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After crushing a peasant revolt, look at the leader you have in your prison. They are often really good knights with high prowess, so negotiate a release and recruit him.
@@mattkacar Actually yeah, because if you make them a knight, they may end up causing an aristocratic rebellion, aka, your nobles rising up against you which is no fun.
@@ivartheboneless5969 Though takes tons of time, befriending, swaying, and bribes. Better just execute them. And besides executions just feels nice to me, for some reason.
For anybody who's confused about that last option: remember that when attacking a vassal of a liege, you go to war with the liege. So as Britanny, any expansions into France require you to fight the army of the French crown, and not (just) your target's army. When their (top) liege is also your (top) liege though, that liege won't be able to get involved on your target's behalf. This gives you the oportunity to gobble up your neighboring vassals, as well as any independent duchies outside of your top liege's empire, assuming you can handle them and your liege's crown authority allows it.
@@DuffmaneB Your vassals can fight offensive wars against neighbors and eachother on their own accord yeah. They can also join their allies in wars. Anybody who wants to start of offensive war for your vassals' territory will have to go through you though.
@@AeciusthePhilosopher not always, depends on top liege crown authority, for high or absolute authority, you need hooks on liege or fedual contract with War Declaration: Sanctioned
Depending also on your liege crown authority. If too high (over 3 or 4 i guess), vassalas are not alowed to declare warsbon each other until there is very valid reason
This may be late, but here's a couple of strategies I ran into. When you're stuck conquering a neighboring kingdom county by county, you can keep an eye on your enemy monarch's core counties, the ones that they themselves rule over. This is their main source of money the same way you have yours. Rather than picking off counties off the edge, you can drive your way forward into their heartlands and start taking the core counties, even their capital. Each victory weakens your enemy nation more than it otherwise would since you chip into the monarch's ability to fight back. A second tip when you're conquering an enemy piece by piece is to keep an eye on their succession. Especially early on when dealing with confederate partition. If you're lucky, you can find a spot where a single assassination will utterly ruin the nation's stability. I pulled this at one point by assassinating the only son of a catholic king with a bounty of daughters. The oldest daughter got hte title and for the next 90 or so years the nation was beset with civil war after civil war changing the monarch by faction demands every few years and weakening them every time. It really helped keep the whole kingdom on the back foot.
I personally don't think the spouse switch at a decision should be patched out. If I were a ruler, I would probably talk to my spouse about important decisions that need to be made. She might be focused on helping me with something else overall, but would most likely take time to stop and help me with that specific decision in the moment. I think it reflects real life how it is.
Dude that's such a good role playing portrayal of that. Great point. I just wasn't sure because switching the focus, for everything else takes about a day to take effect.. Case in point, switching her to stewardship takes a bit before domains increase
To play the devil's advocate: It's a challenge that pops up, not like something that could take days to react on. Maybe just a few seconds or so.. then it's a bit weird to talk to people first. Ah well you're an emperor anyways so you can do what you want I suppose
It makes sense to combine the "marry courtiers" and "spousal focus" tips: switch your wife's assistance to "court politics" (+diplomacy) before searching for marriage candidates for a courtier and you'll get better candidates. Some other considerations: - High-born courtiers (with coats of arms) produce better marriage opportunities. - When marrying a courtier dame matrilineally, pay attention to that the partner is not a mayor. She will leave your court and move to his city. (Not sure, maybe the same happens with priests and even priestesses when you marry a male courtier.) - Breeding courtiers makes little sense. Finding robust wives for your knights is unlikely to produce for you better knights in the next generation. It's better to secure top HR right here right now, which means always inviting them from outside. You can marry even aged dames and turn the "fertile" filter to "all" to find for them not so young husbands with very high prowess (the list is sortable by prowess, BTW) or good combinations of commander traits. - Higher learning is important for a doctor even more than the stars in the "Physician" characteristic. - Consider landing your counsellors and knights. When landed, spouses assist them, so if you are inviting through marriage e.g. a guy with high stewardship to appoint as your steward, it's better to marry him to a dame with the highest stewardship in your court so he becomes even better steward after landing.
It does not work for me at all. ive tried this 100 times it feels. My "duke/king/count" only gets the capital and nothing else in that dutchy it does not matter if it has 3 counties or 8 and if he own 3 countys or 15 when he dies. Eiter my game files are bugged or god hates me, i cant not figure out whats wrong.
No no no.. That's on me dude I'm sorry.. So the reason he gets those lands is because those lands are in MY domain. You won't get them if they belong to a vassal. Does that help?
@@italianspartacus I know, thats the thing i do every thing correct as you say, i understand the mechanic , but it just dont work. thats what confuses me the most :S
@@MrNomad505 He gets the main titles King/dutchy and the capital then the rest is totaly all over the place. Feel like the game gives the countys (castles) to my sons like 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4... like you give cards when you play poker.
One tip I would add on primogeniture/ultimogeniture is that at absolute crown authority (4th level) you can designate you heir from among any eligible children. I'm already 200+ hrs in and I just learned about this the other day, and it's super useful.
For educating, it's much more important for the guardian to have genius/intelligent/quick than anything else, followed by the skill you want to nurture, and finally learning. Obviously you need to trust the guardian not to murder your child, so don't give guardianship to a rival or disloyal vassal. It's immensely more powerful for a guardian to have genius in comparison to high skills. For example a crappy 5/5/5/5/5 genius guardian will be better than a 30/30/30/30/30 no trait guardian. The wiki has the formulas but in layman terms just follow the first two sentences and you will maximize your heir's stats.
@@Korutz It looks like the guardian's education tier and even the field of his educational background doesn't matter at all. A spy or a diplomat or a scholar or a steward with high martial will provide better martial education than a warrior with lower martial.
Dude.. i learn stuff so much hahahah there are parts of my guides i wish i could re-do because i forgot to talk about things or because i learned ANOTHER little tid bit that would help. it's all so layered!
@@italianspartacus not refuting that at all. Especially with how frequently Paradox patches their games (in conjunction with community input, they're honestly incredible) but yeah I've had to dig harder and harder for new ah-ha! moments. This game is a constant battle between satisfying role-play/min-max/strategy player bases and it's entertaining to watch. But yeah I've caught most of your vids since release and loved learning alongside ya. Keep up the good work man, your voice could become a UA-cam bastion for anything that benefits from thoughtfully paced explanations-
@@italianspartacus Have you done a video on just the Court itself? I mean most players intrigued enough to seek this content out to begin with know how to rope great council members/knights in but I'd be interested to see a video discussing court size, keeping them there, and some of the more unorthodox ways to recruit. Befriending/Seduction/hooks and to a lesser extent opinion all have fascinating ways to bulk up a rulers court. Seduction events specifically can turn a 1 prospective lover invite into 3-6 high prestige house recruits easily with the right family. It's a can of worms that can be imperative for minority religions/cultures diplomatic ranged out of their element. I dunno, I'd enjoy one. Anyway, keep it up compadré.
