A kingdom is a realm of the fourth tier. Kingdoms are the second highest ranked playable realm. Kingdoms are composed of 1 or more. The ruler of a kingdom is usually known as a. Kings can be vassals of powerful emperor, but are more often independent rulers.One of the counties in each kingdom is the capital and is normally held by the king of that kingdom. If that county's capital is a city or temple then the realm is a or respectively.TitlesDe jure territory of the kingdoms in CKIIMost kingdom-rank titles are known as the Kingdom of X (e.g.
Kingdom of Alania). However, some of the titles are known as something else (e.g.
The Papacy, The Ecumenical Patriarchy).For rulers of Altaic cultures, kingdom-rank titles usually known as the Kingdom of X are instead known as the Khanate of X (e.g. Khanate of Cumania).For rulers of Arabic, Turkish, or West African cultures, kingdom-rank titles usually known as the Kingdom of X are instead known as the Sultanate of X (e.g. Sultanate of Mali).For rulers of Iranian culture, kingdom-rank titles usually known as the Kingdom of X are instead known as the Shahdom of X (e.g. Shahdom of Persia).For rulers of kingdom-rank theocracies, kingdom-rank titles usually known as the Kingdom of X are instead known as the Theocracy of X for Catholic and Pagan rulers, Patriarchate of X for Orthodox rulers, Kingdom of X for Zoroastrian and Miaphysite rulers, and Kingdom of X or the appropriate cultural variant for Muslim rulersFor rulers of kingdom-rank republics, kingdom-rank titles usually known as the Kingdom of X are instead known as the Most Serene Republic of X.External Links.CK2 RealmsRanks. Kingdom.Types.
Many of the major cities of Eastern Europe/Western Asia are pretty badass. Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, is probably the best starting city in the whole game that I've seen. Baghdad, Damascus, and Cairo are also awesome, but you do have to do some major crusading in order to claim them. Or have the DLC that allows you to play Muslims, which I highly recommend to anyone who is invested in this game.Poland is also a good starting place. You're in a fairly inoffensive portion of the map, with no major threats (you're a long way from the Islamic kingdoms, and the Golden Horde rarely stretches further west than Poland and Hungary (which is historically accurate btw)), and in the early game you get to swallow up a lot of small pagan duchies to the north and north east and convert them to your faith.
So long as you don't do anything to piss off the Holy Roman Empire, it's a pretty good kingdom to start playing as.And here's a good rule for playing CKII; never play as France unless you're up for a stiff challenge. Seriously, the number of times I've seen that kingdom absolutely cut to shreds is ridiculous. The vassals are incredibly unruly, and if the Muslims take a significant hold in Hispania, which they often do, then.
@SilvergunThe Dutchy of Bruges is actually really good. You start with a 5-6 slot county and a number of smaller but still high quality counties, and even though you are a vassal of the King of France, you're probably the strongest Duke in France and have a lot of good options when either England or France implodes. As stated earlier, Ireland is the good 'easy' choice too, hard to go wrong with an entire island you can easily take over in a few generations. Should be able to do it in like one generation.
@Leptok said: @SilvergunThe Dutchy of Bruges is actually really good. You start with a 5-6 slot county and a number of smaller but still high quality counties, and even though you are a vassal of the King of France, you're probably the strongest Duke in France and have a lot of good options when either England or France implodes. As stated earlier, Ireland is the good 'easy' choice too, hard to go wrong with an entire island you can easily take over in a few generations.Few? Should be able to do it in like one generation.Absolutely, but considering that a lot of people who are starting with Ireland are less experienced with the game, I think 2-3 generations is a more reasonable goal. Doing it in a single generation requires a little luck and good execution.
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So, I just bought CK2 today.The most common piece of advice seemed to be 'start as someone in Ireland and learn the ropes!' Fine I thought, and picked some guy with one region and one vassal. Three generations later, I'm in a position where my son and heir has an independent kingdom in the middle of Ireland while I got the rest, he happens to be a genius though and for some reasons he went from 100+ to negative 60 because he wants more land. Land which I can't grant him because he's independent. I don't know.My guy, meanwhile, is a bit of an asshole, known as cruel and not very intelligent. I spend the next three small wars trying to get him killed so my son can take over and unite Ireland with the help of his dad's war chest.
For some reason I also have Cornwall, I don't really know how or why. Succession/doling out titles is the most confusing system so far.
I don't speak medieval.ANYWAYS, HERE'S THE FUCKING CRAZY PART JESUS CHRIST so, I can't get my guy killed but a golden opportunity presents itself. A glorious crusade. I send him down there alone with all the men he could muster from Cornwall. Because fuck Cornwall.321 men. They will join their lord in heaven and they will die in the mud outside of Jerusalem for the cause of a united Ireland.I look for the papal stack and I think 'hey, maybe if he dies fighting with the pope I'll get some sort of bonus'.
