Can the TALLEST Realm I Ever Made Survive Against the GIGA-Abbasid Empire?? 

Took a little bit longer than usual to get this one out 😬but I just wanted to make sure it was extra special for you guys! Let me know where you want me to play next. Enjoy!

I love how you can convert to Lollardy 400 years before it was a thing

I have no clue whatsoever how to play CK3 but watching you successfully build nations is very satisfying

The reason you cant really sail up western sahara is because of a few reasons. The first is the wind and currents. The only period of CK3 that actually had ships that even remotely could make the voyage TO europe was literally the last couple decades of play. The winds and currents are quite literally too strong and for most the year blowing the wrong way for wind powered crafted of the game's era to reliably make it. This means you have to row basically every single league up that coast. And thats if you stay on the coast. Dare to go too far off? The winds will overpower even manpower. You will not stop going west until you either hit an atlantic island, Brazil...or most likely the bottom of the ocean because its the Atlantic and thats what the middle of the atlantic does to most ships of the CK3 era. And to be fair...a good portion of all the ships in EU4 as well. It's a dangerous ocean. The second is....well, its literally a giant stretch of hundreds of miles of hot rainless and almost completely barren desert. So not only do you need to row your way up that coast to europe, you need to do so while storing enough water for the rowers to do the entire journey. Oh, and you wanted to send an army with them. An army you ALSO need to find a way to keep supplied with water. This is before considering food. Thirdly? Theres basically no maps of that coast. Neither the peoples north of Western Sahara or South at the time actually have a good idea of what to expect going up or down that coast. So you arent merely asking them to sail up this hard to sail up coast line....your asking Sailors to sail up coastline that no one has charted. The owners of the various ships do in fact want their ships back after the war and doing that is not exactly something that inspires confidence in them and since they often pay your sailors? Well, you better be willing to shill out some decent coin. 4th, due to 1, it also tended to turn ships into shipwrecks. If you are sailing a few dozen or more ships like you need for your army? Thats going to see quite a few shipwrecked. 5th, because Paradox dont think it makes sense considering the above that the norse and other coastal raiders should be able to raid your west african coast lines for the mere crime of being on the coast.

15:00 My man is invaded by a much superior force but all he cares about is some gardens. Absolute GIGACHAD.

Hey, Man Thank you for the Videos, Appreciate ur Work. Hopefully, This year Bless All of Us.

Dude, I have learned so much about playing CK3 from watching your videos.

The best part about playing tall, is having six baronies in a single county and laughing at everyone else's Agnatic-Cognatic Partition problems.

I love it every time when i see that red knight of yours peeking from a picture sir, incredibly adorable

Ah yes... Bobo-Bozo, the most advanced culture in the world 😂

Small thing that I see often from CK3 youtubers: you didn't gain prestige for leading the army, you gained prestige because you fought a hostile army, not an enemy one. Hostile armies are orange and give prestige when defeated while enemy armies are red and give fame. It's also why raiding is phenomenal for prestige and it's better to raise an army slightly better than the hostile one you're gonna fight when raiding certain realms. Great vid!

Playing tall is really nice for generating more courtiers of the cultures you want. Very important for getting smaller cultures developing in terms of dynasties existing

The ending is just making me think of a playthrough where you just exclusively conquer the capitals of nations larger than you to flex on them lol

Suprised me a bit that you didnt pick the Gold mine in Ghana. Great video as always! Very enjoyable, its just so satisfying to watch you play tall. Although i never did it, i will try now!

SOOO HAPPY YOURE BACK, I love these long videos. From me and my friend Splinter❤

Ah, picking on the Abbasid classic fun. Reminds me of the time I stumbled across the Sami crossbow doomstack. looking through my screenshot folder I've got one where my 8k men took on the Abbasids 65k. We lost 414 men they got stack wiped. Painfully slow start so right up your ally. Would enjoy seeing how you would go about it especially the early game. Could even try to best my blowout battle. I'm fairly confident you could assuming nothing to awful happened to the Abbasids before you did. Anyway, thanks for the video the quality as usual is well worth the wait.

