Attempting to Reclaim Alexander the Greats Empire

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[@SnapStrategy]

SNAPSNAP - www.youtube.com/@snapsnap74 also forgot to mention we started in Babylon at 32 as that's where he died!

[@HumorlessEuropean]

[@melkormorgothbauglir.4848]

Don't want to be that guy but its Argead not Argaed not a big deal that its wrong but you should know that to avoid awkward scenarios in future.

[@zombievikinggaming4258]

Long form videos? I'm all her for it

[@masterofallthelakesintown2472]

Ah ok

[@MastemaJack]

Why Babylon? Should have been somewhere north of Greece

[@sundayghost1]

People forget the amount of stuff Philip II changed etc, which also allowed Alexander to be so effective.

[@zombievikinggaming4258]

Greatest Father & Son double act

[@WorldHistory515]

No one asked, yes he was a great king but this is a video about a game not a debate or documentary

[@alexwhite3830]

Not to mention the friends of his father: the great generals and commanders

[@lurkenvoncurken518]

@@WorldHistory515 People when you talk about history in a historical game:

[@WorldHistory515]

@@lurkenvoncurken518 yes?

[@The_Crimson_Lion]

"Alexander the Great was one of the best conquerers in history" One infected mosquito:

[@SnapStrategy]

Mosquitoes should have taken control of Macedonia smh

[@AshleyGravesreal]

@@SnapStrategy Maybe make a part 2 btw a suggestion,maybe if you do those short of claimants of ''reincarnations'' of historical figures you could rename the cities before and later for make it way cooler!

[@Sand-Walker13]

It could've been a mosquito. Yet I have always felt it was more likely an assisination of sorts.

[@etholus1000]

@@Sand-Walker13 I’m certain it was, there was *allot* of envious people and enemies of Alexander

[@whoareyouyouareclearlylost323]

​@@etholus1000 Agreed man, Alexander was fascinated by Persian culture, surrounded himself with Persian advisors and his next conquest was Arabia. So this all wouldn't make his Greek counterparts very unhappy.

[@konplayz]

alexander conquered a lot more than just iran, he owned most of central asia which isn’t just desert and crossed the indus into india, meaning you are missing all of Afghanistan and most of pakistan in addition to everything missing in persia, egypt and the levant.

[@MastemaJack]

Seems like he missed Greece. Why start in Babylon

[@Maltesfilm]

@@MastemaJack Yeah why not start in Macedonia lol? You know the place he originated from.

[@tkmangt5826]

@@Maltesfilm babylonia is the place he died lol

[@Maltesfilm]

@@tkmangt5826 But he didn’t start the campaign at the end of his life and just continue it. He started it from before he even made it to Babylonia.

[@Grid-the-goofy]

@@Maltesfilm Ah Yes My Favorite Speedrun :FASTEST EMPIRE BUT THIS TIME I HAVE 1 MONTH!

[@corayye4099]

CK3 creators never complete their goals lmao. I need you guys to start adding in time lapses of you finishing the goal at the end. The video will be “reclaiming Britannia!”, you finish England and say “we’ve basically done it, no one can beat us anyway” and end the video 😭 PAINT. THE. MAP.

[@settra6935]

Exactly lmao

[@robertboldt4134]

I stg my dude damn I wanna see this place conquered

[@wuxiagamescentral]

I swear. Like the Irish get OP alliances sometimes. I once had a run where I was in Wales and Ireland had Connacht get an alliance to West Francia and Sweden and they just decided to start bossing everyone if I said "I have Wales and England no one is going to beat me" then I would have missed out on epic battles against Connacht

[@saintofkildas]

Laith.

[@pokepwned]

This drives me crazy, it’s so unsatisfying

[@maxwellmanners8873]

Can’t wait for SnapSnap!!!!

[@SnapStrategy]

Thankyou! I did a poll last night and seems the first thing we are going to be doing is starting as the last Karling! so im just going to work on a big mod list for it now

[@Matti133]

Would like an update on your mod list, please.