I played more than 1000 hours of Hearts of Iron 4 and I can say that I play relatively good but still I remember learning stuff even when I had 700 hours. Paradox games are hard to learn but harder to master.
Hey there, nice vid. And even after I spent many hours in ck3, it still gave me some things to consider. Thx for that! I also want to share some of my expiriences made in the game regarding your tips (may end up in a wall of text): - If in need for some better council members, look up your prison! For example, after a peasant rabble you imprison their leader, whom mostly have a high martial skill and also some decent leader traits, so you may force recruit him as marshal and army leader. Up until now I never had problems with forcefully recruited chars. - Regarding all the vassal factions targetting you, in a clan society like all muslim societies in the game, you have the ability to have up to 4 spouses. It comes in handy not only to llok for traits of your spouses, but also consider taking the daughters of your vassals to ally them and prevent them from joining a liberty faction or claimant faction. Though I highly recomend at the start not to have more then 2 spouses, otherwise you may end up with far to many heirs to handle the succession. - Even if feudal society doesn't have a penalty if powerfull vassals don't have an alliance with you like in a clan government, if your religion allows for concubines and you have like 8 up to 15 children... just "sell" them out for inner alliances. - Regarding premature versus ultima: Even if you end up getting very old (70+) and your heir might be 45+ old with terrible stats - if he has got 4 children up to this point, you still might to play soem years with him, as he instantly has 4 "buying alliances" options. Also ultimagesomething bears the risk that your char gets murdered and you end up as a 8 year old char with no options to form alliances and your vassals may take this oportunity. - be careful with seducing chars to get to your court, they might get jelous (or your normal spouse) and if having a good to excellent intrigue skill they are a dangerous threat to you rather then an asset. Also, if a vassal get to know of your seducing, he might want to blackmail you... Never, like NEVER let a direct vassal (vassals of your vassals can't seem to really use this for whatever reason) have a hook on you! They will mostly use it to get a council position - and you might end up with a councillor of skill 2, whom can't be fired for 25 years... so you have to imprison and banish him and, well, upset everyone else. Some things I expirienced, which I just wanted to share here. Greetings, Ö
Jumped on the Xbox release today and boy do I have alot to learn but I'm still enjoying it. Its clear the learning curve to be really successful is high I can't wait to use these tips and see how I get on over the next few days.
On succession/confederate partition- another thing to do, especially when you’re at that Kingdom/Empire level, is to conquer a nearby duchy, and then grant a county and duchy title to one of your secondary/tertiary heirs. This method will prevent them from taking your core counties that you want your primary heir to inherit in their entirety. However, if you start making new Kingdom level titles, the game will try to give them out and suddenly, giving duchies won’t be enough.
Good tips. Love your videos. I found that marrying your daughters on matrilineal marriages and landing the spouses afterwards is the best way to keep control. Also, disinheriting extra sons (if you can take the renown hit) and landing them once they have no extra claims and you have alliances with all your vassals.
You can raise your armies BEFORE you try to emprison a vassal who is in a faction. If he refuses to be emprison, you can then immediately move to his domain to either destroy his army or besiege his property. You can even choose to emprison the vassal with the weakest chance to suceed emprison to be sure to trigger the revolution and have already your army inside his domain to immediately crush his face.
this was a really awesome video. I've played about 7 hours and all of these are awesome ideas and strategies I need to implement ASAP into how I approach the game. Thanks mate!
Hi, great video! Learned a few bits here now and a lot since started playing following you. I wanted to add some of my own findings for community - ignore levies and build MAA. Then target enemy armies in your territory by moving rally point to the next tile they will visit. Playing as England defeated holy war with 1500 MMA VS 20k total army as any time they try to disembark you "ambush" them and they move in relatively small numbers. MMA and mercenaries spawn instantly without delay after disbanding so can be repeated many times and enemy at sea does not count as enemy nearby.
On 9:40 Slow Play Your Succession, if you imprison a vassal without a valid reason, that will give a Tyranny penalty of -20 to EVERY vassal's opinion of you. Which may result in more of these vassals joining the Independence faction, resulting in you needing to imprison more vassals, resulting in more vassal opinion loss. This feedback loop may destroy you.
My issue is wanting a tiny piece of land from a large empire and I'm kinda forced to have a all out war. Wish I can convince the count like hey leave your empire I'm better.
hmmmm i feel like you should be able to do that - steal a vassal. i think you can through diplomacy with their liege. i'll have to look into it. it just feels like something they'd have thought of
Fantastic video! Regarding tip #8, combine that strategy with meritocracy - first perk on the stewardship administrator lifestyle tree - and you can fabricate claims on the liege you just swore fealty to. If you are a ridiculously strong vassal, this is a great way of securing a higher realm title without needing other vassals to help you. But just in case you need other vassals to help, fabricating hooks just happens to be the first perk on the intrigue schemer lifestyle tree... Enjoy!
As someone who played a little bit of Crusader Kings 2 but never quite got the hang of it and is now trying to figure out CK3 these are the types of tips I really appreciate.
I may be a bit late to the party, but has anyone mentioned vassalizing every single county your heir won't inherit? I find it to work pretty well while I race for that primogeneiture. You give the counties to your best knights/courtier who are already on your council, so remain there as powerful vassals. Then your other children get nothing because there is nothing to split. Your heir, basically, inherits a confederacy.
It may work within certain limits, as long as there is nothing to split, as you said. E.g. if your realm's size covers roughly just one major de-jure title, a duchy (if you are a duke) or a kingdom (if you're a king), and the number of peripheral counties beyond that title is insufficient to create another title of the same tier.
That's the worst idea I've ever seen. You end up with one county and strong vassals (that won't necessarily like your heir) when you could just let the succession happen naturally and have more lands and your brothers as vassals.
Incidentally I tried playing a game starting as Urgell (county within Barcelona) and found it so hard, mostly because the Iberian nations would stomp all over me on their way to Aquitaine. I may even try to play this start again, but follow your tips. This is actually the most helpful video I've watched out of about twenty on CK3: * I didn't even know pressing C was a thing * I didn't know I could scan for 'Inside' my diplomatic range
If you do the tip mentioned at 12:00 make sure you check the "on decline" tab to see how many vassals will join him in rebellion. I had a big empire and was planning to get rid of an annoying vassal or two this way and fortunately I checked first because there were about 20 vassals that were going to join him. And I'm not sure if the dread mechanic is taken into account or not because I only had a handful of vassals in the empire who weren't intimidated. It's possible that a good majority of those would not have joined the rebellion even though it said they would.
