I maxed out my domain limit in CK3 and the results will shock you

Enough with tall games! Today, we are playing W I D E
More specifically, we are playing a game where our only goal is to increase our domain limit and hold as many domains as we can. How long will it take for us to become the strongest nation in the game? You'll have to watch to find out 👀
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[@dragonsblaze7961]

I love how CK3 is the only game where you can say "good news my second son got cancer" and people would actually agree.

[@ishadorman5682]

Technically so does ck2

[@Ikati-ny8fr]

imagine coversing with your friends about the things that you do in CK, in public and being happy that your second sun got cancer

[@dogebanzai456]

@@ishadorman5682 yup, when I don't want a son I will make him an emissary and send him to a place with the plague.

[@MrFriendlyCsgoContent]

I had like 12 sons just last game, it was pain.

[@Ikati-ny8fr]

@@MrFriendlyCsgoContent if you are catholic you can imprison then and force them to take vows.If you are not you can still imprison them and kill them while killing yourself from the stress

[@Amyante]

This is the most Balkan playthrough i've seen. - Starts as a Croatian county - Messing around with religion - Becomes King of Serbia - Attacks Croatia - More religious shenanigans - Going for military dominance

[@PatrickKniesler]

I'd love to see this stronk Serbia taken into Victoria 3

[@steand5406]

@@PatrickKniesler Paganija isnt Croatian county it was ruled by Serbian prince, and populated by Serbs.

[@azmoh4515]

and religion was bosnian

[@blubac]

@@steand5406 it was a vassal of Croatia and population was slavic and greek.

[@Tortellobello45]

@@PatrickKniesler no cause S*rbia

[@luisricardolozadaamaya670]

Whenever try I play tall, I end up swallowing up five kingdoms by accident. Really admire your true tall playthroughs, I would die of boredom. Keep up the good work.

[@raghavannaidu6931]

I always mix up Guile Play with Tall and Give Lots of Kids to different kingdoms & duchies through marriage and murder the actual successor to place mine in place. Makes it more fun and your dynasty also grows. After royal courts it's even better with custom culture and unique court. :)

[@luisricardolozadaamaya670]

@@raghavannaidu6931 That is how I also shake things up! In my curcent Dutch to North Sea Empire campaign I put my dynasty to the thrones of Poland, Croatia, France(Who also owns Ireland), Hungary, Sicily (Owns Aquitaine) and Styria (Duchy, but still) With custom religion, Anglo-Dutch-d'Oïl culture and with every vassal being a family member. Annother thing: Do you remember that when royal court came out there was a tradition that allowed infinite kingdom wars per lifetime? Is that still in the game to add to my culture?

[@evilcondescendingcarrot8272]

@@luisricardolozadaamaya670 the culture trait you mean is called “by the sword“ and yes,it very much is still in the game

[@luisricardolozadaamaya670]

@@evilcondescendingcarrot8272 ö thank you!

[@raghavannaidu6931]

@@luisricardolozadaamaya670 yup it still exists but you need holy wars. I would suggest my favourite Heinsteinn (sry for the butchered name) varangian adventure to Mongol Empire world 🌍 conquest campaign. Perfect for cheap Kingdom wars & you can place dynasty members in kingdoms and independence for renown farming 🧺.

[@craigdavis5902]

And so, just when the world needed him most, our hero arrived

[@Zieley]

youre my hero Craig

[@scolarvisari7496]

Definitely hero

[@TheTMan001]

Zieley: Says son’s cancer is great. Also Zieley: doesn’t revoke brother’s title because he ‘feels bad’

[@James-712]

Ways to get even more domain 1. Max out stewardship dynasty legacy for extra domain 2. Pacifism doctrine on a new religion for extra domain 3. When educating kids make sure to have pedagogy perk so they have higher stats 4. Get groomed to rule perk from diplo lifestyle so that even higher stats for children

[@danielstarnes9761]

Pick up the perk from the intrigue tree that gives you skills per stress level or torturing people.

[@James-712]

@@danielstarnes9761 It only gives you martial, prowess or intrigue so no

[@Leapalot]

Diplo perk also raises children's skills!

[@James-712]

@@Leapalot Cheers!

