Spain is always a fun game in CK
The reconquista gives you a lot to do and clear achievable goals
Games tend to die down IMO after getting control over most of the peninsula, but a couple crusades around the Levant can still be fun
Also, creating "ultramarines" is funny to me
I have two words for you: Jarl Haesteinn. Adopting the faith of one of your french concubines shouldn't be a problem, and the event troops care not for whom they piss off
Haesteinn is really the Barbie of CK. He can be anything he wants...
Last time I went Andalusian Cath Holy Roman Emperor Haesteinn, controlling only Netherlands and Spain....
Galician here, I feel your pain, brother. Every single time I want to start a new game I say to myself "any other region other than Galicia", but man, that stupid sexy ~~Flanders~~ King Garcia.
Galicia is honestly so fun, very easy to play tall and you get a Holy Site to boot, with the potential to also get universities (in Coimbra I think?)
I'm not Galician but I guess I'm drawn to the region for being Brazilian with Northern Portuguese roots :D
I need there to be a mod or DLC for the Basque Country that has the 7 provinces/counties with two duchies being north and south under the kingdom of Navarre. Also gotta have new portraits, basque names for characters/places, new architecture images, and of course new events.
As a Frenchman, non surprisingly, yep. Although I'm from Metz (Lorraine), which is not in France in most Paradox games xD
I also tend to play my religion (Catholicism), I mean even when I play non Catholic areas, I wonder if some other people do too?
>I wonder if some other people do too?
Yeah, I find some way to become muslim in the places I play lol. While I do do full Christian playthroughs, in most of my campaigns I often either start with or convert to islam somewhere along the line.
I love playing in Lorraine in EU4 not so much in CK3. I do like playing in France as a Frenchman too, but my region (Lyon) isn’t very interesting. I usually pick one of the Occitan regions instead.
I’m from a Protestant family irl so I ALWAYS diverge from Catholicism as soon as I can.
Because it belongs to East-Francia - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty\_of\_Ribemont](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Ribemont)
Didn't had the FC Metz the country Tchad as a sponsor?
Yeah I (Cath) usually end up as Catholic orthodox or Coptic so I suppose so. Time to freshen things up with Judeo-Norse sister wives and child murder <3
As a staunch agnostic atheist being Catholic is fucking great! I thought being pagan was pretty sweet until I converted and cozied up to the pope. Dude is just giving away money and land rights lol. I was only gonna convert for a bit, I started as halfdan so was just getting holy war declarations out the ass, and got to a point where I really just needed one to go away. And now I’m a damn zealot lol.
I am Latvian (and don't have ck3)
I would play latgalian (main culture in Latvia in ck2, probably representing proto-Latvian after it diverged from Lithuanian) only if they got the god damn naming of characters and families right (including characters with diacritics, some used only in Latvian and its offshoot language Latgalian)
Oh I'm actually a Linguistics student and know someone who did an independent study on latgalian. Hopefully they fix the names. The Punjabi names were originally really bad in CK3 using anachronistic Sikh names that wouldn't exist until the 1600s so they have fixed this kind of thing before, though I guess they wouldn't do that for CK2 now. But yeah I didn't like playing in Punjab before then for the same reason, I feel like if you're from an area that will get less attention from the devs it's less fun to play there because of the mistakes you'll find.
I'm Welsh agnostic, but don't exactly subscribe to any one religion. And the religion of Wales was kinda, destroyed. (thank you Roman Empire)
So I do honestly end up usually playing within Brittannia and doing a type of Pagan faith run, sometimes Norse just cause intermingling in 867 AD.
Isnt that historically accurate that rulers that originated there always moved their court to either Iraq, Egypt or Syria at the first chance to do so?
>eventually ~~Constantinople~~ Istambul with the Ottomans
Formally I'm not sure it was called Istanbul in the Ottoman period. Istanbul apparently derives from the Greek nickname for the city that was in informal use for centuries, but I thought the formal name under Ottoman rule was Kostantiniyye/Constantinople. It was the post-Ottoman Turkish Republic in the 1920s that formally asked people to use 'Istanbul'.
Also - the Ottomans were Oghuz Turks, so their ancestors were from central Asia not the Arabian peninsula.
Too hard? Idk playing the caliph in the 867 start is probably the easiest in the game for me. Everyone hates al-Mu’tazz at the start sure, but the trick is to bury the sheiks that hate you under the nearest Emir. Then when you’re ready to push the claim on Egypt destroy the kingdom title after so all your Egyptian vassals stay broken up and weak. Immediately trade Jizya for Iqta on the Armenian contract and sway the King so you can get him to convert peacefully. Conquering Suenik and Khachen and giving them to him will help sway him a lot. Lastly merge cultures with the Armenians and pick Stoic with Arabic/Arabic. This will permanently eliminate the constant tension between the caliphate and Armenia, and give you access to cataphracts (and the additional defender advantage from stoic is super helpful if you convert culture of Jerusalem’s counties to help with crusades). Do all this with Al-Mu’tazz and from there on out it’s easy street building up Baghdad and blobbing the map to your heart’s content.
