Can I just say, I've sat through damn near every paradox 'beginner guide' on youtube, and this is the most informative and easy to follow commentary I've ever seen. I really think you should be doing guides for all types of grand strategy games, you have a talent for it.
i managed to unite ireand after my original character died, and because of a marriage with a daughter of england's king i had a claim on the whole of england and since i was pretty damn strong already (and the english were really, really weak, probably because of all the wars they got obliterated in) i prepared to conquer england i dont remember exactly what happened but it turned out that character died so i continued as the player heir, and took the heir's mother's claim on england and declared war (midway through war she died and i lost the claim which screwed everything up, so i had to savescum a bit) i also like to murder my non-heir sons or disinherit/imprison them so that the realm after i die is as stable as can be, because all the succession laws and researching stuff is too confusing for me
I conquored it all in Murchad's life founded the Kingdom of ireland only to have him die and everyone support the younger brother for king and ended back as just the Duke of my starting lands but now I have a king over me.
I love the explanations. I love the voice. I love the memes. I love the not super high quality microphone that picks up on your mouse clicking. Liked and subbed.
Ireland has a lot of swamp and hills. Horsemen suck in swamp and hills. Archers and Catapults (like the video suggests) are a good choice. Be sure to pick the stronger catapult type, as they are strictly better.
Yeah I totally agree with this. Feels like most other videos are explaining so many concepts without actually watching them in action and I'm getting totally lost in the theoretical.
Love these videos! More of them please! I enjoy that they have an educational focus and that you take your time to explain things. Too many other channels just rush through things. This is probably the best small CK3 channel on YT
@@Zieley Nice con bro please continue this campaign ! I had an ez time with this part just have problems with deving up the island for techs and colonozing lands and most importantly keeping it all centralized ... so please keep this on
You have helped my game more in 26 minutes with your video than me struggling for 50 hours on my own. Thank You, this was an incredible beginner guide that allowed me to further explore the complexities instead of being overwhelmed.
Your videos have helpt me so much to understand this great game. I have had 2 campaigns where I managed to form empires in both of them. I have now started a campaign in the middle of the central asian continent to attempt form a great khanet empire
Dude this was awesome. I just started playing the game but had to keep restarting because I was completely lost or kept making wrong decisions. So this was a big help
I'm glad I stumbled on your channel. I'm slowing learning the ropes of CK3 after years of playing CK2 and your videos are pure gems. Keep up the good work ! :)
The info on the game is very much appreciated for a newbie , especially someone who has only ever played europa universalis and has that sort of mindset. Also the fun snippets of memes made me giggle so..thanks xD
really enjoyed this video and it helped me a lot in my conquering ireland in a much faster pace than i had previously. revoking titles was a feature i hadn’t played with much previously.
Thank you for this. I've been having such a hard time wrapping my head around this game but I want to get better because it looks like it can be so fun. Very informative and helpful video!
With Ireland, you can send out 4 marriage requests (all must be 16+, no betrothals) before unpausing, and you can get 4 good wives. Make the wife with the best skills your primary wife by right clicking on her and selecting that option. Also consider changing the filter to select both fertile and infertile wives, when picking the wife that has the high skills. Obviously, only pick one infertile wife. otherwise if you do one marriage request, and then unpause and wait for it to be agreed to, your subsequent wives will be lower "quality", as there is a large penalty for marriage picks after the first wife. Since you will soon be the head of the Irish culture, you may want to pick a primary wife that has a high learning skill (prioritize over all other stats), and having her specialize in patronage. This will result in faster tech research, and it will help all of the kids in your realm receive better educations.
@@woodsofchaos well, that is one way of doing it. Personally, I like a strong family over a strong individual heir. Your heir gets all the gold and all the army (and all the prisoners) regardless of the number of children. If you use a type of elective heir, having more kids gives you a much better chance of having a vastly superior (stat wise) heir.
@@brocksamson3282 that's not good for the Early game. Like at all. You don't have the ability to pick an heir and confederate partition wrecks everything you have done if you have too many kids
@@deusvult6920 use the Irish elective succession so you can pick your heir, from the best of your kids. you can scam it so your heir gets everything if you pick not your heir. then give every title yo heir you want. then vote for your actual heir.
