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actually characters of any culture/faith can form the kingdom of livonia, you just get the nickname "the scourge of the baltics" instead of "the father of the batlics"

I managed to form Greater Armenia starting as the incapable ruler in 1066. One of the hardest playthroughs I've done.

It's been a long time since we've done a top 10! What future videos would y'all like to see? What other games besides CK3 would you like to see content in?

I love it how every time Armenia is mentioned, you make a System of a Down reference.

Correction for the Roman restoration decision, you don't have to be the HRE or ERE to take the decision. You can also reform Rome if you have taken the "unify Italy" decision and have Latin heritage and be Christian or Hellenic.

The hardest one I formed was the Archduchy of Austria in about 920 AD. It was so frustratingly hard I was just about in tears, lol. First, I had to found the HRE, then somehow convince everyone to NOT vote for me so I could be reverted back to a duke. I was able to rush forming the HRE in one generation by swearing fealty to East Francia then consuming them from within. Then I was stuck as a duke for like 50 years while I tried to rush 'royal perogative' so I could get to Authority level 3. Not as simple as it sounds, as being stuck as a fairly low-powered duke I found I was at constant risk of losing leadership of my culture (which I didn't want to diverge for RP reasons). It seemed that for every county inside my lands I converted to my culture, this other duke I couldn't really touch was converting like 1.2 of his own to my culture. But eventually I got the tech, but then I had to hold everything together while trying to NOT get elected as the Emperor of the HRE, (or somehow get a dynasty member elected, which just wasn't happening) and also get a strong hook on the current Emperor. I managed to get a fairly decent schemer as my character, but my god was it so hit and miss fabricating the strong hook. You'd get a weak hook, find out a secret that blocks you fabricating until you revealed it, or fail, and he was at constant risk of dying. I just about cried tears of relief when it all finally came together in the end, but there is SO FREAKING MUCH that can go wrong and completely screw it up. I was very happy to see that yes, it set my inheritance to primogeniture, and I was able after that to build an amazingly stable and wealthy empire (the Empire of Austria) without a single care over a messy inheritance. After I grew to the size of the HRE I even got elected back as the HREmperor, (which I actually tried to avoid by voting for anyone who wasn't me, since I didn't want all their crappy lands dragging on my court amenities costs), but I eventually decided to just merge it with the Empire of Austria and call it a day.

You honestly have one of the best paradox content on yt, also your Polish pronounciation made my day. You are really doing great work

I can only imagine the cultural-linguistic clusterfuck that would have resulted if the Crusader Empire was an actual, long term thing IRL. Like the Norman Invasions x1000

His "polish" killed me.

another cool thing you apparently can't do yet in CK3 is form the Latin Empire, which is in the game files as a titular title but there's no mechanics to form it or even spawn it by the way, the Kingdom of Trinacria and Naples are the two halves of the old kingdom of Sicily created after the Aragonese invasion - King of Trinacria would remain a title in the Aragonese crown until it was all awkwardly meshed together as Spain and then, in the posnapoleonic world, the two kingdoms were binded together once more as the Kingdom of Two Sicilies

Forming Greater Armenia is one of my favorite runs, and I had this dream run where I started as Rurik, got the duchy of Cilicia by a Varangian adventure, proceeded to form Greater Armenia, and finally became the Saoshyant.

Alzebo, they adjusted something. I was able to start as Ivar the Boneless, reform Hellenism for 250 piety, without having to sacrifice anyone. Went on to form Kingdom of Isle and Mann. Became Norman. Became English. Eventually reformed Rome. It feels magnitudes easier than it did before. Nothing more cursed than an English, Hellenic, Emperor of Rome.

I really liked the "kurwa bardzo dziękuję Polska" didn't expect that at all. btw great pronounciation. ofc besr of wishes from Poland!!

the roman empire is extremely powerful: it cores every empire you own, meaning you pretty much stop having inheritance issues entirely and it gets really hard for enemies to have claims on your land.

