I have been diligently watching your guides and I am sure everyone will join me in congratulating you on the level of clarity, simplicity and efficiency that you attain in each one! They are brilliant! Well done! In response to your query about future videos, I would be very interested in : 1. diving deeper into vassal management 2. how you go about deciding how many dukes and counts to have proportional to the amount of land you own 3. better understanding land ownership efficiency as a king, as a head of a house, as a head of a dynasty (i.e. should a king really be owning counties or only duchies and to what degree?) All this whilst avoiding giving too much land and authority to vassals. You may have already touched upon this and I would happily welcome you guiding me back to those videos. However, this area is currently where I am having difficulty. (ATM: 40+ hours of gameplay on tutorial to best understand game mechanics before beginning my first real experience)

Spartacus, please help, I want to build a Keep building, but it's not available anywhere in my holdings. Which technology is needed to build a Keep?

The Keep is needed to upgrade some buildings beyond 3rd level, so it's super important.

Click on the castle.. You'll see all. The building slots at the bottom? Well. Right above those and BELOW the number for levies it'll be the chief building of that holding. Select that and upgrade it. It should cost around 800 gold :)

OHHH amazing suggestions. I do have a vassals/court video I'm working on!

Veryyyy strong!

Oh man that's such high praise. Thank you so much for watching and enjoying the content brother. Plenty more to come with tons more historical enthusiasm hahaha

Exposure will also work for any culture that shares your religion, so you SHOULD always have some form of exposure benefit

I find this mechanic weird. It would make more sense in my opinion if exposure of one innovation was independet from the exposure of other innovations. Obviously it would be needed to be nerfed a bit then

Awesome point. If you get 50%, but still haven't hit the required year for that Era, you can't specialize in those innovations. Sorry about the misinformation there man.

yeah the game is very much not an auto-pilot game.. you really have to constantly be managing every aspect of it!

@@italianspartacus I just love how it makes you feel more involved. I could spend entire CK2 playthroughs without making use of most of my council, but in this game you have to constantly plan ahead, and use several functions to make sure your hard work doesn't crumble from one failed war, or a trippy succession.

@@admontblanc Ya I kinda base my whole game around what my council is doing

Thanks Cad!!!

Finally, a game where my friends won't make fun of me for playing tall because it's actually an optimal strat in mid game.

Thank you so much for watching dude. I'm just happy you're enjoying the content and the game, don't worry about the purchase link :)

Oh dude not even a problem. I'm just happy to help you enjoy the game :)

Did you check out the combat video I put up!? did that help any?! :D

No problem dude. Thank YOU for watching

You're gold bro. Thanks for watching dude. Always see your comments

Hahahah they have a few times :) but thank you brother. I'm glad you're enjoying it if you have any questions, please let me know!

Thank you so much dude

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So that would seem to be the case, but in the instance shown in the video. I'm Sicily, and Swabia is all the way up in thr HRE. They share a border with an ally, so maybe that's it, but it seems that exposure is random

@@italianspartacus I believe that since your ally is in the latin group too, the exposure counts for you both.

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I have to check this because I have the perk on another character and it wasn't adding up, but I didn't think to multiply by 1.35 so thank you so much dude and I apologize for the error if I am indeed off on this

Hahahaha thanks so much dude

Thanks brother!

I unified Ireland, took 20 years, died, my crown went to my oldest son, also the one with the worst stats out of my 3 kids(my youngest had fucking genius and at least 10 in all base stats) then every single one of my fucking vassals called me a tyrant because I revoked my rivals title, who also murdered my wife, lost almost all my kingdom, then I gave up and started a new game

Oh shucks that rough! My learning guy created a religion now. Got Wales and most of Scotland. Just still trying to get feudal.

@@stepheningram6415 nice, I just founded the kingdom of Sicily and I’m planning on uniting Italy, but the Baltic kingdoms are so hard to invade because it’s just mountains, half my army dies just sieging one place since the supply is so low

I lost Wales…… didn’t realize a king title would be created….. got Scotland though.

@@stepheningram6415 that sucks, but I managed to get the land of Italy under one empire, but the Croatians are in the way of finishing my conquest, and my stewardship guy died and my bastard heir had spent the first 7 years of his reign stopping everybody from rebelling and becoming independent, the good thing is that he got the crown at 16 and he has midas touched and genius, so he has high stats with 26 in stewardship

One at a time, yes! :)

Oh absolutely!! But it's also the average and you run into diminishing returns where you can increase your entire domain holdings overall instead, which increases your taxes and levies. If you have 5 neighboring counties, all with 10 development, it's rhe same average if you increase all to 11 rather than one to 15 and the rest stay at 10. You might as well get the increasing benefit of taxes and levies to try and help with development across the board!