The tall master is back 🗿🗿

37:25 nope it's something the Devs did with Northern Lords to stop Norsemen from just going crazy in Africa Edit: I'm referring to that unsailable bit of water at the west edge of Africa.

What would happen if in a co-op game, one player played wide, and other players played tall as his loyal vassals? How fast could the world be conquered?

25:50 Got a thousand sons all named John🤣 Your wife is secretly named Ottawon😂

"This _BOZO_ culture..."

I don’t even play this game anymore, I play it vicariously through your videos

Yay! I love to see Africa content in CK3 - one of my fav places to play!

zieley i love your commentary style

Video idea: play as a muslim or tengri, have a count per conquered country and give them iqta and ghazi status. Giving iqta to a count gives him -10% maintenance but also gives -2% to you. So by having only counts you can very fast get tons of -% maintenance making your maa free. Your army is only maa and all the gold saved from not raising levies goes to buildings to make the maa stronger. Did this for rum and for ghurids with horse archers and it was op. Factions do rise but with everyone being a one county count they are easy to deal with

32:34 not sure if you know but you can spend your lifestyle experience in all tries regardless of what lifestyle you choose, so you could choose stewardship there and get all the learning perks too

Love the ck3 content.

Thank you so much for you dedication to quality content. We all really benefit from and appreciate it

Great content man. Great balance of humor and the right amount of time taken to show whats happening before you time jump the video, smart and concise 👍

Awesome video! Going to start a new Africa run thanks to you. Keep it up!

This was riveting. I’d love to see more tall gameplay!

Literally just started my Africa run today, awesome vid 😁👍🏻

loved this one! would love to see a part 2!!

Great video as always, Zieley!

That was wild. One of the coolest things I've seen in CK3!

You can hire a royal architect to reduce construction times even lower, really good trik if you're a kingdom and dont have the rest of these bonuses

I love the memes in your videos!

Your strategy for that war was literally "Come at me Bro"

Yeah, the AI update made the Abbasids really strong.

been a while but glad to see you back

Great video as always!

I love the editing, keep it up!

Glad you're back!

Im glad you came back swinging from such a trash situation, great content as always my friend

I’d love to see you do a tall game in the Canary Islands. They have a decision to form the Kingdom of the Canaries, plus their faith has Monolothic Constructions which is OP. I’m addition, they have 2 holy sites within the 3 Canary Islands, so if you build up faith you can sneak in and conquer the third holy site pretty easily and reform the faith to make it even more OP.

This Edward Grieg-Intro with your soothing voice was beautiful

Bobo-Bozo with Lollard faith. When you think you've seen everything 🤣

loving the content

Great editing

I absolutely love playing tall. It's so much fun to strategize for maximum efficiency.

No worries ZIELEY, this is just another banger! Much love from me and my friend owen

Claasic ck3, always outshining you witu something insanely ridiculous. I streamed a horselord mongolian crazyness and as I Gengis Khan across the world Scotland had taken over Scandinavia and was fighting Spain and that derailed my whole chat

Bro your voice is so relaxing! I love it!

It never ceases to amaze me the amount of mispronunciation all these ck3 RU-vidrs do.

Great video. Does highlight how stupid the AI can be though. I mean the enemy is in a dissolution war and ignores that and sends troops to defend the loss of one county. This often happens to me in the game and just seems crazy stupid.

35:50 Sometimes I wonder how you could realistically justify putting up a claim on a land that is like 5000 miles away from your holdings. "Uhh...we had some distant ancestors living in that land you have there...like a million years ago...so therefore it should belong to us."

as a runescape veteran with a 18 year and still going addiction, i approve of the zamorak full helm dude that lurks in your video =P

7:05 that age of empires 1 sound fits so well for this african kingdom building video.

Hi Zieley, I have a very simple tip on how to defeat the 80k+ abbasids: just spam armored horsemen! I always do this when I'm rich in all of my plays no matter the country/culture. Especially after getting men-at-arms tech, which will take your all-armored-horsemen army up to 8k, it can obliterate a 100k unit. It's so satisfying to watch! btw I really liked the video here, and the part where you get wacky building discounts is just awesome! Got me pumped up to start another game.

70k stack at that early in the game is crazy

The Age of Empires I sound effects are bringing me WAY back.

