Havoc's Channel & Beginner's Guide Playlist kzfaq.info/sun/PLUTG4aQjaZ2ERwm4WoTIvl2E47QeBP0ld Thank you so much for watching! I intend to cover a lot more Crusader Kings in the future and I'm really excited to do so. If you haven't picked up the game, you can grab it through my link here: www.nexus.gg/italianspartacus . This helps me out a TON as it gives a direct commission to the channel, and depending on what time you see this, a discount to you as well.

Could you do a video like this for real life?

Another important thing to remember is that if a county's development is higher than it's neighbor county's development, then it increases it by 0.1 dev growth per month for every 1 development higher it is. Collect taxes vs. increase development is basically short term boost vs. long term growth. It is actually more beneficial over the long run to just have your steward sitting in your capital increasing development permanently since when it increases by one dev, it increases dev growth by 0.1 per month in all neighboring counties and over the centuries it'll spread to your entire domain. Development also has the added bonus of helping tech growth!

Using the "Collect Taxes" button gives you a chance to randomly get an event where your Steward gives you plain money from time to time.

Keep in mind that when looting holdings in a war, you should deduct (siege time x army upkeep) from the total gained to see if it's actually worth it for the gold.

Something to keep in mind, while loot from sieged holdings and captives can certainly be valuable targets for gold, also keep in mind that every month that your armies are raised you have to pay them a monthly wage. If you have a huge army of say 14,000 troops including 5 regiments of Men at Arms this can get very very expensive and negate any loot you'd gain from pillaging. To offset this, you can "raise local armies" in a holding and you will raise only the local levies and all your knights and MaA's, making the maintenance cost less. You can further decrease this amount by splitting the army and rearranging until you get to a low enough number that's still bigger than your enemy but costs whatever maintenance you're comfortable paying per month. When you have 5+ regiments of MaA's, you can significantly reduce their upkeep cost by using the Marshal's 2nd ability which trains commanders. Much better option than the 1st one that boosts levy size, as your levies are level 1 while your MaA's and knights are much more valuable for fighting wars. Also for wealth, once you hold several kingdoms and are approaching empire status or are an emperor, stuff like golden obligations becomes less important as you usually get like 50 gold per hook but you'll be making 32+ gold per month just from your domain and taxes on your vassals. At these higher tier realms you want to focus on stewardship to increase the number of domains you hold and the amount in taxes they pay, allowing you to build buildings which further snowballs your income.

The combo of the skill from the intrigue skill tree that lets you fabricate hooks with the skill from the stewardship tree that lets you demand payment for them is incredibly powerful, especially if you have a good intrigue stat to easily fabricate those hooks. With another skill you can fabricate two hooks at the same time, allowing you to have two hooks cooking at all times. Demanding payment for the hooks gets you about 100 gold a pop. You just need to wait until your schemes to fabricate the hooks let you create them without paying a bunch of gold or more prestige than you want to spend, etc.

i think i am finally getting it. I tried out an old Norse chief in 876AD and holy shit raiding England and northern France is rad! Until a huge Saxon or Frankish army comes and smacks you. However, the tribal kingdoms use renown to buy troops and build so i found myself with a lot of gold, but little renown. i am pretty into this game now

Yesssss!! I've been dying trying to understand the development of counties and how the buildings work. I keep getting sucked into intrigue and other shenanigans and forget my buildings not thinking they're important and then suddenly I die and my world is wrecked for my heirs when people start trying to claim my lands. Thank you for your videos! 💜💜💜

I have never watched a full video of a long a game guide until this one. Thank you for the great guide!

Great breakdown, I appreciate the slow pace, there is much to learn, and you do a great job of explaining things, well done!

I only ever seem to find hooks on poor people who have no money to extort

Thank-you for a great instructional video. I'm brand new to the CK franchise (CK3 pulled me from Civ VI) and am still learning all these intricacies.

The worst drain on my income is forgetting to unraise my army after a war lol

Hey me again I watched all your guides and tried playing with my friend again. Started as the two counties of iceland and actually had alot of fun. Thanks for the guides especially the combat one, really helped me out.

Great video. Really awesome job explaining things. I’m a long time eu4 player but newbie to ck series and videos like this are like a hit of NOS to the learning curve.

Love this video! Everything is clear and consistent! Beautiful approach in this guide.

Thanks for these guides! Been great help in my playthroughs, doing much better now, then i did at start! So much new stuff that wasn't there in CK2 :D Keep these videos coming!

A religions one would also be awesome my man. Thanks for the vids. Solid info

Thank you for this! The advice on control and development changed my game from one that I was about to give up on to where I have more money than I know what to do with. I didn't realise they were that important :o

thank you so much for creating this tutorial series. it would be impossible for me to play this game without your work

nice video´s man looked almost everyone up for ck3 and now i have even more fun playing it thanks

yesssssssssss I was waiting for this video!! preesh you good sir!

Great vids (i pretty much see u as one of my council members at this point). For folks out there doing the same, one word of caution with the advice at 17:30 : be careful about wandering blindly into your allies' wars, check *their* enemy's allies first. Doing this backfired badly on me once when as a mid level king I ended up making some very powerful enemies. As in a lot of CK3 strategies, think carefully about risk vs reward.

