Impell converting faith to avoid being conquered

[gonzalotre]

I am completely new to CK2, but I have played a lot to other Paradox games. I dowloaded the free CK2 Vainilla game, to be ready for the launch of CK3 in september.

I have a problem. I begin with Leon Kingdom and make several holy wars over the Andalusian muslims. The problem I have is that when I attack the fourth time, the muslim, when I get to a 90% WS, converts to Christian and I lose the war -the was finishes in a white peace- as I don't have a land claim, but a faith claim.

Is there any way to impell the target converts to christian?

 

[Naughtius Maximus]

If I recall, If the targeted faith's moral authority (MA) is below 50% that decision becomes available. So try to only attack if Sunni is above 50% MA.

That said holy war CB is to convert infidels by force, not to take land. Once they have converted it's relatively slow (fabricated or marriage) claim wars from then on.

 

[MK1980]

if you own enough other lands in hispania and drive out all muslims, you can form the empire and get a de jure claim on all lands in the region.

 

[prismaticmarcus]

it's a handy thing to do if you're losing a religious war.

 

[jonjowett]

See if the newly-converted ruler's heir is christian. If not, murder the ruler and declare another holy war. (This is especially useful if the heir is a child, because children cannot take the "convert to attacker's religion" decision.)

 

[WJS]

See if the newly-converted ruler's heir is christian. If not, murder the ruler and declare another holy war. (This is especially useful if the heir is a child, because children cannot take the "convert to attacker's religion" decision.)

...Or use the fact you and the ruler share a faith to marry into the Umayyad's family, and pick up a few claims for your dynasty that way.

 

[jonjowett]

...Or use the fact you and the ruler share a faith to marry into the Umayyad's family, and pick up a few claims for your dynasty that way.

Well, yeah, sure, but that's a long-term strategy that's also somewhat risky. (What if they don't have kids? What if the Umayyad dies before his father, so no claim is passed into your dynasty? Etc. I find that you need at least 2 dynastic marriages to be reasonably sure of bringing any particular claim/bloodline into your family - and, even then, it takes decades to see a payoff.)

On the other hand, murder pays off immediately ;-)

 

[WJS]

To be honest, nothing's stopping you from doing both.

 

[jonjowett]

To be honest, nothing's stopping you from doing both.

Yep. Good point.