Hummay of Bilma just to the north of Kanem is the historical founder of the Kanem-Bornu empire. He starts with 4000 special troops and a claim on the kingdom of Kanem.

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I could’ve/should’ve gone into that one. Great catch.

@mortache

3 жыл бұрын

I usually just go to Kordofan and pretend I'm a Pharaoh

@rolandfischer931

2 ай бұрын

I made that empire and fuedalized in 900 with the husband of the landed married couple, his culture is one innovation away from 70%. But thanks, I was wondering where I had gotten special troops from 😂

The Youngest Fatimid is a count in 1066 which makes becoming an emperor starting as a count easier

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

great tip

Central Africa 5:23 - Benin, House Benin 7:43 - Igbo, House Nri 8:20 - Nanumba, House Dagomba 8:56 - Bono, House Bono 9:43 - Kingdom of Ghana, House Cisse 11:02 - Manding, House Keita 12:11 - Kingdom of Kanem, House Duguwa 13:27 - Honorable Mentions The Horn of Africa 14:08 - Mogadishu, House Muqri 15:38 - Aksum, House Gideon 17:57 - Abyssinia, House Zagwe 18:35 - Tigre, House Solomonid 20:00 - Alodia and Makuria, House Azim North Africa 22:36 - Africa, House Zirid 25:38 - Almoravid Empire, House Almoravid 26:36 - Marrakesh, House Almoravid 29:08 - Fatamid Caliphate, House Fatamid

For those who do actually care the Igbo culture is actualy pronounced [ee-boh] not "ig-bow". In the Igbo language the letter I makes a long e sound like in "meet" and the letter e actually makes an ay sound like in "eight" it also follows the I be for e rule like in english, so the name Okezie is actually pronounced [Oh-Kay-Zee] and not [Oh-kee-zee]. Its also why Benin is prounounced [Beh-neen] because the two cultures are very closely related. CK 3 is actually in error when they say that they are from the Youruba cultural group. In fact Nigeria as whole still holds a very closes relationship with the modern nation of Benin becasue of how prominent igbo culture is in modern day Nigeria and the relationship they once shared. Nigeiran and Igbo history is very colorfull and depressing. I highly recommnend reading about it as hard is it is to find information about. (im a 2nd generation Igbo-American)

@RealmBuilderGuy

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the great info!

i just don't know how you are such a great, yet such small channel here in youtube. great job man. subs will come. and i'm here to like and comment to help you.

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

You’re too kind. Thank you so much!!

These videos rule. Knowing more about the history really enriches my games sometimes!

I had a lot of fun creating the kingdom of Nubia. I started as Makuria, absorbed Alodia and had a lot of bordering wars with Abyssinia, my nemesis in that region. Then, the christian kingdom of Jerusalem was formed and they became my trusty allies over many generations.

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

That’s a fun one!

@gaberobison680

2 жыл бұрын

I really enjoy Nubia. I swore fealty to the Fatimid’s for becoming the steward, they quickly tried to revoke my title but the war is so easy because of how narrow the border is. I ended up deposing like 4 caliphs xD

Terrific as usual! You're a great narrator :)

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much! 😊

Great video! Looking forward for these types of videos :)

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Great video man! I am completely new to Crusader Kings, and to any game of this sort. I just bought the 3rd one.

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching. CK3 is a great game that will only get better with time.

@Thatthing1234

Жыл бұрын

@@RealmBuilderGuy One of the best strategy games out there

Once again, a very informative video.

Enjoying the channel and have subscribed! Just wanna say that the 'g' in Igbo is silent :) Looking forward to more videos! Always looking for new interesting starts.

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words and thanks for the tip on the pronunciation.

Remembered to hit Like! I recommend Kong as another great Africa start. I honestly only chose it because I wanted to be King Kong (I'm 45 going on 15) but ended up being super fun, not as chaotic as I was expecting, I ended up doing far more diplomacy than war. Horn of Africa is great too, Mountains of the Moon stuff. Great videos, really enjoying these to learn more about the history behind the kingdoms in the game

Great video, I was so confused watching videos on African play through of ck3.

Just want you to know I come back to these videos just for the history please do more!

A great 867 start is the the Principate of Armenia, the 1066 one is great too but for diferent reasons.

