CK2 - Who will you play as first?

[I genocide for fun]

Cant play my home "county", it would be Bamberg.

 

[Veldmaarschalk]

There should be a duchy of holstein at some of the later start dates, especially around 1337, they owned large amounts of Denmark at that point

You are A_Dane and you don't remember Knud Lavard

In 1115, his uncle, King Niels of Denmark, placed him in charge of the Duchy of Schleswig (jarl af Sønderjyll') in order to put an end to the attacks of the Slavic Obotrites. During the next fifteen years, he fulfilled his duty of establishing peace in the border area so well that he was titled Duke of Holstein (Hertug af Holsten) and became a vassal of the Holy Roman Empire.

 

[unmerged(63836)]

Lübeck would only be playable as part of the County of Holstein between 1143 and 1206. Before that it was Wendish, after that it was a Free Imperial City and should be a republic in game terms.

In CK1 in 1066 it was held by Obotrite prince Budivoj, who was trying to regain power over Obotrite Confederation after pagan rebellion. He was Christianised, so most likely he'll be playable (like in CK1).

 

[Barón Rojo]

Naples, to make Italy byzantine again.

 

[Kluska]

Naples, to make Italy byzantine again.

Wouldn't you play as the Byzantine Empire then? :huh:

If I recall correctly Naples is under the control of the Italo-Normans, aren't they?

 

[HMAS-Nameless]

I'll probably begin as William de Normandie to get a feel for the game.Very keen for how 1204 Latin Emperors will be modeled however.

 

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Wales

 

[A_Dane]

You are A_Dane and you don't remember Knud Lavard

I need to defend my self here: A) I Said "At the later start dates", i meant this very broadly! and B) his main title would be duke of Schleswig, so i didn't count him in!

(But should probably have mentioned him, now that you pointed it out)

 

[ElyaC]

Any of the Rurikevich. Russia shall rise and conquer, in the name of the Tsar! [Insert ominous music]
Screw the Mongols.

(BTW does anyone know if you can become Emperor of the Russias in the game, is it a title?)

Then a Lord or Duke etc. of Leinster (preferably of Kilkenny)

 

[Kluska]

Any of the Rurikevich. Russia shall rise and conquer, in the name of the Tsar! [Insert ominous music]
Screw the Mongols.

(BTW does anyone know if you can become Emperor of the Russias in the game, is it a title?)

Then a Lord or Duke etc. of Leinster (preferably of Kilkenny)

Unsure of an Emperor-tier title, however, there is most certainly a King-tier title: the King(dom) of Rus.

 

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Unsure of an Emperor-tier title, however, there is most certainly a King-tier title: the King(dom) of Rus.

Yeah, Grand Prince (king tier) of Rus' is surely in. 'Tsar of Russia' would be incorrect for CK period.

 

[Mammut]

You can start as a count and make it yourself if you own enough territory. I think it does exist though.

Nice! But I got to admit that I haven't really understood how the game works despite reading the dev diares and beta AAR's. Ohh well it will clear up when I play the game.

 

[A_Dane]

I'd go dig up some gameplay AARs from the CK forum Lots of things will be different, but it should give you an overall view of how things work

 

[elvain]

most probably as Premysl I. of Bohemia, I will probably start in 1198 when Bohemia becomes kingdom

and then some count in Occitania would be nice too to play something little harder

 

[unmerged(143216)]

Probably an English Duke in 1066, probably not Northumbria since I got sick of them in CK1 and Northumbria is pretty powerful as far as starting English duchies go.

 

[Donut_Smuggler]

I will probably start as an irish count to get use to the game and after that a Duke in Scotland.

 

[TrojanAC]

I'm going to start in southern italy, reconquer sicily and become king of naples after kicking out normans =)

 

[Eldridge]

With so much choice picking my favourite will be hard! If I was pressed to choose I would pick a duke in pre-invasion England as a starter game. After that I will probably play a count in Southern Italy. I'll get through playing them all, though it may take a while.

 

[Empty86]

County of Gelre, because I live there.

 

[Willem IV]

I said earlier that de Vermandois aka Carolingians are mine first pick. But now leaning towards the Count/Duke of Holland.
In CK1 the Count of Holland, can easily become Duke. And he is young and have 2 younger brothers. A nice starting point.

trying to unite the dutch culture and slowly expanding into France and the Holy Roman Empire… (if possible switching sides)