The best is when your claim is fabricated before you can even move the chancellor yet.
The best is when your claim is fabricated before you can even move the chancellor yet.
the worst is when you set your chancelor on fabricate claims and he dies of age 40 years later and no claims has been fabricated.
I find invasions suit my purposes far better than mere fabricated claims.
Thanks to this feature Queen Matilda the Great Conqueror of Italy was able to form said country and it allowed me to take the Kingdom of Sicily piece by piece lol
But you can't rally invade without claims in most cases.
Thanks for reply. Does the diplomatic score affect this? I have had a chancellors from level 15 to 18 in a province for 24 yers =/
Skill up to 18 (or 20, I don't really remember) will increase the chance of a ducal claim. It does not however increase the chance of the event triggering, just that if it triggers, the chance of it being a ducal claim will increase.
I once moved the last Karling heir to my court in Constantinople to serve as hereditary court jesters, to punish the family for Charlemagne's usurpation of the Roman throne. Well, turns out the Karling jester who was the son of the first jester had a high diplomacy skill and demanded to be made chancellor. With some misgivings, I allowed it, so that my spite wouldn't overpower my common sense.
This Karling jester/chancellor ended up forging 7 county claims and 2 ducal claims in Italy from the age of 16 to his death at the age of 58. Oh, and his siblings ended up being my spymasters and stewards. What a ridiculously talented family of jesters.
edit: Incidentally, the previous emperor went his entire life without his chancellors EVER forging a single claim. In fact, forging claims rarely works for me, which made this whole situation even more surreal.
As long as he isn't slothful or drunk or hates me, I never give up on them.I just had 3 claims generated in a few short years. Yes, sometimes it is great to be king. Promptly followed by a LONG drought of no claim generation...replaced the Chancellor, yes it is still great to be king.
this is just flat out bad luck. i've had two dry spots at 10.68% lasting more than forty years. Frankly, it's a bust in the AI code, as the odds of going 40+ years without success at 10% per annum is fairly low.
as was pointed out to myself on the marriage thread and by others, it's vital to learn how to make claims from marriages and court invitations to expand at a higher rate. chancellors alone will almost *never* get the job done. And you should be thinking about how yo want to expand from the very beginning and plot accordingly.
It took me several tries to figure out how to line up a proper claim using marriage tools and invitations. they take a few steps sometimes. but it's a great way to drop claim bombs all over the place.