I would have thought the same thing after I had once tried to play Crusader Kings 2 and got overwhelmed, failed, and quit. The UI in CK3 is the best I've seen in any game, period. Have you ever seen something in a mouse over tooltip that you wanted more information about, but you couldn't mouse over that to get more information because if you did, the tooltip would disappear? Well that problem is solved in CK3. There are infinite tooltips within tooltips. When a tooltip comes up, and a faint progress bar completes, you can then mouse your mouse pointer onto that new tooltip to hover over other icons and keywords for even more information.
Also, losing is fun in this game. In my game, I, as high king of Ireland, had married off my daughters to high Kings of other countries, one of which was Denmark. Many of those countries, especially Denmark, found themselves at war with my next-door neighbor, England, a military superpower at the time. I had an obligation to assist them in that war against England. Otherwise, it would have been a waste to marry off my daughters to them. We lost all those wars, but my participation in those wars was more than any other country so, I still gained positive opinions from them, but now, we're in poor standing with England. Time passes and my high king passes away of old age and my son heir takes over the throne of Ireland. Not everyone is happy about this because the heir was contested and others also had claims to the throne. Add to that, I also had a debuff on opinion from everyone because I was a new ruler. I then noticed a warning notification in the UI that the current heir of one of my vassals was from England. And that vassal was 67 years old. Once he died, I will have lost that territory to the kingdom of England. I was not having any of that, so I looked into ways to prevent this. I tried to increase my authority as high king so I could dictate who that heir would be, but according to Irish culture, that increase of authority was prohibited. It would have taken too long to convert people to a different culture more accepting of increased king power, so I was desperate to keep England from taking my land. So, I decided to attempt an assassination of the heir, who was a 12-year-old boy. I started a plot to murder him and I asked my spymaster to help ensure its success. After about 6 or 7 months of planning, my spymaster saw an opportunity. He befriended the boy and offered to take him on a trip to somewhere (I forget) and then took him into the forest, where he left him overnight reporting back that he went missing. Later, the boy was discovered mauled by some wild animal, but my spymaster became so guilty that he confessed, which implicated me as the murderer of the boy. Now, public opinion of me as tanked, especially by the close family of the boy, which there were apparently several Irish people in power who were related either by blood or by marriage. That being said, my plan technically worked. The new heir to that territory at risk was now under my authority, but it now comes at the cost of my reputation with literally everyone. Now, my number one priority is to ensure than my next heir maintains his right to the throne long enough to give my dynasty as a second chance at ruling Ireland. And that's where I'm at now.
@@chessplayer8798 I know what you mean. I spend the first 1-2 hours just paused diving deeper and deeper into the multiple nested tooltips leasurely. If it were any other system, I'd feel exasperated that is have to dismiss the current tooltip to go into a different menu to reference something (that I feel like I need to memorize eventually) and then come back to the previous menu to hover over what I was looking at before to read the tooltip with a better understanding. All that can be cut out by simply moving the mouse pointer to what you don't understand, and they game will tell you. Ya, it's a long tutorial, but I was done with the tutorial in less than 8 hours, including lots of long breaks without prompts towards the end.
@@chessplayer8798 i know this probably comes as little of a surprise but read tooltips carefully and repeatedly, stop time often to read and think and read again, use the built in encyclopedia and read even more. play it slowly, embrace defeat and other setbacks. your goal should not be to win, but to have fun with countless alternate histories and stories developing over the course of every new match. as for the tutorial, play it slowly, conquer ireland bit by bit, you can take 30 years without waging a new war, you have time to spare, use the fact that you start with a lot of gold to increase levy size through buildings or use the gold to pay men at arms (basically mercenaries) to win more territory.
This is by far the best CK3 guide I have seen. it was straight forward and to the point. It may have been a lengthy video, but it was well worth the watch!
@Koeras Then get ready to no life it and end up with thousands of hours until the next one. These games take many MANY hours to become any good at, but they are really fun once you get somewhat of a good handle on what to normally do in a majority/most played areas
One good way to get knights, especially early is to marry courtiers off to high prowess characters. You have to select a matrilineal marriage to get the person to come to your court, otherwise your courtier will leave to wherever their spouse is.
You can marry male courtiers to characters with good congenital traits like genius, beautiful, and herculean so that they have kids with good traits for marrying or for being future high quality vassals, councilors or knights.
13:05 I may be misunderstanding the mechanic, but my experience is that as a king (Created a Kingdom) I have less direct vassals slots and I instead give my less valuable vassels to other vassals until I only had like 2?
Let me know if this helps: As you go up the ranks, you're allowed more direct vassals. Duke = 20 King = 40 Emperor = 80 There are penalties for having more counties than your domain limit, and for having more than 2 duchies (iirc). So you want to hand out titles to people to make them your vassals under you. Keep the best territories for yourself! To stay below your vassal limit, when you're a king, you make people dukes, and give them counts under them. And when you're Emperor, you make people kings, and give them dukes under them. The way to organize vassals is based on "de jure". Make sure the right counts are under the right dukes. That way you get the most out of them. I hope that helps? Might've just made it worse!
within a year i lost half my territory, earned the nickname "the foolish" and i am now disfigured because my doctor failed to properly treat my leprosy. my son which i spent 20 years on grooming as a possible heir got murdered. this is my first paradox game (except for maybe 80 hours EUIV) and i rate it 10/10, would recommend. endless fun and replay value.
@@chaunceydavis7864 Fuck yeah man I just started playing and my goal is to make my entire kingdom polygamous gay and into witchcraft I know you meant that as an insult but yeah this game 100% has the potential for homosexuality making it even better
My guy, I've been SCOURING the land for tutorials to make this experience less frustrating. You have by FAAAAR the best pacing, explanations, examples and coverage I've ever seen on Paradox games. Please keep making these, they're incredibly useful! For people like me (and im sure there's a lot more out there), these an be the difference between giving Paradox games a chance and ultimately enjoying them, or giving up in frustration. Thanks a bunch my guy! Fingers crossed for a long series of these, touching on specific topics. Personally I'd love to see some examples on how to acquire land or titles, or divide empires through the sole use of marriages / murders / hooks / manipulaiton. Basically anything character oriented.
To be honest i had a really tuff time trying to understand how to wage war! I know it sounds dumb but it took me 3 hours to realize i have to declare war first and then raise my army! In my original thinking I thought to myself "i'll build my army and be ready when i declare war"....3 hours later "why the F*** can't i declare war"....then i realized i had it backwards...please keep making videos and you'll keep getting thumbs up! Thank you again.
Yeah pls do one about marrying for example your daughter somewhere just to gain their territory. that part in practice still escapes my cognitive engine. Although maybe tammorow ill be able to understand it, i've learnt the game from scratch in last 24 hours so im a bit burnt. WoOOOOooooOO
It’s always best to have context before going into a tutorial like this. For instance, if I hadn’t played ck2, all of this would go over my head. So just play a bit of the game yourself to get a bit of context which helps you learn easier. I remember when i was learning how to play ck2, the tutorials went over my head so i just jumped in and played, then when I revisited the tutorials, everything made sense
To be fair, its the best Paradox Tutorial by far now :D Someone remembers the great italy toturial in HOI4? Kill Athiopia via 1click and you know how to play the game :D
I went to learn more about Charles the Bewitched... dude had one *hell* of a bad luck streak hahah.. Always enjoy when a game can bring about learning something new!
