Succession Laws & Titles Guide in Crusader Kings 3

[@italianspartacus]

Beginner's Guide: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n2qzY2dupdCaj6s Thank you so much for watching! I intend to cover a lot more Crusader Kings in the future and I'm really excited to do so. 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.

[@Skott62]

I'd love to see a guide on what to build on your lands and when. What buildings are better than others and how many. Things of that nature. One of the things I'm wondering playing the tutorial (or I should say after it leaves me to myself) is what should I build and how much development I should do for each of my territories. Is it good to build up as much as possible or just keep everything stark and simple? Anyway thanks for these videos. I am finding them useful.

[@svyatoslavefremov6030]

Don't apologise for pronunciation, you were very close. Slavic languages are difficult.

[@Ultrajamz]

Does gold, prestige, faith, get inherited? Should I be spending it more when my character is older?

[@travismccoy8316]

So I gave my son his own Dutchy after winning 4-5 wars and gathering them up. He waited till I was in debt and then declared war on me. Now he's the king and I am a farmer. I needed this.

[@miraclemaker1418]

Mfer couldn't wait few years smh, kids these days

[@likeorasgod]

@@miraclemaker1418 I had it the other way, I got all irland built, England was built up and scotland was all over the place. I marred two of Robert of Englands daughters (after the first died I took the albino one) to get a son with heritage claim. Bang I get me a good son and for the next 20 years I'm working on things, England gets a Noble revolt for Independence and I kinda sort helped Robert out until his Army was depleted....once the war was over I went to war to claim my sons right to his throne. I passed away just as it hit 98% and my son took the last fight to claim his thrown and the whole of Britania Empire (Scotland was like nothing). All cause I took the risk and married his Albino mom (he didn't get the trait).

[@Gilhadriel]

@@likeorasgod Nice to hear someone getting hit even harder than me :), still having fun tho

[@grey3247]

This is why I never use the hooks I have on my kids, if you have a hook on someone, they won't act against you

[@KerrBearrxo]

lmao

[@TheSerec]

Early Medieval King be like: I love all my children equally, so I will give each of my children an equal share of all the land that I have spent years acquiring so that they can spend years fighting amongst each other.

[@DeplorableMinecrafter]

From what I know, it was because they did not see themselves as government in the way we do. They saw themselves as property owners, and so it was their duty to divide their property among their children. They gave about as much care to realm stability after their death as they did to just rulership during their lives.

[@MyPisceanNature]

Personally, I blame Charlemagne. He pretty much set the standard.

[@shadowbro514]

Yeah. Playing Jorvik and trying to found Danelaw before Hafdans death is hard af cause the second you die you have to become Christian or be conquered by holy wats

[@Dbobcol]

@@MyPisceanNature it was a nice thought, realistically just having the oldest son inherit would’ve added stability in theory. But we also know what a weakness doing that can be as well

[@ninofromkitchennightmares1497]

Yes Especially when your doing a Scandinavia play through and your king dies and you lose Norway and Sweden

[@1992buky]

This game is terrifying. When did beginner tips and tricks videos turned into 30+ lectures

[@italianspartacus]

Bratan, it is wild hahaha

[@andersonneil2293]

The good thing about the game is its really an RPG, if you dont know much about the rules, thats ok, you are just "RPing" as a ruler who knows dick all and you can just bumble around in the politics until you figure it out

[@raffitorres1714]

Most fun I had was in ck2 when I was first learning. Just learn from mistakes and make Reddit your best friend.

[@maxstormhamburger3688]

LOL! Been playing paradox games for over a year now and I still don't understand a lot of details. It forces you to take a different approach to gaming like Neil Anderson alluded. It's not necessarily about "winning" in the traditional strategy game sense...I grew up on Total War (playing them since Shogun 1 in 2000) and the goal of so many games is divide and conquer, destroy, rebuild in your image...This game is chill in comparison, different, and political. I tell people "It's like a Medieval version of Facebook mixed with a board game."

[@trueblueclue]

This is one of the easier Paradox games to understand.

[@AaronPaulIbarrola]

ItalianSpartacus: I'm sorry these Succession Laws are so confusing. Ever Empire in History that fell due to Succession Civil Wars: Yeah, we're sorry too.

[@italianspartacus]

hahahhaha

[@stardaggerrihannsu2363]

It simplifies after you get your basic training done, let's call it 1000 hours.

