7 Great Tips to Improve at Crusader Kings 2 🔴 CK2 Tips & Tricks Strategy Guide
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In this Tips & Tricks strategy video, I teach you 7 of the best strategies I've used to succeed in Crusader Kings 2 with dlc in 2018! If you have any tips you want to share, be sure to let me know in the comment section down below! Enjoy!
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"Less developed part of the world"
*zooms to Ireland*
This video made by ANGLO GANG
I just saw a meme today that made me crack up. it was all the inventions that have came out of Ireland. there's a long list through the centuries and in the 13th century whiskey was invented.. and then they didn't have another invention until the 17th century😂
As an Irish man I feel sad. Also I think the island was way too fractured in medieval times to unify and actually become a nation. Then England invaded and that was a whole other story 😂. The guinness was the best invention imo
@@fergalkearney1603 Guinness is not Irish.
@@stardaggerrihannsu2363 it is
I wish I watched this 250 hours ago
I wish I watched this 3000 hours ago.
I wish I watched this 10000 hours ago
I wish I watched this 696969 hours ago
Watching this in 5 hours
watching this after 50 hours i guess im lucky
Use the character finder to always get a great council. Also great for finding future wives with genetic traits.
So this is a big yes but also an aside: Vassals can't join factions while on your council and all vassals get a big opinion modifier for wanting to be on the council. Advisors(for kings and above) should always be a strong vassal to keep him on your side. If things are sideways I often have my whole council except spymaster as vassals, even if they're poor quality. I've held Byzantium together through some pretty sketchy times using my council properly. Spymaster should always always always like you alot, import people and give them gifts and titles, it's the only office I wont compromise on because I've woken up with too many snakes in my bed.
+@@kristiannicholson5893 Pretty much.
That said you can activly groom future vassals into good good councilmen.
Kristian I agree with you but also I think Carousing is pretty op you just invite your strong vassals to carousing over and over including your council members and you end up being able to pass the laws you want or there wont be strong factions
@@kristiannicholson5893 Only if you have Conclave tho
The character finder is so overpowered but somewhat hidden. My friend who introduced me to the game didn't even know about. No reason to ever have any single digit advisors or wives with bad traits
Tip #8: actually go Seduction focus all the time
Tip #9: Always murder children
How else are you going to get their castles? Paradox has taught me that murder is simply the most efficient way!
A single castle is worth at least 15 children's lives.
Wtf, you guys are sick.
I mean, i've tried to murder a kid once and lost a eye in the proccess.
@@vinifalleroliveira I mean, that's one more eye than you really need. You can always try again! What have you got to lose...
@@marinary1326
Another eye.
I know I’m late to this but...
To conquer counties you have a claim to without wrecking the county and losing it’s taxes while it rebuilds simply take war focus, antagonise the current ruler until you can duel him and duel for a strong claim. If you win you take everything without a wasteful war. Start with the territory of the ruler with the weakest personal combat score and work upwards; by the time you’re reaching the harder duellists you should have the skill to win. This is also a quick cheap 50 prestige.
So what you’re saying is that instead of getting my ass beat by Jihadists every time me and my brothers try to Reconquista as King Alfonso, I could instead just cut down the Muslim rulers in duels?
@@jackdaone6469 Pretty much yes. If you want reconquista, you need to build a huge army, so you'll need a shitton of money and good commanders. This means you can't do it alone. Try making good relations with foreign realms and get pope involved then you can start an invasion in which you'll be able to invite christian rulers as allies or try to get holy war events.
And establish vassal merchant republic.
Cannot upvote this enough
i.e. always form Scandinavia solely for vassalising the Hansa.
What are the benefits of this friend? Ive done a few times actually but just because, probably needing to bribe a dude or vassalise another claimant haha
Makes you cRaZy rich, since merchant republics are built around gaining money and owning trade and because they are vassals means they give you a percentage of their money.
Brilliant, last time i randomly did it I do vaguely notice the money situation was good but that might of been around the time I figured all the perks from breeding the stewarding skill like fuck haha
#9 Have At least one Duke-Bishop so you can fit a "Powerfull vassal" as court chapelin,he will also be very loyal
#10 When getting the event to build a hedge garden,don't take any decisions that require money,you will be rewarded with same things without spending any money.
#11 Don't build a great tower,not worth it.
#12 Assaign every honorary title to every vassal(especily barons) so they get more money out of it.