[@einsibongo]

Is there content on Snap Snap soon?

[@tableboi84]

@@SnapStrategyAny progress with Snap Snap? I would love to see some content! :D

[@johncolson1817]

You'd think he'd start in greece

[@nunyabiznis6907]

Babylon was more in the county of Batiha (which IS close to Baghdad but it's separated by 1 whole CK3 county) in my opinion.

[@billychops1280]

Why not start in Greece? Where he was from and also you don’t have to worry about being a different culture

[@Theodoros_Kolokotronis]

Great video ! Alexander the Great visited the site of Ancient Troy in 334 B.C., as he embarked on his campaign against the Persian Empire, leading a unified Greek Army (Hellenic League). The visit to Troy held both personal and strategic significance for Alexander. On one hand, it fulfilled his long-held desire to pay tribute to his hero Achilles and connect with the glorious past of Greek mythology. On the other hand, the visit served as a powerful symbolic gesture that showcased his intention to unite the Greek world under his rule and carry on the legacy of the legendary heroes. Upon reaching the Tomb of Achilles, Alexander took a moment to pay his respects and acknowledge the greatness of the legendary warrior. Then, Alexander poured oil over the tomb, a customary practice in ancient Greek funerary rituals, symbolizing purification and sanctification. He also placed garlands of flowers and foliage on the tomb, signifying honor and respect for the deceased. Next, Alexander and Hephaestion sacrificed animals, likely horses, to honor the spirits of Achilles and Patroclus. This ritual was meant to appease the souls of the dead and seek their favor. Finally, Alexander is believed to have organized athletic games at the site, following the ancient Greek tradition of hosting such competitions in memory of deceased heroes. By paying homage to Achilles, Alexander was reinforcing his connection to the heroic past and legitimizing his claim to lead the Greek world. After Troy and his first victory at the battle of the Granicus, while leading a unified Greek Army (Hellenic League) to avenge the Persian invasions in Greece 150 years prior, Alexander the Great sent 300 suits of full Persian armour (to honor the legendary last stand of the 300 Spartans in Thermopylae) to Athens, as a votive offering to Goddess Athena, to be hung on the Acropolis. He ordered an inscription to be fixed over them; “Alexander, son of Philip and all the Greeks, present this offering from the spoils taken from the barbarians inhabiting Asia". A statue group, known as the Granicus Monument, was erected by Alexander in the sanctuary of Zeus at Dion. This consisted of bronze statues by Lysippus, of Alexander with twenty-five of his companions who had died in the initial cavalry charge, all on horseback. Alexander the Great is a sacred, immortal, legendary figure for us Greeks. Mostly for uniting all Greek City States and Kingdoms and spreading the unique Hellenic culture to the edges of the world. The rightful descendant of legendary Achilles. Eternal Hellas 🔥🇬🇷

[@SuperDRama.UrMommy]

Alexander was from macedon

[@mapoleo]

Alexander died in babylon, and he is reborn there in this video

[@martinrosenberger]

@@mapoleo btw Baghdad it’s not even near babylon in fact it is the left river more south

[@Winterfellen]

They are 53 miles away from each other what are you talking about?@@martinrosenberger

[@martinrosenberger]

@@Winterfellen that is like two counties south

[@SimpyOnThat]

You should have at least took Alexandria

[@vindex7309]

Wasn’t Alexander a commander at like age 16? Also, he took over so many cities he eventually just started calling them all Alexander… alexander by the hill, alexander by the sea…

[@algreen13]

and became king of MACEDONIA at 19

[@kermdeezy5330]

Yeah but his dad was incredibly powerful and a great warmonger too, so it's no more unusual than Henry V leading armies as a young lad.

[@switchclicks7587]

Yes. He commanded his first army at 16. Phillip was down south fighting a Greek coalition. After he defeated the enemy army and sacked the city he renamed it Alexandropolis.

[@Bill_Door123]

I doubt whether he would have conqured more, his empire was on the brink of collapse by his death. He was honestly lucky to drink himself to death rather than being murdered by of his vassals.

