Crusader Kings 2: How to Take Land

[@nobodynowhere21]

Paradox should be paying you for these. Seriously. Their in-game tutorial is laughable and the game requires FAR too much wiki use to get oriented to the numerous game systems -- the game is just way too dense to get your hands firmly on all the levers without substantial "homework". Anyway, seriously fantastic work, you're very talented.

[@stevenjones7781]

Absolutely right, your an amazing tutorial-er-er-er. Your good at what you do man 👍🏼 keep up what your doing.

[@CasshernSinz1613]

I didn't even use the tutorial. I just used trial and error and these videos

[@Triferus]

I dont like these videos. I loved learning the game on my own without wiki and such

[@albinospino3089]

@@Triferus So then why are you here?

[@nomooon]

@@albinospino3089 he has a split personality...

[@RobinMaas]

An excellent tutorial video! You have earned the 'teacher' trait!

[@necromancer6405]

Scholar would've been better.

[@fredricknoe3114]

I wish that was a trait

[@ragimundvonwallat8961]

100TH like is on me =P

[@abyssstrider2547]

Or better yet: Tutor

[@abyssstrider2547]

Ehhh maybe Instructor?

[@0SgtRay]

Think this guy missed his calling in teaching and motivational speech. Clear, crisp, and precise. At no time does your head nod.

[@mikkykyluc5804]

Also note he has no filler in his speech. No 'uh's or 'ah's.

[@btrekkie]

Good news: the faction bug described at 20:10 is now fixed. With release 3.0 of Crusader Kings 2, it is once again possible to start a faction for feudal elective succession without the Conclave DLC. The conditions for starting a faction for feudal elective are now different than what I state in the video. The crown authority law no longer needs to be min to start such a faction; low crown authority is now sufficient. Furthermore, if the ruler who controls the crown authority law is your direct liege, then you can start a faction for elective succession even if the crown authority is medium, high, or max.

[@MonkeyGeek3]

Just saw your first CK2 video before this and I have to tell you that you really have a talent for teaching this kind of stuff man !

[@zamzamazawarma928]

Agreed, nice voice too

[@shotsfiredandmissed9068]

YES a new one! Another SHORT AND SWEET no BS guide! thank you! edit: Paradox should really hire you for making official tutorials for their games.

[@hagalathekido]

economicly that doesent make sense, he already makes tutorials for them for free

[@wirgindirginwhipforeign3248]

"short"

[@javiborr]

The vassal inheritance explanation has made my day! In my current game I was about to lose a vassal due to his inheriting a duchy (actually a bunch of them) but then I granted him one of my duchies so when the foreign ruler eventually dies and he inherits then I am getting all those duchies for my realm.... no wars necessary.... so cool! Thank you so much for this greatest tutorial! Love this game!

[@TomahawkTimebomb]

I have played CK2 since release and this is the cleanest I have ever heard it all explained. You have a real talent for teaching.

[@zanderwhitcroft]

Just wanted to say thanks for helping me, I gave up on this game 2 times previously. I am now enjoying it alot! It took a few videos (this one too) for me but I managed to "get" it.

[@chickenassasintk]

Your De Jure vs De facto explanation is the best ive ever heard, dident know what anyone meant before then

[@polterghost_]

"Holy wars are great." Thats all I needed to know.

[@BiglerSakura]

Deus vult!

[@EmilKadabell]

God i wish you were still around, making more tutorials!!

[@eugensekesan658]

Honestly i just watched your first video and thinking how it would be bad if you dont keep making ck2 videos.Keep up the good work man

[@senkaighost7723]

Eugen Sekesan ayaya

[@trenthogan4212]

Sounds like learning this game should be a university course. There must be 1,000 things to remember.

[@TheInsatiableViper]

Once you are powerful it’s quite easy, it can be difficult to manage at the start however

[@miika559]

It always was a pain to lose land through inheritance without knowing that subtlety of rank difference, your video brought a lot of info. Thanks and keep up the good work!

[@TheGreatCharlie123]

very good explanation of the game. best I've seen so far, mostly do to your concise speech.

[@TheGreatCharlie123]

Needless to say i still dont get shit from this game

[@guyedskull1]

More videos please. you're the first youtuber to make a coherent, comprehensible tutorial on this game without rambling on about complete nonsense.

[@dragonlord2451]

"I think you will find it to be a rewarding experience" *current ruler gets slow fever and dies, first 5 minutes of game with no heir* *200000x in a row*

[@kyocobran1463]

It's a VERY realistic game.