[@sentuisbattlepants1810]

How "get gud" of you. Not everyone finds learning something alone "fun"

[@maxstormhamburger3688]

lmao! I've been playing PI games for years and I still don't understand them: I used to think I was a smart person.

[@jacobconcannon4677]

@@sentuisbattlepants1810 half the fun of strategy games is finding the new features and mastering them

[@RaffieFaffie]

@@sentuisbattlepants1810 And I'm sure not many people find you fun, he was just joking around

[@EIsaMars]

lmaaoaoaksklaksa

[@vesnl]

This really clears up why my Kingdom of Ireland got messed up so much after the dead of my first character.

[@minivergur]

I've been unable to stay dynasty/house head because I've kept screwing up the succession

[@juanjimenez381]

Friðrik Ólafsson the same thing happened to me

[@likeorasgod]

tribal is really hard to as they like to split every thing amoung your kids. I normally have to kick my little brothers arse to get land back after dad dies.

[@mitrahispana4119]

Michael Carter Like what really happened in history!

[@caster-]

Yes! I'm close to conquering Ireland and getting scared of not being able to keep it once I'm dead!

[@TheNignag89]

I find this aspect of the game to be the most confusing part of the whole thing, this guide definitely helped clear things up (a bit lol), loving all these videos keep em coming!

[@ZigZag-mw9ir]

It is why trying to conquer Hiberina gets so fucked in CK 2 while still having 3 separate kingdoms

[@Indigenous-English-Man]

Basically try make a kingdom 😂

[@gordonyork6638]

Cleared up like muddy water. It's like trying to make sense of Monty Python.

[@OnTheRocks08]

Honestly, out of all "tutorials" I watched, for the various games I have played over the last 15 years, your guides are probably the best structured ones. Very helpfull, without ever getting repetitive or boring, despite their length.

[@italianspartacus]

Thank you very much man. That's such high praise! I appreciate you watching and leaving such kind words

[@TacticusPrime]

We should emphasize that Emperor, King, and Duke titles have NO effect on your Domain limit. Even Count titles don't really. It's the number of *Baronies* that you control directly that make up your Domain. When you hold a County, you also hold the capital Barony. In your example, you held 4 County titles with their associated capitals and one extra Barony. That put you over your Domain limit.

[@italianspartacus]

HUGEEEE point thank you so much man

[@glowner7878]

not true actually, a duke gets less domain limit than a double duke (character with 2 duchies)

[@TacticusPrime]

That determines your total domain limit, not which titles contribute to your domains. Obviously, there are many ways to increase your domain limit, like having a high stewardship, a high rank primary title, better technology, certain laws, etc.

[@glowner7878]

@@TacticusPrime ah! understood your comment wrong then

[@nolopyllo1746]

I don t locate that extra Barony, it is another County.....

[@CDNThe3rd]

Thank you!

[@italianspartacus]

My pleasure man! Thanks so much for watching. Let me know if you need anymore help when you're not marathon streaming hahahah

[@CDNThe3rd]

@@italianspartacus Roger that!

[@Mithrantirs]

Your explanation of titles distribution is somewhat wrong. Your heir doesn't inherit your oldest title but your primary title. In your example even if you had the duchy of Apulia as your oldest title, but had chosen as your primary title the duchy of Sicily, your heir would take that title and not Apulia. Inheritance doesn't look at age of the said title. What it looks is what you have chosen as your primary title (which can be chosen among titles of equal rank) and what is not. If you had 2 kingdom titles (ie Sicily and Italy, with Sicily being the first you created), and have chosen as your primary title the Kingdom of Italy, that title is the one your heir will inherit, Not the Kingdom of Sicily, which most probably will end at the second in line.

[@italianspartacus]

yeahhh i went over myself on this.. I said that they get the primary title, THEN I said that they get the oldest.. I should have - as you put it - said they get the primary title then the NEXT son gets the oldest to newest titles after that. Sorry about that misinformation man!!

[@flazeburn3556]

@@italianspartacus Also another correction you only have 4 heirs so if you 5 counties and 5 sons, then your heir get your primary county, another county and next three sons in line get 1 each.

[@Mithrantirs]

@@italianspartacus No worries. I just tried to clear things up because in case of gavelkind (or whatever they call it now), you can manipulate what your heir gets and what not.

