tbh kind of accurate because in the middle ages you see a lot of fragmentation as things like castles and feudalism was pretty much asking for disunity and medieval Europeans weren't good administrators that's why pretty much every major European nation (i.e. France or the HRE) was so heavily fragmented.
Ck3: I had the worst border gore EU4: I had the worst border gore Imperator: No, I had the worst border gore. HOI4 and Vic2: Laughs in Holy Roman America
I know right it’s so bad I wish they would do some border gore repair some people do. I watched a mega campaign where the guy kept the borders but got rid of enclaves and enclaves and it made the border gore disappear.
This is what happens when you put CK3 in, rather than CK2. CK2 would of been way way more interesting since everything in CK2 is far more dynamic and able to handle stuff like this. CK3 is way too rigid, and streamlined. It's designed for big empires, and such to break apart constantly due to everyone being hard locked into Gavelkind for half the game. It makes it boring. Meanwhile CK2 can have handfulls of different succession types at all stages of the game, keeping things interesting, and the AI do switch between them. This makes for very interesting situations, diversions, and erronous "Wtf" moments happen randomly.
There are a lot of channels doing Paradox timelapses, but at the risk of stating the obvious, your channel stands out because you actually put effort in with making things look nice and interesting. You've earned a loyal sub.
@@giuseppeagresta1425 is that the guy who made those historically accurate types of timelapses? i remember watching his MEIOU videos, they were damn good
I think that Castille being Carthaginian is actually pretty fitting, considering Carthage was itself a colony of the Phoenicians, only to break free and proceed to colonize much of the western Mediterranean, even sending expeditions as far as the Ivory Coast.
Nah I think Scotland is because it managed to survive from the beginning of the 2nd game alll the way to the end forming the British Empire along the way and also having colonies in the Americas and being on mainland europw
I would recommend including screenshots of the cultural and religious map modes at the end of each game for additional context, otherwise it's just random blobs of color moving about the map.
8:06 Two Persias, the Persia that has a coast line broke away from Mesopotamia while the Persian Empire is still landlocked. Go home, Persia, you are drunk!
Unfortunately the AI really struggles with dealing with angry vassals, and ck3 really likes spawning multiple powerful vassal factions that all want you dead at once.
IR: Borders make some sense, a bit of gore CK3: *BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD* Jesus it immediately just became disgusting Also show the faction map at the end, Alliance of Austria and Asian Group, but who are in what other factions where
Well, we have a game that starts 2200... We'd be missing some context for the quater millenuim between HOI4 and Stellaris I guess, but it's not like we got as much context here either.
Time lapse idea: might not be very interesting in action, but replace all provinces in Europe with empty uncolonized ones, and just allow the native Americans to do their thing, whether they actually manage to colonize the world or not
I appreciate mega campaigns. Each game has its own mechanics and I love seeing the alt history that comes from that. Gaulish Somalia? Hellenic Brittany? It gives more influence to the forgotten religions, cultures and states.
The beauty of tiny austria spawning from the collapse of the kingdom of kiev, slowly but surely expanding over 1000 years to become the preminent power
This is not a criticism of this video in particular but one thing that always disappoints me about these historical mega-campaigns is the tendency for things to revert to standard names and situations of our timeline. The example that is most glaring to me here is Louisiana, since the territory was named after a particular French king and it seems odd that it turns up in a timeline where Carthage survived into the Middle Ages and a million other things are different from our history. On the other hand, going too far in the other direction would create a result so alien and out of context it would be little different from a random map. I don't really have a good solution for this, except some vague ideas about curating every jump between games and making edits when things look too familiar, but the process would be laborious and the result would be a matter of the taste and decisions of the person making it. Which, unless an awesome new gaming computer manifests itself in my room and starts making demands, is not going to be me.
Yes, you are right but as you also said, it would be hard to implement these features, but I see a different solution. The colonies could simply not be named, and just have the name of the country's on them.
