Just FYI, 1 Knight in CK3 isn't just the one person, it's themselves and their personal retinue, which could be a handful of highly trained troops ...that said stacking this much is still insane

@derekskelton4187

2 жыл бұрын

In Ironman it takes a bit of work to build up to. Not as fun of a video

@kabobawsome

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah. The ridiculous stacking can usually be explained by larger and better trained personal retinues, but sometimes you can get to "1 Knight defeating an army of 10k" levels and then it gets inexplicable lol.

@iulianju7893

2 жыл бұрын

everyone knows it's the Avengers man

@henkhenk4396

2 жыл бұрын

@@kabobawsome just need to kill 1 man every 3 seconds for about 8 hours and it's all in a honest day of work. Lunch break is just taking bites out of warhorses

When you want to stack up knight effectiveness one should have their domain in floodplains or indian jungle because there one can build the cameltry/elephantry building line whing increases the number of knights and their effectiveness. those buildinfs are essential if you want to max out your armies knightlys prowess

@nikolaitregouet

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, also how about doing a hydrid norse-egyptian culture specifically for that?)))

@iulianju7893

2 жыл бұрын

a good alternative is the Hill Dwellers culture tradition to that, that adds an extra 8% knight effectiveness per hill level

@MrHodoAstartes

2 жыл бұрын

@@nikolaitregouet All tremble before the might of the Daneluk!

@nikolaitregouet

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrHodoAstartes yeah, I mean imagine building those wetlands buildings for knights + effectiveness, while having agrarian, philosopher culture and coastal warriors as traditions)

@nikolaitregouet

2 жыл бұрын

@@iulianju7893 yeah, it all depends on what you’re doing exactly. Now with Hybrid cultures you have so many options)

The idea of 12 dudes running around taking on armies of thousands is the most anime thing I've seen in CK3 lol.

@tykethepup2288

Жыл бұрын

I just made a culture called it Spartan, and used this method. So relatively historically accurate.

@rayzas4885

11 ай бұрын

​@@tykethepup2288until you came across 300 gay lovers

@qhu3878

7 ай бұрын

​​@@tykethepup2288didnt most if not all of the 300 spartans (and the other 8000 soldiers) die?

@swanswanswanswanswanswanswan

3 ай бұрын

@@qhu3878 dont be a hater bro

@prarambhaaryal6621

2 ай бұрын

@@qhu3878 yes

Disappointed that you never showed the stats for the battles to see just the sheer number of people each knight has killed

@TheArklyte

Жыл бұрын

Think of it like late game Bannerlord terms ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Today Laith tries turning a strategy games military units into Shonen anime protagonists

at 400% Knight effectiveness your character is pretty much general grievous with the 4 lightsabers lol

Norsethumbria would have been a great name for the culture divergence

@clovebeans713

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe Norse-Umbreia, that one sounds like Norseth-Umbria.

Imagine being a army of a almost 1000 and getting wrecked by a few boys in shiny metal

@HolgerLovesMusic

2 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of the crusades. 1.000 knights againt an muslims army of 12.000 and the crusader knights won and only lost 200.

@mehmetkayraozer9164

2 жыл бұрын

@@HolgerLovesMusic Which battle is that?

I'm just imagining like... 8 men COVERED in steel plates swinging a Greatsword the size of a medieval tower. Just... killing 100s per swing.

@machtvonhre8979

2 жыл бұрын

plot armour

@braindavidgilbert3147

Жыл бұрын

40k type shit

Remember the anime where 12 dudes just waltz up to an army of 2000 Frenchmen, who just laugh that only a dozen Swedes, Northumbrians, Scots, and Norwegians came to face them. Well one hour later and nearly all 2000 men dead the 12 dudes just walk back to the main army with their axes and chainmail rusted with blood, unscathed.

@mitlanderson

2 жыл бұрын

Thats an anime?

@austinblackburn8095

Жыл бұрын

So you watch Vinland Saga that's a good one.

