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After crushing a peasant revolt, look at the leader you have in your prison. They are often really good knights with high prowess, so negotiate a release and recruit him.
@@mattkacar Actually yeah, because if you make them a knight, they may end up causing an aristocratic rebellion, aka, your nobles rising up against you which is no fun.
@@ivartheboneless5969 Though takes tons of time, befriending, swaying, and bribes. Better just execute them. And besides executions just feels nice to me, for some reason.
You can raise your armies BEFORE you try to emprison a vassal who is in a faction. If he refuses to be emprison, you can then immediately move to his domain to either destroy his army or besiege his property. You can even choose to emprison the vassal with the weakest chance to suceed emprison to be sure to trigger the revolution and have already your army inside his domain to immediately crush his face.
My issue is wanting a tiny piece of land from a large empire and I'm kinda forced to have a all out war. Wish I can convince the count like hey leave your empire I'm better.
hmmmm i feel like you should be able to do that - steal a vassal. i think you can through diplomacy with their liege. i'll have to look into it. it just feels like something they'd have thought of
I may be a bit late to the party, but has anyone mentioned vassalizing every single county your heir won't inherit? I find it to work pretty well while I race for that primogeneiture. You give the counties to your best knights/courtier who are already on your council, so remain there as powerful vassals. Then your other children get nothing because there is nothing to split. Your heir, basically, inherits a confederacy.
It may work within certain limits, as long as there is nothing to split, as you said. E.g. if your realm's size covers roughly just one major de-jure title, a duchy (if you are a duke) or a kingdom (if you're a king), and the number of peripheral counties beyond that title is insufficient to create another title of the same tier.
That's the worst idea I've ever seen. You end up with one county and strong vassals (that won't necessarily like your heir) when you could just let the succession happen naturally and have more lands and your brothers as vassals.
As someone who played a little bit of Crusader Kings 2 but never quite got the hang of it and is now trying to figure out CK3 these are the types of tips I really appreciate.
For succession I always go with the elective systems (if possible) and make sure everyone is lined up with the same heir. The best heirs i grant land to even though i cant ally with some. I try to grant everything to house members & give more to the better ones (but usually no more than a duchy). That way they usually wont die in a vassal war. Either way i always make them stop vassal wars if its family fighting. For example, before im able to form Brittania but hold Wales, England, and Ireland.. I make sure the heirs i like at least have unpressed titles in each kingdom (and their own land). When they're elected to all 3 kingdoms with land they have more than the domain limit and i can grant titles again based on my needs. Usually ill grant my old duchy to a son with decent diplomacy and stewardship stats and keep the holdings with the most building slots and best supply/levies. To increase votes in your favor you simply grant counties to house members (with positive opinion)... Ive been able to mix and match claims across 3 generations in my starting duchy so that itll always go back to a member of my house and ill always keep the best county in it since its the capitol. You can keep repeating this process as domain penalties aren't immediate. You'll encounter some rebellions if you don't sway, gift, or feast/hunt almost immediately after succession. If you do it right, its the best method to keep your kingdom in order until you form an empire in my opinion & you can always get dynasty members with good stats instead of some sadistic shy lazy son. Try to get to authority 3 quickly to prevent vassal wars. Also say if you only win 2/3 elections.. you could just go to war on your claims and if you mix the titles right amongst family members, you'll usually get it back at some point if you dont go to war. And faction wars are sometimes really good because you can lock up multiple vassals you don't like and ransom or revoke claims/banish them without a tyrant penalty and stress (if you're just).. Disinheriting should only be used if you cant manage to line your elections up and your vassals are trying to vote for someone you don't like.
I was an ok ck2 player. Not brilliant, but I could play the game. I just suck at ck3. I guess mostly because I dont know my way around. I suppose I need to watch all the tutorials I can, so thanks.
You can, if you know your death is near, instead of disinheriting your sons, you can just force them to become monks, stripping them from all succession-rights. Only bad thing is the 20 tyranny which you might have to take to imprison one of them, but that can easily be worked around by fabricating a hook on them first or just die soon so factions don't have time to form/ make demands.
I miss the CK2 feature where you could sort the character finder by invite to court and skills. I would always just immediately recruit a bunch of high skill people at the beginning of the campaign
Slow play succession: Befriend is OP. If you can hold off on giving away your land just befriend away your rebellious vassels. I assume seduce would also work but all those lovers could get messy.
In thr lower right corner, click "duchy titles" and it'll show you the map broken up into the individual duchy titles.. Clicking that title will then show you the counties attached to it. This also works for kingdom and empires :)
@@italianspartacus Thanks for responding. So, if I understand correctly, the de jure titles associated with a duchy are simply the titles of those counties that make up that duchy. If this is the case, why would moving the capital have such a huge effect, over far more counties than just what make up a duchy?
so far this game has been just a bunch of timeskip and load/save. constantly i have no resources, no army, no claims, and nothing to do. and when something happens, i have to re do it a bunch of times due to randomness and skipping too fast. like how am i supposed to play this game lol just afk time skip till i get enough resources? go through 100 years per hours? what is the objective of this game? how do i have fun lol
Didn't know the decisions one, after 200 hours. Nice job! By the way. Don't bother moving your capital for succession. Just disinherit your leftover sons.. (oh, it was included in another tip lol)
For anybody who's confused about that last option: remember that when attacking a vassal of a liege, you go to war with the liege. So as Britanny, any expansions into France require you to fight the army of the French crown, and not (just) your target's army. When their (top) liege is also your (top) liege though, that liege won't be able to get involved on your target's behalf. This gives you the oportunity to gobble up your neighboring vassals, as well as any independent duchies outside of your top liege's empire, assuming you can handle them and your liege's crown authority allows it.
@@DuffmaneB Your vassals can fight offensive wars against neighbors and eachother on their own accord yeah. They can also join their allies in wars. Anybody who wants to start of offensive war for your vassals' territory will have to go through you though.
@@AeciusthePhilosopher not always, depends on top liege crown authority, for high or absolute authority, you need hooks on liege or fedual contract with War Declaration: Sanctioned
Depending also on your liege crown authority. If too high (over 3 or 4 i guess), vassalas are not alowed to declare warsbon each other until there is very valid reason
I personally don't think the spouse switch at a decision should be patched out. If I were a ruler, I would probably talk to my spouse about important decisions that need to be made. She might be focused on helping me with something else overall, but would most likely take time to stop and help me with that specific decision in the moment. I think it reflects real life how it is.
Dude that's such a good role playing portrayal of that. Great point. I just wasn't sure because switching the focus, for everything else takes about a day to take effect.. Case in point, switching her to stewardship takes a bit before domains increase
To play the devil's advocate: It's a challenge that pops up, not like something that could take days to react on. Maybe just a few seconds or so.. then it's a bit weird to talk to people first. Ah well you're an emperor anyways so you can do what you want I suppose
For educating, it's much more important for the guardian to have genius/intelligent/quick than anything else, followed by the skill you want to nurture, and finally learning. Obviously you need to trust the guardian not to murder your child, so don't give guardianship to a rival or disloyal vassal. It's immensely more powerful for a guardian to have genius in comparison to high skills. For example a crappy 5/5/5/5/5 genius guardian will be better than a 30/30/30/30/30 no trait guardian. The wiki has the formulas but in layman terms just follow the first two sentences and you will maximize your heir's stats.
@@Korutz It looks like the guardian's education tier and even the field of his educational background doesn't matter at all. A spy or a diplomat or a scholar or a steward with high martial will provide better martial education than a warrior with lower martial.
This may be late, but here's a couple of strategies I ran into. When you're stuck conquering a neighboring kingdom county by county, you can keep an eye on your enemy monarch's core counties, the ones that they themselves rule over. This is their main source of money the same way you have yours. Rather than picking off counties off the edge, you can drive your way forward into their heartlands and start taking the core counties, even their capital. Each victory weakens your enemy nation more than it otherwise would since you chip into the monarch's ability to fight back. A second tip when you're conquering an enemy piece by piece is to keep an eye on their succession. Especially early on when dealing with confederate partition. If you're lucky, you can find a spot where a single assassination will utterly ruin the nation's stability. I pulled this at one point by assassinating the only son of a catholic king with a bounty of daughters. The oldest daughter got hte title and for the next 90 or so years the nation was beset with civil war after civil war changing the monarch by faction demands every few years and weakening them every time. It really helped keep the whole kingdom on the back foot.
