Tribal to Feudal How to Guide for Crusader Kings 3 (Adopting Feudal Ways)

[@italianspartacus]

All of My Crusader Kings Guides: t.ly/4UkZ Thanks so much for watching guys! My next guides will be focusing on Faith & Piety as well as creating your own religion. IN addition, I'll be touching on Vassals & Councils to help tweak their opinion and keep them happy! 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.

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Hey man is that code still working, I won't be able to afford this masterpiece till after the holidays but I'd be glad to support if still possible, like I imagine the discount is over but I'd be happy to know you got your bit 💰

[@davebruneau6068]

Thanx for all your help,dude. I think ive watched most of your CK3 stuff & yeah im subbed Could you direct me to a TimeStamp on 1 of your vids where you discuss how to deal with conquered territories that do not match your Govt? For example,starting 867 as a Feudal Govt & taking Tribals. Im left w/a mix of both Govt types & if'n i was a bettin man(heh),im guessin thats a hindrance. As an aside,from your 'Unique Decisions' vid,i started as Count Sergios of Napoli(867) & Empowered the Sicilian Parliament.OMW to the Italian Empire Title....but thats all feudal/feudal or holy wars,& ive never encountered cross-govt play. The in-game help encyclopedia is more lost than i am Great stuff

[@kingoftroy4587]

Do you prefer bannerlord or ck3? And are you looking forward to manor lords?

[@rogue6685]

Im on xbox and I can't move it up to tier 3 but I do have the option

[@thaliatherasdotter9175]

When reforming the Faith, make yourself the Head of Religion. You'll be able to launch Great Holy Wars, and that's SO FREAKING AWESOME!

[@Vandelberger]

Nothing more fun then a Pagan Falkyr calling a Holy War to overthrow the Pope, from Swedish Empire.

[@Monarch9704]

How do you select to make yourself the head?

[@themagnus2919]

@@Vandelberger Giving them a taste if their own medicine...

[@captainufo4587]

@@Monarch9704 Make sure your new faith has a temporal chief of faith (it's one of the tenents and requires the clergy to be temporal too). Temporal basically means that religious titles are held by landed nobles, while spiritual means that priests are independent from their crown (the standard for Christianity, for example). Once you create a faith with a temporal head of faith, you'll automatically get the title for yourself. I don't know what happens if the religion you creates has a celibate clergy because that sounds kinda silly. Pro tip for extra cheese: making yourself the temporal head of faith of a religion with the communion tenet will make you rich, because characters following your faith may pay you for indulgence for their sins.

[@Monarch9704]

Captain Ufo thank you very much for the guidance. I’m a seasoned paradox player but new to crusader kings. I must say this is the best game I’ve played to date. I will take on your suggestions and give them a try. I did watch a video from Isorrow and saw this mechanic

[@sketchyandrew]

My tribes are gonna be SO feudal after this, boy lemme tell ya.

[@alt0248]

Try starting as ural or perm in north Russia in the 800s. They start with almost no tech. It can suck so hard.

[@Brandonhayhew]

tribalism is like they live in the past

[@petertrudelljr]

"It's a huge time sink..." That's CK3 in a nutshell. Micromanagement is the name of the game!

[@MasterofMayhem1394]

Man, it's a little more than 500 food and 2 dark age buildings, isn't it?

[@ottorask7676]

Food, please.

[@dylanclark2037]

Hahahahah

[@Sarubotai]

Nailed it.

[@cirbam2747]

Hm... Food seems nice...

[@benjaminsmith8911]

Lols, I loved empire earth

[@cyphate]

Something that's good to mention for the "appeasing your vassals" part - you can use your priest to fabricate a claim on your own vassals land which allows you to retract titles (and I believe vassals although I'm not certain) without incurring tyranny. It's helpful to know and also a good way to keep your personal domain strong without vassal border gore

[@boahgeil465]

Yep. Just have to make sure one does not have an alliance with that vassal

[@Duncan2201]

I am still learning the game, and this was a massive help, thank you!

[@rollercoaster478]

you just blew my mind! Is that really possible? its been almost a year since I played, I had no idea.

