I maxed out EVERY BUILDING in Wales by 1299 - Playing TALL is the BEST strategy - Crusader Kings 3

[@thespiffingbrit]

haha now this is the kind of CK3 content I have been missing

[@thespiffingbrit]

@@OttawaWelshman awww thanks friend that means a lot! I wish you luck in the future and I hope you keep up this style of content in ck3 as it's exactly my cup of tea

[@thespiffingbrit]

@@OttawaWelshman haha I could slightly tell from the edit but as always with content online the best way to evolve is take someone else's idea and make it your own way. Hopefully one day KZbin will make you enough money so you can buy a kettle

[@Steinar447]

Didn't expect to see you here, it's always awesome to see one of the big fish like you supporting the "smallfry" :D Also great vid @Ottowa Welshman

[@delphidelion]

Obviously you must start using welsh names.

[@finalbossdoge3466]

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[@jnthnklm3059]

To get much Higher development growth is to befriend your Steward. If you do that the development growth given by the develop county decision is much Higher (Sometimes it Doubles the Dev. Growth)

[@jnthnklm3059]

@@OttawaWelshman yes it lowers the existing development Penalty by a Lot which has huge Impact

[@agentbarron3945]

@Hobo Habsburg befriending councilors makes them better at their jobs if its something that has a progress bar, so increasing control, promoting dev growth, all go much faster but stuff like collect taxes or men at arms maintenance wont make them better at that since it doesn't have a progress bar

[@HDTomo]

@@jnthnklm3059 befriend as in the diplomacy plot or befriend via relations?

[@TheAngryXenite]

@@HDTomo Befriend as in "be recognized as their friend," so yes, the former.

[@TheDirtyShaman]

5:10 You will only get the Pilgrim trait if your pilgrimage is of at least long distance

[@CSDragon]

20:45 When you're mass-building like that there's a button you can press in the upper right that shows all your holdings, which you can use to not only see the building progress but also click into them to build faster

[@vienna5526]

Playing tall is so much fun. Not many people play as the Welsh, so it was a cool change of air :)

[@mediocremenace4566]

Wales is one of the bests starts in my opinion

[@MediocritysMuse]

@@OttawaWelshman I like playing as Albania and bunkering up. True to life.

[@wednesdaynightbusiness6296]

when i played ck2 i only ever played as a welsh character in every single campaign

[@TheAngryXenite]

With the Royal Court DLC, Welsh is now, in the opinion of my one annoyingly competent friend, one of THE best cultures, to the point where his biggest goal in most games is to find a way to hybridize with them for their ridiculous longbowmen.

[@chorto4038]

When it comes to Tall, many people play Wales

[@meowzebub9667]

I love playing tall. My favorite start is Brittany. It's a kingdom consisting of one duchy with 7 counties, perfect size so you can control all of the holdings without needing too high a stewardship and you don't have to deal with any vassals (or at most a couple of mayors). Plus you control every county of the Breton culture so you'll always be the culture head. Once you get primogeniture you'll have an extremely stable kingdom.

[@halo7oo]

I'm playing Malta as a vassal of the Byzantines (With a few mods to make it somewhat viable), very fun to pretty much play as a mercenary/holy order and only have to manage 1 county.

[@TheAngryXenite]

I favor Sardinia myself, but it's much the same as Brittany, I imagine. Fairly large duchy( or maybe that's only with Corsica?), ALL of it is coastal so you can build tradeports everywhere, and it's fairly easy to either convert to Catholicism and befriend Italy or France, or maintain Orthodoxy and join the ERE.

[@meowzebub9667]

@@TheAngryXenite Yeah I've done both and it's a pretty similar situation. Sardinia has those mines too, which is really nice. A lot more competition for territory going on over there though and a little more work to set up initially, which is why I tend to go for Brittany because I like a pretty chill game for the most part. Sardinia is great though.

