Attempting to form the MOST DIFFICULT Empire in Crusader Kings 3

[@SnapStrategy]

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[@justsomeperson8806]

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[@Kozkayn]

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[@TungstenArm]

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[@firstAdriel]

Become chakravarti in India. I tried to do it and lost so many times. My challenge is that you have to do it without loading saves.

[@voxpopuli8132]

Please, do not take the Lord's name in vain. "OMG" and things like that.

[@sirgoo9962]

When i formed Outremer, i hadnt even intended to do so when i started the playthrough. I was playing William the Conqueror, but once he was dead Robert Curthose was deposed by a claimant faction and became the independent ruler of Wales. After a crusade my heir became king of jerusalem, jumped off a building, and passed the crown to Robert. Planned to do a Britain playthrough, got deposed, thought F this and conquered the Holy Land instead lol.

[@tomwilkinson746]

Nice

[@TungstenArm]

“Britain is lame, I’m going to Arabia” based

[@Makarosc]

I'm about to form viking Carthage as a descendant of Haesteinn all I wanted was an Iberian Danelaw

[@MinecraftRealm713]

@@Makarosc Haesteinn is too good. I jumped all the way to India and reconquered my way back to Montague with my war elephants.

[@Makarosc]

@@MinecraftRealm713 I became a an Asatru Jarl under a Muslim then declared independence formed Aragon then conquered a chunk of Algeria and he lived to 108 would've conquered more if I didn't have to do it County by county

[@TheErickDH]

I love that you formed Outremer just in time to share a border with the Mongol Empire lol

[@dantemcmillan6337]

lmao I was really hoping he would've noticed that and just noped out and be like "not dealing with that"

[@LordIsrafel]

"[Forming an alliance with HRE is] probably not that useful for us, because I don't really feel under threat by anyone..." Best part is that if you pay attention to just before the transition from that bit line to him talking about how fat his ruler was becoming, his cursor is lingering on the state of the Mongol Empire at the time.

[@SnapStrategy]

Yeah while playing i just slowly kept an eye on them, got lucky they didnt just launch a full on invasion on all my land ngl haha

[@ZestyZenki]

@@SnapStrategy So i tried to do the same campaign as you but i did not have the mine at the start nor could i build it do you know why? If u could answer.

[@narcissistictoad]

@@ZestyZenki the mine is in southern sardinia, in judicadu I believe

[@SolFireYT]

I kinda would like to see more of this play through considering it ended with the mongols on your doorstep and an unbelievably massive HRE.

[@Direwolf9818]

Facts

[@LordEsel88]

42:27 I've never seen the AI form a super HRE like this one!

[@SnapStrategy]

i know! getting to around 1200AD there always seems to me just some random massive empire haha

[@TheManWithTheFlan]

One time I watched the HRE manage to end up with a claim on Byzantium through a marriage with the Makedons, then they pressed it and won and it somehow stayed together through the whole game.

[@henricoz_9745]

Not just that, but it is under the Hauteville dynasty...that is pretty based

[@blueeurope]

By far the most interesting and less played part of CK : the crusaders states.

[@LWolf32]

Ironic that it's not commonly played despite it being the games namesake

[@staymad2792]

@@LWolf32 because the game has virtually no content despite it being almost three years old 🥲

[@codycrawford7842]

@@staymad2792 Big facts. Fingers crossed for CK3AGOT.

[@Wasserkaktus]

@@staymad2792 I'm surprised they didn't just keep a lot of the content from CK2 at launch.

[@Direwolf9818]

@Jean Sanchez I never got to experience CK2 but I heard content was lacking for the first little bit of it life cycle. And honestly I have never really seen companies keep content in their sequel they always resale as dlc in the next game

[@DuranReddy]

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[@mps2112]

I was so surprised 😂

[@The_Crimson_Lion]

This is what the Kingdom of Jerusalem would have become if the catholics could actually WORK together.

[@itzgladgatorgonegladitzmad9701]

The only reason the kingdom was established in the first place was because the Muslims were infighting. The first crusade actually united them against a common foe. Also the King of Jerusalem was a major dick to other kings so no one wanted to help him out, it wasn’t the other infighting within Europe

[@BobbyBoucher634]

Catholic infighting is a tale as old as time, thats like asking for it to stop raining.