[@mortache]

Respeck your perks to get groomed to rule twice! Also works for the torture intrigue perk

[@Fechter6737]

"In god news my second just got cancer" is a scentence that you can really only hear in context to CK3

[@anti-spiral159]

I got a brain anneurism, thanks

[@hanswurst6712]

20:53 "Good news! My son got cancer!" - Things u only say when playing CK3. :D

[@Zieley]

"why isn't the seduction scheme on my sister working" 😡😡😡

[@torrent6181]

Your style of commentary and editing is just perfect for this kind of video

[@dbo514]

His videos are really a work of art.

[@wouldntyouliketoknowdeli7640]

Honestly, considering the amount of mountains you had in your domain, it might have been faster to diverge a new culture and add Mountaineers or add Mountaineers to the original culture. Although I will say that while you are mostly expanding into mountain provinces, watching someone give up Konni is always painful.

[@jedih8526]

Hey not sure if anyone else mentioned this yet, but in the hybrid culture creation menu, you didn’t need to take 6 traditions.. It said “Up to 6”

[@JosephSDodd]

You can use holy orders when at war with anyone who is a "hostile" faith. If you have patronage it's free if they're not already in use. Doesn't need to be a holy war

[@edpatel713]

It’s free but still costs some piety.

[@Rocketjumpingspy]

@@edpatel713Not if you’re the patron. Only costs piety if they’re already hired by someone

[@duncanharrell5009]

Is there a way to regain Patronage of a Holy Order after the creator of it dies?

[@JosephSDodd]

From the wiki "The first king or emperor upwards in the liege hierarchy of the holy order's headquarters is their patron. It is possible for a holy order to have no patron if no such ruler exists. "@@duncanharrell5009

[@TheSpecialJ11]

​@@duncanharrell5009It should be whoever holds the realm they're under. So patronage is inherited so long as your heir still holds the top realm the headquarters are located in. I've had it where a vassal duke became king of a foreign kingdom and I lost patronage because the headquarters were in his duchy not mine.

[@Critical_Cabbage]

This has become my favourite type of game to play, a single really powerful kingdom that isn't too big. Another great video, there's just some really relaxing about your videos. Has a nice "hang out" vibe if that makes any sense lol.

[@catka304]

Your knight popping up in some random window never fails to amuse me.

[@Thepippinator2]

Right? It cracks me up every time 🤣

[@CrimsonReaper189]

i swear ur content is amazing not only do u create interesting challenge videos but ur also extremely educational in those videos keep up the amazing work

[@TheFlyingJester2662]

Thank you for the super laidback informative CK3 vids. I have learnt so much from you ♥️

[@u2bemark]

Good job.. been watching a ferw of your videos trying to reintroduce myself to CK while waiting on the new Victoria. I think what I like best is how you talk through your thought process while playing combined with some nice editing. In the AAR style videos of others it is all too easy to forget to to explain everything that goes into making a decision. I think the "save your game" videos play nicely to this format because you talk through analyzing their game... just like you did here in choosing a starting position and what you see around you. Good stuff.

[@Gaivs]

Playing tall is really fun! One of my favorite runs was forming Switzerland within the HRE, consolidating and then basically forcing the emperor to do whatever I wanted. I never wanted to become emperor myself, but ended up putting either my family members or other strong members of the HRE to try keeping it together. My main rival, Bohemia, was always trying to put their candidates on the throne, or breaking free. Great fun, I really felt the rivalries between me and Bohemia.

[@midweekcentaur1050]

That's funny, i almost always start as Bohemia in 867. I've never played to end yet, always have gotten super rich and stable, with the gold mine making profit soo easily. And 2 more within such close range.

[@elchikoriko592]

using your tips I am ALWAYS able to stay in positive money during war --- SUCH A BIG HELP!! I'm excited to try playing taller now after seeing some more of your content :)

[@Defkin]

Can't get enough of these videos, many thanks!

[@mattgopack7395]

This is definitely a fun way to play - though personally, my favorite tall method with a bunch of holdings is to try to stack them into a few counties (makes succession a lot easier/stress free). Then you can stack some big bonuses depending on the men-at-arms or the counties you have. Eg, taking both London and Paris and building a bunch of castle baronies there can let you really make heavy cav maa extremely powerful - and in a scenario where you end up dying a bit early/losing territories because of succession, you just have to take one county back.