#13 The success of trade expedition depends on your relations with the ruler you visit,so you don't have to buy him the best gift if he arleady likes you.
#14 Rulership focus sucks becose it gives you stressed trait way too often
#15 War focus isn't bad but Hunter is much better
#16 Bennedict order is underrated and allows you to add one of your virtues to your sons or remove one of their sins,you will also get an event to steal an artifact like "Finger of Jesus" or something like that,a powerfull item that dosen't need to be equiped
#17 When playing encountering an event where a pilgrim comes and needs a home,he might be the actaul death! So check him if he has game master trait,if he does then it's confirmed that you are being visited by death to challenge you to chess.You have higher chances to win that chess game if you let him stay at court or buy him a room in tavern,also picking black peaces will improve chances too. Rest is luck but you arleady have an upperhand.
#18 "Raise Tribal Armies" will be removed in Holy Fury and replaced by "Tribal Retinues" according to the devs.
#19 Don't land people as counts in your capital duchy if you are King/Emperor.
#20 Don't marry your dauthers for prestige(unless you are a merchant republic),instead marry them either for a strong ally or martinel marrige to expand your dynasty.
#21 DEUS VULT!
War focus is actually pretty useful now, especially for those hero quests where you have to duel multiple people.
And yes... black pieces for chess with death, I actually save scummed like 30 times and never won while using white pieces, started a save from the beginning, won first attempt.
I use war focus early on to get some traits and extra points in martial, then switch over to hunter focus to get those bonuses and the extra health. Tends to work pretty good
Man,i just started playing this game and my head will explode with so much information..
It’s better to study tech in a county next to Constantinople, the counties next to it usually have really good tech as is and there is the massive bonus that you won’t be caught ever four months.
Depends on how good your Spymaster is, and how badly RNJesus is screwing you over. Sometimes your agent can hang out in Constantinople for decades, sometimes three guys in a row get caught and imprisoned/executed/blinded/castrated by angry Byzantines.
For some reason even my sucky spymasters don’t get caught
Tip# 8 Daughter-Sister-Wives.
whenever I start marrying within my dynasty, all I can think of is the targryanns and I'm doing it proper
*Daughters=Sisters=Wives
After watching a couple of your ck2 tutorials, I could not go back to watching anyone else. Clearly spoken, great explanations without going overboard, and actual useful information. Thanks for these videos man.
Thanks for watching them!
I can completely agree with the tribe tip. I played as sigurd snake in the eye once and in a hundred years my realm was considered a major threat. A few countries made a coalition to oust me. Together they had about 18000 troops while I had 12000. Instead of loosing, I called my vassals that numbered to a whopping 10000 troops. Annihilation.
Ye tribals are fucking amazing to play I conquered whole Ireland and then formed British Empire all from a single Chief in Locha Lein 💀
2:40 to see total troops a top liege there is a better way. On the character screen click on the button below the family tree (Hotkey button: 9). On this window there's an icon next to the liege for troops. Hover over that and it will tell you how many troops they can raise in total including all their vassals.
1) Always marry your relatives to keep the blood pure
-cough- divine marriage -cough-
Aditya Namburi incest at its finest
@DarkEternal6 is this a real strategy?? Tell me more!
TO bE cOnTOnderD...
now we're talking
Apparently it's slightly better to have your spymaster in Thrace instead of Constantinople, it has almost as high technology, but it's less likely that your spymaster will be discovered while there since emperors of Byzantium tend to plant his advisors in Constantinople
Ok I did not know this thanks for this.
That's... excellent advice!
I've been playing for about 200 hours and I didn't know any of these. Thank you!
to be frank, you could spend 1000 hours on this game without watching or reading on forums at ALL and still not find half the shit this game has to offer
Yup!! 300+ and still heaps to learn haha
You didn't know to invite claimants to your court and give them titles, then push their claims? That's rough, expansion must be slow.
I've got 1200 hours and I didn't know about the tech thing... guess there are downsides to learning a game all by yourself.
@@MrCarpelan Or an upside getting to learn along the way and keeping it fun. Gamers these days just youtube everything from the start and dont learn for themselves, its like playing against bots in AOM now haha
Always when playing as Byzantium, bump up city taxes and conquer and vassalise Venice. That way you can milk them for all the money they're worth(which in 50 years when most of the trading posts are built is a ton). Plus, with the extra honorary titles and the advisor council slots to cancel any opinion hits upon ruler change you can easily make a lot more money than normal earlier in the game. This is handy because you'll basically be wearing the Seljuks and Fatimids until you conquer them outright and countering the financial edge they get from the Silk Road with your own Mediterranean trade dominance will be of immense value.
