13 Hidden (???) Tricks for Crusader Kings III - Educate Child, Move Capital, etc...
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- CK3 has a much better interface than CK2, but that doesn't mean that everything is obvious. Here are 13 semi-hidden user interface tricks that might make a big difference in your next campaign!
Educate Child
Move Capital
Outliner
Pin characters
Barbershop
Add Laws
Men-At-Arms level up
Assign Physician
Negotiate Release of Prisoner
Notify when decision is available
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Here's a hint that's extremely important for warfare:
Before you raise your army, move your rally point closer to your target so they don't have to walk so far. The button to move the rally point can be found on the bottom right of the rally banner menu. You can find a list of all of your rally points at the bottom of the military menu (red shield and swords at the top right). Click on any banner to open its menu.
This! I noticed Quill hasn't been doing this in his let's play and I hope he sees this comment.
great if your rally point is being raided, move your rally point one barony over, raise troops, attack raiders.
Or even better, if you control an island or some piece of discornected land. Use this to teleport your army back and forth to "outrun" the enemy army ^^
@@GreenLarsen yea, this works, but it is less effective than you may think. If you disband an army while you are in a war then they are put on a really long cool down timer. So unless it would take longer to get to your destination than the cool down timer is, it's not worth it.
Unfortunately even if the war ends shortly after you disband your troops, their timer won't end. If you start another war your troops will still be on cool down.
So another hint, if your troops say they are gathering for 9 months or something ridiculous like that, it's probably because of the cool down timer. You can create a new army from the gathering troops and put all of the ones that are ready in the new army. This will let you use the gathered ones immediately.
@@GreenLarsen well, you can not "disband" your army if the enemy is in your territory or a bordering territory.
Small tip here:
If you don´t want to assemble your whole army, while assembling you can just Ctrl + Right click to stop the assembling and move them as is. Your knights and man-at-arms will always spawn instantly when assembling the army, after that the levies of different locations will start arriving depending on distance.
Lol, I was using an exploit to get around that and thought that was broken, but apparently it's just intended.
This is perfect! Thanks! This means I can save more money by not calling all my levies for a tiny County claim. Also, if i need to call the rest of the army, I won't have to worry about the muster time penalty for sending them home (had i mustered them all to begin with) and calling them back. That penalty is like 2-4 months added to the normal muster time.
@@jxslayz6663 makes a huge difference for insta-popping single duchy claims as you can set your rally point right next, rally all of your men at arms, and hop onto them before they can run. You can also grab all your knights and men at arms and form a new army from them to grab a small group and send them off, while the greater army continues to form.
Assign Physician: note that your court doc will be fired upon succession (for some reason) but they often end up just lingering in your court, so if you can find them again, you can just hire them right back in.
That is something that always irked me. I have a physician who loyally served the king for 50 years and has the best physician trait, and saved multiple kid's and courtier's lives and is literally the reason I have an heir...
lol yeah just yeet the man who saved ur life out the door lmao who needs him anyway
Choosing education focus was one of the things that I only found because I knew it had to be there from my experience with CK2. That button just appears there when they turn 6 without any notification whatsoever, and it has a completely different function from what the same UI element does for adult characters. I have no idea they expected new players to find this.
-screams-
I had like, 30 hours played before me friend told me this...
There's so much the game doesn't tell you. I'd be very surprised if someone managed to completely understand the game without guides
it seems like they left out the notification because it was annoying to have to pick for every child and because it no longer penalizes you for not choosing any, it just gives a random focus. so much better than ck2
Well, in their defense it already gives them the more adequate education focus to the traits the kid has. It was really annoying to pick every kid's focus in CK2, I just disabled it for everyone but my primary heir.
The longer they're in Jail, the more likely they are to accept any condition for release..
This is very good to know.
Averages about 6 month to get a hook if they're a no and about a year in jail to get a conversion, FYI if the ruler of your prisoner sends you a request to ransom his serf, do not agree... Take the little hit and if you can get a hook or convert their religion as RULERS only ever offer ransom for important people.. example a catharism religion had a Duke held by me.. the king wanted to pay me for him, I refused and took a 15 opinion hit.... Later I released him with a hook and a convert religion, he went back to his leige then 6 months later I was able to use him to ASSASSINATE his leige, because we were the same religion and I had a hook I got a iffy murder plot to be a Lock... Had I taken the 25 gold for him, I feel this would have been a loss overall...
Lol I often forget I have prisoners and they all just die. Currently theres one very powerful duke of my kingdom who hates me and hes been in jail for 27 years lol. Not letting that fucker rebel again.
Torture helps too
@@cactuscraze4877 I don't always forget, but sometimes after big wars I remember about them when one dies and the game tells me...
One thing on upgrading men at arms regiments is I don't believe you can split a single regiment up, regardless of its size. So you might want 2 separate siege weapon groups if you're fielding multiple armies. But that is a pretty niche situation.
Excellent point, you're correct. Kind of annoying when you want to end a war fast by splitting your armies and sieging 2-3 holdings all at once. I find splitting army and rearranging to be a good way to optimize warfare when you're up against an inferior opponent.
