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One of my favorite starts is in 1066, Alexios Komnenos, Duke of Boukellarion. In history he went on the become emperor of the Byzantine Empire, and play a huge role in the first crusade.

Here’s a historical character in the 1066 start date : Godefroy of Boulogne, second legitimate son of the count of Boulogne, he would become Duke of Lower Lorraine and then he will be first king of Jerusalem.

One of the most interesting for me is the Count of Samosata who in just 2 decades manages to form the Sultanate of Rum and capture Nicea through smart use of his "mercenary" status.

Harald yngling of the county of vikin in 867 is one of my favorites. 16 yo Norse with great martial and a quick trait and has a unique trait called the vow of tangled hair. You get a special event and extra diplomacy when you create the first kingdom of Norway.

The radhanit culture makes for some super fun alan campaigns, raid the hell out of georgia for gold and prestige with horse archers, merge cultures with the radhanites, keep the good perks, keep raiding. Conquer georgia, merge cultures to get monaspa and boom you have one of the best armies and cultures in the game before 1066

Hell yeah, a new entry in my favorite series of yours.

The Emir of Baqlin in 867 near Abyssinia is quite interesting, as the only duke-level practitioner of the ancient egyptian faith. Starts in a really good spot to expand, too

Been dying for this! Love the unique secret characters

I've played Socotra in CK2 a couple times, but not in CK3. The secret societies made it slightly easier to get people to interact with you.

I don't know if you're covered this in one of the other videos, but a notable character I'm playing right now is the Borjigin dynasty that Temujin has in the 867 start date all the way near Karakorum. He is a bastard but you can convert to a religion without bastards or give your brother land then wait to die, or when you die play a his mother. she can still get a child technically but it is difficult. Eventually I plan to stop the Mongol invasion the moment it spawns. Trying to develop land in one of the worst places and get the culture traditions to create a strong army with knights and men at arms to counter them. Without taking the Great Khan decision myself.

I liked that you showed koifish when you were talking about asatru

I've played Mazandaran a lot. Fun and just the right level of challenge.

11:14 wild koifish spotted

Top ten hidden characters in ck3: 1. father

you can also play as van vlaanderen dynasty in 1066 and conquer kingdom of thessaloniki and change its name to latin empire cuz historically they were the monarchs of latin empire

I loved the Emir Denha start, I love starting in the corner of the map and just slowly expand while keeping my kingdom stable. Great to see it on your list!

The Sheikh Rostam start was really fun, one of the best I've played. Glad you included it

Zachariah and Yeldem Ashina should have been on the list, supposedly they're the last two living members of Ashina dynasty (Gokturk ruling family). If you check the family tree it goes back to Muhan Khan the 3rd Khan of Gokturks if im not wrong. Sidenote: Bulan dynasty and their founder Khan Bulan are also Ashina descendants, you can see that by checking the father of Khan Bulan but as nomads cant create cadet branch of their dynasty it appears as a total new dynasty and house. This also applies to Dulo and Balgarsko.

Bruh, I loved the System of a Down reference

Love these fun starts! Always good stuff mate.

Love starting as Count Werner & just doing a Hapsburg run.

Erik the Heathen is definitely my favorite Viking ever. I have a really badass strat for him, and if you can reform Asatru with Christian Syncretism while going down the "Strange Gods" perk on the adventurer legacy tree and keeping the pluralist religious stance - you get +60 relations with everyone of a different religion (with apostate*). So of course, your ally Emperor Heinrich of the Holy Roman Empire will join any war you want - even holy wars against other catholic kingdoms, he doesn't care - after all, the pope comes to all your feasts because he's your number one bud. It's an absolute madhouse. Take Dublin early on and you can even flip back to Norse culture - which allows you to hybridize other cultures you conquer and make your daughters into shieldmaiden berserkers. But you better be ready, even though they love you like a brother, that crusade is always brewing in the background. My ultimate goal is to form the empire of the north sea, this is very very difficult to do as you have a very limited time frame before Norse culture hits the High Medieval, and you must hold 3 kingdoms for 30 years. But being a vassal is a huge advantage, and as long as you MURDER WILLIAM THE CONQUERER, it is actually quite easy to take advantage of Norway and England while they fight each other - all you must do is conquer county on your holy sites. For this part you may want to ally a bunch of pagans, then break betrothals later after you reform. Do all this as a vassal, then with your reformed "Christian friendly" version of Asatru, declare for your claim to the kingdom of Sweden. Christian Syncretism is OP in 1066, it even lets you qualify for Christian artifact bonuses. With the dynasty bonus and the learning tree bonus you will have way better relations with hostile faith than your own, and because you are no longer evil you get a -30 marriage acceptance instead of -1000.

