The Crusader Kings Iceberg, Explained...

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the Crusader Kings iceberg! what haunting lore lies at the bottom of these murky waters? 👀
we tried to include and explain as much as possible but let us know what we missed too! 🥴
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timestamps:
0:00 the Crusader Kings iceberg...
1:10 above the surface
12:40 below the surface
21:54 depths below
29:59 murky depths
37:19 deepest level
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@HeyCara 10 ай бұрын

here's a short about an event we really should've included in this iceberg 👀 kzfaq.infoxqk_qBrjGh0

@kaunghtet9730 10 ай бұрын

I like you, Cara. 👍

@MastemaJack 10 ай бұрын

The child crusade didn't happen

@issstari954 6 ай бұрын

It wasnt manufactured drama but the fact the company was public they couldnt afford it hurting sales so they caved to pressure and kept it in the game

@Barista.Nathan 11 ай бұрын

"Crusades just kind of suck and like fall apart all the time" -> CK is actually a perfect emulation of real life.

@TheRightTastes 10 ай бұрын

I was thinking the same thing at the part. You might get one good successful one... and then...

@miguelpadeiro762 10 ай бұрын

Wish CK3 crusades had the IRL chaos they added in ck2's 3.0 patch "My Basileus, the Franks have conquered Antioch from the Saracens!" "Splendid! The holy city is once more in Roman ha--" "My Basileus...the Frank in charge of this has decided to keep the city for himself" "..." "..." "This is why we have a schism"

@kaidenhall2718 9 ай бұрын

The crusades were successful though

@davefekete7187 9 ай бұрын

Not at all

@phillipmaddern6452 4 ай бұрын

No...

@julianhernandez5188 11 ай бұрын

42:53 Even more horrifying fact about the Songs of Anguish event chain - there's a chance that the person you tried to torture and kill pulls a switch on you and you end up killing one of your children in the brazen bull instead, which you discover the next day when you find your child's skull in a box with a taunting note from the person you were trying to kill

@princemapping9123 11 ай бұрын

L bozo shouldn't have been a satanist

@anothervirgin826 11 ай бұрын

Average brazilian day

@alexandrepadilha1443 4 ай бұрын

@@anothervirgin826?

@ghostcat5303 11 ай бұрын

As someone who never played CK2 but has hundreds of hours in CK3, i think they need to make the latter game sillier

@miguelpadeiro762 10 ай бұрын

They really really do. The soul of ck2 was its pythonesque atmosphere. It wasn't a medieval simulator; it was a medieval story creator. I love ck3 to death, have played hundreds of hours and genuinemy belive ck3 WILL be the better game in the long run, but rn ck2 holds the charm and dynamism (for example the fluid personalities, whereas in ck3 your personality as a 16 yo is the same for life) that gives every campaign its own unique touch

@HB-ej6iq 10 ай бұрын

supernatural events used to be pretty boring. they spoiled the game, mainly satanism. CK3 is much better.

@sonsanic8238 10 ай бұрын

@@miguelpadeiro762the gui and ui in ck2 ist so baaad. I cannt play this game 😂

@TheRealRusDaddy 10 ай бұрын

@@miguelpadeiro762my jewish emperor of Crimea took over the holy land and set up a usurper for Egypt and vassilszed them oh yeah and sunnis took over almost all over central Europe the Cathar heresy took over in england with a bit of help from me the whole place is a mess ive also got a horse merchant republic

@Nonjaidit 10 ай бұрын

Really not, CK3 is more realist and needs to stay like it.

@Thyne_whom_jests 11 ай бұрын

In Stellaris there is a reference to the gates of hell event. If you have the feudalism civic and you get the interdimensional portal event you can close the portal with a bunch of stone.

@Ma_ksi 11 ай бұрын

Funny pfp

@poot6760 10 ай бұрын

Pretty sure you can also close it with *good vibes* as pacifists/spiritualists, at least that's what i remember

@ineednochannelyoutube2651 10 ай бұрын

I'm not sure if it's this particular gate to hell, but if you have Knights of the Toxic God origin, you can also choose to send in a knight who becomes the literal Doomslayer and there are three possible outcomes within 10 years: 1: Demon Pops flood into your empire as refugees. 2: the Doomslayer returns having slaughtered all of hell. 3: The doomslayer turns evil and starts an invasion through the portal. If he takes over the planet, a Fanatic Purifier empire spawns with the Demonic Invasion Origin. God, I love this game.

