Crusader Kings II ~ Quick Answers

[SchwarzKatze]

There are no real special events you can trigger for that. If the owner of a province (the person owning the county) is of a different culture than the province there is a random even that converts the culture to his culture and the mtth depends on the province owner's Stewardship. But the even requires the province to be next to another province that already has the province owner's culture.

So if none of the provinces in Dalmatia are adjacent to a province with Greek culture, then you're out of luck. But if there is at least one Greek province in the neighbourhood you can make the culture spread faster by having a good Stewardship and by giving counties to people who are themselves good at Stewardship.

Errr.....the settlers event contrary to the regular culture conversion event doesn't require adjacent provinces of the culture, but it requires the conquest_culture code flag..,
unless something changed recently which i missed, but a quick lok doesn' t make it seem to be so.
Just sayin'.

Welp, looks like I'll have to wait for the Serbian provinces's conversion then.

 

[NTFTH]

As a merchant republic if a son inherits some feudal land and he's also set to inherit the republic what happens? Does he stay feudal, or switch to a merchant republic?

 

[Dragatus]

I haven't played a MR yet, so I'm not certain, but I think feudal rulers aren't supposed to be able to inherit from a MR.

 

[StarSword]

As a merchant republic if a son inherits some feudal land and he's also set to inherit the republic what happens? Does he stay feudal, or switch to a merchant republic?

I haven't played a MR yet, so I'm not certain, but I think feudal rulers aren't supposed to be able to inherit from a MR.

Yeah, the patrician version of seniority succession specifically excludes landed dynasts. So the heir becomes a feudal lord and the succession moves on to the next guy.

 

[ComplexIvano]

Is it normal that if I fight somebody who is at war with an ally on the othere side of its country I must fight him and the attached army his neautral and non hostile ally for me (they are fighting an holy war of some sort and I pressed a de jure claim on this little guy with a powerful ally, but not showed as that on the declare war sceen or on the map ) ?

 

[sigeena]

Yes, it is WAD.

 

[Humanoid Typhoon]

So I just got my feet wet having a go at the Empire of the Sun achievement and was wondering if the Zunists had any other CB's besides county conquest available to them before they reform?

 

[StarSword]

So I just got my feet wet having a go at the Empire of the Sun achievement and was wondering if the Zunists had any other CB's besides county conquest available to them before they reform?

They have Pagan Subjugation, too, but it's only usable against other pagans.

 

[Dragatus]

If they have the Altaic or Magyar culture they should also have the Tribal Invasion CB available.

 

[Robert II]

Try and get the turkish khan to educate your heir for better cb's and raiding.

 

[Humanoid Typhoon]

Thanks guys. I'm a little confused about Subjugation though. I was going to subjugate a Tengri horde for a big land grab before I go head to head with the Abba-blob. It says I can do it in the outliner that pops up when you first start the game but I never got the option.

 

[vitalstatistix]

What now?
I started on noob island, became king of Eire, fabricated a few claims in Scotland, kept assassinating their queens to shorten the truce periods, finally usurped the crown and pressed the de jure claims. Done.
Managed to hang on to a couple of counties in Wales, so formed that kingdom too. Have quite a decent chancellor so I managed to fabricate claims on four counties on the Welsh/English border before I got nervous that my chap was getting up in years and pressed them all.
But now it's the mid- to late- 1200s and I need about another 20 counties to form Britannia.

I can't invite people with claims because whatever they have claims on isn't in my de jure, so they'd just go independent.
Do I just have to keep fabricating away? It's a slow process, I get one every a few years, but I have to juggle the truce period against the age of my ruler...
Am I missing an obvious way to get CBs on bigger chunks?

 

[Aardvark Bellay]

I can't invite people with claims because whatever they have claims on isn't in my de jure, so they'd just go independent.

Give them a barony, then you can press their claims and keep them as vassals afterwards.

 

[StarSword]

Knowing the Anglo-Saxon petty kingdoms as I do, taking Mercia will probably go a long way to getting the other 20 counties. Try to get a claim on a county in de jure Mercia (I used Leicester) and land a claimant there, then press his claim.

Check Mercia's titles and succession before you start, though. You're going to want to simultaneously claim enough territory when you take that county that you can usurp the duchies that aren't Mercia. In my case the King of Mercia also held the Duchy of Lancaster under seniority, so I had to take three counties of Lancaster and usurp it before I could grab all of the mega-duchy of Mercia in one war with my pet Earl of Leicester.

 

[vitalstatistix]

Give them a barony, then you can press their claims and keep them as vassals afterwards.

I'm not sure about this one. I've invited people to court before, given them a county and when i've pressed their claim they've scarpered.
When I looked closely at the tool tip before I went to war I believe it says, "if the claimant is my vassal and the county is a de jure part of my realm" then they'll stay...

 

[vitalstatistix]

Knowing the Anglo-Saxon petty kingdoms as I do, taking Mercia will probably go a long way to getting the other 20 counties. Try to get a claim on a county in de jure Mercia (I used Leicester) and land a claimant there, then press his claim.

Check Mercia's titles and succession before you start, though. You're going to want to simultaneously claim enough territory when you take that county that you can usurp the duchies that aren't Mercia. In my case the King of Mercia also held the Duchy of Lancaster under seniority, so I had to take three counties of Lancaster and usurp it before I could grab all of the mega-duchy of Mercia in one war with my pet Earl of Leicester.

