Attempting to Reform the WEIRDEST Religion in Crusader Kings 3

hope you're all having a good new year! excited to be back :3

omg I thought the symbol was just a random shape I feel so dumb now

TONIGHT ON CRUSADER GEAR: Cara becomes stressed, Menceyato becomes stressed, the viewer becomes stressed.

That Achamanism logo mascot looks so cute, like he's going to give someone a big hug before pushing them into a volcano.

Hey, this religion is dope, megaliths are great. Big rocks increase county development.

The Achamanism symbol is cute funny. Canary Islands are a pretty underrated place in-game, and they have an interesting history.

I played these guys a few weeks back as a death cult. Quite fun but still really easy. This game desperately needs more challenge. Every DLC or update they release just makes the game easier. I've never lost a war in CK3. Give me any realm on the map and 30-50 years, I'll make them an unstoppable superpower.

County of Riz- I mean, uh, Ziz. The Zizzler? 🤔

I would love to see a continuation to this

cara? more like cara melldansen :3

One one hand I think it is stupid and unrealistic for a tiny island to randomly undergo a religious reformation and then start conquering random nations, but then I remember the British exist.

Yeah the story of the Canarian archipelago is wild. these guys were basically vibing over there while North Africa got taken by the Arabs. No one really tried to take those islands before until Spain really said, "you know what? imma take it". and it basically was the prequel to the whole Conquistadors thing. literally, the first indigenous people to be conquered by the Spaniards were some random Amazigh fellows living a few kilometers off from Morocco. the whole archipelago was visited by Phoenicians, Romans, Greeks and other european nations but no one in their right mind took over the islands. not even the Muslims.

That religion is awesome, and you can play some incredible tall games as the Guanche. Also, as a people IRL they occupy a super interesting niche, similar to the Basque and the Ainu where genetically and linguistically they don't quite fit in where they are, or have links to their nearest neighbors. As in it seems they migrated from elsewhere, lost to history, or just developed 100% independent of outside influence.

Achamanism is so good because Megaliths are ridiculously OP in CK3. +0.02 and +20% monthly development each, and they're stackable in secondary baronies. In practice, they're almost like having a holy building in every county.

I remember from my try at this that for the initial consolidation of the canaries the trick is very much to let them come to you(which they will), defeat them while you are having the defender advantage and they have wet boots from landing or crossing a strait. Then you move on to siege their holding.
That or jump on them after they fail a raid or won a war.
But I DO admit that the start is legit tricky.

Would also like to see a follow up to this^^

I ran that campaign when I was first finding my feet in ck3. It had a failing forward quality for me as well

Madeira isn't Spanish...

Ok but why does the dude in the thumbnail look so much like the Jackal from far cry 2?

I believe this religion is suppose to represent leftovers from the Phoenician religion who colonized the region.

Scholarship is what boost development

I thought you were about to say your video was sponsored by the Military Industrial Complex in the beginning and was so confused.

Points to Madeira island and says it was a spanish colony cries in Portuguese
and no, madeira was not inhabited previous to portuguese colonization neither were the Azores but the Azores were visited by Vikings and some evidence of Carthaginean visits aswell.

You should totally do a follow up video on this, despite the rough start, you are actually pretty powerful for your size

Canary Islands one of my favorite places in CK3 to play tall, love it

Haven’t seen your videos for a few months but I’m happy to see you again

The Achamanism guy is just a little grimbly and is perfect

Me waiting for someone to acknowledge Turumic knowing full well nobody plays in Siberia:

Love ur ck3 videos. I just watched ur new ck3 dlc video with the black death. I'm glad I found your channel. The ck3 content is great 👍

Hey, Cara,

Madeira is Portuguese, not Spanish, as you can guess by the name, too. The e followed by the i doesn’t much seem to be a thing in Spanish. The island is known for its production of coloured tiles, afaik.

The Azores, another group of random islands in the Atlantic are also Portuguese. All I know about the Azores is, that they are beautiful and very eco-friendly, at least according to that one documentary on them I watched.

One of my current saves is this exact challenge.
After many Ironman restarts, I now have the beginnings of the Imperium Canaria.
I got Feudalism via swearing fealty to Asturias. I conquered a bunch of Iberia, formed an independence faction, then broke free.
I now also control Sardinia and Corsica.
My roleplay is treating the Canaries sorta like Mypos, with its bizarrely unique culture and religious beliefs. Basically, the High Priesthood has decided to reach out the greater world after generatiosn of isolation.

Cara I'm gonna let you in on a little secret the vast majority of places colonizers "discovered" had people living there

The easiest pagan religion to reform in CK3 is, incidentally, Baltic Vidilism.

As a german i can confirm people live on Madeira its a Portuguese island and half of twitch germany lives there

Watching you struggle to do this made my day worse and took 5 years off of my life, thank you

Your raiding experience seemed the same as mine. Everyone kept telling me that as tribal the you need to raid to make money, but the only places I could raid without my army getting beaten to a pulp were ones where I lose more money from army upkeep than gain from the raid