What are the most interesting CK2 campaigns you've had?
Started as a count in Britanny which I conquered, then made an overseas kingdom of celtic lands with Britanny, Wales, Ireland and Cantabria/Asturias over the first century.Eventually I won a crusade for Jerusalem and switched over to them. I secured the Holy Land and through marriage and assassinations, I took over the Byzantine Empire and kept blobbing in the levant, balkans and Italy.I won another crusade for Iberia to give to another family member which inherited my initial kingdom. At some point this Iberia/Britanny/British Isles kingdom joined the HRE and wormed their way to the top, uniting France, Germany, Iberia under my dynasty.At this point most of southern Europe and Levant were under my Roman Empire Empress in the East, and the HRE emperor in the West which, I married together, Their son was the heir to both, and would inherit the world.I then had a Yazidi heresy pop up in one of my county in the Levant, so I converted my Empress, managed to fend off the whole christendom at bay for decades (including my husband of the HRE) before we both died of age and my yazidi son inherited most of the known world.I kept my Breton culture throughout the campaign, and I tried to keep powerful families alive
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>>2406534Haesteinn but I kept gavelkind and each generation, I conquered a new kingdom for my primary heir with prepared invasion and other kingdoms/duchies for the other sons, then supporting the family in their own prepared invasions and wars, until they inevitably convert to gaysus worship
The most fun I ever had was doing an AAR for /gsg/, where I started as a minor count in Stromgarde in the Warcraft mod and worked my way up to save northern Azeroth from the Scourge.I roleplayed as him, spared some of my enemies and gave their defeated family members land back, so their name would survive. Even some of the weirder CK2 mechanics worked out in my favor. Like the fact that you can't declare a war too soon after ending one and the fact that you can only annex the war goal. It ended up working, because I fought an apocalyptic war against the Syndicate, where I had to use everything at my disposal to beat them, despite being outnumbered. And despite only annexing a tiny region from them, they were significantly weaker in the second war. So it was almost like the land itself was still unorganized and disputed and proper order hasn't been established yet and not some weird game mechanic cucking me from annexing them, despite completely occupying them.
>>2406534My first world conquest, starting as the duke of Flanders in 769 was pretty fun. It was also one religion iirc, with buddhist counties in East India being the very last to convert.Also my first Indian campaign in which I united the whole subcontinentI also liked my African campaign as a Berber when they added lands in the middle of the Sahara. I reformed my traditional African religion and united all of Africa and btfo the Caliphs and Italians.
>>2406534PolandI managed to carve out a respectable empire in between the seas and hold off mongols. By the end I maintained an uneasy balance between me, HRE on the west, Horde on the east and Hungary to the south
>>2406534Early in CK2's life, I played a game on Krautchan with 16 other people. People started all over the map, one guy was the king of France, another the Abyssids, someone was the HRE Emperor, etc. Since no one picked anything in Ireland, I started there.Tutorial island isn't that unique of place to start, but I managed to quickly conquer two duchies and set up my son as a Patrician, so when I died my kingdom became a republic. From there, I just built trade posts and amassed so much wealth that by the end of the second session, I had Ireland reunited and a foothold in Scotland. I had so much money, I could afford to hire every mercenary army in the game and still be in the green.No one noticed anything going on until the player closest to me, a guy in Cornwall, came under attack by a powerful duke in England. I came to his rescue and got him to vassalize to me, so after the fight, the Grand Principality of Alba was formed and the British Isles were united.France and the muslim player, who took a large amount of Iberia, had been stomping each other most of the game, so neither was in any real position to stop me from moving in to the low countries. The HRE was fragmented and the emperor had done fuck all, so he was no use either. A crusade got called against one of the Muslim players, but it quickly became a free for all after I entered because no one wanted to cede land to me. I wound up forming the Kingdom of Jerusalem and subsequently lost it to the Byzantine player. Game ended shortly afterwards.
Started as Rurik, grabbed a cute khazar jewish concubine, did a varangian adventure against the Abbasids on Jerusalem, converted to judaism and formed Norse Israel
>>2406534Started in Ireland and united the kingdom (also became an accidental lollard), and while crusading, won, so the Irish ruled Africa.Due to gavelkind it went to my other son, but stayed in the family. Back in Ireland, I managed unite the British Empire.Ended the campaign after an update changed borders/counties. Most places weren't changed that much but Ireland more than doubled in the number of holdings and I could no longer control a majority directly.
>>2407373>converted to judaism and formed Norseno you didn't
>>2407557It was real in my mind
>>2406534Started as Eustache de Boulogne for the achievement, ended up owning all of the middle east and having family members owning the latin empire, Germany and north Africa.Also did a fun one for the Aladdin achievement where I managed to become immortal and leader of the assassins, I had so much intrigue every time a revolt or crusade was launched against me I could just murder people until it broke apart.
>>2407557norse as in culture
