Crusader Kings II ~ Quick Answers

[postm00v]

I'm having trouble raising the amount of troops I can muster from my vassals. I know you can switch the obligations laws around, but that doesn't help much. I can muster around 1.5k troops from my vassals as the King of Norway, while the King of Sweden can muster around 12k from vassals alone.

A lot of those troops are 'Potential Vassal Ally' troops. I don't get why that's such a ridiculously high amount.

 

[AjayAlcos]

Just needing a confirmation, but can characters following a "cosmopolitan" religion marry candidates the both worship - and are liege to - a "dogmatic" religion?

 

[Serenity84]

A lot of those troops are 'Potential Vassal Ally' troops. I don't get why that's such a ridiculously high amount.

There is a huge difference between being feudal and tribal. Tribals can call in their vassals as allies. As a feudal you only get a fraction of your vassal troops depending on laws and opinion. That's why switching from feudal to tribal leaves you weaker in the short term. Tribal troops are mostly light infantry though

 

[Yxklyx]

There is a huge difference between being feudal and tribal. Tribals can call in their vassals as allies. As a feudal you only get a fraction of your vassal troops depending on laws and opinion. That's why switching from feudal to tribal leaves you weaker in the short term. Tribal troops are mostly light infantry though

It's not only obligations/opinion though - as tribals usually just get a lot more troops until feudal castles are built up.

 

[redtide]

So I was looking for the Tengri holy site in the province of Syr Darya. The province has a castle, a city, and a temple. The castle rather than the temple is listed as the Tengri holy site. What's going on here?

EDIT: by the way, this is in 2.8.3.4

 

[redtide]

So I was looking for the Tengri holy site in the province of Syr Darya. The province has a castle, a city, and a temple. The castle rather than the temple is listed as the Tengri holy site. What's going on here?

EDIT: by the way, this is in 2.8.3.4

If you're feudal and conquer a nomadic province and upgrade the Tribe to a Castle, then each of the three holding types is generated, and the Temple becomes the holy site. But if you build a Castle instead of upgrading the Tribe, then the Castle becomes the holy site. Seems dumb.

EDIT: OK, I'm further confused because if you build a Temple after building a Castle, then the holy site shifts from the Castle to the Temple, but somehow this didn't happen when Syr Darya converted from Nomadic to Iqta under the AI, so I don't know what's going on.

 

[JimboOmega]

If I reform my pagan religion and select Enatic clans while having a male ruler, what happens? Is there immediately a succession?

I have a surfeit of prisoners from my various raids and other adventures. Is there a way to "ransom all"? Is there anything to do with the rest? Right now I'm getting overwhelmed with popups of children reaching age 16 in my dungeons. While I can take the occasional noble woman as a concubine, the boys just seem totally worthless if I can't ransom them. Are they of any use?

 

[Admiral_Obvious]

If I reform my pagan religion and select Enatic clans while having a male ruler, what happens? Is there immediately a succession?

I have a surfeit of prisoners from my various raids and other adventures. Is there a way to "ransom all"? Is there anything to do with the rest? Right now I'm getting overwhelmed with popups of children reaching age 16 in my dungeons. While I can take the occasional noble woman as a concubine, the boys just seem totally worthless if I can't ransom them. Are they of any use?

I've not had a chance to try Enatic (since it breaks quite a lot of things) but, last I saw, it inverts succession laws (so Cognatic-Agnatic instead of Agnatic-Cognatic), and prohibits Male councilors. It shouldn't force succession immediately, but you might take an opinion malus for having a male ruler.

On the intrigue screen for prisoners, there is a ransom all button on the right. Be careful not to actually ransom someone you want to keep imprisoned.

As for the spare kids, you can recruit them, usually, if they're any good at a particular stat. Otherwise, if they're foreign, and of a different faith, there's literally no reason to not execute them. I find public humiliation is a fun one though, -50 GLOBAL opinion is pretty nuts.

 

[AlexArgos]

Not related to the latest patch/DLC.