Fantastic video keep it up you're doing amazing job

I just did a Count Herby game and lost the “restore carolignian borders decision because everybody wanted me to be the new emperor. 😭 200 years later all those kingdoms still aren’t Dejure lands and require bribes and alliances to not rebel.

i already told u alzabo pls make serbian custom character

In the 1066 start, the Duke of Vaspurkan and Mets Hayk in Armenia belongs to the Pahlavuni house that is a cadet branch of the Arsacid dynasty of the Parthian empire (rulers of Persia before the Sassanids). The house also exists in 867 by means of unlanded courtiers of the king of Armenia.

One fun start I have is Eadgifu Swanneshals, or "Edith" the Fair/Edith the Rich, one of the richest people in England at the time, supposedly a very distant great-great-etc-grandmother of Elizabeth II together with Harold II Godwinsson, and starts off as the only member of her very cool house which is literally a swan.

I would get count NordVPN ngl

"Is cursed to live near Belgium, chez les ch'tis", I felt that ! 😂thanks for representing my homeland 😉

Pfft, the zooming in on Count Werner's chin when you said Habsburg made me laugh.

The Hohenstaufens are also a unique and hidden little family you could play that are note worthy in history and would eventually become some of the best and well known Emperors and hes a count within swabia

Look at the county of besancon in the 866 statting date, there is a single county vassal of lothirangia there who is Frankish, definetly worth checking out.

The rhyming and references are almost as thick as with Ssseth.

In my latest 1066 start campaign through no fault or intervention of my own, the Karlings not only managed to break away from the French and rejoin the HRE, but two descendant houses managed to reclaim the Kingdom of Lotharingia, and later on the HRE itself including most of Italy.

In 1066, there is a decision to create archduchy of Austria, playing as duke of Bobenberg house

I played a campaign starting as Sheikh Rostam and it was the most fun I've had in CK3 to date. I highly suggest it if you're looking for some cool roleplay or just a fun, challenging campaign. He is the last landed member of the Sassanid Dynasty as well, I'm not sure if it was mentioned in the video. Very cool starting position.

This video is hilarious and so entertaining great job brother!

I always enjoy these videos and the superb puns

I live in the islands shown in 9:52. The name of the ruler is spelled wrong, this is a traditional name from the Indigenous tribes of my island, to which we Islanders are very connected. The original indigenous name is "Guanarteme", it was actually the name of one of the Leaders of the Tribes (or Mencey) during Spanish Conquest and here in Tenerife we have various statues dedicated to him and other Mencey from the time.

one of my favorite starts is the 1066 count of achen. not only do they control the powerful county of achen right from the start (with a good starting building) they also are in a perfect position to CB the county of cologne and cleves to take all of the valuable farmland from there. in my campaign i started as french and hybridized with dutch to form belgian. specifically to pick up agrarian. I would give it a try. grants you a strong anchor to project your power

You forgot that Rostam is the last descendant of the Sassanid dynasty

Love this man!

What interesting characters would you recommend playing in CK3? New video coming this week!

Watch at 1.5 speed or faster for AlzaboHD dropping rhymes edit: Sometimes

One of my favourite starts is the counties of the Duchy of Carinthia in 876 cause they're ruled by a Babenberg, the original Austrian dynasty and predecessors of the Habsburgs. They are historically significant insofar as that it was under them that Austria became an own independent duchy and, well, we know how history played out.

actually alzabohd... the most interesting character is a (serb that I made in custom creation, it has the best stats, you should play as my serbian character please.)

Koifish makes me spill all over phone

I've been having fun lately trying to form Normandy, convert to Catholocism, then become King of France, then form the French Empire conquering England and giving it to a dynasty member, crusading against Sicily, switching to the Sicilian beneficiary, and then going to Jerusalem with another crusade, switching to that beneficiary and forming Outremer. It's very fun, good events, variety, it has it all.

You need to mention the Nestorian Duke in the far end of Asia! Imagine a Mongol Christian empire Centered in the Heart of India and capital in the Holy site for Nestorianism. Genuinely the funniest campaign I've had

The rarest character is the one who will not become an incestuous fat schizophrenic (the character doesn't exist)

I’d be interested in a most interesting characters from the newest Elder Kings and ATE mods. I spend more time trying to decide who to play than playing quite often lol

I can appreciate how much ck3 you have to play through to give us this content. Good game but man I couldn't do it lol. Great video!

Love the video. More CK3 in the future please or maybe even Elder Kings 2???

Love your CK3 video, man.

🇷🇸 SERBIA #1!

