I destroyed every Catholic Kingdom in CK3 with these OP Men at Arms units

[@Zieley]

What kind of MaA comp do you guys use in your games, lots of different types or the classic full send?

[@IcyVegeta]

I build up the cultural specific units and try to stack those to the max!

[@rah.rightbfhibs1920]

Take over the world with family only as your vassals

[@kindadumb916]

One type of MaA depending on the region and build buildings that boost that MaA

[@DonutOfNinja]

i usually dont specialize but i keep 2 stacks of the best siege equipment and in the late game i like filling out the rest with heavy cav and gettting some 500% heavy cav efficiency

[@RoskildeJonas]

I do like you did in this video, but when deciding between verangian and huscarls, I go Huscarls for Europe and Verangian if my main opponent is Byzantine. That said, none of it truly matters once the ball start rolling.

[@mbg8733]

The holy order always spawns at the first rally point, if you instead of creating many rally points, just move the one around then you won't have move the holy order down to the action, they would spawn at the action.

[@lewismcdermott3024]

Issue with only one rally point is it doesn't allow you to raise a local army (the armies are local to their closes rally point so if there's only one, then ALL your units are local to it). Best solution is to call a local army at your rally point, then move the red/main rally point to the same tile and call in your mercs/holy order 🥰

[@Dmitrisnikioff]

That applies to all troops you buy, including mercs

[@KleptoKazoo]

No it’s not the first one it’s the one nearest to your capital. If you have one rally point farther away from your capital than another mercenaries and holy orders will go to the one closest to the capital

[@waterking1013]

@@KleptoKazoo mercs go to the closest to capital, holy orders go to oldest

[@KleptoKazoo]

@@waterking1013 okay. It was just from my experience. But thanks for correcting me

[@onlytwogenders420]

Your vids are so good, no unnecessary random overly loud audio. Your voice is very easy to listen to, and this game is so much fun to play and watch you play. Keep up the great content!

[@dragonsblaze7961]

My MaA comp is usually the units that are suited towards my Kingdoms Terrain. I like playing tall so it's easy to build many buildings that just ramp up those few units I use and with a ton of defensive bonuses from lifestyle, religious and culture perks you can hold off massive enemy armies.

[@Fallout3131]

Same!

[@Geraduss]

Dunno what others think but in my experience THE BEST MAA in CK3 are Konni from the west and south Slavic culture groups, the pursuit on those is insane, any battle you win automatically becomes categorized as slaughter meaning stack wipe . And if you for example synchronize culture with lets say the Avars and get the Horse Archers to boot, deadly combo.

[@kingjamestres]

I mean every MAA except horse archer can become overpowered with the proper buildings it really just depends on preference.

[@Geraduss]

@@kingjamestres I suppose, I just like the insane pursuit of the Konni, since once you win a battle and stackwipe the enemy army you don't have to deal with the AI for a few in game months and even then its a fraction of what they had, leaving you plenty of leisure time to siege down the wargoals and win the war. PS. Konni pursuit stat is the highest in the game of any MAA, so much so that even unlocking them via culture trait brings along its own debuffs (Reduced siege efficiency), and dare I say no other MAA unlock brings along its own debuffs, meaning the developers already knew how powerful they were to try and rebalance them in some way.

[@Panzerkuchen]

I'm playing right now with 1stack of varangians and 2 stacks of Konni & cav archers, its pmuch broken the game, its ridiculous how op it is.

[@puruttyaaa]

every hungary play in a nutshell

[@kevinbealer6320]

Completely eliminated all catholic kingdoms! Kingdom of Nevarra: *Hiding under the corpses of their fallen brethren*

[@Zieley]

in true villain fashion i had to leave one alive to spread the word

[@GalvTheImpressive]

@@Zieley But they'll spread the word of god. We don't want that. That's what we fought for!

[@Nitidus]

@@GalvTheImpressive Well, you don't want to run out of enemies to fight, either. That would be boring. So let them do their thing and crush them when the time comes!