@@PartyElite: As a fellow history lover, I’m impressed. Another good reference is Ferdinand I of Austria, he had an enlarged head due to inbreeding, and had five seizures while trying to consummate his marriage.
This was one of the best tutorials I ever watched for any game, the clear audio, highlighting focus points, and the demonstration gameplay with simple explanations really make you stand out as a creator.
Me : doesn’t follow instructions of the game - takes over Ireland by force and bribing the pope to hell, gets disliked by literally everyone in the area, alliance cock blocks me and takes the chunk of land that divides my territory then says sorry and doesn’t help me, the 3 large nations around decided they had enough of my shit and wipe me clean off the map Also me : goes to watch tutorial (doesn’t watch it fully) Me : starts a new game with intentions to not crusade the shit out of everyone, nation starts disliking me for taxing them and crusades me Also me : goes back to watch tutorial The authentic crusader kings experience 👌
I'm sooooo overwhelmed! haha! This is my first Crusader kings game, haven't even opened it yet, and this video has me terrified haha. Credit for all of the info, holy crap, I feel like I just need to watch and study this for 40 hours before I actually play!
I'm in the same boat as you... but it's time to just wade in I think and see what happens. The tutorial in-game plus this video have really helped a lot.
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Well done on the guide, however. A beginners guide taking nearly an hour? Anyone else glazed over like back in school looking out the window? My master’s Degree did not require this much information retention. Games should not be this complicated.
Started a game last night and was pretty clueless, even with 150 hours of CK2 Thanks for all the tips! This will help me stabilize my realm and make money after killing my brother (the king)
Brilliant vid and you seemed to pick the Indian region for some of your examples which is great. Sadly I've run into too many videos that seem to just forget that an eastern side of the map even exists and sometimes oddly enough skip across central Asia completely. The game isn't just about Europe but the whole map which is what makes the game even more exciting!
hello viz stop stirring the pot, india has an abundance of technologically savvy individuals who are more than capable of putting out their own high quality computer games, should they wish to! no need to criticise a western version that has included india when you could be writing to the games companies in india
@@llwydanwyl think youve completely misread my post. Have a look at other ck3 videos where the person talking about the game will talk about all the continents and areas but barely even acknowledge india which is in the game. Why? Dont really understand what you're talking about regarding video game development in India.
I think I’ve spent half this video either in a state of ‘ooooohh I get it out now’ or furiously taking notes. Thank you for this excellent tutorial. I think tomorrow’s session will go better than the flaming disasters of today.
This was really helpful, I've been finding it extraordinary difficult to get started, it doesn't look so in depth while just watching a let's play, but actually managing yourself is very different! I get lost in the endless tabs very easy.
I'm playing this as soon as I get home from work this evening. Couldn't really ever get into CK2 but this game looks too great to pass up! I have heard it focuses a good bit more on the rpg element and I live the new 3D modeling. Thanks for the tutorial, I would be way way lost if I hadn't watched this first!!!
Awesome tutorial! I really hope Paradox work on the vassals a bit, even looking at this tutorial I can see that "powerful vassals" are kinda broken. they need to fix what's defined as a "powerful vassal" like you had a vassal with 150 troops and he was considered powerful which is just annoying, also the -40 opinion is a bit to harsh. I really hope they work on that as it's a real pain to manage "powerful vassals" when most of them are not even powerful, and they demand seats on the council despite having either shit traits or there being no more space.
"powerful" is determined by their strength compared to each other, iirc. So if one guy makes more money and raises more troops than another, they expect preferential treatment because they're "kind of a big deal" compared to the other guy
@@PartyElite Yeh that makes sense, the only issue is that these people make 0 money and provide 0 troops almost so why are they still powerful, just some random Mayor or really small count. It should exist yes, but it needs work
This is acctaully a quality tutorial. I watched so many cause i never played game 1 or 2 so i was lost even after the ingame tutorial, but now so many things are clear
What a great in-depth tutorial for a shitty strategy player like me. The most advanced strategy games I've ever played are Civ V and Stellaris, so this really helps. Thank you man
Ayyye so hyped! Thanks for the quick tutorial, I watched 99% of both livestreams but I feel like I still need to learn a lot before I jump in myself! I have so many ideas for potential dynasty roleplay scenarios!
@@PartyElite I love Scottish history, especially 17th/18th century Jacobitism, so playing with the Stuart House would be fun. I also want to play an tyrannical/batshit crazy ruler à la Caligula, but that might have to be a dynasty I'm not particularly attached to because it might get real bad. xD I mostly studied North American and western European cultures in uni, so it'd also be nice to explore Africa and the Middle East a bit.
@@lihanou That's basically the goal. I'll just conquer the whole world lol Once I figure out wars a bit more and can actually get through one without every soldier starving...
Despite already having the game and having succesfully united Ireland I still found myself watching a tutorial, I blame it on the new tabs/change of position of the tabs from ck2 to ck3. Anyway, thanks for this tutorial it was really informative and I loved the comedic pause before "....Results" when you elaborated where children could come from in crusader kings.
Spectacular quality, Party! Succinct, clear, descriptive, and informative. Please, keep em coming! This sort of stuff is invaluable to both total newcomers, and seasoned veterans learning all the changes and additions in this new entry. Hope we can see some let's plays too!
Thank you very much for the kind words! Let's plays i'm kicking off in a 'streamed' format for the first time on the channel - feel like its fun to do it that way. First couple episodes out already =). And more guide vids coming for sure!
I have long had a high opinion of you through various games. I've never been as appreciative of a mind with clarity of purpose as I am in this video. No suddenly just racing through menus unexplained or jumping around at what the maker notices; but, a consistent level of information covered with purpose and delivered with relevant provisos. My appreciation stems from the realization that this is a truly deep game to master which the AI can also play. A rare enough thing and worth learning. Thank you for your insights.
Great video! I just purchased this game last night and Ill be honest, my eyes glazed over at the shear amount of things you can do. Your videos should help me get on the right track so I'm not spending so much time blindly stumbling through learning the game.
My ck3 genetics program is already coming along nicely, but this shall make it better Edit: Chad Master achieved, Nietzsche's super man has nothing on the Chad Master, the Chad Master destroys everything
I kinda really want this game and I've spent hours watching streamers play it back when it came out but I still don't know how to play exactly. I hope this helps EDIT: Wtf I'm confused
I thought of uninstalling this game after I tried the tutorial...and now after watching this video I am now certain that I should uninstall it for the sake of my brain T_T
Its not true that an army always suffers attrition when moving through an area with lower supply than its size. Armies have supply they carry with them now, & will only take attrition when that supply runs out.
This tutorial is insanely good.. I have 1k hours in CK 2 so I knows my way around... Kinda.. They changed a lot.. Thank you for the time you put into this.
Man... I've been saying this for years but your tutorial videos are the type of thing that are so good it baffles me you aren't a million+ subscriber channel. It's just obvious that a lot of effort, thought, and planning goes into stuff like this and you nail it every time. I had never even heard of this series before today and now I'm in the motions of installing it. If that's not the best kind of sponsorship then I don't know what is.
I wish i understood anything you said, but this is way above my level from never playing the games before. I am sure it was very informative, but for a noob it just means i have to come back when i know more about the game.
I would say booting up the game, and going section by section through the vid while looking at it in your own game, might help! It's definitely a super dense game, and I tried my best to go as broad-strokes as possible - if you have any questions, you can ask here, or in our discord (link in the description). Super friendly folks in there, plus myself, all happy to help, I'm sure =)
Don't feel bad, it is a very hard game to understand, I've tried several times to learn CK2 and struggled every time, this time around it seems a bit more streamlined so i'm finding it easier to grasp.
