How to Manage Your Domains in Crusader Kings 3 (Control, Development, & Succession)

[@italianspartacus]

Beginner's Guide: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n2qzY2dupdCaj6s Thank you so much for watching today guys! I'll be working on a Vassals/Councilors video as well as Faith/Piety. Thursday is a "7 best campaigns" video if you're looking for a new place to start on the map! If you haven't picked up the game, you can grab it through my link here: www.nexus.gg/italianspartacus . This helps me out a TON as it gives a direct commission to the channel, and depending on what time you see this, a discount to you as well.

[@Konsaki]

At 14:58 you click on the 'Guild' building icon instead of the 'City' button above it and give wrong information about what Cities actually provide. At 15:37 you perform the same mistake with Temples, clicking the 'Monastery' building icon instead of the 'Temple' button above it.

[@rollercoaster478]

Spartacus, could you please do a video on fast conquering and wars? I am not sure about the best way to get claims, declare wars and conquer fast. I see these comments about 200k armies and owning all of Europe, and I am not even close to that level, feels like I conquer very slowly - county by county, sometimes a duchy gets conquered, and when I usurp a kingdom title I still have to deal with all the independent rulers one by one, so advice and help would be nice, thank You, a fan. I know you had a Claims and Combat video, which was very nice for a beginner like me. What I mean would be a more in depth video on expansion and how to get claims or claimants and what is the best approach. I have seen for example people trying to get matrilineal marriages with every king and then just inheriting the claims or smth, I dont understand how that works.

[@Ultrajamz]

Any major updates to this after all the 1.1-1.4 updates?

[@michaeldrummond9644]

Do you have a guide just on moving your capital. Like why or where...different things to consider...I'm playing with Duara. I'm still tribal but I'm taking over Nubia and Abbyssina...thought about moving to a castle holding but I can't progress it, should I wait?

[@DarylMCDeath]

You are not mispronouncing De joure...Just an english accent but you speak it right...

[@jansund1650]

I hate it when I have to go to war with my brothers to keep my dad's hard fought kingdom in one piece. That type of responsibility is not fair for a 8 year old kid.

[@mariano98ify]

i mean, your father fought so every one of his kids has some kind of inheritance, what another way they will expand our dynasty? because since the first start we have the primogeniture law avaliable, the game would be insta blob and over.

[@ruukinen]

@@mariano98ify Yeah father didn't fight for you to have a large empire. He fought so that all his kids would have some land to call their own. Otherwise he would have disinherited the other siblings no?

[@kwloy]

Hey, he fought to give you all something to call your own. He knew the more land he owned, the more he'd have to give away.

[@cakdwik2050]

Just disinherit when u alive 😂😂

[@alexanderchristopher6237]

@@kwloy Sounds like father of the year right there.

[@clukskin]

I seem to have this habit of starting one of these lengthy guide videos and then playing CK3 before the video is finished >.

[@bradenchance]

lmfao i was about to do this

[@mopalamimosemudi09]

😂😅

[@yakitori888]

Me too

[@GeeEmming]

I've literally started this series like 4 times and gotten no information from it because.. same.

[@KennyCutz]

Same! Im addicted. Almost played 24 hours straight yesterday... whoops.

[@ww3032]

Everytime I watch one of your guides, I feel like I need to restart my game from all the mistakes I've made.

[@italianspartacus]

Nooo! the mistakes are what makes the guides! I am showing you guys the lessons i learned from just .... fucking up a ton hahaha. you're on the right track brother!

[@SuperHperTube]

@@italianspartacus Did you play it mostly on Ironman? Because I I feel like even if I still don't know too much about the game without Iron mode there is too much power to cheat and there are no real stakes. So I am thinking about learning the game this way. I also think I would take every decision a lot more carefully.

[@aidan1790]

@@SuperHperTube except for certain game rules which make the game easier how does deactivating ironaman let you cheat?

[@SuperHperTube]

@@aidan1790 Because you can save everytime before a decicion or war so when something happens you dont like you just load it again. With Ironman you can't savescum

[@nk-dw2hm]

Don't worry when you start a new game you'll forget about most of these things until you've already messed up haha

[@ReZdItalia]

Just started playing this game and your tutorials were among the first I started watching. You do an exceptional job explaining the intricacies of this game. I appreciate your hard work. Salute, brother!

