Holding a county with a barony as capital makes you a count. Most counties in CK2 has this arrangement. Cities: The ruler of a city is a mayor, the ruler of a county becomes a Lord Mayor of a Grand City. If this ruler gains a duchy he becomes a Doge. If he gains a kingdom he becomes a Serene Doge of a Republic.
Levies are non-professional troops that can be raised to defend the realm, usually during wars.
In Crusader Kings II, most of your military is based around levies (pronounced /'lev-ees]/). During medieval times, feudal realms did not maintain standing armies, instead drafting peasants in times of war.
However, nomads have standing armies in the form of horde troops, while other rulers who can afford them can have retinues. Under certain circumstances, tribal rulers can have event troops. While tribal rulers can raise their demesne levies, they call their direct tribal vassals into war as allies, instead of raising liege levies from them. However, if the tribal liege is a vassal to a non-tribal ruler, the tribal liege will receive liege taxes and levies from tribal vassals.
Levies reinforce much faster while in friendly territory, making them more suitable for defensive wars and offensive ones involving neighboring realms.
The holding levy is the levy of a particular holding, and it determines demesne and liege levies.
Their size depends mostly on the holding type, buildings, and the direct owner's martial skill.
If a holding's owner changes as the result of war, a Recently Conquered modifier may apply, making it to provide no levies for a year. After that year, levies reinforce slowly during a New Administration period. The duration is the longest of:
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Lasts for | 1 year | 5 years | 7.5 years | 10 years | 15 years |
Demesne levies are levies from the holdings you directly hold (your demesne), depending on their holding levy.
Whenever your demesne levies are raised, the holding levy of each of the holdings you directly own is emptied and placed on the County the holding is in as an army. Until you dismiss them, you pay a monthly maintenance cost and the holding levy of your holdings reinforces more slowly.
Liege levies are raised from direct vassals. They can be raised in any County controlled by the vassal, by selecting the County and pressing Z. They can also be raised in the vassal's capital province using the Military tab (F6). Nomadic vassal clans do not provide levies to their liege. Tribal vassals also do not provide liege levies to their tribal liege.
The troop count of a vassal's liege levy is based on all holdings under the vassal (whether held directly by them or through other vassals), laws, your direct vassals' opinion of you and the location of their capital relative to yours.
Phantom cine toolkit keygen mac. Whenever liege levies are raised, they replenish more slowly and your vassals pay maintenance costs. Your vassals' opinion of you slowly decreases while their army or ship levies are raised during peacetime (except during raiding sieges for sacking of holdings, or (for ships) carrying loot), or as long as at least one offensive war is active (except during Crusades/Jihads/Great Holy Wars). When liege levies are raised, their starting morale is low. Thus, it is advised not to send them into combat until some morale has built up.
Depleting a vassal's liege levy does not affect the amount of levies the vassal can raise for themselves should they need to go to war themselves. However, a vassal at war who depleted their levies will reduce the amount of liege levies you can raise.
First, the number of troops that the vassal 'could provide at most' is determined by:
Then, the liege levy is determined by:
where:
Vassal's de facto capital in | De Jure Modifier |
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De jure County containing liege's de facto capital | 100% |
De jure Duchy containing liege's de facto capital | 75% |
De jure Kingdom containing liege's de facto capital | 50% |
De jure Empire containing liege's de facto capital | 35% |
Otherwise | 25% |
Note that the levy calculation is updated only at the start of the month, so for instance, transfering a vassal results in his levy being immediately impossible to raise since he's no longer a direct vassal, but the levy of the vassal you transfered him to won't increase until the next month.
Also, the military dialog and its tooltips are highly misleading, since they list the number of troops that a vassal 'owns', which is completely unrelated to anything else in the tooltip and dialog. That value is the amount of non-ship troops that the vassal could raise from his demesne and vassals if he went to war himself, which is not used in any way to compute the levy you could raise from him, and can be either higher or lower (since the opinion and de jure modifiers are different).
Without Conclave Expansion, maximum numbers are determined by demesne laws, while minimum numbers are determined by Crown Authority. If no crown laws apply, as is often the case for independent Dukes, the minimum is 0%.
