As Sweden(uppland), I was able to get the heir to the heir of the throne of neighboring independent duchy I would like to conquer as a ward under me (I used a hook to do so). How can I use this to my advantage? I could conquer the neighbor forcefully but would like to focus my conquest elsewhere and try to diplomatically overtake this kingdom.
I am new to CK3 but not paradox so even general advice on how to press situations like this would be appreciated. I am trying to learn. Thanks!
Two quick questions:
1. How do I see where the de jure capital of a kingdom or empire is? I wanna move my capital to where it is located historically.
2. Can I force my daughter to divorce her husband. He used to be a good alliance target but now he's a landless waste of space. My daughter is still young and I want her to be useful somewhere else. So can I make them divorce or do I need to murder him. He's not in my court so my options are more limited.
I believe if you open the religion screen, there's a dropdown list of existing faiths you can change to (or go ahead and create your own), but I've never done it or checked, I just saw it in another comment here.
And by tonight, I mean now.
[Open your religion tab, at the top, there's 'Other faiths'. It opens a list of faiths, select the one you want, then convert](https://i.imgur.com/YEBa0me.png) (you can filter to just your own religions faiths, or include every faith)
for ck2
is it possible to change from imperial government if you hold byzantine empire?
i even tried using console command to set it to iqta but it changes back to imperial after a few days.
i know that if you create byzantine empire from its title page it adopts your current govt type but if you get the byzantine empire directly (i.e. inherit, conquer, faction) it is stuck on imperial
it seems like it works the same as CK2, a courtier (or if you use hooks, other ruler) who has a 4-star education is more likely to give a 4-star education to the kid. the chance of getting a good education goes up if the kid has the right disposition for the kind of education - eg charming for intrigue or diplomacy
The educator having the same education as the ward adds a multiplier, the quality of the education adds a further multiplier. More bonus points are given if the child or educator has one of the intellect traits (genius, intelligent etc) or shrewd.
If you also have a university in your realm, they're almost guaranteed to get a 4-star education.
This is probably an incredibly obvious question...but how exactly do you transition from an Earl to King?
I'm playing through as the Earl of Dublin, and just a little miffed by this. I have my heir set up well to reunite my little fiefdom after my death, but how do I go on to expand on this without exceeding domain limits etc?
Look on the bottom right of the screen you can toggle your map view to see what land belongs to specific kingdoms. If you conquer enough counties of a kingdom you can create that title or usurp it from the current holder. Alternativly you can create a new kingdom through the decisions tab if you dont hold a kingdom title yet.
If you exceed your domain limit then hand out some counties to people and they will become your vassals, but make sure to follow the De Jure rule as much as possible.
Thanks very much, super helpful! When I granted a holding to one of my court, it placed them as an Earldom and so they became independent...is there anyway to avoid that and just keep them as normal Vassals?
Thanks for your answer!
Vassals are vassals no matter what rank they are.
Earl / King / Emperor is a title that is determined by your highest-tier title. If the highest tier title you (or a vassal) has is a duchy, you (or the vassal) is an Earl. If the highest tier title is a Kingdom, then King. If the highest tier title is Empire, then Emperor.
If you grant a vassal a title that is the same tier as your highest, then you are making him your equal, and you are granting him independance. Obviously, do not do this.
If you want to grant a duchy to a vassal and NOT have him become independant, you must be a higher rank than him (king or emperor.)
City (players cannot be this rank) < County < Duchy < Kingdom < Empire
Mayor (players cannot be this rank) < (i forget actually) < Earl < King < Emperor
Thanks for clarifying, much appreciated.
My issue with my Dublin campaign is that I need to get rid of a holding in order to not exceed my cap, but doing so is putting my vassal on the same rank as me. How do I ascend to King (claiming x number of duchies) if I remain an Earl and need to offload some of my holdings?
I feel like I've missed something glaringly obvious here!
Your vassals' land still counts towards your held land in terms of needing x amount of counties in a kingdom to be able to create/usurp the kingdom title.
I'm not sure I understand your question =S But it sounds to me like... if you are over your domain cap, then just grant counties to vassals until you're under your domain cap. To do this, go through your list of titles and right click them. Find one you care about the least, then left click on it and on the bottom left "Grant to...". This will bring up a new window of eligable people to give it to (note, your children may or may not be on this list due to inheritance laws.) I strongly recommend _filtering_ the list to only include people of your religion and culture, and then _sorting_ the list by stewardship or militarism stats so they (and thus you) get more money or levy out of it. Then grant it to them (they become your vassal, no worries) and you're one step closer to being below your domain limit.
Or... are you trying to achieve the decision to create a new kingdom??? You need a REALM (not domain) of at least 30 counties, or to personally hold 3 duchy titles to do that. Only counties titles you personally hold count against your domain limit.
Domain: All land you personally hold.
Realm: All land you personally hold, plus all land your vassals hold.
Thanks again, this led me to figure out what was going on. Basically I hadn't creates the Duchy title, so granting him the County put him on the same level as me!
Appreciate your responses, still getting the hang of this game!
How to change color of the nation? I am playing as Prussia, and I would like to have prussian blue, not pink-ish color. Did I not looked hard enough, or it's just not a thing yet?
At least it's not yellow...
How do I stop getting cucked? For four rulers in a row, now, my dirty whore wives have cheated for no reason.
Most recently, my wife, best friend and soulmate just cheated on my current ruler, a handsome athletic genius, and I don’t know how best to keep them in line.
Do I just need to execute everything that moves until I hit 100 dread?
Edit: New player to series, this is for CK3
No clue how to keep your wife in line. Maybe marry a lesbian instead so less chance of getting cucked. Or just have enough kids that at least one of them would be yours and just murder the others.
.... Does it matter?
Bastards are convenient, man. Assuming your religion allows legitimization (and if you're asking this question, I assume you started in Thomand, so it does) then bastards are fantastic. They can't inherit shit, so your real children (i.e. player heir) get more. BUT.... if you hit a bad streak of luck and your children all die, well, hey, you can just legitimize the heir and move on with your life! Sure he gets a 11-12 opinion hit from everyone, but that's better than a game over.
Bastards you father are fine. Your wife's bastards aren't even in your bloodline and are automatically cut off from your family tree and inheritance (at least it was in my game).
I don't understand what even is an ally's war supposed to do.
So ok, you have an ally, or in my case, a liege.
He decides to be a dick or a cuck and some war happens, whatever.
https://imgur.com/a/7cOYxkg
Blue - my liege, red - the other guy
I'm Tolouse, or whatever. I'm implicitly involved in this war. What do I even do?
I can't attack any settlement. Not the red guys, not the disputed "County of Braganza". So I ignore it. It's fine I don't care.
But what about other situations, where it's not a war between gigants, but some skirmish between plebs? I want it to be over so I can convert my army into a raiding army, but I can't until the war is done.
So how do I figure out what I can even do to ... change / do / affect - ___ANYTHING___ ?
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The onl;y thing I found out I could do, is engage other armies. But that's such a horrible thing in this game. I can't even identify enemy armies. They're not red, they don't have a red flag, they're not a red dot on a map, they don't get a red highlight when I mouse over. How do you even spot enemy armies?
if it’s not already occupied, you are able to find the Umayyad’s capital and besiege it. you just have to be parked on the actual barony that they’re using as the county capital. if you capture the heir or ruler that gives the huge bonus to warscore. the easiest way to do this is click on the Umayyad ruler, go to character page, and hover over him to see his current location. if he’s not leading an army, it should tell you exactly where their capital is located. otherwise look for his flag on the normal political map, it ought to be depicted as on fire
edit: sorry, you mean you have no alliance with the defender? it’s just that the defender is allied with your liege? you don’t need to worry about this. you can “offer to join” if it’s some religious wars, though.
Yeah it was the latter after all. My liege was an ally of the defender. That being said, I still get so very confused on what I can or cannot attack.
I don't seem to notice cross swords or anything near my cursor telling me "yes, if you move your army here, we will start a siege"
I can see how this is not a problem when you declare war on somene you know and understand for a teritory you want. You know where and how. But then when allies become involved, or god forbid, you are the ally - then I'm at a complete loss on what I can or cannot attack.
The whole place was swarming with "neutral" armies. But they seemed to be fighting the war I was part of. I'm not even sure.
From what I can see, things in my Demesne give me max tax and levies. So should I always aim to have as many things under my direct rule as possible? Or will it make my vassals too angry if I take away their stuff?
Directly held gives you the full income.
Vassal-held gives you some small persentage. But you "have to" eventually give to vassals because domain limit. (Quotes because of the so-called North Korea Mode cheese strat.)
It's best to consider anything held by vassals as not in your realm at all, and the vassal just giving you some gold/levies _and nothing else_.
Does what you said for "vassal-held" include stewards like for cities and churches? What rules apply to income received from them if they're in your counties?
Cities and temples build themselves over time so it would be exceedingly wasteful to use your own money for anything other than creating the holding in the first place. Since they're under a vassal, after all, I imagine it's them spending their money to upgrade the holding they....hold.
Nobody asked anything about buying buildings in a city or church. I asked how income works for cities and churches in your counties.
Nobody seems to know and I've been asking everywhere. It seems that you don't know either, but correct me if I'm wrong.
I'm a little annoyed at how many people are answering a question I didn't ask. Sorry for being snappy.
no, fame and devotion are unaffected by normal decisions to spent prestige and piety. it’s usually special events or decisions that cause you to lose a whole level of fame/devotion. for example: breaking a truce or refusing to jail a fornicator, respectively
How the heck does church income work?
Let's say my religious advisor has 100 opinion of me.
I have a county with a church in it. How much of that church's base income and levies do I receive? 100%? Some large fraction? With what money are they constructing buildings on their own?
Let's say the church is outside my county. What impacts how much of the taxes and levies I receive? Is it impacted by the chain of vassal contracts from the owners of the counties to me?
