Crusader Kings II - Paradox Entertainement (02/12)
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Dr. Strangelove
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You don't have to have 7 provinces in your demesne to become King, it is advisable to have as many provinces as your demesne limit allows and then give the remainder to loyal counts.
If you create the Duchy of Munster, either the provinces were already in your demesne, or they weren't (i.e., someone else was count there) but the ducal title didn't exist yet. It is very important that you understand that the County of X and the Duchy of X are different entities.
Was your brother your vassal beforehand? If he wasn't, he would become independent.
Grant him land before pressing the claims, any barony will do.
Yeah I gave him a pity county in bumfuckistan when he came of age.
I think it might just be that he's a King. I've never had this problem with Dukes and below. You can't vassalize Kings diplomatically either, even if they're close relatives and there's a vast power difference.
Dr. Strangelove
Banned
Yes, Emperors and Kings work in bizarre ways. An Emperor cannot create a King title, for example. This will be changed in the upcoming patch:
That's cool. I knew the patch was fixing crusades, but all those other tweaks are definitely a plus.
Anyone getting the upcoming DLC character editor? I'm thinking it might be worth it for the COA editor alone...
So if I have a half-sister/step daughter who is in my dynasty, To recieve the claims to titles of the male heir of another country/children in MY court..I have to use matrinerial marriage correct?
Dr. Strangelove
Banned
Yes. But it is very unlikely that the AI will accept a matrilineal marriage with a heir: it isn't that dumb. It will probably accept with someone far down in the line of succession: nothing a few assassins can't fix.
I've read one way to get around that is to find a claimaint to a land title, invite them to your court, then marry off the claimaint to your court, pop out a few kids, and then give them the land title?
Tellus
Banned
Dynastic expansion game circa 1200. 
I'm tired as fuck of twhacking rebels for my cousins on the thrones of Rus, Byzantium and Ireland-Brythonnia, though. Would be much easier to just grab an Imperial title and rule it all myself, but I wanted a change from world conquest, limited my directly-ruled area to basically the whole Mediterranean coastline minus Byzantium. Still, it's fun to kick back in Nova-Roma, Sicily, knowing your sprawling dynasty is conquering the world for you.
I suspect that within a generation I could get the living family size up to 1K, probably 2K by game end, sitting on every throne and duchy. Hell, I have blood-drops even as lowly Barons all over the place.
Game map here
I'm tired as fuck of twhacking rebels for my cousins on the thrones of Rus, Byzantium and Ireland-Brythonnia, though. Would be much easier to just grab an Imperial title and rule it all myself, but I wanted a change from world conquest, limited my directly-ruled area to basically the whole Mediterranean coastline minus Byzantium. Still, it's fun to kick back in Nova-Roma, Sicily, knowing your sprawling dynasty is conquering the world for you.
I suspect that within a generation I could get the living family size up to 1K, probably 2K by game end, sitting on every throne and duchy. Hell, I have blood-drops even as lowly Barons all over the place.
Game map here
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I pursued my game. Louis VII of France, Castille and Aragon has now earned himself the nickname "the Fat". His impopularity was due to the fact he had three of the seven sins: glutonny, sloth and pride. Thanks to me managing a few things, he knows is brave (thus no longer slothe) and gentle.
I have avoided the rebellions of the 14 nobles that threatened me... On the other, Duke Guilhèm of Aragon who I freed rebelled once again. It's the fifth time he goes to prison: he should know the place pretty well by now.
Louis VII has currently two daughters and the both of them are in their 40s. His heir is still his half brother Leonard, who has married the Duchess of Conacht. He has two sons: Payen and Onfroy. Those names make me wanna cry... I'm probably going to have to murder the wife of Louis VII and remarry him.
In other news, Hungary and Poland are now in Personnal Union, which makes one heck of a country...
And a small question to finish my report: before Leonard (my heir and the half brother of my King Louis VII) had his two sons, he was listed as the only heir to the French crown: normally, there are three people shown. Leonard is far from being the last Capet as the next-in-line are the Capets of the Aragon line. Can someone explain this to me?
I have avoided the rebellions of the 14 nobles that threatened me... On the other, Duke Guilhèm of Aragon who I freed rebelled once again. It's the fifth time he goes to prison: he should know the place pretty well by now.
Louis VII has currently two daughters and the both of them are in their 40s. His heir is still his half brother Leonard, who has married the Duchess of Conacht. He has two sons: Payen and Onfroy. Those names make me wanna cry... I'm probably going to have to murder the wife of Louis VII and remarry him.
In other news, Hungary and Poland are now in Personnal Union, which makes one heck of a country...
And a small question to finish my report: before Leonard (my heir and the half brother of my King Louis VII) had his two sons, he was listed as the only heir to the French crown: normally, there are three people shown. Leonard is far from being the last Capet as the next-in-line are the Capets of the Aragon line. Can someone explain this to me?
Yay thanks! That solved the problem!My game kept crashing on a certain date as well. I loaded an autosave from about 7 months prior and it worked fine.
Your difficulty is that the crash is on Jan 1, so you'll have to start from the previous autosave and lose a year.
Could someone explain how alliances work? I know you cant call up vassals, but it seems pretty random which allies are avaliable for me to call and which arnt even if they arnt vassals.
I like to think my diplomacy and strategic marriages for alliances were worth something but it appears all my allies are 'unable to be called to war' (they have red names on the alliance screen).
Huzzah!
Also, I just found a clubfooted hunchback who happens to be a 'great swordsman'. Not quite sure how that works.
Tellus
Banned
He's a small target to hit because he's always hunched and he can use one of his feet as a secondary weapon because he had it replaced by a club!
Seems like someone I'd rather drop at 50 feet with a longbow!
Well you can read my (long) post a few pages back. Im pretty much in the same boat as you.
11 years and still haven't been able to attack Munster, eventually imprisoned and then assainated the wife after she plot to kill me because I had a affair with my uncles wife which resulted in two kids. Married a courtier with awesome stats so she can give me some educated kids but the best part is she has a claim on ormond! Which means I can usurp Munster!
Anyways the wife had it comings once she was the lover of the dukes father and sired a half sister step daughter lol
So finally created kingdom of Ireland, only have 3 counties left on Ireland. Have a county in wales, and have 2 claims over there
Started as Konradin von Hohenstauffen in 1258. Currently I'm his great grandson in 133?, can't remember. Right off the bat I got a claim on Lombardia and took the Ducal title away from Whatsisfuck IX. I am not Holy Roman Emperor, but the current one went crazy and killed his wife and 5 kids and like thirty people in line to the throne of byzantium. I now own Provence, am Duke of Genoa, Duke of Lombardia, Duke of Swabia, and count of several places and baron of several.