For Louisiana specifically, the "best" solution is to name it after the ruler of the first country to form a colony there. Could become Georgia, Ottia, Karlia, etc, but the linguistic rules for name to place are probably hard to program
I know I am late to the party, but man this was such an interesting video, and you have obviously out a lot of effort in making this video. You have earned a sub my friend
I was wondering why Europe didn't eat itself in HOI4, all the great powers just joined Austria lol Also I love that Nepal held most of the territory around Nepal but not Nepal itself
No Yemen :( ! You were the colony of Roman and you fight and expand until the war against Al-what, in HOI4.... You deserve conquer the world, i'm sad for you
To be honest, I'd rather see CK2 thrown in. CK2 had vastly better dynamics, and randomness to it. CK3 is way too rigid and streamlined for very dynamic interesting events to happen. Everything broke up when it hit CK3, because CK3 is hard coded designed to break everyone up and keep them small, due to gavelkind succession being hard locked for half the game. It really makes things very boring. Meanwhile in CK2, you can have handfulls of different successions happen, and the AI will do them all randomly, so it makes for far superior grand campaigns imo.
Yesterday I lost half of my realm, because my one-legged, insane, horse loving character who was a known murderer (unknown kinslayer) and devoted orthodox theologian in his later years decided to steal a painting from a monastery, fell and then died of his injuries. He became religious after Byzantium conquered Francia after Charlemagne's death. Before that he assassinated anyone who threatened or even displeased him.
Wow, the transition to CK3 was lethal to empires.
Your profile picture kind of fit that comment perfectly
Yeah CK3 is kind of a mess right now. The fact that the AI can't hold a nation together is one of the things preventing me from buying it.
@@clearlypellucid CK always had a problem of balancing large blobs, either they're to powerful aka Byzantium and Abbasids or just a wet fart.
its the vassals
tbh kind of accurate because in the middle ages you see a lot of fragmentation as things like castles and feudalism was pretty much asking for disunity and medieval Europeans weren't good administrators that's why pretty much every major European nation (i.e. France or the HRE) was so heavily fragmented.
My fav time in history was that time when the two Persias existed, and the second one collapsed and became Bulgaria for a few years.
Also Hellas in Ukraine
@@adnan_honest_jihadist5775 And Moldavia in France
@@tolia5587 idc About that
@@adnan_honest_jihadist5775 7:28
There was a kingdom called The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. We are living in the weirder timeline, to be honest.
Ck3: I had the worst border gore
EU4: I had the worst border gore
Imperator: No, I had the worst border gore.
HOI4 and Vic2: Laughs in Holy Roman America
If it couldn’t get any cursed than that.
@CoolHenry22 I was gonna say that lol
Arch Duke George Washington
I know right it’s so bad I wish they would do some border gore repair some people do. I watched a mega campaign where the guy kept the borders but got rid of enclaves and enclaves and it made the border gore disappear.
@@bobafett5399 to be fair bordergore is very realistic of the time
CK3 when you give it an Imperitor save file: "AND I THREW IT ON THE GROUND!"
this is like the first time i feel almost a physical pain from timelapse
When the empire title has no de jure kingdoms: "I guess I'll die."
true
This is what happens when you put CK3 in, rather than CK2. CK2 would of been way way more interesting since everything in CK2 is far more dynamic and able to handle stuff like this. CK3 is way too rigid, and streamlined. It's designed for big empires, and such to break apart constantly due to everyone being hard locked into Gavelkind for half the game. It makes it boring.
Meanwhile CK2 can have handfulls of different succession types at all stages of the game, keeping things interesting, and the AI do switch between them. This makes for very interesting situations, diversions, and erronous "Wtf" moments happen randomly.
CK3 is pure entropy as always
@@OliOAKASquekyboy
One of the definitions for entropy is lack of order or unpredictability
What did you think it meant?
haha i used a word most people don't use commonly im so smart and nerdy
@@ortherner clearly worked considering the likes
@@ortherner someones upset they dont know what entropy is apparently
@@ortherner it worked look at the like instead of mocking people you could shut your mouth
CK3 just breaks in, wrecks up the nice tidy order Imperator worked so hard on and then leaves EU4 to figure out how to clean things up
Late Middle Ages were like that ig
There are a lot of channels doing Paradox timelapses, but at the risk of stating the obvious, your channel stands out because you actually put effort in with making things look nice and interesting. You've earned a loyal sub.
