8 BIG MISTAKES TO AVOID IN CRUSADER KINGS 3 | Beginner's Guide 11

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    In today's beginner's guide to Crusader Kings 3, we take a look at some of the biggest mistakes one can make - from military conquests to going on pilgrimage, there are countless little details that can easily be missed by those who don't know where to look.
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    00:00 - Intro
    00:48 - Don't Prematurely End Kingdom Wars
    02:49 - Don't Rely on Levies in Battle
    04:22 - Don't Forget the Knights
    06:40 - Don't Raise Every Soldier ( + How to use Rally Points)
    08:39 - Don't Rely Only on Troop Counts
    10:47 - Don't Forget Education Focus
    12:45 - Don't Ignore Diplomacy
    14:27 - Don't Underestimate Minor Decisions
    16:25 - Outro
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Komentáře • 637

  • @PartyElite
    @PartyElite  Před 3 lety +223

    I hope this clears the air about levies, army quality, educating kids, and all the other little things that might otherwise slip by! And it's all 1.1.2 tested.

    • @ruwaizk4375
      @ruwaizk4375 Před 3 lety +1

      PartyElite when will you upload plane S2 EP 35

    • @WarDankEagle
      @WarDankEagle Před 3 lety +5

      Until this video, I had no idea you could directly choose child education from a menu. I thought education was determined solely by your guardian. And I was continually baffled by it. Thanks for the enlightenment!

    • @rollercoaster478
      @rollercoaster478 Před 3 lety +2

      education is fucked up, needs serious rework. For example, I put Diplomacy focus, I pick a guardian with high learning and some of the traits I hope my kid will get, but in the end I get a kid with Intrigue traits, a sinner, and average Skill. Great fucking game.

    • @jameslarkin4567
      @jameslarkin4567 Před 3 lety +7

      @@rollercoaster478 u mad bro

    • @archenema6792
      @archenema6792 Před 2 lety +3

      "Da Zhoor". That's how you pronounce de jure, not "da jury". Say it one thousand times and you'll be .0001% less of an idiot. A small start, to be sure, but in about 10 million years you should be close to average human intelligence.

  • @Alister222222
    @Alister222222 Před 3 lety +1549

    I had NO idea even after hundreds of hours in the game that 'war for kingdom' allowed you to take territory outside the war target! Really glad I watched this.

    • @jamesdriscoll5971
      @jamesdriscoll5971 Před 3 lety +15

      Same. 🤯

    • @Lopsinho
      @Lopsinho Před 3 lety +102

      I was super confused when I was fighting for kingdom of italy against the byzantine empire and I ended up getting constantinople for war score and then it became mine.

    • @AmericanGadfly
      @AmericanGadfly Před 3 lety +8

      Yeah i didnt know that either. Good shit

    • @Jirodyne
      @Jirodyne Před 3 lety +17

      I didn't know that either, cause I only ever got the War Goal when I declared war, and I play with a Shattered World mod, so rarely get to fight actual kingdoms, and when I do fight Kingdoms, I just wipe them out and conquer everything to 100% anyways in most cases unless sick and tired of going to war after war for land and doing 8 wars at once to absorb 8 mini nations into me.
      Honestly, it Sucks it doesn't work like EU4, where you can forcefully take any land you occupy with each piece of land costing a warscore %. It's annoying as fuck when you fight someone that had only tiny bits of different dutches and even tho it's kingdom size with 10 pieces of land, it's really only 2 pieces from 5 dutchies and not even classed as a full kingdom.
      There is also a drawback of that you can only do a Kingdom Conquest once in your ruler's lifetime. So if he's long lived, you get fucked over massing land easily.

    • @popnachzahlen
      @popnachzahlen Před 3 lety +4

      ikr. its basically too good to be true!

  • @thebigshow6939
    @thebigshow6939 Před 2 lety +456

    “Don’t raise your entire force for quick outcomes” I’m gonna pretend I didn’t hear that

    • @arniepage1662
      @arniepage1662 Před 2 lety +177

      You bet your ass that I’m sending over 30000 soldiers just for 1 county

    • @TheRiddick82
      @TheRiddick82 Před 2 lety +45

      I feel this lol! I don't care if the enemy can only muster up 1000 troops I'm sending everyone!

    • @mackenziebeeney3764
      @mackenziebeeney3764 Před 2 lety +6

      Might disband half the levies if I outnumber and put quality them but if the unexpected happens it’s all in for the county.

    • @davidb3155
      @davidb3155 Před 2 lety +37

      Its not about the money, its about the message!

    • @nocommentaryvr1666
      @nocommentaryvr1666 Před 2 lety +14

      What do you mean I dont need 100k troops for a 1k troop county?

  • @yusuftemizel4715
    @yusuftemizel4715 Před 3 lety +201

    I had a knight who has provess 40 at the age of 61 he killed 170 men in one battle, so knights are important in this game

    • @cloudnite373
      @cloudnite373 Před rokem +34

      dude was a menace

    • @TakitowSpice
      @TakitowSpice Před rokem +34

      Ahh I didn’t know Guts was a historical figure

    • @LungZ762
      @LungZ762 Před rokem +4

      @@TakitowSpice he was a one handed German knight.