@Thyne_whom_jests 10 ай бұрын

@@ineednochannelyoutube2651 Yes its the same gate

@matheusexpedito4577 9 ай бұрын

@@ineednochannelyoutube2651Damn, imagine just sending in a dude to scout the new dimension, the portal closes and ten years later the things you had to kill pop out of said portal asking for mercy

@livixxxhimym 11 ай бұрын

The weirdest alt history thing that happened to me was in an Iberia campaign. At this point I was just converting culture to finish the struggle, I owned everything. My character marries the empress of the byzantine emperor, who dies in childbirth. This is great, as it's a daughter and I'm happy for her to just rule independently for house legacy points. Unfortunately, a faction event ended up deposing her and as I was her heir, I just ended up emperor of the byzantines. This was funny until I realised it actually broke the struggle mechanic. Out of frustration I ended up reforming the Roman Empire.

@unnameduser5647 11 ай бұрын

"Out of frustration i ended up reforming the roman empire" Is one of the funniest sentences i have heard today XD

@nikolaitregouet 11 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@cupcakecomrade2378 10 ай бұрын

cant unite iberia, fine, ill unite the roman empire

@livixxxhimym 10 ай бұрын

@@unnameduser5647 I was really annoyed about my final goal being stolen from me so I was looking for a final boss.

@livixxxhimym 10 ай бұрын

@@cupcakecomrade2378 I also reinstated hellenism for extra fun

@dr0g_Oakblood 11 ай бұрын

30:17 - there's also the Ck2 Arc of the Covenant, which tends to spawn in the inventory of a courtier rather than the actual King of Ethiopia, so you can just bribe the guy to your court and then imprison+Execute and hope to inherit one of the most OP artifacts in the game right from day 1 (or month 1 to account for bribing and movement time)

@TheAgamidaex 11 ай бұрын

ahah, I didn't know that

@anondescriptbullet 11 ай бұрын

I once had my genius heir get killed by the carp event, and I have never been so livid at a game in my entire life, I spent the next hour or so scowling lmao

@Hestaka 10 ай бұрын

You think thats bad... imagine... your playing Wales and only its de jure land, building it up, and then 300 years later you get hit by the black plague... and every single FUCKING PERSON in your dynasty dies

@tjep2670 11 ай бұрын

Emperitor Rome is an example of what happens when Paradox doesn't make DLC for a game. It's now in maintenance mode only.

@jesusbauer8861 11 ай бұрын

tbh, the game was super broken und not fun to play at release which tarnished its rep forever.

@xess4168 11 ай бұрын

Imperator failed because it was bad and barren on release and paradox then realized it was a sunk ship as people stopped paying for dlc’s and stopped playing the game.

@jesusbauer8861 11 ай бұрын

@@xess4168 And they repeated the whole thing with vicky3.

@edsheeranahmet6572 11 ай бұрын

Ironically they made the gane for DLC, leaving it super bare at release

@Rynewulf 11 ай бұрын

Inverse: they designed at empty base game they expected people to flock to anyway then use the money whales to fund dlc to make it playable for extra price

@ShummaAwilum 10 ай бұрын

I once had death beat me in chess. And it turns out that death is actually a character that shows up in your court prior to challenging you to the game. Just appears as a randomly -named courtier with decent stats and high intrigue. I know this because for whatever reason he didn't leave my court after killing me, instead immediately challenging my heir to a game and killed him too.

@ultraflopp2802 10 ай бұрын

You must have tried to kill him, *WIN HIM IN HIS OWN GAME!!!*

@RollingCalf 6 ай бұрын

I think I beat him twice in thousands of hours

@craixe1 5 ай бұрын

I beat death in the chess game because my character was a lunatic. I thought that was the only way to win. How did you win?

@RollingCalf 5 ай бұрын

@@craixe1 high intelligence and master of games trait

@RollingCalf 5 ай бұрын

@@ultraflopp2802 trying to remember if I ever imprisoned and executed death

@IAmDrWalrus 11 ай бұрын

There's the event in CK2 where it turns out someone was a bear in disguise

@johnfraire6931 10 ай бұрын

Sir Bearington!

@awilix227 11 ай бұрын

i remember a ck2 game i played where my youngest son was the child of satan, killed his older brothers and i became him when i died. his firstborn was the child of destiny. totally op run

@internetguy2760 11 ай бұрын

Reminds me of the plot to Star Wars. Tell me you named the child of destiny Luke lol

@ultraflopp2802 10 ай бұрын

Actually that’s kind of unironically how that should have worked, *if you are blessed by the unholy and follow his orders then one day you must get a reward…*

@poopsmith6853 9 ай бұрын

An even can fire when they become an adult making you an unholy general and large force.

