Beginner's Guide: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n5-AZZdp1dHLiX0.html 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.

Early Medieval King be like: I love all my children equally, so I will give each of my children an equal share of all the land that I have spent years acquiring so that they can spend years fighting amongst each other.

So I gave my son his own Dutchy after winning 4-5 wars and gathering them up. He waited till I was in debt and then declared war on me. Now he's the king and I am a farmer. I needed this.

This game is terrifying. When did beginner tips and tricks videos turned into 30+ lectures

ItalianSpartacus: I'm sorry these Succession Laws are so confusing. Ever Empire in History that fell due to Succession Civil Wars: Yeah, we're sorry too.

It simplifies after you get your basic training done, let's call it 1000 hours.

This really clears up why my Kingdom of Ireland got messed up so much after the dead of my first character.

We should emphasize that Emperor, King, and Duke titles have NO effect on your Domain limit. Even Count titles don't really. It's the number of *Baronies* that you control directly that make up your Domain. When you hold a County, you also hold the capital Barony. In your example, you held 4 County titles with their associated capitals and one extra Barony. That put you over your Domain limit.

I'm a bit surprised that the option to disinherit your children wasn't mentioned. It can work wonders to prevent the realm breaking into pieces.

I find this aspect of the game to be the most confusing part of the whole thing, this guide definitely helped clear things up (a bit lol), loving all these videos keep em coming!

Honestly, out of all "tutorials" I watched, for the various games I have played over the last 15 years, your guides are probably the best structured ones. Very helpfull, without ever getting repetitive or boring, despite their length.

Your explanation of titles distribution is somewhat wrong. Your heir doesn't inherit your oldest title but your primary title. In your example even if you had the duchy of Apulia as your oldest title, but had chosen as your primary title the duchy of Sicily, your heir would take that title and not Apulia. Inheritance doesn't look at age of the said title. What it looks is what you have chosen as your primary title (which can be chosen among titles of equal rank) and what is not. If you had 2 kingdom titles (ie Sicily and Italy, with Sicily being the first you created), and have chosen as your primary title the Kingdom of Italy, that title is the one your heir will inherit, Not the Kingdom of Sicily, which most probably will end at the second in line.

Just remember the byzantine empire starts with primageneture. Its the new tutorial empire.

Thank you!

It just says a lot about the human condition that dividing everything fairly is about the worst thing you can do. Thanks for the info!

Honestly I have a good grasp of the game (with like 600 hours in CK2 already), but I still enjoy these videos for the CK3 discussion and strategy. Thank you.

Honestly such a helpful video that enabled me to fix my succession issues in my Ireland play-through. Thank you!

I've been wanting to get into Crusader Kings for years, and with 3 rolling out I knew it was a good point to jump in. Your videos help a ton, thanks a bunch!

Just got the game and started playing it. Your videos are extremely helpful! Quick and clear explanations are hard to come by. Many thanks!

1. One thing most people fail to mention about succession is that the best way to not get overthrown by your siblings after succession and/or to reconquer your lost land is don't give the heir's siblings land before you die. This stops them from having a large standing army of archers and footmen and such to fight against. When you die, your elite units pass between father to son, but the other recipients are starting at square 1 with income and those units if you didn't give them land before you died. You can easily overthrow them if you don't let them get those armies before succession. 2. Another thing is if you have a chance to give the primary heir land holdings before you die do that too. It gives them a chance to build some of those elite army units like you hold, and they get added to yours if yours aren't already maxed out. 3. Executing heathens is a good way to fill your dread meter when you take over with an heir as well. It stops the revolting landed people from stacking up 12 armies against you. It might reduce that stack from 12 armies to 4 and stop them from being able to revolt in the first place. Try not to have "Just" heirs, as they get stress from executing people. These 3 pieces of advice with what's in the video will help you manage to maintain 3 empires with tribal law. Get huge elite army, re-conquer the lost empire titles right when succession happens, get back to expanding domain. Rinse and repeat. This is the only way I could think of to take all of Africa for the achievement with Daura's medium difficulty start. Switching to feudal mid-dynasty reduces your income and militia too much to compensate if you're already multiple empires deep with expansion by the time you can switch. Option B would probably be to tyranny steal all of the titles for every county in your empire and switch so nobody can revolt while you re-upgrade your county infrastructure.

Yes, you pronounced Luki (Луки) correctly: [LOO-kee] Literally it means "bows" which is reflected in its coat of arms containing 3 bows. However, the emblem is just a wordplay, and originally the region/city was called so because of a meandered river flowing there.

I don't think the succession laws can be explained any better! Thanks a lot! Also, the tips at the very end are very helpful.

These two tutorials were the most enlightening of the many CKII tutorials I skimmed through. I feel like I get it now. I thought after playing a shit ton of Stellaris (on console) and some EUIV that CKIII would be a breeze to figure out but it really wouldn't have been without these videos.

