This was the worst experience i've ever had in ck3

You say this was a horrible experience, but I HONESTLY gotta say. This was extremely entertaining. Not having someone snowball in a perfectly executed manner, but actually seeing problems arise on such an ambitious goal. It's very exciting.

33:47 "It's gonna be like a little plague. We're going to start off from Italy, and slowly spread our way out to forming the Roman Empire." Historically accurate.

if this was me, i would've closed the game 20 times already. amazed by your patient, still a fun series, don't give it up!

Some values seem to be bugged since the new update,for exemple I had a ruler who ruled 3 dejure kingdoms and only had 270 levies,that issue got resolved after that ruler died

Converting to Hellenic early did actually make the game incredibly difficult especially if you start in 1066 start where the crusades are about to start. Though it'd take the Catholics a few years before they can have another crusade while now with the current culture you have you can declare holy war for kingdom anytime you want. You'd realise that if you play your cards right, you'd only lose one out of many kingdoms that you have so it's a no lost really LOL.

I probably would have closed and opened the game to fix that gold issue.

19:35 in a defensive war, you can always get 100 warscore from battles... So you've never seen that before because anyone declared war on you, but in this game you were so weak........

You should’ve made your head a faith temporal or spiritual, because you can’t actually declare a crusades against other people if you don’t have a head of faith

I love that it turned into the most backwards Haesteinn Sardinia start

in a regular war, you're expected to survive your foe and retain your lands, so everything's capped at 50, but in a holy war, you're expected to show the prowess of your faith, so everything's capped at 100, and it allows you to win via prowess in battle alone.

“We’re going to do a 3 part Roman Empire series🎉” (on part 5 now 😂)

19:30 war score is only battle capped for offensive wars. Since you are the defender you can just battle them down.

I would have rage quit as soon as the crusade screen popped up 😂

Love the vid and the content! The struggle in this one was real! Not sure if anyone else has said but on a defensive war you have the ability to have battles cap at 100% while in attacking wars they only go to 50%

"The Roman Empire fell hundreds of years ago" The Byzantines: "Am I a joke to you?"

God bless your campaign 😭 I’m enjoying the series so far cant wait for part 3

I know this was painful Snap but I don't think I've ever laughed so hard at a CK3 video. Thank you for pushing through 😂

Finally, a ck3 youtuber I can relate to

The prestige raising happened to me when I was attempting to do the County of Fika achievement. I think that as your domain grows, it becomes more expensive to diverge culture / reform faith. What I ended up doing was declaring wars on counties for prestige which caused me to need more prestige to reform my culture. What I ended up doing was granting all of the counties away which lowered the prestige cost, and then I just reconquered them all after I diverged.

Just found your channel as I started replaying CK3 recently. Love these videos and have learned a lot from watching you!

That was Great! I'm just new to this game and I'm enjoying your videos 😂

It remembers me my first ck3 game, take Iceland, became Iconoclast, being stuck for years due to the pope don't want me having Ireland :,)

13:18 I was not expecting I Robot, giggled way too long

I'm currently most of the way through my Roman Empire world conquest. Just have a bit of India and the steppe left. Maybe I make a diplomatic heir and try this hellenism revival. Thanks for the idea!

I managed to this with a custom hellenic character in Norway, hybridize with norse, conquer most of scandinavia without making a kingdom, then varangian to Sardinia, conquer and form the Baleo-Thyrrenian kingdom, then take Rome. Crusades are a pain, so once you take Rome, rush the rest of Italy to dismantle the papacy.

LOVING youre channel mate and the roman empire is hell just hell thats all I can say

Finally! I´ve been waiting all day

If you want a really difficult challange, try starting as the duke of ghur in 865 and then form bactria, end the persian struggle to form persian empire and then also unite all of india, currently trying it but can't get past the formation of persia.

Ive also had this problem of court chaplain and head of faith position staying filled since patch

the biggest mistake you made was not consolidating the British Isles first. If you had done that and then decided to convert to the Hellenic faith you would've stood a better chance against the crusade,

Maybe click on more than just the tournament grounds if you want to get events to qualify for a contest in a tournament. You can do 4 events before the first contest and 3 before every other one.

Great video. I think i prefer watching you play more than i actually like playing. Losing england would have deflated me - great going on pushing forward.

Amazing series love how you’re taking the gods and bad

If you were still wondering why the war score for battles didn't cap at 50%, its because as the defender it doesn't have a cap when defeating enemy armies (to my understanding). Love your videos and keep up the great work.

Also, another thing you need to have Latin Heritance as your cultural thing because if you don’t, you can’t actually form the Roman empire

my man please enumerate that series with part 1, 2 and all so we can watch it easily

lol this is my favorite lets play style series of CK3

The "Kingdom Invasion" casus belli will seize the targeted title and any counties completely under occupation. If you don't siege the war target, the defenders can gain war score for holding it, allowing you to occupy and subsequently take direct control of every county of an empire in a single war.

Gimli voice: "and they call it a mine. A mine!"

The papacy has just made the enemy of many lifetimes.

I’ve been having the same glitch involving the court chaplain. The only way I got it to work is assigning one, and when they disappear inviting them back to my court and reassigning them and then they finally stay. Hope this helps!

7:37 they are house Wessex, probably have a claim on England.

