CRUSADER KINGS 3 | Beginner's Guide 02 - Dynasties & Succession

[@jacknrdampedersen1086]

It's funny to read other people complaining that the game is dumbed down from CK2. As a new player, it seems to be very deep and complex and I would never have had a chance to understand CK2 then. Your new video here about dynasties seems quite intimidating because there are so many small things to keep an eye on.

[@PartyElite]

Definitely still a very intimidating game! But once things start to make sense, it's equally rewarding!

[@mackenziebeeney3764]

Yeah tracking who is married to what family is hard. When it comes to trying to breed positive congenital traits I just bring everyone into my dynasty and just try to avoid inbreeding. Usually easy enough

[@HoopstaYT]

Yea cuz it's a Paradox game. A new installment always feels dumbed down from the previous because it's not launching day 1 with 100 DLC expansions.

[@CHRB-nn6qp]

Ck3 is more in-depth in the areas that matter imo.

[@Coeurebene1]

This game certainly helps to understand why this historical period was such a mess.

[@FantasticMrMac]

My goofy ass accidentally butchered my kingdom, giving lands to my second oldest son and not my player heir...THEN I failed to properly educate my player heir's grandson properly and he ended up a literally sadistic and callous idiot. Needless to say, my game ended in three generations. 😂 I'm glad I found this playlist.

[@libertyprime2013]

I know that feeling lol.

[@nyanko2077]

I find the dynamic of getting stress each time you want to influence the education of your kids so on point with real life that it is disturbing lol. And thanks for covering dynasties. It's a more tedious matter than other things for me in this game.

[@mackenziebeeney3764]

I know I like it lol. A cheeky little detail.

[@arturo0727]

XD every time my leader dies I spend 20 years for my heir to keep the realm together. The succession laws are very tricky.

[@davey2487]

It's especially annoying for me if my heir, who I've set up to inherit all the right stuff, have amazing claims and things like that, dies and I die a year later. All the good claims and titles passed to my grandson, the king of England. Meanwhile my new heir was the duke of Mercia or whatever it's called. I basically had to screw over my own family to get everything back. When this happened I lost: - The kingdom of Ireland to the king of England - My original heir's place of 1st in line to inherit the throne of England - Same story with Scotland - Same story with Wales - Smae story with Mercia - Same story with a whole lot of other titles. All that remained for me was Mercia and some claims that I'd never be able to conquer/press during my lifetime. Oh, and I became the vassal of my first character's grandson, also known as the king of England and Ireland.

[@davey2487]

And of course one of the major issues was that practically all rulers from my dynasty where the vassals of the king of England and Ireland and as such a vassal of a member of the same dynasty. This in turn created a major issue with gaining renown.

[@dummeytitan8130]

Same bro, try and make sure u don't give too many titles to one dude.

[@davey2487]

@@dummeytitan8130 I always try to start without vassals. When I conquer more lands/titles, I usually create a few more powerful vassals, who I give quite a few titles. These are often the important people on my council. Then I make sure to create some 'minor' vassals, who I'll be able to grant to my more powerful vassals eventually.

[@dummeytitan8130]

@@davey2487 oh right, during my first game I accidentally gave an entire kingdom to a family member and as soon I died I straight up last half my empire which was annoying.

[@PartyElite]

The beginner's guide continues! Dynasties and proper succession/inheritance are extremely important for the 'long game' in Crusader Kings. This should help make sense of all of that! Just a heads up (and to nip it in the bud because I tend to get comments about this - not that I mind): there are two ways to pronounce "dynasty" - mine is the British way. I was raised on British English, and while I no longer say "lift" or "lorry", I do say "dynasty", "envelope", "aluminium" etc. etc. So please bear with me =P! *That aside - questions? Requests? Let me know!*

[@rohitsaitejagadu8045]

War please

[@Softload3r]

I would love if you'd playe as Ireland and show us and explain how and why you make certain decisions so I can follow it and try to use it in my play as Ireland, I'm still struggling a bit so I would very much appreciate a Petty King of Murchad Series! Thank you!

