You can also try Axum in the 1066 start date. All children inherit equally. Crusader Kings is a historical grand strategy / RPG game series for PC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 5 & Xbox Series X|S developed & published by Paradox Development Studio. The goal of this mod is to provide historically accurate cultural names for much of the map's baronies, counties, duchies, kingdoms and empires. Choose your noble house and lead your dynasty to greatness. Go north or east, and in the meantime, hold on to the counties with trade posts as your demesne holdings. Monthly lifestyle experience +10% for all lifestyles, learning per level of fame, legendary inspired characters, etc. Cataphracts can only be unlocked with the Eastern Roman Legacy. Crusader Kings. H4PPY-TH0UGHTS 1 yr. [deleted] • 6 mo. Crusader Kings 3 Best Start: King Alfonso of Leon. If "slow and steady" is your house motto, feel free to pick this. Good vassal traits include Content, Trusting, Humble, Patient, and Craven. Not every kingdom or empire has a 6 county duchy though. Originally posted by CrUsHeR: Each city granted to the order is lost taxes and development. +50 Piety per executed Count. Or just the best counties for income based off a single county? Counties with mines/special buildings usually offer the most gold. At 7 development, both tax and levies should be increased by 3. Either ones that you own directly or through your vassals. Crusader Kings 3 mods range from small quality of life upgrades to complete conversions. Crusader Kings is a historical grand strategy / RPG game series for PC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 5 & Xbox Series X|S developed & published by Paradox Development Studio. 1 gold per month and exactly 7 troops each. long answer: extremely subjective, there's no best culture or religion and it all depends on your goals and what you want to get out of the game. 8% is urban and 9% is agricultural, these are modern numbers. 1 Become The Pope. The must have provinces are Holland, Cleves, Aachen and Cologne. Arcinbiblo12. I think for my next playthrough, I'm going to try Debegume Soumaoro of Bambuk, inside Ghana. The Time of Gigaknight has come. Skagos is great to play tall, lots of holdings and all coastal as well. CK3. Your steward's "Promote Culture" action is simply too slow to convert multiple counties in a shorter span of time,. Praha - Nice duchy but as capital there are many similar counties. Göttingen (Germany), Mudigonda (India), Bure, Bambuk, and Niani (Africa) are all top tier picks because of their mines. It tries to emulate the cultures, religions, and warfare strategies of the medieval age as best it can. Mightyballmann • 2 yr. These two laws will make sure that you don’t lose anything and that you will know for sure who gets all of your territories. This will actually be one of the best buildings in CK3 for any culture that relies heavily on cavalry or has access to horse archers, like the Mongol Empire. 6. Jump to latest Follow Reply. Eastern Roman Legacy. Now constructing a mine early one is a hefty price. The game spans approximately 300–500 years, starting in either 867 or 1066 and going until about 1400. Make alliances through marriage, if needed use them to help gain control of Munster duchy. You can snipe Rome or Venice as your first real action for a super strong start. Crusader Kings. This is a fun target for vikings. The best way to increase development in CK3 is to use the Steward task, Increase Development in County. Select 'Properties'. Chief Dunchad of Ormond, starts with 1 brother and 2 sisters. This guide will teach you a few ways to make money that doesn't require any special perks from the Lifestyle Focus. By JamesTheSpot. 10: Istria. ago Count of Innsbruck, 867 (?) start with shattered world. Posted by u/CuriousThenSatisfied - No votes and no commentsMilitary - Retinues. •. Down side is that, iirc, with northern counties they have a debuff of +100% building speed and building cost. In both start dates, the house of Poitiers is in the position to claim the. +100 Piety per executed Duke. CK3 religion: Control your population through faith. Maybe a good secondary duchy to hold. Lenkas - heavy infantry that counters pikemen+light cavalry (slightly lower stats than Mubarizun). TheReaperSovereign. It’s more important than your traits, perks, lifestyle, culture, religion, perks, etc. Link to all the Mine locations. Super fun play through that side steps partition problems. Subscribe to downloadRosetta CK3. Create a vassal of your own religion. Crusader Kings is a historical grand strategy / RPG game series for PC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 5 & Xbox Series X|S developed & published by Paradox Development Studio. Pretty much any count in Byzantium or any of the Karling kingdoms, or Abbasid empire. 