You could try a Mansa Musa challenge in CK3 in Africa where you give your leader every trait that increases income in any way, shape or form and try to strictly expand via buying claims or lands

I one time had an army of 3000~ take on 20k men and won with only about 1 thousand casualties on my end, defensive crusades as* Asartu is always a joy. (originally had versus instead of as)

@kainwittrig2180

Жыл бұрын

Oh mate that’s nothing in my best game I had an army of 13k take on an army of 89k while I had the disembarking penalty and won with like 1.5 k casualties and stack wiped the enemies armies

@gerogero2011

Жыл бұрын

Same bro...i have elite force with 30 knight effectivenes around 300% and 5000 total MaA (Horse Archer, CrossBow, Varangian Vets) , I destroy almost any Catholic army that comes near me... Unstoppable until Supply run out

@FrostReave

Жыл бұрын

Wait were you Astartu or Christian? Because usually Astartu is the outnumbered but superior military force

@Fun4luve

Жыл бұрын

@@FrostReave Asartu ofc but the only person to join in defense of I think the jarldom of Jorvik, son of Ragnar lost it and an adventure married to my daughter and future kids of my dynasty, was myself. I sat defensively in hills as the catholic hoard moved in.

@FrostReave

Жыл бұрын

@@Fun4luve Norsemen might be surrounded by the Catholic hoards that outnumber them 20 to 1 but by Odin their realms are teeming with badass warriors and commanders and they have that delicious Tribal Combat Advantage and cheap yet powerful men at arms. I wouldn’t want to challenge them. They can have Britannia for all I care.

To stack knights better get camelry or elephantry buildings since they both give more knights and knight bonuses also the manage men at arms also improve knights so u get more damage overall that way

We need a mod where exceptional player characters can achieve immortality through unique ways(Prowess beats death in single combat, martial beats in a game of strategy, Intelligence create an Elixir of Immortality, Barging for your soul, hiding from death, etc., plus unique attributes for each: selling watered down immortality potions, becoming a middle man for soul sales, fight off death from friends or family to give them immortality. Plus what about the reaction of the world. People start to deify you, maybe you lean into it or fake your death to try and live a normal life. Maybe new danger emerge now that you have your tangled in the supernatural. Godslayers,witches, demons, so much opportunity.

@holey5065

2 жыл бұрын

Anbennar moment

@jameslarkin4567

2 жыл бұрын

Kinda garbage idea towards the ends

@alverygrissom2544

2 жыл бұрын

or just play CK2

@jameslarkin4567

2 жыл бұрын

@@alverygrissom2544 in the start yeah

@john0doesnt

2 жыл бұрын

Na

Saw the title and already knew what was coming lol

"astaru"💀

Piece of advice, if you had created the kingdom of England earlier it would have taken it from the other guy causing any duke level vassals in his realm to become independent, making things easier to clean up and possibly peacefully be vassalized as you're now their de-jure leige.

when are you going to Ulm?

You need to use the character finder and search for unwed women in your court. You can marry them matrilineal to the highest prowess character not at your court and that character will come to your court. Easy way to get free knights especially early on.

"I don't know what's going on anymore. I just right click and people die." God at work.

Only discovered your channel a few weeks ago and I'm hooked.

421% KE after 1000 is really a rookie number. Gotta pump those up. The best way I found so far is starting as a viking and either emigrating to India, or starting as a custom norse character there (Chandala I think it's called, a 3 province nation with a plausible Goldmine is amongst the best start locations for this). Soo, being norse will give you the early money and some dev increase in your goldmine province, nothing fancy. Then, what you wanna do is conquer the coastline for Elephantries nad Military Academies. Eventually, as you conquer the whole of India, you wanna stick to the Jungle terrain coastline and Dutchy Capitals in Jungles. There are quite a few in India. Hold those as your own, and build them up. You can double build the Elephatires in each of your provinces also. As you conquered India, and united it with the required religion guy, you can convert to your final religion, for which I'd advise either norse or tengri. Both has really good knight buffs, tengri is slighlty better. Pagan holy sites also give out 15% KE, which is nice early game, but will be over shadowed as soon as you can build MAs, so don't develop them too much. Your culture and religion can help a lot with raising a family with insane warriors. There is a cultural aspect which gives knights the ability to gain prowess during battles. Must have. I once rolled with ~100ish knights out of which were ~35 with 90 or above prowess. Just do your familiar breeding program as usual, but keep giving them battles to fight. Also, don't worry about 100-200 negative relations modifier due to holding too much dutchies. You actually want that. The more rebellions the merrier. As a norse, they can give you gold, and train your knights. A 50k stack is nothing to 50-100 good knights.

