Cannot Raise Levies - How To Fix

[Yxklyx]

In another thread a fellow member mentioned how to fix the save game file for when you can't raise levies. Here are more details. Example: I can't raise the levies of the Duke of Lancaster.

1. Determine whose levies you can't raise and jot down one of the counties owned by that character (example: Westmorland)
2. Exit the game
3. Make a copy of the same game in case you screw up
4. Open the save game file with an editor and search for the county by searching for a line _beginning_ with c_westmorland in this example (this is easy using some editors). The string should be flush with the left hand side of the file (no spaces).
5. Look a couple of lines down and you will see "holder=XXXXXX" where XXXXXX are numbers (I've just seen 6 digit numbers). In this example I have "holder=542040".
6. Search for XXXXXX= in the file. In this example I searched for "542040="
7. You can make a sanity check if you remember the birth name of the character here.
8. Scroll down to the "demesne=" stanza
9. Inside there you will see something like:

"raised_liege_troops=
{
71496}"

10. Delete all three lines and save the file
11. Start up the game

 

[Dracko81]

Or you could also use the console command "charinfo 1" and hover your mouse pointer over the affected vassal. This will give you the char-id and when you open the savegame, you search for "<char-id>=".

This way can be used with just notepad, as the occurance of this is always that characters, character card.

Circumventing the need to search for a line beginning with something you can ignore.