A quick way to get to Venice is through the Serbian dukes and the incredibly poorly situated Kingdom of Croatia as Venice will take their coastal cities and counties giving you free claims on them to weaken them. Since truces are between characters you just need to nudge the current Doge into the grave to quickly smash them. Another good early conquest is Wallachia which is controlled by the nomadic Pechenegs and thanks to new casus belli you can declare war without fear of the Cumans. Speed is key however as Hungary, Transylvania and a United Rus or Ruthenia will attempt to conquer the region as well.
A good start for Poland in 1066 is to quickly(before you even advance in game) holy war Pomerania and Obotricia into oblivion and this will get you access to the North Sea and allows the creation of a potentially very profitable republic vassal(due to access trade posts in Flanders and Southern England). You need to be fast however as Denmark, the HRE, and Pruthenia will show ambition in these last Slavic duchies or the possibility of a untied kingdom of Pomerania that is less fun to deal with.
#8 Always declare Holy War, it never goes wrong!
The following is meant as a guide to make things easier, not stuff you absolutely must do in order to be successful:
I typically start the game by putting my spymaster on steal tech from Constantinople, put my Marshal, Steward and Priest on study tech on my capital holding and within a single lifetime my capital usually becomes the most technologically advanced county in the game... as catholic though it tends to be really annoying because the Priest usually becomes a heretic quite easily so make sure you have lots of high learning people in your court and a few spare intrigue people in case your spymaster gets caught.
Another thing I sometimes do is a power breeding program, basically I have my first character get 5 (or more) sons and each one is trained in a different sector (Diplomacy, Marshal, Stewardship, Intrigue and Theology) and I marry each of them with a woman with the highest level of that type I can get, then I keep that particular line of descendants focused on that in order to have a good backup for each position in case I need it. I also tend to try to make my marshal have plenty of children so I have a steady supply of competent commanders.
Always hold two duchies, the two duchies with the largest numbers of counties ideally. Total current holdings are not as important in a long-standing game since you can always work towards getting new holding slots via an event. One example is when I play in Germany I will usually try to get Alemania and Saxony as my duchies. As someone pointed out below, don't give any of those counties away. This overall gives you a great power base and plenty of castles, usually more than your limit allows you to hold even if your Steward family branch happens to be your main.
If you go over your holdings limit, give away your baronies to heretics and heathens so you can reclaim them later more easily when your stewardship improves.
Never land your dynasty members and keep very strict control over them and their whereabouts to avoid claimant issues.
Retinues are powerful but getting lots of troops this way requires high Military Org and a large empire, so don't bank on it becoming your main fighting force... unless you're Nomad in which case they literally are your fighting force.
In a large empire, I find it optimal to have 2 or 3 really powerful vassals and a bunch of weaker ones. That way you only ever need to keep 1 or 2 vassals happy, everyone else will avoid trying to antagonize you too much. One example is as the Roman Emperor I will usually combine all of modern day France into a single vassal and all of modern day Turkey into another, this makes a really powerful vassal on either side of my empire and I can keep both of them fairly happy thanks to all the vassal opinion bonuses you get for being Roman Emperor (+25 total if you managed to get the Blood of Alexander as well as the Roman Empire Restored bloodline and Augustus trait). As a different empire, it's just a bit more expensive.
Always try to max out your max number of Republic and Theocracy land ownership... Theocracies are surprisingly stable and will rarely revolt, especially in Catholicism with Free Investiture :) and Republics are a huge cash cow.
There's lots more but I think I've written enough lol
Thanks for the tips. I’ll test them out.
#6 was one of the most important ones to teach new players. I had to remind my wife every now and then that she'd face much more troops than she'd expect while on other days I heard her yell "where the hell did these troops come from?!" hahaha!
Since Holy Fury this one tip became obsolete with the new tribal mechanics but it was very important nonetheless.
#7 I didn't know about that yet! I gotta try that out, thanks!
If I'm not mistaken Holy Fury will fix one of the problems with tribals. Pretty sure you'll be able to see the number of troops his max is with his vassals.
But these other tips are good things to have in mind when playing. Easily forgotten things which makes life easier. Keep it up!
Not so sure about stacking castles in your capital. Yeah it will make a nice army, but those count towards your total holdings. Better to get one county per holding and pick up as many towns as you can get. Getting massive bank is way better.