[@carl4889]

Babylon was east of Karbala on the old course of the Euphrates. Alexander's successor Seleucus moved his capital north east onto the Tigris near modern day Mada'in. After the Abbasids overran the Umayyads they wanted a capital further east than Damascus that was closer to their power base, so they built a new planned city (Bagdad) just north of Mada'in.

[@fsdylan]

Honestly man your the best I always look forward to watching your videos

[@SnapStrategy]

Thats very kind of you! thankyou! :)

[@guardianofcats102]

8:19 The way he said Byzantine Empire 💀

[@bradleymanson6757]

Americans and Brits say it differently. There is no "correct" way.

[@alexwhite3830]

@@bradleymanson6757 of course there is. Vizantine, the original greek spelling

[@bradleymanson6757]

@@alexwhite3830 That is the spelling. How can we know how to pronounce a word from a dead language? We can only assume.

[@alexwhite3830]

​@@bradleymanson6757 Oh come on, the historical names are the same in modern Greek. Sometimes maybe differ, but such things as Babylon, Byzantium etc starts with V in Greek

[@skafidi]

@@bradleymanson6757 dead language? You know that your language is 80% greek?

[@rodrigojose1973]

He was so powerful, that he just run away when he discovered about the romans.....

[@jesperjohansson8317]

Why didnt you start in makedonia or atleast an area in greece?

[@someguysomeone3543]

The capital of the empire was babylon. Plus, Alexander wanted to merge Greek and Persian cultures.

[@jean-charleschabrol390]

Can't wait to see your let's plays on the new channel

[@bubbanator3340]

the fact that you killed the Emperor, declared war on his kid, and the child just said "Yeah nah. you can have it all." is fucking WILD. EZ claps.

[@ghostcat5303]

Tbh considering his lifestyle, Alexander lived a long life

[@Ozan-qr7hu]

Yeah, being in all kinds of foreign places bring all sorts of strange diseases. It's strange that almost all of the conquerors like Alexander almost always die young and rule short.

[@Bora1333]

You can invite claimants to kingdom titles, and get the whole kingdom immediately

[@qalidurut7249]

Seljuks are easy to beat just assassinate two rulers and it will explode

[@duphasdan]

14:40 Gotta admit, the new emperor of the Byzantine Empire just looks so cute. So adorable like a Kewpie doll.

[@masxalis6978]

Reclaiming Alexander's empire and not starting as the kingdom of Thessalonica is criminal.

[@default0118]

A playtrough when you reform a religion with pharaohs and take egypt would be fun

[@Gyc864]

Almost at 50 k bro. Keep up the good work! Remember when you only had like 3k lol

[@azmoh4515]

Why does he starts in babylon, he is from greece

[@robertsiems3808]

You can go for the entire enemy kingdom if you abduct an heir and force him to join you. Saves a lot of boring duchy wars👍

[@jonathanlondon2310]

Wars just suddenly ending because someone died is the dumbest shit ever.

[@FanFive5]

Tbf, that’s what happened.

[@thepenguinmafia]

You should try to do it the same number of years as Alexander did

[@billychops1280]

8

[@frankiecedeno3724]

You got everything in the second Duchy war in Mesopotamia because the guy only had one Duchy title which comes with all of his vassals. There is a definitely a argument to be had that non de jure vassals should become independent instead.

[@trock7542]

Should gave started in macedon not babylon

[@OldsReporter]

why didn't you start in macedonia?

[@the1grove]

You need to redo this video, and acutally take all of Alexander's Empire. You didn't take all of Egypt, all of Iran, Pakistan, and Western India.

[@gschmechel25]

Kinda want to see a time lapse of what happens after you end this game, just to see where Hellenism and the Argeads go!

[@thenotoriousgoob]

Let’s gooooo! Thanks for makin this video man much appreciated

[@cxmfarzz1956]

Ohh yeah .. more historical runs ... I luv dis

[@kuzmanpro5839]

Thanks for playing alexander and showing the Macedonian history.