WOW! Brilliant Tips! I strugled finding and keeping a good Marshal. also the idea of marrying knights to get better ones. why didn't I come up with it myself? thank you thank you thank you
Sadistic and Generous are both awesome traits to have. With generous you can relieve stress by giving gifts, with sadistic you can relieve stress by executing people!
thanks for the succession info. This partition thing does my head. I wanted to unite Ireland...yet when i die my sons create factions and want to kill each other for the right of the crown...i dont seem to come very far with this game, yet its still so much fun
2 months late but I prefer trying to work a game out for myself first then search for tips when I up my difficulty on games. Some great tips here and very well put together video. Clear and easy to listen too. Thanks a lot 👍🏻 Will watch more from you for sure
Damn, this is the best video so far about CK3 tips for beginners, good insight tips, good pace, well edited video/soud, keep up the good work, gonna take a look at the rest of ur channel but this video is perfect, english is my second language and i can understant everything perfectly too, wichs a bonus.
You can move your capital multiple times, provided you have at least 2 titles of the highest tier, e.g. 2 duchies. Change your primary title and you can change your capital. Switch your primary title again to be able to immediately change your capital again. This allows for unlimited capital changes.
@Split Dimension Yes. The option to move your capital becomes available only after you switch your primary title (using the "make primary" option in the holding window). After that, the button to move capital will (re)appear on barony titles you own. Unfortunately, if you only own 1 highest tier title, you can move a capital only once per lifetime. However, multiple titles come with their own challenges during succession. In my experience, capitals are not necessarily best where the game puts it by default. In most cases, a river delta works best for higher development. Or, for instance, if you have a special building/holy site that gives relevant benefits. It is often beneficial to move a capital to a holding where you have your own religion & culture + high control = max gold income and army size.
@@Fat_Paws does it mean that I have to switch my primary title before moving the realm capital for the 2nd time? The 1st capital movement can be done without switching the primary title, right?
@@BiglerSakura Haven't had to do this in a while, do idk if they have changed it. But it used to be that you did not need to move your capital before switching titles. BTW, If you can move your capital to the desired barony already, there is also not much point in switching titles around. These days, I generally just stick to a single capital. If I plan to switch to a different capital, I generally don't bother switching to a different one in the interim. Unless some decision is locked behind it, e.g. creating the Kingdom of Toledo in the new DLC.
Started to slow play when my king reached a respectable age of 72. No conquest until he´s dead and the prince could take over, I planed. The king died 99 years old and the prince had passed away 20 years before...
For tip #1, marrying off courtiers to get councilors and knights for your court, check the person to make sure they don't hold any titles). If they do, they won't come to your court. Same problem happens if you get a spouse from outside your realm, if they're a ruler elsewhere they won't come. The easiest way is to filter by "Not Ruler" I believe, but I still check their profile to make sure they don't hold a title.
Yes, even if you are trying to marry a courtier dame matrilineally, if a candidate who is a mayor is suggested, she will leave your court and go to his city. (Probably the same happens with priests, and even a priestess may take your male courtier to her place). Though I've seen an independent count in Sardinia whose wife was a mayor in England. They lived separately in their respective domains but had a couple of children! And she even came all the way from England to Sardinia on a boat with an army to help him when he was attacked.
I'm only a few hours in but for succession, what really helped me was just giving away any land one of your child may inherit to a member of your court. You "lose" a bit of land but you secure a stronger hold on your realm, and you can have really strong courtiers become powerful and loyal vassals. I also found that it's safer to do that semi-early and not wait for old age, cause you might die unexpectedly!
can u make a video on strategy’s to use when playing the different skills like diplomacy, intrigue , stewardship ... ect like what are some good ways to go about it
Always have max personal schemes running: Do romance schemes for free prestige, occasional intrigue perks, and even renown if one of your cultural traditions is chivalry - just find someone with 100% success chance or close to it...
this really needed the nbc "more you know" star and rainbow "remember, marry your daughter to the neighbors prince... then leverage her to participate in a murder scheme against him.. hope this trick helps" the more you know
Partition and High partition can be "gamed" by giving all your counties (except capital) to your primary heir while having multiple duchies, then giving the duchies to old childless vassals and/or destroying your own duchy. For example if i have 3 sons and a kingdom and 3 duchies, each son gets a duchy but individual counties can be given freely to the primary heir. Now If i give all my personally held counties to my primary heir, then give the duchies to an old childless dude, he's gonna return all those to my heir after he dies. As I will just have the realm capital, other sons will get nothing!
FYI, you don't need to mess around with the capitol location in partition-type succession laws if you disinherit your younger sons, and grant them titles separately. You can assigned titles how ever you like if you have only one son inheriting everything.
Ultimogeniture and primogeniture are arbitrary since you’ll be selecting the best of the bunch via absolute crown authority’s designate heir :P Plus when you know you’ve had enough kids it’s time to step down and get deposed so you can really control your (more powerful and genetically superior) heir.
One of my favorite tricks is if you want to get rid of your current ruler and play as their heir but you don't want to take the negative hit from suicide you can intentionally get your stress up to level 3. this is real easy if your ruler is shy- just start and cancel a lot of personal plots. or if the ruler is just or honest- just start and cancel a bunch of hostile plots against random courtiers.
For succession I always go with the elective systems (if possible) and make sure everyone is lined up with the same heir. The best heirs i grant land to even though i cant ally with some. I try to grant everything to house members & give more to the better ones (but usually no more than a duchy). That way they usually wont die in a vassal war. Either way i always make them stop vassal wars if its family fighting. For example, before im able to form Brittania but hold Wales, England, and Ireland.. I make sure the heirs i like at least have unpressed titles in each kingdom (and their own land). When they're elected to all 3 kingdoms with land they have more than the domain limit and i can grant titles again based on my needs. Usually ill grant my old duchy to a son with decent diplomacy and stewardship stats and keep the holdings with the most building slots and best supply/levies. To increase votes in your favor you simply grant counties to house members (with positive opinion)... Ive been able to mix and match claims across 3 generations in my starting duchy so that itll always go back to a member of my house and ill always keep the best county in it since its the capitol. You can keep repeating this process as domain penalties aren't immediate. You'll encounter some rebellions if you don't sway, gift, or feast/hunt almost immediately after succession. If you do it right, its the best method to keep your kingdom in order until you form an empire in my opinion & you can always get dynasty members with good stats instead of some sadistic shy lazy son. Try to get to authority 3 quickly to prevent vassal wars. Also say if you only win 2/3 elections.. you could just go to war on your claims and if you mix the titles right amongst family members, you'll usually get it back at some point if you dont go to war. And faction wars are sometimes really good because you can lock up multiple vassals you don't like and ransom or revoke claims/banish them without a tyrant penalty and stress (if you're just).. Disinheriting should only be used if you cant manage to line your elections up and your vassals are trying to vote for someone you don't like.