Concise and straight to the point.
Actual protip: study tech in Thrace instead of Constantinople to get the same result but way way less chance to get caught
The 2500 troop for prestige was removed in the latest patch I believe (or at least for Holy Fury but I think both) just fyi. Now tribals can use prestige to build retinue instead.
This new system is much better if you ask me.
In my game I still have 2500 troops for 500 prestige. I think you need some other DLC than Holy Fury and The Old Gods to have the retinue system
@@xGOKOPx You need legacy of rome for retinues
now these are some real tips
Wow this was really helpful. Much better than most tip videos I see. Keep up the good work!
Thanks, I'm happy to have helped!
Oh dang you replied. You just got a new sub btw. I'm watching your Sheikh of Mecca playthrough right now.
I try my best to keep up with all comments. It's a bit difficult because CZcams doesn't always inform me, but I try my best to keep up to date. I hope you enjoy the playthrough! The first 4 episodes it's a bit hard to see what's going on, but we fix that from episode 5 onwards.
#7 was the only tip I didn't otherwise know
excellent and very useful tips. Hope to see you play with the new Holy Fury expansion very soon
Great tips. I have 200+ h on ck2 and still learned smth new
There seem to be a lot of people disputing about having more holdings in ones capital or having multiple counties.
Here's my take on that.
I tend to agree with Mah-Dry. Especially in the early game you'll want to be centralized and have all holdings in your capital. It allows you to have a huge levy. Normally it's big enough that you don't even need to bring all of it into your wars resulting in still having no problems at all with cashflow. Another advantage here is that your vassals can hate your gut and you won't give a damn since their factions never reach the point of actually declaring war on you since they're no dangerous.
As you continue on your campaign there will however be a point where you can let loose of this centralization of power. It's usually when your vassals are big enough that you wouldn't have a chance fighting them anyway if all of them rebelled at once. At this point however it's technically indifferent where your holdings are and how much levy you get from them, since you tend to fight your wars using only vasall troops anyway.
Some different tips as well:
Any character can become a good one if you switch focus after getting your permanent buffs and without chosing lifestyle traits.
Watch out for your commanders: Never pick slothfull, shy or tricksters if you have better options.
Best retinue? If you want to fight: pikeman. If you don't: light infantry
Invite commanders to your court with cultures matching your army composition. (e.a many pikemen? get an italian one)
Never EVER go horse archers. They're garbage.
If you are in an army watch out for epidemics in the country that army is in
If you're catholic get the damn pope to be your vasall as soon as you can
If you want to quicksiege get tons of HI and HC then you'll be able to storm with just 4-5x the enemy troop size (if army ~90% HI)
If you have no commanders in your armies that are sieging you will not recieve negative siege events.
just a few, could give more but most of them are kinda fast to get anyway.
For clarification, I'm not saying to have all of your holdings in your capital, that's only ever going to be a maximum of 5 holdings because pretty much any land worth making a capital will start with a city and a religious building. It's pretty easy to get at least a demisen limit of 10 before 900 AD. Higher or lower depending on stewardship of course, but law wise you can get a really stable 10 as a king or emperor. You'll probably end up with every county in your capital duchy and have most of the holdings within those. More if you're muslim since you can personally hold mosques. No matter what you're going to end up with quite a few counties and thus city vassals under you.
In my currently ongoing Mecca playthrough, even as an emperor with a demisen size that tends to go between 10 and 14, I always have about 5 counties even with me having most of my temples personally held.
have around 400 hours and the biggest tip i can give you is to play more
Love the pronounciation of Suomenusko "sumanusko" !
Tip for allowing more land; go gavelkind and Benidict order, have 1 kid then instantly turn celibate. Problem solved. You can also abuse this mechanic by creating a strong-genius god by taking celibate and then undoing it. Take stubborn, wounded lustful, lisp and deceitful for this extra bs. Your character will be 16 and you can wait for the genius characters to turn 16 while staying fairly young. (This is a high risk strat though)
Also can take sturdy which often turns to brawny with hunting focus.
Just started playing ck2. Got 2nd most contribution in a crusade, this aong was playing, my kin inhereted the titles i won, and now i got like 6k gold and prestige, and bow for a time, Jerusalem is in christian hands, fell fucking epic right now!
well done, good video!
