A few questions.

[Rajputs]

I was wondering how you can see claim on Germany or Prussia when you are forming either one.
Also is there something that allows countries to get defected provinces from occupied nations.
And while playing as Brandenburg I saw England get Paris and France collapse into Dauphine.

[Blxz]

About claims, just look up the regions map mode and count how many provinces in that region that you own. Or, more realistically, just wait and play normally. It updates ~every year so you will see when you have enough provinces. For the record, vassals add to your province score (but personal unions don't).

Countries can get provinces defecting if the culture is the same as yours or if you are Russian and the province in question is a horde province. (or if you are byzantine or turkish and the province is in the crimea).

The french collapse is part of the Hundred Years War. A part of history that is about halfway in progress at the gamestart. Quite interesting to be honest. If England can take control of Paris then France will collapse into another nation and england has the opportunity to form the Anglo-French Union. Very powerful, very scary and very rarely formed by an AI England.

[SirkTheMonkey]

About claims, just look up the regions map mode and count how many provinces in that region that you own. Or, more realistically, just wait and play normally. It updates ~every year so you will see when you have enough provinces. For the record, vassals add to your province score (but personal unions don't).
Countries can get provinces defecting if the culture is the same as yours or if you are Russian and the province in question is a horde province. (or if you are byzantine or turkish and the province is in the crimea).
The french collapse is part of the Hundred Years War. A part of history that is about halfway in progress at the gamestart. Quite interesting to be honest. If England can take control of Paris then France will collapse into another nation and england has the opportunity to form the Anglo-French Union. Very powerful, very scary and very rarely formed by an AI England.

PUs do count.
War Dynamism can fire if the culture of the province is identical to yours (say Portugal is liberating a Portuguese province) and the owner also isn't the same culture, if it's the same culture group as you (say a northern Italian state rescuing another Latin province) and the owner isn't in the culture group, or some special cases like Russians versus the Hordes or Langue d' Oil nations (France) grabbing Langue d' Oc provinces.
Oh wow, I haven't seen an AI pull that one off by themselves. As Blxz said, England will be a monster because Dauphine is now their vassal.

[Rajputs]

About claims, just look up the regions map mode and count how many provinces in that region that you own. Or, more realistically, just wait and play normally. It updates ~every year so you will see when you have enough provinces. For the record, vassals add to your province score (but personal unions don't).

This helped quite a bit thanks!

By defecting I mean once England had occupied a French provinces for I long time a event popped up saying that you can
annex this province for 1 infamy.

As Blxz said, England will be a monster because Dauphine is now their vassal

From my Brandenburg save I played as England and saw that they can't negotiate peace as a vassal is the
a war leader and therefore they can't negotiate with Dauphine either. However they still keep getting provinces
because of that event I mentioned earlier.

[Blxz]

PUs do count.

I was unaware of this. I thought Gigau experimented with it but it was causing issues so it was disabled in the latest version? Guess I am mistaken.

By defecting I mean once England had occupied a French provinces for I long time a event popped up saying that you can
annex this province for 1 infamy.

Thats the War dynamicism event both sirk and I were referring to. Since england at gamestart is part of one of the french cultures (or maybe part of the culture group?) they can get that event to fire on french provinces. But if they get forced out of mainland europe then they will change over to english.

From my Brandenburg save I played as England and saw that they can't negotiate peace as a vassal is the
a war leader and therefore they can't negotiate with Dauphine either. However they still keep getting provinces
because of that event I mentioned earlier.

This is unlucky for you. It is caused when you are choosing what country you want to play at the beginning and you back and forward in the timeline. In future make sure you never move BACK in time on that screen. You may have to edit the save files to fix this problem. An unfortunate bug but not one that the mod can fix I don't think.

[Sofistication]

Also worth mentioning that War Dynamism also fires on cores, and England has cores in a sizeable portion of southern France at the start of the game.

[SirkTheMonkey]

Also worth mentioning that War Dynamism also fires on cores, and England has cores in a sizeable portion of southern France at the start of the game.

Of course, how could I forget that twice in explanations in one day. Thanks for the reminder.

[Rajputs]

Does War Dynamism only happen with England and France or with any country at war with another of the same culture?

[SirkTheMonkey]

Does War Dynamism only happen with England and France or with any country at war with another of the same culture?

War Dynamism happens when you're at war with someone of a different culture who has provinces of your culture, when you have cores on the provinces, or in a few special cases like the steppes.

[Rajputs]

War Dynamism happens when you're at war with someone of a different culture who has provinces of your culture, when you have cores on the provinces, or in a few special cases like the steppes.

That explained a lot, thanks

[Dutchling]

As this thread already exists I see no need to create another one:
There are two provinces in Fez with almost the same name: Tamarzit and Tamarzirt. Is this intended? As it is quite confusing.
Is Granada supposed to DoW Castille on day 1 every single game?
Are Muslims supposed to not get royal marriages? If that is the case, could you add an alternative way of increasing legitimacy? (basing it on prestige or so).
Does the 'improved AI' cause things like Hafsid attacking England and Savoy attacking France (with predictable outcomes...) or is that just the regular AI?

[SirkTheMonkey]

Is Granada supposed to DoW Castille on day 1 every single game?
Are Muslims supposed to not get royal marriages? If that is the case, could you add an alternative way of increasing legitimacy? (basing it on prestige or so).

Granada and Castille not only have cores on each other's lands but they also get events and missions forcing them to war.
I think that's a work in progress.

[NorwayBernd]

And indeed, only Christians can get royal marriages now. Something to replace that is currently being worked on, but until that's finished, the "National Epic" cultural decision is the best way to keep legitimacy up if you're in a regency council.

[mtgdjs]

And indeed, only Christians can get royal marriages now. Something to replace that is currently being worked on, but until that's finished, the "National Epic" cultural decision is the best way to keep legitimacy up if you're in a regency council.

And at +5% per year, it works quite well.

[Tallfellow]

I'm pretty sure that Gigau will allow Muslim countries to have Royal Marriages in the next update, until the new system is ready to be put in play.

[gigau]

Granada and Castille not only have cores on each other's lands but they also get events and missions forcing them to war.

Yes, but it shouldn't be on first day of game each time...