It makes sense to combine the "marry courtiers" and "spousal focus" tips: switch your wife's assistance to "court politics" (+diplomacy) before searching for marriage candidates for a courtier and you'll get better candidates. Some other considerations: - High-born courtiers (with coats of arms) produce better marriage opportunities. - When marrying a courtier dame matrilineally, pay attention to that the partner is not a mayor. She will leave your court and move to his city. (Not sure, maybe the same happens with priests and even priestesses when you marry a male courtier.) - Breeding courtiers makes little sense. Finding robust wives for your knights is unlikely to produce for you better knights in the next generation. It's better to secure top HR right here right now, which means always inviting them from outside. You can marry even aged dames and turn the "fertile" filter to "all" to find for them not so young husbands with very high prowess (the list is sortable by prowess, BTW) or good combinations of commander traits. - Higher learning is important for a doctor even more than the stars in the "Physician" characteristic. - Consider landing your counsellors and knights. When landed, spouses assist them, so if you are inviting through marriage e.g. a guy with high stewardship to appoint as your steward, it's better to marry him to a dame with the highest stewardship in your court so he becomes even better steward after landing.
Dude.. i learn stuff so much hahahah there are parts of my guides i wish i could re-do because i forgot to talk about things or because i learned ANOTHER little tid bit that would help. it's all so layered!
@@italianspartacus not refuting that at all. Especially with how frequently Paradox patches their games (in conjunction with community input, they're honestly incredible) but yeah I've had to dig harder and harder for new ah-ha! moments. This game is a constant battle between satisfying role-play/min-max/strategy player bases and it's entertaining to watch. But yeah I've caught most of your vids since release and loved learning alongside ya. Keep up the good work man, your voice could become a RUclips bastion for anything that benefits from thoughtfully paced explanations-
@@italianspartacus Have you done a video on just the Court itself? I mean most players intrigued enough to seek this content out to begin with know how to rope great council members/knights in but I'd be interested to see a video discussing court size, keeping them there, and some of the more unorthodox ways to recruit. Befriending/Seduction/hooks and to a lesser extent opinion all have fascinating ways to bulk up a rulers court. Seduction events specifically can turn a 1 prospective lover invite into 3-6 high prestige house recruits easily with the right family. It's a can of worms that can be imperative for minority religions/cultures diplomatic ranged out of their element. I dunno, I'd enjoy one. Anyway, keep it up compadré.
I played more than 1000 hours of Hearts of Iron 4 and I can say that I play relatively good but still I remember learning stuff even when I had 700 hours. Paradox games are hard to learn but harder to master.
It does not work for me at all. ive tried this 100 times it feels. My "duke/king/count" only gets the capital and nothing else in that dutchy it does not matter if it has 3 counties or 8 and if he own 3 countys or 15 when he dies. Eiter my game files are bugged or god hates me, i cant not figure out whats wrong.
No no no.. That's on me dude I'm sorry.. So the reason he gets those lands is because those lands are in MY domain. You won't get them if they belong to a vassal. Does that help?
@@italianspartacus I know, thats the thing i do every thing correct as you say, i understand the mechanic , but it just dont work. thats what confuses me the most :S
@@MrNomad505 He gets the main titles King/dutchy and the capital then the rest is totaly all over the place. Feel like the game gives the countys (castles) to my sons like 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4... like you give cards when you play poker.
Hey there, nice vid. And even after I spent many hours in ck3, it still gave me some things to consider. Thx for that! I also want to share some of my expiriences made in the game regarding your tips (may end up in a wall of text): - If in need for some better council members, look up your prison! For example, after a peasant rabble you imprison their leader, whom mostly have a high martial skill and also some decent leader traits, so you may force recruit him as marshal and army leader. Up until now I never had problems with forcefully recruited chars. - Regarding all the vassal factions targetting you, in a clan society like all muslim societies in the game, you have the ability to have up to 4 spouses. It comes in handy not only to llok for traits of your spouses, but also consider taking the daughters of your vassals to ally them and prevent them from joining a liberty faction or claimant faction. Though I highly recomend at the start not to have more then 2 spouses, otherwise you may end up with far to many heirs to handle the succession. - Even if feudal society doesn't have a penalty if powerfull vassals don't have an alliance with you like in a clan government, if your religion allows for concubines and you have like 8 up to 15 children... just "sell" them out for inner alliances. - Regarding premature versus ultima: Even if you end up getting very old (70+) and your heir might be 45+ old with terrible stats - if he has got 4 children up to this point, you still might to play soem years with him, as he instantly has 4 "buying alliances" options. Also ultimagesomething bears the risk that your char gets murdered and you end up as a 8 year old char with no options to form alliances and your vassals may take this oportunity. - be careful with seducing chars to get to your court, they might get jelous (or your normal spouse) and if having a good to excellent intrigue skill they are a dangerous threat to you rather then an asset. Also, if a vassal get to know of your seducing, he might want to blackmail you... Never, like NEVER let a direct vassal (vassals of your vassals can't seem to really use this for whatever reason) have a hook on you! They will mostly use it to get a council position - and you might end up with a councillor of skill 2, whom can't be fired for 25 years... so you have to imprison and banish him and, well, upset everyone else. Some things I expirienced, which I just wanted to share here. Greetings, Ö
On 9:40 Slow Play Your Succession, if you imprison a vassal without a valid reason, that will give a Tyranny penalty of -20 to EVERY vassal's opinion of you. Which may result in more of these vassals joining the Independence faction, resulting in you needing to imprison more vassals, resulting in more vassal opinion loss. This feedback loop may destroy you.
Hi, great video! Learned a few bits here now and a lot since started playing following you. I wanted to add some of my own findings for community - ignore levies and build MAA. Then target enemy armies in your territory by moving rally point to the next tile they will visit. Playing as England defeated holy war with 1500 MMA VS 20k total army as any time they try to disembark you "ambush" them and they move in relatively small numbers. MMA and mercenaries spawn instantly without delay after disbanding so can be repeated many times and enemy at sea does not count as enemy nearby.
One tip I would add on primogeniture/ultimogeniture is that at absolute crown authority (4th level) you can designate you heir from among any eligible children. I'm already 200+ hrs in and I just learned about this the other day, and it's super useful.
Started to slow play when my king reached a respectable age of 72. No conquest until he´s dead and the prince could take over, I planed. The king died 99 years old and the prince had passed away 20 years before...
Good tips. Love your videos. I found that marrying your daughters on matrilineal marriages and landing the spouses afterwards is the best way to keep control. Also, disinheriting extra sons (if you can take the renown hit) and landing them once they have no extra claims and you have alliances with all your vassals.
On succession/confederate partition- another thing to do, especially when you’re at that Kingdom/Empire level, is to conquer a nearby duchy, and then grant a county and duchy title to one of your secondary/tertiary heirs. This method will prevent them from taking your core counties that you want your primary heir to inherit in their entirety. However, if you start making new Kingdom level titles, the game will try to give them out and suddenly, giving duchies won’t be enough.
If you do the tip mentioned at 12:00 make sure you check the "on decline" tab to see how many vassals will join him in rebellion. I had a big empire and was planning to get rid of an annoying vassal or two this way and fortunately I checked first because there were about 20 vassals that were going to join him. And I'm not sure if the dread mechanic is taken into account or not because I only had a handful of vassals in the empire who weren't intimidated. It's possible that a good majority of those would not have joined the rebellion even though it said they would.
