Forming the HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE in CK3 is PURE CHAOS!

Today's CK3 challenge is based around forming the HRE. The CK3 Holy Roman Empire is a mad rush, plenty on CK3 Guides for this one! For the 867 start, the descendants of Charlemagne all have claims on the throne.

I guarantee that Forming the HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE in CK3 is PURE CHAOS

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God Ruler Tier:

Charlie Damarell
Crilly
JdoW52
Kargon
Flyerton
Lars Mathisen (Sjalmi)
Nicoles Christ
Redguard76
ShadowSinger
QA Shard
Lewis Wright
Joshua Schnur

Emperor Tier:

Cutaline
Of the Dragon
Benjin
ColeZawesome
Phalexsu

King Tier:

AlbanianJohnCena
A**Breath
Bobby Bottle Service
Brandon Smith-Darby
danjamrod
Ghostwolf567
Penda
ratsoupchef
Red Star
Stuart Watson
Søren Ryge
King of the Hoot Hoots
Thomas Carmichael

#ck3

[monchyd]

Feels like the Roman Empire, never ending bullshit, never ending rebellions, never ending invasion, but somehow some guy called chadicus Maximus appears out of nowhere and saved the day

[Patches]

I mean, he doesn't have to look intimidating to be scary. I actually think someone looking like a kind person while being cruel/torturing you is much more scary/intimidating than a person who looks terrifying (since you kinda expect a terrifying looking person to do that, but not a kind looking person)

[superstitiousdead]

"Pull out, pull out. They're coming, pull out."
-TheSocialStreamers, 2022

[ed-b]

You know Leith that if a ruler is your family member you can get an alliance with them without a marrige

[thehunter]

"What is this family" = The official description of the Karlings

[eggisfun]

"Im Punching my wife" No matter what sentence you say while in ck3 will sound cursed even if its in context

[James-]

I have restored the holy roman empire as each of the karlings, as Lothaire I literally just killed every single karling until I inherited everything and managed to restore the empire without fighting a single war

[HannahHäggAutisticTransWoman]

Best thing is as the holy roman emporor is to marry the empress of byzantine/eastern roman empire.

[ObligedUniform]

Queen Teutberga looks like the definitive CK3 version of the "he asked for no pickles!" meme

[matthewhannigan]

you know, declaring war is all well and good, but Lothaire is an intrigue character: he could just murder his entire family tree. West Francia takes ages and a bit of luck, but Italy only needs one murder and Germany isn't too difficult.

[yari]

forming the holy roman empire is the easy part, keeping it together for more than what feels like 3 days... that's skill

[Mobius]

“Lotharingia has hurt me in the past”

I think you mean the future

[phnx]

Ahah I remember my runs as West Francia going exactly like that! Rebellions all the time and unmanageable vassals xd

[cesaralarcon]

“Cant’t I give you some candy or something?, that sounds creepy” Laith, 2022

[Swan_River_Cowboy]

CK3 MP as Holy Roman Empire, Except everyone else is under you

[benjamineneman]

You actually don't usually want to destroy the HRE princely elective law (even if it weren't so expensive to do so) since you can usually get whoever you want in charge if you play your cards right anyways and it gives you a really nice +20 bonus to vassal limit.

[IndigoSolution]

The Empire of Italia came into being during succession under partition succession law. Normally the title would have gone to your heir's sibling to more equally split the realm but because you only had one valid heir, both went to him. This may seem like an oversight, but I think of it a a surprise mechanic to deal with 20-40 years down the line when your new ruler is 50 and has three sons of his own.

[bjarjar]

Imagine that vassal management and how fucked it is, now your doing it with an Xbox controller so it takes 20x as much effort. Welcome to CK3 console edition, I love it so much.

[sjolander]

If you control a majority of the dejure land and the title does not exist, then the title gets automatically created upon succession.

[TheDirtyShaman]

What you can do to fix your internal bordergore is to revoke absolutely every single vassal from every other vassal until you are the direct liege of everyone in your realm. From there you can grant everybody their rightful lands. This will generate quite a bit of tyranny, so ideally you'd revoke everyone before your succession and then grant them their vassals once you're playing your heir.