@ItalianSpartacus - My wife and I enjoy your videos and find them very helpful, thank you. Could you please make a little video to go over the game rules in the game setup screen? Some of them could use a little clarification from an experienced player who understands it all, and no one seems to have thought to make one yet.
I tend to give my heir's heir their own land that way they grow their own wealth, prestige, and Court. So when my character is in their 60s or so the next heir might not be so strong but I try to keep it all together for their heir.. make sure your vassal (heir's heir) is not one of your knights... Made that mistake last night on iron mode..
Additionally, since I set them up as a strong vassal.. I put my heir's heir in my court typically as a chancellor or Steward role. Chancellor helps them build relationships with everyone else so when it's their turn everyone is happy.
For your second tip "bringing your lover to your court then to your council" was the worst thing to do (for me), it was a rampage she killed 2 spouses of me then even ME. Take a look on her main traits before and try to get a kind one at least, especially a physician its a very easy spot to murder. Play very carefully with lovers and scan them sometimes to reveal secrets.
Personally on confederate partition I usually imprison my secondary heirs before they can have kids, when the succession happens I execute them so I can gobble up those holdings. I also give any surplus or newly acquired holdings to my primary heir’s first son so that too many titles don’t overflow to heir number 3, 4, etc
Is very hard to play as Vallah because at some point there will be the mongol invasion if you start in the 800, right when you are thinking in becoming king.
Another good tip is to recruit those pesky revolt leaders after you imprison them. They usually have good stats and you can get them with a hook as well.
You can buy the game directly from their website without having to install any third party AOL bloatware like Steam. Also, you don't need to search matrilineal when seeking good husbands. Some of them will be homeless. So you can still marry them to your court normally even if they don't want matrilineal marriage.
8:30 that seems to work because the prince would otherwise have inherited that duchy. I tried to do this by moving my capital to any other duchy, one which I already controlled, and I actually ended up in a worse situation, with one of my princes inheriting a bigger duchy where I had most of my holdings...
I always try to bum rush the house seniority and high crown authority innovations so I can designate my heir before death prestige doesn't carryover so using it to pick an heir is a good idea in the longterm
These tips are bang on, sorting the court out for getting good skills in has always been difficult for me, first tip was a breath of sweet air on the breast of a fair maiden.
Gift a rebellious count to a rebellious duke. The first gains a truce with you; the second is appeased. They both drop out of the independence faction.
If you are worried about succession, just go for feudal elective and appoint your best son as your candidate. Everything will go to him if you only keep counties in your capital duchy as domain, and sometimes stuff will just go to him wherever they are. If you worry about factions upon succession, keep some prisoners in your jail, preferably infidels, execute them to raise your dread. I usually keep a populated prison just to maintain dread without wasting perks on the dread tree. And if you follow the last one by always having the best possible heir, people will usually love him anyway.
@@italianspartacus the tip about when you get old leaving lots of Infidels in prison so your successor can torture/execute them for dread is a good one... so long as they don't have terrible traits like forgiving, compassionate or Just :)
Great video, thank you! Question about declaring wars: my current character has only 2 claims at the moment, but the Tab menu states that I can declare many other wars. Where does these other, non claim based, wars come?
My tip is pretty simple. Human sacrifice is the best tenet for a reformed religion. Why? Saving up prisoners for free dread and piety is the best way to squash factions for you and your successors. Just don't let your heir be compassionate or just...
A different way to approach number 5 would be, if you're confident you can squash all the rebels, you can just let the war happen and then strip all the titles from your imprisoned vassals and really clean up the realm and make it very neat
Or, if their stats are good for ruling, just let them continue to rule their counties/duchies from behind the bars of your prison (it's house arrest, anyway).
You can, if you know your death is near, instead of disinheriting your sons, you can just force them to become monks, stripping them from all succession-rights. Only bad thing is the 20 tyranny which you might have to take to imprison one of them, but that can easily be worked around by fabricating a hook on them first or just die soon so factions don't have time to form/ make demands.
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After crushing a peasant revolt, look at the leader you have in your prison. They are often really good knights with high prowess, so negotiate a release and recruit him.
I always try to make friends with them, those peasant revolutionaries are op martials
I always execute them, I never looked at their stats
@@mattkacar Actually yeah, because if you make them a knight, they may end up causing an aristocratic rebellion, aka, your nobles rising up against you which is no fun.
@@billcipherproductions1789 unless you work on getting good relations with them.
@@ivartheboneless5969 Though takes tons of time, befriending, swaying, and bribes. Better just execute them. And besides executions just feels nice to me, for some reason.
For anybody who's confused about that last option: remember that when attacking a vassal of a liege, you go to war with the liege. So as Britanny, any expansions into France require you to fight the army of the French crown, and not (just) your target's army.
When their (top) liege is also your (top) liege though, that liege won't be able to get involved on your target's behalf. This gives you the oportunity to gobble up your neighboring vassals, as well as any independent duchies outside of your top liege's empire, assuming you can handle them and your liege's crown authority allows it.
Your vassals can fight without you getting involved correct?
@@DuffmaneB Your vassals can fight offensive wars against neighbors and eachother on their own accord yeah. They can also join their allies in wars.
Anybody who wants to start of offensive war for your vassals' territory will have to go through you though.
@@AeciusthePhilosopher not always, depends on top liege crown authority, for high or absolute authority, you need hooks on liege or fedual contract with War Declaration: Sanctioned
@@ssanonswu2010 You are absolutely correct, at least for Clan and Feudal lieges.
Depending also on your liege crown authority. If too high (over 3 or 4 i guess), vassalas are not alowed to declare warsbon each other until there is very valid reason
"Slow play your succession" tip helped me so much. I was literally doing the opposite!
yep... had the same problem.
lost everything because of rebellions.
from kingdom to a single town :D
@@Abensberg simple fix to that. Just torture your court into submission. Ez
This may be late, but here's a couple of strategies I ran into. When you're stuck conquering a neighboring kingdom county by county, you can keep an eye on your enemy monarch's core counties, the ones that they themselves rule over. This is their main source of money the same way you have yours. Rather than picking off counties off the edge, you can drive your way forward into their heartlands and start taking the core counties, even their capital. Each victory weakens your enemy nation more than it otherwise would since you chip into the monarch's ability to fight back.
A second tip when you're conquering an enemy piece by piece is to keep an eye on their succession. Especially early on when dealing with confederate partition. If you're lucky, you can find a spot where a single assassination will utterly ruin the nation's stability. I pulled this at one point by assassinating the only son of a catholic king with a bounty of daughters. The oldest daughter got hte title and for the next 90 or so years the nation was beset with civil war after civil war changing the monarch by faction demands every few years and weakening them every time. It really helped keep the whole kingdom on the back foot.
I personally don't think the spouse switch at a decision should be patched out. If I were a ruler, I would probably talk to my spouse about important decisions that need to be made. She might be focused on helping me with something else overall, but would most likely take time to stop and help me with that specific decision in the moment. I think it reflects real life how it is.