Jumped on the Xbox release today and boy do I have alot to learn but I'm still enjoying it. Its clear the learning curve to be really successful is high I can't wait to use these tips and see how I get on over the next few days.
this was a really awesome video. I've played about 7 hours and all of these are awesome ideas and strategies I need to implement ASAP into how I approach the game. Thanks mate!
thanks for the succession info. This partition thing does my head. I wanted to unite Ireland...yet when i die my sons create factions and want to kill each other for the right of the crown...i dont seem to come very far with this game, yet its still so much fun
Fantastic video! Regarding tip #8, combine that strategy with meritocracy - first perk on the stewardship administrator lifestyle tree - and you can fabricate claims on the liege you just swore fealty to. If you are a ridiculously strong vassal, this is a great way of securing a higher realm title without needing other vassals to help you. But just in case you need other vassals to help, fabricating hooks just happens to be the first perk on the intrigue schemer lifestyle tree... Enjoy!
can u make a video on strategy’s to use when playing the different skills like diplomacy, intrigue , stewardship ... ect like what are some good ways to go about it
Incidentally I tried playing a game starting as Urgell (county within Barcelona) and found it so hard, mostly because the Iberian nations would stomp all over me on their way to Aquitaine. I may even try to play this start again, but follow your tips. This is actually the most helpful video I've watched out of about twenty on CK3: * I didn't even know pressing C was a thing * I didn't know I could scan for 'Inside' my diplomatic range
Sadistic and Generous are both awesome traits to have. With generous you can relieve stress by giving gifts, with sadistic you can relieve stress by executing people!
Is it bug or a feature: When my old king dies, all prisoners are auto-released. This makes totally no sense, but I wonder if its working as intended... Any opinion?
my guess is its a feature. I think the devs have sacrificed some realism for gameplay and difficulty. Otherwise you could as an old ruler just imprison all your sons except the heir, and as the heir takes over you could revoke their titles. The same is for hooks and secrets. Im sure in reality the king would pass on knowledge and secrets of their vassals to the heir, but in the game it would be to powerful?
You can move your capital multiple times, provided you have at least 2 titles of the highest tier, e.g. 2 duchies. Change your primary title and you can change your capital. Switch your primary title again to be able to immediately change your capital again. This allows for unlimited capital changes.
@Split Dimension Yes. The option to move your capital becomes available only after you switch your primary title (using the "make primary" option in the holding window). After that, the button to move capital will (re)appear on barony titles you own. Unfortunately, if you only own 1 highest tier title, you can move a capital only once per lifetime. However, multiple titles come with their own challenges during succession. In my experience, capitals are not necessarily best where the game puts it by default. In most cases, a river delta works best for higher development. Or, for instance, if you have a special building/holy site that gives relevant benefits. It is often beneficial to move a capital to a holding where you have your own religion & culture + high control = max gold income and army size.
@@Fat_Paws does it mean that I have to switch my primary title before moving the realm capital for the 2nd time? The 1st capital movement can be done without switching the primary title, right?
@@BiglerSakura Haven't had to do this in a while, do idk if they have changed it. But it used to be that you did not need to move your capital before switching titles. BTW, If you can move your capital to the desired barony already, there is also not much point in switching titles around. These days, I generally just stick to a single capital. If I plan to switch to a different capital, I generally don't bother switching to a different one in the interim. Unless some decision is locked behind it, e.g. creating the Kingdom of Toledo in the new DLC.
You can buy the game directly from their website without having to install any third party AOL bloatware like Steam. Also, you don't need to search matrilineal when seeking good husbands. Some of them will be homeless. So you can still marry them to your court normally even if they don't want matrilineal marriage.
I know that Ioannes Komnenos chose his son Manuel because his other son was a raging asshole. Why isnt there a system where you choose which one of your kids you want to inherit everything? Too OP, i know.
Here's a tip. I call it "the hand of my daughter and half of my kingdom to the man who [...]". Ever find yourself over you domain limit, short on loyal & competent people from your own dynasty that you would like to delegate things to? Use your daughters! No, silly, not them personally. Rather, use matrilineal marriages to lock people into your court. First, open up the list of unmarried men within diplomatic range, then search for one that looks useful. Unpressed claims on a neighboring county. Seven foot tall hunkalicious genius supersoldier with a ton of congenital traits. Good accountant. Anything goes. (Important: verify that they don't have children from a previous marriage). Then you get them to join your court (unless their liege would be ready to accept the matrilineal marriage; unlikely). That might require a hook, or a bribe, good reputation. Just get it done. Once they join your court, you hastily get them married to your eldest daughter and put them to work. They will produce congenitally-superior cadet branches of your dynasty. They will be big fan of yours loyalty-wise because of the bribes etc. If you're over your domain limit they will be perfect to delegate a county while keeping it "in the familly". They will make great members of your council, and a great excuse to replace your old incompetent marshal, if the old martial was an "important vassal" with a county. Other tip. I call it "Viscount". If you don't have good inheritance laws or a dutchy to keep your handful of counties attached, you can just give your heir the independent rule of one or several of your counties (do make sure to marry/betrothe them before making them independent!) Give him your second most important county so that he is insured to get that and your capital upon succession. He will also get some experience ruling, translating as traits, stats, prestige, that you will have a head start with. I think it also helps with the "short rule" trait, but I'm not certain. It is appropriate to wait until your fifties to giveaway the viscounty, unless you are over your domain limit, in which case definitely consider your heir. Role play wise, it's a real thing counts did. They would just make their heir viscount. Extra tip. "Keep it in your pants, son" If you wait until your sons are in their thirties to marry them, they're going to have fewer sons, which will help with partition in 50 years, and your grandchildren will be in their 30ies when your children die, allowing them to have a longer reign. If your dynasty is well established and they die without a son, it's not too bad. Remember how you married all the eldest daughter matrilineally? Backup grandchildren right there. Extra-extra-tip: "Doing the Faramir" Why dirty your hands with assassination/disinheritance to get rid of your bad sons when you can just send them to war (and why commit a break with historical roleplay with ultimogeniture succession). If you have too many sons and just have bad inheritance laws, or if you have good inheritance laws but your heir is bad, just allow them to take some risks. Best case scenario, they'll impress you, gain prestige and good traits. Worst case scenario, they don't die, get crippled, and remain heirs. If you never allow them to marry, eventually you'll play as your second son (or disinherit them). Note: none of these tips have been attempted in CK3 yet. They're things I discovered in CK2. Mileage may vary.
Partition and High partition can be "gamed" by giving all your counties (except capital) to your primary heir while having multiple duchies, then giving the duchies to old childless vassals and/or destroying your own duchy. For example if i have 3 sons and a kingdom and 3 duchies, each son gets a duchy but individual counties can be given freely to the primary heir. Now If i give all my personally held counties to my primary heir, then give the duchies to an old childless dude, he's gonna return all those to my heir after he dies. As I will just have the realm capital, other sons will get nothing!
this really needed the nbc "more you know" star and rainbow "remember, marry your daughter to the neighbors prince... then leverage her to participate in a murder scheme against him.. hope this trick helps" the more you know
Hello, I have a question for you or for other players. How can I give other vassals a duchy? During the game, I get the message "Too many duchies", which is why I lose a lot of feedback with vassals. My domain limit is 9, of which I have about 19 principalities. I play Ireland, I have conquered Wales, Scotland, England. I would like to convey to the vassals, for example, the Supreme Commander of Iceland - but when I click "give", I get the message "No suitable characters found". What should I do in such a situation? Please help. :)
One thing I would recommend is don’t convert to another religion too early. Especially one that isn’t dominant in your realm/region. I went Insular Christian as it was increasing in Francia, dominated Ireland and Wales, as the emperor, many people joined me after I converted. I did it for those three sweet extra wives you get. For a emperor or two I did quite well. Taking most of Italy and most of Germany. However, I now had many more Catholics in my realm. Not only that but I had a lot more family members all over the place. I focused on intrigue for two emperors, not only did the previous four have eight to ten children but these two had 14 and 16 kids, respectively. Those three wives come in handy, I can get a pure blood marriage (hoping for more pure bloods eventually, I focus on blood and family in the dynasty legacy), maybe something political and some good traits. I have lots of pretty, robust and some giant (others in smaller degrees etc etc) gens in a few kids. For a while it was a lot of cousin, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, marriages which didn’t lessen the claims, it only makes them stick. ( Yeah and one seducer emperor also had a baby girl with one of this twin (hey they had the pretty trait) daughters (one kid out of the 16, which also lowered my vassals opinion, due to incest, adultery and fornicating debuffs.) Suddenly I had more claimants, I was constantly fighting and sieging. I went from 15K troops to over 6K by the time this boy king inherited. I still have the realm together but it’s constant independence factions and Catholic peasant rebellions. It’s exhausting. I’m in constant debt. I still have most of the Karling dynasty in my realm, that’s about a hundred members plus +. I far cry from when I had 15K troops and nearly a thousand gold in the bank. I should be able to recover in time (hoping I can convert back to Catholic once I gain the needed piety) But now the Byzantine empire is big and has almost 20K troops. Just stay the biggest religion you can.