[@johannesschmitt794]

@@meowzebub9667 Sardinia is my favorite starting place. It`s super easy to defend, as the only way there is by boat. I focused a military only castle in the one mountain tile, so I could defend it extremely easy. Even 10:1 Numbers of the enemy weren`t a problem. Had a holy war declared by the muslims for Sardinia, and slaughtered basically 100.000 enemy soldiers over the course of the war, as we only chased around the island and sometimes ambushed them in the mountains. Plus Sieges take super long, because I was able to max out my walls pretty early on.

[@floydeus]

@@johannesschmitt794 sardinia has the best vibe in all of crusader kings

[@dylanmcdowell3894]

"We gain 500 reknown!! Aaand we died, so we'll play as our son, cousin, and brother-in-law." -- this line absolutely broke me omfg. I sat here trying to figure out how he could be all 3 and I just laughed harder and harder. Great video!

[@Ballin4Vengeance]

Standard CK3 stuff

[@notlizard5797]

Incest my freind

[@encouraginglyauthentic43]

If we are gonna be technical we are all distant cousins.

[@mortache]

Are you even winning if your heir isn't your son, grandson and great-grandson? Not kidding though, I actually had that once.

[@shyamwolfstrider]

Great video! I'm playing an Ironman game where I started as the Duke of Holland in 867. Currently in 1295 as the Emperor of the custom empire of Frisia, and I've completed all technologies in the Late Medieval Era. I'm earning close to 600 gold a month and have a pile of 120,000 gold lying around. My capital county of Holland has development of 95, and the Dutch counties in general have the highest development in the world. Playing tall is easily the best strategy in CK3, and is actually quite OP. It especially helps if you have a few counties with more than 3 holdings in it, since you can always add more castles to boost your economy and military. Some tips are: - Always keep the steward on increasing county development, with first priority on your capital county, and second priority on your other counties that share your culture, and third priority on vassal counties that share your culture. - Always keep the marshal to training commanders, since it reduces men-at-arms maintenance, which nets you more gold per month, and gives your free knights. - If you take the golden obligations perk, set your spymaster to finding secrets. Start blackmailing everyone and watch as they pour out their coffers to keep you quiet. Strong hooks are especially valuable since you can demand payment every five years. - If possible, marry your ruler to someone who has very high stewardship, and set her to manage domain. Half of her stewardship stats will be added to yours, increasing your demesne limit as well as your taxes. - It is even better if you can get the genius trait into your family, since it gives you additional 30% lifestyle points, and gives better education traits to your wards.

[@mantadestroyer726]

become head of faith of a religion that has communion. you get random people seeking indulgences all the time and giving u loads of gold lol

[@EJPullen]

The editing in this is great, you can tell how much effort you've put in - happy to have found your channel on the explore page!

[@katherinee.9105]

how you've amassed this much power with this game is beyond me! i'm out here playing on very easy and praying i don't screw up. always fun to watch guides like this!

[@warthog2k]

Loving your videos. The cheeky Welsh references and silly one offs are perfectly done - not overdone. I'm also in the middle of my own Wales unification run and you've now inspired me to pivot this run to play a lot taller than I've ever done. My longest runs were as Vikings where buildings were stolen, not built!

[@benabaxter]

Doing this as Navarra. Great fun so far. I was ready for the High Middle Ages 50 years early.

[@otacon87]

done the same thing recently, you can do better with the Kingdom of Sardinia, you can hold the whole kingdom with no vassal, you have a gold mine in the capital, can easily use holy wars to expand influence into north Africa or Spain without use a single prestige point AND you are 2 islands, very easy to defend.

[@davidthor4405]

@@OttawaWelshman That is an excellent point

[@Kittyapoc]

I really liked this video! The only thing I want to add is that if you really wanted to focus on development you could build cities rather than temples whenever you can. You don't get as much in gold/levies but it has the guilds building option which gives the same development bonus as tradeports. Little bit of a tradeoff as you won't be making as much gold but I like trying to get my development as high as I can as fast I can, just to see when I can catch up to Rome/Constantinople/Madrid

[@TheHaiko99]

I simply love your videos, keep up the good work! Since you focus so heavyly on wealth and small countries, how about a video where you take as much land as you can and keep it stable? Or a video where you take the entire empire britannia and set up colonies all around the map, but never in europe?