@RollingCalf 6 ай бұрын

I love that everyone ignores the fact that to get the antichrist as your heir, you need to induct a female relative into the cult and breed with her so the baby has your dynasty

@L.CROSS0 10 ай бұрын

Apart from glitterhoof, I think that there is a bear event also, where a character can just reveal themselves to be a bear.

@mithatbilgi8199 Ай бұрын

I had it happen to me in one of my first games, I think it was more like a witch or something turns you into a bear. it’s a completely random event and it just kinda derails the seriousness pf the game, especially when you did what I did and seduce like half of europe as a bear and people didn’t realize their ethnically bear children weren’t theirs

@TTGHAST 10 ай бұрын

I get that you don't like the CK2 wackyness and creepyness but you can't deny this game had heart. Unique in every way, 4K hours and I'm still mesmerized by it.

@MotherGapshin12 11 ай бұрын

Honestly we need a horror game based on the Crusader Kings franchise, just imagine a mix of psychological horror and a grand strategy game. You're playing as a random count until suddendly creepy "glitches" begin to happen and weird events you have never heard begin to happen.

@salim5394 11 ай бұрын

Lmao

@miguelpadeiro762 10 ай бұрын

The lunatic trait experience

@spawel1 2 ай бұрын

could easily make a mod like this if you're willing

@No-oneImportant42 11 ай бұрын

I watched a guy play CK2 I think and he replaced the death sounds with Lego Yoda dying. While annoying, it makes it funny instead of traumatizing!!

@johnfraire6931 10 ай бұрын

SeethTzentach?

@No-oneImportant42 10 ай бұрын

@@johnfraire6931 Correct.

@Komrad_Cybersyn 11 ай бұрын

I got the immortality. It was horrible. I saw my heirs apparent die one after another. I saw my grandchild i made queen of Égypt grow old, her children wither away... I don't ever know from which side of the familly nor generation is my actual heir. I can't reform hellinism because the one time i did and converted my self , a huge crusade was launched against me and i had to convert back again. I can't rise in secret societies. My infamy is too high. I have too good battle abilities to die in battle, my suicide attemps all end in failures..... Life is but pain. Imortality is but continious suffering. Don't do it, except if the empire is sure to explode after your death. It's not worth it.

@dawnfire82 11 ай бұрын

Sounds like a fun perspective for a short story.

@ultraflopp2802 10 ай бұрын

Actually if you do that at point when you’re one of the most powerful guys in the world that doesn’t sound like a problem

@chriswilliamson9993 11 ай бұрын

I've had an immortal character in CK2. I knew it was rare, but not as rare as you describe. The immortal character can live forever, but they still suffer from the effects of events. This means that after a few centuries they can end up like Monty Pythons black knight. They are an uber character with loads of bonuses, but the events have taken their toll. They have lost a leg. And an arm. And an eye. But they'll still butcher you in a duel....

@steveng6721 11 ай бұрын

I had an immortal who was caught as being a satanist and the pope would not forgive me so i kept having to fight off holy wars😊

@ultraflopp2802 10 ай бұрын

@@steveng6721actually imagine if you could have tried to pull up a fight with the crusade alone and win, like imagine if immortal guy with the OP honour pulls up

@poopsmith6853 9 ай бұрын

I have yet to succeed with the immortal chain. I've been reincarnated as a child, but usually die.

@ethanduncan1646 11 ай бұрын

No North Korea Mode? The play style that dominated Ck2 for years by owning every single holding in your kingdom. That and the CK3 offshoot of North Korea Mode "Space Marine MAA" by stacking county buffs throughout the empire until a single heavy infantry MAA could solo an army with no casualties.

@greenfawkes 11 ай бұрын

31:21 In regards to the chess event, there are certain things you can do to boost your odds of winning. The game decides if you survive if you reach a certain amount of points, obviously most come from the RNG but there are a few things you can do to boost those odds. 1. Invite them in, even if you don't invite them to stay the event will fire so inviting them gives you the most amount of points. 2. Pick black, black gives you a slight point advantage while white doesn't. 3. Traits, If you have gamemaster, genius, etc. ONLY pick those RNG decisions as they massively increase your odds of winning 4. If you are feeling lucky, give up your kid, it increases your odds of playing a better move Besides that it's all RNG.

