I was playing mostly following along with you and one of my vassals was envious of my rule and I discovered he was plotting to kill me, tried to throw him in prison, failed, he revolts and goes to war with me, I wipe the floor with him siege his holdings, take the county back and at the end revoke his title and throw him in prison anyways. Talk about satisfying.
Classic CK2. I often encourage my vassals to rebel or plot against me so I can break down vassals that are too big, or are annoying me. That's one reason I don't auto stop plots, often times someone is trying to kill someone or fabricating which gives you a good reason to imprison. BTW you can have your army raised before you imprison so you can just sit in top of their capital before you declare for an easy war. Make sure you check factions beforehand, if they are involved in one then the other members might get involved from my experience. And also check how much money a vassal has before imprisoning them. They might have a small levy but if they got some money they can merc up and cause you some real problems. That's a good rule for any war in general.
Would be very nice if you continue this series for another 2 videos to get us really started .. most of the training that I found is outdated by tons of updates and as new player doesn't motivate me to watch it. Thanks for the Great contents.
CK2 the game in which you can start as mumu in your first over an hour atempt, an one of your random marrge leads to you geting EGYPT with very little forwarding. My plan to make Great Britan is now void.
After watching you're three beginners' tutorials I tried searching for a play through and hit the 'Quill mix' button on UA-cam and discovered that you have a whole list of videos on so many of the other games that I have toyed with and then discarded. This has (re)opened up a whole new world to me. Great work. Thanks.
Thank you so much for this tutorial! I had tried to play this game a long time ago, but got overwhelmed by the learning curve and gave up. This really helped me to actually start playing the game!
Thanks for the Tutorials man, the Game is so complicated for beginners so thanks for your effort and i would love it if you would continue this Tutorials
In tribal goverements with low tribal organisation you don't raise the vassal troops, you instead get to call them as allies when at war. Good thing - you get MORE troops this way than if you raised them as vassal troops. Bad thing - you don't get to control them, they decide what to do themselves, and also they can just say no and don't show up for the war.
Thank you. I tried to read up on guides for this game, but I got frustrated and developed a headache trying to work out what was going on. I put the game aside, likely forever... Until I decided to check UA-cam for a helpful guide. After 1.25 of your videos, I was playing the game on my own for an evening and having a blast. Finishing the series now
Better than one of us chumps who paid for it only to see it free now. And I had debated between this and EU4...which isn't free! :( Well at least I got Sword of Islam for free the weekend they were giving it away.
Imagine how badass a joint game with CA would be like paradox take care of the campaign CA take care of the battles. Will never happen but it would be so cool
Picked the free version of this up after hearing good things about CK3. It"s the most confusing interface I've ever come across even with the standard tutorial, so this has helped immensely! Thanks!
I'm gonna add my name to the list of people requesting this be continued for another video or two to explain and illustrate some remaining concepts. You're really good at breaking it down and explaining in a practical way. Eg. Conquering another piece of land, by whichever means you choose. Dealing with distributing additional demense when you are over the limit.
I previously tried CK2 and gave up because it was too overwhelming at first. But, after seeing some of the CK3 videos coming out, I decided to give it another whack (with some help of course). Your explanation videos made it so much more manageable to figure out this crazy game. I love it now! Thank you!
He's something else you might not know: One of the fastest ways to make money is to invite rich courtiers with no heir to your court and assassinate them. Since you're their lord their money goes to you.
Great tutorial and glad it was about the base game. Many tutorials I’ve watched has every DLC and the video boils down to “use this dlc only option to get an extra 10 gold a year as a chief in Siberia”
I picked this game up yesterday as it was on free and the tutorial boxes the game gave me weren't that helpful to me. Watching your beginners guide to this game has already helped me gain a rough understanding on how things work in a much better way. So for that, I thank you and look forward to getting properly started in this game :D
I watched all 3 videos and found them to be very helpful. The game seemed quite overwhelming, but seeing you go through it, button-by-button, and feature-by-feature, made it much easier to understand. For future videos though, please try to resist the urge for all the unnecessary cursor movement, map movement, and map zooming - it is very annoying. Try watching the videos with the sound off and you will see what I mean. Overall though, this was very helpful, so thank you!
I picked the same start as you and in three years one of my vassals decided to plot against me, so I tried arresting him and then had to fight him. As I'm fighting him, the general of my army (another vassal) starts plotting against me separately. Then my general's own son starts plotting against him. Then my daughter's husband died and she came back and started plotting against me. I won the war, executed the original traitor, ended my daughter's plot, then convinced my general to end his plot, and then convinced the son to not kill his father. Then I sit for like fifty years doing nothing. I kept trying to get a marriage with a claim on Ireland but no one bites or if they do they die too quickly/claim is too weak and I can't give them land to legitimize them. I had some random claim for a barony on a Scottish island, and I won that war but then I got literally nothing from it. All this time I have chancellors just fabricating claims and not a single one managed to do anything of value. By the end I had gone through like 4 kings and I was stuck as a 4 year old girl with the same starting 4 counties and I just couldn't take it anymore so I quit. I don't really know what I was doing wrong. I don't know if I was making the wrong marriages or if my chancellors were just so bad, but it was really annoying at the end realizing that I had wasted 4 hours to be right at the beginning, just with worse character stats.