@Slayem02

Жыл бұрын

Wow lovely start man, BTW what's the cap on prowess?

@azpont7275

Жыл бұрын

@@Slayem02 100

Took me a crazy amount of time to figure out that immortality is not a trait you can achieve without cheating... I tried and tried, having guys with crazy prowess and waiting for an event to fight death...

@rockmcdwayne1710

10 ай бұрын

Some 15 juiced up knights + about 1000-2000 varangian veterans have wiped armies of 10-20 000 for me. I like to start in earlyer age when playing around with vikings! You can also get yourself alot of knights in tribal era by building war camps everywhere!

“GRIFFITTTTTTTTH!!!” - that knight (probably)

Jesus, this is more like the tales of Ancient Greek heroes, like the battle for Troy, than it is medieval knights

Just wait til y'all try the Princes of Darkness mod, of which base knight effectiveness is heightened (to simulate the supernatural prowess of vampires).

ive gone so far i went as duke over duchy limit and had almost all duchies in england totaling to 1920% knight evektiveness with mil acadimes lvl3 in every duchy

A battle showing off the effectivness of knights in real history is the Battle of Monte Porzio (1167), where between 10000 - 30000 mostly Roman urban militia faced a tired army of 500 German knights, supported by 800 Brabantine footmen. The Brabantine footmen provided archer support and seem to have raided the Roman camp, while the 500 knights with cleverly timed and positioned charges broke the gargantuan Roman army, with 300 reinforcing knights sallied forth from a besieged castle to end the battle. As immensely impressive that battle is, the numbers are not quite like the ones in this video...

Winning all the battles is nice if you get the legacy bonus for Norse heritage cultured characters that increases prestige gain from battles by 100%

Durham shirt! Awesome man

Finally something I discovered independently!

"Astaru"

pretty sure you can go full north korea mode massively over domain limit and build the knight effectiveness buildings everywhere and it doesnt matter if you have no levys because you could probably snipe whole armies with just your entourage

I'm new to watching this channel and I already subbed just yesterday I really want to play ck3 but sadly I don't have the money for it hopefully in the future I will buy it

Reminds me of the uruk hai campain I played a time ago. Great Mod btw 😄

I have a run where I started as Haesteinn and took over Sardinia and eventually I got my knight effectiveness up to 270% it was almost too OP. I never even had to call my regular levy’s for most wars. Just my MoA and my knights.

@caniblmolstr4503

Жыл бұрын

Try winning a Crusade... Even that is not enough I have won the crusades twice but I myself dunno how I did it

ASTARU, that had me giggle.

I have never been more dissapointed for someone saying "Asatrú" wrong

Ah yes, I remember when 22 units of Norse Knights conquered France during the high middle ages

19:09 how does he do that, so that he clicks execute prisoner on the side and immediately is able to hit "execute" big button in the middle? like how, cause I tried looking for a hotkey to click "yes" or confirm the big buttons but I didn't find any, and i've to manually move the mouse cursor back and forth between the side and center of the screens.

@tomh7686

2 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure it's the enter / return key

That was the first thing I noticed about combat in this game. Naturally all I’ve done is stack knight effectiveness, it’s just too easy

you think thats broken? Add a bunch of heavy infantry and barracks into the mix and you´ll beat armies 10:1 no prob

@kabobawsome

2 жыл бұрын

You can actually get to the point where 1 knight can beat thousands solo if your domain and culture is right.