@leoleboss9414 11 ай бұрын

Alcoholic too , you can try to make Death drunk

@craixe1 5 ай бұрын

You can win if you are a lunatic.

@MetuendusDominus 11 ай бұрын

Something cool that was missed is in regards to Incitatus. He isn’t the only immortal warrior who can come for you. In one my my games an immortal came after me me, but due to my high stewardship he fell in a trapdoor and put on a giant spinning wheel, it gave my capital some benefits and put him in the dungeon. I then let him out and he became my commander.

@Notmyname1593 10 ай бұрын

That guy comes literally every time if you have an immortal character. The other option is that you`ll have to duel him. He`s pretty strong.

@ultraflopp2802 10 ай бұрын

@@Notmyname1593”if you’re immortal” actually that sounds kind of logical, if you have infinite time anything will eventually happen, I know that we talk about game but that’s still kind of rational

@herrnachbar81 7 ай бұрын

28:54 ck3's loading screens in general are incredible. they alwas have so much depth and they make you think about the scenarious that happen in the picture and really make you forget about the long loading times

@dr0g_Oakblood 11 ай бұрын

43:09 - On a related note, you can also Forge a Bloodline of the Brazen Bull through some rare requirements as well.

@Pigraider268 11 ай бұрын

Lol no zombie event, no dancing plague, no tuscan raiders. These are rare events, not "matters of life and death"

@derekeastman7771 2 ай бұрын

1500 hours and I have seen the zombie event 1 time.

@cybrxkhansmods2848 11 ай бұрын

43:25 Thanks for unwittingly featuring the VIET mod! It is good to see that the youths of to-day still resonate with my elderly sensibilities. (And yes it is a spoopy event chain if you get it, it was inspired by playing Stellaris late at night and hearing the spoopy Stellaris sound effects for its space horror events 😳)

@johnfraire6931 10 ай бұрын

After looking up VIET I'm in the process of installing all your mods. Damn you for making so much cool stuff!

@cybrxkhansmods2848 10 ай бұрын

@@johnfraire6931 Thank you!

@Sense008 11 ай бұрын

The comet is basically in pretty much every Paradox game. It's also in Stellaris, though there depending on your ideology it can be either positive or negative

@killer_rabbit_ 11 ай бұрын

My most memorable sunset invasion happened a few generations after I became the Saoshyant, at one point I had a german concubine who inherited a duchy after a plague swept through the HRE. Her heir became Holy Roman Emperor, turning the HRE into a bastion of zoroastrianism in central europe. To maintain the holiness of the lineage of the Saoshyant, the Persian Empire and the HRE were permanently allied (you know how). .Later when the aztec hordes came to europe, my German-Persian alliance responded with hordes of our own, eventually pushing the aztecs out of continental Europe. The lands of Charlemagne, Iberia, Poland, Mesopotamia, Syria, Palestine, etc... were all ruled by descendants of the Saoshyant by the time I moved on

@CymruGoch_ 11 ай бұрын

With the matters of life and death event in CKII, the one time I actually had a character become immortal with it was as Ragnar Lothbrok, immediately after the Wolf Warrior's great adventure thing.

@miguelteixeira6323 10 ай бұрын

That must have been cool

@CymruGoch_ 10 ай бұрын

@@miguelteixeira6323 Oh yeah. Ragnar was around 45ish at the time as well. He went on to conquer all of Britain + Charlemagne's lands

@lavenderdame8711 10 ай бұрын

"crusades just kind of suck and fall apart" is the most realistic element of CK

@ewancowhigcroft8840 10 ай бұрын

They're the skulls of anyone with the temerity to suggest we move Saga in Stone out of the "easy" category.

@ewancowhigcroft8840 10 ай бұрын

Fun fact: we generate different types of characters for the Explorer from the West event. For most of the various phantom isles they can tell you about, you'll get a deceitful explorer making up stories (though the stories they make up are generally historic examples of legendary islands in the Atlantic) - an explorer generated with the honest trait will only tell you about places they've actually been to, which means Greenland, the Purple Isles, orrr... the Sunset Empire.

@TheManWithTheFlan 11 ай бұрын

I've noticed that in more recent patched, Haesteinn tends to go invade territory in Britain, which is actually pretty historically accurate. I'm wondering if that's a happy accident or if they actually directly tuned his AI to do that?

@dr0g_Oakblood 11 ай бұрын

I've actually gotten the Adoptionism event chain twice because I really love playing as an Iberian Mozarab, but both games were in special Mozarabic achievement runs so I had to turn the final event down, which is sad because it likely would have been interesting.

