Challenge for you: start as count adalhard of ravensburg in the 867 starting date.(under the duke of swabia, who is under east francia) use your claims to become king of italy, west francia, and east francia in 1 lifetime. survive all rebellions and at least 1 succession.
I actually did this unintentionally in CK2, played over 300 hours without knowing that retinues existed in that game. I kept wondering why my enemies’ armies won most of the time. Discovered why because I watched a CK3 tutorial that said that “men at arms are similar to the retinues of CK2”
Same, wasn't until I watched some Norse video that I realized how important actual soldiers were in an army. Supply is a bitch when you're one colossal stack of 10k+ levies fighting against a tribal kingdom with a combined development score that I can count on one hand.
@Ganlix my first long CK2 playthrough I didn't know techs existed. I was doing real well until my armies got completely smashed by a much smaller empire because I hadn't clicked the tech advance button in 200 years.
This is surprisingly a very viable strategy. Female character with seduction focus then just go on seducing the kings of Europe while legitimizing all your offspring. While at the same time murdering everyone in the line of succession.
@@keterpatrol7527 You have a weird definition of 'pacifist'. An intrigue focus generally means murder, kidnapping, blackmail and torture. A true pacifist game is conquering through diplomacy and marriage, would be kind of interesting to see if it's possible to start as duke (count?) and form an empire.
I have tried levies only before, but my biggest problem is when you get to high/late medieval, it can take decades to siege down a fort without siege equipment, and supply is always a huge issue as without splitting your army 20 or 30 times, you starve to death so easily.
Man your introductions are juste the best. This with your sense of humour, just amazing. Thanks for the content man, since I watch the videos I redescovered completely the game :)
A mechanic I wasn't utilizing until recently is hiring a court tutor, it gives a decent boost to child education to make your heir extra boosted, especially if you are choosing an education they aren't slotted for.
It would be cool to have an 'own every mountain tile' challenge with infinite diplomatic range enabled, as well as making your family all dwarfs. The dwarven miner challenge haha
Alternatively you could do a smart ruler run where you own or build and own every university and get 65 learning from it, with a longer empire taking every historical building site for yourself
Just a little hint to speed up peasant rebellions: click on the opponent leader and find his location, and attempt to capture him in battle. Even if he gets away, just repeat it every time he respawns and you'll get him eventually. You may end up doing a few battles, but you won't have to fight everyone
Bonus fun fact: this is also a great way to capture rebellious vassals of the same culture or religion of the rebels. As soon as the peasant leader is caught, you automatically arrest the vassals as well
1:10 "ever since that day the idea has been gnawing at the back of my mind" I uh...dont know how to break this to you but... have you ever been tested for syphilis?
You can easily do a vassal only conquest, just upgrade your intrigue and kidnap rulers before a war starts then start the war when you have a day to go on kidnap scheme. Poof war won without a battle.
If you click on the leader of the peasant rebellion then it will move to the army they are commanding, defeating that army will capture the leader and end the war. I have used this to win multiple peasant wars that I should have lost.
I highly recommend going intrigue and using it to increase vassal obligations. As the emperor of west slavic by 1250’s I got to 35k levies purely because my most powerful vassals have maximum obligations
In the 1250 it’s pretty easy to have a continent spanning empire by then by the 1250s in my most recent game I had easily over 250K with most of my vassal having low obligations and on crown authority 2
@@jcritzz7837 stack knight effectiveness, knights with high prowess, bonuses to your number of knights, and there's no way it doesn't work *at least* against peasant armies
Doing that one now started as ivar and took British and Scandinavian empires whilst forming the HRE, now on his son and have taken empire of francia, Hispania and African empire with the kingdoms of Jerusalem and egypt. Now onto the grandson and hoping to form Rus empire before time runs out for the decision and will move onto starting a war with the Byzantines for their entire empire then the rest of Syrian empire before taking the east and then fighting the mongol horde to finish the map and turn it to Roman Empire.
Idk ck3 well enough to know If this is even a challenge.. but the idea I had is to spread one culture through out the map in somewhat of a straight line from like iceland to somewhere far east or from far northern siberia to ivory coast or something
I like this challenge, and watching it, but at the end when you were disbanding your armies after having fought the rebels 36:23 I noticed 9 knights/champions. Were they allowed? Fighting the rebels without them would not change the result of the war, but I do not know if you used the champions accidentally in other wars, if its just that last war I would not mind it.
If you want an incredible amount of levies get theocratic vassals. I have 100k levies & I only own Britannia. And they never rise up either, theocratic vassals are OP.
I say do this again, but beat a Crusade instead. Considering you can make a Levy way, way bigger then this with a better religion - like Reformed Tengri - and some nice Accolades I wager it is possible.
