War - good for absolutely everything! We go in depth this episode to understand all the standard Casus Belli types, and how to get them, and then we discuss how the units' strengths and weaknesses are outlined, and how battles themselves work. Don't forget to check out the full playlist for the rest of the guide: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d8h3d66Fp7fWeH0.html

I remember watching all your Total War 2 guides years ago when you started them and now absorbing all your CK3 guides. Feels good :)

You may be wondering what is it good for? You may be thinking, absolutely nothing. Very good.... beer came out of my nose lol.

The flow and structure of your guide videos is insanely good. Great job!

"The all important topic: WAR. You might be wondering . . . .'What is it good for?' And you might be thinking . . . 'Absolutely nothing!'" LOL!!! Absolutely classic - loved that - and thank you for this series!

This is hands down the best CK3 tutorial I have seen. You explain in such an organized way. Thank's a lot for sharing your knowledge. They should add your tutorials to the game :D

You missed explaining how army quality is calculated.

As a noob at the game, I was enjoying this (awesome) CK3 beginners guide playlist. Then this video starts with this waggishy reference to Edwin Starr 😂 Instantly hitting both the like and suscribe button.

Man, I still remember this one war.. I won a war for a duchy I believe, at around 100% another country decided to take advantage and declared war. I fought them off, and again, at around 90%, another wages war. At around midway through, I was pretty tired, and I didn't notice the raiding party notification on my capital.. until my daughter was captured. First time I had a family member captured, and there was literally nothing I could do about it at the time. Now, I had seven children, and she was the youngest.. I don't actually have children IRL, but, to say I took it personally, would be a great understatement. After I stopped screaming obscenities at the screen, I went real calm. I knew this wasn't just a declaration of war. I calmly finished fending off the attacking nation.. good. Now, this one has my full attention. I didn't even wait for my army to replenish, and with no allies (he had at least 3), I unleashed my fury upon him. His kingdom was one of the largest, and over 3 times the size of mine.. and his decade of suffering was about to begin. I destroyed his kingdom. I destroyed his title. I destroyed his family. I got my daughter back.. and I made sure he lived long enough to see it. Moral of the story: Don't f**k with Lithuania.

Thank you for these excellent set of guides, been a great help in learning how to CK3

I have been wondering for ages what those "this move will result in 100 casualties" were! That really cleared it up, thanks! Keep up the good work!

I like how youre getting mildly cheeky the further into the tutorial i get.

14:40 also keep in mind if your allies have their own war currently. To me it often happened that I call an ally into war and they don't actually come to my aid even though they agreed. While the AI can give you a request for gold if you don't send your armies to them after they call you to war, you can't do that to your allies.

Wonderful breakdown of casus belli and the perks needed for different types of wars. Thanks PE!

Thanks for the guides, just bought the game and damn there is alot to learn. But loving it so far.

Really well thought out and made video. Thank you, I certainly understand all the differences better now.

Thank you for these videos. I didn't watch enough before going through my first game with trial and error, but you still point out new things. For instance, I couldn't figure out which holdings cause attrition for passing them because it seemed random. It never occurred to me to look at the County lines!

Thanks a ton for these videos PE! Thoroughly enjoying both the guides and your playthrough, have a good one!

So, so good. You put a lot of work into these. Thank you.

These guides are awesome and still mostly up to date. Thank you!

These guides have been very helpful! Thanks!

I always send a big army right at the enemy capital from the beginning and take it. You usually capture family members which add a good amount to your war score.

thank you for this beginner series! subbed

As usual a very informative guide. Newcomers will def want to watch this video.

Amazing guide as always. Learned a lot even though I thought I understood this.

another great vid, thank you!

Love the reference to a great tune

Thanks man, just got into ck3 its pretty good, i did need info on war and supplies ;). Keep it up man, really enjoyed it ^^,

Great thanks for that video!

20 seconds into the video and I already appreciate your humor.

