Martial lifestyle · perk tree
Strategy tree (Strategist)
9 perks. Each costs one Martial perk point: 1,000 experience, earned at a base 25 a month while a Martial focus is chosen — 9 × 1,000 ÷ 25 = 360 months, about 30 years for the whole tree before modifiers. The last perk gives the Strategist trait.
Tree layout
StrategistPositions and links as in the game's files. A perk needs every perk linked above it.
Focus
Strategy Focus
Not Adventurer governmentLuck can win a duel. A fool can win a battle. It takes more to win a war.
- Martial+3
Other Martial trees
All trees: Diplomacy · Martial · Stewardship · Intrigue · Learning · Wandering
Perks
Bellum Justum
Starting perk of the treebellum_justum_perk
- Casus Belli Cost: -50%
Parthian Tactics
Needs Bellum Justumparthian_tactics_perk
- Light Cavalry Pursuit+20%
- Light Cavalry Toughness+30%
- Heavy Cavalry Pursuit+20%
- Heavy Cavalry Toughness+30%
- Camel Cavalry Pursuit+20%
- Camel Cavalry Toughness+30%
- Elephant Cavalry Pursuit+20%
- Elephant Cavalry Toughness+30%
- Archer Cavalry Pursuit+20%
- Archer Cavalry Toughness+20%
- Horse (Tourney Participant) Trait Experience Gain+10%
Organized March
Needs Bellum Justumorganized_retreat_perk
- Army Movement Speed+15%
- Travel Speed+25%
- Heavy Infantry Screen+25%
- Spearmen Screen+25%
- Archer Screen+25%
- Skirmisher Screen+25%
Nomadic government
Engineered for Destruction
Needs Bellum Justumengineered_for_destruction_perk
Envelopment
Needs Parthian Tacticsenvelopment_perk
Hit and Run
Needs Organized Marchhit_and_run_perk
Nomadic government
Living Off the Land
Needs Engineered for Destructionliving_off_the_land_perk
- Supply Capacity+200%
- Travel Safety+25%
Not Adventurer government
- Raid Speed+25%
Adventurer government
- Provisions Loss-10%
Sappers
Needs Envelopment, Hit and Run and Living Off the Landsappers_perk
- Heavy Infantry Siege Progress+0.1
- Spearmen Siege Progress+0.1
- Archer Siege Progress+0.1
- Skirmisher Siege Progress+0.1
Nomadic government
Strategist
Needs Sappersstrategist_perk
- Gains the
Strategist trait
Source: game/common/lifestyle_perks/00_martial_1_strategy_tree_perks.txt, game/common/lifestyles/00_lifestyles.txt, game/common/focuses/00_lifestyle_focuses.txt and the English localisation, Crusader Kings III 1.20.0.3. Effects shown in the game only for certain governments, faiths or cultures carry that condition; “In some cases” marks a condition the files test that is not spelled out here.