17. Lots of counties with slots for farmlands. Here is the compilation of most fun nations in CK 3: 1. The wiki is wrong and it seems to just give a +5% not a +0. Lord of the Rings: Realms in Exile. Baghdad has 14 floodplains holdings, which is almost the entire duchy (16 holdings in 5 counties). Era Zaharra is the. If you want to see what the difference can be. We will first talk about the best choices for the 4 slots in your capital barony. All county capitals will have space for 4 buildings in CK3. Farmland and Floodplains have the best Development % gains and get enhanced dramatically by Agrarian. Try to ensure you get the best Heir, with the goal being high Stewardship with Rank 4 (Midas Touched), plus a good collection of other stats and good personality traits. Special mines are also very nice to get control of in the early game and theres usually at least one somewhere closeby. The bonuses provided range from a popular opinion increase to defender advantage in owned territory. • 1 yr. Culture. Sri lanka is a great place to play tall in 1066, areas around Ganges river are farm lands which is so amazing to play. 5% of the Increase Development in County bonus, so: - [ ( +0. some of those counties have like 7 or 8 holdings in a single County. I can't remember the last time in CK2 or CK3 - other than playing the Monarch Journeys - that I started as anything other than a Count. Crusader Kings is a historical grand strategy / RPG game series for PC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 5 & Xbox Series X|S developed & published by Paradox Development Studio. 5. Some mine locations to mention are Cagliari, Thessaloniki, the mine to the right of Prague in Bohemia, Golkonda in India, or there are 3 mines in Mali. Thank you! 6. CK3 guide: Beginner tips to get you started. Fun if you can make it work, but chances are you'll get murdered quick. Italy is also very good. When both built, their bonuses stack. 8. 5 speed. Cities are best for development buildings, not that good for gold due to republic vassals giving a fixed 20% tax. Create a custom Kingdom holding the counties you selected in Step 1. Law. Crusader Kings is a historical grand strategy / RPG game series for PC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 5 & Xbox Series X|S developed & published by Paradox Development Studio. Crusader Kings. James2024. •. However, this is a really slow process. Starting characters for 867 Sultan Yahya II ibn Yahya of the Idrisid Sultanate. Gotland for "too cool for the mainland" roleplay. In CK3, you can get many bonuses from buildings. The Honored to Serve Perk is arguably the best Stewardship Perk in CK3 and due to its strength is the last to be picked up before the Administrator Trait in the corresponding. 8) Bohemia (has a mine, 3 counties with six holdings). Crusader Kings is a historical grand strategy / RPG game series for PC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 5 & Xbox Series X|S developed & published by Paradox Development Studio. With a base bonus of 0. ive tried going feudal so many times and every time i do the next ruler loses all his/her land, no money, no troops, running a deficit so cant even use men at arms, literally every vassal bands together and takes over ai. What's the best county cluster in the world? I'm not talking about a single county or duchy, but the best 6-8 adjacent counties for you to hold (preferrably across 1 or 2 de jure duchies for vassal count reasons). Hey, I generally like a tall playstyle, and in ck2 I loved playing Venice and building so tall that Venezia alone rivaled entire empires in terms of income and troops, so I have been trying to find good counties for building tall in ck3. Roma has 6 farmland holdings and high dev. The only tutorial on steam about military in ck3 and what is related to it. Create a vassal of your own religion. 11) of the game. The one you mentioned with 8 is the one with highest holding count, but that does not mean it's the best one. All county capitals will have space for 4 buildings in CK3. The county and barony counts do matter, but terrain is also very important, so it may shuffle things quite a lot too. It is not tough to become. Very dynamic and strong kingdoms nearby,while you munch for centuries title by title to eventually. there's strengths and weaknesses no matter what you choose. Sjaelland itself is at 65 (Monthly growth +12. If a county has another county next to it with a higher development, the underdeveloped province will also grow to reach the same development in time. Because once the king of Leon died, his lands divided between his three sons. The goal of this achievement. Sultan Yahya starts with a lovely chunk of land in North Africa, and will often begin games with a lovely high Diplomacy stat. Notre Dame is always a very nice unique building. All aside, the main thing you need to focus is to buff your men-at-arms with holdings. That is why i mentioned multiple. 