I tend to give my heir's heir their own land that way they grow their own wealth, prestige, and Court. So when my character is in their 60s or so the next heir might not be so strong but I try to keep it all together for their heir.. make sure your vassal (heir's heir) is not one of your knights... Made that mistake last night on iron mode..
Additionally, since I set them up as a strong vassal.. I put my heir's heir in my court typically as a chancellor or Steward role. Chancellor helps them build relationships with everyone else so when it's their turn everyone is happy.
The -id suffix for dynastic nations is really weird. It doesnt fit with any language, it makes the pronunciation harder, and it sounds really stupid. No one says Tudorid England or Habsburgid Austria. It's a remnant of the "exotic east" historiography that's mildly offensive.
Always have max personal schemes running: Do romance schemes for free prestige, occasional intrigue perks, and even renown if one of your cultural traditions is chivalry - just find someone with 100% success chance or close to it...
WOW! Brilliant Tips! I strugled finding and keeping a good Marshal. also the idea of marrying knights to get better ones. why didn't I come up with it myself? thank you thank you thank you
Regarding the first tip: Wouldn't setting the relation filter to '(Top) Realm' also show characters of my vassals' courts? Why not set the relation to 'Court' instead? What am I missing?
Me: 90 hours in my first game 2 minutes into watching: "Yo I can press C!" Literally been clicking through entire family trees trying to find someone to marry for alliances
My tip is pretty simple. Human sacrifice is the best tenet for a reformed religion. Why? Saving up prisoners for free dread and piety is the best way to squash factions for you and your successors. Just don't let your heir be compassionate or just...
I'm not gonna lie, we desperately need more clothing/hair, and building options. When compared to ck2 this game is lacking severely in this department.
I always try to bum rush the house seniority and high crown authority innovations so I can designate my heir before death prestige doesn't carryover so using it to pick an heir is a good idea in the longterm
Is very hard to play as Vallah because at some point there will be the mongol invasion if you start in the 800, right when you are thinking in becoming king.
Yep got my son a great wife mine tried to off me jailed her she croaked my sone was slain I got his wife who turned out more kids than the one who tried to rub me out.
For tip #1, marrying off courtiers to get councilors and knights for your court, check the person to make sure they don't hold any titles). If they do, they won't come to your court. Same problem happens if you get a spouse from outside your realm, if they're a ruler elsewhere they won't come. The easiest way is to filter by "Not Ruler" I believe, but I still check their profile to make sure they don't hold a title.
Yes, even if you are trying to marry a courtier dame matrilineally, if a candidate who is a mayor is suggested, she will leave your court and go to his city. (Probably the same happens with priests, and even a priestess may take your male courtier to her place). Though I've seen an independent count in Sardinia whose wife was a mayor in England. They lived separately in their respective domains but had a couple of children! And she even came all the way from England to Sardinia on a boat with an army to help him when he was attacked.
"Don't get into war after succession" Well that failed when i died as Whales and England truce broke me because i lost my alliances (i had west & east francia + Aquitaine). I'm used to EU4 logic where the AI never truce breaks because it costs major stability and AE. CK3 says "major Penalties" amd i look it up and its basically just -50opinion with everyone and 300 prestige which is laughable considering the prestige cost is the same as a tribal building and opinion isn't that big a deal (vassals can sit at -100 and be fine and opinion doesn't make a coalition form) A reasonable truce breaking penalty would be: Lose 1 level of fame -100 opinion penalty with everyone via "truce breaker" fame trait -1 monthly control in all provences for 10 years Truce breaking should hurt, not just be a mild inconvenience. (And the AI should never do it because their ability to calculate values isn't good enough to see anything as worth it)
While it's not good to have people in your realm that hate and is sorta good enough of a penalty I like the idea of making truce breaker an actual trait that specifically makes people not want to get into alliances or peace treaties with you versus just a negative opinion bonus
These tips are bang on, sorting the court out for getting good skills in has always been difficult for me, first tip was a breath of sweet air on the breast of a fair maiden.
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After crushing a peasant revolt, look at the leader you have in your prison. They are often really good knights with high prowess, so negotiate a release and recruit him.
I always try to make friends with them, those peasant revolutionaries are op martials
I always execute them, I never looked at their stats
@@mattkacar Actually yeah, because if you make them a knight, they may end up causing an aristocratic rebellion, aka, your nobles rising up against you which is no fun.
@@billcipherproductions1789 unless you work on getting good relations with them.
@@ivartheboneless5969 Though takes tons of time, befriending, swaying, and bribes. Better just execute them. And besides executions just feels nice to me, for some reason.
You can raise your armies BEFORE you try to emprison a vassal who is in a faction. If he refuses to be emprison, you can then immediately move to his domain to either destroy his army or besiege his property. You can even choose to emprison the vassal with the weakest chance to suceed emprison to be sure to trigger the revolution and have already your army inside his domain to immediately crush his face.
imprison
@@1000Phoenix was gonna..
i support your way of saying emprison dont listen to them!
French speaker, doing my best
Man i forgot about this one! I've done it before and realised it was OP
Honestly these are the really small tricks to the trade that can put you over the top. This is just what I needed. Well done sir!
Just started playing the game, and of course watched hours of guides first, your videos are excellent. Great insights, great presentation. Thank you 👍
Thank you very much for watching! :) so happy to be of help!
My issue is wanting a tiny piece of land from a large empire and I'm kinda forced to have a all out war. Wish I can convince the count like hey leave your empire I'm better.
hmmmm i feel like you should be able to do that - steal a vassal. i think you can through diplomacy with their liege. i'll have to look into it. it just feels like something they'd have thought of
To be fair land is power. If I was an emperor of a large empire why would I give land to a minor power who can't do anything if I refuse
If the tiny piece of land is part of your de jure, you could get it even without war
Does not really Sound realistic
I may be a bit late to the party, but has anyone mentioned vassalizing every single county your heir won't inherit?
I find it to work pretty well while I race for that primogeneiture.
You give the counties to your best knights/courtier who are already on your council, so remain there as powerful vassals. Then your other children get nothing because there is nothing to split.
Your heir, basically, inherits a confederacy.
It may work within certain limits, as long as there is nothing to split, as you said. E.g. if your realm's size covers roughly just one major de-jure title, a duchy (if you are a duke) or a kingdom (if you're a king), and the number of peripheral counties beyond that title is insufficient to create another title of the same tier.
That's the worst idea I've ever seen. You end up with one county and strong vassals (that won't necessarily like your heir) when you could just let the succession happen naturally and have more lands and your brothers as vassals.
@@SWBGTOC Noobs here. The father died and land divided between 2 sons. I want the little brother become vassal, but how?
As someone who played a little bit of Crusader Kings 2 but never quite got the hang of it and is now trying to figure out CK3 these are the types of tips I really appreciate.
Awesome stuff, man! Thanks a mill! Great video! 😊
Thanks man! Really helpful... keep posting and I love your vids.
