they would probably settle on the reason that she felt in danger due to the massive caliphate wich was more powerfull than any nation that could ever be formed aganst it
@@killianvanrotterdam9111 However some historians are starting to question this hypothesis, as the Corsica and Sardinia were not the direct target of the Ummayad, but of the Mayurka who's been defeated with ease. They believe that the Master of Shadow of Corsica was just bored by her life in a small country, and seeked great challenge to leave her marks in history books. Also, the king of Corsica and Sardinia is a fierce diplomat who used to create alliances with different kinds of sovereigns in order to secure his own plans. Having a great empire at his door is good, but a bit boring and dangerous for his schemes.
I think there was a french noblewoman from either brittany or normandy that had her husband unfairly murdered so she escape to England and swore vengeance and became a pirate absolutely murdering french shipping in the English channel. And then there is Olga of Kiev how near exterminated the Pechenegs that murdered her husband, more than a few such cases in history hehe.
Your knights had 3000+ kills in one battle. 14 guys killed over 3000 men! They were like, "squire, fetch my spare sword!" "why did you drop yours?" "no, I wore it out killing people" "oh, damn, right away, sir"
From what a understand the knights system is supposed to be like they have some troops under them, likely 100 men each. ~1400 men killing 3000 makes more sense.
If I were the Umayyad heir I simply would renounce my claim. Imagine being the new heir walking into the throne room and there are just 4 bodies lying on the ground, two of which are children. “Who are they?!” “Your predecessors, my lord”
lol, if I was the Umayyad heir, I'd be like "wait who is this random queen trying to swear feudality to me?" "oh, she's the greatest schemer in the known world, personally responsibly for at least two former emperor's murders, number one suspect in the others, caught sneaking around your most powerful vassels' courts for blackmail, super rich, massive military, sitting on a silver mine" "okay, and none of this seems suspicious to you guys?" Spymaster must have been Ray Charles and the Chancellor was Ronnie Millsap.
This would have been a great chance to show off the “empire breaker” scheme combo: kidnap the heir and convert them to your religion while murdering the emperor, so the heir inherits a huge empire that’s hostile to them.
@@fts_02 Some will refuse to convert, some are not as hostile to foreign religion, some will just immediately convert back. Edit: It's better to just look for heirs with unremovable traits that their culture or established religion doesn't like, or deal with heirs according to succession laws - or even better: If same faith, just _VERY_ carefully do matrilineal marriages to prep for the future. What's the point of destablizing something either way, if you're not gaining anything from it?
Great , i watched that succession game and even comment they missed a great oportunity of having you on the game , glad you can participate destroying everything = ) !!!!
Its weird the game doesnt has some kind of "expanded security" trait after the familly gets murdered, the court of such a big realm should protect their royal heir, and even against master assassins.
yeah, once the 2nd family member dies, they would like lockdown the court, and maybe send heirs into hiding and stuff like that. and also find out (at some point) who's been doing it and retaliate. bit unrealistic. and by extension, therefore, so was the swearing fielty and setting up a faction. neither would be possible for such a hostile enemy.
The idea of the six year old just taking a sack of gold that's two-thirds of the treasury, going down to the titles department and yelling "MAKE ME A QUEEN!"
I've always hated how easy it is to just murder anyone and everyone. There should be some kind of penalty to trying to murder people of the same family repeatedly, seeing as they should be more weary of assassins / plots to kill them.
I mean everyone becomes displeased with you increasing the chance of plots and Dissident factions. Plenty of rulers murdered everything they disliked, it worked until fear became so overwhelming that it ended up driving the knife in their back as not doing so was even more dreadful.
He took the intrigue focus, if anything it's that tree that needs balancing in of itself, not anything else. Doing what he did here will be practically impossible without ridicolous economy and/or the focus tree. What they *should* fix, is how bastardization works and that it should work in retrospect and that they should be able to be legitimized after birth. Secrets should also be able to be exposed after the death of just the character who did it. As it is now, any holder of a secret becomes completely and utterly irrelevant once the perpetrator dies, which doesn't really make sense in most cases, only in the sense that the person can't be _punished_ which is irrelevant in "reality" to anything else.
Yeah, I think realistically if a nation found out there was an assassination attempt by another country (esp a weaker country), it would be a declaration of war immediately.
@@INSANESUICIDE scheme secrecy in CK3 is (always) even higher than scheme success chance. as long as you're not unlucky you'll never see that opinion malus (which isn't that bad), and even then opinion in CK3 is hit and miss with whether it affects anything.
main reason why the Umayid army went up at the start was because the first 4 guys didn't do any home province building they were too intent on screwing over the next player, it wasn't till Ottoman that they actually started conquoring a decent amount of territory and he also started building the home duchy, snap followed on but really he couldn't waste too much time as he still had a lot of conquoring to do as well so you ended out with a plethera of undeveloped counties, so given that the AI had some time to rectify this by building up means more armies were available.