[@tada-kun982]

@Cannabis Dreams not by chooping his limbs off or tearing his face from the skull? Before a duel?

[@SerMattzio]

"I'm literally one month away from being an Emperor!" "King Brawny the Physically Fit died of poor health."

[@Dysputant]

Nah your ruler will die only after you enough land to make kingdom and wait for gold and piety... than he dies and your sons split lands....

[@francescobaruzzi16annifa99]

Actually I’m doing a game with the Duchy of Milan, I got a 15 year old boy as heir and the game started 25 years ago. And crazy thing, i never got ill in the game

[@Goldenmaw]

I've seen quite a few tutorials on this game because there is SO MUCH to learn. This tutorial is by far the best I've seen, great work! :D

[@threeten22]

Dude. Thank you for going over inheritance. You can't imagine how many times I have mucked that up.

[@sinekonata]

This video is gold. I had to watch vassal inheritance twice and slowly but now I feel so well armed to scheme in peace. Thanks

[@GoodNight0wl]

I've watched all three of your videos. Before this, I almost watched a 20+ part tutorial for the game. In my opinion, that's not a good way to introduce new players. I didn't want a big information load. I was able to get started thanks to your videos. Thank you

[@RevMirrane]

he did say new players should only care about the first 4 methods

[@threeten22]

One thing to add, in the settings before a game you have the option to normalize the names of provinces, (ex: Sweden will always be called Sweden no matter what culture it is). May be helpful for those who don't have a good understanding of province names, or would like province names to be consistent no matter what culture takes it over at the cost of historical accuracy. P.S. Thanks again for making this....8 months in and I still come back to these videos as refreshers

[@naruclone]

thank you so much for this tutorial, I really appreciate it being based in vanilla, so many tutorials use strategies involving all DLC

[@MagicAlfi]

you have the best CK2 tutorial series out there

[@johannes10038]

extremly wel explained! Good job!

[@DeathComesQuick666]

Absolutely amazing. This guide is AMAZING. I struggled so hard not to get upset using the in-game tutorial my first playthough... I ended up using console commands to get a feel for the game and its systems better. If i had found your channel a couple days ago it wouldve been better lol. Still, many great tips here for such a complicated game! Going to go apply some now on a new playthrough.

[@rollingstairs1]

the fact that you put the times in the description was enough to win me over.

[@lyonharted31]

I'm LOVING the tutorial stuff. Well done, keep it up. Minor nitpick, it's not "de jury" , it's "de joor" .

[@btrekkie]

Thanks for the feedback. I too learned to pronounce it "dih ZHOOR," but for my tutorials, I decided to look up the pronunciation. According to www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/de%20jure , it's supposed to be pronounced "dee JOOree" or "day YOOR." Although now that I'm looking at it again, I still got it wrong, as I was pronouncing it "dih JOOree."

[@lyonharted31]

btrekkie Wow, that's crazy. It must be some kind of issue with the French "du jour" being a similar phrase and tripping me up.

[@mwe1967]

I like the French style "de joor" pronunciation better in any case. De jury just sounds funny and I keep thinking about jury duty everytime he says it lol

[@BiglerSakura]

@@btrekkie if in Latin, DEh YOU-REh

[@spongeboblover7052]

it's dE joorE (e as in men)

[@cemborayazici5484]

The best tutorial I have ever seen about ck2

[@BiglerSakura]

Excuse me, in this example - 11:46 - isn't Bermudo Ordones already your vassal? I see your portrait top-right above him as his liege. Why do you have to grant him a landed title?

[@btrekkie]

Initially, Bermudo is my courtier, not my vassal. He's an unlanded person of noble birth who's just kind of hanging around in my court. It's true that it says I'm his liege. But this is a bit misleading as he does not have any land titles, so he is not actually anyone's vassal.

[@derangedgoblin429]

Excellent tutorial. It really helped me understand how to take land, something I've been really confused about.

[@chrisallen5373]

This is the best and most straight forward guide for this subject I have found. This is excellent work! Well done!

[@Guihellscream]

THANK YOU SO MUCH...wanted to get in the game but its so confusing yet paradox don't have any good tutorial so again...THANK YOU!

[@Submachine_]

man these are good make more please ive watched them all over too many times theyre that good

[@tevez5049]

I really like your tutorial videos, keep up the good work

[@madamepop5342]

the best video I've ever seen about CK II. It is exactly what i looked for. thanks a lot . And thanks again to have added the written version of what you say. I am french and it helps me a lot !!