[@Mithrantirs]

@@johnnicolas992 I guess you missed the part where your primary title changed from count of Apulia to duke of Sicily (higher rank). Your heir got your highest ranking title and the primary country within that title. You can verify this by reading the description of partition (gavelkind).

[@Mithrantirs]

@@johnnicolas992 Because you didn't say that. But either way you either changed your primary title or your heir was the only male heir you had. If you had more than one male heirs then your primary title would go to your heir and the secondary to the second in line. Unless your inheritance rules are either primogeniture or confederate partition (where the heir gets the lion share and the rest get the lower rank titles). It's quite apparent that you have not mentioned a few things about your situation. The inheritance rules are perfectly clear and there is sufficient explanation within the game at the realm window in succession tab.

[@Zyxxus619]

Honestly I have a good grasp of the game (with like 600 hours in CK2 already), but I still enjoy these videos for the CK3 discussion and strategy. Thank you.

[@willo7734]

I agree. I’ve played a lot of ck2 but these are games that you can learn but that take 10000 hours to master. Great videos.

[@trueblueclue]

Learning CK2 ATM. Wish me luck.

[@Uellp]

I'm a bit surprised that the option to disinherit your children wasn't mentioned. It can work wonders to prevent the realm breaking into pieces.

[@rob67w]

or if you have a Christian empire you can make your kids take vows so they can become monks

[@ionicafardefrica]

@@rob67w not a good idea. Your prestige (and therefore your family "research speed") depends on your family members having high landed positions

[@CHRB-nn6qp]

​@@ionicafardefrica Nah it's funny to be like, "You think you're gonna get a kingdom when I die and get hella pussy. Nah son, I commit you to a lifetime of zero pussy.".

[@jackdaone6469]

@@rob67w Can’t really “make” so much as “ask.” It would be nice if you could make them take vows.

[@drdiscostu]

Great comment, I'm about 50 hours in and just crossing the line where I'm getting a lot out of game. I watched Italian Spartacus video on the best place to start for my new campaign (Sicily) and on a tiny side comment he said "oh yeah disinheriting is probably easier I'm honest" and it's been such a massive game changer for me!

[@ceorgeglooney190]

It just says a lot about the human condition that dividing everything fairly is about the worst thing you can do. Thanks for the info!

[@phosphenevision]

... if your goal is creating empires which is probably not a common goal for all humans.... this is literally a game where you act like a tyrant for personal gain lol

[@MasterOfManyMuffins]

Just remember the byzantine empire starts with primageneture. Its the new tutorial empire.

[@nizzie16]

For the time being. It'll get the special Byzantine elective system with DLC. So enjoy it while it lasts. :)

[@Tornado5786]

@@nizzie16 How does that one work?

[@erenrathe4293]

@@Tornado5786 anyone with a claim to the Byzantine empire can get elected I believe, if you’re the spouse of the current emperor you can get elected too

[@kpd8726]

Simply the best tutorials I've seen so far. Succession laws were really well explained there. Will definitely check rest of the tutorials too.

[@italianspartacus]

Thank you so much!! :)

[@lucasnorton1823]

When I first started CK3 I'm 2021, these videos were so extremely helpful. Now I happened to listen to this video while I watered my plants and I learned something! Thanks for these tutorials

[@austinjones1008]

1. One thing most people fail to mention about succession is that the best way to not get overthrown by your siblings after succession and/or to reconquer your lost land is don't give the heir's siblings land before you die. This stops them from having a large standing army of archers and footmen and such to fight against. When you die, your elite units pass between father to son, but the other recipients are starting at square 1 with income and those units if you didn't give them land before you died. You can easily overthrow them if you don't let them get those armies before succession. 2. Another thing is if you have a chance to give the primary heir land holdings before you die do that too. It gives them a chance to build some of those elite army units like you hold, and they get added to yours if yours aren't already maxed out. 3. Executing heathens is a good way to fill your dread meter when you take over with an heir as well. It stops the revolting landed people from stacking up 12 armies against you. It might reduce that stack from 12 armies to 4 and stop them from being able to revolt in the first place. Try not to have "Just" heirs, as they get stress from executing people. These 3 pieces of advice with what's in the video will help you manage to maintain 3 empires with tribal law. Get huge elite army, re-conquer the lost empire titles right when succession happens, get back to expanding domain. Rinse and repeat. This is the only way I could think of to take all of Africa for the achievement with Daura's medium difficulty start. Switching to feudal mid-dynasty reduces your income and militia too much to compensate if you're already multiple empires deep with expansion by the time you can switch. Option B would probably be to tyranny steal all of the titles for every county in your empire and switch so nobody can revolt while you re-upgrade your county infrastructure.

