Hands Down the BEST Custom Religions in Crusader Kings 3
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- Опубліковано 1 лип 2024
- Today I show you guys what I think are the best custom religions that you can make in Crusader Kings 3 (CK3) to dominate your enemies. I give you 4 different custom religions for military, gold income, research and development and breeding your ultimate dynasty
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Timestamps:
Intro - 0:00
Military - 1:44
Gold - 5:20
Research - 7:05
Breeding - 8:48 - Ігри
you forgot about the temporal head of faith communion play for money it is kinda time consuming and annoying to forgive everyone’s sins but it does give you infinite gold.
Lmao if you think it's time consuming you should use one in a world conquest attempt when half the world follows your religion
Too many notifications lol. Even if they are all giving you money. At least you can only get money from a Spiritual Head, I would hate to see the notifications for all the people hitting the Pope up for money.
There's a mod that allows for auto acceptance of indulgences
@@NiallCosgrach name or link?
@@Ajvt-ux4ec Hey I've answered this twice before now but I don't see them for some reason. The mod name is auto accept indulgences.
For a war heavy game having gender equality is very helpful. First of all you get knights and commanders from both genders, which improves quality of them. Second of all knights tend to die quickly, so being limited to male council members hampers your progress significantly. Especially when you do not have a huge court or realm, the 2-3 knights and champions killed or wounded in battle will have a significant impact.
So true, double the knights double the fun!
That could create some bigger problems like who inherits your throne. Women rulers are strictly worse than male ones in this game because they simply can't pop out as many daughters as male rulers. (Daughters are how you secure powerful alliances). But then it won't really matter in late game where you don't need any alliances at all.
@@JohnSmith-bs9ym The worst is that female ruler AI always marry patrilinearly.
@@loudradialem5233They still haven't fix this yet??
@@JohnSmith-bs9ym or pick equal and switch succession to male preference, best of both
For the breeding one. Change marriage type to multiple/concubine. Keep the Adultery criminal. It opens up the chance of someone else sleeping with your partner, opening your dynasty up to less than desireable bloodlines.
Yeah, also Adultery often gives you a legit and convenient reason to imprison somebody you want dead ASAP.
@@JohnSmith-bs9ym The "You can imprison" tab gets full of people you can imprison. It's money time.
polyamory requires accepted adulatory. as far as I'm aware the "Mothers always reveal their children's real father" part of it means the kids you don't father won't be of your dynasty. either way you know for sure and can send them to the monastery
@@6zwbob That actually sounds okay, I guess. But it is still pretty weird to let other men openly cuck you.
@@JohnSmith-bs9ym I was going to say you don't have to take this game personally, but then I realized I'm brutally torturing every chieftan that raids my empire.
*WAR RELIGION*
Wanted to add this, I’ve found this to be immensely fun for a war game but also INSANELY effective.
If you’re running a war game, this is a game changer:
Religious tenants:
1.) Warmonger/Pursuit of Power
2.) Unrelenting Faith
*3.) Monasticism
You mentioned 1&2. They work. Monasticism is going to open up unreal synergy. You can gain Monks, and Temperate is a virtue. So what, right?
Well…
Cultural Traditions:
Change your culture, get these:
1.) Warrior Priests.
-Your monks now get +3 Prowess and +3 Learning and +Prowess for devotion level.
2.) Monastic Communities.
-Characters of your culture are FAR more likely to become Monks when asked. Temperate gets buffs like +Stewardship and opinion.
These two traditions allow 2 things.
1.) Super-Soldier Monks.
2.) Succession control.
Your kids can easily become monks, allowing you to control succession. Your generals will be getting their prowess DOUBLED. I regularly have a +14 prowess general go to +32 prowess.
Next;
3.) By the Sword.
Unlimited Holy Wars for KINGDOMS.
4.) Warriors by Merit.
-Another +Prowess per level of Devotion (stacks), Blademaster Traits are more common.
AND!! Women can become generals! Floods your General numbers!
Finally,
5.) Only the Strong.