[@cristofori2230]

How does this channel not have more views? This is S tier content, keep it up!

[@braxtyn3328]

So glad I found a really good quality ck3 creator that uploads often it’s awesome

[@S.pilgrim]

Great vid, clicked on it because of Wales, watched it until the end because it was really funny and informative, and the editing was great. The part where you looked for a icon and had the icon cards of Bale, Charles, Allchurch and Hughes, chef's kiss

[@S.pilgrim]

@S N E E D Haha what?

[@phantomboy9194]

You deserve all the subs this is great content

[@MaisuBirb]

I haven't played CK3 since its release, never really gripped me and I'm still hardstuck playing EU4, but good lord your editing, your uplifting mood is just contagious

[@johnmoore2580]

At around 3:25 my very first thought, immediately, no hesitation was "He should name him John" Foaming at the mouth rn when I saw your 2nd option, immediately purchased lotto tickets and subscribed

[@OttawaWelshman]

Loool dead!

[@monsieursp00ky44]

You and Zieley are the only good CK3 youtubers, fun stuff to see

[@monsieursp00ky44]

@@OttawaWelshman 👀 i am now

[@katrinabaldassarre5790]

Agreed !!

[@olliejobson6371]

Bro. Let it be known that I was here at 2.2k subscribers. Legit glad to have found you as you have some of the best videos mate :)

[@callum9513]

Best example of a CK3 - Walkong Tall- playthrough. Love the content, glad to have subscribed and I'm looking out for new videos.

[@ValleyRider02]

This is great to see! I'm from the southern county that you first subjugated (Morgannwg, now Glamorgan) and I can understand your frustration with pronouncing Welsh words! I've heard it being compared to a 4 year old smashing away at a keyboard and calling it a language 😂 Cymru am byth!

[@Flinsenberger101]

Very good video! Best "playing tall" video I've seen so far! Proposal for a new one: What can you do with "Seduction"? There are hardly any guides what to do with this. And I think it has potential for some fun content.

[@rhzyo]

Did you know with the Wiseman or any of the other 2, you can spend 100 piety every 5yrs for 300 learning xp & you get +1 to learning and +1 to something else and stress loss for 5years

[@rhzyo]

@@OttawaWelshman it's "Hold Mystical Communion" in decisions, but there can be some adverse affects but the pros easily out weigh the cons and if like ur religion it's a virtue then I think it's only good things

[@rhzyo]

So do I, like now I know the law trick, never would have thought about that. Also to cheese the game a bit if I create a char I start as a different culture that has moa, that I can buy then convert to the culture of the place I'm play as, eg; if I start 1066 & in Sweden or any of those countries I'll choose yemen or barnias or Turkic to get horse archers or skirmishers that counter light horse and heavy infantry then convert to swedish then get huscarls

[@nadeernizar7993]

@@rhzyo a really deadly tactic

[@tibbyzt4852]

I absolutely LOVE the soundbites and clips you add in, they spice it up perfectly and always give me a laugh

[@SoIncrediblySleepy]

when I checked the sub count I thought it said 2.9 million and I wasn't surprised but when he showed the comments on screen I double checked I LOVE the video there isn't enough quality CK3 content

[@blackdog7859]

I like how your Ottawa valley accent gets thicker the more excited you get lol great vid!

[@martinaustin6230]

Had a pretty fun campaign as the King of Georgia in 1066. Became vassal of Byzantines and stayed a loyal vassal (mostly) for 300 years. Focused on playing tall and building up development and buildings. And fighting wars or murdering to put dynasty members in power including Syria, Jerusalem, Serbia, and Pontus. Also spent that time getting a nice feudal contract. Guaranteed council rights as steward is seriously OP for playing tall. In the last 100 years once I was making like 200 gold a month and like 30k levies just from Georgia and Servian which was integrated. I put myself as Emperor and decided to form Rome and go on a conquest spree.

[@PogChungus69]

Holy.. didnt expect this to be and absolute booming video, keep up the great work buddy!!