[@AnthonyDeadeye]

Fratello, we really like ALL the same games! This video helped a lot graziiiiie

[@italianspartacus]

MI FRATELLO!!! This is because you have great taste! prego, mio amico

[@capitanjulietti3436]

@@italianspartacus anch'io eh

[@grindelz]

@@capitanjulietti3436 pizza pasta mamma mia porcoddio

[@scully4life]

I just played ck3 for the first time yesterday and I finally understood why there were communication issues with new-to-ck players when using the term gavelkind. I had not realized they don't use that terminology anymore. This video is very informative, well done! Do you know how claims are handed out in succession with this game? In CK2, sometimes (I still don't fully understand how it works) the other children will get claims to your heirs titles, which made it risky to land you children because they'd become claimants after succession.

[@KPosssa]

All of your children will get claims to your titles. I make it a general rule to never land my own family members. Landing multiple children just leads to wars once you pass control onto your primary heir. I even go so far as to avoid landing any relatives at all, be it cousins, nephews, uncles, etc. The AI is pretty aggressive in pressing any claims they have. Whenever my character dies and I begin playing as my heir I always have to deal with factions from relatives wanting to install themselves on the throne. When I need to give away titles for domain/duchy limit I always look for lowborn characters that don't have any existing claims or family ties and preferably have the content trait.

[@Sc0rphionx]

@@KPosssa You are just a coward.

[@darkwitnesslxx]

With the way splendor is designed, you want dynasty independents, but not dynasty vassals.

[@scully4life]

@@darkwitnesslxx I found this out the hard way when I finally got to play, lol.

[@scully4life]

@@KPosssa Yep, I discovered this the hard way as well. My solution so far is to have younger children (that I want to maybe land so they won't leave and give their claims to foreign rulers) educated by cowards who will always fear you (NEVER give them the brave trait) and never join factions. I've also done some incestuous marriages with dynastic vassals and spare children to keep them from joining factions. It's gross, but effective. Plus, I don't really care if their children get the inbred trait.

[@cowmans]

Honestly such a helpful video that enabled me to fix my succession issues in my Ireland play-through. Thank you!

[@VampiroGaming]

I don't think the succession laws can be explained any better! Thanks a lot! Also, the tips at the very end are very helpful.

[@danyalexys4956]

Seriously man, thank you so much for your guides. I have watched countless vids already trying to figure out how the very basic LAND works in the game, because starting in Ireland in the tutorial was confusing me because of neighbouring areas - Munster/Desmond etc. - couldn't figure out what was barony / couty / dutchy etc - this makes it much clearer (as well as your starting guide), and the extra 'counties' view finally answered my Qs!!

[@italianspartacus]

It is absolutely my pleasure brother :) hope you're enjoying the game. Let me know if you have any other questions

[@danyalexys4956]

@@italianspartacus Just one at the mo! I'm King of Alba - why does it tell me I can negotiate an alliance with my brother (High Chieftain of Moray) when he is my vassal? Surely if he is my vassal he will automatically already fight alongside me in wars, no? So why then is there a need to negotiate an alliance? Thanks!

[@italianspartacus]

When you have an alliance with him, he won't join any factions against you! It's a very strong and good thing to have :) he can also call you in for wars with other vassals or peasant uprising

[@VenomLion]

I've been wanting to get into Crusader Kings for years, and with 3 rolling out I knew it was a good point to jump in. Your videos help a ton, thanks a bunch!

[@SquareNoggin]

These two tutorials were the most enlightening of the many CKII tutorials I skimmed through. I feel like I get it now. I thought after playing a shit ton of Stellaris (on console) and some EUIV that CKIII would be a breeze to figure out but it really wouldn't have been without these videos.

[@theheatinferno8420]

This game is going to force me to learn about all of these people and these times. Love this game this is why I built a PC lol my kingdom shall rise above all others nerds

[@BiglerSakura]

Yes, you pronounced Luki (Луки) correctly: [LOO-kee] Literally it means "bows" which is reflected in its coat of arms containing 3 bows. However, the emblem is just a wordplay, and originally the region/city was called so because of a meandered river flowing there.

