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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.

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.

"Slow play your succession" tip helped me so much. I was literally doing the opposite!

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.

Holy shit. That Realm Capital tip is genius. A lot of these tips are really helpful in general, lol.

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.

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.

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.

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. 😁

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.

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!

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.

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!

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.

An extension of that last point about swearing fealty to a bigger lord and working from within, this is really handy for turning feudal quickly if you start tribal. Did a game as Dyre 'The Stranger' in Kiev and swore fealty to the Byzantines after a lifetime of conquering via tribal conquest cassius belli. After swearing fealty I became essentially the number 2 power under the emperor, and with some careful marriages, a convenient appointment as spymaster, and some dead children, my great grandson was born to the purple and ended up inheriting the empire.

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

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...

Awesome stuff, man! Thanks a mill! Great video! 😊

Just started playing the game, and of course watched hours of guides first, your videos are excellent. Great insights, great presentation. Thank you 👍

Damn, this is the best video so far about CK3 tips for beginners, good insight tips, good pace, well edited video/soud, keep up the good work, gonna take a look at the rest of ur channel but this video is perfect, english is my second language and i can understant everything perfectly too, wichs a bonus.

As always, thanks a lot mate. I'm still looking to improve.

Helpful tips, so much frustration and fun 🤣 now it should go forward. The complexity is immense

Great video again man thank you!

Mindblowing advices! I absolutley love it !

My god Thanks for the help everytime i think about something and look it up you make a guide right as i think it liked!!!

These tips were amazing! Thank you.

Thanks man! Really helpful... keep posting and I love your vids.

For primogeniture, you can designate heir by spending 1000 prestige if you have absoulte crown authority.

I really like this kind of videos, more please! Marrying off your courtiers and using them to your advantage, that i never thought about!

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.

I need more of this gorgeous CK3 content!

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.

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.

Brilliant tips - thanks mate :-)

You are a legend! Thank you so mutch a learned a lot from your Video!!!

Good to see you like the paradox now sparticus!!!

omg the first tip is so useful! thanks

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!

I just discovered the spouse task switching thing today. Changing realm capital is pretty cool as well.

Its about time i subscribed ive watched so many of your mount and blade and crusader kings videos hahaha

Cheers for the tips man I'm still very new to this. Half the struggle is even just figuring out HOW to do all these things lol.

Great tips sir, thank you!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

great video dude

It was real dam helpful dude! I might finally step outa dat noob zone finally!

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

You're amazing!!

such a good video, thank you

Just wanted to say thanks for these awesome tutorials. It made it so much easier to play the game - i was getting really frustrated.

Seduce a woman, just to marry her off. All to get some strapping Knight to your banner. That's true evil right there.

Really great video

I'm only a few hours in but for succession, what really helped me was just giving away any land one of your child may inherit to a member of your court. You "lose" a bit of land but you secure a stronger hold on your realm, and you can have really strong courtiers become powerful and loyal vassals. I also found that it's safer to do that semi-early and not wait for old age, cause you might die unexpectedly!

Helped me out a lot! thanks

Binging with Babish? Is that you? (really enjoying the videos, looking forward to jumping into the game in the near future)

I didn't know about all this until now, and i have been playing it non stop for one month 😅

great video! :)

Thanks a lot, these are great tips...

Great tip using your spouse to increase the percent chance of a positive outcome! That's pretty genius!

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!

@ItalianSpartacus - My wife and I enjoy your videos and find them very helpful, thank you. Could you please make a little video to go over the game rules in the game setup screen? Some of them could use a little clarification from an experienced player who understands it all, and no one seems to have thought to make one yet.

Great tips!

2 months late but I prefer trying to work a game out for myself first then search for tips when I up my difficulty on games. Some great tips here and very well put together video. Clear and easy to listen too. Thanks a lot 👍🏻 Will watch more from you for sure

Wow! Hundreds of hours played and most of these were great tips! I Had "aha!" moments and "dur why didnt i think of that..." 😅

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

Good vid ty

Great tips.

Hmmm, great tips... thanks!

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.

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

Ultimogeniture and primogeniture are arbitrary since you’ll be selecting the best of the bunch via absolute crown authority’s designate heir :P Plus when you know you’ve had enough kids it’s time to step down and get deposed so you can really control your (more powerful and genetically superior) heir.

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...

spousal focus decisions... very clever

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...

I got CK3 last week and this video blew my mind!

One of my favorite tricks is if you want to get rid of your current ruler and play as their heir but you don't want to take the negative hit from suicide you can intentionally get your stress up to level 3. this is real easy if your ruler is shy- just start and cancel a lot of personal plots. or if the ruler is just or honest- just start and cancel a bunch of hostile plots against random courtiers.

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.

Please do a playthrough with many episodes, with a nice objective! Or do a playthrough on every achievement 😍

FYI, you don't need to mess around with the capitol location in partition-type succession laws if you disinherit your younger sons, and grant them titles separately. You can assigned titles how ever you like if you have only one son inheriting everything.

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!

Great video, thank you! Question about declaring wars: my current character has only 2 claims at the moment, but the Tab menu states that I can declare many other wars. Where does these other, non claim based, wars come?

For your second tip "bringing your lover to your court then to your council" was the worst thing to do (for me), it was a rampage she killed 2 spouses of me then even ME. Take a look on her main traits before and try to get a kind one at least, especially a physician its a very easy spot to murder. Play very carefully with lovers and scan them sometimes to reveal secrets.

Personally on confederate partition I usually imprison my secondary heirs before they can have kids, when the succession happens I execute them so I can gobble up those holdings. I also give any surplus or newly acquired holdings to my primary heir’s first son so that too many titles don’t overflow to heir number 3, 4, etc

Two question/suggestions: Would you recommend mods at this point, or wait for them to get better? I've seen a little bit of the World of Darkness mod and as I've played V:tM long ago it's so cool to see! I have a feeling some things assume you know the base game well though. Another is how to set yourself up as a strong king with an emperor puppet. Can this be done easily and does it have many drawbacks? I'd like to save myself a lot of stress 😉, by not micromanaging and having a liege for defense seems perfect. I came up with it after one of your videos (on the feudal contract). Before I saw a trick on getting an emperor title by marrying second heir and removing the heir and an example of MonstersAbound kinda applying that trick. Probably by accident. He got the byzantium empire but it was a mess, strong vassals and just chaos. I thought this palatine contract sucks for the liege, only reason to want it is if you're a vassal. Then I thought, wait a minute you can make a tax paradise (with no revoking, council position and freedom to make wars). You only need to be the emperor a short while to set up the contract for your heir, right? Can you then give the emperor title to someone weak and play your heir? Any other way to do this or additional fun stuff?

thanks

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.

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

I love how historically accurate this is lol

Ok wow, now I feel stupid-great tips!!!! Thank you

so much to this game! I think i made my king take all the claims and people aren't happy so maybe not meant to be played like that.

140 hrs in and i've just now discovered the character finder tab

Imagine CK3 and M&B: Bannerlord combined..... 🤯🤯🤯

8:30 that seems to work because the prince would otherwise have inherited that duchy. I tried to do this by moving my capital to any other duchy, one which I already controlled, and I actually ended up in a worse situation, with one of my princes inheriting a bigger duchy where I had most of my holdings...

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.

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.