[@HurricaneNova]

"somehow aleksandyr returned"

[@Lilman53589]

bro said byezantyne

[@arderon5]

nice video. should have made Georgia as a friendly neighbor.

[@wilmanuts9954]

Hey fella swell diss but now you got the pan Hellenist from Pella hella pissed

[@awesomepork101]

Cool video!

[@BETER12]

can you try to play as messalians? they are wired christian sect that have full equal rights and insest no one played as them on youtube

[@Stevonicus]

Did Hellenism spread outside your empire? With all the daughters married off, plus the prestige of being emperor, I assume some places must have embraced the faith.

[@rene7996]

I can’t really be sure of anything since it’s technically possible, but it is highly unlikely for that to happen. Once they are married off and are in their husbands court they are usually demanded to convert to their husbands religion and the wife usually can’t do much about it

[@ezbond8965]

I literally searched exactly this videos premise yesterday!

[@snapsnap74]

Hello 😎

[@sahilhossain8204]

Lore of Attempting to Reclaim Alexander the Greats Empire momentum 100

[@sofiyums]

Alexander did in 3 years what the Romans/Byzantines couldn't do in over 2000: conquer the Persians 🤭

[@badlyrosenthal5149]

woah this is like my dream conquest haha, one of my favorite historical figures. LOVE your channel brotha

[@MrChan47]

Is Alexander actually in the game as a dead character like Caesar or did you just make up a character that you thought resembled him

[@SnapStrategy]

Im not sure! yeah i just made a custom character haha

[@DanksterPaws]

I think it only goes up to 0 AD and not before

[@schizophil1]

@@SnapStrategy why did you start him in Babylon tho? Wasn’t he Macedonian?

[@AlexS-oj8qf]

Argaed or Argead?

[@gods_fall]

as a persian i watched this like : nooo noo damn you demon 😡🤬 (just kidding love your vids😂😂 )

[@id8461]

You should do elder kings and go from a lowly count, to emperor of all Tamriel

[@monty1691]

I love ur channel bro excited to watch the 2nd

[@somepvpguy69]

Bro wants to be Gilgamesh so bad 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

[@robertsiems3808]

Bro, i think the reason the empress accepted your demands was because she's 1 year old. Thats just me tho

[@youraveragecanuck6788]

I think if you posted shorts on tiktok about your KZbin videos they would blow up and get super popular.

[@murtazahasanmumand2694]

Alexander's night mare (Tha Afghan tribes of Bectria)

[@neoceun]

Ah, An Alexander Campaign! I can't wait to- *Sees Argaed instead of Argead* Literally unplayable typo 0/10. In all seriousness, this is awesome. Now finish up Egypt and cross the Indus.

[@mrtrollnator123]

💪💪💪🐴🐴🐴🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎 mégas alexándros

[@megatroid7275]

15:01 what the hell is that france

[@limbobilbo8743]

Can we get a mali empire mansa musa early playthrough?

[@yernat.ali1453]

time to redo the video. New update has a real Macedonian culture

[@Lord_Imperion55]

Alexander didn’t build an empire he conquered one 90% of Alexander’s land was the land he took from Persian empire

[@7Wolf77]

So what happened to the other channel? I see no content.

[@viorp5267]

Come on man not as Bactria?

[@Pigraider268]

Question: why did you start in Babylon?

[@darknight5768]

Can I unlock cataphracts being a Scottish

[@DarthSidian]

You're missing way too much land, you lost a battle (Alexander never did, despite what coping currybros might tell you), and you didn't speedrun conquests with great generals. In what way is this an Alexander run?

[@LeakyTrees]

Alexander did lose a battle! He lost to Tuberculosis.

[@pacovides5364]

what is the mod of maa art?

[@OleZorlie]

why not starting in macedon where alexander was actually born?