Your last tutorial video was really helpful, I’m learning a lot - still the succession mechanic is the most confusing for me but Ive learned a lot from this video - thanks!!

Simply the best tutorials I've seen so far. Succession laws were really well explained there. Will definitely check rest of the tutorials too.

Incredibly helpful video. Thanks so much for posting this.

Very well done and exactly what I was looking for. Paradox should hire you to do their tutorial videos...you've got the voice for it.

This game is going to force me to learn about all of these people and these times. Love this game this is why I built a PC lol my kingdom shall rise above all others nerds

Thanks for the guide! Very comprehensive and informative

Your guides make it sooooo clear and easy to understand

I love this man thank you. Subscribed

Great video man. Helped clear a few things up for me. Appreciate it

Great stuff in all your videos. Watched a bunch bcs I just started the game. Great content and well explained. You seem passionate by the period. Keep up the work!

Very much appreciate all of your videos! So clear and detailed.

Thank you ItalianSpartacus!

Youre videos are helping me so much just getting into the game thank you

You have made lots of great and helpful videos. Thank you!

This video was amazingly informative. Thanks a million! 1st time CK player so all of this was super confusing.

You making my experience so much easier man. Watched pretty much all of your tips videos for CK3. Thanks alot man!

Thank you for the guide. Very useful to me

Really awesome, clear explination man, keep up.

Thank you, I actually need help with this

Thank you for this amazing video. So clear and I finally understand now. Really made my playthroughs much easier to navigate. I basically just need to get to high partition and kill all bad sons.

One of the best strategy I find is when you have a duchy and own most of the countys in it (which you should have for centralisation of power), you can change the title law of the Duchy title to feudal elective (number of vote per county's). And vote for your heir since you own the majority of votes (If he's not the one inheriting it this works to give all county's under that duchy to the hier.) Saves 4 county's going to some other son

Thanks for this i’m just getting into this again and need help. This is crucial information which explains why your realm can shrink when you die.

Thank you. :) This is definitely helpful.

So this is unbelievable how much info you got out there. Very well done. For me the succession laws were the biggest part of why I was so hesitant to buy myself this game. And I must say I'm still not convinced, even so, I bought it recently. I have the feeling the fact alone that you must deal with this kind of succession is worth another video of yours. How about a tutorial in which you show the ways you can deal with it, which consequences they have and what might be the best strategy of dealing with it.

Thank you so much for these videos keep it up man

Man, you are born mentor/teacher. Great videos, best luck

Fratello, we really like ALL the same games! This video helped a lot graziiiiie

These videos are a god send. The tutorial does an ample job of giving you the basics, but I still lacked so much actual useful knowledge!

Very challenging game to learn and this was really the last thing that had me confused but now cleared up thanks

That really helped thank you so much!

One more item to add to my checklist in Word for the game, but VERY well covered.

I really enjoy your videos! I’m learning a lot! There’s so much to this game it’s crazy. Thanks!! 😁

Thank you, man! I love this game but it really can be sometimes over dense and any help is welcome!!

Thank you, I really need this video!

Seriously man, thank you so much for your guides. I have watched countless vids already trying to figure out how the very basic LAND works in the game, because starting in Ireland in the tutorial was confusing me because of neighbouring areas - Munster/Desmond etc. - couldn't figure out what was barony / couty / dutchy etc - this makes it much clearer (as well as your starting guide), and the extra 'counties' view finally answered my Qs!!

Very useful, have been playing ck2 for years and ck3 a lot this days but still have learned a few things from the video, thanks.

This is so helpful!! I've been killing my other sons to keep all titles (which isn't always ideal when your only remaining male heir unexpectedly dies) but I will play around with these tips tonight!

I needed this badly. Thanks. I would work up a nice petty king and then see all his progress disappear and then came the rebellions, civil wars and poaching from neighbors. I don't know if I can prevent it.. but now I have a chance. Don't know how many times I have opened the Realms tool and NOT clicked on the Succession tab.. where most of the needed information rests.

Oh man, i bought the game before i knew your channel. Otherwise, i'd definetly buy using your link. Awsome work

Your vids are amazingly clear! Love the game so far!

Im new to the game, since it recently came to Xbox. Thanks for this guide... it was literally, a game changer!!!

Thanks for clearing this up.

I just played ck3 for the first time yesterday and I finally understood why there were communication issues with new-to-ck players when using the term gavelkind. I had not realized they don't use that terminology anymore. This video is very informative, well done! Do you know how claims are handed out in succession with this game? In CK2, sometimes (I still don't fully understand how it works) the other children will get claims to your heirs titles, which made it risky to land you children because they'd become claimants after succession.