[@gregathol]

I’m so pedantic that I actually needed to read this.

[@inlikeflynn7238]

I very nearly got my first legacy perk but immediately before I could chose my King died and someone who was not my heir was chosen as the dynasty head and they chose the family tree perk which gives a 10 percent bonus to fertility, possibly the worst perk in the entire game. I was apoplectic I wanted to break everything and delete the whole game and now I don't know how to get control of dynasty perks back other than to murder absolutely everyone in my dynasty and I feel like my entire play through has been railroaded by a mechanic that is made to fail just to piss you off.

[@FlloydOCF]

Die-nus-tee

[@AC-ze1nh]

The first time I played CKII I played the Leon tutorial and I had gotten Leon, Galicia, and Castille together only to have it break apart upon my ruler's death. I was so confused and mad! Hahaha I've since learned but this video was especially helpful for the new stuff in CKIII, especially for clarity on the different houses. My dynasty recently branched off into a new house and I was wondering about the ramifications.

[@PartyElite]

Oh man really hitting the nostalgia notes with your story there =D Glad the video helped

[@BerlinCB]

Happy to have found these videos. I purchased the game many years ago, but never really played much until recently. The videos help peel back and understand the layers of complexity within the game. This is my first Paradox game, but I've since been buying lots of them on sale. :)

New subscriber here, Just started playing CK3 with no CK2 experience. I am a huge Fan of Stellaris and have been playing it for some time but this game is a whole other level in many ways . The videos you have done so far are really excellent information and really well formatted for a newer player. I have TONS of questions but at this point I am so new to the game I will just stay tuned for more videos as i am not even sure i know every question I need to ask! It would be interesting if you ever have the time or interest in doing a super basic, for the newest noob sort of video but I have already gained quite a bit of knowledge from what you have shown! Thanks and keep up the great work!

[@jonathanallard2128]

Same. I just play and save a lot to give me a forgiving backup for my big learning curve.

[@jonathanallard2128]

Sometimes I have no idea what I'm doing so I just save and see what happens.

[@Saintchronicles]

So glad to see your stuff up so quickly, I hadn’t been following the dev dairies that closely and these are going to be such a huge time savers. Continue the great work

[@tommy437]

Hi mate, this is a great guide on how this works but I would love examples of how this is put into practice as in what to do in certain situations, etc.

[@sahilbansal4456]

You will know that from experience my friend!

[@n1c3b0y]

all your videos seem excellent. i watch every minute from start to finish

[@madmedic5k659]

Didnt realize i could control from in the family tree view. Nice function. Makes it easier

[@billymays1761]

Thanks for the detailed videos. I played CK2 a long time ago and I’m relatively familiar with the concept but needed a proper refresher. Keep em coming!!!

[@almediasmith2584]

This is too much to remember. TY for making these videos! Planet Zoo brought me to your channel btw :)

[@resirvoirdog94]

I guess it's what you gotta do if they don't already have the habit of hunting boars while drunk

[@rkadindoubt]

So glad you're covering this!

[@Greenock87]

Last beginner's guide was awesome! This is gonna be good as well and I've not seen the video yet. So thank you fella! We apreciate your hardwork!

[@Kristaliorn]

These videos are brilliant and much appreciated/ needed by me. Party elite is back.to his best IMO . This is the kind of content I used to patron for. Time to reinheret me thinks.

[@PartyElite]

Thank you! It was just a matter of time before a game pulled out the teacher in me long term =P

[@Thompers]

Thank you! Please continue on this quest!

[@andylockhart257]

Such a magical game. Keep doing the tutorials please!

