CategoryCrusader Kings 3

Renown is used to unlock dynasty legacies, as well as disinherit and denounce dynasty members, removing them from the line of succession, or giving everyone else a reason to imprison them. I use renown for legacies most of the time, but sometimes you might want to disinherit someone to fix up your succession at the last moment. 🙂 You can also use it to claim titles from...

Piety is used to declare holy wars, create holy orders as well as give to your head of faith in exchange for gold (if your religion has one). Being virtuous and religious will earn you more piety and this is useful any time you’re interacting with your head of faith, or even reforming/creating your own religion. For example, if you need a divorce but you have a very low opinion with your head of...

Prestige dictates how famous and prestigious you are. Earning more prestige will increase your level of fame which will then provide more secular opinion (all except religious clergy). It will also give you a higher number of knights in your armies. To earn more prestige, you can go into the diplomacy lifestyle and select majesty focus which will give you another 1+ monthly prestige. Your...

Gold is the most important currency in CK3 if you’re playing a feudal government type. It’s used to finance armies, hire mercenaries, construct buildings, bribe people etc. You basically always need more gold. Any time you’re low on gold, it becomes almost impossible to do anything and once you’re in debt, you can’t even declare wars and will suffer large penalties...

Buildings in CK3 are an integral part of the realm. Constructing & upgrading buildings is often overlooked by new players. Even intermediate players choose not to invest too much because they think that the building would take a long time to pay for itself. However, there are many gold modifiers that affect this so it’s not really the case. Buildings are some of the best investments...

Raiding in CK3 is a great way of making extra gold early (and later) in the campaign. In addition to increasing income, raiding will also weaken your enemy in the upcoming war(s) you plan to start. This is because raiding lowers county control. If you can raid all baronies (castles, cities and temples) before going to war with a ruler, you will have a much easier time conquering those lands. Not...

Holy orders are military organizations that fight for the faith that they belong to. You can only hire them when you’re at war with a hostile or evil faith that another ruler belongs to. However, once hired, you can use them in any on-going war. To create a holy order, you will have to be at least a king and you will need to spend a lot of gold and piety. This will then improve your...

Managing succession can be a tricky thing in CK3, however there are a lot of different tools at your disposal. It only really depends on what innovations you have researched and your current situation in terms of your lands, titles and children. When succession happens (and it inevitably will), the worst thing to happen is to get your personal lands divided up in a way that sets you back...

Knights in CK3 are people who serve in your army as special soldiers. They can really help early on in the game as well as later if you really focus on this aspect of the game. Anyone who is a part of your court, or is a vassal in your realm can be a knight (unless they’re currently unavailable for any reason). Even females if your religion allows it. This also applies to army commanders...

Constructing powerful buildings is one of the best ways of reinforcing your lands and making sure they’re less likely to get invaded, raided or contested (sieged) by other armies waging wars nearby. At the bottom of this page I’ll leave you a link that will show you all special and unique buildings, as well as their locations on the map. Whenever you’re a holder of a duchy...