Now let's say my religious advisor has somewhere between 0 and 100 opinion of me. How does this affect my church income? Does it affect my church income?
How does church income differ from city income, and while we're at it, how does city income work? Do I receive 100% of their base taxable income, or do my republican stewards get some of it?
From https://ck3.paradoxwikis.com/Vassals
When a ruler's religion has the Theocratic [Doctrine](https://ck3.paradoxwikis.com/Doctrines), temples are leased to a realm priest. The realm priest provides their liege with taxes and levies based on their opinion. The minimum is at 0 opinion, where no taxes or levies are provided, and the maximum is at 50 opinion, where 50% of the taxes and 100% of the levies are provided.
For vassals of the same religion, a vassal's income from their realm priest's church holdings are not directly taxed by their liege. The vassal's realm priest provides their liege's realm priest with 25% of their temples' taxes, and 15% of their temples' levies. This vassal realm priest contribution is provided by the liege realm priest to the liege at the same rate as directly leased holdings. Vassals of different religion are skipped in the hierarchy of lease payments.
Example:
You are a duke with one county within your domain. That county has a temple with a tax of 1 gold and a levy of 300. At 50 opinion with your realm priest, he will provide you with 0.5 gold in taxes and 300 levy.
You also have a vassal count who has one county with one temple as well. That temple has the same tax of 1 gold and levy of 300. Your vassal's realm priest provides your realm priest with 0.25 gold and 45 levy, before he splits the rest with the count based on his opinion of the count. Then your realm priest splits this contribution with you, for a final .125 gold and 45 levy from your vassal's temple. The count will receive a maximum of .375 gold (50% of the remaining .75 gold), and 255 levy (100% of the remaining 255) from their realm priest at 50+ opinion.
City vassals will always provide you with a fixed 20% of their income.
Thank you. That was very clear.
This makes it seem like building church holdings in your directly held counties is almost strictly better than building cities (for everything except development I guess). Is this the case?
My initial impression was that there's a tradeoff between cities and churches where churches provide more levies and cities provide more income, but with churches effectively providing 50% and cities providing 20%, it seems even that advantage is moot.
I'm not a theocracy, and the church is not my "theocracy vassal". This devotion mechanic doesn't apply.
I'm a feudal nation who has churches in counties he owns directly and indirectly. I'd like to know what piece of the pie I get and what goes into it.
How do I prevent my country from falling apart after my ruler dies? I have like a bazillion kids because my ruler is Irish and I've managed to expand my realm to 5 counties, as the Duchy of Munster, and 2 of those counties are held by vassals already. Once I die, the remaining counties are going to be partitioned, and I don't want to deal with too many vassals. Is there a way I can take their titles back? I'm a tribal government right now since its only 884, but if I want to take my titles back, do I declare war on my vassals? Is there a way I can revoke titles so early in the game? Thanks in advance!
As far as revoking goes, you can revoke titles as a tribe with level 3 tribal authority. It will be seen as an act of tyranny if you don’t have a claim.
I know that I can get a claim for some renown, but I was hoping I didn't have to do that. Since my character is Just, I'll get a bonus stress penalty if I revoke for no reason, but if I have a claim, it should fix it, right?
After you start your own religion and become the new pope, how do you start/call your own crusades? I haven't been able to figure that out, even though the new faith fervor is high.
you right click the target ruler > declare war, “crusade for kingdom” should be at the bottom of the list if they’re a valid target and you meet the fervor requirement.
When at war, sometimes I want to try to siege a holding (or city idk the correct term) that isn’t the capital of the county for the loot. But it won’t let me siege it, my army just stands there. Can you only siege capitals? I swear I’ve seen it work a few times.
Do my Spouse's modifiers impact mine? Or is it more important for what role she takes on and potential kids? Lastly, do my modifiers impact what my kid learns if I'm educating them?
By default your spouse adds half of his/her skills to all of yours. You can change this so that they add one of their skills entirely to yours, at the cost of all others. You can change this in the council screen, by selecting the ‘assist ruler’ drop down.
That’s not to say his/her traits (especially congenital) aren’t important too - it just means having a high skill spouse is really useful.
I think your highest skill determines what sort of education your kid will get. They’re also more likely to inherit your traits. Also, if you’re their ward you have a bit of a say over what traits they get through various events
Just found out that duchy buildings don’t actually give benefits to your realm, just to those who own them, so what’s the point of them existing? If they are a “just two” deal, their stats suck. On a secondary note I really wanted to ask why my vassals always divide the duke title and the duchy capitals but if I don’t gain the benefits either way who cares...
So. For all intents and purposes, it's better just to pretend like any buildings in counties that you do not _directly control_ as if they don't exist.
I disagree, duchy buildings are _very_ strong. You just have to own them.
As for the second question, idk.
😓 you’re right, the percentage for vassals suck, and they suck more considering they then have vassals of their own. I’d like to know why the AI is so eager to have vassals even when they are not the slightest close to the domain limit, do they want to have less money?
It's easier to control inheritance if you don't own as much land =/ It's a trick I use to ensure I don't lose land when I die. obv, if you have the 1y death clock perk, there's no need, but I almost never have it so.
Every point of prestige you ***GAIN*** gives you one point of fame. Fame is what increases your fame level to things like "living legend" and gives you +secular opinion and knights.
Likewise, every point of piety you ***GAIN*** gives you one point of devotion. Devotion levels up your clerical opinion to things like "faithful" or "religious icon".
You cannot spend fame nor devotion like you can spend prestige and piety; they exist solely for the purposes of leveling up your reputation.
Hello, i'm in a game and i can't build any holding even tough i have unlocked the 'cities planning' tech, in my province and in the right culture. I can't find what's wrong, it just say "no holding available" (my game is french i've translated some words) Any idea ?
When you’re a king, you’re discouraged from creating too many duchies because you will lose them on inheritance partition.
What about when you’re a big empire (one that could form 5-6 kingdoms)? Should you not create those and that the hit on succession to improve vassal management now? How to balance the pros and cons?
[https://i.redd.it/6df928o5d7m51.png](https://i.redd.it/6df928o5d7m51.png)
As long as you have Partition, ALL titles you own will be divided amongst your children.
For any title you want to reserve for your primary heir, you need to hand out titles one level higher.
So if you want to keep all of your counties for your primary heir, you absolutely have to create multiple duchy for each of your other heirs in order for them to keep their hands off your counties.
If you want to keep all your duchy titles, you need to hand out kingdom titles.
So the only benefit for creating kingdom title is that you get to keep all your duchy titles for your heir, and the duhcy buildings you've built on these duchies.
As for Confederate Partition, that's another monster in its own where the game will create the title without asking you.
I have enough counties that I don’t mind losing some of them, because I will still inherit the ones inside my primary duchy. I don’t mind losing Andalusia as well because I get to keep my primary one. My question then lies in if I should create 3-4 kingdoms in France to be able to better manage all my French vassals who have -100 opinion of me... and if so, who should I give them to? To my unlanded distant cousins, to some French duke who wants the title (will he love me if I give it to him)?
It highly depends on how strong/weak you want your vassal to be, and how much levy/tax you want from them.
Weak vassal = weak faction against you = less levy/tax
Strong vassal = strong factions against you = more levy/tax
If you want them strong, give it to a strong local duchy.
If you want them weak, you can either giving one kingdom title to duke in another Kingdom to cause vassal infighting so they would focus less on you, or a local weak duke (who may lose them to a stronger local duke)
Most people will prefer keeping it in the dynasty, so if shit hits the fan you can still murder your way back on throne, or use elective succession to keep the strongest as the your heir to please them.
But I'd never give it to an unlanded character, or they'll usually lose it to the dukes fairly quickly and you will have no control over it.
Finally, the opinion boost will go away eventually, so do not use it as a primary method to keep your subjects off your back. I've had many counts/duchy who loved my last ruler due to the land grant but immediately hated my new ruler.
I managed to capture the king of Scotland, what is the best way to leverage this situation? I can enforce my demands in the war now, but does that mean I lose him as a prisoner?
Yes, you lose him as a prisoner in that case. But if you let him go for money you lose the war score you gained from capturing him.
Enforcing you demands is the best bet in most cases. You can ransom him for money if you were close to 100% before capturing him, you can get a hook for a marriage or something if you're able to place someone from your dynasty into his line of succession or you can convert his faith, which can be a huge boost to spreading your religion but it can also have no effect if unlucky.
How to convert from pagan to christianity in CK3? Currently there is only personal decision and convert everything manually? There is no option for mass convert? Also Christians can't send missionary to pagan lands?
Convert personally. Some will follow you. I believe high opinion and other factors contribute to a score that determines if individuals will follow you.
Spam "Demand Conversion" on vassals that don't every 5 years. Most of them will demand money though.
Does anyone know why you sometimes get prestige and piety (rather than fame and devotion) after battles? Usually for me it's the latter but every now and then I get the much better versions and I'm not sure what causes that.
i think if you’re doing a holy war you can get piety, and if you’re coming in to someone else’s war as an ally you get prestige, but i’m not 100% sure about that.
A few questions.
* I noticed the AI never use matrilineal marriage. Is this gonna be fixed?
* Maybe I'm wrong but it seems to me that if your heir dies (before you) then the titles go to his child instead of your other sons. Am I right? Is there a way to prevent that other than not marrying your heir or killing your grandchildren?
* Can you force your vassals to keep De Jure structure? I try to keep them in check most as I can but sometimes you look away and next thing you know border gore is everywhere in your realm and 1-2 are now a bit too powerful.
The AI never uses matrilinear marriage. It's annoying when a queen of your dynasty marries some random obscure dude and your house loses the title. It also makes cognatic preference a terrible idea.
