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My favorite move, because running an empire is too hard for me personally, is building an empire with one strong Kingdom and then purposely allowing a family member to depose me and take over as emperor and then I just play a loyal vassal while running my own kingdom

King of Wales: I became Emperor of Britannia by doing absolutely nothing!

Trying to keep your liege's dynasty in power and keeping the kingdom cohesive is such an under appreciated personal goal in ck3. Their should be an achievement for being a loyal vassal - like support and win three liege wars at once or something.

You should play Tall Sardinia in 867 as a Papal Vassal, and grand him as many Theocratic Vassals you can... make His Holyness the Pope the Emperor of the Holier Roman Empire!

Yes definitely keep going. Back seat driving a European conquest is such an odd challenge. Should be lots of fun

So the reason he didn't create any kingdom titles is because the game mechanics make it so that if you have a title equal to or greater than him (like the kingdom of Ireland while hes also JUST a king and not emperor) you will become independent, so he cant give you a kingdom title without becoming a emperor first or else you would be independent (this is why normandy flips to England every time William conquers it) he also may have didn't create it because he would have had to hold it himself directly because of the game mechanics i just explained. Keeping it himself would cause a lot of negative modifiers and there's a high chance of loosing the title due to inheritance and whoever inherited that title would automatically become independent also unless it was the same person who inherited the main title he originally had as well.(for example if he has 2 sons, 1 would get whales and the other gets Ireland, unless he had only 1 son to inherit both titles or had the proper succession law to prevent loss or splitting of titles) . You don't have to give away kingdom titles FIRST in order to form an empire. Form it first, then give titles. I know this game mechanic is true because it happened to me in several games and i couldn't figure out why for the longest time until finally i did. Thought it was a good idea to share. I know almost everything about paradox game mechanics. Especially ck3.

Try and from something with even crazier requirements, like get your Liege to become chakravarti or the Mongol emperor or hold the North Sea empire. You’d have to really closely manage someone else’s inheritance.

Me being emperor is usually by mistake. For example: Inherit a nice duchy. Some guy wants to Mary my 40 year old mom. Sure why not. 2 generations later I'm the basilious of the Byzantine empire. Everything proceeds to catch on fire.

Some tips. To see how large a realm is you only have to put your mouse in the shield of the person or in the map. To avoid your liege granting you vassals grant the duchy of the granted vassal to him, because your liege tried granting you those vassals because you were the rightful liege of them.

You want something really challenging? As a vassal, just try to keep a Mongol successor state alive for a century. I tried with the Ilkhanate after I got conquered by Genghis Khan. I REALLY TRIED! And I failed after seven decades. It is hard to make these survive.

I have tried so many times as a Greek duke to make my leige the Emperor of a reunified Rome, but inevitably get screwed over within 5 months.

Tip if you want to give your liege counties: Grant the county to an old ass dude (60+ usually does the trick) without children and grant him independence. This will make him your liege's vassal instead of yours and when he dies your liege will inherit the land. This way you could "grant" your liege the entirety of wales like you wanted :) (Edit: just tested it in wales just to confirm it for myself and it does work. Also should try to make sure that the dude you grant it to is not educated in intrigue or learning since these have fertility perks, naturally lustful and fecund are risky aswell. But for the most part 60+ mf's are pretty infertile)

I really enjoyed watching this because your commentary is amusing and the speed of your actions accurately reflects the spirit of the medieval age: "Act now because I might be dead tomorrow." Most medieval rulers were young, male and impetuous.

lmaoo ur liege was like don't pass ur trouble over to me u keep them 😂 ik he was probably doing it cuz u held the dutchie title its self but that was funny though 😂

One thing I learned for counting counties is if you hover over a coat of arms the game can give you the total of any character. I believe you can hover over your liege or fellow vassals as well

"Mayors, they don't really count" I see what you did there...

Love the content man keep it up!

Nice work on the 80k subs, hope you'll have something special for the 100k!

Your King being 'The Smelly' after such a long and very impressive challenge is hilarious.

Yesss finally new video

I’ve never tried this playstyle before; I’m definitely gonna have to give it a go!

If you have land that you want to give to your liege, you can grant it to someone and then grant that vassal to your liege (assuming you don’t hold the duchy title of that land).

Wow what an interesting idea! Great vid 👍

By far, my favourite games have been when I've played loyal vassals. I played a Finland game where our liege was utterly incompetent and we were being attacked by 3 or 4 people at once because of it. I had to deal with those forces personally every single time, either by joining the war or intercepting as a neutral force. Eventually I was elected as King against my will.

Amazing! I loved this concept

"Mayors don't really Count" I know you didn't do it on purpose, but it made me laugh anyways

Am playing cr2 for the first time having fun cuz of u bro thank u for introducing me to this amazing series

I’d love to see you continue this or do the same thing for a different empire, it’s like your liege was your puppet XD

On the rulers window hower over the primary title icon (the big one on the left) and the tooltip shows the realmsize.

I always wanted to do this, just didn't remember every time I'd start a new game.

I did this as a vassal of the Pope once. It was fun.

That worked out quite well. Should be useful in RP playthroughs!