Those aren't knights, those are space marines.

Laith straight up said lets play a dynasty warriors game in ck3

That Sweden and England sharing the south of British isle is cursed (in the middle of the video) Swengland if you will

Gotta love paradox games lmao

how do you make a character immortal ?

sorry for not watching this earlier

Pretty sure that 69 prowess character doesn’t do any damage in the battle since he is the commander

b r u h “Astaru”?

I think you have nerfed the snarky editor too much. Some snark is good

Making King Arthur an Anglo-Saxon is heresy

@machtvonhre8979

2 жыл бұрын

shouldve named him Ærthur

I like that he says Astaru instead of Asatru. Kinda funny and cute

The game and everyone else: Asatru Laith: Astaru

Why Laith look like he could perfectly be recreated in Dragon Age 2?

I'm quite sure I saw your hairstyle in-game. Is this intentional?

Bucephalus is a mare? Happy pride!

This has been bothering me but. You can move your levies to be closer to the border with that red flag by your capital

Personal prowess is good and all but to my knowledge does not affect the martial ability of a commander, or decreases the chance of a commanders dying. So creating an even higher martial char would make it even more ridiculous.

Am i the only one bothered by him multiple times reading the obvious Asatru as Astaru?

you made your knights anime protaganists

the second Leonidas

I’m one of the three Scottish viewers lol

you should make a eugenics program in ck3

Hey Mister Durham University! Is Asatru not Astaru!

21:45 that is 71.6 to 1

Nice

It's not "Crusader Kings" anymore! It's "Exalted"!

Where's Ottawa? :(

DO NOT PURSUE LU BU!

It actually looks like Arthur's reign

1 Jedi is worth 100s of battle droids

So the burhs are not available for Italians? Someone help lmao

This means King Arthur's round table is canon to CK3.

omg kniths are so op i have this so underrated lol

How did you manage to get the immortal trait? As far as i know there are only mods for this, and it should not be available in the vanilla game

@victorjesusfernandeznoguer9865

2 жыл бұрын

He just cheated with DEBUG mode, you can see a purple word when he right click anything, you can even read the grant inmortality trait to this character at 20:52. The video it's fun as showcase of knights but he just forced it.

even without breaking the game knights are way way too effective

You can easily reach 1000% knight effectiveness with the new tours and tournaments DLC, they made knights extremely broken, but removed the ability to raid as a kingdom, wtf paradox?!

ASATRU PRONOUNCED: AHS-AH-TRU not "star-ru"

I think it got nerfed, before it was even more op.

Asatru

Hwicce is pronounced HWISE? I never knew that.

e-sea-axe?? you mean Ess-ex? 0.0

How about playins as Gurids (afganistan an conquering India. Historically they were first muslims to conquer northern india. You can check Gurid Empire

you didnt put any gear on your knights

Worst part is that this is probably correct to real life. 1 good man > 1000

Bro did not pronouce Àsatrù like that 💀

if you get 69 prowess the game says nice wtf.... thats an easter egg

If you create a series with no facecan you probably would be my favorite CK3 player on KZread! Don't get me wrong ... you are amazing .... but just don't like videos in front of the games!

oml its asatru not astaru

You can use mods for bigger knighteffectiveness but it can go through insane levels

If you this with the vampirism and lycanthropy mod it can be more overpowered as the vampirism can give some characters nearly 100 prowess

Three Scottish Viewers, how ya doin?

i think Spiffing Brit already did a video where he had just knights going around killing huge armies...

Knights of the Genocide

As a Scot, the place isnt very nice. Go ahead with the jokes lmao

Play vic 2

So Prussia?

Laith. Please. Hwicce is not pronounced "hw-ise". It's "hwi-ch-eh". Like saying 'witch' but with an h at the start and an "eh" sound at the end.

Laith making no effort to have pagan vassals would just be a disaster if he wasn't cheating.