Definitely began using multiple siege engine units once my army strength went over 10k. Think I have three separate siege units now that my armies are up to ~16k. Usually run 4 separate armies - one for maneuvering to support battles with the three seige armies going at once.
@@NefariousKoel how do you raise your armies exactly? Raise all in one place and then split/transfer or use other buttons on the army menu?
@@alphaspartan I usually raise them all in one place and split them there. Although I occasionally set a second or third muster flag elsewhere if I can send them in to get started on a siege earlier. Although since those extra armies won't have my good regiments, and hardly any knights, I only do that when they're unlikely to be attacked by an enemy army when I declare war. Also, with such large army sizes, keeping Supply up on each one is a regularly consideration. Once supply gets low, they start taking penalties to combat.
This is exactly what was going through my head, and I was going to comment on when watching the video. But since you already covered it, I'll just add a comment and a like!
Hey big one here you can see who is attending your feast ! when hosting a feast scroll into your capital click the mug boom there they are in a list
I loved when I saw someone do this. Now I always check to see who’s attending.
How is that useful?
@@informitas0117 - It's useful because those who aren't in attendance won't get the opinion bonus at the end of the feast. If you're hoping that specific ones of your more troublesome vassals will get the opinion bonus, this could help inform you on whom to keep a Sway scheme on in the meantime.
@@informitas0117 I had a feast event where one of the choices made everyone attending the feast like me less
WHAAT
I'm sure I'll blow someone's mind with this tip: in the Search Bar of the Character search screen, you can type in Traits, religions, cultures, etc. So if you only want to find people who have the Genius trait, just type "Genius" into the search bar.
I found it while I was getting annoyed at there not being an option to show people who weren't my religion, it could only filter by people who WERE my religion (or religion group). So I searched for "Cathar", and lo and behold.
Did you ever know that you're my hero?
This is great for finding vassals with the "Content" trait!
thank you, did not know that
I hate you sooo much I was searching so long for this Q~Q jk on the hate I love u
They really do just need a “not my religion” filter.
I always wanna find and convert the people of my realm, but they make it difficult.
11:46 For Spymaster and Physician, hit the little magnifying glass icon at the center bottom of screen, and search for an unmarried female within your diplomatic range, in your greater religious group (christianity for example), in all realms, set to lowborn. Sort by Intrigue or learning, respectively. Find one that is wandering or a guest with nice high stats and right click on her, and marry her to one of your courtiers. May take a few repetitions until you find one that agrees, but you will guarantee yourself a loyal spymaster and physician with generally 20+ in their stat.
I've been basically playing every game with a 25+ skill spymaster. I've regularly roped in 25+ skill physicians, and it makes a heck of a difference for wound recovery - with a good physician I actually try to fish for flagellant as a stressor, as it becomes just free stress relief with no cost as your physician instantly heals your wound.
Releasing prisoners is really powerful. Imagine capturing king of France during crusade and making him change faith. France shattered. 😆
Yeah in my current game I abducted the Byzantine Emperor then released him for a hook and religion change. It shattered in 2 months lol
Also, the abduct scheme is really powerful and kinda breaks the game with the following strat:
1. Start the scheme against a ruler you want to go to war against.
2. Wait till the time remaining for the scheme is one month.
3. Declare war against the ruler.
4. Avoid combat to cut losses. Hell, you don't even have to raise troops.
5. Once the scheme fires, hope to hell that it succeeds.
Capturing the ruler gives 100% warscore. You can enforce demands.
6. Spam and cheese it to blob like crazy.
I discovered this strat when a huge alliance of like 5 kingdoms declared a holy war for the only Duchy I had. My puny 2K army had no chance against their 13K troops, and I was playing as an intrigue character so I decided to wing it. I shit you not I was at negative 99% warscore when the scheme fired and it shot up to a positive 100% at the last moment. I might have screamed.
PS. The only time it didn't work was when I declared war against Ivar the Boneless (~3000 troops) as an Irish count (~300). The scheme got stuck at "ready" but didn't fire at all for atleast months (I quit the game while it was still stuck).
Must've been spying on my session last night. Was nice seeing France shatter until I derped around with my succession laws and shattered my sweden into 5 kingdoms almost immediately after
Be careful releasing prisoners without any conditions though, as it takes away dread under most religions.
@@charlesdenney1220 I also derped my Sweden, the council of Jarls picked a weak successor and the strong vassels destroyed the realm as soon as my ruler died
Tip Quill did not mention:
You can click and drag in the dynasty screen by holding down the middle mouse button.
omg what the hell was paradox thinking?
I was wondering how I could maneuver there.
@@tomeboaventura9054 threw me for a loop too, PDX has never used MMB for anything before in their games (aside from scrolling) so it was literally the last thing i tried.
@@phantomJK I think you could use MMB to scroll around the map in ck2 as well.
@@phantomJK Pretty sure mmb hold and drag is a map movement mode in every single of their games...
Is there a way to get/setup a notification for when a truce ends? That would be handy.