Thank you for the series! Very informative. I am watching a let's play series by one of my favorite youtubers, which makes me think I want to give the game a try. But he doesn't always completely know what he is doing...so I think I need to watch one of your let's plays as well.
Quick public service announcement to not go on a pilgrimage to Saint Patricks tomb, even if you own all of ireland. My king has been on this pilgrimage for the past decade and has no intention of coming back
I had a 347 army beat a 1200 army because when they started the fight I had the larger number and the 1200 army slowly got reinforced, but I'm guessing it was slow enough that they kept loosing when they began an engagement
This is a great tutorial mini-series! Easy to follow and understand. I did follow almost every move you did, and hope that I have a fairly good chance of not screwing it up ... at least not until I die. I know others have said so, but could you please do a Tutorial playthrough? Like "Vanilla, No-DLC, Noob-island Playthrough?" I've tried to watch other's playthroughs, but it goes too fast for me, when I try to "Watch-and-Learn". I know I can just do a couple of trial-and-error games myself, but learning from watching is more satisfying (for me at least).
As long as you don't create multiple duchys you should be fine. Your number one goal is to create 1 duchy so when you get galvekinded your pretenders will stay under your control. You will then probably end up fighting them. Hold off on creating a second duchy until you get to be a king.... Also retinues break the tribals... free troops with land
Really informative video's, thx for your great work peeling back the many layers of this game! I feel I will be re watching these a few more times haha
This game seems so strange to me as someone used to map painting games. Even when I'm metagaming, it usually revolves around territory. I don't know how I'd approach a dynasty building game.
Great videos, thanks. Got the game a couple of days ago. In this video you quickly mention that you can take over a province if your army sieges it for long enough. There is a bit more to it, right? Would I need to assign a vasal and how exactly can I do that? I am in holy war with the non-christians in Ireland and have defeated their armies multiple times, but I just cannot take over their province. I have also won multiple siege battles. Thanks for your help.
OK tutorial for learning all the menus and buttons, but you should have gone into depth about pressing claims for people, as one of the main methods of expansion. I didn't understand the mechanic during my first game or two (who even does, lol!) and ended up fighting a war that just resulted in my courtier going independent.
Pressing claims for people is often tricky. In general if you are their liege (they are a *landed vassal* in your dejure territory) then you are good. A random unlanded courtier won't stay under you. But give him a county, or build him a barony and make him a baron under you. Then they will stay under you. About the dejure territory part. They have to be a vassal in a dejure part of your realm. So if you are king of Ireland and you somehow got a vassal in Sweden (and own no land in Sweden) and you press their claim in Denmark, then they should become independent. But if that swedish vassal was a count and you owned his dejure swedish duchy then you should be good. I have 500 hours in this game and I still get confused by this mechanic. Also, you have to be above the title rank you are fighting for. If you are a Duke pressings someone's claim on a duchy they will move on because you aren't powerful enough to be their liege. But if you are a king pressing for someone's duchy claim, then you are ok. BTW in this playthrough a petty king isn't actually a king. It's just the Celtic way of saying duke.
Hey Quill, I think the reason the 'suppress revolts' didn't work was that the first click only stops them doing what they are now (which you did); a second click on 'suppress' is needed to get them to start doing that (which I don't think you tried to click a second time)
While I was playing along with this tutorial in the same region and same start date my heir died under mysterious circumstances. He was also my spy master. How prescisly do I go about trying to find out who was responsible?
If the plot was discovered it will tell you who was leading it. If not then there isn't a way to figure it out for sure. Characters in the line of succession are often the culprit because they want to be next in line especially if they are ambitious. Brothers usually hate each other and will often kill. Wife/mothers/fathers can be another one if it means their own kid is one step closer to inheritance and the current heir (or wherever in succession line) isn't their own child which often happens if you remarry. You have to look at who benefits from this persons death. Every character as their own agenda and ambitions. Also if the character has a rival they will often plot against them. Characters often get killed because they aren't liked in the realm, and that's a hard one to track and prevent. Like different religion/culture, poor diplomacy or other traits/modifiers (maybe he was a demon worshipper or a cannibal). And sometimes in my experience some characters just decide to randomly plot to kill for no reason at all. Kinda like a human player I guess. But you also have to account for what that character did that you don't know. Maybe he was sleeping with some guys wife. Or killed someone's kid and their family went after him.
@@martinaustin6230 I didn't he thing where you can watch the game and find out, it was his sister. I found this out after I went on a murderous rampage killing off all my suspects which included all his brothers and some other guy who was plotting against him which we discovered, after that everything fell apart so I said screw it game over, did the thing. Turns out non of them did it, it was his butter wouldn't melt sister. Trust no one! Lol
There's also a way to get new ones through high prosperity and random events. I saw screenshots of someone who turned both provinces of Iceland into 7 holding provinces haha
Thank a a lot! It clarified a lot the game. Sea transport of the soldiers and conquering the land after the initial few battles would have been the cherry on the top. Not really understood the function of marring court women to different court dignitaries from different kingdoms. You should get pay to present the patches also.
