Imagine the history books in this alternate universe trying to explain what happened. "Everything from the Iberian Peninsula to the Indus Valley, from Mali to Mongolia was under a single banner until a bunch of archers from East Anglia decided, 'Nah.'"

Zieley: "it's too bad my son won't get a good martial education" Son inherits the kingdom: *is King Arthur*

The real question is how fast the empire would fall apart on its own under AI managment.

Imagine you’re one of Zieley’s soldiers and you just heard him say after 2 decisive defeats “These are the types of losses I think we can handle” lmao

You know shits about to go down when a knight is hiding behind a column in an ancient painting.

The worst part of watching a zieley video is restarting the wait for the next zieley video

he enslaved the world and watched one vinland saga edit and changed his mind

So, everyone will ignore the fact that an 6 years old child already had 29 prowess???

"Only a sith deals in absolutes", he says, as he himself mutters an absolute.

I don’t know if they changed it, or if you figured it would be too easy, but I believe your Acclaimed Knights can get a Crossbow title, making your Crossbowmen get a boost from both it and the Archer Knight

Please tell me you've made a back up of this save file before the destruction... as impressive as this feat is, destroying such a massive empire always make me sad

"The world has returned to its natural state" meanwhile Northumbrian Delhi exists

the bigger they are, the harder they fall 🥵🥵🥵

Please play Georgia tall and obliterate the Abbasids and the Byzantines in the 867 start

I feel like at the end it would of been morefun to see you become a powerful diarch by being an entrenched regent and maybe even staging a coup to take full control of the empire. I havent seen that many people fully explore the regent playstyle.

Holy shit this was insane. Im impressed every time when you do something like this. But this is really impressive

It feels strange being this early

It's my mate Zieley! Good to see you again mate ❤

please take this into a mega campaign that would be really cool ngl

*your intros are just so good, the lacrimosa the paintings with you in it that make you feel like the character is talking gorgeous* edit: big numbers go _BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR_ edit: ya computer is beefy thicc

Oh, hell yeah, you actually went and did it. Awesome video Zieley, thanks for always bringing us such awesome content!!

Challenge- Have the best Empire; highest development, most troops, most religious sites, best royal court, et cetera. Stipulations: 1) Start with one unpretentious barony. 2) No more than one barony per county. 3) All baronies must be in multi-barony counties. 4) No barony (in different counties) may be geographically adjacent. I think you can do it.

Oh, man, finally I catch you early! Been binging your videos for a bit and the quality blew my mind. Keep up the amazing work!!

What’s funny is the sentence “ only a sith deals in absolutes” is, in itself, an absolute

bro, i've been so hyped for a new zieley video. i discovered you recently, and i think i've watched every single one of your videos, even the vicky 3 stuff

A damn good job. It's always satisfying to watch you crusadin' them kings.

Oh yes, the famous East Anglo-Greek Kingdom toppling the World Government in mid 1300s

Great Video! I'd love to see more multiplayer content!

So this is what they meant by "You're your own worst enemy" great video Zieley I can't wait for the next one!

Love your videos man. How about having a go at forming the rarest kingdoms in the game?

You just earned yourself a subscriber. I love your content

Ur such a pro at this game.i love ur content. Please keep up thr great content. Thank u for ur time and effort and patience making the videos.

Surprisingly fun video. Don't think ive ever seen anyone do this. There is even a battle vs the final boss.

This was a great video. Prime content. New Zieland never saw it coming.

How about skirmisher only challenge? I'd love to see how powerful you can make them

a fitting end to a fantastic series!!

AI: "crap I'm playing against Zieley. I need to cheat" 😂

Just watched creation of The Empire yesterday. Holy moly what a timing, this will be a good one 🤞

The excitement you have for maps is worth the price of admission 👍

I love how replayable this game is

Zieley in an alternate universe be like: "Why and how is this one vassal obliterating the army used to conquer the world??!!"

can you just imagine the aftermath of these battles; 35000 corpses littering the floor of a valley porcupined by 100's of 1000's of arrows and bolts.

I love watching your vids even tho I don't even play the game that much! I hope you continue doing content like this!

I'm interested to see a "Pacifist Run" of sorts. I've found that despite being way more character and RP focused than some other games (E.G. Stellaris or EU), I struggle to have fun playing the game in diplomatic runs. There's fun to be had in playing a military superpower, but even with some of the new releases I struggle to have fun in the late game without being a brute.

Bro was holding the county of Nice like it was Thermopylae 😎

Obiwan: I will do what I must Anakin: You will try Me: Obiwan soundin' REAL sith like.

once again, who ever edits these is so on point 😆

Love these videos, good work, Zieley.. Do you ever have late game lag though? Especially once you have a worldwide empire?