Definitely a step up a step up from CK2 in terms of costum buildings armies (at least from the last version of CK2 I played. Was "Way of Life" or so). Thanks for the guide.

fantastic video

Thanks, this game is so addictive

a very good opening!

Excellent, many things learned. One thing that is not at all clear for me, however, is what causes the transition from Early Battle Phase to Late Battle Phase.

Hey Party! Great video. If you don't mind I would like to comment a little. It seems like this one is not a purely beginner's guide. It's quite deep in some aspects and a little fast paced. I have Been playing a little this game,had expirince from CK 2,but when you started talking about special casus belli you lost me, maybe I was tired or something. Seems like this part could be a part of "in depth" guide,or may be if you broke down this video in to two or three it would be easier to use it as a reference. But of course I trust your judgement on what length and depth of video is best for your channel. if I may suggest. I found dealing with scenarios, like conquering England as William the Bastard very educational. It doesn't give the wide scope of an let's play,but one can learn a lot from overcoming the difficulties of a particular scenario. Maybe or could consider some "challenges" videos, like becoming a king of Spain through intrigue and deplomacy only. Hope my comment helps,and all the best to you,mate!

Tips on combat mechanics and anticipating where enemy is headed/how to block them off etc efficiently if numbers are evenly matched would have been a nice addition too. Otherwise good video. Thanks for putting together the content.

great video:) i have a question about raiding, in a game I was playing as a norse character I wasn't able to sack constantinople, but I was able to sack other counties of the byzantine empire, anyone knows why?

thats a lot, but what a great guide. do u plan on more guides? i dont know if it would be up your ally, but quite interesting and awesome if you could do it - a guide to the princes of darkness mod.

Do specific units contribute more to the early phase or late phase?

I don't get why you say we should never assault a fort. It's not like in CK2, where it was suicidal. It goes much faster in exchange of a few units, and you can always stop it.

Whitout war there would be no war. What a crazy thought.

How do you increase men-at-arms limit and which county can be sieged?

I never understood the thing about resources in a county, now i know that there is a number showing how many troops can you place without losing resources. I normally split my soldiers in 1000 and siege multiple locations at once, using siege weapons on the ones that i want to capture first.

Why can I sometimes declare a war to a count directly and sometimes i can only declare the war to the counts duke? Had the claims for the county in both cases.

is it worth it to take warmonger tenet if im am temporal head of my reformed pagan? cant i do ghw only as temporal?

Hi Party, I have been looking everywhere but I can't find it! Where can I find your stream schedule? :)

Thanks a lot for that amazing guide ! One question : is the way you literally move your army around relevant to win battles ? Should that be the case, how could I do that efficiently ? I get that it's mostly about analyzing terrains and armies compositions, but it still feels like I'm missing something there... Or maybe I'm just being too influenced by other games like Age of Empires or Civilization :) Greetings from Belgium, keep up the good work !

Do I understand this correctly? If you win a war, you have to siege the castle in order to get the land?

Hi, does anyone know why this happens when raiding. I'm a vassel in the Mongolian empire. One of my neighbour vessels holding couldn't be raided. We both serve the empire so maybe that's why?

30:35 "Opponent is starving" and that's somehow a negative malus for you? I think that's a bug right there!

There are 2 important bugs in 1.0.3 that I wish you had covered. When you raise an army you can stop it from continuing to raise troops by clicking "Split off new Army" and moving all units to the right (you will have to select a new commander), this allows you to attack more quickly and overwhelm enemies before they can respond. Second, the penalty for disembarking magically disappears if you begin a siege with the army, allowing both you and the AI to avoid the penalty as long as there is a holding where they disembark.

Should of started video with: Edwin Starr - War.

I was invading a city with 2 allies and while we were besieging the city, 70% of our troops suddenly VANISHED! I'm so confused what happened there?

Can someone tell me how to defend raids early on? Should I face the raid army? Or should I wait in my poor fort which has no defensive structures?

Can you call multiple allies at once? With two wars and about 10 allies it is a very annoying task. Select Ally, select war, invite, wait, confirm *2*10 (>_

What if I have an unpressed claim on a land that I already own ? How can I turn it into a pressed claim ?

