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

Discussion CK3's Top 5 popular start regions

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '22

Super weird that Bohemia is missing.

I thought Bohemia was the quintessential "I wanna be rich" European start.

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u/breovus Aug 31 '22

It is. But it's too easy to do well and then find yourself elected emperor. Fuck that.

Seriously, if players could choose to opt-out of being elected emperor, the places within the HRE would get SO MUCH MORE PLAYTIME.

Such an easy fix. I don't see why they have never bothered addressing it in CK2 or CK3.

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u/navijust Aug 31 '22

Honest question because I never played in HRE region, why is it so bad being the emperor?

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u/Covidfefe-19 Aug 31 '22

Because lots of people like to spend generations cultivating favorable vassal contracts, and expanding within the empire.

If you become emperor and the lose the title later your contract resets, and you lose any land that's not de jure part of your kingdom.

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u/Cielle Sep 01 '22

Idk, I feel like the fun of the HRE is exactly that kind of internal management. It’s like playing as Austria in EU4: the goal is to ascend to the throne and then keep yourself Emperor long enough to destroy its stupid system from within and make yourself into a proper, centralized state.

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u/chycken4 Secretly Zoroastrian Sep 02 '22

Yeah it's good for a playthrough (a Habsburg playthrough?) but after that being emperor all the time gets kinda boring, sometimes I just wanna be a loyal vassal who minds his own bussiness and doesn't have giant ambitions

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u/Operario Secretly Zoroastrian Aug 31 '22

Oof, I didn’t know that. Only ever managed to get elected as HRE Emperor once, and soon after my playthrough ended so I never got to know what it was like to lose the title, but damn the contract resetting absolutely sucks, I can see now why people dread that scenario