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What exactly can prevent married characters from having children (aside from just being old or having massive penalties to fertility)? I think one being imprisoned does, but is there anything else? What about being at war?
I ask because in my current game, my character's son and his wife are hostile towards each other due to conflicting wars against her liege. Yet, they had a child despite this.
I ask because in my current game, my character's son and his wife are hostile towards each other due to conflicting wars against her liege. Yet, they had a child despite this.
What different ways are there to gain titles from my subjects (and other realms) and acquire their lands to my direct control? I've tried all kind of things from revocation to claim->succesfull wars but for some reason, I never get the title for myself and the vassal in question just ends up in my prison with his title still in his hands.
I've read several tutorials, but they only seem to speak about casus belli and not about gettint titles for youself.
I've read several tutorials, but they only seem to speak about casus belli and not about gettint titles for youself.
I am the king of Scotland (the one they start with) and I'm paving way for my fourth son to ascend to the throne (because he has awesome stats while all the others suck). I killed first two of my sons with plots but the third one, current heir, I cannot. No plots and I can't afford assassins. However, my wife is plotting to kill him and she has a few co-conspirators. How can I join the plot? Can I trigger event to force her ask me into the plot?
How much of a Kingdom do you need to control to break the "Character controls Kingdom X" warscore bonus?
If you revoke a title, the character will either give it to you peacefully or declare war on you. If you win the war, you can then revoke the title again, and since the character is in prison, he or she won't be able to resist.
Other methods are banishment (for your subjects) and wars using personal claim, or de jure cbs. If you have a personal claim on a county you'll get the capital barony when you win. Same with de jure claims, I think. If you are pressing a duchy-level claim, then you might not get any new holdings.
If you revoke a title, the character will either give it to you peacefully or declare war on you. If you win the war, you can then revoke the title again, and since the character is in prison, he or she won't be able to resist.
Other methods are banishment (for your subjects) and wars using personal claim, or de jure cbs. If you have a personal claim on a county you'll get the capital barony when you win. Same with de jure claims, I think. If you are pressing a duchy-level claim, then you might not get any new holdings.
I could use a little guidance. I've been playing with some success as Ireland (started as Count of Desmond), but every time I get a new ruler, I get huge succession wars that I can't possibly win. Any tips on how to avoid these?
http://crusaderkings-two.wikia.com/wiki/Preventing_Succession_Crisis There's a good article here.
Are ships good for anything other than transport? Do Blockades exist in this game?
Ships do not even engage other ships in combat. They cannot stop units from crossing a straight. Completely useless aside from transport.
Since no one answered... Do wars with weak claims expire when the condition for the weak claim no longer holds? There's a duke I might want to kill so his 14 year old inherits and I can DOW, but 2 years might be a very short time to win the war.
Hey, does anyone have a good tactic for taking over kingdoms as an emperor or as a king? Because to me it looks like I have to conquer it bit by bit, which can be a little annoying...
In my current game as HRE (and ERE and almost all of Europe at this point), I'm trying to expand into Muslim lands, but to speed up the process I was going to try pressing claims rather than Holy Wars. This has been effective with Catholic countries, but I've run into issues with Muslim ones. Since I'm Catholic, they obviously won't accept an invitation to my court, so I have tried marrying the female claimants to my male courtiers. This has allowed me to get claimants for two of the three non-empire Muslim states remaining. However, I cannot press their claims for those states. One of them, a claimant for the Emirate of Beja, can claim individual duchies (but not the de jure ones) while the other, a claimant for the Sultanate of Mauretania, doesn't give me any CBs at all, regardless of whether or not I make them convert to Catholicism. Is this due to succession laws there not allowing female rulers? Is it because I'm Catholic? Is there anything I can do to change this, or do I have to take them down one duchy at a time?
Edit: As a response to the question above, I actually answered that question in my question, or at least as an emperor. Get to the title screen for the kingdom you want to take over, find the claimants, get one to your court, give him/her a landed title so he/she's your vassal, and then declare war on the kingdom to press their claim. As a king I tend to focus on inheriting kingdoms. You can force it through assassinations or, if you marry a claimant to a throne, you can fight a war to put your spouse on the throne of the other kingdom so your heir is also his/her heir.
Edit: As a response to the question above, I actually answered that question in my question, or at least as an emperor. Get to the title screen for the kingdom you want to take over, find the claimants, get one to your court, give him/her a landed title so he/she's your vassal, and then declare war on the kingdom to press their claim. As a king I tend to focus on inheriting kingdoms. You can force it through assassinations or, if you marry a claimant to a throne, you can fight a war to put your spouse on the throne of the other kingdom so your heir is also his/her heir.
Marry your heir to a claimant with an inheritable claim. Your grandchild will have a claim on it.
90% Sure they become yours. In fact, if I'm not mistaken you can encourage a high decadence vassal to get destroyed via a "special decision" or whatever on the intrigue menu (where you observe Ramadan etc.) although I've never used it.
Jail and death. You can even get someone pregnant when you're on the other side of the world at a tournament or on Hajj!
If you want to be ultra gamey you can also use them for line of sight on adjacent land squares!
Sadly no. That's your penalty for being such a sick human being and trying to murder your son! You could try raising your relationship with your wife and lowering your relationship with your son. That might get her to invite you.
Yes. Also if you want to risk a bit of inbreeding, marrying very distant members of the same dynasty if the dynasty scores are high will give you tons of marriage prestige! The other more tangible bonus is that you have an alliance with all members of your dynasty. If you want to holy war Muslims as a king of France for example, that brother's branch can now to called to war. Of course, if your fighting another member of your dynasty (a pretender for example, he can also call that dynasty member
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I have the penalty "wrong holding type" of newly conquered province. I understand what this means, but I can't get rid of it. When I right click on the city picture and go to "create vassal" it says "can only create vassal in minor or owned baronies". Is it because I have just captured the province?
Which holding in the province do you actually control? There is a chance that the main holding is controlled by somebody else, and you just have a minor holding underneath it. Is the province the same colour as the rest of your demesne?
Playing as the Habsburgs.. I have several cadet branches of the family ruling in other duchies of the HRE and a branch ruling as the kings of Denmark while I rule the Duchy of Upper Burgundy. Eventually I'd like to reunite the lands unto one heir, but that would require some inbreeding.. The question I ask is how much time/or how far away on the dynasty tree should I wait to finally marry within the family without causing bad traits?
Also, I had another question if anyone could give me an answer:
Also, I had another question if anyone could give me an answer:
Another question. What's the best way to spread my dynasty short of conquering? None of my relatives have claims that can be pressed and no one seems to want to enter a matrinal marriage with my daughters. Will it be easier if I keep raising my dynasties prestige?
What logic does the AI use when deciding to join someone defending in a Holy War? It seems like no matter how bad a state a country is in they're willing to do it (had Hungary join in against Ottomans while they (Hungary) were in the middle of a civil war), while others who have good reason to join sometimes don't (wealthy, powerful HRE does nothing).
That's because said city in question is right now the "main" holding of the county. In main holdings you can't generate random vassals. Either give it to a courtier who will become it's lord-mayor (it stays a republic then), give it to the baron who has a holding in the county (he's promoted to count then) if you prefer a feudal vassal. Or you could revoke said barons title if you want the county for yourself, then it reverts into a "normal" feudal county, you become it's count, and then you can give away the city with the create vassal button.