I think it will sometimes popup in issues "you can declare war vs. _____"
I world also appreciate the system from older games where you could setup popup or even pause the game automatically
Yeah they should add a notification for this
There's a mod for this if you don't know already. It is really really helpful.
Yeah marking all dates clickable to set reminders would be awesome for all paradox games
Great video. Thanks Quill. I just have to add: the tooltip mechanic is incredibly genius. Fantastic job Paradox. Tooltips will never be the same without this mechanic of staying open/hyperlinking when hovered over.
They're definitely not the first to do this, but they did a good job for sure.
One thing that annoys me is I have to hover over the button for a few seconds in order to be able to hover over another tooltip, which is a little annoying sometimes when I'm trying to read up on a chain of mechanics I don't know much about.
@@VynalDerp You can change this to a click or a shorter hover time in the settings
@@VynalDerp in the settings, set the tooltip behaviour to 'action lock'. It's far, far better.
Hey quill, having time stamps on such video will be a big help thanks.
About the title laws: You can actually kinda circumvent title loses on successions by giving every title (at least of the duchy tier or above) the male preference title law. It takes every title into his own succession partition meaning that every title with a title law will always go to your oldest son. That way you can for example keep 3 king titles together without being an emperor.
It has some prerequisites like High Crown Authority (which in turn requires the Royal Prerogative innovation) and lot of prestige, so it isn't completely trivial, but you only have to do it once per title. It obviously doesn't work for tribals though.
Omg
Sounds like a bug.
Definetly an exploit. Should get patched, maybe it wont.
@@alangriffin8146 most likely, yes.
TheGerudan I’m really impressed by the game’s general quality though. I haven’t had any crashes (knock on wood), and only encountered a few minor bugs. I’m loving it.
Great list! But one thing missing, that I think a lot of players miss, is the ability to see the inheritance breakdown from the succession tab in the realm laws screen. Right bellow your main heir portrait, if you have other heirs there will be a little arrow you can click to expand showing you all your heirs and the titles each will inherit. Much easier to look at than going character by character, or title by title, and mousing over to see the tooltip. Furthermore, mousing over the title icon on that screen will highlight said title, which again, make easier to understand what each heir will be getting after you die.
thank you so much this is really helpful - i was spending so long clicking through people and back and forth
Thank you. Very helpful.
Another aspect of increasing men-at-arms regiments: They will also gain the reinforcement rate of multiple small regiments. So a 200 men regiment will reinforce at 20 men/month.
Big miss on negotiating release was that you can negotiate that they renounce their claims. This is HUGE for resolving factions that are supporting a specific person for a troublesome title claim. Just imprison them, then force them to renounce, and voila problem solved.
You want to control all the counties in your capital Dutchy. The way you keep all of them after your death (even with partion succession and multiple children) is by setting the Feudal Elective succession law in that Dutchy. You will be the only voter and you can designate your primary heir to inherit all that land, which will serve as a solid base of income and levies for your Kingdom or Empire for your heir.
Does that take the counties out of realm succession? If it doesn't, then I'm pretty sure you can still lose that land. Partition will only give away the counties in your primary duchy after all other duchies and all other non-primary counties have been dispersed, so you may have not gotten to that point.
@@Revan579 If you enact a realm specific law, the de jure holdings of that realm are no longer subject to the main succession. So what you are saying is right, counties outside of the realm in which you have enacted a specific succession law will still be subject to main succession law. I see this as benefital because this means your primary heir can be elected to directly inherit 4/5/6 counties and your other children to maybe not get even one.
@@Joetheumper Thanks. That's helpful to know. I love messing around with succession. Each one is like a puzzle.
@@Joetheumper Just tried this out and it's amazing. I feel like this will have to be fixed at some point though. Your vassals also all get +10 opinion boosts from Feudal Elective on titles that they aren't even a part of.
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Sometimes I do get a notice when a child can be warded to a guardian, but no, same thing that I have to "pin" them and keep track of them until they're of age to get an education focus.
You can also get to elective laws if you reach the King level and then look for alternative succession in major decisions. Know what you're going to get by looking at succession laws in the in-game wiki beforehand. Don't spend 300 prestige just to "think on it".
Scandinavian Elective in particular is a pretty amazing alternative succession law because vassals can't vote for themselves.
@@Revan579
but they can still pick someone outside your dynasty
@@16m49x3 Yeah, but it narrows down claimants significantly while not forcing you to stick with your eldest child. The object of any succession is to maximize gains. Making sure your dynasty remains in power is one of the most basic objectives regardless.
I have exploited moving my capital to adopt Dayalam culture (has access to Mottes in 867) from a nearby province, then immediably moving it back to my De Jeur capital (Persian culture, no castle building at 867) at the start of a game with no unpausing.
Another pro tip.. if vassals rise up against you and you defeat the rebellion, you can revoke their titles, and strip title claims. Its a powerful way to make it so that they aren't powerful enough to simply rise up against you with the same military force.