[@WallytheAussie]

Thanks for the guide, mate. First deep-dive into the CK franchise and I found out the hard way about inheritance splitting a realm in my very first game :(

[@javicoca]

Really fantastic video and series. Thank you!! The game is so much more approachable thanks to you

[@elmondo-s1e]

Thank you. I’m a complete ck newbie and the succession problem is not one I understood or had ever come across in other dynasty type games haha. Such confuse. Thank god for your videos 😂😂

[@DiabloBG]

Ah yes, the old "Oh my liege, your father has witnessed your bravery and wishes you and like 10 other guys go off... exploring near the enemy army, as close as you can... oh and take those bells, for no particular reason..."

[@HenriqueRJchiki]

Can you do a guide on how to distribute power properly? Like how many vassals should we have, etc. When playing fast expanding games like tribes I always find myself just giving land to random people in my court (not giving counties of different duchies to the same vassal) but then shit always hit the fan, the dude dies, their heir is always pissed at me, they declare domestic wars and conquer counties in different duchies and everything goes to shit

[@poisonivy2298]

I usually pick a couple vassals and give them a lot of land, then marry any princesses I have off to them, that way they stay allied with me and won't start any wars. Then I just worry about keeping a high opinion with them and also their heir.

[@IndirectCogs]

This video is important for me because I didn't understand succession laws and died and my realm split into 3 parts.

[@keithbrown7485]

Would love to see a video on casus belli.

[@Softload3r]

As amazing as the last one! I'm currently playing as the Petty King of Murchad, but I'm still struggling (I'm pretty new) with gold etc. and to keep up. When I played the tutorial it was rather "easy" but playing an Ironman game and playing as Ireland it's much more difficult to keep up with all the other people on Ireland. Tomorrow I'm going to start a new save as Ireland and try to play it more slow. I hope I can found the Kingdom like in the tutorial. Thank you for your videos

[@knmaherijayatp8181]

yeah, because tutorial give you 1k gold from the start to make it easier.

[@Zaitekno]

I am in the year 1135 as High King of Ireland in the 4th Generation. It is a really amazing, forgiving spot to start, recently I conquered Iceland. :) But now my Kingdom is breaking apart as my 3rd Generation heir had 6!!! sons :S:S:S:S good luck to thee brother! For Ireland!

[@knmaherijayatp8181]

@@Zaitekno "forgiving spot to start" yeah, thats why we called ireland, "tutorial island" in ck 2. and now in ck 3 paradox make it official tutorial island lol.

[@Zaitekno]

@@knmaherijayatp8181 So I've heard, that's why I'm there ;) but I also like Ireland as a country, good people.

[@Softload3r]

@@Zaitekno haha thank you so much! I've actually learned A LOT in the past week. I have my kingdom and conquered Alba. I'm now only waiting for England to get weak. Unfortunately, my nephew once got a claim on my Kingdom and since he was residing in the HRE he started a war against me. Obviously I didn't have a chance. I got degraded to a fucking Duke, I was raging. Thought about starting a completely new savegame. But I then discovered that there is already a faction against the new proclaimed King of Ireland where they wanted to install me again as a King. So I joined it. Military Power 200%, we enforced demands and he stepped down from the Throne! BUT HRE is now my liege and over 20k Strong. And it is growing.... I'm now considering marrying off one of my sons or daughters to the Abbasid Empire since they have over 30K men. An independence faction against my liege is sadly not working - no one is joining and I'm too weak :(

[@SleepyDroid]

I have trouble keeping it in my dynasty or at least I gets warnings, starts to learn.

[@williamsmith1741]

You might want to talk about the Chancellor's ability to integrate titles into your primary title.

[@mackenziebeeney3764]

Partition isn’t bad if it’s split between two sons. But once you get pat three then it’s just painful. Best France run I had five daughters and two sons, gave lands to sons, but then a third was born and messed everything up lol

[@EduFirenze]

I bought the game because I like historical strategy games but god damn I'm watching hours of tutorials and have no clue how to play this lol.

[@TheArkadonMan]

Ya im kinda overwhelmed by the amount of information I need to know.