I totally agree but at the same time when you get big enough in ck3 your troop numbers are kinda rolled on a Magic 8-Ball. You know there's science in there somewhere but you'll never really understand it.
Sardegna and Corsica are absurdly powerful, I started a game in 867 with Sardegna and immediately built the Cagliari mines as soon as I could, then I just stayed with the two islands and only the two islands, every county in my domain, accumulating development and wealth for two or three generations, with almost as much soldiers as the Byzantine Empire, and by the 1200s I had easily unlocked the entire tech tree and reformed the Roman Empire with the Hellenic faith and had over 150k soldiers and over 300 gold per turn, of which more than half came just from my domain, every county in Sardegna and Corsica, plus Rome and Constantinople.
I did something similar, but I created a hybrid culture with Greek language and aesthetics, using a piece of Sicily. I then went for the Canarias and adopted their religion, reformed it with Tunis and Valencia. My hybrid culture was fairly small so I went on a development and economic rush. My men at arms and knights were truly astounding so I just kept holy warring and sieging down castles.
Well, there is at the very least one corsican guy who, I think, everybody knows. The one with such a huge ambitions, he became a namesake for grandiose plans, tasty cakes and a whole-ass era of constant wars and general bulshittery (I mean, he basically invented bizzare new calendar, mass repressions against opposition and overwhelming censorship). Funnily enough, I had been told that he personally more valued Italian crown than French one, despite it being overall less "prestigious" and "powerful" at the time, but I might be incorrect
@@VasiliyOgniov that’s true but paradoxically this guy isn’t very liked in Corsica x) he denied his origins most of the time and even started hating Corsica later on in his life and most people don’t know that and think we’re proud of him, but for us Napoleon will never be a bigger figure than Pascal Paoli
@@mathmetal6046 Oh. That's rather interesting! I've always thought that he was sort of national hero, at least that's how it was presented in the books. That's the beauty of the internet, I guess - you can always learn something new at any corner
@@VasiliyOgniov yeah the fact that you can communicate with people around the world can bring new point of views and knowledge for a whole lot of things
I love the stories some rulers end up crafting for themselves. After inheriting her fathers lands at 5 years old she proceeded to unite sardinia and corsica under one kingdom by like 7, whip the millitary and economy into shape and become one of the richest women in the world, destabilize the largest empire history has ever know with like 12 murder plots, and then proceed to finish them off completely after a red wedding-esque betrayal of her fealty (which was only sworn in the first place to position herself more advantageously to destroy the empire)
That one kid who didn't get invited to the party, so he swears revenge on those who had wronged him. Nicely done Also the murders were great, I can just imagine that the third or forth time the leader dies they just go "Alright, who's next" without even caring anymore
Truly a fitting end, I think the Umayyads would still be better off at the end since they probably control some land across their former empire still compared to only existing as a councillor at the start of their reconquest. Was a good run, I hope you guys all get together to do a similar sort of campaign again - well, with you included in the main campaign maybe.
@@mememachine6022 Its have more deeper story, Roman empire is the new babylon along with the india, The roman empire copied the greek roots and merged with the atlantian titans.. so the roman empire have two roots.. semitic and none semitic
You’ve single handedly led me from being a 1 county shmuck watching the world go by, to a Duke, Petty King, and King. Couldn’t have done it without you.
Imagine the historians figure out how to record this event. In all probability the Croatian queen would write a bibliography about her exploits since she was found out almost immediately after poisoning the first king of the Umayyad empire. So why not revel in the attention.
Maybe next time try doing a mp run where a lot of people are playing various vassals of some player's empire, and there is a few undercover players who the rest doesn't know who they play as, who are trying to bring the empire down.
@@VasiliyOgniov I meant it more as, there are some players within the empire and everyone knows who they play as, and some players outside the empire and the empire guys don't know who they're playing as. But the tornado video was funny. Not exactly what I meant here but really sussy.
I had the same issue with allies following me around while I tried to replenish supplies. I even sailed back to my capital to do it and they still followed. Infuriating lol
In my experience, it's actually been faster to disband my army and let them replenish that way than to move to a high supply area. Especially when you're dealing with armies that are >20k and have few spots to linger without taking attrition.