[@robertoclaux8654]

The only men-at-arms I've ever needed were the showcased varangian veterans and huscarls, plus war elephants. Once I've attained this comp, and boosted my knight effectiveness as much as possible, I can pretty stack wipe armies ten times my own's size.

[@Galba89]

Sounds perfectly balanced. ^.~

[@jamessawyer9816]

Norsemen on elephants… don’t see that everyday.

[@gerogero2011]

​@@jamessawyer9816u can see those in different game though named Total war Warhammer 2 or 3... There is Norse Faction and they Have Mammoth and their doomstack.... Yes their doomstack is army full of Mammoth Rider which can destroy any army in the map

[@afridge8608]

For even more op maa: one siege regiment one archer regiment and all the rest goes to varangians. Pick the second perk in the pillage dynasty thing for +2 knight regiments. Hybridize with greek for +2 more knight regiments and 15% maintenece. Then have everyone on stewardship to have as many counties as possible for extra barracks so extra damage plus pick the perk in the first tree that gives maa maintence per dread. You already hybridized with greek so you can abuse castration and blinding for free dread with no tyranny on every prisoner. Just the perk and the greek tradition give -65% maa maintence. you pay literally nothing for the strongest men at huge quantities plus you are on stewardship so you make crazy money

[@jeremiahfink7760]

Definitely going to have to try that out whenever the dlc's drop for console. Not exactly sure how hybridizing cultures works do you have to be in the Byzantine area to do it? Just curious any reason for the one archer regiment?

[@mahmud7645]

@@jeremiahfink7760 you probably know by now but hybridization only requires to have one county of the target culture in your realm and at least 40 cultural acceptance (only 20 with malleable invaders perk)

[@smobasi3367]

Oh man! Almost a hour episode! You are spoiling us

[@TheElderize]

9:27 hey so you know that in royal court you only need to have an unreformed faith to raid, you dont need to be tribal. Halfdan starts as feudal unreformed and he can raid as long as he wants

[@jeremiahfink7760]

Same with our favorite boi Haestein

[@romaboo6218]

same even before royal court

[@red7880]

its because of the tenets of the religion not that its unreformed

[@jeremiahfink7760]

@@red7880 You're definitely wrong there bud.

[@teothemad3770]

If you want the most op army in this game you should try a culture called ' Alan ' , it has Horse Lords and since this culture is byzantine heritage you are able to add eastren roman legacy to it so you get Horse archers and cataphract .

[@HarriCS2]

Great video, you are the only Ck3 KZbinr I watch on a regular. One thing I noticed in this one is that you didn't set your commander to train generals. That is another boost to your MA strength that shouldn't be underrated!

[@sjeggy6]

Some advice for distributing kingdoms, do create internal strife inside those duchies, you don't want dukes with 8 castles etc

[@henryrichtmann604]

A few updates ago I did something similar in Ireland using the horsemen-unit unique to their culture and boosting it with my buildings. It was completly broken back then.

[@stockpapi]

I just got into this channel and I’ve been binging every CK3 episode and I really recommend watching these videos I’m reverse order. You get to see the natural progression of this absolutely AMAZING channel. These edits and jokes ate incredible and if you watch some early videos you can tell this is just going to get better. I’m excited to see you incorporate your style in new games and future videos!

[@ricciogiancarlo]

May I suggest to use only MaA + Holy Orders to keep war cost down and high effectiveness. And just use a single army spawn point, that way when you raise your HO they are forced to spawn in that place, and it's awesome because they have instant spawn

[@nick2open]

Zieley, your videos are best!You can press button "Raise All MoA Here" to recruit MoA (first click) when you click to the rally point and then press button "Raise All Here" to raise as many levies as you wish in moment just stopping raising (second click)! As a result we have all MoA and desired amount of levies. No more additional rally points except some cases such as color preferences or dividing forces by directions or something else.

[@williambaikie5739]

Enjoy your videos, but one point of criticism. Instead of creating new rally points, just move your one and primary rally point. Then when you call the holy order they appear where you want, instead of sailing from the Isle of Mann.

