- #CK2 WRONG HOLDING TYPE PENALTY HOW TO#
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If you've got free investiture you can of course appoint every bishop, and thus control the succession entirely. Another major drawback is that bishop and burgher succession is generally much less predictable than noble succession. Even taking this into account however, you'll still probably get more tax from a bishop or burgher than you would from a noble. However, they'll be getting opinion with every vassal they have unless the vassals are the same character type, which is likely to reduce the tax trickling up to you. You can also appoint burghers or bishops as dukes, once again giving great tax benefits. If they like the pope more than you, you'll lose out on tax entirely. Second, bishops if you're catholic will only pay you any tax if they like you more than they like the pope. So if you as a noble have a bishop ruling one of your counties, you'll get opinion with him which could impact both tax and levies. Any ruler at count level or above will get opinion with his liege if his liege is not the same character type. However, doing so is not entirely without penalties. This can benefit the ruler's liege considerably, as he'll be able to charge different tax rates than he would with a noble. However, it is entirely possible for a county to be owned by someone who is not a noble. Typically all holdings in a county will be held by vassals of the count, with the count vassalized to a duke or king.
#CK2 WRONG HOLDING TYPE PENALTY HOW TO#
How to Increase Prestige in Crusader Kings 3 You would still benefit more from holding a barony than any other type of holding, as they give the most troops, and will give you the most tax due to the wrong holding penalty.
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On the other hand, you get the full levies of a holding if you own it rather than a vassal.
In fact with the exception of baronies, giving the holding to a vassal instead will get you higher tax unless you've got high stewardship. This means that tax-wise it cannot pay off to hold a holding of the wrong type rather than one of the right type. If they have a holding on a higher tier however, they will almost always give the holding to a vassal instead. However, it is possible to assign someone not of this type to a holding. In general, only clergy hold churches, burghers cities, and nobles baronies. The capital of a county is indicated in the top-right of the county overview, and whoever owns the capital owns the county. Typically a barony will be the capital of a province, but there are some exceptions, and it is possible to switch the capital simply by granting the county to a someone of a different character type. There are three types of holdings.Įach of these three types have an associated character type baronies are typically owned by nobles, cities by burghers, and bishoprics by clergy. These holdings provide both income and taxes, and every holding is held by a character. Every county has at least one holding, and most have three. I'll be going into how the different types of holdings work, and how you can use them to your advantage. Holdings produce all levies and taxes, and are thus important, yet easily ignored. Every county in Crusader Kings II has at least one holding. For general holdings description read game mechanics on Holdings.