I formed the Roman Empire by starting as King Sancho II of Castille in Ironman Mode. It took me until 1419 to reform the Roman Empire and it took me until 1450 to reclaim all lost land.

There is a hard one you missed, the empire of the northern sea . It involves parts of england ,denmark and norway. I usually transition from mann and the isles into it

I’ve actually done the Roman Empire in 1066 as Austria and took over the HRE for generations, and eventually turned it in to partition inheritance, but not in Ironman

love when you do CK3 vids, keep up the great work

I still wish that ck3 had more flavor. I'm hopelessly addicted to getting fucked up in ck2's event lines. Still it's great to see another top 10 fuckin stoked!!

11:20 ha. No one conquers the Tamil kings. You always have These Bill wurtz references in your Videos! I love it

Rome is actually one of the few states here that I formed. Basically took the easy path by starting as Byzantium in 867, focusing on mending the schism and picking up the missing duchies between peace timers. It was oddly satisfying to see the west turn orthodox, even if I never conquered any more land than the required amounts.

9:56 that "dzień dobry" was one of the best Dzień dobry's that i ever heard from non polish person

Funnily enough, i discovered the kingdom of mann decision when doing my iceland island empire achievement run, was a nice little bonus having a kingdom so early. I also discovered bactria completely randomly during my zunist run, but i preferred to form the empire of Zabol

Rome is honestly pretty easy as Byz. You have prog, you have tons of heretics around you for dread farming, and Constantinople is broken as hell. Its just a matter of masochism and time

I found restoring Rome sorta easy as the Byzantines in the 867 start date. ended up conquering all of southern Italy with not much difficulty and then when the Queen of Italy had no husband and my character had no wife we married, I had her son killed so our new son would be heir to both realms and after that I just had to farm prestige before he died. Also winning a series of holy wars against the Abassids before. Hardest one I think I've done though was definitely the Archduchy of Austria. Kept trying to get strong hooks on the Emperor but everything I tried just gave me weak hooks lol, I had everything else I needed already

trinacria is actually the name of the ancient and current sicillian flag (the rotating three legs with medusa's head in the middle)

Love the vids bro! keep it up m8!

I am surprised that the Kingdom of Bene-Israel didn't make either the list or the honourable mentions, maybe it's so rare that Mr. Alzabo didn't even know it existed? It's formable if you are Malbarist Jewish and control the western coast of the Tamil

AlzaboHD like me has completely moved on from eu4 and now eagerly waiting for eu5

Another "hidden" realm is the Realm of Fashion when you bring a new fashion to your court. You even get the nickname "The King of Fashion". But it's not really rare i agree.

Just when I was running out of ideas of what nations to play alzabo has blessed us with this list

As a noob to this game a find it interesting that the Roman Empire was #1. I found it relatively easy to accomplish because you’re starting as a powerful nation to begin with. Anything that requires starting smaller is much more difficult for me

Oh yeah, the Livonia Kingdom. I think I know what I'm going to do in the next CK3 save. I will make my ancestors pround.

I formed the roman empire but forgot to turn on iron man mode it feels bad

I played as Sicility the other day and formed the Kingdom of Baleo-Tyrrhea. That was pretty interesting. You just need to hold all the islands in the Western Mediterranean Sea basin (Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, and the Balearic Islands) and the title basically gives you a casus belli to conquer all coastal counties of the Mediterranean Sea, and I mean all of them, including those in the Eastern basin.

You can also restore the Roman Empire if you complete the "Unify Italy" decision as an Italian. That's what I did in my current playthrough, although it's a lot more difficult than starting as the Byzantines, or HRE.

Important to note that you can form the Roman Empire if you’ve taken the “Unite Italia” decision.

New alzabo video on a Monday? Hype

Your s's pierced through my ears every time on this one ThankSSS

I like the jokes you tell. I'm definitely subscribing!

I created Outremer yesterday, and I became an absolute superpower in the process. I then spent the rest of the game helping other kingdoms nearby resisting holy wars, redirecting crusades to form other Christian realms in the area and consolidating the realm by spreading my Faith, improving cultural acceptance and killing revolting peasants. It was a great run.