‘Count Herbert cursed to reign « chez les chtis »´ cracked me. so i’m subscribing. that’s all

Ppl just mad cause they can’t rhyme, drop s-tier puns, or succeed past the Duke stage in CK3. As someone who fits that description, I don’t accept them as my people lol. Great vid. You’ve earned this sub

There's a criminally underrated mod in ck3 called Godherja and it would be pretty cool if you could do a video on it

Really appreciate it! It adds immense flavor to my next. Gam

Maybe some Tier-List vids? :D always fun to watch

Listen, Greg the Serb is the best character in the game, hands down.

A shame that CK3 isn't being developed a little more enthusiastically. It's pretty barebones and easy tbh.

Actually AlzaboHD, the best character in CK3 is Bogdan Serbović a custom character I made Jk

Citation needed on Konni being the strongest cultural MaA. Mubarizun and Longbowmen are far more cost effective.

May I just compliment you in your scriptwriting and poetic prose. Video after video are lyrical and fun to listen to and must take a lot of creative thought to put together. Bravo Sir.

Very good

U got bars dude

That "chin dynasty" quip got me rollin' rollin' rollin' rollin'

Sheikh Rostam also belongs to the Sassanid dynasty, which just adds some extra flavor to that particular campaign

One of my favorite CK2 playthroughs was as the Karlings in Vermandois. I started as Herbert, whose rule was uneventful. My eldest son received wounds that caused his eventual death. My next son, Boson Karling, went from the count of Vermandois, to the King of France in his life time. He lives to be in his 70s, All while leading armies and winning duels with “Etoile” a sword made from a meteorite that fell in our family’s court yard. That campaign still hypes me up just thinking about it.

Thats a coincidence, i did the Habsburg opening over the weekend lmao. Managed to diplomatically take over Austria and Styria and form the Archdutchy. Later took over the kingdom of Bohemia and Hungary. The HRE was practically dead after a huge peasant revolt that split it into two so I jump ship and formed the Habsburg Empire

I bet that Serbian custom character is the best of all!

Rollo is the Marshal of a Norway count. Forget who exactly but that would be a neat play

Straight bars!

Please try a austria into hre run from 800 onwards

I played Thomas becket in ck2. That was fun

I already told alzaBOB, play my custom *CROATIAN* character.

That koifish reference tho? Yeet!

I had never noticed that your french accent were so good👌

8:30 Rostam also belongs to the Sassanid dynasty

this is the kind of vidio i need to start a new campaing

You can play as my ancestor in the country of Berg in the later years, that’s obviously my favorite start!

I’d love to see this but for Elder Kings 2

I'm surprised they didn't do a campaign mode with otger, he was the promo guy has a story at the start to avenge his brother could have has him take Poland used him as the tutorial

You got bars

You can play as a Hohenzollern in the county of Zollern in Swabia. They of course would become the kings of Prussia and german emperors.

1:40 this caught me off guard 🤣

5:40 ALICE IN CHAINS REFERENCE

Just when you think you are having a bad day with not enough lubbas, babbas, and jabbas in a world full of pain, in comes one jabbabbalabbahabbabba and it's all worth living for, once again.

My favourite is kruto, who rules veletia on 1066, he starts out as a slovakskan ruler who has to contend with he hre, making it an interesting game.

What about Count(or Earl, idk) Eadric "The Wild" in 1066 start date. This count of Herefordshire and Shropshire is historically the leader of anglo-saxon resistance against William "The Conquerer." He is an interesting character to play in a anglo-saxon preservation gameplay.

Love your CK videos! Any interest in Dwarf Fortress? Would love to see your narrative style applied to that game - especially the way the game chronicles combat and history in each world

GG for your french pronounciation and easter eggs man ahah

Yo Alzo can you adjust the sensitivity of your mic a tiny bit please bro cause in your newer videos you can hear every sound your mouth makes(this is just incase you were aware of it) keep up the mad videos tho

A top ten of best cultures?

sheik rostam is the only landed sassanid left but is of a cadet branch

My favourite start is always Count Radboud of Holland in the Viking Age, the last landed member of the Folcwaldings, the House of the last Kings of Frisia before it fell to the Franks. While the Dev's decision to display all the regions that have never converted from Frisian to Dutch (Frisia, Dokkum, Groningen, West-Friesland and East Frisia), as well as the lack of Heligoland in the Sea of Heligoland frustrate me greatly, the turbulent times allow for quick Divergence or Hybridization with the Anglo-Saxons to a new Frysk culture, as well as Hybridization with the Norse or Danes for the North Frisian culture, allowing you to restore the (still to this day existing and never having died) Frisian culture to the Frisian lands in your own way. For anyone wanting to replicate this, I suggest taking West Germanic from the first method, as it not only makes more sense, but also allows you to Hybridize with the Saxons for the East Frisian culture later.

YESS

YO do Yemen Socotra but become a Venice (Please)