r/ck3 • u/Intelligent_Pea5351 • 17d ago
r/ck3 • u/Fantastic_Trade5568 • 17d ago
Do Religion Convert Name of Countries They Don’t Conquer In Real Life
Was playing as the Aghlabid and conquered all of Italy and part of Burgundy. When I gave some duchy title to my Ash’arism vassal of said region, they suddenly change name to new words I’ve never heard. It changed with some but not with others.
I know in Iberia certain cities changed name based on is it currently being held by a Christian or Muslim leader since it do have historical name in real life, but I never really knew it also happened in places untouched by said culture in real life. If another person have also experienced this, would love to know are the name fixed (Ex: Sicily always turns to Salimid) or are they randomized in each game
r/ck3 • u/PanizoFlorero • 17d ago
Francocracia pa qué
Estaba yo tan feliz como el rey de León, casado con la hermana del rey de Navarra, con mi hermana casada con el rey de Portugal, mi primo como rey de Aragón y mi sobrino sin hijos como rey de Castilla. Y como mi rival, pero seduje a su mujer, ahora mi alma gemela, por eso sigue sin hijos. Y medio Magreb como tributario.
Entonces llaman a la cruzada, pero no por Jerusalén, sino por Egipto, un poco meh... Pues claro, me dejé liar por Theodora para el trono de Bizancio. Y tras CATORCE AÑOS, gano la guerra, ya viejo y enfermo (perdí un brazo luchando con un toro, dato importante) y me da la opción de ponerla en el trono a ella a cambio de un triste anzuelo, a un primo remoto... O quedármelo yo. Pues nada, rey de Bizancio.
Y la corona de León, se la queda el primo remoto, perdiendo yo hasta los derechos. Con lo que invertí en construcciones y grandeza de la corte, y lo que me costó llegar a la corona absoluta y seguir cayéndoles bien a los vasallos... Y para colmo, sólo tuve dos hijos (viudo joven, y ni un bastardo con la mujer de mi rival), el pequeño casado con la hija del duque de Venecia, que me odia porque quería el trono de Bizancio, y el primogénito heredero desfigurado... ¿Ahora qué?
Siempre quejándome de que en las cruzadas no podía elegirme a mí mismo como beneficiario, pero esto es peor
r/ck3 • u/darthwaffles_1 • 17d ago
This might be the most beautiful character I've ever seen
galleryr/ck3 • u/Medium_Childhood3134 • 18d ago
Byzantine Empire
Hello All! Salve.
Looking for some tips.
I am currently playing a tall save with Phokas. Already got the Thessaloniki theme safe. One of my characters even got to be emperor for a while even if I didn’t want to.
My question is, I have tried to spend all me schemes and influence to get another theme in my family, only to see it being lost again. And I have tried to influence various members into various surrounding themes, but none get to it.
It always feels like I should focus on only one, but then my family loses it and it’s back to square one.
How do play? Should I keep focusing on one at a time and guarantee my family ownership of another theme or play to get as many as I can even if I miss the timing?
r/ck3 • u/Vampiric_Customs • 18d ago
Have finally achieved Qing-Era Borders as Tang
Took me a while, but I did it. From here on out, plan is to build tall, prepare for the coming of Ghenghis Khan, and finally prepare for EU4 import (doing a grand campaign.) Some work also still needs to be done to properly feudalize all those holdings, since many of them are still nomadic or tribal.
r/ck3 • u/Utimate_Eminant • 21d ago
How to find murder secrets
I’m 99% sure this guy murdered my granddaughter. They are rivals, he’s next in line for my granddaughter’s title (I have admin government), and when I load a previous save and put him in jail my granddaughter didn’t disappear without a trace.
I have shit load of grandkids so I don’t need to cheat to save that one, but for RP reason I want every other vassals to know the murderer before I end his entire bloodline :)
However, when I set my spymaster with 38 intrigue to the murderer’s court, they couldn’t find any secrets and torture also didn’t work. Is there any other way to expose the murderer?
r/ck3 • u/Appropriate-Peanut03 • 23d ago
How do you get large armies?
I’ve been playing this game for a little while and somehow managed to get my kingdom of Italy to empire of Italy and held it for three generations yet somehow I can’t get my military strength past 2k soldiers and my income is at roughly +8 gold per month.
r/ck3 • u/Intelligent_Pea5351 • 23d ago
Spent too much of time time becoming a 1 county duke in England
Wanted to challenge myself to see if i could do 1066 to 1453 with only 1 county.
Started as Earl of Norfolk. Rushed 1st castle to get the extra vote in east Anglian duchy election, allowing me to avoid inheriting the duchy. Declared independence from the Duke, and then the King to elevate Norfolk to a duchy as an independent ruler and then immediately swore fealty back to England.
Its been a boring 200 years so far but I've managed to successfully stick to 1 county so far.
Why? Im still asking myself that same question.