5=4. Building Strategy in County Holdings. It is the de jure capital of the Scandinavian Empire, Skåne. This article has been verified for the current version (1. The biggest counties in the game, such as Madurai, have 7 baronies each, while the smallest, such as the Isle of Man, have only one. There isn't much to say here other than do it as early as possible since there is like a 40 year cooldown between reformations. Constantinople. • 1 yr. You can also get absolute crown rule within a ruler or 2 by going for the Unite the West Slavs decision and being able to designate an heir. +5 Popular Opinion. The Duchy of Sweden would probably be the best one for a Skandinavian capital but I'm constitutionally forbidden to have a capital there. Cities: Skylines Crusader Kings 2 Arsenal of Democracy Europa Universalis 2 Europa Universalis 3 Europa. Players need to opt for the 867 starting date if they want to play as a Norse pagan and have a rip-roaringly, hack-and-slashy, remotely easy time. Super fun play through that side steps partition problems. Another thing I just started using to boost my general culture development level is looking for a vassal with a really good Steward who's also improving development somewhere and working on the same time as them, because the penalties are calculated separately for each steward and the effect stacks, so his Steward's increasing by 4-1. The fact that this unit also counters its own unit type is just absurd for our elephant conquest needs. Choose your noble house and lead your dynasty to greatness in a Middle Ages epic that spans generations. Turn your knights into a Joutun army. Within each barony you can build a single Holding. Ramnulf of Poitou gets the first place in our ranking. Ile de France has 6 farmland holdings, special building, high dev and is a part of 7 county duchy. With this Elder Scrolls total conversion mod, Crusader Kings 3 becomes a Tamriel dynasty simulator. Move the capital of each county to the temple holding. 5 to 1 per month. ago. It breaks down each category of combat and attempts to explain how they function. Wondering what the new best capital location was with the changes to ck3. The Lords and Ladies of the manor employ hundreds of peasants to till their fields and tend to their livestock. You can build Notre-Dame and University of Montlhery. Next get 3 Bowmen Man at Arms (MAA) divisions. The court position gives up to +70% dev in the capital. Farmlands are without a doubt the true kings of CK3. Floodplains have a slightly lower supply limit bonus than farmlands, and a lower combat width (which is better from small MaA armies defending against big levy armies), but are otherwise identical. 11) of the game. Start as a count or duke within this area and systematically conquer the land you identified in the previous step. Your liege loves you, you're a middle aged Martial fella with a dynasty member alliance. Holy Sites, special buildings, floodplains left and right, just absolutely great. ago. Small culture group complete with duchy and kingdom built in. Both Sjælland and Jylland are crappy Duchies. Crusader Kings III. India can be hard, lots of different religions going on at the start. 175 Monthly Development Growth per Councilor Skill) * 0. Really depends on the buffs and play style to me, personally, holding the renown based sites is helpful. Go to your CK3 installation folder. The City of Snow. Catholicism is really strong, with almost all of Eastern Europe and Scandinavia being Catholic. Only under very rare circumstances should you ever have more than one castle in a county. Best Duchy is Opsikion with 19 baronies in 4 counties. and conquering them seems a very long term goal. In fact, the Isle of Wight has only a single holding, while the others have more than. 1 Monthly Development +0. Few counties, but some giant ones with holdings. If you're going for WC it's probably the best move. Pay attention to the terrain type, buildings are different for each. The best way to increase development in CK3 is to use the Steward task, Increase Development in County. Crusader Kings is a historical grand strategy / RPG game series for PC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 