I never played this game in my life and not really know how it works, but somehow this videos are awesome even if I only understand half of the game. Love it
So some person who's known for assassinating rulers of a mighty empire was just left alone? I feel like at some point they would have come and give a stern bonking. Instead of doing anything about it, they let the person become a part of them Strong hooks are pretty op, no matter the thing that you want them to do they will do it, in the first place I bet some people would be unhookable. That would be interesting additions, give the people different reactions for hooks, like maybe someone who's zeaulous would not obey a hook that comes from a person that's part of a different religion
"So you wanna join our kingdom" "Yeah" "You, the same person who killed all our emperors" "Mhm" "The same person renowned for starting scheme after scheme trying to break up our empire" "That's right" "Ok then welcome to our empire"
alzabo: neutral evil the social streamer: chaotic evil Koifish: chaotic good Chewbert: lawful good Ottawa Welshman: neutral good Snap strategy: chaotic neutral zieley: lawful evil
I recently found your content, as a newer player to this franchise, your videos and techniques were very helpful at turning some of my extremely bad gameplay, to much better and stable play, Thanks for all the tips, tricks, and strategy for Crusader Kings as a whole.
Great job on destroying those cursed Umayyad dictators. This whole series was great for discovering new RUclipsrs btw. I only knew Alzabo and TheSocialStreamers before but everyone in it has been really interesting.
The Umayyads are stronger because they had been gimped by Snap pissing off the entirety of the empire through executions, causing all the vassals to hate them while he had clan government. This is actually them going back to their normal level of power back when Ottawa had built up their economy and troop buildings now that the AI is appeasing some of the nobles.
My uncle United the Kingdom, so that my father could expand our reach.... so that I the queen... could topple an empire. If that doesn't sum up CK3 in a nutshell I don't know what does.
Wow. You really brought them on their knees from Sardinia and Corsica. Justice for all the crimes against humanity the Umayyads committed, and a swift one at that!
Yooooo..... I am 5 seconds in and i can't even describe my excitement. I was wondering how you weren't included in that masterpiece of a series.... But now i understand that you are the climax. This is the best surprise I've had since the "Red Wedding"
The hook isn't the main intention, more the cherry on top. You could demand payment if you have the perk and they have money. Force marriages, change contracts, just overall leverage.
the hook sort of represents you having power to force the other character to do something, you can get it by blackmail if you know a secret etc. in this case it's probably because he was your prisoner and you freed him but he has to stay your knight and at your service giving you a hook as you have some leverage over them
This is the 2nd video I’ve seen about this game and still don’t know what its called. I had to watch another after seeing the first (recommended by RUclips) where you saved some guy’s kingdom of Aragon. Somehow somehow I could tell you have sage level knowledge and skill of this game and it was impressive to watch. This video should be a treat.
Cool and well done there, I'm actually looking for videos with players doing bit more micro managing. Cuz I'm in a campaign whit many situations me figuring out what best building and duchy buildings are. I have found guides and stuff but opinions are very divided on many points.
Reminds me of what I did to the abbasids in an armenia game. I swore fealty to expand within their borders, then led an independence faction, then later swore fealty again to the same ruler I gained independence from so I could dissolve them.
Zooming in on corsica just shows the complexity of even minor parts of this game. I mean, how did the duke of corsica become a OPM? How did that southern person become a scottish vassal? Why is that vassal Umayyan (ok great schism mended just realised sure), etc.
How do you get the dissolution war to work? Whenever I do it it's just like a normal independence war and it seems as if other people are having the same problem
Reading the title I thought you'd destroy it by mismanagement with its own ruler, lol. [edit] Well it turned out along those lines in the end, not disappointed.
I love your vids, your understanding of the game is second to none. I'd like to ask you if you still feel that the game is challenging enough? Your plans always seem to unfurl as intended and I wonder if you'd welcome some additional difficulty.
Picked up the game over the winter break, created the wu-tang dynasty kingdom north of india and kinda fell out with what to do next. Loading a save game as a new character sounds like tons of fun.
Normally I play Rimworld, but I got curious about Crusader Kings so I thought I'd check out some playthroughs before I buy it. Your gameplay totally sucked me in my friend. Thumbs up from me, and a new sub 🙂👍
27:08 The *MOMENT* you zoomed out there, and just in time before you revealing the master plan, I realized the genious stroke you were about to do... of course!!! Because why would you need hooks on them... unless... _OH MY GOD_
I was wondering why you weren’t a part of this... you were the final boss all along
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@@Buttermonk. thank you sir. since i get no notifications about likes, i had genuinely no idea my comment did this well until you mentioned it.