I am playing a Merchant Republic for the 1st time and I had read in the wiki that you can use excommunication or the "spy on" feature of the Way of Life's intrigue focus so you can steal back the money of old relatives that are unsuitable for doges. Is that still possible? Because I've managed to imprison some of them and the banish option doesn't offer me any money. Is it some special event I'm missing?

Bump. Doesn't anyone have any idea? I'm losing a huge amount of money each time a worthless old relative dies and the money aren't inherited by someone else in my court!

 

[Duskwave]

If someone doesn't have a normal heir, their money goes to their direct liege. if it doesn't show you as their liege on their character page, you won't get it, whether you have them imprisoned or no

 

[AlexArgos]

If someone doesn't have a normal heir, their money goes to their direct liege. if it doesn't show you as their liege on their character page, you won't get it, whether you have them imprisoned or no

The wiki seems to suggest that you can actively seize/confiscate their money rather than wait to inherit it as their liege.
And of course most of them have heirs of their own (the whole point of MRs is to keep breeding new males) but if their only heir is a woman then the opportunity to re-absorb their money back into the realm is lost.

 

[Karakoran]

The wiki seems to suggest that you can actively seize/confiscate their money rather than wait to inherit it as their liege.
And of course most of them have heirs of their own (the whole point of MRs is to keep breeding new males) but if their only heir is a woman then the opportunity to re-absorb their money back into the realm is lost.

Does it work if you excommunicate, imprison, banish someone of your dynasty with no children at all?

Does it work if you do this to someone not of your dynasty?

 

[AlexArgos]

Does it work if you excommunicate, imprison, banish someone of your dynasty with no children at all?

Does it work if you do this to someone not of your dynasty?

When doing it to someone else it says how much money I'll get when I hover the cursor over the banish button. For my relatives it says nothing so I didn't even try it because I play ironman.

 

[Aardvark Bellay]

The wiki seems to suggest...

Can you please link that specific article ?
Thanks

 

[JimboOmega]

I've not had a chance to try Enatic (since it breaks quite a lot of things)

Wait, what does it break? Enatic has been in the game (as a mod option) for quite a while?

 

[Aotrs Commander]

Losing the Fat trait... I had an event that gave me a Hard Diet modifier that lasted six-seven years (!), but when it expired, nothing seemed to happen. Does anyone know where the particualr event file for this, or what's suppsoed to happen? (If I know the former, I can go look it up myself.)

 

[Aardvark Bellay]

Losing the Fat trait... I had an event that gave me a Hard Diet modifier that lasted six-seven years (!), but when it expired, nothing seemed to happen. Does anyone know where the particualr event file for this, or what's suppsoed to happen? (If I know the former, I can go look it up myself.)

Doens't seem to expire, rather gets removed by event and nothing after.
I used Notepad++ , searched the event folder with "search in files" for hard_diet.
I found it twice.
Searching the common folder only gave me the modifier.

 

[AlexArgos]

Can you please link that specific article ?
Thanks

The phrase "Seize wealth from old kinsmen. Use the intrigue focus or excommunication for imprisonment reasons" is included in the wiki guide for MR:
https://ck2.paradoxwikis.com/Merchant_republic

But I had come across the intrigue focus suggestion elsewhere and I was expecting a special intrigue event.

 

[Karakoran]

I'm playing a campaign as a duke in the Byzantine Empire and I can't get elected Empire. Does being a eunuch make that impossible? I can't find anything that says it would, but I see no eunuch or blind characters as succession options so I have no idea.

 

[Rockphed]

I'm playing a campaign as a duke in the Byzantine Empire and I can't get elected Empire. Does being a eunuch make that impossible? I can't find anything that says it would, but I see no eunuch or blind characters as succession options so I have no idea.

Being a eunuch or blind prohibits succession for all greek characters. The Byzantine emperor is further restricted to neither cleft palate nor club-footed. I think maimed traits also prevent inheritance.