#CRUSADER KINGS 3 TIPS HOW TO#

For example, kidnap the Holy Roman Emperor and make him convert, then his vassals might start to revolt. You can intentionally kidnap important people from foreign nations to force them to convert, which tends to destabilize the other nations. If they're from a foreign nation, convert them. Or even just if they're single, so you can marry them off to someone useful. Recruit anyone with something useful, like claims, stats, traits, etc. In a patrilineal society, it's harder to marry off your male heirs to get new land owned by your house members as the original owner has to have no male heirs, but at minimum your extra male heirs can be used for alliances.Ĥ. And of course, once they're married, you can kill off the people that inherit before their marriage partner. You probably can't marry their primary heir in a matrilineal marriage, but maybe the primary heir's kids, or maybe their second heir, especially if you can get a hook.

What you should be doing is manually looking through your own vassals, your fellow vassals, nearby kingdoms, etc to see how their families are doing. Then I realized the 'find spouse' tool is kind of useless for this. At first it seemed impossible to me to marry your kids so other people's lands end up going to your house, at least in Christian cultures where they're all patrilineal, and it seemed like no one was willing to do a matrilineal marriage ever. You can cultivate a very superior court this way.ģ. Educate all the kids so they have the best traits and stats available when they grow up. Every courtier should marry someone useful. As soon as you start, marry off everyone in your court, so you can get people with good stats, people of the same religion/culture and good traits so they can be educators, people with inheritable traits, good knights, etc. If you have 'fabricate hooks', then you can just look through your target's court and find important people, especially their spymaster, and fabricate a hook on them, so you can pull off your plot.Ģ. Murder plots and kidnapping plots might seem impossible, but if you get the right hooks, or if you have lots of money for bribes, then you can increase the odds immensely, going from low odds to reasonable or high. Maybe most people here already figured this stuff out, but here's some examples of things I've finally pieced together:ġ.

#CRUSADER KINGS 3 TIPS HOW TO#

I feel like I have a good handle on the mechanics of the game, but that doesn't mean you know how to use the tools you have to accomplish your goals.

Crusader kings 3 tips