The best start you can do with Alfred is to help hold off the Vikings in East Anglia. Once your brother dies, takes over Cornwall, grab as much of Whales as you can, let the Vikings much a bit of more of north England, then negotiate the Danelaw. You'll get the England Kingdom, so you don't have to worry about forming it, then you're free to expand across England without having to worry about succession.

Whiteshirt died in real life trying to press a claim on ireland?..does he know how easy it is to conquer it in CK3...he would be rolling in his grave

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

😂

@christophersalinas2722

2 жыл бұрын

Why was it so hard irl compared to in hame

@kaidenhall2718

Жыл бұрын

@@christophersalinas2722 because war isn’t easy

@christophersalinas2722

Жыл бұрын

@@kaidenhall2718 but it’s too easy in game

@kaidenhall2718

Жыл бұрын

@@christophersalinas2722 that’s sort of the point it’s meant to be tutorial island

I absolutely love how well you know your history man, as a native Mercian it's refreshing to see guides talking about the actual history while you teach us more about the game, take my sub!

@RealmBuilderGuy

2 жыл бұрын

I appreciate the kind words and the sub!

"My wife and I we live in Scotland" "I love Africa, in fact, I lived in south-africa during my childhood" "I am a German-American. I speak German. I have a German passport" [perfectly pronounces french names] How even?

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

😂 just a crazy life I reckon. My dad was a German diplomat, so we moved around the world a lot. I've also been a field of work that has taken me across the globe.

@candiedcrusader7841

3 жыл бұрын

@@RealmBuilderGuy your guys' lives, being born into these crazy exciting and influential lives will always be what i strive to bring my children into.

@Philip54622

2 жыл бұрын

Then goes on to be a ck3 legend

Thanks for giving a shout out to Scotland! Love the historical references you're pulling up; earned my sub!

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks and you’re welcome!

Never mind the pronounciations, that was really cool :) I usually find that to do well as Scotland, you need to get busy with the assassinating early on, to break Ivar's power base. His heir never seems to do well. Now that I know about Alfred the great, I want to give them a go, but usually can't bring myself to play someone "English" lol

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

I understand 😂

@mrmarmellow563

3 жыл бұрын

Oii!! @GO EAT OAT CAKES and Beam Off Scotty VIKING BRITIAN RULES THE WAVES !!

I'm new to ck3, just bought it on sale, and I like to watch videos while playing on my 2nd monitor. I've been watching a lot of your videos recently and I appreciate all the historical lessons in them!

@RealmBuilderGuy

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Have fun with the game!

I started off as a viking in Isle of Man, ended up ruling Ireland, Wales, England and half of Scotland. My King died at age 92.

Love the history behind it all. Thanks for the insight.

I love to play with Cornwall the most. With enough good allies you can manage to reconquer Britannia for the native romano brits. I actually managed to become emperor of Britain and got the name Pendragon. So I also gave my ruler family the name. A very good way to start is to ally with Gwynedd and one of the Irish kingdoms and go for the kingdom of Bretagne. Once you have the title king of Bretagne you can nearly choose your allies. You can ally with Wessex, with the western frank Kingdom or one of its duchys, or alba or one of the many Irish kingdoms. Then you can go after for the Welsh and with the right allies also for the vikings. And at the end, when the vikings are beaten and king Alfred is dead you can go for Wessex with the right allies.

Guide to the British Isles in 867 would be the geographically correct title that won't offend anyone.

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

True. It would just be too long for a title and video thumbnail

@Bellg

3 жыл бұрын

So one would think... the "British Isles" would still trigger Irish republicans.

@yokez

3 жыл бұрын

@@ImpKnt80 lol the kind of ppl that get mad at that are FAR from communists

@adammclaughlin845

3 жыл бұрын

I wonder how long before the weird brigade get all strategic games banned because they aren't politically correct and promote war...