I have to object at tip nr 1. I've been playing ck2 since sword of islam and I can tell you you can build whatever slot you want except Church or even a church if the county doesn't have it. Each type of constructon slot can give you an advantage. For example City vassals can provide you with more gold than an castle which is important early on or later in game, castles provide more levies but that can be compensated later on with improvements. Castles slots in my opinion can be at least 2 minimum in an province. Temple type city gives you Piety and prestige in the long run. The choice is to each player if they want to have either troops / money or / prestige or piety.
Great tips!
I appreciate this video. You got me into this game and I can't thank you enough. I'd love to see a video of some of your favorite kingdoms, chiefdoms, etc. to play as.
I'm happy you got into it! It's a really fun game.
did not know the last tip and i played this game alot.
thanks a bunch man
Wish I’d seen this earlier. Im having a vassal limit problem (10 over limit) and could never find good people to give titles to.
I have a Prussian (technically Pruthenian) campaign started in the Viking era and i regularly summon up 50-60K in pagan armies and it's not even 1066 yet. Rolling hordes of barbarians in a Pagan Empire are INCREDIBLY lethal and its only the stupidity of the AI that limits them.
Great job
Norse tips: 1. Play tall not wide in the early game (pre-900-1000ad or so). 2. Raid A LOT, that means get ship tech as EARLY as possible, before Viking age. 3. Buy your first Kingdom instead of conquering it (take 3 nearby duchies and then accumulate gold and prestige via raiding for a custom Kingdom, this shrinks your nearby de jure Kingdoms for conquest later), then conquer the next two Kingdoms that will be small for your Empire. 4. Create and Matrilinealy breed in bloodlines early! 5. Forge a religion, and give yourself raiding and the ability to select your heir (you'll need Primo/ultimo). 6. I prefer feudal, but MR works too - expand out once you have few things to upgrade and are pooling wealth from raids. This strat is FUN with multiplayer.
Keep it in the family, that’s the only tip you need
Technology is not to be underestimated in Ck2. It is arguably more important than prestige or wealth depending on the context. I like to think of it as embedded deflation. In the later game, the wealth gets inflated away but the tech is what allows conquering at that point.
The capital province provides no tax bonus, actually. Only to levies, with a half bonus to the rest of the provinces in the capital duchy. So stacking castle baronies is a good idea IF you want to maximize levies. If you want to maximize income, pick a coastal province and stack cities in your capital and use the steward action. The capital can have other bonuses to income though from events, also the crown focus and prosperity, etc.
Still pretty good tips overal.
I want to start buying the dlcs for ck2 buuut,I only need three more to catch up in euiv.
I've been playing for 30hrs and I've accidentally usurped the throne to the Byzantine Empire. Help. What do I do?
I almost never build because I'm usually kind of poor and it takes so much time and money, but it might be worth it in the long run.
This is strange, so I recently wanted to get back into ck2 and I looked up some tips and found the guy who I watch do Pokémon challenges was the second video I found, small world
ad #2, actually, building many castle holdings in your capital holding will only help you early on and really hinder you later. You want to own only the top holding and have the rest free slots filled with cities for that sweet cash you'll need to maintain your levies and replenish/build new retinues. Max tax shifted burger law is a MUST!!!
I disagree. On my Mecca playthrough that's active on my channel, you can see me making almost exactly 1000 gold a year with about half of it from 3 counties alone. Multiple personally owned castles that have both the capital bonus and collect tax steward bonus make a far greater impact than tax trickled up from vassal cities. On top of that, you also have a far larger army along with it.
but that's mecca, you have silk road there, if you're somewhere in western Europe you're better off having 8-10 counties filled with cities and a merchant republic near so that they build a trade post there, you'll be swimming in ducats that way. It is true about the troops tho. But with that cash troops are not a problem.
I guess it comes down to your position on the map, starting date and ultimately, your playstyle
I've done the same thing in northern spain where there isn't the silk road. At the most the money difference between castles you personally own vs tons of cities in counties you own where the city tax trickles up to you would be pretty minor, but you'd have far smaller personal levies and it's your personal levy and personal retenue size that will keep factions from actually declaring war on you. If all you're using is mercenaries, they'll declare constantly because as long as the mercenaries aren't currently hired, they'll just look at your levies and retenues and assume you're weaker than them, forcing you to constantly be at war with your own growing empire.
Tip 2 is about levy size as well as income and how both are helped a ton by having lots of baronies in your capital county to get the most of the capital and counselor benefits. If you want a stable realm you're going to need a reasonably large personal army to keep your own disloyal vassals from banding together and Tip #2 is a very reliable way to get the most out of both your army and your money.