@@PartyElite Cheers man, yeah I think I will spend some time reading everything i can and revisit the video :) I am a total war / civ type player, so my expectations was completely turned upside down D not in a bad way. just need to readjust the learning curve
9:25 The domain limit is actually the limit for barony-ranked titles. If you have multiple castles in a single county, they would be individually counted towards your domain limit.
This game is way too hard for a beginner, way too much information to remember, this is like going to college to get your PHD, actually it's worst. I would never recommend a game like this or any of the Paradox Games to a beginner. This is game way too complex, which in my opinion takes the fun away of playing a game. This feels like a college course or a job.
I know lots of other commenters are saying the same thing, but this video was perfect @PartyElite. I can't imagine how much effort goes into a 43 minute video, but Paradox should give you a bonus because this video is so. well. done. Amazing explanations and great pacing for someone who played CK2. Excited to buy this now that I'll have a clue what I'm doing!
Thank you very much for the kind words! Really glad to hear it's piqued your interest. If you have any questions, ask away anywhere on the playlist, or in out discord too! Happy to help =)
Its a lot to get into at first but once you're familiar with it, it feels like second nature, and then you get to play king with all the cool bits and all the tough bits. If you need help getting to grips with anything specific, feel free to ask away in the discord too!
after watching a couple of "beginner's guides", i think this is the best one. but i still think the best way to approach the game is to first play through the tutorial, do whatever you want and can, and then come watch this video and get to the point of "aaah so that's how things happen" :D
From what I've seen - and I experimented with this a lot because it threw me off at first - but: as long as your army is in "friendly" territory, you can disband at no cost (financial or otherwise).
long time total war warhammer 2 player here. bought this game 2 days ago after stumbling upon it and i have to say, the learning curve is fucking huge.. so much details to consider.. but i enjoy it alot. the fact that it is less military based like warhammer but more focus around politics, schemes, children.. way cooler!
Played for 20 hours and didn't really understand what being a rightful liege means and didn't know children have education focus. Thanks for the help. Great guide!
The highlighted things kind of go by really quickly that they are hard to follow. It would be nice if the highlights were more pronounced or lasted longer.
I fuскing love this tutorial. I really cannot understate how great it is that you make a tutorial/tutorials that actually teach me how the game functions instead of most other tutorials out there saying "do this, do that, get 3000 gold, kill these guys, become the pope and there you have it! (make sure to buy my mixtape btw" You explaining the mechanics of the game also shows that you know how it works and therefore, how to play it.
hello, I'm the one who offered so many names & introduced cultural stuffs for mount & blade 2 (ask me I will answer you every time about everything, I'm archaeologist), I know you began a Maghrebian campaign in Crusader kings 3 but I really want & ask you to play as Fatimid caliphate which are my ancestors, consider it as a I don't know, a fan service. beware if you want play as Persians play as Sassanid descends specially being a Zartoshti/Zoroastrian not some random Persian or even Arab or Turk because by the Farrah rule aka rule of Mandate of heaven just a "believer" which is a decedent from Akhamenid dynasty & in result prophet Zartosht as well can inherent the Shahanshahi/Empire, so make your play more interesting with this knowledge & I know every Persian first of all will play as Karen & Bavandi dynasties (second one still is an important noble clan). as you asked before, pryphic victory (I don't know right write) in Arabic is Entesar Mokallaf & in Persian is Piruzie por hazine.
Geez trying to figure out how to change my damn capital city 🤦🏾♂️ also the map feels a bit cluttered at times I guess it will take some time adjusting even after 300+ hours on ck2
Dunno if you found it but if not - Select a holding, and in the menu at the bottom left corner, next to the holding name, you can rename it, and there's an icon one more step to the right that looks like a crown with an "up" arrow below it. That last icon is what you want!
One of the best beginner guide's I have seen yet. There are not many yet doing a CK3 guides. Very informative and very detailed. This guide has helped me a lot. Thank You!
This game is just so confusing that even me who played stratagy games such as total war and HOI for years took hours just to figure out how to declare wars, the tutorial was so complicated that I got stuck on one thing and had to search it up. I'd say I'm an experienced player at this type of game but still I'm not familiar with ck3 yet.
This is the best guide I've ever seen on CK. Great pacing, clear points, well demonstrated. I don't even know what other videos you make, but I gotta subscribe.
here`s a tip ............DONT BUILD ANYTHING if you are a vassal ,trust me this will save you a lot of resources and time....because your liege might decide to change your gouv type and your buildings go bye bye with 0 resources refunded
Game is complex but its fun. Played as Duke in in Italy, went on war yolo cuz it seemed suggested, bit sussy that it was mostly suggested again muslims, like Ali, i guess they were invaders of south Italy, and mby same strenght. Guess what happened, Ali got friend to chime in beat the f out of me 😂, i had to get my daughter be married to king of Hungary, we still lost 😂. Called him few times, his back is probably broken now. Ali danning, saying fell the wrath and justice of Allah (lowk conflicted since fam muslim) 😂. That was fun. Then later on my brother who is vassal, wife look at me bit weird, suggestion box asking homie to make a movie, stay quiet or snitch on the bich 🤣, guess what i did? I cheated with her 😈, later on a idior snitched on me , and blackmailed me. He snitched, DRAMA happened , like its turkish show, then i went on war against the snitch cause snitches get stiches 😂, i invited Hungarian homie. Guess what happened, yet another loss in war lol. This game be hilarious and hard, love it. Later on i got detrowned, my son became heir, i believe he got killed in sleep..😅 Yeah lol. I read many turorials now, its alot. Now Im about to watch this with choco 🍫. Thank you, its a needed video ❤😂. I bet could make for a more fullfilling and more enjoyable experience in this adventure. 🌊🌈✨
I think I need to retire from work to be able to give this game any time it looks awfully compilcated compared to Crusader Kings I where I started off as Count of Anjou and eventually became King of France (well my heirs did!)