@djinnglebells241 11 ай бұрын

32:32 Sadly the story of Elagabalus/Heliogabalus is mostly considered to be false. Not that they didn’t exist, but that the only major source we have of their reign is from someone who rly dislikes them, and in Roman culture the worst type of slander was being compared to a woman. Like if people found out a politician went down on his wife, that man’s career was over. It wasn’t explicitly about being a woman but about being lower, so like Ceaser’s political career was almost tanked cuz people found out he was bottoming for some king in Anatolia, but women were always seen as lower than men. As such, Elagabalus wanting to be a women shows them as being weak, spineless, and of low morals. I did my best to use gender neutral pronouns here as we still don’t know for certain, and prob never will, but I caution against using them as a trans icon.

@dawnfire82 11 ай бұрын

I dunno. Insane, immoral, perverse, and prone to abusing power seems appropriate.

@ThePaintedShield 10 ай бұрын

People forget how young Elagabalus was when he/they was in power. Compare that behavior to a young celebrity nowadays and then hype it up to a billion by being a pagan Emperor (and then the distortion of history) and it puts it into perspective.

@unolisez-5803 9 ай бұрын

He was a f/а/g and died like a dog. It fine

@dr0g_Oakblood 11 ай бұрын

44:25 - IIRC there's actually like 4 separate versions of this archetype character, as a little easter egg towards Highlander and making it easier to get the achievement for killing another immortal.

@martinsriber7760 11 ай бұрын

I got the Shield-Maiden, which I married and we ruled the rest of the game as immortal couple.

@GuillermoBarreira 11 ай бұрын

The horchata from the Iberian event refers to the Valencia horchata, made with tiger nuts (although the game calls them “almond nuts”) . It doesn’t come with cinnamon. Those pictures of horchata in this video must be the Mexican horchata, where yes they add cinnamon to basically a rice juice (horchata really means the technique of juicing nuts or grains)

@AndiVicio 11 ай бұрын

You forgot the selling your relatives to China for points

@SuperBalders 11 ай бұрын

the turnip act MUST be a reference to the BBC Series "Blackadder", where the Servant of Edmund Blackadder, a certain Baldrick is totaly obsessed with Turnips and exchanges a huge amount of money into a very huge turnip. don't ask me why i know that. ;-) i just can recommend that show.

@majormutant7029 10 ай бұрын

If you look *really* close at the loading screen, you can see a second assassin against the wall next to the first, holding a sword

@professionalgoob 10 ай бұрын

Also the little kitty noticing the assassins in the bottom-right

@TheAgamidaex 10 ай бұрын

I'm pretty sure it's just one guy holding 2 blades

@HeyCara 11 ай бұрын

the Crusader Kings iceberg is here!... what'd we miss? 👀 thank you to Jia and Agami (Long Game Short) for all of their work on this video too!! it took us all a ton of work and i hope y'all love it c: 💖💖

@vaultdude4871 11 ай бұрын

Pretty hair :3

@hanzouwu 10 ай бұрын

Maybe the Great Goddess Isis from HIP mod for CK2, and the The Wild Goose Chase in CK3

@QuigleTheGnome 11 ай бұрын

I think it’s funny i think it’s funny that that you mentioned that the matters of life and death event is super rare and hard to succeed but a youtuber that I like to watch called Mr. Streamer and when he used to play CK2 he’d get the event at least once per playthrough not only that but he’d succeed often. Hilariously enough even when he did an entire character about the white beast he never caught it.

@ElvisBrown 11 ай бұрын

This video is so good. I've been playing a lot CK for years by now. Since the 2. And i've seen many of those "iceberg events", but i had no idea of a few of them. So amazing. Very well done video and very well explained.

@HLGAM3R 10 ай бұрын

On the "some characters are extra special"-bit: Could it also mean that there characters based on Paradox developers that you can invite to your court. There are definitely characters in CK2 that are named after developers.

@borisf6294 11 ай бұрын

The very first time I experienced the Children's Crusade event in CKII the leader of it was a genius of my dynasty and he succeeded 🤪

@WlatPziupp 11 ай бұрын

After going all in on the immortality event chain a bunch of times I actually got it as a rus character by just clicking the buttons randomly. Barely cost anything because I had no income from my own lands and the events scale with yearly income. It kinda sucked. Ended up having the entire world in defensive alliances against me as I never had to deal with succession, so the only people I could attack were the ones who recently broke free from their overlords

@sebastianreyes8042 11 ай бұрын

I think i once got the Marco event... weird but honestly you get used to creepy events in CK2. I think i had like 700-800 hours in CK2 after 500 hours i only played the Game of thrones mod.

