I fight off an impossible war and rescue a viewer's "UNSAVABLE" CK3 game

_____ 📨 Send me your disastrous save files here 📨 _____
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Today I'm saving another one of your guys' games! This one came in from a viewer named Mert who said that his game file was UNSAVABLE... But I've never seen a game I couldn't save. Will I be able to do it? You'll have to watch to find out 👀
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____ 🎨 Artwork 🎨 ____
European Medieval Village
Artist: Klaus Pillon
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____ 🎵 Music Credits 🎵 ____
Valse Sentimentale - Tchaikovsky
Blue Danube - Strauss

[@Zieley]

Any TNG fans in the audience today 😁

[@romulusnuma116]

At least 6 I'm sure maybe even 8

[@Kaador]

DS9 > TNG > Enterprise...> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Discovery

[@erccdang]

Indeed

[@Drazja]

Pretty sure everyone that plays CK3 is a sci-fi fan . Personally watching Stargate again

[@JakeTalksGamesYT]

So many

[@ktheshow4391]

"The enemy is at our door and we're outnumbered 5 to 1! What do we do?" "Quick! Everyone get married!"

[@UnknownSquid]

"Gather my finest generals!" "Sire, we have no generals." "Damn it. Then gather my finest priests and wedding gowns!"

[@ulises2084]

Just like in the ol' D&D. (+2 to AC)

[@homesteadlegion4419]

Thats called doing the Habsburg 😂😂

[@kurojima]

everyone get married, weaponize the prisoners and stop eating fancy food!

[@xxshaggygrxx1792]

I've never understood how op matrilineal marriage could be when first recruiting a court together. Even if you have some old women courtiers who are infertile you can marry them to absolute gigachads and then divorce them or... you know ☠️

[@BrennanDemarest]

Matrilineally marrying courtiers for knights is such a big brain strategy. Just that little tid bit made this video immensely valuable to me. Instant subscribe.

[@laszlobandi6456]

next step is landing them in cities. next step is building cities for landing them :D people love their castles, but that also take domain limit, while cities give the best breeding grounds. you can always revoke and give to new people. in one run I got 19 cities in 7-8 domains, there were some scary good kids coming out. was a lot of micromanagement but my sons had super good wives and in 3-4 gen I could marry them back to main branch without inbreeding. quite early too. in the end I was bored so I made two cities breed ugly people only then I mixed them, was more fun that waging wars :D

[@Zmok]

@@laszlobandi6456 Yes, I have similar experience. First playthrough: rectify historical mistakes of your home country Second playthrough: breed Kwisatz Haderach, form Empire of Men Third playthrough: city of ugly people!

[@sirjoey3137]

Yeah I never thought about that either because I'm such a roleplayer, I always try and find good matches for my courtiers instead.

[@Rin8Kin]

Was using it since game came out xD

[@0marenka]

Same here! Genius move

[@stellar7933]

It is so satisfying watching rebelling vassals get their titles revoked

[@simontapaj2313]

More satysfying would be executing them 😂

[@kxsh6206]

@@simontapaj2313 yup

[@kxsh6206]

Hot dog

[@KA-jm2cz]

Executing don't work if they got any heir. But torture works well!

[@smileydud9575]

@@KA-jm2cz seize titles then execute

[@ThisisDavidKay]

as a veteran CK player who has over 5000 hours in on the series...that was impressive

[@STroB]

5000 hours is not veteran on CK....

[@ThisisDavidKay]

@@STroB 1000 hours is probably beginner 3000 is novice 5000 is veteran for sure, 7500 is masterful 10000 is godly... Unless you're dumb

[@AnimeErudite]

This game is easy whoever save that was is trash

[@DragonLoreMan]

@@STroB keep talking out of your ass lmao

[@johnnywhiteshoe]

5000 hours? so you've played the tutorial?

[@sunbro2680]

Yo this some good shit. I feel like rebellions in a big realm can be manageable - even with atrociously high numbers against you - if you don't let them group up. If they don't group up you can just go around murdering the stacks one by one like you did. Happened with me once but in my case it took a bit of save scumming too.

[@Weiswolfe]

yes the key is to sway murder or befriend the first leader on the faction section, this will destroy the faction almost instantly

[@user-tb7ml8kz7h]

Yes, levies are way weaker than mercs.