[@italianspartacus]

Thank you very much brother! Greatly appreciated :)

[@rampdavidson6397]

@Jimmy Well I played through the tutorial, and still watch this guys' videos. It's hardly odd.

[@Yourebeautyfull]

When you watch all his videos and you have the attention span to actually understand what he is saying, you will become a pro sooner then you realize ;)

[@Robin____]

@@italianspartacus Brilliant video!

[@tyrriad4774]

Dread is really powerfull expecially when your character dies and your heir take the throne, it really stop any rebellion from your vassals. You can get it for free when you execute people from an opposite religion (like prisonner from an holy war).

[@alphaspartan]

100% correct. it's practically broken at this point. My 6 year old took the throne of my 2x empires and everyone had -100 opinion of him because of different culture + religion maluses and i was about to have a bunch of people do a civil war for independence so I launched a quick holy war against a weak muslim county and took as many hostages as possibly by sieging lots of their castles. once i had like 12 prisoners I ended the war and executed them all giving my 6 year old 100 dread lol. every. single. faction. disbanded! once you figure out stuff like this though the game gets incredibly boring because you're too OP to ever be stopped unfortunately... the one way around 100 dread cheesing is if your vassals have the brave perk. they will still stand up to you and the game kept trying to get me to give away counties and duchies to brave characters when i sorted by relevance... nice try game but I'm not dumb lol. I guess it wanted to give me more challenge so I would begin having fun again...

[@tyrriad4774]

@@alphaspartan Yeah i figure it out when my character died just after a crusade, i executed some random guys because i wanted to test how dread deal with vassals rebellion and i was very suprised when i saw every rebellion gone away in an instant. I feel the same, i had so much fun the first 20-30 hours trying to figure everything out but now that i know how to build an empire quickly is a little less fun. But i still enjoy it after 100 hours and i still learn some way to play the game ! And i will propably try some of the mods like the one at bronze age or the one with vampire "princes of darkness" (there is a whole bunch of lore with it and some cool design).

[@alphaspartan]

@@tyrriad4774 I agree, I'm still excited to try some mods possibly and mess around with religion and clan mechanics. So far I've only done Western Europe/catholic rulers but there's so much more to explore in this game.

[@Ultrajamz]

I save those prisoners for my heir towards end of life to make sure fast dread buildup

[@SushiParty]

This is really useful information. I was having some issues with my vassals getting all uppity and decreasing my crown authority everytime my kings/queens die.

[@Sh3ewit]

I got this game as a gift from a friend of mine and i couldn't understand a thing from it even though i played the tutorial so i searched for guides on youtube and i found your channel and now i am understanding a lot of the concepts of this wonderful game because of you and i just wanted to say thank you for uploading such wonderful guides.

[@italianspartacus]

hahah that's so awesome - thank you so much for watching man. I'm glad I could help out :) It's a dense game, but it just takes some time and then it all clicks

[@andrewfraser3343]

wish i had friends like yours haha

[@Sh3ewit]

Andrew Fraser yeah we grew up together and have a habit of buying games for each other.

[@EndsleyIV]

Where did you start your first game at?

[@Sh3ewit]

Aaron R I played the tutorial first and i was able to finish the tutorial but I wasn't interested in the Irish campaigns so I started a new game playing Rurik Rurikid (sry if thats not the right spelling ) and my wife kept pumping out babies, thats when i started looking for guides.

[@Th3Nob]

Your tutorials are tremendously helpful and so well done! Thank you.

[@italianspartacus]

You're very welcome- just saw these Super Thanks so I wanted to catch up on the back log. apologies for the late response!

[@antuanwallace7665]

The succession stuff is really good.

[@GerNiels]

it's what steers most of my game, keeping my progeny plentiful and strong

[@blindwhy]

But this doesn’t work if you have a lot of children; you’ll be forced to split the counties when you die cuz you don’t have enough duchy titles to give

[@antuanwallace7665]

@@blindwhy Maybe disinherit some, have some have accidents...

[@bert-janstigter7922]

I had 13 children when i died.. Al i have left is one piece of land when i died.. So thats why i came to this video..

