How to Manage Your Domains in Crusader Kings 3 (Control, Development, & Succession) 

Beginner's Guide: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-i9P248pkgYI.html Thank you so much for watching today guys! I'll be working on a Vassals/Councilors video as well as Faith/Piety. Thursday is a "7 best campaigns" video if you're looking for a new place to start on the map! 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.

I hate it when I have to go to war with my brothers to keep my dad's hard fought kingdom in one piece. That type of responsibility is not fair for a 8 year old kid.

I seem to have this habit of starting one of these lengthy guide videos and then playing CK3 before the video is finished >.

Everytime I watch one of your guides, I feel like I need to restart my game from all the mistakes I've made.

Just started playing this game and your tutorials were among the first I started watching. You do an exceptional job explaining the intricacies of this game. I appreciate your hard work. Salute, brother!

Dread is really powerfull expecially when your character dies and your heir take the throne, it really stop any rebellion from your vassals. You can get it for free when you execute people from an opposite religion (like prisonner from an holy war).

I got this game as a gift from a friend of mine and i couldn't understand a thing from it even though i played the tutorial so i searched for guides on youtube and i found your channel and now i am understanding a lot of the concepts of this wonderful game because of you and i just wanted to say thank you for uploading such wonderful guides.

The succession stuff is really good.

Watched over 5 hours of tutorial, hours of actually playing the game? ZERO.

you get +1 domain limit for each 5 points you have in stewardship with your ruler

Something to note: the number of levies from vassals seems to be different between feudal and tribal. whenever I make my tribal empire feudal, my levies go down from 11k to 3k, which of course means I immediately get targeted by other empires and and lose entire kingdoms

Your tutorials are tremendously helpful and so well done! Thank you.

Just a note for you/the guide. Stewardship has breakpoints for +1 to domain at 5s. So, 0-4 Stewardship is +0, 5-9 (as in this case) is +1, 10-14 is +2, and so on. When thinking on your heir and their spouse, you should go for someone that will help you reach the most accessible breakpoint. The spouse council role is broken down like this: For the specific stat task, i.e. Manage Domain, it is their stat value divided by 2 rounded down. For the Assist ruler it is 20% of all stats. So, a spouse with 10 stewardship can give 2 stewardship on assist or 5 on manage domain. If your heir has 13 stewardship, then they can leave their spouse on assist ruler and still benefit from the bonus domain limit. If your heir is at 15 stewardship, you could instead use the manage domain to bump yourself up by an additional +1.

It is not just Castles but all Holdings with a fortification has to be taken to control the County. Even Temples and Cities can be fortified.

When trying to convert county religion, check if your vassal of each county follow your religion or some other. If its NOT your own, if you demand conversion from them and they accept, the whole county also converts. Much faster than trying to use your arch bishop, and if the ruler of the county is of a different religion they might just convert it right back again after you are done. I converted large stretches of land using this method in just a few button clicks.

I've put in almost 30 hours now, but I still didn't know these basic things! Great video, man.

"How to manage succession" *spams disinherit button*

I’ve played CK2 for a long time so a lot of these features are familiar, but this is great information. You really go into detail about everything and leave no stone unturned, thank you for the time you spend researching all of this stuff and sharing it with everyone.

Incredibly informative, detailed, and helpful video. Your formatting is fantastic. You've done a wonderful job in this and your other explanative videos. Thanks a lot, you've really boosted my understanding of many concepts in the game. I look forward to your next video.

Watched it from beginning to end without stopping, very well done and useful. Thanks a lot!

That was awesome, thank you for taking the time to go into this, cleared a bunch of things up for me.

You're videos are so spot on. The amount of work you must put in to get these situations where you can teach all these things and have the examples ready to go is unreal. I'm new to CK with CK3 and I've been struggling through. Your instruction really helps clear up the things I've only begun to understand. Thanks so much!

I so appreciate content creators like you! Crusader Kings 3 felt really overwhelming to learn and play and this demystifies it for me. Thank you!

Very very good trick there at the end, moving the capital to keep those domains in the desired succession. Big difference there.

Granting holdings of wrong type, such as newly taken tribal holdings when playing as a feudal ruler, gives the new vassal access to a “convert to liege’s ruling system” decision which costs prestige instead of the 500 gold it would take you to do it, so creating lots of small counts after tribal conquests is a really good idea

Wow this video is a godsend. Thank you! Liked and subscribed! I learned quite a bit and cant wait to watch your other videos.

Im getting better at the game - I'm having a ton of fun. Nice video bro.

15:54: "Temples are something you can not control." Laughs in Temporal Leader of a Reformed Pagan Faith.

Thanks bro for all this work and producing all of these guides so fast. I never played CK before, but since I started watching these, along eith your campaign, I can play CK3 and really enjoy this game ❤️

Extremely appreciate the time you take to break things down. I've been looking for someone to help me understand the loads of information that this games throws in your lap as a first time player. Lol great videos. Definitely found another sub Famo. Grazi.