I'm trying this out, but i started in Sardinia. Went through a bit of a rough patch because of a ruler that just suuuuuuck, but I've occupied Roma and created the empire of Italia so far.

Some of the best games are those with big setbacks. Can make them so satisfying.

idk if anyone else said this, but war score only caps at 50% for offensive war. And the war against you was defensive so the war score from battles has no cap. Makes it much easier to defend

I was wondering what your gameplan for the inevitable crusade was lol… was thinking you might need to spread into multiple kingdoms and wait on officially going Hellenistic until just after a crusade so you’ve got 50 years to prepare.

This series convinced me to get the game

I found the crusade if England easy because I was picking off people as they landed. Though mine was earlier in the game so nations had smaller armies.

This got me through some unpleasant chores! Thanks for suffering with me!

Ooh, looks like we could see a three Rome game between the HRE, Byzantium, and true Rome depending on who's still around when you finally take the decision

Pov you reform The actual Romen Empire, as literally cornwall. I mean CORNWALL.😂😂😂😂 Love youre viedeo ideas man

This was so painful to watch. Somehow still an awesome videos. Cheers mate.

For the German Crusade it's because he had a claim on England. The Pope chose him as beneficiary basically. Honestly just terrible luck. Usually as a pagan king of England you are safe if you don't take Canterbury, but since he had the claim he was the choice

Wait a flickin moment. Is the Khazar Empire Orthodox and their ruler is Somali?

Fun run. As it wasn't mine. I would've loaded saves, personally. I don't have the stomach for ironman playthroughs. My own Roman Empire run started Desmond, Ireland. The Norse being in Dublin made getting the culture easier. Building up there for a generation and then getting the kingdom made it easier for when I invaded England and Scotland. By the time they pope called the Crusades on me after getting Canterbury, I already had taken Frisia and Flanders. The Crusaders seized Frisia from me but I kept all of Britannia.

I'm 1 for 1 on winning holy wars for england, 2 for 3 for holy wars in spain, 4 for 4 for holy wars in syria or Jerusalem. Then 2 for 2 for a holy war when I held rome. So much fun defending holy wars, but each time I also had a holy order and tons of kids for allies. I also got the papal crown 3 times as a Muslim ruler.

It is both painful and entertaining to watch

33:06 unreformed faiths still exist when they are reformed, so your holy order continued to exist but as a holy order for the unreformed version of hellenism, which you no longer follow.

10:00 RESTART. Bro Money is broken. Totally Causus Belli for a restart.

norse hellenic cerneu's in sardinia sounds like a crazy alternate timeline

refresshed all day for this

Snap proving that indeed, Rome was not built in a day.

That Roman with a 0 is so cursed.

That guy kinda looks like Paul Hollywood

Its fun watching other people persevere!

Pain.

Despite all of your unfortunate setbacks, i gotta say that this is still a better playthrough than any of mine haha

Battle score caps at 100 when you are defending and 50 when you are attacking

If anyone could survive such a start it had to be you🤣

Ah yes resurgence of pax Roma invicta

I was finally able to do it last night it is a pain and a half

Ah, feels so fantastic when pro ck iii gamer faces such hard challenge and doesn't finish everything perfectly in just few years 😁

This is how I felt playing Yorvik. Every time you go to war with a Catholic ruler, they get a holy order. Ended up forming a new kingdom with all of England, Scotland, and Wales, and had to reconquer Scandinavia because all the Norse kingdoms went Catholic. Got hit with two crusades for my kingdom, beat them both, and formed an Empire with Britannia and Scandinavia. At this point I'm trying to set up Norse kingdoms all over the place just so I can get some allies.

Forming Rome as Haesteinn was pretty easy as I conquered the duchy of Latium from the pope right off the bat

Id prefer getting control over a kingdom and converting to Hellenic after, a lot of you vassals will convert if they have good opinion on you

Would swearing fealty to the HRE with religious protection prevent crusades?

The cost of reforming a culture is scaled by it's amount of counties.

The holy order was part of the unreformed faith

Always fun to see other people have equally bad games as myself 😅

Yassssdd

Plz try the DTR MOD!!!❤❤❤

You gave the holy order barony that has mine so you dont get the income.

You should had started as a viking and invaded england for Stonehenge, then just get the learning perk and convert, having land back in the Norse territory would help you a lot

As a noobie I've said where's my money going to many times lol

your holy order is not gone, it still exists under the old faith, they do NOT reform

This is why you start from Italy and take the pope lands first and then dismantle the papacy before making heretic religion.

Hey snap if you are very close to defeating someone and you need to siege fast theres a button in the siege menu called assoult castle

You cant have a hlly order after reforming refirm then found a holy order

You could name your new culture when you mix with the greeks Nova Roman.

Shouldn't you have gone for the kindome of the mediterranean? Those 3500 event spawn troops would have come in handy...

I've never seen the ai form the hre

got troy'd

This video was painful haha

I did it by accident once as haesting

Koifish is lucky

Snap… you can raid.

Eastern Roman Legacy Formation Fighting Experts Hereditary Hierarchy Legalistic Refined Poetry Noble Adoption From the wiki Traditions of the roman culture

The AI actually formed the HRE

Defensive wars always have battle score capped at 100%, why would you need to siege your opponent’s land if you’re defending? Also the wiki exists.