Top 10 things I wish I'd known when starting Crusader Kings 3 

Yup! Definitely worth checking!

Could have knocked a few decades of that 100 year war

shaded Bear TV X was

"How do I increase control over my people"

Haha! 😆 Some medieval Duke or Count would leave a comment: "I'd better go easy on the feasting or I might gain the 'drunkard' or 'obese' traits! Thank you Paradox Interactive! By the way CK3 runs smoothly, even on my 800 year old PC!"

Thanks! It’s a different format so will be interesting to see how it does.

Thank you for the lifestyle for kids tips. I had a bossy son that was learning martial & now currently learning stewardship.

@@alistairwilliams9074 good tip is to use the 📌 function on your kids. Helps to remind you to set the education. Remembering to set it ASAP (6) is huge. If your kid hits 9 or 10 and you switch it then itll probably be a one star education. Another thing they don't tell you is that high learning is really good for tutoring. So if your the guardian, jump into the scholar tree and get the pedagogy and the third perk on the tree that gives you 2 learning for each level of piety. Can be up to plus 8 learning. If you go further down the tree you'll get 20% of your councilors main stats onto yours and finally set your wife to patronage in the council menu and you can be pushing 25 + learning if you have a decent base. Even turning a 0 into 12 will be huge. I try to have kids later in life after completing another tree. Between your corresponding stat and your learning stat youll give them a pretty good education trait. So for example i had a three star stewardship education for like 17 total, then i did the architect tree too keep it at like 18 or 19. got a genius son, Divorced my wife and married an old scholar lady. Switched to scholar tree, jacked my learning with her patronage bonus. Lucked out and got him zealous, diligent, and patient. Came of age with the best education and nothing below ten and like a 18 stewardship before lifestyles and marriage. Pedagogy will keep the other stats manageable. So by maxing out my stewardship and learning i made a wicked good steward. I know thats really long, but its a paradox thing lol

@@421less1 Thank you for this. I was uncomfortable with the direction of the tutorial where war is the answer & more into the stewardship, learning or breeding to get an heritable trait style. If I need more money, then I'll raid or declare war to a neighboring tribe/county. In any simulation game that I like to play (Football Manager, Motorsport Manager & SIM City), I'm the slow build type. These tips fit for my play style. Plus, I'm new to Paradox & CK3 is my first game from them.

You can actually choose focus on all children that are part of your direct courtiers, which can be incredibly helpful if you are trying to do a run in an area where it is hard to get marriages outside your own realm (Playing Dawit II of Aksum, for instance. Nobody around you will agree to marriages due to religious differences. You have to work very hard to get new blood into the kingdom.)

What I found about raiding that saves a lot of walking and taking casulties is trying to get a county that is no attached directly to your main land. Then you can use that spot to set rally point for the raiding troops to pop up. That gives you more nearby neighbors to raid and it is sort of a teleport trick as well in some cases if you ask me :D

timberhoff do you mean take land around a county or duchy, but leave it alone? Then use the fact that it’s by itself to raid it?

Thank you! :)

It's not exactly obvious is it?! Took me a long time too, one of the other creators pointed it out to me (thanks Midge!).

Dork

Paradox said that they're going to update the UI in an upcoming patch. I dare say that will be one of the things they'll tackle

Yeah I could likely be more picky, but we're Vikings! To die in battle is to go to Valhalla!

This is a solid tip. I took a prestige hit to marry a low-born woman for good Congenital traits, had an awesome heir who came of age, and a year before my ruler dies my heir dies in battle leaving me to take over as the Slow brother which every duke happened to hate. Three generations later and all of my heirs have gotten the Slow trait. Man I love this game

@@kazinahn Your heirs are a little confused, but the got the spirit

I go the other way :) i force my 2-xx sons to go to battle in hope of dying lol rather do that than disown them just so all my titles go to one son not split (i play the 867 start where i cannot select 'eldest' etc)

The problem I have with my current game isnt so much my heirs fighting, its my leader himself. Despite having a leader skilled toward stewardship and a 20 prowess knight, every time I raise my army, my king defaults to be the army commander and I have to manually change it to someone else. Even have my high prowess knights set to "forced" service and still...

True, default it not Ironman though.

You can if your beneficiary wins the title post-Crusade (or presumably the Holy War equivalent for other faiths).

@@shawngillogly6873 You can do that only on the victory though; you either say yes to that when it pops up or it's gone forever

Thanks, appreciate it! Was a fun game :)

@@MordredViking Great! Happy you enjoyed it. ❤️

Thanks :)

you can also still select what kind of lifestyle you want your kids to be educated in like in CK2 ;) the icon is just very small and you don't get a notification about it that you can do it. It's to the left of the screen in the child's portrait icon, just above their stats.

Not a bad idea, need to get more confident with them all (like I've *still* not had an intrigue character).

Thanks :)

Depending on how this one does. It takes a *lot* of work to make these, and that’s time off of streaming. It’d take around 80,000 views to break even in terms of man-hours.

wait!!!!!! there is a dude in the game called växjö!!! that is fucking wierd the name of my home town in sweden is växjö

@@elliot04877 why should that be strange? you must be ironic :D

@@Rex1987 växjö is the not a human name it means "the roads lake''.

Honestly ireland is hardly noob island anymore. I started two there in 867 and early game was easy. Able to get wales and scotland within a hundred years or so. Then sweden got the king of england tittle and shit gets real sideways. Even with a crusade you end up as a punching bag for 15k pagan stackd while the karlomanns hump doorknobs for five years bringing armies across the chanel. Then the crusader king usually turns on you while your trying to rebuild after crusading. Ive found south west africa to be a good nooby area in 867 Everyones tribal, easy casus beli. Consolidate the bottom of africa while playing diplo with distant powers for culture changes. Easy holy sites for all the religions too.