@candiedcrusader7841

3 жыл бұрын

@@ImpKnt80 you went from me agreeing with you, to me thinking you're a crazy weird bible thumper with one good opinion

Love to see a Strathclyde playthrough

I love playing Flann Sinna. He is definitely the most interesting to me in Ireland.

Play Uthred of Bebbanburg 😂

@TheBeef2487

2 жыл бұрын

He killed Ubbe by the sea!

@kaidenhall2718

10 ай бұрын

His grandson is in the 1066 start

These guides are epic! Great work Sir

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

These videos are amazing pls continue with this you are so good

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

thank you so much!

Thank you, I love your videos.

Cornwall actually is secretly pretty powerful. You are guaranteed to get an alliance with west francia at the very start. When I played my first steps were to take out the viking count of leon (take out haesteinn if he is distracted in another war or ends up dying) then expand into wales. Once you have does this just keep expanding all over britannia and eventually take out wessex when alfred the great dies. I'm from cornwall so I have played this start many times.

Nearly convincing enough to get me to play a start in the Isles despite having no real interest in the area. Appreciate the history lesson; really gives a great context and understanding for picking these starts! Looking forward to the 1066 video.

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

I’m glad I almost convinced you 😊

@deusvult6920

2 жыл бұрын

Take a look at History Matters KZread channel. He has a lot of good British history videos (10 mins long) in a Playlist that he's done. That area made way more sense once I watched then a few times, they're about 10 minutes. I've never really understood much about how the isles ended up uniting and stuff so it helped a lot

“Try to not die”😂

Jorvik and Sudreyjar start out incredibly easy but get very difficult very fast unless you convert to Christianity. You’ll be constantly holy warred by British realms and vassals in northern France until you kill them and unless you convert to Christianity and anglo-Saxon culture you’ll be facing almost endless peasant revolts. Not to mention that your special soldiers don’t replenish and at least in the case of Jorvik you are feudal and thus don’t have the levy bonus that tribes get, meaning that combined with constant low country control from the endless revolts you’ll only have about 1-2k levies while controlling most of England. All in all despite how easy they seem (and are labeled) in my experience they’re actually pretty hard!

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

That’s true. Easy in early game, but CK3 is well balanced and then it gets very hard like you mentioned

Thanks dude, even though I'm Irish, I don't know anything other than "Vikings"

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

I’m glad you enjoyed it

i found a REALLY hard challenge playing with one of the vassals of aela, you can start a war for independence an you need to won before aela lose against the vikings, then you can swear loyalty to the vikings and destroy him for inside

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! You get rolled over very quickly

as a British person myself Alfred the great is the creator of "England" love youre history guides tho

As a Welsh man, the British Isles is absolutely fine mate

my guide for Wessex would be start as Alfred when you become a petty king, ally with Mercia and Cornwall and when you have a daughter make a alliance with Gwynedd (in real life Wessex used Alfred's daughter "aethelflaed" to ally Mercia and eventually she became the queen and after she dies her brother Edward (the king of Wessex after Alfred) took the throne by killing the council who were then fighting if they should put aethelflaeds daughter on the Mercia throne and that unified both Wessex and Mercia for good) but after you ally with them you should save east Anglia and when the Danes attack east Anglia again fight them with all of the Anglo Saxons help and conquer east Anglia for yourself and attack jorvik (northumbria) and once you do that you should have enough to form the Kingdom of England AND have so good relations with Mercia and Cornwall that they would accept vasilization. ofc it is a little harder than that but that should be able to do right inside Alfred's lifetime (in reality it was Alfred's grandson who united England but that doesn't matter) NOTE: LEAVE NORTHUMBRIA(during the first years) YOU CANT DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT AS IF YOU DO WESSEX WILL FALL BECAUS THEY ARE SUPER STRONG (tried it many times failed each)

I really liked the Mormaer of Fife start, would recommend.

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

Take over Albion from the inside

@kaidenhall2718

10 ай бұрын

Why

This is so interesting

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

You did well on trying some of those pronunciations, considering you're not actually fluent in those languages. A strategy I've found that works well for dealing with Halfdan and Ivar is assassinating them. Their special armies stand down on succession, so you can kneecap their snowballing early if you can pull that off.