[@cmystery4180]

I tend to always play as Wales so this was a great video on a different kind of playthrough that I usually do, great edits btw

[@smlwst]

Keep smashing out good CK3 content brother, thanks for that! :D

[@katrinabaldassarre5790]

Ottawa Welshman at it again with the great videos !!

[@alifa5767]

maaaan these videos always have the same consistent quality, i dont know how your doing that. keep making amazing contents

[@xephyrical8393]

The art of using all of the land given to you via constructing farms and fields, barracks, and everything else really does bring a smile to my face. It’s beautiful. Nice work.

[@IwanE516]

Da iawn! I love seeing people play Wales. Disappointed you didn't try to pronounce LlanfairPG 😉 nice to see you so proud of you're Welsh Heritage. Definitely heading to binge other videos now

[@Ivarr___]

As a welshman, 6:30 onwards had me creasing hahaha good work man

[@sniffs4033]

The best thing to come out of Ottawa in a long time

[@OttawaWelshman]

Lool I always love it when someone from Ottawa finds my channel just they get all the little ottawa specific jokes I put in

[@Gamepainter]

Hey man keep it up, sounds like you're truly happy with your progress on youtube. I was delighted about the truman reference lol

[@ThaEmzee]

I’m new to ck3 Ive been playing this for a week an man its been overwhelming stressful but fun took me 2 days to learn and I find your strategy, an realm pick is so much more relaxing lol u have no idea how much I have been struggling thanks bro !,😎

[@simoncodrington]

Great video mate. Really fun to watch :)

[@alexandermakovics4583]

Californian living here in Wales! Loved the video keep it up! Played loads as Wales in CK2 but havent yet in CK3 :)

[@SnapStrategy]

Great vid! Welsh CK3 Collab soon 👀

[@SnapStrategy]

@@OttawaWelshmanYou came up on my home page last night! really enjoy your content man, Been wanting to try get some collabs going after the new year! see if we can get a few people to have some games!

[@SnapStrategy]

@@OttawaWelshman Sounds like a plan man

[@oniisama9698]

Your videos are SO AWESOME!!! I can't believe how you only have 1480 subs!!

[@willg3717]

Just got yourself a new subscriber. This is the first of your videos I've seen and I'm so glad I got this video recommended to me. Really liked your editing and personality, plus the video idea was very cool and not something I've seen many other channels do. Hope your channel continues to blow up! 😁

[@Katapugonn]

I love the editing. You have a big future ahead of you :)

[@brinklight0074]

This was an interesting video, i had no idea this was possible. Nice work, subbed.

[@deebo_c]

Serious lack of quality ck3 content on KZbin. Hope to see more from your channel!

[@jakeevans7158]

I'm Welsh, and I live in Gwent, so I must say that this was a pretty cool watch. Do you know where your ancestors were from in Wales? Mwynhais i gwylio y fideo. Cymru am byth!

[@Max_Griswald]

I would like to see some actual "Let's Play" series on the channel! I enjoy your videos, but much prefer unedited playthroughs! Thanks for the videos and keep up the good work.

[@Kramerthetroll]

Nice one mate and I'm happy I've found your channel! Cheers

[@vasekkoucky185]

Great video, love playing tall, would have been cool to see how far your dynasty spread.

[@jo-martinlie7884]

Great video man! Keep up the good work!

[@vampireeric1]

Idk what you're playing but I watched the whole video. Very chill video.

[@421less1]

Once i unlock the battlements innovation and upgrade my castles, i start swapping my walls for hunting grounds. They buff skirmishers, light cav and archers and give you some money and defender advantage. Super underatted building and a nice way to diversify the military.

[@dudenameddave413]

Just found your channel man, loving the content, can't wait for you to hit 10k.

[@burningbenjamin6108]

I would like to see another video on this save of you just destroying the map and seeing how big you can get in the years left. Up to you but as always a great video!

