Crusader Kings II ~ Quick Answers
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is there any way to filter out some traits?
like, looking for people without the "deceitful" trait but that have other traits...
like, looking for people without the "deceitful" trait but that have other traits...
1. Yes, Gavelkind will distribute all titles from empires all the way down to baronies. Also, in addition to building new castles you should also upgrade the ones you already have (left-click the image of your holding to open the menu for that).
2. Pretty much. Just switch to a different form of succession ASAP (Ultimogeniture or Primogeniture would be simplest; Elective Monarchy can be best, but requires extra setup and is less noob friendly). 30% extra demesne isn't worth the hassle of having to reunite all your titles after each succession. And you can have a pretty decent demesne without it too. Emperor tier with maxed Centralization law gives you a base 8 demesne before even taking into account your Stewardship. If you have a good Stewardship education and make sure that you always marry a woman who is Midas Touched, you could easily have 11 or 12 demesne even without Gavelkind.
And do make sure you set the same succession law for all your titles. Click the coats of arms in the laws window to switch between laws for different titles.
3. Revocation will certainly mean civil war. If you're Catholic and have Free Investiture though, you could set up an anti-pope and have the troublesome vassal excommunicated (it will cost you 100 Piety). Excommunicated characters can be imprisoned without tyranny. He'll still likely rebel when you try to imprison him , but that's exactly what you want because he'll fight you alone rather than with his faction allies. If you do manage to imprison him you can ransom him and then try to imprison him again - keep repeating until it fails and he rebels. After you beat him and he's automatically imprisoned you can revoke one title from him without tyranny. And you'll want to take the kingdom and then let him rot in the dungeon. Then after you're done with that you can press your anti-pope's claim to the papacy, which will make all future popes your vassals and you can do fun stuff like request crusades against specific targets.
4. Right click the picture of a holding you own and a little menu with 3 buttons will pop up. The first one has two crowns on it. Click it and the game will generate a random vassal for you.
I'm afraid that's not possible. The closest you can come to that is to search for people who have the opposite trait (in this case Honest), since you can be sure they won't have the trait you're trying to avoid. But this method will miss any characters that have neither trait.
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@vitalstatistix: One trick with gavelkind is to use it for your primary title and then something more controllable like primogeniture for any secondary titles (e.g. if you have an empire and a kingdom, put the empire on gavelkind and the kingdom on primo). This way you get the demesne boost without any risk of title loss.
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I think I have lucked into exactly that situation.
The Empire of Hispania is elective Gavelkind, so my first son always gets that.
The Kingdoms of Leon and Galicia are now both primogeniture, which flows down to all the Baronies I have in my Leonese capital county.
The Kingdom of Navarra is elective, but as there's only one Duchy there are only two votes, so I have the casting say.
You have Elective Gavelkind for your empire? Better turn that into regular Gavelkind at the first opportunity.
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Probably safer to just virusbomb the empire from orbit to cleanse the stink of elective gavlekind once and for all.
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How does exactly the call for crusade work?
A pope is my vassal, but I don't see any option for a crusade available (or unavailable) if I check possible actions on other (infidel) rulers. Sanctioned invasion is the only one.
A pope is my vassal, but I don't see any option for a crusade available (or unavailable) if I check possible actions on other (infidel) rulers. Sanctioned invasion is the only one.
Have the Crusades been unlocked in your game yet? There's conditions that have to be met to get them started (chief among them that the year has to be 900 AD or later).
You have a point. That was from memory, maybe it's regular Gavelkind.
The last time I checked though all my titles had my first born son as the heir.
Did I miss something or Elective Gavelkind distribute not just your lands, but lands of the heir too? And it was very strange one too, one secondary heir got all of heir's former lands without any distribution.
Elective gavelkind gives the primary title to the selected heir (must be of your dynasty but not necessarily immediate family) and breaks everything else up and splits it among any remaining eligible heirs. Unlike regular gavelkind, you can't really game it by only having a single eligible son unless you have no other branches of your dynasty.
No, I mean he didn't got my lands, he got heir's lands. As in lands heir owned before inheriting my title were given out. And they were given out as whole, not distributed.
And it's elected heir + sons, not every heir. which confirms as grandson that was voted for but didn't win got nothing.
Right. Pretty sure I just have regular gavelkind. Will check later.
But my experience suggests that the laws "nest" for want of a better word.
i.e although my empire is gavelkind my kingdom titles don't get split up among my heirs because my kingdoms obey their own succession laws (which are primo).
At least that seems to be how it's working. All my titles (one empire, four kingdoms, a duchy, three counties and a few baronies) passed down together last time and all now list the same chap as being heir to them.
Side note - for some reason I changed the Kingdom of Andalusia to seniority, which probably explains how I lost it, but maybe I can get it back if I arrange accidents for everyone in my dynasty who's older than me?
The option to request a crusade is only available for a short time 30 years after the end of the previous crusade. By short time I mean a few days or maybe a week. A specific pope can also only call a single crusade in his lifetime, but since tend to be old they also tend to reign for less than 30 years and that condition is usually automatically true (but not always).
And when the option is not available, it doesn'teven show up in the menu at all, not even greyed out.
I am a the King of Portugal, and my heir has just turned 16. I've tried to marry him off but when I click the marriage icon near his portrait I offered a choice of only two low born courtiers.
When I click on the same button of my target ( a princess of Aragon) my heir is not on the list of potential husbands.
What am I doing wrong.
When I click on the same button of my target ( a princess of Aragon) my heir is not on the list of potential husbands.
What am I doing wrong.
In an army consisting of my own and my vassals' levies, is there some easy way to distinguish the latter so that I can disband them?
Go to army tab and dismiss all vassal levies with one click.
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