I wonder if @Zieley realizes that you don't need Chivarly for the Gallant tree. But you can just run Strategist for the same Gallant tree. Right? (See him do that same thing over and over in other videos that's why I am telling)
I got a Challenge Idea: try to hold all Goldmines on the entire map (11 in total) and max em out. lets see what the max gold income might look like. I could simply do the math, but i’m too lazy
Still I don't get the challenge, only levies and you had knights and men-at-arms, it would be much better do disband all troops and just live without them if it was possible because this gave you some power and could reduce the risk of potential wars.
OK. Now do a no levy challenge. Mercenaries and alliances are not allowed, holy orders are allowed. Start as a Duke and become an emperor without intrigue.
Vicotria 3 video next! Any interesting countries you guys want me to play??
Play Russia and conquer the world
world conquest before 1936
use weakest country and take over world
sweden?
Qing Empire. Switch over to the Heavenly Kingdom when the rebellion starts if you can.
Challenge for you: start as count adalhard of ravensburg in the 867 starting date.(under the duke of swabia, who is under east francia) use your claims to become king of italy, west francia, and east francia in 1 lifetime. survive all rebellions and at least 1 succession.
That i wanna see
@@13lackhood surealbeliefs has a let's play series about that
@@Muhammxd_L Ohh must has missed that one, watched alot of his RP series, horror to wait between episodes but so good
@@13lackhood he’s a brilliant rp content creator, especially for CK3. Sadly he’s had personal issues, but remains one of the best
@@erebus1892 i know meant more of me getting impatient waiting for a new episode of a series I like, my introduction was his Vlad the Impaler series
I actually did this unintentionally in CK2, played over 300 hours without knowing that retinues existed in that game. I kept wondering why my enemies’ armies won most of the time. Discovered why because I watched a CK3 tutorial that said that “men at arms are similar to the retinues of CK2”
Well in CK2 it's less problematic. Your army can be powerful without retinues
Same, wasn't until I watched some Norse video that I realized how important actual soldiers were in an army. Supply is a bitch when you're one colossal stack of 10k+ levies fighting against a tribal kingdom with a combined development score that I can count on one hand.
@@dieguy3080 My mo was always having double or triple the soldiers than my enemy, so supply was a real problem
@@dieguy3080 always try and keep your armies split up (but close) so you don't go over the supply limits
@Ganlix my first long CK2 playthrough I didn't know techs existed. I was doing real well until my armies got completely smashed by a much smaller empire because I hadn't clicked the tech advance button in 200 years.
I’d like to see an intrigue focused game, where you get your dynasty on like every throne in Europe without wars
This is surprisingly a very viable strategy. Female character with seduction focus then just go on seducing the kings of Europe while legitimizing all your offspring. While at the same time murdering everyone in the line of succession.
yeah, almost like the Habsburgs, but almost pacifist
@@keterpatrol7527 You have a weird definition of 'pacifist'.
An intrigue focus generally means murder, kidnapping, blackmail and torture.
A true pacifist game is conquering through diplomacy and marriage, would be kind of interesting to see if it's possible to start as duke (count?) and form an empire.
@@heygek2769 that's why I said *almost* pacifist
That would be supremely difficult, but I could see it happening
I have tried levies only before, but my biggest problem is when you get to high/late medieval, it can take decades to siege down a fort without siege equipment, and supply is always a huge issue as without splitting your army 20 or 30 times, you starve to death so easily.
I wonder what it would be like if all your men at arms were siege equipment the sieges would be so fast
@John Connor that seems like an actually fun challenge at that point. Still not optimal but with the right traditions can become usable
@@johnconnor8206 I did that. Lots of fun honestly
Man your introductions are juste the best. This with your sense of humour, just amazing. Thanks for the content man, since I watch the videos I redescovered completely the game :)
The introductions are worth the watch alone. :)
Absolutely
The edits are super funny throughout the video too, I enjoy the extra effort.
Now that's Leith levels of Masochism
Lathe*
Lath
Now we need a knights only challenge
With a name like that you haven’t seen spiffing Brit’s Vikings in India video? Yea had some elephants in there but did a few battles knights only
Haven't even started to watch and I already know its a BANGER, love from me and my friend owen. We are huge fans
you know what you need to do next. alliance only challenge.
Ok sure, that’s fun... but how about SIEGE MEN AT ARMS ONLY!!!
💀 you guys are gonna kill me
@@Zieley dude what do you mean this challenge sounds so fun 😂 imaging how funny it’ll be late game nuking cities
A mechanic I wasn't utilizing until recently is hiring a court tutor, it gives a decent boost to child education to make your heir extra boosted, especially if you are choosing an education they aren't slotted for.