Dude that's such a good role playing portrayal of that. Great point. I just wasn't sure because switching the focus, for everything else takes about a day to take effect.. Case in point, switching her to stewardship takes a bit before domains increase
@@italianspartacus agreed. i am hoping they intentionally left that open to immediacy because a spouse should be able to help in the moment.
To play the devil's advocate: It's a challenge that pops up, not like something that could take days to react on. Maybe just a few seconds or so.. then it's a bit weird to talk to people first. Ah well you're an emperor anyways so you can do what you want I suppose
Great point from a role-play perspective. But from a game play perspective, it encourages micromanagement, which some may find tedious.
@@omgfackdehell They should probably split events into quick or long term. If it's long term your spouse can help you, otherwise not.
It makes sense to combine the "marry courtiers" and "spousal focus" tips: switch your wife's assistance to "court politics" (+diplomacy) before searching for marriage candidates for a courtier and you'll get better candidates.
Some other considerations:
- High-born courtiers (with coats of arms) produce better marriage opportunities.
- When marrying a courtier dame matrilineally, pay attention to that the partner is not a mayor. She will leave your court and move to his city. (Not sure, maybe the same happens with priests and even priestesses when you marry a male courtier.)
- Breeding courtiers makes little sense. Finding robust wives for your knights is unlikely to produce for you better knights in the next generation. It's better to secure top HR right here right now, which means always inviting them from outside. You can marry even aged dames and turn the "fertile" filter to "all" to find for them not so young husbands with very high prowess (the list is sortable by prowess, BTW) or good combinations of commander traits.
- Higher learning is important for a doctor even more than the stars in the "Physician" characteristic.
- Consider landing your counsellors and knights. When landed, spouses assist them, so if you are inviting through marriage e.g. a guy with high stewardship to appoint as your steward, it's better to marry him to a dame with the highest stewardship in your court so he becomes even better steward after landing.
Holy shit. That Realm Capital tip is genius. A lot of these tips are really helpful in general, lol.
It does not work for me at all. ive tried this 100 times it feels. My "duke/king/count" only gets the capital and nothing else in that dutchy it does not matter if it has 3 counties or 8 and if he own 3 countys or 15 when he dies. Eiter my game files are bugged or god hates me, i cant not figure out whats wrong.
No no no.. That's on me dude I'm sorry.. So the reason he gets those lands is because those lands are in MY domain. You won't get them if they belong to a vassal. Does that help?
@@italianspartacus I know, thats the thing i do every thing correct as you say, i understand the mechanic , but it just dont work. thats what confuses me the most :S
@@BloodAknot Does your heir get the Duchy title too?
@@MrNomad505 He gets the main titles King/dutchy and the capital then the rest is totaly all over the place. Feel like the game gives the countys (castles) to my sons like 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4... like you give cards when you play poker.
One tip I would add on primogeniture/ultimogeniture is that at absolute crown authority (4th level) you can designate you heir from among any eligible children. I'm already 200+ hrs in and I just learned about this the other day, and it's super useful.
Does that kid get all the titles then or does he get to be first in line to inherit according to the rules of succession?
@@johnandersson2412 The kid you designate will get all the titles yes.
For educating, it's much more important for the guardian to have genius/intelligent/quick than anything else, followed by the skill you want to nurture, and finally learning. Obviously you need to trust the guardian not to murder your child, so don't give guardianship to a rival or disloyal vassal. It's immensely more powerful for a guardian to have genius in comparison to high skills. For example a crappy 5/5/5/5/5 genius guardian will be better than a 30/30/30/30/30 no trait guardian. The wiki has the formulas but in layman terms just follow the first two sentences and you will maximize your heir's stats.
What about guardian's education tier? Misguided warrior with good martial skill will be worse than master tactician with low martial skill?
@@Korutz It looks like the guardian's education tier and even the field of his educational background doesn't matter at all. A spy or a diplomat or a scholar or a steward with high martial will provide better martial education than a warrior with lower martial.
Honestly these are the really small tricks to the trade that can put you over the top. This is just what I needed. Well done sir!
I'm not sure it's possible to learn a new tip for this game after a hundred hours. I'm just here for this man's smooth speaking voice. 😁
So true.
Dude.. i learn stuff so much hahahah there are parts of my guides i wish i could re-do because i forgot to talk about things or because i learned ANOTHER little tid bit that would help. it's all so layered!
@@italianspartacus not refuting that at all. Especially with how frequently Paradox patches their games (in conjunction with community input, they're honestly incredible) but yeah I've had to dig harder and harder for new ah-ha! moments. This game is a constant battle between satisfying role-play/min-max/strategy player bases and it's entertaining to watch. But yeah I've caught most of your vids since release and loved learning alongside ya. Keep up the good work man, your voice could become a UA-cam bastion for anything that benefits from thoughtfully paced explanations-
@@italianspartacus Have you done a video on just the Court itself? I mean most players intrigued enough to seek this content out to begin with know how to rope great council members/knights in but I'd be interested to see a video discussing court size, keeping them there, and some of the more unorthodox ways to recruit. Befriending/Seduction/hooks and to a lesser extent opinion all have fascinating ways to bulk up a rulers court. Seduction events specifically can turn a 1 prospective lover invite into 3-6 high prestige house recruits easily with the right family. It's a can of worms that can be imperative for minority religions/cultures diplomatic ranged out of their element. I dunno, I'd enjoy one. Anyway, keep it up compadré.
I played more than 1000 hours of Hearts of Iron 4 and I can say that I play relatively good but still I remember learning stuff even when I had 700 hours. Paradox games are hard to learn but harder to master.
Hey there, nice vid. And even after I spent many hours in ck3, it still gave me some things to consider. Thx for that!
I also want to share some of my expiriences made in the game regarding your tips (may end up in a wall of text):
- If in need for some better council members, look up your prison! For example, after a peasant rabble you imprison their leader, whom mostly have a high martial skill and also some decent leader traits, so you may force recruit him as marshal and army leader. Up until now I never had problems with forcefully recruited chars.
- Regarding all the vassal factions targetting you, in a clan society like all muslim societies in the game, you have the ability to have up to 4 spouses. It comes in handy not only to llok for traits of your spouses, but also consider taking the daughters of your vassals to ally them and prevent them from joining a liberty faction or claimant faction. Though I highly recomend at the start not to have more then 2 spouses, otherwise you may end up with far to many heirs to handle the succession.
- Even if feudal society doesn't have a penalty if powerfull vassals don't have an alliance with you like in a clan government, if your religion allows for concubines and you have like 8 up to 15 children... just "sell" them out for inner alliances.