-Buffs Blademaster traits (which are more common now with Warriors by Merit). Martial Education gives Prowess. +2 Knights. And +100% Knight effectiveness. Some cost/Levy drawbacks.
Basically, you recruit a Knight, their prowess skyrockets, and your Knights are super soldiers. You make them a Monk, their Prowess goes up even more, and they get +Piety, +Learning, +Stewardship, +Opinion. You have infinite Holy wars for Kingdoms and Dutchy wars for same-faith enemies. And your succession control is easy. Your piety is through the roof through monk numbers. Make all your Daughters Monk-Knights that will all have 30+ Prowess.
This is THE WAY to play a war game and super fun and effective.
For the gold faith, I think that the communion tenet plus temporal head of faith are pretty neat, especially if you spread your religion fast. One great example is the Pope whose monthly income is poor but overall treasury is enormous.
communion is the single best tenet for playing wide as you increase realm size and people who follow your religion it creates a snow ball effect for gold where you basically can’t run out.
It is kinda' annoying though, as at one point in time you just don't care anymore and you still get pop ups all the time.
@@loungekiller Theres a mod for that now
One of the most OP combos is Pacifism + Pursuit of Power. The opinion bonus of the former cancels the opinion malus of the later.
The result is: you have Conquest CBs, +1 Domain Limit, +1 Monthly Piety when in Peace, Ambitious as a Virtue, +10 opinion with non-vassal pacifists, half price to create titles and half tyranny.
You have no Holy War, but it's actually good, because your faith's Fervor won't drop!
That is interesting. Thanks!
@@loungekiller There's another, but I'm not sure it's good: Asceticism + Ritual Celebrations + Religious Law.
The AI loves to gain Piety and hates to lose it. So, it'll have Reveler trait, which is a sin because Asceticism. You can then revoke most vassals because Religious Law.
Problem: you heir will be a sinner too.
If you're planning to have a large amount of vassals and want to make very large amounts of money, Communion+Temporal is really good
Great content, great mic, great edits.
This is quality content my dude. Thanks for the guide.
For the exp one: I have created a christian religion with tenets: Alexandrian Catechism, Astrology and Esotericism. In my opion Esotericism is better that the one you have included as wise man/mystic traits give you the mystical communio desiction so another free exp. Also add to this witch coven and special buildingds in Bagdad and Cairo and each of my played characker has max out all his chose education life style and learning lifestyle plus couple of other perks in other lifestyle. Also research done much faster.
4:30 The Clerical Function Recruitment will make members of the clergy better fighter and can be knights (and commanders), so it could help in wars.
Also goes very well with Unrelenting Faith
I would recommend letting clerical marriage, this gives your realm a vast pool of knights/counsellers and wifes.
@@robervalhahathats how muslims do it
It is important to note that the Warmonger tenet of Ásatrú should never be swapped out if you're planning on doing a war heavy game, as you can't get it once a faith is reformed.
Great vid, never really changed religions but I will now
Once again, top content my guy!
Couldn't click faster. Love your videos! My favorite CK3 youtube channel.
Highly recommend Gnosticism. Starts off weak, but if two major nations get it they are bffs. Usually requires some setup, but once you're there it's really powerful. I like doing a Rome run where I mend the schism with a gnostic faith, and then convert to a gnostic Islamic religion, and conquer most of the Islamic lands. Rome and Persia are now the best of friends without tons of blobbing
For the last one, I'd drop monasticism in favour of carnal exaltation.
Another great vid 👍
Bro ur videos Crack me uppp! The lil edits r perfect.
Communion tenet is definitely the best for money in the game. With temporal head of faith and an empire sized realm, you will have people paying you 100g at least every month. You never run out of money.
Also Esotericism is way better than you think for learning, since you can also gain the wise man trait from doing a pilgrimage if you have the esotericism tenet so you don't actually need to worry if you didnt get it through education. Any character can easily get it, and better yet, doing a pilgrimage will upgrade the trait if you already had it so it scales up each time you do a pilgrimage. And the wise man perk also lets you make a decision to gain 300 learning experience every 5 years. That will add up to a few extra perks over a lifetime which is very helpful. It's definitely a must have if you're trying to max learning.