[@JohnSmith-ek9eu]

Someone played 3 mins of the tutorial. Nice advice man

[@spamfilter32]

you do have to have Crown Authority or Tribal Authority level 2 in order to retract a vassal's title. otherwise you can't do it even with a claim. Another thing to note, just because it isn't considered an act of tyranny because you have a claim, if they refuse to return the title to you and revolt, other vassal's may join the revolt so make sure you have good relations with your powerful vassal's

[@maddahy]

A single important note, sorry if it was mentioned. In those holy sites, now that you're feudal, you can build some serious special buildings, which will improve income and development.

[@italianspartacus]

Excellent point man!! Totally. Forgot to. Cover those :)

[@attrage7545]

Great guide, the tip on granting your vassals their de jure lands is crucial. Couple of things I learned from my first tribal to feudal run: designate one ruler as your 'transition guy', put him on stewardship focus and just save money, don't go to war, dont build anything, save every dollar because you're gonna need it all once you go feudal. It's a good idea to put his heir on learning education focus, because you want to then use the next lifetime to focus on learning, bring the reformation cost down etc. Also, whatever you do, do not transition to feudal near the end of a character's lifetime, all you'll do is leave your heir with a hell of a mess to clean up and he'll have the added nerf of a short reign penalty as well. It's a good idea to have the first ruler after the feudal transition on a diplomacy lifestyle to get befriend perk, then you can befriend all your powerful vassals that way they won't all start independence and liberty factions.

[@pabsmanhere]

I just started and this post makes me question if anyone actually played the game or if you have to preplan your big moves based on your grandchildren...

[@thekongqueror9788]

I literally could not have figured this out without your video. Thank you!

[@italianspartacus]

Happy to help brother :)

[@DoubleBizzy]

I would suggest raiding as tribal before the transition to get a $h-t ton of gold so you can build cities and temples. Also, focus on some tax / gold buildings early because money is so needed for more building and men at arms.

[@mistermena8204]

You post great tutorial videos. I just built an optiplex sff after watching game play for months and your videos basically walk me through and cement what I’ve learned from gameplay videos. You speak clearly and well. Thank you!

[@italianspartacus]

Thank you very much man! Glad I could help out! :)

[@ryanstough377]

If you "find secrets" before converting faith you can use a hook to guarantee it. There's also a tenet called communal identity that will speed faith conversion if it has same culture and vice versa. Makes it go much faster and only costs 50 piety.

[@italianspartacus]

GREAT fucking suggestion man. I never thought to just simply find secrets - I just kept thinking about fabricating the hook

[@zoommonkey]

great break down again, i cant even IMAGINE how many hours it took for you to figure all this out via trial and error so i know this is just words when i say THANK YOU! but know i truly appreciate this video.

[@italianspartacus]

hahahah thank you so much man. i did use some console commands to cheat, but creating the perfect environment for the video seemed pretty impossible unfortunately

[@zoommonkey]

@@italianspartacus that is all good, console or not the amount of information and game depth you covered here is understated.

[@AsherEdwards-d5d]

Your vid is still coming in handy for me 3 years later 😂 love the way you explain things in a couple of different ways to try make sure we understand 👍

[@italianspartacus]

I have a bunch of updates planned for later this month! :)

[@Gralysin]

you can move your capital once per lifetime and if the culture of that land is not your culture you can adopt it. so you can use that to "unlock" your tech tree fast

[@jpm1593]

I did a Pomerania campaign and had almost 40k troops in my empire. Upgraded to Feudal and lost ~30k troops lmao didn't realize there's be so big of a penalty

[@marquisfire5]

What happened to your troops???

[@jpm1593]

@@marquisfire5 when you go from Tribal to Feudal, it wipes out all of your Levy increasing buildings. So you’re gonna lose a lot of troops until you build buildings again.

[@spamman6773]

@@jpm1593 why the hell would it do that?

[@fishybaiter5296]

@@spamman6773 you cant have tribal building as feudal

[@mertarican5456]

@@fishybaiter5296 oh yes the hurdle of life when kingdoms turned to feudal all of the villagers woke up and demolished their way of life in 1 day.