@dawnfire82 11 ай бұрын

She says "creepy," but I say, "hey, free prestige."

@cuff1626 11 ай бұрын

25:54. If you get the depression trait back there an event about it where your character says he remembers feeling like this, and stuff like that. That was depressing to read

@bernard832 11 ай бұрын

I got Saga in Stone legitimately. I was doing a world conquest run though, so I had over 2000 dynasty members, hundreds of whom were landed.

@wizardsummoner9124 10 ай бұрын

So is it fixed then? It used to be the case that the AI wouldn't raise runestones at all, so the cheesy way was the only way. If you can get it normally maybe I'll get it this time.

@gonzo7071 10 ай бұрын

The one thing that scared me when playing CK2 was late at night and that Marco Polo event popped up

@rodi8266 11 ай бұрын

Heliogabalus was a roman emperor that was extremely overtly homosexual and liked to fashion and conduct himself like a woman in the time period. There are many writings to this tone about this dude among general accusations of insanity and evil. One could argue that some of this is wildly exaggerated though.

@RC15O5 Ай бұрын

IIRC, as he was a Phoenician priest, he also had Jupiter replaced with the Punic sacrifice goddess and sacrificed orphans to the idol. The man was insane.

@kashk42 10 ай бұрын

You missed one of the coolest events from CK2. IF the child of satan is born in a position where there is NO possible way for them to ever inherit, most commonly if they belong to a muslim dynasty and are unfortunate enough to be female, they will dissapear shortly after their 16 birthday. Everyone will be super-relieved of course, since they still tend to kill some of their siblings on the way out. Roughly 20 years later they return as the leader of the Aztecs, leading the sunset invasion. And YES, this can happen at any time. I had it happen in the year 800 once. Luckily I was playing in Persia or something at the time, IIRC, so I wasn't first on their hit-list.

@SmaukGames 9 ай бұрын

I actually love mystical part of CK2. Hope there will be dlcs and updates adding more mystical stuff into the game. But I know CK3 dev just recently said that mystical dlcs aren't planned

@nmuhlenkamp8163 11 ай бұрын

Never thought I’d ever hear anyone say Elagabalus was wholesome in my entire life 😂😂.

@warlordofbritannia 8 ай бұрын

What could be more wholesome than Emperor Femboy?

@tyrakodyrg2511 9 ай бұрын

I actually had the Marci Polo event twice. The first time I didn't even realise how rare it was. After I learnt that,oh, how shocked I was to see it for the second time. Guess it's just luck.

@willfreakman86 11 ай бұрын

Bro wtf, i never knew about the "Marco Polo" event before but if i got that naturally while playing i wouldve been traumatized

@wotanvonedelsburg1610 10 ай бұрын

Why?

@poopsmith6853 9 ай бұрын

There's a Robin hood one too and you can recruit him

@fyr3st0rm35 11 ай бұрын

I did it everybody! Been showing my gf cara content and this was the one that got her to want to try a PDX game. It can be done!

@HeyCara 11 ай бұрын

good luck 😇🤞

@fyr3st0rm35 11 ай бұрын

@@HeyCara I think I've created a monster. Where in the instructions does it tell me how to get her to stop? 😂

@matheusexpedito4577 9 ай бұрын

@@fyr3st0rm35have you tried wooden plank? If it don't work, a nuke may solve your issue, i do not ackownledge for side effects of a nuke like immediate vaporization and radiation

@aikitnx 10 ай бұрын

if you play on a potato PC, Glitterhoof also appears on while the UI is loading

@RubberToeYT 11 ай бұрын

So glad haestinn and koifish made it in here

@ShummaAwilum 10 ай бұрын

I have never understood the hate for sunset invasion.

@robertrussell5856 2 ай бұрын

24:36 To that point, there is a city in Southeast Ukraine that is named New York that has existed for hundreds of years. No one knows who founded it or why it's called New York, but some have proposed a connection to New England in Crimea.

