your unluckiness of not assassinating them was balanced by your luck they never declared war on you

That is THE DUDE responsible for the Crusade against Constantinople and one of if not the greatest Venetian Doge. Enrico Dandolo got blinded before the 4th Crusade, a few years later a Crusade was called to take Egypt, the Venetians(Dandolo) used this opportunity to offer the Crusaders passage by boat if they got paid or got some services, the Crusaders accepted, there was a quick stop at Zara where they sacked the city (Catholic one held by rivals of Venice if I recall) and got threatened by excommunication from the Pope for their sacking, then they met an Angelos ex-emperor who was deposed and promised to lah the Crusaders if they put him back in the throne, the Crusaders saw this as an opportunity to repay their debt, the city was taken and when the Emperor refused to pay them they killed him and sacked the city, a lot of shenanigans happen with Constantinople being sacked again and Dandolo being offered the crown but he refuses and ,it ends up with the creation of the Latin Empire led by the Vlandereen(Flanders) Dynasty with Baldwin I and the rest is history...

Nice video dude, you should perhaps try doing a full series on one of these starts, because you make this very enjoyable to watch.

Bro I’d love to see an episode by episode play through from you, your awesome at this

0:56 Nicea/Nikea was actually the Nation that Reunified the Byzantine Empire IRL under the Paleologos Dynasty.

Would love to see a full playthrough if possible enjoyed it

wow really good video, ngl iam surprised you only have this much subscribers, wish the the bests of luck mate

Would love to see this run continued! Great channel, you've earned a subscriber 😉

It wasn't actually 1/400 or 1/8000, the murder scheme percentage chance just doesn't take into account Dynasty Legacies and traits, like the one that prevents murders against dynasty members, or the Seduction tree trait that causes lovers to prevent murder schemes, or the effects of your target having bodyguards.

Great video, would love to see more bookmarks incorporated in these videos!

Would love to see the series continue!

Historically Nicea Restored Eastern Rome.

Your best bet for facing the Ilkhanate will be to switch to Intrigue. Repeated assassinations will keep them from being stable enough to expand, or even have enough Alliances to defend against you if you attack. Additionally, it may disrupt them enough for their vassals to form a Dissolution Faction, which without Alliances will make them shatter easily, leaving you free to gobble up the pieces. (The repeated failures were probably due to things such as a Dynastic Legacy giving one free assassination block to each member of the Dynasty, given by the devs because the usual strat is to assassinate Temujin's inheritors until the empire shatters.) Another strat is to dip into Kidnapping. The moment that the event to kidnap fires off, declare war before selecting "Do it." The max score is 85%, but the declaration of war will plummet it down to 5%. Do not worry about this. It is still happening simultaneously and will proc off of 85%. Having the leader already in your cell makes you instantly have 100% War Score without even raising your armies or gaining the Offensive War malus to Opinion.

not gonna lie, this video slaps. great job dude!

Amazing video my friend! I subscribed and liked the video :)

If I remember correctly the kingdom you started as was the most cocky one attacking Bulgaria and having all their court see the battle they lost and all their court get captured I think.

I don't know, that decision in the beginning seems to be really overpowered.

If only the Mongols were Christian, you could ally them and see the world burn. I loved to ally them and helped them thrive. One time I played as an Iranian Christian King, I became their vassal and helped them with every freaking war. Even knocking on the romans door. And on other ocasion I became a King of India, with my immense whealth I supported their economy (the mongols usually goes bankrupt after a few big wars) to make their troops better. The managed to reached western Europe before Temujin died and ruled as a united Empire for more than 50 years. The World map looks weird lmao because the Empires got replaced by their Mongol counter parts (I didnt know you could do that). I also place my family in a lot of their thrones, especially the Ilkhanate and Golden Horde are my homies, my family rules there and I always allied them, and yes the world is basically Christian, I know that the Mongols usually converted to their most subjects, but they became Christian on Temujin time just because there is some Orthodox and Nestorian in Mongolia (they might have stayed christian because I supported them, making the muslims, jews and manicheans unable to force the Khans to convert)

I wouldn't mind seeing you continue this.

Damn the Ilkhanates converted and hybridized real quick so even if the Mongol Empire fell they have a super stable successor state.

0:48 that is Enrico Dandolo, famous Venetian who lived and ruled well into his 90s

In CK2 there's one heck of an hard time fencing off mongols💀, because there are hordes that spawn randomly with 100k out of thin air.

Honestly, I’m amazed with your patience. If I lost a 90% success chance assassination, I’m restarting until I get it

I'm pretty sure when you account for you not having hired the body guards for the assassinations the second one can't count as you getting unlucky and getting a second 5%: you succeeded in the assassination attempt, but the bodyguard event only shows up if they succeed in the check to prevent it.

5:11 Restoring the Byzantine Empire: pretty normal Jochi becomes Khan instead of Oegedei: *visible confusion

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For the first time ever, in some many strategy games, i see someone reunite the Byzantine Empire with the royal family branch of Epirus, it feels so alien lol Most do with Nicaea, the one that historically got it, i usually do with Trebizond since in my eyes is the rightful royal family, but Epirus...

Sheesh this looks like a tough run

This’ pretty cool!

I remember my first play through when the Mogul empire formed. “On, that’s pretty cool” “Man, the are wrecking everyone around them. Did they just go to war with the Byzantines and win??!!” “Marriage, Marriage, marriage!!!!”

A other good display of passive ck3 AI

I’m so glad that it is called the roman empire.

Been away from CK III a while and I'll certainly try the Byzantines start with the mod! If you have any others, what other mods are you using?

Really good video, but would love a bit less loud music

dope

it was pretty fun 👍

Best mod

You can assassinate genghis khan pretty easily

idk how to do the math for these chances but i got 95% on murderrer scheme that didnt work five times in a row and chat gpt said its a 1 in unlimited chance💀

Nicea: Ny-see-ah

You could've taken the Bulgarian Kingdom and the you would've automatically gotten those provinces or been able to conquer them later because they became independent.

I’ve got a challenge for you play as pope and conquer the mongol empire

ingame music is too loud to enjoy the video

Pls, Name of the mode

It’s Ni-C-Uh

What is the Name of this mod ?

Mods name?

Not really if you start the game at normal difficulty instead of ironman or these senseless soul consuming difficulties

I was getting mega triggered because he kept saying empire when they were kingdoms, and calling empires kingdoms... like why, oh and my guy the mongol empire never splits because of wars it splits because of deaths

Excuse me, what mod is this?

Its too good decision. 2000 gold and bunch of eazy CB just fore "clame that i will recreate empire", not even fore success in this. WTF.

What was the mod ?

What’s the mod name?