I am the James712 you speak of
Lies
It would be cool to have an 'own every mountain tile' challenge with infinite diplomatic range enabled, as well as making your family all dwarfs. The dwarven miner challenge haha
Alternatively you can do an "own every mine" challenge as dwarfs
Alternatively you could do a smart ruler run where you own or build and own every university and get 65 learning from it, with a longer empire taking every historical building site for yourself
Next challenge. Knights only
Awesome vid Zieley, and congrats on 50k!! Been watching since around 10k, so glad to see you getting the attention you deserve!!!
Just a little hint to speed up peasant rebellions: click on the opponent leader and find his location, and attempt to capture him in battle.
Even if he gets away, just repeat it every time he respawns and you'll get him eventually.
You may end up doing a few battles, but you won't have to fight everyone
Bonus fun fact: this is also a great way to capture rebellious vassals of the same culture or religion of the rebels.
As soon as the peasant leader is caught, you automatically arrest the vassals as well
You could have gotten your final holy war sooner, by "Undertaking the Hajj", which is a special pilgrimage to Mecca.
Hands down my favourite and I'd even say the best CK3 TH-camr. I see a Zieley video, I click, and I know I'll enjoy.
In my tall Dutch playthrough I had a son who was diligent, patient and athletic. The freak was boosting everything by like 60% on all his own.
Wow, 2 videos this quick. I’m so glad, can’t wait to watch the vid. Love from me and my friend splinter.
Day 2 asking for another perfect eugenics programs
I second that
Start a custom character and you can get beautiful and the lesser perks whilst staying in Ironman mode to get a great headstart
you've already completed the hardest challenge of them all... the challenge of my heart (love your work, keep it up!)
now make an empire using only knights
1:10 "ever since that day the idea has been gnawing at the back of my mind"
I uh...dont know how to break this to you but... have you ever been tested for syphilis?
33:50 I love the Abbasid empire
"I'm gonna play with the noob-ians. that way nobody can hold it against me if I lose"
You can easily do a vassal only conquest, just upgrade your intrigue and kidnap rulers before a war starts then start the war when you have a day to go on kidnap scheme. Poof war won without a battle.
If you click on the leader of the peasant rebellion then it will move to the army they are commanding, defeating that army will capture the leader and end the war. I have used this to win multiple peasant wars that I should have lost.
Btw right next to you to the left is an empire which needs only 40 counties which probably would be easier bcs they are really decentralized
CK 2: Hold my beer
this is the best idea for sure lol I've watched a few of your videos but this got my sub
Ur videos are so nice im not really a rts player but i love watching ur content. Keep up the good work.
You should do a men-at-arms only challenge. You’re not allowed to raise any levies.
The prestige-by-seduction strategy, aka "The Don Juan"
Imagine commenting 4 months ago about a challenge then waking up to get in a vid by a youtuber you watch for the challenge you recommended
You could have invaded Egypt for the extra floodplains holdings in the Nile.
Listen bro you're fucking awesome i love having a long hard day and coming up to a new episode chillen and passing out to your videos
Wow, I was literally thinking about this exact topic today while bored at work. Come home and see this. Spooky lol
I highly recommend going intrigue and using it to increase vassal obligations. As the emperor of west slavic by 1250’s I got to 35k levies purely because my most powerful vassals have maximum obligations
In the 1250 it’s pretty easy to have a continent spanning empire by then by the 1250s in my most recent game I had easily over 250K with most of my vassal having low obligations and on crown authority 2
@@kainwittrig2180 i started in 1066 startdate
Levies are pointless at that part of the game as it takes years to siege castles meaning you have to take their leader in a fight to win most times
Small tip: you could’ve decided to Undertake the Hajj as an alternative to waiting for a pilgrimage to come off cooldown.
ok but what about knights only?
Doesn't work. I tried to fight a peasant rebellion with only knights using a 100 stat created character and still lost instantly.
@@jcritzz7837 stack knight effectiveness, knights with high prowess, bonuses to your number of knights, and there's no way it doesn't work *at least* against peasant armies
@@cba2make1up worth a shot maybe
@@jcritzz7837 u really have to be outnumbered big time to lose that, levies are actually so bad.
Late game would be hell when the Fort levels go higher, besieging something like Granada with levies might even take more than a generation
Best video production in Grand Strategy gameplay videos.
Do a world one empire run. You have to take every empire and combine them into 1 with the remake Roman Empire decision.