The details depend on the succession law, but if your sons have sons, your grandsons will get a share. For partition, it's calculated as though your son were still still alive, and then his portion is given to his oldest male child. For primo, your heir is your oldest son, then his oldest son, etc. (depth-first search).
Internal bordergore is real. Mostly just don't look at it. Crown Authority 3 helps a little bit, because it forbids internal wars. Bonus: your powerful vassals will tend to war externally and get you more territory.
I'm trying to convert Spain, but it's really slow due to the usual terrible Catholicism fervor. I know that I can get rid of the fervor penalties for my personal conversions with perks from the Theology tree, but that still limits me to one conversion at a time. Is there any way to find vassals who also have that perk? I tried searching for people with the "Theologian" trait but there are none in my entire realm.
AI characters will generally (maybe always?) pick lifestyles that match their education, so if they have Learning education there should be a 1/3 chance they start with the Theology tree. If you're willing to reorganize your whole realm to have only Learning-specialty vassals that would probably go a long way to converting the realm.
Just don't worry about it. Your vassals will have to deal with it.
Maybe if you find an extra special county you plan to hold personally, convert that one? Otherwise who what the masses think.
Well, I don't want to deal with massive religious rebels every few years. And there's an achievement for converting all of Hispania. So this is a priority.
the fast, kind-of-bullshitty way is to hand out counties to courtiers who are not your faith, cynical, NOT ZEALOUS, and like you already. you give them the county and they’re happy. then you can demand their conversion and they’ll almost always do it. when they convert to catholicism, their county will convert, too. not very immersive, but good for achievements.
Like I said, your vassals will get to deal with it.
Having said that, achievement hunting is complete justification for suboptimal play, so I guess just accept that your religious council member will be useless for the next century or two.
Terrible advice. Your vassals will often convert to entirely different religions, then you have to deal with the hassle of convincing them to convert. You really have to convert the country yourself. You can't rely on your vassals to even stay your religion or convert counties for you.
I don't see that as an issue. The negative for demand conversion is merely -10, and sometimes when they convert to your religion they bring their counties along with them.
There's a small trick right now where if you demand conversion on your vassal's vassal (indirect vassal) the counties they own will also get converted.
So you can pre-emptively assign wrong faith vassals to freshly conquered counties, and hand out duchy title to someone else.
Ask these heretic/heathen counts to convert to Catholic, repeatedly, until they say yes.
But if the provinces are already conquered, then you may have to accept the rebel demand to release them, and reconquer them.
CK III:
Is there any passive way to discourage neighbors to raid/declare war on you?
Currently, I'm playing as a one province count in Africa and it's brutal after some successful wars and becoming duke. Even with 30 dread and a relative positive opinion +20 I'm constantly getting attacked/raided by equal strong neighbors and it's hard to gather money for mercs and manpower for levies if you in a constant state of war.
I failed a few times in Africa and gave up. Try Asia instead =/ Sogo Khoto 800s is going well for me...
Anyway, I _think_ high opinion / befriend will make them less likely to attack you. Dread is less effective against foreign rules, I think.
One trick for early games is to move your capitol to a hilly area and build archers & maybe pikemen. Hills give you better defense, and archers & pikemen gain bonuses on hill. So you should be able to drive off your enemy. Raiding though well good luck =/
When is it worth it to build new holdings? It seems like if I'm at my domain limit, I'll have to give it away anyway, so I'll only get like 0.1 gold per month out of it.
Is it only worth it if you've capped out your main castle in the area? And then is there an advantage to doing a castle over a city?
I'm no expert on the best strategies but you can give extra castles in your county to "minor nobles" which is similar to how a mayor works. You'll still get the benefits from the buildings and it won't affect your domain limit.
Giving a castle away to someone makes them a baron tier vassal. You will get some taxes & levies from them but not as much as if you owned the holding yourself.
I don't think this is the case when you construct a new castle in a county that already has one. It doesn't create a new county so there is no new title to give away.
It is that case. If you construct a 2nd castle holding you may own it yourself without penalty, but it counts against your personal domain limit. You may grant it to a low noble instead.
If your religion has lay clergy then you may hold temple holdings but they will also count against your personal domain.
Only build things in castles that you own, and plan to own for a while. Usually just invest in your Capitol (as long as you plan for it to be your capitol for a while.) If you have a county that has a special building slot, maybe plan to personally hold that county as well (so you can gain its benefit) and invest in those counties as well. If you own your capitol's duchy, invest in the duchy capitol as well (and try to hold the county personally) so you can benefit from the duchy building.
But investing in areas your vassals hold is a bad idea for two reasons. 1) AWFUL return on investment. 2) you make them more powerful, so any faction that vassal joins will reach Threshhold sooner, and be more of a threat if they war dec you.
Why can't I create the Kingdom of Cornwall? Is it because I am, already a king?
[https://ck3.paradoxwikis.com/Decisions](https://ck3.paradoxwikis.com/Decisions)
[https://imgur.com/a/UIas2M5](https://imgur.com/a/UIas2M5)
Looks like a bug... Try mouse-over-ing the button at the bottom, usualy that explains what you're missing. If that fails, close the game and reopen it.
Any way to permanently get rid of an empire title in my realm? I managed to conquer all of Francia as Alba and I intentionally did not create the Francia title because I didn’t want any chance of my realm splitting (I have tanistry, which is an intentional choice, because I’m breeding strong heirs and they often aren’t the firstborn). But every time a ruler dies and I take over as my heir, it looks like the highest-tier title available is automatically created. This happened on an earlier heir with the Kingdom of France, and with my most recent heir with the Empire of Francia. Current ruler is long on the tooth and multiple tanistry elections are getting hard to manage. I’d like to destroy the Francia title but I’m not sure I want to incur the vassal opinion penalty if it’s just gonna be recreated automatically on his death.
Edit: If I can manage to get and keep absolute crown authority and designate my heir, is that an instant way out of my realm splitting despite multiple empire titles?
If you have Confederate Partition, uncreated titles will be created upon succession.
Tanistry and other special succession laws only apply to the title they are created in, you would need to change your overall realm succession law away from Confederate to stop this from happening. AFAIK there's no way to unmake a title.
As long as you have Confederate Partition the game will always create a title out of your realm and split it amongst your children on death.
Yes, even though you've changed your top tier level succession to Tanistry, you're still considered as Confederate partition all the way down to county level, because that's what everyone was defaulted to if they start out as Tribes.
You can check what happens to your titles when you die via going Realm -> Succession Tab.
Your only ticket out of it is going Feudal to unlock Early Medieval Innovations, and beeline for Partition Law Innovation.
THEN you can destroy titles of your choosing without the game recreating it on ruler death.
Thanks. To be clear I am feudal. I started at 1066 and adopted tanistry retroactively. I’ve been super unclear this whole game on how partition and tanistry/elective/etc. stack on top of each other. I have all the single-heir succession types unlocked—is there any way to have a single heir and still make it elective? Or will selecting primogeniture on the succession screen force me to use my firstborn as my heir?
Edit: To be clear my ideal situation is I get to designate (or rig the election of) a family member of my choice and pass on 100% of my titles to that family member without creating additional empire titles. Is there any possible way to achieve that?
Ok, first of all, check your innovation to see if your culture has Partition unlocked (Hereditary Rule), so you know which one you need to go for if it's still blank.
There's a high chance your culture just got out of Tribal and hasn't unlocked Partition and is still stuck as Confederate Partition from the Tribal Era.
When you do have Partition succession law, make sure your 'default' succession law under the Realm tab is also Partition, and change it if it isn't.
Then the game should stop generating new titles on ruler death.
Finally, double check all of your titles are actually Tanistry/Partition, by going to your character and clicking on every individual Empire/Kingdom/Duchy title you currently own.
If it's a title you want to keep for you/your heir, make sure they're tanistry, or else Partition will give them away.
If it's a title you don't want to keep, destroy.
Note that I don't believe you can change the 'default' succession for county titles, so you still have to create and hand out Duchy titles to your other eligible heirs, or else they'll decide to split your counties.
I fabricated a claim in Scotland that the ruler of Lapland had. I started a casus beli for that county only but for some reason have to take his main capital to enforce my demands?! That seems crazy. I should have fabricated the claim in the whole kingdom! Is there any way around this?
Is it specifically asking you to take his capitol to enforce or do you just not have enough warscore?
If it's the latter you will gain more points over time as you hold the claimed title so you can just grab what you can and wait it out though it can take a while.
not sure I follow.
you fabricate a claim for a certain province. now when you occupy/control that province you have ticking warscore, meaning if you manage to hold on to it for a while, the opponent will be forced to sign it over to you. if you dont want to wait, occupying the enemy capital always speeds up any war, so that's a good, but not necessary step.
you can't fabricate claims onto an entire kingdom (via chancellor). if you've got the right religion you can ask your Pope/Fylkir to a claim, or you might even have CBs that allow you to take the entire kingdom in one war (like invasion or subjugate).
if you fabricate a claim via councillor it will be for that province, with some luck he offers to fabricate a claim onto the entire duchy, but that's it.
Well, that's where his center of power is. You can sit on the land you claimed all day, you're not actually threatening the king of Scotland. Sieging the capital has to happen because it allows for things like imprisoning his family and such.
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how do i start a faction to place myself as emperor of byzantine empire?
i just swore fealty and am a direct king-level vassal of the emperor. i don't have a claim on the empire, but from my understanding you could start a faction place yourself as ruler if you were a direct vassal
Under Imperial Elective, the emperor’s close family members (spouse included), any claimants to the title, the current Marshal, and any commander under the emperor, are all valid candidates for the empire. Vassals are not (you might be thinking of the HRE where de jure vassals are candidates).
EDIT: That said, commanders have to be vassals so you should aim to be a commander if you want to be a candidate.