I’d love to see a part two. This was great on the war front, but didn’t go much in to town development. So I’m curious about what your thoughts there would be, plus, going in to form Britannia through Ireland would be one heck of a flex 😂
I'm in the process of doing it now. I only had daughters, so I married my eldest to somebody who had an unpressed claim to be King of Scotland, then waged a war to put him on that throne. She's now High Queen of Ireland and he's King of Scotland, but their son will be rightful ruler of both, and at that point the English had better watch out!
Im not a new player but im so annoyed by people skipping through the game or just winging it. Im really happy to find someone who is explaining his decision making while being knowledgeable about the game. It really inspires me to think about strategies for my own campaign.
Thanks! Just started playing on PS5, and even though the controls are different, I learned so much in just the first 10 minutes of this video. Great job.
I started in 1066 as Munster, and was able to unite all of Ireland by my grandson in 1128. First time playing the game so I’m pretty excited. I also have 1 single county in Normandy that I snagged during the Norman conquest, my half brother had a claim so I took it.
I did this from the 867 start as Thomond with a custom ruler who was focused on learning, diplomacy and stewardship, so my army size was about half of what it would be with the normal preset, and founded Ireland in 27 years. I only needed to conquer a few counties in total, found the duchies, and vassalize the lords who I became the rightful liege of. The specific route I took was to marry into an alliance with Ormond from the start, conquer Desmond to form Munster and vassalize Ormond. Then I took over Ossory and Leinster, formed the duchy of Leinster. After taking over Connacht by conquest and Athlone by marriage & scheming I had enough territory to declare the Kingdom of Ireland and vassalized everybody except Dubhlinn and Ulster, because they were vassals of Sudreyjar and I had to take half of Scotland to secure them. And then the game updated the next day and broke the save.
finally someone who explains this game well enough. communication is a skill. this game is like learning software, and you pretty much have to be a history buff
After I vassalize Desmond, I’m unable to revoke the vassal’s title because I have a truce with them. That didn’t seem to be an issue in this video, and I’m unsure why
The best way to get achievements is always with ruler designer. For Ireland just create an Asatru ruler of Irish culture with high martial. Can conquer in less than 10 years
One thing I think you missed… the most valuable lands, that being plains for farmlands is Ormond, Dublin and most importantly the whole Leinster duchy. That Leinster duchy basically bank rolled my whole early campaign.
Dublin is better in the 1066 start. You basically start with an ally that you can use, but they're also close to death and you're their primary heir. So, if you play it right within the first year, you can form a duchy and be in good position for a 2nd.
With small realms I tend to only give out 1 or at most 2 counties to each vassal and no duchies. I only start creating and giving duchies once I reach the vassal limit. That way you get more troops and gold (it's more efficient).
@@TorontoPopulistConservative yeah I never create duchies because there is no benefit to you other than prestige. It makes all vassals under that duchy have a negative opinion of you just because they want it for themselves. For dejure claims I do it only with the intention of giving the duchy to one of the my existing counts there. If you use dejure claims every count/duke you conquer become your vassals and will hate you, especially the ex-duke. But if you give the duchy away it doesn’t matter as much because the new duke will love you for giving it to him. There is a lot of power balancing you have to do so that your dukes never get strong enough to rebel, which is why it’s better to have many counts and only start making duchies once you reach the count limit. At that point you should be more powerful than any single duke you promoted.
@@TorontoPopulistConservative Coming from a CK2 player, yeah that's pretty much it. I don't bother to create duchies unless I plan to give them away. Having a bunch of weak vassals is better than having a few powerful ones. You can also usually get away with having one or two too many duchies if you keep relations high.
I actually just build up some troops as heavy infantry and bowmen and rush when they are ready on whoever I already have claims on as they are being attacked or at war especially
This video helped me a ton! Any chance you would do an extension of this video with the end goal being accomplishing “Reclaim Britannia”? I’ve been trying to do that starting with this Ireland start and really struggling.
“And this one time at band camp” you have a very similar way of speaking as the girl in American pie. 😂 just reminded of it Great video , thanks , very helpful
A stupid strategy I like doing when doing the Munster start is allying with the Duke of Normandy and "assisting" him in his war for the kingdom of England. Having a powerful ally for the first two generations is a great boon for defensive wars since calling in allies for those is free.
Thx dude you’re the only guy who can explain this simply so we can understand. Also when I take Over Ireland can I declare war on England or other countries to be king of the world?
