FIVE MORE DIRTY TRICKS IN CRUSADER KINGS 3 | Beginner's Guide 08 

Five not enough for you? Here are five more! Before I return to more standard topics of discussion, I thought these were a fun few to share. Don't forget to check the rest of the playlist out here - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AbGDKTBQrHI.html

5:20 King to his eldest son: "Son, I've prepared a bunch of people at our dungeon for you. In the event that I die, just kill a few of them to scare our employees and regional managers (and your brothers and sisters too). Understood?"

"If they fail you hopefully you'll still be able to love them the same" *plot murder scheme*

This is a trick I learned back in CK2. When trying to assassinate someone in another court, you may run into the issue of there not being enough people willing to help you with the plot. The way to circumvent this is by marrying females with high intrigue into the opposite court. The reason I say females instead of males, is that by seducing them you will maintain a very high relationship with them that makes them more willing to murder for you. This can be combined with careful education and selective breeding to essentially create something akin to geisha assassin caste that are sent into rival courts who will kill for you. If you just need to kill the enemy ruler and are not marrying into them for reasons of heirs, marrying your lover to the ruler directly can be great. Their new high intrigue wife will probably be made their spymaster - who is really loyal to you and pretty much guarantees a successful assassination.

Instead of disinheriting, send your other children in battles by making them commander of small army of 30-40 levies. They'll die eventually. You'll gain stress but renown>>stress

"Your father's name is King Dunchard, he was a very benevolent and galant ruler but suddenly one year before his death he changed drastically. He killed and imprisoned many of his vassals and siblings randomly without a good reason. Nobody knows what has gotten into him, many said he just can't handle the strees because of his old age, but some said it was a witchery or a black magics send by the enemy........ But as his spymaster for decades and his bestfriend, I think he did all that cruel things just to protect you from future threats my young liege" Idk about you guys, but I think this dirty trick is kinda a good plot for a story

This is so dirty, i feel my stress level raised by 22 and ill need cash for a feast

I laughed so hard at 3:55 when you clicked Murder on the wife, for having failed to help you enough with a task.

Another way to remove heirs from the inheritance is asking them to take vows when they come of age. You should have a hook with them anyway and I've never had one say no. You just can't grant them any titles while they are minors for this to work.

A dirty trick is to "recruit" courtiers such as claimants, good councillors etc for free by marrying them to in your court

Partition does help with Dynasty points but I don’t know if I care enough. Land!

Another nice trick: If you face a strong empire that is of a different religion of yours, there is a rather easy trick how to deal with them. There are two conditions that have to be met for this trick to work: The enemy empire has to be of a different religion (that considers your religion as evil), and you need the kidnapping perk. Kidnap the ruler of that foreign empire and release them under the condition that they switch to your faith. I haven't met a ruler yet that didn't agree to that (outside of the pope). As you have forced that ruler to a religion that all of his vassels consider evil, they will all imidiatly start indipendence factions, and you can watch how the empire falls apart. I had only one time that this didn't work, and that was because a murder sheme killed the ruler before his subjects could rebell.

Whenever I want someone for my council, like a new Steward for example, I always just pick someone in my court (preferably someone with half-decent stewardship) to marry someone outside of court with the highest stewardship available. That way you always have 16+ skill on every single council member. If you want to improve their skill further, make the new guy you just recruited a vassal by giving him a small piece of land somewhere. This gives your guy the spouse bonus and improves his stats by another 1-3 points.

One note: disinherit first, then give lands not vice versa, I accidentally made the islands free and I wondered what happened :D I gave the isles to my son then I thought my 2nd and 3rd son is better, either of them, disinherited him and lost his land.

As soon as you have level 2 crown authority and can revoke titles, you can do this for bishoprics. Then grant that bishopric to your extra non-heir sons. They will be taken out of succession and be happy about it. Basically disinherited without costs.

A really Good personal tip from me... START A conflict with a small far away kingdom you can beat, seige them, then use those captives to Gain dread by(execute) that way executing people Only has a Positive dread effect for you and NO negative opinion of you from anyone who was somehow related to that person.. ***Make sure you have the trait that stops your preist from being affected by execution, I do this ASAP when I start a game as 100% dread pretty much means you can change inheritance and Crown authority as you wish and your VASSALS won't disagree with you

thanks for putting the vids up, I'm a hack n slash person, there so much more to the game, cool, I'm learning a lot

You should feel proud of yourself, since a certain spiffing youtuber used one of your last dirty tricks in one of his exploit videos.

This is why diplomacy is 100% the BEST focus for your primary character. Having your friends and enemies like you makes all these shenanigans SO much easier to pull off. I almost always play a DIplamcy primary with secondary intrigue build or at least aim to. A pro female spymaster who is your lover, secondary wife or concubine .. doesn't hurt either. Just don't legitimize any of the bastards if they happen to inherit your side ho's skill for backstabbery or you might be in trouble XD

The first tip also works in reverse, if you can kill your ruler you can get rid of truces, and also will reset your invade kingdom/ subjugate CBs.