@davidsprenkle2641 11 ай бұрын

"Assassin hiding in loading screen": I especially like how the cat on the bed is more focused on the can of tuna being opened in the royal kitchens than in guarding the family from the assassin :)

@paulpalmer1690 11 ай бұрын

One I didn't see here is that if you go back in a Sayyid character to the Prophet Muhammed ( PBUH) he's not represented by a charqacter portrait but rather a large seal with something written in arabic

@poopsmith6853 9 ай бұрын

Because they didn't want to offend muslims. It's his name

@lsthero5863 10 ай бұрын

When you have a bad computer, when charging the game on ck3 you can see the portrait of glitterhoof

@St0ic_p3rsp3ctives 10 ай бұрын

29:24 Also the cat sitting on the bed next to the sword, it senses the assassin

@dogerbro2153 11 ай бұрын

ALSO THE STRONGEST POTION EVENT IS A REFERNCE TO POTION SELLER VIDEO IF YOU EVER DO ANYTHING STARTING WITH L, S or D ITS AMAZING

@donpollo3154 11 ай бұрын

Only og CK3 fans remember when the Cucumber King was unintentionally a kinslayer, due to a wrongly assigned father

@N3rdDak 5 ай бұрын

This was such a fun video! Cant believe it took me SO LONG to find you! So glad Im here now and cant wait for more content!

@sega616 9 ай бұрын

Oh yeah, Odin himself appears in both CK2 and CK3 with the Original Norse Faith. Not sure if the faith is reformed though.

@MYPSYAI 11 ай бұрын

I think Haesting is a chump compared to Dyre the Stranger. Dyre is a 22 year old genius viking with 1000 event troops and 1/2 of them are huscarls and the other half id varangian vets. Dyre is related to every other viking Jarl on the map and can ally ALL of them. IN FACT... Dyre can Vassalize every norse viking within 10 years, and create the north sea in his own lifetime. He starts off with a norse holy site, and can easily take over 2 more and run a pilgrimage to reform Aasatru within 5 years. I have done pretty much everything with Dyre, it is Haestening on steroids. Because he starts in Kiev, noone realizes how powerful he is, because to really use his diplo ties you have to conquer some land in scandinavia. You can conquer More, and you will border sigurd and bjorn. Then you can help make sure Ivar wins against east seax. If he does you can take the county between Ivar and Halfdan. The moment Bjorn creates sweden, you subjugate him with ivar and halfdan as allies it's an easy win. Once you are king with true ruler you can vassalize all your relatives (which is like every viking that matters). You get so powerful from that that everyone else will vassalize as well. You can do the whole thing with only 3 wars. Stranger ftw.

@tezatheboffin2184 11 ай бұрын

Oooh that sounds like fun, gonna have to try that one myself 👍

@unistrut Күн бұрын

The bit in the Cthulhu event about ramming it with your boat is a reference to the original Call of Cthulhu story where the main character does just that.

@user-pi7sj4wm8p 11 ай бұрын

Glad I got here early! Also, you forgot you can be a werewolf in CKII! If you’re a lunatic you have a chance of becoming a werewolf once a month, which leads to an event chain where you kill another person or animal and then gain 1 marshal. I believe you can also loose some prestige from it.

@Empty_Illusion 7 ай бұрын

i remember one time i reunited the roman empire and went on a crusade just for my emperor and 3 of his heirs to die in a ship wreak. just had to sit there for like 5 minutes contemplating restarting it all

@dr0g_Oakblood 11 ай бұрын

39:42 - ah ok, so you meant horrific as in actual like personal disgust, fair enough. I personally prefer the varied death sounds, minus a select few (breaking someone on the wheel is not a fun sound), but the good news is that if you prefer less annoying death sounds, there are mods that fix it. I prefer the Lego Yoda death sound mod, with a soft spot for the medieval coffin dance death sound mod.

@MeninoMendigo 6 ай бұрын

I don't remember if I was a drunkard, deceitful or what, but I remember a choice in the "chess with death" event that allowed me to offer booze to death, and it drank it and lost the game.

@hinkelstein1494 11 ай бұрын

I managed to get the "Saga in Stone" achievement after dedicating around 8 hours of gameplay. My gameplay was far from optimal, and to make matters worse, I lost control of my realm on two separate occasions due to unexpected succession complications caused by a Muslim ruler.

@defaultname9214 11 ай бұрын

17:00 in ck3 you can still kind of pillage your own land with the extort subjects decision. Also this is the first video of yours I've seen, one new subscriber unlocked ❤️

@johnfraire6931 10 ай бұрын

As someone who intentionally chose "defaultname" as your un, do you hate or are ambivalent getting a number stapled to your name?

@codymcbride2447 9 ай бұрын

I remember getting game over'd by the Grim Reaper like 6 years into a CK2 save.

