Questions about CK2 [Old Gods]

1. In any province that's ahead of you in techs you care about. Early game you probably care about ships, military organization and legalism, so if you can find a province that's ahead of you in all of them, put him there. Later, when you buy a few techs, you may want to move him elsewhere. The more techs the province is ahead of you in, the more techs spread to you.

(Edit: To find such provinces, choose the map to show progress in that tech from the tech screen. Since you are Norse, you may be ahead in shipbuilding already, so I would concentrate on MO and legalism.)

2. Norse temple holders can inherit. It's a Christian thing to be ineligible.

3. Yes, the CB completely decides how the war can end, both what you can win and what you can lose. Unlike in EU, CB is very important.

4. If you want to stay Norse, probably yes. You can convert to Christianity or Islam if they send a preacher or if you find yourself attacked.

5. Depends... The TOG start is quite chaotic. Generally, pagans begin to convert en masse from 930 on, but it'll take decades for them all to go, and if anyone reforms they'll be more resilient. Military Organization tech level 4 is required by Catholics to really start spreading into the baltic, because those pagans get a defensive bonus until then.

Fabiano79 said:

3 - It impossible to get more than your CB demands at the end of a war? Lets say I have a CB to one county, but what I really want is to make the Duchy my vassal.

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Childer gave you a good reply, but there is one exception that looks more like a bug than anything. If you have more than one strong claim on a duchy (thanks to "fabricate claim" option, for example), you can pick "press all [strong] claims" option. If you'll get another strong claim during the war, and you'll enforce your demands, you'll get that county you've got new claim on, too.

Other than this one exception, CB can't be changed and limits you in what you can achieve, just as previous poster wrote.

Fabiano79 said:

If I cant remove sons from the succession line "marrying them with religion", what usually people do? Let the older plot the murder of the younger?

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I generally try to limit my breeding until I can reform or if I play with Romuva, then it's relatively easy to remove your heirs from gavelkind by giving them duchy titles around Lithuania as there are so many to go around in the area. Suomenusko Perm or Finland can also achieve this. Slavic kingdoms have ton of duchies so managing heirs in those is easy too, though only Ruthenia is in any decent position to reform. Poland needs to do some serious fabricating for the scattered holy sites, even if they own one.

Romuva is by far the easiest of the three baltic religions to reform. Lithuanian lands are pretty good in terms of holdings too.

Fabiano79 said:

1 - Where should I place my spymaster to study tech? What Im looking for to decide this?

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Byzantium has very good technology at the start of the game, especially the counties of Sinope and Constantinople. Those two are always wise choices, unless you don't want to anger the Basileus.

VienLa said:

Other than this one exception, CB can't be changed and limits you in what you can achieve, just as previous poster wrote.

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another exception: with subjugation or conquest of kingdoms CB (available to pagans and muslims), if you win you get all the counties that are part of the kingdom you are fighting for PLUS the counties you are occupying, even if these occupied counties are not part of the de jure kingdom