About to start this game for the first time, is playing the tutorial necessary...

About to start this game for the first time, is playing the tutorial necessary, or can I just kinda trial and error my way through it? Also, what do I play to best allow me to take over the Tuskan raiders of the world?

the tutorial is outdated as fuck, don't bother.

Huh, I see. So, what should I start with? I was thinking of going with late middle ages Poland.

Playing as one of the Irish counties is usually recommended as the best tutorial factions. Room for expansion while being largely ignored by the stronger powers and relatively low risk of being attacked by your immediate neighbors. Gives you plenty of time and options to learn all the game's mechanics on your own while actually playing the game instead of going through bland tutorials.

The tutorial doesn't even work properly IIRC, it just straight up breaks once you have to do seafaring and you can't complete it.

Start playing as some isolated Christian cunt I guess. Islamic republics are the best cunts though.

Start in Ireland in the default start date. Pick Dublin because your dad is about to croak so you'll inherit another county. That immediately gives you double the army size of your neighbors.

I see, good to know. While I could just look up some tutorials, I'd rather just get the bare basics, but right now this is confusing as fuck. What are all these buttons, and what are early objectives to get me kinda eased into what's going on?

>and what are early objectives to get me kinda eased into what's going on?
that depends on what you want to do

go seduction and start cucking the HRE

Honestly, I don't know. Just... Exist for a while as I get used to what I need to do, and what does what. At this point I genuinely just don't even know what there is to do.

>what are early objectives to get me kinda eased into what's going on?
There are no objectives, this is 100% a sandbox game.

I guess just look up a let's play video or something to see how stuff works.

>objectives
it's not that kind of game. the only objective in ck2 is to make sure your dynasty survives. everything else is up to you. most of Sup Forums just treats it as a porn game.

get married to people with claims on shit, make babies, try and gradually get enough claims to conquer shit. or fabricate claims.
CKII is all about character interactions and events, so honestly, just play some more and let stuff happen. make sure your characters are fucking, but not enough that you're losing counties because you're gavelkind and you have 7 kids

I see. Guess I'll set a personal objective of taking over the Middle East through extensive fucking. First rule of business, figuring out how to fuck.

>playing first time yesterday
>ireland, conquered the duchy of ulster
>incrase council power
>"wtf is this?"
>my marshal revolts
>wrecks me
is this normal?

unless they love you, or the council already has a lot of power, then yes it's normal

yeah, pretty normal. I don't even have conclave and that shit happens all the time w/ revolts. save up to hire mercenaries and shit more girls out for alliances.

>taking over the Middle East
>for your first game
"no", the Middle East along with Greece is pretty much the strongest region in the game by default.
Generally speaking, more control is what you want, empowering the council in particular is completely counterproductive and I have no idea why you would ever do it if you were the ruler. There are of course exceptions to the rule of consolidating power, I for example do not care much for increased centralization, crown authority, vassal obligations and a large personal demesne. I also prefer fewer and stronger vassals as its less to administrate, thus making my life easier.

What is the best succession law?

Elective

not gavelkind. primogeniture. maybe elective.

>primo
scrub Tbh

i prefer elective but lately i've only been playing AGOT as ironborn so i get to pick my heir by picking the best offspring of one the saltwives.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

ultimo is better

both are shit

islamic > patrician > elective

These three are also the only good succession laws

You really shouldnt ignrore the tutorial. It doesn't cover everything, but it will still make life significantly easier

this desu. the mechanics of the game may have changed a lot, but it's still useful for teaching you the very basics, like the ui.

How do I recruit more heavy infantry

The ui is really the only thing you absolutely need to know to play, rest you can read the tooltips and just figure out as you play

It's not really a hard game, you don't really NEED to do anything so in your first game you can basically just chill and try shit out, you should get some idea of what to do pretty fast
And you could of course always just check the wiki for a beginner's guide

You build shit in your holdings that raise either specific troops or your overall levies
But that's not really anything you need to concern yourself with for a while

Seriously, i garantee if you dont play the tutorial you will start the game and immediately not know what to do. This isnt some rpg where knowing to press x to kill shit will get you into the game

the tutorials suck ass it's better to watch a video tutorial on youtube and alt-tab between it and the game so you can try out what he's doing in the tutorial