This video (and all the others) have been so helpful. I’m still bumbling about a bit but absolutely loving the game. Early days with Gwent but having loads of fun.

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Keep your head down, work hard, don't expect anything from your efforts except what you receive, do right by others, and be honest with everyone.. Yourself chief among all. And workout three days a week

@@italianspartacus Haha. Thank you. That's damn good advice.

@@italianspartacus can confirm on this guide, already level 31. I would add you need to start branching into an investment tree in the later stages or you'll screw up your endgame.

@@italianspartacus I’d prefer to have people do that for me

@@italianspartacus Is there a way to lower the difficulty? I just started and It is a pain

I go north Korea occasionally just to clean everything up (with intrigue character ofcourse)

Maybe kill them?

Murder scheme.... :)

Do not give up. It is possible to come back. Sometimes the game decides to bite you in the face, that is normal.

I almost got there, too. My emperor of India died at age of 64 and my 30 years old heir with genius, hercules and handsome son took over. Well, he managed to get a pretty good son and got his wife pregnant a second time (for my luck). He died not ruling for one whole year! So my 1 year old son got the empire. I threw all of my money at my vassals because there isn't much else to do as a child and I got them mostly happy with me. In the meantime my brother got born but he hadn't that good stats.. My 1 year old ruler got murdered, too - so there I was again, 0 years old and everybody hating me.. With my dynasty members helping - and a great amount of luck - I managed to smash the fraction against me that wanted my aunt to get the empire (what wouldn't be so nice). After that I looked up my primary heir and it was my 48 years old uncle, so I gave him one of my two empires and somehow got through puberty! When I was 16, I made him my vassal again and searched for secrets at his court. It tourns out he murdered my father (his younger brother that I made my heir), because he was pissed of not getting the title. So I made this secret official and imprisoned him. I beat the *** out of him in jail so he told me he also murdered my brother to get the next heir! End of the story: He died in my jail with 65 getting nothing but pain from his actions

That's why you marry your dynasty members into your powerful vassal positions(If possible). You should also pick up a habit to tutor your powerfull vassals heirs. It's hard to control your direct vassals, but you have significant power to lay the foundation for the heir of the powerfull vassal. Making sure the heir get a great education is important, that +8 in a primary skill make them more likely to be usefull on the council It ain't strange that the A.I will put their heirs under horrible guardians(especially if they are horrible themselves). So keep making sure your courtiers are married to decent guardians, usually all my knights are married to at least a quick spouce with decent stats that way you can host more of your vassals childrens as wards and you will end up with more strong options for vassal spouces trought the courtiers offspring. Making sure the heir is married to a genius/intelligent spouce also significantly improves their stats(trought spouce) if the spouce is of your dynasty you can also negotiate a alliance if you need too at succession. The next heir will also be more likely to have +stats due to congenital traits. By controling the vassals in this way you ensure they at least have ~15 stats in the primary lifestyle when they turn 16 and you can appoint them to the council without any worries of great losses. Sure It might sting a bit to pass up on a 20+ council member, but when a powerfull vassal sits on -90 and want to start a faction against you... I'd rather take the 16 year old +15 guy. I currently rule whole India and most of the middle eastern part of the map. It starts to get rather messy now thou... since i had to make vassals kings due to the vassal limits.

I was so pissed after I finished my rebellion that I executed all the vassals that was involved, even my king's family members lol.

@@Ne0c225 lol... I also got pissed today. Was leaning back fighting against the byzantines near Israel and suddenly my emperor just died(due to health) at the age of 41... I was lucky he only had one son or it could had been a nightmare. So his kid... erm came to power at the age of 8... So when you hovering around 50 vassals and you see a liberty faction with 30+ members you acctually get really worried. To solve this i had to go against my own playstyle, so i married off my sisters to the strongest contributors... ignoring the warnings of incest. Also sent off some of them to become wards and bribed any vasssal who might change his mind(25-50 positive range post bribe). In the end I ended up fighting 27 vassals on my own and I'm amazed that I won that fight to be fair. After doing all that work I realized they just wanted less crown authority and going from Absolute to high would not had been a big deal... I had to take a break due to stress just making me angry at that point XD Well At least it was a perfect time to change some of the contracts, I really like when they have the coinage rights active etc. since growth = king in this game.

The more videos I make, the more I realize I need to delete all my saves and start over hahaha

I just got the game, I feel the same lol

Thank YOU for watching! :) I make the chapters to help but I'm glad there was still enough to help you out hahaha

It might be worth it to keep the rug, if you know who sent it and can end the murder scheme - or if your scheme defense is so high the scheme won't succeed anyway!

I thought it was a pleasant gift the whole time....

So that rug was a attempt on my life!

@@n.asalim3988 Legend has it that's how Cleopatra gained access to Caesar after fleeing Egypt. It likely isn't true, probably romanticized but I'm pretty sure that's the reference here.

and that's how china was formed

Dread is the easiest way to keep you vassals in line but it is also variable to be compassionate and befriend all you vassals into compliance without ever raising a single point of dread.

