Where are GHW requirements located?

[Captain Carrot]

The target for the GHW must meet the following criteria:

• Target is infidel, or heretic vs parent religion, or pagan vs any
• Target is not a revolt
• Target controls at least 6 counties in the selected de jure kingdom, and also actually possesses the target kingdom title

In my opinion, the "actually possesses the target kingdom title" part is way too restrictive, as it ensures, for instance, no Jihads against Byzantium, as AI emperors don't create kingdoms, and gives the player the ability to dodge GHWs by avoiding creating certain titles. This single condition prompted me to learn to mod the game to change it into something more sensible, but I have no idea where to find it. There doesn't seem to be anything similar either in 00_cb_types.txt or in 00_religions.txt, and the event notifying about the start of a GHW (which is probably purely cosmetic anyway) isn't in crusade_events.txt.

 

[Whizzer]

That requirement is indeed not there at all. Wiki isn't always correct.

 

[Captain Carrot]

Oh... I feel very stupid now. However, if I may derail this thread a bit, can you explain what other reason might there be for my Moabadan-Moabad not calling a GHW? His capital (which is his only landed title) is in Persia (the kingdom), which has the Only External Vassal Wars law (in the Persian Empire they're illegal), which I've confirmed with the de jure mapmode and the fact that the duke of Kerman literally just declared a holy war. I've specifically checked landed_titles.txt, as well as the Old Crusade mod, for target weights, since you said that the wiki isn't always correct, and there are no discrepancies here. This situation has persisted for something like 20 years with moral authority being always above 65. The only possible explanation I have is that the GHW declaration has some kind of different way to check which laws apply.

 

[Whizzer]

Could be some hardcoded logic. You're not playing a mod that restricts when Zoroastrian GHWs can be called, such as HIP?

 

[Captain Carrot]

No, only Old Crusade, and anyway there has been a GHW for Transoxiana earlier.