[@Ness817]

@@bert-janstigter7922 you gotta start using protection my guy

[@TheBusbyBabes]

you get +1 domain limit for each 5 points you have in stewardship with your ruler

[@TheBusbyBabes]

and i believe the points of your spouse count to yours too if you put her on the focus for it

[@Business_Skeleton]

@@TheBusbyBabes they do

[@ruukinen]

@@Business_Skeleton Half of them. On the assist everything option you get one quarter rounded down to everything.

[@darianle190]

Watched over 5 hours of tutorial, hours of actually playing the game? ZERO.

[@atbj23]

Hahaha this is me

[@Omnis2]

Grand Tutorial game of the year

[@TheZaror]

i think before getting into eu4 back then i watched hundreds of videos of gameplay the good thing as soon as you figured one paradox game out they are all pretty easy

[@Michelletabor1]

better than my 10 hours in the game not knowing wtf I am doing first

[@ojciecvaader9279]

I have the same problem... I watch more than I actually play. It's fascinating and really inspiring to see there is so many possibilities I had no idea about

[@ch48282]

Incredibly informative, detailed, and helpful video. Your formatting is fantastic. You've done a wonderful job in this and your other explanative videos. Thanks a lot, you've really boosted my understanding of many concepts in the game. I look forward to your next video.

[@italianspartacus]

thanks so much man! i try not to make them TOO dense. I have to stop myself from not going on a tirade into different subject. Like buildings I think deserves its own video, not a watered down 5 minute segment in this video. So I'm glad I was able to help :)

[@jand.4737]

Something to note: the number of levies from vassals seems to be different between feudal and tribal. whenever I make my tribal empire feudal, my levies go down from 11k to 3k, which of course means I immediately get targeted by other empires and and lose entire kingdoms

[@Marius_The_Norse]

When trying to convert county religion, check if your vassal of each county follow your religion or some other. If its NOT your own, if you demand conversion from them and they accept, the whole county also converts. Much faster than trying to use your arch bishop, and if the ruler of the county is of a different religion they might just convert it right back again after you are done. I converted large stretches of land using this method in just a few button clicks.

[@italianspartacus]

Great point and I'll be covering it in my Tribal > Feudal AND my Faith & Piety AND my Vassal & councils video because it's SUCH an important means of keeping your realm together. One thing though - they will only convert their CAPITAL county. SO, if you give them 3 counties, then demand they convert, the chief county will be 100%, but I believe it's 50% on the other counties unless they are a duke and control multiple vassals!

[@Bleatmop]

You're videos are so spot on. The amount of work you must put in to get these situations where you can teach all these things and have the examples ready to go is unreal. I'm new to CK with CK3 and I've been struggling through. Your instruction really helps clear up the things I've only begun to understand. Thanks so much!

[@italianspartacus]

Oh man thank YOU so much for watching. I'm happy to help and show people where I messed up so they can learn from my mistakes :)

[@SingularityHRT]

It is not just Castles but all Holdings with a fortification has to be taken to control the County. Even Temples and Cities can be fortified.

[@thawhiteazn]

I’ve played CK2 for a long time so a lot of these features are familiar, but this is great information. You really go into detail about everything and leave no stone unturned, thank you for the time you spend researching all of this stuff and sharing it with everyone.

[@XxBrian22]

Im getting better at the game - I'm having a ton of fun. Nice video bro.

[@italianspartacus]

Thanks man! Glad it's helping! :)

[@Yourebeautyfull]

Once you understand the mechanics of this game, you will come to appreciate it more and more... Even after months of playing, you will keep discovering new ways to rule your realm ;)

[@XxBrian22]

@@Yourebeautyfull I made this comment 6 months ago, and now.... I'M A GOLDEN GOD IN THIS GAME! NOTHING CAN STOP ME! TREMBLE BEFORE ME MORTAL! BOW DOWN! I SAAAID BOOOoooOOOW DOOOWN!..... Put aside the golden god talk, thanks for the advice, i really enjoy the game and hope you do too :)

[@alexandrumacedon291]

@@XxBrian22 you cant bow up, so shut up

[@JBoulter11]

Very very good trick there at the end, moving the capital to keep those domains in the desired succession. Big difference there.