[@davidarnold9324]

I have played all the EU titles and at this point they are fairly easy but as my first CK title this looks very deep and quite daunting!

[@Evilysilly74]

I think the biggest thing with this game is to not be afraid to dive in, make mistakes, and learn. From everything I have seen, a big part of the game that can be fun is watching the drama as failure unfolds. Thats the approach I will be taking this weekend when I pick this game up. Going to dive in try some crazy schemes hope the work, if not it should be entertaining watching the fall out.

[@istvankovats8541]

just don't take it seriously and start clicking buttons anyway. Since you know english you should have no problem reading the ingame help anyway.

[@jonathanallard2128]

Can you do a guide on how to stop playing this god damn game? Is sit down to play at 9pm next thing I know its 4am and I still feel like I must go on. I thought Civilzation series was addictive and could gobble up days of free time... CK3 is even worse.

[@PartyElite]

I'm sorry - it's literally impossible =D

[@liamcarnahan1346]

Sometimes it good to cull the family tree. Especially since a realm divide is a double or triple Duke sucks.

[@PartyElite]

Every hedge needs some trimming from time to time

[@umbranoctis945]

You rock! this are things i would never learn by myself. Thanks!!!

[@julesb1447]

Hey Party! I love this guide, thank you! Also I can't wait for you to continue your Nanman Campaign ;)

[@joeschmoe5583]

You speak with an American accent, but pronounce "dynasty" the british way - very funny. :D

[@conq1273]

Thanka for the guide, PE.

[@liamh9019]

Thanks. Great video.

[@Kraken9911]

I just finished watching the video. Now I need a tutorial for this tutorial lol 😆

[@theonemarlowe9117]

This was quite good as well. I have read all DD's and watched all PDX tutorials, and they were all fine or better. Maybe it's because I've played and I had the chance to come up with some practical questions of my own, but tour videos have been very elucidating. Not sure if you are able to frame a video around it, but I hope you can make one about mods, more precisely about the use of mods, not the act of mod.

[@hesketh7085]

PartyElite, can you do a guide on how to set up Rightful Liege/Vassal relationships once say, you become King of Ireland? I've got a lot of unhappy vassals now, but I already own 2 Duchy titles, so I'm about to muddle my way through figuring out how to 'set up' Ireland correctly.

[@PartyElite]

Sure thing! Have you seen my first video in this series - kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5OqdX6Kd7alfqs ? There's a section about "managing vassals" that might help!

[@hesketh7085]

@@PartyElite Thanks. I had, but have just re-watched it. I'm King of Ireland and the 3 counts of Ulster are annoyed that there is no Duchy of Ulster. I hold no counties within it. The title hasn't been created, and I already hold 2 Duchies. Is it silly to create the title with my own gold and than choose one of the 3 counts to become the Duke, or is that expected of me? Also, I gave the duchy of Leinster and county of Leinster to an Uncle so I could hold Munster (dynasty's homeland) and Meath (to make Dublin the new capital), but still hold Ossory myself. I think I should have destroyed the Duchy title and just held the 2 counties within it myself to consolidate my powerbase in southern Ireland. What are your thoughts, and how could I now rectify this?

[@Evilysilly74]

@@hesketh7085 great question id like to know also.

[@crunchynapkin7973]

I was SO lost and now... I'm slightly less lost.... thank you for all the great content!

[@1992zorro]

Vin "The Family Man" Diesel approves this message. It's all about family

[@VeganCheeseburger]

This is excellent.

[@StephanthePelted]

how do you become a house head without creating a cadet branch?

[@elmondo-s1e]

Become the most powerful leader in your house, I think.

[@freddiecawston2892]

Why does the game end even though I have dynasty member rulers all over the map? Almost got 'end of an era' achievement.

[@Garycarlyle]

I had no heir so game over. Wasnt sure what to do about that or why it happened. I had several sons and daughters.

