I Broke Royal Court by Playing Tall 

Almost 2 weeks since my last upload 😬 hopefully the added girth in this video will make up for it! Appreciate you guys ❤

I relate to the artefact confusion , when i got my first one was a orange one ( Lowest tier ) , but because of other games i was so happy thinking i got a legendary item , i was very sad when i learn was the crappy one hahahaha

Idk why the African Court starts off looking so nice when in Europe you're essentially in a plain wooden house

Hey Zieley, I would love to see you try to restore Hellenism in one form or another. I've been trying myself for sometime but I've been having quite a bit of difficulty with it. Might make for an interesting playthrough. Love the content :)

Mali is another really nice country to play for this kind of tall gameplay. They have the Mali gold mines, which are a set of 3 gold mines between two duchies. If you start there you won't need to worry about reducing building costs because you won't have enough ways to get rid of your gold. Each gold mine at level 1 gives 10 gold per month. One of the gold mines is in floodplains and is your starting capital. Main issue will be getting feudal there I expect. And their culture doesn't have the agriculture trait, but you can reform for that.

Love that you recognized how important having women as courtiers is. Having a culture / religion allowing both is such an advantage.

5:18 Just one of the many reasons this channel is going places. That one got me, my guy 😂😂😂

Court + Natural Primitivism = pure gold.

This is actually the best and funniest CK3 channel, I've never laughed out loud at a CK3 video in my life. Great stuff man, keep it up!

Your edits are getting better and more funny i had to smile very often😂

@zieley I appreciate the high quality editing it takes to complete these videos. CK3 is a game that really NEEDS edits sometimes since its a longform game. I appreciate your videos and hope to see your channel grow to 10k

Only found you about 2 days ago on youtube, but have been watching a ton of your content. From guides to saving game video's to the rest. Your content is really good and enjoyable. You scored a new subscriber. Keep it up!

A video from you and SurrealBeliefs in one day! Thanks for the great content, I just started watching and can't stop!

Therapist: Wakanda in CK3 isn't real, it can't hurt you Wakanda in CK3:

I tried playing tall with frisia but became HRE emperor by accident🤷🏻‍♂️

I was just watching one of your other videos when I saw this appear in my sub box! Can't wait to see what you do in this video and always keep up the good work my dude. ❤

Hey great video man. Don’t get too burned out though. Love the content hopefully I’ll see more during this dlc

I watched both of your one-county challenge videos today, and the Abyssinia playthrough, I can't believe I've never seen your channel before, thank you for your videos

I love the little hello there in the beginning

I did not expect to watch this whole video, but damn dude the editing is hilarious and the content is very good. Keep up the good work!

Great work mate. Love seeing all your videos ♥️

Really fun to watch episode! :D I love the little meme edits you sneak into the video! As for culture traditions: You would have been able to break the game even harder if you replaced the City Keepers with the respective castle or temple based equivalent tradition, depending on your building preference I think. And "Communal Lands" is also a really damn strong tradition you could have added later, it boosts development by 30% I think with the only downside being longer construction times (but those are not really important anyway in my opinion) and lower control growth (which is also insignificant for a Tall playstyle). Looking forward to what you will do next. :) I am hoping for a new "save your disaster game" but I understand there might not be enough material available for you.

I know why you chose that culture to play as... chadic language xD

Really love your music/voice add-ons. Fun.

What a coincidence, I just started playing the Sao culture to try out the new achievement goal with them; the one where you need to divert cultures then convert 30counties to that new culture. This tall strategy can help me a lot, thanks.

This game is mental. 1000 hours of gameplay and I didn't know resetting perks was a thing. That will make a big difference to my gameplay. Cheers!

ck3 legend is back! and the memes, missed those haha

i just discovered tall works now lol I played as count Eudes (i'm not a hard start kinda guy) just for fucks, and focused purely on being a peaceful little duke just stacking up Anjou. By the time 1453 rolled threw I had been rocking the most gold and largest army as emperor of france for about 300 years- Favorite part of the play through was Count Eudes Scale Armor of Mercy that got handed down from Eudes all the way to Emperor Savory, surviving the entire play through. Artifacts are dope.

Great video! I'm still learning the game, I find myself constantly stuck not knowing what to do hehe. Like how do I take back domains, how do I earn prestige if it's really low and not rising. I have watched some of your videos now and they have been super helpful! :D So thanks so much for that. One thing that bothered me a bit in this video, is that the sound of your mic is quite distorted, so we can hear static or like a noise every time you speak (in the background). :)

Amazing edits! Made me laugh a lot.

Nice video with absolutely amazing stats! What about feadal elections law? You will just chill with inheritance-add to all your titles and choose right heir in your small kingdom without losses!)