[@fierylightning3422]

I love how I don’t even have the game yet I still watch your guide videos and imagine myself playing CK3

[@italianspartacus]

Hahaha that's high praise brother

[@PaFREd0]

Im in a similar situation where I just broke up with my gf but my pc is still in her house sooo.. yaykes..

[@davion9402]

Game pass allows it now

[@rael7298]

I'm going to try being norse, and just researched the culture tech options that the french don't have, than conquer the dutchy of normandy and create norman culture (which will have both norse and french culture researched), which will hopefully be a faster way to get all tribal techs

[@sanniez]

Hi a bit late but I triple diverged my culture and now I got the ability to raid (says the game because it’s with Danish culture) but I still can’t raid. Is it because I’m Christian?

[@bobbot5400]

​@@sanniez Also late! But yes, I believe being christian removes/hampers your ability to raid far as I know!

[@edwardcollins8102]

A few things. First, as of patch 1.2 (I think), vassals no longer automatically convert their lands to the right faith. You can't demand the vassal to convert and he automatically converts the county. Second, the 3 level of Crown Authority isn't as good as you say, because it only prevents your vassals from going to war. The vassals of your vassals can still gleefully go to war no matter what level of Crown Authority you have.

[@ronnie8471]

This is The Video I have been waiting to see bro , real real helpful

[@AeciusthePhilosopher]

Special shoutout to religions that have the Esotericism tenet for the learning stage, since they will help you gain extra learning exp by using the wise (wo)man trait which you can get from pilgrimages. -Some of these faiths also have holy sites that will give you even more learning. Also it's worth mentioning that the Prophet perk in the Theocrat tree for learning cuts the reformation cost in half.

[@cathulionetharn5139]

Having virtues (especcially on priests) helps with fervor too

[@jasonreed7522]

The human sacrifice tenate lets you execute prisoners for piety (just check that they aren't going to give you tyranny), the highest value i saw was the pope for 250 (he escaped when i ended the war). And the prophet lifestyle perk halves the cost of reformation. End result being the norse can easily make any religion they want. (Blood for the Blood God is very strong) The hard part for the norse is getting your tech because that is partially dependent on the average dev of your lands. I think the solution for if you don't migrate away is to move your steward around to dev up all the low dev lands, (Any student can tell you how bad a single 0 is on your average), raid with a viking trait and always take the 40dev progress to get a tall capital that can spread dev around, and focus conquests toward high dev lands and they will flip to your culture, eventually. And in the mean time take the scholar lifestyle tree for its tech bonuses.

[@davidquezada50]

I love you. I had always wish to change faiths like this didn't know it was a feature!

[@misterindependent7994]

This is the hardest game I've ever played. I nearly quit. Now I'm obsessed.

[@obi-wankenobi2392]

This was super useful I’m doing a Play through as a Kushitte Ruler near the Horn of Africa and I have the innovations but I still need two more holy sites

[@FordFalcon54]

I know it's not unique and I just picked up the game but I've only been picking dutchies in Ireland. I refuse to move on until I've mastered taking a small country into a kingdom. Every time I master things a little better check out a video from you and have to rework how I play and master new skills. Around every corner is a new skill and procedure to learn. It's overwhelming in some ways. Thank you for making it easier.

[@d.k.t.3380]

I started the same way, though now I have moved into doing that with African counties and dutchies (I personally liked the religion and culture options relative to my play style, but it has helped keep things fresh when going for challenging runs like tribal to feudal runs).

[@YosafatNugraha]

I prefer to play as Sardinia, because the mine is just OP and you can reform your Sardinian culture with a culture that boost your coastal/trade ports since almost all of your land is coastal.

[@rationalbasis2172]

How to convert to Feudal: Use console commands. Really fracking helpful dude! I was wondering how to get to 8000 piety while collecting 1 piety per month. Awesome!

[@thatgingerdude8666]

based

[@putput-ausarthevile7540]

Germany in 1938 „ He wants Memel „

[@terryeubanks8797]

Great video as always. You seem to always make these informational videos right when I'm running into the exact problem.

[@yondie491]

I've waited my whole life for this video

[@JGCornucopia]

🤣

[@zachnar0125]

My MAN! Saving the day with yet, another thorough video!