[@TheLegendaryGentleman]

Been watching your vids for a few weeks now, and thank you. My enjoyment of the game has definitely increased. I think these companies may be foreshadowing a future industry standard in these huge sandbox RNGs, let the content creators be your tutorial. Double edged sword there. Thanks again and keep up the great content.

[@italianspartacus]

Thank you so much dude. They did a mini campaign of having content creators doing paid content, but I don't think that any current game industry truly understands the youtube landscape so they end up making videos that are too short. Crusader Kings is just one of those games where, if you're getting into it, an hour long youtube video is not completely ridiculous to sit through hahahah

[@Seppi1310]

Man. I watched all of your Bannerlord Content and to be fair you got me into CK3 and I've just watched all of your tutorials and some of your live streams, which where so damn helpful for me (Bannerlord and CK3). You Sir got yourself a new member. Keep up the great work!

[@italianspartacus]

Aww man thank you very much dude. So kind of you. Welcome to the family brother

[@jakethewoz]

I've put in almost 30 hours now, but I still didn't know these basic things! Great video, man.

[@RellshouldBsleep]

I've put 45 hours and have yet to play more than 20 years i quit and restart a billion times, One minor thing will go wrong and I will take it as a learning experience for my next play through and start over lol

[@ThorusCZ]

@@RellshouldBsleep But it's so fun to go through all the highs and lows of one continual dynasty! You can learn even in one playthrough.

[@italianspartacus]

I've put in just over 100 and I'm still learning something new every time I open the game hahaha

[@Brubarov]

Watched it from beginning to end without stopping, very well done and useful. Thanks a lot!

[@tyloraustad9431]

This video was fantastic. I'm far enough into the game that the minor things like started to get interesting you explained it eloquently, and clearly. New subscriber for sure.

[@italianspartacus]

Thank you so much man. Welcome to the family :)

[@Luthies]

"How to manage succession" *spams disinherit button*

[@ruukinen]

It's really expensive though, as it should be.

[@UnnecessarilyLongUsername]

Would be a shame if my unwanted heirs attacked an enemy army alone 👀

[@sawrain]

Court Physician : My lord, your firstborn son is ill, do i need to treat him? King : Oh golly! King : And how does his brother doing? Court Physician : He's really doing well in his education, and to see his appearance he's really solid some kind of hercules kind of thing King : You know.. my heir will do just fine *wink wink*

[@edmangomez7936]

@@UnnecessarilyLongUsername oh I see what you did there

[@KeeganStephen0914]

Use the console and do the disinherited command add_trait disinherited playerid

[@andrewreynolds4949]

Granting holdings of wrong type, such as newly taken tribal holdings when playing as a feudal ruler, gives the new vassal access to a “convert to liege’s ruling system” decision which costs prestige instead of the 500 gold it would take you to do it, so creating lots of small counts after tribal conquests is a really good idea

[@sfckrbec]

That was awesome, thank you for taking the time to go into this, cleared a bunch of things up for me.

[@valengar7]

This was amazingly helpful. Thank you. I'm glad I put in a few weeks of play before watching. There's so much info here.

[@andrewjordangalasso]

Watched once didn’t understand much played like 24 hrs then watched again and it all came together, especially the last bit! So helpful!!

[@darthsavage4025]

6:28 One quick note re: Development bonus from neighbors. This is a bonus to development GROWTH, not actually development. A small distinction, but an important one (IMO)

[@italianspartacus]

Dude 100% so sorry for that.. I definitely got the naming wrong. I was talking about growth, but I definitely made it sound like it was a direct bonus to growth itself. I apologize for any misinformation that caused

[@darthsavage4025]

@@italianspartacus no apology needed! Your guides have been super helpful, and with the amount of content you've covered there's bound to be points of confusion :)

[@JH-mm3qe]

I so appreciate content creators like you! Crusader Kings 3 felt really overwhelming to learn and play and this demystifies it for me. Thank you!

[@ishmeilmathis2218]

Between you and Surreal, no one has done better ck3 or bannerlord content. Learning so much from this guide...

[@christianespinal9913]

Just the best content to learn the intricacies of the game. Great work.

[@bennyyy12334]

Omg thanks for explaining who gains the territory, didn’t understand why when I attacked someone it became a vassalage and not my domain. Had like 1 out of 10 holdings and wasn’t maximising coins and levies!

