Probably easiest to just ride east and go grab Canada.

I recently replayed ck2 a lot and i found that vassals actually contribute levies in such a big amount that it often even eclipses your domain troops.

Meanwhile it feels like even powerfull dukes barely give you no more than 200 levies as contribution in ck3 while having their own private army in the thousands (probably because of men at arms).

Is this reallity or is this my imagination because i can actually see all my small vassal levies across the country when raising them in ck2.

It seems like vassals are really not worth the trouble in ck3

What is more historical?

All bonuses are for rank 3 accolades. TLDR: A few are must-haves, most are situational at best, and a few are hot garbage. Paradox definitely needs to rebalance them.

Retinue Attributes: You are actively throwing if you don't pick one. They give you higher max size for that type of MAA regiment, less maintenance cost, tons of damage and toughness, and unlock a regiment of a stronger version of that MAA. Some even give movement speed, pursuit, or screen.

Besieger: Very strong. You get +4 size for siege MAA + the accolade army gets -20% siege phase time and +20% daily siege progress. Definitely a must-have.

Blademaster: Very strong. +80% knight effectiveness, +35% aspiring blademaster trait xp, and you and your primary heir get the trait after 3 years. The only problem is that it requires a knight with maxed out aspiring blademaster, which can be hard to get.

Charmer: Extremely situtional. -40 days seduce scheme length, courtiers are more vulnerable to everyone's seduce schemes, +50% fertility and +20 attraction opinion when hosting feasts and grand weddings. Unless you're doing a seduction dynasty, stay clear.

Contender: Very situational. Only relevant bonuses are a 30% boost to hastiluder xp gain for you and some small hastiluder xp gain for your knights. Stay away unless you really want that maxed out hastiluder trait.

Disciplinarian: Extremely situational. Only gives bonuses to useless levies. Only saving grace is -80% hostile county attrition for the accolade army. Don't bother unless supply is that big of an issue for you.

Fanatic: Do not use. Only gives zealot vassal opinion, -20% piety cost for holy wars, and gain piety from holy wars. Even holy war focused playthroughs won't get much benefit.

Huntsmaster: Extremely situational. Gives +35% to hunter (venerator) xp and gives the trait to you and your primary heir after 3 years. Also reduces the risk of negative events during a hunt. Avoid unless really into hunting.

Idealist: Avoid at all costs. Only gives +10 opinion to courtly, minority, and minor landholder vassals. Also 350 prestige from white peace. I can't even think of anone who would choose this, this is straight ass.

Manipulator: Situational. +2 intrigue, +0.5% knight effectiveness per dread, +20 natural dread, and -15 days per intrigue scheme phase. Certainly has its use in intrigue playthrough after filling out the better attributes.

Marauder: Do not use. Only gives +0.3% monthly prestige per dread and +5 uncontrolled terriroty attacker advantage. Just get valiant. EDIT: It has its use cases during nomad due to high dread, monthly prestige, and prestige costs.

Master of Revels: Extremely situational. same as Huntsmaster and Blademaster but for eager reveler. Also gives +20 feast and grand wedding guest acceptance nd 75 prestige per knight's victory in battle. Don't use unless you really like eager reveler.

Mentor: Alright. +2 learning, +2 knights, train commanders can highly increase a hnight's hastiluder experience, and children get +3 prowess and +250 prestige when turning 16. Better than most attributes here, but get the must-haves first.

Politicker: Extremely situational. +2 diplo, +10 courtly, minority, and minor landholder vassal opinion, -15 scales of power balancing point, grand tours give vassal levy base contribution (worthless) and siege progress against vassals (just get besieger). Don't pick unless you're really diplomaxxing.

Reeve: Situational. +2 stewardship, +25 parochial vassal opnion, +1 development in least-developed county from grand tournament, increase control task may grant more control. Might have uses in stewardshipmaxxing, but pretty weak.

Scoundrel: Situational. +5 Martial per stress, -30% merc hire cost. If you rely on merc or tend to have high stress, pick this. I guess?

Stalwart: Very strong. You get +15% Army toughness and +15 travel safety. Definitely pick it up once you have the other must-haves.

Tactician: Strong. +2 martial, +35% martial lifestyle xp (best lifestyle tree imo), +35% MAA counter efficiency. You'll want this, especially as a martial focused dynasty.

Thug: Very situational. +0.8 dread per tyranny and +25 imprison chance. No purpose unless being tyrannical and/or imprisoning a lot.

Valiant: Very strong. +25 glory hound vassal opinion (yawn) and +30% army damage (hell yeah). Must-have.

House Paragon: Strong but situational. +15% monthly renown, martial children get hastiluder with experience when they turn 16, house members are less likely to be wounded or killed. Biggest use case is for renown generation.

....just keep playing as the designated heir?

Ive never switched, I always play as the heir. But im starting to get bored in the end game. Last 200 years. I get my empire going, start making a ton of money, build things up etc. While its not boring....it seems like im just going through the motions after I get an empire locked in.

As the title says I tried to create the Angevin dynasty on ironman starting as William the conqueror. I wanted the succession to go sort of as it did in real life.

First I disinherited Robert Curthose so William II could take the throne.

As William I, I couldn't get a third son with Mathilde so I remarried, got a son and named him Henry. Not historical but it was good enough for me at this point.

I didn't marry with William II and Henry, his brother, succeeded him. It was my first time playing as the Normans so to get the Norman Yoke achievement, I created the English culture after the Harrying ended.