5 & Xbox Series X|S developed & published by Paradox Development Studio. The duchy of Wessex consists of 4 counties, all with coastal access allowing for the tradeport line of buildings. Best. Shogun tw was interesting but insufficient, rome tw fun but limited (and hilariously unrealistic), med2 tw was turbo-addictive but short (still the best tw, and it took the un-reality to a new level), etc. Furthermore, if the county is also the capital of its de jure duchy. If you can have enough money to always keep your cultural special units, siege weapons, and the best available of Heavy Horse, Heavy Infantry, Crossbows, Light Horse, or Pikemen. I thought I made a mistake giving away Kent but I can not hold the cathedral directly so not missing out on the 3 gold a month. • 2 yr. (Click for full-size) The Law legacy is a “jack of all trades, master of none” type of situation. Saps all the flavor out of the experience. His empire, an enormous state jutting into Southeastern Europe, has displaced the. an old Norse one in the 1066 one. This means several things. 2. Spiritual head of faith is better in my opinion. has to be large enough to. In this video we will take a look at the str. The maximum penalty is 87. In 1066, Iberia in pieces. The Kingdom of Pagan has 5 duchy titles, which is pretty high. Get the centralization perk in the architect line of stewardship lifestyles. As long as your succession law is any type of partition you will lose lands upon the death of your monarch, as long as you have more than one eligible child (generally sons unless you have equal or female preferred succession, which is unlikely). A character gains a claim in the Struggle region. EightandaHalf-Tails 6 mo. ago. al_x_ator2411. He starts with 3k levies and enough gold/prestige to get a 5 stack of bowmen plus an invasion. Crusader Kings is a historical grand strategy / RPG game series for PC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 5 & Xbox Series X|S developed & published by Paradox Development Studio. The tribal powers' looser rules about conquest, and ability to bash out armies with prestige can make a big difference if you. Unlike CK2, you can't just park a councilors in one county and stack up to 150% levy bonus and tax modifiers. Obviously the HRE is an option. Crusader Kings. Counties are the smallest kind of domain you can hold in Crusader Kings 3, and as such you'll need to manage them carefully. Engage in courtly intrigue, dynastic struggles, and holy warfare in mediæval Europe, Africa, the Middle East, India, the steppes and Tibet. The most straightforward way to spread your religion in CK3 is by going to the Council menu and selecting your religious councilor (the one with the Learning stat) to “Convert Faith in County. Megalithic Construction. My personal favorite is Bohemia. There’s a few systems that combine nicely to make this a real possibility: The Scheme system There could be schemes to show your prowess to get hired as a Knight, or lobby for a council position by demonstrating skills in a particular area. It tries to emulate the cultures, religions, and warfare strategies of the medieval age as best it can. Engage in courtly intrigue, dynastic struggles, and holy warfare in mediæval Europe, Africa, the Middle East, India, the steppes and Tibet. Check the CK3. I have multiple (baronial-level) holdings in each county, as all of us do. Swaying is basically a free (unless you’re Shy) way to gain opinion points. Diplomacy +2 and Martial +2. Which counties in Britannia have best bonuses? CK3. However, if a realm only has one county of a duchy, conquering the "duchy" only gives you that one county. tier > tier_county scope:councillor_liege. 10 Monthly Development Growth Councilor Base + +0. Wage war on different vassals within your realm to gain land. true. This video will take you through the two ways to Convert County Faiths. If you don't like your liege, you can get a new one. That said, you can perfectly play while ignoring tech. A few of the recommended starts are single count rulers (though not generally inside larger realms). What you want to do is look for places with Farmland or Floodplains, with Plains or Drylands surrounding them. You gain a lot of Piety for killing certain ranks of people. ago. Middle Seaxe has 5 farmland holdings, a special building. That’s because they provide tax income, levies, and a small defender. Evisiro. was playing some country east of poland and "little poland" then was only one county - but had a douchy title also on it. Baghdad has 14 floodplains holdings, which is almost the entire duchy (16 holdings in 5 counties). LotR: Realms in Exile is an excellent mod that allows players to control titles and areas in Middle-earth. •. Born to Breed: House of the Prophets - my ongoing but erratically updated CK3 AAR; The Sverker Diaries, part twenty-six, has been published. Gremlin303 • Britannia • 1 yr. Ile de France (France) and Roma (Italy) are top tier picks with 6 holdings of pure farmlands, and Constantinople (Byzantium) is up there because of the Theodosian Walls. 