[@moreumbrellasplease]

These videos are infinitely helpful for someone who was never able to figure out CK2. Thanks for the content.

[@sandplasma]

Wow this video is a godsend. Thank you! Liked and subscribed! I learned quite a bit and cant wait to watch your other videos.

[@Zachirias]

I've been playing on Xbox Game Pass for the past couple weeks and had been having a rough go of it, until I started watching your guides. The tutorial was great but like you've said it's just missing a few key details and you help fill the gap and make it easier to understand for someone who loaded his first game of CK2, said "What?" and closed it. CK3 has been really fun so far so I went ahead and made the game purchase with the link. Loving the CK3 guides so far (and your Total War guides, really helpful there too) and keep up the great work!

[@DarkNInjaraptor1]

As a new player to Crusader King series, this helped explain a lot to me. Thanks for the video and keep up the good work!

[@sainthova5352]

Extremely appreciate the time you take to break things down. I've been looking for someone to help me understand the loads of information that this games throws in your lap as a first time player. Lol great videos. Definitely found another sub Famo. Grazi.

[@Cleruian]

15:54: "Temples are something you can not control." Laughs in Temporal Leader of a Reformed Pagan Faith.

[@_Gnome.]

I don't know what it is, exactly, but I really really enjoy your videos, very relaxing and informative. I think it's something with your voice and manner of speaking. Subbed. I think you're about to blow up due to these ck3 videos

[@terroristeoverdoz]

Again thank you so much for such a detailed and clear explanation, I like your voice and tone, it is very clear ! English is not my first language but you made me understand the best compare to all other channels !

[@italianspartacus]

Thank you very much for watching! I have worked with a lot of non-english speakers, so I try not to use a lot of slang in these types of videos to help with understanding what I'm saying :)

[@az-rule84]

I did like how u did at @29:00 . But a few years later, he started to claim the throne from me . I thought maybe i should just invade his land and give the title to someone who is humble, trustworthy, or honest trait.

[@nkrolik13]

Very well explained and not too confusing like some videos for this game. Thank you!

[@acquij]

This is so well laid out and excellently explained, thank you. The whole "will I get X County" issue had me stumped on my first playthrough in Ireland.

[@timothysummers3807]

I still come back to your videos 3 years later......great tips!!!

[@brentlichtenberg]

I am starting my third campaign today, this is going to help a lot, thank you!

[@LordJeremy94]

Hands down the best informative videos ive found out there!! Thanks for your help😁

[@samh98239]

Thank you for making this series of videos. As someone new to the franchise this is extremely helpful

[@cody4999]

First playthrough I created a duchy just before death, and it was inherited my 1 year old son. Meanwhile the not very well liked 14 year old son had all of his vassals straight up leave and created two factions against him. Successions in this game can be brutal.

[@ech6942]

Thanks again! They don't explain those mechanics at all in the tutorial. Your videos help a lot :)

[@italianspartacus]

Glad i Could help brother! thanks so much for watching!

[@TheRealMrWolf]

Thanks bro for all this work and producing all of these guides so fast. I never played CK before, but since I started watching these, along eith your campaign, I can play CK3 and really enjoy this game ❤️

[@grimnar6725]

Excellent content man, hope to see more of these how-to Videos. Crusader kings has such depth that it badly needed someone to make them. 👍

[@TheVaolinx]

Love your thorough way of explaining these complex mechanics. Thanks for your vids, you've got a sub from me!

[@zmkuhn]

Just a note for you/the guide. Stewardship has breakpoints for +1 to domain at 5s. So, 0-4 Stewardship is +0, 5-9 (as in this case) is +1, 10-14 is +2, and so on. When thinking on your heir and their spouse, you should go for someone that will help you reach the most accessible breakpoint. The spouse council role is broken down like this: For the specific stat task, i.e. Manage Domain, it is their stat value divided by 2 rounded down. For the Assist ruler it is 20% of all stats. So, a spouse with 10 stewardship can give 2 stewardship on assist or 5 on manage domain. If your heir has 13 stewardship, then they can leave their spouse on assist ruler and still benefit from the bonus domain limit. If your heir is at 15 stewardship, you could instead use the manage domain to bump yourself up by an additional +1.