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

That's true. There are some fun 867 starts, but the border chaos make me twitch 😂

@derfuchs13

3 жыл бұрын

@@RealmBuilderGuy with Armenia "YOU" are the border chaos

I really like this series! Would love ones for central asia, Tibet and India!

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

Many more are coming. Thanks for watching. 😊

finally someone did Africa. hope you will do this in Victoria 3

Wenyon in 867 was my first and favourite campaign

Love your vids man. A idea i had that im surprised a youtuber hasnt done is the different cultures with early succession. Such as occitan and basque having high partition within the first life easily. The czech with early house seniority. Im sure their are others but those are ones ive found. But just an idea.

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words. Those are some very intriguing ideas. Duly noted!

@whooligen7460

3 жыл бұрын

So i found it. Its a culture specialist called visigothic codes. Occitan anf basque in 866 and argonese and catalan. Not as many as i thought at first but still interesting.

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

@@whooligen7460 very cool

Will you also do a France or Italy guide? My basic plan for my next game (currently doing the Mother of us all achievement run) is to start out as a count in Southern France or Burgundy and work my way up to King (maybe become the HRE's vassal so abuse feudal contracts?) and then try to empower my dynasty and marry to all kinds of houses. So kind of like a Habsburg dynasty, but set outside of the initial HRE. I still can't decide which count/dynasty would make for the most fun campaign though.

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

I am planning on doing guides on both of those regions

Nice vid. Was really helpful tips for my campaign. Couldn't find it in the comments, but Igbo is actually pronounced "ibo"...

outstanding video!

I picked Bono just so I could say “the troops are dead bono” *if you know you know*

спасибо за твой контент, в моей стране мало кто делает видосы по ck3

I've just finished watch The Last Kingdom series. Now I want to play as Alfred the Great.

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

I love that series. Too bad Uthred is fictional.

@kun2588

3 жыл бұрын

@@RealmBuilderGuy He's based on a real guy called Uhtred the Bold, and the guy who wrote Saxon Stories, which the Last Kingdom is based on, is actually descended from the historical Uhtred. I think he was the Lord of Northumbria or something.

Can you imagine how much more fun this area will be when they finally add trade!

Great video!

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Wow ur knowledge is amazing

Nice Video

Been tryna do a Mali empire mansa musa campaign

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

It can be a fun run

@yokez

3 жыл бұрын

Right now im the emperor of Mali (I changed the name to Senegal) with land in england.

I'm late but very informative 🤟💯

I almost started a campaign with Africa to recreate the Carthaginian Empire.

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

That would be a blast

I was wondering if this idea is possible and how best to start it: Set up and create a Zensunni faith from Dune, were the Fremen descent from. Looking at how it was described I'd assume it mixes islam (sunni) with elements of some tribal religions (with a nomadic tradition) and buddhism (zen). It could be similated with a tenet that improves relations, either from tribal to islam or vice versa. Exotericism looks nice to portray the Zen. Preferably a desert nation of course eventually, but I could start anywhere. I'd prefer to have a small, highly developed kingdom, part of a puppet empire. I think you can take over an empire by marriage and killing an heir. Instead of taking over a mess where no one likes you set up a strong vassal kingdom for yourself and maybe rearrange the kingdom so it helps defend the region and not bother you. (Saves micromanaging and allows a non warfare ruler). Being culture head of an initially small culture (high average development) seems fitting too. I wanna create and spread this zensunni religion kinda indirectly. I wanna focus on creating a huge scattered dynasty if independent dukes and kings. If converted they should sustain and propagate it, right? I 100% want to be dynasty head and focus on a little blood, glory and kin (all 2) to marry into and take over nice lines. Would such a play be possible? How tough is it to marry into all these city states, and later convert them? Would an islamic faith with the milder opinion on tribal faith (hostile to each other) work and be worth a tenet? Would the reverse be better? Did something similar exist historically, integrating local traditions and aspects with islam?

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

That sounds extremely intriguing. You're on the right track with Islam as the faith, but it would be hard(ish) to marry & convert, since differing faiths have debuffs on marriage acceptance.

@teambellavsteamalice

3 жыл бұрын

@@RealmBuilderGuy Yeah, that's why Glory (first legacy) is really good, maybe you also need hooks. The Tenet I meant is called ... syncretism. It's a waste of a tenet, but lowers evil to hostile.

