Errata: Aethelred II (978 AD) was the official Aethelred “the Unready”, not Aethelred I, Alfred’s brother.

@landonricketts4309

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ye

@aguy6771

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M8 dont talk that shite at the beginning. We're all Brits. English, Scots, Northern Irish, heck even the Welsh. GSTK

@MellowScot

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@@aguy6771 A lot of Scots don’t actually consider themselves British. Around 62% of the country according to the 2011 Census. Not saying whether or not I agree but this intro was meant as a piece of satire not to be taken too seriously.

@aguy6771

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@@MellowScot yeah i get that m8. Be whatever national identity you want to be.

@tomdebom1346

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Also quick side note, unready doesnt mean the same as the modern meaning, it means ill-advised. Slightly ironic as Aethelred means well-advised. Same way that Alfred means Elf-Advised or Elf-Counsel

Meanwhile Croatia and Navarra were like "if the English can do it, why can't we?"

Love how the rise of Britannia starts with the suicide of misunderstood fellow

i love when british do british. British

@makebritaingreatagain4712

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If only Ireland felt the same

@hunterhorsehelmsley7315

Жыл бұрын

​@@makebritaingreatagain4712 Who cares what those peasants think ?

@bsicstars

Жыл бұрын

What 😀

@xebastianrodriguez

Жыл бұрын

Same, I love it when British do British

@corsojames

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​@@makebritaingreatagain4712 I don't think they liked it when British

Great video. It always amazes me people who can just stretch across the map, but i'm such a slow player, and will spend 200 years developing lands before i consider expansion.

@goose93

Жыл бұрын

I'm such a fast player, ill conquer half of europe in 8 years then collapse because independence factions. Such border gore

@chrislosd162

Жыл бұрын

​@@goose93 this comment is so real.

@lewisphelan6819

Жыл бұрын

@@goose93 i used to be like this and then i played a game with the idea of making all my vassals my dynasty members, in particular my rulers children. it made family members more powerful, more likely to be problematic, and aslo more likely to be close allies. not to mention it slowed down expansion. i also try to convert all my lands to my culture that one is much slower and i don’t follow so closely

@jonahthrane812

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For some reason I'm never able to do that.

@lewisphelan6819

Жыл бұрын

@@jonahthrane812 do you mean because you dont know how or you just never think to do it?

Damn those edits be shmexy 😍

@potatohead9551

Жыл бұрын

ayeeeeeee! Here comes another fellow Celts (well... Canadian)! Love ur vids btw!

@MellowScot

Жыл бұрын

Thanks a bunch!

It's insane how much your videos have improved over a short period of time!

Scots were just as involved in empire as the English, which is why Australians and Hong Kongers have weird accents

@MellowScot

Жыл бұрын

Especially the jacobites who had a line dedicated to them in the national anthem which you get to hear in the video

@goranpersson7726

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While england ended up the senior partner in the union weren't the monarchs actually Scottish tho? Like the whole thing where they started to be a single nation was because Scottish royalty were placed on the English throne

@MellowScot

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They were until the glorius revolution when the Stuart dynasty got ousted causing a civil war where mostly Scottish Highlanders were on the side of the Stuarts

@aguy6771

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@@MellowScot the "rebellious scots" to crush isnt actually used in the National Anthem, its an older deviation from the original "God Save George our King."

@MellowScot

Жыл бұрын

@@aguy6771 yeah it was probably only ever officially sung in the 1745 rebellions

Just found your videos today. These are amazing! Really appreciate the effort you put into editing these, definitely gonna subscribe to see more of your work!

@MellowScot

Жыл бұрын

Thanks a bunch, more on the way!

I swear all the channels with like 3,000 subs are amazing. Nice video you now have another viewer

@MellowScot

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!I only got to around 3k subs in the past week so hopefully will keep going!

I can’t wait to see your channel grow, your videos are of so high quality!

@MellowScot

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

@mariasirona1622

Жыл бұрын

Totally agreed

You can just start as alfred the great btw :). His older brother seems to die like 90% of the time.

@MellowScot

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Yeah I know but if you do this you can actually get Alfred on day 1 if you have a successful abdication! (Was originally trying to see if could beat off both viking hordes but it’s a bit of a nightmare)

@cuff1626

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Oh yeah getting him as fast as possible seems like the best way to go about it.

@zerogbot23

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Everytime I've played as him the brother lives it's this games way of trolling me

@vetofallen521

Жыл бұрын

@@MellowScot His brother is scripted to die pretty quickly. Committing suicide has the pretty harsh -1 dynasty fame malus

@MellowScot

Жыл бұрын

Ideally you want to just reload until you get an abdicate but I just decided to go with what happened for dramatic effect...