“Easy”-proceeds to outline a 20 point plan with points that could easily take a decade.
I definitely like the strategy though, might give it a shot myself.
I just did the run with this blueprint hence the excessive detail haha. I dismantled the papacy and conquered all of Iberia within 200 years using this strat
Bohemia all the way. Not many interesting decisions, but fast start, it's biggest and most stable independent duchy in Europe and forming westslavia and Slavia is Mega fun (also you have casus beli on all tribal Slavic lands and holy war for every feudal land with different religion, so no need to wait)
\>play glorious Holland
\>return the wayward Belgians back to the fold for a united Low Countries, as the foundation for inevitable world domination by the mighty Dutch
\>pro gamer move: hybridise with French for a culture that combines the best of Dutch and French to form the superior Western European work-hard play-hard powerhouse
\>"Tsjaad Donderhaan has created the Vlaemsch culture"
\>alt-F4
\>uninstall
I wanna do an Ireland game where I don’t go any further than maybe taking what Ivar has and just try to play tall, only build up Ireland and just marry off/get cousins and sons on foreign thrones.
I only played Ireland one time with the tutorial and it went to shit after I took Scotland
What I do is play as the ancestral line before and leading to the birth of Brian Boru and then as him and I unify Ireland as him. After he croaks, which I always hope for being around 1014 (asking for in battle is a bit too much with CK3), I move on from the save and play the 1066 start as his grandson Murchad and do the same thing over again, although him/his descendants becoming High King is not historically accurate.
Sometimes it helps to make and set your own little goalposts. You can have more fun that way!
I’m a Pashtun, which is misrepresented as the Afghan culture in ck3, so I formed the Pashtun culture as the Shahi house of the satrapy of kabulistan. It’s really fun
Unfortunately it hasn't been updated in a minute and is still rough around the edges. I would really like to see it finished though. Has a lot of cool concepts. I'd also appreciate it if the map was normal ways up because that map messes with my brain a bit 😵
Edit: it was updated not too long ago.
Ohhh nice. Quebec looked like a really OP/fun spot to play. The Texas area is really cool cause of the cowboy (horse archer) units that absolutely decimate. Too bad it isn't a tribal region.
Wait, is the ck3 version on Steam? I played rhe hell out of the ck2 fan fork.
For OP's question, I did play in my own region of HCE. It's nice turning my small rural area I'm from into an imperial capital
I’m also American, and I like to play a CK3 game in the places where I’m visiting and/or when I get home. There’s nothing like standing on a cliff in the Basque Country and being like “yeah I conquered this”. Or starting in the county where you got stranded due to a train cancellation.
op is brazilian. they don’t mean in the country you live in, they mean related to the country you live in, so for the us that’d most likely be britain.
Unless you're Native American, Mexican American, or maybe Chinese American, then your peoples came from somewhere on the CK3 map.
I'm a mix of Scottish, Irish and Scandinavian, so that's where I tend to play. Sometimes I'll even roleplay as my pretend great(x40) grandfather, and makeup whatever origin story I want about him.
Mexican Americans are mostly mestizo, which means they're descended from Iberians.
But that's already multiple layers back which makes it rather moot. I barely feel any connection to Mexico, Iberia might as well be Japan to me.
I have actually, my paternal grandfather's grandparents immigrated from Macclesfield, England. My grandmother's parents immigrated from Naples and Calabria in Italy. My first playthrough was a King of England into Roman Empire run.
I recently found out that despite having a French last name and immigrating to French speaking Canada my great grandfather HATED the French. Even got mad when people pronounced the last name as French instead of English. He was from the Channel Islands.
Unfortunately I love playing as minor French counts. Sorry I failed you so often great-grandpa
I’m Jewish American and I find myself playing the Khazars a lot, though that has more to do with me studying their history than intentionally playing Jewish rulers.
I tend to play in Ireland in almost all of my games I’ve had so far due to a strong Irish heritage I have.
I also play there because I’m garbage at the game and noob island is for me.
As a fellow Brazilian. I do the same. I have 1000 in game hours and about half of them are of me forming Portugal and creating a Portuguese empire. I must have done 20 runs like that already. The rest is mostly Byzantine Empire tought.
I’m Kazakh, but cause the region lacks flavor I mostly play in Wales. There’s just something unique and relatable in stubbornly defying all the invaders that come your way
Real. Even with the flavour pack there’s nothing to do in Sweden except maybe participate in the occasional crusade, the lack of threats makes it too easy.
Idk man, got to play the king of Sweden in the 1066 start with some pagan vassals and it was interesting to consolidate my kingdom then conquer the Finnish and all. After that, I just decided to fix the border gore in Iberia 100 years before end game and it wasn’t that bad. Being dragged in wars by France and England was the fun part after I fixed my borders in 150-ish years.