Another great video mate. Really liked the production values in this one. Keep up the good work!
Cheers Simon, nice of you to say!
I love all your editing
A strategy you did not mention is the 'syncretism' route, which looks like a throwaway tenet but I have gotten to the point that I won't play without it. Syncretism doesn't look like it would do much, but making an entire religious family hostile instead of evil has some massive benefits, primarily that you can marry realms of that faith. For example, if you are a pagan religion with Christian syncretism, you are now eligible to marry your daughter matrilineally to the third in line to the Byzantine Empire, netting a massive ally, potentially a dynasty member on a powerful throne, and a bunch of ticking renown while your family member is a ruler/ spouse of ruler.
The true power kicks in though when you consider that your dynasty members can now also marry into a huge number of realms that they otherwise wouldn't be able to (I mean, the whole Christian or Muslim world is now available!) Slowly over time, your dynasty will start marrying into these kingdoms behind the scenes, and by the late mid game you will suddenly start seeing a *lot* of independent kings from your dynasty you had no idea about. No joke, I was playing a renown run, and getting 70 renown per month using this strategy by about 1200 (after the 800s start). Most of this just happened from my dynasty marrying outside of my knowledge, and this was hugely helped by having syncretism. Without it, they would have had probably only half the options for marrying out to.
One more point is that it makes the target religious group hostile, which is enough to be friends with them, but not enough to stop you declaring holy wars against them (if you want to wipe them out instead of marrying into them for renown). You lose basically nothing, and gain a lot, from taking this.
In conclusion, Syncretism is possibly the most powerful tenet in the game (as far as alliances and renown goes), but nobody ever seems to take it!
I take Islamic syncretism for my Christian faith from time to time, and I must agree that it's good. Not so good as you told, but still good. From my experience the most interesting gameplay is the first 200 years or so, after that you're literally unstoppable, so it's more interesting to start a new game. And it also plays slower with each year on my weak computer, so I don't have much options. Basically, yes, more knight pool, more alliances, more diplomacy. For non-Muslim and non-Christian faiths syncretism is the only option to have access to Europe or Middle East. Far eastern religions don't consider anybody as "hostile", so it's useless. Pagans are weak and have vast, but uninhabited lands. Jews literally don't exist, except for Khazarian Empire, which has feet of clay.
Still, Christians and Muslims are too widespread in respected regions, that you can simply play and win, loosing not too much. Also, syncretic faiths have -25% to conversion speed against hostile faith with which you have syncretism, so it can slow down your expansion.
My point is, you better have another tenet because you only can have three of them. Save one empty place for something better, like literalism.
You're a good presenter, this is one of the more solid CK3 videos I've seen recently. I can't wait for your channel to blow up
Same haha, appreciate ya
I love that the Old School RuneScape soundtrack is on an open license cos it ends up appearing whenever you least expect it like on this video.
Facts man, I wish more companies would do it too
Nice video man. Laughed a fair few times from the memes!
The big brainies faith, coupled with beginning in southern India might be the way to speed run the getting all cultural innovations achievement.
Literally a previous video mate :)
@@BarnabyBear69 He didn't change religion which is why I suggested that rushing Big Brainies faith would perhaps shorten the time to get all innovations.
I watched that video.
Love the editing and the sound quality is better (or am I just imagining it?)!
You deserve a lot more subscribers
Lay clergy is good for making money when you don't hold many counties. But if you do hold a lot of counties directly, Theocratic is better as your Priest gives you over half the taxes and levies from all the temple buildings they hold. Lay clergy vassals only give 25% of their tax and something like 35% of the levies. (Citation needed)
Or, you could stack Lay Clergy with things like Aniconism and Fervent Temple Builders so that temples get absurdly cheap.