Wake up babe, new Zieley vid just dropped❤️

I don't know if you are gonna see this but could you share the savefile for the aftermath. I'd personally love to play this timeline

Ex-squeeze me! Can we talk about the fact; that Darfur have lands along the channel in northern France? 🤣

That final map with a Delhi kingdom holding lands in Yorkshire is pretty funny.

This is insane, only thing similar to this is what I imagine is trying to build tall steppe

The Where’s Waldo Knight game never gets old.

I WAS WAITING FOR THIS

i'm a simple man... i see a Zieley video, i SMASH the LIKE BUTTON!

Love the edits + the video! Love from me and my friend owen❤

Despite the fact that he has primogeniture, assassinations to break alliances. Additionally, they remove long reign bonuses and increase discontent and faction chances amongst your vassals. You can literally destroy an empire just by spamming assassinations on the emperor.

Insane. Just insane. Couldn't believe my eyes.

Would love to see what empires would be created out of the ashes of the Great New zealand empire.

Jesus, the whole map, and here I am struggling to consistently take the Kanem-Bornu empire in Africa in the recommended start… every time I’m close I either get murdered or get set upon by three wars at once…

Great video as always, I have one question what are your PC specs? Usually this late to a game Iam lagging so much

I know it gets memed on but RotS had such a good lead in scene to Obi vs Vader. Nice choice.

Love the content man, when I heard DOOMSTACK I thought to myself, does my guy play TWWarhammer ?

Man they really should nerf dissolution cbs, they're so unrealistic At least make it so that you can't fire them if the liege is at crown authority lvl 4 or smth Great video btw can't wait to see where you'll take your next tall shenanigans

Oh my god. This was EPIC! Late game CK3 is just silly town lol

shoutout for the crossbowman carrying more than 1000 bolts with them to every battle.

Absolutely nuts

Battles in Ancient China be like: 200 000 casualties 300 000 civilians dead Minor Han Victory

you need hooks for your fellow vassals to join dissolution faction, thats the only way currently to have them in

let’s go east anglia mentioned for its first time in its life

Always amazing videos

It’s a shame that the balance is so off, i have created equally strong dynasties in just one kingdom, honestly expected more from a global empire but alas

Think of the mass chaos that happened when the global empire broke out.

Every time I watch a Zieley video I feel like I am playing where’s Waldo

Would’ve been better to change scutage to march in your vassal contract along side with decreasing tax for higher levy. Scutage increases your tax obligation while march decreases it in exchange for greater levy contribution; additionally, having march contract lowers your army maintenance cost, saving you even more on expense.

Question: Would the bonus you get to the Hunting Grounds building chain from the Nile Archers (or whatever it's called) Cultural Trait also stack with Longbowmen?

Not bad. But to destroy an Empire this Big from the Inside, is easy. But to go Head to Head with an eaqualy strong Empire - that´s where the real fun starts. In total there are around 2,564 Counties. One has to do a little Charakter switcheru here and there (obvious no Iron Man Mode, otherwise this isn´t possible) and made 2 Empires with 1282 Counties each. Then we went to War. It was beautiful.

Love the Mourinho reference

you sure came like a wrecking ball x)

great video idea 👍

this was amazing

Oh, you're approaching me... Just call your heir Jotaro already!

Is there a link to the previous video in which he made the giant empire? i'd love to watch it so I can get some more knowledge on what's going to happen here?

those are some Hannibal level victory details at the end of the video.

Oh the border gore after the dissolution.

Looking at that Finland in Denmark at the end hurt my eyes.

So you can just "catch" a fleeing army with a regular one and send everyone straight back into the fight? That's huge if not only true for the AI.

It will be interesting to see you play Bulgaria.

This isn’t completely inaccurate. Longbows were revolutionary in medieval combat and they were single-handedly responsible for the end of knighthood

Kinda want to see you reconquer this world from a third position

Hey, I would love to see what the most damage is a man-at-arms unit can have. When i played tall india my elephants got to around 1200dmg and I am curious to what heights this number can get

Damn, you really made Anakin vs Obi-wan even sadder just by changing the soundtrack...

You can dissolve the realm as a regent if you get powerful enough

Honestly i really hope that they give a full update just on ai improvement. Silly that you can win a war like that.

Damn, just casually masacared a quarter of a million man in 3 battles

As a CK3 youtuber, this is SO pleasing.....

Another Zieley banger

Nice video, I can confirm that late game CK3 AI is terrible at making strategic decisions like how big stacks to form and which enemy provinces to take, so you can easily exploit this even without crazy buffed man at arms. As long as you can force them to split and then wait for them to start taking some castles, you can easily outmaneuver them and pick only battles you can actually win. But you made an impressive display of what is meant to lose in Pyrrhic battles yet still winning a war. I would personally also go to martial for tactics before starting the war and reforming the culture to have it some useful war-related buffs for archers or army in general.

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