When they want your brother to take over - and you accept it - you will not start to play as the new king (your brother) . Instead you will continue to play as yourself.
I think you always have to be landed, so in this case you'd change character. If you have another county somewhere your brother would take your primary title and you'd continue with your other land.
@12:21 well the only difference is that the center army leads the overall army. but the game doesn't explicitly tell us how it does that. i think traits are more important for the center commander.
First off enjoyed these 3 vids. The parts I have problems with in the game is when I capture areas and go over my size limit I dont know who to give land to. 2nd thing I have issues with what you were talking about where you could get a claim on say Germany via marriage, how do you get that land ect. Gonna chk out some lets plays
If you want to be safe, give land to young lowborn characters with good stats and no family who has the content trait (avoid envious and ambitious like the plague) and your culture and religion. If you want a more interesting game with plenty of factions and uprisings, hand it out to brothers, uncles and cousins. But for a new player the safe route is probably better! To actually GET the claims you are going to have to invade the place in question. Or murder everyone who are in front of you in the line of succesion. But if it isn't YOUR claim they will just move there and your country wont actually rule the area. Only exception to this is if you press a claim that is lower rank than your current rank AND is within your de jure OR the claimant is of your dynasty. If you have a weak claim the current ruler of the area have to be either a woman or a child or currently in a war over the title, if you have a strong claimant none of these restrictions apply. You will get a pop-up about any weak claims you can press, strong claims you have to keep track of yourself. One of the more common ways you do this is to arrange marriages for your brothers, and then press the weak claims of their children against their mothers homeland, OR (even better) press your own mothers or wives claims, because that way the lands will go to you through inheritance when they die. Useful strong claims are harder to come by since only the second and third in the line of succesion actually get them, but if you need them you will probably have to murer quite a few people, or just get lucky.
@@kashk42 Giving land to lowborn just makes them my vassals correct if it is a county? When I die my heir is the new liege? With pressing claims I should do it if they are my dynasty only? Did I understand you correctly? Thx
@@invictus4107 Yes on the first question. They will found a new noble house, and they will be your vassal without any risk of the county being inherited by a foriegn noble (this is important, if they die before having children, as the county will revert BACK to YOU, rather than end up as part of another country). Except in some very rare circumstances that only exist if you fiddle with exclave independence rules when you set up the game they will stay your vassal. When pressing claims it EITHER have to be for a title that is de jure part of your realm, OR they are of your dynasty, yeah. It is also important that your title is of a higher rank than the title you are going after. Pressing a claim on a duchy while you are a duke will just leave them independent, for example.
I always like my candidates for conquered land to be of my culture and religion so they like me more. And zealous if I am giving them wrong religion provinces so they convert. Another thing to look out for are people with claims. If you make a landed vassal of someone who has claims you can press those claims and grow your realm. Some things to watch out for. They have to be your dejure vassal to press those claims and not have them become independent. Meaning you have to own (or another vassal owns) a title above whatever realm they have, and have it be their dejure territory. So if you are king of Ireland and somehow got a swedish vassal (with no land or titles in Sweden) and you press his claim for some land in Denmark. You will lose that vassal. But if you owned his dejure swedish duchy and he's a count. Then you are good. This rule of dejure territory is void if they are of your dynasty. Note I have 500 hours in this game and this mechanic still confuses me. Other thing to note when pressing claims of other vassals. If you are pushing a claim of a *higher title* than you. They will become independent. So if you are a Duke pushing somones king title. They will become an independent king and take whatever land they already had with them. This is why keeping your vassals realm size in check is important, they can outgrow you and break off just because they form a title higher than you. Some duchies/kingdoms are quite small so it's easy for some vassals to do this. You can also prevent this by creating/ursuping the title yourself so the vassal doesn't get it.
Mate, I'm trying to make a dynasty in the Rajas expansion (On modern day Sri Lanka), they have a starting issue of losing land after I die.. What is that, and how do I fix it? Everyone online seems to say "just change your succession system", but I am not able to change any succession systems with that faction, as far as I can tell? Grr.
Is it possible to conquer county's if you are at war with the realm that owns that county? I want to attack without them having their troops out. Can I do that? And if can, how?
Not unless you have a claim on that realm, and you'll have to specifically declare for it. If it's a vassal of someone else you're fighting you'll have finish up that war and declare again after the truce (or your or their rulers changes). There isn't a way to add war additional war goals like some other games.
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I was so about to watch this...then I heard that corny ass radio voice. Stopped at 7 seconds. EDIT....then I proceeded to watch all three videos. Very informative.
Right click the portrait of the character you want to declare war on and select "declare war" from the list. Note that there are various factors limiting your ability to declare war: e.g. you need a valid cassus belli, you cannot declare war on a vassal who is part of another realm (you would need to declare on their highest liege), etc.
What's the point of this game? It's a sandbox game of empire building and politics that's very historically accurate, except it's not if you don't have all the expansions.