This was amazingly helpful. Thank you. I'm glad I put in a few weeks of play before watching. There's so much info here.

This video was fantastic. I'm far enough into the game that the minor things like started to get interesting you explained it eloquently, and clearly. New subscriber for sure.

Omg thanks for explaining who gains the territory, didn’t understand why when I attacked someone it became a vassalage and not my domain. Had like 1 out of 10 holdings and wasn’t maximising coins and levies!

Excellent content man, hope to see more of these how-to Videos. Crusader kings has such depth that it badly needed someone to make them. 👍

Just the best content to learn the intricacies of the game. Great work.

Thank you for making this series of videos. As someone new to the franchise this is extremely helpful

First playthrough I created a duchy just before death, and it was inherited my 1 year old son. Meanwhile the not very well liked 14 year old son had all of his vassals straight up leave and created two factions against him. Successions in this game can be brutal.

Love your thorough way of explaining these complex mechanics. Thanks for your vids, you've got a sub from me!

Very well explained and not too confusing like some videos for this game. Thank you!

Been watching your vids for a few weeks now, and thank you. My enjoyment of the game has definitely increased. I think these companies may be foreshadowing a future industry standard in these huge sandbox RNGs, let the content creators be your tutorial. Double edged sword there. Thanks again and keep up the great content.

As a new player to Crusader King series, this helped explain a lot to me. Thanks for the video and keep up the good work!

Watched once didn’t understand much played like 24 hrs then watched again and it all came together, especially the last bit! So helpful!!

This was awesome. Thanks for explaining this difficult concept!

I don't know what it is, exactly, but I really really enjoy your videos, very relaxing and informative. I think it's something with your voice and manner of speaking. Subbed. I think you're about to blow up due to these ck3 videos

Man. I watched all of your Bannerlord Content and to be fair you got me into CK3 and I've just watched all of your tutorials and some of your live streams, which where so damn helpful for me (Bannerlord and CK3). You Sir got yourself a new member. Keep up the great work!

Omg that succession trick is soooo helpful thanks ! Liked the video and subscribed

These videos are infinitely helpful for someone who was never able to figure out CK2. Thanks for the content.

I am starting my third campaign today, this is going to help a lot, thank you!

Again thank you so much for such a detailed and clear explanation, I like your voice and tone, it is very clear ! English is not my first language but you made me understand the best compare to all other channels !

This is a great video, really helped me explain this aspect of the game. Thanks :)

Hands down the best informative videos ive found out there!! Thanks for your help😁

That intro tho.. I've seen that poor kid being bullied so many times now.

Your guides are essential viewing mate - thank you 😁

I still come back to your videos 3 years later......great tips!!!

Lol I get excited when you post. Because I feel all my questions are about to be answered!

This is so well laid out and excellently explained, thank you. The whole "will I get X County" issue had me stumped on my first playthrough in Ireland.

Awesome tutorial, well done!

Bravo! I needed this tutorial thank you!!! Excellent.

Great video, going to check out the rest. This is such a deep game, seems like it will take a month to discover all the details

finally someone explained succession in a way i can understand great video

Thanks for these videos and taking the time to teach the game :)

I've had good fun with my first game as a Viking dynasty, but am starting to think about beginning anew. The kingdom is militarily strong but so much internally is a mess because I've been learning throughout. I'm currently a queen about to die from old age, and my well groomed firstborn son just died in an internal war over me retracting the title of a count. (for some reason my son sided with the rebellion, lol.) Which reminds me how the queens first husband (genius trait) contracted the bubonic plague right after the wedding. Great fun rolling with the Ironman punches, but yeah I think I'll start over. 😋

6:28 One quick note re: Development bonus from neighbors. This is a bonus to development GROWTH, not actually development. A small distinction, but an important one (IMO)

Thank you so much for making those videos.

Thanks for the tips, this helps so much as never played a game that’s this in-depth with stuff to do aha

This is a really good and informative guide. 👍

this is good! particularly the bit about increasing domain. i can read about numbers in my own time, lol

Fantastic video that makes things clear. Thanks

Excellent explanations. Thank you.

I've been playing on Xbox Game Pass for the past couple weeks and had been having a rough go of it, until I started watching your guides. The tutorial was great but like you've said it's just missing a few key details and you help fill the gap and make it easier to understand for someone who loaded his first game of CK2, said "What?" and closed it. CK3 has been really fun so far so I went ahead and made the game purchase with the link. Loving the CK3 guides so far (and your Total War guides, really helpful there too) and keep up the great work!

Between you and Surreal, no one has done better ck3 or bannerlord content. Learning so much from this guide...

Thank you! Helped a ton!!

This was awesome thank u so much!

