Can I SURVIVE as an INDEPENDENT COUNT with JUST ONE BARONY?!!

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  • čas přidán 10. 06. 2024
  • I share my challenge to survive as long as possible as an independent count with only one personal barony holding using mainly stewardship and learning perks In this recent CK3 playthrough, I play between a rock and a hard place as the Count of Suenik.
    I demonstrate how you can still do quite well even with one province, turning it into an economic powerhouse even when restricted by the game mechanics.
    I also share some tips and tricks I use along the way which I hope also let you have fun when building a powerful medieval kingdom capable of dominating medieval Europe in your next playthrough of the new Royal Court expansion to Crusader Kings III!
    Let me know in the comments if you enjoyed the video and if there are any tips, tricks or other crucial concepts that you think I missed.
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    ⏰Timecodes
    0:00 Intro, Character & Goals For Playthrough
    1:22 Setting up Our Playstyle
    3:57 STRESSFUL Situations and Creating our OWN Culture
    4:00 Taking Stewardship PERKS and INVESTING in our DOMAIN
    4:51 Building the MEGACHURCH
    6:40 We're under attack!
    08:30 Innovation, Innovation, Innovation!
    10:40 Scientology...
    13:00 Unlikely Alliances
    14:50 ATTACKED Again!
    16:26 Those who build Glass Houses...
    17:34 The Mountain Fortress is UNDER ASSAULT!
    #CrusaderKings3 #CK3 #RoyalCourt
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Komentáře • 47

  • @ellie_vargr
    @ellie_vargr Před 2 lety +153

    One house ruling a single county for 402 years is an impressive feat in its own right, if we're being honest. Might even make a footnote in a book on the history of Armenia.

    • @onose10000
      @onose10000 Před rokem +1

      you could say, they might even be bigger than the kardashians

  • @yusufshaleh.2979
    @yusufshaleh.2979 Před rokem +23

    Playing as a single county in the mountains with high development, tax rate and Defendable terrain is the true tall gameplay

  • @nick2open
    @nick2open Před 2 lety +74

    Only way to survive is to kidnapping priests from large realms (high income priests) or with priests with stackings gold (gold will be inherit)-just recruit priest first time from prison to your court, then imprison second time and banish. 1000-2000 from one priest is very powerful instead searching infinite hooks. In 1100 will be persons with 10000 gold). With traditions on mercenaries you are strong to defend even without alliances

  • @lightwalker222
    @lightwalker222 Před rokem +16

    Never done a one barony challenge but I usually deal with renown growth by picking up the +50 marriage acceptance as my first or second dynasty legacy. Pays for itself really fast if you setup your marriages right, a lot of the time you can even manage it matrilineally with your daughters (landed characters will usually not accept matrilineal, but you can often get people who are going to inherit).

    • @MellowScot
      @MellowScot  Před rokem +2

      I think that would have helped an absolute tonne rather than doing genetics! That and using intrigue a bit more

    • @lightwalker222
      @lightwalker222 Před rokem +1

      @@MellowScot Now that I think about it, if you do that while playing one barony you definitely won't be the dynasty head for very long! Still, getting random crap legacies is better than not having any legacies.

  • @wazz9000
    @wazz9000 Před 2 lety +25

    Not gonna lie, it was a damn good run even if it ended in defeat. Definitely try throwing some intrigue in there next time to keep your neighbors in a perpetual state of disarray.
    This was super entertaining to watch though! :)

  • @pcu9284
    @pcu9284 Před 2 lety +3

    You should have given those family members with land money so they can defend themselves better

  • @canuckhorse5014
    @canuckhorse5014 Před 2 lety +1

    Got this video in my recommended, I really liked your commentary and editing! I hope to see more videos from you :D

  • @kylerocco7467
    @kylerocco7467 Před 2 lety +4

    You should do a one life challenge play through. Basically everything a character dies you play a new random character and see how far you can advance that character during their lifetime.

    • @typig5650
      @typig5650 Před 2 lety +2

      @@MellowScot There's a fun mod for this called Muse of Ambition where you get three choices of young, ambitious characters to play after each life.

  • @simoncodrington
    @simoncodrington Před 2 lety

    Another great video mate. Keen to see more of these challenges or even achievement runs someday.

  • @wiwersewindemer4437
    @wiwersewindemer4437 Před 2 lety +2

    One idea I had, was to marry the children of dukes and such, or at least characters with pressed claims on higher titles, and then press your childrens claim on those titles, meaning they'd be stronger, you' get more renown, and you would never hold it directly.

  • @BrandonGallemore
    @BrandonGallemore Před 2 lety

    Liked and subscribed. First video I've ever seen of yours. Will be going back through your videos to watch the old content. Thanks for having a great channel.

  • @jacobheron2154
    @jacobheron2154 Před 2 lety +1

    I really like your editing style, a lot of CK3 videos are like 40 minutes long so its nice to have something a bit more digestible!

  • @Angelsaksarkongen
    @Angelsaksarkongen Před 2 lety +1

    Awesome video!

  • @Wyatt125
    @Wyatt125 Před 2 lety

    your videos are underated they are really good.

  • @IgniteVashj
    @IgniteVashj Před 2 lety +1

    Really nice video, future run should focus more on intrigue. And causing mayhem in nearby kingdoms by permanently killing off their rulers. Eventually their empires crumble and break into kingdoms.

  • @kevincastrillon6675
    @kevincastrillon6675 Před 2 lety +1

    What you need to do was gain whole duchy and build them up enough that they are productive... then give them up as a stronger allie. I would go so far as gain 2 duchy for sons who arent special and keep doing that so you can allie with larger armys. But the reality is if you are not owning a gold mine as a only county you already messed up.