@@ante1219 Click on one of your provinces and upgrade one of the buildings (also called holdings or baronies) you have at the bottom left of the screen, and go for the upgrades that increase levy percentage or a flat increase of a specific troop type. Some other upgrades are also quite nice like tax increases. When you are a tribe the only holdings you can build are tribes and temples/churches. Tribes become castles and you get cities once you are feudal. You cannot hold cities, temples, or castle if you are tribe, or a tribe as a feudal without penalizes, give them to someone else. By right clicking on that holding and click create vassal. Or give it to the province owner if you don't directly own the pronvince because he will be mad at you if you own his holdings in his own county. Vassals who like you more give you more levies when you raise them and more taxes (doesn't apply to tribal vassals though because it's a call to arms/alliance system with levies raised) While you can upgrade any holding in your realm. You get the most out of upgrading the ones you own directly. Because you get 100% of whatever you upgraded, instead of some percentage through your vassal contribution. If you want to know what holdings you directly own. You will always own the main holding (the holding on top of everything else) in a province you own. You can also own additional holdings that are in the row of holdings just below your main holding. Depending on the province you may not have any additional holdings, or you have the slots to build extras. You can expect provinces in northern Italy to have more holdings and be more developed than some random Irish county for example. Its typically better to have vassals hold those additional holdings because it's better to use your domain limit to own actual provinces. Because the main province holding are almost always better, and if you own the province, in most cases the guys who own the additional holdings below you will be your vassals, paying you money and some levy size. If you want to quickly see who owns those additional holdings, the shield on the top left of that particular holding is the family dynasty shield of that person and clicking on it brings up that particular baron owner, or if it's your own dynasty shield then it will be you who owns it minus the unlikely chance that a random member of your dynasty controls it. The shield at the top right indicates which realm that baron bends the knee too, which is hopefully your own dynasty shield. But just because you own the pronvince itself doesn't mean you own all the holdings, or are vassals of your realm. But you can declare war for it because you own the pronvince, and that holding is rightfully yours. Another easy way to see what you directly own is by going to your character portrait and going through the titles you have (the location can vary based on DLC, it's either below your stats, or a bit below your picture). Don't mix this up with claims you have. Claims are what you have to earn through war or inheritance which should be in a similar spot where you see your current titles. Also the title itself has a different look depending on the rank of title itself like, barony, count or duke. Sorry for the long answer. But proper realm management means more troops for you and happier vassals which are even more troops and taxes.
gideon dekel / Old gods Way of life Monks and mystics The sword of Islam Holy Fury The republic Jade dragon I have 1000 hours in the game. You should also research for your flavor on how to play the game
"I guess we're not gonna kill ourselves today, unfortunately."
- quill18 2019
Couldn't even kill his wife. Sad.
I was playing mostly following along with you and one of my vassals was envious of my rule and I discovered he was plotting to kill me, tried to throw him in prison, failed, he revolts and goes to war with me, I wipe the floor with him siege his holdings, take the county back and at the end revoke his title and throw him in prison anyways. Talk about satisfying.
Classic CK2. I often encourage my vassals to rebel or plot against me so I can break down vassals that are too big, or are annoying me. That's one reason I don't auto stop plots, often times someone is trying to kill someone or fabricating which gives you a good reason to imprison. BTW you can have your army raised before you imprison so you can just sit in top of their capital before you declare for an easy war. Make sure you check factions beforehand, if they are involved in one then the other members might get involved from my experience. And also check how much money a vassal has before imprisoning them. They might have a small levy but if they got some money they can merc up and cause you some real problems. That's a good rule for any war in general.
There's so much I have to learn 😅
strategy games: 10 hours played
actually: watched tutorials
Could you possibly continue this?
Would be very nice if you continue this series for another 2 videos to get us really started .. most of the training that I found is outdated by tons of updates and as new player doesn't motivate me to watch it. Thanks for the Great contents.
I like to see him add the expansions and do a tutorial..
Love your profile pic
Wish you would continue this play through... These vids have helped a ton
I agree. Would love to have seen him actually go to war and how to handle that.
CK2 the game in which you can start as mumu in your first over an hour atempt, an one of your random marrge leads to you geting EGYPT with very little forwarding. My plan to make Great Britan is now void.
"Listen, this guy is gonna die.. like TONIGHT" LOL
After watching you're three beginners' tutorials I tried searching for a play through and hit the 'Quill mix' button on UA-cam and discovered that you have a whole list of videos on so many of the other games that I have toyed with and then discarded. This has (re)opened up a whole new world to me. Great work. Thanks.
You forgot to put a link to a Let's Play you recommend in the dooblydoo.
quill: "If we were to assassinate someone we could select someone from this list"
*randomly chooses wife without taking notice*
Me: O.O
hes secretly upset that he didnt get any genius children out of her lmao
Thank you so much for this tutorial! I had tried to play this game a long time ago, but got overwhelmed by the learning curve and gave up. This really helped me to actually start playing the game!
Stick at it and you'll get the hang
Thanks for the Tutorials man, the Game is so complicated for beginners so thanks for your effort and i would love it if you would continue this Tutorials
In tribal goverements with low tribal organisation you don't raise the vassal troops, you instead get to call them as allies when at war. Good thing - you get MORE troops this way than if you raised them as vassal troops. Bad thing - you don't get to control them, they decide what to do themselves, and also they can just say no and don't show up for the war.