The first video where I didn't feel more confused afterwards when trying it out. Busy playing this challenge now. Have a question, when should I focus on building's in this play through?
Conquered all of Ireland in about 16-17 years proceeded to conquer Scotland, Denmark, chunks of Norway, Normandy. Character died at 110 and only lost the Kingdom of Scotland but i easily regained it.
I just started playing this game, on my second try I've United all of Ireland and took control over all of Iceland :') I'm so scared now of losing it all hahahaha
I took over Ireland and was like... I'm bored, surely there's something else to do and then I just looked at this video and realized... I probably finished ages ago the developers must have forgot to give me a "you won" screen.
Why can't I revoke the title? I really want to get into this game, but I can't even get 10 minutes into this video without something not going as it should
(Sorry bad English) Revoke title on Ormond vassal, he will declare war on you and Desmond will join on his side, you'll win the war and now you can revoke title.
I made a custom character in Desmond and took the south half of Ireland and my characters first born son was murdered at 1 year old and later found out it was my steward so i started a scheme to murder him but he died of old age before it was finished.
noticeable-noob-tip: Right from the first day in-game, if you are the petty-king of Munster, then you can just ask the leader of Desmond to be your vassal and he will accept. Although, to be fair, if you want to do this immediately, then you'll have to give him low-level requirements. So I can see why you didn't go with that.
"I'm just going to go around declaring as many wars and revoking as many titles as I can." "Huh... seems like someone had a scheme to murder me. Can't imagine why." 🤣
Can I just say, I've sat through damn near every paradox 'beginner guide' on youtube, and this is the most informative and easy to follow commentary I've ever seen. I really think you should be doing guides for all types of grand strategy games, you have a talent for it.
You made this look really easy, I managed to capture about a third of Ireland then died and my son's split the lands and it all went to shit
Same basically
Reconquer, and continue conquest!
i managed to unite ireand after my original character died, and because of a marriage with a daughter of england's king i had a claim on the whole of england and since i was pretty damn strong already (and the english were really, really weak, probably because of all the wars they got obliterated in) i prepared to conquer england
i dont remember exactly what happened but it turned out that character died so i continued as the player heir, and took the heir's mother's claim on england and declared war (midway through war she died and i lost the claim which screwed everything up, so i had to savescum a bit)
i also like to murder my non-heir sons or disinherit/imprison them so that the realm after i die is as stable as can be, because all the succession laws and researching stuff is too confusing for me
I conquored it all in Murchad's life founded the Kingdom of ireland only to have him die and everyone support the younger brother for king and ended back as just the Duke of my starting lands but now I have a king over me.
@@Seomus if your younger brother was still your heir you could have considered suicide^^
I love the explanations. I love the voice. I love the memes. I love the not super high quality microphone that picks up on your mouse clicking. Liked and subbed.
Thanks champ, happy to help out
Don't we all love it
Hes not going to fk you dude
@@Jonslau We do.
Ireland has a lot of swamp and hills. Horsemen suck in swamp and hills. Archers and Catapults (like the video suggests) are a good choice. Be sure to pick the stronger catapult type, as they are strictly better.
50% more siege power for 20% more gold, definitely worth it.
If you start in 1066, sure.
more of this please!
this style strikes the best balance between entertaining and informative with practical examples for every aspect of the game.
Yeah I totally agree with this. Feels like most other videos are explaining so many concepts without actually watching them in action and I'm getting totally lost in the theoretical.
As an Irish lad from Munster this was great fun to watch. 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
Love these videos! More of them please! I enjoy that they have an educational focus and that you take your time to explain things. Too many other channels just rush through things. This is probably the best small CK3 channel on YT
Wow thanks man means a lot
@@Zieley Nice con bro please continue this campaign ! I had an ez time with this part just have problems with deving up the island for techs and colonozing lands and most importantly keeping it all centralized ... so please keep this on
You have helped my game more in 26 minutes with your video than me struggling for 50 hours on my own. Thank You, this was an incredible beginner guide that allowed me to further explore the complexities instead of being overwhelmed.
After 20 hrs of watching Ck3 vids, finally the video have been waiting for. Thank you.
Your videos have helpt me so much to understand this great game. I have had 2 campaigns where I managed to form empires in both of them. I have now started a campaign in the middle of the central asian continent to attempt form a great khanet empire
Happy to help! Good luck man
I have 300 hours on this game but I still watched the whole thing. Great content as usual!