Religious taxes are way higher than anything else. This depends on your religion too. Tribes don't have many temples but you can swap the head. Actually, if you can't control them they still give up to 50% of the taxes and 100% of the levies if they like you 50+ so religious part is really really important. The best way to impress powerful vassals is to choose them and breed them yourself. You got to choose the council from the vassals you got. This excludes the ones that are in your kingdom but isn't in your direct vassal list. When you grant lands, you can sort based on skills, and take over a vassal from others, and then use in council. If you can make them a duke, then he will be powerful, he will hold a council position, and he will like you. Prevent breeding stock from ever being a knight. Give each powerful vassal a style: one will be a diplomat, one will be a steward, depending on religion you can't choose the bishop so don't have learning-focused powerful vassal, you can have multiple martial focused since they die and not an issue to get another, they can train themselves. lastly, you can have intrigue focused ones, but you can also keep in court and family, training girls, nieces and lovers to be good spymasters. this way I managed to get 3 generations of perfect stewards and even train my own kids to be perfect stewards using a council I put in position. If you can choose their wives, it's all the better, like marry court members to family members or good stat girls with their focus, then give them land. This means a healthy government is your holdings, plus 3 dukes, 4th duchy maybe for the spies. I found it bad to breed spymasters, since they can kill you if they hate you, and increases the crime rates and adultery, and it's annoying, low intrigue people will commit less crimes and this is something that goes down in families, culture and country. Just try to get a wife with 30 diplomacy skill and focus on diplomacy, all your kids will have 8+ diplomacy very early in their life, and a lot of kids will have good diplomacy education. Same goes for martial or stewardship or any other skill. Stop the game in January and assign guardians for every kid in your court that is 6+, and every kid in your powerful vassal's court (offer guardian). This sounds like a lot of trouble but the base is 50-50 that the kids get 2 points each year, with a guardian is 60-40. With a genius educator, the chance goes up by 15 points (base is 60 points 40 points, from there comes a lot of calculations). it's a bit complex but 15 points are around 5-6% better chance that the kid will be smarter each year. genius is 15 points, intelligent 10 points, quick and shrewd 5 points. then each point in the focus area is 0.4 points (20 martial is 8 points, 30 is 12 so a genius is still better) and 0.2 from learning. So 20 martial 10 learning is better than 10 martial 26 learning if you want a good martial education (holy order leaders are generally the best at that). But 15 martial 10 learning is worse than 10 martial 25 learning. One small boost is if they got a spouse or are in the council, they will have a bit more skill than others who don't, and lastly, their traits might influence the kid. This is why your number one choice is yourself, you can boost your traits with your wife. Second, best is your wife. The third is council members. It's a free opinion boost with the bishop to offer a ward, and that gives extra bonus for both of them to like each other and to like you. As I said learning is half the weight of the focus, so you want a high stat young bishop. As long as he has 20 learning and 10 in something else, he will be able to train that too. High learning is also good for physicians so you can employ your bishop as a physician or your wife. You don't have to offer your heir to the bishop, any courtier kid will do, just for the opinion boost. actually, you can repeat that by offering kids close to 16. You can do this as a kid ruler waiting to become 16, the bishop does not endorse you, and you can't sway him but you can offer wards and get re-wards :P You can also change focus once, so it's worth taking wards for yourself just to change their focus then drop them and give a good educator in that area, you can do this with courtiers, family members, but you can only do it with vassal kids if you are their mentor. Don't let girls go martial or intrigue focus, and don't let anyone go learning focus (if you are a Christian). You won't be able to give a council position to a girl marshall if she is crap at it, but she will demand it and hate you for it. You won't be able to kill off a girl marshal too often as she won't command armies all the time, while if a male asks for the marshall, you force him to die. it's the only area you can have competition so you want a lot of male marshalls. Maybe it sounds a bit sexist, but you will understand what I mean when every time your liberation war has a girl marshall as a leader :D the exact numbers are 0-6/7-10/11-14/14+ for each education. they got 2 points each year, 6 to 16 and it's a coinflip. I think 3 star is good enough, but 4 star is amazing. in 40 years that 10% stacks up and really shows in skills, so I prefer a high education councillor over a high stat one. They will be better educators themselves. Meanwhile, 2-star education is real bad and won't make them anything ever, the flat bonus is not that much but 10% bonus is over a few years. Makes the game way better if your powerful vassals aren't full idiots.
Paradox should be paying you! The CK3 tutorial is next to useless and really badly integrated. It isn’t even self contained, as soon as you get to the war section and have to unpause the game, the game actually starts even though technically you’re still in the tutorial. Suddenly there’s all these pop ups and things happening and I’m like “wait how do I move my army again, what’s all this mean?!”. Without this vid I might have given up. Thanks!
Pretty sure that becoming an astronaut is less complex than this game.
I would have thought the same thing after I had once tried to play Crusader Kings 2 and got overwhelmed, failed, and quit. The UI in CK3 is the best I've seen in any game, period. Have you ever seen something in a mouse over tooltip that you wanted more information about, but you couldn't mouse over that to get more information because if you did, the tooltip would disappear? Well that problem is solved in CK3. There are infinite tooltips within tooltips. When a tooltip comes up, and a faint progress bar completes, you can then mouse your mouse pointer onto that new tooltip to hover over other icons and keywords for even more information.
Also, losing is fun in this game. In my game, I, as high king of Ireland, had married off my daughters to high Kings of other countries, one of which was Denmark. Many of those countries, especially Denmark, found themselves at war with my next-door neighbor, England, a military superpower at the time. I had an obligation to assist them in that war against England. Otherwise, it would have been a waste to marry off my daughters to them. We lost all those wars, but my participation in those wars was more than any other country so, I still gained positive opinions from them, but now, we're in poor standing with England.
Time passes and my high king passes away of old age and my son heir takes over the throne of Ireland. Not everyone is happy about this because the heir was contested and others also had claims to the throne. Add to that, I also had a debuff on opinion from everyone because I was a new ruler.
I then noticed a warning notification in the UI that the current heir of one of my vassals was from England. And that vassal was 67 years old. Once he died, I will have lost that territory to the kingdom of England. I was not having any of that, so I looked into ways to prevent this. I tried to increase my authority as high king so I could dictate who that heir would be, but according to Irish culture, that increase of authority was prohibited. It would have taken too long to convert people to a different culture more accepting of increased king power, so I was desperate to keep England from taking my land.
So, I decided to attempt an assassination of the heir, who was a 12-year-old boy. I started a plot to murder him and I asked my spymaster to help ensure its success. After about 6 or 7 months of planning, my spymaster saw an opportunity. He befriended the boy and offered to take him on a trip to somewhere (I forget) and then took him into the forest, where he left him overnight reporting back that he went missing. Later, the boy was discovered mauled by some wild animal, but my spymaster became so guilty that he confessed, which implicated me as the murderer of the boy. Now, public opinion of me as tanked, especially by the close family of the boy, which there were apparently several Irish people in power who were related either by blood or by marriage. That being said, my plan technically worked. The new heir to that territory at risk was now under my authority, but it now comes at the cost of my reputation with literally everyone.
Now, my number one priority is to ensure than my next heir maintains his right to the throne long enough to give my dynasty as a second chance at ruling Ireland.
And that's where I'm at now.
I came here to seek help,I can not get pass tutorial.Not even joking.
@@chessplayer8798 I know what you mean. I spend the first 1-2 hours just paused diving deeper and deeper into the multiple nested tooltips leasurely. If it were any other system, I'd feel exasperated that is have to dismiss the current tooltip to go into a different menu to reference something (that I feel like I need to memorize eventually) and then come back to the previous menu to hover over what I was looking at before to read the tooltip with a better understanding. All that can be cut out by simply moving the mouse pointer to what you don't understand, and they game will tell you.
Ya, it's a long tutorial, but I was done with the tutorial in less than 8 hours, including lots of long breaks without prompts towards the end.
@@chessplayer8798 i know this probably comes as little of a surprise but read tooltips carefully and repeatedly, stop time often to read and think and read again, use the built in encyclopedia and read even more. play it slowly, embrace defeat and other setbacks. your goal should not be to win, but to have fun with countless alternate histories and stories developing over the course of every new match. as for the tutorial, play it slowly, conquer ireland bit by bit, you can take 30 years without waging a new war, you have time to spare, use the fact that you start with a lot of gold to increase levy size through buildings or use the gold to pay men at arms (basically mercenaries) to win more territory.
This is by far the best CK3 guide I have seen. it was straight forward and to the point. It may have been a lengthy video, but it was well worth the watch!
Thank you! Very glad to hear it =)
You are a hero. I have no idea whats going on in my game.
Well new to this game. It will take some time to digest everything. Though, looks awesome. Great content as always PartyElite.
Have you played any other paradox games before? More specifically the historical games
@@bamboosticccc7256 Not yet. At least until this one.