The most useful thing I do, that I don't always see other people do much, is using Find Spouse on all my courtiers, champions, etc. to fill out my court. Sort by skill, bring in a good doctor, more knights, a new spymaster, etc. Also, in a courtier has an inheritable trait, get them a spouse that will reinforce it to make sure there are kids with good traits kicking around your court,
yeah tending to your courtiers is important for ensuring a steady supply of talented people. Marry everyone, even old people so you have good options for councillors, educators and knights.
Very helpful tips video and I learnt a lot. Thank you Quill.
hi quill...also play eudes of anjou campaign.
when crusadesing, i rallied my troops through sea..i have 300 supply capacity, but it can always bring 100 (like standard commander limit). how to make it full to 300 supply capacity?
My favorite exploits/tricks:
- *How to take over any empire in one go* : 1. Abduct the emperor, demand conversion and release 2. Arrange marriage with one of his unladed daughters or another woman with claim (might have to kill the previous spouse first) and wait until they have at least one child 3. Kill the emperor 4. Press claim for his daughter/claimant to make her empress 5. Kill her, someone from your dynasty should be emperor now 6. Use the claim title interaction and declare war
[ If you are not strong enough to fight the war, use the abduct cheese to insta win ]
[ This can also destroy the empire if you're too slow, since all his vassals will be mad. If you are strong enough, it is a good idea to help the emperor with all his internal wars, since you should have an alliance with him ]
- *Get tons of piety with your heir immediatly* : Have/reform a religion with the ritual sacrifice tenet. If your current ruler is close to death wage a bunch of small wars or raid for captives to get 100+ prisoners, then once your heir takes over mass execute everyone for a massive piety boost (can get 5k+ piety in one go and get you to or close to religious icon immediatly)
- *Get insane buffs to your character* : Have the Adorcism tenet to enable 'seek aid from the spirits'. Pause game and seek aid from the spirits as many times as you want (I'd recommend not more than 10). Unpause and reveive a bunch of buffs, like strong, shrewd and many other temporary 10y buffs. Caution: Not iron man safe, since it can also give you really bad traits or make you sick etc. etc. Your character should have a high fertility from beautiful/herculean etc. so that if you get the impotent trait, which is likely, you still can make children (impotent only gives -50% fertility, not completely removes the ability to make kids)
- *Win any war* : Most people probably already know about this, but you can start an abduct scheme against a ruler, once it fires you declare war with the window still open. After war decalaration you continue with the abduction, once successfull the war will be over and you can enforce demands.
- *Change your stats on the fly* : With most events already open, you can still modifiy your stats with the spouse council position to increase your success chances.
- *Hold many duchies/duchy buildings* : Add the 'feudal elective' [ costs 1500 prestige, without modifiers] or another available elective law to each duchy you hold, it will grant a +10 opinion mod to all your vassals. This means you can hold up to 6 with no negative penalty and each additional duchy only gives -5 opinion instead of -15. If you're having trouble getting your prefered child to win, you can remove the law for free.
[ You can get even more opinion if you also add this law to all your kingdom and empire titles, but be careful, since there are many more electors than for duchies and it can backfire if they don't like you or your heir. I've never had trouble with this, but it can be rough if you want to have a woman in a male dominated religion, for example. ]
[ In most of your duchies, if you hold at least 2-3 counties you will always have the most voting power. Even if not, most vassals will vote for your candidate if they like you ]
[ I usually only hold the duchy capital for the special building slot, all others I give to my vassals ]
[ You might want to hold the de jure kingdom too, otherwise the king will always desire the duchy. With enough + opinion mods this is not a problem ]
- *Get a strong army with close to no upkeep* : Building mods for your armies stack, if you build a lot of armories and forges for example, your heavy infantry and spearmen can do 5 times the damage. Combine this with the many duchies from above and your army will be unstoppable. Armory also gives -6% upkeep at level 1, stacked a couple times and in combination with the 'training' task from your marshal, your MaA will be almost free.
I have more and also a bunch of succession cheese (not really cheese, but still useful), if people are interested I can post them later.
Additionally to the physician tip, the character search option lets you filter by court (and outer court etc) so you can see a list of those available to select. You can then order that by learning to see the best one immediately available!
Negotiate release is incredibly powerful right now (should probably be nerfed). For instance, when you defeat a peasant uprising, the peasant leader you capture almost always has great martial. Negotiate + recruit makes them YOUR great martial character. Enemy leader like, say, the Abbasid threatening your with religious wars? Abduct them and negotiate release with religious conversion. They will now rip their empire apart with religious wars (amazing vs. big blobs). If they refuse? Execute them and abduct the next ruler in line. You're not at war, so there's not much opportunity cost for trying, and capturing/release are both ridiculously easy to do.
if you recruit an uprising leader they'd hate you and might cause trouble due to their high skills
@@tishafeed8085 Hmm. Maybe? So far that's been a non-issue for me. I tend to also force convert them and befriend them, though, so that might be why I haven't noticed the issue.
characters with zealous dont convert easily
I just got the game Excited for my first game!