[@Lurtz_s]

Excellent video! I already knew most of what you addressed and it was still a valuable and informative watch.

[@Fulminatrixx]

Greatest explanation I have seen about these grave matters !!

[@stevenjones7781]

You have earned the awesome youtuber trait

[@sinkoprvi3477]

Excellent, effective, and informative video. Far better than Paradox's tutorial or anything they could come up with. Awesome job.

[@dylancampbell9631]

Moar please!!! Playing Byzantium at the moment going for the SPQR achievement. This tutorial has been invaluable! Thanks.

[@bouzzard4871]

In my conquest of Ireland, I've started as the petty kingdom of Munster, and after two kings I've conquered almost the entireity of Southern Ireland and Dublin, but afterwards my counselors became so useless at creating claims that I went straight to the Pope to ask him for rulership over the duchy of Connacht, and surprisingly he granted it to me, tough I don't remember how much I've paid in piety and prestige. Maybe the Pope agreed because previously one of my kings went on a Crusade to Egypt and later became a parangon of virtue, that must have farmed a ton of prestige, piety and stuff. Afterwards some other petty kingdoms formed a defensive alliance against me so I've hired a big mercenary company to give them a proper trashing while my own armies storm the castles. The war lasted 2 years and after conquering 80% of Ireland, my dinasty became the rulers of the Kingdom of Eyre, after 4 generations.

[@DYNB]

All of your tutorials are simply excellent! Thank you very much for the effort!

[@icencold3447]

Dude you should make a hell lot more of this tutorials you are one of best so far

[@c0de99]

Holly cow this was a great video guide/tutorial/thing. Sad to see this was the last vid you posted ... what happened? You are great for this !!!

[@bannor216]

sounds and presents in a way like an informational video checked out in a library back in the day

[@gabeghiby6935]

mate, kudos for you, for making this kind of a tutorial... I just subscribed, hoping you'll continue to make those, so we can learn from your experience I rarely see such training guides, yours is well created, keep up the great job you do... we appreciate it...

[@LovingTinha]

One game, I married one of my daughters into an Empire, then the son she had inherited the Empire when the father died, and when I died, I inherited the entire Empire as that boy, Was absolutely insane, I stopped playing because I was tired of the game, and could not be bothered ruling such a huge Empire.

[@ragimundvonwallat8961]

hahaha awsome, where was your original land and what/where was the huge empire???

[@LovingTinha]

@@ragimundvonwallat8961 My original land was located on the Iberian Peninsula, and the Empire was the Byzantine Empire

[@ragimundvonwallat8961]

@@LovingTinha pretty epic shift

[@Dayaktribesman]

Im gonna guess that son is of different dynasty, ergo game over.

[@jackieclan815]

@@Dayaktribesman Not if you do so materniality

[@mihaibg84]

I loved your video! I think you have a talent for teaching, keep at it.

[@Vishnu-ge2jo]

Excellent guide! Im looking forward for more.

[@speleokeir]

A really good and informative tutorial. Thanks for this, it was really helpful.

[@clamum]

Absolutely excellent tutorial man, thanks! I wish more tutorials were as good as this. Please do more Crusader Kings 2 tutorials (and any more Paradox games)!

[@drakekay6577]

13:08 Pressing your own characters claims..... You state, unlike pressing your own characters claims. You can only press one per war. Does this imply you can press all your personal claims if they are under the control of one person?

[@merennamyiel305]

Very good tutorial ! Many thanks.

[@sallocin4458]

I love your videos, i hope you come back and continue making videos

[@jovanni1112]

Thank you for making things more simple because i am new at the game and I love playing ck2 and currently i am playing as iceland and it is more harder than I thought

[@limitedmobro]

Bruh you deserve more views

[@IsaiahClemmons]

thank you buddy. i do appreciate this.

[@spacemonkeypictures]

I understood most of this video, thank you very much this was gold. I spend some time watching shit tutorials, this one is simple and really well explained. If you want an humble advise, some list of information is better to see them written on the screen. Thank you again.

[@Eevee13-xo]

Incredible tutorial, I'm not new (about 150hours), but I came here for an explaination on inheriting counties and land in general, I've been playing Cornwall recently, I only hold cornwall, Devon is de jure Dutchy of Cornwall but de facto Dutchy of Wessex. Inheriting Devon would be perfect to me as the Duke of Wessex and i (Duke of Cornwall) share the same liege.

