It happened to me in one campaign and this is what bailed me out.įocus on increasing your domain limit and overall stewardship skill.Įarly on this is the best way to make more gold because when you’re a small count, you cannot have other counts as your vassals and everyone who actually is a vassal of yours, will be within your personal domain. You can try to make an extra alliance or two and hire a bunch of mercenaries with that gold. This can be useful when you get invaded by a large empire and you have no ways of defending yourself. If your bishop becomes rich, you can try to imprison him and banish from the realm to seize his assets ( all of his gold) at the cost of some negative opinion with your head of faith and a loss of a level of devotion. Gold is inherited by your next ruler so it’s always a great idea to have lots of it.īuild temples in your lands (later when you have more gold) and have a positive relationship with your bishop to maximize taxes and levies you get from those temples. This lowers their county control and therefore taxes and levies, and at the same time allows you to collect nice sums of gold to expand your armies or simply have more in reserve during war time. Raids are a great way of weakening a potential enemy in a war. Ransom prisoners of war and go on raids if your ruler has access to it. It will help you gain perks such as demanding payments for hooks, extorting subjects etc. Go into the stewardship lifestyle even if your ruler doesn’t have any great predispositions towards it. This comes with many benefits, including who can become a vassal of yours. If you’re a count, your primary goal is to become a duke.

Save up your gold for creating a higher ranking title. And not only get them for free but actually show you how to get the best ones. I’ll explain how to get those for free down below. Have him develop your capital county (where your realm capital is) when you already have enough gold and want to increase long-term gains for your future rulers.ĭo not spend gold hiring people coming to your court such as potential knights for your army, council members or even court physicians. Extra taxes and events are a nice positive side-effect from having a high skilled steward. Get a good steward on your council (more on that later) and have him collect taxes for short term benefits. When playing feudal, gold is always the most important resource. We’ll structure this guide in a few different sections and without much game concept explaining, we’ll just dive into the tips and tricks instead.īookmark this page if you need it as a reference later on. Also play the game’s tutorial since it does a nice job of introducing you to the basic mechanics of the game. If you are new to the game, I suggest you take a look at that page first and then come back to this one. This guide is a summed up and at the same time expanded version of my how to play Crusader Kings 3 guide.

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