CK3 lifestyle overview and winning strategy.

[Soul]

CK3 lifestyle overview and winning strategy.

Diplomacy.
Diplomat: Forced Vassalage and Defensive Negotiations,
August: Writing History. (Go for this no matter what!)
Famely Hierarch. Friendly Counsel, Sound Foundations.


Martial.
Strategist. Bellum Justum. Organized March.
Overseer. Serve the crown.
Gallant. Kingsguard.


Stewardship.
Avaricious. Golden obligations (Combined with Truth is relative is game breaking money) Feaful Troops (Only if you went down torturer first)
Architect. Don't bother with this tree, but if you must. Centralization. Divided Attemtion.
Administrator. Meritocracy. Toe the line. Likable. Positions of power, Honored to serve.


Intrigue.
Schemer. Truth is relative (Always good to have). Kidnapper (Can be used to insta win wars or get you money, never stop kidnapping if you take it)Job done right.
Seducer. Like weeds in a garden.
Torturer. Dark Insight (5 free char points in intrigue or prowess) Divine Retribution (Always take this if you are going to torture) Fear tax. Forever infamous.


Learning.
Whole of body. Anatomical Studies. Know Thyself. Iron constituion.
Scholar. Scientific (Only if you are the culture head). Learn on the Job. Sanctioned Loopholes (Best perk ingame if you have money) Scholar is best lifestyle trait.
Theologian. Church and State (only if +50 opinion) Prophet (Only if you are going to reform religion).


Winning strategy: Go for August writing history no matter what.
nip into martial and get serv the crown immediatly after for bounse 15% prestige due to natural dread +15.
Get Bellum Justum, then go straight for Kingsguard.
Then go for learning till you get iron constitution.
Assuming you are still alive then head for intrigue and take Intimidation Focus for plus 30 dread that also gives you plus 30% prestige.
Then tale Truth is relative and divine retribution, in that order.
You are now dead, if not due to immortality go for forever infamous.

You people had better be happy about me doing this.... this took a long time. :(

[Panthaz89]

Or you know simply finish the overseer and strategist tree and expand your titles upward until you hit an empire and basically do what you want after. Overseer is enough to stabilize incredibly fast after expanding and strategist makes the most out of your armies though this isn't too good if your ruler isn't martial based/trained. Architect is a very strong tree anything except the immediate count start benefits heavily from an architect building infrastructure in your domains that you plan to keep during successions. The only bad tree in the entire game is seduction and I don't think you ever really need fertility tbh I never had problem having children in any run.

[Eddie Latium]

There is not a single best winning strategy or best lifestyle -only situational solutions-

It was still fun to see what you came up with :)

[Go0lden_Archer]

Winning what strategy? You don't need prestige in this game at all, just romance one or two kings/queens or better yet emperors lol.
And saying architect tree is meh shows how meh your strategy is. Building cheap and fast is king' with having your domain of say 8-10 fully built up and better then some kingdoms out there.