Superb, yet again

Tanistry Elective, with normal partition can be quite fun, because you can use anyone in your entire family to be an heir

I once was playing a Byzantine game and suddendly all my male sons died in battle while taking land from the Pope. I could have been succeded by one of my many daughters, but my previous heir had a really good son, so I disinherited all my daughters so I could play as my genius grandson. Disinheriting is a really powerful tool.

I love the west african setting. I just consolidated manding bobo jenna and mema into a single kingdom. 19 floodplains baronies under my primary title its going to be beautiful. Only 954 too.

One way to "Primo" is to add a fedual elective law to the primary duchy title. Make sure you are the only one holding the counties , and you can simply pick and choose who inherits

THIS IS VERY RISKY BUT ITS HIGHLY REWARDING: If you are waging war against a stronger opponent > Start Abduct Scheme (80% or higher success chance) > Wait until 2 months before the abduction attempt is carried out > Declare War > Kidnap your enemy > Insta-win the war without using an army.

Good content, liked it

Other tips. Having good wife with high learning helps you gain lifestyle exp ( i usually got 300 free exp) and also makes your children get good lifestyle traits (4 stars) If you romance someone and you have high intrigue or taking intrigue lifestyle, there's chance an event that will give extra lifestyle perks. So grind prestige through romance you might get intrigue perk. Typical your first character type is conqueror or acquirer of lands. By the end on his reign, you end with a kingdom with different culture and religion. I usually imprison all my vassals and strip them in all titles. Then the successor will be the one to appoint vassal. Assign vassal with same religion and culture. Those vassal will do the rest. About also appointing vassal. Most of dukes have martial lifestyle. Their holdings usually have barracks or military type building. Try to hire steward leaders they give coin and development related buildings. I dont know if this accurate but just on my observations. Matrinilleal marriage. If your king you want to send off your daughter, chances only counts will accept this kind of marriages. In this case i find a kingdom, try to marry my daughter to their last son. Then murder their all sons and spare the youngest. Boom their son will inherit the kingdom or dukedom. More renown

You can wage war with only your men-at-arms if you set a rally point and raise local troops and split off all men-at-arms and knights and start marching immediately without waiting. You can also disband men-at-arms at anytime when they are in friendly territory so you can send them flying to the other side of your empire to deal with an other enemy stack. Very useful when dealing with religious rebellions that spawn lots of smaller stacks around your empire or you are just dealing with weaker nations.

I usually start the murder plot as the war draws to a close :D

CK3 is Machiavellianism: The Home Game.

I don't have a lot of success stories in CK3 yet, but if you want to hear about any ridiculous goofs I could regale you for days! I'm about to watch the other videos so apologies if you've already covered this kind of topic, but one thing I'd like is a video covering suggestions for things to do with excess prestige/piety/any other currency that doesn't get passed on when you die. My current character has about 3k prestige but not a comparable amount of piety/gold and I'm not sure what options I have to spend it, or even if there's a reason not to spend it.

Hey, your tips and tricks videos for CK3 are great, learned a lot! I have a question though, how do you get those cinematic shots at the beginning and end of the video? I'm doing a special series about CK3 and history on my channel and this kind of shot would be great to include!

A lot of these tricks scream "Get the Kidnapper perk, for gods sake". Which to be fair, is great advice.

As your leader (who gets the about to die in a year) can you imprison all the heirs except for the one you like? That way the new one can force them to forfeit their claims?

Nice!!

I usually disinherit my lackluster children and keep the best two. I usually give the runner up a county after total disinheritance (if they have decent genes) and marry off my rejects to nobodies. Or monk them. One son made a renown doctor for 40 years

For partition, one thing you can do is when you're ready to move on And die, just imprison and execute all your children except the one you want. Become The mad king from game of thrones.

What i do to choose my heir is : i emprison every other potential heir and negotiate their release by making them becoming a monk. Only costs a bit of tyranny if you don't have a good reason

As I said before, having communion and monasteism tenets let you skip the last tip if your heirs are unlanded. Just excommunicated them and imprison them, then make them take the vows. It won't be tyrannical and you only loose 250 piety, if you have a big piety gain tenet like human sacrifices or something you can do this all the time. Just be mindful of not doing it too soon, making all your sons monks might screw up the succession if they die or your main heir dies, so make sure your daughters and sons before monking them have sons of their own. Pagans are the best to do this.

One thing I've found super useful is if I'm a defender in a war (especially if I have multiple wars at the same time) go for white peace as soon as you hit 30%. You don't get that much more from fully winning

Can you do a video on renown farming please?

What are the odds that I'm also playing Ife (Guinea Empire) right now

If I alter the deal, will they pray I do not alter it ant further?

Also If a claimants faction is gathering simply murdering the claimant will disband it

Started watching your channel since your CK3 videos. Haven’t watched, but I’ll know it will be great!

0:36 pray I do not alter it any further!