- Regarding premature versus ultima: Even if you end up getting very old (70+) and your heir might be 45+ old with terrible stats - if he has got 4 children up to this point, you still might to play soem years with him, as he instantly has 4 "buying alliances" options. Also ultimagesomething bears the risk that your char gets murdered and you end up as a 8 year old char with no options to form alliances and your vassals may take this oportunity.
- be careful with seducing chars to get to your court, they might get jelous (or your normal spouse) and if having a good to excellent intrigue skill they are a dangerous threat to you rather then an asset. Also, if a vassal get to know of your seducing, he might want to blackmail you...
Never, like NEVER let a direct vassal (vassals of your vassals can't seem to really use this for whatever reason) have a hook on you! They will mostly use it to get a council position - and you might end up with a councillor of skill 2, whom can't be fired for 25 years... so you have to imprison and banish him and, well, upset everyone else.
Some things I expirienced, which I just wanted to share here.
Greetings, Ö
For primogeniture, you can designate heir by spending 1000 prestige if you have absoulte crown authority.
I need more of this gorgeous CK3 content!
Jumped on the Xbox release today and boy do I have alot to learn but I'm still enjoying it. Its clear the learning curve to be really successful is high I can't wait to use these tips and see how I get on over the next few days.
On succession/confederate partition- another thing to do, especially when you’re at that Kingdom/Empire level, is to conquer a nearby duchy, and then grant a county and duchy title to one of your secondary/tertiary heirs. This method will prevent them from taking your core counties that you want your primary heir to inherit in their entirety. However, if you start making new Kingdom level titles, the game will try to give them out and suddenly, giving duchies won’t be enough.
Good tips. Love your videos. I found that marrying your daughters on matrilineal marriages and landing the spouses afterwards is the best way to keep control. Also, disinheriting extra sons (if you can take the renown hit) and landing them once they have no extra claims and you have alliances with all your vassals.
What is 'landing' meaning?
@@HobiAI to give a domain
You can raise your armies BEFORE you try to emprison a vassal who is in a faction. If he refuses to be emprison, you can then immediately move to his domain to either destroy his army or besiege his property. You can even choose to emprison the vassal with the weakest chance to suceed emprison to be sure to trigger the revolution and have already your army inside his domain to immediately crush his face.
imprison
@@1000Phoenix was gonna..
i support your way of saying emprison dont listen to them!
French speaker, doing my best
Man i forgot about this one! I've done it before and realised it was OP
this was a really awesome video. I've played about 7 hours and all of these are awesome ideas and strategies I need to implement ASAP into how I approach the game. Thanks mate!
Hi, great video! Learned a few bits here now and a lot since started playing following you. I wanted to add some of my own findings for community - ignore levies and build MAA. Then target enemy armies in your territory by moving rally point to the next tile they will visit. Playing as England defeated holy war with 1500 MMA VS 20k total army as any time they try to disembark you "ambush" them and they move in relatively small numbers. MMA and mercenaries spawn instantly without delay after disbanding so can be repeated many times and enemy at sea does not count as enemy nearby.
Just started playing the game, and of course watched hours of guides first, your videos are excellent. Great insights, great presentation. Thank you 👍
Thank you very much for watching! :) so happy to be of help!
On 9:40 Slow Play Your Succession, if you imprison a vassal without a valid reason, that will give a Tyranny penalty of -20 to EVERY vassal's opinion of you. Which may result in more of these vassals joining the Independence faction, resulting in you needing to imprison more vassals, resulting in more vassal opinion loss. This feedback loop may destroy you.
My issue is wanting a tiny piece of land from a large empire and I'm kinda forced to have a all out war. Wish I can convince the count like hey leave your empire I'm better.
hmmmm i feel like you should be able to do that - steal a vassal. i think you can through diplomacy with their liege. i'll have to look into it. it just feels like something they'd have thought of
To be fair land is power. If I was an emperor of a large empire why would I give land to a minor power who can't do anything if I refuse
If the tiny piece of land is part of your de jure, you could get it even without war
Does not really Sound realistic
Fantastic video! Regarding tip #8, combine that strategy with meritocracy - first perk on the stewardship administrator lifestyle tree - and you can fabricate claims on the liege you just swore fealty to. If you are a ridiculously strong vassal, this is a great way of securing a higher realm title without needing other vassals to help you.
But just in case you need other vassals to help, fabricating hooks just happens to be the first perk on the intrigue schemer lifestyle tree... Enjoy!
I really like this kind of videos, more please! Marrying off your courtiers and using them to your advantage, that i never thought about!
I just want to thank you for a couple videos ago. Where you indirectly showed me you can search for specific traits. That has save so much time...
I just discovered the spouse task switching thing today. Changing realm capital is pretty cool as well.
As someone who played a little bit of Crusader Kings 2 but never quite got the hang of it and is now trying to figure out CK3 these are the types of tips I really appreciate.
I may be a bit late to the party, but has anyone mentioned vassalizing every single county your heir won't inherit?
I find it to work pretty well while I race for that primogeneiture.
You give the counties to your best knights/courtier who are already on your council, so remain there as powerful vassals. Then your other children get nothing because there is nothing to split.
Your heir, basically, inherits a confederacy.
It may work within certain limits, as long as there is nothing to split, as you said. E.g. if your realm's size covers roughly just one major de-jure title, a duchy (if you are a duke) or a kingdom (if you're a king), and the number of peripheral counties beyond that title is insufficient to create another title of the same tier.
That's the worst idea I've ever seen. You end up with one county and strong vassals (that won't necessarily like your heir) when you could just let the succession happen naturally and have more lands and your brothers as vassals.
@@SWBGTOC Noobs here. The father died and land divided between 2 sons. I want the little brother become vassal, but how?
Incidentally I tried playing a game starting as Urgell (county within Barcelona) and found it so hard, mostly because the Iberian nations would stomp all over me on their way to Aquitaine. I may even try to play this start again, but follow your tips.
This is actually the most helpful video I've watched out of about twenty on CK3:
* I didn't even know pressing C was a thing
* I didn't know I could scan for 'Inside' my diplomatic range
If you do the tip mentioned at 12:00 make sure you check the "on decline" tab to see how many vassals will join him in rebellion.
I had a big empire and was planning to get rid of an annoying vassal or two this way and fortunately I checked first because there were about 20 vassals that were going to join him.
And I'm not sure if the dread mechanic is taken into account or not because I only had a handful of vassals in the empire who weren't intimidated. It's possible that a good majority of those would not have joined the rebellion even though it said they would.
WOW! Brilliant Tips! I strugled finding and keeping a good Marshal. also the idea of marrying knights to get better ones. why didn't I come up with it myself? thank you thank you thank you
Sadistic and Generous are both awesome traits to have. With generous you can relieve stress by giving gifts, with sadistic you can relieve stress by executing people!
Cheers for the tips man I'm still very new to this. Half the struggle is even just figuring out HOW to do all these things lol.