Quality content, love it

30:09 We're one letter off from the ruler being named Farmer John

Great video!

Really liked the video. I think a more "entry-level" approach to playing tall would be nice as well. You had several years of setting-up the build, which those people that don't know how to play tall might find a bit overwhelming. All hail the mighty kindom of Jenné!

What up Zieley! Love your vids man

I would be quite interested in seeing you play some Victoria 3, it fits really well to the tall playstyle.

What an absolute banger video

I was literally about to look up what it meant to play tall, and you started explaining it. hahahaha. Thanks!

getting the AI to take massively unfavorable battles can let you win with even worse odds. not sure it really shows how powerful tall is, but that is some good buff stacking. since you overshot the 90% cap you might have been better off grabbing some other building or rebuilding some of those marsh buildings into something else. i like tall as well, then at a certain point expanding and setting up for a converted save to play EU with the empire i made.

Dude that was one of the most awesome games I've seen

Would be fun to watch you do the "Mother to Us All" achievement. I just recently got it and it was quite tricky at times. Then again I ignore half the mechanics and play "paint the map simulator", so maybe I'm just bad.

Very cool to see Mojo-Jojo get the recognition it deserves

These days playing tall is even more OP than ever before. You start with fewer building slots but, you end up with like 3 more building slots overall. You can get up to 1k gold income. OR, if you focus on buffing up your armies instead then... 1 little kingdom can run OP AF MaA that can literally squash armies that run into hundreds of thousands!

Dude, that was epic.

I love the Age of Empires I sound effects.

My reaction when you zoomed out to reveal the ABSOLUTE BEHEMOTH of an Abbasid Empire was: "What the hell happened there?!"

I love hearing him try not to laugh every time he says bozo

I think the Lollard/wetlands strategy would work even better in the duchy of Turau (north of Kyiv) since almost all of it is wetlands. The kingdom of Jenne has the Mosque of Jenne-Jenno in its capital and is mostly floodplains so you are much better of with Islam/agricultural there.

30:12 Almost made me piss myself laughing lmaooo! Your character isn't fat, he's big boned!

Now *that's* how you do a crusade.

The Age Of Empires soundbites brings back memories.

love that you can't say bozo without laughing

This video is so fire

If you don't mind cheats you can get the Forest Wardens and then hybridize it with Forest Folk for double up on Forest and Woods bonus. You get an extra bonus if you're Norse from the start and put Novgorod as your capital of Russia for extra development increase, plus Novgorod has many baronies all in forest/woods with the only exception being the coastal province. You can do this if you don't want cheating too if you just diverge as Norse, pick up Forest Folk and then hybrid with Forest Wardens.

Love this.

I giggle every time you say BOZO 😂

The eay i like to play is to play tall in the beggining and then explode as a huge blob in the map

Ah i see i found another tall enjoyer,you have good taste indeed

Could you do tall Laconia next? Like a new medieval sparta? You could have the varingian northmen form a hybrid culture with the Greeks.

A master class in playing tall.

I love your videos

I can rest easy now, knowing Zieley uploaded. Had me worried. Whew! ❤

I liked your wide video as well do you plan on making any more of those?

love your videos man i actually bought the game because of them lol im still trash but this was informative thanks

Challenge for ya. Play as the Duke of Thessaloniki and conquer all the land that Alexander the Great conquered. And hybridize the Greek culture with Persian and any Indian culture.

pastoral lands with the cultural bonus is the most OP cash making and development growth syestem there is

Why did you want the 2 temples in the wetlands instead of a castle ? Love your videos man!

I've been watching a lot of your videos lately and your tall game play makes me wonder if it would work with the perfect circle achievement I'm missing I forget the name and county title but there is a character that has a religion that's great for a perfect circle but I always get screwed by my liege revoking my title. May just give it ago when I'm done with my current play through

can you teach us how to force hostility in iberia on the first cycle ? could be a challenge for you maybe, too. In my playstyle i adopted from you and ottawa i always go for stabilty and development and no matter how strong i want to not make it, i can't force hostility first try to get the archievement and i don't want to waste to wait the time out for 3 other phases to get to hostility.