Best Way to Kill Ruler

[Pjstaab]

Playing TO and need to get rid of a junky Hochmeister, a bit gamey but i'm the one playing. I assigned him to a general and put him in charge of an army. It seems like they only ever die when sieging a fort and never in battles or assaulting a fort. What's a good way to actually kill him?

 

[kuroiya88]

You usually lose them in really nasty battles with bad odds against you. Assault a fort multiple times with few soldiers and he'll be dying soon.

 

[herrhals]

Assault many many forts. They will die.. eventually. It is quite a fail safe way of offing them. Of course, in EU3, nothing is a guaranteed success.

 

[Pjstaab]

I'll keep assaulting forts I guess. Just seems like someone incompetent wouldn't rise to the rank of Hochmeister anyway.

 

[unmerged(225264)]

I'm not sure but I think stationing him in a tropical province (if you have one) will increase the chances of him dying too. He doesn't need to fight.

 

[Yakyou]

Assault many many forts. They will die.. eventually. It is quite a fail safe way of offing them. Of course, in EU3, nothing is a guaranteed success.

From a personal experience, I'm not so sure about this. I put pretty much all of my kings in charge of doomstacks, and I assault like a motherf***er by default. My kings still have an average lifespan of 20 years.

 

[unmerged(80402)]

Make your ruler leader, fight with as much enemies armies as possible, and lauch assaults with him - if he will not die from it then i don't see a way he would be killed.

 

[herrhals]

Also, try and station him leader of an army in a province where there will be attrition.

 

[Ojf]

couldn't you just put him with 1k troops on a cog and let attrition destroy the ship

 

[unmerged(80402)]

couldn't you just put him with 1k troops on a cog and let attrition destroy the ship

I don't think so. But it would be fun to be able to do so... XD

 

[herrhals]

All kings in EU3 are super marathon swimmers. I have seen one swim to Denmark from the Hawaiian coast!

 

[unmerged(204522)]

couldn't you just put him with 1k troops on a cog and let attrition destroy the ship

i think they nerfed this exploit......send him to war without paying military maintenance. this makes each battle longer, increasing the chance of him dying.

 

[unmerged(225264)]

couldn't you just put him with 1k troops on a cog and let attrition destroy the ship

One of the weirdest things I discovered when playing my first games is that Generals/Admirals are not killed when their army/navy is wiped off the map. They can also teleport to any point on the map you control. I try now to keep them 'attached' to a unit to make thing a bit more 'natural'. Annoying thing is that I've read somewhere that they are more likely to die aboard a ship or high attrition province and they are too bloody expensive to actually put them on a ship so that I take some liberty with this.

 

[unmerged(80402)]

One of the weirdest things I discovered when playing my first games is that Generals/Admirals are not killed when their army/navy is wiped off the map. They can also teleport to any point on the map you control. I try now to keep them 'attached' to a unit to make thing a bit more 'natural'. Annoying thing is that I've read somewhere that they are more likely to die aboard a ship or high attrition province and they are too bloody expensive to actually put them on a ship so that I take some liberty with this.

Actualy, from patch 1.3 on you loose admirals if you loose fleet. But not generals though.

 

[Pjstaab]

Actualy, from patch 1.3 on you loose admirals if you loose fleet. But not generals though.

The losing admirals thing is annoying when I'm exploring with an explorer and get into a war and forget about him and you get a message about losing a ship. But it's ok the general on board though can swim back.