The fight is happening right outside Jerusalem and the Muslim stack is somewhere close to 12k and the Christians have 9k plus 321 brave souls from Cornwall. Somehow my fucking 'king' (he's not a king yet but it sounds better than 'my dude') manages to corner the leader of the caliphate in battle. He defeats him and imprisons him and this helps end the war immediately and my idiot king, the guy I wanted dead, instead ends up with all of Jerusalem even though he only sent 321 men. That's like 50 titles/lands/whatevers over limit and my court consists of 11 people and I have like 3 sons. There's a bishop that holds 20 separate titles and he's pretty stoked.Just to give you an idea of how fucked up my kingdom is: I threw a huge tournament (because why not?) and as soon as it ended and people started to leave, bandits swooped down and raided every single entourage because there's more thieves guilds than toilets in the holy land at the moment. @SirOptimusPrime said:Oh man, that's a good one. I love hearing stories about this game because, so far, the craziest thing to happen to me is assassinating most of my 20 children one of my characters had (who is still alive at 74, by the way).I love this game so hard.My son kept marrying women with a shitty stewardship stat, and because of the circumstances, I couldn't arrange a marriage.
So what I did was I kept assassinating his wives over and over again until I got one with a decent score. I kid you not, I murdered my daughter-in-law eight times. If you know the basic mechanics of the game, I would suggest playing as the Holy Roman Empire. While you will have to deal with a shit-ton of vassal relations, your army is so huge you can just crush anyone and everyone. As a result, you can focus on developing your economic and diplomatic skills without any real worry of having half your kingdom revolt and beat you back down to courtier.Also, I always go for the crusades. Most of the time crazy shit like the OP mentioned happens all the time. As France I ended up with most of the Islamic Iberian peninsula.
After years of conquering Iberia in the name of the Pope, I ended up having to eventually give French Iberia independence or face a massive civil war. King Dude (aka King Art I 'the Cruel') died (gloriously) whilst fighting rebels in the holy land.
This will be the last Irish army to fight in the open field in the holy land.His heir (King Dude II The Smart) immediately lost out on the claim of the holy land when his brother got the backing of pretty much every single vassal in the region right when King Dude Sr. The brother must've underappreciated my incompetence though (maybe due to the word smart being right there in my name, a clever tactic on my part) because during my futile attempts at doling out my new lands and titles I gave a random third of it to the pope. King Brother Dude, the new king of Jerusalem, immediately got excommunicated and in the same breath I declared war (ALL THE CLAIMS BITCH.
IF YOU PLOT, YOU ROT. LIEGES GET SIEGES) and started attacking his holdings back in Ireland. And fucking Cornwall. Piece of fucking shit Cornwall.For some reason I've become buddies with a Breton mercenary leader and a 7k stack appeared on the Irish mainland without asking for pay and we just roll King Brother Dude and all his vassals. I click yes on all the buttons and somehow end up with a Prince-Bishop back in big J in the holy land. My grand strategy for holding my regions in the middle-east: click yes whenever some random noble asks me if they can come fight the infidels for me.
Somehow, after like six wars with various Muslim factions, I still have a Prince-Bishop-whatever down there that counts me as his liege, and like two regions. 95% of The Kingdom of Jerusalem is now located in Ireland, either through neglect or brilliant strategy. All the vassals that backed King Brother Dude got conquered while I chilled back in Eire.After all this. King Dude II The Smart was at least smart enough not to die on the battlefield, but rather he stepped out of time whilst in his bed. Hopefully with a belly full of wine and a girl's mouth around his cock.Where I'm at currently: I have no idea which buttons to push in order to unite Ireland as the nation called Ireland, or if I even can.
My grandfather's spy-master tried to jack the breaks on my wagon. An Iberian dwarf lady taught my eldest son how to fight. I was enjoying tinkering with Ireland again but then, suddenly. 'successful crusade!'
And now I just got back at least half of the shit my great grandfather gained through his stupidity/expendability/luckity. I have no idea who I'm going to give all this to. The cycle of ineptitude starts anew.
With the help of the advice provided by Haltlam Reptar The Wise I finally managed to click the button that united Ireland. Green covered the Kingdom of Jerusalem rather than white.
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My former rivals were all either dead or exiled. The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Kingdom of Ireland both secure, and most importantly. Mine.Finally there was peace. And this was the worst fucking thing that could happen. The heir to King Dude II The Smart starts breeding like crazy and seems to live forever. One son has the claim to the Kingdom of Ireland, and his younger brother will stand to inherit the Kingdom of Jerusalem. All of this is made worse by my futile attempts at pleasing all the new branches of my burgeoning family.