  • @moncefecw3131
    @moncefecw3131 Před rokem

    Nice video thing idk it was enjoyable and never played it so nice video

  • @Dmitrisnikioff
    @Dmitrisnikioff Před 2 lety +8

    Always start with Battlements is my recc, so you can start updating your castles. A bit more relevant I guess when your culture has more counties though!
    edit: for renown, spamming the diplomacy tree for the books is good: they are also misc slot items if you don't have a court, which is strictly superior to the others and lets you get more lifestyle XP bonuses
    final edit: Yeah, there wasn't much you could have done, other than snipe early for a holy site to found the holy order, which you then would have lost with the reformed faith. You maybe could have headed north into tribal/jewish lands to simply spread your religion but it's iffy if it could have helped at all, very weak benefit/cost ration compared to CK2 for it

    • @Dmitrisnikioff
      @Dmitrisnikioff Před 2 lety

      ​@@MellowScot The AI in generl jumps in way, way more to defend anyone, including you, from Holy Wars in CK2 than they do in CK3 and for more isolated religions it provides more marriage candidates and alliance options as well (though the pre​ @MellowScot They jump in way, way more to defend you from Holy Wars than they do in CK3 and for more isolated religions it provides more marriage candidates and alliances (though the "Present Debutantes" button made that a lot less of an issue than it can be in 3)
      I did this a lot with the Zunists, because throwing down a bunch of very grateful tribals on worthless land ended up giving me a lot of allies and defenses later.

  • @sahilhossain8204
    @sahilhossain8204 Před rokem +2

    Lore of Can I SURVIVE as an INDEPENDENT COUNT with JUST ONE BARONY Momentum 100

  • @imKen04
    @imKen04 Před 2 lety

    congratulations this might be one of your first video watched in a buddhist temple (don’t ask why)

  • @radiobaked
    @radiobaked Před 2 lety +1

    time to play a tall... dwarf

  • @oakleymakela2408
    @oakleymakela2408 Před 2 lety

    Nice video

  • @giannivandecasteele5267
    @giannivandecasteele5267 Před 2 lety +1

    good video

  • @JohnSmith-bs9ym
    @JohnSmith-bs9ym Před rokem +1

    I was wondering why you didn't start off trying to murder the Abbasid rulers. If you keep killing them, eventually the whole thing is going to break apart. The intrigue life style is literally the best thing for this "playstyle". I was surprised that you didn't go for it.

    • @MellowScot
      @MellowScot  Před rokem +2

      Yeah should have done that, didn’t realise they would snowball so hard at the time

    • @JohnSmith-bs9ym
      @JohnSmith-bs9ym Před rokem

      @@MellowScot Haha yeah, can't have thriving, stable neighbors 😆 We are playing Crusader Kings, not Charity Kings. You are simply not evil enough, my friend.

  • @mortache
    @mortache Před 2 lety

    Try Yabrin, the hardest one barony county in the game!

  • @Max_Griswald
    @Max_Griswald Před 2 lety +2

    I think that the mistake you made at the end was buying the mercs. You probably still would have lost, but I think the negative for being in debt is worse than the bonus you get for the extra soldiers. Also, your commander (Your ruler) has pretty low advantage anyway. You need to work on getting better commanders. I know it costs prestige and some money to buy them, but if I usually end up doing the "Invite Champions" decision on cooldown when I am playing a small kingdom that struggles to fill my roles (Has been most noticeable when trying to do Jewish playthrough in Ethiopia.)

  • @jinx9603
    @jinx9603 Před 2 lety

    this video was just as good :) also if you don't mind me asking what's your accent? it's really familiar but I can't place it and it's really annoying me

    • @jinx9603
      @jinx9603 Před 2 lety

      @@MellowScot omg I'm stupid, anywhere particular in scotland? I'm hoping to move up to Aberdeen for uni but I'm from Suffolk so idk any specific county accents. I forget how similar rural Suffolk sounds to northern accents so I get confused sometimes 💔

    • @jinx9603
      @jinx9603 Před 2 lety

      @@MellowScot nice :)

  • @electricVGC
    @electricVGC Před 2 lety

    I think this is more fun if you do this with a pagan religion so you can raid. I would love to see you play in Myanmar in a video some time.

  • @MrThebarron007
    @MrThebarron007 Před 2 lety +1

    idk how to make finding secrets a viable option when half of the time it seems like the game wants 300 gold for a hook on a guest of someones court.

  • @ScamallDorcha
    @ScamallDorcha Před 2 lety

    That's funny, my family is apostolic Christian lolol

  • @Workingatm
    @Workingatm Před 2 lety

    Why not lay clergy when creating the religion? Could've gotten yourself a temple with full control over it o-o

    • @Workingatm
      @Workingatm Před 2 lety

      @@MellowScot oh yeah I thought it was just one county, makes sense then xD

  • @shaneoneill2233
    @shaneoneill2233 Před rokem

    Newest Mr Beast challenge

  • @alexanderall-wf3zi
    @alexanderall-wf3zi Před rokem

    Would you make more content ?

  • @lucasvonhz9072
    @lucasvonhz9072 Před 2 lety

    why you dont put 16 years and put more bonus?

  • @reeceshugrue6167
    @reeceshugrue6167 Před 2 lety

    Lasted alot longer than Luxembourg atleast.

  • @speedymccreedy8785
    @speedymccreedy8785 Před 2 lety +1

    When your heirs just go running off to other courts and you cant get them back, the main point of the game is just OBSTRUCTED by this clown mechanic. Complaints on the forums for years abut this, but paradox is TOXIC to feedback.

  • @PaperMicShow
    @PaperMicShow Před 2 lety

    Good game ,,, play muslims alin spain and conquer Europe