Glad you like them! Thanks so much for watching! :)
Please do a playthrough with many episodes, with a nice objective! Or do a playthrough on every achievement 😍
I just completed reconquista!! :)
For succession I always go with the elective systems (if possible) and make sure everyone is lined up with the same heir. The best heirs i grant land to even though i cant ally with some. I try to grant everything to house members & give more to the better ones (but usually no more than a duchy). That way they usually wont die in a vassal war. Either way i always make them stop vassal wars if its family fighting. For example, before im able to form Brittania but hold Wales, England, and Ireland.. I make sure the heirs i like at least have unpressed titles in each kingdom (and their own land). When they're elected to all 3 kingdoms with land they have more than the domain limit and i can grant titles again based on my needs. Usually ill grant my old duchy to a son with decent diplomacy and stewardship stats and keep the holdings with the most building slots and best supply/levies. To increase votes in your favor you simply grant counties to house members (with positive opinion)... Ive been able to mix and match claims across 3 generations in my starting duchy so that itll always go back to a member of my house and ill always keep the best county in it since its the capitol. You can keep repeating this process as domain penalties aren't immediate. You'll encounter some rebellions if you don't sway, gift, or feast/hunt almost immediately after succession. If you do it right, its the best method to keep your kingdom in order until you form an empire in my opinion & you can always get dynasty members with good stats instead of some sadistic shy lazy son. Try to get to authority 3 quickly to prevent vassal wars. Also say if you only win 2/3 elections.. you could just go to war on your claims and if you mix the titles right amongst family members, you'll usually get it back at some point if you dont go to war. And faction wars are sometimes really good because you can lock up multiple vassals you don't like and ransom or revoke claims/banish them without a tyrant penalty and stress (if you're just).. Disinheriting should only be used if you cant manage to line your elections up and your vassals are trying to vote for someone you don't like.
I was an ok ck2 player. Not brilliant, but I could play the game. I just suck at ck3. I guess mostly because I dont know my way around. I suppose I need to watch all the tutorials I can, so thanks.
Oh no!! I promise this one is way more approachable. Did you watch my. "starting your first campaign" guide??
@@italianspartacus keep them coming. All help is welcome
You can, if you know your death is near, instead of disinheriting your sons, you can just force them to become monks, stripping them from all succession-rights. Only bad thing is the 20 tyranny which you might have to take to imprison one of them, but that can easily be worked around by fabricating a hook on them first or just die soon so factions don't have time to form/ make demands.
I miss the CK2 feature where you could sort the character finder by invite to court and skills. I would always just immediately recruit a bunch of high skill people at the beginning of the campaign
best tip imo to succession problems: when your character is about to die imprison every other successor except for your primary heir and execute them
Thanks a lot, these are great tips...
Glad it was helpful my dude! :)
Slow play succession: Befriend is OP. If you can hold off on giving away your land just befriend away your rebellious vassels. I assume seduce would also work but all those lovers could get messy.
I always use my courtiers for a little bit of eugenics so I can breed a wife with good congenial traits for my heir
Regarding Tip #4: How do I know what de jure titles are associated with any particular duchy?
In thr lower right corner, click "duchy titles" and it'll show you the map broken up into the individual duchy titles.. Clicking that title will then show you the counties attached to it. This also works for kingdom and empires :)
@@italianspartacus Thanks for responding. So, if I understand correctly, the de jure titles associated with a duchy are simply the titles of those counties that make up that duchy. If this is the case, why would moving the capital have such a huge effect, over far more counties than just what make up a duchy?
i try to made india to iceland with a norse Ásatrú, advise ?
I was thinking about buying this game but it looks so confusing for a complete newbie.
so far this game has been just a bunch of timeskip and load/save. constantly i have no resources, no army, no claims, and nothing to do. and when something happens, i have to re do it a bunch of times due to randomness and skipping too fast. like how am i supposed to play this game lol just afk time skip till i get enough resources? go through 100 years per hours? what is the objective of this game? how do i have fun lol
Form a dynasty, a religon, an empire.
Didn't know the decisions one, after 200 hours. Nice job!
By the way. Don't bother moving your capital for succession. Just disinherit your leftover sons.. (oh, it was included in another tip lol)
For anybody who's confused about that last option: remember that when attacking a vassal of a liege, you go to war with the liege. So as Britanny, any expansions into France require you to fight the army of the French crown, and not (just) your target's army.
When their (top) liege is also your (top) liege though, that liege won't be able to get involved on your target's behalf. This gives you the oportunity to gobble up your neighboring vassals, as well as any independent duchies outside of your top liege's empire, assuming you can handle them and your liege's crown authority allows it.
Your vassals can fight without you getting involved correct?
@@DuffmaneB Your vassals can fight offensive wars against neighbors and eachother on their own accord yeah. They can also join their allies in wars.
Anybody who wants to start of offensive war for your vassals' territory will have to go through you though.
@@AeciusthePhilosopher not always, depends on top liege crown authority, for high or absolute authority, you need hooks on liege or fedual contract with War Declaration: Sanctioned
@@ssanonswu2010 You are absolutely correct, at least for Clan and Feudal lieges.
Depending also on your liege crown authority. If too high (over 3 or 4 i guess), vassalas are not alowed to declare warsbon each other until there is very valid reason
"Slow play your succession" tip helped me so much. I was literally doing the opposite!
yep... had the same problem.
lost everything because of rebellions.
from kingdom to a single town :D
@@Abensberg simple fix to that. Just torture your court into submission. Ez
I personally don't think the spouse switch at a decision should be patched out. If I were a ruler, I would probably talk to my spouse about important decisions that need to be made. She might be focused on helping me with something else overall, but would most likely take time to stop and help me with that specific decision in the moment. I think it reflects real life how it is.
Dude that's such a good role playing portrayal of that. Great point. I just wasn't sure because switching the focus, for everything else takes about a day to take effect.. Case in point, switching her to stewardship takes a bit before domains increase
@@italianspartacus agreed. i am hoping they intentionally left that open to immediacy because a spouse should be able to help in the moment.
To play the devil's advocate: It's a challenge that pops up, not like something that could take days to react on. Maybe just a few seconds or so.. then it's a bit weird to talk to people first. Ah well you're an emperor anyways so you can do what you want I suppose
Great point from a role-play perspective. But from a game play perspective, it encourages micromanagement, which some may find tedious.
@@omgfackdehell They should probably split events into quick or long term. If it's long term your spouse can help you, otherwise not.
For educating, it's much more important for the guardian to have genius/intelligent/quick than anything else, followed by the skill you want to nurture, and finally learning. Obviously you need to trust the guardian not to murder your child, so don't give guardianship to a rival or disloyal vassal. It's immensely more powerful for a guardian to have genius in comparison to high skills. For example a crappy 5/5/5/5/5 genius guardian will be better than a 30/30/30/30/30 no trait guardian. The wiki has the formulas but in layman terms just follow the first two sentences and you will maximize your heir's stats.
What about guardian's education tier? Misguided warrior with good martial skill will be worse than master tactician with low martial skill?
@@Korutz It looks like the guardian's education tier and even the field of his educational background doesn't matter at all. A spy or a diplomat or a scholar or a steward with high martial will provide better martial education than a warrior with lower martial.
This may be late, but here's a couple of strategies I ran into. When you're stuck conquering a neighboring kingdom county by county, you can keep an eye on your enemy monarch's core counties, the ones that they themselves rule over. This is their main source of money the same way you have yours. Rather than picking off counties off the edge, you can drive your way forward into their heartlands and start taking the core counties, even their capital. Each victory weakens your enemy nation more than it otherwise would since you chip into the monarch's ability to fight back.
A second tip when you're conquering an enemy piece by piece is to keep an eye on their succession. Especially early on when dealing with confederate partition. If you're lucky, you can find a spot where a single assassination will utterly ruin the nation's stability. I pulled this at one point by assassinating the only son of a catholic king with a bounty of daughters. The oldest daughter got hte title and for the next 90 or so years the nation was beset with civil war after civil war changing the monarch by faction demands every few years and weakening them every time. It really helped keep the whole kingdom on the back foot.
