earth against the gods

[@User-g2c7t]

1 month after this comment was written I was like "this person is onto something omg a fellow lotr fan and that's a great idea 🥲" Then I realized it was me. I fucking wrote that comment. Life dissapoints me so much sometimes.

[@thefbi3350]

I'm already able to mobilize 200k with only western Roman empire borders

[@prestonjones1653]

My restored Jewish Rome with restored imperial borders only has 116k troops...

[@godlymoose9118]

100 million peasants vs an army of overbuffed menatarms and god knights

[@matheusexpedito4577]

Least broken knights build be like

[@mille8170]

My record is 250 000 troops playing as Aquitaine

[@Ymylock]

Holy shit that was so smooth wtf

[@zaddy491]

bro on my one character ive got like no less than 50k levies everytime, its not alot compared to the video but when i realized just how many i had im like fuckkkk

[@Sophia-vk5bq]

To put it in perspective, 127million soldiers fought in WW2.

[@FredrikSkievan]

I like those odds

[@MaxEffect]

But you don't say HOW

[@RunicRhino22]

I mean in CK2 you can join a satanic cult and invite a horse into your court (and/or chambers if your character so desired). Raising the dead wouldn't be out of the question.

[@justdirt]

CK3 upped the scale of pretty much everything and added literally 1000s of more calculations. Overflow errors are just a natural bug you'll find in any strategy game. That being said, it's pretty comical how often it happens

[@PuddingXXL]

If someone reads this they might be able to explain to me how in the world I got negative casualties. I was having a fight betwwen my 190k troops and the holy roman empeire having 215k troops in one battle. When the battle concluded I apparently suffered "-12000" casualties. Did I turn into a necromancer or how is it possible that I GAINED men after that intense battle instead of loosing them? I had no ally armies join in midbattle only before the battle actually started. I'm so confused.

[@Alexander-z6x]

After seeing pc, i want ck4... Population will be included, resources like stone or wood, food, plagues and such, realism pure and i cant wait for ck4, maybe we will get a realistic hre with no capital and councils of christianity

[@milotura6828]

i was playing the mughals and once i had a king with an army of 110000 men complete with trebuchets, armored soldiers, foot soldiers and armored cavalry. plus my own holy order of 15000 cataphracts because i was the only member of my sect of islam. India didn’t stand a chance lol.

[@RovingTroll]

*laughs in Stellaris*

[@carloscaraballo9741]

-12.864.634.277 gold in the first 2 minutes of raising the army

[@paocut9018]

I mean, that's great and all, but how do we do that? Cause I want to do it now

[@caniblmolstr4503]

My 2k Varangian veterans will still defeat them

[@dewotion]

And so how to do it?

[@Brandonhayhew]

levies should be divided based on what you can provide them like training or what type of weapons they must use?

[@lemangeur2poulet248]

Fr a single knight with 1 prowess no general and 0 other stats can easily take down the entire army

[@Brandonhayhew]

@@lemangeur2poulet248 horse archers can take down entire 7k levied vikings. everytime vikings comes they are taken down

[@henryasselin123]

Just spend the pp to turn on scraping the barrel

[@mr.negativenancy5751]

Is that opening image ai art? Just wondering why noone has a face

[@liam-pq5tp]

you didn’t answer the question

[@Momma27]

Dam das crazy!

[@CatchTheMarmosets]

Lmfao imagine how terrible that army quality is tho

[@АртемМакєєв]

What about fighting 100 million peasants against stacked modifier varangian veterans + 50 knights with 300% knight efficiency modifier and elephant's army?)))

[@abzurtable]

You can do the math. You need at least 100m total damage to be able to destroy them. Lets say you have 10k varengian max. So 100m divided by 10k, your varengian vets need at least 10000+1 damage to be able to defeat that army. And for that you probably will need crazy amount of demesne and demesne size. Good luck with that. Well of course unless the enemy army kills itself with sheer amount of atrition.

[@Jcrump18]

That boy fineee

[@roman8197]

Geh

[@Dzbstd]

HOW? 🤦‍♂️

[@petervarga7755]

cool

[@JackeyBoyyy]

ah yes, nothing better than when people loop a video trying to trick you into watching again. Fastest block I ever did. Also tf is that haircut lmaooo.

[@mustacherunner]

What a clickbait title