[@chaseiscekcy]

I have to commend you on your editing, games like this are hard to make videos on (for me at least) but your little editing gags really brought it together

[@Dreckmal01]

I really appreciate the breakdowns you deliver.

[@augustus4638]

Absolutely love your stuff, friend!

[@Awesomewithaz]

3:40 "13 star commander" Holy shit that guy is a legend

[@oldetobie2568]

Zieley I love your videos. Nobody else makes quality edited CK videos like this and your commentary is great. Please keep them coming

[@Afrancis16]

You should check out Ottawa Welshman if you like this type of CK3 content, it’s super similar.

[@heraschade7981]

this is essentially how ive been playing the game since day one. make sure my own holdings are stronger than the rest of the empire combined. Eventually I just spread it out to encompass holy sites and other special buildings and then you can literally just paint the map forever and nobody will ever stop you unless you fuck up your succession.

[@JBfourmeaux]

Amazing video as always ! For the next one, might be interesting to explore ways to keep a really huge multi cultural empire from exploding, especially after succession

[@ElSayyidCampeador]

you can use holy orders in any war against a religious enemy, so even conquer duchy wars or invasions etc. also feel free to not choose max number of cultural traditions when hybridizing, the open slot can then be used to pick a new tradition at a slightly cheaper cost, something like practiced piracy would've been really good for dalmatia

[@thenitpicker2176]

Do you not use the special interest tab to mass upgrade? I don't know what the official name is, but right below the domain limit is a tiny circle with a scroll. It lists all your domains and indicates whether they are being upgraded or not. Clicking will take you to the barony in question. You don't need to physically click the castles on the map.

[@torrent6181]

It’s called the “outliner”. I personally find more enjoyment from clicking the castles manually on the board (it’s very satisfying) but yeah sometimes if the domain gets too big it can be easier to use the outliner.

[@rockmcdwayne1710]

@@torrent6181 I personally dont like that outliner option. With smaller domain size i always just go on map castle by castle and/or cities/temples. Thing with holdings you cannot hold is that, you got to jump on them early and construct right kind of buildings and leave the upgrading to AI. Overall i prefer the domain view from gvmnt tab. Much more detailed than the outliner.

[@tuluppampam]

@@rockmcdwayne1710 the outliner is meant to give you only important information quickly, not much It gives you an outline about things

[@dyn9726]

aaaaaauuuuuuuuuuuuuuuggggggghhhhhhhhhhh - garrison

[@dragonsblaze7961]

That Fus Ro Dah sound effect never gets old

[@Hokie200proof]

Abusing the simps (and they can be knights, physicians, inspired chars) in this game is my favorite way to cheese it. Its amazing what offering up some guaranted pus (or boy pus) can recruit to your realm.

[@imme8471]

Lots of people think it is boring, but I really love playing tall and small... so far my favourites have been creating the Kingdom of Sardinia e Corsica (because of the op special building), forming Ireland, where you keep everything but Leinster or Ulster, and finally Brittany. It is very fun for me to influence the world around me with copious amounts of gold, as well as making alliances just to help. Great video :)

[@DonutOfNinja]

another thing that can be really nice is playing a similar game as a tribal ruler due to the +2 knights building

[@simoncodrington]

Oo another video, always love seeing your content mate ♥️

[@Zieley]

Always appreciate your comments Simon, thanks

[@zianbryant7822]

Exactly the video was looking hoping to find on this account, hyped to watch just started!!!

[@zianbryant7822]

10:15 🤨

[@zianbryant7822]

27:12 🥳

[@zianbryant7822]

It was still a great video but is there a way you can take over the world in this game

[@ironarcana970]

gah damn it. i listen to your videos in the background and those Discord alert sounds get me everytime!!

[@kingkai5821]

Just when I thought Eid couldn't get any better. 😂😁

[@JakeTalksGamesYT]

I just found your channel and I really love your content

[@ritenger87]

you're an absolute sigma for this one Zieley

[@meili4790]

A Zieley is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to. Heck yeah more Zieley!

[@varun76890]

Once you made heathens vassals of your vassals you should demand conversion, then even if you have little chance to convert them without them asking for something if they ask for a favour you can just accept that as only your direct vassals can make use of the favors.

