Looks like a good solution to me, and should they have event troops after unifying.
Yes I think they should to encourage their conquest on Soissons (or something else)
Looks like a good solution to me, and should they have event troops after unifying.
I am mostly concerned that with so much history to change there might never BE French people.
If it makes you feel any better, think of them as Proto-French or Barbarian French running around and hitting people with their Baguettes (sorry for being stereotypical French people!)
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The male heirs of the king should inherit different ducal titles of the ancient kingdom and vassalise the vassals equitably. I do not know if this possible though.
Let the duchies that become created out of this make themselves kings (maybe just petty kings or something similar)
I think it's possible, the bit about inheriting different titles and all. I believe AGOT has some events encouraging rulers holding multiple titles to grant them to kin. About the vassals, though, I'm unsure, and could easily be wrong.
That being said, we could avoid events and just use gavelkind, as previously offered. I'm not quite sure what's so bugged about it. At least, I've never had that much problem with it.
I think it's possible, the bit about inheriting different titles and all. I believe AGOT has some events encouraging rulers holding multiple titles to grant them to kin. About the vassals, though, I'm unsure, and could easily be wrong.
That being said, we could avoid events and just use gavelkind, as previously offered. I'm not quite sure what's so bugged about it. At least, I've never had that much problem with it.
For me it's just a big NO-NO! Gavelkind suggestion randomly spread out all of the titles to his heirs (for example if you own the counties of Rennes and Paris and also both of the duchies, it might give the county of Paris to the same guy as it gives the duchy of Britanny to). It is just far to randoom and destabilize's the realm by making the duchies messed up. Historically the king would have chosen (in case of the franks) to give one entire duchy to his son with all of the counties dejure associated to it and not spread it out to meelee it up.
Isn´t that a motivation for unification wars? Scattered titles would be a great tool for infighting and mayhem. And it would also prevent them from blobbing too much.
Isn´t that a motivation for unification wars? Scattered titles would be a great tool for infighting and mayhem. And it would also prevent them from blobbing too much.
I think the point is no father would want to give that gift to his kids. He would want his successor realms to stable and prosperous.
I just think relying upon events for successions opens up the possibility of bugs a bit much. But, if we can do it, and manage to get it to work relatively reliably, then it works, I guess.
In Dejure Mapping I'm currently on the last Hispania "Kingdom", Cartaginensis. I reduced Balearica to a duchy, even though it was a province.
You wouldn't give all of Hispania to them, just a titular title. To get them to try to conquer back their land you could give them a new CB, Restore the Empire. This CB would only be available to the Eastern Empire or the West if it's restored. To simulate the crushing effect wars had on the Roman economy and military you would use gain_all_occupied_titles and only gain_all_occupied_titles so that actually winning the war does nothing and you need to capture land to get it.On the subject of Hispania, I think that its Empire (Hispania I presume) should change name to Spania when the Byzantines invade in 552. This way, Justinian could be granted the title "Emperor of Spania" and have a good reason to subjugate the rest of the penninsula other than just his own ambition.
Edit: Why? Because the Byzantines called their province there Spania
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spania
2nd edit: Or it could be a titular kingdom to better simulate a province?
This might be rather complicated: but can settling be a war? Like a migration war?I don't think you can give landless titles below the rank of duke.