I formed Great Britain as the Irish and it was called Alba. But the Kingdom of Scotland was also called Alba. So a bit of territory up north was a yellow Kingdom of Alba but I was red Alba and an Empire.

@kaifidango

Жыл бұрын

The Empire name changes based on your culture if im not mistaken, given both gaelic and irish cultures fall under Goidelic that is why

@unbindingfloyd

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@@kaifidango I wonder if that means the Kingdom of Alba being named just "Alba" forming Great Britain just stays "Alba". I was Ireland to Alba but I'm guessing Alba would just stay Alba either being a Kingdom or Empire.

@kaifidango

Жыл бұрын

@@unbindingfloyd I suppose its just lack of flavor from paradox, since Irish and Gaelic in this time period would still be really closely intertwined, the closest real name should technically be "The Empire of Albion" or "Albion Empire"

This channel needs more subs ngl I really enjoyed this video

@MellowScot

Жыл бұрын

Thanks a bunch! Working on it 😂

very nice vid my only issue is that it wasnt longer, also rule britannia u just earned a sub

@MellowScot

Жыл бұрын

Thanks a bunch!

I don't know how people are so good at this game!

@MellowScot

Жыл бұрын

A lot of hours...too many

When he called Æthelred I “Æthelred the unready” my inner historian became angry for 2 reasons

@MellowScot

Жыл бұрын

What was the second reason? I am pissed off at myself for naivly assuming there was only one Aethelred of England. My thought process just jumped to ah “this will make for a good joke about his stats” ... oops

@Ymylock

Жыл бұрын

The other reason is that he was called “Æthelred Unred” which many people assume means “Æthelred the Unready” but “Æthelred” means “Wise council” and “Unred” means “Poorly (or badly) counselled” so his name (along with the nickname) means “Wise council poorly counselled”. My inner history nerd hopes this cleared things up.

I love a good British empire video

very great video

@MellowScot

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Very satisfying! I'm alsö a histörical börders recreater =)

@MellowScot

Жыл бұрын

It was satisfying but towards the end man was it a slog! India especially

@Chadius_Thundercock

Жыл бұрын

Personally I love to bring back great historical (or mythical) leaders back to life. Like a week ago I recreated King Arthur’s empire

Lore of The MOST British CK3 Playthrough Ever momentum 100

THIS is a MASTERPIECE

@MellowScot

Жыл бұрын

Glad you think so! 😂 I had fun making it

"Going to upgrade to this model" i laughed a little

Amazing!

@MellowScot

Жыл бұрын

Thanks a tonne!

Amazing.

@MellowScot

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Angevin holdings in France and Hannover would also have been good.

@goose93

Жыл бұрын

But that's not part of the British empire

great video

@MellowScot

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Thanks!

Great video but that's not Ethelred the Unready! He was a much later king of England (still from the house of Wessex though)

Well, the title unready given to Æðelræd actually means bad counciled. There is a word in old English “Rǣd”. It can mean several things, byspell: council, plan, rule… But, in this case it means council, and unready is a misoversetting of Unrǣdiġ.

@MellowScot

Жыл бұрын

Thanks - I am cursed with 100 comments on this for the sake of trying to make a pun myself 😂

that joke at 5:14 was pricless!

When I want to play as Alfred I play as his brother and try to imprison Alfred, when he rebels surrender and you play as him

What's the music at 9:28? I've heard it before but I can't figure out what its name is.

The ammount of Elgar and Hols in this video makes me vaguely nauseus. I have now also read the 6th verse of God Save The King, and can affirm that Marshall Wade is extremely based.

@MellowScot

Жыл бұрын

And Handel too - was a naturalised British subject 😂

What’s the song you played at 0:31? it’s so familiar but I just can’t find it anywhere…. Ps: great vid btw :)

@MellowScot

Жыл бұрын

Pomp and circumstance march no. 1 by Elgar. It is the same music from the start of the video just the second section where they sing “Land of Hope and Glory”

@pepeproductions4802

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@@MellowScot what a legend, thank you brother *subscribed*

Ive got the game for some time now, but never really understand how to play.

Did a Scot just say “now just to fight off those pesky Scots.”