The Kingdom of Trinacria was formed after the War of The Sicilian Vespers was concluded and De Barcelonas took control of the Isle of Sicily and later incorporated it as one of the Crowns of Aragon

Always good to see one of these.

These kinds of vids are definetly was Alza does best!

I’ve done like half of these I didn’t know about the other half though this will definitely give me even more hours in game thanks

Great narration throughout the video ;D

Thanks for all the rhythm!

More Videos on Decisions that people aren't familiar with or don't get often. Videos like how to get Shrewd would be cool and where the best Universities and Renown Special Buildings are etc

Cool video bro 👍

Your relentless dedication to puns through every list video is such a joy to watch

0:58 1:15 Your cats are cute! I love cats! 😁

This one is for the algorithm. 10/10 vid just for the puns alone. I appreciated the dedication.

Good work on the ad, it really cracked me up

There's also the Kingdom of Baleo-Tyrhennia, which can be formed by holding the whole of Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily and the Balearic islands. It gives you an automatic casus belli for any county on the Mediterranean coast for 100 years after the title is formed.

okay, this might be too much personal information, but i was feeling kinda down on myself last night and couldn't get to sleep, and then i watched this video and got to "this is easy if you stackwipe your own forces" and just burst out laughing and immediately felt a lot better about myself, so thanks for that! also i really like your penchant for puns and rhymes, so i'm definitely adding your channel to my mental 'must watch YT videos' list!

I love how much you chuckle throughout this

Awesome. Thanks for this :)

I don't know if anyone knows about the Duchy of Thessalia, it requires you to play as a count of Thessalia for 100 years to form, because it can only be formed when the country of Thessalia is no longer a de jure of the Duchy of Hellas. I think its one of the rarest to form.

I formed the Empire of Slavia using Novogorod. It was rather fun and fairly simple. Mainly just had to time my attacks against the Steppe faction, and Bulgaria when they where warring/had a new ruler that was a kid with little units.

Your dedication to terrible puns is most egregious, in the truest sense of the word.

You should do a video on Archduchy of Austria. Arguably one of the coolest kingdoms because of the special name. But I've yet to find a way to form it in iron man because of its unrealistic requirements.

Very cool video. Indeed some of these kingdoms/empires should be ironman achievements. I made "Turkish Eagle" and of course "Rise from the ashes". As I usually quit a campaign after getting the aspired achievement, I have not realised the amazing traits coming from that. I considered unifying the Slavia as I played the "Brave and Bold" campaign. But since without Steam Achievement no one will ever know about this great accomplishment and even I will forget about it, I left it alone.

Cool vid bro!

The Cornwall kingdom is probably my favourite to try for. If you hold Wessex and Hwicce (maybe more, can't remember) when forming the kingdom they auto-de jure, weakening those dirty Saxons, which is always a plus.

Man that was a tough listen. But great info. Cheers.

I love and hate your rhyming at the same time, it's amazing 🤣🤣

Good video, even though it did have some errors. As someone who really like to start somewhere in Italy and try to recreate the Roman Empire, I know that being the Emperor of Italia and taking the "Unite Italy" decision also enables you to reform Rome. Also, only your former empire titles get replaced and only the "Dismantle Greek/German pretenders" decision increases the de jure empire size without drift.

Started as Athelred Mucel, earl of Lincolnshire in Mercia in the 867 start. After taking 3 Mercian shires, i attacked Northumbria took the south half of the kingdom Became the Independent King of Diera which my cort and kings had some awesome attire and looked like they were the richest empire around. Then after conquering East Anglia Kent, and then a part of Frisia, i politically conqoured Mercia and made Deira the supreme kingdom of England, working on getting Wessex to accept me as their overlord its a fun and unique playthrough never seen the Deiran kingdom on any other gameplay.