Raiding will make alot of enemies. Will the raided kingdoms take revenge?

I have a question , maybe something to put in a guide. Info and insight into spreading your or desired culture / religion? Thanks PE or sorry Cheers

I tried occupying territory, but my CK3 always ends the war automatically after a while when I reach 100%. What is going on?

I had a weird and frustrating situation with war score the other day. I was playing as the duchess of Nordmark and attacked my neighboring count for his land. I managed to siege his castle and destroyed his army and in the end I got 98% of war score. But it never went to a 100% cause he didn't throw anything at me from that moment on. After more than a year, his land got claimed by a king and I lost any chances of conquering it for good. There should be a way to enforce the 100% when you utterly destroy your enemy but the war score is not reached fully.

War! What is it good for? (What is it good for) It's good for You, (good for you) it's good for me. Oh war! What is it good for? It strenghtens the economy. It shows the world we've got stones. And archers with bows of bones

Hello , please i'm kinda lost a bit i need help because it seems i can't group an army when there is a commander there is 0 soldiers how to add soldiers under the commander ? i really didn't know how please someone explain and help i would really appreciate it and thanks

Does a Duchy title have to exist in order for your Priest to be able to fabricate a claim on it?

I'm a petty king and have a claim on a county inside my kingdom, how do I get that county? I don't have an option to declare war on that county.

surely Edwin Starr sends his regards

When I purchased Stellaris, this was the level of detail I was expecting. Even after all these years of DLCs, that game is still a pale imitation of Paradox's other grand strategy titles.

Oh god the opening dad joke.

This is a very helpful video, but it didn’t answer the questions that have bothered me the most. Why do my levies cease increasing when far below their maximum capacity. I’ll be at 3000/5000 and have 0 additional levies per month. Also, why do my levies dramatically decrease upon succession, even when I haven’t lost lands and am only down a few domain holdings?

Uh Ah! - Elvis

How do you get army composition to elite?

Hey there, I wanted to ask if you could help me out with a question regarding claim inheritance: So I try to rebuild the Persian Empire (in the fourth generation now) and I had the unfortunate situation that my firstborn son... and *his* firstborn son both died young so now my heir is my great-grandson. But as I only hold Kingdom titles so far (not enough land to declare myself Emperor) the Partition succession means my other two (younger) sons both inherit a Kingdom each. Now so far that is all okay because my player heir (great-grandson) should receive unpressed claims to those kingdoms so that I can quickly reconquer them. However I noticed when my old character died my *great--grandson did not inherit a single claim,* meaning it is incredibly difficult to reclaim the other two kingdoms for myself and would require like multiple wars each... So now I am really disappointed and almost lost my will to keep playing that campaign since all my previous progress is basically gone and I would need decades to get back where I was before. Is this a bug or did the player inheritance skipping two generations just mess up everything?

I joined an ally's defensive war, and during the war it said my contribution was 100 percent, but after my ally won the details said I get nothing because my contribution was not 100 percent. Is this a glitch? I'm on PS5

I'm confused about claims completely. I was able to declare war with Desmond to get the whole Monster duchy. When I won, the only option was to release the enemy from prison and make him my vassal. I wanted the county for myself to hold or make somebody vassal. His eldest son has implicit claim. His older brother has pressed claim. So I wouldn't mind makine one of them the holder as my vassal. How to do it? How to hold it myself? Or make his son or brother holder? How do I set victory to that war without releasing the prisoner? How do I set the prison sentence for time that enemy stays punished? Thanks.

old video but still dont know.... how to get berserker trait? i play as prussia but want better warriors without subjugating norse lol

I just realised is 2 years old video. Because you can take land easily without claim

I found combat, conquering etc very difficult to get to grips with in Crusader Kings compared to Civilisation games.

Thank you for the content. You are super helpful. And as always, north korea is best korea.

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Can you (and how do you) increase a men-at-arms size cap? I cant find what determines this number.

