How to Make Money in Crusader Kings 3 (Income & Economy Guide)

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Table of Contents
0:00 Intro & Summary
1:16 Managing Your Domain
9:47 Vassal Taxes
16:40 Military Conquest
20:45 Misc. Money Making Tips
23:30 Military Expenditure

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[italianspartacus]

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Thank you so much for watching! I intend to cover a lot more Crusader Kings in the future and I'm really excited to do so.

[majormoolah]

Could you do a video like this for real life?

[bobbyd.roberson]

Another important thing to remember is that if a county's development is higher than it's neighbor county's development, then it increases it by 0.1 dev growth per month for every 1 development higher it is. Collect taxes vs. increase development is basically short term boost vs. long term growth. It is actually more beneficial over the long run to just have your steward sitting in your capital increasing development permanently since when it increases by one dev, it increases dev growth by 0.1 per month in all neighboring counties and over the centuries it'll spread to your entire domain. Development also has the added bonus of helping tech growth!

[Barph]

Using the "Collect Taxes" button gives you a chance to randomly get an event where your Steward gives you plain money from time to time.

[Arselgunnar]

Keep in mind that when looting holdings in a war, you should deduct (siege time x army upkeep) from the total gained to see if it's actually worth it for the gold.

[bobvila]

The combo of the skill from the intrigue skill tree that lets you fabricate hooks with the skill from the stewardship tree that lets you demand payment for them is incredibly powerful, especially if you have a good intrigue stat to easily fabricate those hooks. With another skill you can fabricate two hooks at the same time, allowing you to have two hooks cooking at all times. Demanding payment for the hooks gets you about 100 gold a pop. You just need to wait until your schemes to fabricate the hooks let you create them without paying a bunch of gold or more prestige than you want to spend, etc.

[alphaspartan]

Something to keep in mind, while loot from sieged holdings and captives can certainly be valuable targets for gold, also keep in mind that every month that your armies are raised you have to pay them a monthly wage. If you have a huge army of say 14, 000 troops including 5 regiments of Men at Arms this can get very very expensive and negate any loot you'd gain from pillaging. To offset this, you can "raise local armies" in a holding and you will raise only the local levies and all your knights and MaA's, making the maintenance cost less. You can further decrease this amount by splitting the army and rearranging until you get to a low enough number that's still bigger than your enemy but costs whatever maintenance you're comfortable paying per month. When you have 5+ regiments of MaA's, you can significantly reduce their upkeep cost by using the Marshal's 2nd ability which trains commanders. Much better option than the 1st one that boosts levy size, as your levies are level 1 while your MaA's and knights are much more valuable for fighting wars.
Also for wealth, once you hold several kingdoms and are approaching empire status or are an emperor, stuff like golden obligations becomes less important as you usually get like 50 gold per hook but you'll be making 32+ gold per month just from your domain and taxes on your vassals. At these higher tier realms you want to focus on stewardship to increase the number of domains you hold and the amount in taxes they pay, allowing you to build buildings which further snowballs your income.

[attrage]

Great vids (i pretty much see u as one of my council members at this point). For folks out there doing the same, one word of caution with the advice at 17:30 : be careful about wandering blindly into your allies' wars, check *their* enemy's allies first. Doing this backfired badly on me once when as a mid level king I ended up making some very powerful enemies. As in a lot of CK3 strategies, think carefully about risk vs reward.

[acerock]

i think i am finally getting it. I tried out an old Norse chief in 876AD and holy shit raiding England and northern France is rad! Until a huge Saxon or Frankish army comes and smacks you. However, the tribal kingdoms use renown to buy troops and build so i found myself with a lot of gold, but little renown. i am pretty into this game now

[janellems]

I've been dying trying to understand the development of counties and how the buildings work. I keep getting sucked into intrigue and other shenanigans and forget my buildings not thinking they're important and then suddenly I die and my world is wrecked for my heirs when people start trying to claim my lands. Thank you for your videos! 💜💜💜

[petertrudelljr]

Thank-you for a great instructional video. I'm brand new to the CK franchise (CK3 pulled me from Civ VI) and am still learning all these intricacies.

[anaalileipa]

The worst drain on my income is forgetting to unraise my army after a war lol

[marshallscot]

These guides are so helpful. I started my first run as the Chieftan of Austisland in 867 and I've been sort of stumbling through the game figuring it out as I go along. I just managed to become the King of Scotland through subjugation at 891 and form the 'Kingdom of Greater Iceland' with vassalized territory in Ireland and Norway and strong alliances with both Bjorn the King of Sweden, and Halfdan the King of England.

[alessandrogentil]

Damn this is one that I need, I always enter in a war that just empty my treasures and I never came up again, thanks for the video!

[Azizz]

I have never watched a full video of a long a game guide until this one.

Thank you for the great guide!

[Thingsyourollup]

I only ever seem to find hooks on poor people who have no money to extort

[seshtilirest]

Awesome video. I’ve always thought I was a good strategy game player, until I started this game and was absolutely overwhelmed by every aspect that was being thrown at me

[philipargo]

Great breakdown, I appreciate the slow pace, there is much to learn, and you do a great job of explaining things, well done!

[EerieV]

Being a Vassal can be good, too. As my Liege's Stewart I get 3gp/month plus a 20% bonus to my Domain Taxes. In addition, building are 20% cheaper. When I was a Spymaster, I got 40 dread and bonus to scheme completion.

[soccembopper]

Some high value prisoners add to warscore so be careful when ransoming them out. You may loose warscore because of it.