Gaining Land

[daniel]

I am completely new to the CK series and CK3 looked pretty fun. I've done a lot of poking around and I would like to confirm there are really only three ways to gain land (broadly speaking):
1) Go to war (various ways to do this)
2) Marry my kids into a line of succession (then assassinate everyone ahead of my child)
3) Offer vassalage to nearby rulers (may or may not work).

Am I missing any other routes to land acquisition? I realize that within each category there are a couple of different ways to approach it. Just want to be sure I understand the basic options.

Thanks for your help

[brownacs]

I think that's all of them... I'm struggling to think of any more.

[Velesianus]

Originally posted by daniel:

I am completely new to the CK series and CK3 looked pretty fun. I've done a lot of poking around and I would like to confirm there are really only three ways to gain land (broadly speaking):
1) Go to war (various ways to do this)
2) Marry my kids into a line of succession (then assassinate everyone ahead of my child)
3) Offer vassalage to nearby rulers (may or may not work).

Am I missing any other routes to land acquisition? I realize that within each category there are a couple of different ways to approach it. Just want to be sure I understand the basic options.

Thanks for your help

That's basically it although "gain land" can mean a whole lot of things in CK3. Basically you want to grab counties until you can satisfy the kingdom requirements, then become the lawful owner by making the title. Then you move on to the next kingdom until you have enough counties to satisfy the empire requirements and create the title. The map views in the lower right corner are massively helpful for this.

That said though land acquisition is an ends to a means. You're really just trying to keep your bloodline alive until the end unless you're playing a set scenario. This being the case you can in theory start and finish a run without gaining any new land at all.

[daniel]

Thanks! That is helpful. To "Scotty" yeah I guess that is true. I see a lot of players (Paragon included) describing CK3 as a "write your own story" which does not necessarily have to be about getting bigger, bigger. I can see how I might just set up shop and run my little duchy and leave all the word governing to the big boys...that might be an interesting way to see how that story might play out.

[Transylvandrei]

Or: let your vassals wage war and expand your realm for you.