Top 5 Total Conversion Mods For CK2

[@OneProudBavarian]

Did I miss any of your favourite total conversion mods? Let me know which ones you think belong into this ranking in the comments!

[@cameronarmstorng7666]

One Proud Bavarian the Witcher kings

[@anierinllyfael9740]

I truly love the Winter Kings, though it doesn't beat these as it is... well very... I repeat, very buggy.

[@alexgshirreff]

2 total conversion mods that I used to love playing was crisis of the confederation which was a fantastic space-feudalism mod and Four Nations, which was set in the world of the last air bender and introduced a lot of cool bending mechanics. I think four nations is still in development however COTC hasn’t been worked on in years

[@jimmiller6811]

What's are yourfavourite immersion mods (-> like vanilla, but better)?

[@Calintares]

When the World Stopped Making Sense. It might not qualify since it uses the vanilla Europe map, but being able to save the Roman Empire from the brink or play in the ashes left by it's fall is great.

[@AimlessSavant]

*notification bar* "Your Liege, Bran the Broken, has died suspiciously!"

[@TheBayzent]

Bran the Wheely legs no feely.

[@sbrevolver15]

Aw shit, here we go again.

[@heavysaber9431]

@@sbrevolver15 aw again, go here we shit

[@charlesroyal5125]

It was always going to end this way for him

[@KirbyComicsVids]

I remember when After the End was just the east of the Mississippi, such a good mod

[@dragonking322]

i remember when they where talking about putting west virginia in the "duchy of Pittsburgh"... I promptly went to the forum and told them about the whole "Eat shit Pitt" phrase we have in these parts .. they get bonus points from me for seeming to have listened during development

[@Sojju7]

Is it still good now? How much flavor is there compared from vanilla?

[@dragonking322]

@@Sojju7 if i had to compare i'd say that after the ends flavor is easier to find but most of it requires the player to be actively looking for flavor.

[@R3GARnator]

@@dragonking322 Of course someone from west virginia is into the incest simulator game.

[@barclaybower512]

Its a shame That Crisis of the Confederation is no longer with us

[@GruntsAreWin]

GOD DAMNIT

[@colinminiou640]

Yeah I loved that mod

[@piotrwegrzyniak5798]

Wasn't it somehow reborned some time ago? I mean by some fan about monk and mystics or something

[@GruntsAreWin]

@@piotrwegrzyniak5798 That also died.

[@piotrwegrzyniak5798]

@@GruntsAreWin ouch :c

[@blahblah-blah179]

A word of warning to people looking to play the Game of Thrones mod: Sometimes, the game will become so corrupted after a certain date that it will crash at the end of every year. You can still keep playing by saving before a new year and edit the save to move your game one year forward, but you have to do this every year which gets tedious really fast. Not everyone will get this bug, but a lot of people do.

[@jackalope_hunter]

Is there no fix from the dev? What did they say? Or is it just oh well deal with it?

[@osamazafar6264]

Ive heard sometimes the bug go away but tbh the editing the save game again and again just makes you give up on the save. Almost all of my saves crash near the 200th year and I have tried the mod on multiple pcs :/

[@johnsmith361]

There are a lot of checks, scripts and maintenance events that are triggered at the start of a new year. One of them might become corrupted or there are simply so many characters on the map that it crashes the game. Moving the date manually sounds like a workaround, but I can't help but wonder how well the game progresses without its yearly maintenance events.

[@milesrowe2263]

Never happened to me?

[@OhhLocky]

John Smith I believe there is a mod that gets rid of some of the eastern lands completely I’d maybe try that if you haven’t and see if it stops crashing due to a lot of irrelevant characters getting taken out. I haven’t experienced any corruption so idk if it’s a viable choice but worth a try.

[@connorgolden4]

What about when the world stopped making sense? There’s nothing more satisfying than playing as Romulus and pulling off a miraculous survival and restoration of the western Roman Empire.

[@MeneltirFalmaro]

Better yet, restoring the entire (Hellenic) Imperium Romanum as Syagrius.

[@French408]

It hasn't been updated

[@DonMadruga72]

Is not in the list because it is not a total conversion mod.

