The Best Way To Control Your Vassals In Crusader Kings 3!

Vassal Management is one of the most important things you need to do in order to have a stable realm! These Must Know Vassal Management Tips will guide you through what you need to pay attention to when managing your vassals!
💸Get My Free CK3 Lifestyle Summary right here: bit.ly/2IFbI3b
🎥My Twitch Channel: / shadyestablishm. .
🌟My Discord Community: / discord
🐦My Twitter: / shadyestabl
New here?
Hi, I am ShadyEstablishments, but you can also just call me Shady or Chris! I am a KZbinr and Streamer dedicated to making your day more enjoyable and your Crusader Kings 3 playthrough much stronger! I started my Grand Strategy journey with Stellaris right after it was released and then really quickly graduated to Hearts of Iron 4 and Europa Universalis 4, but I was always put off by the huge learning curve that Crusader Kings 2 had! All of the tutorials on that topic seemed so cryptic to me that I decided that if no one can help me, I will help myself instead and this is why I am now trying to deliver the most important knowledge in Crusader Kings 3 easily to you so you can have just as much fun with the game as I have!
💜 xoxo ShadyEstablishments! 💜

[@Derzull2468]

I prefer to give land to people that like me. I don't want to make my enemy stronger. A strong ruler must be loved and feared and if you can't have both, better be feared! Use the dread mechanic it's so worth it.

[@DVineMe]

Most of my wars are holy wars, so I generally do get all counties and every county gets a zealous (to minimize the chances of them converting to the local faith and maximizing the chances of them converting their county) count who is not a ruler and has no claims (unless I don't have high partition yet and other children who stand to inherit), same for after non holy wars (but zealous doesn't matter much here). If they didn't like you before, they will like you now. They all get a forced partition contract and one of them will become a duke, and maybe a king. The only troublesome vassals I get are the ones I didn't install and forced partition hasn't been able to do it's work yet. Unless you are brave (+200 boldness) or they are craven (-200 boldness) dread does very little, since it's dependent on boldness really. If they're brave and you're not you can have all the dread in the world, they won't care. Most of my rulers have 100 dread, still vassals will gladly join factions because their traits don't give a crap about dread. Other way around: the Byzantian emperor who had more dread than my compassionate, zealous and honest ruler, whose dread usually sat at a nice round 0, was terrified of him, because the Byzantian emperor was craven and honest gives +10 boldness.

[@LegendaryZet]

The only issue with relying on dread is succession. I've been hit hard since I started averaging -100 relation with my vassals and relied on dread.

[@sandercohen5543]

@@LegendaryZeti tend to favor just having a lot of children and putting them in charge of my territory. They get opinion modifiers for dynasty/house, and they can be used to set up alliances with unruly vassals. This strategy also gets around the issue of instability upon succession, because in most cases your alliances will persist throughout succession.

[@owe_5256]

Why is bro zesty💀😭😭

[@mageIIan]

Hes cute tho 🥺

[@BoloBouncer]

In CK2 I would control my vassals through my method of Vassal Anarchy. For example - I have two Counts, each on far separate ends of the Byzantine Empire. Give each Count a barony in the other Count's domain. Then, if you can, make each of those Counts a Duke over the other's realm. After that - just watch them go crazy trying to destroy one another.

[@darththomarius6751]

Depending on my character that's reigning, I'll go diplomacy or dread. But, I play to get the renown, so I install family as vassals first. When I take over, whoever is there, I'll leave them. If I take over and I'm over the limit, I still look for family first. When my heir and second in line are of age, I give them a holding I don't make money on and put them on the council. They continue their own lifestyle trees if landed and on council. When I take over as one of them, it's less work. I don't give anyone more than one title. If anyone, including family, is made a Duke, I keep them weak. I usually know a year before I die, so that frees me up to move titles around, even getting tyrant points that I didn't want previously. I retract vassals, even put others to death. My issue is, I want vassals that expand my land, but not holding too much land! I find that marriages work as it also keeps the land in my family as well as keep the peace. Certain counties I really like, so I won't make a duchy. Once I make empire, I start putting family as kings or set marriages. I promise them no title revocation, throw feasts, send gifts, befriend, give wards. They can fight each other, just leave me alone!

