Tribal World Conquest?

[Kilij]

Alrighty, I just replayed and did part 6 and 7, both of which are now up on youtube. I might keep going and play part 8 well I'm at it now.

 

[josefrees]

Can't wait to watch these hehe

 

[Kilij]

I haven't been, and won't be updating here every time I release a part, but I wanted to say thanks now that I've hit my first milestone with part 10 of this Let's Play. I'm really enjoying this game and have even recorded a few episodes ahead of the latest upload. Viewership is still rather low however, especially in the more recent episodes(perhaps on account of not updating here), so I wanted to ask, regardless if you're watching my current run or not, if there's another sorta challenge you want to see me tackle on the side, since if you've been watching the current run things have not been very difficult(yet?) and maybe you'd rather see me survive as and pull of some of the hardest opm starts in the game or play pagans in the late starts as challenges that start being challenging right away and that I don't have to 'conquer the world' or play very long in. I'm still going to go to the end with the tribal world conquest since I enjoy it, but on youtube, generally several shorter series do better than a long one so the only reason I'm doing a world conquest is because of my personal interest in whether tribals plateau too early to conquer the whole map. Just fooling around with ideas right now so if you have any questions, concerns, or opinions, I'm all ears!

 

[kmh42]

I am very interested in you tribal-WC but I don't watch the videos fully because it's just normal tribal blobing gameplay. I always skip to the last minutes to see your progress you made. I am much more interested in the mid-game and late-game progress because there is the real challenge as a tribal. Holding together a multi Empire realm and facing christian Europe. You did good agains the Umayyads but the Francian Empire will be a much harder nut to crack because they have many Christians allies who are helping defending against Holy Wars.
One challenge which comes into my mind is: WC in the latest start date or die trying

 

[Kilij]

I am very interested in you tribal-WC but I don't watch the videos fully because it's just normal tribal blobing gameplay. I always skip to the last minutes to see your progress you made. I am much more interested in the mid-game and late-game progress because there is the real challenge as a tribal. Holding together a multi Empire realm and facing christian Europe. You did good agains the Umayyads but the Francian Empire will be a much harder nut to crack because they have many Christians allies who are helping defending against Holy Wars.
One challenge which comes into my mind is: WC in the latest start date or die trying

Yeah, I do the same thing with Let's Plays a lot, strangely enough I'm more likely to watch beginning to end if the player is talking about other things besides the game a lot too, but I'm nowhere close to acquiring that skill given how I stay really focused on my gameplay.

Otherwise, I'm not too concerned with the Christians, I'll probably win the major victories I need to whittle down their moral authority before the get their holy orders(900 assuming I take Rome or another trigger county by then, otherwise, alliances are easy to beat since they either don't combine their forces quickly enough(that is, if they do at all). Despite losing a lot of ground to the decade war breakaways, the Caliphate is probably still going to be the biggest threat until I take d_Medina.

As for latest date WC, or ultra-fast WC or gaming speed runs in general in gaming, not really my thing and it would probably just come down to Altaic(Pagan) or Mongol culture and invasions. But I'll probably have to do one at some point just as a "right of passage" I guess. I just wish there were more starts where you're almost certain to die and it is still difficult to survive past a decade or two, so far Kalat and Kasmira(late starts) seem like the best candidates.

Thanks for the input,

Part 12 is up now, btw.

 

[kmh42]

How is it going? Do you still play this save?

 

[Kilij]

How is it going? Do you still play this save?

Haven't been playing it due to a combined burnout and low viewership on the latest uploads. Was honestly disappointed the Abbasids completely shattered, they were going to my main rival after the Umayyads, but now it's not really going to be a challenge to conquer the worlds I think. I know my play was getting really sloppy the last few vids(possibly as an effect of the lack of a rival power to keep me on my toes), but once I take d_Medina it's basically over for the Muslim powers and same for Rome with the Catholics, by then the Byzantines won't be a threat either. That just leaves hordes and nomads basically, and it's going to be a long haul to get to that point, so not sure it's worth it with a new expansion on the horizon(I've been very confused as to when they were going to release it, the early DDs before the month break kinda tricked me into thinking it would be out soon). Might continue though and decide when the expansion comes out whether I'll continue and also whether or not I'd need to revert patch to play this save.

Also don't know if others feel this way, but part of me feels like I kinda cheated. I'm tribal, yes, but most of my vassals at this point are feudal. I justified that since many counties don't have holdings slots for tribes(and it'd be ackward building them before I hand out the lands), I get opinion penalty with feudal vassals, and because I hardly use levies at this point anyway. But it still helps with my income and troop quality if I needed my levies. I also always underestimate the power of reformed paganism and early Holy Orders. It'd probably have been harder if I chose to play the East African Christian tribals. I also at some point want to do the ultimate challenge of WC as unreformed pagan tribal. So if I indeed decide to discontinue this game, I'll probably restart the challenge as an East African tribal or perhaps just dive into the unreformed pagan tribal challenge. Also depends on what the new expansion is and what kind of features(new difficulty perhaps?) it adds.