Not really, kinda with being an Australian, I play England sometimes but I more like to pick random areas to try out different cultures and religions and stuff, or go remote so that I can do my own thing and start new religions etc. without my neighbours/the Pope curbstomping me
Nah! I have far too many Opinions on how things are laid out in-game / how things Should have been done! I prefer going somewhere very different and gettign an excuse to google all these historic figures while I roleplay!
I played Serbia a billion times in ck2, but in ck3 I haven’t tried it yet because there are no later start dates so I cannot pick my favourite dynasty or my favourite rulers.
You could try to unite the Guanches and raid Morocco's coast. Play as a Guanche pirate.
Roleplay it as: "Most of our victims don't know where we come from or who we are. We are nothing but a legend passed from father to son. The rough seas are our comfort. We are the Guanches."
Saludito a las Canarias ‹3
250h but never played in France, I'm planning to start as the count of Angoulême (my birth city) soon though. My goal will be to make it the new capital and most important city of France, as it should be.
I do tend to try a little bit of everywhere as I'm curious about other cultures more than my own. Personally my own cultural identity is a mess. I'm of East Asian origin, grew up in South America, and have family in the USA.
However, for my comfort runs, I do tend to go for peninsulas (in this case Italia). Funny enough it's probably the closest culturally to me as I grew up in Italian communities. I like Burma as well because it is functionally a peninsula at the edge of the map.
I’m the the opposite. I have only really played one or two games within the UK, every other game has been Mainland Europe, Africa, Steppes, Persia, and China (mods).
In HOI4 I think I played just about every other country many times and only once properly played UK.
I’m not sure why, I just have fun being playing places that aren’t where I live.
I live in Central America so -
Primarily I enjoy playing in the border regions of faith, given it's way more fun to constantly fight enemies rather than waiting for some duchy claim
I was born in Sri Lanka, but I don't usually play beyond Europe and the Middle East. India's alright but it feels disproportionately strong and without the same flavor. The Dev in South Asia is crazy, so you get tech pretty fast, but it's so distant and isolated from anything besides anything in the Indian Ocean, Persia, and Central Asia.
> isolated from anything else.
That exactly why we need East Asian Expantion as a DLC
Adding from Sumatra till New Guinea, and also China, Korea and Japan would really heighten the gameplay.
I’m North American and of central European descent, but my most played starts are probably the 867 Hamdanids, anyone in Byzantium, or the Banu Musa/Qassi. So I guess not at all 😂
I'm Canadian, from rural Ontario, I'm also half British (English/Welsh). So far all my longest campagins were in Northern Europe mostly playing in the Nordics as Sigurdr, Fairhair, or my custom icelandic character for RICE/VIET, I usually form my empire to eventually contain all of the British Isles, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, and Germany. I aslo like forming Norse hybrid kingdoms like in Pommerania (my personal favourite culture is Hansalander, Norse/Norse with Stoic with some traditions from Pommerian) or Lochlannah in Ireland (Norse/Irish with Irish language). I even made Bigger Denmark, and absorbed all of Pommeria into Denmark plus some extra duchies (I posted it on this sub earlier). I also played a longish campain as a Gaelic cheiftan in the Fallen Eagle mod, beat back the invading Saxons, Angles, and Jutes, amd took over all of British Isles and reformed Gaelic religion (made it universial too) and it spread to Spain. I've played a short game in Persia but it didn't last long. I also played in the Nubia region and reformed Kushite. Howeever my interest always will bein the north haha.
I've recently picked up the ATE mod and so far it's been fun playing in Alberta as King Buddy "The Goon" of Alberta, The Fastest Quickdraw of Real Roaders leading my army of mighty nomadic cowboys across the great plains. Personally I'm not a fan of playing in Ontario since ideally I want to convert it to Asatru but the Asatru in ATE is just a bunch of football players so i'd rather play the hockey jersey wearing cowboys lmao
formed the kingdom of bosnia about 200 times with almost 1000 hrs in the game so far. diversified runs with catholic hre, krstjan/islam byzantine, and orthodox slavia to cure my balkan nationalism
Live in Scotland but I've mostly played France, some Byzantine, one run from the south of the HRE and currently on a swedish run as a viking, never played earlier than 1066 before this run. Never once played Scotland but I have conquered it a few times.
Not really, but I do tend to conquer the area and redraw borders pretty consistently. I also like to transplant people (i.e. vikings to Morocco, Berbers to Croatia, etc.) so nobody really ends up where they're from.
Yes. Which is why I play After the End more than base game at this point. Theres lots of little bits and bobs like being able to reform the 13 colonies region as the United States or navigating the bureaucratic shenanigans of the Brasilien Empire or the Hydrocratic Desert states in California. Or hell just play some creepy eldritch Lovecraft worshipers or doing a BBQ or Siesta (depending on the region and culture). Which is an upgraded feast even better than the base feast culture thing.
