What is the best way to kill your (weak stats) own ruler? I tried lots of doomed to failure battles, sending him on a cog in the middle of the ocean, everything! Any advice?
I've been wondering this too. The suicide infantry against the walls tactic works seemingly well...although quite gamey (understatement).
Also, how does one procure better monarchs and heirs? I start off with great monarchs, then after a while, they dull down, then turn to utter sh!t.
By mid game, if I'm done with PU's and the like, I'll switch to a republic.
I've always wondered, how can he survive is he's leading 1,000 men in the middle of the Pacific when the fleet sinks? Does he swim back to his country?
I've always wondered, how can he survive is he's leading 1,000 men in the middle of the Pacific when the fleet sinks? Does he swim back to his country?
It's part of his powers after he goes through the rituals of being a prince, in which he must perilously avoid hunting accidents, falling ill, and dying for no reason.
First put him as a general in an infantry.
2nd buy a cog.
3rd send him to a never ending journey.
My heirs seem to fail horribly at the first...I can't count how many of them have gone hunting and then died.
What has been discovered by survey upon study upon investigation is that poor kings live longer, whether or not their 1000 level-1 tech infantry are cornered by a French Cavalry doomstack on Corfu, or sunk somewhere off the Icelandic coast. Whether the king's only skill is in swimming, or your nation pities him so much they have to pay his ransom or feel sorry for him is unimportant - they're just invincible.
There really are almost no ways to 'remove' unwanted rulers. Bar cheating, you'll probably be stuck with him for eternity. There is but one fate worse- the dreaded 'regency council'. Much to the intense dismay of players across the globe, this band of idiots can not be assigned to the intrepid exploration fleet with only enough supplies for the one-way trip, nor put as the sole combatants in your Thermoplyae-scenario versus the entire Ottoman Empire. Whatever comes of your (undoubtably failed) efforts to eradicate all vestiges of life from your bumbling monarch, as long as every single heir he has is not mysteriously killed while hunting you should be able to avoid the terror of being unable to declare the war that you wish for your council to be slain in.
I'm sorry to say, you'll be stuck with your king for eternity - yes, it has happened. These same poor souls have since migrated from the poisoned watering-hole that is EU3 dynastic succession to the dry lake of HoI, where their needs are even more direly ignored. I pray that this happens not to you, and that by some stroke of luck your king passes on with all possible speed. May the cry soon be heard throughout your nation: "The king is dead! Long live the king!"