How to Manage Your Vassals, Council, & Court in Crusader Kings 3
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0:00 Intro & Summary
1:33 Vassal Overview
23:28 Increasing Vassal Opinion
30:33 Choosing New Vassals
38:38 Friendships & Rivalries
41:36 Factions
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Thank you so much for watching guys! I'm working on some other videos covering: Faith, Piety & Holy Orders, and Feudal Contracts. If there's any subjects you'd like me to cover, feel free to suggest them below! :)
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This video (and all the others) have been so helpful. I’m still bumbling about a bit but absolutely loving the game. Early days with Gwent but having loads of fun.
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Can you do a guide for real life? Thank you.
Keep your head down, work hard, don't expect anything from your efforts except what you receive, do right by others, and be honest with everyone.. Yourself chief among all. And workout three days a week
@@italianspartacus Haha. Thank you. That's damn good advice.
@@italianspartacus can confirm on this guide, already level 31. I would add you need to start branching into an investment tree in the later stages or you'll screw up your endgame.
@@italianspartacus I’d prefer to have people do that for me
@@italianspartacus Is there a way to lower the difficulty? I just started and It is a pain
I became Kaiser of HRE and discovered the hard way that like 12 counts and dukes had been granted guaranteed council rights by my predecessor for some reason and dealing with vassals has become a nightmare (None of these guys were powerful and none of them were good at their job).
I go north Korea occasionally just to clean everything up (with intrigue character ofcourse)
Maybe kill them?
biggest problem is and all will be when your heir is a child and suddenly takes over... I lost a ton of dynasties over this.
in my latest playthrough I was the high king of Britannia( controlled Norway, Denmark, England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland and friggin Iceland and some other smaller counties in europe)
and most people loved the current king but hated his tyrannical father that United Britannia with an iron grasp and established the empire. Some vassals never got over it ,unfortunately I gave away Norway by accident to a vassal who decided to change his faith and thus became a bane to my existence.. it was only when I died of obesity and my 6 year old genius son took over that all factions wrecked me... I had 24k troops but I lost them all to the other factions. biggest issue was my first primary who would have made a smooth transition of power got Assinated... even though my spy master had an intrigue skill of 24. I bet it was him. I ended up with one county.. as a measly 12 year old Duke. I was screaming at the screen.
Do not give up. It is possible to come back. Sometimes the game decides to bite you in the face, that is normal.
I almost got there, too. My emperor of India died at age of 64 and my 30 years old heir with genius, hercules and handsome son took over. Well, he managed to get a pretty good son and got his wife pregnant a second time (for my luck). He died not ruling for one whole year!
So my 1 year old son got the empire. I threw all of my money at my vassals because there isn't much else to do as a child and I got them mostly happy with me. In the meantime my brother got born but he hadn't that good stats.. My 1 year old ruler got murdered, too - so there I was again, 0 years old and everybody hating me..
With my dynasty members helping - and a great amount of luck - I managed to smash the fraction against me that wanted my aunt to get the empire (what wouldn't be so nice).
After that I looked up my primary heir and it was my 48 years old uncle, so I gave him one of my two empires and somehow got through puberty!
When I was 16, I made him my vassal again and searched for secrets at his court. It tourns out he murdered my father (his younger brother that I made my heir), because he was pissed of not getting the title. So I made this secret official and imprisoned him. I beat the *** out of him in jail so he told me he also murdered my brother to get the next heir!
End of the story: He died in my jail with 65 getting nothing but pain from his actions
That's why you marry your dynasty members into your powerful vassal positions(If possible). You should also pick up a habit to tutor your powerfull vassals heirs. It's hard to control your direct vassals, but you have significant power to lay the foundation for the heir of the powerfull vassal.
Making sure the heir get a great education is important, that +8 in a primary skill make them more likely to be usefull on the council It ain't strange that the A.I will put their heirs under horrible guardians(especially if they are horrible themselves). So keep making sure your courtiers are married to decent guardians, usually all my knights are married to at least a quick spouce with decent stats that way you can host more of your vassals childrens as wards and you will end up with more strong options for vassal spouces trought the courtiers offspring.
Making sure the heir is married to a genius/intelligent spouce also significantly improves their stats(trought spouce) if the spouce is of your dynasty you can also negotiate a alliance if you need too at succession. The next heir will also be more likely to have +stats due to congenital traits.