Developing diffrent counties also makes sense if you hold 2 duchies that are not neighbouring each other. Like Latium(where rome is) and Sicily since the development would take ages to spill over to there

But the higher the development, the higher the spillover effect. Whereas keeping all your regions on the same dev doesn't give the neighbor bonus. I think focusing dev on one county that's central to slot of your other counties is better for increasing average dev as a result.

So it depends if it's your personal holding or not. You can appoint a vassal to the desired county that is English, they will convert it for you! Pretty quickly too. Or, you get a steward with very high stewardship.

You dont need to be a king to have influence over a culture. 867 start as Duke of Barcelona you can culture convert to catalan and start your own culture as culture head. I believe its same with Duke of Toulouse as he starts as head of occitain culture as King is France culture, or will become French soon. Only thing is king and vassals will get a negative not of our culture malaus.

@@Zombie1Boy didn't say you had to be a king, but you have to be independent or hope your liege is of a different culture. if you wanna play as a vassal and have any influence on tech then you're out of luck

Yeah and converting to another culture so that its diffrent from your liege is not that much of an issue, but they will start offering you with guardian offers to convert culture of your children, every time you refuse its -15 relations

Yes! You should be the culture head I believe. It is whoever has the most counties. He'll have claim and you'll be his liege, but you should still be the culture head

Oh dude not even a problem. I'm just happy you're learning and able to play on your own :)

@@italianspartacus besides when you would mention in any video in the future how the dynastie head is choosen would help a lot i think, i googled it and even went into wiki and forums but somehow it seems noone has a clue haha maybe you know it.

I SHOULD have covered it in the Dynasty & REnown video, but it's whoever has the most counties, just like the Culture head :)

@@italianspartacus then i overheard it thanks, and my game had a mistake, someone else was the head for 20 years when my king died. i had only one heir so the titels did not change but i lost the head of the dynastie

@@illumin4t152 I think its a bug, later on in the game I always seem to lose culture head for a couple of months on succession (even if I am of age)

It is definetly not worth combining exposure with fascination. While exposure will be finished in around 50 years fascination will cut this time to around 20, in the meantime you can do two fascinations 25 years each if you leave exposure be on its own (im taking these numbers in tribal low develop counties i like to play recently and high learning skill ruler). In result you will have 3 innovation techs in 45 - 50 years instead of one a bit early if you go for exposure/fascination. 40 learning skill is not that high, i had my mastermind philosopher in his late 50 learning at 80 points. Genius traits, some temporal events and most important, while rising your child take his future wife under your guardship too and make her most suits your needs, she can reach learning at 30 - 35 points its over 15 for your ruler.

Man.. I didn't even think to check that once. Great call. I'll load the save and check :)

@@italianspartacus man I haven't even finished the video and you're already on it :D

They'll do it naturally as long as the vassal in charge of that land is the culture you want. Spreading culture is a sort of wasted action in my opinion, better off increasing development :)

@@italianspartacus like you said though, you can just convert culture on counties with high development to increase the average development.

You play a dangerous game because you have to constantly deal with opinion issues. Also, you lose one stage of crown authority when you pass your kingdom to your heir. Your heir already has a huge negative modifier for being in a short reign, while you had a massive bonus for being in a long reign. So doing that will make succession WAY harder on you

I checked :( I deliberately put her on manage domains. It's a weird, random 2%

I'm doing exaclty that with Bohemia, it's perfect for that. All counties are grouped around Prague for development leech and you get house seniority through your culture as czech. So partition is not a problem, so you can keep your domain together and build it out.

Make sure that the land you give out are to people of your culture, remove as many people of other culture so you vassels spread your culture, it is very very slow to just spread it through your council

@@Stinksatthis hi, i still have the same problem, even if i get vassals from my culture only, they don't convert the land. nowadays, culture is very much too OP, all you have to do is diverge or hybride your culture to get a 1 county culture et get all the tech very easy. i think it is a problem that need fixing.