[@torrent6181]

That’s a good point, but won’t that also increase the number of soldiers in that rally point’s “local army”? Or am I mistaken?

[@williambaikie5739]

@@torrent6181 Actually as far as I know the 'local army' option works the same. Your primary rally point actually is nothing special. Before I learned about just having 1 rally point and moving it where I want, L would be forced to delete some to make new ones. Often the red first one was long deleted and everything was the same. By the way, I always use ctl-click and raise men-at-arms then 'raise local' as separate groups and as militia start forming I split out the healthy ones and move so as to not start getting 'low supply'. Any militia who are not at full strength and I don't need to win the current war I disband. Same is true for Men-at-arms, often a knight or 2 are all that is causing months to fully raise them. I split off all the men-at-arms except my weakest knight who will stay behind to see to the recruitment of the stragglers.

[@torrent6181]

@@williambaikie5739 Wow, thank you for the tips!Knowing the raise army mechanics actually could have saved me in a few instances. Also I didn’t even know the game supported ctrl-click functionality

[@TheRedEyedSloth]

Love this thread, thank you both lol

[@bibbicus3063]

A cool way I found of dealing with mass Peasant uprisings is.. select the peasant leader, it will tell you where he is located, find that specific army and focus on them. If you completely wipe them, which you should with a few decent pursuit units, you will capture him. War done 👍🏻

[@Piggyman10]

That feeling when you consider the entire army of Aquitaine a "makeshift army"

[@charvakpatel962]

This is an old video, but I have to say, this is one of the more underrated KZbin channel which feels like crime as this is also the most innovative content I have seen. There are a lot of KZbinrs who do exploit videos and I love em, then there are those who do challenges, and I love em too. Zieley is a nice middle, he sets very specific restrictions, which makes it entertaining and helps expand our understanding of the game itself. Keep up dude.

[@AcMrPro]

I feel like local army might be broken since recently. It used to be great to raise a small, cheap, varied army when you fight a small force but now in a save after ending the Iberian struggle I have 60k troops and raising a local army raises 59k so it's not really that useful anymore

[@erebus1892]

You need multiple rally points to have smaller armies to be raised, and the local armies never include your MoA count either

[@AcMrPro]

@@erebus1892 Must be remembering it wrong then because I remember raising local armies much smaller than my total force

[@boletarianbread7349]

@@AcMrPro You probably had multiple rally points without knowing how the raise local mechanic worked. The way it works is each county's levies will count towards the local levy number for the closest rally point to that county. So if you create a rally point in the middle of your domain and another at the edge of your realm, the rally point in your domain will have like 90% of your levies.

[@austin7761]

@@boletarianbread7349 Wow, that's actually really useful to know. Thank you for explaining that, internet stranger.

[@Beofware]

​@@boletarianbread7349 Wow, I had no idea that this is how it worked. Thank you!

[@willofbob]

I like how you talked about completely wiping out all Catholic kingdoms but just completely ignored the Kingdom of Frisia right there, though I suppose there isn't exactly anything they could have done to stop you at that point.

[@LordOfLongwood]

Yeah good old Frisa stayed alive by hiding

[@SuperAndrewization]

He stayed so incredibly still he become invisible to the untrained eye

[@braindavidgilbert3147]

@@SuperAndrewization Sweden strat

[@michawiktor9592]

Hi Zieley, nice that You have a new place. All best wishes from PL to You ☺️

[@James-712]

Do a levies only challenge

[@weyjosh5213]

😔😔

[@zenkrypt6577]

Is that the James712?