Architects and baeaucreats in this are on something else. I'd like to see this continued with uniting Africa or something with this powerbase

Your videos are cool enough, plus your editing is godlike

Nice to see a video, I’ve been playing as the king of Burgundy with a hybrid culture of Occiatan and cispian

you have the most calming voice of any youtuber I enjoy watching

Great video and love the little knight

For the sequences where you want to show building construction queues for all the holding like at 36:04 , click the little scroll icon just under your domain size/limit numbers. its a very useful tool.

I’ve got a good strategy I’ve tested out. Not sure if anyone else has done this yet! It goes like this: 1. Start as Viking 2. Raid for fat stacks 3. Do a Viking invasion of a kingdom in Italy/Greece(Rome or Constantinople preferably.) Then you need to promote cultural acceptance with Greeks. 4. DONT convert, DONT adopt local culture. Raid your wealthy neighbors, marry for traits, maintain as many Varangian veterans as possible. It’s okay to have negative money per month. Raid! 5. Capture the mines. You might be thinking that this is literally a normal Viking strat. Here’s where the difference comes. We’re going to use the new culture system. 6. Once you have enough cultural acceptance with Greeks, form the Greco-Norse culture. Keep all the Byzantine men at arms buffs and keep access to your men at arms. You will have the most powerful men at arms. 7. After you have raided to your hearts content get ready to reform or convert to a religion. If you can, get Hellenism. 8. Now you can reform the Roman Empire, have a cool religion, and have the most powerful military around. Hopefully all is done before the mid game crisis known as the Mongols. I play with a mod that buffs the Mongols.

I just started a Hausan game a few days ago. Funny that you just made a video on them. I'm trying to create a dynasty of possessed kings, spreading Bori across the African continent. Maybe a fun idea for you too for a future video :D

Your culture has two traditions for city holdings btw. Incredible for development.

Almost An hour long video love it🎇🧨

nice video, keep up the good work !!!

I love your content man! ^^

What a great job. We appreciate it

Decent video. The new traditions are indeed powerful. Just played my first couple games with the new system, both as Norse rulers. One being a tall Iceland build (starting in 1066), mostly because I want the end date achievement and my other campaign started freezing around 1370. constantly, so this time, Iceland only, and I am not spreading my Dynasty. So far I have any been involved in two wars, one being against a peasant faction that took my land from my liege (the King of Norway hasn't been competent since Hardrada), and the second being an independence war.

New favorite CK3 channel!!

Keep up these great videos. Aldo i wish you would not skip soo soon from 1 to 4 counties. What have you done during that time, which tech you developed and why. What did you do with your spouce? Managment or Chilvalry or any other support or just "assist ruler" ? So many questions. Only at 9.15 minutes i see you developed the learning lifestyle very much, almost 100 years ingame have passed then. So, you did only the learning lifestyle, or did you also do some other perks? ps: first try; defeated by neigbourg on th eleft very early ingame. No chance to build up any extra forces. So, how do you beat that?

"Your leaders are just... taller than everyone else?" -Dib, Invader Zim

Just realized you have under 10k subs, bro your decently entratining keep the good stuff up.

I love the RuneScape music throughout the video 😂

This was eye-opening. This might help me do the Mother of Us All achievement!

Nice! I did a game as Egyptian culture, with the agrarian trait, in Baghdad, and some other nearby provinces, which is also flood plains and has the build special building in the game, the House of Wisdom.

Well your hopes certainly got true coz i trulllllly enjoyed it !

I love the long videos

Been having a lot of fun playing this DLC. This video was absolutely insane, can't believe how cheap some of those buildings were! Makes me really wanna try making a new game where I play tall.

When you kill both your sons, and a grandson, only to realize it was pointless.

If your culture had fervent temple builders and religious patronage then they would give you 750 prestige, 150, 5 fervor, and 2000 piety whenever you build a temple

This is probably the best CK3 video I’ve seen since royal court. Absolutely insane making buildings for just 16 gold!!! Amazing work man great video👍🏽

Could have also mentioned the benefits of being above expected court grandeur, the expected level is based off nation size. (let me know if this was mentioned and I just missed it)

I really enjoy this video

Your stuff is amazing

Great vid, the sound issues rly fucks with me

at 36:20 I cant believe you used that movement!! Its so good!!!

would love to see this finished to max buildings and all innovations!

Nice video Caesar!

You can greatly increase the chances of getting the "Athletic" trait when reaching a stress threshold by having the "Whole of Body" lifestyle trait. Having the "Lustful" personality trait on the other hand almost guarantees it, because of how the events are grouped together in the script.

Soo satisfying to watch all the numbers go down and the percentages add up lol

Playing tall is fun. Taking up the Dutch polder tradition will also help when on flood plains. Of course you go on a Varangian adventure for that.

Agrarian is a stupidly generous tradition considering that all the other terrain types (except for oases) are either at ground level or in the negative when it comes to development bonuses. Its increase to man at arms should also apply to their monthly salaries, not just the one-off penalty of hiring cost which is laughably negligible considering one can raise farmlands in floodplains/farmlands. Yes, I'm a bit salty, since the culture I like playing is stationed in mountains and doesn't even start with a tradition negating the mountainous terrain development mallus.