[@JruJewJitsu]

Denominations

[@mortache]

Its unrealistic to expect an undisciplined mob to behave, that includes nobles with no established hierarchical structure and no one to answer to. The crusades were at like a massacre and then a few centuries of stalemate, ultimately causing the fall of the Roman Empire to the muslims. The Reconquista of Spain was a lot more successful

[@LamboDOESNOTWANT]

Irony, I spent a good hour last night taking Jerusalem from a fellow Catholic throwing the region into complete chaos.

[@robertsiems3808]

Wow, the rewards for forming the outremer empire are abyssmal! Only 150 prestige and 100 piety??

[@FishwicksREAL]

I think they should give you a special building in some way

[@duncanharrell5009]

This game’s prices and rewards are stupidly wack. 150 gold for a religious trinket but I restore Rome, form Outremer, or some other grand empire and I get peanuts…

[@ok9_5788]

​@@duncanharrell5009at least with rome you get a hereditary trait and gain cores on all empires you currently own. Outremer, you get a nickname and the cores, that's it, would be cool if your character that formed the empire got canonized as a saint, your dynasty could get a good modifier

[@weabootrash5891]

I tried to do an Outremer run a month or so back and accidentally inherited the Byzantines, it was funny as hell

[@FishwicksREAL]

win

[@Shadow-jw1kt]

I had a playthrough where I 2-/ trying to unite the Slavs and ended up inheriting France. That made me laugh.

[@frankiecedeno3724]

12:33 Kekw can’t believe he reunited the split realm. That’s hilarious.

[@SnapStrategy]

played myself :(

[@cba2make1up]

You should really put the Empire to use against the Mongols next, and considering the alliance with the HRE it should be fun

[@hanswurst1220]

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[@luisricardolozadaamaya670]

I love COC

[@grimrider3807]

What chatgpt bot nonsense is this?

[@mgmstudies7022]

@@grimrider3807 He’s getting likes ain’t he? I can’t hate the A.I. when it’s doing it’s job lol

[@jacksonnormandeau7365]

At my work I have a 30 man clan break room is buzzing on war day

[@uncleflagzz]

I once searched Giant COC on Google because I wanted to learn more about it, the result were.... interesting

[@zakhawker344]

If you'd disinherited your heirs/switched to male only succession before 19:18, could you have gotten your brother to inherit? I know it's a bit cheap but I think you could've used it to get Egypt and its crusaders buffs for free

[@SnapStrategy]

oh yeah true! if i had even thought of that i would have done it haha!

[@JoaquimRabelo-zy9zt]

I think it's really strange that actually have A LOT of Lacon-Gunale kingdom of Jerusalem PLUS MY OUTREMER: -Starts as Hugues VI of Lusignan -Make my brother Joscelin a monk -Have a son name Guy -Becames Duke of Potiers, after king of Aquitaine -Crusades began; Makes Joscelin king of Jerusalem -Joscelin is Old, dies -you are his heir -you are now king of Aquitaine and Jerusalem -Conquer Egypt and Syria -Seljuk colapse, so i eat all chunks of land one by one -Emperor Guy "The Sword of Gabriel" de Lusignan of the Outremer Empire, 12th generation since Hughes the Devil of Jerusalem and Aquitaine dies

[@Ricky00951]

30:50 The way you said "Byzantine" caused me actual pain.

[@pHdoFogo31]

I don't really know if you're aware, but in your siege when the small breach or big breach appears, you can assault fort and it skips a good amount of the siege Edit: this just happens when you got an developed to powerful siege weapons, big numbers or more advanced ones

[@Jdjdbxdj]

Did this once when I had an empire in Europe that spanned from Northern Africa to France. The empire held on mostly until I formed the new empire, then I noticed a new dynasty had taken power 🙃

[@micayahritchie7158]

19:53 did he just unselect matrilineal while planning an heir?

[@chunkEcheez]

That was just marrying a daughter off for a strong alliance, not an heir.

[@micayahritchie7158]

@@chunkEcheez I thought the girl was his heir

[@someperson9998]

@@micayahritchie7158 His heir is actually just going to be his grandson.

[@npyl]

I love that your videos are lengthy and not 10min skips of all the campaign.

[@arielest6749]

11:56 this guy married himself

[@captain_fred1239]

You should take the become Chackravarti descision, its probably one of the most dificult in the game

[@Bixmy]

Not really difficult just would take you so long to get it just painting the map and suddenly you got there.