Feudal Levies (Non-Muslim) | Minimal
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City Levies | Minimal
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Temple Levies (Non-Muslim) | Minimal
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Iqta Levies (Muslim) | Minimal
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Crown Authority | Autonomous Vassals | Limited | Medium | High | Absolute |
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Crown Law Minimums | 0% | 20% | 40% | 60% | 80% |
If you use the Conclave DLC, both minimum and maximum numbers are determined by realm laws (under vassal obligations).
When requesting ships from a vassal, the percentage is doubled. For example, a vassal who provides 20% of their soldiers as levy will provide 40% of their ships.
Rally points are provinces, where your raised troops will automatically move to and merge when get there. Units will choose nearest one county defined as rally point.
You can define any number of rally points, and put them anywhere in your realm, both for land units and ships. Units will only rally to provinces they can walk to or sail to. Land units will not use transports to get there.
If you set up rally point, your troops will not appear in outliner, but instead the rally point entry will show how many troops are incoming. Disabling the “rally points” section causes the outliner to show individual armies.
Levies are easy to get plenty of as long as you have a strong demesne and/or your vassals like you. Your priorities should therefore be:
The way the levy is calculated means that the vassal structure between your direct vassals and the owner of the holdings makes no difference to the amount of levies you can raise. For example, a King can raise the same levies from a Duke vassal regardless of whether the Duke has the Barons as direct vassals, or there are Counts in between.
However, the choice of actual direct vassal is very important, since the 'de jure modifier' and opinion will differ, potentially resulting in up to 8 times more levy. Thus, it is beneficial to put as many holdings as possible in indirect control of vassals with a high 'de jure modifier' and opinion. For example, the levy of a King would be increased by transferring all Count-rank vassals outside of the de jure Duchy containing the capital, to the Duke holding that Duchy (assuming that Duke's capital is also within the de jure Duchy).
The choice of the actual people holding the proper Baronies (cities, temples, castles, and tribes) is also very important, since their Martial score influences the holding's levy and thus your liege levy, possibly resulting in doubling the levy by switching from a low to high Martial holder.
You can increase the levy law to make your vassals be obligated to provide more. However, if their opinion is already low, this will not pay off. Below are the opinion values at which it'll be beneficial to increase or decrease levy laws. In the case of Catholic clergy, it is advisable to set their levy law to Minimum:
If you're in a Catholic realm, be reminded that Catholic clergy are unreliable when it comes to taxes and levies, since they'll withhold levies from you and pay taxes to the Pope if they like the Pope more than you. Plx pci6140-aa33pc g driver for mac. In this context, it may be prudent to lower your levy law for clergy. The increased opinion will also increase the probability that Catholic clergy will pay taxes to you. Counter-intuitively, upgrading bisphorics which are under your vassals will consistently give you more troops than if you upgrade bisphorics which are your direct vassals.
Raising levy law will only ever help you if your vassals already like you. As such, running high levy laws is not always a good idea. However, at these opinion numbers, you're unlikely to hurt any other aspect of your realm, so, as long as you benefit levy-wise from raising levy law, you probably should. Be aware that due to the last step of Noble and Iqta obligations increasing levies by more than any other step, Max levies are usually the ideal point for maximizing feudal levies.
You should also do whatever you can to keep all vassals above 0 opinion. Granting them titles, running tournaments, granting their wishes, making them councilors etc. Each point of opinion will increase the percent they're willing to give by 4/5.
You will only ever benefit levy-wise from Crown Authority if you were already getting below the new minimum percent. For example, if you're getting 25% at Medium Crown Authority, and raise it to high, the minimum will now be 30% and you'll be able to raise more levies. If on the other hand, you were getting 35% before and you raise your Crown Authority, you'll now be getting 5% less.
Don't forget that if you intend to raise your own levies, increased capacity translates into greater expenses. Plan accordingly. In addition, remember that after constructing buildings to increase your levy capacity, it takes time for your levies to grow, and the wait is not insignificant, especially if your character has a low Martial score.