What is this "first playthrough" you keep talking about? I've got more than 2000 hours in the damn game, and I still haven't reached 1350.
Same😂
yeah if you actually try to expand in this game, after like 300 years you're basically a god emperor of like 2 continents
@@Lucas-po6mn lmao, I can't even conquer all of Ireland in like half that time
Thank you. I tried to read up on guides for this game, but I got frustrated and developed a headache trying to work out what was going on. I put the game aside, likely forever... Until I decided to check UA-cam for a helpful guide. After 1.25 of your videos, I was playing the game on my own for an evening and having a blast. Finishing the series now
These helped me get started on my first play as Ireland and i highly enjoyed it.
I wanted this game for a while and then they give it away. Great tutorial, will check out more of your vids.
Better than one of us chumps who paid for it only to see it free now. And I had debated between this and EU4...which isn't free! :( Well at least I got Sword of Islam for free the weekend they were giving it away.
Imagine how badass a joint game with CA would be like paradox take care of the campaign CA take care of the battles. Will never happen but it would be so cool
Picked the free version of this up after hearing good things about CK3. It"s the most confusing interface I've ever come across even with the standard tutorial, so this has helped immensely! Thanks!
Thanks bud! I saw this was free and there is so much information that you cleared up! im ready to play the game and have fun
there's no current to up-to-date play through of people playing without DLC so I can't find s***
Seriously helpful guide.
wanting to get into this game in a long time now.
this and the KSP tutorial are a big help!
I'm gonna add my name to the list of people requesting this be continued for another video or two to explain and illustrate some remaining concepts. You're really good at breaking it down and explaining in a practical way.
Eg. Conquering another piece of land, by whichever means you choose. Dealing with distributing additional demense when you are over the limit.
Incredibly Helpful. Actually shows you what to do and you don't make it boring like so many tutorials out there.
I previously tried CK2 and gave up because it was too overwhelming at first. But, after seeing some of the CK3 videos coming out, I decided to give it another whack (with some help of course). Your explanation videos made it so much more manageable to figure out this crazy game. I love it now! Thank you!
I have watched almost all CK2 let`s plays of yours but this tutorial series teached things that I didn't know.
He's something else you might not know: One of the fastest ways to make money is to invite rich courtiers with no heir to your court and assassinate them. Since you're their lord their money goes to you.
@@kingbranden1369 lol, sneaky
KingBranden Just starting to learn my way around the game. How can you tell if a courtier is rich?
"see queen of mumu dead. is this my wife?
course it is." - 25:45
he said it in the first video, too
You joked about Martin Luther showing up like he's in the game. The game misses him.
Which makes sense, given he was born like 30 years after the game's end date.
Great tutorial and glad it was about the base game. Many tutorials I’ve watched has every DLC and the video boils down to “use this dlc only option to get an extra 10 gold a year as a chief in Siberia”
I picked this game up yesterday as it was on free and the tutorial boxes the game gave me weren't that helpful to me. Watching your beginners guide to this game has already helped me gain a rough understanding on how things work in a much better way. So for that, I thank you and look forward to getting properly started in this game :D
Thank you for this guide, now i'm not completely lost
As a new owner of the free game, thanks! Time to go back and muddle around some more. A least I kind of understand the basic concepts of the game now.
I watched all 3 videos and found them to be very helpful. The game seemed quite overwhelming, but seeing you go through it, button-by-button, and feature-by-feature, made it much easier to understand. For future videos though, please try to resist the urge for all the unnecessary cursor movement, map movement, and map zooming - it is very annoying. Try watching the videos with the sound off and you will see what I mean. Overall though, this was very helpful, so thank you!
I picked the same start as you and in three years one of my vassals decided to plot against me, so I tried arresting him and then had to fight him. As I'm fighting him, the general of my army (another vassal) starts plotting against me separately. Then my general's own son starts plotting against him. Then my daughter's husband died and she came back and started plotting against me. I won the war, executed the original traitor, ended my daughter's plot, then convinced my general to end his plot, and then convinced the son to not kill his father. Then I sit for like fifty years doing nothing. I kept trying to get a marriage with a claim on Ireland but no one bites or if they do they die too quickly/claim is too weak and I can't give them land to legitimize them. I had some random claim for a barony on a Scottish island, and I won that war but then I got literally nothing from it. All this time I have chancellors just fabricating claims and not a single one managed to do anything of value. By the end I had gone through like 4 kings and I was stuck as a 4 year old girl with the same starting 4 counties and I just couldn't take it anymore so I quit.
I don't really know what I was doing wrong. I don't know if I was making the wrong marriages or if my chancellors were just so bad, but it was really annoying at the end realizing that I had wasted 4 hours to be right at the beginning, just with worse character stats.
Thank you for the series! Very informative. I am watching a let's play series by one of my favorite youtubers, which makes me think I want to give the game a try. But he doesn't always completely know what he is doing...so I think I need to watch one of your let's plays as well.