    • @choughed3072
      @choughed3072 Před rokem +13

      I had a 64 year old go beserker, kill over 100 people in a battle and "ripped the head off count Olaf". I was thinking "chill dude" you are to old for that shit.

    • @tarekomar54
      @tarekomar54 Před rokem +9

      Beware of old men in a profession where men die young lmao

  • @sashrill
    @sashrill Před 3 lety +498

    de jurey is out on this video.

    • @DavidSmith-du4lu
      @DavidSmith-du4lu Před 3 lety +10

      most underrated reply

    • @theshi3152
      @theshi3152 Před 3 lety +3

      i hate you take my upvote :P

    • @user-ub6yl4yc6v
      @user-ub6yl4yc6v Před 3 lety +5

      Yeah man, this guy is smart but I can't stand the misspeak.

    • @hypieyo
      @hypieyo Před 3 lety +5

      @@user-ub6yl4yc6v Not a missspeak it's a latin word :)

    • @JonAutopsy
      @JonAutopsy Před 3 lety

      Heheheheh

  • @omgfackdehell
    @omgfackdehell Před 3 lety +521

    Education focus should absolutely be a notice just like in CK2.
    Btw, I read the wiki on child education, and having a guardian with either genius, intelligent or quick is way way better than a 4 star education.

    • @rollercoaster478
      @rollercoaster478 Před 3 lety +37

      education is fucked up, needs serious rework.

    • @CalebMorrell
      @CalebMorrell Před 3 lety +27

      I didn't even know this existed! I thought all you could do was assign a guardian.
      Needs better UI.
      Needs a Notification.

    • @nux2k
      @nux2k Před 2 lety +7

      @Split Dimension so basically you're saying that if you're trying to make a knight and the guardian has high prowess it does not help for transfer over to the kid that he's educating?

    • @martaleszkiewicz5115
      @martaleszkiewicz5115 Před 2 lety +11

      @@nux2k No, prowess is literally your own biological body's combat virility and ability to fight. Notice how your prowess decreases with old age, as you naturally get less agile, more frail and easier to beat up.

    • @martaleszkiewicz5115
      @martaleszkiewicz5115 Před 2 lety +13

      @@nux2k If you want to raise a knight, a guardian with genius-related traits, high military skill and special combat-related characteristics will teach their skills to the child and the child then has a much higher chance of developing their own characteristics of their type.
      Btw, this is a great life hack to utilise women. If you're playing in a patriarchal culture, where women can't be commanders, marshalls or knights, if you have a genius woman who has martial points through the roof and characteristics like "military engineer", "master strategist", "battling in hills(?)" etc. and she'd be a perfect commander or marshall but you can't employ her as that due to the gendered culture (like Catholic Europe etc.), have her be a guardian of children who are particularly gifted in the military area, or whom you want to raise into commanders and warlords, and watch these kids' stat points shoot up into the high teens, 20s and even 30s as they grow up. Unfortunately, according to my personal experience, at least, your marshall's wife's military skill and characteristics don't tend to rub off onto him, just like it's the case with you (the king) and your wife.

  • @richardbraakman7469
    @richardbraakman7469 Před 3 lety +257

    Small tip: when the enemy army is split over multiple provinces, attack the stack with the weakest commander. The commander in charge seems to be "locked in" when the battle starts, and the reinforcements won't change that.
    Same applies in reverse: if you're being attacked, switch your commanders around so that the best one is in the stack that gets hit first.

    • @liquidmodernitytasteslikeu2855
      @liquidmodernitytasteslikeu2855 Před 2 lety +2

      does anyone know a mod or something that fixes this type of flaw? something that simulates the commander travelling to the other army instead of instantly teleporting?

  • @thunderhammer7
    @thunderhammer7 Před 3 lety +266

    Beware of going on a hunt when you know there is a murder plot against you or one of your courtiers, as going hunting can trigger the assassination early. I nearly lost my character and my heir because the plotter trying to kill my heir attacked us while we were alone. It was a good thing I had decent prowess.

    • @villekorpi714
      @villekorpi714 Před 3 lety +36

      Hunting presented me an opportunity to have an "accident" happen to a -100 opinion vassal.

    • @jaderal
      @jaderal Před 3 lety +5

      I killed my heir when he accidentally killed a guy, he deserved lol

    • @mythicdawn9574
      @mythicdawn9574 Před 3 lety +15

      @@jaderal number one difficulty in this game : killing your sons except one, to protect your glorious conquests from stupid inheritance laws :p
      You go hunting, you force your son as a champion in a small army and go on suicide missions, never marry him to prevent him from bringing a grandson to the equation... Still looking for other ways to stop getting Charlemagned every 20 years :p

    • @girolamogrande5632
      @girolamogrande5632 Před 3 lety +7

      @@mythicdawn9574 my character fathered 8 sons... I am getting mad!!

    • @math3000
      @math3000 Před 3 lety +9

      You guys get sons?