It makes sense to combine the "marry courtiers" and "spousal focus" tips: switch your wife's assistance to "court politics" (+diplomacy) before searching for marriage candidates for a courtier and you'll get better candidates.
Some other considerations:
- High-born courtiers (with coats of arms) produce better marriage opportunities.
- When marrying a courtier dame matrilineally, pay attention to that the partner is not a mayor. She will leave your court and move to his city. (Not sure, maybe the same happens with priests and even priestesses when you marry a male courtier.)
- Breeding courtiers makes little sense. Finding robust wives for your knights is unlikely to produce for you better knights in the next generation. It's better to secure top HR right here right now, which means always inviting them from outside. You can marry even aged dames and turn the "fertile" filter to "all" to find for them not so young husbands with very high prowess (the list is sortable by prowess, BTW) or good combinations of commander traits.
- Higher learning is important for a doctor even more than the stars in the "Physician" characteristic.
- Consider landing your counsellors and knights. When landed, spouses assist them, so if you are inviting through marriage e.g. a guy with high stewardship to appoint as your steward, it's better to marry him to a dame with the highest stewardship in your court so he becomes even better steward after landing.
I'm not sure it's possible to learn a new tip for this game after a hundred hours. I'm just here for this man's smooth speaking voice. 😁
So true.
Dude.. i learn stuff so much hahahah there are parts of my guides i wish i could re-do because i forgot to talk about things or because i learned ANOTHER little tid bit that would help. it's all so layered!
@@italianspartacus not refuting that at all. Especially with how frequently Paradox patches their games (in conjunction with community input, they're honestly incredible) but yeah I've had to dig harder and harder for new ah-ha! moments. This game is a constant battle between satisfying role-play/min-max/strategy player bases and it's entertaining to watch. But yeah I've caught most of your vids since release and loved learning alongside ya. Keep up the good work man, your voice could become a RUclips bastion for anything that benefits from thoughtfully paced explanations-
@@italianspartacus Have you done a video on just the Court itself? I mean most players intrigued enough to seek this content out to begin with know how to rope great council members/knights in but I'd be interested to see a video discussing court size, keeping them there, and some of the more unorthodox ways to recruit. Befriending/Seduction/hooks and to a lesser extent opinion all have fascinating ways to bulk up a rulers court. Seduction events specifically can turn a 1 prospective lover invite into 3-6 high prestige house recruits easily with the right family. It's a can of worms that can be imperative for minority religions/cultures diplomatic ranged out of their element. I dunno, I'd enjoy one. Anyway, keep it up compadré.
I played more than 1000 hours of Hearts of Iron 4 and I can say that I play relatively good but still I remember learning stuff even when I had 700 hours. Paradox games are hard to learn but harder to master.
Holy shit. That Realm Capital tip is genius. A lot of these tips are really helpful in general, lol.
It does not work for me at all. ive tried this 100 times it feels. My "duke/king/count" only gets the capital and nothing else in that dutchy it does not matter if it has 3 counties or 8 and if he own 3 countys or 15 when he dies. Eiter my game files are bugged or god hates me, i cant not figure out whats wrong.
No no no.. That's on me dude I'm sorry.. So the reason he gets those lands is because those lands are in MY domain. You won't get them if they belong to a vassal. Does that help?
@@italianspartacus I know, thats the thing i do every thing correct as you say, i understand the mechanic , but it just dont work. thats what confuses me the most :S
@@BloodAknot Does your heir get the Duchy title too?
@@MrNomad505 He gets the main titles King/dutchy and the capital then the rest is totaly all over the place. Feel like the game gives the countys (castles) to my sons like 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4... like you give cards when you play poker.
Hey there, nice vid. And even after I spent many hours in ck3, it still gave me some things to consider. Thx for that!
I also want to share some of my expiriences made in the game regarding your tips (may end up in a wall of text):
- If in need for some better council members, look up your prison! For example, after a peasant rabble you imprison their leader, whom mostly have a high martial skill and also some decent leader traits, so you may force recruit him as marshal and army leader. Up until now I never had problems with forcefully recruited chars.
- Regarding all the vassal factions targetting you, in a clan society like all muslim societies in the game, you have the ability to have up to 4 spouses. It comes in handy not only to llok for traits of your spouses, but also consider taking the daughters of your vassals to ally them and prevent them from joining a liberty faction or claimant faction. Though I highly recomend at the start not to have more then 2 spouses, otherwise you may end up with far to many heirs to handle the succession.
- Even if feudal society doesn't have a penalty if powerfull vassals don't have an alliance with you like in a clan government, if your religion allows for concubines and you have like 8 up to 15 children... just "sell" them out for inner alliances.
- Regarding premature versus ultima: Even if you end up getting very old (70+) and your heir might be 45+ old with terrible stats - if he has got 4 children up to this point, you still might to play soem years with him, as he instantly has 4 "buying alliances" options. Also ultimagesomething bears the risk that your char gets murdered and you end up as a 8 year old char with no options to form alliances and your vassals may take this oportunity.
- be careful with seducing chars to get to your court, they might get jelous (or your normal spouse) and if having a good to excellent intrigue skill they are a dangerous threat to you rather then an asset. Also, if a vassal get to know of your seducing, he might want to blackmail you...
Never, like NEVER let a direct vassal (vassals of your vassals can't seem to really use this for whatever reason) have a hook on you! They will mostly use it to get a council position - and you might end up with a councillor of skill 2, whom can't be fired for 25 years... so you have to imprison and banish him and, well, upset everyone else.
Some things I expirienced, which I just wanted to share here.
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Seduce a woman, just to marry her off. All to get some strapping Knight to your banner. That's true evil right there.
we still talking about the game here??? hahahah just kidding :)
I legit made one of my daughters marry with an English prince and caused ww -1 with their army power lol
On 9:40 Slow Play Your Succession, if you imprison a vassal without a valid reason, that will give a Tyranny penalty of -20 to EVERY vassal's opinion of you. Which may result in more of these vassals joining the Independence faction, resulting in you needing to imprison more vassals, resulting in more vassal opinion loss. This feedback loop may destroy you.
Hi, great video! Learned a few bits here now and a lot since started playing following you. I wanted to add some of my own findings for community - ignore levies and build MAA. Then target enemy armies in your territory by moving rally point to the next tile they will visit. Playing as England defeated holy war with 1500 MMA VS 20k total army as any time they try to disembark you "ambush" them and they move in relatively small numbers. MMA and mercenaries spawn instantly without delay after disbanding so can be repeated many times and enemy at sea does not count as enemy nearby.
One tip I would add on primogeniture/ultimogeniture is that at absolute crown authority (4th level) you can designate you heir from among any eligible children. I'm already 200+ hrs in and I just learned about this the other day, and it's super useful.
Does that kid get all the titles then or does he get to be first in line to inherit according to the rules of succession?
@@johnandersson2412 The kid you designate will get all the titles yes.
For primogeniture, you can designate heir by spending 1000 prestige if you have absoulte crown authority.
Started to slow play when my king reached a respectable age of 72. No conquest until he´s dead and the prince could take over, I planed. The king died 99 years old and the prince had passed away 20 years before...
HAHAHA that's some wild luck of the draw
Good tips. Love your videos. I found that marrying your daughters on matrilineal marriages and landing the spouses afterwards is the best way to keep control. Also, disinheriting extra sons (if you can take the renown hit) and landing them once they have no extra claims and you have alliances with all your vassals.
What is 'landing' meaning?
@@aegyo9272 to give a domain
On succession/confederate partition- another thing to do, especially when you’re at that Kingdom/Empire level, is to conquer a nearby duchy, and then grant a county and duchy title to one of your secondary/tertiary heirs. This method will prevent them from taking your core counties that you want your primary heir to inherit in their entirety. However, if you start making new Kingdom level titles, the game will try to give them out and suddenly, giving duchies won’t be enough.
I really like this kind of videos, more please! Marrying off your courtiers and using them to your advantage, that i never thought about!
