Top 5 WORST CK3 KINGDOMS!

In this video I go into detail about what I think are the worst five kingdoms in CK3 (Crusader Kings 3)! A sad kingdom ensues.

[WetBurritoFarts]

Ah, these are all the mid kingdoms you need to make when doing a WC run to not go over your vassal limit.

[kamemesg]

Tannu Tuva? Holy shit is this a HOI4 reference????!!!???

[nmanything]

went against Gyalrong, the Shang kingdom!!! 😭😭😭

[johngreen]

Tuva might be a little better than Bashkiria, because it offers the possibility of taking the "Great Khan' decision, which is quite good, though you would probably want to move out of it as soon as possible. I have not looked up that decision, so I may be wrong and Bashkiria can use it.

[rockmcdwayne]

Man, these days its not too difficult to create extremely powerful small kingdom anywhere on the map. And yes, while you stuggle with development with those particular kingdoms, with some of them, you can hold all the titles within them yourself which gives you quite respectable army size.
Also, do not underestimate mountain and jungle territories. What they lack in development they excel at defence and buffing MAA. You can make ridiculously strong archer/xbowmen regiments on jungle territory and heavy infantry on mountainous territory as you have extra support buildings for those units in those regions!
When it comes to Mongol invasion, keep in mind that it wont happen before late medieval era so you got alot of time to prepare. Generally speaking, i dont think you should worry too much about it at all if you are familiar with the game, its literally a joke! At this stage of the game, for me atleast, handling an army of 30-40k troops is a childs play and thats roughly how much men Mongols come with!

[NoNumbersAfterName]

The one I found particularly underwhelming is creating the Kingdom of Bosnia by decision. The rewards are nothing: a bit of extra Fame or Devotion (not even Prestige or Piety), and you need to hold and completely control the duchies of Upper Bosnia, Lower Bosnia, and Zachlumia. Then you've got this small, mountainous kingdom. Or, you can conquer just one more county, and create the Kingdom of Croatia, which has a much larger de jure land, you don't have to wait to be out of the Tribal era, your culture doesn't matter, and it actually earns you Prestige instead of costing it.

[wifeofanacrobat]

Just finished playthrough for Gyalrong, ending with formed Tibet empire slightly above it's de jure size.
The biggest issue was terrible mountains and hills supply capacity that makes warfare harder with time.
But there are also one great thing about this kingdom - you have 2 Vvluphixje holy sites already inside it's border, 2 more in the neighbour kingdoms and last one is not so far away as well, so you could convert, reform and have controlled holy sites bonuses from the very start of the game.

[josh]

I actually prefer mountain and jungle terrain, if you manage to make a culture that rewards the terrain you become untouchable to outsiders. Build high level fortifications and simply starve the enemy out if they try to enter. Best mountain area is Armenia, best jungle (imo) is the area in southern Nigeria, which also has a special building

[georg]

Anbiya has 2 gold mines already build though, i´d say some siberian kingdom in the middle of nowhere with 0 developement is worse off

[BueBue]

i did a varangian adventure to Gyalrong. Nothing like having vigmens and Varangian veterans Tibet. I welcome Mongols to try and invade my little slice of heaven.

[cupholderincorporated]

4:20 telling me the Land you do have to conquer is shityy

[grandgibbon]

The one benefit to small kingdoms is you can easily hold all counties yourself. Then you can just stack bonuses on say knights.

[thetaikonaut]

Making a kingdom next to the Mongols by 1200 sounds like fun.

[pimmpslap]

I played a game as the Greek guy on Cyprus and ended up with Syria, Jerusalem and Egypt as a Byzantine vassal before I got bored.

[masterofallthelakesintown]

Except the Saharan kingdom I played all of these kingdoms. They are my lifeline. I love weird and tiny kingdoms that are a struggle to hold.

[benjaminwells]

You take that back about the glorious and majestic Tannu Tuva!

[thewisehermit]

Those two small kindgdoms are so useful when trying to give your children insepent kingdoms.

[granite_]

Yoooo Bashkir is one of the best starts in the game for a DIY nomadic invasion run.

Form the kingdom, take perm and hybridise to get forest wardens plus forest folk for insane Forest terrain buffs and the best non-horse archer in the early game, and then Legendary adventure to somewhere in Europe and get pillaging. Prussia is perfect for a first stop (or settle and take the empire) but I once sent my Bashkir horse archers all the way down to Gascogne and made a new kingdom of Bashquiria.
Might do this again and invade Cornwall then switch to Tall mode.

[PerfectAlibi]

The worst thing any of those starts mean for you is, is being someone's vassal.
Which really isn't all that bad.
Just convert to liege's faith if needed, while still having a secret faith.
Really kiss up to the liege's butt, till you're stronger, then faction

[carl]

Any Yugra lovers out there?

I need to play a Anbiya campaign sometime. It looks pretty fun, actually.