Thanks so much for watching guys! Here's that link to the Crusader Kings 3 Wiki for Decisions: ck3.paradoxwikis.com/Decisions#Major_decisions. I know this isn't the MOST detailed video, but I wanted to cover a lot of really fun decisions! Huge shoutout to PartyElite for helping me with pronunciation of any of the Hindi words in India! If you haven't picked up the game, you can grab it through my link here: www.nexus.gg/italianspartacus . This helps me out a TON as it gives a direct commission to the channel, and depending on what time you see this, a discount to you as well.

"Mongol empire: A Steppe by Steppe Guide" please.

Didn't cover "Unite the Slavs." I'm working on that one and hoping I can eventually replace my flag with one that has three stripes.

I recently mended the great schism in one of my games starting as Duchess Matilda. I was originally starting the game just going for the reunification of Italy decision, and already had gotten Rome. Then while I was playing I noticed that the Byzantine Emperor didn't have any valid heirs- just one son out of wedlock. I looked at the sucession and he had a sister who only had one daughter, who I married to my heir. The two people before her were old and sick, so I was able to inherit the whole empire very quickly and easily. At that point the only ones left were Alexandria and Jerusalem which were very easy. It was really great luck and a lot of fun.

Probably the most amusing decision I came across was forming the kingdom of Cornwall. The only land required for that is the duchy of Cornwall, meaning you can make a two county kingdom tier realm. The challenge here is staying alive.

My favorite by far is “Destroy the Papacy”, I find it fun bringing down the entire Catholic religion by taking over the whole of Italia as a different religion.

Forming Norman culture is especially powerful if you start 867 and dont get into feudal for a good chunk of time. In my game I got hung up by a few bad rulers and couldnt get feudal (Meaning I was stuck in tribal tech), once I got out I was still so far behind everyone else. Forming the Norman culture catapulted me an entire era and made me competitive with the other european rulers

15:45 Interesting note for "Establish Norman Culture", Rollo "de Normandie" is in the game in the 867 start as a courtier of Chieftain Rögnvaldr of Trændheim. So start as Rögnvaldr, capture Rouen, grant it to Rollo, grant independence if possible, switch to Rollo and forge a legacy.

Again, just wanted to help the algorithm so it can recommend this video to more people

To add on to the "Empower Sicilian Parliament" decision, yes it does make the Kingdom of Naples. It also splits the Kingdom of Sicily into two, Making the Island of Sicily itself into its own kingdom called "Trinacria". Naples also becomes de jure land for The Empire of Italia, however Trinacria stays de jure byzantine.

I was hoping you'd touch on founding Switzerland in this video. I discovered it while playing Lombardy.

I thought you were running out of ideas ahah. Keep 'em coming !!

Becoming the Saoshyant (Zoroastrian messiah) was really fun and challenging. I did it by focusing on military talents for my rulers and force converting my prisoners whenever I could. Chakravarti looks similarly fun!

I just had a pretty great playthrough going for the "Become the Saoshyant" decision. Started as a 1-county Zoroastrian ruler in the middle of a bunch of different faiths that considered me evil. Had to quickly convince one of my neighbors to let me swear fealty to them, negotiate a title revocation and religious immunity contract and build myself up using them as a shield from the surrounding hostile rulers. Eventually the Byzantines declared a holy war on my liege, so I had to break out and instead swear myself under the Byzantine Empire. Having that as an umbrella, growth became easier. I formed a kingdom under the Byzantines and kept expanding east and south until I was strong enough to put up a fight as an independent ruler should the emperor choose to attack me. Took a good while (partly due to a current confirmed bug concerning Zoroastrian rulers and city vassals...), but eventually I formed and took control of the entire Persian Empire, and became The Saoshyant. Great time, and had I chosen to continue, all my heirs would have a nice trait from it. Definitely recommended for anyone who wants to try carving out a space in a hostile area!

This is awesome. Thanks for your time and effort to put this together.

Love the video; can't wait to see you cover the rest of the Unique Decisions!