[@James-712]

@@zenkrypt6577 Aye bruv

[@MYPSYAI]

I make my own culture with Jarl Dyre, I stay in house Af Sigurd (legitimize bastard/restore inheritance). I do a Varagian Invasion of Constantinople, and hybrid culture Greek to get Eastern Imperial Legacy. That gives you Cataphracts. When Halfdan dies, inherit some counties. Use the heir to do a varangian Invasion again (you need adventurer trait) anywhere in Europe. I use 1 varangian vet, 2 huscarl, 2 cataphract. I think the pure huscarl/varangian vet strat is probably more op, but you will smash anyone in Europe with heavy cav 200 years ahead of them

[@MYPSYAI]

Bonus points if you invade a tribal nation and become tribal again. Heavy cav for prestige lol

[@MYPSYAI]

Oh... and I call it "Norse on a Horse"

[@birdofterror6628]

If you were to reform or mesh your culture again and get battlefield looters, you'd end up getting 5 gold per 100 kills except twice since you're also 4 deep into the raid tree. Maybe that's worth considering in the future?

[@afridge8608]

Battlefield looters gives 1 gold per 100 casualties so he would get 6 not 10. A 20% increase isnt worth the tradition spot in my opinion

[@Zieley]

i agree with the fridge here

[@birdofterror6628]

@@Zieley Ah I thought it was a duplicate. Carry on.

[@Dmitrisnikioff]

Yeah, no it sounds sensible but the gain is way, way too low for the loss in both prestige and piety gain, while the loot capacity is rendered meaningless far too soon

[@simoncodrington]

Another great video mate. Really enjoying these long form videos, but I bet they're super hard to create. Can't wait to see what things you come up with next.. perhaps Fate of Iberia content? Going to set up a patreon soon?

[@Zieley]

thanks Simon! Next video will be fate of Iberia 😁

[@fugbisch6983]

Entertaining video as always and an inspiring goal for myself to recreate your achievements here. I would like to challenge you to recreate my run of hunting down every Karling Dynasty member. I started as Jylland to achieve that and did tribal raids all the time, in addition to a few murder schemes (I have to say that this was on an earlier patch). Also an interesting scenario would be collecting all the legendary items being in the game from the start.

[@arvanion195]

Was actually a little surprised you opted for Spartan over Industrious-the bonus every time a building is completed would have really sped up resolving the discrepancy in development between your new domains, plus it’d push the County of Mann to even more absurd heights given the extra building slots.

[@Teknokraatti]

Industrious was recently nerfed, the development boost now only triggers once per year. It's still a big boost, but for rushing buildings Spartan is definitely better.

[@mxn.dlw6]

loving the Tchaikovsky intro music in general the intro music 11/10

[@rinzler9171]

"Just send these guys all out into the ocean, where they'll just lose all their supplies then die" Subbed

[@Rick203]

Just about to start cooking dinner and a Zieley video comes in.... Perfect...

[@johnhamer5596]

You should try playing a Nubian character in the Baltic. If you merge culture with Lithuanian/Prussian/etc you can get archer bonuses from both hunting grounds and forestry buildings. Which means by the time you get crossbowmen, they have stats that are almost equivalent to heavy cavalry.

[@Dmitrisnikioff]

Holy shit, I was just mentioning the Nubians but that sounds even more broken, because you can still get the hunting one in a forest...

[@MegaEarAche]

The funny thing at the end the pope looked like he still had land. Another awesome video.

[@thorbjrnstre8672]

Hey man Love that you used "Gold please" from AoE II! Thanks for your content

[@punikachi]

Was looking forward to your next upload, perfect timing! Keep up the good work Zieley you make the best CK3 videos.

[@patrickmcmahon1974]

It's not exactly an even comparison. If you go mixed MaA groups you also usually mix your buildings, meaning you can get to + 50 percent effectiveness or so on all. While you can boost a solo MaA higher, you're also only using the building upgrades in this video on the solos. But, not like you even need to try to maximize efficiency as vikings, knight effectiveness + Huge MaA + incompetent enemy ai for developing MaA and its a steamroll as soon as you can fund even 2.5k MaA.