I didn't know about all this until now, and i have been playing it non stop for one month 😅
Hahaha I'm always learning and I've been playing since launch!
thanks for the succession info. This partition thing does my head. I wanted to unite Ireland...yet when i die my sons create factions and want to kill each other for the right of the crown...i dont seem to come very far with this game, yet its still so much fun
Helpful tips, so much frustration and fun 🤣 now it should go forward. The complexity is immense
Wow! Hundreds of hours played and most of these were great tips! I Had "aha!" moments and "dur why didnt i think of that..." 😅
2 months late but I prefer trying to work a game out for myself first then search for tips when I up my difficulty on games. Some great tips here and very well put together video. Clear and easy to listen too. Thanks a lot 👍🏻
Will watch more from you for sure
Damn, this is the best video so far about CK3 tips for beginners, good insight tips, good pace, well edited video/soud, keep up the good work, gonna take a look at the rest of ur channel but this video is perfect, english is my second language and i can understant everything perfectly too, wichs a bonus.
You can move your capital multiple times, provided you have at least 2 titles of the highest tier, e.g. 2 duchies. Change your primary title and you can change your capital. Switch your primary title again to be able to immediately change your capital again. This allows for unlimited capital changes.
@Split Dimension Yes. The option to move your capital becomes available only after you switch your primary title (using the "make primary" option in the holding window). After that, the button to move capital will (re)appear on barony titles you own.
Unfortunately, if you only own 1 highest tier title, you can move a capital only once per lifetime. However, multiple titles come with their own challenges during succession.
In my experience, capitals are not necessarily best where the game puts it by default. In most cases, a river delta works best for higher development. Or, for instance, if you have a special building/holy site that gives relevant benefits. It is often beneficial to move a capital to a holding where you have your own religion & culture + high control = max gold income and army size.
@@Fat_Paws does it mean that I have to switch my primary title before moving the realm capital for the 2nd time? The 1st capital movement can be done without switching the primary title, right?
@@BiglerSakura Haven't had to do this in a while, do idk if they have changed it. But it used to be that you did not need to move your capital before switching titles. BTW, If you can move your capital to the desired barony already, there is also not much point in switching titles around.
These days, I generally just stick to a single capital. If I plan to switch to a different capital, I generally don't bother switching to a different one in the interim. Unless some decision is locked behind it, e.g. creating the Kingdom of Toledo in the new DLC.
Great tip using your spouse to increase the percent chance of a positive outcome! That's pretty genius!
Seduce a woman, just to marry her off. All to get some strapping Knight to your banner. That's true evil right there.
we still talking about the game here??? hahahah just kidding :)
I legit made one of my daughters marry with an English prince and caused ww -1 with their army power lol
As always, thanks a lot mate. I'm still looking to improve.
Started to slow play when my king reached a respectable age of 72. No conquest until he´s dead and the prince could take over, I planed. The king died 99 years old and the prince had passed away 20 years before...
HAHAHA that's some wild luck of the draw
For tip #1, marrying off courtiers to get councilors and knights for your court, check the person to make sure they don't hold any titles). If they do, they won't come to your court. Same problem happens if you get a spouse from outside your realm, if they're a ruler elsewhere they won't come. The easiest way is to filter by "Not Ruler" I believe, but I still check their profile to make sure they don't hold a title.
Yes, even if you are trying to marry a courtier dame matrilineally, if a candidate who is a mayor is suggested, she will leave your court and go to his city. (Probably the same happens with priests, and even a priestess may take your male courtier to her place).
Though I've seen an independent count in Sardinia whose wife was a mayor in England. They lived separately in their respective domains but had a couple of children! And she even came all the way from England to Sardinia on a boat with an army to help him when he was attacked.
Good to see you like the paradox now sparticus!!!
I'm only a few hours in but for succession, what really helped me was just giving away any land one of your child may inherit to a member of your court. You "lose" a bit of land but you secure a stronger hold on your realm, and you can have really strong courtiers become powerful and loyal vassals.
I also found that it's safer to do that semi-early and not wait for old age, cause you might die unexpectedly!
Just wanted to say thanks for these awesome tutorials. It made it so much easier to play the game - i was getting really frustrated.
Happy to help my dude!
Great video again man thank you!
can u make a video on strategy’s to use when playing the different skills like diplomacy, intrigue , stewardship ... ect like what are some good ways to go about it
Mindblowing advices! I absolutley love it !
I got CK3 last week and this video blew my mind!
happy to help my dude ! :)
Always have max personal schemes running: Do romance schemes for free prestige, occasional intrigue perks, and even renown if one of your cultural traditions is chivalry - just find someone with 100% success chance or close to it...
this really needed the nbc "more you know" star and rainbow
"remember, marry your daughter to the neighbors prince... then leverage her to participate in a murder scheme against him.. hope this trick helps"
the more you know
Awesome stuff, man! Thanks a mill! Great video! 😊
Partition and High partition can be "gamed" by giving all your counties (except capital) to your primary heir while having multiple duchies, then giving the duchies to old childless vassals and/or destroying your own duchy. For example if i have 3 sons and a kingdom and 3 duchies, each son gets a duchy but individual counties can be given freely to the primary heir. Now If i give all my personally held counties to my primary heir, then give the duchies to an old childless dude, he's gonna return all those to my heir after he dies. As I will just have the realm capital, other sons will get nothing!
great video dude
FYI, you don't need to mess around with the capitol location in partition-type succession laws if you disinherit your younger sons, and grant them titles separately. You can assigned titles how ever you like if you have only one son inheriting everything.
You can also pick which son you want to have as your heir this way, picking for the best traits etc.
This guy has a voice for television and radio.
Thanks brother!! Hahaha
Please do a playthrough with many episodes, with a nice objective! Or do a playthrough on every achievement 😍
I just completed reconquista!! :)
Ultimogeniture and primogeniture are arbitrary since you’ll be selecting the best of the bunch via absolute crown authority’s designate heir :P
Plus when you know you’ve had enough kids it’s time to step down and get deposed so you can really control your (more powerful and genetically superior) heir.
One of my favorite tricks is if you want to get rid of your current ruler and play as their heir but you don't want to take the negative hit from suicide you can intentionally get your stress up to level 3. this is real easy if your ruler is shy- just start and cancel a lot of personal plots. or if the ruler is just or honest- just start and cancel a bunch of hostile plots against random courtiers.