  • @plcdfa
    @plcdfa Před 3 lety +251

    Diplomacy: forced vassalization is trash due to the realm size limit, but Befriend+Flatterer+Friendly Counsel is OP, essential to keep a large empire together.

    • @loungekiller
      @loungekiller Před 3 lety +24

      Actually it is very good when you are just trying to expand your territory. You can easily revoke titles after you vassalize them (provided you have the necessary crown authority)

    • @plcdfa
      @plcdfa Před 3 lety +2

      @@loungekiller Yeah, but it only works on independent rulers with a small territory, and those you can usually just conquer anyway with de jure, or pushing someone's claim, or just having you priest fabricate a claim - if you have a decent one he can get a few counties in that many years. Hell, a lot of times they will just accept vassalization without a even war. Where it would really be useful - to vassalize kings as an emperor - it just doesn't work.

    • @johntimmerman5371
      @johntimmerman5371 Před 2 lety +5

      You can diplo annex them, create a kingdom's or duchy if needed give many vassels to one ruler than problem solved in terms of realm size.

    • @SPQSpartacus
      @SPQSpartacus Před 2 lety +1

      I find forced vas really useful, I don’t have to waste my fabricated claims on small neighbours, and it saves money. Also makes it easier If your targets are of the same religion. I often use it anyway to avoid surprise allies joining in.

  • @anabelled4459
    @anabelled4459 Před 3 lety +61

    My biggest mistake was not knowing if you befriend the pope he will give you tons of gold and troop i didnt see that until 5 generations in

    • @cloudftw113
      @cloudftw113 Před 3 lety +6

      OOF, I just bullied the Papacy and took Rome as Byzantium. Didn't know that befriending him would be that advantageous. Lol

    • @motherofmultiverses
      @motherofmultiverses Před 2 lety

      But be warned that befriending is worse than allying when it comes to finally wanting to take them over and the penalties you get because of that. Nobody likes a turncoat "friend."

    • @PuddingXXL
      @PuddingXXL Před rokem +1

      I actually had the befriend ability but only ever swayed the Pope. Never occurred to me that I can befriend him damn....

  • @OurBelovedBungo
    @OurBelovedBungo Před 3 lety +52

    I've never noticed the "Your Feast" window until you pointed it out at 16:30!

    • @GazMatic
      @GazMatic Před 2 lety +1

      Thank you for pointing it out.

  •  Před 3 lety +46

    5:20 don’t forget to recruit them in the prison as well, wars and rebellions help to find knights for free.

    • @milk8888
      @milk8888 Před 3 lety +12

      The best fighter and champion i could have was a rebellion leader i recruited... dude was a beast... died of old.. RIP

    • @richardbraakman7469
      @richardbraakman7469 Před 3 lety +5

      Every peasant rabble is a free general :) I wonder where they get these highly skilled peasants and why I can't just recruit them normally. Maybe it's a "you have to prove your worth by defeating me in battle" kind of deal.

    • @mackenziebeeney3764
      @mackenziebeeney3764 Před 2 lety +1

      I do that too, though usually with the lower courtiers. Should probably check everyone tbh.
      But I usually need the money more during or after a war.

  • @WillCarter1976
    @WillCarter1976 Před 3 lety +280

    So, in conclusion, ladies and gentlemen of de Jure. If the crown does not fit, you must aquit!

    • @PartyElite
      @PartyElite  Před 3 lety +23

      Lmfao.
      I used to say it like the french might but I've been told that's not quite right either

    • @filipschweiner1989
      @filipschweiner1989 Před 3 lety +3

      @@PartyElite Well, it comes from latin, where you would pronounce it more like "de you-re" (re as in REtribution)

    • @undauntedteach8966
      @undauntedteach8966 Před 3 lety +1

      I would rather make a new crown for my head instead of quitting

    • @user-rg2hk9uz9u
      @user-rg2hk9uz9u Před 3 lety +3

      @@undauntedteach8966 i unironically refuse to learn whatever meta there is in this game and would rather brute force and savescum like a bad player

    • @alejandromanolson
      @alejandromanolson Před 3 lety +3

      Ah, the famous Chewbacca inheritance law.

  • @peterlankton935
    @peterlankton935 Před rokem +9

    Dude this is easily the best guide ive ever listened to.
    Very well structured, clear voice, explanations and use of examples insanely well put together.
    This is work

    • @PartyElite
      @PartyElite  Před rokem +1

      Appreciate the kind words, thank you!

  • @BroughtToBear
    @BroughtToBear Před 2 lety +33

    Just got the game, started a campaign and basically made every error you'd mentioned. Game on for take 2, Great guide!

  • @RIP_Greedo
    @RIP_Greedo Před 3 lety +33

    Friendly Counsel is one of the most powerful perks - every friend you have grants you a few random skill points. You can rack up dozens of friends in a lifetime and could wind up with all your skills at 20+ with little effort.