By controling the vassals in this way you ensure they at least have ~15 stats in the primary lifestyle when they turn 16 and you can appoint them to the council without any worries of great losses. Sure It might sting a bit to pass up on a 20+ council member, but when a powerfull vassal sits on -90 and want to start a faction against you... I'd rather take the 16 year old +15 guy.
I currently rule whole India and most of the middle eastern part of the map. It starts to get rather messy now thou... since i had to make vassals kings due to the vassal limits.
I was so pissed after I finished my rebellion that I executed all the vassals that was involved, even my king's family members lol.
@@Ne0c225 lol... I also got pissed today. Was leaning back fighting against the byzantines near Israel and suddenly my emperor just died(due to health) at the age of 41... I was lucky he only had one son or it could had been a nightmare.
So his kid... erm came to power at the age of 8... So when you hovering around 50 vassals and you see a liberty faction with 30+ members you acctually get really worried.
To solve this i had to go against my own playstyle, so i married off my sisters to the strongest contributors... ignoring the warnings of incest. Also sent off some of them to become wards and bribed any vasssal who might change his mind(25-50 positive range post bribe). In the end I ended up fighting 27 vassals on my own and I'm amazed that I won that fight to be fair.
After doing all that work I realized they just wanted less crown authority and going from Absolute to high would not had been a big deal... I had to take a break due to stress just making me angry at that point XD Well At least it was a perfect time to change some of the contracts, I really like when they have the coinage rights active etc. since growth = king in this game.
All this time playing I never knew you could search for characters with your own text filters like "Trusting" and "Honest". Thanks man!
The more I watchyour videos, the more I realize how much I ****ed up with my campaign :D
The more videos I make, the more I realize I need to delete all my saves and start over hahaha
I just got the game, I feel the same lol
Remember that feudal contracts are inherited. So if you give your vassals title revocation, council rights or war rights, their far less competent and likable lout of an heir (or grandson, or great grandson) will still enjoy those priviliges.
Also title protection even goes if they comit some henious crime, so be sure they aren't going to end up murdering your favorite child, or other shenannigans like that.
Murder scheme.... :)
Dude, my body and mind have been absorbing this game from the moment I bought it. After my first finished campaign there were still so many open questions concerning vassals and I found all the information plus neat side facts in this video. It's 2 AM here I sat there like "Yeah I'm gonna skip my way through the video" but everything was so thoughtful and interesting. Thanks for the hard work!
Thank YOU for watching! :) I make the chapters to help but I'm glad there was still enough to help you out hahaha
So the most important take away from this is to deny the rug. Got it, message recieved!
It might be worth it to keep the rug, if you know who sent it and can end the murder scheme - or if your scheme defense is so high the scheme won't succeed anyway!
I thought it was a pleasant gift the whole time....
So that rug was a attempt on my life!
@@n.asalim3988 Legend has it that's how Cleopatra gained access to Caesar after fleeing Egypt. It likely isn't true, probably romanticized but I'm pretty sure that's the reference here.
How to get strong court members (or Knights with 20+ Prowess) from the very beginning of the game? Marry off (matrilinearly) all your female Courtiers. Get a potential female Spymaster by doing the same with one of your male unmarried Courtiers.
Manage? I just make my vassals my kids. Then when I die, my country explodes into Duchies or Kingdoms led by my kids. Then I start growing a new Empire elsewhere and I make more kids to have new vassals. Then I die again and it all repeats. It's like playing the game from a new save everytime I die except there's a little more of my genes everywhere everytime.
:D
and that's how china was formed
if your vassal has too much land create the de jure title from the same rank and give it to him when he dies you will have two weaker vassals
Wait? It's all dread?
Always have been.
Dread is the easiest way to keep you vassals in line but it is also variable to be compassionate and befriend all you vassals into compliance without ever raising a single point of dread.
Makes it harder for the heir though
I know it will be really helpful even I haven’t watched, yet.
Same here !
its true....this guy has taught me so much about this game haha
It’s just the Spartacus way
Everytime he drops a video I have to restart my campaign
These guide videos are like an audiobook worth of information, I’ve gotten headaches from binging like 3 of them 😓
HAHAHAH I'm so sorry man!
@@italianspartacus I can only imagine the pain it took to make these… Herodotus of CK3 we thank you
By far the best informational video on ck3 in terms of learning how to stabilize your kingdom. this game has quite a steep learning curve and I've watched a ton of video guides, this one is the most important Imo.
Thanks so much man :) glad you're enjoy it!