[@Finn-tl7nw]

So this is unbelievable how much info you got out there. Very well done. For me the succession laws were the biggest part of why I was so hesitant to buy myself this game. And I must say I'm still not convinced, even so, I bought it recently. I have the feeling the fact alone that you must deal with this kind of succession is worth another video of yours. How about a tutorial in which you show the ways you can deal with it, which consequences they have and what might be the best strategy of dealing with it.

[@Cutiepatootie_irl]

Your guides make it sooooo clear and easy to understand

[@KamenosTypas]

Just got the game and started playing it. Your videos are extremely helpful! Quick and clear explanations are hard to come by. Many thanks!

[@grimtheoverlord7056]

You are criminally underrated. I appreciate you, buddy. Also, can you maybe do a more in depth breakdown of the elective succession laws? I've heard mixed reviews that elective is better or worse at keeping order. It can even help determine which children get what.

[@alphaspartan]

i switched to elective after becoming king of ireland to make my genius nephew my heir but i hadn't planned for this (it was the tutorial run) and I ended up being king of ireland but the two sons of my late king were granted all the major duchies and holdings prior to the change in laws and it made my new genius heir super weak :( gotta plan several generations ahead if you want to do cool stuff like this. you could revoke titles and imprison those powerful vassals as king but being weak, if they escaped imprisonment it could end up as game over if you lose the war.

[@grimtheoverlord7056]

@@alphaspartan well yeah, you have to get people to like you so they vote for your heir. I don't know how it differs between the different laws though. Scandinavian says that voting power is related to capital opinion and development

[@alphaspartan]

@transylvanian that sounds pretty devious, haha. I might have to try that in my current game. Would it cost me 1500 prestige to change the law in all of my individual dukedoms? I have 4-6 right now. My current strategy is to kill off all male heirs except the best one (genius and other heritable traits) to prevent titles passing out of my hands as the player.

[@matthewpeterson3871]

Very well done and exactly what I was looking for. Paradox should hire you to do their tutorial videos...you've got the voice for it.

[@atomiccracker]

Im new to the game, since it recently came to Xbox. Thanks for this guide... it was literally, a game changer!!!

[@MrJals11]

You making my experience so much easier man. Watched pretty much all of your tips videos for CK3. Thanks alot man!

[@italianspartacus]

Dude that's awesome haha Thanks for watching! Got a money and a renown video coming out soon! :)

[@MrJals11]

@@italianspartacus Something I don't quite understand is how to get High Crown while being Irish since they don't have ''forgot the name'' in this culture. My character is getting old and all my succession are being split equally. I want my primary heir to get it all man!

[@italianspartacus]

I believe they get Tanistry Elective, no?

[@plchan1160]

Yoo thanks, I've scoured the internet to find out how to stop wasting my time fighting civil wars against factions. Big up to you!

[@italianspartacus]

Absolutely man! Thanks so much for watching!

[@mnm8818]

One of the best strategy I find is when you have a duchy and own most of the countys in it (which you should have for centralisation of power), you can change the title law of the Duchy title to feudal elective (number of vote per county's). And vote for your heir since you own the majority of votes (If he's not the one inheriting it this works to give all county's under that duchy to the hier.) Saves 4 county's going to some other son

[@filipeamor]

I watched another video of you where you touched on the succession laws and how to come around the confederate partitioning and I felt you explained really well but I still couldn't quite understand, but this one just hit the nail on the head! Thanks so much!

[@italianspartacus]

Absolutely man thanks so much for watching :)

[@filipeamor]

Not only watched but subbed and liked :)

[@Abyssionknight]

This was so helpful! Playing as my heir felt like starting the game over but on a higher difficulty setting, since I'd suddenly be down a ton of troops, and my vassals and neighbours would all have claims on my land. It felt like I was going no where, since I'd spend a lifetime getting back everything I had, only to die and lose it all again. At least now I have a better idea of why it was so hard, and what I can do to mitigate those issues in the future.

[@ernestrobinson8441]

@transylvanian With that strategy, you also run the risk of losing the game if you heir dies prematurely. If he does, better get a now heir fast or game over.

