I don't have that save anymore, but It took no more then a month after my latest save to give you one better. I give you Duke on Duke hawtness. Mid-Crown Authority is not working as WAD. It's just not working.
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Why does it matter if your vassals fight each other?
Why does it matter if your vassals fight each other?
It ties up troops that you could use for something else.
In CK1 you could declare war on your liege, or another vassal in the kindgom, but the king / duke or whoever had control of the realm would also come to their defense. IMO that makes more sense.
And leads to super-dukes since they can accumulate territory quicker when they can use war as well as marriage.
Why does it matter if your vassals fight each other?
No way, this was one of the biggest problems of CK 1 IMHO. There was literally no way for a King to not get involved in a war between his vassals
No way, this was one of the biggest problems of CK 1 IMHO. There was literally no way for a King to not get involved in a war between his vassals, while historically it was very common for a King's attitude to be "let them sort it out". Indeed, at low crown authority the King intervening in such a struggle would be seen as acting tyrannically.
medium crown authority is suppose to stop inter-realm wars.
However it's fubar and doesn't work appropriately.
Quoting a wrong statement, doesn't make it right.this
I would bet there were a lot more times historically that a king chose to get involved rather than not get involved. Why would a king sit back and watch a duke conquer half his kingdom? Sorry, I really doubt that.
Remember that the AI is plotting and scheming to gain power even under your rule. They aren't just mindless vassals that are on standby waiting for you orders.
Or you could just do what I do and make your primary heir the title holder to ALL your non-demesne holdings. It's nice having him already have 10k prestige when you die
Except both Dukes are vassals of the King. How can the King justify interfering without tacitly saying that he doesn't accept one of his own Dukes? Which ought to make one of those Dukes therefore not his liege anymore and so independent.It is one thing if you are the HRE and a small duke is waring with another small duke. It is another thing entirely if you are king of Sicily and the duke of Sicily gets a claim on the Duke of Apuia or another duchy, and decides to take his duchy. When you have kingdoms that are only 2 or 3 duchies. Now you have a duke that could end up being much stronger than the King.
I would bet there were a lot more times historically that a king chose to get involved rather than not get involved. Why would a king sit back and watch a duke conquer half his kingdom? Sorry, I really doubt that.
Quoting a wrong statement, doesn't make it right.
I think it should be fixed, it doesnt make sense that an emperor or King would allow his kingdom to basically erupt into civil war, and say "well theres nothing i can do about it, they are not my direct vassals". No wars, should mean no wars, period.
I think you're mistaken here. Yes, today that's true, but back in CK2's timeframe most of Europe didn't war as Absolutely the Worst Possible Thing That Could Ever Happen. They saw war as a force for good, and something every nobleman had the right to do. The Kings of France, for example, simply could not stop William the Conquerer from seizing Anjou.
In other words in countries with low Crown Authority the King intervening in a private war would be analogous to the modern Democracy intervening to stop protests against a State/Provinces/Whatever's Governor/Premier/Whatever. In both cases you have the top-level liege trying to protect a lower-tier political unit from people trying to exercise their rights.
@No idea:
Brittany isn't de jure part of France. It's de jure part of that weird Wales-Cornwall-Brittany Kingdom the devs added in the latest patch. It's called Brythain or something like that.
Which means French Crown Laws only apply if that weird-named kingdom has not been created.
Nick
I thought you got a family alliance with your children, and if you're playing smart (ie: you didn't marry matrilinearly while playing a dude, and you did marry matrilinearly while playing a chick) you also get a dynastic alliance with them.I agree, that in most cases king should not intervene, but if any of his children ( lets say crown prince of England is attacked by Duke of York ), king should have right to join defensive wars.