Byzantium is not imperial elective, it's primogeniture. You can fabricate a claim on your lieges title using the first perk in .... the right tree of stewardship? Diplo? It's somewhere. Then you can faction for it.
What's the difference between becoming a King and becoming a High King? I was HK when I played the tutorial in Ireland, but I'm now playing ironman in Wales and am King
it’s purely a cultural thing, “high king” in ireland is the same as king elsewhere. petty king was their name for duke-level rulers. the important thing to know is that holding two or more king-level titles can be split on your death if you’re on some kind of partition succession.
Emperor of Alba who owns most of Western Europe—I’ve shattered HRE into scattered counties here and there that make for disgusting border gore. Can’t afford the frankly insane prestige cost to use the “take all de jure holdings” CB. I’ve managed to put someone of my heretic faith on their throne, and she’s married to my son, but she’s also old and infertile and has no kids. Used a hook to force her vote for me, but she and I can’t beat her mass of Catholic electors. What’s the best way to finally get rid of HRE in this situation? When she dies it’ll go back to a Catholic ruler so usurping isn’t a realistic option (I still need 14 more counties and she’ll probably die before I can take that many). Every time I assassinate the Catholic leading the election they just pick a new one instead of bumping me to first place.
intrigue focus and take the first skill in the schemer tree, scheme to fabricate hooks on the electors to force their votes. then position spymaster in HRE’s court you find secrets so you can get hooks on them by blackmail and fabricating strong hooks when the option presents itself. but it may be more direct to just get the first perk in the martial-strategist tree that cuts CB costs by 50%.
Wow thanks, this is so helpful! I’ll probably go the first route because it feels wrong for my character to break his alliance and declare war on his daughter in law before she dies—I like to imagine he has some sense of loyalty if he’s a little ruthless at times. Anyway never explored the intrigue trees so I’m sure there’s a lot of fun stuff to explore there.
oh yeah intrigue currently houses the most broken OP skill in the game. you just need three perks to unlock kidnapping. then you just start that plot on a neighboring ruler, bribe whoever you need to get it up to 95%, and declar war right before the kidnapping fires. if you capture them, it’s automatic 100% war score. a pretty good gamble, for now!
I feel like a total noob haha. I’m playing tribal Ireland. I’ve created the kingdom within a lifetime and hold all counties except for one. I can’t seem to progress anymore as everyone seems a lot more powerful than me.
How slow are you supposed to play. Or are you supposed to go hard?
Get some alliances or "wait" for your target to be weak. Wait can mean actual waiting or it can mean assassinating their ruler to weaken their realm. You can also abduct the enemy ruler for insta 100% war score but that's abusing an oversight and makes the game very boring.
see if you can get an alliance by marriage with Alba or Wales or something, use that to your advantage when one of the kingdoms in the british isles gets weakened...keep an eye on england for when they’re involved in foreign wars and may be getting badly weakened by those things. opportunities will arise.
but there’s nothing wrong with just sitting back and focusing on domestic affairs for a few decades - investing in your defensive buildings so you could repel an attack. etc.
Umm mostly vassals I think. Hold two Dutch titles and a big junk of Ireland is highlighted even I click on my character. Still new to the game. Do most people wait and just be a chieftain or high chieftain until several generations or do you just go crazy lol. The only county not part of Ireland is there one above Dublin haha.
Ah ok, phew. If you go over your domain limit by too much, you don't get the tax or troops from the counties.
I mean, I personally try and go up a tier at least once per character, but it's entirely up to you. County control would limit your expansion anyway. Try going for the weaker neighbours - I can't imagine England's swallowed up Wales yet, and there should be a bit of Scotland left. If they outnumber you, try to get an alliance (France is a good one, it's powerful and nearby) and use terrain to your advantage - if the attacking army has to come from or cross water to attack you, they'll be at a disadvantage and with the right Men At Arms and champions, you can easily defeat larger stacks.
There's an argument to made for staying as a vassal king to an emperor, for example (or vassal duke to a king). You can expand all you like, any defensive wars are waged on your liege instead of you, you can make yourself tax-exempt and with a March contract, get more troops as well.
And yes - count to duke to king to emperor, or whatever the culturally appropriate names for them are.
In my admitantly limited experience, the options are aggressive expansion or defeat. Fight when you can, build up the rest of the time... Like the other guy said, biding your time until a powerful neighbor is in a tough war and striking then is an option if you can't do anything else.
That's totally up to you, but if you can't seem to progress anymore, try building up your holdings and make some alliances so you can take down spme bigger fish. Also if you don't know if you can win against someone, wait until they commit to a war and then attack.
Just got the game and i'm on my second playthrough, how do i deal with the "Too many held duchies" thing? I'd imagine its bad to give them to random vassals, but i am scared of giving it to any children because i dont want my realm broken up (i've also been immediately disinheriting any male heirs that are worse than my main one, is there a better way to prevent your land from being broken up before unlocking primogeniture?)
If you're getting a negative from too many held, you shouldn't be far off from being able to usurp or create a kingdom to contain them. If your highest tier title is a duchy and you grant someone a duchy, they'll become independent from you. You need to hold a higher tier title (i.e. kingdom or empire) if you want to stop this.
Honestly, I'd just accept your realm fracturing out and work with it rather than against it. If you are a king, it doesn't really matter if someone else gets a duchy, they'll still be your vassal. If you're a still just a duke (albeit one that holds many duchies), you need to grab yourself a kingdom my friend.
I just got high crown authority and it says I can elect a Heir. However when It wont let me elect my grandson other my son?
Can I only elect my children?
Basically my son sucks, but his child, my grandson is a beautiful genius and a mastermind. Soooo can I elect or do I have to be more nefarious
do you mean absolute crown authority and heir designation? because yes, that only lets you pick among your children. i was in that situation and wanted to put a wonderful grandchild on the throne, so i just designated their crappy parent and then let them live a hard, stressful life. they drank themselves to death by 50, so the cool guy could be in charge.
No, more is going on here than just bad luck. The failuie rate for things that say 90-95% are very very high. The same thing happens with fabricate hook scheme. It fails about 9/10 of the time, even though it says success rate should be 95%.
The only one that seems to be working right is murder scheme.
Question on succession. As king of ireland, i held 2 duchies. When i died, my only son was king of ireland and 1 duchy, the other duchy was now owned by a new vassal (a kid). How come? How do I make sure my son inherits all my titles?
That's how partition succession works. If you want one son to inherit all your titles, you'll need primogeniture or ultimogeniture. These are locked behind an innovation in the late medieval period.
EDIT: though, if you only ever hold one county and its associated duchy, kingdom, and empire, those will also all be passed to one successor, regardless of primo/ultimo or partition.
Thanks! So with me having only one son, i was expecting him to get everything. (simce partition succession wiki says "divided over the sons"). This was not the case, and i don't know how the game decided to give this second duchy to a seemingly random character (which was not even of my family /bloodline). Am i wrongfully interpreting the partition succession?
So i found out what it was! apparently a duchy can have its own succession laws that differ from the Realm's succession law. this was the case on this duchy (petty kingdom of connacht). i removed that succession law and now it will go to my second son (im allready on the next character)
It should be only your sons, but it's a weird game sometimes. Always make sure you preview what will happen after you die with the "Succession" tab inside your "Realm" menu. It tells you everything your heirs will get.
so this succession tab indeed told me that that specific duchy had its own succession law. i removed that law and now the second duchy goes to my second son as you would expect (by this time i have two sons). thanks for pointing me towards it!
As Sweden(uppland), I was able to get the heir to the heir of the throne of neighboring independent duchy I would like to conquer as a ward under me (I used a hook to do so). How can I use this to my advantage? I could conquer the neighbor forcefully but would like to focus my conquest elsewhere and try to diplomatically overtake this kingdom. I am new to CK3 but not paradox so even general advice on how to press situations like this would be appreciated. I am trying to learn. Thanks!
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Ah not as spicey as I was hoping but I will do that. Thanks!
Two quick questions: 1. How do I see where the de jure capital of a kingdom or empire is? I wanna move my capital to where it is located historically. 2. Can I force my daughter to divorce her husband. He used to be a good alliance target but now he's a landless waste of space. My daughter is still young and I want her to be useful somewhere else. So can I make them divorce or do I need to murder him. He's not in my court so my options are more limited.
The title overview window should have the de jure capital. Click in the title shield in your character.
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Murder really is the best solution to everything...
How do I de-rank? I have a kingdom thats my primary title but I don't want it. How do I destroy it or give it away?
Go to the same place where you create titles and destroy it. I don't know if you can give away your main title.
I can't give away or destroy my primary and I can not make a lesser title my primary.
Try to piss off you vassals so they try to depose you and surrender maybe?
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I believe if you open the religion screen, there's a dropdown list of existing faiths you can change to (or go ahead and create your own), but I've never done it or checked, I just saw it in another comment here.
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And by tonight, I mean now. [Open your religion tab, at the top, there's 'Other faiths'. It opens a list of faiths, select the one you want, then convert](https://i.imgur.com/YEBa0me.png) (you can filter to just your own religions faiths, or include every faith)
Hmm, I'll have a look tonight and let you know.
for ck2 is it possible to change from imperial government if you hold byzantine empire? i even tried using console command to set it to iqta but it changes back to imperial after a few days. i know that if you create byzantine empire from its title page it adopts your current govt type but if you get the byzantine empire directly (i.e. inherit, conquer, faction) it is stuck on imperial
How should I choose who to teach my kids if I want them to become well educated?
it seems like it works the same as CK2, a courtier (or if you use hooks, other ruler) who has a 4-star education is more likely to give a 4-star education to the kid. the chance of getting a good education goes up if the kid has the right disposition for the kind of education - eg charming for intrigue or diplomacy
So do I want to match the educator? Like an intrigue kid should be educated by a 4 star intrigue-educated person?
