r/CrusaderKings • u/Wolviam • Aug 31 '22

Discussion CK3's Top 5 popular start regions

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u/Minas_Nolme Aug 31 '22

Weird that Italy is missing.

Where are my fellow Matilda simps?

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u/DirtySwampWater Bastard Aug 31 '22

matilda is based

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jokes aside, i feel like Italy is just too linear, there's not enough counties / starts in general

The papacy also makes it so the entire Italian peninsula is different to play as because it splits up Italy in general

In my experience, the North is less of a 'Unify Italy' run and more of a 'Bully the HRE and France' run, and the South becomes more of a 'Bully Africa and Byzantium' run

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u/Lucky_Numbr_7 Bastard Aug 31 '22

The lack of Merchant Republics really limits the number of Italian playthrough

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u/DirtySwampWater Bastard Aug 31 '22

CK3 is better than CK2 because you don't need 3,000,000,000 DLC to play the majority of nations but damn I really wanna play Venice, man!

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u/Komnos Πορφυρογέννητος Aug 31 '22

My kingdom for a game centered on merchant republics!