The Best Government in CK3 

Combine the Magyar and Polish cultures so you can recruit Konni and Horse Archers and have the most broken cavalry in the world

Whoever leads the army in a battle gets the prestige from the win. If you're close to death put your primary heir as the army's leader so that they can already have lots of prestige before you start playing as them.

Tribal is fun up until about 1100-1200 when the average Italian duke starts to drop 20k armies that can erase 100k tribal troops.

My brother knows nothing about CK3 but he always watches your intros with me because they’re so entertaining. I love the quality of your vids and how you explain everything, you’re always helping me get better at the game

As a Hungarian (Magyar) I enjoyed your playthrough! You have hungarian approval haha! Love your vids! 😁✌️

The advantage you had was that you were basically surrounded by feudal realms, if you were to play in eastern europe around poland you would be not only raided all the time but everything else around you would also have being raided not allowing you to make enough money

Quick tip: it's easier to find unmarried courtiers by using filters and saved presets.

As strong (in early game) as tribals are, in ck2 they were utterly broken. You could make massive armies of retinue (ck2's men at arms) with just prestige and you kept those after becoming tribal. I did some messing about with them and I had 20k retinue troops in 925.

Here's a challenge idea: Can you be the Ultimate Bro Wingman? Can you make your AI liege into an emperor? I've had thoughts on how to maybe do it, but it'd be cool to see someone better at the game take it on.

Zieley has some of the best intros on RU-vid, prove me wrong

Until the high medieval era, only the chinese cultural MAA can counter horse archers. They also have excellent base stats and gain large positive modifiers from a single building both in tribal as well as feudal holdings that can be built in most terrains, allowing you to focus heavily on economic buildings as feudal ruler while still gaining massive benefits for your horse archers. They are probably the most cost effective type of MAA. Feudal rulers can even scale their pursuit, allowing you to stack-wipe almost any army.

Please do more CK3 playthroughs where you explain what and why you're doing. You're really good at it. I learned a lot from this and your noobs to pro vide.

you always make it look so easy, but you only just play it the right way. from you and ottowa welshman i learned so much. just finished my man of all the isles archievement 😊

not only tribal, but horse archers are just insane counter to anything

I am a big fan of the thought and care put into each of your videos. Thank you for your efforts!

8:20 pro tip: fight on steppe terrain with horse archers, also the Count of Kherson is way more badass start, reply if interested :)

Big like just for the intro and outro. And the bit in between ;) Great vid!

can we spare a moment to express how awesome your intros are. you are making great videos Zieley

Something I wanna say about county control that I don't think is covered enough is the court seneschal, most of their aptitude comes from stewardship and even a pretty crappy one will give you a base 0.2 control growth in your domain. They only cost 0.5g/month which in my opinion is extremely worth it. In my early game before I can grant titles to women I often have daughters that are educated in stewardship (so that they can educate nephews, grandsons, etc in stewardship). They are excellent candidates for seneschal as they will have a great aptitude for it and they are part of your dynasty and you have the golden obligations perk, you're giving an income to someone that you can demand payment from later down the line and rotate them out once that hook has been used, making the court position essentially free. To clarify that a bit, with my play style I generally prefer to give my daughters matrilineal marriages with unlanded men that have tier 3 congenital traits rather than marriages for prestige / alliance. I think this pays off in the long run because they give you perfect candidates for vassals - dynasty members educated in your own court, that are very far down in any line of inheritance. Combine that with the fact that you get to arrange their marriages and can prioritise congenital traits, you'll have strong blood in your dynasty in 1-3 generations and genius duke/king level council members within 2-4 generations. That golden obligations thing is pretty min/max though and pretty quickly in your campaign 0.5g/month should become chump change that you don't need to think about at all.

I find early game tribal to be a lot of fun but if u can get a few quick victories and grow your power fast then it becomes way too easy.

Zieley officaly goes oooga boooga mode

The conquer mechanic makes it broken, you can gobble up land and don't have to fedualize the castles or anything like that. Also, love your vids man

Tribal isn't the bes...ooooh Hungarian playthrough. Yes, yes Archer Cavalry are the most powerful. OK, this is an interesting start. Thanks, Zieley.