Do the tutorial
It will probably take some familiarity and a few games before it becomes really enjoyable. As a noob myself, my first couple saves weren't as fun until my later ones. Tops, it will take about 24-30 hours time to learn the mechanics to a point to be able to progress and have fun. Really enjoying it thus far, and I did get the Deluxe edition, so looking forward to the two expansion packs coming soon. Hoping for more unique events.
Lol good luck figuring out the best way to grant titles to people
Have fun. I'm a newb to the game myself (less than 50 hours) and am having a blast. A lot of the time is spent on pause trying to figure out what I can do, what's BEST to do, and where can I find everything.
@@Travis_su Best way I figured out. Click on yourself... below your image, you'll have a list of the titles in your control. You can click on them and grant them out that way. If there's a better way, please share!
...also needed to be mention the biggest and most important thing they've added to this game.
You no longer need to be depressed to get rid of your ruler early. Depending on your traits chances are you can just spam the stressful thing of that respective trait (for example if you are just you can try murder people and cancel it before it happens, if you are greedy you gift all your cash to your heir) and build up stress which makes your ruler die
Most of the times I don't want the game to turn my 25 intrigue 16 year old ruler into a full diplomacy character (because it really seems the focus the characters pick is random) so I just get rid of my ruler by stressing him out so I can play a character however I want.
This is also much better than the suicide option since that one fucks up your dynasty's renown.
Brilliant tip, thank you for this.
The best way to kill off your character if you're just or compassionate is to execute all your prisoners.
@@elimalinsky7069 Nah, murdering prisoners* can give opinion penalty which might fuck up people's opinions of your heir.
Not sure about compassionate but just characters can start a murder plot, then cancel it, then start another one and you get 35 stress whenever you do that.
Shy characters can do the same with sway
Greedy just gift all your cash to your heir
Not sure about the others
@@Riael Yeah, that might be better.
but you can pick the focus of your child, it is in the video.
Appreciate it so much. I was trying to figure out how to move my capital. Got way more out of this then I intended.
Heres a little trick: when releasing and or ransoming a character, when all you get or want is to gain a hook from a prisoner, you can gain that hook from any ransom with NO opinion penalty. If that makes sense, your welcome 😄
I dont get what your saying
I don't think I am welcome, because I dont think it makes sense
3:41 Omg... I was sooooo tired searching my domain xD Thanks Quill!
The moving capitol thing blew my mind, how did i miss that when ive wanted to do that for so long 😂
These were really helpful, thanks!
I'm just waiting for Quill to make a proper short tutorial series and then I can finally buy it.
Quill, not sure if you read these comments but after watching your fight with scotland on the last Livestream I think you're vastly underestimating how badly attrition hurt you, especially early. Each skull takes like 10% of your troops as you move through enemy territory and running out of supplies is the same effect each month. I think avoiding attrition is the reason the AI seems to use the oceans to move to adjacent unoccupied enemy territory. Blitzing their capital can certainly work but you took a lot of damage and because the enemy queen was actually leading her army you couldn't capture her by occupying her capital. Just some things I noticed that I hope will improve future war chances 🙂
Awesome video, thank you!
you can rotate the world map by holding right-click
Discovered this yesterday, blew my mind for like 2 seconds, never used it again
@@a1176789 haha yeah
If i remember the suggestions issues UI opens and closes with the tab button, quick open close makes it way easier to use.
If you get a pop up (especially during a war) that says someone is wounded or diseased and your only reply is, "There's nothing we can do", check to see if you have a court physician. If you hire one, you'll have choices for treatment.
Seems like when I do have a Court Physician, I don't get those pop-ups. A few times, when that happened, it made me realize my court physician position was empty. I don't think there's a warning indicator when that happens.
@@NefariousKoel It depends on the severity. Minor things like wounds won't pop up when you have a court physician, but more major things like cancer (that prompt you to select the level of treatment) will still pop up.
Awesome 👍🏻 Well Done ☺️❤️👑
the title law tip so handy thank you quill
You can just click the silhouette with the + in it next to "Court Physician" to assign one too.
Only 1 thing I personally did not yet know... and it made watching the whole video totally worth it. C might be the most important button for me from now on in CK3!
Can I ask what it's useful for? I never use it, but if I'm missing something that could improve my chances of becoming emperor of Rome I'd love to know, haha. Currently I filter when arranging marriages but that's about the extent of my character filtering.
@@alphaspartan it really depends on your preferences. I am not using it overly much compared to CK2 but it is still pretty useful when searching outside of marriages and some other windows. I definitely am not yet making the best out of it but navigating down to the little button, moving the cursor up, maybe leaving the little "dropup" and thus closing it... Knowing the shortcut is a real help.
@@alphaspartan Imagine you are a count or a small duke and therefore have very little vassals. This means that your council doesnt need to be full of trash dukes who you are looking to appease if you were a king or an emeperor. This gives you the liberty to choose these positions based on stats and necesity. What you can do is filter for what things/stats you want and marry these (ideally lowborns with no titles or people with usefull pressed or unpressed claims) to one of your courtiers and now you have him and can use him as you see fit.