[@draganmarkovic9225]

I am 110% new to CK in general. Inheritance laws ( All the Partitions ) had always confused me and this video has helped me A LOT, I now know I gotta get Partition so no random kingdoms form when trying to make the Russian Empire. Thank you, very much

[@iamisamu2776]

yeah im not sure when it was, but you said like a sentence that made everything click at once in terms of if you hold equal to land value as someone else they become independent. appreciate you man haha. wish i saw this before i bought it full price on a whim after playing old world lol. forgot it was paradox so this will be an interesting experience of a different prolonged campaign, but this helped me understand how to get past the beginning of the game. appreciate you

[@mrpenguin2247]

This is so helpful!! I've been killing my other sons to keep all titles (which isn't always ideal when your only remaining male heir unexpectedly dies) but I will play around with these tips tonight!

[@gamesak1]

Man, you are born mentor/teacher. Great videos, best luck

[@zoommonkey]

alright, u earned my sub with this explanation. very good break down, especially for a dumb noob such as i. this game looks amazing, but its so hard to digest on your own, and visual aids such as this help casual gamers speed up that process before i get frustrated and give up on what looks to be a very enjoyable game once you "get there". i look fw to checking out your other vids. as it takes me the next 20years of my life to "get there". cheers!

[@italianspartacus]

hahaha dude i totally understand man - i'm STILL not entirely there, but i'm happy to help! welcome to the family :)

[@chrissmith-zb5xo]

I love this man thank you. Subscribed

[@HerrNinguem]

Oh man, i bought the game before i knew your channel. Otherwise, i'd definetly buy using your link. Awsome work

[@markthorpe1429]

I needed this badly. Thanks. I would work up a nice petty king and then see all his progress disappear and then came the rebellions, civil wars and poaching from neighbors. I don't know if I can prevent it.. but now I have a chance. Don't know how many times I have opened the Realms tool and NOT clicked on the Succession tab.. where most of the needed information rests.

[@Flywitham26]

This is the best video regarding sucession laws

[@italianspartacus]

Thank you brother!

[@justinw1563]

Thank you, man! I love this game but it really can be sometimes over dense and any help is welcome!!

[@Azr4el]

Very useful, have been playing ck2 for years and ck3 a lot this days but still have learned a few things from the video, thanks.

[@italianspartacus]

Thank you so much for watching! :)

[@Palman97]

I am so glad that paradox managed to get more people into their amazing games. If you guys are struggling give it a few hundred hours and you will be set! :D Great explanation op!

[@triash]

Paradox is my new favourite publisher after CD Projekt - they deserve the attention of this game so much ... and I really, REALLY love CK3

[@Palman97]

@@triash CDPR is love, can't wait for Cyberpunk

[@triash]

@@Palman97 yeah or Witcher 3 remastered ... finally some good games... Cyberpunk / Witcher / Crusader Kings ... I don't need more to be happy for years.

[@Colderslave]

Your vids are amazingly clear! Love the game so far!

[@italianspartacus]

Thank you so much for watching!! You're in for a great time hahah, it's an amazing game

[@johns11m]

Just bought this game..........never read so much in a game. These guides are absolutely brilliant

[@colm131]

Incredibly helpful video. Thanks so much for posting this.

[@ArtWithBobClubbs]

Very much appreciate all of your videos! So clear and detailed.

[@Pliskkenn]

These videos are a god send. The tutorial does an ample job of giving you the basics, but I still lacked so much actual useful knowledge!

[@AsteriaUniverse]

Thank you. :) This is definitely helpful.

[@randomicelander5307]

Youre videos are helping me so much just getting into the game thank you

[@Jeff61309]

Thank you for the guide. Very useful to me

[@grandstrategos]

If you could do a video on to efficiently manage/ grow your facton that would be great! Quite often I'll see something recommending me to give a character more titles for extra stability but not know why I need to. Has something to do with De jure?

[@italianspartacus]

you should only give titles to reduce your domain amount, even then, look for an unlanded courtier with the "content" perk ! :)

[@alphaspartan]

@@italianspartacus but then who do you give duchy titles to? In my game I'll have a count go to war with my vassals to take over 3-5 neighboring counties and then want the duchy title. So I give them that to improve relations. I have no idea if duchy titles give them anything special or not.

[@ariantes221]

@@italianspartacus I strongly disagree. You want as many landed members of your family as possible, and as many as possible as independents so you get the most renown. The difference between having 5 or 7 counties isn't that big. Additionally, you really want to focus on your main duchy, because as you mentioned in the video the rest you will probably lose anyway during succession. And that main duchy will the one you improve. Anything above that can be given away and 'refilled' as necessary with new conquests.