Siege is not a verb. The word you want is besiege.

I am very confused about occupied territories. I've declared a war on an entire kingdom, occupied all of the cities that were vacant, but another kingdom occupied one of their cities. I cannot siege it so I was just stuck. Then that kingdom started occupying my occupied cities, without declaring a war on me. How can I occupy a city that's already occupied?

Good god ya'll

Me watching a guide fir a game I have tens of hours in just in case I've been playing it wrong this whole time

CK2

War, What is it good for? Me:"Well we now have latex condom because they were invented during WW1 so the soldiers wouldn't get diseases from the brothels set up by armies. So thanks war."

PartyElite a suggestion... it might be cool to end your videos with cheers in a different language each time. Salud, Prohst, Slawn-cha, etc.

I'll try and keep this as short as possible: I played 2 games as Harald Fairhair of Viken, and though I feel I have a fair grasp on things, both games served me some really mind boggling stuff that made me abandon the campaign. Game 1: I was chasing a chief who mysteriously kept eluding me so I could close a war. Long story short, I couldn't catch him so I went to the seat of his liege instead, since he was also involved. His capital was on the island of Gotland in the Baltic and there were 2 other neutral stacks there, but no enemy stacks. As soon as I landed, the two stacks who turned out to be Irish, both jumped me out of the blue. They had over 1k more, but due to my crazy berserker champions, I won in the end, though Harald was mortally wounded. Then the game told me that I was now instead at war with these Irishmen and no longer at war with the chief I had been chasing so long. I don't remember the wording. Harald died and I quit in bewilderment. Game 2: Early game I vassalized a neighbor using the one time subjugation casus belli, partly because I wanted his learning skill in my council. But the dude never showed up in my court list. I was de jure his liege lord, he was listed among my champions and he demanded a seat. But no matter how hard I tried, I could not figure out why I couldn't give it to him. There was no option in the menus and no explanation anywhere. The only theory that remained was the he was badly hurt, but he never got any better after several years and I had kinda gone all in on the move, so I abandoned the game in bewilderment. Any insight would be appreciated.

Yo i dont get it, so its 1066 and i got kingdom of england as irish default dude right, figured out i cant get claims on other kingdoms via my religion dude right, so i killed my wife so i could marry this chick with both norway kingdom and denmark kingdom claims, they are both at war so i couldnt even click on anything after clicking declare war, so i just speedrun it to check it and after denmark dude finishes the war i could only fight him for a tiny county, not for a kingdom claim, why is that? also i have a chick with 5 claims, married her to my half brother, but if i win the war the game says me she gets only 3 out of 5 titles, why is that also? and what do i do to gain more kingdoms after i get one besides doing it via bishop's claims?

Great guides. Although you may wanna check the correct pronunciation of the words “temporal” and “absolute” to avoid any further cringe.

Ah, War. The cause of and the solution to all of life's problems.

Lost a title on succession. So as the new character, i went to war against my brother and I won the war (no question, his army was inferior). The outcome was inconclusive and now I can’t remember what I did wrong or how that happened cause this game is HELLA CONFUSING!! So annoying cause it’s the last title i need to create the King title and now I don’t even have a claim so I’ll have to fabricate to get it which is fine it will just take longer. But someone pls help me understand how I messed up so bad 😂

Lol just qouncure county, and when you faime lvl up qouncure ducky. And you dont need any claims. And if you captioned any prisoners with title and claims, make shore kill them.

Maybe Im justs stupid and I cant read but the tutorial told me to invade a neighboring realm with only 2 men-at-arms and no siege equipment and I got stuck trying to take one holding for years. I also was unaware of what commanders were so my king was the one leading the charge and he was killed and his idiot son who everyone hated took over. Good time

I hate that battles take months and no one modded it yet... it take hours ffs it's not a siege T_T

why the hell are there ppl out there fighting with pots and pans?

I can actually understand better if I put him on 0.25 speed

How to besege

You're pronouncing De Jure wrong.

There is way too much going on in this game