One clear example is the physician, in the video he says we could train someone to become a good physician. Why tho? Search someone that has the highest or second highest trait of physician (you can search by traits) and good learning and try to get him into your court (by means of gift, opinion sway or marriage), now you have a very capable physician from the get go and dont need to worry to nurture one.
In your case, as you are trying to reform Rome, the biggest use for you that isnt normal marriages is searching for claimants. Yes, there is a button, but that costs a lot of prestige (also random in who is the claimant that comes, could be useless), something that you might want to use for something else. So what you can do is just search for claimants relevant to your expansion and keep adding these people to your court and conquer stuff without the need to be always creating titles or having your bishop, priest, whatever waste all his time fabricating claims instead of giving you piety.
In general you use the tool to search for prospects usefull to you and your long term plans.
@@davide56 thank you so much for the in depth reply. These are things I hadn't thought of but will be very useful. You and the rest of this community are awesome.
@@davide56 This whole comment just opened my eyes on how to better play the field outside my court in such a stronger way. Cheers!
Super useful discovery for me was that tooltips will stay if you hover and wait for 1.5 seconds(configurable also), so you can hover on something inside of it.
Maaaan this was usefull af i have to go ham with the mercenaries tnks for the info
Another War/Prisoners tip: if you manage to imprison an important enemy, it'll boost your Overall War Score. So if you need money and quickly ask for a ransom, your war score will decrease upon the prisoner liberation. Might be wiser to consider keeping that boost to end the war quickly.
For example, you can rush to the enemy capital and capture its king or queen, which sometimes gives you automatically a 100% score, so you can win very fast. Or send a diversion troop and another one to the enemy capital ;)
If you have someone in your prison with a claim on your lands, you also get the option to release them if they renounce their claim, which can be a nice way to get rid of unwanted land claims, especially if you don't mind a little kidnapping.
Has anyone worked out how movement attrition works? Sometimes when moving an army into a region a red skull appears on the map saying that 100 soldiers will die, but I can't figure out why. I assumed it had something to do with supply, but as far as I could tell all the regions had enough to support the army, including the one I was in, the one that gave me a red skull, and another adjacent region that didn't give me a skull.
I'm not 100 percent sure but it only seems to happen to me when my army moves into uncomfortable terrain like a mountain or an enemy stronghold.
Yes. In short there is a new mechanic in ck3: you can't just go across enemy territory when you're at war. You have to conquer some counties on your way to ensure that your armies get a good supply line, as in real life. If you do that, you'll see that you can go further and the red skulls don't appear. It's very clever and nicely done.
Yep, Raoul is right. If you cross enemy counties that you haven't seiged down, to get to one further on, you'll take losses on the way.
@@NefariousKoel If you're invading a coastal area, you can also usually sail to baronies to avoid the attrition cost (beware that you get an advantage penalty when landing, though). You can hold shift while moving to queue multiple movements so you can move into the water and then select the barony you want to siege.
@@justanothergirl__ - Discovered the "Recently Landed" penalty during a Crusade awhile back. Fortunately it was a cakewalk. Thus far my Crusades have been more a matter of racing to gobble up the most Warscore among other Crusading factions.
I used to steam roll in ck2, have 900 hours in the game. Ck3 has been kicking my butt. My longest game so far has lasted 3 years lmao
Have you been playing in the British isles?
@@raulzaha3096 i keep starting as Gwynedd and i can't last longer than a couple generations
It wasn't in your example, but you can negotiate releasing a prisoner in exchange for them forsaking all their claims. REALLY handy if you capture siblings and don't want them to go after your stuff.
Thank you Quill18 for this video.
A big one you didn't cover and shows you don't use yourself when covering the encyclopedia: there is a gameplay option to make the tooltips lock open based on the scroll click of the mouse rather than hovering for however many seconds. It's a huge time saver if you find yourself digging through multiple tooltips
"Rapacious craven."
Hey, that's me
It's awesome that you were in this video! Good job!
@@LilGamingYes Thanks, I'll get whatever trait I can get as long as it's not "dying!"
Thankyou for this. Came here to check if I can move capital 🙂
thank you, quill
What do you do when your first born sun is a complete pylon, and the rest of your kids are darwinian gods?
God, I have been finding that character finding shortcut since day 1. Thanks for the tip.
Also another reason to add multiple men of arms of the same type is to be able to assign a certain type of unit to two armies. I always have two siege men at arms units so each one of my armies are able to siege quickly.
You can get a weak hook from ransom (which would have gone through) and from the negotiated release (which would have not been accepted) - what is the difference there?
When you release a prisoner, you get a hook on him, where as if you ransom, you get a hook on the person "paying" for the release, not your prisoner.
Joschka Hackenbruch I am so stupid - yes of course!
Thanks, most of those were new to me.