If you do the tip mentioned at 12:00 make sure you check the "on decline" tab to see how many vassals will join him in rebellion.
I had a big empire and was planning to get rid of an annoying vassal or two this way and fortunately I checked first because there were about 20 vassals that were going to join him.
And I'm not sure if the dread mechanic is taken into account or not because I only had a handful of vassals in the empire who weren't intimidated. It's possible that a good majority of those would not have joined the rebellion even though it said they would.
Jumped on the Xbox release today and boy do I have alot to learn but I'm still enjoying it. Its clear the learning curve to be really successful is high I can't wait to use these tips and see how I get on over the next few days.
Wow! Hundreds of hours played and most of these were great tips! I Had "aha!" moments and "dur why didnt i think of that..." 😅
Imagine CK3 and M&B: Bannerlord combined.....
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Ck3 And total war
my dumbass try to declare war on papacy, and then the whole continent jump on me lol
this was a really awesome video. I've played about 7 hours and all of these are awesome ideas and strategies I need to implement ASAP into how I approach the game. Thanks mate!
thanks for the succession info. This partition thing does my head. I wanted to unite Ireland...yet when i die my sons create factions and want to kill each other for the right of the crown...i dont seem to come very far with this game, yet its still so much fun
Fantastic video! Regarding tip #8, combine that strategy with meritocracy - first perk on the stewardship administrator lifestyle tree - and you can fabricate claims on the liege you just swore fealty to. If you are a ridiculously strong vassal, this is a great way of securing a higher realm title without needing other vassals to help you.
But just in case you need other vassals to help, fabricating hooks just happens to be the first perk on the intrigue schemer lifestyle tree... Enjoy!
can u make a video on strategy’s to use when playing the different skills like diplomacy, intrigue , stewardship ... ect like what are some good ways to go about it
Incidentally I tried playing a game starting as Urgell (county within Barcelona) and found it so hard, mostly because the Iberian nations would stomp all over me on their way to Aquitaine. I may even try to play this start again, but follow your tips.
This is actually the most helpful video I've watched out of about twenty on CK3:
* I didn't even know pressing C was a thing
* I didn't know I could scan for 'Inside' my diplomatic range
Sadistic and Generous are both awesome traits to have. With generous you can relieve stress by giving gifts, with sadistic you can relieve stress by executing people!
Is it bug or a feature: When my old king dies, all prisoners are auto-released. This makes totally no sense, but I wonder if its working as intended... Any opinion?
my guess is its a feature. I think the devs have sacrificed some realism for gameplay and difficulty. Otherwise you could as an old ruler just imprison all your sons except the heir, and as the heir takes over you could revoke their titles. The same is for hooks and secrets. Im sure in reality the king would pass on knowledge and secrets of their vassals to the heir, but in the game it would be to powerful?
I just spent like 3 hours playing the tutorial and I'm so lost. As a vassal how can you undermine other vassals to become the King eventually?
You can move your capital multiple times, provided you have at least 2 titles of the highest tier, e.g. 2 duchies. Change your primary title and you can change your capital. Switch your primary title again to be able to immediately change your capital again. This allows for unlimited capital changes.
@Split Dimension Yes. The option to move your capital becomes available only after you switch your primary title (using the "make primary" option in the holding window). After that, the button to move capital will (re)appear on barony titles you own.
Unfortunately, if you only own 1 highest tier title, you can move a capital only once per lifetime. However, multiple titles come with their own challenges during succession.
In my experience, capitals are not necessarily best where the game puts it by default. In most cases, a river delta works best for higher development. Or, for instance, if you have a special building/holy site that gives relevant benefits. It is often beneficial to move a capital to a holding where you have your own religion & culture + high control = max gold income and army size.
@@Fat_Paws does it mean that I have to switch my primary title before moving the realm capital for the 2nd time? The 1st capital movement can be done without switching the primary title, right?
@@BiglerSakura Haven't had to do this in a while, do idk if they have changed it. But it used to be that you did not need to move your capital before switching titles. BTW, If you can move your capital to the desired barony already, there is also not much point in switching titles around.
These days, I generally just stick to a single capital. If I plan to switch to a different capital, I generally don't bother switching to a different one in the interim. Unless some decision is locked behind it, e.g. creating the Kingdom of Toledo in the new DLC.
You can buy the game directly from their website without having to install any third party AOL bloatware like Steam.
Also, you don't need to search matrilineal when seeking good husbands. Some of them will be homeless. So you can still marry them to your court normally even if they don't want matrilineal marriage.
Steam is too easy
I need more of this gorgeous CK3 content!
I know that Ioannes Komnenos chose his son Manuel because his other son was a raging asshole. Why isnt there a system where you choose which one of your kids you want to inherit everything? Too OP, i know.
You can! Absolute crown authority allows you to dictate your heir :)
Ok wow, now I feel stupid-great tips!!!! Thank you
Hahahah don't feel stupid!! Happy to help my dude
Here's a tip.
I call it "the hand of my daughter and half of my kingdom to the man who [...]".
Ever find yourself over you domain limit, short on loyal & competent people from your own dynasty that you would like to delegate things to? Use your daughters! No, silly, not them personally. Rather, use matrilineal marriages to lock people into your court.
First, open up the list of unmarried men within diplomatic range, then search for one that looks useful. Unpressed claims on a neighboring county. Seven foot tall hunkalicious genius supersoldier with a ton of congenital traits. Good accountant. Anything goes. (Important: verify that they don't have children from a previous marriage). Then you get them to join your court (unless their liege would be ready to accept the matrilineal marriage; unlikely). That might require a hook, or a bribe, good reputation. Just get it done.
Once they join your court, you hastily get them married to your eldest daughter and put them to work. They will produce congenitally-superior cadet branches of your dynasty. They will be big fan of yours loyalty-wise because of the bribes etc. If you're over your domain limit they will be perfect to delegate a county while keeping it "in the familly". They will make great members of your council, and a great excuse to replace your old incompetent marshal, if the old martial was an "important vassal" with a county.
Other tip.
I call it "Viscount".
If you don't have good inheritance laws or a dutchy to keep your handful of counties attached, you can just give your heir the independent rule of one or several of your counties (do make sure to marry/betrothe them before making them independent!) Give him your second most important county so that he is insured to get that and your capital upon succession. He will also get some experience ruling, translating as traits, stats, prestige, that you will have a head start with. I think it also helps with the "short rule" trait, but I'm not certain. It is appropriate to wait until your fifties to giveaway the viscounty, unless you are over your domain limit, in which case definitely consider your heir. Role play wise, it's a real thing counts did. They would just make their heir viscount.
Extra tip.
"Keep it in your pants, son"
If you wait until your sons are in their thirties to marry them, they're going to have fewer sons, which will help with partition in 50 years, and your grandchildren will be in their 30ies when your children die, allowing them to have a longer reign. If your dynasty is well established and they die without a son, it's not too bad. Remember how you married all the eldest daughter matrilineally? Backup grandchildren right there.
Extra-extra-tip:
"Doing the Faramir"
Why dirty your hands with assassination/disinheritance to get rid of your bad sons when you can just send them to war (and why commit a break with historical roleplay with ultimogeniture succession). If you have too many sons and just have bad inheritance laws, or if you have good inheritance laws but your heir is bad, just allow them to take some risks. Best case scenario, they'll impress you, gain prestige and good traits. Worst case scenario, they don't die, get crippled, and remain heirs. If you never allow them to marry, eventually you'll play as your second son (or disinherit them).
Note: none of these tips have been attempted in CK3 yet. They're things I discovered in CK2. Mileage may vary.
Partition and High partition can be "gamed" by giving all your counties (except capital) to your primary heir while having multiple duchies, then giving the duchies to old childless vassals and/or destroying your own duchy. For example if i have 3 sons and a kingdom and 3 duchies, each son gets a duchy but individual counties can be given freely to the primary heir. Now If i give all my personally held counties to my primary heir, then give the duchies to an old childless dude, he's gonna return all those to my heir after he dies. As I will just have the realm capital, other sons will get nothing!
omg the first tip is so useful! thanks
this really needed the nbc "more you know" star and rainbow
"remember, marry your daughter to the neighbors prince... then leverage her to participate in a murder scheme against him.. hope this trick helps"
the more you know
I just discovered the spouse task switching thing today. Changing realm capital is pretty cool as well.