@Koeras Then get ready to no life it and end up with thousands of hours until the next one. These games take many MANY hours to become any good at, but they are really fun once you get somewhat of a good handle on what to normally do in a majority/most played areas
@@bamboosticccc7256 Well I hope so. At least might have some fun. Other than the probably quite long learning curve.
@@Koeras16 remove probably and add three more longs 😅😂
Gracias. Me ahorraste horas de paciencia y falta de una buena wikia.
Great video thank you watched the whole thing
Thank you for the tips just finished downloading it from game pass
Did you pay the thousand?
@@necromancer6405 no I got it from game pass
Today's lecture is on Kingdom Management. Please open your textbooks to chapter 1...
One good way to get knights, especially early is to marry courtiers off to high prowess characters. You have to select a matrilineal marriage to get the person to come to your court, otherwise your courtier will leave to wherever their spouse is.
You can marry male courtiers to characters with good congenital traits like genius, beautiful, and herculean so that they have kids with good traits for marrying or for being future high quality vassals, councilors or knights.
13:05 I may be misunderstanding the mechanic, but my experience is that as a king (Created a Kingdom) I have less direct vassals slots and I instead give my less valuable vassels to other vassals until I only had like 2?
Let me know if this helps:
As you go up the ranks, you're allowed more direct vassals.
Duke = 20
King = 40
Emperor = 80
There are penalties for having more counties than your domain limit, and for having more than 2 duchies (iirc). So you want to hand out titles to people to make them your vassals under you. Keep the best territories for yourself! To stay below your vassal limit, when you're a king, you make people dukes, and give them counts under them. And when you're Emperor, you make people kings, and give them dukes under them.
The way to organize vassals is based on "de jure". Make sure the right counts are under the right dukes. That way you get the most out of them.
I hope that helps? Might've just made it worse!
After this tutorial I went to NASA and told them how to build the next space shuttle.
The power of incest!
PartyElite I hate myself for laughing at that
me too
If that’s true, then after playing Crusader Kings 2, you can teach them inter dimensional travel too.
@@Jaredonian me three
within a year i lost half my territory, earned the nickname "the foolish" and i am now disfigured because my doctor failed to properly treat my leprosy. my son which i spent 20 years on grooming as a possible heir got murdered. this is my first paradox game (except for maybe 80 hours EUIV) and i rate it 10/10, would recommend. endless fun and replay value.
Ahahah amazing - I'm glad you're enjoying it =D
this games gay
@@chaunceydavis7864 Fuck yeah man I just started playing and my goal is to make my entire kingdom polygamous gay and into witchcraft
I know you meant that as an insult but yeah this game 100% has the potential for homosexuality making it even better
@@chaunceydavis7864 I think maybe you’re gay, just haven’t come out yet? Good luck!
@@poiuykkpoii840 stop getting offended over a joke
What the hell did I just buy? 😵💫
My guy, I've been SCOURING the land for tutorials to make this experience less frustrating. You have by FAAAAR the best pacing, explanations, examples and coverage I've ever seen on Paradox games. Please keep making these, they're incredibly useful! For people like me (and im sure there's a lot more out there), these an be the difference between giving Paradox games a chance and ultimately enjoying them, or giving up in frustration. Thanks a bunch my guy! Fingers crossed for a long series of these, touching on specific topics. Personally I'd love to see some examples on how to acquire land or titles, or divide empires through the sole use of marriages / murders / hooks / manipulaiton. Basically anything character oriented.
Thanks! Glad this helped =)
I've got a few videos planned and lined up, and your requested topics are definitely something I've got plans for!
To be honest i had a really tuff time trying to understand how to wage war! I know it sounds dumb but it took me 3 hours to realize i have to declare war first and then raise my army! In my original thinking I thought to myself "i'll build my army and be ready when i declare war"....3 hours later "why the F*** can't i declare war"....then i realized i had it backwards...please keep making videos and you'll keep getting thumbs up! Thank you again.
Yeah pls do one about marrying for example your daughter somewhere just to gain their territory. that part in practice still escapes my cognitive engine. Although maybe tammorow ill be able to understand it, i've learnt the game from scratch in last 24 hours so im a bit burnt. WoOOOOooooOO
It's excellent. The tutorial gives you an idea of how to do things but this gives you a rough idea of WHY you should do those things.
agreed this was a game changer. This should be the video before the tutorial
It’s always best to have context before going into a tutorial like this. For instance, if I hadn’t played ck2, all of this would go over my head. So just play a bit of the game yourself to get a bit of context which helps you learn easier.
I remember when i was learning how to play ck2, the tutorials went over my head so i just jumped in and played, then when I revisited the tutorials, everything made sense
Dude I'm more than 3 hours in and still on the tutorial, should've probably watched this earlier...
@@dimagamolya6084 nothing to be ashamed of, just stick with it. it'll click eventually
Who needs an in-game tutorial when you have this guy
I'm here because coffee didn't agree with my stomach. I've been up since yesterday but I didn't want to miss launch.
The In-Game tutorial is amazing though compared to the other tutorials.
To be fair, its the best Paradox Tutorial by far now :D
Someone remembers the great italy toturial in HOI4? Kill Athiopia via 1click and you know how to play the game :D
I played through the tutorial and I still ended up here. It helped but this definitely touched on some important things it didn't.
🤙🏿
This game makes Civilization feel like a child's toy😂😂😂.
"Kids are the future, which is why some dynasties come to an abrupt end--" [picture of Charles the Bewitched]
I literally lol'd.
Can't thank that man enough for being my go-to =D
Got to love a dude who knows his history.
Well played.
I went to learn more about Charles the Bewitched... dude had one *hell* of a bad luck streak hahah.. Always enjoy when a game can bring about learning something new!
@@PartyElite: As a fellow history lover, I’m impressed. Another good reference is Ferdinand I of Austria, he had an enlarged head due to inbreeding, and had five seizures while trying to consummate his marriage.
I gave up on actually trying to play this and just focused on seeing how many women my character could sleep with.
This was one of the best tutorials I ever watched for any game, the clear audio, highlighting focus points, and the demonstration gameplay with simple explanations really make you stand out as a creator.
Agreed absolutely brilliant video
Thank you very much! Glad to hear it
I agree. This is the bar that has to be beaten in making tutorials
Blizzard: Easy to learn, hard to master
Paradox: Hard to learn, even harder to master
CK3: Easy to uninstall ...
I am, somehow, now ready for my Abstract Algebra exam!
Me : doesn’t follow instructions of the game - takes over Ireland by force and bribing the pope to hell, gets disliked by literally everyone in the area, alliance cock blocks me and takes the chunk of land that divides my territory then says sorry and doesn’t help me, the 3 large nations around decided they had enough of my shit and wipe me clean off the map
Also me : goes to watch tutorial (doesn’t watch it fully)
Me : starts a new game with intentions to not crusade the shit out of everyone, nation starts disliking me for taxing them and crusades me
Also me : goes back to watch tutorial
The authentic crusader kings experience 👌
I'm sooooo overwhelmed! haha! This is my first Crusader kings game, haven't even opened it yet, and this video has me terrified haha. Credit for all of the info, holy crap, I feel like I just need to watch and study this for 40 hours before I actually play!
Definitely overwhelming at first but equally rewarding once it all clicks! Feel free to ask questions in the discord to get comfy!
Go through the tutorial and then watch this video. A little bit of practical experience with great explanations made it click for me!
I'm in the same boat as you... but it's time to just wade in I think and see what happens. The tutorial in-game plus this video have really helped a lot.
@@kensloth go get it!!!