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Imagine a historian from this world. They must be wondering why this woman seemed to have a personal vendetta against the caliphate
they would probably settle on the reason that she felt in danger due to the massive caliphate wich was more powerfull than any nation that could ever be formed aganst it
@@killianvanrotterdam9111 However some historians are starting to question this hypothesis, as the Corsica and Sardinia were not the direct target of the Ummayad, but of the Mayurka who's been defeated with ease. They believe that the Master of Shadow of Corsica was just bored by her life in a small country, and seeked great challenge to leave her marks in history books.
Also, the king of Corsica and Sardinia is a fierce diplomat who used to create alliances with different kinds of sovereigns in order to secure his own plans. Having a great empire at his door is good, but a bit boring and dangerous for his schemes.
Reconquista all the way to south africa
@@CorenusYT the flag of Corsica is a decapitated moorish invader its just what they like to do.
I think there was a french noblewoman from either brittany or normandy that had her husband unfairly murdered so she escape to England and swore vengeance and became a pirate absolutely murdering french shipping in the English channel. And then there is Olga of Kiev how near exterminated the Pechenegs that murdered her husband, more than a few such cases in history hehe.
Your knights had 3000+ kills in one battle. 14 guys killed over 3000 men! They were like, "squire, fetch my spare sword!" "why did you drop yours?" "no, I wore it out killing people" "oh, damn, right away, sir"
From what a understand the knights system is supposed to be like they have some troops under them, likely 100 men each. ~1400 men killing 3000 makes more sense.
@@l4nd3r nah man, it’s cooler if they were alone
That’s some fuckin primarch shit right there
@@alexhong1117 reminds me of some guy who stack knight buffs and run the knight only CK3 campaign
@@alexhong1117 loyalist or traitor?
If I were the Umayyad heir I simply would renounce my claim.
Imagine being the new heir walking into the throne room and there are just 4 bodies lying on the ground, two of which are children. “Who are they?!”
“Your predecessors, my lord”
He was not killing them that fast! xD
I think they had the time to remove the bodies, barely
you can't do that in middle ages. If you say no, you'll get killed anyway so nobody can use you later on.
lol, if I was the Umayyad heir, I'd be like "wait who is this random queen trying to swear feudality to me?" "oh, she's the greatest schemer in the known world, personally responsibly for at least two former emperor's murders, number one suspect in the others, caught sneaking around your most powerful vassels' courts for blackmail, super rich, massive military, sitting on a silver mine" "okay, and none of this seems suspicious to you guys?" Spymaster must have been Ray Charles and the Chancellor was Ronnie Millsap.
@@davidmendenhall4090 Right like I aint suffering the same fate
even if it is my birth right, at some point the family needs to realize something is wrong..
I'm not even Umayyad, I'm impressed
Nice puns as always
I think it’s insane that people think that really bad puns are funny
@@MrShanester117 it’s the effort of making purposefully bad puns that I’m impressed by
... God damnit.
He can't keep getting away with this!
Holy shit, This is the most cursed thing ever. Fair play
what are they gonna do? tell their parents? :)
@@harrisonbuck2749 They will be able to eventually.
Darth Sidious Simulator
@@ZHBraden13 i can't tell if that's a death threat or encouragement
This would have been a great chance to show off the “empire breaker” scheme combo: kidnap the heir and convert them to your religion while murdering the emperor, so the heir inherits a huge empire that’s hostile to them.
That’s exactly what I wanted to comment. The easiest way to destroy any realm is doing that.
@@fts_02 Some will refuse to convert, some are not as hostile to foreign religion, some will just immediately convert back.
Edit: It's better to just look for heirs with unremovable traits that their culture or established religion doesn't like, or deal with heirs according to succession laws - or even better: If same faith, just _VERY_ carefully do matrilineal marriages to prep for the future.
What's the point of destablizing something either way, if you're not gaining anything from it?
@@SebHaarfagre the point is if you destablize something enough to make it fall apart in an actual game it makes taking it for yourself easier
same i used the old kidnap heir and murder king trick to declare war and instantly 100% the war
I will do that, looks fun
Can you imagine this level of assassination crisis in real life? That many emperors dying in a row would be INSANE lol.
70% of roman emperors died of unnatural causes lmao, like 40% of it was from assasinations
The Roman Senate: allow us to introduce ourselves
@@ruifaria7919 you're entering the crisis of the 3rd century. fasten your seatbelts and keep your limbs in the vehicle.
@@ruifaria7919 Praetorian Guard
3rd century crisis and fifth century crisis has joined the game
Great , i watched that succession game and even comment they missed a great oportunity of having you on the game , glad you can participate destroying everything = ) !!!!