Dovska tho
@@giuseppeagresta1425 is that the guy who made those historically accurate types of timelapses? i remember watching his MEIOU videos, they were damn good
@@doggerlander yep, that one
Vic 3 will be a godsend to all Mega campaign makers
We need a game for the fall of Rome
@@cumunist2120 Imperator works if you play it badly enough
@@cumunist2120 or an IR DLC
@@scios9917 if only they were still working on it
Wake up, vic3 kinda stinks
"Mom, can we have Russia?"
"No, we have Russia at home"
Russia at home: Wasas
What you don't know is that the Russian culture changed so much Russia wasn't called Russia anymore, it was Wasa
Almost thought it was a Polish takeover (sounded like "Warsaw")
@@reintaler6355 i think this was a swedish conquest
Wasap Russia
@@hokton8555 Less surprising then, the name ''Rus'' literally comes from there
Shoutout to the Bengal Empire for being a major power from half of CKIII all the way to early HOI4
I think that Castille being Carthaginian is actually pretty fitting, considering Carthage was itself a colony of the Phoenicians, only to break free and proceed to colonize much of the western Mediterranean, even sending expeditions as far as the Ivory Coast.
Barcelona is actually named after the barca family, and locals call the city barca.
a clony of a colony making more colonies....
"the phoenicians make some colonies, they make a colony so big it makes colonies" - bill wurtz, i think
This video confirms that in every alternative universe, the Middle Ages are the ultimate empire killers
I'd say Wasas is the true winner here, they managed to rule for a long time across multiple games
Nah I think Scotland is because it managed to survive from the beginning of the 2nd game alll the way to the end forming the British Empire along the way and also having colonies in the Americas and being on mainland europw
@@shineshrineplSCOTLAND FOREVER
@@SomeoneOnTheInternet855 i really didnt need to see this vodeo again afetr a year (i dont even remember commenting this)
Some day Paradox should really make all of their games inter-linkable to play an actual campaign like this.
Let's give a shout-out to Ming for not exploding and holding on all the way to hoi4
Oh, what is that?
Is it Russia?
Is it Soviet Union?
No, it's WASAS
me throughout all this video: *low-key rooting for the Baraba Steppe*
Once Judea died I was rooting for Ghana so hard
Persia: Who the Hell are you!?
Persian Empire: I’m you… But better!
Wow, that border gore scarred me. Now whenever I close my eyes, all I see are jagged lines.
EU4 timelapse, but every Ottoman province is replaced by an empty, uncolonized province.
*byzantium dancing*
When the imperator empires transfer to ck3: Mr. Stark i dont feel so good
I love how in the end , Austria and its allies pretty much own the world
Im a Austrian and I just love this video because we were the mfs of this world
I would recommend including screenshots of the cultural and religious map modes at the end of each game for additional context, otherwise it's just random blobs of color moving about the map.
never expected coptics in the steppes, paulicians and bogolomists, and everything becoming Roman/Greek Orthodox
Ortodox Austria.........Chinese Bogolomists and OC Wasas thats 100% not Russia.
8:06 Two Persias, the Persia that has a coast line broke away from Mesopotamia while the Persian Empire is still landlocked.
Go home, Persia, you are drunk!
CK3: That's some nice empires you have there, would be a shame if someone exploded them.
And I knew it was coming when I saw them building up, CK3 hates large nations.
Its a bit strange that ck3 just instantly desintigrated every imported nation
Unfortunately the AI really struggles with dealing with angry vassals, and ck3 really likes spawning multiple powerful vassal factions that all want you dead at once.
Also it's due to gavelkind succession.