8:09 I'm kind of his only vassal that matters, the rest are mayors, which mayors, they don't really COUNT. BADUMTISS.

I love this kind of videos and I missed them

wow its fr one of the best challenges you ever did in my opinion

Idk if anyone told you this, so sorry if you know by now, but while you are a vassal, granting your vassals independence gives them to your liege. Also ur liege kept spamming you because you were holding the dutchy titles for the vassals he tried giving you! Im a sucker for playing as a vassal, fun to see someone else actually do it too!

TIP: If you hover mouse over the rulers flag (be they liege or other) it will pop-up how big their realm size is. I usually play as a vassal and try to expand my lieges realm to an empire, so knowing this can be extremely helpful when calculating how much more you need to 'obtain' for them! Don't forget to subtract any land them have outside of De Jure borders though (forming Germania and HRE is a pain for this).

Looks like you were owning the duchy title that's why he is keep on trying to give that vassal

this was awesome

This was really refreshing to see now reclaim Rome as a Byzantine vassal

You should do a kushite (kemetic) reconquest of Egypt as Egyptian culture! Or Anglo Saxon reconquest after William takes over!

Make more videos they are awesome. A lot of love❤

Plz continue with this😭🙏🏽

Your liege probably didn't want to declare war on Deheubarth because he's craven.

That's kind of an insane play XD

I find it’s fun to play as Sardinia and , as a vassal to the pope, form a true Holy Roman Empire.

Really good vid, can you play the new lord of the ring update and revive kingdom of moria ?

Currently showing this to my vassals

Of course there is a way to grant the land in wales to your liege, you make vassals and then grant them to him

You should have way more subscribers. Your content is top notch. Though, I don't know is CK3 enough "mainstream" or do you upload videos often enough. Anyway, I will watch and follow with pleasure and with gratefulness.

Try and do this with the Papacy. 😂

Please do a part 2 if the video is popular enough

I love to build up 5 or 6 kingdom titles, then create and split to independent heirs. See what they do.

What is better cataphracts or monaspa ?

Definitely should have been playing tall and giving your liege vassals from the get go, it would have made him stronger faster. A perfect example is when you conquered Munster. Give your liege the Munster vassal, then give your liege the Munster duchy title which the liege gives to the Munster vassal so that you not only give your liege a vassal but one who likes him. Also that’s why your liege kept trying to give you vassals, you held the dejure duchies which you should have given him. Also giving a vassal a dukedom while a Duke does not masked them independent of your liege just you, like a realm splitting upon inheritance.

I spent 200 years from 867 trying to make one of the karling become Emperor so I could form Switzerland but for some reason this is the only time they refused to.

Which mods did you use in this video?

I tryed this while being a powerfull vassal of the holy roman empire... Sadly their system is kinda scuffed and made me the emporor bcause they all wanted me and didnt allow me to stay the faithfull servant...

I love sending my kids to the varangian guard as a test to see if they're worthy, same with giving them land after they get the first or second courtier trait thingy. (valued intrigue courtier or the likes)

I just did this with the pope, really fun :) also the empire title is interesting

more plz!

First time I see the Teutonic Order. Wtf

I'll try this challenge myself tho

garibaldi actually did similar challange irl!

i have never seen the teutonic order, how does it occur? Mods?

love your Videos can you do a video where Ireland takes over The British Empire

When we can expect first live

all of Europe would be awesome

I like the idea but it seems quite tedious

Why do you exceed your domain limit?

I woul love to see you conquer Europe.

I would LOVE if you just KeptPushing the liege's family higher and higher... Just keep the great lands of britania expanding and prospering.

someone finally pronounced Gwynedd correctly

Yma o hyd! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Continue this

How do you get that shield COA style for dynasty and your realm?

Shwmae bud, I'm playing as Gwynedd and was about to form the kingdom of Wales, then my king died and suddenly my realm broke up. I'm a noob at the game and I know us Welsh used to fight ourselves a lot but how do I stop my family members from declaring independence when my current character dies?

What mod is this?

What mod adds the tuetonic order

I didn't know teutonic order exist in ck3, is it possible to play as it, can you do it?

Oh But where too you from en ? its deffo a carms / swansea area from the lingo see.

Chronicle Writing does not give multiple claims in a single war, that is one of your mods

What about the rise of the ghurid series :/

Liege into Roman Emperor

Conquer Europe. Yes please

Woah I have never seen a Jihad for something other than Jerusalem maybe there’s been an Ismaili vs Almohadi Jihad I’ve seen and I don’t even know if that’s possible. Definitely a Muslim on Muslim Jihad.

Europe as a vassal

I support anything Welsh

Take Europe!

Ur liege was craven. How well this playstyle works out and how often they go to war or create titles depends heavily on your liege's personality. Not to mention Gold and Prestige. This playstyle is theoretically possible but its not easy and I imagine takes patience

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Nothing personal to the creator but I hate it when the video interrupts my array of ads

i will never watch u agin becasuse u took ireland

The amount of shit happening because waring in 5 speed is hillarious, forgot how fun your gameplays are, filled with lovely fuck ups we all do while forgetting ourself on 5 loool