  • @SPQSpartacus
    @SPQSpartacus Před 2 lety +21

    Remember If possible to time your attacs on ruler changes. Mostly this means fewer Enemy allies, a weaker ruler, more likely civil Wars to weaken opposition and possibly a smaller army opposing you to begin with.

  • @lsh32768
    @lsh32768 Před 3 lety +62

    Ctrl+Right click can force a raising army to move immediately with what they currently have.

    • @TarMinastir333
      @TarMinastir333 Před 3 lety +8

      This is a game changer. Thanks!

    • @Jandau85
      @Jandau85 Před 3 lety +7

      You can also split the army a few times. One of the resulting groups will be "raising" troops and can be left to it, and the rest can be merged and marched out.

    • @Psycho250785
      @Psycho250785 Před 3 lety +8

      Patch 1.1 added “stop raising” mechanic which is quite handy.

  • @ms_scribbles
    @ms_scribbles Před 3 lety +87

    I see so many streamers/letsplayers mess up with #3 (or at least, the part about forbidding a character from being a knight) and it's sooo frustrating to watch them complain (and some even act like it's the game's fault) when their heirs and talented councilors keep dying off. Stop putting them on the front lines of the army, dummy!

    • @overboss9599
      @overboss9599 Před 2 lety +10

      What Do you mean Jorge doesn't belong on the battlefield? just because he's 49 and hasn't so much as seen a sword in his life doesn't mean he's completely defenseless against seasoned warriors........

    • @RockStarzxx
      @RockStarzxx Před 2 lety

      I take my boys to war. Deus Vult.

  • @Blaze936
    @Blaze936 Před 3 lety +132

    I can attest to not relying on levies. I spent over 200 yrs game time doing that and, after dominating for this long, it's caught up to me.

  • @thunderhammer7
    @thunderhammer7 Před 3 lety +42

    8:10
    I've had the exact opposite experience. I often only raise local armies for wars and they always come with the superior units.

    • @kashk42
      @kashk42 Před 3 lety +14

      Same. It seems that the first army you raise will always include all knights and men-at-arms (and these will always arrive immidiatly no matter how far from your capital the rally point is), no matter if it is raise all or raise local. You can raise a real elite army this way, with very few levies, but all the good stuff.

    • @Modfet
      @Modfet Před 3 lety +14

      Seconded. it can be cheesy but since men at arms doesnt take time to disband during war, you can use this method to basically teleport the elites

  • @boyson2671
    @boyson2671 Před 3 lety +26

    befriend scheme is one of the perk i get first, as they can use as a tool to invite knights from the pool to your court. It's also one of the thing that you can constantly do in your intrigue panel rather than just swaying as befriend is much powerful. When you have enough friends and done unlocking all the important perks, you can go for the friendly counsel and it boosts up your skills base on the number of friends you have made.

  • @pixel4779
    @pixel4779 Před 3 lety +128

    Suicide could be bad for your health?? How long were you planning to withhold this information?

    • @jaderal
      @jaderal Před 3 lety

      The problem is the reputation of your family dynasty, is not cool lose renown

    • @abnerrenaud6768
      @abnerrenaud6768 Před 3 lety

      Lol

  • @DragonFae16
    @DragonFae16 Před 3 lety +30

    This episode was really helpful for me. I hadn't twigged yet that levies were just cannon-fodder and I should focus on my men-at-arms. Thanks for the info!

    • @mackenziebeeney3764
      @mackenziebeeney3764 Před 2 lety

      Yeah I learned that after trying to conquer England. The mostly levy army was devastated, but the knighted and MaA equipped army stood up and smashed the Anglo Saxon at every turn, even when they outnumbered me. Also, troop matching helps. If they mostly have heavy infantry, go skirmishes, mostly skirmishes go bowman, mostly horses use the pikes.

  • @jordanelbers
    @jordanelbers Před 3 lety +23

    I GOT IT! Steve Buscemi, that's who you sound like. I have been watching your content for a month and it's been bugging me. Carry on with the great content! :)

    • @PartyElite
      @PartyElite  Před 3 lety +4

      Hahaha yeah I get that a lot =D

  • @YuiYounha
    @YuiYounha Před 3 lety +46

    I think diplomacy tree is op skill tree. Befriend schemes does prevent vassals from creating faction. It also can be used as a recruiting knights and skillful individuals. Also improves opinion of troublesome vassals because it gives 60 positive opinion. Below the befriend perk, there's stress reduce perk based on the number of your friends and also perk that gives skill points based also on the number of your friends. I get zero stress in every contradicting decision i make. Befriending appropriate people can become agents in hostile schemes and also helps in marriages. It also can get you an alliances. Befriend is way better than abduction. I choose diplomacy skills over intrigue.
    August skill tree is op as well. Getting high in prestige and also bonus on higher the fame.

    • @SuperHaloman22
      @SuperHaloman22 Před 3 lety

      literally true. Ive been able to take my empire deep into Africa with zero revolts or uprisings because of the diplomacy skill tree

    • @Psycho250785
      @Psycho250785 Před 3 lety +1

      Didn’t have any problems with stress management whatsoever. There are so many options to lower your stress that I didn’t get even to “level 1” with any of my rulers through several centuries.