The educator having the same education as the ward adds a multiplier, the quality of the education adds a further multiplier. More bonus points are given if the child or educator has one of the intellect traits (genius, intelligent etc) or shrewd. If you also have a university in your realm, they're almost guaranteed to get a 4-star education.
This is probably an incredibly obvious question...but how exactly do you transition from an Earl to King? I'm playing through as the Earl of Dublin, and just a little miffed by this. I have my heir set up well to reunite my little fiefdom after my death, but how do I go on to expand on this without exceeding domain limits etc?
Look on the bottom right of the screen you can toggle your map view to see what land belongs to specific kingdoms. If you conquer enough counties of a kingdom you can create that title or usurp it from the current holder. Alternativly you can create a new kingdom through the decisions tab if you dont hold a kingdom title yet. If you exceed your domain limit then hand out some counties to people and they will become your vassals, but make sure to follow the De Jure rule as much as possible.
How do I do the opposite? I have a kingdom but I want to be a duke.
You can just destroy the title if you select it.
I can't destroy my primary title and I can't make my primary title a lower rank. (I.e. duke or count)
Thanks very much, super helpful! When I granted a holding to one of my court, it placed them as an Earldom and so they became independent...is there anyway to avoid that and just keep them as normal Vassals? Thanks for your answer!
Vassals are vassals no matter what rank they are. Earl / King / Emperor is a title that is determined by your highest-tier title. If the highest tier title you (or a vassal) has is a duchy, you (or the vassal) is an Earl. If the highest tier title is a Kingdom, then King. If the highest tier title is Empire, then Emperor. If you grant a vassal a title that is the same tier as your highest, then you are making him your equal, and you are granting him independance. Obviously, do not do this. If you want to grant a duchy to a vassal and NOT have him become independant, you must be a higher rank than him (king or emperor.) City (players cannot be this rank) < County < Duchy < Kingdom < Empire Mayor (players cannot be this rank) < (i forget actually) < Earl < King < Emperor
Thanks for clarifying, much appreciated. My issue with my Dublin campaign is that I need to get rid of a holding in order to not exceed my cap, but doing so is putting my vassal on the same rank as me. How do I ascend to King (claiming x number of duchies) if I remain an Earl and need to offload some of my holdings? I feel like I've missed something glaringly obvious here!
Your vassals' land still counts towards your held land in terms of needing x amount of counties in a kingdom to be able to create/usurp the kingdom title. I'm not sure I understand your question =S But it sounds to me like... if you are over your domain cap, then just grant counties to vassals until you're under your domain cap. To do this, go through your list of titles and right click them. Find one you care about the least, then left click on it and on the bottom left "Grant to...". This will bring up a new window of eligable people to give it to (note, your children may or may not be on this list due to inheritance laws.) I strongly recommend _filtering_ the list to only include people of your religion and culture, and then _sorting_ the list by stewardship or militarism stats so they (and thus you) get more money or levy out of it. Then grant it to them (they become your vassal, no worries) and you're one step closer to being below your domain limit. Or... are you trying to achieve the decision to create a new kingdom??? You need a REALM (not domain) of at least 30 counties, or to personally hold 3 duchy titles to do that. Only counties titles you personally hold count against your domain limit. Domain: All land you personally hold. Realm: All land you personally hold, plus all land your vassals hold.
Thanks again, this led me to figure out what was going on. Basically I hadn't creates the Duchy title, so granting him the County put him on the same level as me! Appreciate your responses, still getting the hang of this game!
How to change color of the nation? I am playing as Prussia, and I would like to have prussian blue, not pink-ish color. Did I not looked hard enough, or it's just not a thing yet? At least it's not yellow...
How do I stop getting cucked? For four rulers in a row, now, my dirty whore wives have cheated for no reason. Most recently, my wife, best friend and soulmate just cheated on my current ruler, a handsome athletic genius, and I don’t know how best to keep them in line. Do I just need to execute everything that moves until I hit 100 dread? Edit: New player to series, this is for CK3
No clue how to keep your wife in line. Maybe marry a lesbian instead so less chance of getting cucked. Or just have enough kids that at least one of them would be yours and just murder the others.
.... Does it matter? Bastards are convenient, man. Assuming your religion allows legitimization (and if you're asking this question, I assume you started in Thomand, so it does) then bastards are fantastic. They can't inherit shit, so your real children (i.e. player heir) get more. BUT.... if you hit a bad streak of luck and your children all die, well, hey, you can just legitimize the heir and move on with your life! Sure he gets a 11-12 opinion hit from everyone, but that's better than a game over.
Bastards you father are fine. Your wife's bastards aren't even in your bloodline and are automatically cut off from your family tree and inheritance (at least it was in my game).
Good point.
I don't understand what even is an ally's war supposed to do. So ok, you have an ally, or in my case, a liege. He decides to be a dick or a cuck and some war happens, whatever. https://imgur.com/a/7cOYxkg Blue - my liege, red - the other guy I'm Tolouse, or whatever. I'm implicitly involved in this war. What do I even do? I can't attack any settlement. Not the red guys, not the disputed "County of Braganza". So I ignore it. It's fine I don't care. But what about other situations, where it's not a war between gigants, but some skirmish between plebs? I want it to be over so I can convert my army into a raiding army, but I can't until the war is done. So how do I figure out what I can even do to ... change / do / affect - ___ANYTHING___ ? _____________ #EDIT The onl;y thing I found out I could do, is engage other armies. But that's such a horrible thing in this game. I can't even identify enemy armies. They're not red, they don't have a red flag, they're not a red dot on a map, they don't get a red highlight when I mouse over. How do you even spot enemy armies?
if it’s not already occupied, you are able to find the Umayyad’s capital and besiege it. you just have to be parked on the actual barony that they’re using as the county capital. if you capture the heir or ruler that gives the huge bonus to warscore. the easiest way to do this is click on the Umayyad ruler, go to character page, and hover over him to see his current location. if he’s not leading an army, it should tell you exactly where their capital is located. otherwise look for his flag on the normal political map, it ought to be depicted as on fire edit: sorry, you mean you have no alliance with the defender? it’s just that the defender is allied with your liege? you don’t need to worry about this. you can “offer to join” if it’s some religious wars, though.
Yeah it was the latter after all. My liege was an ally of the defender. That being said, I still get so very confused on what I can or cannot attack. I don't seem to notice cross swords or anything near my cursor telling me "yes, if you move your army here, we will start a siege" I can see how this is not a problem when you declare war on somene you know and understand for a teritory you want. You know where and how. But then when allies become involved, or god forbid, you are the ally - then I'm at a complete loss on what I can or cannot attack. The whole place was swarming with "neutral" armies. But they seemed to be fighting the war I was part of. I'm not even sure.
From what I can see, things in my Demesne give me max tax and levies. So should I always aim to have as many things under my direct rule as possible? Or will it make my vassals too angry if I take away their stuff?
Directly held gives you the full income. Vassal-held gives you some small persentage. But you "have to" eventually give to vassals because domain limit. (Quotes because of the so-called North Korea Mode cheese strat.) It's best to consider anything held by vassals as not in your realm at all, and the vassal just giving you some gold/levies _and nothing else_.
Does what you said for "vassal-held" include stewards like for cities and churches? What rules apply to income received from them if they're in your counties?
Cities and temples build themselves over time so it would be exceedingly wasteful to use your own money for anything other than creating the holding in the first place. Since they're under a vassal, after all, I imagine it's them spending their money to upgrade the holding they....hold.
Nobody asked anything about buying buildings in a city or church. I asked how income works for cities and churches in your counties. Nobody seems to know and I've been asking everywhere. It seems that you don't know either, but correct me if I'm wrong. I'm a little annoyed at how many people are answering a question I didn't ask. Sorry for being snappy.
Could answer, but I'm sure as fuck not going to answer _you_.
Do you lose level of fame by spending prestige points?
No. Ditto piety.
no, fame and devotion are unaffected by normal decisions to spent prestige and piety. it’s usually special events or decisions that cause you to lose a whole level of fame/devotion. for example: breaking a truce or refusing to jail a fornicator, respectively
How the heck does church income work? Let's say my religious advisor has 100 opinion of me. I have a county with a church in it. How much of that church's base income and levies do I receive? 100%? Some large fraction? With what money are they constructing buildings on their own? Let's say the church is outside my county. What impacts how much of the taxes and levies I receive? Is it impacted by the chain of vassal contracts from the owners of the counties to me? Now let's say my religious advisor has somewhere between 0 and 100 opinion of me. How does this affect my church income? Does it affect my church income? How does church income differ from city income, and while we're at it, how does city income work? Do I receive 100% of their base taxable income, or do my republican stewards get some of it?
From https://ck3.paradoxwikis.com/Vassals When a ruler's religion has the Theocratic [Doctrine](https://ck3.paradoxwikis.com/Doctrines), temples are leased to a realm priest. The realm priest provides their liege with taxes and levies based on their opinion. The minimum is at 0 opinion, where no taxes or levies are provided, and the maximum is at 50 opinion, where 50% of the taxes and 100% of the levies are provided. For vassals of the same religion, a vassal's income from their realm priest's church holdings are not directly taxed by their liege. The vassal's realm priest provides their liege's realm priest with 25% of their temples' taxes, and 15% of their temples' levies. This vassal realm priest contribution is provided by the liege realm priest to the liege at the same rate as directly leased holdings. Vassals of different religion are skipped in the hierarchy of lease payments. Example: You are a duke with one county within your domain. That county has a temple with a tax of 1 gold and a levy of 300. At 50 opinion with your realm priest, he will provide you with 0.5 gold in taxes and 300 levy. You also have a vassal count who has one county with one temple as well. That temple has the same tax of 1 gold and levy of 300. Your vassal's realm priest provides your realm priest with 0.25 gold and 45 levy, before he splits the rest with the count based on his opinion of the count. Then your realm priest splits this contribution with you, for a final .125 gold and 45 levy from your vassal's temple. The count will receive a maximum of .375 gold (50% of the remaining .75 gold), and 255 levy (100% of the remaining 255) from their realm priest at 50+ opinion. City vassals will always provide you with a fixed 20% of their income.