[@Zieley]

I actually did convert a few of them, but ended up cutting it from the vid

[@frawding9438]

love your videos :)

[@duelcaliberlive]

Great content!!

[@HenryN7]

"they're dead, all of them, not only the women but the children too." "what is going on with you, what are you talking about?" lmfao

[@jacama-bobjohan7516]

I would love to know how many more counties the Abbasids had than you. They were so large yet your army still rivaled them. Very nicely done. So is the trajectory now to get wider with each video? Lol

[@jasoncrawford5417]

"The good thing about my character is that he has the Sadistic trait." Yep. You do you.

[@LordCattington]

Keep up with those interesting and funny ideas for videos.

[@22Skateboy]

Ck 3 Bingo part 2 please! Love ur videos

[@philipparker4883]

Babe wake up. Zieley just posted another ck3 video

[@TheValiantBob]

Weird idea for a video. Start as a coastal territory, with the gimmick that you can only take over other coastal lands that are in contact with the ocean. Make an odd sort of very thin nation that just sort of snakes along the coastline of the world lol

[@archaon1400]

You mean Greater Chile?

[@arlosolomon6204]

idk why but this content is so soothing

[@marthvader14]

You deserve a lot more subs

[@goranstojanov1160]

Oh i see your grand plan is to unite all slavs under one kingdom.Nice.

[@olanhighlanders324]

You sir i rise my hat to you. By the way awesome editing.

[@flechedesneiges5114]

Your voice is way better than all the sound effects you're throwing in. I really needed to say it.

[@mortache]

Duuude you should play Kushite who have TWO holy sites that give +1 stewardship for level of devotion i.e TWO extra domain limit at max devotion! You can easily get over 20 domain limit if you get pacifism and the +1 domain artifacts like Crown of Justinian!

[@calebmcallister4289]

"Good news my second son got cancer" later "I would kinda feel bad doing that he's my brother"

[@KlaustheViking]

Saw the Byzantine Empire get itself to 110K levy size in one play through I did and it was baffling how strong they got.

[@speedio42]

I love your calm voice and the memes. The, good news. My second son got cancer, cracked me up :D

[@j.stoner]

these videos are so entertaining

[@Qreator06]

Can you try play mods? Seems like you’ve done everything you can in vanilla, I recommend Shogunate, The Fallen Eagle and Tales of Ireland.

[@hwstokkan]

loved this. more like this

[@UnbornHeretic]

If you become Byzantine emperor, you can get the Justinian crown, which adds 1 to your domain limit.

[@rthanejehxbejws]

I assume raiding or sieging the capital would also let you steal it

[@UnbornHeretic]

@@rthanejehxbejws Yeah but sieging constantinople is hard and annoying. might as well take it.

[@Jefffrrry]

Alternatively you can go for Diplomacy with one char, grab the leftmost perk tree and just claim all the best artifacts in his lifetime :) And then either demand or plot to steal them. I have no idea what the % chance is for getting an artifact while sieging, but in my game it's been next to none.

[@Prophitman8]

4:32 made me giggle... still watching lol

[@sagadellic6616]

Will say off the bat, I didnt think about the fact that you could get people into your court through marriages. So the free Knights was a big shocker to me. Still learning new stuff man, I love it.

[@ericroman9826]

i don't even play this game, but i love your videos dude

[@joeldykman7591]

There are also certain artifacts that will increase domain size. The main one that comes to mind is the Crown of Justinian lying in the Byantine court. Its worth the effort to invest in diplomacy just to get a claim on it.

[@azmoh4515]

I believe there was one more holy site near you in county of rama

[@ivangalic473]

Finally someone playing my home area

[@infini_ryu9461]

I think people play the rush for vassals game because there's heaps of that on YT achievement rushing. I play the slow game as a vassal building up my power base with family members as vassals or allies.

[@Prophitman8]

to have the second strongest military with only a kingdom, compared to an empire is quite good.

[@bibbicus3063]

FYI you can use a holy order in any war where the main enemy is a different religion, not just holy wars.