The find spouse function will only show people who will accept a marriage proposal. You can use the character finder to find potential spouses who won't show up with the find spouse button but could still be made into an available spouse via bribes or schemes.
g a Byzantine count and I found Muslim woman who good traits I wanted to marry to my heir. I could never get her to marry my orthodox son normally. However, I used the befriend scheme so that I could invite her to my court and force her to marry my son. Alas, while the scheme was on going she got married. So I started up an murder scheme to make her a widow. Murder scheme succeeds, I immediately invite the now widow to my court, demand her conversion just because, and marry her to my heir. So my son now has a beautiful and intelligent wife.
is there a way to raise only the men at arms and knights? many wars dont need the levies
I've not found one. If I want to drop them, I will split however many levies I want to disband into a separate army, then select that army and disband it. I've not seen a penalty warning to bring them back if you don't disband all your armies during a war. Roundabout way but it works. Just be sure you don't have all your separate armies selected when you disband. I sometimes screw up my movements and such when click-dragging my army selection and forget to press the little > to select an individual one before giving commands.
An easy way to do it is to hold CTRL and select a province to move to the first day you raise troops. Using CTRL will stop them from gathering more, and only your MaA's and Knights will gather on the first day.
For character filters, there is a tiny warning ! in the bottom-right of the window, where it says "60 of 2123 characters".
I actually had to go to reddit to find the Move Capital button because it's so easy to overlook I couldn't find it.
NOTE on WARDS: You want to pick a focus when they immediately turn 6 so that they get the best possible learning bonus of that focus. Traits that conflict with the focus can also lower the learning rate of the focus you chose as well.
You the man Quill
Coming from Eu4 it was weird to play without the outliner. Cool to get it back
It's not as extensive as EU4, but then again the games are different. Good outliner nonetheless!
Hi guys do you know if quill will play As Far as the Eye?
Light footmen are not spearmen, they are skirmishers. Look at the type, then look at what they counter. Pikemen are considered spearmen.
i've put in over 20 hours into this game and i still feel like i'm not playing the game/utilizing the UI correctly.
Even when I know I don't know what I'm doing, I can't stop playing.
At around my 50 h game time I felt that I understood the UI and mechanics and I still not explored all possible lifestyles. Deep learning curve but I I freaking love this game.
This is driving me crazy. When Im trying to maintain my holdings, I want specific counties to go to specific kids (mainly trying to get my heir to have a specific title) but it seems like they only have the options to accept specific counties, and its never the ones I want to give them. What gives here?
You can't give your heir titles he wouldn't inherit on your death. This is important, because if you die your heir automatically will inherit your primary title and all de jure titles under it. So if you give your heir all titles that are not de jure in your primary title, you could enforce primogeniture succession without actually having it.
I haven't found a way to shift titles around between non-heir children, but if you give your non-heir children a title that would have gone to your heir, it might move one of your non-heir titles to your heir. I haven't tested this though, if you try it I am curious of the result.
I have noticed that the title inheritance tries to keep the de jure hierarchy intact to the best of its ability. So your heir is inheriting a kingdom title you don't want, and your non-heir is inheriting a kingdom you do want, you can give the non-heir land that is de jure to the heir's kingdom and it should switch the kingdom titles between the two children. I have done this a few times. It works, but if you get more kingdoms later before you die this start to get super difficult to manage.
The difference between leveling up men at arms and adding more is that you can't split them if you level up, so it can still be worth it to add more of the same if you're making, say, siege weapons to carpet siege with.
Early game yes. Mid to late game, you can usually field large enough armies that sieges aren't spectacularly boosted by siege weapons. Once armies can get large enough, having another MAA that can actually fight other armies will probably benefit you more.
@@justanothergirl__ Yeah I'd agree. At the same time though if you have the money to upgrade your siege regiment to or past its cap then this kind of no longer matters, so you have to at least be somewhat early-game to even worry about this in the first place. Also, if you're fighting in the mid-game your armies are likely supported mostly by looting and ransoming prisoners at wartime, so often having multiple siege regiments can just help keep you afloat, amplified by the fact that they let you win quicker and therefore spend less, which can somewhat pay for other men-at-arms regiments (still doesn't apply late-game though).
thank you quilly, ye did gut
Sabotage non primary heir, I think my first two heirs are the only primary heir I end up playing as, the rest seem to die mysteriously or of leprosy.
I think the "Splendor" mechanic makes that less viable now than in CK2. You want more children getting more stuff, so that you get more splendor for your dynasty. As long as you keep the land that you need for money and troops, inheritance is generally something that can be handled in better ways than killing everyone off.
Something I wondered for a while was : How does the Culture Head is chosen. And it`s pretty simple... the Culture head is the Ruler controlling the MOST county of said culture (INCLUDING VASSALS). Really good to know if you want to be able to control the development of your culture. :)
Not only control, but also boost growth, as your intelligence massively affects how fast you gain developments. And you can use your spouse to help as well.
I once got a culture that was 300 years away in just 20 years.
Dude what a hell of a video man thanks those tips are fire iam 15 hours in n Im never been suck a noob
I used negotiate ransom to make a rival king drop all claims on land i owned. Epic :)
How many degrees do you need to play this game
About the Men-at-Arms and sieging:
If you want more horses, just increase their size, but if you want more siege engines to make sieges faster increasing the regimet size does nothing. Level 2 onager still has siege progress +0.3/day. I have not yet tested 2x lvl 1 onagers to get +0.6/day, so this was just a heads up!