[@aduboo29]

@@ariantes221 You get absolutely no renown for landing your family in your own nation. Get them landed outside it, yes. Having powerful vassals with claims on your titles in your own kingdom is a succession crisis waiting to happen. Two generations later you now have 5 dukes in England with claims on the throne and no particularly close family ties to you anymore. Stick to landing your sons outside your nation. At least then you don't lose half your army when they come to take the throne. Get them crusader state titles or married off to female rulers.

[@ariantes221]

@@aduboo29 You do get more renown for landing your family as this causes their offspring also to have offspring, therefore increasing the number of living dynasty members. Which in turn can lead to more member getting landed etc.

[@CaptainDarianFrey]

This helped a lot. Still very hard to know what you really got to do in your situation to make sure you loose not as many titles.

[@italianspartacus]

it really just takes getting into the driver seat on some of these to get a better idea of how it works.. it can be REALLY convoluted unless you have an actual example that you've progressed the story along yourself. I'm so sorry if the Robert Guiscard one didn't help! I'm glad it at least helped a bit though :D

[@RoukeBroersma]

Just give all extra titles to random lowborn people and your other kids get nothing and you'll have the area as vassals.

[@whiskizyo2067]

just kill all your kids except your main one, probably in the game too

[@adeyt205]

Thanks for this i’m just getting into this again and need help. This is crucial information which explains why your realm can shrink when you die.

[@coreywright3379]

Thank you ItalianSpartacus!

[@alexkalil1346]

You're a fucking beauty, I love this game and you got a dope way of explaining stuff, there's just so much to go threw and every time I watch one of your videos you give me a new angle into the game! The intrigue diplomacy Yada Yada but I finally got to this point, where my legendary king dies and Half an empire fractured. Looking forward to watching this video

[@seasand6705]

really glad I found this video. This is the one thing about CK3 that seems endlessly convoluted. this helped a lot to understand how one might work within the confederate partition succession law

[@Dowhardelen]

Nice guide. Keep up the good work.

[@italianspartacus]

Thank you so much for watching :)

[@scaradia5787]

Thanks for the guide! Very comprehensive and informative

[@calmatthetop]

Thank you, I really need this video!

[@italianspartacus]

my pleasure! glad it helped!

[@jand.4737]

15:00 That's why I like the Skandinavian Elective. You keep your kingdom and vassals. However, sometimes the capital changed for me when the elected heir was a vassal.

[@skitvo]

Great stuff in all your videos. Watched a bunch bcs I just started the game. Great content and well explained. You seem passionate by the period. Keep up the work!

[@joshkercenneck2357]

Great video man. Helped clear a few things up for me. Appreciate it

[@vulcanjoe8258]

Your last tutorial video was really helpful, I’m learning a lot - still the succession mechanic is the most confusing for me but Ive learned a lot from this video - thanks!!

[@jbrew256]

Great explanation! Even the pronunciation of the historical figures was solid. Only tip would be I think Bohemund's name is pronounced boo-ay-mon (the 'mon' is in the French fashion)

[@Ugnutz]

This Video made my 10th Irish playthrough not end in a massive all in civil war

[@DirtyDooney22]

Very challenging game to learn and this was really the last thing that had me confused but now cleared up thanks

[@SB-mg1wy]

See, I didn't realize title partition was in chronological order, that clarifies things for me!

[@italianspartacus]

Glad I could help man!! :)

[@rezzbanz7230]

This video was amazingly informative. Thanks a million! 1st time CK player so all of this was super confusing.

[@leandervanstraelen8100]

Thanks for clearing this up.

[@italianspartacus]

Any time!

[@aidanbradypop]

You have made lots of great and helpful videos. Thank you!

[@nicholassmith5611]

As someone coming into Crusader Kings from EU4 for the first time, this is all kind of daunting. But I know once I really get it down, I’ll love it.

[@MrMasterJones]

Really good tutorial. Thanks

[@italianspartacus]

Thank you so much for watching! :)

[@TomRubicon5949]

I don't get any videos in my version, is there a setting to turn these off that I might have flicked? I'm assuming the videos you show at 00:39 are a regular part of the game, right?