[@connorgrant1816]

Yeah, what I was thinking the entire time Either what you said with mix, or what was done with just focusing one group which means only one part gets benefits, so obvs they'll seem stronger

[@drazarkabalblade9486]

While that is true, the fact is that the advantage of having only 1 man at arms type means that you can absolutely stack to an insane degree, and add to that the fact that the Varangian Veterans are murdermachines incarnate. Also the AI won't build "counters" to your 1-type, meaning that sure, they may get some more damage if you fight an enemy that tends to build more counters, but it wont be enough to actually matter. By the time you can consider field full stacks and making your man at arms your core, it's always better to just focus on the most efficient one. For Norse factions, those are the Veterans. For the others I think it's light infantry ( more cost effective ). That way you build them to the sky and watch them rip and tear. Also, I think that focusing on the heavy infantry building LOWERS the maintenance costs, which is a big deal if stacked enough. In short, better to have one at +100% rather than 3-4 at 25/50%

[@patrickmcmahon1974]

@@drazarkabalblade9486 mixed armies that deal effectively with all counters are better when there isnt an astronomical power difference, since you dont risk the enemy randomly having a full counter to you in any engagement. By going mixed, especially early on with say 2 Light Infantry, 1 Vigimen, 1 bondi, 1 varangian (add horses if can) you win against any 10k stack you run up against, and it costs far less than 5 varangian vets. I'm not doubting the power of min max, but rather its overall usefulness in any one game. After the first 15 or so years of any game i never have to raise my levies unless its some complete disaster

[@TheBlinto]

The biffa of the CK3 world. Love the videos mate! Great to hoover tactic for my own ck3 games. The "save fix" is great content. Cheers!?!

[@SirChris314]

a tip if you're reforming your religion and also want to make a lot of money. Take Lay Clergy, Temporal head of faith and the Communion tenet. this makes you (and subsequently your heir) the head of faith and once you start getting people converted they will just start giving you money for the piety

[@nanoqht285]

Varangian guards were historically Viking guards for the Byzantine Empire. I usually do a Varangian adventure to Constantinople when I’m strong enough and play super tall using raiding, and then I get loads of Varangian vets so I can defend from any attackers.

[@annaskaaki9584]

Love to see it keep up the great content

[@PermadeathHD]

9:36 is this timeline's equivalent of the hordes descending

[@stoopidapples1596]

Is the Iberia dlc video coming soon? Imo there has been a strangely small amount of KZbin content on it and they don’t usually show much of the actual functions of it...

[@Zieley]

Im pretty sure its out already. My next video will be using it!

[@green6180]

You should make a video where you focus on intrigue to spread your children throughout Europe to create one unified European culture

[@adam_krauss]

The next modifiers you should stack....knight # and knight effectiveness. MaA allowed, no levies. Building tall in India with elephantry would be the way to go!

[@MotherTruckingOwen]

can you switch off every (25?) or so years between to places on opposite sides of the map, if you go into devtools you can do it midgame but you could reload into the other character, could make a great east vs west. love the style of your videos, appreciate them!

[@solinvictus4367]

6:49 unexpected Age of Empires 2 Viking soundeffect

[@anti-spiral159]

I was just having this in the background while I played EU4 extended timeline, and Rome popped up asking for military access right when he talked about Rome being the last place of christianity, epic.

[@MrDMIDOV]

Lmao I love that partially obscured meme poster in the intro

[@nikolaitregouet]

Welcome back, maestro. Was waiting for a new vid of yours)))

[@Jay2JayGaming]

I know it's strange, but when playing as Norse, I like to start out with bondi. They're far cheaper and come with some pursuit, so I find them more useful in the early game. It's only once I've got a decent economy going, a bunch of artifacts, and a relatively secure realm that I transition to Varangian Veterans

[@kuul6695]

Letsssss goooooo zieley posted

[@AlvinAnakMudaPlayedAGame]

I know this is late but the “Making a Killing” Dynastic Legacy also counts the allied fatal casualties, that’s quite a nice compensation😆

[@lightwalker222]

Reducing the kingdom of Francia to 440 men by raids from the Norse.... honestly that pretty much checks out historically

[@Trenial]

@Ziely You should grab some of the unit and character audio dialogues from the original "Stronghold" game, and sample them into your videos. Would be fucking hilarious.