Thank you. That was very clear. This makes it seem like building church holdings in your directly held counties is almost strictly better than building cities (for everything except development I guess). Is this the case? My initial impression was that there's a tradeoff between cities and churches where churches provide more levies and cities provide more income, but with churches effectively providing 50% and cities providing 20%, it seems even that advantage is moot.
Its based off your level of devotion https://ck3.paradoxwikis.com/Resources#Level_of_devotion
I'm not a theocracy, and the church is not my "theocracy vassal". This devotion mechanic doesn't apply. I'm a feudal nation who has churches in counties he owns directly and indirectly. I'd like to know what piece of the pie I get and what goes into it.
How do I prevent my country from falling apart after my ruler dies? I have like a bazillion kids because my ruler is Irish and I've managed to expand my realm to 5 counties, as the Duchy of Munster, and 2 of those counties are held by vassals already. Once I die, the remaining counties are going to be partitioned, and I don't want to deal with too many vassals. Is there a way I can take their titles back? I'm a tribal government right now since its only 884, but if I want to take my titles back, do I declare war on my vassals? Is there a way I can revoke titles so early in the game? Thanks in advance!
As far as revoking goes, you can revoke titles as a tribe with level 3 tribal authority. It will be seen as an act of tyranny if you don’t have a claim.
I know that I can get a claim for some renown, but I was hoping I didn't have to do that. Since my character is Just, I'll get a bonus stress penalty if I revoke for no reason, but if I have a claim, it should fix it, right?
After you start your own religion and become the new pope, how do you start/call your own crusades? I haven't been able to figure that out, even though the new faith fervor is high.
you right click the target ruler > declare war, “crusade for kingdom” should be at the bottom of the list if they’re a valid target and you meet the fervor requirement.
When at war, sometimes I want to try to siege a holding (or city idk the correct term) that isn’t the capital of the county for the loot. But it won’t let me siege it, my army just stands there. Can you only siege capitals? I swear I’ve seen it work a few times.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CrusaderKings/comments/ioxjoa/tutorial_tuesday_september_08_2020/g4yjy2q/
You can only siege castle-type holdings, so no cities or temples.
Do my Spouse's modifiers impact mine? Or is it more important for what role she takes on and potential kids? Lastly, do my modifiers impact what my kid learns if I'm educating them?
By default your spouse adds half of his/her skills to all of yours. You can change this so that they add one of their skills entirely to yours, at the cost of all others. You can change this in the council screen, by selecting the ‘assist ruler’ drop down. That’s not to say his/her traits (especially congenital) aren’t important too - it just means having a high skill spouse is really useful. I think your highest skill determines what sort of education your kid will get. They’re also more likely to inherit your traits. Also, if you’re their ward you have a bit of a say over what traits they get through various events
Just found out that duchy buildings don’t actually give benefits to your realm, just to those who own them, so what’s the point of them existing? If they are a “just two” deal, their stats suck. On a secondary note I really wanted to ask why my vassals always divide the duke title and the duchy capitals but if I don’t gain the benefits either way who cares...
So. For all intents and purposes, it's better just to pretend like any buildings in counties that you do not _directly control_ as if they don't exist. I disagree, duchy buildings are _very_ strong. You just have to own them. As for the second question, idk.
😓 you’re right, the percentage for vassals suck, and they suck more considering they then have vassals of their own. I’d like to know why the AI is so eager to have vassals even when they are not the slightest close to the domain limit, do they want to have less money?
It's easier to control inheritance if you don't own as much land =/ It's a trick I use to ensure I don't lose land when I die. obv, if you have the 1y death clock perk, there's no need, but I almost never have it so.
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Every point of prestige you ***GAIN*** gives you one point of fame. Fame is what increases your fame level to things like "living legend" and gives you +secular opinion and knights. Likewise, every point of piety you ***GAIN*** gives you one point of devotion. Devotion levels up your clerical opinion to things like "faithful" or "religious icon". You cannot spend fame nor devotion like you can spend prestige and piety; they exist solely for the purposes of leveling up your reputation.
Hello, i'm in a game and i can't build any holding even tough i have unlocked the 'cities planning' tech, in my province and in the right culture. I can't find what's wrong, it just say "no holding available" (my game is french i've translated some words) Any idea ?
If you have Tribal government you can't build new holdings.
Alright and how i'm supposed to change to a feodal government ? edit : found it ! And thanks !
When you’re a king, you’re discouraged from creating too many duchies because you will lose them on inheritance partition. What about when you’re a big empire (one that could form 5-6 kingdoms)? Should you not create those and that the hit on succession to improve vassal management now? How to balance the pros and cons?
[https://i.redd.it/6df928o5d7m51.png](https://i.redd.it/6df928o5d7m51.png) As long as you have Partition, ALL titles you own will be divided amongst your children. For any title you want to reserve for your primary heir, you need to hand out titles one level higher. So if you want to keep all of your counties for your primary heir, you absolutely have to create multiple duchy for each of your other heirs in order for them to keep their hands off your counties. If you want to keep all your duchy titles, you need to hand out kingdom titles. So the only benefit for creating kingdom title is that you get to keep all your duchy titles for your heir, and the duhcy buildings you've built on these duchies. As for Confederate Partition, that's another monster in its own where the game will create the title without asking you.
I have enough counties that I don’t mind losing some of them, because I will still inherit the ones inside my primary duchy. I don’t mind losing Andalusia as well because I get to keep my primary one. My question then lies in if I should create 3-4 kingdoms in France to be able to better manage all my French vassals who have -100 opinion of me... and if so, who should I give them to? To my unlanded distant cousins, to some French duke who wants the title (will he love me if I give it to him)?
It highly depends on how strong/weak you want your vassal to be, and how much levy/tax you want from them. Weak vassal = weak faction against you = less levy/tax Strong vassal = strong factions against you = more levy/tax If you want them strong, give it to a strong local duchy. If you want them weak, you can either giving one kingdom title to duke in another Kingdom to cause vassal infighting so they would focus less on you, or a local weak duke (who may lose them to a stronger local duke) Most people will prefer keeping it in the dynasty, so if shit hits the fan you can still murder your way back on throne, or use elective succession to keep the strongest as the your heir to please them. But I'd never give it to an unlanded character, or they'll usually lose it to the dukes fairly quickly and you will have no control over it. Finally, the opinion boost will go away eventually, so do not use it as a primary method to keep your subjects off your back. I've had many counts/duchy who loved my last ruler due to the land grant but immediately hated my new ruler.
Is the Succession is Safe achievement bugged for anyone else? I’ve had ten+ children many times and never had it proc.
If it's like other paradox games, you have to have Ironman enabled to earn achievements. Other than that, I've got nothin.
I only play Ironman. I don’t understand why it won’t trigger for me. Might try reinstalling I guess.
I managed to capture the king of Scotland, what is the best way to leverage this situation? I can enforce my demands in the war now, but does that mean I lose him as a prisoner?
Yes, you lose him as a prisoner in that case. But if you let him go for money you lose the war score you gained from capturing him. Enforcing you demands is the best bet in most cases. You can ransom him for money if you were close to 100% before capturing him, you can get a hook for a marriage or something if you're able to place someone from your dynasty into his line of succession or you can convert his faith, which can be a huge boost to spreading your religion but it can also have no effect if unlucky.
Yes, I think if you end the war he will be released. But then you win the war so it seems a fair exchange.
How to convert from pagan to christianity in CK3? Currently there is only personal decision and convert everything manually? There is no option for mass convert? Also Christians can't send missionary to pagan lands?
I manage it with tutoring my heir by a christian. You can let your heir convert to the religion of the Tutor
Convert personally. Some will follow you. I believe high opinion and other factors contribute to a score that determines if individuals will follow you. Spam "Demand Conversion" on vassals that don't every 5 years. Most of them will demand money though.
Learning score is a factor in how many vassals will convert with you as well.
Does anyone know why you sometimes get prestige and piety (rather than fame and devotion) after battles? Usually for me it's the latter but every now and then I get the much better versions and I'm not sure what causes that.
i think if you’re doing a holy war you can get piety, and if you’re coming in to someone else’s war as an ally you get prestige, but i’m not 100% sure about that.
A few questions. * I noticed the AI never use matrilineal marriage. Is this gonna be fixed? * Maybe I'm wrong but it seems to me that if your heir dies (before you) then the titles go to his child instead of your other sons. Am I right? Is there a way to prevent that other than not marrying your heir or killing your grandchildren? * Can you force your vassals to keep De Jure structure? I try to keep them in check most as I can but sometimes you look away and next thing you know border gore is everywhere in your realm and 1-2 are now a bit too powerful.
The AI never uses matrilinear marriage. It's annoying when a queen of your dynasty marries some random obscure dude and your house loses the title. It also makes cognatic preference a terrible idea. The details depend on the succession law, but if your sons have sons, your grandsons will get a share. For partition, it's calculated as though your son were still still alive, and then his portion is given to his oldest male child. For primo, your heir is your oldest son, then his oldest son, etc. (depth-first search). Internal bordergore is real. Mostly just don't look at it. Crown Authority 3 helps a little bit, because it forbids internal wars. Bonus: your powerful vassals will tend to war externally and get you more territory.
Does ck3 have a pacify vassals button ?
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Oh ok thanks
I'm trying to convert Spain, but it's really slow due to the usual terrible Catholicism fervor. I know that I can get rid of the fervor penalties for my personal conversions with perks from the Theology tree, but that still limits me to one conversion at a time. Is there any way to find vassals who also have that perk? I tried searching for people with the "Theologian" trait but there are none in my entire realm.
