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My conundrum is whether to risk using my forces to do it, or take a different risk of letting them expand and (hopefully) take the Byzantine Empire down a notch.
It made me think of the Witcher 2.
"Orkses never lose a battle. If we win we win, if we die we die fightin so it don't count. If we runs for it we don't die neither, cos we can come back for annuver go, see!".
Anyway, I'm playing as the Duke of Champagne and one of my children was betrothed to the Duchess of Aquitaine. I thought this was a smart move; she owns pretty much all of southern France and when my son comes of age he will get married and have a claim on all those lovely Duchies and Counties and what have you. Not so. He got married, joined her family, and still has claims on his family lands, so when my current faction leader dies he's going to take Chartres away from me too. As I understand it, a "normal" marriage would mean that any children they have will be from the fathers house (de Blois) rather than the mothers, is that right? Do any children they have move to my court? Or are my son and his children permanently members of the other house?
A decent understanding of Medieval inheritance seems essential to excel at this game, and mine is sadly lacking.
Is he in her line now, was it a matrilineal marriage? If so, I don't think you can correct it easily.
Female rulers are basically free territory, if you're willing to be patient.
He was not my eldest son, when he married the Duchess of Aquitaine she became his Liege and he left my court.
Does that mean that if I had waited for him to inherit Chartres and then married him to the Duchess of Aquitaine, she would move to my court and I'd have claims on her land?
I can't figure out if I'm playing as the de Blois family or just one person. Should I be scheming so as to put my character or the entire family in as strong a position as possible? So long as I am the Liege to all of my siblings I figure it makes sense to make sure everyone is married off to as strong a partner as possible.
That raises another question, how do I assassinate people? The only way I can do it is if I select it from the ambitions/plots tab, but there's only a few random people to choose from if I do it that way.
In your case, the lands would merge, but the wrong way around, because the Ducal title would be higher than the Count title, and thus the primary. Is he still in line to inherit Chartres? If so, you may lose that county to Aquitaine in the next generation.
But if make sure your second inherits your Ducal title and has a child before he dies, then that child would inherit both Duchies and be under your control.
Assassination is a diplomatic option. Select a character, then go to his diplomatic screen, and it should be available. Note that it costs more depending on title, and becomes more difficult too.
I'm up to nine kingdoms (Georgia, Sicily, Jerusalem, Egypt, Hungary, Poland, and 3 titular titles) and my current character inherited at 2 years old, thanks to his daddy getting syphilis at a Grand Tournament. At one point I had 6 revolts going at the same time. Fortunately, some careful application of bribes, soldiers, and assassinations resolved it.
I wish there were a way to type a message to a character when you send them a diplomatic message. I realize it wouldn't actually do anything of course, but it would be great for roleplay purposes. For example, in my succession crisis, I surrendered to one of my Dukes.
"To my dear kinsman, Duke of Sicily,
I hearby declare you an independent ruler. May God watch over your house in the future. What little you have left of it...
Do not mistake this for mercy or fear. I merely want to lower crown authority to placate my other vassals. I will make you remember the moment when you decided to revolt against me. In agonizing, exruciating pain as I flay you alive.
Your loving kinsman, King of Jerusalem, Georgia, Egypt, Poland, Hungary, and something else.
Oh yes. Sicily."
So yeah, this game has turned me evil, hasn't it?
In my Georgia game, I created an anti-pope when I got excommunicated. I've since used a mod to create the Empire of Jerusalem (I was getting sick of managing succession laws for six kingdoms) and gained control of the the county of Rome.
But whenever I try to press my Anti-Pope's claim to the Papacy, I lose him as a vassal.
Pretty sure you can't, at least in vanilla.
Oh well. Guess I'll just have to conquer Rome the old fashioned way and keep getting rich off my Anti-Pope.
Edit: Never mind, misread your post. Maybe if your anti-pope is your kinsman?
I guess I can just continue on without them, but losing half of my army means I'll probably lose the war.
I can't tell you why this happened to you, but I can offer the support of solidarity. Same thing happened to me. I had two Holy Order armies running interference with me in Spain, and then one just vanished. I thought maybe my piety had dropped below some hidden threshold, but I never did figure out what had happened.
Promptly formed Russia once my current war with Sweden was won, and then I was off to finally face a currently embattled Golden Horde.
And it went mostly well. We won every battle, I started setting up colonists, and I soon occupied every inch of their territory we'd discovered (which is like, what we know about at the start plus one other). Managed to successfully colonize four provinces (Bolgar, Kazan, Tambow, and Voronezh, I believe). Meanwhile, Venice and Genoa both made progress around Crimea, which made me happy (the more the Horde suffers, the happier I am). However, I did make one big, big fuck up...
I went bankrupt. Whoops. You can't call for war taxes while fighting Hordes, and just before Kazan flipped over to us we got smacked.
So end result... I have some new land, the Horde has less, but now my armies are nearly worthless, my prestige dropped from #2 in the world to #125 (thank Teutons for trying to call me to war right after I went bankrupt. Dicks.) Also, I can't even just lay off of army maintenance because of all the freakin' rebellions that keep popping up. If I can just survive the next few years with the brutal, and decade long, bankruptcy penalty, I'll be fine. But right now, things kinda suck ass.
*Check PA thread*
Grimmy is the best.
Steam - Minty D. Vision!
Origin/BF3 - MintyDVision
It's okay, boarding on good, but it's really a (Japanese) poor man's CKII.
Which makes sense, since it was mainly just a test bed for some of CKII's new features.
Which people should buy.
I've just gotten back into a CKII kick and, in my new current game as the (now) King of Wales, I just got finished with aiding in a successful Crusade.
For the Kingdom of Germany.
Turned out the Holy Roman Emperor converted (along his the seat of power) to Carthar. I'm not sure if this came before or after half the empire (and all of Italy) declared, and WON, independence, but the usual HRE blob was mostly dead when the Pope called for the Crusade. A Crusade which would have seen the crown of Germany going to me in Wales if my King hadn't been killed on the battlefield after taking most of the northern coast, thus losing the comfortable lead I had in contribution before I could rejoin the Crusade and, eventually, the crown and all of central and northern Germany that came with it to the King of Sweden (who already held most of both sides of the Baltic at this point).
Half the fun of the Reconquista is having most of the peninsula be Muslim, though. Crusades might make up for it, actually.
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themtheir subjects (Emperors and Popes get no mercy from me after all the grief they've given me) to Islam is, I hope they're planning to follow up this DLC with one for pagans. I want to convert Europe to Suomenusko, damn it.