Ahh the sweet succession... I was playing Haraldr Fairhair last night on Ironman.. He became the King of all Norway by 52. He had 3 herculean and 2 robust sons. All with quite huge prowess. Haraldr decides to take off towards Jorvik. Where he fights against Halfdan's sons. He conquers Jorvik, but later on gets assassinated by one of the Halfdansonns. His domains are shattered amongst his sons.. His heir wants the power back so he attempts to revoke some lands of his brothers, but there's a massive war going on. Right when Denmark, allied with Sweden, decides to set a massive war on Norway. Haraldrsonns cease the fight in a white peace, leading all 5 in a army of about 7000 men.. Defeated the dano-swedish armies and won the invasion war. As soon as the war stopped, the fiend heir imprisoned his brothers and revoked their lands. Son of a........

Thanks again! They don't explain those mechanics at all in the tutorial. Your videos help a lot :)

You're honestly a king mate

You sir got yourself a subscriber cause you helped me out a lot!!!

great stuff on the succession titles

Moving the capital to ensure Heir keep the lion's part is really brillant ! thx

finally i found an answer with the 3rd part ... Thank you

Megalike! This is really useful info

An excellent vid thanks for this Cheers!!!

Thanks. A well commented tutorial.

Very good job

@Ghelloz this is the best video explaining the successions in ck3

Personally, if under partition succession, I suggest giving every counties in your capital duchy to single county vassal, unless it got a county capital with high value terrain (farmland, floodplain, oasis and jungle), special building or it is simply a very large county (6+, extremely rare outside of ducal capital). That way you can keep a bunch of strong count with optimized contract, through succession split, instead of getting one of your sibling with a regular contract possibly installing themselves there, if you have a lot of them. Even build them additional castle to personally hold in the county if possible. A count has a minimum of 2 demesne limit, which one of the tribal tech can raise to 3, which is good enough for them to hold every non-obligatory church/city slot in vast majority of counties.

The last trick is a very good one... Wish I knew it before my last game x)

played around three hundred years and literally never even saw that control data lol. thx for this vid

I just keep all the counties for myself.Vassals cant rebel against you if you dont have any vassals

Based on my observations, the development growth a county receives from neighbours is basically (level of neighbouring county with highest development - current development) / 10. Doesn't matter if there's 1 or 12 counties around it, only the highest one matters.

Crystal Clear Tutorial. Good stuff. Any chance you can give a tutorial on how to integrate tittles using your Chancellor?

Ive been watching your videos trying to just become a king/emperor of a small area and managed it/repel attacks/strife to prepare to one day take over the world!

Holding after succession is difficult. I have tried a few saves to 'test' it. I skipped my natural heir for a better statted heir. I was also HRE emperor. I had the perk that tells you when you have a year to live as well. I gave all the good counties in my best duchey to my player heir. (the one I wanted to personally play) He was the leader in the HRE vote as well but when I died he somehow lost out to my second born, and I actually got player heir to my oldest son. So nothing worked out like I wanted it to. Even though the guy I set up was my player heir listed . BUT here is the kicker. The guy I set up gave away all the counties in the main Duchey I wanted and no matter how I tried (I switched between all three of them after my ruler died) and I could not get those counties back, and since the duchey title wasnt transferred to the right character that building was disabled. Basically the AI will determine what happens to holding you give them, even in that short period of time. The mistake I made was not moving my capital so I could manually transfer the county 'seat' to him as well. I did create and give him all the empire titles (no personal holdings in any of those) and he kept all those titles. I may go back to an earlier save to see about moving the capital, but within the 6 months or so it took me to die that heir had given the counties to one of his AI vassals.

Ive almost made the mistake of owning two kingdoms before. I destroyed the title bc i realized one of my kids was bound to go independant. I learned that bc I had literally just gone to war for one of my courtiers who had a claim on a nearby and frankly nonextistent kingdom. I won and he went full independent making my relatively easy conquering of the nearby lands for my future empire into a huge pain in the butt

this is so helpfull thank you very much

Great video. I got to say though that this succession business is by far the most difficult thing to get your head around. I barely understand exactly why you got away with keeping so much for the heir in your example, not the details of it, but worse when I look at my own situations I'm like totally stumped by it and pretty much every time on succession I lose 50% or more income and levey. Every time. It's bewildering. This may be 'cos it's so situational, each situation being different and requiring a different solution, as far as the detail is concerned anyway. No one-size-fits-all answer, rather you've got to construct a custom solution for each individual succession from first principles taking into account every last rule - and therein lies the rub, it's very hard to get your head around these first principles and then all the rule details on top of that.

Already bought the game before finding your channel, so I’m sorry I can’t use your link. Just wanted to say, as a new player, how helpful your tutorials are.

Salerno has become one of my favorite starts

Thanks for the awesome guides. I loved EU4 and got pretty good at it but never played CK series and these have been extremely helpful. My question is about the last part of the video and succession of titles rather than domains. So when your character in this video dies, the other less desired duchy title goes to the son that is not the heir. So our new character's brother/half brother becomes a duke in our realm and becomes the most powerful vassal that demands a council seat, right? Can you possibly provide a little bit of insight about how to deal with that further down the line, because it definitely changes the dynamics. Does this basically mean that every time our character dies and we move on to the next one we will get weaker no matter what under the starting partition law?

You should be given a goddamn knighthood for how well you elucidate these arcane game mechanics!