Crusader Kings II ~ Quick Answers
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As a Republic, is it possible to abandon (or otherwise get rid of) an unwanted trade post?
I have a republic question too. I had southern Italy as ERE for a long time, but then I decided to create the duchy of Napolis. When I did that (I gave it to the count of Gaeta), I got the notification of a great house rising and he became the Doge of Napolis. So he turned into a vassalised merchant republic as I understand it right?
Is this good or bad?
Is this good or bad?
Sort of both. On the one hand, if you keep him as a direct vassal you'll get an increase in income (which is good). On the other hand, it's an automatic -30 opinion malus for "Wrong Government Type" and, if you're running Harsh City Taxes, there's another -20 for that. Vassal Republics are also incredibly expensive to bribe, but as long as you have a good Chancellor and Spymaster it should be possible to keep them happy, and like I said, you'll get a substantial increase in gold from having them as vassals, especially once they start building trade posts.
How do I convince my fellow HRE vassals to nominate me as the next Holy Roman Emperor? I've tried bribing them all but they still didn't nominate me as the next heir. It worked the first time around.
It helps if you're the same culture and religion as them. It helps to have high Diplomacy. If you're a vassal, try fabricating a claim if you don't already have one.
You're on the right track. You can also use your chancellor. If you're not German (like most of them), you're probably going to need to develop your personal power base more as well. The other thing that can influence them to vote for you is how much they like the current emperor and his heir. A few well-placed knives can put a child on the throne, and the various electors are less likely to side with his choice of heir if... something should happen to him before he came of age...
I can't remember if this is supposed to happen: I holy warred for the 2 highlighted regions below (the duchy of Saxony which was owned by an independent slavic ruler). The actual duchy title belonged to someone in the HRE who owned all of the de jure area of the duchy of Brunswick (but the Brunswick duchy title didn't exist). So, now that I own 2/3 of the duchy of Saxony, I usurp it and steal every single vassal count the former Duke of Saxony had (9 counts in total as you can see by the shields).
Is this meant to happen? Or is this one of the dangers of owning none of the de jure counties that are associated with your title while having no 2nd title of equal rank to it?
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I can't remember if this is supposed to happen: I holy warred for the 2 highlighted regions below (the duchy of Saxony which was owned by an independent slavic ruler). The actual duchy title belonged to someone in the HRE who owned all of the de jure area of the duchy of Brunswick (but the Brunswick duchy title didn't exist). So, now that I own 2/3 of the duchy of Saxony, I usurp it and steal every single vassal count the former Duke of Saxony had (9 counts in total as you can see by the shields).
Is this meant to happen? Or is this one of the dangers of owning none of the de jure counties that are associated with your title while having no 2nd title of equal rank to it?
This is one of the dangers.
Thank you. I guess that means this was a really bad screw up by the AI... so I gained 11 counties for the price of stomping a 500-man army count. I've actually never had this happen to me before, all I ever usually got from usurping was the title itself.
Actually, I don't think that's supposed to happen. Yeah, the former Duke becomes a Count and thus loses all his Count vassals but from what I know they all should have stayed within the HRE.
Yeah, this was my thought too which prompted me to ask here. I suppose it sort of makes sense that they might become my vassals since they are vassals to the the Duke of Saxony... which happens to be me now, and I'm King of Lithuania.
However, I had never experienced this before in any of my games prior to the RoI patch. Perhaps I should just bug report it for good measure... even if it may turn out that it is WAD.
If a neighboring ruler has a high opinion of you is he less likely to start de jure claim wars on you? It seems like most of my defeats are because someone believes that something rightly belongs to them. Is there a way to keep them from grabbing your lands?
Unless something has changed recently, opinion definitely factors in to war declarations. Before, an enemy above 80 opinion would almost never start a war against you and only very rarely join an ally against you...
This allows you to use chancellors and bribes (a tribute?) to keep them off your back.
If my under age son is betrothed to someone and I grant him a county while being betrothed, could he have the option to not marry his betrothed as a count?
Offhand, I would say yes, as the decision is now taken out of your hands. Whether it actually happens or not I can't say.
He will have that option, yes. If AI controlled, he will just accept the marriage anyway.
It used to happen pretty regularly -- actually, it seemed like it was more frequently broken than honored. With the more recent changes to the AI's likelihood to honor betrothals, I don't know how often it happens now. They certainly seem to honor it more often now, but that's just anecdotal from my perspective...
Now that I think of it, I've seen the Eastern Roman Empire convert to Catholicism a couple of times. What happens to the The Ecumenical Patriarch in those cases?