Snap actually sent a screenshot of your comment to me 😂😂 we said you were in for a big surprise
I mean as payback he murdered half the kingdom with murder schemes
@@Zieley hmmmmmmmmm
Zieley - Drags criminals from his dungeon and employs them in his military...
"So you're saying we're something of a... Suicide squad?"
Bron would be happy
They did kill 3000 soldiers in a single battle between the 14 of them. Sounds like comic book mischief to me. lol.
Ukrainian and Russian mercs be like.
Its weird the game doesnt has some kind of "expanded security" trait after the familly gets murdered, the court of such a big realm should protect their royal heir, and even against master assassins.
That’s a great idea
@@ryanthele9346 Thanks, appreciate alot =)
yeah, once the 2nd family member dies, they would like lockdown the court, and maybe send heirs into hiding and stuff like that.
and also find out (at some point) who's been doing it and retaliate. bit unrealistic.
and by extension, therefore, so was the swearing fielty and setting up a faction. neither would be possible for such a hostile enemy.
Don't own CK3, only CK2 but don't they have that mechanic from 2 where you can go into hiding?
@@SprikSprak Yup. The decision to "Go Into Hiding" isn't in CKIII.
The idea of the six year old just taking a sack of gold that's two-thirds of the treasury, going down to the titles department and yelling "MAKE ME A QUEEN!"
I've always hated how easy it is to just murder anyone and everyone. There should be some kind of penalty to trying to murder people of the same family repeatedly, seeing as they should be more weary of assassins / plots to kill them.
I mean everyone becomes displeased with you increasing the chance of plots and Dissident factions. Plenty of rulers murdered everything they disliked, it worked until fear became so overwhelming that it ended up driving the knife in their back as not doing so was even more dreadful.
He took the intrigue focus, if anything it's that tree that needs balancing in of itself, not anything else.
Doing what he did here will be practically impossible without ridicolous economy and/or the focus tree.
What they *should* fix, is how bastardization works and that it should work in retrospect and that they should be able to be legitimized after birth. Secrets should also be able to be exposed after the death of just the character who did it. As it is now, any holder of a secret becomes completely and utterly irrelevant once the perpetrator dies, which doesn't really make sense in most cases, only in the sense that the person can't be _punished_ which is irrelevant in "reality" to anything else.
Yeah, I think realistically if a nation found out there was an assassination attempt by another country (esp a weaker country), it would be a declaration of war immediately.
@@INSANESUICIDE scheme secrecy in CK3 is (always) even higher than scheme success chance. as long as you're not unlucky you'll never see that opinion malus (which isn't that bad), and even then opinion in CK3 is hit and miss with whether it affects anything.
Look pretty realist to me
main reason why the Umayid army went up at the start was because the first 4 guys didn't do any home province building they were too intent on screwing over the next player, it wasn't till Ottoman that they actually started conquoring a decent amount of territory and he also started building the home duchy, snap followed on but really he couldn't waste too much time as he still had a lot of conquoring to do as well so you ended out with a plethera of undeveloped counties, so given that the AI had some time to rectify this by building up means more armies were available.
I totally agree but at the same time when you get big enough in ck3 your troop numbers are kinda rolled on a Magic 8-Ball.
You know there's science in there somewhere but you'll never really understand it.
Plus I think Snap executed a ton of nobles, making the rest hate him. Combine that with clan government...
This was just the perfect finale for the succession game, well done!
Sardegna and Corsica are absurdly powerful, I started a game in 867 with Sardegna and immediately built the Cagliari mines as soon as I could, then I just stayed with the two islands and only the two islands, every county in my domain, accumulating development and wealth for two or three generations, with almost as much soldiers as the Byzantine Empire, and by the 1200s I had easily unlocked the entire tech tree and reformed the Roman Empire with the Hellenic faith and had over 150k soldiers and over 300 gold per turn, of which more than half came just from my domain, every county in Sardegna and Corsica, plus Rome and Constantinople.
Well, Sardinia did form Italy.
What religion did you start as??
I did something similar, but I created a hybrid culture with Greek language and aesthetics, using a piece of Sicily. I then went for the Canarias and adopted their religion, reformed it with Tunis and Valencia. My hybrid culture was fairly small so I went on a development and economic rush. My men at arms and knights were truly astounding so I just kept holy warring and sieging down castles.
the amount of commas in this sentence is crazy. this should have been multiple sentences.
@@theviewbot nuh-uh
That last play was brilliant. Known murderer of the emperor's allowed into the empire. Immediately revolts
Murderer of the old emperor, making way for the current emperor *wink wink*
My man just murdered a baker's dozen of my kinsman like it was nothing lmao
The part 7 we really needed.