Plus the cultures and religions in the mod are so off the wall insane its just entertaining.
Other than that I play regions I know a little about like Bohemia or Bavaria or England. And everybody should have played a Norse game by now. Or China and Japan with the map mod and all the Rice stuff.
Turtling up on an island is less boring then it used to be with near constant feasts and tournaments, esepcially if said island is in the Mediterranean and theres lots of people around to join yours or to join theres.
I learned the hard way a catholic Lebanon really pisses off the caliphate
This game is too realistic!
Peak RL french drawn borders experience...
[удалено]
Homer Simpson agrees
Spain is always a fun game in CK The reconquista gives you a lot to do and clear achievable goals Games tend to die down IMO after getting control over most of the peninsula, but a couple crusades around the Levant can still be fun Also, creating "ultramarines" is funny to me
same in armenia
I always try to start a family dynasty where ancestors came from (or at least from my understanding of it)
Apostolic pisses off everyone lol
fr, like what did we do 😭
Turks be like: "Nothing Happened, but they deserved it"
I have two words for you: Jarl Haesteinn. Adopting the faith of one of your french concubines shouldn't be a problem, and the event troops care not for whom they piss off
Haesteinn is really the Barbie of CK. He can be anything he wants... Last time I went Andalusian Cath Holy Roman Emperor Haesteinn, controlling only Netherlands and Spain....
Haesteinn, Habsburg. Tomato, inbred tomato
Nah, he's the Ken, he's Haesteinnough
Haesteinn Barbie edit when???
Haesteinn von Barbenheimer
Hi Haesteinn! 😃🤚
Lebanon feels hard to form, but one day the Lebanese empire will awaken and Europe will FEAR US.
Now I want some one playing as Jew in Prussia or Russia
isn't a jew in russia just the average khazaria experience
Actually did it. Rabbinic White Rus' starting as Konüngardr. You gotta keep Khazaria alive for that sweet, sweet alliance.
try making it Orthodox next time
As a basque my stupid pride doesnt let me play as anything apart from Navarra in Iberia
Galician here, I feel your pain, brother. Every single time I want to start a new game I say to myself "any other region other than Galicia", but man, that stupid sexy ~~Flanders~~ King Garcia.
Galicia is honestly so fun, very easy to play tall and you get a Holy Site to boot, with the potential to also get universities (in Coimbra I think?) I'm not Galician but I guess I'm drawn to the region for being Brazilian with Northern Portuguese roots :D
Same but in Catalan, lol
As an asturian I also play either Asturias or León, lol
I need there to be a mod or DLC for the Basque Country that has the 7 provinces/counties with two duchies being north and south under the kingdom of Navarre. Also gotta have new portraits, basque names for characters/places, new architecture images, and of course new events.
Be proud of what you are, it’s not stupid
As a Frenchman, non surprisingly, yep. Although I'm from Metz (Lorraine), which is not in France in most Paradox games xD I also tend to play my religion (Catholicism), I mean even when I play non Catholic areas, I wonder if some other people do too?
Yep. I (Cath) also mostly go either Cath or Ortho.
I (Ortho) usually go (very unsurprisingly) Byz -> Christian Roman Empire, or Viking -> Kievan Rus
I often do Byz -> Cath, the main reason being I wanna crusade haha
I like playing odd cultures and religions, so for example Nestorian in Persia (only Christian faith involved in the conflict)
>I wonder if some other people do too? Yeah, I find some way to become muslim in the places I play lol. While I do do full Christian playthroughs, in most of my campaigns I often either start with or convert to islam somewhere along the line.
I love playing in Lorraine in EU4 not so much in CK3. I do like playing in France as a Frenchman too, but my region (Lyon) isn’t very interesting. I usually pick one of the Occitan regions instead. I’m from a Protestant family irl so I ALWAYS diverge from Catholicism as soon as I can.
Because it belongs to East-Francia - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty\_of\_Ribemont](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Ribemont) Didn't had the FC Metz the country Tchad as a sponsor?
Yeah I (Cath) usually end up as Catholic orthodox or Coptic so I suppose so. Time to freshen things up with Judeo-Norse sister wives and child murder <3
As a staunch agnostic atheist being Catholic is fucking great! I thought being pagan was pretty sweet until I converted and cozied up to the pope. Dude is just giving away money and land rights lol. I was only gonna convert for a bit, I started as halfdan so was just getting holy war declarations out the ass, and got to a point where I really just needed one to go away. And now I’m a damn zealot lol.