Quick public service announcement to not go on a pilgrimage to Saint Patricks tomb, even if you own all of ireland. My king has been on this pilgrimage for the past decade and has no intention of coming back
I had a 347 army beat a 1200 army because when they started the fight I had the larger number and the 1200 army slowly got reinforced, but I'm guessing it was slow enough that they kept loosing when they began an engagement
This is a great tutorial mini-series! Easy to follow and understand. I did follow almost every move you did, and hope that I have a fairly good chance of not screwing it up ... at least not until I die.
I know others have said so, but could you please do a Tutorial playthrough? Like "Vanilla, No-DLC, Noob-island Playthrough?"
I've tried to watch other's playthroughs, but it goes too fast for me, when I try to "Watch-and-Learn". I know I can just do a couple of trial-and-error games myself, but learning from watching is more satisfying (for me at least).
As long as you don't create multiple duchys you should be fine. Your number one goal is to create 1 duchy so when you get galvekinded your pretenders will stay under your control. You will then probably end up fighting them. Hold off on creating a second duchy until you get to be a king.... Also retinues break the tribals... free troops with land
Thanks for the series it was super helpful & funny :)
I'll probably watch your let's plays next.
Really informative video's, thx for your great work peeling back the many layers of this game! I feel I will be re watching these a few more times haha
thanks for tutorial man i really appreciate it, i can start to play this game thanks to you.
Mate you are a legend, your tutorials were fantastic
This video helped a ton not sure if I like the game yet but giving it a chance
This game seems so strange to me as someone used to map painting games. Even when I'm metagaming, it usually revolves around territory. I don't know how I'd approach a dynasty building game.
Great videos, thanks. Got the game a couple of days ago.
In this video you quickly mention that you can take over a province if your army sieges it for long enough. There is a bit more to it, right? Would I need to assign a vasal and how exactly can I do that?
I am in holy war with the non-christians in Ireland and have defeated their armies multiple times, but I just cannot take over their province. I have also won multiple siege battles. Thanks for your help.
Ngl I still feel like I don't understand a lot of things but I guess I just gotta try it my self
Keep delivering your amazing videos. Amazing work.
OK tutorial for learning all the menus and buttons, but you should have gone into depth about pressing claims for people, as one of the main methods of expansion. I didn't understand the mechanic during my first game or two (who even does, lol!) and ended up fighting a war that just resulted in my courtier going independent.
Yep he misses extended claims and actually going to war/warscore/peace
Pressing claims for people is often tricky. In general if you are their liege (they are a *landed vassal* in your dejure territory) then you are good. A random unlanded courtier won't stay under you. But give him a county, or build him a barony and make him a baron under you. Then they will stay under you. About the dejure territory part. They have to be a vassal in a dejure part of your realm. So if you are king of Ireland and you somehow got a vassal in Sweden (and own no land in Sweden) and you press their claim in Denmark, then they should become independent. But if that swedish vassal was a count and you owned his dejure swedish duchy then you should be good. I have 500 hours in this game and I still get confused by this mechanic.
Also, you have to be above the title rank you are fighting for. If you are a Duke pressings someone's claim on a duchy they will move on because you aren't powerful enough to be their liege. But if you are a king pressing for someone's duchy claim, then you are ok.
BTW in this playthrough a petty king isn't actually a king. It's just the Celtic way of saying duke.
Hey Quill, I think the reason the 'suppress revolts' didn't work was that the first click only stops them doing what they are now (which you did); a second click on 'suppress' is needed to get them to start doing that (which I don't think you tried to click a second time)
It did work, after he unpaused it eventually changed to 0%.
It changed to 0% on 1st of the month.
Thank you for your service Quill
Amazing tutorial, Helped so much
Great tutorial! Thanks for making this beast of a game understandable!
While I was playing along with this tutorial in the same region and same start date my heir died under mysterious circumstances. He was also my spy master. How prescisly do I go about trying to find out who was responsible?
If the plot was discovered it will tell you who was leading it. If not then there isn't a way to figure it out for sure. Characters in the line of succession are often the culprit because they want to be next in line especially if they are ambitious. Brothers usually hate each other and will often kill. Wife/mothers/fathers can be another one if it means their own kid is one step closer to inheritance and the current heir (or wherever in succession line) isn't their own child which often happens if you remarry. You have to look at who benefits from this persons death. Every character as their own agenda and ambitions. Also if the character has a rival they will often plot against them.
Characters often get killed because they aren't liked in the realm, and that's a hard one to track and prevent. Like different religion/culture, poor diplomacy or other traits/modifiers (maybe he was a demon worshipper or a cannibal).
And sometimes in my experience some characters just decide to randomly plot to kill for no reason at all. Kinda like a human player I guess. But you also have to account for what that character did that you don't know. Maybe he was sleeping with some guys wife. Or killed someone's kid and their family went after him.
@@martinaustin6230 I didn't he thing where you can watch the game and find out, it was his sister. I found this out after I went on a murderous rampage killing off all my suspects which included all his brothers and some other guy who was plotting against him which we discovered, after that everything fell apart so I said screw it game over, did the thing. Turns out non of them did it, it was his butter wouldn't melt sister. Trust no one! Lol
Baghdad is also a 7 holding province. I think there's one in Crimea too? There's a handful scattered around.