[@default6274]

If Nero Claudius ain't an anime girl then i'm not playing it.

[@jurisjancevskis9076]

@@MeneltirFalmaro post western roman empire alternate history series in countryballs by rat of mapping Syagrius or rather one of his descendants, becomes emperor, then towards the end he becomes demigod (Syagrius survives the Frankish invasion *and* conquers them) (Syagrius also hates all germanic people)

[@Gadzo469]

for me is good to Avatar mod. Its shame that this mod is not always updated.

[@pointyheadYT]

Avatar mod crashes frequently on latest ck2 versions. I'd advise staying away from it, or rolling back to an earlier version.

[@somegreekdude9225]

When the world stop making sense is a good mod tbh

[@TheTrooper115]

WTWSMS is my shit, fucking love that mod. ROMEABOOS UNITE

[@M.H.E.]

@The Chicken King It was updated 7 days ago.

[@kevinstein1568]

Dude the AGOT mos is incredible- it's literally the best way to play ck2 in my opinion as it utilizes many of the games systems far better than vanilla or any other mod. It has some truly fantastic sub mods as well.

[@bjornerluffy]

I agree, sometimes I wish I could play the GOT mod with the vanilla Europe map lmao ESPECIALLY what they have done with holdings, having some holdings which are stronger than others on a 1-6 level makes the world feel unique and dynamic.

[@moralhazard8652]

Back then the Game of Thrones mod was the main reason for me to buy this game at all.

[@kekero540]

now that CK2 will no longer be meddled with we can see what modders can truly bring

[@SpanishDio]

Damn I can't wait for the Game of Thrones mod that will come with Crusader Kings 3, just imagine the 3d characters, it will be awesome.

[@alalalala57]

Jeez. Again, CK will bring us the best Game of Thrones game, all the while being unofficial.😂

[@Yue_Jin]

Yeah, IF the ck3 version is actually stable. As great as the GoT mod is, eventually it just gets too frustrating having to start over due to the crashing issue it's had for years now. I come back to ck2 GoT every now and then (probably every few years), play probably about a week of it and then give up.

[@Treepuncher1211]

All you had to say was playable murlocs

[@ARGHWUT]

"Long enough to prepare an entire English breakfast" is now one of my favourite units of time, so thank you for that!

[@alioshax7797]

I would mention When the World stopped making sense as 6th

[@infinitememegod]

That isn’t a total conversion it’s still a normal map with a whole other event

[@patricklastin5624]

As a huge fan of Sapkowskys works i really like witcher kings but it lacks a lot of the things that made the world of the witcher into the funny and beautiful thing that it is. But i think Sapkowkis story simply doesn’t work in grand strategy like George Martins.

[@darthralin]

I think that might be because of what their works focus on. ASoIaF focuses on a broad range of characters who are entrenched within and pivotal to the political landscape of their setting, whereas the Witcher focuses on a group of characters who usually have personal rather than political goals and who actively (try to) avoid the clusterfuck of politics. Martin's work is more of a bird's eye view of the world he's portraying, while Sapkowski shows us what his world looks like from the ground level.

[@Itual]

It mainly doesn’t because of balance I guess. It would be hard to make Nilfgaard’s spymasters have 90 thousand different missions for example

[@fredricknoe3114]

I wish I knew how to make one. a Mod set place in Bikini Bottom would be fun, with other shows thrown in like having China be Japan and ruled by weeks or to the west would be Hawaii and then California ruled by David Hasslehof with the Mongols being the legion of Nevada.

[@warmike]

The thing that I truly love about AGOT is flexible start date support, one of the reasons why I switched from M2TW to CK2.

[@utsurobune3530]

Pyandonea is kinda cool you have some decisions to take over and take your seat as King in Alinor, as well as create the maormer hegemony

[@NomadicMScott]

it would be nice to see a conversion mod for one of the civil war of Japan like the "Genpei War" would be very cool to play as one of the clans to then take over the shogunate. I think I will give the Game of Thrones mod a playthrough at some point, but for now, I am having to much fun with the new bookmark iron century start date. Currently playing as Germany/ Holy roman emperor for the first time and im loving the swallowing of smaller nations, I plan on a conquest to take out the caliph in Spain.