[@BiglerSakura]

14:36 - Unfortunately, you cannot build a castle in this mountain-top location which is really ideal for a castle. It's the last vacant slot of the total 3 holdings in this county, and the other 2 already are: a castle (the county capital seat) and a city. The game will allow you to build only a church in the remaining location. I really hate this silly rule in the game logic. And even more bitter it is to see that the place name is Castrogiovanni, which implies a castle (castrum) there.

[@TTMTrades]

Lol I get excited when you post. Because I feel all my questions are about to be answered!

[@italianspartacus]

Hahaha oh man.. That's so much pressure. Are you struggling with anything in particular right now?

[@danieloconnell2757]

You're honestly a king mate

[@seasand6705]

this is good! particularly the bit about increasing domain. i can read about numbers in my own time, lol

[@Henjdf]

Omg that succession trick is soooo helpful thanks ! Liked the video and subscribed

[@MikaelKKarlsson]

I've had good fun with my first game as a Viking dynasty, but am starting to think about beginning anew. The kingdom is militarily strong but so much internally is a mess because I've been learning throughout. I'm currently a queen about to die from old age, and my well groomed firstborn son just died in an internal war over me retracting the title of a count. (for some reason my son sided with the rebellion, lol.) Which reminds me how the queens first husband (genius trait) contracted the bubonic plague right after the wedding. Great fun rolling with the Ironman punches, but yeah I think I'll start over. 😋

[@italianspartacus]

I have a video coming out on Thursday of some fun campaigns if you'd like to see what I have listed :) What're you looking for in a campaign? I can recommend one from the list!

[@MikaelKKarlsson]

@@italianspartacus Oh nothing in particular. I'll see what comes up, thanks!

[@philandjoyceoosterhouse7266]

Great video, going to check out the rest. This is such a deep game, seems like it will take a month to discover all the details

[@FabioBio84]

@Ghelloz this is the best video explaining the successions in ck3

[@triash]

I love this game as much as I hate it ... and that is VERY much. The amount of "baaah its all fucked up .... .... .... let´s try again" is so addictive, it´s disgusting - but at some points, I just didn´t had the slightest clue what i did wrong ... until i found your channel. Big THANK YOU, very well paced videos, smooth voice, no useless chatting (but not "robotic") - a well deserved sub mylord.

[@italianspartacus]

thank you so much! welcome to the family! :D plenty of other guides to wade through hahah

[@HellhoundNL]

You sir got yourself a subscriber cause you helped me out a lot!!!

[@italianspartacus]

Glad I could help brother! :) Let me know if you have anymore questions!

[@CaptainCafe]

This was awesome. Thanks for explaining this difficult concept!

[@DNBon.an808]

played around three hundred years and literally never even saw that control data lol. thx for this vid

[@italianspartacus]

Happy to help brother! :)

[@roybon4424]

Moving the capital to ensure Heir keep the lion's part is really brillant ! thx

[@DaGarces51]

Megalike! This is really useful info

[@italianspartacus]

Glad it was helpful! :)

[@richardwilliams1529]

Your guides are essential viewing mate - thank you 😁

[@VirulentWalrus]

This is a great video, really helped me explain this aspect of the game. Thanks :)

[@prichardgs]

Bravo! I needed this tutorial thank you!!! Excellent.

[@taylorw415]

I'm not sure if someone already pointed this out - but around 8:20 you talk about the "Planned Cultivation" perk in the Scholar tree before talking about how you can also have your steward increase development as a task (which made it sound like they were two different development increases) The "Planned Cultivation" perk efficiency increase specifically refers to the "Increase Development in County" task you can have the steward do - it only increases the efficiency of that specific steward task by 20%, not general development in counties increasing by 20%. That is to say, the perk does nothing if you don't have the steward specifically doing that job. Hope that helps clarify! Maybe that's what you meant in the video - just thought it was worth pointing out in case it wasn't.

[@italianspartacus]

OH I think you're right - I definitely didn't outline that we're talking EFFICIENCY by 20% and not a raw bonus of 20%. I'm so sorry for that man. Great call out and thanks for keeping me honest :)

[@ruukinen]

@@italianspartacus There is also one that just gives you a flat 0.3 per month in your capital. Pretty small bonus but at least you don't have to actively do it.