1 county duchy in Adriatic Sea in hills for defense + can own Krstjani holy Cathedral for lots of money and bonus levies. We will first talk about the best choices for the 4 slots in your capital barony. Lord of the Rings: Realms in Exile. Vassals pretty much never convert a county’s culture but they should eventually do it’s faith. Before I get to that in detail, some background and rationale. If a county has another county next to it with a higher development, the underdeveloped province will also grow to reach the same development in time. By going to your Council menu and looking at your Steward, you will see that one of their tasks is spending time in a county to increase development. zholden@gannett. Well, if we are talking about the best duchy to choose for yourself, you must consider two things: number of counties in a duchy (the more the better) and number of holding slots as well (the more the better). If they are also the capital county of a duchy, they will also get a duchy building. They convert culture if their capital county's culture matches theirs AND they make enough money, if not they'll rather convert to the native culture. If you have a county that can build a 4th or more barony structure, castles become an alternative to cities because you can put dynasty members in them to farm renown. A highly developed CK3 county will be worth more than two completely undeveloped counties. These sites will give you the following bonuses: Stewardship +2 per Level of Devotion. an old Norse one in the 1066 one. Try to ensure you get the best Heir, with the goal being high Stewardship with Rank 4 (Midas Touched), plus a good collection of other stats and good personality traits. Innovation development applies only if your steward's culture knows the following civic innovations: Public Works = 0. This legacy gives you chances to apply and receive various buffs, from “Genius” to “Beautiful” to “Herculean. This guide is meant to help players understand the combat in CK3 from the basics to the semi-advanced. Losing duchies, kingdoms, and empires on death is a bummer. It has 6 holdings slots, like most counties on this list, and also has an amazing special building. None are particularly good in Central Africa. At the peak, only 300,000 lived there. Crusader Kings 3 is such a sandbox for weird scenarios that it seems practically impossible to see and do everything, even in the base game. Plus some percentage increase to your MaA efficiency and 10% increase in efficiency of the rest of the knights. Byzantion, Palermo, Napoli, Salerno and Cagliari are very good counties to hold personally. 5 from their three baronies and two counties. Bohemia isn't the best. Engage in courtly intrigue, dynastic struggles, and holy warfare in mediæval Europe, Africa, the Middle East, India, the steppes and Tibet. i historical every time a empire. Ultimately, the most powerful legacy relates to keeping the bloodline of your family as strong as possible. The "not obvious part" of this tip is that for the longest time i thought i could only have one of those buildings, as i thought it was tied to my capital. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire to life. Strongest men at arms unit in Crusader Kings 3 is heavy cavalry as long as you fight in the correct region. Oxford or Cambridge might also be good for the universities. Isle de France is the best county as capital in Crusader Kings 3. Below, we present the best CK3 mods: A Game of Thrones. on the county or duchy level it's probably more risky, but a decent sized kingdom should be well equpped to stand the test of time even without ever expanding beyond its de jure borders. It breaks down each category of combat and attempts. Engage in courtly intrigue, dynastic struggles, and holy warfare in mediæval Europe, Africa, the Middle East, India, the steppes and Tibet. Best county in the game. Last Count, First King - As Duke Nuño of Portucale in 1066, form Portugal. Honestly. I am playing a Wales game where I intend to create Britannia, HRE then Roman empire. 7. Nothing more depressing than playing as a bland nonexistent empire like “Southern Baltic Empire”. To do so, click on the temple holding and use a button next to its name ( see. . 