[@dd99games4]

THANK YOU

[@plubog]

A great help. Good job

[@MayMayo]

Love your CK2 videos :3

[@drakekay6577]

Its funny how after playing ck2, I now understand what it meant to be the reagent for King Aragorn. I also understand more clearly that he pressed his claim.

[@denlillavatten.67yearsago82]

Love you’re videos man

[@mohamadrizal6165]

You are legendary bro

[@drakekay6577]

Aww wow, is that what the landscape used to look like? I can't imagine playing without the mountain range south of Valladolid or east of Astorga.

[@meerkats9317]

The casual way he says 'marry the 2nd in line to the throne and murder the 1st one'

[@mahdiaali9586]

Awesome man just awesome it really helped

[@soulforged5062]

Guys a little help, i am playing as Ireland(recommended for begginers),it seems that when i catch a plot and imprison a treaterous vassal i cannot understand how to replace him,i cant revoke his tittle i think,so what do i do to get rid of him and replace him with someone trusted?

[@btrekkie]

If you have sufficient cause, you should be able to revoke at least one of his titles without an opinion penalty from your other vassals. Try right-clicking the vassal and clicking "Revoke Title." The resulting tooltip should tell you if this will result in an opinion penalty. Once you've revoked the title, you can grant it to someone else or keep it for yourself. (See ck2.paradoxwikis.com/Title_revocation#Revocation_reasons for a list of sufficient causes.)

[@soulforged5062]

@@btrekkie Thanks a lot my friend!

[@leespiderpod]

Great help but the music was too loud while trying to concentrate

[@stephenmason1028]

Having High Crown Authority is a *requirement* for me because of the vassal inheritance. The AI controlled dukes get so stupid with their marriages and heirs. For me, it is enormously easier just to placate or overcome the -20 opinion penalty of high crown authority than to try and micromanage all that nonsense.

[@nickc4063]

You Should do a lets play on ck2

[@SwordOfGib]

great Video.. Got a question. You say adding a Vassel to your court than using his claim to a land to wage war that since he is my vassel I would gain the territory.. but it didn't work like that.. once I won my Vassel Usurped the title and left my court. Now he owns the land and not me.. Not a good way to get land if this is what happens.

[@btrekkie]

Are you sure he was your vassal? It's not enough for the claimant to just be in your court. In order to get the land, before you win the war, you (usually) have to make the claimant your vassal, by granting him a county or a barony.

[@andrewsercer9538]

Awesome! And no dlc required for your tips!!??? Mind = exploded!!!!

[@VinzentDk]

Nice vid! Well paced, easy to understand. A question: when you are in realm view, there is a nice graphic showing the line of succession of any title, however this view is missing in my game, and I only see the line of succession by hovering the mouse over the title shield. Was this a change implemented in a patch?

[@btrekkie]

Yup, the line of succession portraits were added in release 2.8.

[@VinzentDk]

Oh, that explains it 😆 Thanks!

[@thewldnass]

thanl you exactly wha i was looooking forr

[@drizztdourden3259]

The go to ck2 teacher

[@uncletimo6059]

I like you. Well done.

[@BiglerSakura]

The situation on the US-Canada border is not that simple ... If the de-jure concept as in terms of SC2 is applied, then Canada may claim the Detroit area and many other places with French names as historically Canadian.

[@napolien1310]

Thank u so much u helped me a lot

[@senkaighost7723]

Ty for the help man

[@Scrungge]

If you grant an heir to a foreign duchy one of your duchies, he becomes vassal to 2 kings right? What makes him swap the foreign duchy under your rule? I don't quite understand

[@btrekkie]

He doesn't become vassal to two kings - that's the key. In Crusader Kings 2, a character can only have one direct liege. Since you were his liege first, you remain his liege when he inherits his second duchy. So the second duchy will leave the realm of the other king (or emperor) and become part of your realm.

[@MarekUtd]

This is so confusing. This has the steepest learning curve of any paraadox game I've ever played.

[@vitez198]

btrekkie please make a video how to get independence

[@crecy_]

I know this is old but, I have an issue where playing as the kingdom of England makes me unable to fabricate claims

[@mori6748]

I love your voice ❤💫💓💥💞

[@morrisjonker512]

So my wife has a weak claim on a duchy. She is in my court. I followed your exact steps but for some reason I can't declare war, because I don't have a valid causus belli. It doesn't make any sense to me! please help

[@btrekkie]

A weak claim can only be pressed under certain conditions. Are any of the conditions mentioned around 9:04 met?