They should link your video's in the tutorial. I'm new to the game and I think I spend as many hours watching your video's as I watch my game. Great work.
hopefully in the future i can be so lucky hahaha :)
With 200hrs already played I am ready to swipe my card for some DLC, bring it on!!!
This is the episode I was waiting for! Great work! Thank you!
Incredible content! Your videos are always insightful, helpful, and thorough yet somehow concise at the same time. Additional kudos to your format of guiding your viewers and listing out your timestamps and what is provided here. Such a welcome relief from the now common practice of clickbaiting viewers or forcing viewers to slog through possibly unwanted content.
Keep up the good work!!
It's all about respect my vassals respect the fact that I'm willing to work with them, and even more willing to work with their next heir...Always a chance to advance in my empire 😏
Not sure if already mentioned but you don't get extra renown for someone in your dynasty being a duke/king within your territories. You only get extra renown if they are a duke/king/emperor in some other empire.
they have, sometimes i'm a big ole idiot hahaha
@@italianspartacus great video anyways and I learned a lot! Thanks
Apart from watching all your great tutorials, I find watching you play your campaigns really helpful & the chat(when live)help plus also fun
Hot tip: don't appoint your heir as your spymaster, no matter how friendly he seems
Backstabbing little prick! I MADE YOU!
The last word of - julius caesar. RIP.
Edit: got the worng caesar lol.
Sounds like the quickest way to die.
Haha so true. I once did and the super funny thing was he was set to Disrupt Schems and the event came out that (let's call him John): John find out that John is trying to kill you
(he literally reported himself) :)
he had +100 to me all the time
@@Heart0rHead "Hey dad, I found out someone is plotting to kill you"
"Oh my god! And who is it??"
"Hmm....me"
@@alexmorrison3442 tried it in CK2 I died 2 seconds later 🤣
hey ItalianSpartacus, your CK3 guides & tutorials are how I've found your channel, crusader kings is the paradox series I struggle the most with, and I firstly wanted to thank you.
I wouldn't understand CK3 nearly as much if not for you, so thank you for these great tutorials!
you have awesome playthroughs too
you got a sub from me! :)
thank you so much man! glad to have you counted among the family! :) please let me know if you need help with anything
Probably the single most useful guide about vassals I've ever seen, thanks so much. Only thing I'd add is that the deceitful traits etc is also very important when choosing a spymaster. It's counter intuitive, but you actually DON'T want a spymaster with a trait like deceitful, u want a content person with high intrigue skill. Thank you again for the video, most useful info!
I love the way you are explaining this. Helps me A LOT to understand the game... Now I see I know far less than I thought I know :)
Thank you so much. My first playthrough was super frustrating. I’m excited for the next one!
I've been watching the VODs of your livestreams and this video pushed me over the edge to a full fledged subscriber. Thanks for your content!!
Thanks so much man! Welcome to the family :) Since your avatar is the "This is fine" dog, you probably noticed him in the background of my streams ;) I have a stuffed version of him
When viewing councilmembers they seem to NOT get increased experience (or the displayed number is simply wrong, dunno). And I think it quite weird that you cant view your heirs progress in the lifestyle-tree
Insanely good commentary. Thank you!
Peasant Rabbles rock! They are always weak unless they manage to sack your capital during another major war. You get a free competent military leader with a good trait :)
Many thanks for that comprehensive guide! Big topic and very important to get your head around for a successful playthrough.
Thank you so much. Your tutorials have come essential for me.
I feel like genius little bastard
hahaha my pleasure man, thanks so much for watching! :D
THANK YOU for making these! This game is so dense it just requies a very dense video guide. Can't wait to go through even more. So much info that I pretty much have to have explained to me.
Glad I could help! :)
Enjoying your videos. Just started a multiplayer session with a buddy of mine on the Series X. Your videos are definitely bringing a light to all of our confusion. Lol
Thanks!
Great video! I've been playing CK for awhle and I learned a lot from this.
Great explanations in an easy format. This filled in a bunch of holes in my knowledge.
So much complexity below the surface in this game 👍
I got to say this these tutorial tips and advice (along with Havoc's) are so helpful and I really appreciate the time you spend explaining as much as you can...great teaching..please keep them coming and will you be planning on covering Knights of Honor when it's finally released...Cheers.
I sent him this screenshot. He will appreciate it hahahah. Thanks so much man :)
Every time I get stuck in the game I come and check out some your videos, realize I messed up somewhere else and then get this urge to just restart the whole thing. I think I have restarted my latest campaign at least like three times lol. Great tutorials btw. Wouldn't enjoy the game as much without you help
Thank you so much! I am at the point where I want to really dig into the game, and your videos are the perfect way to do that!