@MellowScot

Жыл бұрын

😂

5:14 🐑

@OttawaWelshman

Жыл бұрын

🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑

at first i thought the video was posted by a really famous youtuber bcz of the vid quality

@MellowScot

Жыл бұрын

Haha thanks 😂

Navarra doing well in France

Aethelred dies of a hunting accident when you play as Alfred

Meanwhile France being absolutely yeeted out of history by Aquitaine and Navarra

Should have started in the isle of man. It would have shortened the campaign a few centuries.

5:14 i didnt realize friendly fire was on

I did Exactly this in a save but with Muslim Ireland it was so fun just like the video

If you dont have a video of the most Scottish CK3 playthrough ever im pulling your scotsman card and informing the council of scots....

@MellowScot

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Haha definitely will at some point! I did a Scotland vid (with a bit of a twist) already so will have to think of something else to do in that region

@herrikudo

Жыл бұрын

@@MellowScot maybe an alternate timeline where the clans got their shit together, or perhaps one where they never were converted to christianity? Great vid mate keep slaying

watching a fellow brit reclaim their birth right brought a tear to my eye also the video was really well done

@MellowScot

Жыл бұрын

Haha 😂 thanks a bunch

@Ronnet

Жыл бұрын

Next up: reclaiming Spain so British seniors can go back to retiring abroad while complaining about immigrants.

@stevepickford3004

Жыл бұрын

@@Ronnet leave your political leanings at home. This is a fun channel for gaming. Keep your virtue signalling for twitter.

It's empire time 🇬🇧

Æthelred the Unready speedrun! Hahahah stressed him the fuck out with failed seduction attempts and he offed himself, a grand start.

@MellowScot

Жыл бұрын

Aethelred “the not Aethelred the Unready” 😂

If we want to be accurate, the Brittish empire would not exist without the Scottish. They were like a good 1/4 of the Empire's strenght

@MellowScot

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Yeah very true

@goose93

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And 2/4 is Indians, and the last 1/4 is split between England and colonies

@stevepickford3004

Жыл бұрын

But the Scottish only exist because the English save them from themselves over and over again. Only reasonable they were expected to be useful in return.

@glenbe4026

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@@goose93 And despite modern Irish claims to the contrary, the Irish were also hugely involved in the British Empire.

@RiksFunStuff

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It was originally a Scottish lead idea too with Queen Anne being of the Stuart dynasty and Britain kind of being in Scottish hands after Queen Elizabeth I died. The Scots went bankrupt from colonizing Panama so the English agreed to merging the crowns under the stipulation that Britain wouldn't have a catholic king and to avoid Scotland allying with France.

Instead of getting yourself killed right at the beginning as Alfred’s brother you can try to arrest Alfred and when he rebels just surrender and you get deposed and become Alfred anyway. That way you have a really high steward vassal who can be on your counsel

Does not have the full map? huh

the best knight effectiveness is to go viking, create the great temples, create the stave church, take uppsala. thats an extra 100% or so just in buildings, not to mention you reform the faith and get unrelenting faith and mix that with only the strong. dont even need camelries. its far more effective to have sheildmaiden berserkers with 40-50 prowess than a few extra knights. The prowess stack you can get on vikings is ridiculous.

@MellowScot

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Yeah definitely. I’m planning on doing something with this. This one was I was having to optimise while staying within the provinces I set out to capture. (Could have hybridized for shieldmaidens though)

@MYPSYAI

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@@MellowScot I really like starting as Erik the Heathen in 1066. If you reform the Norse faith with "Christian Synchretism" and go for "Strange Gods" with your dynasty and take "Apostate" with your lifestyle, you get a whopping +75 to all relations with christians, both orthodox and catholic. You can marry and Ally them as well. It's pretty easy to do this as a vassal if you can overpower england and norway for the holy sites, and raid everyone else into the ground. Your vassals will actually like youmore if they are christian so you dont have to worry about conversions. You can also use christian artifacts, some of which are quite nice. It costs only 3 dynasty legacies to set this up, worth going for Mann and the Isles to speed it up - if you have viking super-soldiers it's really quite nice to combine that with this broken diplomacy trick. It's also hilarious to befriend the pope and be allied to the holy roman empire as a Viking heathen.

@MellowScot

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@@MYPSYAI I like this a lot

@MYPSYAI

Жыл бұрын

@@MellowScot DOOOO IT THEN

How has your editing improved so fast? I require the sauce

@MellowScot

Жыл бұрын

Lots of practise and watching other videos

I died when you changed the capital.

can i ask somebody which mods is he using?

Funny enough, im English, and I had a dream to unite the UK as Scotland. on CK3 obv.. that failed for my first game, so im here, i will be back to Scotland later.