Cool stuff, dude!!
Found you recently after playing CK3 for the first time, ngl your content is funny as hell, enjoyed binge watching it
That’s really good of you to not lie about it
I am Corsican and this actually made me proud. Not many people know that our island even exist so seeing you play as Corsica made me really happy
Well, there is at the very least one corsican guy who, I think, everybody knows. The one with such a huge ambitions, he became a namesake for grandiose plans, tasty cakes and a whole-ass era of constant wars and general bulshittery (I mean, he basically invented bizzare new calendar, mass repressions against opposition and overwhelming censorship). Funnily enough, I had been told that he personally more valued Italian crown than French one, despite it being overall less "prestigious" and "powerful" at the time, but I might be incorrect
@@VasiliyOgniov that’s true but paradoxically this guy isn’t very liked in Corsica x) he denied his origins most of the time and even started hating Corsica later on in his life and most people don’t know that and think we’re proud of him, but for us Napoleon will never be a bigger figure than Pascal Paoli
@@mathmetal6046 Oh. That's rather interesting! I've always thought that he was sort of national hero, at least that's how it was presented in the books. That's the beauty of the internet, I guess - you can always learn something new at any corner
@@VasiliyOgniov yeah the fact that you can communicate with people around the world can bring new point of views and knowledge for a whole lot of things
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I love the stories some rulers end up crafting for themselves. After inheriting her fathers lands at 5 years old she proceeded to unite sardinia and corsica under one kingdom by like 7, whip the millitary and economy into shape and become one of the richest women in the world, destabilize the largest empire history has ever know with like 12 murder plots, and then proceed to finish them off completely after a red wedding-esque betrayal of her fealty (which was only sworn in the first place to position herself more advantageously to destroy the empire)
That one kid who didn't get invited to the party, so he swears revenge on those who had wronged him. Nicely done
Also the murders were great, I can just imagine that the third or forth time the leader dies they just go "Alright, who's next" without even caring anymore
Lmaoooo I watched all their content on this save. This is like a fitting end I’d say lol 😂
Truly a fitting end, I think the Umayyads would still be better off at the end since they probably control some land across their former empire still compared to only existing as a councillor at the start of their reconquest.
Was a good run, I hope you guys all get together to do a similar sort of campaign again - well, with you included in the main campaign maybe.
Very interesting to see so many people ready to remove an 8 year old from the throne in a not so nice way.
It’s a lot easier when they’re eight. They weigh less.
I think most people would rather have an adult leading their country lol.
Considering how often Roman emperors would get assassinated and how unstable it made Rome, this isn't actually that unrealistic
Thefact Ummayad didn't declare war on you or try to revoke your title for slaying their kin is madness
I'm not sure they even had the chance
Byzantium, technically the remnants of the First Rome, still stand even after the rise and fall of the Umayyad Patriarchate.
Rome perseveres.
True rome is the pagan rome, byzentine is not en empire, its eastern roman empire, yes the byzentium region is the remmans of greeko roman empire
@@midnightblue3285 what are you spouting blud? The roman empire is the roman empire its continious nothign greko roman
@@mememachine6022 Its have more deeper story, Roman empire is the new babylon along with the india, The roman empire copied the greek roots and merged with the atlantian titans.. so the roman empire have two roots.. semitic and none semitic
@@midnightblue3285 wtf are you yapping about?
The succession playlist was a good idea but its crazy that some of the creators were included and Zieley wasn’t.
I think this was the plan all along my dude.
Emperor exist.
Zieley: and I took it personally
You’ve single handedly led me from being a 1 county shmuck watching the world go by, to a Duke, Petty King, and King.
Couldn’t have done it without you.
Imagine the historians figure out how to record this event. In all probability the Croatian queen would write a bibliography about her exploits since she was found out almost immediately after poisoning the first king of the Umayyad empire. So why not revel in the attention.
corsica is not croatia :( croatia is on the other side of the mediterranean !
Maybe next time try doing a mp run where a lot of people are playing various vassals of some player's empire, and there is a few undercover players who the rest doesn't know who they play as, who are trying to bring the empire down.
So, basically Valefisk's (relatively) recent video about Victoria 3?
@@VasiliyOgniov I meant it more as, there are some players within the empire and everyone knows who they play as, and some players outside the empire and the empire guys don't know who they're playing as.
But the tornado video was funny. Not exactly what I meant here but really sussy.
I had the same issue with allies following me around while I tried to replenish supplies. I even sailed back to my capital to do it and they still followed. Infuriating lol
Why not split a couple of times? They would follow only one of them, wouldn't they?
