Crusader Kings - 2 Basic and Advanced Tips and Tricks to play better!

A guide with basic and some advanced tricks you need to know to play CK2 better! Covering succession, money making, expansion, etc!
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[randomgsdfa]

Elective Monarchy is actually the best government form by far (choose heir, no splitting of titles, positive vassal effect versus negative from primogeniture). But it's definitely for advanced players.

[pascaldesjardins]

Primogeniture is the safest. The best one is elective.

1- Elective give you the option of farming bloodlines and putting it into 1 dude via "tiny little bit inbreeding".

On the long run, having like 8 bloodlines is just plain OP.

2-Elective will pick the best ruller.

The big problem with democracy is that sometimes, people don't vote the way you want it.

[gm]

Viceroyalties are good, if you have Duchy selected you can give both kingdom and duchy viceroyalties out and keep your vassalls weak.

[teodorstoyanov]

Elective Monarchy is the best. Just have no more than one duke in your de jure empire and keep everybody else a count and you almost won't have problems with inheritance.

[jubalsmith]

Hey mate, that's an awesome intermediate-to-advanced guide, but I feel it could include one more topic: how to get more money. I struggle at the beginnings, with my kingdoms earning 5 gold pieces a month (or losing 20, when waging a war), and it only gets a bit better after half of the game, and even in the endgame, with a couple of kingdoms under me, high technologies, developed provinces and vassals approval in green, I can hardly afford to build a castle. There must be some hidden ways to accumulate gold, other than building the buildings and keeping vassals happy, aren't there?

[sundrop]

Elective gravel kind is a good one for me, from what i saw ingame it lets you choose who to nominate a king, instead of just automatically doing it putting sometimes the worst ones, its an interesting law to pick

[wakko]

do a merchant republic video. do a nomad video. do a tribal video. do a video explaining all the different societies in game. do a video on the best ways to plot your way to land and money. do more videos man. i hate ck2 videos because the guy always rambles on and switches topics constantly or doesn't know wtf he is talking about. And I don't have that problem with you. I want more videos.

[maxjohn]

Could someone explain to me why the council members have 4 options available to put them to work? In my game I only have 3 options. Is it a specific piece of DLC or just the realm being played?

[stephenhartley]

if im not mistaken, tanistry is better than primogeniture as you dont get negative buffs for unlanded sons and also if your first born is useless you can just vote for a different son or even an unlanded uncle. honestly. i think seniority is easier managed than primogeniture

[mikaeleulrichzagetapoc]

I disagree with primo being the best, since that definitely goes to elective monarchy, specifically if you spend your first characters time making claims to your vassals lands allowing you to replace them with content vassals of the right culture, destroying duchies as well leaving only 3 controlled by your dynasty to divide the other duchies lands to, your realm is basically super stable, not to mention the eugenics program

[VladSebastian]

I m not going to ruin this perfect amount of likes

[vain]

Elective monarchy is super good if you keep your vassals happy and are not a tyrant..

[alphagamer]

dont know how you got that the chancellor is the least important job on the council, that prize belongs to the court chaplin

[naumsei]

It's odd playing orthodox, in crusader kings 2, cuz you know, no crusades.

[MrWeedWacky]

My favorite playstyle if european catholic : invite Norse / Germanic pagan to court -> make said pagan court tutor -> teach heir Germanic paganism -> convert to paganism when he enherits -> Raid 1'000'000'000'000'000 Gold and win!