[@kin98100]

I think the reason for the wife Suggestion was couse of her Dynasty

[@Dmitrisnikioff]

A few points. For faster cultural acceptance, land vassals of that culture, especially in that culture but also just in other counties, border the culture and so on. Landing your own culture in their lands can help, if the AI decides to try and increase acceptance but unless they're independent it's a very small amount. The Kushite religion has two holy sites that grant stewardship for devotion: that makes them the best for max stewardship runs, I think. (there may be some eastern ones that can grab one from a holy site and the building, not sure) There are two guaranteed +1 domain artifacts; one held by the Byzantines and the other by the Scottish. Stealing them is a must, especially as Scotland often gets eaten by the Norse. Finally, you could have converted to a pacifist religion for a further plus one.

[@the_last.satrap6064]

Emperor strikes back !!

[@Samiqmojo]

Really enjoy the videos. One thing that bugs is the difference in volume between voice and sound effects/music. You’ve got a great voice. The sound effects are loud and jarring. (Constructive is the intent of this comment)

[@TravelingMooseMedia]

I love playing tall in CK3 because it's fun to see how efficient of a strategy I can create to maximize gold.

[@josh10722]

I think the strongest tall game will always probably be Baelo-Thyranna (i don’t know how to spell it), especially if you reform a defensive culture it becomes simply impossible for anyone to beat it. I enjoy also taking Krete and Cyprus once i max out the original realm.

[@jeffreyhornblower6515]

The discord sound at 14:33 made me alt tab to check discord

[@johnnyappleman7159]

Thank you for the rune helmet from RuneScape ❤️

[@KetsaKunta]

Started playing as a one county lord trying to expand modestly Now im the emperor of france fml

[@crunche1]

Ziely if you want to you can just give holdings that you dont want to your player heir

[@CivilizedMisanthrope]

„I feel kinda bad for him, he is our brother“. HE LITERALLY MURDERED 2 OF HIS SONS

[@BrandonGallemore]

This is awesome

[@PagerNinerTwelve]

"In good news: It actually looks like my second son has just got cancer, and he is malnourished." Woah there, Zieley...

[@davidbouchard7090]

Hey. i know you alway play vanilla ck3, but i wanted to suggest a mod list i created. It's fairly popular on the workshop (top 5 all time) and i tought it would be great to see you try it in a video.

[@ericmyrs]

You should run a max knight effectiveness game. It gets out of hand quickly.

[@ericmyrs]

@dimensional X pick a martial culture with good prowess boosts. Exodus or start in India. Create hybrid culture. Take jungle provinces and build elephantries, they give you extra knights. Go over the dutchy limit, and max out military academies. Get yourself a gallant Herculean genius ruler. Have lots of knights with 30+ prowess at like 600% effectiveness. Gift your cousins good equipment to increase their prowess. Marry your sisters/daughters matriliniary to Herculean giants to craft a lineage of Mountains That Ride. Win the game.

[@duncthemonc9951]

He’s posted again lads, it’s finally time

[@MisVEVO]

Idk how good that tip is but I usually avoid being above domain limit by granting the duchy to an old woman with no family. I'll inherit it back from her and can increase my limit in the mean time so I won't have to deal with the debuff from domain limit and might also inherit artifacts, have court tasks done there that I need to do elsewhere or have stuff upgraded for me. Overall big win in my books

[@wuxiagamescentral]

I got 30k troops on my india run. My vassals kept pushing into Tibet. Also you get an early University in Bihar

[@philscholz402]

I am new to this game and enjoy your vids. How did you get from 7/6 to 6/6 at 15:25 ?

[@Zieley]

I cut myself actually doing it, but I granted away the county Sinjcroat (the one in the northwest) to a random dude

[@lambskidneys]

Anyone know the sound bite when he captures a domain?

[@cabotclarke9]

Zeley, my man!

[@viorp5267]

I am a blobber because I like restoring historic empires, currently formed Bactria with the goal of formin alexander the Great's Empire like all the land

[@cristianponcea1660]

I have one item, i think Charlemagne something, that gives +1 domain limit. What is the best way to get items that give domain limit? Is it a thing, or only this item gives it?

[@_ipsissimus_]

The part where you maxed out your domain limit had results that were shocking to me.

[@RegnumMortis]

I missed something there... At 15:23 you annexed a two new territories for a total of 7 holdings, but 4 seconds later you were back to 6. How come?

[@Weiswolfe]

i love his videos but a problem is the cuts, you dont know everything he does

[@teal_m_101]

Virgin martial domination vs chad stewardship domination