Do you have one that covers getting favorable marriages especially in regards to non-heirs? With culture/religion playing such a big part its something that's hard for me to wrap my head around. I usually am trying to do 2 things. 1) Find matrilineal marriages that will lead to better renown in the dynasty. No idea really how to find good ones so I look for the highest ranked implicit or pressed claim that isn't in my realm. 2) Find characters with a t3 trait. My problem is sometimes there isn't a good one to choose from. Maybe abducting -> converting + recruiting would be a solid method? Not sure but then I would need to go down the intrigue tree on every character iirc. 3) Getting my sons to go strike out on their own so I can later vassalize them as I move across the map. Another interesting one would be how to press your religion like crazy. Is imprisonment + conversion the only thing you can really do to enemy rulers. Sometimes I can get them to give me their heir as ward under conversion but that seems rare.

you can call that the darth vader strategy "i am altering the deal" And OMG putting troublesome vassals under house arrest before you die is such a pro gamer move, how do you think of that?

I have a trick of my own I matrilineal marry off my daughters (desirable match dynasty legacy helps a lot) to, usually, the second son of the targeting country, once accepted I scheme to murder the heir. When he is dead and your daughter's husband in the line of succession, their children are your dynasty, and when they get to the throne you can claim the title and grab everything they possess. If you manage to arrange a matrilineal marriage to a primary heir even easier also look out to the primary heir oldest male child (or female just to be eligible to become the heir) and marry them instead. Even if you aren't able to claim the title now you have powerful allies that you can call as house members to your wars that cost no prestige, no matter defensive or offensive even when they become a cadet branch you can still call them for the price of 75 renown.

I remember doing the first one and thought I had a big brain moment

A good trick is debug mode. Helps you a lot Kappa

Is there such a way to increase the chance of capturing prisoners and does not primogeniture require late medieval innovation unlock that is many generations later?

i wonder if one could... "claim title on liege" then faction for independence and then swear fealithy to another lord and claim again

Damn and I was always executing everybody I took prisoner just for the fun of it. Especially, when I caught the leader, but sometimes the war progress dropped, but sometimes I got both leader and heir and the third heir, usually a child, could do nothing. I remember having maxed out Intrigue skills and I murdered 7 kings od Sweden in a row and I didn't even have to convince agents.

I've been kidnapping Kings and releasing them if they switch to my religion. OK, only 2 so far, just started trying this. First King switched his Kingdom to my religion which saved a few dozen years of having my priest convert them, and let him fabricate claims instead. Second King was only kidnapped a few years ago, but most of his vassals, and everyone in his court I've looked at have already converted. So time will tell on that one if this is viable or not I guess. And of course all prisoners not worth gold or recruiting have to convert as well.

i knew about the last one, but the cost of the renown is way to high when you have a lot of children, then better plot a lot of murder sceams in the end.

Hey, i was just wondering, is there a way to up my control in many provinces at once?

I have issues understanding the whole "your realm" tooltip for the buildings, if you build a hunting ground in a city of your county are you getting the "realm" benefit?

Disinheriting cost too much renown, instead make sure to have sadistic trait and kill of your extra child. One build that is very strong when I played Daura dynasty in Africa isto reform the religion to have gruesome celebration so execution grants piety instead of costing one. Then since you are sadistic you lose some stress executing some prisoners. So executing prisoners grants you piety, dread, and lose some stress. Also because you are sadistic you can choose your heir because you can have murder scheme against your children. Pretty much op to be honest, just make sure that your heir is educated by you so you can influence them to have sadistic trait

Renown is too valuable, works when u have 2 kids and you're desperate to keep it together not so much after that. If confederate results in realm splinting I would make sure that my new gold "0" is 1k so the heir can merc up and press their claim asap before his brothers/sisters get levies up. I actually find partition to be more annoying in this regard as you incur tyrany every damn time, and I always love to get the best provinces to my name, but oh well I love legacies too much.

I can't wait to make a very annoying vessel an army commander with a death sentence so he'll quit making factions against me :)

Five more dirty tricks in CK3, or as they are widely known among the peasants - exploits :D

Using CKIII as a beginner's guide to CKII

The best tutorials for CK3! Just a question, how can I become celibate? Is there an option for that? Or do I just get rid of my wife?

Aged Cheese is it?

What exactly is the victory point in this game or is this game fun cause you just set your own goals like how I did a murder scheme on the guy that killed my heir in war not to gain anything I just wanted to know I was responsible for killing them without starting a war that isn't worth the effort

You can designate an heir too

The first one as described would not really be ALTERING the deal.... It's more like eliminating the truce... Later on in the game YOU can get a perk that lets you add claim to a war already being fought.. this is about as close to "altering a deal" you can get.. also.. If you give someone a Kingdom near your own you can increase their opinion of you then USURP the title you just gave them... This is repeatable as long as you have enough prestige to remake the title your userping..

Okok but from a non role playing perspective, why would you ever uninherit someone if you can either send them to a fight they cannot win or murder them as soon as your heir becomes you?

What about putting your children into theocratic positions? Can you still do that in CK3?

DAMN I was almost first

I dunno this all seems a bit IFE

First!

I find the are easier ways to solve confederate partition.

Hm. new paradox game. wait 2 years to buy the real game.

5:36 "Hm... thats an oddly bulging chest that guy has th---waaaaait a minnute," *closer look* Is... is that the hermaphrodite gender symbol? Thats a thing in CK3? So many little things tucked away in this game,

PartyElite is one coooooool dude