I'm great at bullying dukes and stealing their titles. Plus I throw pretty dope fucking parties.
This is how I conquered Ireland. But at the end of all of this I still have no idea how to deal with a family, and a kingdom, of this size.
I can't change the inheritance law and consolidate my power around a single heir because all my new vassals refuse to change the law. The old vassals hate me even more because I took some of their land in order to placate all my new sons and grandsons with lands and titles.I keep desperately handing out these lands and titles until I realize I've turned both my kingdoms into ticking time bombs. Everyone has a claim to something.
Everyone wants more than they already have. It hits me like a flagon thrown by an angry relative at one of my feasts: This place will turn into a Shakespearean play set in the Thunderdome when the king dies. Even cousins of my grandsons have (albeit weak) claims to something of note. Shit turns really bad really fast when the king dies. I manage to hold onto Ireland and my dude is somewhat stronger than his brother. But the families just keep growing. With the next heir I find myself in a position where I can't please any vassals and my personal army strength is maybe 5% of the military total.Then I make the worst mistake yet.
A plotting faction that consists of maybe 70% of my vassals for some reason gives me an ultimatum: Change the law so my heir is chosen based on some notion of seniority. I should've just fought the civil war even though they outnumbered me 10 to 1, but I hit yes and now my heir is some random ass cousin twice removed from the glorious and proud lineage of Dude Kings.
Worse still, his only somewhat proper claim is the fucking duchy of fucking Cornwall. As soon as my king dies I end up with some random ass cousin twice removed. While he's got some claims and still inherits the title of king, he doesn't last.
I get bullied and beaten by the brothers of the former king and end up a vassal to the joint Kingdoms of Jerusalem and Ireland.I fight yet another civil war and manage to free myself yet again. I start slowly picking up the pieces of Ireland and the years go. I'm still broke. Then another civil war hits. I have no money. My main rival musters ten thousand men.
Guess where from? Fucking Cornwall. @Disconnect: I've found that switching to elective succession is better than primogeniture. Essentially, it allows you to nominate an heir.
While all the other dukes and counts have a vote, I've never experienced an issue as long as everyone is mildly happy. The only trick is that you need to nominate an heir for each of the 'Kingdom' titles you hold.
In Ireland, you should only have one (unless you are beating on Scotland) so that shouldn't be a huge problem. This also allows you to keep all your titles under your main line. Essentially, never give any land or titles to any of your brother or sisters. Sure, they will be mad but they can never really do anything about it.If you have more demesne than your maximum, shovel them off to the courtier that likes you the most.
The only negative side effect I found from this strategy is that once your kingdom becomes fairly large (I'm talking France kind of large) your vassals will frequently war with each other. You just have to be careful that one vassal does not accumulate too much land.If you get bored of Ireland, I suggest playing as one of the Spanish kingdoms. The awesome part is that Leon, Galicia, and Castile are all brothers. So if you plot against people (which is what you should do if you want to murder someone) and you have a bit of luck, you can cobble together most of northwestern Iberia in a few years. Once you have done that, you can choose to either go against your Catholic brethren to the east or wage a holy war against the heretics to the south. Holy Wars are fun, but you can quickly get overwhelmed so fabricating claims is generally a better strategy.Anyway, I can talk about this game forever.
Glad to hear that someone else is experiencing the fun of uniting good ol' Eire.
De jure kingdoms in 1066A Kingdom is the title level below and above, and the most common rank for independent. It is generally held by a ranked character; emperors also usually hold the kingdom title which their belongs to de jure.The portrait of kings (or equivalent) has a golden border.To or a kingdom title, a character is required to:. Control at least 51% of the title's counties. Already control a kingdom or, or else hold two or more titles. Note that these titles do not have to be located within the kingdom the character intends to found or.
Payment of 400 plus 200 (or equivalent). If the player character activates the Become king, all costs are halved. In addition, wealth cost is gradually reduced as the character amasses piety, with 50% discount at 1000 piety. Meet specific religious and/or cultural conditions (since most conditions only apply to the AI).within a kingdom may be assimilated into another kingdom over time through, and many kingdoms do not de facto control all of their territory at most start dates.
For example, in 1066, the Duchy of Toulouse is part of the Kingdom of Aquitaine, but is entirely controlled by the King of France. Thus, if the King of France keeps Toulouse for at least 100 years, that will become territory of France. (Time required for complete may be changed by the player on panel at game session start).A king-tier character will have a for each in their kingdom they do not control. Additionally, independent counts located in their kingdom or have the same culture as the king are more likely to accept if offered.A kingdom without any lands is. Some of them can be created if the character owns a designated capital and meets certain criteria, listed below. If a is into a titular kingdom, it is no longer considered titular and the assimilated becomes territory of the new kingdom.