EVERYTHING I Learned While Conquering the World in CK3 | CK3 World Conquest Guide

I really enjoy your approach. You dissect the mechanics without being cheese. I have 200+ hours in the game, and even so you gave me a new perspective.

For the scientific trait does it still count when you are not the cultural head

Did you use the special man at arms you get from the high lvl knights ? Because the units have better stats than the normal one but are capped at 6 unit per man at arms slot so i don’t really know if they are really an upgrade because normal man at arms with buffs can be like a 30 stack or something like that

Haven`t seen anyone mention it yet, but when researching buildings, always research the keep ones first (Mottes, battlements, hoardings and machicolations). If you don`t and you go economy/military first, you will have to wait for both the keep research and the building of the keep until you can upgrade the buildings you want. Though i think you can actually skip researching mottes and go directly to battlements if you are a low tech tribal, cause when you go feudal all your keeps get lvl 1, but by the time you feudelize motes are usually already done or don`t matter anymore.

For succession a tip as Åsatru is to put one of your heirs as a your hovgodi/riksgodi, that way he wont inherit tittles, only works as long as he is the hovgodi/riksgodi tho, so have to be it at the time of death of your ruler. This works very well when you play as christian as well, send your sons to the monastery or to the holy orders. Save that early game renown.

Didn`t see how you dealt with renown in this video, i know that the more kings you have under you that`s your dynasty, you get loads and loads of renown because they put stuff in their throne room which increase it. Also you can gift your dynasty members who have throne rooms, artifacts you don`t need to increase court grandeur/renown. Increased court grandeur gives renown if you are above your expected court grandeur. But what did you do in the early game for renown? I know majesty tours are a nice way of getting some each 10 years, but how did you get that massive amount?

Which legacies did you pick up first? Good for the world conquest is the pillage line if you start as norse, to get the "making a killing" where 100 kills in a battle gives 5 gold, real nice getting 500gold when stack wiping a 10k unit, funding the war itself.

The video is very long

Pretty sure I left a comment here but I can`t seem to find it... or maybe it was on the other ck3 video you made... anyway...
Here`s some points I`d like to make, maybe to help you, maybe to help someone else... this is more like future campaigns advice... just to not be so min maxing on bloody troops, crazy county/holding bonuses and so on...
- Vlach culture for the konni (best tech advancement and cultural pillars of all cultures that have konni). Konni is the best unit in the game even without buffs. With them you`re just joking around. There is no counter to them, whoever you are out there and only play haestein please, fuck right off with your housecarls and varangayans veterans that move slower than rocks melting in the sun... no, bruv, KONNI !!! they are the apocalypse and they will melt genghis khan`s horsie archers like nothing. Combined with only the strong, horse lords and by the sword cultural pillars is all you need. You`ll only need holdings with hills for the following buildings: 1 stables, 2 horse herds (horse lords cultural tradition), 3 hillside grazing lands and 4 blacksmiths combined with 5 cattle farms (for cost reduction) and a 6th building of your choice. Notice how you don`t need any special buildings, military academies for duchy building will suffice or you can get the jousting grounds if you wanna go mental but it`s totally not needed...You`ll get an army for free, that stackwipes and wins wars instantly, or if the enemy ruler isn`t leading his armies then you`ll get all the time you need to siege him down, because you`ll be faster (you`ll have stables who give army movement speed now) and you can just let some levies and the siege weapons do their thing.
- I never bothered with the whole ''thou shall develop your lands or die''', in my opinion it`s a time consuming mechanic (always watching what counties lag behind, switching the steward on them and so on, totally unnecessary in my opinion). Just conquer high developed lands and change their culture, it`s way faster if that`s what you`re aiming for but again, really not needed as you`ll conquer lands with more developed cultures and you`ll be guaranteed to have cultural fascinations if you lag behind;
- intrigue, very good in the first 100 years, completely useless once every count and their mother can afford to appoint a decent spymaster (18 or above skill level), totally not worth the hassle, the savescuming is legendary with these kinds of players... The only useful thing with it is you can kill the wife if you can`t get a divorce.
- best by far, for world conquest is, still, martial (forced march, living off the land, siege effectiveness and sappers + the 4 right side perks of the gallant tree), combined with konni armies (stackwiping the enemy army when led by it`s king means you don`t need to siege) and stables which makes konni into f1 konnies and they have NOS as well;
- this might seem counterintuitive but tribal is still the best form of government by far, the only thing you now need to take into consideration is that you have to conquer western europe first (Rome, Constantinople, Paris and London), middle east second (Alexandria-Cairo and Baghdad regions). If you do this in the first 100 years, no western european power will be even close to a challenge until the high medieval era.
- Please, for the love of the allmighty, stop disinheriting thy offsprings, just marry an infertile cunt like the rest of us, or if you`re in your 30s get one that`s younger than mohammed`s second wife and wait it out. Renown is so important and it`s unbelievable how people will actually advise you in so many videos to do it. Don`t do it! Use it to get the first 2 blood legacies then get all the warfare ones for the extra limit of regiments.

Some points to add: Keeping your cultural footprint small is very important for tech speed. You cannot develop 50 province culture meaningfully, which makes you stuck at the level it's at. The lower the number of counties, the faster you can tech, and increase your rate of teching up. You know you're doing this right when the age start hard limit gets annoying. Ireland is actually pretty good for this, as it's very coastal, and your vassals won't spread your culture, as they only convert when adjacent to the culture they're trying to spread. This is also true for religions so you might have to seed counties to get the ball rolling with your own realm priest.

Personally I love giving out titles to wise old men. They spread religion fast. If they spawn, you will have a kid on the throne for 16 years, and if not, you get the titles back and can repeat. They also tend to have lots of skill points, so you get more taxes and levies.

Stop doing this videos because i can't stop watching them. You play all the games i love!!! You silly dog.

Very good video! :)
I'm an expert CK3 player myself (I think) and I just wanted to point out that you don't have to disinherit your children if you have primogeniture, because you can designate your preferred child, and keep your renown points for something more interesting :)

One of the best guides i've seen in a long time. Keep up the good work

Wait wait wait. So as long as I don't marry then none of my kids outside of that marriage will mess up succession? If that's the case then omg cuz I have been struggling in that area. These bitches are like rabbit popping kids out lol

wow
u survived all the regicide and vassal assassination attempts?
noice

would love to see you do this using vikings :) im totally new to the game and from denmark, so ofc im going vikings :D been playing abit learning the basics from your other vid and others :)

how to get consecrate bloodline?

Bro this is a knowledge base every new player/experience player should watch. Been playing ironman/400 and still learned a lot from this video thanks. I'm going to have to rewatch this a couple times

This is a fantastic video! I've played CK3 since release, but I am very very bad at it! And still don't understand all the nitty gritty. I often find myself stuck not knowing what to do etc to continue. This video and your beginner's guide has been super helpful!

Greedy vassal is a good vassal. You can please him easily just by a gift and an increase to opinion would be huge.And changing cultural ethos is extremely easy, just by hybridizing cultures

There are many mistakes in this video about how the game works.