Actually, I do want a tip about how to control multiple duchy titles under Gavelkind without form a kingdom.
So i've been playing in Ireland and the main thing that i've noticed is that in these videos Ireland consists of fewer territories than it does in my games (Desmond is split into Desmond and Locha Lein for example). Can anybody clarify this for me?
There was a recent map update
@@MahDryBread Ah okay, thank you!
High Chief Lev BLACKBIRD of Great Poland! Like WOW. Courtier from Dobrava's court managed to get a title and migrate to Poland?.. Nicu
Just bought this game, about 50 hrs into it. My hardest challenge so far is regencies. They seem to be such a pain, and I find it impossible to control all the countless powerful factions constantly forming. Any tips to do well in a long regency period?
Regencies can be pretty brutal, especially if someone with a claim to the throne is close by and wants to murder you. First, bribe your regents. It sucks because you sometimes end up changing regents quite often, but it's important that they have your best interest in mind. A regent that's part of a murder plot against you is a really serious threat. It's also worth bribing your spymaster for the same reason.
As for avoiding regencies all together that's a bit tricky. Inheritance law is often messy and sometimes you're unlucky, but in general if you have a simple inheritance law where everything goes to one person, just try to have tons of kids. Let's say you're primogeniture and your eldest son inherits everything. You want lots of kids so that if the eldest dies for whatever reason, there is likely to be a smaller age gap between him and the next eldest son.
There is always the possibility other sons will try to raise up against you one day to claim the throne, but at that point it's more of a problem of realm stability and having a proper army to deter attacks like that.
For number 4 I thought that only worked if it is in your de Jure territory or if the claimant is of your dynasty
Nope
The greatest tip of all was not covered... How do I make the screen look big like yours, without being able to change the size for me it's not playable so the rest doesn't matter and the 1920 x 200 resolution which makes it the biggest is still too small.
Tribes can't bring up the 2500 warriors any more. :(
make your angry vassals even more angry, like -100 angry so they rebel, kick their ass, so you can take their land. once you do that, you can give the land to others or yourself, and the now imprisoned vassal can be banished for lots of free gold.
n i c e
*how do u play games where the text is so small?*
here i am after i wiped out every single courtiers and vassals i had bcs they didn't wanna vote the heir i groomed :D
Check the prestige of tribal lords before you go to war - yeah, those 2.5k tribal armies will burn ya real quick when you make that mistake.
Solace unless you’ve used the castle building advice, in which case that extra 2.5k won’t be much help against the 14k I can raise from a single county
Just started the game xd
Pro tip on step for about claimants if u can quick save the game before inviting someone into ur court to make them ur vassel. The reason for this is because that person who has clamants and u want to give land to might not be able to hold the provence u wish to give.
Summery tip is to think twice before granting high land titles to vassels because when in war u will only use there troops not neesasarly ur vassles vassels troops
Hey! May I ask something? I'm playing a lot of Crusader Kings this days and I had a game where my vassals began to conquer lands around, I almost unified Spain with that but then arabs did go wild and fucked me. I played A LOT of games after that one and my vassals are never expanding by themselves anymore. What did I do? lol I don't know how they began to do that so I don't know what do I have to do to give them that choice. I tried to not centralize my kingdom so they have more freedom but that doesn't seem to help
First, they'll need to have claims on foreign land. So they'll need some kind of title where some of the land in it isn't part of your kingdom. Second, they're more likely to declare war on foreign nations to expand if internal wars are outlawed. Third, traits like "Ambitious" make them a lot more likely to fight for land.
Mah-Dry-Bread - Gameplay & Streams! So it isn't easy to make them conquer land by themselves. I guess I just had luck because they conquered half of Spain while I was just looking lol I will try to enforce that, thank you!
It's possible they were using the holy war Casus Belli if the rest of Spain was muslim occupied.
Mah-Dry-Bread - Gameplay & Streams! Yeah, everything was occupied only my kingdom was Catholic which was Galicia-Leon-Castilla-Navarra but even if they used the holy war, what did push them to do it, that's what I don't understand, I made a lot of games after that one and they are not conquering anything anymore. Maybe my kingdom was so healthy that they felt powerful enough to fight? I don't know. I'll try to do those things you wrote and see what happens
@@TheGodKrynn AI have hidden preferences, they have a prefered war target, aggression level, zeal. If a neighbouring land is of their culture and occupied by a different religion they will be more likely to try and take it. Also AI try to attack when an ennemy is weaker than them or already at war with powerful foes. Many times the fatimid have attacked me as Seljuk when fighing byzantium.
