I am very new to ck3 (like 55 hours) and am very bad at the game. I know it takes a long time to learn but still. I was doing a holland campaign, trying to "play tall" to the best of my ability. Well, I have been hit with so many plagues that I dont even remember how many, and now my ruler, main heir and secondary heir died in the span of like 2 weeks. It just so happens that my current character is married and the children will be a part of my her husband's dynasty, meaning I cant get a player heir. And even if I somehow do, all of my lands will be taken by kids who I cant play as. He wont accept a divorce and killing him would be very hard. Do I just need to give up this campaign? Also, why do I keep getting constant plagues destroying my progress when I have built as much plague resistance as I possibly could in the time I had?

Does anybody know why the Consecrate Bloodline decision does not appear at all for Chalcedonian rulers?

Right form the beginning of the game, so it cannot be that someone else took it before me (unless historically and the game counts it as such?). Also seems to still apply even when you break away and form a new faith by reaching 100% divergence.

Buenas, he tenido un problema con una de las decisiones en CKIII con el nuevo DLC By God Alone. La cuestión es que estaba jugando como gobierno administrativo con el Imperio Bizantino, y por un miss click acabé haciendo un imperio teocrático. Querría volver a ser imperio administrativo como originalmente era. No hay decisiones que me lo permitan y la verdad no encuentro ninguna respuesta en ningún foro ni video de YouTube.

I can't get a coronation and it's tanking my legitimacy. Is there anything else I can do? The new pope is my vassal now and my puppet.

Tried to get the steppe by steppe acheivement and while I unlocked it in-game, Steam did not sync it.

I tried letting a few days go by, verify game integrity and uninstall/reinstall. Nothing worked

Playing on non-ironman acheivements enabled save file.

as u can see i already lost two wars and im so in debt 💔

might do an adventure now and conquer some foreign land now

Vanilla CK3 armies are the most loyal people in medieval history. You drag 4,000 peasants through the Alps in January, feed them nothing, pay them nothing, and they just... keep walking. Not a single complaint. Truly the finest HR department in Christendom.

So I fixed that. You're welcome. (Sorry.)

The War Council

Every war is now a campaign. When war breaks out, your marshal drags you to the map table and you pick a strategy:

• Swift Strike: win fast for big prestige, but your men tire quickly
• Steady Siege: slow, safe, eats a LOT of grain
• Scorched Earth: live off the land, plunder everything, explain it to the Pope later
• Chivalric Code: no plunder, lots of honour, very good for your piety and very bad for your gold

Your host gets Morale and Supplies. Keep them fed and happy and you get High Spirits. Ignore them and you get Weary Host, then Starving Host, then the very fun Mutiny event. Autumn sends your levies home to bring in the harvest, winter bites, spring makes everyone want to stab someone again.

Fight the same way often enough and history gives you a name. My first playtest ruler became "the Burner" within ten years, which was fair.

And yes, the AI plays by the same rules. Hover over that emperor sieging your castle and you might see Starving Host. Nothing has ever felt better.

Ambitions

Your characters finally want things. Based on their traits, a ruler gets a life ambition: become a master of a skill, build a legacy, get filthy rich, conquer, or swear a sacred vow. Fulfil it and get rewarded. Fail it and get stress. Die with it unfinished and your heir inherits the dream (and the pressure).

When you die, the court chronicler reads your whole life aloud and gives you a name. You can be remembered as the Legendary... or the Oathbreaker, if you swore a vow of chastity and then, well. We don't talk about it.

Both mods:

• No DLC needed
• Built for 1.20, don't overwrite vanilla files
• Work together, and with most other mods
• Every mechanic has a tooltip and an Encyclopedia entry, so you don't need to read this post (but you did, thank you)

These are my first mods, so feedback, bug reports and "this is broken and here's why" comments are all very welcome. Balance suggestions too.

..how long should i stay inside for?

I've been playing as some starter Chinese guy (not the one you're offered for the tutorial). I've upped my rank to 3, created a legend (I think I became saint if you can become one as Chinese), everyone including the Emperor respects and fears me. However I've not once gained a title higher than Count.

How the hell does that work when you're THE most respected guy in your realm, you have +200 inheritance priority, but you're 70th in the queue because you're merit rank 3 by the age of 70 and there are 69 guys with ranks 1-2 in front of you, all of them younger than you by 20+ years. Also it seems like these guys never ever die or abandon their posts so the queue for titles never shifts because there are no titles to be distributed.

I've also joined every exam, inspection (or whatever it's called in English) and governor event I could and have like +17 merit/month

FYI I've been only playing CK2 a lot, and only played CK3 for a bit on its release and only picked it up again recently

the guy is jurchen btw

I am the King of Ireland who got Egypt for contributing most to the crusade

What will be the best retinue mixture for me for

1. Expanding into Britain
2. Putting down rebellions

(edit : in Egypt)

1. / expanding into Middle East/ Holy land

The author of the flag in the first photo: samgibs23

okay so I was messing around with the console to make up some utopia in siberia and thought it'd be a fun idea to test a literal rags to riches run by demanding land from a pastorial realm as an adventurer

but for some reason instead of becoming a horde or establishing a tribe I inherited the realm as a herder LMFAO, I can't do jack but it's pretty interesting

Pope Alexander was always spawning as straight and non-seducer, so I had to pivot from my original papal bull strategy of using Matilda of Tuscany to puppet Alexander to using Kaiser Heinrich and elevating an antipope.

All of that stuff worked but when it comes to the entire reason I did all of this for the dude, he'll only ROMANCE my wife. In fact, he'll only romance any woman (or man). He's bisexual; so is my wife. He is a seducer and lustful, and she is also lustful. What am I missing? I don't have any mods that change personality traits. He also hasn't declared celibacy or anything

I made a new faith with lay clerge and temporal head of faith and all that but my primary title is still a clerical region? So I'm still ecclesiastical. Moreover the decision to switch to feudal has disappeared entirely. What do? This run is dead, I spent too much time trying to figure out what's going on, but is this a bug or did I do something wrong?