[@needfood3052]

6:16 ooooo no wonder I was getting absolutely ROCKED towards the end game portion of my campaigns 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@Eidolongamesroom]

PLEASE make a video guiding us through from the actual starting timeline. I will never personally start at 1066 and all your videos start with everything I'm struggling with completed.

What a great video! Thanks so much for making it! It was a subject I was confused by even though I have not gotten close to making the leap yet! totally great video!

[@berataysen3276]

Started as Hordaland. Reformed Asatru. Became feudal. Founded an empire. It took 200 years but it was fun. You should try too

[@magnuscarlsson9969]

Hmm I started as Haraldr Fylking in Vesterfold, he went on to conquer the whole empire of scandinavia in his lifetime. His youngest son Sigurd took over the rule, he went on to liberate all the Asatru holysites, reformed the religion and made sure that Scandinavia remained Norse. After the pope declared a holy war on our English kinsmen, he decided to take up arms against the papacy and dismantling them, making the vatican the new capital for Norse innovation(Gotta love that massive development there). This really upset the Byzantine Empire, after winning the great battle against the Byzantine Empire Sigurd past away due to a infected wound. Haraldr the 2nd, took over a Empire in turmoil, as his brothers inherited some of the kingdoms that wasn't part of the formal empire... Haraldr the 2nd had also encountered impotence at a early age and thus he only managed to get three daughters, so his aim in life was to secure the throne and assume rule over lost territory for his youngest daughter Freya. Freya ascended to the throne at the age of 36, being less of a warrior then her ancestors she took up the duties of fuedal reformation of the scandinavian empire.

[@berataysen3276]

@@magnuscarlsson9969 every playthrough feels like a tv series. I love this game

[@troytaylor5768]

Great video this will help a lot.

[@italianspartacus]

Glad it helped!

[@yondie491]

A few things... 1)You didn't specifically say it, but the way you were describing it, you seemed to imply that lifestyle focuses have to align with a specific lifestyle tree. That's not the case. At 7:00 mark, for example, your words SEEM to KINDA imply that there's a co-relation between Focus and Line (you don't do the same thing at the 10:00 mark). As thorough and wonderful as your guides are, I actually expected you to mention that Focus and Lines are separate. In Martial Lifestyle, for example, you can do an Authority Focus and grab the Strategist Tree. Or, of course, you can grab from more than one tree. Yes, it's usually best to concentrate on one tree, but you don't have to do so at the complete exclusion of the rest. I frequently grab Bellum Justum and then concentrate on Overseer, for example. I don't know if you've said so in other videos. I just wanted to mention this. 2)When talking about mass-conversion-demanding at 16:00, you went by it on the Religion screen. And that makes sense for this guide, without a doubt. But... it's just straight up easier, as a broad generality, to do it via the Court (F5) tab. Just scroll through the entire list of landed characters, which is what you need. Take a look at anyone with the wrong religion icon (note: I'm a bit disappointed in PDX for not doing a better job at ensuring the icons are clearly different post-Reformation... lookin at you Bori faith!), right click, scroll down, and DEMAND. From an efficiency perspective, it's much quicker and most likely more thorough. I tend to do this every few years no matter what, just to get any strays in my flock :) Anywayz... superb video as always, thank you so very much!

[@wolfinthewoods1400]

Really good vid man... prob gonna watch it over again.

[@TheHeycalmdownfella]

Thanks for the video! Can you do a development explanation/tutorial? Maybe with some tips on how to boost it quickly? That would be super helpful.

[@italianspartacus]

It's in my guide on domains :)

[@molybdaen11]

Shortcut: - use your steward to increase development if he is free - choose duchys with a sea border as your personal domains if possible - build a town with development buildings (like a harbor or a guild house) - look at your culture and select the "+10% development boost" when you have time for it - in every age there is a technology to increase your maximum development z.b. "increase development limit from 10 to 30" - the scholar lifeskill can also help increasing the development - keep in mind that tribes did not get more money by increasing the development, only feudal and clans

[@p4unx]

I started as Prussia in 867 and I now have an empire spanning from Novgorod to Italy

[@thefruch7588]

havent even jumped into the video yet and you're already getting a like hahah

[@tackydesign6064]

I love your channel my man

[@ErdemBey2]

Long waited video.. Thank you.

