Succession Laws & Titles Guide in Crusader Kings 3 

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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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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!

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.

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.

Thank you!

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Your guides make it sooooo clear and easy to understand

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!!

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.

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.

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.

Incredibly helpful video. Thanks so much for posting this.

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

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

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.

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

Thanks for the guide! Very comprehensive and informative

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!!

Thank you ItalianSpartacus!

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

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!

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.

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.

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

I love this man thank you. Subscribed

Thank you, I actually need help with this

Thank you, I really need this video!

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

Thank you for the guide. Very useful to me

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

I really enjoy your videos! I’m learning a lot! There’s so much to this game it’s crazy. Thanks!! 😁

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

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.

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!

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!

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

Thank you. :) This is definitely helpful.

Really awesome, clear explination man, keep up.

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.

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!

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

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

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

Thank you so much for these videos keep it up man

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

Very instructive !

Great video, i learnt so much. your very good at explaining things. Subscribed! :)

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

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

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

Thanks for clearing this up.

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!

That really helped thank you so much!

Thank you for this video.

Nice guide. Keep up the good work.

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!

Thanks very instructive!

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.

Awesome content thank you!

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

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

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.

This is the best video regarding sucession laws

Really good tutorial. Thanks

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

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.

Love your channel!

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.

Great video, but it would be nice if you also went over adding title specific laws to individual kingdoms, duchy's etc as it can give you even more fine control over who inherits what at the cost of a little prestige.

Thank you so I am new to crusader kings 3 and was wondering why i lost so much land when my leader died this helps a lot :)

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

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)

Your Videos are very helpful.

This was a very good explanation for me, since I've struggled a bit with understanding how I can keep the land when moving from one character to another. Something I feel I would like to know more about is the crown authority, since it's close connected to the succession laws. For example, moving up the authority ladder creates a lot of headache since the vassals are getting more and more annoying to work with. Also it seems to me that the game is punishing you for trying to go to a higher authority. A video around that would be very helpful too. :)

Great video

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

Two other good meathods for handling Partition (known as gavelkind in CK2) are: Disinherit your other heirs (as dynasty head you can spend prestige and renown to disinherit any family members in your court. Use the medicine perk tree in the learning lifestyle to become celibate after having your first heir.

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.