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I managed to play her succesfully in Ironman. You have to holy war into Nubia to grind to 1000 piety, move your capital into a Miaphysite province and convert by decision (with RoI). You can also switch to Egyptian by decision to make people like you more (as you're Armenian). Once you're Miaphysite you can marry matrilineally, adopt with family focus (with WoL) and adopt the "have a son" ambition. This raises your fertility and should give you a child before around 45 when you become infertile. I managed to produce a son and a daughter on my second attempt, which turned into a hugely powerful Christian dynasty in Africa.
I'm not sure how to search the history files in this way. Whether someone is a ruler is not in the characters files (you'd just have to search for "female = yes" to find any woman), because that data is contained in titles history. The effort spent cross referencing the two would be exhaustive - we'd be finding all women and the searching their character ID one by one into a fully indexed title history and recording every match.
What's people's experience in regards to survivability of female player characters?
Pro: No leading armies while a vassal, no duels (unsure)
Con: Childbearing (omfg), weak claims
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Female muslim rulers? I didn't even know that possible in agnatic open.
Count me in for that deal!
Pro: No leading armies while a vassal, no duels (unsure)
Con: Childbearing (omfg), weak claims
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Female muslim rulers? I didn't even know that possible in agnatic open.
Count me in for that deal!
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Female muslim rulers? I didn't even know that possible in agnatic open.
Count me in for that deal!
It's only possible in the start dates. Ingame it's not possible, sadly.
So far never been an issue for me. Couldn't say that they under my impression live statistically shorter or longer
So far never been an issue for me. Couldn't say that they under my impression live statistically shorter or longer
Huh. Well I only ask because lately the active character's wives drop like flies from childbearing in my games.
I'll take your word for it and give it a go. Prepare to be blamed for the downfall of either Wales or the HRE!
Huh. Well I only ask because lately the active character's wives drop like flies from childbearing in my games.
I'll take your word for it and give it a go. Prepare to be blamed for the downfall of either Wales or the HRE!
Well, Shajar al-Durr starts aged 35, so you only have a maximum of 10 years to die in childbirth before you're clear of it.
A bigger threat than dying is imo not having children for some reason; like you give your heiress a title and her husband dies and then the AI refuses to remarry (or, worse, doesn't remarry matrimonially, although I'm not sure the AI still does this, but I think it can happen). So altogether I'd say there's a slightly higher risk with playing female dynasties, but really not all that much ... granted, I once got a game over when I had 8 sons and not a single girl. Really laughed hard at that one 'cause it was just so ridiculous. But that obviously also could happen if you insist on male-only dynasties. ^^
The problem is prly gonna be to get a matrilineal marriage (can muslims even do that?).
You have to convert to Miaphysite (which is surprisingly easy). She can't continue her dynasty so long as she remains Muslim. She's shown as Armenian ingame, so you can "roleplay" it as her being an apostate after her husband dies.
I'll give it a shot. It's sad though I'd have preferred to remain muslim.
Wait: could seduction be utilized to circumvent this?
Possibly, you can try that as well. It's very entertaining being Miaphysite as her though - the Coptic Pope will become landed and you'll get given a holy order.
All right... still looking for suggestions! I really wish the character search were usable on the game-starting screen... so you know where to look for the landed women.
*cough*
Jeanne I de Blois of Navarre, Queen of Navarre (duh). Starts ruling in 1274, but she's only 1 year old at the time. Preferable start: EDIT: 4th of October, 1285. Around that time she EDIT: still retains her lands (along with Champagne) and, although married to Philippe IV of France, she doesn't have any children yet.
Hope for the other interesting characters thread to be re-stickied. I'll have to check some of these out.
Margaret "the Maid" Yngling was an interesting one. By the end of my time with her (she died in her 60's) she was instead known as "the Shadow" and was the Aztec Emperor's most powerful vassal. Her grandson ended up inheriting the entire Empire after her Nahua branch of the Ynglings executed a precise web of murder and deceit. From her position as vassal Queen of Scotland and Wales she was able to seal the fate of Western Europe and hand over the greatest army the world has ever seen to her dynasty. Now her ancestral homeland of Norway as well us much of the coast lines in ruins in the second wave of the Aztec onsalught.