Makes it harder for the heir though

Same here !

its true....this guy has taught me so much about this game haha

It’s just the Spartacus way

Everytime he drops a video I have to restart my campaign

Thanks so much man :) glad you're enjoy it!

Backstabbing little prick! I MADE YOU! The last word of - julius caesar. RIP. Edit: got the worng caesar lol.

Sounds like the quickest way to die.

Haha so true. I once did and the super funny thing was he was set to Disrupt Schems and the event came out that (let's call him John): John find out that John is trying to kill you (he literally reported himself) :) he had +100 to me all the time

@@Heart0rHead "Hey dad, I found out someone is plotting to kill you" "Oh my god! And who is it??" "Hmm....me"

@@alexmorrison3442 tried it in CK2 I died 2 seconds later 🤣

Thanks so much man! Welcome to the family :) Since your avatar is the "This is fine" dog, you probably noticed him in the background of my streams ;) I have a stuffed version of him

thank you so much man! glad to have you counted among the family! :) please let me know if you need help with anything

Glad I could help! :)

hopefully in the future i can be so lucky hahaha :)

So glad to hear it man :)

Thank you so much brother! :) Glad it helped out! I'm waiting for the next DLC to do another set of Guides!!

Thanks so much for watching.. That's such high praise :)

Thank you so much man, very high praise :)

I sent him this screenshot. He will appreciate it hahahah. Thanks so much man :)

hahaha my pleasure man, thanks so much for watching! :D

thank YOU so much for watching!! :)

they have, sometimes i'm a big ole idiot hahaha

@@italianspartacus great video anyways and I learned a lot! Thanks

Thank you for watching! :)

HAHAHAH I'm so sorry man!

@@italianspartacus I can only imagine the pain it took to make these… Herodotus of CK3 we thank you

My pleasure dude!!

My pleasure man! :) Happy to help out brother!

@@italianspartacus I had to start a civil war to repair the mess my vassals were xD This liege gonna be the tyrant till his last days

It would just break the system lol But you can still carry out a hostile and friendly scheme simultaneously

YEah me too man!

The problem with that is that you get penalty for the levies and gold you get from the vassals of your vassal. While if he hand the entire Duchy you will get much more. Or am I wrong ?

Hahaha hey man! That's how you learn!

Thank you so much! That's such high praise man hahaha

@@italianspartacus well deserved

Absolutely man thanks so much for watching. So glad it helped :)

Thanks brother. Always great to see your comments!

have you found a solution yet? I'm having the same problem right now lol. right now I'm just creating kindom titles inside my empire, granting them away and then assigning vassal (in the menu "realm (F2)" i can't grant any vessels anymore since my vessels are pretty much all the same level right now, that's why I'm creating these kingdom titles)

@@shaquiwaki Nope started building tall instead :-P Just as fun and more manageable ;-)

Happy to help out my dude

From my experience, you just have to learn to live with the mess. It's just the way it is, try to organize stuff that you conquer from the counties up, but when you get vassals that are all over the place, just roll with it.

Hmm.. I'm not sure to be honest. I'd think giving them independence or allowing your dynasty to make cadet branches would be for the best

Get into it bro, it’s amazing! The tutorial in the game is a massive help and will make the game seem a lot less daunting.

Yes... My friend in a Multiplayer game is playing as a Duke under me and my Brother is acting up so I just gave him to my friend and said "He's your problem now"

I just encourage them to revolt, then I imprison and revoke their titles and give them to my family 😂

@@paulsimons769 Or just sleep with married men, narc on them, then revoke titles, all as empress lol. Pardon me, literally.

Yes, the best combo was my Duchs in my Kingdom of Portugal doing an hostile takeover on me the exact year I inherited the kingdom xD Fuckers caught me in the middle of a holy war against muslims and without alliances because I had just inherited xD

@@st4rpt_603 I tried a Portugal campaign and it's hard af. From what i can remember, i needed a strong alliance in the beginning, France was the one i was able to get. Because as soon as you declare independence you get insta nonstop gangbanged from the Muslims and Spanish. Ultimately, with a lot of loading saved games, was able to ward off both, found peace with the Spanish since we had a common enemy, and then focused on the Muslims. As soon as i got Granada as capital and Cordoba as money maker, it was gg, no more saved game loadings needed (did like 10 in total, most at the beginning). Stopped paying the game entirely with most of Northen Africa, all Iberic peninsula and South of France as Empire of Portugal. It became to easy and repetitive. Granada is quite defendable and Cordoba has nice gold income plus some bonus I don't remember, a special building of sort. Getting this setup for your family to always inherit will make you invincible since you'll always make the most gold and you won't be conquered. PS: I don't know if any of this is still viable since played it a year ago.