Nice vid :) I would like to mention for others the decision to "become the Saoshyant": Not only hold the Empire of Persia title but also all de jure counties belonging to it and be a zoroastrian ruler. Nice thing for yourself and also your descendents will have a boni! And now... I feel the urge for a playthrough of "Shityy, land of the greatest of Khans" xD

now THIS is the video i didnt know i needed. sincerely, thanks for putting this one together. ive been going mad trying to go after decisions.

Happy to see someone still making CK3 videos

40:34 That has to be one coolest things in the game!

Starting to play, made it to King of Ireland so far, and got el Cid to be my Marshal using a marriage. Thanks for all the advice!

Kept starting in England wanting to reclaim Britannia, and having a time with raiders. Now in Italy looking to reunite Italia. Thanks for the list of other things to look at.

Here I go watching this again, great video! Would be great to see another for when there are a bunch of new or uncovered decisions.

I've only made it to the second entry in the video so far, but I wanted to chime in: becoming the Chakravarti from an 876 Lambakkana start has been tons of fun. I wasn't able to pull it off until the late 1200s, but as of 1350, I've fended off two Crusades from Rome for Mesopotamia, which is my westernmost king title.

Theres a few you missed, such as establishing the Kingdom of Aragon, uniting the Slavs, the Litgallian or Slav Holy order decisions etc.

on "reclaim britannia" breton also works and is probably the easiest of the 3 by allying with and then swearing allegiance to william the conquerer or harald godwinson (i did it in 1066)

Mybe the Kingdom of Bosnia should be the your next “lets play” series. In 1066 is super hard but i 867 its a bit easier. Also there is the Found new Kingdom decision and its much easier (you need to have three duchies only) would love to see this as your next series.

great video man!

How to become the Khan of Khans with actual Mongolia: 1. Make as many allies as you can 2. When they call you to defense, actually go. Your goal is to farm as much Reknown as possible. 3. Once you have enough Reknown, shit up a giant fuck off army 4. Around this time, Great Liao should be imploding in civil war 5. Call upon all your allies and you should have even numbers with Liao 6. Lifetime CB of Kingdom Invasion on Liao 8. ??? 9. CONGRATS you are now the power house in the region 10. Mass execute as many people as you can until you dread is high as shit and keep the rest in your prison for your son to do the same. 11. If you're good, you should be able to take the Greatest of Khans action within a single life time.

Always quality and educational content. Thanks.

Becoming Chakravarti was the so much fun and heart break lol

I managed to be the greatest of Khan by starting as Cumania in MP! I partnered up with a Seljuk buddy after I end up in a losing fight with the Byzantine Empire and, under his auspice, slowly wed a Mongol wife and gather my power. I was very proud of that playthru; ol'Arslan never saw it coming :v

I played a norse to norman campaign recently. Took a few generations to get Norman culture, but when I did, I discovered that the Franks had managed to get War Elephants. Had a great time seiging Alba with a stack of Elephants.

Can confrim that you keep longships when converting to Norman culture, did it on a recent run. Can also confrim that adopting all French innovations is pretty dope! Massive tech boost for a Tribal to Feudal Transition!

Wow! Another video! I know what I'm doing for the next hour

wow so much structure, Very nice video

Forming Portugal to me is really fun because I take the route of getting independence and forming Portugal while letting the Castillians get their land, its a struggle to fight the Moors with the land thats given to me, any piece I manage to take away from the moors is a God sent

You should do a video on settlements with unique buildings, I feel like I randomly run into new ones every play through

You should also be allowed to form Bactria as a Greek culture group because that's how it happened historically

What do you think about the "Found the Kingdom of Burgundy"-Decision? I find it sounds pretty interesting, especially since that decision gives you independence from the HRE if I recall correctly. And also because of the history of Burgundy having been absorbed by the HRE a while before 1066 and so on. I imagine it would make for a cool "small and independent but strong Kingdom in the middle of Europe, influencing every kingdom around it"-scenario.