I think you get the conquest casus belli as Tribals or warmonger religions (like asatru) afaik conquering or claiming a county makes little diffrence, but I think that if you conquer a duchy you get all the counties for yourself, while claiming the duchy mostly vassalises the counts in that duchy and gives you only the lands that the previous owner of the duchy held directly

@@arbikiuszelemelek3347 👍 thanks

Yes! What he said hehe

It's in this video :) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aZxgoZqYzMmUk3k.html

@@italianspartacus Thank you good sir. My appreciation for your great work!

Not a problem friend and thanks for watching! :)

Yes you can! But you will probably lose cultural head advantages and your vassals might revolt due to cultural disparities. I believe you can just change your culture on the tab after clicking on your character: it might also be required to own land with another culture

There is no county with that culture

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If they became independent duchies, they wouldn't be paying you anything. If your king and they are still your vassals it might be due to your stewardship and other bonuses related to stewardship not being with your new heir. Oh and also since you lost direct control of those duchies you literally lose like 95% of its direct tax revenue since whoever owns it only pays like 5% tax to you or something really small. Even at absolute authority you only get like 35% of its tax revenue.

@@Zombie1Boy thanks!

Uhhh Hahahahah no but that's fucking awesome

WHAT, that is Amazing but Its hard to imagine the cause for it for me, I did see AI sweden with war elephants once though

I know right haven't had it happen again, so i think it might have been a bug.

What happens if your son dies?

@@simobrogaming3244 I get a young hot wife, with the best intellect trait, romance her, and pop out another kid... I will note that lately I have been having 2 sons, and I really REALLY work hard to get one killed in battle, or never ransom him if he gets captured. Its worked for me so far. Only once have I had a 3 yrs old son as King. I was VERY rich and paid off anyone I could with gifts, and I had plenty of money to hire mercenaries to put down any rebellions.

@@jxslayz6663 One of my favourite ways to get rid of someone is to force them into being a knight and sending them into a battle that there is no way they can win. Normally on an allies war.

@@simobrogaming3244 Thats exactly what I'm talking about. lol

"you wanna get more sleep?? Set multiple alarms. Take a mid day nap, get your legs above your heart, and pass out for a bit. Also..... Work on your innovations because norse get longships" Hahahaha thanks man, I watch him too :D

Just sow for a white peace, that should end it because you're at the proper amount!.. Or right click the Vatican, you might be able to leave the war, I'm not entirely sure

If you keep disenhereting people you will fall behind on renown

@@jromaoo you may think that but not really and the renown is just small bonuses vs having your country fall apart. I end up making like 30 renown most times

@@MrDUCKMAN5555 Dynasty renown will let you get a nice 45% chance to inherit the genius trait, which is only 15% without the dynasty bonus. Inheritance laws might not be a hill of beans if you can work around it, but crown authority is very nice since you can stop internal vassal wars.

@@Zombie1Boy let's say you got those bonuses at 60 so you already had heirs then your heirs probably have heirs so have like 4 generation before you start seen it and stopping vassal fight each other means they fight you

@@MrDUCKMAN5555 point is having a dynasty that will eventually come into being geniuses means you'll have better heirs and councilors. Your vassals will fight you one way or another eventually, at least by stopping them warring do you stop them from becoming too powerful.

Education traits and learning skill!

Ah! You can select the cultural filter to find those cultural groups, but I believe clicking the white text should show you the region. I'm not 100% sure! I'm not in front of the game right now. I'm sorry man! I didn't even think of that

You and everyone else Edward Collins. I’ve been looking for a regions map since launch, and your only option is to go regional-innovation by regional-innovation. In short, there is no map with all of them.

@@italianspartacus Maybe that's your next guide video? I will tell you something. There IS no region map. The tooltips in game say you can click to view the region, but that does nothing. As another person posted, there are no region maps, so you will have to go into the game files to find the regions (if that even exists... I've been poking around the files for a region list, but haven't found one). Or maybe, given the difficulties, that will be a future guide video.

Well fascination can 100% be explained. It's cultural exposure that seems to be entirely random

ItalianSpartacus, fair enough. Btw, if min/maxing one’s choice of fascination, there is sometimes a case to select a non-exposure innovation: when the progress chance of the innovation significantly exceeds 100%

Personally much prefer this way the tech is done, the bonuses are way more 'tangible' in most cases, its not amazing but still improved

Yes! Building taller and not wider is a very good strategy in this game

I wouldn't say that. I can picture some people who play Total War would find these games too complicated while others like me feel the deep mechanics of Paradox games is what TW games are missing