[@Ness817]

Fantastic video that makes things clear. Thanks

[@iniudan]

Personally, if under partition succession, I suggest giving every counties in your capital duchy to single county vassal, unless it got a county capital with high value terrain (farmland, floodplain, oasis and jungle), special building or it is simply a very large county (6+, extremely rare outside of ducal capital). That way you can keep a bunch of strong count with optimized contract, through succession split, instead of getting one of your sibling with a regular contract possibly installing themselves there, if you have a lot of them. Even build them additional castle to personally hold in the county if possible. A count has a minimum of 2 demesne limit, which one of the tribal tech can raise to 3, which is good enough for them to hold every non-obligatory church/city slot in vast majority of counties.

[@MrDuculetul]

Ahh the sweet succession... I was playing Haraldr Fairhair last night on Ironman.. He became the King of all Norway by 52. He had 3 herculean and 2 robust sons. All with quite huge prowess. Haraldr decides to take off towards Jorvik. Where he fights against Halfdan's sons. He conquers Jorvik, but later on gets assassinated by one of the Halfdansonns. His domains are shattered amongst his sons.. His heir wants the power back so he attempts to revoke some lands of his brothers, but there's a massive war going on. Right when Denmark, allied with Sweden, decides to set a massive war on Norway. Haraldrsonns cease the fight in a white peace, leading all 5 in a army of about 7000 men.. Defeated the dano-swedish armies and won the invasion war. As soon as the war stopped, the fiend heir imprisoned his brothers and revoked their lands. Son of a........

[@Bloody100]

Awesome tutorial, well done!

[@martinmyggestik292]

Thank you so much for making those videos.

[@ZalymBiscayn]

Thanks for these videos and taking the time to teach the game :)

[@richardperry3293]

Holding after succession is difficult. I have tried a few saves to 'test' it. I skipped my natural heir for a better statted heir. I was also HRE emperor. I had the perk that tells you when you have a year to live as well. I gave all the good counties in my best duchey to my player heir. (the one I wanted to personally play) He was the leader in the HRE vote as well but when I died he somehow lost out to my second born, and I actually got player heir to my oldest son. So nothing worked out like I wanted it to. Even though the guy I set up was my player heir listed . BUT here is the kicker. The guy I set up gave away all the counties in the main Duchey I wanted and no matter how I tried (I switched between all three of them after my ruler died) and I could not get those counties back, and since the duchey title wasnt transferred to the right character that building was disabled. Basically the AI will determine what happens to holding you give them, even in that short period of time. The mistake I made was not moving my capital so I could manually transfer the county 'seat' to him as well. I did create and give him all the empire titles (no personal holdings in any of those) and he kept all those titles. I may go back to an earlier save to see about moving the capital, but within the 6 months or so it took me to die that heir had given the counties to one of his AI vassals.

[@_The_God_King_]

Ive almost made the mistake of owning two kingdoms before. I destroyed the title bc i realized one of my kids was bound to go independant. I learned that bc I had literally just gone to war for one of my courtiers who had a claim on a nearby and frankly nonextistent kingdom. I won and he went full independent making my relatively easy conquering of the nearby lands for my future empire into a huge pain in the butt

[@jemrylie]

That intro tho.. I've seen that poor kid being bullied so many times now.

[@dpwieland1646]

These are great guides, and I love that you speak in a clear and even-toned voice and don't sound like a wedding dj (like so many other KZbinrs). But... I'm finding succession to be the biggest drag in the game, and I often just end up killing/imprisoning my kids to get around it- too much micromanagment and backtracking otherwise. I like the rpg and building elements and am eager to see where they take those in future expansions, and it would be cool to see how the existing storylines and rpg easter eggs are mapped out.

[@michaelmische1433]

Excellent explanations. Thank you.

[@xtomvideo]

This is a really good and informative guide. 👍

[@jjstuartonwriting8150]

Already bought the game before finding your channel, so I’m sorry I can’t use your link. Just wanted to say, as a new player, how helpful your tutorials are.

[@italianspartacus]

Absolutely no problem my brother. I'm just glad I could help out :)

[@Landrassa1]

Based on my observations, the development growth a county receives from neighbours is basically (level of neighbouring county with highest development - current development) / 10. Doesn't matter if there's 1 or 12 counties around it, only the highest one matters.

