De jure kingdoms big vs small

[majdavlk]

Do you prefer to have most of your realm under 1 or few big de jure kingdoms or prefer many smaller ones?

also bonus question, what do you think about the amalfi decision? do you think it is better to have 2 small duchies over 1 larger ones?

 

[WomboCombo]

I'm a fan of playing tall so tiny Kingdoms (Brittany and Frisia) are more attractive to me. I also like the little Iberian Peninsula Titulars.

 

[WJS]

Deepens how blobby I am that game.

If I'm doing the standard expansion of borders, then large kingdoms are preferable. Free de jure claim wars over more territory, and since I'm likely to form the empire in less than 100 years after i form the kingdom, there's less land to get upset over not de jure drifting.

However, in my most recent game, I started as the Hafsids in 936 and an establishing myself as Barbary pirates, not big land expansionists. I took over the duchies of Crete, Cyprus, and Antioch, and created the custom Sultanate of Antioch. It's a total of seven provinces. Aside from pushing back the Kilabids, the only expansion I've done is to Malta. A small kingdom does me great.

 

[majdavlk]

I'm a fan of playing tall so tiny Kingdoms (Brittany and Frisia) are more attractive to me. I also like the little Iberian Peninsula Titulars.

Deepens how blobby I am that game.

If I'm doing the standard expansion of borders, then large kingdoms are preferable. Free de jure claim wars over more territory, and since I'm likely to form the empire in less than 100 years after i form the kingdom, there's less land to get upset over not de jure drifting.

However, in my most recent game, I started as the Hafsids in 936 and an establishing myself as Barbary pirates, not big land expansionists. I took over the duchies of Crete, Cyprus, and Antioch, and created the custom Sultanate of Antioch. It's a total of seven provinces. Aside from pushing back the Kilabids, the only expansion I've done is to Malta. A small kingdom does me great.

sorry if i made it unclear, i am asking if you prefer to drift duchies in a way to make many small kingdoms or few big one/s

 

[WJS]

De jure drift takes so long it's usually a non-issue. Any full-on drift is rarely more than a coincidence. Otherwise, I'm stuck spending more time ensuring I don't grow in order to grow or prune any kingdom.

As for kingdoms drifting into empires, yes, please, everything drift into my empire, thanks.

 

[Lycrist Katkiller]

I usually don't bother to stop duchies from drifting into my only kingdom so those kingdom grow to unreasonable size - but who cares?
At the end of the day, when I start handing out Kingdom, I give those to Duchies to multiple Vassal-Kings and rule over a Kingdom with only my demesne left