    • @YuiYounha
      @YuiYounha Před 3 lety

      Валентин Домбровский yup i agree with you in that but in my playthrough i accumulate more stress on my choices (like killing heir of kingdom gave 45 stress)than decisions to relive stress(feast and hunt). It is nice to have zero stress when stress presented in one of the choices. Also i got zero stress on resetting perk.

    • @TheRomanAoE
      @TheRomanAoE Před 3 lety +1

      Don't forget that friend relations give a ton of skill points if you start befriending people early on. Also, the perk below that gives skill points for children as well. It's quite op if you manage to have many children and friends. My last ruler had 15 children and 9 friends, giving him 33 extra skill points!

    • @nickfoote6707
      @nickfoote6707 Před 3 lety +2

      As an Emperor you can also befriend unlanded claimants to foreign Kingdoms, invite them to your court and then press their claim in war. They'll become you vassal and love you even more.

  • @switchout4820
    @switchout4820 Před 3 lety +10

    I will never get used to seeing an under 1000 army beat a 3000 one. Never seems to be successful for me if I try something like that, though that just means I'm not utilising my armies properly then. Great vid Party!

  • @bobdenson5285
    @bobdenson5285 Před 3 lety +2

    Some of the best speaking on a tutorial video. Nice and slow, thorough and concise. Thanks.

  • @joeldykman7591
    @joeldykman7591 Před 2 lety +11

    So id like to amend one thing here. Dont rely on levies/ invest in levy oriented buildings in your own lands. If you want to pacify potentially troublesome vassals, invest in as many of those levy buildings and gold generating buildings as possible so you can profit off of their dues to you without having any potential buffs towards their men-at-arms regiments.

  • @jc6226
    @jc6226 Před 3 lety

    After watching several hours of other ck3 guieds, this was by far the most helpful, thanks!

  • @gernotfischer7908
    @gernotfischer7908 Před 3 lety +12

    To Raise only a fraction of your army, just set the Game on slow speed. Call Hole Army (Knights and Man at Arms are instant called) and Levis will drop in Day by Day. So let the Army rise some day to the needed Number and then Right Control Click send out that army. This will stop the Rest of the Levi to show up and you dont have to disband them getting the penalty of recalling them later when needed.

  • @Grak70
    @Grak70 Před 3 lety

    Not even past the first bullet point and already excited to play again with this information. Thanks!

  • @infinityfabrik
    @infinityfabrik Před 3 lety +2

    Bought this game today... these videos are so awesome! Thank you! I've already learned so much.

  • @mariamjimsheleishvili3080
    @mariamjimsheleishvili3080 Před 2 měsíci

    Been playing for a month and watched tons of tutorials but this one is super helpful!!

  • @TimothyRudy
    @TimothyRudy Před 3 lety +3

    Thanks for the tips!

  • @kecaw
    @kecaw Před 3 lety +11

    I just want to add something to your "Dont Ignore Diplomacy" At the late game (when you have a ton of vassals and money) that one pippet of point for thoughtful is a game changer. Vassals hate you? 10 of them right of the bat are trying to "liberate" themslelves from you? (when yours heir takes your place) Get that one point and just give them gifts, they can go from -50 to 100+ with like 100 gold.

    • @MichaelLeonard
      @MichaelLeonard Před 2 lety

      Yeah that perk is so broken, I’m surprised it wasn’t mentioned.

  • @tokiwong
    @tokiwong Před 3 lety +1

    Thanks that bit about the Casus Belli for the Kingdom title was new to me, but makes sense similar to how Stellaris works under some casus belli.

  • @henco8716
    @henco8716 Před 2 lety

    This video gave me so much info on things I was wondering about. Good video!

  • @MrGiovanniOSFP
    @MrGiovanniOSFP Před 3 lety +1

    That was perfect! Very helpful.

  • @grzegorzwasaznik1634
    @grzegorzwasaznik1634 Před 3 lety +13

    i always thought diplo was the strongest tree given that nobody rebels, everybody give me full taxes and i have over 40 on all stats with friendly cousel.

  • @passionfly1
    @passionfly1 Před 3 lety

    Great video I had no idea of some of these tips. Thank you!

  • @majorpaiyne2124
    @majorpaiyne2124 Před rokem

    Thanks for this. the individual education focus of heirs and such... That is new info for me and will help me early in creating my next heir. I just started playing and these small tidbits of info are coming in handy.

  • @cyphi474
    @cyphi474 Před 2 lety +30

    You can get rid of poor(or problematic) Vassal by forcing him to be knight aswell... Its random, but if they have poor provess, soon or later someone get rid of them for you.
    You can separate them from army and let them attack stack of enemy troops themself(Leeeeroy...) to speed it up. Its not automatic kill or wound, most of times they get defeated and run so it takes couple of tries.
    But poor vassals are cancer of your kingdom, specially if they get influential and demands seat in council. Get rid of them and try breed your vassals to be capable in at least something.
    That should be number 9, choose your Vassals wisely and dont let them grow too strong. Sometimes it takes some creativity to take land from them, but more land they control, harder it is to keep them happy and loyal.