[@wb5872]

I mean, you could always play Shogun. It is just a worse CK2 in many ways, but I don’t think anyone wants to take the arduous and painstaking journey to mod into creation a game that already exists.

[@orangesilver8]

There is a Japan mod. steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=333442855

[@kamikazoo6599]

There is game called Sengoku made by Paradox.

[@dohnjoe4100]

As mentioned before there is NMIH on the paradox forums that features the war, plus the rebellion that preceded along with the rest of the time before and during the Sengoku Jidai. A future update in the works will allow playing landless ronin, even.

[@astralp4292]

I once succeeded to recreate an Atmoran Atmora by playing a little tribal leader, I accepted to be dominated by the undead, and by this time I fought its subjects and gained territory, quite soon, I retook Atmora and recreated the Empire

[@Rannos22]

The Warcraft mod is pretty shallow and undercooked I would've put it at 5 or put the middle earth project or avatar mod in its place

[@piotrwegrzyniak5798]

Middle earth? I haven't played it for long but remember it as few event chains to destroy the ring and nothing special to do after. Have it developed somehow?

[@Stiksta]

Interesting, I still think the Warcraft one has the potential to be the best. It's the only one of the mods that actually put new art assets into the game and represents the cities and armies with unique 3D models that appear just like it does in the lore. It just needs a bit more time to finish some of the other races to be of a similar standard.

[@garretgarland7838]

After the end deserves number one for the astounding originality and fleshed out nature of the whole map.

[@pointyheadYT]

It runs super slow though, same as faerun, but without the buggs. Not my favorite.

[@HansenSWE]

I knew of none of these. This is gonna end my career..

[@Jebu911]

This is like suddenly hearing i had 5 more games i never played.

[@EldarPanic]

Great video as always. Also geheimnisnacht ftw! Edit: If you want improved performance use the mod that removes the skaven and the new world.

[@derAlphabet]

Still slow on my toaster

[@McHobotheBobo]

There's also one to remove Ulthuan and one for the Darklands

[@crzmicky]

See I understand that but just the fact that I know that I could have those and see the cool other continents makes me not want to lose it all

[@timothymclean]

12:00: I'd argue that the earlier start dates are effectively spoiler-free. This isn't one of those mods where a big reveal centers around a war that took place a thousand years ago or something; if you play as Aegon the Conqueror or fight in the Dance of the Dragons, or _especially_ if you go to Essos and play the Kingdom of Three Daughters or Khal Temmo or something, you're not going to learn much about the War of the Five Kings. (Though those early start dates obviously don't have as many intricate character-specific event chains.)

[@aabatteryalex]

I was expecting the Prince of darkness mod in here

[@OhhLocky]

Remember the main reason I got CK2 was because of the GOT mod was watching someone play it on stream and just thought fuck it bought it and spent maybe my first 70-100 hours just playing that one mod.

[@arrowtt3364]

There is a Three Kingdoms mod. That's probably one of my favourite CK2 total conversion mods

[@WhyName]

Gotta say, the way you pronounce Warhammer names is very refreshing.

[@stickerhppy]

Anyone played the After the end mod? Deffo one of my favourites, such a shame the mod devs didn't continue develop it.

[@stickerhppy]

Oh shit, it's still being developed!

[@diegofox9443]

Man I really love this channel and community :)

[@KougaJ7]

I had the same issues with the GOT mod as you described with the TES mod. To me, mod developers just try to stuff too much content into their mods without a proper focus. This leaves some content completely overdesigned and most other content almost entirely barren. This _hugely_ puts me off to play the mods, because there is so much content that isn't worth playing...

[@adamdesouza6153]

0:24 what happens when you ask for a cup of coffee instead of tea in England

[@AHappyCub]

I love how absurd the community can be while here I am who can't get past second generation because my heir kept dying every time I play

[@andrewparker1622]

Try and find people with fertility boosting traits

[@torfinnzempel6123]

Or, pick a starting charecter that does not have any brothers who stand to inherit on your death.

[@charliethemagpie523]

I know what you mean. Right now I've got a game where I had a pretty successful version of William the Conqueror - then when he died I realised I'd forgotten to make his son into a decent ruler. Wroth, Cruel, and 0 Stewardship...yeah, this isn't going to go well.