@@421less1 its not meant to be noob island in viking start. Only late start.

All good tips too

I’m still not entirely sold, I kinda preferred CK2’s emphasis on hit and run. Here it’s either you can raid them easily, with no competition or you just can’t.

A month to board a ship is realistic?

hi there’s a bit more going on than just jumping on a ship and setting sail

@@rocketpod1 yeah now that i think about it, it probably makes sense for the time

@@MordredViking the best method to hit stronger people is pay attention to their wars, if they are embroiled in a war they are much less likely to hit you (not impossible) using this tactic I constantly raided Paris whenever the liege was busy

Thank you, very kind :)

Haha, I somewhat doubt you can just switch in Multiplayer - same as Ironman!

Haha, thanks

Problem is that these take a long time to produce, this video for example was 8 hours - that's the equivalent to 2 streams. Unfortunately compared to Twitch, RU-vid is just too unreliable a revenue source to make that a priority. If every video did as well as this one has, I'd be on it in a heartbeat, but this is the very first which has actually done "well" by the algorithm.

Naturally :P

For some reason, in my current game, my spymaster always wants me to pay 50 gold, instead of finding a secret for free. I've tried all the bigger courts around me, even my own. Maybe it has something to do with my difficulty setting. I changed a few things before starting the game, but not finding secrets makes the game or this tactic much more difficult.

@@PaddyyYY Do you have the perk that lets you fabricate hooks? If so they will have a chance of doing that instead of finding a secret. What is your difficulty setting? I haven't messed with any settings yet so I'm not sure if it gets changed.

This is in-game music. Can find it on their Spotify channel.

Mordred Viking hmm playing as Bulgarian and havent heard that...maybe its disabled for certain countries? Idk ty man

Depends on the character (and playstyle), I've become very partial to Gallant.

Get 3 in scholar(for tech/culture increase, full gallant, and some in intrigue to kidnapp kings to earn 200g for each kidnapp. You can also kidnapp a king and convert him with a hook, so you can use that hook to marry his offspring with kids being born in your house, after a generation your family now rule that nation.

@@Bill-zp2mt Since placing this reaction, I have changed my mind. Intrigue, when combined with the right skills from other lifestyles, is absolutely the most overpowered lifestyle right know. It can be used to boost your economy, win wars in an instant, murder some annoying people (I currently have someone in my save who declares war on me for the Kingdom of Wales, everytime I declare war on Scotland) and much more.

Commanders and knights are two different things with different stats. Prowess is their ability *in* battle (and their chance to not die in battle), but Commander Advantage, mostly derived from Martial Skill, is for Commanders. Knights fight in the battle as a participant, wheras a Commander commands the army and provides an army-wide bonus. You will have multiple Knights in each army, usually between 5-20. You can select who is in command of an army, though the game has a very annoying tendency to swap people around. No way that I know of to "lock* this though. You can force or forbid Knights which will stop them from participating as a Knight, but don't think it will preclude them from being a Commander.

@@MordredViking Hmmm.... thank you for this explanation lol. Yet another example of how this game does such a poor job of explaining itself to new players and leaves that work up to the youtubers lol.

Yeah later on it definitely gets easier but early on those timer become just brutal. Even now 60odd years on we can’t go near France. There are perks which can reduce timer and army size does matter too.

@@MordredViking just saying with no perks in 1st year I saw what appeared to be a less then 10 day timer granted they were using 5k men and had the speed on 4 so I could be wrong about the less then 10 days but it certainly was not 40 days oh and they were using the great heathen army to get the troops. If I'm wrong I'm wrong but it certainly looked as if the raid timer was at least much more malleable though the 30 day boat boarding does seem to be fairly fixed and that would make raiding a strong nation difficult but with how often the karligs fight there should be opportunities to raid while they are regrouping or busy else where though the days of getting the exposed loot fast and easy that was ck2 raiding are certainly a thing if the past

all of india and persia, and a good bit of burma

Iceland to Burma

No

Honestly attrition is still a complete mystery to me. I think that’s how it’s supposed to work, but reality is completely different.

@@MordredViking I suspect it's working on very similar mechanics to Zone of Control from EU4. It's mostly to punish running past unsieged forts so you can't just beeline capitals without taking a bunch of attrition. I believe you can always move into or out of friendly or neutral territory, including seas and rivers, without attrition. So in your example, you can avoid attrition up and down the river when raiding by hopping into and back out of your boats.

It's disabled on Ironman

Yeah, been thinking about that for a future run :)

And I am having no trouble with brightness at normal levels

@@xerty5502 Perhaps I'm just blind then lol

Not saying that I am saying I am having no troubles witch tells us it is not strictly the games brightness could be any number of other reasons you are seeing it to dark watching it on a different monitor or device that would be my first guess

33rd AntiFa Regiment pleb you’re still playing ck3

And go one step further and deny all others to be knights. so, that one knight goes solo. Talk about evil. lol

@@shayliakara Lmao, I love this. Can't wait for GOT mods.

Thanks for the feedback! I struggled with the music, it increases in volume naturally which makes it super difficult to balance vs voice. At the start you can barely hear it, but towards the end it drowns it all out.

Not necessarily, you can get claims on his counties and take them. Get enough and you can usurp the duchy. Think you need 50% of the de jure counties. Click the duchy’s crest, it’ll say there.

@@MordredViking Aha! Ok, but how do I usurp then?

Yeah hit and run is basically impossible. This just means that low-strength regions get hit HARD whereas more powerful, centralised states (like West Francia and Wessex) are barely touched, whereas historically they were hit just as hard, if not more so because they were perceived as being wealthier.

That's just like your opinion, man.

Maaaaaybe