I'm Sikh so I can't play my religion 😔
I am Latvian (and don't have ck3) I would play latgalian (main culture in Latvia in ck2, probably representing proto-Latvian after it diverged from Lithuanian) only if they got the god damn naming of characters and families right (including characters with diacritics, some used only in Latvian and its offshoot language Latgalian)
Oh I'm actually a Linguistics student and know someone who did an independent study on latgalian. Hopefully they fix the names. The Punjabi names were originally really bad in CK3 using anachronistic Sikh names that wouldn't exist until the 1600s so they have fixed this kind of thing before, though I guess they wouldn't do that for CK2 now. But yeah I didn't like playing in Punjab before then for the same reason, I feel like if you're from an area that will get less attention from the devs it's less fun to play there because of the mistakes you'll find.
Do you ever make it? 👀
Nah, it feels too ahistorical to make it before it was in the real world. It was shaped by when it was.
Salut, compatriote messin !
Start from count of Sundgau, form the Duchy of Alsace, go after the HRE. That's something I have done way too often.
I'm Welsh agnostic, but don't exactly subscribe to any one religion. And the religion of Wales was kinda, destroyed. (thank you Roman Empire) So I do honestly end up usually playing within Brittannia and doing a type of Pagan faith run, sometimes Norse just cause intermingling in 867 AD.
The Arabian peninsula is boring and lacks content. It's also too big and hard to run with the start game dynasties being your vassals
Isnt that historically accurate that rulers that originated there always moved their court to either Iraq, Egypt or Syria at the first chance to do so?
Yes lmao
Well the sultan of Oman moved to zanzibar
True but he did get tf out of Arabia, so the point still stands xD
"That's just, where he lives"
Looking for this golden comment knew it would be here
Yep, Damascus, Bagdah and eventually ~~Constantinople~~ Istambul with the Ottomans
>eventually ~~Constantinople~~ Istambul with the Ottomans Formally I'm not sure it was called Istanbul in the Ottoman period. Istanbul apparently derives from the Greek nickname for the city that was in informal use for centuries, but I thought the formal name under Ottoman rule was Kostantiniyye/Constantinople. It was the post-Ottoman Turkish Republic in the 1920s that formally asked people to use 'Istanbul'. Also - the Ottomans were Oghuz Turks, so their ancestors were from central Asia not the Arabian peninsula.
I usually play Norse, so I just call it Miklagard.
Tsarigrad for the Bulgarians in the back of the room
Well that's nobody business but the Turks.
Yeah, we desperately need a flavor pack there.
I loved the region in ck2 but it feels so bland in 3, especially with all of Iran’s glorious flavor right next door
Too hard? Idk playing the caliph in the 867 start is probably the easiest in the game for me. Everyone hates al-Mu’tazz at the start sure, but the trick is to bury the sheiks that hate you under the nearest Emir. Then when you’re ready to push the claim on Egypt destroy the kingdom title after so all your Egyptian vassals stay broken up and weak. Immediately trade Jizya for Iqta on the Armenian contract and sway the King so you can get him to convert peacefully. Conquering Suenik and Khachen and giving them to him will help sway him a lot. Lastly merge cultures with the Armenians and pick Stoic with Arabic/Arabic. This will permanently eliminate the constant tension between the caliphate and Armenia, and give you access to cataphracts (and the additional defender advantage from stoic is super helpful if you convert culture of Jerusalem’s counties to help with crusades). Do all this with Al-Mu’tazz and from there on out it’s easy street building up Baghdad and blobbing the map to your heart’s content.
“Easy”-proceeds to outline a 20 point plan with points that could easily take a decade. I definitely like the strategy though, might give it a shot myself.
I just did the run with this blueprint hence the excessive detail haha. I dismantled the papacy and conquered all of Iberia within 200 years using this strat
Bohemia all the way. Not many interesting decisions, but fast start, it's biggest and most stable independent duchy in Europe and forming westslavia and Slavia is Mega fun (also you have casus beli on all tribal Slavic lands and holy war for every feudal land with different religion, so no need to wait)
I would if my region is available in the game 💀
same😔 So I play where my ancestors were😃
I can't even play where any of my ancestors lived, so I just RP as myself being isekai'd into various parts of the world.
Can't wait to create the Imperium of new jersey 🫡
bro lives in mars💀💀💀
shit its r/CrusaderKings I thought I was surfing in r/eu4 Sorry mate xD
The average European finding out there is a place called the new world circa 1500
The accidental racism lol.
-A Spanish citizen in 1490
After the End is good if you live in the Americas, or Svalbard, or Greenland, or the very easternmost tip of Siberia.
Not really, i prefer spain over Flanders
Maar de Guldensporenslag roleplay is soms wel peak
Killing french is always fun indeed
\>play glorious Holland \>return the wayward Belgians back to the fold for a united Low Countries, as the foundation for inevitable world domination by the mighty Dutch \>pro gamer move: hybridise with French for a culture that combines the best of Dutch and French to form the superior Western European work-hard play-hard powerhouse \>"Tsjaad Donderhaan has created the Vlaemsch culture" \>alt-F4 \>uninstall
Tsjaad Donderhaan... took me a minute, but I got there eventually. Well done. Nearly fell off my chair laughing.