I discovered that war religion in my outremer game. It's so stupidly op. After the crusades end in total domination of outremer/Persia, the crusaders turned the crusade back onto Europe. If you reform as Paulican you get the best holy sites. Cheers
For the gold religion, change pacifism into communion and have lay clergy, with temporal head of faith. Everyone in the faith will pay you!
Very nice RuneScape references
I've been doing pursuit of power + pacifism + esotericism for quite a while now, my favourite combination. Sure you can't holy war, but you can still conquest war which you could argue is better as it doesn't lower your fervor. Esotericism mostly because I like having extra traits that give bonuses and it's really easy to get wise man if you have the tenet by going on a pilgrimage. Combine that with witchcraft allowed and everything else criminal (the more things are criminal, the more you can milk your subjects for ransom money). I used to do lay clergy, but i actually think theocratic is better now. From theocratic you get half the money and all the levies from all the temples your realm priest holds, it just blows out of the water any other vassal type and there's no way you could hold say 20 temples yourself anyway - and if you have them held by another vassal type you only get a small fraction of levies and gold. Just make sure you give yourself the option to change the realm priest if they suck, make both genders eligible so you always find best possible person for the job.
Assuming you have decent partition, going for the tenet that gives short reign duration (Endura) and having you control Temples turned on is OP Also other tenets to consider is cheaper temple construction and the tenet which makes deceitful a Virtue not a Sin (Sacred Lies)
My go to tenets are Warmonger/Pursuit of Power + Communion. The other tenet can be anything really. Last time I added natural primitivism for the reason of LARP
Can you do a realm stability + revocation reason build, I would like to know the best tenets for holding a large empire. Stuff like General Opinion, vassal limit and such
For the research faith I would recommend trying to form it from adamism because of the holy sites it has
Can you make a video on reforming the Norse faith and what you’d reccomend? Hopefully without losing the core of the religion
one tenet that is surprisingly good for a breeding game is Kūdikis or Lemti not for the +10% fertility (doesn't hurt) but it halve's the chance of childbirth complications stillborn's, dead mothers and the like, great when you have limited inheritable trait options. downside its exclusive to the Baltic or Somali religion.
another two tenets for dev based religions i like is bhakti, and astrology. they all grant a good modifiers bhakti is hindu/norse locked but can give different choices. the great thing about the bhakti is the choice of modifier it can give you options for the modifier you want from fertility, to taxes, to prowess and advantage, to the +20% to all monthly learning xp downsides are some choices aren't great and you are limites to Hinduism/Norse and even further to Shaivism if you want the +20%xp gain another good one is odin +3 monthly piety (.03 piety per dread but most of my Norse characters are at max dread from blood sacrifices anyway). divine the stars is a personal favorite as it gives a random +25% learning experience to one of the five trees for 5 years its not the best but it is pretty good as some of the perks on the trees can really help your game but i tend to invest heavily into my educations perks this lets me play around a bit more without sacrificing much experience.
then we gotta talk about holy sites they aren't all equal like the norse and tengri have 1 holy sites that give +1 prowess per level of devotion and another that gives +20% knight effectiveness and +1 prowess per level of devotion which gives a bonus against other religions lacking those types of sites in a warmonger religion(prowess and knight effectiveness). a dev religion is greatly helped by being an Adamite faith as you get +10% development from rome and +10% cultural fascination speed from fes. money making is holy sites are limited one that is Atamasthana +2% domain taxes for Theravada mostly useless. and Zozan +10% domain taxes if same faith for Druze. but the holy site building you want is islamic for the +15% domain taxes from different faiths. combine with tax the non believers for 20% more and Gnostic for the all Gnostic religions treat other Gnostic as righteous helps a lot with stability. or just get the mines really the mines are too good.