  • @GloryofLlama
    @GloryofLlama Před 3 lety +14

    All still very applicable to 1.3. I think by now though, we've all learned that the Befriend perk may be the most brokenly powerful perk in this game.

    • @PuddingXXL
      @PuddingXXL Před rokem +1

      I limit myself to roleplay use only. Otherwise it's just cheating.
      Doesn't make sense for my wrathful paranoid shizo diplomat king to befriend goodboy Christian nerd Bishop.

  • @rezapto3361
    @rezapto3361 Před 3 lety

    after 150 hours of playing CK3, this video helped me to learn new things! thank you

  • @stice6630
    @stice6630 Před 3 lety +3

    You can actually raise your men-at-arms only, by raising all armies on pause (which immediately raises all men-at-arms and knights), selecting the immediately-raised army, and seperating it onto another province by pressing CTRL.

  • @nunyabyznyz6649
    @nunyabyznyz6649 Před 3 lety

    Thanks for the tips, Steve Buscemi!

  • @maddogpaddy1
    @maddogpaddy1 Před 3 lety +1

    Amazing guide. Ty 🙌

  • @floridayankee812
    @floridayankee812 Před rokem

    I just downloaded CK3 yesterday. Looking forward to playing it. Thank you for the video.

  • @pinmeister987
    @pinmeister987 Před 3 lety +24

    Dang I never knew people shit on the diplomacy tree. I've always found it extremely beneficial and good

  • @vajasman
    @vajasman Před rokem

    This was very helpful. Thank you.

  • @nesteranioss
    @nesteranioss Před 2 lety

    Gotta hand it to you, the way you narrate these guides is surprisingly gripping, considering the Format. Propably the best way for my taste from all the guides i have seen, and i have seen plenty on many games

    • @PartyElite
      @PartyElite  Před 2 lety

      Glad to hear it! Thanks for the kind words - they're greatly appreciated!

  • @acharndael9159
    @acharndael9159 Před 3 lety

    Dude, this tips are just amazing. Thank you !

  • @haroldgodwinson4674
    @haroldgodwinson4674 Před 3 lety

    Brilliant. Thank you.

  • @Diamondc4life
    @Diamondc4life Před 2 lety

    You're video is amazing thank you deeply and please make more!

  • @AngelGarcia-he2gm
    @AngelGarcia-he2gm Před rokem

    Thank you, this was very helpful

  • @vladmods
    @vladmods Před rokem

    Excellent advice

  • @MrCarpelan
    @MrCarpelan Před 3 lety +3

    Your men-at-arms are actually raised if you click on the raise local army. That's why I like it because then you can raise an army somewhere with like 10 levies and then have a purely men-at-arms force without having to micro.

  • @BunialskiTrip
    @BunialskiTrip Před rokem

    Great tips. Thanks!

  • @durrium
    @durrium Před 10 měsíci

    Thanks!! Nice tips

  • @RyanJosepher
    @RyanJosepher Před 3 lety

    You speak very well! We gotta get you paid sponsorships to announcing/explaining movies/games

  • @Nsimms77586
    @Nsimms77586 Před 2 lety

    I use hunts and feasts mostly to reduce stress but I do enjoy some of the opportunities they offer also.

  • @tessa63627
    @tessa63627 Před 3 lety +1

    With a large family and a lot of friends Friendly Counsel and Sound Foundations under the Family Hierarch tree are incredibly powerful. You can easily get most or all traits above 20

  • @jskallebak
    @jskallebak Před 3 lety +4

    Nice video with some good tips. Don't agree on the levies tho, just had a game starting as count and had WC pre anno 1200 with almost exclusively levies and some light cavs, army quality doesn't really matter that much when you always outnumber the enemy 10-50:1. You can basically be in wars from start to finish because they are so dirt cheap and stupidly overpower levies reinforcement rate

  • @user-bx7tn8cu6l
    @user-bx7tn8cu6l Před 3 lety +131

    Words of Wisdom:
    Never...
    Take...
    The Carpet...

  • @benpotter4438
    @benpotter4438 Před 3 lety +1

    Missed that lifestyle button, nice1 ty

  • @alluraambrose2978
    @alluraambrose2978 Před 3 lety +2

    Thx for all the vid's going to take the plunge now and probably fail horrible XD

  • @leespiderpod
    @leespiderpod Před 3 lety

    Great stuff!

  • @LeeKao
    @LeeKao Před 3 lety +2

    If you have lots of rival vassals and you invite them for a feast you get the option of locking them in the room and burning them, it's my fav thing to do after I unite Spain as Sancho

    • @havelthesock6094
      @havelthesock6094 Před 3 lety +1

      Think it only comes up if you have the sadistic trait, at least, I've got it only with sadistic rulers.