I was the largest faction in a holy war and there were a lot of other armies that dogged me. I tried.
@@DarkJeedi ah, then sure. In CK2 there was a way of controlling the allies, I wish they implemented it here as well.
“Looks like we will be counting on the French to get us out of this war” that reminds me of some events that happened in the 1770s
POV: youre laying in bed hearing Zieley work his way through your house narrating as his single barony takes each room.
In my experience, it's actually been faster to disband my army and let them replenish that way than to move to a high supply area. Especially when you're dealing with armies that are >20k and have few spots to linger without taking attrition.
I love the contrast of Zieley, this guy is making the craziest moves with the calmest and smoothest voice. Amazing hahaha.
Wow. The Scottish had their own little Mongol Invasions of Japan right there.
I never played this game in my life and not really know how it works, but somehow this videos are awesome even if I only understand half of the game. Love it
Glad you were able to get involved somehow on this cool project! Dope video my guy
Your allies: follow you so hard they kill you with attrition
My allies: go to space for a feast in the most important part of the fight
Such a soft gentle voice. It's ASMR for the war criminals out here.
So some person who's known for assassinating rulers of a mighty empire was just left alone? I feel like at some point they would have come and give a stern bonking. Instead of doing anything about it, they let the person become a part of them
Strong hooks are pretty op, no matter the thing that you want them to do they will do it, in the first place I bet some people would be unhookable. That would be interesting additions, give the people different reactions for hooks, like maybe someone who's zeaulous would not obey a hook that comes from a person that's part of a different religion
Lol, all the Littlefingers in medieval courts probably wouldn't mine the turnover, "chaos is a ladder" remember
Is no surprise that CK3 lacks Roleplay and realism 😅
Thats actually a great idea, also could have an incorruptable trait or some sort of loyalty system to the liege
@@redapples4422 Yeah that would be awesome, it hurts when you see someone at 100 relation in a faction against you.
@@BioTheHuman ??? It has plenty of roleplay, all the Paradox games do. Relying on mechanics to roleplay isn't exactly roleplaying...
"So you wanna join our kingdom"
"Yeah"
"You, the same person who killed all our emperors"
"Mhm"
"The same person renowned for starting scheme after scheme trying to break up our empire"
"That's right"
"Ok then welcome to our empire"
keep your enemies real close there
I guess that shows that a single person can bring down a government if they have enough resources behind the scenes.
Before I watch this I'm going to hazard a guess that the best way to explode a massive empire is to...
Let the AI run it for a few years.
alzabo: neutral evil
the social streamer: chaotic evil
Koifish: chaotic good
Chewbert: lawful good
Ottawa Welshman: neutral good
Snap strategy: chaotic neutral
zieley: lawful evil
As the assassin from Medieval 2 says. Years to build, seconds to destroy.
Then he gets destroyed by a gaurd who saw him move in a bag
i know nothing of this game, have never heard of it, but absolutely loved watching this well played sir !
Dudes over here fighting the Carthaginian’s as a off budget Roman Empire
I recently found your content, as a newer player to this franchise, your videos and techniques were very helpful at turning some of my extremely bad gameplay, to much better and stable play, Thanks for all the tips, tricks, and strategy for Crusader Kings as a whole.
Great job on destroying those cursed Umayyad dictators.
This whole series was great for discovering new RUclipsrs btw. I only knew Alzabo and TheSocialStreamers before but everyone in it has been really interesting.
The Umayyads are stronger because they had been gimped by Snap pissing off the entirety of the empire through executions, causing all the vassals to hate them while he had clan government. This is actually them going back to their normal level of power back when Ottawa had built up their economy and troop buildings now that the AI is appeasing some of the nobles.
I can't see myself playing any game like this. But, they're so relaxing and interesting to watch.
I know nothing of this game but you made this so interesting lmao
My uncle United the Kingdom, so that my father could expand our reach.... so that I the queen... could topple an empire. If that doesn't sum up CK3 in a nutshell I don't know what does.
The small edits were adorable. Love the effort. Not too much, just a good enough number of edits
I love that aoe2 "gold please". Reminded me of my countless hours playing that game.
Would be so cool if you could do a Timelapse afterwards to show how the world progressed after their fall
Wow. You really brought them on their knees from Sardinia and Corsica. Justice for all the crimes against humanity the Umayyads committed, and a swift one at that!
I love this video. As a new player this helped me learn some new tricks and game mechanics I never new about. Thanks 🙏
Yooooo..... I am 5 seconds in and i can't even describe my excitement. I was wondering how you weren't included in that masterpiece of a series....