Interesting idea. I guess that's the answer, usurping duchies to get more CBs. Thank you!

 

[vitalstatistix]

Two other things, while I'm here

The AI can be kind of weird.

1. My ally, the HRE, was in a Holy War in Africa and then suffered a major domestic revolt. Help a brother out I thought, well, my wife's brother, so I piled my troops into some boats and went for a tour of the European countryside. While I'm there un-sieging HRE territory and dodging the rebel armies I twice see HRE armies with 11,000 troops (to be fair could have been the same one, although his Kaiserness does show 23,000 troops next to his name). Do these armies lend me a hand? Knock out a few rebels, maybe split in quarters and un-siege four provinces? Nope. Heads off to work on its tan down south. The second time this happened the warscore was -40% and he couldn't give a monkeys!

2. The Pope calls a crusade for Sicily. I'm feeling the faith, so I load up the troops and head to the Med. The island is deserted so I split my stack into four and get to sieging. Meanwhile a gigantic camel is rampaging through Italy. 32,000 troops. Taking attrition everywhere it goes. Never troubles itself to come to Sicily mind you, as the occupation score quickly reaches 100%. However this is offset by about 35% on account of all the battles the rest of the crusaders are losing throwing armies one at a time down the throat of this camel. Everything from 2,000 to 10,000 men, totally uncoordinated, just chewed up. Either side could easily have won the war, us by getting our stuff together and hitting him 32,000 a side or him by walking his camel over the strait to Sicily and blowing me off the island. Instead the war rages on. Eventually I took all my troops home. We're still at 100% occupation three years later.

Not really a question, but just wanted to get it off my chest.
Am sure everyone else has seen weirder...

 

[Dragatus]

Thanks guys. I'm a little confused about Subjugation though. I was going to subjugate a Tengri horde for a big land grab before I go head to head with the Abba-blob. It says I can do it in the outliner that pops up when you first start the game but I never got the option.

http://www.ckiiwiki.com/Casus_Belli#Pagan_Subjugation

I'm not sure about this one. I've invited people to court before, given them a county and when i've pressed their claim they've scarpered.
When I looked closely at the tool tip before I went to war I believe it says, "if the claimant is my vassal and the county is a de jure part of my realm" then they'll stay...

No, the tooltip says that the if the claimant is of the same dynasty or if you are the de jure liege of the title you're claiming, they will become your vassal. It doesn't mention the special case where they already hold a title in your realm.

If they do hold a title in your realm, the effect depend son the rank of the title you just claimed. If the title is of equal or greater rank (for example a king pressing a vassal's claim to another kingdom or even an empire) the claimant becomes independent. But if the rank of the title is lower than your rank (for example a king pressing a vassal's claim to a duchy) then they should become your vassal.

 

[BD13]

Trying to understand the English melting pot event. In the past it was only possible with norman culture. Is that still true? I am Anglo Saxon and don't want to waste money on culture specific buidings and retinue if my culture will flip. I think I posted the relevant code for anyone who can understand it quickly. Thanks for the time.

Spoiler: Melting Pot Code

# The English Melting Pot
character_event = {
    id = 55002
    desc = "EVTDESC55002"
    picture = GFX_evt_stone_church
  
    only_playable = yes
  
    trigger = {
        year = 1100
        culture = norman
        any_demesne_province = {
            region = custom_england
            culture = saxon
            any_province_holding = {
                NOT = { holding_type = nomad }
            }
        }
    }
  
    mean_time_to_happen = {
        months = 1200
        modifier = {
            factor = 0.75
            learning = 7
        }
        modifier = {
            factor = 0.75
            learning = 9
        }
        modifier = {
            factor = 0.75
            learning = 11
        }
        modifier = {
            factor = 0.75
            learning = 13
        }
        modifier = {
            factor = 1.5
            NOT = { learning = 5 }
        }
        modifier = {
            factor = 1.5
            NOT = { learning = 3 }
        }
        modifier = {
            factor = 2.0
            NOT = { learning = 1 }
        }
    }

    option = {
        name = "EVTOPTA55002"
        culture = english
        random_demesne_province = {
            limit = {
                region = custom_england
                culture = saxon
                any_province_holding = {
                    NOT = { holding_type = nomad }
                }
            }
            culture = english
        }
    }
}

 

[vitalstatistix]

http://www.ckiiwiki.com/Casus_Belli#Pagan_Subjugation



No, the tooltip says that the if the claimant is of the same dynasty or if you are the de jure liege of the title you're claiming, they will become your vassal. It doesn't mention the special case where they already hold a title in your realm.

If they do hold a title in your realm, the effect depend son the rank of the title you just claimed. If the title is of equal or greater rank (for example a king pressing a vassal's claim to another kingdom or even an empire) the claimant becomes independent. But if the rank of the title is lower than your rank (for example a king pressing a vassal's claim to a duchy) then they should become your vassal.

Right. That's how I thought it worked, but pretty sure I was the king of Ireland and pressed a claim for a vassal of mine on one the duchies within Scotland and when he got it he left.
Almost certainly operator error on my part though! Will try again. Cheers