5. Arguably the best county and duchy is Baghdad. Higher chance of getting the Poet trait. It has 6 holdings slots, like most counties on this list, and also has an amazing special building. Method 1: Temple as county capital. The pope, being the head of the religion. So you wanna put all your siege in one stack, and fast siege as fast as you can. Khanem-bornu is very very easy, no large kingdom/empires around to stop you from literally taking everything. Ile de France is the best county in Europe and has the advantage that it is located in a fairly large duchy. You’ll stack-wipe the AI forces without breaking a sweat. Crusader Kings. Sep 4, 2020 @ 8:35pm Bosnia has 30 holdings! #9. A struggle goes through multiple phases that change 3 months after sufficient Catalysts, actions that push the struggle towards the. However in CK3 you get duchy buildimgs which can be very powerful especially when stacked. Report. Rulers can change a county's culture by ordering their Steward to complete the Promote Culture council task. Meaning 1 if you're a duke, 2 if you're a king or emperor. The Age of Men is over. In this CK3 challenge video we are going basque to the basics and reviving Era Zaharra as Navarra in the new Fate of Iberia DLC / update. 44 counties per kilopixel. I was always starting as their vassal, just to have better insight into the same stuff they had in the realm, was also better RP wise as I was instructing them and kind of acted as their council member Later I was landed,. If you can get at least 15 prowess knight this means you get 1500 damage for levies and 1650 damage for knight - just for 75 gold and 200 prestige. 3/0. com. This gives you 10 castles, 10 cities, and 5 temples. depends on your definition of tall which could be anything from a single county all the way up to a full de jure empire. It's fun playing tall as a vassal in an empire, because you can control everything in the empire from your own realm. -30% Hunt and Feast Cost. Kingdom Holy Wars is, IMO, CK3's best feature . Southern Africa is pretty easy in 867. 5% of the Increase Development in County bonus, so: - [ ( +0. I've introduced some friends to CK2 by playing co-op, were the best CK2 campaigns I had. At the same time, I'm playing "tall" Ireland right now from an 867 start, which started fully tribal and had a highest development county of 4, and 150 years later I've got Dublin more developed than anywhere else in the British Isles. Adding this option to CK3 would be really cool. CK3 1 counties with 8 baronies: c_zachlumia. The majority of Tibet+Northeast India is Buddhist, while the Northwest is Sunni. 875. Do the buildings need to be duplicated for each holding (i. Horse Archers, and Konni are pretty powerful. There is a mine in the county of Innsbruck (takes 400 gold to build) that will soon give you an extra +3 gold. Here is a breakdown of the trees and the perks that you should be focusing on when it. Valois is great. Either through war or revoking vassal titles. Crusader Kings is a historical grand strategy / RPG game series for PC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 5 & Xbox Series X|S developed & published by Paradox Development Studio. 6 times faster. . 2. Probably the best isolationist piece of land in the game. Crusader Kings 3 is a game that really cares about its historical accuracy. Reply. When playing a tribe or a clan, you can use the Conquer casus belli to get either a county or a duchy, depending on what noble title you already own, to get territories from your neighbors. That’s great bonus as long as you can train your heirs to be temperate. CK3 guide: Beginner tips to get you started. For the sake of practicality, players may want to consistently create Claims for counties. The Vatican City, 1146 AD, and 90 years into a game of Crusader Kings III. Baghdad is a distant 2nd, but also great. Some mine locations to mention are Cagliari, Thessaloniki, the mine to the right of Prague in Bohemia, Golkonda in India, or there are 3 mines in Mali. Engage in courtly intrigue, dynastic struggles, and holy warfare in mediæval Europe, Africa, the Middle East, India, the steppes and Tibet. Depending on the Martial skill of the Marshal, you should be able to increase a county’s Control by around 0. Crusader Kings is a historical grand strategy / RPG game series for PC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 5 & Xbox Series X|S developed & published by Paradox Development Studio. It is like this time keep the game semi realistic. However, there are several things about this system that seem unsatisfactory or inaccurate:Best you can do is convert counties one at a time and have all vassals follow it too.