[@Boleslav4]

I have a question: for about 50 years I had my primary title and player heir aligned. Now when my queen got to her late 70s it suddenly changed and I was about to lose everything. The primary title for some reason went from my oldest child to one of my grandchildren, but I would still continue the game as my oldest child, only getting 1 county even though I had a kingdom with dozens. I did sorta kinda dodge that with tanistry where at least somebody of my family would get both, but it still scared me a lot - especially since it was in ironman. So, how precisely does this work. I did play a few hundred hours of CK2 and know the basics there, but this never happened to me in that game. If anybody knows how these laws actually work, let me know. I do have a basic understanding of them, but apparently sometimes it flies out of the window. PS: One more short one - at one point in the same game, my imprisoned sibling from a rebellion challenged me to a fist fight or something and my only two options were to give her my whole kingdom or to gamble and have a 2:1 chance of keeping it. It seems very very strange to have such an event - especially when she was totally powerless. Anybody knows where it came from?

[@Derzull2468]

The fist fight comes from the decision "Challenge the Ruler", here are the pre-requisites: -Adult -Tribal government -Vassal -Claim on the Liege's title -Right gender to claim the title -Liege is adult *Can only be tried once every 10 years I got challenged once myself while I was a kid by a powerful tribal vassal. It shouldn't have happened since I was a kid but hopefully at 6 years old with 4 years spent in jail I won the fight why my 19 prowess!

[@ahmedreda9894]

now its the time for economic and warfare master class

[@cmf3820]

My biggest problem is down the line I get replaced as dynasty heir, even tho I'm playing the player heir???? How can I stop this or fix it to re-become head of dynasty???

[@davey2487]

In my first non-tutorial save, it took me only 25/30 years, to have my grandson become king of England, myself become king of ireland, one of my sons become duke of Mercia, my daughter married to the prince of Scotland and my other daughter married to the person who basically ruled Wales. My son/heir was first in line to the throne of Ireland, England and basically Wales. While he would also have had a claim to Ireland. Unfortunately he became a leper and died, so I was majorly f'd up, because I became the duke of Mercia. I was now the vassal of my own nephew (the king of England), Ireland passed to the king of England. So to get everything back, I would basically have to screw over my own family :(

[@PartyElite]

Sounds like Crusader Kings!

[@duncanharrell5009]

Can you please explain why my half brother is dynasty head and not the literal son of the former emperor?

[@DamanLSun]

Am I wrong but doesn't primogeniture law disable the choose Heir option?

[@ariaw11]

Can you make guide about vassal. I don't know why the tax is zero i thought it was because the rightfull land but i don't know how to fix it

[@PartyElite]

Absolutely! I've got one about vassal relationships coming up, and I suggest watching the previous video - it has a section called "Managing Vassals" that should help with your current issue!

[@Lopsinho]

Using Scandinavian election laws, my primary heir keeps changing without my controls, I have 2 kingdoms and my other son is winning then randomly this other son with no titles whatsoever gets chosen to be my heir?

[@richardpaz5217]

You can always just remove the law so that you can choose who you want as your heir.

[@nickxplore4265]

YEsssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss more already!

[@Beaumont99]

I’m playing this on Xbox One and it’s just not the same. How can I see the AI’s dynasties

[@Airwane]

are dynasties and succession standard in the game? as An African, I'll be playing African kingdom but I feel like it would harder

[@CameronAB122]

Right now it’s mostly standard across the board except Celtic cultures can get a special succession called Tanistry. The game will get flavor packs that make regions more accurate (for example the Byzantine empire is all wrong rn) hopefully Africa gets a flavor pack I’d be interested in seeing that. Right now Africa is difficult because it is so splintered.

[@rampagekitty8312]

Everytime I die and my hier takes over and gets absolutely dumbed on...

[@AAGREEDYFISH]

Can I use a strong hook to become the heir? Assuming the person has the power to assign his own heir, of course.

[@Pacreincarn8ed]

I don’t get it I start game in 867 so it’s hard to get crown authority and let’s say my game starting heir is shit and I want to change it for a later born child.. so basically I can’t??