[@hezekiahrose2743]

Hetero? Brown hair? Snap is a fake Alexander fan! (All in good fun, great video, mate)

[@omgfackdehell]

Alexander of Babylon? You spelled Macedon wrong

[@tobes662]

hey snap i really don't like the subtle camera shake thing you were doing with the zoom. i have an inner ear disorder and its starting to trigger my vertigo. i'd like to keep watching your videos if possible

[@martinrosenberger]

About were babylon should be 💀💀💀💀💀

[@TheSarias]

Waltuh

[@haha_9383]

Only about 1300 years from when he actually lived

[@RealDannyHelmer]

not in ck3 so probably a mod. ggs man of course. it's called al-qadir

[@JotunWar]

Wich mod is it that allows you to filter marriage ?

[@ShayGamerD3]

You should work on your pronunciation of historical names, if you're making content on Crusader Kings 3. Also, Babylon is in the game, it's in county of Kufa, holding of al-Hila. . .

[@HerrNinguem]

So this is what I don't get: Alexandros II rose to power at the age of 58 (14:22), but when he died, at the age of 70 (16:22), the game says it was a 5 year reign. Shouldn't it be a 12 year reign?

[@RomanumChristum]

It’s a big, I’ve had it happen a few times

[@dbriner-jo5tv]

Its beacause he only ruled for five years in his now main title

[@HerrNinguem]

@@dbriner-jo5tv oh there was a title change in between? I didn't noticed, my bad

[@rave4350]

how did he make the sultan name yellow like what mod

[@tamarajoseph7298]

Could you play as infanta urraca?

[@NagySzentAntal]

Why didn't you reform your faith?

[@Ludovicus1769]

Alexander had a lot more land in Egypt, as well as much more land to the East. But great video as always!

[@ronnie_368]

hey snap, i was curious as to what your specs are, my pc is i feel above average but yet runs extremely slow even at 5 speed. Even at earlier start dates so its frustrating when playing long playthrough's because of how slow it is. I have an i5-11400f with an rtx 3060 16gb ram with ck3 being on an ssd. (And im not using any mods)

[@samdavison286]

I mean I've got literally the exact same specs as you but mine runs fine

[@samdavison286]

Probably just your Internet

[@ronnie_368]

​@@samdavison286 i dont think internet has any effect on how fast the game runs, and when you say fine do you mean like playable or really fast.

[@samdavison286]

Like it runs at a good frame rate

[@ronnie_368]

@@samdavison286 nah my framerate is not an issue its the speed of the game, like the time yknow.

[@NathanTheD]

Why not start in actual Mesopotamia ? ^^

[@louplayz752]

haha play it in 2x speed

[@ohNojames]

Have the updated the visuals or is Snap using a mod? The coat of arms for realms on the map look different. Look better imo. Mesopotamia is my favorite kingdom to form in this area. But I’ve never created a custom ruler there

[@ericreinert9870]

Can name the mods?

[@oVoxxy]

Why didn’t you start as Macedonia ?

[@thisistherealityofeverything]

first

[@skif2728]

3rd

[@SnapStrategy]

SNAPSNAP - www.youtube.com/@snapsnap74 Also in the next few weeks I will be experimenting a lot with different content styles on the channel! Still CK3, but think its always good to try and improve and learn new things! :)

[@LiamADHD]

he was gay

[@dred0]

Didn't he have like 2 wives

[@LiamADHD]

@@dred0 yes maybe. But that's for the sole purpose of producing offspring. If you watch more and more documentaries and do some research he was presumed gay with his right hand man. I'm not sure when or where but I remember at some point they crossed the ocean and Alexander built a monument that was supposed to be for your wife but he built it in the name of his right hand man. There is no proof for anything but the evidence presuming he is gay is vast. I'm not good at explaining so look into it. You'll find what you seek.

[@henricoz_9745]

No he was bi

[@SuleimanAlKanuni]

Bro I'm ngl this sucked my brudda you started in mesopotamia than Greece which would've been alot better... also you didn't even create your own empire which would've been more unique instead of just stealing byzantium. Honestly I watched this video when I first started ck3 and now watching it made me realise how bad you are my days

[@HOOPTY21]

Alexander wasnt great at all