So the best breeding plan is weirdly enough not marrying your sister. i know i know it gives wonderful inheritance chance for traits but no what you do is is you go for these doctrines, monogamy, divorce allowed, legitimization for bastards, and close kin taboo to prevent inbred traits from showing up all over the place also accept adultery male and female . find an infertile, lesbian, old woman with a good stat line and marry her then have a million affairs with anyone with inheritable traits and legitimize the best option (creating a brood mare in character creator helps a lot give a small count under or near you all the inheritable traits i go with hale(60) quick(80) beautiful(120) fecund(50) sayyid(25) pure-blood(50) possibly giant(20 sadly prohibits the strengthened blood line decision) and witch(10) which costs ~ 395-415 then you add in some bonuses like drunkard(-10) flagelent(-10) comfort eater(-5) improvident(-5) blind(-5) one legged(-5)lazy(-10)craven(-10)adulterer(-5) fornicator(-5) devient(-5) cost is now ~320-340 make her 19 and have as many daughters as you can afford remember to drop all skillpoint investment from 5 to 0. have illigetmite bastards with the woman untill you get a pure blooded soon who can strengthen the bloodline and have a good chance at a pure-blooded daughters of hers and son of yours to remove 100% of the inbreeding penalty). it will make your heir a legitimate bastard -1 diplomacy -10 dynasty opinion but the savings from disinheritance is well worth it -150 renown stings. said legitimized bastard should pick up the subtle desires perk to remove familial seduction penalty's and seduce his half siblings that have good traits/ women with inheritable traits. downside is you can get blackmailed or get the incest infamy trait which is managible.
I know Old School Runescape music when I hear it.. thumbs up for nostalgia childhood vibes
nothing hits the nostalgia vibes like OSRS
I'd have expected to see something where you reduce penalties for differing cultures/religions to be up there in the list of what's a good custom Faith!
Does it cost more piety depending on what you change or is it a fixed cost
I've been making the "Big Brain" religion (which I call Sensibalism) since I first got the game for Christmas during quarentine. What can I say, I'm a science nerd so I like making my people as big brain as possible. If I'm playing with Ironman mode and achievments on, I swap Gnosticism with Folk Traditions Syncretism so I can play nice with the other Norsemen (I don't really like Literalism, so I always pick Esotericism as my second choice.) If I ever re-create it from a non-Christian starting religion I'd probably swap Alexandrian Cataclysm with Adaptable
Oh! And always make witchcraft acceptable - obviously that's helpful since a lot of the sciencier decesions can potentially earn you the Witch trait
Quite disappointed you did not feature changing the marriage tpye to polygamous, which allows to mave more wifes and more children.
Very potent for the breeding programm and in diplomacy as well since you have many children with several spouses you can ally just everybody.
My record is 45 alliences. Makes wars super easy and greatly benefits realm stability. Vassals cant rebel against you if the are bound by an alliance.
Also excellent for breading claims.
Full equality view on gender is also very potent, since it allows to make use of double the dynasty members as rules.
Never again be disappointed that your strong, beautifull, genius is a daughter.
Also eases claim breeding and using foreign claimants since you can land and fight for woman.
If you combine equality with polygamy daughters can also marry several man and secure several alliances.
Make love not war ;-)
That actually sounds fun I'll try it thx
Polygamy + nature primitisim + carnal exaltation + communion + temporal and you become a rich sex pope
A man with several wives can impregnate each woman at the same time and each woman gets a child. A woman with several husbands can only have one child and the men aren't sure whose child it is. I don't think the men would want to share a woman with other men unless there was some big political prize to be gained.
@@greywolf7577 Somehow they allways know whos the father.
@@pyrphoros8739 they know, but not everyone else does. I uncovered that one of my grandchildren (my daughter's child) was fathered by "not her husband". That was pretty interesting. I had to jail and then release her. But I never disowned the little (literal) bastard.
What about a hybrid of research and wealth? That’s what I’m aiming for in the new royal court DLC.
Advancing so far wars are easy simply because technological advancements and army size.
For a gold-getting religion, another option is to have yourself become the temporal head of faith when you set up the religion, and getting the communion tenant, which means people pay their head of faith (you) for piety, letting you net a stupid amount of gold.