You forgot Constantinople, sure they only held it for like 3 months and it was post world war 1 British Empire... But still...

@MellowScot

Жыл бұрын

And also Heligoland never made the cut

It's not strange at all. Scotland is a key part of Britain, and Scots regiments and settlers were instrumental in places like Canada and New Zealand - just look at the placenames - Dunedin, Banff, Nova Scotia, Perth etc...

@MellowScot

Жыл бұрын

It is strange now although not back in the 1700-1800s - go to Scotland and see how many people support the idea of Britain let alone the British Empire these days, it's definitely a minority - not saying I agree but my observation makes sense given the hostile sentiment.

@paulsmith5752

Жыл бұрын

@@MellowScot Mmmm. Nationalism may have peaked now Wee Nicky Krankie has left the stage and the Tories are imploding - but let's see...

Hey what's up! Im both 50% Scottish, 20% British and 10% Irish, so I know a bit about Britain and I have played a lot of CK3 and I can say, YOU DID REALLY WELL! Ima subscribe to you pal!

@yorkshireman5861

Жыл бұрын

Scottish is British 😂

@MellowScot

Жыл бұрын

@@yorkshireman5861 you just triggered about half of Scotland 😂

@yorkshireman5861

Жыл бұрын

@@MellowScot well it is British is Scottish,English and Welsh

@HR1SS

Жыл бұрын

Lol Thet make sense British is the term to describe all people from brittania /britian Scotland England and wales are part of britian

@HR1SS

Жыл бұрын

@@MellowScot true tho lol

Why would it be odd for a Scot to make a video about Britain…? Last time I checked Scotland was a part of the UK and a willing and substantial participant in the British Empire.

@MellowScot

Жыл бұрын

The 2011 census data on how many Scots identify as Scottish only and not British is 61%. This is likely even more nowadays. Hence you wouldn’t generally place your bets on Scots to be making patriotic British videos... especially those with a channel name and logo like mine 😂

Great video! Now it's time to play as an Indian vassal, get independence from GB, and unite the subcontinent. 😂

@MellowScot

Жыл бұрын

I’m wondering if there’s any indian vassals alive in this save... would be interesting to do

Based

RULE BRITANNIA!!! BRITANNIA RULE THE WAVES!!!

Wrong Aethelred. The unready version wouldn’t appear for over 100 years later.

@MellowScot

Жыл бұрын

I’m annoyed now I didn’t check that, I incorrectly assumed he had that epithet - however does seem Aethelred II was only given that name a few hundred years after his death

bruhhhhh this in a mega campaign , starting EU4 with the empire premade

Круто, что мне попалось это видео❤

real Bri'ish hours

Great video. Those damn English!... (Sorry, force of habit)

To be fair the scots did helo militerily form the empire and were one the few to join volunterily

T E A 🫖 !

"This may seem like a strange thing for a scotsman to do". Mate the Scottish and English ARE the british empire. We are brothers by blood and by arms. Without Scotland, England is nothing, and without England, Scotland is nothing. The act of union in 1707 was what set this in stone and truly solidified the dawn of the British Empire. Rule Britannia!!

Rule Britannia.

@MellowScot

Жыл бұрын

Britannia rules the waves!

Don’t let spiff see this

@MellowScot

Жыл бұрын

If it get’s enough views he no doubt will 😭

Here's a challenge: Create the SCOTTISH EMPIRE and the WELSH EMPIRE thx

@MellowScot

Жыл бұрын

lol so take panama in EU4 and then go into default

@MedjayofFaiyum

Жыл бұрын

@@MellowScot ye

The starter guy isn't aethelred the unready, he was a king of England, sadly this guy is just aethelred

@MellowScot

Жыл бұрын

I’m now cursed to keep getting comments saying this all for the sake a of a pun 😂

are we just gonna ignore the fact that aquitaine rules all of france?

Song name?

@MellowScot

Жыл бұрын

Which one? One at start is elgar pomp and circumstance

@tovarishmausedits18

Жыл бұрын

@@MellowScot the start one, thx for the info

Moving the capital from London is Heresy.

rule britania

You can do all of this as Scotland

@MellowScot

Жыл бұрын

Eh yeah I guess you can 🤷‍♂️

@Ronnet

Жыл бұрын

No you can't , when Scotland does it they go bankrupt.

@MellowScot

Жыл бұрын

@@Ronnet Darien fiasco

@stevepickford3004

Жыл бұрын

True. Game is not realistic

The term palistine didnt reemerge till 1900smit was a roman term the term has no root in english also palistine pre 1900s actualy was syria not lavant

Why would the British empire be strange for a Scot? They were an integral part of the British empire.

