I know this video is old. But i recently discovered this game. (Never played anything like it and I love it) and now I understand why I wasn’t getting as much loot. Thank you.
Tip to looting: always search around for coastal counties that have recently been through a war. Hover over the green/red bar beneath the picture of the castle/city/church to check the total garrison strength. Garrisons between 0-250 are easy targets for looting! The trick to looting entire counties is to use all your men to assault everything (don't spread your men out when looting!)
Great vid :D I've only ever sacked places; now that I understand the loot bar i'll mix tactics This video is very entry-level but I still learned a lot! I wish i had seen this 30 hours of gameplay ago lol (for me that is 2 weeks of quality ME time misspent; at least a portion of it... CK2 ROCKS)
at 28:41 your money increased from 23 to 46 after you completed the siege even though your ships weren't on the coast at that time. could you perhaps clarify?
He got the gold from seiging it down, but not from sacking/looting it. While raiding you still get the gold you normally get when you seige a settlement, and its added straight to your treasury. This is seperate from the gold gained when looting.
Great tutorial. If you're playing an Irish Tribe what makes good pickings? I understand you're NOT supposed to raid bishoprics of YOUR own faith, right?
I'm having a problem, I spend some 10 months raiding, which should grant me at least some loot, but when I get back home turns out I've gathered 4.35 gold, and the raid before it was just a decimal. What am I doing wrong? I'm playing on v. 2.7
What culture are you? And are you paying for your own boats? If you're using your own boats instead of your vassal's, the shop maintenance can cost a lot. Also Norse, berber and some other cultures only pay 10% of ship cost
I did the mistake as a Norseman to convert to Christianity at the request of my court physician. Norse are allowed to raid infidels, which in my case would be the dirt poor pagans around my realm. All the rich people in my reach are rich christians, which i'm not allowed to raid!
Would there ever be a good reason to sack every holding in a county? Like if you sacked a neighboring county, and have claims on it, does sacking limit their future response on your war claim?
Sacking every holding weakens them so if you roll through your war sieges will be that much easier as garrisons and levies will be reduced. It also confers a 25% tax penalty to each holding which might hurt their ability to raise levies or mercenaries. All in all there is very little reason not to loot bordering provinces before conquering other than the extra hit of tax penalty from looted status of you roll in right away. There is also the possibility to completely raze a settlement to the ground while raiding which might be something you don’t want to happen.
@@fenriders7008 what does razing mean? I mean I get raiding through all the baronies, then the city picture becomes on fire. I get that. But does it destroy the entire city or something?
andrew dyer yeah there is a small chance that you completely destroy the holding, you then have to spend the gold to rebuild the city/barony/church that was there if you take the county later. Edit: to answer your question raze literally means “to destroy to the ground” or “to demolish a(n old) building”.
This is really helpful. In my first game I thought you always needed more raiders than the garrison size, which severely limited the number of potential targets. I wonder how you are supposed to know that looting speed increases up until 500 raiders? Is this stated anywhere in the game?
I know this video is old. But i recently discovered this game. (Never played anything like it and I love it) and now I understand why I wasn’t getting as much loot. Thank you.
Wicked helpful, feel like this should have more views. Looked everywhere for someone to explain the loot bar and this was done very simply.
So so so freaking underrated...subbed because this helped me as a new player
New to the game and this by far is the clearest breakdown of raiding out there. Thanks for the work put in.
Tip to looting: always search around for coastal counties that have recently been through a war. Hover over the green/red bar beneath the picture of the castle/city/church to check the total garrison strength. Garrisons between 0-250 are easy targets for looting! The trick to looting entire counties is to use all your men to assault everything (don't spread your men out when looting!)
Great vid :D I've only ever sacked places; now that I understand the loot bar i'll mix tactics
This video is very entry-level but I still learned a lot! I wish i had seen this 30 hours of gameplay ago lol (for me that is 2 weeks of quality ME time misspent; at least a portion of it... CK2 ROCKS)
30 hours is only 2 days of CK2!
Now i can experience Ragnar Lodbork path😅.
Thank you very much♥️
Thank you. Starting playing a viking and I wanted to learn how to loot. :)
underestimated. you are worth a million subs :)
great video. Would love see more guides! I fully understood how raiding works.
Brilliant! Thank you. Very helpful :D
good video bro ! Really helpful
at 28:41 your money increased from 23 to 46 after you completed the siege even though your ships weren't on the coast at that time. could you perhaps clarify?
He got the gold from seiging it down, but not from sacking/looting it. While raiding you still get the gold you normally get when you seige a settlement, and its added straight to your treasury. This is seperate from the gold gained when looting.
31:01 - "Take a lot of gold, steal a lot of women" you said. Can women also be taken during a raid?
My problem is that it always sais that i cant make them raid bc the men are not an organized raid even though i organize it with my Marshall
good vid m8
Really helpful video. So when I'm done looting do I just go home to my territory for the gold to be transfered?
Great tutorial. If you're playing an Irish Tribe what makes good pickings? I understand you're NOT supposed to raid bishoprics of YOUR own faith, right?
Thank you so much
I'm having a problem, I spend some 10 months raiding, which should grant me at least some loot, but when I get back home turns out I've gathered 4.35 gold, and the raid before it was just a decimal. What am I doing wrong? I'm playing on v. 2.7
What culture are you?
And are you paying for your own boats?
If you're using your own boats instead of your vassal's, the shop maintenance can cost a lot.
Also Norse, berber and some other cultures only pay 10% of ship cost
Also ensure that the boats are in range, if the icon above the army is red then loot will not be transferred to the boats.
great vid
whats the time code to where you actually say how you actually start looting? I have no idea how to initiate looting.
I did the mistake as a Norseman to convert to Christianity at the request of my court physician. Norse are allowed to raid infidels, which in my case would be the dirt poor pagans around my realm. All the rich people in my reach are rich christians, which i'm not allowed to raid!
Would there ever be a good reason to sack every holding in a county? Like if you sacked a neighboring county, and have claims on it, does sacking limit their future response on your war claim?
Sacking every holding weakens them so if you roll through your war sieges will be that much easier as garrisons and levies will be reduced.
It also confers a 25% tax penalty to each holding which might hurt their ability to raise levies or mercenaries.
All in all there is very little reason not to loot bordering provinces before conquering other than the extra hit of tax penalty from looted status of you roll in right away.
There is also the possibility to completely raze a settlement to the ground while raiding which might be something you don’t want to happen.
@@fenriders7008 what does razing mean? I mean I get raiding through all the baronies, then the city picture becomes on fire. I get that. But does it destroy the entire city or something?
andrew dyer yeah there is a small chance that you completely destroy the holding, you then have to spend the gold to rebuild the city/barony/church that was there if you take the county later.
Edit: to answer your question raze literally means “to destroy to the ground” or “to demolish a(n old) building”.
Thank you
This is really helpful. In my first game I thought you always needed more raiders than the garrison size, which severely limited the number of potential targets.
I wonder how you are supposed to know that looting speed increases up until 500 raiders? Is this stated anywhere in the game?
It is spelled out here. ck2.paradoxwikis.com/Raiding
@@havan56 lol
So you cant use your chieftains armies?
can we loot only with nores cutlure
How do you steal character, is it just by chance or is there something esle at play?
Rapton Soul you probably figured it out by now but for anyone else it’s by chance
OMG. And this video has to 32:00 minutes long why.
I could raid in my Brittania campaign as a Catholic Hungarian Emperor (mostly to Muslims only)
#Berber
I appreciate the tutorial but my god you go through it infuriatingly slow and stutteringly.