[@burningbenjamin6108]

@@OttawaWelshman I would just find it satisfy to watch the work pay off and the swarm of the welsh over the world haha

[@mustaphaattah1896]

After naming your son after that welsh town im hooked 😂😂😂 And we're in the same city! good to know im not the one one in Ottawa playing CK3

[@rtsPilot]

got into your vids through the renown speedrun and i love your style, keep it up!!!!

[@xM0nkex]

Good editing. i enjoyed it very much, gonna sub

[@Trashloot]

I love this kind of video and im so happy that you started producing these.

[@Trashloot]

@@OttawaWelshman I know. Playing these games alone takes a ton of time. Throw editing and uploading on top of it and you have a massive work load. But it is so much worth. The videos are great. (And you totally feel like a professional. There are many youtubers with older channels who feel like hobbyists compared to you)

[@tacticalwelshy7300]

CK3 and Wales content!? Yes please!

[@zacharycale4250]

Hi I really enjoyed this! I think it’d be really cool if you started a randomized dynasty play through. Another content creator is doing it, it’s a mod where when you die you play as a random landed member of your dynasty. The idea being you build up the dynasty rather than blobbing out.

[@zacharycale4250]

Just an idea, I think it’s be a very interesting way to play and fun to watch. I think it’s Quil18 playing it but I cannot remember.

[@zacharycale4250]

I’ll get right back to you

[@zacharycale4250]

@@OttawaWelshman kzbin.info/www/bejne/fnS3kKyteLV_pLs is co a link to the video series, the link is in his description

[@doublesalopetoimcre]

i love your style of editing, the length of the ck3 vids are great. not too long, not too short, just great. if i may suggest a future video goal: make jerusalem jewish again and restore the jewish head of faith and keep it till idk 1300? or if its too long maybe for a shorter period of time.

[@Ketillo17]

Man, your channel is great! Loving ck3 content

[@Ketillo17]

@@OttawaWelshman Just keep pumping them and you will blow up 100%

[@raymondcameron]

As an Ottawa Scotsman I approve, enjoy your video!!

[@Zurtron]

“You half brother, Brother-in-law”. I BEG YOUR FUCKING PARDON

[@infinityfabrik]

I always play as 1066 Buchan in Fife. I thought that was bad lol spoiled with 3 holdings over there. Just found ya, great vids. Much love from the other side of Canada.

[@okto_0]

Love those "challenge" videos! gives me a lot of inspiration!

[@ikkakuwu8204]

i really like seeing u play keep it up you just need to be lucky with the algorithm !

[@simplicity7862]

Glad i was stalking the channel

[@MrFlopperX]

The ck3 videos are quality. Just watched the renown speed run video 👍

[@Rhettofbodom]

great vid love the strat and welsh playthrough

[@MultiMarcus111]

That was enjoyable to watch! I'm gonna give this strategy a go now

[@JosephJJameson]

I love how I live in the cheapest pilgrimage city irl. So many helpful KZbinrs come and visit my hometown :)

[@jaccoloos6612]

Playing tall is super fun and can be very rewarding if you play it well. The last tall game I played I had maxed out my buildings in the duchy of Holland, but was pretty much a nobody. But because of my strong tall economic backbone I managed to grab hold of 2 extra dutchies and found The Netherlands after I broke free from my liege (lotharingia). With a holy war I took over viking Denmark and thanks to the buy claim perk in the scholar learning lifestyle tree I managed to take over East Francia. With some more bought claims I was able to take over Lotharingia as well and was deep into pomerania. I then was able to combine the kingdoms of Denmark, The Netherlands, East Francia and Lotharingia into The Dutch Empire. Within a single lifetime I went from being a duke from some backwater duchy to the ruler of a giagantic european empire.

[@nirkbirk791]

Wow that was weird, seeing a clip of Cam Davies in a ck3 video. I went to school with him. Great vid, Cymru am byth!