[@urgannagru9068]

As a brand new player to the series, succession is what fucks me up every game. Of my 4 games so far I have had quit each one after my first king died due to everything going wrong

[@italianspartacus]

Hmmm.. Did this help any??

[@urgannagru9068]

@@italianspartacus This helped alot thank you, I didn't know what was going wrong but I kept playing because my first King was always so fun to play as but now I am successfully playing as my second character and I hope to continue the trend. So thanks again! :)

[@italianspartacus]

yussss! awesome news! glad to have helped brother :)

[@BrettOssman]

One more item to add to my checklist in Word for the game, but VERY well covered.

[@howitzer551]

Unrelated to the video, who else would like a later start date to be added maybe like so you can have a bunch of characters added to the eastern side of the map. My vote would be for 1174 so you could have the Baldwin the Leper King just taking power and Saladin months away from starting his conquest of Damascus. I would be very into that.

[@italianspartacus]

Personally, I'd love ONE more starting date - me thinks that'll be a DLC

[@ktgrnhig]

Thanks, super helpful. My campaign yesterday was derailed every time my ruler died because the land kept being split by my younger siblings. I can either strongarm them or declare war, but that just leads to more diplomacy issues. Not to mention the county control and sudden lack of funds. I couldn’t do it anymore once I got to my fourth generation, a shy Queen. Everyone hated me, and I couldn’t sway people without incurring major stress penalties. So yeah, if there’s a way around that eventually, now I can start making progress.

[@ktgrnhig]

@Ryan , good point. I’ve done that a couple of times when I was swamped with sons and just wanted to disinherit, then grant a county to make them shut up. Once it even came right back to me once he was killed with no heirs.

[@johanbeatable]

Superlike. If someone had teach me maths just how you do, many things will be diferent now.

[@italianspartacus]

welllll i DO mess up here and there hahaha, so i'm not sure how great of a teaching iw ould be

[@nonbinarybeauty]

I love this game so much I can't stop playing it 😂😂😂😂 Thank you for explain this I'm very new to it!!!

[@jackwillhelm7622]

Love your channel!

[@italianspartacus]

Thanks brother!

[@jackwillhelm7622]

@@italianspartacus Legit wouldnt have made it half as far in bannerlord and especially this game without your videos

[@ps780]

Thank you, I actually need help with this

[@TheMBeats]

So.... how do i protect myself when i die and my heir gains the kingdom but everyone hates him and i don't have time to scheme them all to my side... how can i get ahead of that for my son?

[@scully4life]

I try to save up a ton of money when my current ruler gets old. The heir will need it for bribes or mercenaries if they have to put down a rebellion.

[@DeLeonHD]

Also there is a legacy that increases opinion of people which could help you.

[@snuckles888]

man really said "nay"

[@HearMeOutGuy]

Great video, had my kingdom split cause when I died it created 2 kingdoms lol, as much as I hate the system it makes sense and makes the game more challenging and realistic :)

[@yondie491]

You really need to get a commission from PDS to make these officially. Superb work

[@thomasteal]

Really awesome, clear explination man, keep up.

[@sumho7532]

Thank you so much for these videos keep it up man

[@xetothex]

I played the hauteville dynasty too and conquered lands in africa and italy. However when my main character died my kingdom split into 3 kingdoms: Sicily, Naples, and Africa. What am i doing wrong?

[@MrCosmik1]

My god you're a hero! I tried to give the duchies directly to my heir but couldn't (don't really know why), I'll try to give them to another vassal!

[@jaradax2454]

When I tried Crusader Kings II, I was so overwhelmed by the game. I liked it, but couldn't really get into it because of the complexity. I enjoy strategy games, but I'm not really that great at them. CKIII is a lot more accessible, but your video's are helping heaps. I was hoping you'd cover these subjects as I was getting a little lost in it, but it makes a lot more sense now. I started with Dublin like you suggested and it worked really well as a tutorial campaign. (Until I got greedy and crossed over to Wales and got my ass handed to me.) Thank you for taking the time to explain this! Something I'm wondering about still is buildings: when is a good time to invest into building things in your domain and what are good structures to go for? I have been mostly ignoring it unless I have a lot of gold to spare that I don't want to put into anything else.

[@SushiParty]

Thank you for this amazing video. So clear and I finally understand now. Really made my playthroughs much easier to navigate. I basically just need to get to high partition and kill all bad sons.