For succession I always go with the elective systems (if possible) and make sure everyone is lined up with the same heir. The best heirs i grant land to even though i cant ally with some. I try to grant everything to house members & give more to the better ones (but usually no more than a duchy). That way they usually wont die in a vassal war. Either way i always make them stop vassal wars if its family fighting. For example, before im able to form Brittania but hold Wales, England, and Ireland.. I make sure the heirs i like at least have unpressed titles in each kingdom (and their own land). When they're elected to all 3 kingdoms with land they have more than the domain limit and i can grant titles again based on my needs. Usually ill grant my old duchy to a son with decent diplomacy and stewardship stats and keep the holdings with the most building slots and best supply/levies. To increase votes in your favor you simply grant counties to house members (with positive opinion)... Ive been able to mix and match claims across 3 generations in my starting duchy so that itll always go back to a member of my house and ill always keep the best county in it since its the capitol. You can keep repeating this process as domain penalties aren't immediate. You'll encounter some rebellions if you don't sway, gift, or feast/hunt almost immediately after succession. If you do it right, its the best method to keep your kingdom in order until you form an empire in my opinion & you can always get dynasty members with good stats instead of some sadistic shy lazy son. Try to get to authority 3 quickly to prevent vassal wars. Also say if you only win 2/3 elections.. you could just go to war on your claims and if you mix the titles right amongst family members, you'll usually get it back at some point if you dont go to war. And faction wars are sometimes really good because you can lock up multiple vassals you don't like and ransom or revoke claims/banish them without a tyrant penalty and stress (if you're just).. Disinheriting should only be used if you cant manage to line your elections up and your vassals are trying to vote for someone you don't like.
Imagine CK3 and M&B: Bannerlord combined.....
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Ck3 And total war
omg the first tip is so useful! thanks
so much to this game! I think i made my king take all the claims and people aren't happy so maybe not meant to be played like that.
These tips were amazing! Thank you.
Brilliant tips - thanks mate :-)
Thanks man! Really helpful... keep posting and I love your vids.
Glad you like them! Thanks so much for watching! :)
@ItalianSpartacus - My wife and I enjoy your videos and find them very helpful, thank you. Could you please make a little video to go over the game rules in the game setup screen? Some of them could use a little clarification from an experienced player who understands it all, and no one seems to have thought to make one yet.
Sure thing. Anything you're particularly struggling on?
I tend to give my heir's heir their own land that way they grow their own wealth, prestige, and Court. So when my character is in their 60s or so the next heir might not be so strong but I try to keep it all together for their heir.. make sure your vassal (heir's heir) is not one of your knights... Made that mistake last night on iron mode..
Additionally, since I set them up as a strong vassal.. I put my heir's heir in my court typically as a chancellor or Steward role. Chancellor helps them build relationships with everyone else so when it's their turn everyone is happy.
For your second tip "bringing your lover to your court then to your council" was the worst thing to do (for me), it was a rampage she killed 2 spouses of me then even ME. Take a look on her main traits before and try to get a kind one at least, especially a physician its a very easy spot to murder. Play very carefully with lovers and scan them sometimes to reveal secrets.
Personally on confederate partition I usually imprison my secondary heirs before they can have kids, when the succession happens I execute them so I can gobble up those holdings. I also give any surplus or newly acquired holdings to my primary heir’s first son so that too many titles don’t overflow to heir number 3, 4, etc
Its about time i subscribed ive watched so many of your mount and blade and crusader kings videos hahaha
hahah welcome to the family brother :)
I love how historically accurate this is lol
Is very hard to play as Vallah because at some point there will be the mongol invasion if you start in the 800, right when you are thinking in becoming king.
My god Thanks for the help everytime i think about something and look it up you make a guide
right as i think it liked!!!
spousal focus decisions... very clever
It was real dam helpful dude! I might finally step outa dat noob zone finally!
Binging with Babish? Is that you? (really enjoying the videos, looking forward to jumping into the game in the near future)
Ok wow, now I feel stupid-great tips!!!! Thank you
Hahahah don't feel stupid!! Happy to help my dude
Another good tip is to recruit those pesky revolt leaders after you imprison them. They usually have good stats and you can get them with a hook as well.
You are a legend! Thank you so mutch a learned a lot from your Video!!!
You can buy the game directly from their website without having to install any third party AOL bloatware like Steam.
Also, you don't need to search matrilineal when seeking good husbands. Some of them will be homeless. So you can still marry them to your court normally even if they don't want matrilineal marriage.
Steam is too easy
8:30 that seems to work because the prince would otherwise have inherited that duchy. I tried to do this by moving my capital to any other duchy, one which I already controlled, and I actually ended up in a worse situation, with one of my princes inheriting a bigger duchy where I had most of my holdings...
I always try to bum rush the house seniority and high crown authority innovations so I can designate my heir before death prestige doesn't carryover so using it to pick an heir is a good idea in the longterm
These tips are bang on, sorting the court out for getting good skills in has always been difficult for me, first tip was a breath of sweet air on the breast of a fair maiden.
ah me thinks the lady doth protest too much!! hahahahah glad to have helped my dude :)
@@italianspartacus cap is doffed, or crown rather.
You're amazing!!
Gift a rebellious count to a rebellious duke. The first gains a truce with you; the second is appeased. They both drop out of the independence faction.
I think I am getting addicted to Crusader kings 3, I didn't play the old ones, but this game is like crack.
I may have a problem, thanks for the tips.
If you are worried about succession, just go for feudal elective and appoint your best son as your candidate. Everything will go to him if you only keep counties in your capital duchy as domain, and sometimes stuff will just go to him wherever they are.
If you worry about factions upon succession, keep some prisoners in your jail, preferably infidels, execute them to raise your dread. I usually keep a populated prison just to maintain dread without wasting perks on the dread tree. And if you follow the last one by always having the best possible heir, people will usually love him anyway.
OR! Get Absolute Crown Authority and rule THROUGH DREAD... wait.. sorry... I'll calm down
@@italianspartacus the tip about when you get old leaving lots of Infidels in prison so your successor can torture/execute them for dread is a good one... so long as they don't have terrible traits like forgiving, compassionate or Just :)
Does that still work. I hear prisoners get auto-released now.
Great video, thank you! Question about declaring wars: my current character has only 2 claims at the moment, but the Tab menu states that I can declare many other wars. Where does these other, non claim based, wars come?
My tip is pretty simple. Human sacrifice is the best tenet for a reformed religion. Why? Saving up prisoners for free dread and piety is the best way to squash factions for you and your successors. Just don't let your heir be compassionate or just...
A different way to approach number 5 would be, if you're confident you can squash all the rebels, you can just let the war happen and then strip all the titles from your imprisoned vassals and really clean up the realm and make it very neat
Or, if their stats are good for ruling, just let them continue to rule their counties/duchies from behind the bars of your prison (it's house arrest, anyway).
You can, if you know your death is near, instead of disinheriting your sons, you can just force them to become monks, stripping them from all succession-rights. Only bad thing is the 20 tyranny which you might have to take to imprison one of them, but that can easily be worked around by fabricating a hook on them first or just die soon so factions don't have time to form/ make demands.
Helped me out a lot! thanks
Glad it helped! :)
Hmmm, great tips... thanks!
Great tips sir, thank you!