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks. And yes...assassination is a key with them

Not me about to start up my 13th Jorvik game just so I can do the same shit I’ve done the other 12 times

Just say the remnants of the former roman province of Britannia, no one would argue with that XD

As a Welshman I skipped the description of the Welsh counties. However, thoroughly enjoyed the rest! Very informative!

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

😂 thanks

If you start as Alfred... divorce your wife for one with high intellect.

@alexanderschweinehunde167

3 жыл бұрын

The Insular woman Samthann is a good pick

@greencoatt

3 жыл бұрын

@@alexanderschweinehunde167 woke

@kaidenhall2718

10 ай бұрын

He is a a extremely pious man and loves his wife. Alfred wouldn’t do that.

Hey, any ideas of maybe doing a guide on the Baltics? Always want to play with my homeland but get just swallowed up instantly. Anyways keep up the great work!!

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Yes, I want to do a Baltic guide as I spent quite some time in Estonia and love the region.

@adrians3741

3 жыл бұрын

@@RealmBuilderGuy Hell yeah,I’ll be awaiting that guide with anticipation. Can’t wait to find out more about my neighbouring countries .

Britain is appropriate as it is the british Isles

It's not controversial to say "Britain", it's what the island with England, Wales and Scotland on it is called. When you include Ireland and all the other smaller islands, they are "The British Isles". The controversy comes from referring to all the people that live on the islands as "British". It doesn't help that what was essentially an English Empire referred to itself as "The British Empire" for hundreds of years. CK3 actually handles this really well by calling the Empire level title "Britannia". Doesn't have the same overtones.

Are the starting lifestyle points and congenial traits random? Alfred got the genius trait in my game

Anyone: *uses the word Britain* Cornish, Welsh, Irish and Scottish people: So you have chosen, death.

@overclashtsk4512

3 жыл бұрын

I don't understand why they mind it seeing as Britain is the name for the archipelago

@drifter4943

3 жыл бұрын

@@overclashtsk4512 We don't actually mind for the most part. This is an exaggerated stereotype

@morsmordre3

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah it doesn’t make sense since I know the lot of them don’t like the English but what’s wrong with Britain

Cheinnselaig very likely translates to Kinsley.

Hey just to help out Alba means Scotland in Gaelic

Mann is also part of British isles

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

yes. I apologize.

In case you didn't noticed, he is not fluet in Gaelic or Welsh

i dont know how but east anglia survived in my alfred the great playthru and then i conquered them as alfred :D the vikings were pushovers in that playthru

@kaidenhall2718

10 ай бұрын

East anglia always survive in every sing play through of ck3 I’ve never seen the vikings don’t win that war Mercia, Wessex, East anglia and Dorset combined are all too powerful for ivar the boneless

pick up the king arthur mod and rule over albion!

In the show Vikings halfdan is called halfdan the black who was meant to be king Harald fine hairs father irl, I might be wrong tho.

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

I’ve seen both of those mentions. Either way, they didn’t nail the 100% correct person 😂 Still a great show though

@rhzyo

3 жыл бұрын

@@RealmBuilderGuy yeah definitely a great show, was hoping you knew if it was true but I guess when you don't have an accurate written account it's hard to tell for sure. Have you seen Vinland Saga? It's a really good Viking anime, set in the 11th century

Re "The Last Kingdom" read the books, the tv series is crap by comparison. Apologies, had to get that in.

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I really should read the books.

@whoopigoldberg9956

3 жыл бұрын

Geroge RR Martin actually said he preffered The Last Kingdom over GoT (the tv show)

so far ive unified england and took wales and ireland, thinking of making the english culture, also muslims have taken over france, spain and parts of italy i might go to war, they have a huge kingdom though

1:40 British Isles: Ireland and Britain, Great Britain: the greater of the islands.