[@italianspartacus]

Rica ederim!! Hope it helps

[@GloriousEagle69]

as tribal you get a severe pentaly to development unless u get public works u cant go above 10. ur better off increasing development of the surrounding areas that are 4-5 as the capital get dimishining returns

[@DelianSK131]

Nice you still have that sale going on. Been playing on game pass and I want to support Paradox for this awesome game. I know what I'm going to do now.

[@italianspartacus]

Yeah it was supposed to end so ride it while you can my dude! :)

[@christopherhutchens8077]

Thank you very much, your best video yet

[@zdrajcawielki1457]

When you disable 'monthly maintnance' while recruting troops to your men-at-arms you accualy stop recruiting them. That's just wrong :D You better let them get to full size and maintnance cost will drop by itself to minimum level. Not a great advice not to have army ;P

[@otalaedwin]

Obviously, but if it's your only choice it can save you from going into debt (or staying there if you are) It's helped me a lot while I build my economy back up. It's better than just deleting the troops you can't maintain, atleast you don't lose the initial investment

[@sylvaingermanier98]

Now you can conquer Isle of Man as a viking, be illustrate and have 2000 prestige and you are now feudal :)

[@mattdeelight]

Dont forget that you can engineer a civil war to keep vassals in line - if you hit an independence faction and win the war then you have a period of 10 years or more that you can pretty much do what you need to do. Just dont let them out of prison until they learned their lesson.

[@stuartmaltby2035]

I accidently killed the leader and couldn't remember who the other traitors where. So i massacred my whole realm. Murdered those I could, sent the rest into battle against overwhelming odds. Now I have a fresh vassal blood.

[@mattdeelight]

@@stuartmaltby2035 it may not be considered "honorable" but it works! Quick dread gain and new vassals need to deal with their realm problems in that case so you are free to run your realm into productivity. I think your strategy is sound and definitely is another way to keep everyone fully supporting the new liege. Good ideas, mate!

[@mattdeelight]

@JT Nelson you are min/max doing that. I dont typically go that far into managing it since you get a good bonus for a long time on the throne and sway is still very powerful. Thanks for the additional tip!

[@MrBrianofarrell]

Really appreciate the clear explanation of the process. Another great video.

[@JohnFKennedy420]

This helped a lot! Thank you for these in depth video I really appreciate them. Take care

[@ciaralizabeth]

I didn't realize I needed to do this until I was trying to make sure my chosen heir inherited everything his mother fought for. She is a 63 years old battle-hardened cheiftess and has conquered Ireland and Iceland. Her oldest is a potatoe of a man (37) and I want my youngest son (20) to get everything.

[@hayzmi]

Thank you friend!

[@VampiroGaming]

This is a very good video, good explanations, good editing. Thanks!

[@italianspartacus]

Glad you liked it! Hope it helped! :D

[@VampiroGaming]

@@italianspartacus It helped a lot :) I play a lot of Paradox games but have only just started with CK3, I am maybe 15 hrs in. Will check out your other videos, too :)

[@DannyFantom315]

I just wanted to know the basics to switching and what you need to do

[@jonathannorthcutt4132]

God I always hate being the 1st country to reform to feudal cause it puts a huge target on your head since you lose 90% of your troops kinda sucks but I guess it makes sense

[@JackSprattDaBat]

Awesome videos and guides. I've watched some of them twice and still struggle. This game is a lot to learn, not having played CK before.

[@mj740103]

Your videos help a lot ! Thanks !

[@rubbybobinson3543]

Great video. Thanks!

[@danielanhalt4660]

Tanks for his great Guide!

[@AsherEdwards-d5d]

That will be great I’ll look forward to it

[@wyqydsyq]

You don't have to progress the authority stages one at a time and wait 10+ years, you can go straight from 1 to 4 if you have the prestige. The timer is just a cooldown so you can't change it constantly particularly after vassals demanded you lower it and you accepted

[@AmericanGadfly]

Something just happened and I thought of this video. Figured id tell you and you can tell others. I converted from Asataru to Catholicism then formed the Empire of Russia. Few generations later i formed my own religion, took latium, moved my capital to Rome, and then took england (this was in a span of like 10 years tops). Right after i took England I went to look to adopt feudal ways and realized the option was gone. Several buildings have to be feudalized. This is the important part though, my troop levels didnt drop and neither did my money. It SEEMS that because I took over a bunch of Feaudal stuff (possibly because I moved my capital to Rome) that my government converted without all the drawbacks. I have to feaudaluze several tribal holdings but thats whatever. Just wanted to share, this felt like adopting feaudal ways on easy mode.