[@CatchTheMarmosets]

@@Bixmy nah it is hard. You face so many rebellions because you have to make a faith that isnt pacifist in order to conquer lands, so you’re constantly trying to be overthrown by every other faith

[@Bixmy]

@@CatchTheMarmosets its not really hard thou if you build up properly and do a proper birth control/proper heir management in the early stage of the game which is a usual thing with any play through its not hard.

[@Bixmy]

@@CatchTheMarmosets its even easier when they have alot of religion in one place they are alot weaker.

[@Bixmy]

Well that might be just me. I might be the one that played too much ck3. I didnt usually face these kind of problem after 500h now im on 4khour on ck3. Most vassal rebel are put off even before it started and levy rebel sucked they are too easily dealt with

[@PasOdMater]

A fun playthrough is starting as a Croatian or Hungarian and hybridizing with the other so then you have both Koni and Horse Archers and can melt other armies so you don't have to chase them around the map. I prefer to go with Croatian so you can milk the Pope for gold and then go for the whole Slavia unification. Just make 2 stacks of Koni, 2 Horse Archers, and 2 of the best siege equipment while building all buildings that give a bonus to light cavalry. So easy to win against 3-4 times your numbers.

[@Spicywtrmlon]

We all should follow the footsteps of Pepe He's always watching

[@zakgour9786]

pepe ISP true god

[@kubixus]

12:30 > kills a king who has his brother king as the heir > brother inherits, realms are now consolidated > guys why didn't they split

[@jeremiahburke998]

So I’ve been working on the special decision to unite the west Slavs and if you are interested in trying it I’d love to see how you would handle it, I’ve been struggling. Started as a count of Bohemia

[@zjpdarkblaze]

i almost screamed when he forgot to matrilineally marry lol

[@polarisator9892]

What is the song in the beginning called?

[@filiprohn1643]

I love how you had shia caliph as your vassal all this time

[@monkeymoment6478]

the Fatimids, who were Shia, tried to side with the crusaders, so it’s not that strange I guess. I’m sure the crusaders would have seen a lot more success if they turned the Shias and Sunnis against each other

[@filiprohn1643]

@@monkeymoment6478 That's a nice tidbit of information. Altho it's one thing when one powerful state allies one of hostile faith, and other thing when religious head is vassal of hostile religious state. Frankly I felt a bit sad when he didn't vassalised-conquerd sunni caliph also. That would be certified funni moment. He should also make them one count minors and border eachother.

[@merothehero6359]

​@@monkeymoment6478 the shias of egypt and seljuk sunnis were against each other though.. that was the whole point behind the fatimid caliph aligning himself with the crusaders, so they could team up against the seljuks. Of course, if the fatimids knew the true intentions of the crusaders and the waves of men brewing up in western europe, they probably would have taken a different position towards them. The crusades would have undoubtedly failed if the muslims were the looming monolith the catholics thought they were. Instead, you had sectarianism and factionalism across the numerous sultanates, emirates and even caliphates (baghdadi and cairene versions)

[@deosdeadpoolhulk]

Bro your accent and reactions to events in game are both 🔥. Love your content ❤️☺️

[@SnapStrategy]

Thankyou so much! :)

[@jackochainsaw]

I did this starting with Urraca but to be fair, that was before the Fate of Iberia DLC. It's not as hard as you think as long as you have a good army. I did it in Iron Man. The only unpleasant thing was wrestling the last of the counties off the Byzantines but I'd taken Constantinople already, so that was a lot easier.

[@CatchTheMarmosets]

What is the song at the start of the video

[@Saaarmbii]

My new favourite Welshman! These videos help so much I played CK2 a little bit but this is going on 5 years ago... CK3 is my new addiction! Thank you Game Pass

[@Xanthos73]

Can I just point out that the king of Croatia was from the stenkiling dynasty, the same as the Swedish king in 1066 [13:41]

[@CosmicDalmatian]

Yea, I saw that too. I wonder how that has happened

[@bobthered313]

@Snap Strategy What is the intro music you played before the Sponser?

[@Fraudkuna.]

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[@roballister5269]

name of song at start of video pleaseee!!??