Great video, i learnt so much. your very good at explaining things. Subscribed! :)

yeah im not sure when it was, but you said like a sentence that made everything click at once in terms of if you hold equal to land value as someone else they become independent. appreciate you man haha. wish i saw this before i bought it full price on a whim after playing old world lol. forgot it was paradox so this will be an interesting experience of a different prolonged campaign, but this helped me understand how to get past the beginning of the game. appreciate you

I am 110% new to CK in general. Inheritance laws ( All the Partitions ) had always confused me and this video has helped me A LOT, I now know I gotta get Partition so no random kingdoms form when trying to make the Russian Empire. Thank you, very much

You're a fucking beauty, I love this game and you got a dope way of explaining stuff, there's just so much to go threw and every time I watch one of your videos you give me a new angle into the game! The intrigue diplomacy Yada Yada but I finally got to this point, where my legendary king dies and Half an empire fractured. Looking forward to watching this video

Thank you for this video.

15:00 That's why I like the Skandinavian Elective. You keep your kingdom and vassals. However, sometimes the capital changed for me when the elected heir was a vassal.

Awesome content thank you!

Very instructive !

Thanks very instructive!

Great video, but it would be nice if you also went over adding title specific laws to individual kingdoms, duchy's etc as it can give you even more fine control over who inherits what at the cost of a little prestige.

You are criminally underrated. I appreciate you, buddy. Also, can you maybe do a more in depth breakdown of the elective succession laws? I've heard mixed reviews that elective is better or worse at keeping order. It can even help determine which children get what.

Nice guide. Keep up the good work.

Your Videos are very helpful.

I watched another video of you where you touched on the succession laws and how to come around the confederate partitioning and I felt you explained really well but I still couldn't quite understand, but this one just hit the nail on the head! Thanks so much!

This was so helpful! Playing as my heir felt like starting the game over but on a higher difficulty setting, since I'd suddenly be down a ton of troops, and my vassals and neighbours would all have claims on my land. It felt like I was going no where, since I'd spend a lifetime getting back everything I had, only to die and lose it all again. At least now I have a better idea of why it was so hard, and what I can do to mitigate those issues in the future.

Thank you so I am new to crusader kings 3 and was wondering why i lost so much land when my leader died this helps a lot :)

This was a very good explanation for me, since I've struggled a bit with understanding how I can keep the land when moving from one character to another. Something I feel I would like to know more about is the crown authority, since it's close connected to the succession laws. For example, moving up the authority ladder creates a lot of headache since the vassals are getting more and more annoying to work with. Also it seems to me that the game is punishing you for trying to go to a higher authority. A video around that would be very helpful too. :)

Great explanation! Even the pronunciation of the historical figures was solid. Only tip would be I think Bohemund's name is pronounced boo-ay-mon (the 'mon' is in the French fashion)

really glad I found this video. This is the one thing about CK3 that seems endlessly convoluted. this helped a lot to understand how one might work within the confederate partition succession law

As someone coming into Crusader Kings from EU4 for the first time, this is all kind of daunting. But I know once I really get it down, I’ll love it.

Really good tutorial. Thanks

alright, u earned my sub with this explanation. very good break down, especially for a dumb noob such as i. this game looks amazing, but its so hard to digest on your own, and visual aids such as this help casual gamers speed up that process before i get frustrated and give up on what looks to be a very enjoyable game once you "get there". i look fw to checking out your other vids. as it takes me the next 20years of my life to "get there". cheers!

Am in a situation like this and this vid was super helpful thansk.

These videos are fucking life savers. THANK YOU

And subbed.... Great tutorials!

This video helped me out a lot, even if I knew most of it your vid has some nice details. I'm currently creating making mega tribal empires usually as viking and i'm having a lot of difficulty with the trenaisitoning into feudalism as in. It all goes to shit pretty fast when I do, ,or when my vassals do, Just if you lack a video idea.

My god you're a hero! I tried to give the duchies directly to my heir but couldn't (don't really know why), I'll try to give them to another vassal!

Great video series you are doing. I am confused on how to get heraldy if its required as part of the succession laws Thanks in advance

This is the best video regarding sucession laws

great and informative video mate, thank you. I'm a new player, and I've just had my character die, and my kingdom exploded between my children. now trying to work out why. cheers.

Love your channel!

super nice explanation and exactly what I needed to get demonstrated after being left with a single holding when my dude died xD if you do another one like this for properly using marriage/assassinate schemes to be op.. I might finally not suck ^_^

great insights on this topic the most confusing feature of the game and also fun to figure out what to do to maintain territory , disinherit and murder is a thing lmao

When I tried Crusader Kings II, I was so overwhelmed by the game. I liked it, but couldn't really get into it because of the complexity. I enjoy strategy games, but I'm not really that great at them. CKIII is a lot more accessible, but your video's are helping heaps. I was hoping you'd cover these subjects as I was getting a little lost in it, but it makes a lot more sense now. I started with Dublin like you suggested and it worked really well as a tutorial campaign. (Until I got greedy and crossed over to Wales and got my ass handed to me.) Thank you for taking the time to explain this! Something I'm wondering about still is buildings: when is a good time to invest into building things in your domain and what are good structures to go for? I have been mostly ignoring it unless I have a lot of gold to spare that I don't want to put into anything else.