Doing that one now started as ivar and took British and Scandinavian empires whilst forming the HRE, now on his son and have taken empire of francia, Hispania and African empire with the kingdoms of Jerusalem and egypt. Now onto the grandson and hoping to form Rus empire before time runs out for the decision and will move onto starting a war with the Byzantines for their entire empire then the rest of Syrian empire before taking the east and then fighting the mongol horde to finish the map and turn it to Roman Empire.
Love you videos ma man. Full of little gems of great info. Keep ehm coming
Love the Ottawa welsh reference but when horse archers only
Idk ck3 well enough to know If this is even a challenge.. but the idea I had is to spread one culture through out the map in somewhat of a straight line from like iceland to somewhere far east or from far northern siberia to ivory coast or something
Yeah the romance prestige nerfs were rough
I didnt know levies were so damn bad until i charged like 3000 of them to 1000 enemy men at arms and got completely shredded
That is what i did when i first played.
One word: Attrition
I like this challenge, and watching it, but at the end when you were disbanding your armies after having fought the rebels 36:23 I noticed 9 knights/champions. Were they allowed? Fighting the rebels without them would not change the result of the war, but I do not know if you used the champions accidentally in other wars, if its just that last war I would not mind it.
Love the videos! Editing style is so so good
If you want an incredible amount of levies get theocratic vassals. I have 100k levies & I only own Britannia. And they never rise up either, theocratic vassals are OP.
Now do artillery only on vicky 3
I say do this again, but beat a Crusade instead. Considering you can make a Levy way, way bigger then this with a better religion - like Reformed Tengri - and some nice Accolades I wager it is possible.
Why did you grant any land away at all... Didn't you notice your levies and gold go down?
Looking forward to the Victoria 3 video. Don't know which country to recommend though lol.
Oh...i thought you were going dutch in this video since in ck2 they got unique militias.
Nubia is my favorite go to in CK3. Female and equality makes it great for military because you can have male and female knights
You changed mic or something? Sounds good
... knights ... only ... count to empire
Next challenge: Form an empire in europe with levies only, but you can use knights
If you were Dutch, you could win with just Levees.
I love the voice of welshman
Cool cool, but can you do knights is only?
Was that Ottawa's voice in the intro? XD
nice
do a knights only challenge
That was impressive
Random Nubian man so good at romance army numbers swell
Nubian culture is my second favorite culture behind Norse. Nubian Vikings are a fun game to play.
Have you played with the Historical Invasions mod? Can give AI crazy large armies. Like I saw a 100K before year 1000.
"Military army" what the hell is the other type of army? And why am I scared to find out.
Builds a grand cathedral with 666 gold in treasury
maa: Horse archers destroyed levied men of double then their numbers
Hey Zieley, are you gonna pick up Victoria 3? I would love to see your style content with that game!
If you look at his recent videos he has been playing it, just no full length stuff yet.
@zieley do you play Squad? Had a guy in my squad with your voice.
I wonder if @Zieley realizes that you don't need Chivarly for the Gallant tree. But you can just run Strategist for the same Gallant tree. Right? (See him do that same thing over and over in other videos that's why I am telling)
Attraction bonus from chivalry helps. It's +5 or +10 for a romance scheme.
Well, its been a year again, knights only challenge?
I would not mind seeing you restore Greater Armenia.
Onagers only challenge :)
You coulda forbid everyone to become a knight to save you the bother of dismissing them every time you raised your armies
I got a Challenge Idea: try to hold all Goldmines on the entire map (11 in total) and max em out. lets see what the max gold income might look like. I could simply do the math, but i’m too lazy
I add: some mines are silvermines infact, you could add your dynasty to be dwarfs. The Miners Rolesplay
and with one mine beeing located in India, you can either skip or leave this one for the end.
Or start in India and make elephants to take the other mines easily especially given how much good land is in India even on start dates
Knights only challenge. Do it.
it would be interesting to see a leaderless run
Love the vids! Abyssinia in the next one!
Yay
Weird you didnt go for westlavia in 1066 which has 2 kingdoms. King of poland is a kid of someone with claims on the other kingdom iirc
The sound of the horse at the beginning ... Was it taken from LoZ OoT?
World domination playthrough?
Do some Victoria 3 stuff
Is it always farmlands AND floodplains? Because if so i need to restart some saves
try control the world in under an hour challenge
Do a knights only playthrough.
Still I don't get the challenge, only levies and you had knights and men-at-arms, it would be much better do disband all troops and just live without them if it was possible because this gave you some power and could reduce the risk of potential wars.
OK. Now do a no levy challenge. Mercenaries and alliances are not allowed, holy orders are allowed. Start as a Duke and become an emperor without intrigue.
Challenge: form the HRE without aggressive wars.
Knights only😈
Start as a Pagan nation (Burmese) and own a kingdom/Empire in Europe