[@torfinnzempel6123]

@@charliethemagpie523 you fix that by marrying someone with a very high sterwardship (regardless of her status), and then bringing in someone to you kingdom with the highest stewardship you can find that will join your court (bribe if necessary), sway your new steward make sure all the rest of your powerful vassals are on your council even if they are terrible, set your chancellor to "improve relations" and then pick rulership and carousing. Join one of the holy orders as soon as possible to get rid of vices and gain virtues (if Christian). Quickly marry any kids you have to the biggest vassals you have that you can. You'll have a nice friendly stable kingdom in no time.

[@brunoactis1104]

Hmm, i pulled off the Reconquista, inherited the entirety of Aquitaine and conquered chunks of France, England and Norway. All that in my first playtrough, right after the tutorial lets you free, with the small kingdom of León. Btw, i also went trough literally the first World War, when the almost non existant remnants of the guys in North Africa that had territories south of Spain declared me a holy war, and most of the western world joined me against a huge portion of Asia.

[@aquitainedugascon4726]

By Shaytana, where is Lux Invicta?! (I know, I knoooow....)

[@vanlandings7466]

Ah, a man of culture I see....

[@KvaGram]

No surprise on the top pick.

[@augustokonrad3572]

Honorable mentions: Winter King and Lux Invicta. Speaking of which, you oughta do a Lux invicta playthrough in the future wink wink 😉😉

[@rustictango6933]

Other than the abhorrent issues with faces, religion symbols and CoAs it's really great

[@jackwalters5506]

I run the community discord for After the End Fan Fork. We have very large and active community and will host MP games in the future. discord.gg/aQ2tNa

[@McHobotheBobo]

Geheimnisnacht submods allow you to turn off various map regions (old world/new world/UnderEmpire) to improve performance. Not always as fun and cool then tho

[@McHobotheBobo]

There's also one to remove Ulthuan and one for the Darklands as well

[@Grandmaster-Kush]

Downloading the GOT mod ASAP! And I did not forget to like!

[@derAlphabet]

Thanks for not spoiling anything in agot!

[@Akapulko]

im pretty sure Avatar should be on there, there's nothing better than playing as Omashu and conquering the whole earth kingdom

[@joseppi1121]

ATEFF is by far my favorite Grand Strategy game experience

[@wololo3781]

AGOT's civil war system is pure genius

[@iriky2651]

A mod that is worthy of being a total conversion, but from a historical accuracy point of view, is RIRSEI (Rex In Regno Suo Est Imperator). This mod (which requires Legacy of Rome to appreciate all the mechanisms) is based on an in-depth and comprehensive rework on the mechanisms in the Christian and Muslim world. The mod's desire is to significantly increase the historicity of the base game, while deepening uchronistic options whose intentions and ideas are anchored in historical reality. This mod is therefore recommended for lovers of historicity, and for those looking for hard challenges to complete, especially at the end of the game. Its creator has also updated it with the latest version of CK2.

[@laylamccahon7797]

A new Crisis of the confederation is behind but still being worked on I thought?

[@Salt-Upon-Woundss]

I actually think Elder kings is better than AGOT overall when the world stopped making sense is fun too

[@prinstyrio0]

I love GoT and its books a lot, and whilst I think it's just the perfect fantasy universe for a CK2 conversion compared to Elder Scrolls, Warhammer, Warcraft, Witcher or anything else, I'll agree that I've had more fun with Elder Kings so far, which is surprising cause I'm a bigger fan of say Warhammer or Warcraft universe and games. I think the reason is that Elder Scrolls universe is a very down to earth fantasy world, which is more fantasy than GoT but not as high fantasy as Warcraft or crazy as Warhammer, it lends itself well with CK2 by differing itself enough from vanilla but not so much it loses its charm of family/empire building/RP. Elder Scrolls universe is very evened out as well between all the races and such, it's more open for interpretation with "good and evil" without touching on grimdark, as well as the world is very driven by mortals, which has been proven in its own history that it's mortals that reaches godly levels. Even then you got tons of Daedric Princes to align with who are rather inactive if it weren't for said mortals. They did well in creating Elder Kings that way and there's just a lot of routes to play it with pretty well fleshed out fantasy races and ways to go about things.