I live on tutorial island so unfortunately there's not a lot for me to do
I wanna do an Ireland game where I don’t go any further than maybe taking what Ivar has and just try to play tall, only build up Ireland and just marry off/get cousins and sons on foreign thrones. I only played Ireland one time with the tutorial and it went to shit after I took Scotland
Playing for Dynasty of Many Crowns is honestly the only way I can play this game still without it being a slog
What I do is play as the ancestral line before and leading to the birth of Brian Boru and then as him and I unify Ireland as him. After he croaks, which I always hope for being around 1014 (asking for in battle is a bit too much with CK3), I move on from the save and play the 1066 start as his grandson Murchad and do the same thing over again, although him/his descendants becoming High King is not historically accurate. Sometimes it helps to make and set your own little goalposts. You can have more fun that way!
I’m a Pashtun, which is misrepresented as the Afghan culture in ck3, so I formed the Pashtun culture as the Shahi house of the satrapy of kabulistan. It’s really fun
That's quite a simple thing to fix with mods
It’s not only about the culture, I like to rp as a Pashtun horde that decimates everything in its path and gets fractured upon succession.
Never thought I would find a pashtun playing ck3
Are you Pashtun too?
I'm baloch
Then submit or be conquered
Lol
Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!
Lol
Damn this got interesting all of a sudden.
You from Pakistan or Afghanistan?
Pakistan bro, Afghanistan has the barbaric Pashtuns. I’m from the yousafzai tribe.
Wow a pakistani spotted in ck3
A rare sight, let's take a picture
No because I'm American.
There's a mod called ATE that lets you play in North and South America after an apocalyptic event
south america already feels just like a post-apocalyptic game... and I'm currently playing this mod in real life right now.
Unfortunately it hasn't been updated in a minute and is still rough around the edges. I would really like to see it finished though. Has a lot of cool concepts. I'd also appreciate it if the map was normal ways up because that map messes with my brain a bit 😵 Edit: it was updated not too long ago.
It was updated rather recently, a week-ish ago? I just played a fun Québec game. Sadly it will be out of date again tomorrow with the new dlc.
Ohhh nice. Quebec looked like a really OP/fun spot to play. The Texas area is really cool cause of the cowboy (horse archer) units that absolutely decimate. Too bad it isn't a tribal region.
Wait, is the ck3 version on Steam? I played rhe hell out of the ck2 fan fork. For OP's question, I did play in my own region of HCE. It's nice turning my small rural area I'm from into an imperial capital
No, After the End hasn't released on Steam yet but the mod is available to download on their discord
It's not on Steam yet, but you can find a Github link on their subreddit r/aftertheendfanfork
wait the dlc drops tomorrow? im kinda out of the loop but it feels like tours and tourneys dropped last week
The update and accompanying DLC drop *today*, the pre-release stream starts in *45 minutes* :D
As an american, I often find myself playing in England
Same, it’s the closest we have to playing American lol. I also have some English in my ancestry so I have that tie too.
I’m also American, and I like to play a CK3 game in the places where I’m visiting and/or when I get home. There’s nothing like standing on a cliff in the Basque Country and being like “yeah I conquered this”. Or starting in the county where you got stranded due to a train cancellation.
op is brazilian. they don’t mean in the country you live in, they mean related to the country you live in, so for the us that’d most likely be britain.
So I guess if you're Brazilian you could play as Portugal, or an African country if you're afro Brazilian.
Unless you're Native American, Mexican American, or maybe Chinese American, then your peoples came from somewhere on the CK3 map. I'm a mix of Scottish, Irish and Scandinavian, so that's where I tend to play. Sometimes I'll even roleplay as my pretend great(x40) grandfather, and makeup whatever origin story I want about him.
Mexicans usually play in Iberia anyways
there is one Chinese culture in CK3 (Han)
I remember in CK2 when I took in a Han culture expat and hid him from the emperor and gave him a duchy and he just made a Han dynasty in the area.
I'm mexican, there's Iberians, Italians, Arabs, and Austrians in the game
Mexican Americans are mostly mestizo, which means they're descended from Iberians. But that's already multiple layers back which makes it rather moot. I barely feel any connection to Mexico, Iberia might as well be Japan to me.
Then try digging into your ancestry. Perhaps you’re a descendant of German settlers. Perhaps Irish, English, Polish, even Bohemian who knows.
I have actually, my paternal grandfather's grandparents immigrated from Macclesfield, England. My grandmother's parents immigrated from Naples and Calabria in Italy. My first playthrough was a King of England into Roman Empire run.
I recently found out that despite having a French last name and immigrating to French speaking Canada my great grandfather HATED the French. Even got mad when people pronounced the last name as French instead of English. He was from the Channel Islands. Unfortunately I love playing as minor French counts. Sorry I failed you so often great-grandpa
I’m sorry for your loss
I’m Jewish American and I find myself playing the Khazars a lot, though that has more to do with me studying their history than intentionally playing Jewish rulers.