Gaulish Brazil in a Personal Union with Ghana, that's why I love this game.
edit: Not to miss carthaginians in Argentina
IR: Borders make some sense, a bit of gore
CK3: *BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD*
Jesus it immediately just became disgusting
Also show the faction map at the end, Alliance of Austria and Asian Group, but who are in what other factions where
The Bengal Empire's name hiding in the mountains with a little sideways U in the middle of them is lovely.
Well, we have a game that starts 2200...
We'd be missing some context for the quater millenuim between HOI4 and Stellaris I guess, but it's not like we got as much context here either.
Time lapse idea: might not be very interesting in action, but replace all provinces in Europe with empty uncolonized ones, and just allow the native Americans to do their thing, whether they actually manage to colonize the world or not
You may need extended timeline for that to wrok though.
I was rooting for the Baraba Steppe ever since it appeared. I am pretty happy with the outcome.
If only we could fill the gap between HOI and Stellaris.
Amazing! Would love to see more paradox time lapses. Dont be afraid to branch out !
And the winner is: the Democratic Greco-Roman Orthodox Austria from the Alliance of Austria.
I appreciate mega campaigns. Each game has its own mechanics and I love seeing the alt history that comes from that.
Gaulish Somalia? Hellenic Brittany?
It gives more influence to the forgotten religions, cultures and states.
I know right I saw that Sami was still around at the end of the game
5:50 4 empires. Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.
The beauty of tiny austria spawning from the collapse of the kingdom of kiev, slowly but surely expanding over 1000 years to become the preminent power
In the end, nowhere was safe from bordergore, not even Australia
finally somebody that gets it right! no time skipping or jumping! thanks so much!!
These developments make no historical sense and I absolutely love it.
glad to see what Drew Durnil did is being picked up again by others
Came for the border gore, and I was quite satisfied
Ah Bulgaria in Iran. Formed from the Persian empire that warred with Persia
6:30
Alexander the Great in 1060 AD.
8:15 persia and the persian empire are both independent from each other
11:05 for me, as for Russian, this Ireland name looks hilarious. Its like some fairytale kingdom in Russian folklore
"эвлания", хуле
This is not a criticism of this video in particular but one thing that always disappoints me about these historical mega-campaigns is the tendency for things to revert to standard names and situations of our timeline. The example that is most glaring to me here is Louisiana, since the territory was named after a particular French king and it seems odd that it turns up in a timeline where Carthage survived into the Middle Ages and a million other things are different from our history. On the other hand, going too far in the other direction would create a result so alien and out of context it would be little different from a random map.
I don't really have a good solution for this, except some vague ideas about curating every jump between games and making edits when things look too familiar, but the process would be laborious and the result would be a matter of the taste and decisions of the person making it. Which, unless an awesome new gaming computer manifests itself in my room and starts making demands, is not going to be me.
Yes, you are right but as you also said, it would be hard to implement these features, but I see a different solution. The colonies could simply not be named, and just have the name of the country's on them.
For Louisiana specifically, the "best" solution is to name it after the ruler of the first country to form a colony there. Could become Georgia, Ottia, Karlia, etc, but the linguistic rules for name to place are probably hard to program
That comeback of the Baraba Steppe against Manchukuo gave me Soviet vibes. I thought they were goners, but they never gave in
while every empire of the Imperator Rome fell in Ck3, Carthage said "i might stay for a little more"
and then immediately collapse too
I liked seeing the russian empire being released by wasas as a landlocked state in moscow
I know I am late to the party, but man this was such an interesting video, and you have obviously out a lot of effort in making this video.
You have earned a sub my friend
and now, must define a civilisation type to with the final map to start a Stellaris Game
Europe: * cosplays HRE but without Caiser *
Iceland: chilling
IR: those are some sexy Cartage, Rome, Macedon and Seleukid you got there.
CK3: begone! Deus Vult!
Bro I know it’s just a side note but the music was really great throughout
Why is there a pocket of Belgian culture in South Sudan? Just why?
Probably just some migrants
Can you put chapters in this video please?