  • @jdderew1
    @jdderew1 Před 3 lety +3

    The best lifestyle is stewardship.
    Starting with Wealth Focus (+10% gold) then, on the Avaricious tree, Golden Obligations. This alone, 1 trait, and you already have the conditions to pay for your mercenaries on blackmail gold alone.
    After this, take Heregeld (Vassal Tax +10%), War Profiteer (at war income +10%), Detailed Ledgers (Republican Tax +10% and Opinion +20) and finally, on the Architect tree, Tax Man (Collect Taxes Effectiveness +25%).
    These 5 traits should be taken regardless of your characters education bonus, i would say. After those 5, if you have Stewardship education bonus, the Administrator tree is the best follow-up.
    On a whole, you get an incredible amount of Vassal opinion, even more Vassal tax, less Tyranny and even less chances of your Vassals joining something against you.
    I honestly don't see how any of the other trees can compete with this.

  • @abrvalg321
    @abrvalg321 Před 3 lety

    8:30 much easier: on pause raise all. select capital rally point troops hold ctrl + rmouse. Dismiss other armies. You've got your guards+knights.

  • @amadeusnp4457
    @amadeusnp4457 Před 3 lety +8

    Invite Champions cost too much. Capture enemy knights and demand their conversion and recruit. Its a free knight!

  • @sonofquebec
    @sonofquebec Před 3 lety

    Great video!

  • @algallontheobserver3780
    @algallontheobserver3780 Před 3 lety +2

    Holy shit, thanks for this video!

  • @LiberRaider
    @LiberRaider Před 3 lety

    Loved the vid. Commenting for the algorithm m'lord.

  • @nyxxaos5673
    @nyxxaos5673 Před 3 lety +1

    I have been kinda forced into Diplomacy by a couple of heirs now and theyre high stats, and I have to say it is pretty powerful to be well liked. It is easy to control vassals and avoid problems getting in the way of your goals. The Matriach tree with befriend and perks to kids(heirs) is a strong choice, especially if you combine with learning(scholar) or want to completely avoid stress while abducting and murdering the entire world!

    • @Lotusdreams
      @Lotusdreams Před 3 lety +1

      I want to add that in a clan environment the massive boosts from opinion gain to your received income and levies plus the ball of free stats due to the amount of alliences, friends and 100% prestige bonus made it by far the most flexible and strongest tree. The best part is that the really impactful perks both early and late game are at the very beginning of the tree and few at the end

  • @MemekingJag
    @MemekingJag Před 2 lety +1

    I click on CK3 videos just so I can hear which words the uploader mispronounces.
    Not disappointed, 3 minutes in and I've heard more talk about Da Jury than a mafia boss on trial.

    • @PartyElite
      @PartyElite  Před 2 lety

      Lmao I like it, but I hope you're not implying my pronunciation of de jure is incorrect, because (and I was shocked to learn this too), the term is in fact pronounced 'de jooree" and not like a more french "de zhoor". The word went straight from Latin to English without a French step in between.

  • @mackenziebeeney3764
    @mackenziebeeney3764 Před 2 lety

    The court physician thing is 100% true. Played as William the Bastard trying to take over England, got wounded in battle twice, physician negated me acquiring the trait both times. Thanks, Doc.
    They also saved one of my best knights so that was cool too.

  • @polydynamix7521
    @polydynamix7521 Před 3 lety +1

    Hands down this is the most complicated game I have ever played. The only game I have ever needed a tutorial for.
    That being said, I'm pretty sure it's awesome. I'll just have to stop screwing it up to find out.

    • @PartyElite
      @PartyElite  Před 3 lety +1

      It's definitely the most complicated game most have played! But the joy of playing it when you know what's going on is unmatched, imho, and I'm not just saying that =P

  • @trancecod
    @trancecod Před 2 lety +2

    I love when an enemy soldier or a knight with 3 prowess kills my 25+ prowess, lvl 3 blademaster heir

    • @slowmonet
      @slowmonet Před 2 lety

      I once had an assassination target escape death from a 95% plot three times in a row. Sometimes I wonder if we're playing CK3 or X-Com...

  • @gkagara
    @gkagara Před 3 lety +1

    Err diplomacy could also lower your stress with confidants it is stackable and at 20 friend you will gain no stress, it is continue to exist even when your friend dies, it last until end of your character life, maybe unintentional or bugs but it is as it is.

  • @swarming1092
    @swarming1092 Před rokem

    Holy shit this is so useful, especially the bit about kingdom wars!

  • @teambellavsteamalice
    @teambellavsteamalice Před 3 lety

    One aspect of the game that is daunting is the amount of choices and the long term effects.
    I'd wouldn't want to just go and conquer the world, it'll probably fail or depends on luck or cheese.
    I'll want a plan that balances short term needs (minimally) with long term goals:
    having a powerful dynasty and getting the fun upgrades take take centuries.
    getting high skill descendants with nice traits
    having a fun culture and advance it
    prepare to reform my own custom religion and convert allies
    if possible also witchcraft (many feasts help chance to encounter?)
    preferably small but highly developed lands
    As the religion reform is a lifetime task, should I even focus on that for the first character or prepare an heir to do so?
    Lifestyle can be adjusted for getting high skilled kids, but you could also just marry well and have many kids. This can be done with various different ways.
    Maybe make a video on examples of long term strategy?
    You can mention various lifestyle combinations. A dynasty with a phase for conquest, for development, for the reform, expanding the dynasty and getting good traits, culture focus etc.
    Both how to set up the next heir and how to make the best of you have if not possible.