Thank you for taking the time to make this. I would love to see a guide like this one but where it starts immediately after an empire falls apart and all you have left are crumbs.
Amazing examples and explanations. Thanks!
Oh man, your videos are amazing. I wish I'd known all of this before I gave away some bits of my current domain to some vassals. Now there's a faction against me but with your tips I'm feeling optimistic. Thanks a bunch, you're the best!!
Thanks so much for watching.. That's such high praise :)
Thank you so much for all your instructive content. Knowing more, helps me to enjoy the game even further.
So glad to hear it man :)
The nuance of the commentary is amazing, Im a newish subscriber and as someone who needs an indepth explanation for most things - your very good. I absorbed all of your videos on ck3 and all of them are phenomenal!
Thank you so much brother! :) Glad it helped out! I'm waiting for the next DLC to do another set of Guides!!
Just got ck3 tomorrow and your video really helped me a lot 😃
Thanks
I came here looking for just how to check what my current vassal limit was, which you showed me very quickly in the first few minutes. I watched the whole thing for the excellent information that's very well put together.
great guide, thanks for leading me through
Allocation of land is the bit that really threw me during my first playthrough. Duchy capital and break up the rest, excellent
YEah me too man!
The problem with that is that you get penalty for the levies and gold you get from the vassals of your vassal. While if he hand the entire Duchy you will get much more. Or am I wrong ?
Thanks again!! You've got great teaching skills and your tutorials helps me alot to improve at this game!
Thank you so much man, very high praise :)
Really informative, thanks!
easy to understand, straight to the content, sub well deserved.
I don't know if any commented this already but 35:38 you give your cousin a Duchy title. Your renown will however not increase because he's a Duke. That's because each nation only the highest title counts. So for example your a king. And several others of your dynasty have counties/duchies in your nation. They will not count because the highest and that's your king title will only count. However for example through ploy you have mananged to put in your neighbour nation your dynasty. Then each of them will count as long biggest title and the liege above them isn't your Dynasty.
In one campaign. Through guile, hooks and murder. Almost half of Kingdom of sweden was held by mine Dynasty. While the king was not. The huge number of renown I earned was staggering high. I myself King of England. So yeah I quickly made mine Dynasty the best there was. And it then went spiral.
His entire Court existed almost of mine Dynasty member. Eventually it happened that one of mine Dynasty members became strong enough to challenge the King and won. And then the renown gain went down.
I know this is a very late comment, but Awesome vid , very well put together and very, very informative. Thank you :) A subject I'm really struggling with in CK3 at the moment, this will help a lot. Cheers
Wish i have watched this before i started play the game lol.. it would save from lots of headache because my vassals keep rebelling 😂
Hahaha hey man! That's how you learn!
Great guide! Thank you so much, very helpful 💪🏼🥰
Really well thought out and clear video.
Thank you for watching! :)
Excellent analysis and clear explanation of this complex system
These tutorial videos are great. It seems to me as if the opinion of others towards your character is much more positive than in CK2. There are a lot more characters with 100 opinion in CK3 than I ever recall there being in the previous game.
Great videos, they've really helped easing me into all the intricate systems. I started just yesterday and continued in the tutorial until I had become King of Ireland, and then the first crusade happened. I went along, thinking I'd make some quick money going someplace with no enemy armies and siege for prisoners. When the catholic side won, I had apparently contributed 35% of the total win score, so my son was made Crusader King of Jerusalem! Gonna jump into it now playing as him, so hoping all the angry neighbors won't just tear my head off.
I just want to say thank you very much for all these tutorial videos about CK3!!
My pleasure dude!!
Your videos really helped me understand and enjoy the game. THANK YOU!
thank YOU so much for watching!! :)
Just started playing ck3, you’re a savior to my realm haha
Best video i've seen, you're a legend
Thank you for this clear guide
great video and very helpful. greetings from Turkey. thanks for all hard work, details and explanation.
great vid mate, thanks for the work!
I only looked for all those topics you cover in several videos on CK3 AFTER I bought the game since only then the questions arose. However, I have enjoyed your videos very much and will be looking out for ways to buy future DLCs through your links as a thank you.
So, thank you for the great content you put out!