[@justinegan5021]

Incredibly helpful content as always.

[@joshuabattaglia9578]

I dont think its required to go martial for conquest as a tribal. If you go into Diplomacy and grab the August tree, you get huge prestige bonuses, allowing you to declare war more often, have more men at arms, and buy buildings faster. I think the first character is actually better as a August Diplomat so your future rulers can inherit men at arms.

[@RellshouldBsleep]

I go both, I go for August after I finish the gallant tree, kings guard is a huge early game boost for my conquest

[@rockmcdwayne1710]

@@RellshouldBsleep I went with chivalry focus+high martial wife as viking (got 45martial off the bat). After that i went to learning/medicine focus. My first character lasted me till he was 85 and had already 3 king titles.

[@lletnek]

Awesome video, covered so much 👍

[@Dgunnerc]

Thanks! When I went feudal before (before the patch I think), my buildings did not convert, they just stuck as useless (literally did nothing) tribal ones. Also the game converted me automatically as soon as I met the requirements (which I wasn't mad about because I was going for it, but in hindsight could really suck). Also, if you're used to raiding for gold as tribal, you can no longer do it as feudal (at least that was my experience). It was so bad that I just quit that play through. What I recommend is 1 build up to empire status 2 make a ruler that is focused on piety to reform/convert + consecrate 3 steward or intrigue to get everyone in line and make gold 4 finally go to feudal with a ruler that can keep people in line / make gold

[@antonypavlovsky3386]

What religion and culture were you playing as?

[@Dgunnerc]

@@antonypavlovsky3386 I was Swedish asatru (reformed). I started another play through since then with the same start (Bjorn ironside) and this time everything went smoothly. I think the upgrade fixed it

[@thedon897]

38 minutes to explain this is insane

[@Jasper_Hill]

There is a perk in the learning theologian tree that will half reformation cost!

[@ggaalloo]

Very nice one! Thanks. :)

[@justinlabrosse8506]

Development is a huge part of adopting feudalism you will notice the amount of levy's you lose when adopting it that's because the amount of development adds benefits for feudal rulers its difficult to develop as tribal but it's worth it in your home duchy of your empire or kingdom. He doesnt mentioned it but if you choose to form your own kingdom rather then creating the title of a de jure. Make sure you have the highest developed duchy as your main title because this will transfer into a powerful domain even for your rulers who end up not having high stewardship or marshal will most likely be able to hold factions at bay.

[@RobinPortnoff]

Thanks for clearing a lot of things up! 😘

[@anonymousman34]

Thanks

[@diorme]

Can’t wait for your useful guides 👍🏻

[@jacobwiens659]

The Marshal task Train commanders can massively reduce MAA maintenance. Also, since the regiments in the video were not fully reinforced, they use raised maintenance instead of unraised maintenance.

[@kimanijoseph8378]

Playing as Rhodri of Wales I played blind and didnt realize my my realm would be divided between so many sons. A war of the princes occurred and it was tough, I won but so many brothers got banished I tell you what lol

[@molybdaen11]

Early on it may be best to breed like a rabbit. Since you do not have money to build much buildings anyway, your sons can have them. More childreen means more dynasty members and more dynasty points income which can be used to desinherit your least favorite sons in later generations. Yes it is expensive but better then a civil war, since the "special law rule" in a dutchy seems to be useless now to secure your lands for your heir.

[@medievalcombatmiami4341]

Great guide. Inspired me to play my first tribal campaign. Have you considered doing a "Trait Guide" for explaining for instance if "Reckless" is a good trait for a commander or on genetic mechanics for heirs...or why and how to breed better vassals?

[@jaderal]

Can you make a guide to reform religion, is very difficult make 5000 piety

[@Jasper_Hill]

There is a perk in the learning tree that halves the cost. Just go on a pilgrimage at every opportunity, have a good priest on religious relations, and use an heir with virtues if possible.