[@dingus6317]

Also siege the lands of the faction leader

[@grantwithers]

@Roniixx just adopt islam

[@tzeentchvonsheo9868]

This might have been fixed by now, but a year ago men at arms in ck3 used to work like space marines, you can drop them right near the stack with the rebellion leader, if they don't catch him after the fight and he's in another stack just repeat this, won't take more than 4-5 repeats. In ck2 on the other hand retinues have to actually walk, idk why they did implement this ridiculous teleport ability. And obviously you do this on rebellion day 1, not waiting for them to group.

[@NiallCosgrach]

I can't decide which I find more impressive: that Zieley was able to get out of this situation, or the original player got themselves into this situation. When I saw the ruler was married to a 45 y old woman I just knew they were trolling.

[@Crazy_Diamond_75]

He had probably planned on inheriting a different son. The ruler he *was* playing had died suddenly.

[@laszlobandi6456]

he was super shit with 2 bad traits and even sins. I mean, eating is decent stress removal but he will die at 40-50. I had that in hungarian throne, they came with overeating habbits and had to swap for thin wives as those reduced the body size somehow, I guess that's a hidden trait. like people can be big or small without the traits like giant, dwarf or any issues to health. greedy+comfort eater is kind of funny, you spend more on pudding than building a church. and when you become huge, then both options give you stress. especially that a bunch of vassals would invite you to feast and normally that's a good stress reduction and relationship bonus.

[@tommerker8063]

don't be so sure. sometimes the game calculates in heritance and other stuff in a realy weird way. i once managed to make hispania the biggest kingdom with the unite the thrones decision and convert it all to adamitism, but for some reason none of my sons were eligible to inherit and the throne went to someone way back in the line of succession who was still catholic, never meant to inherit and married matrilinearly to the queen of france. so i found myself playing a 50 year old dude with tons of kids, none of wich were of my dynastie in control of a realm with completely different culture and religion and absolutely no idea why my original heirs were suddenly cut out from the line of succession

[@tevarinvagabond1192]

​@@tommerker8063eh, it seemed like a super staged set-up...like, he was apparently "struggling" yet had 3k gold? Like come on, usually people in such a bad situation being attacked by so many enemies usually has under a couple hundred gold or even massively in debt. Honestly I think there wasn't any submission and this KZbinr (yes, already forgot his name because I don't watch the content much) just made his own scenario to "salvage"

[@Banned_and_Redacted]

@@tevarinvagabond1192 false flagging ck3 saves? cmon

[@isaacrobinson9911]

That game was really interesting. Seemed as though the kingdom was well managed, and a couple too many bouts of miss fortune hit at the same time for him to know what to do with.

[@isaacrobinson9911]

*misfortune

[@MGoogle3146]

A good example of not panicking or giving into despair, looking for advantages to play off. Well done dude.

[@AAAAAA-jj4mr]

Best intro ever, well done mate, quality stuff, had good laugh from the start xD

[@annekekramer3835]

Where was the intro from? I'm curious now to watch the original.

[@Zieley]

@@annekekramer3835 Star Trek: TNG s04e15 It's a classic 👌

[@SWBGTOC]

The game is usually quite easy but that one was pretty impressive. You got lucky with the inheritance that got you out of debt, not sure you could have won the war without it. Anyway nice video, I needed a bit of your calm voice and gameplay

[@JacoDeltaco]

he still could have white peace

[@deusvult6920]

It was practically over by the time he got it. Ticking war score would have won before the vassal faction could have taken the capital The second one would have been harder but he could have disbanded and set martial to levy faster. He could have gotten out of debt in a few months and taken another 6 to build up a cash reserve again then levy them again. There's a concept of trading space for time. Which is basically let them conquer stuff because you need time to get to your optimum war position and once you do you can win. You just let them take things while you get some precious time. This is actually what the Brits did with France when Hitler invaded them 😅

[@JacoDeltaco]

@@deusvult6920 what the brit did with France is call being caught by surprise they thought they had time to be the mediator and sell weapon to france in a long war like the first WW Now the first WW is a perfect exemple of stalling for time

[@kuhluhOG]

@@JacoDeltaco yeah, a better example would the Napoleon vs Russia

[@JacoDeltaco]

@@kuhluhOG good point but people know WW1 better

[@hoptimas5415]

This series has helped me a ton. I'm a perfectly average player that makes a lot of dumb mistakes, it's good to know I'm not alone 🤣

[@darkwitnesslxx]

Making stupid mistakes and having to deal with the consequences is a valid playing strategy.