[@aalfa5779]

I have a few questions, first why do you create a new spawn point instead of just moving the original one? Second: why do you click "raise local armie" and not "raise men at arm"? Third: why don't you Ctrl+click to spawn your army? of course supply but when the enemy army is just next to the tile you make them spawn it's not that important and with only men at arms spawned supply shiuldn't be an issue.

[@cba2make1up]

More of the hour long episodes please, this is quality

[@themeerkat5157]

one thing you could've done to get more piety would be to mass execute all your rebellious vassals after revoking all their land for lots more piety

[@richyhu2042]

I just did a Haesting into Viking Tunis run and gods that was a ton of fun. Had the Norse MAAs and the Butr HI MAA that are really good in the desert (forgot their name) and that was a hell of an army since they could kick anyone's shit in with some cavalry support. I was able to raid freely all over the Med, sacked Rome half a dozen times, raided the Holy Land twice and to cap it off I took Romanga from the Pope. Was straight rolling in cash. OH I also got the "Secure the Med" decision and holy shit that is broken. It gives a 25% renown increase but it applies to EVERY LIVING MEMBER. at the max I was getting 160+ Renown a month and got the equviliant of 5 and a half Legacies out of it.

[@Dmitrisnikioff]

Is that a mod decision? Don't remember it

[@richyhu2042]

@@Dmitrisnikioff I think its vanilla and one of those decisions that didn't get as much coverage since. basically you have to control Sardinia, Sicily and one other place I think and got me a Kingdom of Borneo-Tyrrhenia or something like that, never heard of it before.

[@Dmitrisnikioff]

@@richyhu2042 Ah, it seems to have been added by the new DLC, how interesting

[@javierfernandez8611]

Venice: if I stay very still, they may not notice that I also have a kingdom degree.

[@shishkabob984]

Me playing ck3: looks like turbulent times ahead

[@adamappell1212]

Hey Z. I love all the scenario games. I really like that MP match with Welshman. I do have a request though. I haven't seen a video yet where you go for the decision Dynasty of Many Crowns. Also can you please do it without tons of intruige cheese? Set a bar of like no more than 2 crowns obtained by murder plots or abductions.

[@tutucamts4708]

I like building a mix of heavy infantry and archers and depending where i play, cavalry. Since the cavalry buildings also gives money and defensive advantage, i can build the archery and heavy infantry buldings to make them better and have more levies, avoiding thus rebellions. And for the last building, i always go for money and military academies as duchy buildings. The army just wreck things and cannot be countered. I think spamming MaA just for specific cultural MaA.

[@pattyboyz]

Just found your channel, easy sub. Keep up the awesome work!

[@TheBeef2487]

Really loving these videos. I've got to ask though, is Varangian pronounced without the G? I always said "Varanjian".

[@realred5736]

Also try out horse archer spam, 10K of them defeats every army on fitting terrain even with over 20k men without survivors (never underestimate the pope tho).

[@newtubevector]

How about a run where u can only fight with knights/champs/etc.

[@Garathon]

I instantly knew it was that save when I saw it due to me subbing due to that video lol

[@patrickle2500]

Challenge idea: Walkthrough / Ironman using ONLY men of arms or a Levi handicap (say you can’t have more than 1000 Levi) Or Only raid during raiding session (late spring to fall)

[@meep0455]

You can raise the special army first then raise the regular army, disband special army to not waste them

[@talhazubayurulislam9599]

A gift from our saviour!

[@Fun4luve]

9:30 you're also still unreformed pagan so you could still raid without practiced pirates from that alone whenever I play as a norse ruler I usually go after establishing the northsea empire for feudalism and continue to raid without the modifier due to unreformed asartu, reforming is great and all but without practiced pirates or the 100 year house modifier I lose access to raiding. sorry if worded confusingly i didn't really know how to state it ig.

[@GFIZeraph]

Probably won't be seen, but seeing you attempt an Irish Empire would be really really cool

[@themeerkat5157]

tbh i think probably the MaA units that are more powerful than the varangians are the roman legionnaires and maybe the house guard you get at the fifth perk in the warfare legacy, and considering you can only get the legionnaires by creating a custom character with the roman culture it is safe to say the only one more powerful than the varangians are the house guards that you're not gonna be seeing in the early game anyways

[@centurion6612]

fantastic video really enjoyed this one.