I find Switzerland to be a really fun game. It’s pretty easy to play tall, cozy your way into an alliance with France and just smash people with pikemen in the mountains! (Play a custom ruler, most vanilla rulers suck. I go for Brave, Gregarious, Humble, Tier 3 Martial Education, Age 16. Stat total of 13/18/13/7/10 12 prowess. Immediately give away some levies to guarantee council position and become the steward of the HRE so you actually have the money to do anything)

uniting the slavs is also a really fun but challenging decision which i can reccomend you to try :)

in my first game in ironman, when i didn't about playing tall or any of that, i accidentally mended the great schism as orthodox Sardinia. that silver mine + small culture are great conditions for all the mediterranean quests.

Managed to forge britannia as the Welsh yesterday, very chuffed. The king was called Arthwr also :)

From what ive gathered from the Empower Sicilian Parliament is meant to represent the Post War of, The Sicilian Vespers so if you do it withouth controlling every single de jure county of the Kingdom it causes the split.

Thanks

Once you use “empower Sicilian culture” I believe Sicily becomes a dejuere county for the itialia empire.

Great video, I've been trying to find out how to create Norman culture thanks. Could you do one or tips on educating your child, because sometimes for some reason I'll give a kid(rowdy or boss) to someone with good Marshall education but I get crap Marshall stats for that Child.

Great video! Do you have one on things like creating Kingdom of Cornwall? Etc

Well, I'm two years late, but I did, in fact not only create the Kingdom of Naples, I stumbled ass-backwards into it. I started in Salerno, slowly built up the Siciliy area with the intent of taking Rome and rebuilding the Roman Empire. In the process, with little idea of what I was doing, I gobbled up Apulia, Benevento, the lower boot, and Siciliy itself. And, create Parliament appeared. I selected it, and poof! Naples created. I have since gone on to accidentally create several kingdoms, and just created the Empire of Naples. I have options right now of creating the Kingdom of Italy, and at least one other, along with several duchies. I have watched many of your videos and I still am not entirely sure what I'm doing. I just know that despite my awesomeness (I refused to give up any duchies on mainland Italy and own 18 holdings, I'm sooooo rich), I can't get reknown and development to move in any substantial way. I have no idea how I'm supposed to speed up innovation, I feel like I'm doing something wrong. I have the cultural head power to speed one up, but beyond that, it's barely moving. And my reknown is at about 6 per month, which I know is pathetic. But it's been fun!

In the 867 start as Wessex, i formed the Kingdom of Weesex, then the Kingdom of England and destroyed the Kingdom of Wessex title cuz i didnt understand partition at the time. Once i made it to the door step of Alba i was given the decision to embrace English culture. So i was anglo saxon and could make that decision (and did). The year is around 940 when i did that. Ironman mode enabled.

Sicilian Parliament decision gives you the choice of a capital in Naples or Palermo, you get the Kingdom of Naples as your new kingdom title if you pick naples, and trinacria if you pick palermo, you can always create the new second kingdom from the title menu, it reflects when the Kingdom of Sicily was split in two by the Sicilian vespers (a member of the French royal family, Charles of Anjou was kicked out of the island of Sicily but still controlled the Mezzogiorno, the king of Aragon became the new king of the island of sicily, they were both, very confusingly, called the Kingdom of Sicily. They reunited in the early 19th century).

Oh man could you give Witch Coven your magic touch brother!?

You can basically unlock all of tribal innovation as norse embracing norman and then english culture in 867. and if you created HRE and archduchy of austria before embracing any culture your realm get primogeniture. Then you get the second empire of francia and conquer HRE from any character as french culture guy the french culture get some mid-late innovations. Then you embrace norman and later english culture and you have the most advanced culture group in the game and Primogeniture.

You can mend the schism as your own created religion.

Grubbing all that HRE land as king of France can be much easier than expected, but establishing Carolinigan border is quote tricky. Problem is that you get voted as Holy Roman Emperor, and you get all that land, but you don't have that decision any more. Destroying HRE cost around 11k prestige, but if you do that, you don't get that decision back.