Thanks man!
1300 hours and i still watched it.
Dude this was awesome. I just started playing the game but had to keep restarting because I was completely lost or kept making wrong decisions. So this was a big help
I'm glad I stumbled on your channel. I'm slowing learning the ropes of CK3 after years of playing CK2 and your videos are pure gems. Keep up the good work ! :)
Thanks my man, happy you enjoy em!
The info on the game is very much appreciated for a newbie , especially someone who has only ever played europa universalis and has that sort of mindset. Also the fun snippets of memes made me giggle so..thanks xD
Happy to help my man, thanks!
really enjoyed this video and it helped me a lot in my conquering ireland in a much faster pace than i had previously. revoking titles was a feature i hadn’t played with much previously.
7 minutes in and this has been the best video to help my newbie self. Thank you!
Thank you for this. I've been having such a hard time wrapping my head around this game but I want to get better because it looks like it can be so fun. Very informative and helpful video!
With Ireland, you can send out 4 marriage requests (all must be 16+, no betrothals) before unpausing, and you can get 4 good wives. Make the wife with the best skills your primary wife by right clicking on her and selecting that option.
Also consider changing the filter to select both fertile and infertile wives, when picking the wife that has the high skills. Obviously, only pick one infertile wife.
otherwise if you do one marriage request, and then unpause and wait for it to be agreed to, your subsequent wives will be lower "quality", as there is a large penalty for marriage picks after the first wife.
Since you will soon be the head of the Irish culture, you may want to pick a primary wife that has a high learning skill (prioritize over all other stats), and having her specialize in patronage. This will result in faster tech research, and it will help all of the kids in your realm receive better educations.
Consider looking for 4 infertile wives. Having an army of kids is a surefire way to rip apart all your progress.
@@woodsofchaos well, that is one way of doing it. Personally, I like a strong family over a strong individual heir. Your heir gets all the gold and all the army (and all the prisoners) regardless of the number of children. If you use a type of elective heir, having more kids gives you a much better chance of having a vastly superior (stat wise) heir.
@@brocksamson3282 that's not good for the Early game. Like at all. You don't have the ability to pick an heir and confederate partition wrecks everything you have done if you have too many kids
@@deusvult6920 use the Irish elective succession so you can pick your heir, from the best of your kids. you can scam it so your heir gets everything if you pick not your heir. then give every title yo heir you want. then vote for your actual heir.
@@brocksamson3282 I'll fire up a game today and give it a shot
I’d love to see a part two. This was great on the war front, but didn’t go much in to town development. So I’m curious about what your thoughts there would be, plus, going in to form Britannia through Ireland would be one heck of a flex 😂
I'm in the process of doing it now. I only had daughters, so I married my eldest to somebody who had an unpressed claim to be King of Scotland, then waged a war to put him on that throne. She's now High Queen of Ireland and he's King of Scotland, but their son will be rightful ruler of both, and at that point the English had better watch out!
Commenting 3 years after the fact but this is the best guide on UA-cam for CK3 beginners
Awesome video. Love the inbetween edits. They make the video so much more fun and entertaining:))
Hugely enjoyed this. Very helpful to me. I just started with CK3 and have really been floundering around.
I just started recently and floundering around too.
Every time I win a war I disband my army to save money... is that proper ?
thank you for the video I have been playing for a short time now and learned some new useful things from the video keep up the great work
Im not a new player but im so annoyed by people skipping through the game or just winging it. Im really happy to find someone who is explaining his decision making while being knowledgeable about the game. It really inspires me to think about strategies for my own campaign.
Thanks! Just started playing on PS5, and even though the controls are different, I learned so much in just the first 10 minutes of this video. Great job.
Same!
The pronunciation of Murchad was equally as hilarious as it was frustrating. Great vid
I started in 1066 as Munster, and was able to unite all of Ireland by my grandson in 1128. First time playing the game so I’m pretty excited.
I also have 1 single county in Normandy that I snagged during the Norman conquest, my half brother had a claim so I took it.
This game is complicated, these kind of videos are helpful! Do more, please!
One of the best explanations of this game! Huge help on how to maneuver from where most me mes start from.
Yes I very much enjoyed, this is the bomb that I was looking for.