[@farhanahaque3157]

what is the music in the intro

[@lordedmundblackadder9321]

CK2 players hearing that crusades are tough:

[@frankiecedeno3724]

It tells you you should not declare war not that you cannot declare war during a crusade unless you’re using mods.

[@michasadowski1399]

I wish you showed the religious and cultural mapmodes at the end

[@colesiepman9817]

Just did this with my character I started as Harold Godwinson, disinherited an intrigue son. Then when I died and I did the crusade with my son and put the intrigue brother on the throne. Then did the holy war for kingdom to take Egypt and did the OP move of abducting the war leader right when I declared the war. Then my power base was so good it was pretty simple to take the rest of the land but. Have mended the schism and now am taking on the Mongols.

[@marcjames-finel9461]

The Mongols creeping up there at the end was scary

[@ML8443]

If you put the video on almost regular speed you can actually follow what is going on

[@jamimusmaximus5205]

The hauteville dynasty inbred hre emperor is a story line I wish to achieve in my own play through

[@xxyy7062]

In my attempt of forming Outremer empire Mongol Empire annex all of Byzantium

[@swipe2476]

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[@Ciech_mate]

Do u have recommended playlist for a beasty ck3 sesh. I need it to be epic, not cheesy, historically apropiate or sounding historically apporpiate. You get me bro?

[@medllenoliveira9209]

I NEED YOU TO CONTINUE THIS PLAY AND FIGHT THE MONGOLS AND DESTROY THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE

[@frankiecedeno3724]

Smh didn’t even form Outremer Culture with the unique OP light Horseman unit.

[@RicoNite]

Id love to do something like this, but last crusade I participated in nearly the entire Catholic side decided to take a stroll through the Saharah instead of Jerusalem, and any who didn't got deathstacked on landing

[@felixhistorygaming8503]

13:15 you already had a casus belli also I'm pretty sure you did when you were in Sardinia getting county claims

[@thebeardedroningaming7405]

How often you destroy captured warbanners in your runs hurts my heart. Some of those bad boys give you +2 knights!!

[@hazelarson6970]

I’ve been working on this for a while, it’s been easy for me because I got a super pious first leader the pope threw money at and rn I have a complete chad that dismantled the entire Mongolian empire from the inside and has nearly infinite piety for holy wars, so I got real lucky

[@LaunchpadGamingGuy]

This is awesome! Is there a way to get the AI armies to work together with you? I seem to have to do all the work while the AI allies just stands there.

[@sahilhossain8204]

Lore of Attempting to form the MOST DIFFICULT Empire in Crusader Kings 3 momentum 100

[@Hatsuzu]

Do this challenge again but this time as the last Carolignians in 1066, Caroliginian Outremer larp sounds great

[@MinktheStorykeeper]

5:18 the CRIST-IANS faith.

[@Sprejxen]

You should have waited a little bit for the mongols that were next to you

[@paulargier]

But can the Outramer Empire survive against the Mongol Horde on your doorstep?

[@king_fisherXX]

If Baldwin defeated Saladin and took the rest of Arabia. Great campaign by the way!😎

[@cheddabiz7869]

I’m just doing this challenge but I made it even harder, first I elevated the kingdom of mon & the isles with Ivar The Boneless (which was a challenged in of itself) I then converted to Catholicism with Ivar’s heir & grandson, Won the first crusade With my Aunt (Ivar the boneless daughter) as the primary heir. I’m now in the verge of forming the outermer empire with Ivar The Boneless’ Grandson 😂😂 how funny Ivar’s descendants turn into Christian crusaders

[@Zack-fu4lo]

clash of clans? now thats a game I haven't heard in years

[@Haukipesukone]

The Mongols were right across the border from Outremer in the end. I would've liked to see what happened next.

[@LordCousland]

Now this is Crusader kings! I have to try this too!

[@JerryCanTheThird]

friday just got better!

[@NOVA_299]

Honestly best part of the video was the CoC sponsor. Can’t believe it’s still so prevalent all these years later. Only sponsor read I’ve actually watched all way through.