[@alperenkays5933]

How can i stop my vassals fight and what should i do when one of them starts a liberty faction against me other than wait for them to rebel and crushing it after?

[@Maniac3194]

So how does elective work with the single succession. If I want to elect my landed brother as king instead of my oldest son does it still give all my counties to my son and just the kingdom to my brother?

[@dukedaisy2889]

CHILREN!

[@kwaesilaguer547]

Please do a video on religion and how to convert

[@PartyElite]

Glad you asked! That's the next one I've got lined up (alongside culture). It's 66% done and should release at the same time tomorrow!

[@uzferry5524]

coming from EU4 abstract system of inheritance and royal marriages, this is fking hard lmao

[@PartyElite]

Hah yeah - you're not getting 10 royal marriage requests a minute in CK

[@serkappa3]

I unaided Ireland and I don't know what to do next. How I get claims for England? Can you make a video please.

[@PartyElite]

Check out the "how to acquire land" section in this video - there are a tonne of ways to do it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5OqdX6Kd7alfqs

[@Mitangolonlysoulbuddy]

Ive just become the king of ireland, and the game suggest that i creat the duchy title for my land for 250gold... What is the advantage of the title as oppose to the individual title my vassal held ?

[@PartyElite]

Without the duchy title in place, the counts that should serve that Duke are serving you directly instead (as king) or serving some other Duke (who in turn serves you). Both of these circumstances will incur a "not rightful liege" penalty to taxes, and levies. You can create the Duchy title and keep it for yourself, or give it to somebody else to serve under you, and assign those counts to serve under them. That will remove the aforementioned penalties! I hope that helps - let me know if not! And if you haven't already watched it, check out the "managing vassals" section of my first video - kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5OqdX6Kd7alfqs - that might help too!

[@Mitangolonlysoulbuddy]

That actually helps a lot..this is my first playthrough ever. The vidoes also helps alot

[@zackhartley4718]

I am playing as the Duchy of Mercia, since we are Anglo-Saxon it says I can’t select primogeniture while being Anglo-Saxon. Is this something that will change overtime say late medieval era or do I need to change culture??

[@PartyElite]

Most (if not all) cultures don't have primogeniture available until they unlock it through research! It will change over time given the right circumstances (researching the 'primogeniture' innovation in the Late Medieval Era iirc). It's a topic I'm actually going to discuss in more depth in the next video too - innovation & culture as a whole, that is!

[@zackhartley4718]

PartyElite Thanks, I’ll check it out!!

[@Ahrim565]

so i am the leader of an empire with 22k troops but the dynasty head has 3k but still is the head ? how ?

[@PartyElite]

Do you have a Cadet Branch where you're the house head? You have to be a house head to be in the running for Dynasty Head, so make sure you've taken the "decision" to "create a Cadet Branch" first. Let me know if that helps

[@Ahrim565]

@@PartyElite okay so the mother of my character was the leader of our house and after she died (im innocent) i had the option to create my own house. which resulted in me being the house and dynasty head :) thanks for the answer!

[@VaultTecc]

It's not that complicated really. Basically paradox has completely enforced split succession with the enormous roadblock of innovation, unless you start with the emperor of Byzantium who does not give a single F about all that at 867. Obviously something that will be altered in one way or another in future expansions. Meanwhile maybe someone will mod it, actually i'll go take a quick look into the files myself. Poor design choice to say the least. Edit: Ok found it, updating this post in a bit. Text File is: Crusader kings III/game/common/scripted_triggers/00_succession_triggers.txt In this .txt you must search for "historical_succession_access_single_heir_succession_law_trigger ". Directly below that is the exception of byzantium. What you must do is this: 1.Copy everything from OR to byzantium. 2. Go directly to the left of the word "byzantium" hit enter then tab, once each. 3.Press ctrl+v to copy paste. 4.Replace e_byzantium with the one you want. "e" stands for empire from that i assume "c" stands for county "d" for douchy and "k" for kingdom. In my case i wanted to play as the county of Desmond so i replaced "e_byzantium" with "c_desmond" and voila start the game with aganatic/cognatic primo, just like that, poof!! However, it is most probable that the kingdom and empire titles need to be added as well or you may lose it when you upgrade. Thankfully you should know how to do that by now, easily. Cheers!