I just wish there were less micromanagement ways of controling vassal growth. I don't want one king vassal taking land from my other vassals by any means, even inheritance. And land should stay within it's own Kingdom and if heirs run out the ai should appoint new lords to hold it.
There is a law you can pass so that land can't pass outside of your kingdom through inheritance.
@@MahDryBread I don't mean that. I mean let's say I'm Byzantium and I've got too many vassals so I decided to create kingdom level vassals. I don't want let's say land in the Kingdom of Anatolia to pass out to let's say the Kingdom of Jerusalem because someone there has got it through inheritance. I wish there was a law that states that land cannot pass outside a kingdom whilst it's within your realm. I know it's nitpicking but it honestly drives me mad.
i know... It destroys all those carefully arranged borders... very annoying
Ok so I'm only have the vanilla game. I'm looking at getting some dlc when I have the money but my funds are limited any advice on the best ones to get? Or any I should avoid all together?
"Way of Life" is fantastic
@@MahDryBread thanks I will give it a look. What does that give you?
The biggest part is the "Focus" system. Check it out: ck2.paradoxwikis.com/Way_of_Life
So there's two types of DLC, mechanics and cosmetics. You can skip every pack that is just units and music, they don't add anything but visuals that I personally like but the cost racks up. Mechanics DLC is much more important and will broadly expand the way you play the game. Of the Mechanics Update Sunset Invasion, Horse Lords, and Jade Empire are the easiest to ignore unless you specifically want to play a nomad and interact with China. Jade Empire also lets you write books w/ 8 learning and they can be very powerful artifacts but that's aside. Reaper's Due, Monks and Mystics are also very nice but not required, they add alot more flavour. Rise of the Republic is very Byzantine focused, I believe it adds the Mend Schism and Restoring Rome intrigue options. Charlemagne, Viking Age, Way of Life are all damn near required material if you want to enjoy the game. the 2 earlier starting dates triples your starting options and the way of life focuses are some of the most powerful options in the game. Holy Fury is a huge content dump and because I'm enjoying it so much I would say it's worth every penny. The Bloodlines alone are worth it for me, but the warrior lodges are excellent also. NOTE: if you play multiplayer with someone you use all of their mechanics DLC, so if I was hosting a MP game and you joined with just the vanilla game you would use all my DLC except the unit/music pack visuals. Steam has a ck2 MP chat that's easy to find and you can get into various discord groups from there, happy gaming!
@@kristiannicholson5893 thanks for all that going to get 1 or 2 when I get paid depending on price.
Can you hold baronies and cities as a king without penalty or must you always “raise up a lesser vassal” to govern for you?
Feudal rulers cant hold cities, and you can hold castles as almost anyone
@@pedrolmlkzk if I wanted to increase my personal income should I hold more castles in fewer provinces or just more provinces but have lesser vassals govern their holdings?
@@njb1126 doesn't really matter, having more baronies/counties should be priority
no CC on the video? :(
all wrong. rule #1 kill brothers. don't let them poke you later on.
Legitimately. My brothers always have a plot to assassinate me. I feel like Mufasa from the Lion King whenever I discover a plot.
"Long Live the King."
Have as many sons as possible. Once they all reached maturity, keep the main one and one or two spares. When you're starting to die, kill the spare sons and you're set.
@@crusaderofthelowlands3750 but but but you will be sween as a tyrant
how do you save an entire comment section?
8 GIT GUD
I wish i saw this in like 2014
Dzayer
Number one
*buy dlc*
Morph!
Good tips, but the whole build only castles in your capital is a terrible advice. To take advantage of this you need to directly hold the castles baronial titles, taking up one of your county holdings slot, that could instead have been used on an actual county.
Not having that clunty means crippling yourself by not having access to another county's worth of universities or hospitals.
Instead of castles, choose a capital with as many oprn spots as youcan and build cities instead. You get more cash from the city taxes than if they were castle vassals, and you can also get universities.
#10 and go watch god damn arumba, he has answers.
tip 8: spam legalism til you unlock seniority, gavelkind is shite
#8 Ignore all of these and just roleplay your character.