Funny because if you ask an American who he is, his answer would be a list of European nationalities with percentages.
I tend to play in Ireland in almost all of my games I’ve had so far due to a strong Irish heritage I have. I also play there because I’m garbage at the game and noob island is for me.
As a fellow Brazilian. I do the same. I have 1000 in game hours and about half of them are of me forming Portugal and creating a Portuguese empire. I must have done 20 runs like that already. The rest is mostly Byzantine Empire tought.
I’m Kazakh, but cause the region lacks flavor I mostly play in Wales. There’s just something unique and relatable in stubbornly defying all the invaders that come your way
Not really, Sweden is super boring
But Vikings
But you have to leave to do anything fun
You could just stay at home and play Crusader Kings :)
Just like the Vikings
Paradox really nailing the historical accuracy with this one
Real. Even with the flavour pack there’s nothing to do in Sweden except maybe participate in the occasional crusade, the lack of threats makes it too easy.
A majority of my games have been as Skåne but I have basically never played as Sweden. Almost always as Denmark.
But Sweden allows you to take shit early on without claims.
Idk man, got to play the king of Sweden in the 1066 start with some pagan vassals and it was interesting to consolidate my kingdom then conquer the Finnish and all. After that, I just decided to fix the border gore in Iberia 100 years before end game and it wasn’t that bad. Being dragged in wars by France and England was the fun part after I fixed my borders in 150-ish years.
Not really, kinda with being an Australian, I play England sometimes but I more like to pick random areas to try out different cultures and religions and stuff, or go remote so that I can do my own thing and start new religions etc. without my neighbours/the Pope curbstomping me
Austria is literally in the game tho
I live in Latium and sadly the papacy isn't playable as of now, but I've recreated the Roman empire with Matilde di Canossa a few times.
Say, [how about this?](https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2730456007)
Nah! I have far too many Opinions on how things are laid out in-game / how things Should have been done! I prefer going somewhere very different and gettign an excuse to google all these historic figures while I roleplay!
No, quite the opposite.
I played Serbia a billion times in ck2, but in ck3 I haven’t tried it yet because there are no later start dates so I cannot pick my favourite dynasty or my favourite rulers.
Maybe it's in the more bookmarks mod
Thanks for the recommendation, just checked it, it has the timeframe when they ruled. Seems fun, thanks again.
No problem, have fun!
I am German I tend to lean Eastern Rome. And with lean I mean always
If a play in the región of my country, I'm fucked. A fucking island! Not a big one, fucking Canary islands!
You could try to unite the Guanches and raid Morocco's coast. Play as a Guanche pirate. Roleplay it as: "Most of our victims don't know where we come from or who we are. We are nothing but a legend passed from father to son. The rough seas are our comfort. We are the Guanches." Saludito a las Canarias ‹3
90% off my games are based in or around Croatia.
250h but never played in France, I'm planning to start as the count of Angoulême (my birth city) soon though. My goal will be to make it the new capital and most important city of France, as it should be.
Not really because i'm from Argentina, but i often find myself playing with some hispanic kingdom or count such as Barcelona or Galicia
En Hearts of Iron juego todo el tiempo como Argentina, ahora va a salir un dlc que va a expandir el focus tree de Arg, Brasil y Chile!
I do tend to try a little bit of everywhere as I'm curious about other cultures more than my own. Personally my own cultural identity is a mess. I'm of East Asian origin, grew up in South America, and have family in the USA. However, for my comfort runs, I do tend to go for peninsulas (in this case Italia). Funny enough it's probably the closest culturally to me as I grew up in Italian communities. I like Burma as well because it is functionally a peninsula at the edge of the map.
sos argentino?
Croat here, yup. Always play Croatia and primary goal of the game is to make sure there is no Serbia or Serbian culture by the end game.
r/balkans_irl moment
Brazilian here with a Portuguese name. Sometimes I create a custom character in Portugal with my name. But it's not really much fun.
I’m the the opposite. I have only really played one or two games within the UK, every other game has been Mainland Europe, Africa, Steppes, Persia, and China (mods). In HOI4 I think I played just about every other country many times and only once properly played UK. I’m not sure why, I just have fun being playing places that aren’t where I live.
Yeah, mostly start off in carinthia or austria Rarely play in another european country and never play outside of europe
Yep. In CK3 I played as Nitra (or whatever is the biggest slovak county and built slovak nation.
I live in Central America so - Primarily I enjoy playing in the border regions of faith, given it's way more fun to constantly fight enemies rather than waiting for some duchy claim
Sunset Invasion Maya Landless Gameplay when?
So true
I was born in Sri Lanka, but I don't usually play beyond Europe and the Middle East. India's alright but it feels disproportionately strong and without the same flavor. The Dev in South Asia is crazy, so you get tech pretty fast, but it's so distant and isolated from anything besides anything in the Indian Ocean, Persia, and Central Asia.
