Martial, by the sword in red, determines our fighting and command prowess. Diplomacy, by the scroll in blue, is a straight opinion buff for other characters.

The first number is our personal attribute, whereas the second number is our state attribute, which is our own diplomacy, our councilor’s, and half of our spouse’s, to represent that our kingdom’s force of presence. In this case, our Norman culture specializes in knights. Below that we have our culture, which determines your cultural building and unit. To the right we see our religion, Catholic, and our method of government, feudal. The shield to the left of the character portrait is the primary title you possess, which will always be your highest-ranked title from the five ranks - baron, count, duke, king, or emperor (these names change based on culture, but they act identically, it is a nice historical touch). He’s rather old though, and we want to secure a fine kingdom within our lifetime. As we can see from his stats, he is an exceptional general and a pretty good plotter. Look at that fine fellow and his fine mustache. Now let’s take a look to the left, to the character view. Having more than your limit causes taxation penalty and vassal grumblings as they begin wanting titles of their own. As you can see, I hold two provinces, and I have a maximum of four. Following that is your demense, which is based on your stewardship score. Both piety and prestige are gained every month based on your holdings and traits. Piety is a key resource for making religious vassals and heads like you more, and you can spend it to create titles along with gold to represent an official religious coronation. Hindu rulers have it called karma, and so on, but it is functionally identical). The next is a religious symbol, which for Christian rulers would be a cross is piety (Muslims have a crescent, Jewish rulers have a Star of David, etc. Prestige factors into others opinion of you, and is necessary for actions. The next is your prestige, the amount of fame you have. Money makes the world go round, and if you run out, you are bound for instability.

Money can be used to build buildings, pay troops, buy favors. The first one, under the pile of coins, is the amount of money we have. So let’s start up the game, pick our Duke, and see what we’re greeted with:įirst, let’s take a look in the top right, which are our resources. We have a strong duchy with a large family. Our goal is this tutorial is simple: become the King of Sicily. So, in this start, we’re going to play a famous character in history: Duke Robert Guiscard of Apulia, in the 1066 start. I’m running Ironman, but you don’t have to. A fun, easy adventure that can get people acclimated to the ins and outs of the crazy game. Welcome one and all, I mentioned I was going to do a short tutorial on Crusader Kings, so I figured I would just do a quick playthrough, complete with screenshots.

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