DUDE, just tried my hand at Lori, Armenian/Apostolic faction and if you can make that work I'd love to watch. Thanks for the vids and info
Got my subscription, keep going honest potential here. Can you do it full time? Reach out to other CK3 YT channels. Be lovely to earn a living off CK3 lol
Cheers man, I'd love to be able to upload more but school and work keeps me pretty occupied rn. I love editing and making videos tho. So even if it takes longer to get them out, I wont stop uploading any time soon!
This was fun
an interesting video idea could be the worst religions both real and custom and it would help people create religions
Bro i was really into playin tall religion as a musim faith please somehow make a tut about that . You know about developement tut with the religion thing involved
Note: A realm priest gives 50% of his income to you, your vassals realm priest gives 25% to your realm priest. Your realm priest also won't spend money so you can imprison him and take his money by banishing him effectively giving you 100% of income from temples in your domain (without holding them). Communion can battle this but is very clicky and won't give you levies, but if going for only gold, communion with temporal HoF or realm priest is the way
I completely lost it as you said " sick bastards " snorted my drink and everything haha 10/10
This video kind of proved to me that the most well-rounded religion in CK3 is probably Muwallad Islam: Realm stability is really strong with it, Jizya gives you good tax revenue and Struggle and Submission allows for decent conquest options: I don't think there is a better religion where you can conquer large swaths of enemy religious territory while also having a very low risk of revolts after conquering it: You can choose to either keep large amounts of Christian territory intact if you want to, or you can convert it.
Hey man can you make a video where you show how to recruit claimants to your court and push there claims. I noticed nobody who plays the game does it. They all just fabricate claims and take one county every couple years.
any advice on reforming the Armenian Christian Faith ( apostolic ) ?
Hi, what would You think of having culture conversion game as Poland?
Maybe playing tall tutorial?
Can you make a guide to combat? I don't understand combat but I reckon I would if you specifically explained it
Check out the video 4 tips to improve your military from this channel.
Basically, get great knights, men-at-arms more important than levies. You can get great knights by recruiting women to your court and marrying them off matrilineally to the best knights you can find.
And a great knight is one that has a lot of prowess, not necessarily Martial skill. High martial - better at commanding armies.
Also, I'd recommend to check out the Overly Explained video about Ireland. Helpful for new players. Cheers mate!
what i played succesfully lately was to become the head of faith and leaving communion in. as i started to take over more and more land and cnvert it to my religion i noticed i needed an auto accept option for accepting communion. i got 100 gold everytime somebody requested indulgences. i got about 500 Gold every ingame Month. that was hella crazy. if i knew before that the "by the sword tradition exists" i could have taken over the whole land. still i conqeured all of the exisiting Christianity faith and replaced it with my own, by also holding all the land. :D
had about 10 or more empire titles :D
If you want to go for a world conquest (or otherwise quickly conquer a very big realm), I'd recommend taking warmonger instead o pursuit of power, which gives you conquest casus belli like pursuit of power does, but also replaces the "at war" opinion malus for being in offensive wars for too long at a time by an "at peace" malus, so you can fight indifinitely unless you need a break for economy/troop recovery. Instead of armed pilgrimages, I'd recommend human sacrifice, which allows you to kill off any prisoners you don't want to recruit or otherwise need alive in exchange for piety to finance your next holy war. Additionally, you take the absolutely overpowered cultural tradition "by the sword", which makes holy wars a little more expensive, but allows them one tier of devotion lower and allows infinite holy wars for whole kingdoms (instead of the normal just one per lifetime of the ruler).
4:30 surely if you pick doctrines that make stuff a lot more restricted it's easier to imprison people 'righteously' and get claims on their lands?
Wait, is there a reliable way to get the 'Wise man' trait?
there's this religion i made once on a game where there was a crusde for egypt and i got landed as a duke, i made it with the basic idea of atracting the other catholic AND muslim religions for aliance power.
so the tenets were as follows.