[@ryankielar-mcnamara8921]

It's pretty sad that a random guy on KZbin can explain the game mechanics better than the developers

[@clumsyturtle8544]

Ok, Ok, Ok. So, let me see if I got this right. If you marry an heir to someone of your dynasty that child will inherit the titles. To get and heir to marry you can ask their liege, if no you can invite the heir to court and then arrange a marriage. If male does the marriage need to be matrilineal or not? I'm guessing no?

[@btrekkie]

You want the children of the marriage to be members of your dynasty. They have to be if you want to eventually play as one of them. So if the spouse who's in your dynasty is male, then the marriage must be partilineal. If she is female, the marriage must be matrilineal. (In the rare case where both spouses are in your dynasty, it doesn't matter whether the marriage is matrilineal.)

[@clumsyturtle8544]

@@btrekkie Got it. It's just tricky sometimes to get a male heir to agree to a matrilineal marriage But I haven't tried the method of inviting them to court first.

[@Beencheeling]

Well... i've tried to annex land in ireland and it totally didn't work, after i enfore my demands over they little city they won't be annexed and just continue to live they lives after i've demolished them

[@djay47engleburt74]

i tried your reverse vassal inherit loss =D after making the kingdom of Latium (pope who what) and then taking sardinia & corsica, I sneaked in my seed (my daughter) in to the inheritence chain for the island of sicily, (still under the busy byz's) the byz 'duke' was assinated, then my daughters 1st child took the duchy of sicily, he was 'taken care of' too, now my grandson is in charge of siclily but still works for the byz's, would it of worked minus the assasinations?

[@djay47engleburt74]

correction, was my grandson, i died, we die! so i'll have t wait till i get back on ck2 to see how this little sprout of sicily is related to me, surely i followed your expert advice and thats why three people two kids got assaniated, that is what i believe anyway, if not then its on you that half of the kids in my dynasty got exterminated =D

[@djay47engleburt74]

and by the way the Lombardy which i thought was Lombardi, they're not italians at all, they are mountain huns taking over italia not the other way around as in spreading into europa from italy =D and this germanic-italian mix certainly keeps you on your toes, never a dull moment for long with these fruit cake nutters

[@btrekkie]

In order for you to acquire the Duchy of Sicily through vassal inheritance, your (ex-)grandson needs to be one of your dukes prior to inheriting Sicily. It's not enough for him to be a blood relative. It sounds like he wasn't your vassal, in which case you wouldn't get Sicily. However, if you can manage to make the grandson your heir or your heir's heir, then when you die and become that character, you will get the Duchy of Sicily. This is assuming that your grandson is part of your dynasty (i.e. he has a red blood drop next to his portrait). If the marriage between your daughter and the former Duke of Sicily wasn't matrilineal, then your grandson wouldn't be part of your dynasty, so you couldn't play as him.

[@thedrunkalchemist5442]

@btrekkie you dont pronounce the "e" in jure . As in de jure

[@btrekkie]

Thanks for the feedback. According to www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/de%20jure , "de jure" is supposed to be pronounced "dee JOORee" or "day YOORee." (In fact, I normally pronounce it, "dih ZHOOR," but when I made this tutorial, I decided to look it up.)

[@minedoimperija]

Day 2034 of asking paradox for good in game tutorials

[@fardinhasan1543]

i have captured a County with fabricated claim... how do i put my favourite person as vassal..in that count.. note:there is a city and a bishopric in that ounty.

[@ommsterlitz1805]

I know it's an old video but i need help to understand how do you get land after you got attacked and conquered enemy territory

[@mirjanbouma]

You don't. You can only get land that you have a claim on. There might be some exceptions when you play as a non Christian ruler with certain DLCs, but I don't know much about those.

[@yslandrei]

Uhm i followed the exact steps with the last tactic and it didn't work. The entire Line of Succesion changed and some random kid got the duchy I wanted.

[@faisalac5487]

Thanks bro, u know tutorial in game is soo bad, so im gonna watch your video to play this game as tutorial

[@GadrielSumerfall]

What's the command for the marriage proposal? I'm really Curious

[@btrekkie]

I used "charinfo" to turn on debugging info. I hovered over Matilda's portrait and found her character ID: 7757. Then I entered "add_friend 7757" to make her friends with my character. This gave her +100 opinion of my character and made her willing to accept the marriage proposal.

[@GadrielSumerfall]

@@btrekkie Ohh nice nice. Thank you.