The OTTOMANS are just OVERPOWERED 

Laith, the reason people tell you giving land to your non heir sons is a bad idea is that they all get a claim on your title. So when your king dies, at least a few of them will try to form factions to claim your land. If you give them land, they have more troops to fight you.

Laith Nation will be the new British Cyprus

I love when you go off topic and talk about the history, the history is part of the reason i love these games.

Personally i find those random historical time outs in the videos very entertaining ,they put a bit of extra spicyness. Also it raises the question in my mind , what did you study in university?Because you talk very confidently about history like you just take a page out of a mind book and read it , you dont even stutter ma man loves history!

England actually has TWO kings that are styled as "The Great" First was Alfred, and the second is Canute the Great, King of Denmark, England and Norway But because he wasn't "English" he's always excluded for some reason

Laith please never stop your history side tangents. It’s always intriguing to know your opinion on historical figures

i am praying for laith to start customizing his empire names, coats of arms and map colours. its my only wish for christmas lmao

Next Video you should have the Laith Nation rise up in EU4 as a custom nation

The random historical facts are the best parts of the vid, it makes the gameplay so much more interesting because it kinda adds more depth to the story. Also really cool seeing you talk about something that interests you like that, because I can confirm that 99% of the people watching, including myself, are also massive history nerds.

I love how passionate this dude gets about history lol

Actually it was a common practice for ottoman sultans to grant a province to their children. These provinces were called sanjaks. The sultan would grant the closest sanjak to his favourite child so that he'd make it to the capital first become the next sultan. That's how ottoman succession actually worked. He would not verbally declare his heir.

i love the random historical facts mixed in with the content

I always say it when you bring up the historical discussions but I really do enjoy your historical tangents. I’m not as familiar with European history of this era and it’s not a part I’m going to school to study for, nor do I research it on my own time, so I always enjoy getting glimpses into it from someone like yourself who has done a lot of research on the region and period.

More explaining of history jokes please, really enjoying the content

The act of union and the jacobite uprising are things nobody makes alt history about that would change the world

By far my favorite video. Absolutely LOVE hearing about historical facts in these videos!

Love love love love the historical stuff. Makes the videos better, and makes me watch them more and longer because you clearly know your stuff!!

I already love it every time you talk about history but between Ottoman and English history this video was just an absolute delight, they're literally my 2 favorite things to research and talk about

You're not exactly wrong with saying people undertake hajj to gain piety. From where I came from, the titls of Hajj is usually added in front of the names of the person. And if they're running for an election it's considered as an advantage for the majority of old people because it means the person is pious and able (have enough wealth, so is considered is able to manage business and people). But it doesn't prevent them from corruption, just like how some people can undertake Hajj without following the queue (which now is years from signing up until you're notified that you can go that year). Kinda ironic in my opinion

The little factoids give this channel a unique character. I really like them 😁

From my experience I always try to give land to family members. It helps keep your realm more stable because family members like you more. I'm not sure why people are saying it's a bad move, I haven't heard that before.

Laith thinking like a true Sultan. Breaking up territory, giving land to his sons, and expanding at the cost of his heirs. That’s a win for the Laith Nation.

I really liked this video more than usual... you being sincerely interested in researching stuff up on camera, and going off-topic just to explain a joke... I personally find it very nice so... KEEP IT UP LAITH!

Love the side tangents, keep doing them

I agree with the vassel managment of breaking up duchys. It keeps them weaker and if you need to remove the duchy title you can grant it to another vassel and bury the previous one under him

I love these historical anecdotes/lessons, please continue to do them! They’re so interesting!

Laith I’m doing an MA in history and shooting for a PhD, hearing other people be passionate about history is the best, keep it up!

Hey, this intro is something to desire.

First off- love when you explain your history jokes Second- the reason why you don’t want to have your vassal dukes have decentralized vassal counties is because you get less money and troops from them because it’s based off of percentages. And they will be able to build more buildings as they will be richer getting you more money as well

I can't begin to expres the amount of joy your CK3 videos bring me. Please never stop.

14:50 I believe the term/a term that can be used is “black swan event” An event that before it happens seems impossible and after seemed inevitable, completely changing history.

Laith should play a custom nation called “Laith nation”

I never realize how wild the counties are in Anatolia. some are huge and then a super tiny on next to them...