·rite: with this you can still ally to the catholic rulers, and even jerusalem, orthodoxes will kinda dislike you anyway tho. (you can use pastoral isolation as well)
·gnosticism: with this one other religions with this tenet, and dualists, will consider you a friend, really good for the cathars since they have it. (sometimes a dualistic faith pops up here and there, or the jewish folk appear somewhere, and theres one version of judaism that has this tenet as well)
·syncretism (i used the islamic one but you can use jewish or tribal): here i'd sy look arround the map and see wich religion has the biggest impact in your surrounding and choose their syncretism.
i used this religion to expand my family onto other throes and in some cases even managed to just susscesfully convert other rulers during inprisonments. in the end, the kingdoms of africa, scicily, sardinia and corsica, jerusalem, andalusia, walachia and white rus were of my religion. and the empires of italy, france and arabia were somewhat converted with their rulers following my religion and in a process of converting their vassals.
You don’t need to waste two tenet slots for armed pilgrimage and pursuit of power if you’re playing religion that can use warmonger tenet. I personally use warmonger, mendicant preacher, and 1 other tenets that I want to rp lol.
1:44 what game is this song from? I know I've spend many hours listening to that tune but I cant put my finger on it.
its the OG runescape title music!
Fertility-ism
1. Sacred Childbirth, Carnal Exaltation, & Ancestor Worship
1.1. Same as Above, Same as Above, Polyamory
And Polygamous Culture
What about a Faith that focuses on healing? Is there a tenant that focuses on health and longevity?
9:59
broooo 😂😭
I used Communal Identity, Esotericism, and Gnosticism to create the most legit gnostic Christian cult. A video on how to spread religion would be really helpful too
I came to learn about religion in CK3, and stayed for the RuneScape theme song.
what about communion, is the most overpowered tenet in the game
What about healthiest religion?
Esotericism is way better than you think it is. It not only makes wise man and it's upgrades virtues, it also gives you a chance of obtaining the trait from doing a pilgrimage or to upgrade it if you already have it. Also, the wise man traits not only give a bonus to learning, but they also allow you to take the decision "Hold Mystical Communion" every 5 years, which gives you +1 martial and learning for those same 5 years and 300 learning experience.
It's, in my opinion, one of the strongest tenets you can have and I always go with it, regarless of what game style I'm going with.
Building temples instead of castles is better when theocratic because a happy priest will give far more taxes and levies than a baron ever would.
Esotericism is good because it auto gives you wise man trait with pilgrimage, which gives learning lifestyle xp
But you can hold the barony yourself
This video is 2 years old, so it may have been different then, but natural primitivism is super great. Big reduction in stress, reqs say you can’t have anything criminalized, and everybody is naked or near naked so you have a good idea of non-believers.
Imagine someone asking your faith and you say “I love war”
please i cant deal with the nostalgia from osrs music
👊
Bit late, but for research, if you are a Dualist faith you get Gnosticism as a special tenet, leaving you with another slot open.
I made a religion with norse that had christian syntecism, warmonger and communion tenets.
Its all good, it gets you rolling real fast especially since all the christians kinda like you. Makes it easyer to conquer them. Problem arises in the end game... never ending spam of seek indulgences. Cant let a single day pass without clickin 20 of these damn things!!!!!
They should really add an option to auto accept them and not rely on mod that screws up your ironman mode!!!!
Runescape title theme!!!
9:45 hilarious
When she says he's just a friend 1:06
Recently found out that Christian Syncreticism is OP as hell if you play as a heathen faith in Europe or Christian east. For the Norse you can now intermarry with christians, as well as they will be less hostile towards you, but unfortunately it will take longer to convert Christians, which seems unrealistic. Personally i think having the syncretic trait should make it easier for them to both convert christians, as well as being converts to other christian faiths.
We need a way to grant head of faiths their de jure lands
If you really want pure chaos (but really challenging gameplay), take the WAR template, make marriage type Polygamous, change 'Male Adultery' to 'Accepted', Female Adultery to 'Criminal', and Legitimization to 'No Bastards'. The problem with polyamory tenet is that it goes both ways. Leads to you getting cucked a lot. The setup I suggest allows you to keep your stable of women fresh by executing unfaithful wives (useful when they start getting into the late 30s/early 40s) and it also gives you a potential pool of knights, especially if you have 'The Right to Prove' in your culture (lets your daughters be knights too). It's chaotic and challenging because when you die, your primary heir has ready-made fights lined up to bring the realm back together. Roughly every other life (if you're lucky) will be able to expand the original kingdom and it provides lots of activity for all lifestyles. Intrigue focused characters can kill their siblings to inherit their lands, for example. Kinda like northern Iberia with the brothers (Navarra, Leon, etc).