[@DVineMe]

And the right tree in stewardship... So you can put yourself on wealth focus, get an extra 10% income and if you need it you can go down the right tree and get increased vassal, liege and councilor opinion, a tyranny modifier (or just don't be tyrannical?), even get a 20% levy increase (if ever you need cannon fodder), as well as a perk to make it less likely for vassals to join independence factions. Stewardship's pretty much got it all really.

[@Chadius_Thundercock]

Ok but how do I stop my vassals from constantly trying to kill each other. I’m good at managing factions but I have no clue how to stop my vassals from always going sicko mode on each other

[@DVineMe]

@@Chadius_Thundercock If I remember correctly you can modify their contracts to prohibit them from doing so if you’re feudal. Does it matter though?

[@segevlavi905]

If you increase your crown authority to high crown authority, they can't declare war on other vassals​@Chadius_Thundercock

[@DVineMe]

@@segevlavi905 Yup that's it. What I was thinking about is actually giving them the right to wage war lol.

[@ShadyEst]

I hope that you enjoyed the video! Feel free to let me know what I could change about my content in the future!

[@yaroslavx6447]

Nice princess crown bro

[@jacksimpsonguitar253]

After winning a civil war as byzantium i like to revole duchy titles and either give them to my best knights, my family or to heir of the duchy title. Works a treat.

[@dallasbarnes5107]

This is the most fabulous ck3 content creator

[@dallasbarnes5107]

Good vid tho👍🏽

[@zackplog2588]

My biggest problem is when they go attacking each other. Trying to figure out how to get them to quit it and just play nice

[@legokingiscool]

I love your videos man I subbed! 😎😎😎

[@ShadyEst]

legokingiscool Thank you so much, I really appreciate it, man!😁

[@legokingiscool]

Helpful af

[@lorenzoperazzoni247]

I’m sorry but I think you missed the chisiest and most fun ways to manage wassals, the first one, if you are an emperore, do not have duchy level vassals, give away entire kingdom or even 2 or 3 kingdom at the time, this will make the single vassal more powerfull, but way less powerfull than the 3 kingdom separetly, in my expirience by a half. The second one, witch assure you way less revolt, is to give away kindom like chunk of lend, to a duke, so he is going to have 40 or 60 count under him, with are going to bee in costant revolt, so you do not need to worry about that vassal at all, so potentialy, if you use this second strat to all your vassals, your vassals are never GONA BEE ABLE to rebel against you, becouse they have to deal with their own revolts.

[@johnnyd3387]

Excellent video. Very helpful.

[@jgrowland24]

If your Dukes are worried about your Counts rebelling, than they wont rebel against you!

[@aaron1983]

As an emperor I have too many kings.

[@gustavvanderwesthuizen6173]

intrigue

[@SeiriosMpakaoukas]

can i take from a vasal some regions for me or other vassals?If i try to remove his title i got tyranny and -80 opinion.One of my vassals cause of his rights after finishing wars got 4 regions.

[@udikai7799]

my problem is no title bigger than empire 5 empire 25 kingdom in 55 years then i die then begin rebellion and claim wars

[@zarzadcakamczatki9242]

Don't create more than one empire when you haven't primogeniture or another succession law which pretends that your biggest titles stay in one heir after your death.

[@zarzadcakamczatki9242]

Don't create more than one empire when you haven't primogeniture or another succession law which pretends that your biggest titles stay in one heir after your death.

[@hairy_blotter]

wrong

[@ShadyEst]

... right HOLD ON nonono... wrong

[@m7yasin4]

How should i fix " too many duchies " notification That make my vassels angry at me (-300 opinion) I hope someone help me 🥲

[@addictedfoolgamer1970]

Give away duchies! As far as i remember/know you can only have 2. You're not supposed to have loads, same as Kingdoms - only 2 max

[@Jethedril]

You can only have a max of 2 duchy titles without getting a penalty. You usually get new titles after wars. I almost always give the title away immediately after the war

[@az09kkjhk2]

i just did a world conquest changed the religion cause i wanted to restore the roman empire and now i have whole whole against me x.x 24564564 pop ups of siege