This video is for people who want to improve at the game. If you'd rather just roleplay your character, then feel free to do that. That's not what this video is for though.
@@MahDryBread Hey, sure thing. Don't take my off the cuff comment too much to heart, I just notice how many play CK2 with the same mindset as when they play EU4. They might not get the most enjoyment out of it (one of the devs called it a story engine), trying to min max everything to a tee, even if their current character is an inbred lunatic drunkard.
@@thekinginthenorth8011 I've started coming to your way of Thinking as managing an empire I feel is a chore while. Roleplaying as the once great warrior now drunken coward king of ireland more fun
Tip 9# buy all the DLC to give yourself an advantage :0..
Buying all the DLC does not give you an advantage.
@@MahDryBread In what way? As far as I can see the DLC just gives your character a chance for extra buffs.
@@billyskjor1402 I think you've misunderstood what the DLC do. Not only does every DLC add both negative and positive events, but they add it for everyone. That means that every other AI character in the game would not get those buffs or debuffs unless you have the DLC.
Owning the DLC does not give you any advantage.
@@MahDryBread Thanks for taking the time, fair enough you have a point.
My physician castrated me just to get rid of cancer.
But I don't have the Way of Life DLC. Now I'm sad.
I highly recommend it. It's the most popular DLC for the game and often goes on great sales.
@@MahDryBread I've been playing the game for a year and I only have the Charlemagne DLC. Is it bad that I don't get to fully experience the game because of my lack of DLCs (and funds because some DLCs are expensive as hell)?
@@brandonneilsta.teresa3494 The game with very little DLC is still great, but I do really recommend getting "Way of Life" when it's on sale.
*USE DLCS*
How do you get two councilors?! Jesus, this game is waaay too in-depth.
I lost England because my vassal said a woman i dont know is the rightful ruler
Tbh marrying cousins is useful if their females that own land since then ur heir will inherit
I play a lot of eu4 and hoi4 and a bit of stellaris but I just cannot for the life of me figure out ck2
I love CK2, but it's a bit of a pain to learn. It's a game completely filled with really weird and obscure rules and mechanics. It's why it's a great game to stream, because if you get enough CK2 players in the same chatroom together, no matter how weird of a thing happens at least one person can explain it.
Thank you for not giving the golden globes speech in your intro. Six seconds and we’re off into the video. Thank you
The last one sounds like a bug
Captain Leo becouse it is
pagan/tribal related tips are partly outdated, as tribals cant summon warriors for prestige anymore. its ok when this is an older video anyway, but seeing four choosable actions for each councillor, i think this video is from the holy fury era? then that part is definitely outdated.
This video aired September 26th 2018, so Jade Dragon was the newest DLC at the time.
@@MahDryBread with fourth coucillor actions already in place? my bad then, sorry.
@@popnachzahlen Fourth counselor options were introduced in Monks & Mystics.
for algo
some people dont have dlc so rip
Thankfully most of these tips have nothing to do with DLC and are just mechanics in the base game
@@MahDryBread yes yes I know
None of this works for tribal pagans on ironmode 💀
Number one is wrong actually, you can only reinvest once, after that the modifier wil expire and its gone.
I think you're confusing the event I'm talking about with a different one. Once you do the trade route quest line in Business focus and successfully set up the route, you'll be asked to pay 200 gold to keep the route going every time it's about to expire. You can watch me do this dozens of times between my playthroughs on this channel as Austarias and Mecca.
I know it's a bit of a pain to look through the footage for it, but if it helps you find it I renewed the trade route in my most recent stream of CK2 two days ago. That means episode 100, 101, 102, or 103 will have me renewing the trade route.
Strange, i know what you mean but i always only get to choose to renew once, perhaps they changed it.
Maybe, I can't remember if there was ever a time when you didn't have an option to renew it so it's possible that it used to be not be that way.
Out of curiosity, have you been playing as a Merchant Republic? Maybe during a time when you weren't leading the country, the active leader chose to end the route.
Tip 8: almost ALL (99%) of Finish names and things are pronounced as written. Suomi is said ”Suo-mi”, suomenusko is ”suo-men-us-ko”, sampo is ”sam-po”. One exception is when the first word in a word made of two words (sunglasses, boxcar, etc) ends with a vowel and the secend one does not begin with a vowel. Example: hernekeitto is said ”her-nek-kei-tto”.
It’s confusing. But it’s NOT ”sumen-usko”. Hearing that always makes me cringe.
This game really pisses me off