Crusader Kings Is it me, or is CK3 a bit... easy?

Is it me, or is CK3 a bit... easy?
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I want to get Into this game so badly, but every time I try, I end up getting overwhelmed and confused.

Posted: 07 Oct 2021 02:50 AM PDT

First off I just want to make a couple of things clear:

This isn't a humblebrag post. I have literally only just started playing and don't even have all the mechanics down yet. I am not by any means a good player, in fact I tend to roleplay rather than power-game.
This isn't a complaint as such. I could easily be missing something, which is the point of this post, so maybe people can point it out if I am.

I was very late to the party with Crusader Kings. I picked up CK2 when they gave it away for free on Steam a couple of years ago and played it a bit. I remember my early games all went south pretty quickly. It took me several attempts to finally play a game where I even survived all the way through to the end date, let alone achieved anything meaningful. I think in my last game I started as the King of Scotland and by the end of the game I had conquered Ireland and some of England. I was quite proud of that.

I didn't buy CK3 when it came out, but I did stay subscribed to the sub in the meantime and so saw what everyone was posting etc. I noticed there seemed to be a much higher proportion of posts where people had done the hard achievements like reforming the Roman Empire, or even had literally painted the entire map one colour than I was used to with CK2. But maybe that was just my imagination.

I finally picked up the game last week and started to play and so far it seems... well, easy I guess. I didn't even start as a powerful leader, just some random Tengri count in the middle of Asia. And I am only about 50 years in, I am still on my first proper ruler, and I have already formed a large Kingdom and have far higher military strength than any of my neighbours. I was raided a bit in the very early game, but other than that nobody has really threatened me in any way, shape or form.

Obviously there is a lot of stuff I haven't experienced yet. I remember in CK2, eventually the Mongols come and take over most of Asia, so maybe that will being my game to a premature end. Or maybe I will eventually be overpowered by a strong Feudal leader when I encounter one, as IIRC from CK2, Feudal realms start to really outmuscle Tribal ones in the midgame and becoming Feudal as Tengri seems like it will take a very long time. Or maybe I have just got super-lucky in a way I don't really understand and regression to the mean will eventually hit hard.

What are other people's experiences? How do people rate the difficulty compared to CK2 or other similar games, and how does that affect your enjoyment.

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My character got pregnant a day after i embraced celibacy

Posted: 07 Oct 2021 05:10 AM PDT