Another way I keep control of specific counties is give them to old people by sorting by age. If I know that I'm going to get another Holding soon, I'll give it to them (especially if they’re Chaste). This allows me to in a way put off Holding it until I have enough. It avoids the Tyranny and Revoking scenarios you'd otherwise have to walk through.
The game should allow more simultaneous actions to take place. Eg. sway more than one person at the same time.
It would just break the system lol But you can still carry out a hostile and friendly scheme simultaneously
Awesome video. Love the game. Can't wait for new dlc!
damn this is like the best crusader king 3 university ever, thank you please keep on making these videos, they're all very educational !
Thank you so much! That's such high praise man hahaha
@@italianspartacus well deserved
With reference to Martyn Hulland's comment about Knights of Honor... To anyone who can't afford this game and/or who has an old laptop I can't recommend Knights of Honor enough. £2-ish? Just don't bother to fight any of the battles yourself - that's not what the game is about. Martyn Hulland's post refers to the upcoming Knights of Honor 2... Sounds great. I reloaded my old KoH campaign after becoming bored with Assassins Creed: Valhalla. I've got the UK, France, Spain, Italy, North Africa and Constantinople, but my king got assassinated and my spy master became king, so he eventually died. The whole pack of cards came tumbling down as I couldn't trust hiring any new Knights as I kept getting burned by spies. The whole empire was being held together by two veteran Marshals. I eventually managed to turn it round through decent royal births (incorruptible), consolidated my armies and provinces, and was about to go for a massive push against Prussia, but then I got tempted by CK3. I actually prefer the graphics of KoH when you're zoomed right in. CK3 needs to improve that element. Armies walking on the spot looks rubbish and the 3D element is an unnecessary drain on a machines graphics power. In spite of the rubbish screen shots of 20 mile high knights fighting on poor 3D landscapes I've migrated to CK3 and I'm totally loving it! Hence watching this great video and logging in specially to comment...
I don’t even play CK. I just know it’s super complex, but I love how you’ve broken this down and how much sense it makes both logically and from a gameplay standpoint, I’m going to watch more and then maybe jump in!
Get into it bro, it’s amazing! The tutorial in the game is a massive help and will make the game seem a lot less daunting.
MAAAAN THANKS SO MUCH! This one thing was such a pain in the ass and thanks to you, now I know it
Give a lot of people one county and then this one in capitol, just others as vassals
My pleasure man! :) Happy to help out brother!
@@italianspartacus I had to start a civil war to repair the mess my vassals were xD This liege gonna be the tyrant till his last days
I love these videos! I enjoy this game so much more with this advice and help!
Absolutely man thanks so much for watching. So glad it helped :)
You are the man. I love you.
Renown won't increase unless dynasty members have titles outside of your control. If they are a vassal the renown value of their title isn't given. (Vassal of you)
Another great video, I know I have been pretty cavalier with making vassals and it has bitten me on the butt.
Thank you brother you helped me a lot
I just got the game because YT recommended some other channels to me and definitely needed more guidance than the tutorial offered for longterm gameplay. I got it on the console (wasn't sure how good it would be on my mac) so some of the stuff is arranged differently--but nonetheless helpful. c: I really have been struggling with maintaining control of the lands I conquered once my first liege died (ie. their kids or grandkids have a huge rebellion to handle and it all falls apart). So, this helps a lot!
I'd REALLY love to see a video that describes how to straighten out vassalages with the least amount of tyranny.
If you somehow have totally messed up and dukes have counties all over the place and counties/duchies are outside the proper kingdoms... oy.
I conquered Poland (still in my Hungary/Carpathia game) and ended up imprisoning the old King of Poland because he refused to give up a county to be in Lower Poland.... stripped him of all his titles and took care of that county and then installed my (non-heir) son as King of Poland. Now I need to figure out who should be Dukes and Kings of my constituent domain.
But, as they're vassals of vassals, it's not as easy as saying "You... go there". I'm raising my dread (close to full torturer track) so maybe I can do out with a great tyrannical blaze while setting my grandson (first son of my dead first son) up with a properly ordered empire so he can work on our reknown.
From my experience, you just have to learn to live with the mess. It's just the way it is, try to organize stuff that you conquer from the counties up, but when you get vassals that are all over the place, just roll with it.
FYI to anyone interested: putting in vassals that share your religion in counties that aren't will have penalties at first, however it's beneficial in the long run because they will work on converting those counties to your faith, without you having to do anything. Great to do for instance, after just annexing a bunch of differing religion territory, since it takes a number of years for your realm Bishop to convert and he only does one at a time as opposed to as many as you want.