@@coryallen5660 did you end up loving CK3?
This taught me more about parenting than my actual parents did
Some Kingdoms are built on a Complex Edifice... others on an Oedipus Complex. Which will you make? Live the life 2020 won't let you - incest, cannibalism, going out to party with more than 20 people at a time... The good stuff! Check it out here: play.crusaderkings.com/PartyElite
Duder, Great Vid. Thank you! [+]
Thanks! Hit me up if you've got any questions
Glad to see that someone is still making tutorials, not just playthroughs. Thanks for the content.
Well done on the guide, however. A beginners guide taking nearly an hour? Anyone else glazed over like back in school looking out the window? My master’s Degree did not require this much information retention. Games should not be this complicated.
Not your kind of game then.
Pretty new to these grand strategy games, and I'm so freaking confused. Please make more videos :)
For sure! More coming right away!
Started a game last night and was pretty clueless, even with 150 hours of CK2
Thanks for all the tips! This will help me stabilize my realm and make money after killing my brother (the king)
The King is Dead
Long live the King!
I'm the best CK2 player in the world and even I needed this! VERY COOL!
I think I am better... >:)
Fabricated claim.
UA-cam loses 20 opinion on you
You are also the most humble...
Ur so cool
bEsT cK2 pLaYeR iN tHe WoRlD
Brilliant vid and you seemed to pick the Indian region for some of your examples which is great. Sadly I've run into too many videos that seem to just forget that an eastern side of the map even exists and sometimes oddly enough skip across central Asia completely. The game isn't just about Europe but the whole map which is what makes the game even more exciting!
I am playing as a Buddhist state, great detail.
hello viz stop stirring the pot, india has an abundance of technologically savvy individuals who are more than capable of putting out their own high quality computer games, should they wish to! no need to criticise a western version that has included india when you could be writing to the games companies in india
@@llwydanwyl think youve completely misread my post. Have a look at other ck3 videos where the person talking about the game will talk about all the continents and areas but barely even acknowledge india which is in the game. Why?
Dont really understand what you're talking about regarding video game development in India.
I think I’ve spent half this video either in a state of ‘ooooohh I get it out now’ or furiously taking notes. Thank you for this excellent tutorial. I think tomorrow’s session will go better than the flaming disasters of today.
This was really helpful, I've been finding it extraordinary difficult to get started, it doesn't look so in depth while just watching a let's play, but actually managing yourself is very different! I get lost in the endless tabs very easy.
I'm playing this as soon as I get home from work this evening. Couldn't really ever get into CK2 but this game looks too great to pass up! I have heard it focuses a good bit more on the rpg element and I live the new 3D modeling. Thanks for the tutorial, I would be way way lost if I hadn't watched this first!!!
Wasn’t a fan of CK2 either but this one awesome. Just hard learning all the little things.
I now have a masters degree thanks to this channel
Bruz I know I'm late but this tutorial is superb!! You explain everything so well and paced well and just damn well done!!
Can't believe I spent 40 minutes watching this and learned absolutely nothing!
PartyElite over and over again, this dude became the #1 address for everything strategy related. I love it!
You're too kind. Thank you!
I'll learn from PE while my game is downloading.
Nice! My plan and hope exactly =D
Doing the exact same thing hahaha
Ive downloaded it, but im at work for the next hour and 20 minutes
Same quick download so now I'm smoking a spliff
Doing exactly that here lol
love you party! i really like the way you explain things!! please make more about ck3. im new to this game and im very excited!
Thanks! More coming for sure
Awesome tutorial!
I really hope Paradox work on the vassals a bit, even looking at this tutorial I can see that "powerful vassals" are kinda broken.
they need to fix what's defined as a "powerful vassal" like you had a vassal with 150 troops and he was considered powerful which is just annoying,
also the -40 opinion is a bit to harsh.
I really hope they work on that as it's a real pain to manage "powerful vassals" when most of them are not even powerful, and they demand seats on the council despite
having either shit traits or there being no more space.
"powerful" is determined by their strength compared to each other, iirc. So if one guy makes more money and raises more troops than another, they expect preferential treatment because they're "kind of a big deal" compared to the other guy
@@PartyElite
Yeh that makes sense, the only issue is that these people make 0 money and provide 0 troops almost so why are they still powerful, just some random Mayor or really small count.
It should exist yes, but it needs work
This is acctaully a quality tutorial. I watched so many cause i never played game 1 or 2 so i was lost even after the ingame tutorial, but now so many things are clear
What a great in-depth tutorial for a shitty strategy player like me. The most advanced strategy games I've ever played are Civ V and Stellaris, so this really helps. Thank you man
Don't feel bad man.....this is about as complex as grand strategy comes.
Ayyye so hyped! Thanks for the quick tutorial, I watched 99% of both livestreams but I feel like I still need to learn a lot before I jump in myself! I have so many ideas for potential dynasty roleplay scenarios!
Yessssss! Do share (if you're down to!)
@@PartyElite I love Scottish history, especially 17th/18th century Jacobitism, so playing with the Stuart House would be fun. I also want to play an tyrannical/batshit crazy ruler à la Caligula, but that might have to be a dynasty I'm not particularly attached to because it might get real bad. xD I mostly studied North American and western European cultures in uni, so it'd also be nice to explore Africa and the Middle East a bit.
Melsie or do a legacy challenge xD
@@lihanou That's basically the goal. I'll just conquer the whole world lol Once I figure out wars a bit more and can actually get through one without every soldier starving...
Even though I lose almost every war, I'm still having fun
That's the spirit! Honestly I find this to be one of those few games where failure doesn't feel as terrible - it's all part of some great story
This is the longest beginner's guide I'm about to jump into. I'll save this for later then
Haha it's a beefy game. It's split up into chapters so you can watch it in parts, too, if that helps!
Despite already having the game and having succesfully united Ireland I still found myself watching a tutorial, I blame it on the new tabs/change of position of the tabs from ck2 to ck3. Anyway, thanks for this tutorial it was really informative and I loved the comedic pause before "....Results" when you elaborated where children could come from in crusader kings.
=D glad you enjoyed it and found some value out of it!
Man ive united Ireland 3 times.
Im now on my 4th playthrough as I keep getting spit roasted by the Kings of England France and Scotland.
How did you guys manage to do that?
I just started my second run after horrible first run of attempting to unite Ireland.
Spectacular quality, Party! Succinct, clear, descriptive, and informative. Please, keep em coming! This sort of stuff is invaluable to both total newcomers, and seasoned veterans learning all the changes and additions in this new entry. Hope we can see some let's plays too!
Thank you very much for the kind words! Let's plays i'm kicking off in a 'streamed' format for the first time on the channel - feel like its fun to do it that way. First couple episodes out already =). And more guide vids coming for sure!
I have long had a high opinion of you through various games. I've never been as appreciative of a mind with clarity of purpose as I am in this video. No suddenly just racing through menus unexplained or jumping around at what the maker notices; but, a consistent level of information covered with purpose and delivered with relevant provisos. My appreciation stems from the realization that this is a truly deep game to master which the AI can also play. A rare enough thing and worth learning. Thank you for your insights.
And thank you for such kind words! It's great to know what people think of my approach
Great video! I just purchased this game last night and Ill be honest, my eyes glazed over at the shear amount of things you can do. Your videos should help me get on the right track so I'm not spending so much time blindly stumbling through learning the game.
My ck3 genetics program is already coming along nicely, but this shall make it better
Edit: Chad Master achieved, Nietzsche's super man has nothing on the Chad Master, the Chad Master destroys everything
A man talking more than 40 minutes without a break about something that boring.