[@Soken50]

@@darkwitnesslxx And pretty historically accurate to actual inbred rulers of the past so don't feel too bad

[@JakeTalksGamesYT]

Zieley, you should try playing as Erik the Heathen's one Norse vassal. It's the hardest start in my opinion. I've tried it like 20 times and can't survive it

[@n0tice]

He already did.

[@JakeTalksGamesYT]

@@n0tice no, he played as Erik the Heathen. The Lord of the guy I'm referring to

[@haribo836]

I think Erik has a few Norse vassals. Way back I did a playthrough with one of his Norse counts and via intrigue, marrying his daughter I think and killing his sons I slowly overtook Sweden without much of a fight. It was only my second or third playthrough and the first time I played for more than 1 generation (didn't understand inheritance at first). It was difficult for me back then, but more down to inexperience than it actually being that hard.

[@benismann]

what about a eunuch start?

[@derekskelton4187]

It's not even close to the hardest. Use diplo and intrigue instead of slamming your face into a wall

[@tabletbrothers3477]

I've always thought the "save your saves" series was a little too easy, but that was very impressive.

[@dah_goofster]

That’s was actually insane and he made it look effortless.

[@Anonymous-yk9km]

This was, by far, the most educational KZbin video I've watched on CK3. You can watch as many guides as you want and they are very helpful, but I'm someone who needs a short real time playthrough like this as an example on what to do when the shit truly hits the fan. Great content!

[@THECABBAGEMAN19]

You are starting to become my #1 channel. Love your content Zieley! As long as you upload I'll be watching.

[@Zieley]

THE cabbage man?!?! I need to sneak some atla references in for you

[@THECABBAGEMAN19]

@@Zieley ❤️

[@u2bemark]

@@Zieley or do a brussels sprouts game

[@ahb8648]

Hey friend, I just thought that you'd be interested in a particularly interesting religion in this game. Donyi-Poloism in the Lhomon area is interesting not for its tenets, but because it has 4 holy sites in 2 adjacent duchies. This is ridiculous. Default holy site buildings are very good by themselves, but the development bonus when stacking four of them in the same area has been insane for my most recent game. Adding the position of court gardener only serves to increase how ridiculous this development gain is. I'd definitely recommend for you to have a game where you build tall in this absolutely broken area.

[@jesontjowari9723]

If this really happened in history, Sabaton would've make a song of this. This also feels similiar to a certain french king that got help from a certain country girl that has become a saint and a national hero now. From being called "dauphin" to being called "the victorious". Also this is the reason why I love to screw up my kingdom when playing ck3, the excitement is real. Imagine fighting a battle against your opponent 2x your size and win.

[@HenrySkalitz1403]

they had 3 years to capture the holy war target without resistance, but they decided to go for everything but that. sometimes ck3 AI just makes me want to cry

[@paleman7611]

I found your channel a few hours ago and spiraled down into disaster save videos. And when I'm out of those videos, you immediately upload a new one. What are the chances

[@SWBGTOC]

Same, that's not chance, that's the algorithm black magic.

[@RyguyK456]

That was perhaps the best ever intro to a CK3 video I’ve ever seen. I always get excited when I see a new video from you now and that was gold!

[@MrShanester117]

Dude. He took a clip from a show and did some very light editing to it. Calm down

[@troydash2354]

I didnt know this was a thing! I think its pretty cool that you help people out with thought to be lost games. good for the community.

[@XxC0d3ur974xX]

I discovered your channel quite recently and I bingwatched all of your content in a few days. To be honest, your videos are the most entertaining ones I have found on Ck3. Keep it up! ;)

[@ritenger87]

Also, dude - your speaking in this video was so good! Very clear and confident. Good stuff

[@weebspec]

I just recently found out about you and your videos while I was searching some good CK3 vids I could learn from. And you're the perfect guy for this. You make it both fun and smart. 💜

[@kazuma_koon]

Watching your videos are not only a fun watch to see you save terrible saves but also is a great learning tool because I have learned a lot from your tactics. Subbed.

[@akocbibbo]

Been hooked on your ck3 content!! Been binge watching your series whenever I have free time

[@happyslapsgiving5421]

I just rewatched this for the second time. It remains, to date, my favorite CK3 video on the internet.

[@etholus1000]

Bruh you’re so pro, I’d concede in this scenario 100% but I’ve learned allot here and will use this knowledge for future games. Awesome video man! 👍🏻

[@craig3119]

Yes bro I’ve missed these! Can’t wait to watch it 👊

[@whitewolfsp]

I always have fun watching your videos , but this one was something else .... Amazing and impressive save !!!