Fax would be good
Great idea!
Lov me Missis,
Lov me hellenic
Lov me empires
'ate collapsin'
'ate Bengal empire, not raycis, just dun like em.
Simple as.
I was wondering why Europe didn't eat itself in HOI4, all the great powers just joined Austria lol
Also I love that Nepal held most of the territory around Nepal but not Nepal itself
You forgot stellaris id love seeing this world either grow into an galaxy wide empire or just end up eaten or blown up by angry space turtles
Crusader kings, so lovely border gore...
There is more than 500 years between the end of the IR and start of the CK3. It is a shame not to see these years.
Migration Period & The Third Faith of The Book : The Game
I still have no idea how it became catholic XD
i really like your music choices for this vid
Catholic Ghana having personal union over Brazil is new level of cursed
CK3 is like you spilled every color of paint onto the floor and rolled around in it
Shout-out to Al-Wahat, which forms in 1131 (9:08) and still exists by the end of the game.
Mithras be praised!
No one:
EUIV: "Carthaginian Australia it is!"
Get back here! Cathargo delenda est, goddammit!
You finally did it! Amazing channel
If you look the seleukid/ Persian empire was the longest surviving empire having a collapse that almost took 1000 years!
Could you make a guide to make the mods of the mega campaign?
i kinda wanted the UK and Austria and maybe Greece to fight but frankly the dogpile on Manchukuo at the end was worth the wait
Mega campaigns have to be my favorite kind of timelapses. I'd love to see more similar stuff in the future
Best wishes from Austria! We were pretty strong
I really need an Imperator Rome->Extended Timeline converter. Does that exist? It should exist.
Update: it exists, just in outdated versions of each game
Those empires shattered like stain glass windows
I love that America was fucked so much in EU4 that everyone decided to just leave 'em alone all throughout Vic2 and Hoi4
the four ancient empires, Rome, Seleukids, Macedon, and Carthage lived together in harmony, that is until the CK3 attacked.
One cannot unsee belgian cultured central africa
Can't believe 3 major empires broke immediately after IR
wait a minute, that roman empire basically HRE
Thank you! I remember asking for this. :)
Some of the music sounds really creepy on 2x speed.
I think Imperator should have ended in 867, as CK3 starts there
Is it possible for you to upload that hoi4 save to the workshop as a map to play? Very cool!
I'm just surprised how Wasas showed a character and didn't form Russia.
Wasas wins, has the biggest font at the end. I should play as them some time. :)
Next mega campaign, if there’s a clear winner, put them as the human nation in stellaris!
No Yemen :( ! You were the colony of Roman and you fight and expand until the war against Al-what, in HOI4.... You deserve conquer the world, i'm sad for you
To be honest, I'd rather see CK2 thrown in. CK2 had vastly better dynamics, and randomness to it. CK3 is way too rigid and streamlined for very dynamic interesting events to happen. Everything broke up when it hit CK3, because CK3 is hard coded designed to break everyone up and keep them small, due to gavelkind succession being hard locked for half the game. It really makes things very boring.
Meanwhile in CK2, you can have handfulls of different successions happen, and the AI will do them all randomly, so it makes for far superior grand campaigns imo.
Yesterday I lost half of my realm, because my one-legged, insane, horse loving character who was a known murderer (unknown kinslayer) and devoted orthodox theologian in his later years decided to steal a painting from a monastery, fell and then died of his injuries.
He became religious after Byzantium conquered Francia after Charlemagne's death. Before that he assassinated anyone who threatened or even displeased him.
Seleucids held on for so long, rip the name change in ck
Interesting that England got resurrected out of thin air.
despite being harder to record, hoi3 might be more interesting for timelapses since its not as scripted
How did you timelapse in Victoria 2? Is there a mod or something...
I like the one country that’s in modern Russia called Wasas
We need something in between hoi4 and stellaris
This is great! Only one suggestion: can you put timestamps or chapters in the video where the game switches?
How do you recover the world from a game to the next one ?
It seems so impresive !