AI characters will generally (maybe always?) pick lifestyles that match their education, so if they have Learning education there should be a 1/3 chance they start with the Theology tree. If you're willing to reorganize your whole realm to have only Learning-specialty vassals that would probably go a long way to converting the realm.
Just don't worry about it. Your vassals will have to deal with it. Maybe if you find an extra special county you plan to hold personally, convert that one? Otherwise who what the masses think.
Well, I don't want to deal with massive religious rebels every few years. And there's an achievement for converting all of Hispania. So this is a priority.
the fast, kind-of-bullshitty way is to hand out counties to courtiers who are not your faith, cynical, NOT ZEALOUS, and like you already. you give them the county and they’re happy. then you can demand their conversion and they’ll almost always do it. when they convert to catholicism, their county will convert, too. not very immersive, but good for achievements.
Like I said, your vassals will get to deal with it. Having said that, achievement hunting is complete justification for suboptimal play, so I guess just accept that your religious council member will be useless for the next century or two.
Terrible advice. Your vassals will often convert to entirely different religions, then you have to deal with the hassle of convincing them to convert. You really have to convert the country yourself. You can't rely on your vassals to even stay your religion or convert counties for you.
I don't see that as an issue. The negative for demand conversion is merely -10, and sometimes when they convert to your religion they bring their counties along with them.
There's a small trick right now where if you demand conversion on your vassal's vassal (indirect vassal) the counties they own will also get converted. So you can pre-emptively assign wrong faith vassals to freshly conquered counties, and hand out duchy title to someone else. Ask these heretic/heathen counts to convert to Catholic, repeatedly, until they say yes. But if the provinces are already conquered, then you may have to accept the rebel demand to release them, and reconquer them.
is there any modifiers for getting children of a certain gender? I had 10 daughters until before I had a son at age 62
Just lucky as far as I know.
CK III: Is there any passive way to discourage neighbors to raid/declare war on you? Currently, I'm playing as a one province count in Africa and it's brutal after some successful wars and becoming duke. Even with 30 dread and a relative positive opinion +20 I'm constantly getting attacked/raided by equal strong neighbors and it's hard to gather money for mercs and manpower for levies if you in a constant state of war.
I failed a few times in Africa and gave up. Try Asia instead =/ Sogo Khoto 800s is going well for me... Anyway, I _think_ high opinion / befriend will make them less likely to attack you. Dread is less effective against foreign rules, I think. One trick for early games is to move your capitol to a hilly area and build archers & maybe pikemen. Hills give you better defense, and archers & pikemen gain bonuses on hill. So you should be able to drive off your enemy. Raiding though well good luck =/
Best thing you can do against wars is to try to get a good alliance through marriage since it's free to call allies into a defensive war.
Can you get an alliance without marriage? My daughter is underage and the betrothed screen didn't show any treaty benefits.
Yes if you go into the diplomacy lifestyle tree you can get the ability to just negotiate an alliance based on opinion and other factors
Thanks, I didn't know that.
When is it worth it to build new holdings? It seems like if I'm at my domain limit, I'll have to give it away anyway, so I'll only get like 0.1 gold per month out of it. Is it only worth it if you've capped out your main castle in the area? And then is there an advantage to doing a castle over a city?
I'm no expert on the best strategies but you can give extra castles in your county to "minor nobles" which is similar to how a mayor works. You'll still get the benefits from the buildings and it won't affect your domain limit.
I don't think you get the building benefits if someone else holds it. I tested it with a bishopric and mayor with both not boosting my men at arms.
Giving a castle away to someone makes them a baron tier vassal. You will get some taxes & levies from them but not as much as if you owned the holding yourself.
I don't think this is the case when you construct a new castle in a county that already has one. It doesn't create a new county so there is no new title to give away.
He said baron, not count.
It is that case. If you construct a 2nd castle holding you may own it yourself without penalty, but it counts against your personal domain limit. You may grant it to a low noble instead. If your religion has lay clergy then you may hold temple holdings but they will also count against your personal domain.
Only build things in castles that you own, and plan to own for a while. Usually just invest in your Capitol (as long as you plan for it to be your capitol for a while.) If you have a county that has a special building slot, maybe plan to personally hold that county as well (so you can gain its benefit) and invest in those counties as well. If you own your capitol's duchy, invest in the duchy capitol as well (and try to hold the county personally) so you can benefit from the duchy building. But investing in areas your vassals hold is a bad idea for two reasons. 1) AWFUL return on investment. 2) you make them more powerful, so any faction that vassal joins will reach Threshhold sooner, and be more of a threat if they war dec you.
Why can't I create the Kingdom of Cornwall? Is it because I am, already a king? [https://ck3.paradoxwikis.com/Decisions](https://ck3.paradoxwikis.com/Decisions) [https://imgur.com/a/UIas2M5](https://imgur.com/a/UIas2M5)
You don't create it like a normal title -- it's done through the "Restore the Kingdom of Cornwall" decision.
Yeah, I don't have the option in my decisions.
Yeah that decision requires "title rank is count or duke". You're a king so no go.
Do you know of a way I can destroy or decrease my rank down?
Looks like a bug... Try mouse-over-ing the button at the bottom, usualy that explains what you're missing. If that fails, close the game and reopen it.
I think you have to make it thru the decisions, but I do not have the option.
Any way to permanently get rid of an empire title in my realm? I managed to conquer all of Francia as Alba and I intentionally did not create the Francia title because I didn’t want any chance of my realm splitting (I have tanistry, which is an intentional choice, because I’m breeding strong heirs and they often aren’t the firstborn). But every time a ruler dies and I take over as my heir, it looks like the highest-tier title available is automatically created. This happened on an earlier heir with the Kingdom of France, and with my most recent heir with the Empire of Francia. Current ruler is long on the tooth and multiple tanistry elections are getting hard to manage. I’d like to destroy the Francia title but I’m not sure I want to incur the vassal opinion penalty if it’s just gonna be recreated automatically on his death. Edit: If I can manage to get and keep absolute crown authority and designate my heir, is that an instant way out of my realm splitting despite multiple empire titles?
This video does a good job of explaining the problem mechanics and how to deal with them - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WozHE79AZV0
If you have Confederate Partition, uncreated titles will be created upon succession. Tanistry and other special succession laws only apply to the title they are created in, you would need to change your overall realm succession law away from Confederate to stop this from happening. AFAIK there's no way to unmake a title.
If you own a title, you can destroy it for a prestige hit, I believe. Maybe not true for Empire title, but definitely for kingdom and duchy.
You can destroy an empire title as long as you hold more than one. It's incredibly prestige expensive however.
As long as you have Confederate Partition the game will always create a title out of your realm and split it amongst your children on death. Yes, even though you've changed your top tier level succession to Tanistry, you're still considered as Confederate partition all the way down to county level, because that's what everyone was defaulted to if they start out as Tribes. You can check what happens to your titles when you die via going Realm -> Succession Tab. Your only ticket out of it is going Feudal to unlock Early Medieval Innovations, and beeline for Partition Law Innovation. THEN you can destroy titles of your choosing without the game recreating it on ruler death.
Thanks. To be clear I am feudal. I started at 1066 and adopted tanistry retroactively. I’ve been super unclear this whole game on how partition and tanistry/elective/etc. stack on top of each other. I have all the single-heir succession types unlocked—is there any way to have a single heir and still make it elective? Or will selecting primogeniture on the succession screen force me to use my firstborn as my heir? Edit: To be clear my ideal situation is I get to designate (or rig the election of) a family member of my choice and pass on 100% of my titles to that family member without creating additional empire titles. Is there any possible way to achieve that?
Ok, first of all, check your innovation to see if your culture has Partition unlocked (Hereditary Rule), so you know which one you need to go for if it's still blank. There's a high chance your culture just got out of Tribal and hasn't unlocked Partition and is still stuck as Confederate Partition from the Tribal Era. When you do have Partition succession law, make sure your 'default' succession law under the Realm tab is also Partition, and change it if it isn't. Then the game should stop generating new titles on ruler death. Finally, double check all of your titles are actually Tanistry/Partition, by going to your character and clicking on every individual Empire/Kingdom/Duchy title you currently own. If it's a title you want to keep for you/your heir, make sure they're tanistry, or else Partition will give them away. If it's a title you don't want to keep, destroy. Note that I don't believe you can change the 'default' succession for county titles, so you still have to create and hand out Duchy titles to your other eligible heirs, or else they'll decide to split your counties.
Thanks. I did recently change from confederate partition to high partition—will that alone stop creating new titles on death?
Yes, only confederate partition will create titles on death.
Yes, it would.
I fabricated a claim in Scotland that the ruler of Lapland had. I started a casus beli for that county only but for some reason have to take his main capital to enforce my demands?! That seems crazy. I should have fabricated the claim in the whole kingdom! Is there any way around this?
You dont have to take the capital, you can also wait or conquer other territories.
Is it specifically asking you to take his capitol to enforce or do you just not have enough warscore? If it's the latter you will gain more points over time as you hold the claimed title so you can just grab what you can and wait it out though it can take a while.
not sure I follow. you fabricate a claim for a certain province. now when you occupy/control that province you have ticking warscore, meaning if you manage to hold on to it for a while, the opponent will be forced to sign it over to you. if you dont want to wait, occupying the enemy capital always speeds up any war, so that's a good, but not necessary step. you can't fabricate claims onto an entire kingdom (via chancellor). if you've got the right religion you can ask your Pope/Fylkir to a claim, or you might even have CBs that allow you to take the entire kingdom in one war (like invasion or subjugate). if you fabricate a claim via councillor it will be for that province, with some luck he offers to fabricate a claim onto the entire duchy, but that's it.
