A puppet Pope keeps ThatGuyFromCollege's campaign wonderfully complicated
An older Crusader Kings III achievement hunt supplies fresh viewing during a week without new uploads.
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This CK3 achievement video is dedicated to my wife’s boyfriend
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- 0:00The narrator explains the achievement: make a puppet Pope sleep with the player's spouse.
- 0:23A custom character begins the campaign as an unlanded adventurer.
- 2:25Repeated banishments complicate travel through the Holy Roman Empire and Italy.
- 6:17Cardinal abductions become the route toward controlling the papacy.
- 12:10A marriage in France adds another piece to the achievement scheme.
- 18:45The papal succession scheme reaches its decisive turn.
Controlling the leader of the Catholic world is only the first complication in ThatGuyFromCollege's Crusader Kings III campaign. The "Papal Bull" achievement requires a puppet Pope to sleep with the player's spouse, turning a strategy challenge into an elaborate medieval farce.
The jokingly titled "This CK3 achievement video is dedicated to my wife's boyfriend" follows a custom adventurer through banishments, indulgences and cardinal-abduction schemes. Cardinal Pietro becomes a target because of his lustful trait. Finding the right churchman, however, is only part of the logistical headache.
Posted just over two weeks ago, the video has reached about 110,000 views and is drawing the most daily views among the channel's individual uploads. Behind it, two older Hearts of Iron IV Kaiserreich challenges remain active: a Commune of France campaign with deliberately strengthened opponents, and a Canada run attempting to rebuild the British Empire with obstacles piled on.
No new uploads arrived this week, but the channel added roughly 3,000 subscribers. That accounts for most of its subscriber growth over the past month, while daily views are running at more than twice their usual level.
Among nearby strategy channels, Mehalic POPs had a particularly busy viewing week, while Dads Bein Dudes was quieter than usual. ThatGuyFromCollege's own week belongs to the archive: a would-be papal puppeteer, an overburdened France and a Canada campaign designed to make imperial restoration difficult.
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Which studio developed Crusader Kings III?
Paradox Development Studio developed Crusader Kings III, the medieval dynasty strategy game featured in the achievement hunt.