[@calvinmanzolillo3092]

I’m entertained as always! Thank you for the content

[@frogbonggreengrassboobs1954]

This has become one of my favorite series and channels I've come across.

[@Trikzzarn]

I really enjoy your content, been going thru all your videos. I wish you all the best man, great stuff.

[@Irishhaf]

This just popped up on my recommend subscribed, struggled with this game a lot going to follow see what I can learn.

[@personal2562]

The way you made this as interesting video mixed as a tutorial for beginners by explaining things is amazing

[@ghostcommand99]

This was insane. Learned so much about the game from watching your videos

[@benknight8824]

These are my favourite videos on KZbin right now, please keep them coming

[@OddlySpecificGaming]

Really enjoy the editing you do on these, like the format and saving bad saves

[@mikepocito575]

You make it look easy man. I really enjoyed this, looking forward to the next one.

[@Syrupstorm]

Wow what an informative and surprisingly funny video, glad to stumble across this channel.

[@bocamax]

What a great video. Keep the rescue videos coming. I can't imagine how much time they take to make but it's worth it.

[@MarvusTravels]

This was really entertaining to watch despite me not even playing or knowing anything about the game!

[@rohanthecruel9505]

Hey, just wanted to say thanks for the content. I recently got my tonsils removed and it's been hell. But I've been binge watching your videos since I've been bed ridden. I've learned a lot. So thank you. :)

[@clavranos]

Masterclass in playing - subbed and looking forward to more videos

[@fearfuldevilsr-6666]

Technically played out perfectly, you see, once again, with enough game experience, you can manage almost everything for this war, a big GG

[@unimatrix501]

You are AMAZING!!! Really great job! I love the video!

[@kurojima]

stumbled upon this video/channel by complete chance, and its so interesting to see you pretty much weaponize each breedable woman, each man capable of holding a sword and tightening the belt

[@abhaysolanki9284]

When the other guy declared a Holy War, you could have hired the holy order.

[@XXSoulReaverXX1]

ive never played this game. but now i want to. reminds me of civ 5, but deeper in the details and with a medieval theme. awesome vid.

[@DayZilya]

Can believe you won that one. Great editing skillz btw :3

[@shyguy3186]

Excellent game! I learned a lot this time which I think is really important with these videos. I have not gotten any major fuckups in my campains to send right now but I am working on it!

[@luciusbright]

Amazing video! Would certainly watch you winning another impossible scenario again!

[@dumamilk]

loving this series, keep it up bro

[@IgniteVashj]

Love this series, please keep it up

[@kittenconsumer9960]

The intros where you be randomly placed are the best🤣 love the creativity behind them all

[@TM-bi7rj]

I have been trying to find CK3 content I can actually binge without falling asleep and this was it. Easy subscribe

[@YoungGreedo]

I love your videos. They always make me laugh and pick up the game again.

[@dustinclark8429]

Wow you are amazing. I've played this for over 20 hours now, just starting to get a feel for it. When I first got this game played 2 hours and put in for a refund. I thought about it and did some research and a lot of people said this game has a long learning curve. So I cancelled the refund and pressed on. Now 20 hours in I'm loving this game. I'm addicted lol. Man you must have hell of hours. You are like a master. I enjoy your videos. Keep putting the good content out there.

[@minun5]

I have watched all of your CK3 videos..craving for more... MOREEEEEE

[@davidmende3409]

honestly - i'd love to watch this play out now, im invested af in this now 😂

[@artsproject6900]

editing is top tier!! keep it up

[@nicobuchel3960]

I love your videos dude! Great Job.

[@castellan7207]

Editing is funny and i like it keep it going man :)

[@hoodyman4]

I love these videos. Would you be against setting up really bad scenarios for us viewers to try and fix up? Like some sort of monthly puzzle? Would for sure keep us on our toes!

[@tomreit]

Do you publish the "before" saves anywhere? Might be cool for the viewers to give them a shot ourselves =)

[@vladimir8035]

He should create a Discord server and have a channel for that.

[@juvemortad7699]

About developing: I bet Italy is the best place to play tall whether it's a kingdom or empire Rome itself gives you tones of development around, you have a few places for universities and money-making citys like Genua and Cagliari (hope I wrote it right, the one on the south of sardinia), and you also can take the new kingdom of Mediterranean, which gives you huge bonuses for 80 years I mean that's an awesome place for playing tall

[@smobasi3367]

Those are really good points that you used to create your argument. Unfortunately, Bohemia

[@sednabold859]

@@smobasi3367 But trade ports

[@juvemortad7699]

@@smobasi3367 I dont mind Bohemia, but just for me it's not the first place

[@juvemortad7699]

@@smobasi3367 you have more development in Italy from start and you still easily can take the mine for money

[@emylily8266]

That's all well and good, but nothings ever gonna beat Sjaeland for deving, you just get soo many coast baronies on a single farmland county, all you have to do is either hybridize with Franks for early tech or diverge culture for crazy research speed. It's devving will spread to Lund, which is also an amazing farmland coastal province with a unique cathedral to be built.