At least it made me fall aslpeep in the evening. Ty sir
Way too complicated. Maybe if they introduced Elder Kings as DLC Id willing to put in the time but as it stands? No chance. 🤷♂️
I kinda really want this game and I've spent hours watching streamers play it back when it came out but I still don't know how to play exactly.
I hope this helps
EDIT: Wtf I'm confused
I thought of uninstalling this game after I tried the tutorial...and now after watching this video I am now certain that I should uninstall it for the sake of my brain T_T
I just stare at the screen getting high on pause, been january 1st 867 for 2 days real time 😂😂😂
Very Interesting and Informative Party, I like it!
Glad to hear it! Should equip everybody for their first games =)
Only the most essential tips... 42 Minute Video :D
Its not true that an army always suffers attrition when moving through an area with lower supply than its size. Armies have supply they carry with them now, & will only take attrition when that supply runs out.
Also I should mention, if they try to move more than 1 county deep into enemy territory they will always take a one time attrition hit.
Is there a game of thrones mod?
This tutorial is insanely good.. I have 1k hours in CK 2 so I knows my way around... Kinda.. They changed a lot.. Thank you for the time you put into this.
Glad to see it's helping vets too! Always hard to strike that balance!
I played the tutorial yesterday. My damn priest was +5 in learning lol, no way to remove him unless scheme to arrest or murder XD
Oooooof.
Man... I've been saying this for years but your tutorial videos are the type of thing that are so good it baffles me you aren't a million+ subscriber channel. It's just obvious that a lot of effort, thought, and planning goes into stuff like this and you nail it every time. I had never even heard of this series before today and now I'm in the motions of installing it. If that's not the best kind of sponsorship then I don't know what is.
Thank you very much for such kind words! Glad you're checking it out - so happy to see folks getting into Crusader Kings!
I wish i understood anything you said, but this is way above my level from never playing the games before. I am sure it was very informative, but for a noob it just means i have to come back when i know more about the game.
I would say booting up the game, and going section by section through the vid while looking at it in your own game, might help! It's definitely a super dense game, and I tried my best to go as broad-strokes as possible - if you have any questions, you can ask here, or in our discord (link in the description). Super friendly folks in there, plus myself, all happy to help, I'm sure =)
Don't feel bad, it is a very hard game to understand, I've tried several times to learn CK2 and struggled every time, this time around it seems a bit more streamlined so i'm finding it easier to grasp.
@@PartyElite Cheers man, yeah I think I will spend some time reading everything i can and revisit the video :) I am a total war / civ type player, so my expectations was completely turned upside down D not in a bad way. just need to readjust the learning curve
9:25 The domain limit is actually the limit for barony-ranked titles. If you have multiple castles in a single county, they would be individually counted towards your domain limit.
This game is way too hard for a beginner, way too much information to remember, this is like going to college to get your PHD, actually it's worst. I would never recommend a game like this or any of the Paradox Games to a beginner. This is game way too complex, which in my opinion takes the fun away of playing a game. This feels like a college course or a job.
It's definitely a lot, I've never played CK before. Hence why I'm here lol.
the music in the background is the reason i got this game, im in need of that
I know lots of other commenters are saying the same thing, but this video was perfect @PartyElite. I can't imagine how much effort goes into a 43 minute video, but Paradox should give you a bonus because this video is so. well. done. Amazing explanations and great pacing for someone who played CK2. Excited to buy this now that I'll have a clue what I'm doing!
Thank you very much for the kind words! Really glad to hear it's piqued your interest. If you have any questions, ask away anywhere on the playlist, or in out discord too! Happy to help =)
14:03 this is where it ends for me. who keeps making these impossibly complicated games pls im just trying to be a little king having fun😭
Its a lot to get into at first but once you're familiar with it, it feels like second nature, and then you get to play king with all the cool bits and all the tough bits. If you need help getting to grips with anything specific, feel free to ask away in the discord too!
This is my first CK (and Paradox game) and this tutorial is amazing. You got a new sub.
Glad to hear it! Welcome to the insanely deep world of PDX strategy gaming!
after watching a couple of "beginner's guides", i think this is the best one.
but i still think the best way to approach the game is to first play through the tutorial, do whatever you want and can, and then come watch this video and get to the point of "aaah so that's how things happen" :D
I found the best way to play is to just try to seduce as many women as possible and the hell with everything else.
Is there a difference between disbanding your army in the conquered territory and marching them back to your domain to disband?
From what I've seen - and I experimented with this a lot because it threw me off at first - but: as long as your army is in "friendly" territory, you can disband at no cost (financial or otherwise).
long time total war warhammer 2 player here. bought this game 2 days ago after stumbling upon it and i have to say, the learning curve is fucking huge.. so much details to consider.. but i enjoy it alot. the fact that it is less military based like warhammer but more focus around politics, schemes, children.. way cooler!
Played for 20 hours and didn't really understand what being a rightful liege means and didn't know children have education focus. Thanks for the help. Great guide!
OMG THIS GAME IS FREAKING COMPLICATED.
Take a shot anytime you hear words "dynasty" and "aformentioned" pronounced wrong
Take a shot any time somebody thinks the British pronunciation of "dynasty" is wrong.
The highlighted things kind of go by really quickly that they are hard to follow. It would be nice if the highlights were more pronounced or lasted longer.
Theres a setting for that
Zednix 55, Watch “9 useful tips for beginners in CK3” by Italianspartacus, he covers this setting I believe
I bought the game, but I realise I'm going to have to enlist at PE Uni to have any hope in understanding the differences between this and Stellaris...
Man this game looks fun but man am I lost
I fuскing love this tutorial. I really cannot understate how great it is that you make a tutorial/tutorials that actually teach me how the game functions instead of most other tutorials out there saying "do this, do that, get 3000 gold, kill these guys, become the pope and there you have it! (make sure to buy my mixtape btw"
You explaining the mechanics of the game also shows that you know how it works and therefore, how to play it.
This game is SOOO complicated.. and it is a beauty of it
I went into Crusader 3 feeling like a lowly worm ... NOW I CAN BE A KING, CHEERS
*I did watch this video and became a King*
hello, I'm the one who offered so many names & introduced cultural stuffs for mount & blade 2 (ask me I will answer you every time about everything, I'm archaeologist), I know you began a Maghrebian campaign in Crusader kings 3 but I really want & ask you to play as Fatimid caliphate which are my ancestors, consider it as a I don't know, a fan service. beware if you want play as Persians play as Sassanid descends specially being a Zartoshti/Zoroastrian not some random Persian or even Arab or Turk because by the Farrah rule aka rule of Mandate of heaven just a "believer" which is a decedent from Akhamenid dynasty & in result prophet Zartosht as well can inherent the Shahanshahi/Empire, so make your play more interesting with this knowledge & I know every Persian first of all will play as Karen & Bavandi dynasties (second one still is an important noble clan). as you asked before, pryphic victory (I don't know right write) in Arabic is Entesar Mokallaf & in Persian is Piruzie por hazine.
Geez trying to figure out how to change my damn capital city 🤦🏾♂️ also the map feels a bit cluttered at times I guess it will take some time adjusting even after 300+ hours on ck2
Dunno if you found it but if not -
Select a holding, and in the menu at the bottom left corner, next to the holding name, you can rename it, and there's an icon one more step to the right that looks like a crown with an "up" arrow below it. That last icon is what you want!