  • @delphidelion
    @delphidelion Před 3 lety

    I like to make sure as i grow to raise all immediately during a big war and combining what i need. It can disuade any raiders that were making it towards you as army ai pathing takes into consideration enemy armies on the field

    • @delphidelion
      @delphidelion Před 3 lety

      On the same note, i also try to make sure that a county only touches 1 neghboring rally point.

    • @delphidelion
      @delphidelion Před 3 lety

      Unless i need less but larger armies. Then i remove flags accordingly.

  • @benismann
    @benismann Před 2 lety

    13:40
    is it worth considering switching to diplomacy for a breif moment to grab befriend, groomed to rule and either one or both of sway bonus or send gift bonus, then switching to scholarship focus to grab the other guardianship perk to raise uberheirs

  • @smukkepiien
    @smukkepiien Před 2 lety

    Super video!!

  • @AAGREEDYFISH
    @AAGREEDYFISH Před 3 lety +7

    From my experience, the penalty of attacking across the seas only applies if those armies are being attacked directly. If you attack one army that doesn't have the penalty, the other 2 enemy armies with the penalty can just reinforce, negating the debuff on themselves

  • @MotorMusic
    @MotorMusic Před 2 lety

    thank you for this infomational video#

  • @laerteemme5702
    @laerteemme5702 Před 3 lety

    Big question:
    If I built for example an "Military Camps" in a Duchy i not mine, but of my vassals, does it has effect on my men-at-arms?

  • @zerogbot23
    @zerogbot23 Před 2 lety +1

    One of my most powerful rulers focused on diplomacy, the entire realm loved him, his neighbours loved him. He died of a botched surgery and his intrigue focused heir lost the throne a month into his reign. The son gained the throne back a few years later after becoming a "loved" member of the realm and *cough cough* killing his brother and nephew.

  • @guilhermearanha5676
    @guilhermearanha5676 Před 2 lety +1

    About the diplomacy skill tree... I formed Brittania in a single lifetime playng as a viking count in Jorvik with it. So... Pretty damn cool skill tree if you ask me.

  • @LevCallahan
    @LevCallahan Před 3 lety +2

    11:53 I'll give an update to mention how the game mechanic where "Only you" can be the guardian of another's child was changed. Now, yes, *anyone* in your court can be chosen as the guardian of another person's child.

  • @nqh4393
    @nqh4393 Před 3 lety +3

    1. Build and max out every blacksmith (duchy building) and barracks asap.
    2. Watch a unit of your 200 atk/def Heavy infantry annihilate an entire army of 20k strong.

  • @wu1ming9shi
    @wu1ming9shi Před 2 lety +1

    6:52 This can be mitigated by investing in your holdings and focusing your character on stewardship though. I don't think I ever ran in a deficit, even when at war. But I do like to take things slow and steady tbh.

    • @PuddingXXL
      @PuddingXXL Před rokem

      If you own an empire or multiple kingdoms then your levy army easily costs 40 gold+ if fully recruited.
      For smaller duchies and kings I agree with you but especially feudal kings armies are expensive as hell.
      I had 20 gold income just from my main holding alone as a triple king and when I got into an 1:1 size war my army had cost me 23 gold per ticks.
      As a Duke I never had that problem.

    • @wu1ming9shi
      @wu1ming9shi Před rokem

      @@PuddingXXL Yeah never made to empire level yet. I get bored before that point tbh. Too much micromanaging stuff and you can't keep everyone happy. No matter what you do. Also I just like to play tall and not wide so even if I do manage to get an empire at some point, it's gonna be a small one.

  • @KamenosTypas
    @KamenosTypas Před 2 lety

    Brilliant tips! I've started playing the game and I'm still learning. This helped a lot.

  • @Aerophina
    @Aerophina Před 2 lety

    I also had no idea how to conquer more than just the selected dutchy. I started to believe the game just didn’t have it as an option lol good tip

  • @SuperGeomike
    @SuperGeomike Před 3 lety +2

    Had the kingdom war tip in this video been patched? I did exactly this and received none of the other territories I occupied. Only the war target

  • @storm0fnova
    @storm0fnova Před 3 lety

    1:45 by occupy the territory do you mean have an army on every building? or just have "occupy" status after conquering the area? I started a war for a piece of land when the owner had 2, and i occupied both, but couldn't get ownership of the one i didn't start war over.

  • @criscris428
    @criscris428 Před 9 měsíci

    one of the biggest prob I had was when I transition from tribal to feudal suddenly I'm weak and can't even support my army lol. so when I restarted I made sure to ammass a huge amount of wealth before transitioning to feudal.

  • @curtisfrantz7547
    @curtisfrantz7547 Před rokem

    Later game and early game diplomacy is the best tree. Stewartship comes in hand in fuedal tradition