[@treehunter4006]

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[@starman825]

Hey if you had Egypt doesn’t it become de jure of the outremere empire when you form it

[@onizuka255]

Good question 🤔

[@oVoxxy]

I just did this and my save corrupted :( was about to have massive fun too lol after I formed the empire I took over Deccan India and converted their cultures and had war elephants and horse archers with bombards lol and an army of 130k levies I could literally crusade on my own and owned all of the southern map by alliance or force and I was heartbroken to see it no longer there lol I had like 7 different family rulers too who got random kingdoms like crusader Italy after I would win the crusades

[@krisztianmujzer4161]

Could you put what mods you use in the description?

[@Memeking_Bob]

How it should have been:

[@mr.rubicon1193]

Which mod is adding the greenery around baronies?

[@ShayGamerD3]

That's inaccurate. You don't have to win a crusade to form the Outremer empire. Any Catholic ruler can form the Outremer empire. The prerequisites are: to be independent duke or king, have Catholic faith, Living Legend level of fame, control the region of Outremer and have the capital there (wherever in the region, not necessarily in Jerusalem), and crusades are available. Also, you cannot be Byzantine. So you cannot form Outremer before the First Crusade, but you don't have to even take part in it to build that empire. You can just jump there and start conquering at any time.

[@ShadowWolfRising]

Do a Scotsman in Egypt (Form the Glorious Empire of Greater Scotland, which includes the entirety to Scotland and Egypt, complete with the Hybrid Culture of the 2.).

[@kaiserslavaniaashur1623]

You can force the crusade to start early as a asatru viking

[@VíctorLorencioRobles]

hi mate! I have a question, are you using any mode? I love your content by the way!

[@samerchailianglum2936]

any mod?

[@trentking1978]

I wish you and the HRE went to take on the Mongols in a Kingdom war for the ending.

[@jakereilly8929]

What is the music in the intro called?

[@Andrei-sm3er]

I wish ck3 had historic-like event for the first crusade. It was so epic

[@PekzLed]

My greatest run ever was starting as the duke of Bavaria, restore the holy roman empire to the old Charlemagne borders, Crusade Jerusalem, create the Outremer empire, get all holy sites, create a new religion and conquer everything from britannia, north africa, persian russia and scandinavia and recreate the greatest Roman Empire with all this empires as de jure.... ahhhhhh good times

[@tonykuker5576]

Are we gonna talk about mega HRE

[@MinecraftRealm713]

Everytime you say the Outeremer empire all I can think about is the Utroms from TMNT.

[@anthonyduggan4104]

Restore the Roman Empire. Starting as a Hellenic Duke or a Count. I started in 867 and made a Hellenic Norse Greek monster that took the Byzantine Empire over. But boy do all the extra duchies take lifetimes to get. I'm 4 duckies away and at the year 1049.

[@Kozkayn]

How many ducks have you gotten already? I am sure if you breed some you can easily get 4 more duckies.

[@anthonyduggan4104]

@@Kozkayn I can but the duckies in that area stopped quaking so they are harder to find.

[@Kozkayn]

@@anthonyduggan4104 Tough luck

[@krakentoast]

Actually I have never really tried a crusade in CRUSADER Kings xD

[@kapitanbumm344]

what kind of england has that accent? just wondering. like your videos!

[@maximdrager3639]

What about the Outremer culture, I'm sad you made it sardss

[@delphidelion]

The outremer gets a name based on the root language of the culture that forms it.

[@flydor9977]

That's make me laugth a bit, outremer is overthesea in french xD

[@jackwellington7631]

another awesome video!

[@robertsiems3808]

Didnt expect the coc sponsorship👍

[@Lrzmsibelts]

8:24 is this a good idea? I just defeated them and won this.

[@BenjyB26]

I just checked, I have been following you since 27/02/22.....7 days until our 1 year anniversary together awwwww haha. #CymruAmByth

[@markedwarrior4072]

When it comes to your Scotland ally ai always raises their troops in their capital. That’s how I beat the mongols if they get close

[@TheQuickchair]

I would love to see if you can unite Slava decision, never seen any youtuber do it.

[@SlayingSin]

Id like to see a part 2 to this where Outremer ans HRE fights off and destroys the mongol hoard, maybe even converting them to Christianity.

[@craid6962]

Got to do it again with the arabic flavor pack xD

[@arturocaissut1071]

I didn't find that hard to form, I think there are many hardest challenges (e.g., North Sea, which you have to keep for 30 years once you've formed it).

[@jeanpierrechar2553]

12:30 When he wanted to split the Fatimids but actually consolidated their lands... 🤦‍♂