Have you tried the mod the legacy of king arthur?

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

I have not yet

Haha. should have gone with Albion.

Is Alfred the kid of Athelstan from vikings?

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

Hi just to be sure. Are you saying the modern British Royal family are descended from Alfred the great?

@ciaranmck4469

3 жыл бұрын

yes technically we all are but yeah

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

Technically yes, though it’s a bit shaky at this point

@Ailumer

3 жыл бұрын

Well the royal family is also related to Rollo of Normandy too so it's all very interesting.

Would love to see a Poland version of this #represent lol

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

Central Europe is on the list

@Ciech_mate

3 жыл бұрын

Great, ill type it in now, thank you

Britain is the name of the main island so nothing to be upset over

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

That’s what I think too

@drifter4943

3 жыл бұрын

@@RealmBuilderGuy FYI this is an exaggerated stereotype. Very few people here actually mind, sometimes in Scotland, but it's more about being referred to as all the same people rather than the island being called that

nice thumbnail

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊

GO JORVIKSHIRE!! Also You FORGOT That Originally ''THE FULL DAWLAW'' Included East ANGLIA and St Albans County! Until Alfred Kicked Out THE North Merican VIKINGZ !!

Wasn't Ivar disabled?

What are the Poues Kings? 11:30

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

The kings whose country I don't know how to pronounce properly.

@RichardVarnegan

3 жыл бұрын

So, um....... how do you spell the poues kings? So I can research them.

@cevans2021

3 жыл бұрын

@@RichardVarnegan He probably meant Powys

Oh, no! Not the B word! -Britons probably

Try to go Isle of Man and form kingdom of man 🙂

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

That's a fun one

Its not a guide guys. He just talks about history.

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

It absolutely is a guide. It’s a guide to helping people pick an interesting starting point. It’s a guide to add backstory and (yes) the historical context of a certain country, ruler, dynasty. And it’s a also a guide that offers some possible strategies when you pick any one of these starts. So yes, I talk about history. But yes, it’s absolutely a Crusader Kings 3 guide.

What are fun options for religion? Preferably I want to make my own religion, but it takes so much piety! Converting to something that is already similar to what I want may be a good idea. Or maybe even make a religion twice to spread the piety cost over two generations. If you make a religion with synchretism (either pagan or christian), how much does that solve? Will that prevent most hostility and difficulty in converting? I want a small kingdom but a HUGE dynasty, converted dynasty members that spread the religion (and good traits). The two step faith creation could include a christian faith with pagan synchretism or reverse. Maybe sacred lies, a penchant for witchcraft and concubines for fast breeding 😁. Esoterism, unrelenting faith, so many fun tenets to choose from! When the pagans are mostly extinct switch out for better tenet, or eastern synchretism and spread to far away regions by marrying into nice if randomly located noble lines. It could be cheaper to convert (again) to an existing faith and create a new one from that (so no +500% cost lunacy). I also like alexandrian catechism (coptic has it), but I suppose being fundamentalist will make spreading it hard. Would this work, and any tips?

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

I haven’t done much with custom religions yet, so I don’t want to give you wrong advice. I also tend to blow away my piety on other things.

@421less1

2 жыл бұрын

Been meddling with a similar idea myself and i dont think syncreticism will help much because catholicism has the fundamentalist tennent (i think) which basically means they are opposed to any sort of offshoot. Maybe orthodoxy will work better, or the version of islam in Spain would probably work better as they already have syncretism with catholics as well as mines and a few duchies with special buildings.

@christophersalinas2722

Жыл бұрын

@@421less1 Catholicism is righteous.

You could've just called it the isles...

With the whole naming discrepancy the British Isles is just fine. Britain is England and Wales, Great Britain includes Scotland. And Ireland be Ireland✊🏻

@thevis5465

2 жыл бұрын

No, that isn't true. Britain is shorthand for the island that is great britain. Scotland is included in Britain as Britain is literally the same as great britain, It's just an island and there's nothing political about it. The term "British isles" is also frowned upon in Ireland, just say the isles.