I love the historic stuff in your videos. This is truly a great one ! Thank you.

I personally love the off topic bits. It teaches me more obscure history, adds to the experience, and keeps me interested.

Dont ever chance man, your videos is amazing! Love the game play AND the random history lessons, keep them coming

He's literally sticking with Laith-Nation xD Will Greenscreen-Laith stand for this? (0_0)

Please dont stop with your random historical facts or Stories. I Love IT!!

Just so you know, absolutely love the historical stuff, its very much stimulating to me history brain

I absolutely love to listen to Laith history podcasts with some CK3 in the background! (By the way, small detail: the way you're placed on the screen, we can't actually see the in-game date unfortunately :/)

I love random historical facts you give in the middle of doing something entirely different :DDD

Personally, if I wanted pure gameplay I'd watch Red Hawk or someone like him, the historical facts are really interesting and are part of the identity of this channel.

loved the history lesson, please do these more!

It may look weird but actually I love when you talk about irl history sometimes I know some new stuff keep doing it

more Elder Kings!!!!

Thank God. During your intro I was like "What, what's happening?". Lol

Merry Christmas! Have a good holiday, I hope you get to take the day off to spend time with family

Giving land to your heir means he'll start getting stress and take bad stress related perks. He'll also build enemies, possibly cheat on his wife, do ill advised assasination plots, and other subpar decisions. After 10 years he'll be able to chose his own wife and will make a bad alliance. He'll also start wars, or get stuck in rebellions and possibly get wounded/killed.

I don't give my heir land. Once I played in France and my enemy sieged my sons castle (he was not in the war) and war instantly ended. The other time is I give my heir county in one of my vassals control. My vassal made him court jester.

Hey you keep saying on how it’s bad your bringing up so much history, i personally love the history and am trying to learn more about the 900-1500AD years

that american impression was great i saw the american coming inside of laith

The whole landing-sons thing has upsides and downsides. Really up to personal decision. Also OH MY GOD JUST MAKE CUSTOM BANNERS AND COAs

I love the jokes that are tied with history. I am all about history. I'd actually really love a side channel of yours dedicated to History during CK3 all the way up to Victoria 3 (867-1940's? I don't know Vic 3's end date) or is HOI4's end date later than Vic3? Idk lol I don't really watch those that much, nor with EU4... too much complexity compared to CK3. BUT I do enjoy your Vic 3 videos ALOT!

This was one of the most enjoyable campaigns I've seen.

best intro youve ever done

Finally someone who shares my hate for Richard Lionheart

Temur the Lame is called "The Lame" because, well, one of his legs were scarred and got crippled in battle and made him a gimp, and caused him to be called as "Timur-i Leng" in Persian language, roughly translates as Timur the lame, and it is what he was called.

As a history major, I love hearing all the little tidbits lol

Bad King John, just covered the bills of Richard the Lion Heart. Elanor of Aquitane was the real bawler

I personally like you going off topic and tell interesting things.

I always just give the whole duchy to a noble of my religion and culture

As soon as you started talking about Richard I. I was like, YES! EXACTLY THAT! But John was also a pretty shitty guy because he completely ignored the magna carta which he was forced to sign because of him and Richard.

handing land over to your children who have a claim on the throne will always make vassals rise up to push their claim on succession. best way around that is disinheriting them before handing over anything.

1:30 you can filter only possible spouses with inheritable traits

I looked it up, there seems to have been a ‘The Conqueror’ in Portugal, the HRE, Aragon, Brittany, the Ottoman Empire, Russia, England and Denmark.

the more vassals the more direct tax and levies from vassals and less powerful vassals in factions(maybe)

i hurt my back once just picking up a tea towel - its weird how some people can survive after their parachute didnt open and some people can die from tripping over their own feet

That sudden rant of Richard the lion heart is gold

Subscribed when I heard you are also in the world of MMA!