[@nirkbirk791]

@@OttawaWelshman yeah! The Severn bridge joke at 3:02 haha. He did some BBC Wales comedy stuff a few years ago so I assume it's from that. Did you just Google "green screen Welshman" or something? Hahaha

[@_Belisarios_]

Loved that moment when you decided „Love is about quantity not quality!“ and in the next moment you got murdered... 😂

[@_Belisarios_]

@@OttawaWelshman I bet one or all of your wives were involved in that murder plot 😂

[@gorgoramsi239]

Also that feudal elective tip is awesome!

[@samjisi]

As someone who lives VERY close to the Severn Bridges, I'll give this to you. Once you cross the old bridge you have chepstow, then nothing but fields.

[@gogogadget1855]

Hey there, great video, I have to subscribe. The contents about the sheep it’s just too funny.

[@gogogadget1855]

@@OttawaWelshman No problem.

[@gogogadget1855]

Also, am now using your play tall strategy out of necessity. There are a lot of powerful realms in my playthrough. I'm the king of Sardinia. I don't have much land. So instead I just throw every bit of money that I get from hassling the pope, or my citizens into buildings. Now I'm looking at 14 gold a month. And soon I will add upgrades to my mining building.

[@mule8722]

Absolutely brilliant stuff love watching your videos

[@kartwizard877]

Great video so fun to watch! Don’t know how your not big yet lmao

[@kamo808]

Love your humor!

[@rdevil5330]

I subscribed! This put a smile on my face :DDD

[@teunvogels8752]

This seems like so much fun. I'm always Mr. Serious when playing CK3.

[@jcflash6827]

Just subbed man, love this content.

[@hjelsethak]

I love your editing style and these kinds of videos! Could you try this with the "worst" starting position? Keep up the great work!

[@VodKaVK]

Just discovered you. Really enjoyed that, subscribed! X

[@lawrencefish791]

What can I say buddy 😃 amazing video literally I'm learning a lot from your videos. You made a Welshman proud

[@lawrencefish791]

@@OttawaWelshman honestly mate when you get patron I'll be a loyal supporter like

[@rhzyo]

I can completely comprehend what you're saying, my father's side is from Wales I have a very "Welsh" name from what I've been told Rhys J, and know not alot about the place apart from a bit of its history due to me just be a massive history fan 😂 Also love ya videos and the way you edit them

[@rhzyo]

@@OttawaWelshman I'm also live in a Country that pays out our neighbouring country about sheep 😂

[@1237594861]

Hey there! I'm not Welsh but I love playing Wales in ck. Pro tip. Next time yo want a perfect succession, give the kingdom title the feudal elective law and hold some lands outside of Wales by either on your own or by vassals and inside Wales have 2 duchies completely and max 1 vassal. This will ensure all the lands are inherited by the person of your choice. You can even take this further by owning literally no land outside but getting another kingdom title. For example I have a play through atm and I did what I just described but also took the kingdom of England with no land inside England. Still confederate partition, but no matter how many children I have I can choose whoever to inherit all my lands and both kingdoms. If you get another kingdom title that you want more, you can make that your primary for a second and switch back to the one with the election law and voilà.

[@1237594861]

I should thank you too! I was already going tall as much as I could but I learned a lot from this video, like the fact that the diligent trait helps with development and such. Next playthrough I'll go even taller (in my current playthrough I was already more powerful than the hre in 4 generations so I will literally just turn into Emperor Palpatine in the next)

[@mr_grey8632]

Great stuff! Lots of good techniques easy to adopt for a new player. Unsung channel that needs eyes and subs.

[@valerias087]

This was quite good, but you should try playing tall as ireland. Its pretty OP as if you max everything out with your tech, you can just build more cities, temples and castles. Wales is to small in my opinion.

[@Christian85595]

I would love to see one of these man where you start before 1000, in the tribal time.

[@holzimperator210]

Playing Something similar now with Bohemia and Czech Culture. You have the gold mine and with Prague a nearly perfekt county and perfect duchy because they are all around prague. And they all have a lot of free slots for Tempels or cities

[@Max-nt5zs]

You should prioritize cities not temples. Cities have guild halls and trade ports which are basically the same but = more development

[@commemorative]

When i found out how op title elections were when playing tall, I thought everyone knew, but happy more people know