So if i was to combine the old Norse and also Dutch Culture I could double up on good infantry bonuses yes? Plus in being stoic and having dexterous fisherman you have an automatic +10 defender advantage. Another broken part would be also being Prolific hunters as you gain passive and doubled active prestige gain from said hunts. You can use the free prestige to either purchase or maintain more men-at-arms with a mechanic that you already use constantly in game.

SO EXCITED TO WATCH YOUR NEW VID! Me and my friend Splinter love you.

great now i have the urge to conquer the world as tribal

This is a very good video since I really dislike playing tribal. Thank you fit showing me a good way to play it and how to make it fun to play long term. Having onegers as tribal is interesting..

I love the vid man !

I’ve been addicted to your videos lately

Congratulations on the 50k!

scary tactics :) Would love to see this as a Bjorn Ironside

I have just now realized…whenever I marry off my courtiers/family members for knights, I’ve been sorting by martial instead of prowess…wow.

Always love seeing new videos from you mate, great on the editing and the production values overall. I wonder what new challenges and things you'll come up with next time!

dunno what I did wrong but as I tried to play the same my buildings are feudal but myself is tribel what did I wrong xD

You should add the line from ‘The long kiss goodnight’ where the guy gets thrown out of a truck and complains on the radio that he’s hurt pretty bad and he thinks he’s dying and the bad guy is really annoyed and says “Continue dying”. Use that after the other clip when the guy says I’m dying, help me.

While watching this vid I had a thought about vassalage in this game. I feel like the map colors should be offsets of your own with any CA that allows them to declare wars on their own. It would help with at a glance information, including who owns what to an extent.

New video of Zieley - You've made my day c;

I though that the trick of marrying for prestige, divorcing using piety and remarrying, over and over again, was well known by now. You can get thousands of prestige that way. Unless you think it's an exploit.

Only watched 4 minutes but had to comment, I've started here before without any of the DLC the guy doesn't get any of those special troops but it doesn't matter, you could curb stomp your big chunky neighbor to your East and full on subjugate him, take his entire Kingdom with one single war that barely needs you to even recruit any extra regiments than what's given at start to fight him with. If you didn't go into the debug menu and execute your starting character I'm certain with those special units there's no doubt in my mind, you would have been EASILY able to take everything within the beginning diplomatic range by simply sneezing on them all.

The amount of prestige you get from battles is actually huge. It's why I love the first perk in the Pillage legacy. 100 percent more prestige from winning battles basically means you can become a Living Legend easily.

Zieley building tall with a tribal government

Finally you play as the Best nation in the game. Soo owerpowered soo fun! Just one Quick mention u should make a culture with the russians soo U can be more powerfull early.

after bombing may stats exam, this just brightened my day

Babe wake up, Zieley dropped another banger

inspirational!

Hiiii just cane in here to drop the idea of 50 clan vassals with iqta and ghazi contract. Iqta gives -2% maa to you and 10 to the vassal. Ghazi gives +10% piety to you and the vassal. With 50 of them you have free men at arms(almost) and 500% piety modifier. Did a run recently and 10K of just horsearchers and lighthorsemen costed 8 gold to maintain and i was getting +50 piety :D. Ofc vassals give you almost nothing but you dont care since you are over vassal limit anyway:D. Also vassals get +15 opinion and since they all have one county its easy asf to beat up factions. New favorite way to play.

Love watching and even listening to your videos, keep it up!

This game shoukd be conbined with total war battles.

Become head of faith, take communion, never worry about gold again

Been spamming your videos lately and it makes me REALLY want to play ck3... but instead, I open the game, get to the realm select window and go 'nope, too complicated' and close it :( At least your videos are 8/8 and not complicated.

Now play tribal in high medieval period

DId something change since this video came out? I'm playing as Hungary, but every holding is castle instead of tribal after winning that war against Bulgaria.

@zeiley Thanks for all your content, really enjoy your videos. However, this video saw you use horse archers and abuse an existing game mechanic to make your start as the King of Hungry not the small nation you stated. Also, the near inability to take Constantinople did nothing to distinguish Tribal as a form of government. The strength of the horse archers and your Marshal know-how were cool to watch but but that could be accomplished with any form of government. Again your content is usually stellar. Keep up the good work. Thanks.

Zieley just casually blackmails a cannibal 👀

ngl raiding is so fun

Would love to see you play mount and blade 2 bannerlords!

