Top 5 WORST CK3 EMPIRES!

In this video I go over the top five worst empires in CK3 (Crusader Kings 3)! A regal list ensues.

[Barzonius]

I'd like to state a point regarding the Baltic Empire deserving more praise. It contains ALL 5 VIDILIST Holy Sites. If your culture has forest-related traditions (defensive & economic), it can be a force to be reckoned with...

[nmanything]

the worse it is, the better it feels, ong ong

[loungekiller]

The Baltic Empire is based. I refuse to elaborate, it just is.

[carl]

Hard disagree on the Baltic Empire, though I'm not surprised it's in there.

Build all three Hall of Heroes, and you get insanely powerful. Sure the vikings will come after you sometimes, but if you're instantly stackwiping them with your space marines, then all they serve to do is give you something to do with your downtime. Likewise the HRE trying haplessly to crusade you. Even the land is deceptively good as you can build tradeports on the Vistula river counties.

Basically, it's CK3's version of Prussia, and I'm all for it.

[somemeansfish]

Tibet is a big ass mountain which makes you basically unconquerable with the right stacking of modifiers when you unite it, kinda important considering if you are going to be playing a long campaign the Mongols are right above knocking

[loungekiller]

Forming the Empire of Tibet as a certain dynasty is an achievement though, I suppose that it's so bad, they had to include an achievement for doing it, lol.

[rafelliott]

Honestly I hope the next big expansion next year is all about Nomads, make the Eastern Steppes interesting to play as/against

[NoNumbersAfterName]

I know you hate Tibet, so I'm not going to say anything there.

But ranking the Baltic Empire as worse than Ajuraan? No. Most certainly not. You want to know what's larger than Ajuraan? Lithuania. A single kingdom in the Baltic Empire. And, like, the Baltic Empire is an excellent target if you yourself are a Viking, so, yeah.

[j.ackermann]

(Dis)honourable mention for the wannabe empires that can be created during the iberian struggle (the only ending the AI will ever achieve without player help)

[imaxinsertnounherex]

I routinely play as Siberia just to get the capital dev higher than Europe as a flex.

[Abdullah-]

you wrote the 3rd and 2nd place both as the third

[colminerojoshuab.]

I would argue one of the worst empirescto form is the North Sea Empire. The requirements alone are abysmal. I have to hold the Kingdom of England, Norway, and Denmark for 30 years while my ruler is on average 30-50 years old.

[muratonuryilmaz]

Turan is saved because of special buildings and farmlands I suppose but I must say that tribal is the best gov type because you can raid and culture mixing still let you have next eras and giving all lands to your family and having one tradition about family (I can't remember the name)you can make it preaty op (If you manage to get Georgian with heavy cav to mix with it becames way too op)

[АлексейПупышев-ьц]

Nah, kuzarism has a holy site in Crimea that gives you crazy (something like 50%) bonus to development growth in steppe, and not only in steppe terrain, but in the whole steppe region, which includes all north-eastern part of the map. With this bonus bad terrain problem is not relevant, learn the material before making videos like this

[TwinHypeBack]

5. The thing with Vikings is they come with like 9000 troops every time and they’re just levies so if you have a decent tribal army you can smack them but they’re so annoying.
4. The trophy for getting the Tibet empire is so easy the first Pugyel is a diplomat in 1066 and you can vassalize the whole empire in one life. The history of lost Guge kingdom in Tibet is very interesting as well.

The rest agree for sure

[aidankeogh]

One big thing I did over a playthrough was form Tibet and mass culture-convert every single county for my own culture with traditions for additional development in mountains and hill terrain, along with Loyal Vassals. It was rough to get going, and it certainly wasn't optimal, but it was at least flavorful. And Tibet is at least a fantastic empire to rule on the defensive.
But yeah, its pretty rough.

[norbertlipusz]

I think Ajuraan deserves a spot in this list.

[Hinderless]

Im ngl i really thought this game would annoy me but i love how the map is so big that i often forget about the other side of it so each playthroughs is pretty unique

[robertandersson]

Well, if you do create the mongol Empire, which is quite easy if you have any idea about what you are doing, then suddenly the mongol Empire allows a world conquest. So with that caveat, I don't think the mongol Empire belongs to the worst Empire. I wouldn't recommend having it as a permanent base though, so I will give you that.

[macdixonr]

Personally Tibet was fun because of all the different faith’s available to be reformed within the empire. Also most of the cultures there in 867 already have most of the civs done already, you also have access to horse archers & crossbow combinations with XuXI