[@italianspartacus]

Yup! It's next :)

[@doubleskulls]

@@Jasper_Hill What J said... every virtue in your ruler is +1 piety per month, and then piety multipliers impact that. This can make a massive difference. Also pay attention to what earns piety as this changes in different religions. You can gain piety by executing unbelievers, hosting feasts etc. For the vikings, "human sacrifice" can make it much much easier.

[@jxslayz666]

Gaining Piety 1) Do anything your religion gives piety for. Example: Execute prisoners as the Asatru faith gives you 100 piety per execution. 2) SPAM Pilgrimages every time you can. You need a decent amount of gold for this and there is a cool off time. 3) AVOID doing or supporting anything your religion deems sinful.

[@magnuscarlsson9969]

Just make a heir that focus on reformation. Being tribal often mean you spend alot of piety for wars, which means It's easiest to just make a Heir focused on learning. It's easier when you have territory and gold to spend, since long pilgrimages make you a massive amount of piety... but can be quite expensive. Most unreformed faiths also have some mechanic to get extra piety, since they don't have clerical buildings for the most part. Picking up the perk for cheaper reformation is a given...

[@xasanth6318]

vassals deserve to serve me - nothing more - nothing less :P

[@KansaiNoRyu]

1:51 that doesnt show up for me lol, Im using Denmark at the earliest time possible, is that why?

[@mnm8818]

Btw if you are feudal or tribal and reform Islamic faith, and as head of the faith - ie Caliphate title created, you turn to Clan Gov! and crown auth back to 1.

[@doubleskulls]

A really good guide. However, I'm not sure why you recommend moving counts from one Duke to another. You really annoy one vassal, and make the other happier, but the recipient did note have a negative opinion modifier for you in the first place. If another Duke is the liege of one of their de jure counts, Duke don't hold it against you. This is only a malus when the de jure count is your direct vassal.

[@italianspartacus]

Ah shit.. Then I definitely misspoke. From what I understand, even if it's two vassals, they will go to war over it since one has claim over it. So it'll cause internal strife IF they can declare war - which will happen when you swap to feudal and will take 40 years to get to high crown authority. You'll have to mitigate the wars via renown or other means to stop the vassal wars

[@Peeoto]

I think, just let the vassals fight it out without us getting in their way to annoy one of them. What do we have to lose, one is just trying to reclaim their dejure.

[@Michael-jq1hl]

@@Peeoto I am not sure but I think the issue is that they lower each others control with wars and moreover if they spend money on armies they don't develop

[@AmericanGadfly]

Last time I did this my troop count dropped significantly, my economy tanked and my empire fell apart. Im wondering if its even worth it doing the daura acheivement.

[@italianspartacus]

did you do it since the newest patch!?

[@AmericanGadfly]

@@italianspartacus not sure, I think so? Ive almost got all of Africa, most of the counties are bori and ive got 50k troops (biggest in the world). Im thinking i can finish the acheivement before being a tribe and not feudal is a problem.

[@AmericanGadfly]

@@italianspartacus i just did it. Most of my vassals had already switched, it wasnt bad at all. My money went down quite a bit but i still got a ton of troops so i can handle that

[@anonim6728]

I had 30k troops ı was planning to attack byzantium and I transformed to feudal and I suddenly had 4k troopd

[@scottgrubbs1760]

I’m stuck at not being able to get to absolute authority. I’ve done everything I can think of but still can’t get to the last lvl

[@molybdaen11]

I think its nice that you no longer need 3 holy sites to reform your religion. Also you can now keep your buildings - yay.

[@amocv]

i still need 3 holy sites with 1.1.2

[@jimmievik]

Really appreciate this video!

[@MushroomGravy]

Man this was such a great guide, really well explained. Awesome job. I played close to the same way, the tips on the Learning tree with the wife aiding was something I didn't think about so should get to Feudal faster now, cheers :) and almost at the Empire (about 80% in 972 AD atm, also didn't want to do the tutorial so just played to see). But why, why do they all jump in as knights like lemmings??.. or am I missing some command somewhere, I'm so over forgetting about that haha. And props for Lithuania! Only kingdom I've played. Subbed. Great vid.