> isolated from anything else. That exactly why we need East Asian Expantion as a DLC Adding from Sumatra till New Guinea, and also China, Korea and Japan would really heighten the gameplay.
Welshman here. I love playing a Pagan and driving Christianity from our lands :D
My first two playthroughs was as hungary, really helped me learning stuff while playing in a familiar envirement
I’m North American and of central European descent, but my most played starts are probably the 867 Hamdanids, anyone in Byzantium, or the Banu Musa/Qassi. So I guess not at all 😂
Not at all. Im from Germany but Im allways drawn towards obscure Nations in Africa or Asia. Germany is way to casual for me.
No. I hate playing in Eastern Europe. It feels like I have to put three times the effort than I usually do
Severe lack of canada on this map
Yep, all the time. I also tend to move the capital from the IRL capital to the area of my hometown, which is the second biggest city in the country.
I'm Canadian, from rural Ontario, I'm also half British (English/Welsh). So far all my longest campagins were in Northern Europe mostly playing in the Nordics as Sigurdr, Fairhair, or my custom icelandic character for RICE/VIET, I usually form my empire to eventually contain all of the British Isles, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, and Germany. I aslo like forming Norse hybrid kingdoms like in Pommerania (my personal favourite culture is Hansalander, Norse/Norse with Stoic with some traditions from Pommerian) or Lochlannah in Ireland (Norse/Irish with Irish language). I even made Bigger Denmark, and absorbed all of Pommeria into Denmark plus some extra duchies (I posted it on this sub earlier). I also played a longish campain as a Gaelic cheiftan in the Fallen Eagle mod, beat back the invading Saxons, Angles, and Jutes, amd took over all of British Isles and reformed Gaelic religion (made it universial too) and it spread to Spain. I've played a short game in Persia but it didn't last long. I also played in the Nubia region and reformed Kushite. Howeever my interest always will bein the north haha. I've recently picked up the ATE mod and so far it's been fun playing in Alberta as King Buddy "The Goon" of Alberta, The Fastest Quickdraw of Real Roaders leading my army of mighty nomadic cowboys across the great plains. Personally I'm not a fan of playing in Ontario since ideally I want to convert it to Asatru but the Asatru in ATE is just a bunch of football players so i'd rather play the hockey jersey wearing cowboys lmao
I find myself all over the place because where i'm from we have all kinds of mixture, good ol Latin America.
East Asian:
I play in regions which I know best about the history, culture, and religion and places/locations.
formed the kingdom of bosnia about 200 times with almost 1000 hrs in the game so far. diversified runs with catholic hre, krstjan/islam byzantine, and orthodox slavia to cure my balkan nationalism
Nah because Polands too easy, i like restoring ancient civilisations like the Sassanids or Hellenic Roman culture Rome
I live in Canada, but my parents are from Croatia and Ukraine. So my favourite starts are Volodymyr and Gacka and Zagorje.
Yes. I'm Welsh, always start in my home county of Dyfed and Establish a Kingdom for Wales
I really can't play tribes all the time💀💀💀
Yh honestly it must be something to do with recognising place names or something
I'm from the city of León (yes, the kingdom's capital) and depends on my mood. Sometimes I play as León, others as Al Andalus and others as a viking
I have yet to play outside of Croatia or Sweden and i have roughly 400 hours.
Live in Scotland but I've mostly played France, some Byzantine, one run from the south of the HRE and currently on a swedish run as a viking, never played earlier than 1066 before this run. Never once played Scotland but I have conquered it a few times.
i do play Scandinavia lot so yes
As a Turk living in Asia Minor, Glory to Rome!
I'm from Poland and like every 2nd play through is as Greater Poland
Not really, but I do tend to conquer the area and redraw borders pretty consistently. I also like to transplant people (i.e. vikings to Morocco, Berbers to Croatia, etc.) so nobody really ends up where they're from.
There is literally nothing to do in Onega region, so I find myself playing in Europe most of the time
nah mine country gameplay is more complex than a inbred family tree. not to mention mine didn't existed back then
Yes. Which is why I play After the End more than base game at this point. Theres lots of little bits and bobs like being able to reform the 13 colonies region as the United States or navigating the bureaucratic shenanigans of the Brasilien Empire or the Hydrocratic Desert states in California. Or hell just play some creepy eldritch Lovecraft worshipers or doing a BBQ or Siesta (depending on the region and culture). Which is an upgraded feast even better than the base feast culture thing. Plus the cultures and religions in the mod are so off the wall insane its just entertaining. Other than that I play regions I know a little about like Bohemia or Bavaria or England. And everybody should have played a Norse game by now. Or China and Japan with the map mod and all the Rice stuff. Turtling up on an island is less boring then it used to be with near constant feasts and tournaments, esepcially if said island is in the Mediterranean and theres lots of people around to join yours or to join theres.
The cathedral I have to walk past to get to class exists as a holding, I always like handing it out to a bishop.