I did this from the 867 start as Thomond with a custom ruler who was focused on learning, diplomacy and stewardship, so my army size was about half of what it would be with the normal preset, and founded Ireland in 27 years. I only needed to conquer a few counties in total, found the duchies, and vassalize the lords who I became the rightful liege of. The specific route I took was to marry into an alliance with Ormond from the start, conquer Desmond to form Munster and vassalize Ormond. Then I took over Ossory and Leinster, formed the duchy of Leinster. After taking over Connacht by conquest and Athlone by marriage & scheming I had enough territory to declare the Kingdom of Ireland and vassalized everybody except Dubhlinn and Ulster, because they were vassals of Sudreyjar and I had to take half of Scotland to secure them. And then the game updated the next day and broke the save.
please more campaigns with explainers - so helpful.
finally someone who explains this game well enough. communication is a skill. this game is like learning software, and you pretty much have to be a history buff
This was really great. Keep them comming.
You make look so easy, I wish the actual game was that easy.
After I vassalize Desmond, I’m unable to revoke the vassal’s title because I have a truce with them. That didn’t seem to be an issue in this video, and I’m unsure why
He is playing an older version of CK3. There have been significant updates since then. This video is more for entertainment at this point.
Well the big thing is you have to get 2nd tear ruler unlocked
You are great, your videos, your knowledge of the game and ability to pass it on is fantastic ❤
i appreciate the way you explained. for that alone i will sub.
The best way to get achievements is always with ruler designer. For Ireland just create an Asatru ruler of Irish culture with high martial. Can conquer in less than 10 years
The "Content" trait also precludes vassals from jointing factions with the added benefit that there's not reduction to their stats.
Love your videos. Big fan of all your content!
Thanks man! appreciate ya
One thing I think you missed… the most valuable lands, that being plains for farmlands is Ormond, Dublin and most importantly the whole Leinster duchy. That Leinster duchy basically bank rolled my whole early campaign.
Thanks this was great advice/guide for a beginner like me! :)
Yes, definitely make more of these videos :) is there a video where you continue this game and take over the UK?
I've never had my first king murdered before, I wasn't expecting that. Usually, it's just me doing the murdering.
Great guide! I didn't know about fabricating claims and discarding vasals.
Great video!!
Just miss the countys that you keeped.
This is suppose to be coming to xbox soon so these videos are good for me although i suspect updates have probably changed some things by now
Thanks so much for these guides, very helpful
Happy to help!
Well done, good episode. Very useful.
This video was super helpful, thank you!!
Dublin is better in the 1066 start. You basically start with an ally that you can use, but they're also close to death and you're their primary heir. So, if you play it right within the first year, you can form a duchy and be in good position for a 2nd.
With small realms I tend to only give out 1 or at most 2 counties to each vassal and no duchies. I only start creating and giving duchies once I reach the vassal limit. That way you get more troops and gold (it's more efficient).
What about "too many held duchies"? Do you just not create the duchy titles and miss out on some de jure claims?
@@TorontoPopulistConservative yeah I never create duchies because there is no benefit to you other than prestige. It makes all vassals under that duchy have a negative opinion of you just because they want it for themselves. For dejure claims I do it only with the intention of giving the duchy to one of the my existing counts there. If you use dejure claims every count/duke you conquer become your vassals and will hate you, especially the ex-duke. But if you give the duchy away it doesn’t matter as much because the new duke will love you for giving it to him. There is a lot of power balancing you have to do so that your dukes never get strong enough to rebel, which is why it’s better to have many counts and only start making duchies once you reach the count limit. At that point you should be more powerful than any single duke you promoted.
@@TorontoPopulistConservative Coming from a CK2 player, yeah that's pretty much it. I don't bother to create duchies unless I plan to give them away. Having a bunch of weak vassals is better than having a few powerful ones. You can also usually get away with having one or two too many duchies if you keep relations high.
I actually just build up some troops as heavy infantry and bowmen and rush when they are ready on whoever I already have claims on as they are being attacked or at war especially
This video helped me a ton! Any chance you would do an extension of this video with the end goal being accomplishing “Reclaim Britannia”? I’ve been trying to do that starting with this Ireland start and really struggling.
This was very helpful to me learning the game
Terrific information, thank you!
Actually helped me learn some mechanics.. nice video
I’d love to see an overly explained of stellaris
Me, a 2 week player who stayed around 150 years to conquer the whole Ireland...