[@jasonreed7522]

Go to your military tab (where you build man at arms) and click on knights, from here you are presented a list of all available knights sorted by prowess and an option to force, forbid, or allow knighthood, by default everyone is allowed and the top knight candidates become you knights. (Forcing someone lets you kill them off legally, and forbidding lets you hide your heir from getting beheaded or otherwise wounded)

[@dquan731]

Great video. Can you comment on Culture? How important is it to change culture? It takes forever to get my council to do it.

[@charliejewett9602]

Did you find anything on this?

[@ahmetbey4730]

this was helpful thanks :)

[@italianspartacus]

Thanks for watching my dude :)

[@justindaniels180]

your guides are so helpfull thankyou so much

[@italianspartacus]

thank you so much for watching! :)

[@magnuscarlsson9969]

Tbh Tribal is best played as marshal for your first playable ruler, the heirs are better off either being Stewardship or Learning focused. At least if you start in the year 800 Stewardship means more domains which means more buildings and Tribal has overpowered military buildings early on(They get beaten by fuedals late game thou). Scholar is self explainatory. However what you look for is; Research + development bonuses, you want to try develop your culture so you can push trought the innovations quicker then other tribal rulers. Stewardship also got the "popular figurehead perk" while Scholar have the "Open Minded" and "Apostate" perks... Tribal go to war... alot so you want the popular opinion to be on your side(Ignored if you play a faith with Warmonger, like Asatru). After that you want to; Conquer at least a kingdom, then start raid alot in fuedal countries with 10 or more development. This will allow you to pillage for slaves to massively increase your development to 15 around your capital. Once you reached 15 development, move your capital to another part of your domain and repeat this(You can do this once per ruler). This will allow you to keep up to the development of fuedal countries.Because what will happend when you go fuedal... your economy will tank hard... and if you are stuck in a low developed Tribal area It will be even worse.

[@italianspartacus]

That's exactly what I was saying in the second part my bro! :) totally agree with you

[@brooksrownd2275]

I've played this game for a couple years and never looked at any of this stuff, LOL. It's been all about marriages, conquest and acquiring an Empire title ASAP. (and 90% of that time has been searching dozens of courts over and over to arrange the best marriages)

[@SteelyDanzig]

Boy this video couldn't have come out at a better time, I'm only about 15 years away from unlocking all tribal innovations in my Scandinavia campaign. I'm loving these videos, Spartacus. Keep up the good work! One quick question: Feudal contracts only apply to that specific person, right? As in once they die your contract with their heir resets?

[@judeballiger5292]

I believe it stays the same

[@Oshidashi]

Still a great series to learn the game!

[@Zschelll23]

Hey I’m in a game rn of ck3 and I was wondering if it’s possible to convert to christianity as a Norse Asatru. Adopt feudal ways, then convert back to asatru.

[@italianspartacus]

Yes it's just VERY expensive to do so! It's a 500% conversion cost to go from Christianity to an unreformed religion

[@devonpankratz8808]

It is difficult to switch to an extinct religion, so make sure you have some asatru people in your court to convert your kids through education or keep an asatru County and move your capital there to unlock a decision to adopt local religion.

[@Seppi1310]

Scholar and Architect are completely unmatched by any other lifestyle in my opinion

[@McDudes]

such a good tutorial

[@isaacwestling1141]

I wish that reforming religion didn't need three holy sites. Like if they were to keep the three holy sites thing, make it to where you can reform without them, but just spend more piety. Another idea could be the creation of holy sites by spending piety, but you can only make one per dynasty or per game, and or if there is a head of faith, they need to approve. Historically speaking, leaders around the world have altered their religion ever so slightly for their benefit. Some would make them up.

[@JoeKerr420]

I have a tribal building in Galway that I can't upgrade to a castle to save my life. How do ya upgrade these tribal buildings when everything else in 1052 England is Fuedal?

[@Jack-ih3hf]

Great video! Thx!!

[@TheNietrzezwy]

Now its much harder if youre kingdom is tribal and you want to adopt feudal ways. It needs 10 development of your capitol and i feel like mine capitol stopped at 5...