Playing as di Canossa in Tuscany. Schemed my way into getting my daughter matrilineally married to the hier to the Norman Kingdom of Sicily, then murdered the child king so my Son in Law would inherit. The inept idiot then promptly lost a Muslim jihad war for Sicily and came crawling home with his tail between his legs and now instead of a Christian kingdom of Sicily with my bloodline on the throne, I've got a muslim Sultanate of Sicily sitting at my back door.
I wanted to declare war on the muslim duchy (I cant remember all the muslim terms...is it Bey?) that was immediately next to my lands and then work my way through, but it said I couldnt declare war on that Bey because he wasnt independent. So I clicked on his liege's portrait and from a laundry list of CBs, I selected "Holy War for Sicily," thinking that if I wont that would entitle me to all the lands of Sicily, because that SEEMED to be what the muslims did to my idiot son in law when in one fell swoop they took all the lands of southern italy.
Instead, i got a very complicated all out fisticuffs against like 17k muslim troops that involved me sieging all of the muslim counties in sicily, then some cat and mouse in the mountains and a trip to the holy lands to occupy some of the liege's land there before I could get the score to 100% and enforce demands...But all I got was the three counties that the Sultan directly owned in Sicily, none of his vassal lands, even though I had occupied them.
1. Even though it still shows Italian culture and Catholic religion in the counties I took, I now have the option to usurp the Beybey something (not the Duchy), does that mean I am somehow this Sultan's vassal? Will it ever go back to being a Duchy?
2. I see some of the vassal counties listed separately as distinct CBs in the war list under the Sultan. Does that mean that I have to go to war one by one to take each of the vassal lands. Is there no way to choose an option that will let me go Holy War for all the vassal holdings in Sicily? (eg can I shift and select multiple? or only if there's some bundle option? If so, how do I know what bundle options apply because the K of Sicily holy war didnt do it?)
3. I dont remember if "enforce all demands" appeared at the bottom of the laundry list of 17 CBs against this sultan, but if you enforce more (or fewer) demands, does that change how much you have to do to get the warscore up to 100%? Like if I only go for one county, would occupying all of that county and the rest of the Sultan's Sicily lands be enough, but if I somehow went for all the sultan's lands, I would need to occupy more or win more fights because I'm going after more land?
I wanted to declare war on the muslim duchy (I cant remember all the muslim terms...is it Bey?) that was immediately next to my lands and then work my way through, but it said I couldnt declare war on that Bey because he wasnt independent. So I clicked on his liege's portrait and from a laundry list of CBs, I selected "Holy War for Sicily," thinking that if I wont that would entitle me to all the lands of Sicily, because that SEEMED to be what the muslims did to my idiot son in law when in one fell swoop they took all the lands of southern italy.
Instead, i got a very complicated all out fisticuffs against like 17k muslim troops that involved me sieging all of the muslim counties in sicily, then some cat and mouse in the mountains and a trip to the holy lands to occupy some of the liege's land there before I could get the score to 100% and enforce demands...But all I got was the three counties that the Sultan directly owned in Sicily, none of his vassal lands, even though I had occupied them.
1. Even though it still shows Italian culture and Catholic religion in the counties I took, I now have the option to usurp the Beybey something (not the Duchy), does that mean I am somehow this Sultan's vassal? Will it ever go back to being a Duchy?
2. I see some of the vassal counties listed separately as distinct CBs in the war list under the Sultan. Does that mean that I have to go to war one by one to take each of the vassal lands. Is there no way to choose an option that will let me go Holy War for all the vassal holdings in Sicily? (eg can I shift and select multiple? or only if there's some bundle option? If so, how do I know what bundle options apply because the K of Sicily holy war didnt do it?)
3. I dont remember if "enforce all demands" appeared at the bottom of the laundry list of 17 CBs against this sultan, but if you enforce more (or fewer) demands, does that change how much you have to do to get the warscore up to 100%? Like if I only go for one county, would occupying all of that county and the rest of the Sultan's Sicily lands be enough, but if I somehow went for all the sultan's lands, I would need to occupy more or win more fights because I'm going after more land?