I know this is older, but in the learning one you said that Alexandrian Chatechism was only for Christians. This is true, but Islamic Rationalism is the same thing but for Islam. So you can make this from Islam as well.
I created an offshoot of Adamitism that I called "Fartism". A couple emperors later I had a reformation and the new religion was called "Shartism". Basically in my religions everything is allowed, lol.
Witchcraft must be accepted for the development one b/c it gives +1 learning
Lmao at the breeding intro
"totally valid claims" had me rollin hahahaha
OK, I've played this game for hundreds of hours but I've never owned temples because I've always enjoyed the tax money I get from my realm priest. Do temples also count against your domain limit? I'm guessing yes, cuz otherwise they'd be OP AF right?
Holding temples is the same as holding castles. The only difference is that the temple itself makes more money and less men but you also can build a new building in them that gives peity and gold
@@afridge8608 holding temple sucks vs giving them up, castles are by far the best holdings in the game. Min max stewardship, spam castles, orgasm.
@@pancakecosmos6080 Cities are the best holdings in the game, the dev growth bonuses they provide are worth far more than another castle would be, especially if that castle is not a county capital so only has 3 building slots. And money is more valuable than levies anyway.
@@transsylvanian9100 Money is more valuable than levies problem is you get more money from castles than you do city's becuase you can't hold city's yet. So castle spam it is, dev bonuses are only really good if your realm is large enough to justify them
@@pancakecosmos6080 I think you have things quite backwards to be honest. Maximizing dev growth pays off more for smaller realms than it does for larger ones since most dev growth will happen in and around your capital. And you don't need to hold inferior barony tier subholdings, regardless of what type they are, when you can just hold more actual counties.
Unless you purposely decide to restrict yourself to playing tall on two or three counties for the entire game i see no reason why you would choose a three building slot castle in the same county over a four building slot county capital castle in another county, plus several city vassals on top of that, especially when city vassals give you far more taxes than castle vassals and also grant dev bonuses which boost your own personal holding levies and income.
There could be niche cases in which additional counties are either hard to come by or severely underdeveloped compared to your realm capital, in which case maybe the capital bonuses being applied to additional castles in your capital might barely outweigh all of the benefits i mentioned above, but in the long run building exclusively cities in empty holding slots is always better.
For money build .. if u are ashari muslim from palistine … go take gorgian or arminian culture hypered and reduce timple building cost even more
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Think best combo in military is just create your faith that give casus belli against other faith (basically Crusade) and have by the sword (cultural idea) just easy conquest, got most of Muslim territories with just 1 character could probably wc but to lame since my game freeze (make me as the new pope so lot of indulgence to sell wich slow my game as fu**)
I created the Anglican Faith after the Pope Excommunicated me. Had Pursuit of Power, Communion and Armed Pilgramages. Made my king head of the Papal Empire of Britannia. Sacked Rome and kept the Pope prisoner for 200 years so he couldn’t call crusades against me. Was conquering Muslim Spain but game crashed and saves were deleted. I was so pist
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i wish there was a religion creator at the very beginning of the game. Like you do for your Character. so, you dont need to amass 20,000+ Piety to really get anywhere with it. I am willing to bet Religion is the least used system in the game without cheats.
I am doing a populate india play trough right like so many kid it annoying I think I have 260 family member in 60 years and my charater is now 80 year old so many pop up of new grand kid it obnoxious and I can not wait for my dead it going to be pur chaos
Communion is the best tenant for making money
Guess, I'm not the first to point it out, but the money based religion would be way more powerful if you made yourself head of faith and used communion (probably instead of tax nonbelievers)
The "FIB"...