[@jayjayscot3738]

Apart from educational and entertainment value, I Luv your theme- samples from various games and movies. Like from Mario used in this video

[@SuhandiWijaya]

Zieley, I have a question that seems I cannot find on google, I am new to CK3: how many courtiers I have in my court before I get pregnancy debuff, and does this debuff affect everyone in my court including me? Thanks in advance!

[@Weiswolfe]

uuh? what do you mean, you are only having woohoo with your concubines and spouse, not your courties, they are there, just being there

[@SteefPip]

One of these days I'm going to figure out how to play this game.

[@LegoRichard]

Awesome video! I really enjoyed it!

[@rBaggy]

Hi i am new to CK3, I do not own any of the DLCs but i do love the game. Do any of you know a good place for me to learn more about the game? Some themes i am intrested in is: How to get hold of the Varagnian units. Is there any other Norse hybrid cultures i can get in standard game apart from Normands and Danelaw? I really enjoy your videos been binge watching for a week now. Thank you!

[@theancientape7813]

Hi big fan of the content. I have a challenge for you. In 867 there's a vassal to kazaria which is rabbinic Jewish. I managed to create Israel with it but it was extremely hard. Perfect challenge for a video

[@Zieley]

I actually did a restore Israel series starting as an Ethiopian Jewish character a while back. But it could be fun to do it again from Kazaria

[@Dmitrisnikioff]

@@Zieley It's a pretty fun start, you start next to a holy site but it's held by the Byzantines, but as a feudal vassal of a tribal kingdom you're weak as hell. I'm pretty sure that the simplest way nowadays might be to do a dissolution faction, then swear fealty to Byz, take the holy site then dissolve again. Another option was to set Norse adventures to apocalyptic, as they then often target Crimea but uhhh, it also targets your liege all the time and then you if you take Crimea. Also their cultural MAA suck; you can merge the culture with the Khazars instantly and only keep the good stuff while picking up Horse Archers instead, they even have a special name for it already premade edit: also, did you know that the Malbarites can form their own, seperate Israel in India? It's pretty interesting stuff actually

[@theancientape7813]

@@Dmitrisnikioff yeah it took me lots of tries, because even if you take more territories they are tribal so you cant even use them until you feudalise them. i got imprisoned heaps but somehow made it. also even though your leige is jewish they are still hostile so you still get title revocations and stuff. honestly my favourite challenge ive done so far also can you tell me how to form a malbarite kingdom in india? sounds fun

[@Dmitrisnikioff]

@@theancientape7813 You have to convert to the religion, then take the holy site in India and some of the land there, if I remember right, it's been a while since I did it. Just check through the Jewish religions and it's the one with the holy site in, Goa, I think, same as the Nestorians And yeah, it's weird how the different Judaisms are all hostile but then again, aren't they kind irl too?

[@yusufideli]

This guy is amazing! ^. Thanks for the awesome content!

[@torrent6181]

The intro gets me every time lmfao

[@bryany1217]

You should experiment with different government types next. During my rise of the ghurids run I created only theocratic vassals, which gave me crazy amounts of gold+they never rebel. Idk if it's a exploit but they are way better than regular feudal/clan vassals in my experience.

[@specialsomeones]

Even republic vassals are better than feudal. But I agree theocratic are the best!

[@aleklagerstedt1744]

how do you create those different vassal types? Aside from just barony tier vassals?

[@specialsomeones]

For Republican vassals, just grant county titles to mayors who already hold a city barony. Theocratic vassals are more complicated. It’s easier if you have temporal revocable clergy because if you pause and then fire your court priest you can grant them titles (which will become theocratic if your religion has theocratic clergy) as long as you don’t start time. If you unpause before granting them titles then they will become just a normal courtier. Also, if you conquer a county with a temple holding through a holy war then sometimes there is a random priest occupying the barony before your court priest takes it over. You can assign that priest theocratic titles.