Thought I’d share a run I did. I started as the kingdom of lambakanna in 867 and eventually became the chakravarti roughly by the year 997 I believe. It was a fast run, I was able to both consecrate my bloodline and become blood father so I got pretty lucky and basically had an op-race of Indians. I was going to finish up the run when I suddenly got the urge to see what fighting genghis khan feels like so I stuck around until the year 1200. During that time, I conquered the Tibetan empire, the Persian empire, and the Arabian empire. Genghis khan appeared right as I was defending a crusade for Jerusalem and he declared war for the whole empire of India back on the other front. It was stressful to defend but was able to do it. After that, I took all the titles from the Pope because I thought that would stop him from crusading, we all know that didn’t happen. I then proceeded to kidnap and wage wars against the Byzantine emperor, getting Constantinople and splitting the empire into its kingdoms from the amount of emperors I’d murdered and independence wars it caused. I was gonna stop here, but then saw there was an achievement for playing until 1453 and thought might as well go for it. I conquered all of Europe, britania, Scandinavia, the Byzantine and carpathia, as well as the Baltic states and the region between Mongolia and Europe. I converted to Catholicism and found the Roman Empire, as Indians, and also mended the great schism lmao. I had remained as the Theravada religion throughout most of the game, which has dharmic pacifism, meaning I couldn’t wage any holy wars so that slowed down progress. The run was a ton of fun and definitely one of the craziest ones I’ve had.

Could you cover roman restoration?

For Chakravarti, I wouldn't underestimate Cedi either. Vaishnavism is a great Hindu faith with it's Determine Bhakti decision, and in 867 you can just submit to one of its larger neighbors and gobble it up from the inside. Easily my most succesful game to date, which resulted in me conquering Rome in self-defense because the Pope would not play nice with the crusades (i.e. sucidially launching into Jerusalem every 10 or so years), and at least that way I could imprison him after a crusade.

Hi, I figured out a way to get kingdom of Bosnia in 867 ( I did it as Trpimirovic in 1066). You can start as Neill in Ireland and then conquer county hop all the way to Bosnia, you already fulfill the level of splendor requirement, you only need to get the duchies and become feudal. The problem with this decision is that it is badly implemented. You can't take unite the south Slavs decision afterwards. Also, if you get empire of Slavia, kingdom of Bosnia is not De Jure part of Slavia. Still fun because of difficulty.

I vote for a video specifically about establishing the witches coven :) I never seem to be able to pull it off. Once too many people of my house know about this it tends to blow in my face.

I believe the Kingdom of Naples happens when you have Napoli as your capital and have not create the kingdom of Sicily or Trinacria (spelling?). I know I created it on my de Hauteville playthrough. The problem was I wasn't able to make a university in Napoli because I created the parliament there... Next playthrough I'll make my capital Palermo instead! Love the Robert Guiscard start.

I think when you cover mend the great schism you can also cover restore the roman empire since if you can mend the great schism you're also likely to restore roman empire

Would be fun if game had decision to restore Assyria

how to get glass monument, i am a lunatic king but the decision didn't pop.... (it feels weird saying I am a lunatic king xd)

Pretty sure the wiki is missing the decision to re-found the Jewish Priesthood. I know I did it but can't find the decision anywhere.

restore the Danelaw is another

You should have put the chain decisions in order. Restore Sicilian Parliament into Unify Italy into Restore the Roman Empire into Mend the Great Schism into Dismantle the Greek Pretenders.

do you do an ck3 campaign playthroughs? i looked on your channel and didn't see any. thanks for the content.

Just a heads.upat 8.59 you say ahfghani instead of afghan, afghani is there currency there . Other than that great vid

Nice.

I get scared when a video just starts, got use to livestreams. Thought I had 10 minutes before the video started.

About empowering Scilian parlament. Do you know if you set in Capua will it replace the University slot? I've been wondering ever since I tried it. Because to be honest I would prefer the University.

When i start as a king with 2 of 5 domains, what is the best way to get domains from my vassals without the innovations?

Easiest to Mend the Great Schism as the Byzantine Empire you say!? BAH! I accomplished this as the Glorious High Emperor of Ireland. Allowing the true faith, Insular Christianity to prosper. Allow the Byzantine Empire to destroy themselves and take advantage. I was able to marry my children with the Eastern Romans and after they lost a holy war with the then Arabian Empire, I absolutely clapped them cheeks. The Eastern Romans had more technology, but they were war-torn, while my men were fresh, ready for war and well supplied with sword and Guinness!