I'll do you one better. Right next to your Magyars is the dutchy of Konugardr. Although Russian in culture, the ruler is a Norse genius. Not only does he have Insane stats, he also starts with an absurd amount of starting gold due to historical reasons. But the really fun part is 'Raid Over Water'. If you think raiding the Bulgarians is fun, try raiding the Pope, or Venice. Or if you really get your Viking brothers together, raiding Constantinople. Not for the prestige (although you get plenty) or gold (lots) but to fish for the Crown Of Justinian for that sweet +1 domain. (likewise, it's a lot of fun to steal the pope's hat if you can get it while raiding the Vatican. As you stated, +1 prestige per month is nothing to sneeze at.) In my current game, I managed to marry my daughter to the leader of the Khazaria Empire, and he eventually declared war on Byz for some counties on north end of the black sea, bringing me in. We smashed the Byz army flat when they landed on the shores of their territory, leaving the Emperor not only without an army, but by the end of the war, over 1k in debt. As the war drew to a close and he finally conceded, the Khazarian army stood down from their siege of Constantinople, got on their boats and were about to sail home when my dude in a rowboat walked up and said "Hi, I didn't declare war, HE DID. My turn. I'll be taking that city now." Byzantine was left with 300 troops, 1000 in debt, and 14k troops sitting outside his city walls. It was a bad day.

pls restore roman empire bro you're more than capable.

Has anyone tested when you don't need prestige on your character because about to die can you make your heir as your commander to start banking up prestige for when they die or does that not transfer?

Day one of asking Zieley to update this for tours and tournaments.

Hmm yes lore momentum of hungry 100

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Maybe try to do the same thing but in 1066 instead

100% agree tribal is best

What s that sad singing voice sound effect you re using?

I play most games in tribal. I can raid for gold and load up my men at arms with prestige.

tbh i always just go down commission epic it’s fucking absurd with tribal

imagine if the pilgrims had to fight native americans with fucking swords and mail.

‘God save us from the arrows of the magyars!’

As a tribal ruler I do not have four building slots. Has that been nerfed?

W Zieley

when you were fighting Byzantines you could only raise man-at-arms and kill all of them anyway without even breaking a sweat. 20 prowess knights with 346% would stack wipe that 10k troops

My mans Z out here handicapping hisself and still winning with the tribal government. Are you not entertained???

I too took Constantinople as a tribal ruler to cap Byzantine empire when I convert to feudal. Too sad, hagia Sophia is disabled of you hold it with a different faith. I wonder if it possible to place a regular duchy building instead of it

Very surprised you didn’t eat Bulgaria 1st.

I dare you to play a game where you don`t build a single building and become the head of the most powerful realm! A true wide playtrough!

Taking Constantinople always makes the byzantine empire shatter in my games

Laughs in gavelkind

I think tribals are great, but trying to siege down a level 3 castle with onagers takes literal decades.

Clan is pretty good cus you can get 90% cheaper men at arms by having 45 vassals with iqta vassal contract feudal has feudal el##ive and tribal has raiding and men at arms for prestige

Give us more than 1 hour video

Nice

How do I turn off debug menu?

If your victory exceeds 200% due to you having captured the enemy leader, try ransoming them for a fat stack of gold first. I don't know why so many people haven't realised this yet.

I love how the first thing you did is marrying your mother to some lunatic Just to make them fight for you

Same in real life.

How did he get so many hooks?

GG

What is your pc specs

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of course tribal is the best government in tribal age 😅 try taking byzantine or arabia in 1300 as a tribal realm

I was thinking of making a camelry based play through, but I kept having problems finding enough good Knights and never had the maximum possible number of Knights

Zieley why don’t u just imprison ur sons and move to dungeon to fix succession

Prestige my beloved

One thing I would have done differently- you should almost never disinherit. Renown is so precious is CK3, and you would have really benefited from some of the perks, but each time you disinherit you spend 75 renown. I usually just let my sons split off into different realms then go to war, or if I’m already a kingdom you can just seize back your crownland either for a little Tyranny or for free if you have claims/fabricate claims. Bonus points if they rise up in rebellion with no men-at-arms, letting you take all of their lands at once

With a good foothold in Europe. Aren’t you already in Europe

Tribal government 2 op pls nerf

Tribal is a problem for playing tall

Playing the game as a newb, im wondering what the point is in trying to become feudal. Many profound downsides against few modest upsides, kinda ruins a sense of progression in the game.