I've been looking for a money guide. Thank you!

Another great video, thanks again! 👍🏼👍🏼

Very informative, thank you very much. I really needed it.

These guides are so helpful. I started my first run as the Chieftan of Austisland in 867 and I've been sort of stumbling through the game figuring it out as I go along. I just managed to become the King of Scotland through subjugation at 891 and form the 'Kingdom of Greater Iceland' with vassalized territory in Ireland and Norway and strong alliances with both Bjorn the King of Sweden, and Halfdan the King of England.

I loved your video! You made this game much more enjoyable to me! Thank you so much👋

Great tutorial! Thank you!

Thanks for this, helped me out a great deal!

Thank yo Igor this video, there’s so much to this game, it’s so easy to overlook something as important as the concept of control

These videos have been helping me out heaps with the game, so thanks very much

Great video and content, you explain things very well

Awesome Video. I am new to these types of games, and this helped me a TON.

Amazing tutorial. Thanks 👌

Idea for another guide: buildings/holdings. When we do want to invest in building, should we go after certain buildings? Certain holding types? Upgrading holdings? That sort of thing. Good stuff all around, thanks for your videos!

Some high value prisoners add to warscore so be careful when ransoming them out. You may loose warscore because of it.

Thanks for the tips!

Thank you so much for this vid! I had a lot of trouble building my economy and it got to the point where i unified Hispana but only got 11/gold a month!

Just a clarification so you know. The reinforce check box doesn't remove the upkeep of MAA entirely just the cost to make more units. Because of this after they are all full the cost goes down automatically no need to uncheck the box.

I'm new to the crusader kings series. I'm loving this game but there's so much to learn, and your vids have been very helpful.

thank man! great info

Damn this is one that I need, I always enter in a war that just empty my treasures and I never came up again, thanks for the video!

Thanks my brother man!

Incredibly useful, thank you SO much!! I'd love to see a video on having a good army, I'm always stuck with a just decent army :(

Awesome video. I’ve always thought I was a good strategy game player, until I started this game and was absolutely overwhelmed by every aspect that was being thrown at me

Good vid, thanks!

Thank u so much I was so lost and I just kept trying and trying and fighting the grain now I understand

Nice work

Best CK3 guide videos on youtube.

Thanks for this. Always struggling for money. This is a big help

Gent in Agrigento is read like the gent in gentle. Thank you very much for this video!

Been having so much trouble with this and there is a lot of great info and I am not even finished with the video.

These tutorials are really useful.

Really nice videos on crusader kings 3. I was looking into buying CK3 but it seemed pretty daunting to start from zero. Your videos do a good job in explaining the game.

This channel really is great.

Thank you for this!

Great tutorial. I think own domains are a bit op in 3. I always nerf the demesne limits in the settings. Brings more balance imo

This video is... gold! Thanks!

I have watched enough of your content, and have learned a lot. I went ahead and picked it up from you. cheers

This was extremely informative. I'm just getting into the game (adulting getting in the way).

WOW thanks dude , this video Made me so better in this Game 👍

I love how you had to add "and in your face" to maintain reference to the use of the phrase "full monty"

this tutorial is underrated

Great video :)

Perfect, really

Hey I’m a new sub. I just wanted to say thanks for these guides it made this very complex game much easier to understand. I wish i knew about your channel before i bought the game. I would have loved to use your steam key so you could get a commission. But I’ll just have to support you by hitting that like and subscribing. 🤙🏾

One of the best Guide Ive ever seen. Man You should conduct trainings :D

Thanks for this video bro, made me wanna play ck3 again. Money is always the thing I hate, finally thanks to this video I feel I got a much better grasp of it.

Ask and you shall receive! Thanks for making this video! Overall I think my biggest issue with keeping my wealth up is not staying at max domain holdings. As I expanded I was giving away counties by granting a lot of duke-level titles. By doing that I was hurting my income a lot.

Thanks man , Now i can Manage my Kingdom more easily because money is No more a Big problem to me

Being a Vassal can be good, too. As my Liege's Stewart I get 3gp/month plus a 20% bonus to my Domain Taxes. In addition, building are 20% cheaper. When I was a Spymaster, I got 40 dread and bonus to scheme completion.

This guide is fantastic. Money is so hard to get in the game. More Crusader Kings 3 guides :D

Thanks for the video!!!! I still have a hard time with all of the mechanics though i did manage to build the kingdom of vladimir, so you can still do pretty decent without being a master. However, i am now kicking myself that i didnt use the golden obligations and spymaster ability as i could have been far more advanced than i am now... Good tips!!!

Thanks very helpful! The only problem with the rightful liege penalty is that as King of Sicily you are only allowed to hold two duchies without upsetting your vassals.

Whenever I find myself in a struggle, especially economically, I remember Crusader Kings and be thankful for playing it because it taught me how to save my ass from occasional bankrupts, create new income sources and pull the strings in a social environment

These tutorials are great.

I posted this on another tip video, but a pretty substantial portion of my income has come from imprisoning then banishing my archbishop. You can excommunicate him before imprisoning for no tyrrany, and it's a better conversion of piety to gold then asking the pope for money if you've got a decent domain.