Great video, I’ve watched it 3 times

You played in Chad. What else should we expect

Love the vid thanks! At around 25:00 you had a 65 year old ruler die and passed to a 23 year-old daughter with good stats. Any tips to manage inheritances so well like that? Usually in my games if my ruler is in late 60's the next in line is like mid-40's and I only get about 20 years out of them

Zieley out there constructing Wakanda.

you're editing is getting better, ik how cumbersome longer edits can be. I appreciate the effort you put into the vid man. Also; there's a crackling noise behind your mic because of how high the gain is? is that because you speak soft and have it cranked to catch your voice? if so maybe try dubbing over the audio in post so you don't have to speak so softly? just a thought. I love watching your vids! keep it up!

Hey there, thanks for the vid kind sir missed ya

the Runescape references in the start were awesome.

what do you spend money after uppgrading all holdings is it worth to uppgrade vassal holdings?

I went and tried your idea with Kingdom of Mann and the Isles and it. was. insane.

Nice video!

Here we go!

Love the vid. Just want to report that something is messed up with your mic, there is a weird static noise below/behind your voice everytime you speak. Hopefully it can be fixed for the next vid.

In my last play as the kingdom of portugal, i conquested iberia, created the capitalist religion and chose lay clergy + temporal head of faith, and at the end i was earning almost infinite money because playing tall and because i abducted the heir of the biggest kingdom, demanded conversion, repeated, and so there was a lot of people giving money for basically nothing, everybody wins!

could ui do a military carry video :D !! i LOOOVE going scholar /devlopment focus but i'd like to do a proper military run, but that also doesn't lack in development/and/or has enough pitety/learning for techs and make a side religion if plausible

His edits are soooooo funny lol

I will always like when Obi Wan says hi

while some of the traditions are nice, it took you like 150 years to get your capitol to 20 development, same thing can be done with a few points in Learning and Stewardship lifestyle trees and a high level steward council but in a much shorter time span. Farmlands and floodplains are few and far between, mountain based culture traits are much more OP.

Best ck3 channel imho

loved the jojo references

Zieley post... the drought has ended

It's so hard to restrain myself from conquering.

Hey Zieley, i have a question, if i have excess amount of money like say 20k gold, should i improve other smaaller holding in my county for the development growth

5-speed Benny Hill Stack Chasing is the new meta

don't think i didn't notice the Obi-wan "hello there" in the beginning of the video

LOVE IT !!!!!!

32:00 it actually matters, if your court is in top then you get to hire courtiers of different faiths and culture, not sure how it works, but it's super crazy to pick up the best traits and marry them with whoever you want them to. The court grandeur goes up quite fast if you pump up everything to 4/5, events will push it up and down so you might need 1-2 of 5/5. exotic food might cause some health issues on maximum, like getting gout ridden and making courtiers fat, also the 4/5 to 5/5 is actually costing too much for almost nothing. 39:00 ahaha, those knights look sooo bad, do you even marry your courtiers? some of them were like 5-7 prowess, you could easily get better ones, it's almost bad that you got 16, they will just die and your court gets empty and baby vassals xD 47:00 you can select neutral focus for your kids just don't do opposite focus, normally it's 50-50 with any guardian, and around 40-60 without guardian or without focus, but the maximum is around 66% yearly to pick up 2 points or 0. these points go randomly to any 5 but usually to kids or guardians focus. genius guardians are far better than others (there are some traditions that can make military traits to be inherited or guardians to be more effective but still) . you even got court tutors and other courtiers who you can use full time teaching random kids. the levels are 0-7-11-15 points to reach (aside base) for 1-2-3-4 star education, and the events are better too. but honestly 3 perks in kin are worth it, there is 10% fertility and then 2nd perk is better education then spouse care which is less childbirth deaths and health buff. Usually my genius girls die to that, and when I picked that up, it almost paid itself, I got the next renown level almost right away. Yesterday I checked, I had 9 points from the base, and still got lvl 4 education for a vassal kid, which is crazy. There is also a +30 marriage acceptance, which might be the best thing to pick up first and go to 200 dynasty members (maximum that gives renown) and make a kingdom for them, release as independent and the renown flows in then, no management needed, they will marry all around.

30:10 Dude really wrote a book about books

Love your content, sir. Please let me know any other ways I can support you.

Can you make a video about the cultural tradition Practiced Pirates? While sure you can start off as Vikings, you lose the ability to raid when you reform your religion and become feudal. From what I know it let's you continue to raid as feudal and organized religion, every interesting opportunities.

I really love playing as Pegu and then making Pagan yourself but with the objectively superior Ari religion as you get 3 holy sites in your de jure kingdom and high dev. And you can get Jungle Dwellers for 2k prestige which mitigates the fact that CK3 terrain modifiers just suck and there aren’t nearly enough flood plains and farmlands lol

Give this man a crown! 👑