The papacy isn’t a big deal if you attack them early on and move your rally point to the Sicilian lands in the 867 start

Great video again. Would you consider replacing the cutscene with something else? It's both distracting and I've seen it too many times. 😊 Maybe instead a panning view over the map, zooming in and out of regions? Or better yet, a sped up timelapse video. I love seeing empires grow and shatter and others rising to prominence.

Mend Great Schism was great. I started to play as a pagan Duke from Greater Poland region. I conquered all around, then Papacy and turned to Christianity and feudal. Next I grabbed most of Balcans and arranged relation between my son and Bizantium princess(3rd in line) so when her father and brother died in strange circumstances - I united Slavs under Empire and killed myself to give to my son all of power. Trip to Alexandria via Jerusalem after that was just piece of cake.

Try taking Rashka and founding the Kingdom of Serbia.. The conquest part is easy, but you have to leave the Byzanyties to be able to found the kingdom and not get crushed utterly. Or try Uniting the South Slavs as Rashka and proclaiming the empire as Emperor Dusan the Great mostly did. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Du%C5%A1an

For the starting israel, I actually had fun being norse, conquering azov and then the nearby rhadanite province to put a local in charge, switch to have them covert to rabbisim and then set them up as a vassal and doign what i could to give them the boosts they needed in not only conquering Israel, but also sinai for the reform priesthood. I RP'd that the nearby muslim rulers were like "WHY?!" and my character just gives them a smug "Because."

Is it possible to get Divine blood and Saoyant trait in 1 character?

Can you not reform the Carolingian borders only as a nation that has Frankish culture? Does that mean I can only do it as France (or West Francia if I start in 867)?

I mended the great schism with mariage between my great Britain empire and byzantine empire. I was the pope of insular Christianity and recreated roman empire. Was fun.

Is there a way to create the ottoman empire?

How would you switch to Feudal as any of the Muslim Clan starts for Establish Bactrian Supremacy? Afaik you can't switch between Feudal and Clan, at least I haven't been able to figure out a way :\

How does fervor work ?

Saving that dirty joke for near the end.

The Hungarian culture is also formable by decision.

Is there any way to create the portuguese empire?(I know about hispania but I would really like to make it as portuguese empire) also is there any mod that adds americas and south of africa?

37:02 how I did the restore israel decision was starting as the king of Abyssinia and converting to Judaism, it's very easy and only cost 250 piety because you have a jewish vassel

You can’t actually create both the Sultanate and Greater Armenia in the same play through though, both require you to be at most of king rank.

1. Conquer Neustria as a Norseman and form the norman culture 2. conquer England as a norman and form the English culture 3. succeed in a crusade, become a crusader state and then form the outremer culture 4. Profit 5. You could have used this time to do something productive, for shame

Reclaiming brittania was the first big decision I did and was super annoyinh

restore the roman empire as the empire of italy and greco_italian faith can u make a gameplay and the u for all the tuto

Nothing about unified burgundy?

It makes no sense that being an Empire prevents forming the Rum. Shouldn't it just destroy the older title?

Embracing the culture for Vikings is not really confined to England, Viking conquerers can embrace Slavic Culture in the east as well.

Given there have been many attempts to mend the Great Schism in the real world, and all have failed miserably, accomplishing it should be difficult.

"Armani emirate"? Well, that explains why he is so well-dressed! :-P

For the Sultanate of Rum, first I broke free from the Abassid Empire. Then, I converted to the orthodox and became a Byzantine vassal. After I ate all the lands required, I freed myself again and converted to Islam to form the Rum Sultanate. For Norman and then English culture run, I started out as Fairhair, established my duchy in Norway, cook up some fat alliances and went viking/conquering/blobing in England. Form the Kingdom of England and attack France for Normandy when they are exhausted from previous wars. Take Normandy, establish Norman culture, then English culture, convert to Catholicism and boom... Fairhair is alive and you are already a feudal kingdom.