I got really into CK3 while I had Covid in February and these guides have made me feel like a Petty King who has their shit together. Thanks!

Ty for video

I've been watching all of your videos to push me a ahead as the jarl of iceland. Im playing the game through game pass but because you got me into a game i never thought i would like so much im going to buy the steam key to help you out

a nice way to cash in is with special buildings. certain counties have rare or unique buildings like mines, holy sites, palaces, etc., and some of them generate a LOT of gold (especially the mines.) if the special building is in a vassal's control, you'll have to extract the gold from them somehow. for example if you're playing Sardinia, there's a bishopric in Iglesias that has a silver mine. if you build the mine then every decade or so you can imprison and banish the priest of that temple to squeeze 1500+ gold out of him

One incredibly useful tip that I do not think was mentioned in the video is to build multiple castle holdings in your capital county (at least at the start). If you for example hold the county of Paris, you can have up to 4 castle holdings in your direct control where you receive 100% of the taxes and levies. You will also get any modifiers that your capital county may have onto your holdings. What I like about this is that you will ALWAYS have multiple holdings guaranteed. There won't be a succession where you find yourself down to 1 holding. If you want to expand to more provinces and you find yourself always at max holdings, then just give the castle title to someone and take it back in the future if needed. By doing this you may find yourself as a simple count with 1 single county title, but rivaling major powers in gold income and army.

I watch one of your early vids - i was having a hard time understanding the game. But now, i am starting to GIT GUT!! As i said, my friend that i played with likes to play as the Duchess Matilda. You told me to go with "Duke of Apulia" and at the moment, we are having a blast. We have huge armies, nice incoming, some of our characters are good some of them a straight up shit, but that is what you get. This game is awesome! And thank you for the advise on what to pick. Good day to you sir.

How do percentages add up? eg Collecting taxes +2%, Stewardship +14%? On which amount?

Isn't the "not rightful liege" minus a flat 0.75, not multiplied by 0.75? So it's not 75% lost, but rather 0.75 gold out of his ten owed, then reduced to 7.1% from his taxation?

You save my life ! I like this game but the tutorial haven't explained all these to noob !

Combining the demand gold for hooks and placing a good spymaster in the court of a high level leader can rake in huge amounts of gold over time. And strong hooks can be pressed for gold every 5 years!

When developing your holdings, when is the point where you would want to settle an empty area over upgrading existing buildings? And which kind of settlement will make more money? A city, a church or a castle? Does developing get diminishing returns? Or should you just deep developing until it is a 100/100 and only ever switch to taxation when you ugently need cash?

One thing I love and gate about these types of videos is as a player I know 90%of this already! Just show me the 10% I dont know. Good video other wise thank you

About the war loot thing: do you always get the loot of holdings when you win the siege? I am doing a Norse campaign in 800 something and I get the feeling that I am not getting the money in wars. Is it only possible to get that by raiding? Also, I would love some other tips for tribal campaigns and pagan faith. Keep up the good work!

18:30 The cost of raising your MAA and your levies is higher than the returns from looting or captives.

13:26 - Not sure, but I think you are not losing 75% off these taxes, but only 25%. In the description it says x0.75 (multiply by 0,75), so if you got 10 gold from normal taxes, with the modifier you get 7,5 gold.

I noticed your counties were at 19 development. Is this a good number to decide to move on to develop another? And thank you so much for your guides! Clear, easy to understand and very watchable!

How do you decide between building a city vs temple vs castle holding? Is it the same as in CKII? Where basically it was always build cities+tradeports in coastal provinces, and inland build enough castles to have an army and then build only cities

This game is so deep it’s overwhelming

Ransom and Raiding >>> Domain / Vassel income, thus says the Dread Empress of Danelaw

There is a very important thing about holding in this game and it's that, since you are locked into Partition for a long time, your capital County (As long as your system is not elective) will always be inherited by your Heir, what you can do is pick a the county that can hold the most Holdings as your capital and build 3 baronies there, since this is the minimum holdings you can have a duke you will always have a good powerbase, from there you build at least 1 gold and military buildings there and you can have 2K levies while owning a single county, so far the best one I've found for this, and i'ts my current campaing is Zahumlje, for some reason this country alone can have 8 holdings!!!, provided it's mountains so development is a bit slower my goal is to play tall by just being the king of Croatia and invest into this country to be able to challenge much bigger kingdoms. Other good options are Praha, Ile de France (Farmlands) and Plzeñ. If you make these your capital, and with your first and second ruler you invest into the first 3 points of Architect you can get massive returns for the rest of your dynasty.

Great video. I’m just starting out in the game so sorry if this is a noob question. When you conquer a neighbouring province you have claim to you end up with a defeated guy who hates you as a vassal. What are some of/the best ways of dealing with a vanquished vassal that hates you? You can’t just strip his title but it would be a lot of work to make him like me. I wasn’t too sure what to do so I sent my spy master to the region to hopefully get some dirt on him where I could force him out or get a strong hook on him. Any info on dealing with problem vassals would be appreciated thanks