“And this one time at band camp” you have a very similar way of speaking as the girl in American pie. 😂 just reminded of it
Great video , thanks , very helpful
A stupid strategy I like doing when doing the Munster start is allying with the Duke of Normandy and "assisting" him in his war for the kingdom of England. Having a powerful ally for the first two generations is a great boon for defensive wars since calling in allies for those is free.
Gonna try that
I’m about 30 years in my first campaign and half conquered Ireland so far. It’s been fun Murchad, Duchess Matilda if Tuscany and their 8 kids
best channel for ck3
I actually wanna see a continuation of this playthrough now
Well explained, ive been looking for a guide like this, other videos explains alotta shit in my plate, luckily i found the right video.
It would be good if you had showed us at the end a summary screen of which domains you decided to keep and which were owned by vassels.
I always give land to a prisoner I've negotiated a hook for releasing. Then either change the tax or blackmail for 50.
I had a epic first character that lived 93 years. I just wanted to share it.
Well, I did exactly as you did and couldn't revoke his title because we have a truce.
i just know ure such a nerd and probably such a good person to talk to about nerd stuff
Thx dude you’re the only guy who can explain this simply so we can understand. Also when I take Over Ireland can I declare war on England or other countries to be king of the world?
This video got me thinking; what next? King of Ireland…… emperor of Britannia?
This helped out so much man
Top of the morning to ya'!, i really like this video
Enjoyed so much
The first video where I didn't feel more confused afterwards when trying it out. Busy playing this challenge now. Have a question, when should I focus on building's in this play through?
We are planning another for after Royal Court comes out
Conquered all of Ireland in about 16-17 years proceeded to conquer Scotland, Denmark, chunks of Norway, Normandy. Character died at 110 and only lost the Kingdom of Scotland but i easily regained it.
Yet whenever I do this, they always get some really powerful kingdom to join them.
I just started playing this game, on my second try I've United all of Ireland and took control over all of Iceland :') I'm so scared now of losing it all hahahaha
I'm playing the Xbox version and tried this multiple times but it wasn't nearly as easy as I thought it would be
I took over Ireland and was like... I'm bored, surely there's something else to do and then I just looked at this video and realized... I probably finished ages ago the developers must have forgot to give me a "you won" screen.
Why can't I revoke the title? I really want to get into this game, but I can't even get 10 minutes into this video without something not going as it should
Playing Ireland was so much fun, I literally got stronger than the Holy Roman Empire at a certain point lol
Great one m8
Enjoyed that
Very new to this game. But how come his lands didn't get divided among his children when his starting character died
Because he only had one son. Murchad starts with an adult son, and the murder happened before he had any more with his new wife.
Daaaaym ! I RLY wanted to know how things are done properly !
Thanks for the video. I am really bad at this game. 20 hours in and I am still getting wrecked, no idea what I am doing.
dont worry after 200 hours you will still get wrecked by revolts 😅
When I do this I quickly get disgraced and can't do anything because of the amount of wars or something
Is it just me or when i go to revoke the title for the vassal in Desmond, it is greyed out and says I can't because of a truce!?
Me too...
(Sorry bad English) Revoke title on Ormond vassal, he will declare war on you and Desmond will join on his side, you'll win the war and now you can revoke title.
Dude this was so helpful thank you
It took me 2days gameplay to achieve 80% what u just did in the video LOL
you could also create the kingdom of Ireland as soon as possible and vassalize the rest of Ireland
Ireland 1066: Baby's First Dynasty
I made a custom character in Desmond and took the south half of Ireland and my characters first born son was murdered at 1 year old and later found out it was my steward so i started a scheme to murder him but he died of old age before it was finished.
I finally came over from hoi4 and the economy and war is easy but I cannot fathom title and holdings management
Dublin is the better start as you get the land below it within 10 years since yours 1st in line to inherit it
noticeable-noob-tip: Right from the first day in-game, if you are the petty-king of Munster, then you can just ask the leader of Desmond to be your vassal and he will accept. Although, to be fair, if you want to do this immediately, then you'll have to give him low-level requirements. So I can see why you didn't go with that.
"I'm just going to go around declaring as many wars and revoking as many titles as I can."
"Huh... seems like someone had a scheme to murder me. Can't imagine why." 🤣