One of the best beginner guide's I have seen yet. There are not many yet doing a CK3 guides. Very informative and very detailed. This guide has helped me a lot. Thank You!
You know it’s a paradox game when the beginners guide is 40 minutes long
You know what, I think I'll just spend my free time becoming a neurosurgeon, this game is just a tad bit too difficult for my tastes.
Played the in game tutorial, then came to actually learn!
Outstanding pronunciation, pace and knowledge transfer. Thank you.
This game is just so confusing that even me who played stratagy games such as total war and HOI for years took hours just to figure out how to declare wars, the tutorial was so complicated that I got stuck on one thing and had to search it up. I'd say I'm an experienced player at this type of game but still I'm not familiar with ck3 yet.
Yeah I played hoi4 and total war games for years and just got eu4 and ck3 and hoi4 is so easy compared to them but eu4 is my new fav tbh
This is the best guide I've ever seen on CK. Great pacing, clear points, well demonstrated. I don't even know what other videos you make, but I gotta subscribe.
Thanks! I hope you like the other stuff you see around these parts too!
here`s a tip ............DONT BUILD ANYTHING if you are a vassal ,trust me this will save you a lot of resources and time....because your liege might decide to change your gouv type and your buildings go bye bye with 0 resources refunded
Game is complex but its fun. Played as Duke in in Italy, went on war yolo cuz it seemed suggested, bit sussy that it was mostly suggested again muslims, like Ali, i guess they were invaders of south Italy, and mby same strenght. Guess what happened, Ali got friend to chime in beat the f out of me 😂, i had to get my daughter be married to king of Hungary, we still lost 😂. Called him few times, his back is probably broken now. Ali danning, saying fell the wrath and justice of Allah (lowk conflicted since fam muslim) 😂. That was fun. Then later on my brother who is vassal, wife look at me bit weird, suggestion box asking homie to make a movie, stay quiet or snitch on the bich 🤣, guess what i did? I cheated with her 😈, later on a idior snitched on me , and blackmailed me. He snitched, DRAMA happened , like its turkish show, then i went on war against the snitch cause snitches get stiches 😂, i invited Hungarian homie. Guess what happened, yet another loss in war lol. This game be hilarious and hard, love it. Later on i got detrowned, my son became heir, i believe he got killed in sleep..😅 Yeah lol. I read many turorials now, its alot. Now Im about to watch this with choco 🍫. Thank you, its a needed video ❤😂. I bet could make for a more fullfilling and more enjoyable experience in this adventure. 🌊🌈✨
I think I need to retire from work to be able to give this game any time it looks awfully compilcated compared to Crusader Kings I where I started off as Count of Anjou and eventually became King of France (well my heirs did!)
the GAME looks veryyy INTERESTING, but its too COMPLEX for a GAME, i better study ROCKET SCIENCE, that wud be much easier...
Religious taxes are way higher than anything else. This depends on your religion too. Tribes don't have many temples but you can swap the head. Actually, if you can't control them they still give up to 50% of the taxes and 100% of the levies if they like you 50+ so religious part is really really important.
The best way to impress powerful vassals is to choose them and breed them yourself. You got to choose the council from the vassals you got. This excludes the ones that are in your kingdom but isn't in your direct vassal list. When you grant lands, you can sort based on skills, and take over a vassal from others, and then use in council. If you can make them a duke, then he will be powerful, he will hold a council position, and he will like you. Prevent breeding stock from ever being a knight. Give each powerful vassal a style: one will be a diplomat, one will be a steward, depending on religion you can't choose the bishop so don't have learning-focused powerful vassal, you can have multiple martial focused since they die and not an issue to get another, they can train themselves. lastly, you can have intrigue focused ones, but you can also keep in court and family, training girls, nieces and lovers to be good spymasters. this way I managed to get 3 generations of perfect stewards and even train my own kids to be perfect stewards using a council I put in position. If you can choose their wives, it's all the better, like marry court members to family members or good stat girls with their focus, then give them land. This means a healthy government is your holdings, plus 3 dukes, 4th duchy maybe for the spies. I found it bad to breed spymasters, since they can kill you if they hate you, and increases the crime rates and adultery, and it's annoying, low intrigue people will commit less crimes and this is something that goes down in families, culture and country. Just try to get a wife with 30 diplomacy skill and focus on diplomacy, all your kids will have 8+ diplomacy very early in their life, and a lot of kids will have good diplomacy education. Same goes for martial or stewardship or any other skill.
Stop the game in January and assign guardians for every kid in your court that is 6+, and every kid in your powerful vassal's court (offer guardian). This sounds like a lot of trouble but the base is 50-50 that the kids get 2 points each year, with a guardian is 60-40. With a genius educator, the chance goes up by 15 points (base is 60 points 40 points, from there comes a lot of calculations). it's a bit complex but 15 points are around 5-6% better chance that the kid will be smarter each year. genius is 15 points, intelligent 10 points, quick and shrewd 5 points. then each point in the focus area is 0.4 points (20 martial is 8 points, 30 is 12 so a genius is still better) and 0.2 from learning. So 20 martial 10 learning is better than 10 martial 26 learning if you want a good martial education (holy order leaders are generally the best at that). But 15 martial 10 learning is worse than 10 martial 25 learning. One small boost is if they got a spouse or are in the council, they will have a bit more skill than others who don't, and lastly, their traits might influence the kid.
This is why your number one choice is yourself, you can boost your traits with your wife. Second, best is your wife. The third is council members. It's a free opinion boost with the bishop to offer a ward, and that gives extra bonus for both of them to like each other and to like you. As I said learning is half the weight of the focus, so you want a high stat young bishop. As long as he has 20 learning and 10 in something else, he will be able to train that too. High learning is also good for physicians so you can employ your bishop as a physician or your wife. You don't have to offer your heir to the bishop, any courtier kid will do, just for the opinion boost. actually, you can repeat that by offering kids close to 16. You can do this as a kid ruler waiting to become 16, the bishop does not endorse you, and you can't sway him but you can offer wards and get re-wards :P
You can also change focus once, so it's worth taking wards for yourself just to change their focus then drop them and give a good educator in that area, you can do this with courtiers, family members, but you can only do it with vassal kids if you are their mentor. Don't let girls go martial or intrigue focus, and don't let anyone go learning focus (if you are a Christian). You won't be able to give a council position to a girl marshall if she is crap at it, but she will demand it and hate you for it. You won't be able to kill off a girl marshal too often as she won't command armies all the time, while if a male asks for the marshall, you force him to die. it's the only area you can have competition so you want a lot of male marshalls. Maybe it sounds a bit sexist, but you will understand what I mean when every time your liberation war has a girl marshall as a leader :D
the exact numbers are 0-6/7-10/11-14/14+ for each education. they got 2 points each year, 6 to 16 and it's a coinflip. I think 3 star is good enough, but 4 star is amazing. in 40 years that 10% stacks up and really shows in skills, so I prefer a high education councillor over a high stat one. They will be better educators themselves. Meanwhile, 2-star education is real bad and won't make them anything ever, the flat bonus is not that much but 10% bonus is over a few years. Makes the game way better if your powerful vassals aren't full idiots.
Paradox should be paying you! The CK3 tutorial is next to useless and really badly integrated. It isn’t even self contained, as soon as you get to the war section and have to unpause the game, the game actually starts even though technically you’re still in the tutorial. Suddenly there’s all these pop ups and things happening and I’m like “wait how do I move my army again, what’s all this mean?!”. Without this vid I might have given up. Thanks!