[@zajacztamas7]

I'm unable to continue my game after my initial character dies. Idk if I'm just stupid, or what, but whenever I first die, my entire kingdom gets distributed between my children. I've tried obtaining civics for higher crown authority and succession laws, but I am never able to get both in 1 lifetime. I've played 4 games already, all of which ended with my first character dying, most of my holdings being acquired by the siblings of my heir, crippling me in both gold and army size, thus making the game a lot less fun to play. Could you give me any tips on how to circumvent this? Other than just killing off my children, of course, since that sounds like a really un-fun way to play the game. Thanks for the in-depth tutorials, they've been a massive help!

[@Patrick462]

What you're describing is exactly how CK3 works. It's also essentially how history worked (at least in most of Europe until 1400 or so). You cannot circumvent this system. You can put effort into changing this system, but it will take hundreds of years of game time. During those hundreds of years you'll need to accept the Confederation system and learn to work it as best you can. You'll still have the lands you've painfully accumulated under one ruler split between the heirs, but you will need to become skilled in minimizing the split. Get used to fighting your brothers for the rest of your father's lands. One last thing: I'm not telling you how to play the game or what type of game to enjoy, but if you prefer "paint the map" type games you may like Europa Universalis IV or Civilization VI or many other games, rather than CK3. CK3 is a medieval dynasty simulator and fun story generator, not an acquire and blob game.

[@PartyElite]

Glad they've helped! As Patrick has touched on, this splitting of holdings is part and parcel of a game like CK, and very reflective of history (the history of Francia is wild!). If you'd like to try and blob, what I can suggest is pacing yourself. Make sure as each generation dies, you only have one of the top level rank. That way, the splitting will still result in one person in charge (since your primary heir will get your primary title, and all the other titles serve below them). Then the next generation can aim for the next rank up for a similar result on their death. At the same time, work towards a single heir system. You can also use an elective system, or title-specific succession (though that can be expensive for prestige). If you're dynasty head, you can also disinherit potential heirs, removing them from the inheritance line, but you're basically disowning them - totally a thing that happens in history too! I hope this helps!

[@zajacztamas7]

I actually played quite a bit of Civ 6, and I really enjoy the whole taking over the map thing. The reason I disliked the partition system so far is because it left me as the king of a kingdom, with my brothers taking a ton of counties, leaving me with around 1/5 of the gold and army I had before, and since my army is so small going on conquests makes it really hard. I guess I'll try embracing the system now. I've really enjoyed it so far, and if dealing with a the issues of succession is a part of it, I will. I was just hoping maybe that's not that important in the game. Thanks for the help from the both of you, and keep up the great videos Party! Cheers Edit: I was initially just hoping there was a choice in this matter too (from the beginning) like there is a choice in pretty much anything else you can do in the game, that's the reason I wrote my original comment.

[@aidastekorius6731]

Am I the only one who can't find the first part of this series? It's not even in the playlist

[@PartyElite]

Very strange. I'll look into that, thanks! Here you go, - kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5OqdX6Kd7alfqs =)

[@aidastekorius6731]

@@PartyElite Alright, thanks. It seems like it's fine and I can find the video now.

[@jonskislo1]

Good tutorials and thanks! But I still lmao @ croatian culture in Ljubljana and Krain. Huge yikes, looking forward to the 300th DLC that will add the actual culture that was present there at the time.