I've really never saw such a masterful use of puns. Music to my ears

Love the vids :) I mad Mann last week and I also found Cornwall then too but didn't make it :D

How did you open that Innovation in Lombard culture without waiting? It was very interesting, i haven't seen that before.

Cool vid bro

Finally a video about formable nations in ck3, for how long the game has been out you'd think there would have been more of these.

Know you mainly do CK and EU4 content but would love to see some Civ or City Skylines content!

Lol Rum was my first playthrough in CK3 as the Armani. Rage quit quite a few times until I figured out hot to deal with Byzantium

i loved this, going to try the bactria one and India (already did the slavs when doing the piast achiv and roman with an hellenic roman for fun)

Awesome video!

In my latest campaign I actually formed the Empire of Slavia as Serbia and it took me forever. I started in the 867 and I conquered the last of the required counties in like 1430 or something. That was also attempt two.

The Kingdom of Mann & The Isles can make for a pretty fun and challenging playthrough, but no mention of The High Kingdom of The North Sea? It's one of the rarest achievements in the whole game!

The kingdom of Trinacria is basically the kingdom of sicily. It was formed in real life by a king of Aragon and it split the former kingdom of sicily in two, the Kingdom of Sicily (insular, Trinacria) and the Kingdom of Naples. Later, the two unified again and became the Kingdom of Two Sicilies.

Cool vid, dawg

cool vid bro :D

Creating the holy Roman empire will definitely be my greatest achievement in this game, I didn't start out going for but realized I could possibly go for. wish I would've done it sooner lol

The Austrian Archduchy is also pretty cool to obtain. The only hard part of obtaining it is that you have to be a vassal of the HRE, meaning it can’t fall apart, and your player character can’t be the HRE emperor. With other conditions as well obviously. But it was hard for me because every time I tried, I would be elected as the emperor because everyone loved me because of my virtuous traits and congenital beautiful trait.

Fun fact: "Trinacria" is the Greek name for "Sicily", it means "three tips".(or maybe it's the Latin name, i don't remember exactly).

I am blown away by your pronunciation of Grzegorz whateveritwaz. I say that as an English speaker, so I guess it doesn;t mean much, but it sounded pretty accurate to me.

After getting all the achievements (before royal court that is) I did s run from one province count - to ruler of India - to as much as you can conquer. Was fun, would highly recommend trying

Nice to see that Paradox changed the Establish Bactrian Supremacy decision to allow for clan government as well as feudal. It was always a pain to start outside of Bactrian lands just for the right government type.

Great list but was surprised not to see Switzerland or Austria in there!

Starting as Apulia in 1067 with the Sicilian culture and the kingdom of Sicily, you can empower Sicilian Parliament and form the title once you move your capital to Naples.

I formed Cornwall just recently for fun. Did a whole ironman gamemode about just corn... Made Britannia but renamed it Empire of Cornwall. Way I formed Rome took the long long route... Was a vassal for the Byzantine and just consumed it from within then crusaded my way to the bottom left. Was fun.

I didn't even skip the sponsor. You have talent, sir.

Thank you ❤️

Not me attempting for Slavia on my first run after I started as a pomeranian duchess or queen i done even remember. Made a custom ruler but she was like over 100 years old and I'm playing as her great grand daughter now.

Oh, I once formed the Kingdom of Livonia, that was quite an effort. But it has a nasty flaw, I noticed during the succession to my heirs. It immediately fell apart as my second son directly formed the kingdom of estonia. Because the few provinces necessary went to him. Then, the traitor immediately made a pact with some finnish raider king and prevented my antedecessor to rightfully claim back the glory of livonian greatness. 😀

In 867 there is an armenian apostlic kingdom vassal in the abbasids so starting as that it's rather easy and I found it a lot of fun!

Lionheartx10 has done a restore the Roman Empire run and it’s definitely worth a watch

I really wanna see a video on expanding Georgia. I imagine it is one of the hardest countries to develop and expand as it has many enemies with loads of allies with them.

That dry sense of humor you have is just perfect.