@IronAidan260 11 ай бұрын

For the getting eaten by a carp Easter egg, it may be a reference to the legendary British kings that have been eaten by fish. Also, I would’ve added the fact that the prophet Muhammad doesn’t have a character in game, he just has an icon since there’s a rule against depicting Muhammad

@edocsil123 10 ай бұрын

Don't kill your kids because of inhertance problems, just disinherit them! You're still able to give them lands and i think you can actually reinheritet them in some cases

@abcede3897 11 ай бұрын

It's my first time on your channel and I love it!!❤

@andrefiremaster 10 ай бұрын

Savescumming (in EU4, at least) is tedious but it saves me from having to restart after 10+ hours

@konstantinpakhomov3910 5 ай бұрын

I would add another one to the deepest level from my personal experience. Back when reaper's due just released and added court physicians, there initially was no limit on cultures with which doctors could be generated. So in an absolute chance of fate when I was going for Byzantine campaign the game randomly generated a character named Caesar the wise of the Roman culture. Which I of course used to spawn more of and later converted culture. It felt so magical

@davidunderwood9728 10 ай бұрын

You sort of mentioned it but eugenics is a bigger part of the game that anyone ever would have even thought before playing it. To the point I am arranging marriages to every lonely courtier to someone with traits just to help move traits down the line.

@pingingtomcat 3 ай бұрын

I’ve played around 800 hours of ck2 and never once gotten child of satan but I’ve gotten multiple child of destiny children

@NoNumbersAfterName 7 ай бұрын

I was writing an AAR advertising the Iron Century for CK2, and in the middle of it, I got Marco Polo. It was perfect foreshadowing for how I had Asatru reestablished in Saxony.

@ecxatov 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for allowing Max Effect to translate this video into Russian

@kevinvelado9907 10 ай бұрын

Omg I hated the serial killer event chain. I had that like every 50 years, until recent updates I had completely forgotten about it, until now.

@alienuplift317 11 ай бұрын

Hey Cara if you get a chance try the "True Immortal Cultivation" mod for CKII, it's buggy but it's a ton of fun. I've played CK2 I wonder if CK3 has the werewolf events? The one of the most fun playthroughs was getting the werewolf event while going for the Ashina achievement. Also if you didn't get a chance, try the CKII vampire mod too, because you can daisy chain characters with high stats while spreading your "dynasty" across the world. Also I'm adding After the End mod too because it captures the fun of this game. Your hair is cute and matches your room ambiance!

@maksimdanilov4359 10 ай бұрын

Awesome video! I would also add the event from the Northern Lords DLC for CK3 where you can meet Odin. I think it's kinda rare, I never had it myself, but I do know it exists.

@L.CROSS0 10 ай бұрын

Oh, and there’s an event where if your character has a mask on due to disfigurement and is insane, they can plan a party where everyone has to wear masks and you could force them to never take them off.

@Whiskers4169 5 ай бұрын

No wonder Marco Polo is scary The guy isn’t even born yet and somehow two people know him

@Userius1 10 ай бұрын

As someone who's recovering from a foot injury and surgery, I'd like that satanist healing event right about now.

@celem1000 11 ай бұрын

Never saw a child of destiny, but several of satan. I'm also 2 for 2 on unscummed immortality and have actually seen Marco Polo. (1300hrs)

@Hazardius 11 ай бұрын

I'm really happy you've asked - the hair looks great and I envy how good it looks.

@SignumInterriti 11 ай бұрын

I wish some of the mystical stuff from CK2 could return to the third game, would even buy dlc for once.

@tezatheboffin2184 11 ай бұрын

RNG cruelty - everyone's got that one time the RNG totally screwed you over. Last night was playing as Robert the Fox of Apulia, needed 500 gold to form the kingdom of Sicily was 59 years old but still fine owing to robust health. I was up to 497 gold when suddenly I get infirm followed immediately by cancer. Just needed to hang on for one more month but... nooooo... died within the month. Luckily I'd had the foresight to restore inheritance to my chad son and disinherit the hunchback the game starts you off with as your heir 🤣

@Yomabo 11 ай бұрын

The child crusade did not happen. It is a mistranslation. It was the farmerscrusade.

@acreisbroken 10 ай бұрын

I liked this video, first one I see from you c:

@Chimaera1017 6 ай бұрын

Just saw your channel for the first time and seeing the iceberg as well as your obscene amount of hours on ck2 (I have you beat by 500 hours) I had to drop a sub.