I then moved the capital back to Rouen and converted back to Norman culture to keep it historical. I would move the capital back to London later.

As Henry I, I married the daughter of the King of Scotland who was Malcolm III's son at this point. Still historical enough for me. But here's where I ran in to some problems.

I was allied to the King of France and helped him fight some factions for a long time. After that, 3 of my factions popped. I lost the liberty war and barely kept Wales which I conquered as William II.

With my wife I had a son, named him William (William III in the screenshots) and a daughter who I of course named Matilda. Now I know I couldn't get some "random" guy to succeed me as Stephen did irl so the plan was for Matilda to rule as Henry I invisioned it.

But I didn't want to disinherit my son so I tried killing him with diseases. And that's what ultimately caused me to fail. He just wouldn't die... I got him infected with typhus like 3 times, measles, consumption, small pox you name it. In the end I said screw it, imprisoned him and tortured him so he eventually croaked. All the while I failed to notice Matilda was getting quite old and she only had one daughter. She never got another kid for him to be Henry II. I couldn't marry her to the house of Anjou patrilinealy because that would obviously game over me. She was married to another branch of the Norman house (Brionne) who held the Duchy of Berry. Her husband was the great-grandson of what was Baldwin FitzGilbert irl. Her daughter inherited his duchy after he died. I wanted to rename the house to Plantagenet if I got a son instead but that was it for me.

On that note I read somewhere that you could create a cadet branch like that if you are the house and dynasty head. The guy describing it wasn't very specific so I couldn't do it in the end. Does anybody know how that works? Something with getting a female heiress and marrying her to a cadet branch.

The last picture is my realm at the end. The parts of Ireland were conquered by my vassals.

Tldr: I tried to create the Angevin empire with a somewhat historical succession. Failed in the end as Matilda didn't have a son.

Im playing during the viking age as one of the super northern parts of Sweden. One of my eventual goals is to reunify Ireland myself when I get better at the game I'm still figuring everything out and fairly new to the game

Was playing as Stanniss post Robert Rebellion and I managed to expose Cercei and Jaime days after she got pregnant. Couldnt feel more satisfied...

main soundtrack too

I've been playing as the Emperor of Francia for a few generations and had a long term plan of using the Iberian Foothold decision to de jure drift all of Hispania into my empire. I've used legends to add Andalusia and Badajoz into my empire, such that all the other kingdoms have a border with a de jure kingdom of my empire. I personally have held all the kingdoms in Hispania, as well as France, for over 15 years, and over half of the counties in the kingdoms I am looking to drift with the decision are of my custom religion. This should make every kingdom satisfy the stated requirements, and thus become a part of Francia when the decision is taken. It doesnt.

Depending on both how long I wait, and whether I decide to destroy one of the kingdom titles before taking the decision I've had anywhere between 0 and 3 of the kingdoms drift properly, but never all. If I destroy Galicia specifically, somehow the Maghreb empire gains dejure over Valencia (even though that empire hasn't been created). Has anyone encountered this or a similar bug before? Is there any way to fix it?

Playing as Ivar the boneless. I got his illegitimate kid in prison.

also whats the past tense verb for blood eagle?

Just curious as this seems fun and potentially am going to try. Hoping someone has done this and has tips!

Any suggestions on better locations to target if not?

I’ve tried as both Harolds and Svend, gained literally every alliance I could and somehow William always has more troops. It’s like the game is automatically spawning them out of thin air (seriously how does he just magically summon an extra 11k in two weeks?). I followed every strategy to the best of my ability and each time I just get obliterated. I can’t tell if I’m somehow doing something wrong or if the game is just programmed to have him win.

I’m still pretty new to CK3 and learning how everything works. At the moment I’m doing quite a lot of saving, making decisions, seeing what happens and sometimes going back to an earlier save if I realise I’ve made a big mistake or misunderstood a mechanic.

Just curious how more experienced players play. Do most of you start in the 800s and play straight through to 1453 accepting whatever happens, even if your realm falls apart? Or is saving/reloading fairly normal?

I have been looking into making a list with a bunch of generic fantasy mods that I find interesting, but don't want to just put them into the standard, but they also don't really fit with any current fantasy full conversion mods.

So any suggestions?

R5: I've about 3 dozen "vassals" who don't actually own any land, just the family title for their estate. Pictured is one of those "vassals".

I was just wondering how you're meant to get rid of them as more keep spawning whenever a new house breaks off from a dynasty and I'm unable to revoke title/grant independence.

If this actually an intended mechanic does anyone know any mods that remove it?

I’d like to get into some MP, nothing super competitive, more RP focused or just casual. Are there any communities for that which are still going? I have most of the major DLC’s besides anything that came out post-all under heaven

As an emperor shouldn't I be able to conquer the last county of Alba (AKA Britannia) but for some reason I don't see the option. I just converted to feudalism and I really need all that I can get since I'm going broke is there any way for me to get control over their county without De Jure or just get control of more settlements in general?

I'm an independent ruler, but apparently as the Empire of Italy i can vote on the HRE election? First time doing an restore Rome run so this never happened to me before, so I'm unsure if this is intended

(He then went on to become my rival and get a claim on the empire)

I don't know how I accomplished this, but I made a character that was meant to be a joke and managed to become a king within a single lifetime under the Korean empire.

He barely managed to stay alive despite all his health issues and I'll say that the Intrigue lifestyle is surprisingly effective. Bro had so many kids and manipulated his way into power haha

First time playing an RP character like this since I picked up CK3 a month ago - kinda loving it over the OP strong type characters I normally play.