@MellowScot

Жыл бұрын

Because the vast majority of scots don’t consider themselves british anymore, and aren’t very patriotic about the empire

@dominicomucci3014

Жыл бұрын

@mellowscot ohh that's sad. They should be the British empire has shaped our modern world and given millions democracy and freedom from slavery. Plus all the science, inventions and amazing history. People need to be taught the good so they can be proud.

@MellowScot

Жыл бұрын

@@dominicomucci3014 yeah you make a good point. When at university I once attended a debate about whether or not we should regret the empire. The house went in favour of regret and that is pretty much the sentiment, only the bad is to be remembered

@Finnbobjimbob

Жыл бұрын

@@dominicomucci3014exactly, people only focus on the bad

Is this man from the lowlands

@MellowScot

Жыл бұрын

👍

Why would this be strange for a Scotsman? The Scottish played a leading role in the British Empire.

@MellowScot

Жыл бұрын

Don’t remind them of this today 😂

Now do the French and Italian colonial empires

Its ok Mr Scot, Alfred is a Saxon, that's just the Sea Germans

Why did you hang onto titles above your limit like that?

@MellowScot

Жыл бұрын

I mostly handed them out to vassals - what do you mean? Sometimes I hang onto a few if I think I can boost stewardship up somehow

@zakhawker344

Жыл бұрын

@@MellowScot ah okay, I just saw your limit was in the red a lot of the time and thought you were doing some kind of half North Korea strat lol

@MellowScot

Жыл бұрын

It’s usually when I took a Marshall focused heir and I was thinking I’d like to hold on to some of the land for later rather than have to revoke it which probably isn’t optimal, but by the end Liberty factions became a pain so I was low crown authority most of the time

why england if your playing wessex just call it saxland

@MellowScot

Жыл бұрын

Alfred actually did name the kingdom after the angles and saxons, weird his descendents dropped the saxon bit

dont give lands to your vassals if you are over the top. Give them to you heir. Then also disinherit all of your (male) children except the heir.

Reverse colonization is far more challenging and fun imo. Starting in India makes it so much harder, especially with all the choices. Establish Hindustan first or colonize the European barbarians? Decisions, decisions!

@MellowScot

Жыл бұрын

From what I’ve seen in my Discord, India start is actually very OP

@Fat_Paws

Жыл бұрын

​@@MellowScot Depends. If you start as a king, sure. Starting as a duke/count under a liege takes a generation to set things up. Stewardship and high dev helps a LOT early game. Once your income can support elephants, nothing in the west can stand in your way. But the main challenge is the sheer amount of options. We have a saying for that in my part of the world- "a stork blinded by too many fish."

I love the scots

Colonial dogs

Why would it be a strange video for a Scottish person to make when the Scottish are British and played a crucial role in the expansion of the Empire? Only Americans would think it’s strange

@MellowScot

Жыл бұрын

Sentiment in Scotland is not very positive towards Britain these days

@Finnbobjimbob

Жыл бұрын

@@MellowScotthey are Britain

Only British people will get the sheep joke about the Welsh.

@goose93

Жыл бұрын

I am an American and I get the joke about the welsh and sheep

@sphagetti3628

Жыл бұрын

@@goose93 school shooter

@paulsmith5752

Жыл бұрын

What do you call a sheep tied to a lamppost in Swansea? A leisure centre.

You miss south africa

@MellowScot

Жыл бұрын

It’s not on the map lol

ü (11:59)

the modern british empire wasn't founded until the 16th century

You Scots did better than anyone from empire m8

@faxenmacher4633

Жыл бұрын

Heroin capital of Europe. Men in skirts. Murderous ice-cream gangs. That one toilet from Trainspotting... You don't get much rougher folk. The world never really stood a chance, eh?

Honestly i got this game, it could of been a lot better for the price. Not worth it.

@MellowScot

Жыл бұрын

You tried it since the updates?

@LiamADHD

Жыл бұрын

@@MellowScot 3 months ago I would say is the last I played it. Took over the island. Just disappointed you can't watch battles playout and look at your city's. Very lack luster.

I prefer to be in Ireland, get Dublin and convert to Norse, conquer Ireland, Scotland and the northern isle. Become feudal and turn every British isles country feudal. Then eat up England and Normandy, capital in Normandy and establish Norman. Form England, capital in England form English then the empire. Then I’m bored and quit