[@Greytruth2]

I'm still so confused. They need to simplify this, there are far too many hidden things that are not made immediately obvious. I'm not even aware of when children are being born xD

[@GabbyPlaysGames02]

I watched all your videos before I got into the game, but clearly I should’ve brushed up on some things after some absence away lol. I killed off all the sons of the king of Poland after my heir married his daughter, which I assumed would make my heir king because of the male preference succession laws. Well, he is techinciallu king, but it’s really just a title, and now I’m kind of my wife’s bitch and have to watch as she marries my player heir off to some random pagan Duke, making his liege different, and start wars left and right for no reason. Luckily she got wounded really bad since she had the flagellant trait and she died, so now it’s just trying to get my son out of his marriage so he can focus on being king.

[@nashiffuadkhan9817]

How to create Norman culture??

[@PartyElite]

With the 1066 start there are a few Normans you can start as! Any count or Duke in Normandy will do the trick. Is that what you mean?

[@nashiffuadkhan9817]

@@PartyElite no, I mean I wanna start at 866 and create the Norman culture like how rolli came to Normandy. In ck2, any Norse character occupying french counties could one day convert to Norman. But I don't see that in CK3

[@orgabaa]

“East Fransia”

[@dutchvanderlinde5004]

👍

[@imonlyhumanafterallspinningguy]

this game is a lot of fun until succession. then it becomes a nightmare.

[@dungeonkeeper42]

help I'm lost

[@aminpourghorban8513]

I find this succession laws quite disturbing. Because as far as i know there was never like this in past monarchies that you die and your empire gets torn apart buy your kids, i mean it could happen but not like this. And you never can grow as a little family to that laws because of all the restrictions you have on money and prestige. Imagine making 1.1 gold per month and have to spend 250 gold on a single de jure. Its not rational. Plz make this relevant to the ratio of the family. An emperor could pay this easily but not a humble man that tries to make his kingdom. I'm that poor man :((

[@PartyElite]

Money can be a very slow grind in this game when you're a smaller power - who are you playing as? As a tribe, make sure you're going on raids. As anybody else, try to get prisoners and ransom them for money. Also make sure your steward on your council has a high stewardship skill, and make sure that you and your wife do too! As for the tearing apart of kingdoms for sons when a ruler dies - take a look at the history of France as a great example. It happened so many times!

[@WonderfulWino]

came to learn about succession laws, learned nothing

[@Ulainu]

Damn so I shouldn't execute my children LOL

[@LlamaCat25]

where did you come up with that pronunciation of dynasty? It's DIE-NAS-TEE. Great guides, but man this is driving me a bit nuts. It was also the name of a popular TV show and I've never heard anyone say it that way.

[@PartyElite]

Lmao it's the British pronunciation of the word. Though my accent doesn't suggest it, I've grown up with "the Queen's English". Check the pinned comment - I get this all the time.

[@giokun100]

The word comes from the Greek ''dynastia'' which is pronounced ''theenasteea''. The British do a better job at pronouncing it correctly.

[@Sebastian-dc2qg]

Will it ever come to console?

[@iFilippo82]

no

[@PartyElite]

One can hope! They've done it for some of their games, iirc!

[@Udhoi]

Too complicated :S

[@astracle]

3rd comment is an achievement for me..

[@ticker0157]

I was wondering why my empire keeps geting split in three. Look like it's a bad idea to hold more then one empire title

[@PartyElite]

Yes and no! Let me explain - If you want to blob, then yeah it's a problem until you get better succession laws. Outside of confederate partition, destroying titles (or not creating them) will prevent them from being given out on death. You can also disinherit all heirs but one, if you're the dynasty head. This costs prestige and renown, but prevents succession trouble. But don't underestimate the value of having family in charge of strong realms. Especially if you're the dynasty head. You can earn lots of renown, you can pull them into wars easily etc etc. I hope that helps clarify!

[@ticker0157]

@@PartyElite thanks a lot! I'm trying to get the mother of us all achievement and started to have some problems but I think ill probably be able to get things back on track. I love thees videos there amzin, keep up the grand work!