[@mertboranoglu6949]

Fun and informative vid! Marrying out courtiers for knights was incredible.

[@theodorekunz5455]

Had a similar thing happen with my king suddenly dying. But I had the misfortune of all of my heirs except one pissing everyone off. The one good heir almost saved the day but suffered the fate of old age. Idk if I can save that anymore. Bit of an old game

[@danielsullivan6616]

since you are easily the best ck3 player on youtube, id like to see a series where you use the "interesting characters" presented by the game and see just how broken they are

[@thisisntsergio1352]

Your edits are so good haha subbed

[@mimiq89797244]

Hello there, Zieley~ Oh wow that was a tough one 😬😬 I'm so happy to see another successful addition to this series 😁😁 Keep up the good work!

[@sirjoey3137]

Had some awesome civil wars like this when I did the ol' reliable Roman Empire campaign. Very fun to fight these massive wars where you are at a disadvantage.

[@molybdaen11]

See, the Hill fort in Monaco was very useful after all. Also nice editing.

[@RailingMedia]

This series is crazy good.

[@PuskasMarton]

Lodging standards are actually very useful, because it cancels out the -50 base reluctance when inviting random ppl such as: wandering knights, ppl with ingeritable traits, talented npcs to fill council/court positions. I use it frequently in tall games, especially since it also boosts artifact qualities. If youre good at befriending, of youre playing in the iberian struggle, you can also befriend inspired characters to capitalize more on the artifact quality boost, since you being friends also cancels out the "inspired" reluctance when inviting them.

[@omgfackdehell]

Hey! Nice vid! Just a small thing, when clicking the raise (red) flag, you can instandly right click on any county to move the flag there instead of the extra 2 clicks. Maybe im just too lazy,..

[@ritenger87]

Zieley, your videos are epic and for the win.

[@jonnyb6700]

Your vids teach me more about the game than any other channel

[@GorArkson]

I don't know the game and first time watching 2 of your uploads. So much scheming to death LOL. Good game content, really entertained by it.

[@TheFlyingEpergne]

ive never heard of this game before and i have no idea what is going on but this was amazing

[@dybdal509]

Impressive! Good stuff 👍

[@AfroMyrdal]

Woa... That's insane! I'm thinking of picking this up just to see how bad I would fuck it up, (not on purpose obviously) and send it to you!

[@twistit4844]

"so you can break it all over again" - the disprespect xD. I love it

[@erccdang]

Excellent recovery sir!

[@patrickburkhardt7589]

Love your TNG Videos and I love to see if your videos get recomended too me

[@halfchimp3928]

Someone needs to make a mod that adds your edits into the game, hilarious audio clips and zoom's, can tell you put time into piecing these together!

[@tobes662]

i clapped at the end, that was so good. also great TNG episode!

[@dakotad97]

Memes, stomping traitors, and helping others in need? My dear boy! Thats something worth subscribing for!

[@vaiokematautuaa7309]

holy crap i learned a ton of new stuff just from watching this vid. NIce!

[@schmoorfderschmied1763]

Nice editting, man!

[@AndyMathay]

I never thought about marrying off courtiers for better knights. Great video! Great job too.

[@yoldmate5450]

Bloody stunning mate

[@theitx1570]

Not going to lie, I came here to get some quick hot tips and move on, but based on the amazing strategy of Zieley, I’m subscribing cause I want to watch more of these!

[@MagicSpaceWolf3983]

Is there ANYTHING too broken for this man to save?! Hats off to Zieley!!!!!

[@waleedkhalid7486]

Wow. Well done! I probably would have quit at the odds.

[@dictatorinperpetuity]

Me seeing all these dutchies drives me mad. COUNTS ALL THE WAY UNTIL YOU CANNOT HAVE MORE VASSALS!

[@DVineMe]

7:37 I had never thought of doing this before lol. That's pretty cool, cause whatever's in prison is generally crap anyway.

[@illmaster]

That was really impressive. I don't think I can win that war. I learn so much here.