[@aleklagerstedt1744]

@@specialsomeones Thanks, this will be fun to try!

[@sillygoose4356]

is the isle of man a dutchy title? if so how could you have had the isle of man dutchy, paris, and Jorvik? isnt that over the limit?

[@BrennanDemarest]

Hey Zieley, loving your videos. Have a quick question. Why didn’t you retreat whenever your army got caught in those mountains? Is there a reason not to right click the troops out of the fight?

[@viruschara7690]

He knew he would kill much more men than he lost

[@kmor1012]

in my case most commonly it's just 2-3 heavy infantry and 2-5 siege weapons

[@Baneb1984]

How do you get the Varangian veterans? I’ve never seen them before. Im assuming it’s probably from a culture i never played before

[@Teknokraatti]

They're a MaA from the Norse flavor pack and are available to the Norse culture via a special tradition. The good thing is, even if the northern split erases it from all the successor cultures, North Germanic heritage cultures can revive the tradition.

[@JudazRex]

Perfekt video to relax after work to😍 thanks for Good content 👌🏼👌🏼

[@stevehi8677]

Venice as the entire catholic world burns around them: this is fine- I like money 💰

[@fejfo6559]

Man getting 5 gold per 100 kills is so powerful.

[@captain_crackhead5690]

hey man ive been watching ur vids for about half a year and as an indian i would rly rly like u to form the indian empire in ck3 pls consider my request

[@Zieley]

thanks for sticking around my friend. I'll have to add that to the list, could be fun to do something with the war elephants 👀

[@johnnyringo6374]

@zieley how do you prevent your kids from taking lands that you want for main character? (upon death)

[@Weiswolfe]

there are several means some... more questionable that others, the easiest yet the most expensive is desinherit, cost prestige and renown, the older the more expensive, if him has a martial education ask him to join your holy order, another one is, dont have that manywith the perk restrain, which makes you celibate and gives you piety, first tree in learning education, second point after the first, or divorce your spouse and concubines once you have a good amount of children, the questionable ones are, make an army with just your targeted son and send him to a suicide mission against a big army, thing is him might get captured or magically teleport alive to your court, and the other will be having the Perso Trait Sadistic which lets you murder your children, ah and avoid equal gender until you can change your partition law to male preference, that way you can have female councillors and commanders but only men will be concidered for titles, as feudal the last crown authority is locked in the early medieval innovation of Royal Prerogative, or just use Primo mods if you dont care about achievements lmao

[@johnnyringo6374]

@@Weiswolfe thank you very much for that info!

[@HuffDaddyYT]

I'm surprised on your opinion about the concubines. They can help expand your dynasty FAST FAST FAST

[@dallasbruner9947]

is there a way where you can maybe increase the loyalty of your vassals? it seems like a huge empire is always going to be a pain in the ass. Historically yeah its not always bananas and pajamas but idk. also does your land always have to split on succession?

[@meili4790]

Also question, did you consider going for the first level of the other norse legacy tree so you can give your heirs the varangian trait for more martial and such? I discovered as well that while fighting for the byzantine emperor, my heirs get the court trait of the byzantine empire which seems to be the administrative one (stewardship) and I know you love your stewardship 😤 (edited for spelling)

[@kingjamestres]

I stopped sending my children on to the Byzantines because they got blinded one too many times and also apparently the emperor can marry them off.

[@meili4790]

@@kingjamestres I've never had blinding issues nor issues with them being married off. Sometimes they have lovers but that's it. When was the last time you tried that?

[@سعدالدوسري-ذ5و]

Ig got the veteran MaA and boosted them to around 200% they do about 140 damage which destroy everything but i think the best unit is Mubarizien

[@jamieclarke321]

It’s your boy here, spirit of the law

[@yoewme]

What are the most powerfull/best Counties/duchies to hold... or the most interesting ones. can you make a video of it?

[@Weiswolfe]

Mann is one, Mali with its gold mine is other, cant think of others