There's also a way to get new ones through high prosperity and random events. I saw screenshots of someone who turned both provinces of Iceland into 7 holding provinces haha
Just watched this great series, but please go on to explain war and conquest
Thank a a lot! It clarified a lot the game. Sea transport of the soldiers and conquering the land after the initial few battles would have been the cherry on the top. Not really understood the function of marring court women to different court dignitaries from different kingdoms. You should get pay to present the patches also.
Which let's play should I watch if I only have vanilla CK2?
thanks for these videos!
When they want your brother to take over - and you accept it - you will not start to play as the new king (your brother) . Instead you will continue to play as yourself.
I think you always have to be landed, so in this case you'd change character. If you have another county somewhere your brother would take your primary title and you'd continue with your other land.
I am not a beginner I just stink, thanks for this. I need to look to see if you have one for RimWorld
best tutorial videos for beginners that Iv found
@12:21 well the only difference is that the center army leads the overall army. but the game doesn't explicitly tell us how it does that. i think traits are more important for the center commander.
thank u, i was really struggling to figure out the combat system lol
thanks for this dude. im ready to get into this game now :D
Thanks man. This helped me so much.
Thanks a freaking ton for this tutorial
Thank you for this video it really helped
That helped me a lot, thank you !!!!
First off enjoyed these 3 vids. The parts I have problems with in the game is when I capture areas and go over my size limit I dont know who to give land to. 2nd thing I have issues with what you were talking about where you could get a claim on say Germany via marriage, how do you get that land ect. Gonna chk out some lets plays
If you want to be safe, give land to young lowborn characters with good stats and no family who has the content trait (avoid envious and ambitious like the plague) and your culture and religion. If you want a more interesting game with plenty of factions and uprisings, hand it out to brothers, uncles and cousins. But for a new player the safe route is probably better!
To actually GET the claims you are going to have to invade the place in question. Or murder everyone who are in front of you in the line of succesion. But if it isn't YOUR claim they will just move there and your country wont actually rule the area. Only exception to this is if you press a claim that is lower rank than your current rank AND is within your de jure OR the claimant is of your dynasty. If you have a weak claim the current ruler of the area have to be either a woman or a child or currently in a war over the title, if you have a strong claimant none of these restrictions apply. You will get a pop-up about any weak claims you can press, strong claims you have to keep track of yourself.
One of the more common ways you do this is to arrange marriages for your brothers, and then press the weak claims of their children against their mothers homeland, OR (even better) press your own mothers or wives claims, because that way the lands will go to you through inheritance when they die. Useful strong claims are harder to come by since only the second and third in the line of succesion actually get them, but if you need them you will probably have to murer quite a few people, or just get lucky.
@@kashk42
Giving land to lowborn just makes them my vassals correct if it is a county? When I die my heir is the new liege?
With pressing claims I should do it if they are my dynasty only?
Did I understand you correctly?
Thx
@@invictus4107 Yes on the first question. They will found a new noble house, and they will be your vassal without any risk of the county being inherited by a foriegn noble (this is important, if they die before having children, as the county will revert BACK to YOU, rather than end up as part of another country). Except in some very rare circumstances that only exist if you fiddle with exclave independence rules when you set up the game they will stay your vassal.
When pressing claims it EITHER have to be for a title that is de jure part of your realm, OR they are of your dynasty, yeah. It is also important that your title is of a higher rank than the title you are going after. Pressing a claim on a duchy while you are a duke will just leave them independent, for example.
@@kashk42
Thanks :)
I always like my candidates for conquered land to be of my culture and religion so they like me more. And zealous if I am giving them wrong religion provinces so they convert.
Another thing to look out for are people with claims. If you make a landed vassal of someone who has claims you can press those claims and grow your realm. Some things to watch out for. They have to be your dejure vassal to press those claims and not have them become independent. Meaning you have to own (or another vassal owns) a title above whatever realm they have, and have it be their dejure territory. So if you are king of Ireland and somehow got a swedish vassal (with no land or titles in Sweden) and you press his claim for some land in Denmark. You will lose that vassal. But if you owned his dejure swedish duchy and he's a count. Then you are good.
This rule of dejure territory is void if they are of your dynasty. Note I have 500 hours in this game and this mechanic still confuses me.
Other thing to note when pressing claims of other vassals. If you are pushing a claim of a *higher title* than you. They will become independent. So if you are a Duke pushing somones king title. They will become an independent king and take whatever land they already had with them. This is why keeping your vassals realm size in check is important, they can outgrow you and break off just because they form a title higher than you. Some duchies/kingdoms are quite small so it's easy for some vassals to do this. You can also prevent this by creating/ursuping the title yourself so the vassal doesn't get it.
super great tutorial
Please continue the play throuh..
Mate, I'm trying to make a dynasty in the Rajas expansion (On modern day Sri Lanka), they have a starting issue of losing land after I die.. What is that, and how do I fix it? Everyone online seems to say "just change your succession system", but I am not able to change any succession systems with that faction, as far as I can tell? Grr.
Thank you quill😊👍
Thanks for this tutorial
Does he have any base game let's play?
So - Crusader Kings II or Europa Universalis IV?
after playing in non ironmode, only NOW then i look for tutorials. :'D
please do another episode!