@Lucas_Antar

Жыл бұрын

@@thevis5465 lol tf are you to tell me about my country? Great Britain is my island, Britain is short for GB but many scots I know use Britain for England and Wales especially since Scotland and NI have more devolved powers and is why Boris always says Britain to speak of the whole UK like an imperialist granddad. And finally it is the British Isles. Unfortunately for Ireland Great Britain is the bigger island and lends its name to the whole isles. I don’t care if Ireland is offended by geography, they’re lucky they’re even independent. Tho if Ireland was the bigger than it would the Irish Isles. Not once have I ever ever heard of the isles😂😂

no one can pronounce welsh words dont worry ;D

If playing the norse, keep the bloody crusades in th back of your mind... after creating Danelaw with Halfdan, boom comes the pope with 20k folk... (Early game danelaw this makes it kinda though) Easier to do with Fairhair after grabbing Norway, subjugation Danmark and invading Sweaden..

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

that's very true...crusades can be deadly

@whoopigoldberg9956

3 жыл бұрын

Can't you just avoid taking the holy sites in England? Which of is just one in Kent I believe

Britain is another name for England, Great Britain is the entire island. The British Isles are the entirety of both Great Britain and Ireland. so Cornwall is part of Britain as its part of England

Cornwall is England wether they like it or not and don’t get me wrong we can all be proud of the districts,boroughs and counties we come from but we are all English at the end of the day.United we stand, Divided we fall.

@darthhammer1475

3 жыл бұрын

I’m from London btw born and bread but my family bloodline traces back to Anglo-Saxons in Somerset.

I woudnt worry about the whole calling the full place Britain mate, nobody up at Scotland atleast gets annoyed at the place being put under Britain, getting called British on the other hand is a bit annoying as you most likely know

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

Very true. Two similar words with very different meanings/connotations.

@theamerican6610

3 жыл бұрын

I get pissed off when people from the UK call me a "yank" I'm from the deep south it's an insult to call southern americans "Yanks" or "yankees". 😡

@adammclaughlin845

3 жыл бұрын

"I wouldn't worry about calling Britain 'Britain' mate, that's its name."

@candiedcrusader7841

3 жыл бұрын

@@theamerican6610 This, I'm a californian (rancher family, not a soy family), i don't associate with the east coast, or any of their "live in the pod, eat the bugs" life style. Getting called "yank" "confederate", is offensive to us westerners too, i would say my circle claims none of that except the banner of "American".

@christophersalinas2722

Жыл бұрын

@@theamerican6610 alright confed

Mate Gwynedd is pronounced Gwyneth

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

Duly noted. Thanks.

@mr.rubicon1193

3 жыл бұрын

So the Gryffudd would be Gryffuth?

Northeast guide? (Russia/mongolia)

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

I did Mongolia and Russia is planned one day

why is it that 90% of youtubers i follow can't read? xD

Algorithm comment✌🏻

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

You’re a legend! Thanks 😊

i want to play ubbe

A good non-controversial way of referring to the regions is the "British Isles".

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

Good point

@ManiacalInc

3 жыл бұрын

Not if he's including Ireland, the term is utterly unacceptable here. We use "Britain and Ireland" or "British and Irish isles"

@assurnasirpaliii6827

2 жыл бұрын

@@ManiacalInc Fun fact: The original name given to the island of Ireland in classical geographic works was "Mikra Pretannia" -- "Little Britain", as opposed to the isle the Britons lived on called "Megale Pretannia", "Great Britain". This is probably why the island England, Scotland, and Wales are on is called "Great Britain". But given the history between the two islands, I'm not surprised that "British Isles" isn't much liked in Ireland.

Britain is the name of the biggest island in the british isles so it's fine to call it Britain. Just dont call the entire island England.

You talked more about butchering the names than you did Britain

@RealmBuilderGuy

4 ай бұрын

Ok