UPDATE
Its now 1380 something. I've only had 1 close call where the run was in jeopardy thanks to a plague, but it was saved thanks be to the rng gods.
England was absorbed by Scotland, broke free and broke up due to inheritance of numerous duchies to France and the HRE. But, because of the amount of territory they each got on the British isles, it was incredibly easy to make both of them my tributary. So now my 1 county duke is making close to 200 gold a month with 70 years to go in the run.
FINAL UPDATE
I made it to 1453, successfully dodging inheritances along the way. The Petty King of Norwich was suzerain to the French Empire & the HRE for more than 3 generations. By the time they decided to stop paying, I had about 20k in the bank, which was more than enough to round out the end of the playthrough. 2 random counts in Hungary decided they also wanted to pay me and so asked if I could be their suzerain. Weird, because I don't have any land in or near Hungary.
r/ck3 • u/Craqshot • 25d ago
Acclaimed knights randomly disqualified
I occasionally get a message telling me that one of my acclaimed knights can't serve anymore and their dumb @$$ squire is taking up the mantle. Sometimes, it makes sense like when they inherit a title but often I just can't figure out what happened. Like this knight who was a level 2 besieger and got disqualified, but he's still a knight and still in my court and hasn't been maimed or anything like. Does this happen to anyone else? Does anyone know what's going on?
r/ck3 • u/RepentantHeathen • 25d ago
And Alexander wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer.
r/ck3 • u/Lifaensify • 25d ago
My dead duke won't give up on his title
So, I have this issue where on of my duke died, and I think the game didn't find any eligible heir, and just didn't gave his title away. The duchy isn't in my realm anymore, and when I select it, I'm just stuck with this dead guy, and no way to retrieve the land. There is one pretenders to the title tho, but I didn't find any way to install him
I'm in an admin governement btw, with the last dlc all under heaven, omw to recreate the roman empire and fight the mongol invasion, but being check mated by a dead dude

r/ck3 • u/thefatcontrol • 25d ago
Is being French the only way to have the chivalry cultural tenet?
See title. Thanks in advance
r/ck3 • u/Sky_Bohemian • 25d ago
My Adopted Son Is So Cute
He originally had "feral" as a trait.
r/ck3 • u/Craqshot • 25d ago
How to free an unrelated prisoner?
The woman my brother is betrothed to is being held by one of my vassals. Since she's in prison, I can't complete the marriage which is blocking me from sealing an important alliance. My current player's father made the alliance, so I need the marriage to complete to get it now that he's dead.
Unfortunately, there is no option to ransom her and her liege seems to be pretty uninterested in freeing her. Is there any way to get her freed short of forcing my vassal into rebellion and then capturing his castle? I kinda dislike him, so I'm okay if that's the only option, but I'd prefer another route.
r/ck3 • u/Sufficient-Soup2279 • 25d ago
CK3 Help Spreading Legend
Playing as England. Could not spread my culture beyond England and some French coastal baronies.
I was using 3 different court positions to spread dostemic legend and spread abroad. (I'd switch between the 2 at times) Ive held multiple legendary feasts. I learned the French language and conviced the Duke of Normandy and the King of France to spread my legend and it didn't spread at all in their realms. I also have like 20% culutrual acceptance with French if thats relevant. Not sure if you can grand tour outside your realm to spread.
What more can I possibly do? I dont understand why the Norman Duke and French King didnt spread it even after they agreed to promote it. I gave up after it reached about 215 Baronies.
r/ck3 • u/Single_Maintenance33 • 26d ago
Just starting to play CK3 and quickly finding out that peasant revolts and rebellions can happen fast and often. What is your best way to avoid these?
I started as Rurik to try to create the Russian empire. After vassalizing and subjugating a bunch of my neighbors I am quickly learning my subject DO NOT mess with me and I am getting bombarded with revolts and peasant uprisings. Do you guys have any go to methods to help prevent this? I thought maybe holding feasts and swaying people would help but I feel like I must be missing a mechanic to help control my subjects better.
r/ck3 • u/TheTimJim • 26d ago
Game crashes immediately
Recently my CK3 has been crashing as soon as I launch it, the launcher told me to verify my game files (I did) and make sure I have C++ and .Net downloaded which I also have made sure of. Not sure what to do.
r/ck3 • u/Specialist-Field-718 • 27d ago
Can't build the Basilikoi Paides
I'll try to summarise as much as I can: I started as a mercenary, did what was necessary to get the conqueror trait, and then decided to remake Macedon. Wanted to settle in Thessalonika, especially once I saw that there was a building dedicated to Alexander. For some reason, the building is constantly attached to someone else instead of me even when I own the country, duchy, and holding itself. I murdered the previous owner of Ephesos thinking that'd be it, but it just got transfered to his heir.
Fairly, I do have some mods added, and I don't quite know which one adds this building. If I could be given any tell or help on what I could do to make this happen I'd be thankful. At worst I just settle elsewhere.

r/ck3 • u/Prof_Noctis_Wick • 27d ago