[@mongoosedriver1]

Ive been watching your videos trying to just become a king/emperor of a small area and managed it/repel attacks/strife to prepare to one day take over the world!

[@joshuabattaglia9578]

Thanks for the constant reminder about that 12% discount. I had subscribed to the $1 Microsoft game pass just to try it out and got addicted. Went through your link to buy it on steam and refunded my dollar! I somehow see that as a saving, even though I spent 60 bucks immediately before..

[@italianspartacus]

oh bro you didn't have to do that man! i always want to make sure people are getting the best deal out there and if $1 is the best for you, that's fine by me. but thank you SO much for using the link and supporting the channel, it means so much. i'm surprised this discount is still going. after it ends, i'm going to change the link to my nexus.gg storefront!

[@ondrejvasak1054]

Is there any advantage in having a big supply limit in your capital? From my point of view, it is more of a disadvantage since small supply limit will increase the chance of besieging army getting an attrition. But it doesn't give you any bonus as far as I know unless you want to keep your raised army parked on the capital barony, but that does not really do anything for you. Is there any hidden bonus I am missing?

[@bradpederson9722]

An excellent vid thanks for this Cheers!!!

[@italianspartacus]

My pleasure!!

[@lanfeust94]

finally i found an answer with the 3rd part ... Thank you

[@bobbyross7700]

Thank you! Helped a ton!!

[@Gregorovitch144]

Great video. I got to say though that this succession business is by far the most difficult thing to get your head around. I barely understand exactly why you got away with keeping so much for the heir in your example, not the details of it, but worse when I look at my own situations I'm like totally stumped by it and pretty much every time on succession I lose 50% or more income and levey. Every time. It's bewildering. This may be 'cos it's so situational, each situation being different and requiring a different solution, as far as the detail is concerned anyway. No one-size-fits-all answer, rather you've got to construct a custom solution for each individual succession from first principles taking into account every last rule - and therein lies the rub, it's very hard to get your head around these first principles and then all the rule details on top of that.

[@Konsaki]

At 14:58 you click on the 'Guild' building icon instead of the 'City' button above it and give wrong information about what Cities actually provide. At 15:37 you perform the same mistake with Temples, clicking the 'Monastery' building icon instead of the 'Temple' button above it.

[@simonhakansson9300]

A question: do you get any extra money from ducies or kingdoms? What point is there to own a duchy if you are a king if counties generate more money?

[@italianspartacus]

Yes! If you're the owner, you get 100% of the revenue, vs the vassal giving you percentages based off of their title relative to you and other vassals.. I.e. You're a king, with a Duke who has two barons underneath him. The barons give a portion of their income to the Duke. The Duke then gives a portion of that income to you

[@qwertyuiop6006]

I just keep all the counties for myself.Vassals cant rebel against you if you dont have any vassals

[@italianspartacus]

Yeah you get a massive -90% levies/taxes UNLESS you gobble up a ton of land in which case you have so much you're counteracting the penalty because you're winning by volume

[@EgielPBR]

That's the "north korea" strategy actually.

[@CoL_Drake]

but i think u agree this north korea tactic is an "allowed exploit" xD

[@a1176789]

I find part of the fun of the game is dealing with vassals...it get's boring real quick when you start exploiting shit

[@ruukinen]

@@italianspartacus Yeah thanks to that penalty it takes a lot of land before it is worth more. Something in the neighborhood of 200 counties. Have you actually figured out whether barons can scheme/join independence movements against you? If not id let minor nobles hold cities since you don't get anything from them either way.

[@M0R7_7]

Thanks for the tips, this helps so much as never played a game that’s this in-depth with stuff to do aha

[@splumpy8469]

I find that alot of this game is actually very intuitive compared to other strategy games

[@ojciecvaader9279]

Man, are you sure you are not some kind of descendent of Kingmaker or someone that kind? :)... It's a really a lot of knowledge. I will have to watch this at least once more to understand the succession mechanics

[@italianspartacus]

hahaha just a guy who likes to learn stuff ;)

[@ojciecvaader9279]

I like learning too, but amount of knowledge you have about this impresses me :).. I just started Sicilly campain. I involved myself in 3 allianse wars, got in 200 debt and probably loose soon :). But I learned: don't prepare claims if you don't have money for bribes :)