Meanwhile. My norse butt has decided to just install the viking culture into africa... I did it for a better defensive position for crusades I swear

I think it would be cool if ck3 made it possible to have a diverse empire more easily

Ah just how many of these dynasties and kingdoms existed right until 19th century...

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

Quite a few

Lmao i reformed bori faith, formed kanem bornu with daurama and them launched a holy war against nubia so almost all of abyssinia is on my hands hehe africa is fun as hell

Actually Almoravids lasted 600+ years, we know this because they took over lower France or Spain for 600 years (like in charge of it for that amount of time) still an EXCELLENT video!

what if you start as England, develop your country then invade africa and establish a foothold there. Any interesting events popping up?

@r.i.petika829

3 жыл бұрын

Depends on where and when you invade Africa. You could get a few county’s here and there but you’ll never be able to invade the large kingdoms there. Too many alliances and too many people.

ife was the most powerful state in the region fyi

My first campaign in crusader kings 3 was as the child chief Nana Eufua of Aowyn. He is the only pagan child ruler of all Africa, of akan culture that has really good names like Jojo, the most cheap culture retinue which are archers with no bad terrain and pursue and next to the most powerful religion in the game! Bidaism. With that religion you get -20% tyranny gain in Niani plus 0'10 reduction, you can then combine that with the Power Tenet that gives you -50% tyranny and then righteous doctrine that gives you in the end of the perk of faith lifestyle, -25% .meaning that you can do anything you want because it creates only -1 of tyranny, you can even get callous rulers to get 0.combine that with pacifism and Monasteism to imprison your children that you don't want to be rulers and then negotiate to make them monks... FOR FREE! And then you get the best duchy for money in the game too, Mading, because there's two mines there of +5 gold each and that gets to +15 later in game, and bamkuk as your second duchy. Just make sure that instead of creating a kingdom that is part of the Guinea empire you do a custom kingdom, putting jenne, Timbuktu bamkuk and whatever you can gobble up. You can even make sure that you get one duchy only kigdoms to get the "dynasty of many crowns" Or to have a kingdom with no djjure land and cannot be taken away or asked for. ;D

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

absolutely awesome tips!

@SrMikicas

3 жыл бұрын

@@RealmBuilderGuy thanks to you for throwing some light to one of the most cool parts of the map, that often gets overshadowed by the central Europe and crusader kingdoms.

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

@@SrMikicas glad to do it. It's a fun place to play and hopefully gets some DLC love in the future as well.

So like I don’t “like” until after or at the middle if I actually like the vid. Other wise I get crap recommendations from youtube

I'm from Cape Town

I would love a every county starts independent map 🤣 i would revel in the chaos of that

I always want to play an African campaign but I’m new to the game and both times I tried I got mauled by all my neighbours immediately. Starting as Manding I got attacked by 4 factions and lost half my territory. I managed to take Konko, but then another two neighbours attacked and I gave up. Then I tried Mogadishu and got smashed by Malang and Jilib attacking at the same time, plus another one that must be on the 867 map and not 1066 because I can’t remember the name and it’s not on the map in the video. I’ve been playing some European campaigns to get used to the mechanics before I try again.

I dont think britian invaded africa in 9th century?

@kentanyamartin8313

2 жыл бұрын

Nope it was in 1700s

Pretty sure Benin had a pretty large slave trade market.

@RealmBuilderGuy

10 ай бұрын

Yes

Aw damn. I only do 867, 1066 is so damn easy and developed. Whole video wasted 😭

African cosmology

Yeah, I don’t like you second-guessing these peoples heritage about being the descendants of Solomon, since most people take the word of anybody in Europe, who claims to be descendent of ancient ruler just give them the same courtesy

@RealmBuilderGuy

6 ай бұрын

Those two things have nothing to do with each other in this case for me. I’m simply leaning upon historical research.

lol that was not specially britain its specially france in that region

Algeria bro

I litreally play Africa to mix them with europeans and end up with a black blond king 😅🤣

oh man tough up lol talking about pretty borders......

@RealmBuilderGuy

3 жыл бұрын

😂

please use the correct name for South Africa, Mzanzi

40 sec talking about liking your video. Paused the video, disliked. I know what i like, and i hate to be remembered every single video, but you topped it by streching it to 40 sec....

@RealmBuilderGuy

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for letting me know what you’re like. I appreciate it. Good person award.