You want to give land to your like top ~2 heirs in succession, so they start to build up prestige - 2 in case the top one dies. Apart from that they get claims on your kingdom so if there's tonnes of them with power kicking around that's fast track to civil war after succession. Plus side is with some family dynasties it will make your land and realm stronger because all the renown compounds with greater effect I think, and included in that would be bonuses to opinion, and as house head you can more easily subdue them. And if they are powerful they have more kids, therefore you get some more renown for a large family and / or can marry off more family members to diplomatically take thrones, or can more easily genetically engineer your dynasty. I.e. I believe if they were disinherited and then given land then it would be pretty much all upsides, it's mainly because they get claims on main title that it becomes a problem. Also when it comes to giving out titles, it does weaken the vassals and also weakens you because you get a percentage of the troops they get, which is filtered through their vassals, and also them being more divided means they can develop their lands less which again over time means you could end up weaker. I don't believe it's significant though either way.

it's a bad move to give land to sons if you dont manage their marriages. They can marry if they rule for 10 years. I saw someone explaining this better on a previous video.

you can use royal court to make the banner of your kingdom title be the ottoman banner

The problem with giving land to your heir is Domain Limit. One you die and you heir inherits your land, you will again have to give the plan away to someone new. And every time you do that it resets the power accumulation. When a land is held for generation it can amass wealth and power.

I Love your Vids man

It is fun when we read wikipedia together. I agree, Richard was terrible for the economy. I also hand out duchies piecemeal so Dukes don't instantly have a massive personal powerbase. Personally? No strong opinions on Bucephalus. Thank you for the cursed religious map. Merry Christmas.

The brother murder thing wasn't made legal until Mehmed the Conqueror

love your content love from Algeria ❤

If you give lands to your sons it will be more harder to disinherit them and if you don’t disinherit them they will take parts of your realm on succesion if you don’t have a law that gives it to a single person and even if you do have such a law they will still have claims and be able to form a faction to take those claims from you, there is people that say normal vassals will do the same but this is not true because for one that is not your relative to get a claim on your kingdom they would have to have The Meritocracy perk from stewardship ideas, or to inherit a claim through a marriage, or through the descision that requires them to own most of your lands and a few other ways, all of these non relative claimants are more easily dealt with and in general will happen way less then relatives.

18:14 quick/intelligent/genius traits mean better educators, and half of learning is added to the relevant skill to determine how good they are

Laith Nation is unironically all I can think of when I see you now . Meme’d yourself

You have special soldiers because that time, there were a lot of turkish nomad who want to settle new land in Anatolia so all of them joined ottoman empire againt christian countries. Thus when you look ottoman expansion you can see that they expanded firstly in Europe(balkans) but after that there were not enough Turkish people as a setteler so they turn Anatolia part for Turkish muslim man power bro

I love the CK3 content!

15:30 ngl I love it. More random historical shtttttt.

We are here because we like history so don't change

You should give lands to your non-heir children, but not your heir. Land given to heirs before death counts towards there inheritance on realm succession, so you can ensure your heir gets everything they should by setting up second and third sons with backwater duchies on the edge of your realm

Laith Nation historical documentaries when? 🙌🙌🙌

Did needs an insert from Ernest P. World about the Ottomans.

"Henry II created the Angevine Empire, bsically by himself" Eleanor of Aquitaine very much begs to differ, good Sir!

It is better to give to ur family bc u get the extra 5-10 boost to opinion but I like to save it for my siblings and their children, that way u still get a dynasty bonus, u can b their ward convert culture. If u marry ur sisters matrilineally (usually low born) u can either guve it to him or wait for a son who u designate a good guardian for, but it takes long so it’s more of a mid to late game strat where u have lots of living dynasty members

Purple Ottoman is low key cursed

I like how you upgrade Hagia sophia to a mosque. Based paradox.

anyone noticed he didn't ransom the emperor? that gave me cramps in my heart

how do you get the mod running? i try to run it but it says i cant cause its not compatible with the new update

Omg a RU-vidr who actually cares about history and literally steps out of his way to check with history. Don't care about the gameplay, I play historic games because I love history. You just got a new sub

great intro bud

You should straight up make a new channel called "Learning with Laith" (or something idk) where you just put clips of these storytimes from your full episodes like how you do with Laith Clips. Garauntee you it'd get some views, you can leave them in these videos too cause I love em!

history facts are best bits

Are these time periods mods? Where can I get them?

Laith, you should do a mega campaign

The reason I dont gave title to son because if they become ruler,they will get bonus modifier to fertility, thus they usually breed faster,hence making succession a bit annoying. Plus their grandson tend to marry random people.