![]() ![]() ![]() Marriage, politics, and diplomacy will get you far. Or good, old fashioned, often backstabby, political shenanigans. Meanwhile, what are you actually doing? Forging a new empire for yourself would probably be the main path most people take and that is covered through good, old fashioned, wars. Is this all sounding like hard work? I did say it was a marathon. You can also choose, and live by, a ‘lifestyle’ which dictates your day-to-day focus and can earn you further perks. All characters have opinions on one another and it can be a fine balance to manage all these relationships. Acting in ways that go against your traits will cause your character stress. ![]() There’s an element of role-playing in a form almost as pure as pen and paper games: your character has traits that you can play by they affect your skills and reactions. One day, you might be playing as one of those characters and living with their strengths and weaknesses! You can spend a LONG time just deciding who to marry your relatives off to, let alone anyone else in your court. Because of this, you have to keep an eye on things like your descendants and heirs, who they’re married to, and what sort of offspring could come from them. As long as the Titles you hold have heirs for them, the game will continue even when your initial character dies. The key is making sure that your dynasty survives via lines of succession. You play a ruler in ye olde medieval times, but your single character is not as important as the longstanding dynasty you hope to rule over via your descendants. To describe the game simply, you could tell someone to imagine a bizarre cross between Risk and Sims with a sprinkling of Civilization, or ’80s classic 8-bit game Defender of the Crown on steroids, and that’s Crusader Kings 3 at it’s simplest. ![]() RELATED: MDickie’s ‘Wrestling Empire’ Arrives on Nintendo Switch Playing Crusader Kings 3 is a hobby in its own right! It’s a marathon, not a sprint, but you will be rewarded for the time you put into it, if not necessarily with ‘success’ then certainly with some immersive storytelling experiences. CK2 FREE RULER FROM CAPTIVITY PLUSThe game is amazing, helps you along with tutorials, guides and tips but, wow, it is a huge time sink and I have an intense day job plus 2020 had more than a few hurdles. Meanwhile, one night, I catch none other than Count Caslav of Zatec trying to sneak in through my castle window! Turns out he’s having an affair with one of my sister-in-laws! So I’m waging war on Connacht, dealing with my newborn sickly baby and being brushed off by my wife whilst juggling plots to murder my rivals and half brothers being cuckolded! It’s all kicking off in the year 1069, I can tell you.Īnd that was just a 3-to-4-hour gaming session.Ĭrusader Kings 3 was not an easy game to review. Thinking it would speed the war along in my favour, I beheaded him but this just made his family and allies pull together stronger than before. I then chased him across the land until he and his Queen were captured and held them captive as I laid siege to his castle. She rebuffed me anyway, before our son was born, and whilst I was plotting to murder the King of Connacht (concurrent to falsifying a claim to his land that I want as my own) I discovered he was having an affair with a much younger courtier! Rather than blackmail or expose him outright, I began our war in earnest and defeated his army in open battle. In my attempts to conquer Ireland, I married a Welsh princess who I then got pregnant during a long-term plan to seduce her that involved getting her brother to help me win her over – I now owe him a favour. CK2 FREE RULER FROM CAPTIVITY MACI am King Murchad mac Donnchad of Munster. ![]()
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