[@pointyheadYT]

@@prinstyrio0 Elder Kings runs fairly fast even late game playing as huge empires. Its by far the best optimized total conversion mod imho and I tried every single one. The only one that runs faster is FE, but thats because its very bare bones.

[@Al3xtheMeh]

Best mod by far is the one that replaces all death noises with bass boosted LEGO Yoda

[@masac2853]

yes i have that mod

[@redplanetphotography2567]

The should make a mod based on tbs miracle workers.

[@basiliimakedonas1109]

In banners war, the Daedra are fucking broken when played by a player

[@edenromanov]

Every time I try to play Geheimnisnacht it never starts, I'll just stick to alternating between vanilla and Elder Kings XD

[@Eldagusto]

Oh no world of Darkness or Exalted love?!

[@giacomosimonin212]

Does anybody know if there is a "classical times" total conversion mod for CK2 in the period of Ancient Roman republic and empire?

[@crackshack2]

What about when the world stopped making sense?

[@jadenstar1038]

I wonder how they're gonna edit lanbdmasses to represent the Cataclysm in the Warcraft mod.

[@ElladanKenet]

Honorary Mention to the Middle Earth Mod (not supported) which remains the biggest and I think only CK2 conversion mod based on Tolkien. It only has one bookmark and a pretty basic storyline that ends within two years of game time. It's fun to toy around in, but nothing super impressive to do beyond that. It's admirable, but imagine what could've been...

[@pointyheadYT]

Its become a crashfest lately. Can't make it far on latest ck2 versions without crashing. The other mods are far superior in optimization.

[@ElladanKenet]

@@pointyheadYT Oh, it's been a crashfest for a while. But I've yet to even see another attempt at it, so... it wins that category by default?

[@ShadowDragon1848]

Allow me an off topic question, would you prefer CK + or HiP?

[@Tsuruchi_420]

accidentaly rewatching the video in the games aniversary!

[@brendan9868]

Love playing after the end, it’s the only ck2 mod where I can form a pagan empire centered where I live. 10/10

[@nicholasricardo8443]

Do you still need submods for A Game of Thrones to Play during the Andal Invasion?

[@emresdance]

Cant wait for all to be converted into CK3

[@blackheartedshamanjr.7457]

If added where would when the world stopped making sense fit in since while it isn't a total conversion mod it does do a lot

[@Voult_Bioy]

BlackHearted Shaman Jr. Google translate?

[@blackheartedshamanjr.7457]

@@Voult_Bioy grammar isn't my strongest suit

[@gusb5867]

Only problem with AGOT is IT KEEPS CRASHING FOR ME

[@rgm96x49]

>play Guardians of Azeroth as Arthas >don't go to Northrend, fuck off with Jaina once the Scourge invasion starts >still end up inheriting Lordaeron once Terenas bites it But this is exactly why I fucked off in the first place...

[@xeagaort]

“Only one start date” Proceeds to show 6 start dates.

[@OneProudBavarian]

Those are actually the same start date, but different location highlights

[@xeagaort]

One Proud Bavarian Oh! Fair enough. That is my bad. Thank you for correcting me.

[@natecar1]

Warhammer might still be my favourite though I just wish itd get updated someday

[@xHugoxN7]

After the End is fantastic

[@larsjunker2113]

What is your opinion on the Witcher Kings Mod?

[@BreadDestroyer]

No love for The Winter King?

[@xRozmarzony]

Well made video mate!

[@AlexS-oj8qf]

What about the Avatar Mod?

[@jeck988]

Lux Invicta is the true best mod tho

[@orangesilver8]

I tried it once and while it was kind of interesting how much stuff was going on and how different it was, it was an absolute mess. I mean goddamn there's a new religion every two blocks. There's like 50 building types per holding, no realm is larger than a duchy.