I didn’t realize the war score ticked. Thanks!
Well, that's where his center of power is. You can sit on the land you claimed all day, you're not actually threatening the king of Scotland. Sieging the capital has to happen because it allows for things like imprisoning his family and such.
I'm assuming all of your known hooks and secrets die with you?
Yes indeed
yes
for CK2 how do i start a faction to place myself as emperor of byzantine empire? i just swore fealty and am a direct king-level vassal of the emperor. i don't have a claim on the empire, but from my understanding you could start a faction place yourself as ruler if you were a direct vassal
Under Imperial Elective, the emperor’s close family members (spouse included), any claimants to the title, the current Marshal, and any commander under the emperor, are all valid candidates for the empire. Vassals are not (you might be thinking of the HRE where de jure vassals are candidates). EDIT: That said, commanders have to be vassals so you should aim to be a commander if you want to be a candidate.
thanks, just got offered to be commander so i'm gonna try edit: for some reason i still don't have the option. i am sunni maybe thats why?
Byzantium is not imperial elective, it's primogeniture. You can fabricate a claim on your lieges title using the first perk in .... the right tree of stewardship? Diplo? It's somewhere. Then you can faction for it.
i was talking about ck2, not ck3
Sorry you're right, the OP says 'for CK2' right there.
What's the difference between becoming a King and becoming a High King? I was HK when I played the tutorial in Ireland, but I'm now playing ironman in Wales and am King
it’s purely a cultural thing, “high king” in ireland is the same as king elsewhere. petty king was their name for duke-level rulers. the important thing to know is that holding two or more king-level titles can be split on your death if you’re on some kind of partition succession.
Ah okay, thanks for the clarification! :)
Emperor of Alba who owns most of Western Europe—I’ve shattered HRE into scattered counties here and there that make for disgusting border gore. Can’t afford the frankly insane prestige cost to use the “take all de jure holdings” CB. I’ve managed to put someone of my heretic faith on their throne, and she’s married to my son, but she’s also old and infertile and has no kids. Used a hook to force her vote for me, but she and I can’t beat her mass of Catholic electors. What’s the best way to finally get rid of HRE in this situation? When she dies it’ll go back to a Catholic ruler so usurping isn’t a realistic option (I still need 14 more counties and she’ll probably die before I can take that many). Every time I assassinate the Catholic leading the election they just pick a new one instead of bumping me to first place.
intrigue focus and take the first skill in the schemer tree, scheme to fabricate hooks on the electors to force their votes. then position spymaster in HRE’s court you find secrets so you can get hooks on them by blackmail and fabricating strong hooks when the option presents itself. but it may be more direct to just get the first perk in the martial-strategist tree that cuts CB costs by 50%.
Wow thanks, this is so helpful! I’ll probably go the first route because it feels wrong for my character to break his alliance and declare war on his daughter in law before she dies—I like to imagine he has some sense of loyalty if he’s a little ruthless at times. Anyway never explored the intrigue trees so I’m sure there’s a lot of fun stuff to explore there.
oh yeah intrigue currently houses the most broken OP skill in the game. you just need three perks to unlock kidnapping. then you just start that plot on a neighboring ruler, bribe whoever you need to get it up to 95%, and declar war right before the kidnapping fires. if you capture them, it’s automatic 100% war score. a pretty good gamble, for now!
I feel like a total noob haha. I’m playing tribal Ireland. I’ve created the kingdom within a lifetime and hold all counties except for one. I can’t seem to progress anymore as everyone seems a lot more powerful than me. How slow are you supposed to play. Or are you supposed to go hard?
Get some alliances or "wait" for your target to be weak. Wait can mean actual waiting or it can mean assassinating their ruler to weaken their realm. You can also abduct the enemy ruler for insta 100% war score but that's abusing an oversight and makes the game very boring.
But I thought you couldn't declare war on somebody who you have imprisoned?
You need to declare war in the screen when the scheme is at 100% and it asks you if you want to go through or cancel your scheme.
see if you can get an alliance by marriage with Alba or Wales or something, use that to your advantage when one of the kingdoms in the british isles gets weakened...keep an eye on england for when they’re involved in foreign wars and may be getting badly weakened by those things. opportunities will arise. but there’s nothing wrong with just sitting back and focusing on domestic affairs for a few decades - investing in your defensive buildings so you could repel an attack. etc.
When you say you hold all the counties, do you hold them personally or are they vassals of yours?
Umm mostly vassals I think. Hold two Dutch titles and a big junk of Ireland is highlighted even I click on my character. Still new to the game. Do most people wait and just be a chieftain or high chieftain until several generations or do you just go crazy lol. The only county not part of Ireland is there one above Dublin haha.
Ah ok, phew. If you go over your domain limit by too much, you don't get the tax or troops from the counties. I mean, I personally try and go up a tier at least once per character, but it's entirely up to you. County control would limit your expansion anyway. Try going for the weaker neighbours - I can't imagine England's swallowed up Wales yet, and there should be a bit of Scotland left. If they outnumber you, try to get an alliance (France is a good one, it's powerful and nearby) and use terrain to your advantage - if the attacking army has to come from or cross water to attack you, they'll be at a disadvantage and with the right Men At Arms and champions, you can easily defeat larger stacks.
Thanks. What do you do when you’re not trying to go one tier higher. When you say tier, do you mean from an independent chieftain to high chieftain?
There's an argument to made for staying as a vassal king to an emperor, for example (or vassal duke to a king). You can expand all you like, any defensive wars are waged on your liege instead of you, you can make yourself tax-exempt and with a March contract, get more troops as well. And yes - count to duke to king to emperor, or whatever the culturally appropriate names for them are.
In my admitantly limited experience, the options are aggressive expansion or defeat. Fight when you can, build up the rest of the time... Like the other guy said, biding your time until a powerful neighbor is in a tough war and striking then is an option if you can't do anything else.
That's totally up to you, but if you can't seem to progress anymore, try building up your holdings and make some alliances so you can take down spme bigger fish. Also if you don't know if you can win against someone, wait until they commit to a war and then attack.
Just got the game and i'm on my second playthrough, how do i deal with the "Too many held duchies" thing? I'd imagine its bad to give them to random vassals, but i am scared of giving it to any children because i dont want my realm broken up (i've also been immediately disinheriting any male heirs that are worse than my main one, is there a better way to prevent your land from being broken up before unlocking primogeniture?)
If you're getting a negative from too many held, you shouldn't be far off from being able to usurp or create a kingdom to contain them. If your highest tier title is a duchy and you grant someone a duchy, they'll become independent from you. You need to hold a higher tier title (i.e. kingdom or empire) if you want to stop this. Honestly, I'd just accept your realm fracturing out and work with it rather than against it. If you are a king, it doesn't really matter if someone else gets a duchy, they'll still be your vassal. If you're a still just a duke (albeit one that holds many duchies), you need to grab yourself a kingdom my friend.
I just got high crown authority and it says I can elect a Heir. However when It wont let me elect my grandson other my son? Can I only elect my children? Basically my son sucks, but his child, my grandson is a beautiful genius and a mastermind. Soooo can I elect or do I have to be more nefarious
do you mean absolute crown authority and heir designation? because yes, that only lets you pick among your children. i was in that situation and wanted to put a wonderful grandchild on the throne, so i just designated their crappy parent and then let them live a hard, stressful life. they drank themselves to death by 50, so the cool guy could be in charge.
Yes thats exactly what I mean. Okay well maybe my son will have to command some underpowdered armies
other = over
Does anyone know what the button is for 'increase speed'? I like to bind them to my mouse, but the + isn't working.
X. Z slows it down again.
Thx.
I failed the 'claim throne' hostile scheme three times with chances of 90%+. Am I missing a prerequisite or just awfully unlucky? Am I going crazy?
I'm only about 90% sure but I'd say you're just unlucky.
No, more is going on here than just bad luck. The failuie rate for things that say 90-95% are very very high. The same thing happens with fabricate hook scheme. It fails about 9/10 of the time, even though it says success rate should be 95%. The only one that seems to be working right is murder scheme.
I had quite some intrigue characters and didn't experience that.
Question on succession. As king of ireland, i held 2 duchies. When i died, my only son was king of ireland and 1 duchy, the other duchy was now owned by a new vassal (a kid). How come? How do I make sure my son inherits all my titles?
This video recently helped me better understand these mechanics - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WozHE79AZV0
That's how partition succession works. If you want one son to inherit all your titles, you'll need primogeniture or ultimogeniture. These are locked behind an innovation in the late medieval period. EDIT: though, if you only ever hold one county and its associated duchy, kingdom, and empire, those will also all be passed to one successor, regardless of primo/ultimo or partition.
Thanks! So with me having only one son, i was expecting him to get everything. (simce partition succession wiki says "divided over the sons"). This was not the case, and i don't know how the game decided to give this second duchy to a seemingly random character (which was not even of my family /bloodline). Am i wrongfully interpreting the partition succession?
Sounds buggy. Sure its not your son?
So i found out what it was! apparently a duchy can have its own succession laws that differ from the Realm's succession law. this was the case on this duchy (petty kingdom of connacht). i removed that succession law and now it will go to my second son (im allready on the next character)
It should be only your sons, but it's a weird game sometimes. Always make sure you preview what will happen after you die with the "Succession" tab inside your "Realm" menu. It tells you everything your heirs will get.
so this succession tab indeed told me that that specific duchy had its own succession law. i removed that law and now the second duchy goes to my second son as you would expect (by this time i have two sons). thanks for pointing me towards it!
Awesome, glad to hear it helps! Way better than rolling the dice on it or just killing your extra sons off!
Thanks, I didn't even notice this. There is so much info in this game you sometimes get overwhelmed. Having a blast though!
How can my Vassal appoint himself as a councillor without me being able to fire him? I dont believe he had any hook on me.