But now i understand that you are the climax.
This is the best surprise I've had since the "Red Wedding"
Sardinia and Cagliari is the most fun place to start from, that gold mine is niiiiiiiiiiiice and you have so many different directions you could go
This was one Cercei of a queen you've had there.
When I saw the flag of my island on the thumbnail I just had to click on it, loved the video man! Keep up the good work
this was a GoT episode we never got. well done.
As a fellow Corsican I say : "Evviva Corsica !"
What a calm sounding voice for such a dangerous man
Oh my lord, the sound effects have me rolling. Subbed.
@Zieley Have you considered a no man-at-arms challenge ? I did a run with that particular disadvantage and it made it quite interesting
You would be a smashing additional character in Game of thrones with all these schemes and murders.👏😂
Such great content!
Quick question: why get the hook when releasing the guys to be knights? I am new and don’t really understand the hook system
The hook isn't the main intention, more the cherry on top. You could demand payment if you have the perk and they have money. Force marriages, change contracts, just overall leverage.
the hook sort of represents you having power to force the other character to do something, you can get it by blackmail if you know a secret etc. in this case it's probably because he was your prisoner and you freed him but he has to stay your knight and at your service giving you a hook as you have some leverage over them
Me: “Wow the weather is beautiful toda-“
Zieley: “So we’re gonna run a murder scheme”
This is the 2nd video I’ve seen about this game and still don’t know what its called. I had to watch another after seeing the first (recommended by RUclips) where you saved some guy’s kingdom of Aragon. Somehow somehow I could tell you have sage level knowledge and skill of this game and it was impressive to watch. This video should be a treat.
Game is Crusader Kings 3 btw
11% of subs watched in the first hour of publishing, very impressive for a smaller channel
Cool and well done there, I'm actually looking for videos with players doing bit more micro managing. Cuz I'm in a campaign whit many situations me figuring out what best building and duchy buildings are. I have found guides and stuff but opinions are very divided on many points.
Zieley channeling his inner Amaris. Alas the Umayyads had no Kerensky to stop him.
Reminds me of what I did to the abbasids in an armenia game. I swore fealty to expand within their borders, then led an independence faction, then later swore fealty again to the same ruler I gained independence from so I could dissolve them.
I didn’t wanna get ck3 because I was overwhelmed by all the dlcs of ck2, but you make this look fun. So I’m going to get it.
Zooming in on corsica just shows the complexity of even minor parts of this game. I mean, how did the duke of corsica become a OPM? How did that southern person become a scottish vassal? Why is that vassal Umayyan (ok great schism mended just realised sure), etc.
How do you get the dissolution war to work? Whenever I do it it's just like a normal independence war and it seems as if other people are having the same problem
I had to download a mod, I can get you the exact name in a bit. But just search dissolution war fix and you should find it on the steam workshop!
Link is in the description!
Reading the title I thought you'd destroy it by mismanagement with its own ruler, lol.
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Well it turned out along those lines in the end, not disappointed.
I love your vids, your understanding of the game is second to none. I'd like to ask you if you still feel that the game is challenging enough? Your plans always seem to unfurl as intended and I wonder if you'd welcome some additional difficulty.
not going to lie i laughed at the Umayyad fell from a high place with the minecraft thud lmfao
I love the 14 knights that killed over 3k men😂 they just stood there like "yeah? You and what army?"
I’m new to this channel. I can’t take a single thing you say seriously and it’s perfect. Sir war crimes over here
Picked up the game over the winter break, created the wu-tang dynasty kingdom north of india and kinda fell out with what to do next. Loading a save game as a new character sounds like tons of fun.
I literally have never heard of this game or watched it you pulled me in bro good job
I’m always excited when you post my man
Normally I play Rimworld, but I got curious about Crusader Kings so I thought I'd check out some playthroughs before I buy it. Your gameplay totally sucked me in my friend. Thumbs up from me, and a new sub 🙂👍
That was a very entertaining campaign to watch, I thoroughly enjoyed it to the end.
Just to style on them, he goes as Baron. This man is unstoppable
Dam, those RUclipsrs are chads, living 250 years, then die at the end.
I really enjoyed the series, but this ending was epic!
I wasn't even surprised that he took down the umayyad empire, I was surprised from the fact that the HRE managed to take almost all of italy
27:08 The *MOMENT* you zoomed out there, and just in time before you revealing the master plan, I realized the genious stroke you were about to do... of course!!!
Because why would you need hooks on them... unless... _OH MY GOD_
The Youngest Conqueror of the Known World, a Great Queen at the Age of 6 Years old. All of those rulers looked like a laughing stock.