You should do a Victoria II tutorial please.
I literally got stuck on tutorial mode. I can't get that damn island in West Africa. Help!! xD
What if you dismiss levies that are overseas?
islands only have one holding
Not necessarily. Socotra has two to start off, with with a castle and a bishropic. And it has the potential to add more as you play.
Can you suggest any good musical mods?
The base game music, always the same 1 or 2 songs, is making me mad.
Hildegard von Bingen and Gregorian chant. Or Byzantine chant. ;)
I can't thank you enough
Art of War Expansion? DLC of EU4 you mean?
the heir of france is from luxembourg
Is it just me or is this video in 144p only?! Stange as the others were high res. Just wondering...
ice ice baby
How do you declare war?
Is it possible to conquer county's if you are at war with the realm that owns that county? I want to attack without them having their troops out. Can I do that? And if can, how?
Not unless you have a claim on that realm, and you'll have to specifically declare for it. If it's a vassal of someone else you're fighting you'll have finish up that war and declare again after the truce (or your or their rulers changes). There isn't a way to add war additional war goals like some other games.
10:20
Kyiv has most holdings. 8. at least lat time I checked
bro how to play the crusaders king 2 for free bro please tell me a little prolongue answer i actually new to this sort pc games will you please tell how to download the game in my laptop
I was so about to watch this...then I heard that corny ass radio voice. Stopped at 7 seconds. EDIT....then I proceeded to watch all three videos. Very informative.
How do i declare war?
Right click the portrait of the character you want to declare war on and select "declare war" from the list. Note that there are various factors limiting your ability to declare war: e.g. you need a valid cassus belli, you cannot declare war on a vassal who is part of another realm (you would need to declare on their highest liege), etc.
29:13 How to explain religions in a nutshell
What's the point of this game? It's a sandbox game of empire building and politics that's very historically accurate, except it's not if you don't have all the expansions.
atlas game i hate it love stronghold
Hi! Is there any experienced player willing to guide me through the game? I already know the basics, I just want more clearance :)
@Jimmy Right but I still have some questions as I play independently through the game, that these tutorials don't answer clearly enough for me
@@ante1219 I'll try to answer whatever questions you got.
@@martinaustin6230 how do you make/produce army? I play this game with cheats cuz i dont know otherwise lol
@@ante1219 Click on one of your provinces and upgrade one of the buildings (also called holdings or baronies) you have at the bottom left of the screen, and go for the upgrades that increase levy percentage or a flat increase of a specific troop type. Some other upgrades are also quite nice like tax increases. When you are a tribe the only holdings you can build are tribes and temples/churches. Tribes become castles and you get cities once you are feudal.
You cannot hold cities, temples, or castle if you are tribe, or a tribe as a feudal without penalizes, give them to someone else. By right clicking on that holding and click create vassal. Or give it to the province owner if you don't directly own the pronvince because he will be mad at you if you own his holdings in his own county. Vassals who like you more give you more levies when you raise them and more taxes (doesn't apply to tribal vassals though because it's a call to arms/alliance system with levies raised)
While you can upgrade any holding in your realm. You get the most out of upgrading the ones you own directly. Because you get 100% of whatever you upgraded, instead of some percentage through your vassal contribution.
If you want to know what holdings you directly own. You will always own the main holding (the holding on top of everything else) in a province you own. You can also own additional holdings that are in the row of holdings just below your main holding. Depending on the province you may not have any additional holdings, or you have the slots to build extras. You can expect provinces in northern Italy to have more holdings and be more developed than some random Irish county for example. Its typically better to have vassals hold those additional holdings because it's better to use your domain limit to own actual provinces. Because the main province holding are almost always better, and if you own the province, in most cases the guys who own the additional holdings below you will be your vassals, paying you money and some levy size. If you want to quickly see who owns those additional holdings, the shield on the top left of that particular holding is the family dynasty shield of that person and clicking on it brings up that particular baron owner, or if it's your own dynasty shield then it will be you who owns it minus the unlikely chance that a random member of your dynasty controls it. The shield at the top right indicates which realm that baron bends the knee too, which is hopefully your own dynasty shield. But just because you own the pronvince itself doesn't mean you own all the holdings, or are vassals of your realm. But you can declare war for it because you own the pronvince, and that holding is rightfully yours.
Another easy way to see what you directly own is by going to your character portrait and going through the titles you have (the location can vary based on DLC, it's either below your stats, or a bit below your picture). Don't mix this up with claims you have. Claims are what you have to earn through war or inheritance which should be in a similar spot where you see your current titles. Also the title itself has a different look depending on the rank of title itself like, barony, count or duke.
Sorry for the long answer. But proper realm management means more troops for you and happier vassals which are even more troops and taxes.
what dlc's do you think is good?
gideon dekel / Old gods
Way of life
Monks and mystics
The sword of Islam
Holy Fury
The republic
Jade dragon
I have 1000 hours in the game. You should also research for your flavor on how to play the game
decent link in description for DLC pros and cons discussion
Look out for sales on DLC. Steam, paradox shop, and humble bundle often run sales. Especially on older DLC