[@jeck988]

orangesilver8 but that is all by design you have to remember the reason every power is small is so you can just jump in an steam roll tho I get that as that was my initial reaction back in the day.. the religions is also because Rome was littered with various cults that had died out in our timeline but remained in lux’s maybe I’m just a nerd but restoring Brittania as a zalmoxis worshiping pendragon or restoring the Sassinid empire or Alexander’s Ptolemy or even Sparta and its flavor is all really appealing to me

[@theunfortunategeneral]

Elder kings.. Love it.

[@GarkKahn]

Three kingdoms mod is good too

[@rezandrarizkyirianto-1933]

I agree with you.The ROTK mod is the only thing that prevents me from raging when I learned that I can't play as China in the Jade Dragon DLC.It's one of my favorites alongside the GOT and The Winter King mod

[@rsync9490]

You guys don't know about tianxia? Or you don't like it?

[@rezandrarizkyirianto-1933]

@@rsync9490 Is that another Chinese mod?

[@rsync9490]

@@rezandrarizkyirianto-1933 well more like an expansion of vanilla to add china, a bit of sub saharan africa, the rest of modern day russia, and the entire far east. Japan, indonesia, cambodia etc are all included. It is a bit much but china is no longer off map. forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/mod-tianxia-silk-road-expansion.816899/

[@Ghostly-00]

Is there a mod that makes the background black instead of white?

[@hansvogel4335]

Best channel!!! Thnx from Brazil!

[@elliot1460]

Is Geheimnisnacht still updated?

[@usafbgartin]

to be fair ive not seen any other total conversions besides these, so they arent just the best, they're the ONLY lol

[@bbbbmmm-ui3ht]

I remember months ago when i would watch barvian's series in voltaire's nightmare where he would get 14 views per vid.

[@mr.foxtrot1381]

The Middle Earth Project

[@ShallowContrarian]

I was gonna comment this, too, it's so fucking good

[@TorreTerra]

Hope all of these modds make ik to ck3

[@VixieTSQ]

I don't know the history behind most of these agg

[@SRosenberg203]

I laughed so hard when he said "You can worship the almighty dollar, or follow a more serious religion like Evangelicalism". I don't know if that joke was intentional or not, but it's excellent nonetheless. They're the same thing.

[@derAlphabet]

Your introduction: aah, WTWSMS :)

[@cameronarmstorng7666]

I miss the war hammer mod

[@cameronarmstorng7666]

The Witcher kings is actually good but has few new features

[@RonaldDMcLovin]

When is valentines day cus ive never experience love

[@sodinc]

how is this day connected with love?

[@GruntsAreWin]

*cries in CoTC*

[@Jerimbo]

abandoned =(

[@generalpinochetfoundthesol3747]

It would be great if someone makes three kingdoms mod!

[@GarkKahn]

www.moddb.com/mods/romance-of-the-three-kingdoms I didn't play for a while but it's real fun but in my savegame almost everyone died of old age or duels xD

[@generalpinochetfoundthesol3747]

GarkKahn thanks. I had no idea that such mod existed. I just don’t know why isn’t in the steam workshop?

[@pointyheadYT]

@@generalpinochetfoundthesol3747 It is in the workshop now. Its very well optimized aswell.

[@jollydale9591]

Lol, The Lich King is incabable.

[@micahgoodman1851]

Good video, I knew about the top two ranked Mods and enjoy both. I might give one or two of the other three that were mentioned a try. On the downside, four commercial breaks in a video that is just under 13 minutes with two commercials per break is ridiculous. This is probably the last video I'll watch by the content creator. I fully support people getting paid for their time, but this is overkill.

[@Ashina_03]

Where is Avatar mod??

[@Daniel-pb5ue]

Is a shame that the avatar mod is dead

[@jet-fury]

avatar and fire emblem rip

[@FlashWarrior]

Well i know why Dark World not in this video 😘

[@crzmicky]

FlashWarrior how is that mod anyway? I remember it way back when it was all one mod then it got separated into a lot of different modules and it literally felt like it got less content

[@FlashWarrior]

@@crzmicky i think this mod pretty good (but when you collect all modules)

[@iwiIInotreply]

It really pisses me off that the rise to power mod creator made it incompatible with orders of chivalry. I'd literally give the guy half a grand just to make it work with it again

[@karstais]

i can't find the GOT mod

[@ionfer5335]

where is the witcher mod?????