Best guide on this to date
Love your guides mate!
Could you do one on managing an empire? 😊
When you get to granting kingdoms and have a vast empire you have to empower some vassals and would be nice with a video with an empire. Thank you. 😊
have you found a solution yet? I'm having the same problem right now lol. right now I'm just creating kindom titles inside my empire, granting them away and then assigning vassal (in the menu "realm (F2)" i can't grant any vessels anymore since my vessels are pretty much all the same level right now, that's why I'm creating these kingdom titles)
@@shaquiwaki Nope started building tall instead :-P Just as fun and more manageable ;-)
Thanks man keep it up! This game is amazing
Thanks brother. Always great to see your comments!
Thanks for this. I’m new to the game and this is so valuable. Have a sub! Beware the rug...noted.
The cinematic makes me wish this game had in game cinematics for major events
Damn this guide is really good
Not sure if you explained at a point I missed or in another video, but what is the third skill for the Chancellor about? Something to do with drifting duchies to your primary de jure or something?
Its a skill that takes anywhere between 20 and 60 years depending on skill, is it worth doing over the other two skills?
Your videos help alot man
Happy to help out my dude
Some tips for those with Religious conversion problems.
Get the first 3 traits on Learning lifestyle, Theologian tree, up until and including, Religious Icon. With these you can convert any county within 4 to 8 years even with an 11 Bishop. This means, on average, each character will convert 4 counties. So by getting these traits and focus on converting with the assist of the Steward, you will no longer have religious rebellions within 2 character lifetimes. Either because you've convert them all or because they're no longer strong enough to rebel even against recent successions.
Another tip but unrelated.
I've played a lot in the Iberian Peninsula and i think it has the best winning condition of the game. Once you conquered Granada and Cordoba, keep all those lands and titles for your character, you've pretty much won the game. Granada as capital and Cordoba as your money maker, it's insane, has anyone seen any better combo?
Yes, the best combo was my Duchs in my Kingdom of Portugal doing an hostile takeover on me the exact year I inherited the kingdom xD Fuckers caught me in the middle of a holy war against muslims and without alliances because I had just inherited xD
@@st4rpt_603 I tried a Portugal campaign and it's hard af.
From what i can remember, i needed a strong alliance in the beginning, France was the one i was able to get. Because as soon as you declare independence you get insta nonstop gangbanged from the Muslims and Spanish.
Ultimately, with a lot of loading saved games, was able to ward off both, found peace with the Spanish since we had a common enemy, and then focused on the Muslims.
As soon as i got Granada as capital and Cordoba as money maker, it was gg, no more saved game loadings needed (did like 10 in total, most at the beginning).
Stopped paying the game entirely with most of Northen Africa, all Iberic peninsula and South of France as Empire of Portugal.
It became to easy and repetitive. Granada is quite defendable and Cordoba has nice gold income plus some bonus I don't remember, a special building of sort. Getting this setup for your family to always inherit will make you invincible since you'll always make the most gold and you won't be conquered.
PS: I don't know if any of this is still viable since played it a year ago.
This is great. I wish the tutorial actually explained the math and rates that only youtubers seem to have (besides wikis)
I love history so much. Especially medieval and ancient history. I just love this game so much, these guides are great. I always do my historic research of a dynasty/character/realm I play as from the beginning. Have anyone played EUIV before? I am wondering if I would like this game? I am big fan of historical Total War games and CK series.
Another trick: you can get rid of vassals plotting against you by granting them to another vassal... i.e. granting a Count to one of your Dukes removes him from your vassal pool and puts him in the Duke's pool so he has to deal with him.
Yes...
My friend in a Multiplayer game is playing as a Duke under me and my Brother is acting up so I just gave him to my friend and said "He's your problem now"
I just encourage them to revolt, then I imprison and revoke their titles and give them to my family 😂
@@paulsimons769 Or just sleep with married men, narc on them, then revoke titles, all as empress lol. Pardon me, literally.
I find that sometimes if I give a duke only the duchy county, he won't be strong enough to keep the title and will either get overthrown by one of his subordinate counts or another duke. So if I really want that duke to keep his duchy, I'll give him an extra county or two depending on the overall size of the duchy so he can maintain control.
Great vid
So helpful my brain is drowning in awe too hard to actually pay attention
Your videos make something that I struggle with so easy to understand and I thank you for it (yes this is my homesteading account don’t judge me we all have hobbies)