I'm pretty certain that this is wrong. I've noticed considerably better siege modifiers after increasing regiment size.
@@Revan579 Ok, I'll need to test it again as soon as I get the onagers tech in the current game
There are certain castles in the 867 start that are already advanced. For them there is an innovation choice in early medieval era that enables trebuchets, which upgrades these men at arms.
It means +.03/day PER UNIT. So no you've got it wrong, increasing your onager regiment to level 2 doubles the bonus they apply to siege time.
Is there a way to modify your coat of arms for a new cadet branch?
If you enable debug mode (or use one of the mods that enable debug mode for you), you can generate a new coat of arms from the console.
@@justanothergirl__ Thanks :)
I know i am supposed to "ignore" the number of issues in the tab but OCD doesnt allow
Right click them to hide. Those "powerful" Vassels with 90 men who want council can suck my nut.
Amazing to think how Europe was almost completly conquered by the caliphate
/s
Character finder... I wish it were that easy. There's one character I'm looking for that I can't find. She's nordic, albino, has 'Frost' as the first part of her family name and a pretty decent intrigue (if I remember correctly). Oh, and her family crest was a white spider on a black shield. She came to my court in one game and I've been trying to find her in others. Sadly, doing a search on 'frost' doesn't bring her up.
@@cato_heresy Thanks. I used other tips to search for albinos and found her, in Smolensk, I believe.
I would love to know if the barber shop impacts your genes and what hair styles/colours your children can inherit.
It doesn't. It's cosmetic only. No messing with your DNA that way.
@@petertrudelljr Larmarck is sad.
My son and heir: the ambitious, shy coward.
yes, education focus is great! thanks
This game is in desperate need of a mini map in the corner so you can quickly navigate to far away places
Yeah that’s what I’ve been doing but it would be nice to have a mini map ala civilization to click on
Quill can make a video called "mistakes I made and things I didn't see right away" and upload the same video.
Alternate title: 13 UI things Paradox should improve.
Also, who knew that you could transfer people from prison to house arrest? I believe you right click on the 'in prison' and you can change it there. I'm not sure if it increases their opinion of you, but one video I watched showed that it reduced the risk of them dying.
Question: How to make an alliance?
Marriage is needed in the first place? Marriage of who? Children, Court members? What are the minimum requirement?
Razzku when selecting someone to marry, if an alliance is available, you will see a house crest with two blue flags on it. If your character marries a person with that crest showing, an alliance happens with their family automatically.
Only you, your siblings, or your children will make an alliance through marriage, though. More distant family and your courtiers aren’t good enough to make an alliance.
It is also possible to make alliances without marriage, however I never looked at what made it possible, I'd assume good opinion of your ruler would be a prerequisite at the very least...
If you right click a character, you can often select alliance under the diplomacy options. Multiple things can affect their willingness to accept such as if your cultures are the same, if your faiths are the same, their opinion of you or someone in your court, etc.
quill, just so you know I love you, when epic gives their games away for free, I still enter your name as a referral!
I was wondering why my enemy always had more men at arms than me
WHAT? This entire time I could pick their education focus?
"C is the key" ... well now I know, thank you. :)
I need some type of notification for when I inherit a new county or area. I happened to scroll out as Russia and noticed I somehow obtained areas in Sweden, Norway and Finland. No idea how
I had a similar situation, but I know how I got mine. I had a CB for a conquest of Sweden, so I used it. I got the kingdom title of Sweden and all of the random land the king of Sweden was conquering in western Europe.
I don't know if there is a way to get a notification, but you should be able to figure out how you got the land by checking the current title holder. If it isn't someone in your dynasty, then you did not inherit it, you conquered it or a title above it. The other possibility is that someone in your realm inherited it or conquered it themselves. Check the father and mother of the current title holder to see if they had the title first, that's probably where it came from.
Kevin Bealer I think I possibly married into those titles and inherited them or they somehow fell into my care via claim press, I honestly don’t know.
Kevin Bealer I’ll do that thanks
This game is crazy fun,
I was playing the king of Ireland who later became able to be emperor after becoming king of Alba, Wales, and finally England. My realm changed from Kingdom of Ireland with green to Empire of Alba in red. Why? I’m Irish! The only thing I can think is the fact of the two duchies I held, the Scottish one was 3 counties while the Irish one was 2, plus a few English stragglers that were not part of a duchy because THERE ARE STILL FOREIGNERS ON OUR ISLANDS!!!
If you check your De Jure Empires on the map, it's likely you've managed to successfully met the territory requirements to form that by-right empire.
The default color of the Empire of Britannia (or Alba, in your culture's case) is red.
I believe there's an option when you start a new game in the rules to make custom kingdoms/empires possible. Always the first option i set ;-)
You can change the name of your title in the title screen, I also formed Britannia as an Irish minor and was given the Empire of Alba even though I was Irish, just change the name
@@yanis2248 yes you can but you can't change the color. I think that bothers him the most.