Hmmm, great tips... thanks!
Hello, I have a question for you or for other players.
How can I give other vassals a duchy?
During the game, I get the message "Too many duchies", which is why I lose a lot of feedback with vassals.
My domain limit is 9, of which I have about 19 principalities.
I play Ireland, I have conquered Wales, Scotland, England. I would like to convey to the vassals, for example, the Supreme Commander of Iceland - but when I click "give", I get the message "No suitable characters found". What should I do in such a situation?
Please help. :)
One thing I would recommend is don’t convert to another religion too early.
Especially one that isn’t dominant in your realm/region. I went Insular Christian as it was increasing in Francia, dominated Ireland and Wales, as the emperor, many people joined me after I converted. I did it for those three sweet extra wives you get. For a emperor or two I did quite well. Taking most of Italy and most of Germany. However, I now had many more Catholics in my realm. Not only that but I had a lot more family members all over the place. I focused on intrigue for two emperors, not only did the previous four have eight to ten children but these two had 14 and 16 kids, respectively. Those three wives come in handy, I can get a pure blood marriage (hoping for more pure bloods eventually, I focus on blood and family in the dynasty legacy), maybe something political and some good traits. I have lots of pretty, robust and some giant (others in smaller degrees etc etc) gens in a few kids. For a while it was a lot of cousin, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, marriages which didn’t lessen the claims, it only makes them stick. ( Yeah and one seducer emperor also had a baby girl with one of this twin (hey they had the pretty trait) daughters (one kid out of the 16, which also lowered my vassals opinion, due to incest, adultery and fornicating debuffs.) Suddenly I had more claimants, I was constantly fighting and sieging. I went from 15K troops to over 6K by the time this boy king inherited. I still have the realm together but it’s constant independence factions and Catholic peasant rebellions. It’s exhausting. I’m in constant debt. I still have most of the Karling dynasty in my realm, that’s about a hundred members plus +. I far cry from when I had 15K troops and nearly a thousand gold in the bank. I should be able to recover in time (hoping I can convert back to Catholic once I gain the needed piety)
But now the Byzantine empire is big and has almost 20K troops.
Just stay the biggest religion you can.
I tend to give my heir's heir their own land that way they grow their own wealth, prestige, and Court. So when my character is in their 60s or so the next heir might not be so strong but I try to keep it all together for their heir.. make sure your vassal (heir's heir) is not one of your knights... Made that mistake last night on iron mode..
Additionally, since I set them up as a strong vassal.. I put my heir's heir in my court typically as a chancellor or Steward role. Chancellor helps them build relationships with everyone else so when it's their turn everyone is happy.
great video dude
The -id suffix for dynastic nations is really weird. It doesnt fit with any language, it makes the pronunciation harder, and it sounds really stupid.
No one says Tudorid England or Habsburgid Austria. It's a remnant of the "exotic east" historiography that's mildly offensive.
Always have max personal schemes running: Do romance schemes for free prestige, occasional intrigue perks, and even renown if one of your cultural traditions is chivalry - just find someone with 100% success chance or close to it...
WOW! Brilliant Tips! I strugled finding and keeping a good Marshal. also the idea of marrying knights to get better ones. why didn't I come up with it myself? thank you thank you thank you
Regarding the first tip: Wouldn't setting the relation filter to '(Top) Realm' also show characters of my vassals' courts? Why not set the relation to 'Court' instead? What am I missing?
You're not missing anything. You're totally right, I made an error on that. So sorry for any confusion that caused man
Me: 90 hours in my first game
2 minutes into watching: "Yo I can press C!"
Literally been clicking through entire family trees trying to find someone to marry for alliances
I think I am getting addicted to Crusader kings 3, I didn't play the old ones, but this game is like crack.
I may have a problem, thanks for the tips.
I just want to thank you for a couple videos ago. Where you indirectly showed me you can search for specific traits. That has save so much time...
My tip is pretty simple. Human sacrifice is the best tenet for a reformed religion. Why? Saving up prisoners for free dread and piety is the best way to squash factions for you and your successors. Just don't let your heir be compassionate or just...
You and Party elite have some really awesome guides for this game but you all still don't know how to say "De Jure.." 😂
This character finder isn't in the ps5 version correct? Or am I mistaken?
Great video anyway. Thanks
I'm not gonna lie, we desperately need more clothing/hair, and building options. When compared to ck2 this game is lacking severely in this department.
Well ck3 the models have to be sculpted since it's 3d. It's harder just give it time
This guy has a voice for television and radio.
Thanks brother!! Hahaha
I always try to bum rush the house seniority and high crown authority innovations so I can designate my heir before death prestige doesn't carryover so using it to pick an heir is a good idea in the longterm
You're amazing!!
Is very hard to play as Vallah because at some point there will be the mongol invasion if you start in the 800, right when you are thinking in becoming king.
I didn't know about all this until now, and i have been playing it non stop for one month 😅
Hahaha I'm always learning and I've been playing since launch!
Yep got my son a great wife mine tried to off me jailed her she croaked my sone was slain I got his wife who turned out more kids than the one who tried to rub me out.
had a king with 100+ on everything and all positive traits and still lost to france because i had no skill
Great video again man thank you!
I feel like monogamy needs a bit of a buff
Not having a secret and then getting the hit when you get caught?
Great tip using your spouse to increase the percent chance of a positive outcome! That's pretty genius!
For tip #1, marrying off courtiers to get councilors and knights for your court, check the person to make sure they don't hold any titles). If they do, they won't come to your court. Same problem happens if you get a spouse from outside your realm, if they're a ruler elsewhere they won't come. The easiest way is to filter by "Not Ruler" I believe, but I still check their profile to make sure they don't hold a title.
Yes, even if you are trying to marry a courtier dame matrilineally, if a candidate who is a mayor is suggested, she will leave your court and go to his city. (Probably the same happens with priests, and even a priestess may take your male courtier to her place).
Though I've seen an independent count in Sardinia whose wife was a mayor in England. They lived separately in their respective domains but had a couple of children! And she even came all the way from England to Sardinia on a boat with an army to help him when he was attacked.
If you change your Primary Title. You can change your capital again.
As always, thanks a lot mate. I'm still looking to improve.
It sucks when your spouse cant be in your council cause shes ruling another dynasty.
Brilliant tips - thanks mate :-)
"Don't get into war after succession"
Well that failed when i died as Whales and England truce broke me because i lost my alliances (i had west & east francia + Aquitaine). I'm used to EU4 logic where the AI never truce breaks because it costs major stability and AE. CK3 says "major Penalties" amd i look it up and its basically just -50opinion with everyone and 300 prestige which is laughable considering the prestige cost is the same as a tribal building and opinion isn't that big a deal (vassals can sit at -100 and be fine and opinion doesn't make a coalition form)
A reasonable truce breaking penalty would be:
Lose 1 level of fame
-100 opinion penalty with everyone via "truce breaker" fame trait
-1 monthly control in all provences for 10 years
Truce breaking should hurt, not just be a mild inconvenience. (And the AI should never do it because their ability to calculate values isn't good enough to see anything as worth it)
While it's not good to have people in your realm that hate and is sorta good enough of a penalty I like the idea of making truce breaker an actual trait that specifically makes people not want to get into alliances or peace treaties with you versus just a negative opinion bonus
You are a legend! Thank you so mutch a learned a lot from your Video!!!
These tips are bang on, sorting the court out for getting good skills in has always been difficult for me, first tip was a breath of sweet air on the breast of a fair maiden.
ah me thinks the lady doth protest too much!! hahahahah glad to have helped my dude :)
@@italianspartacus cap is doffed, or crown rather.
Thanks for tips
btw... I still don't understand how 4th tip work orz