Crusader Kings II ~ Quick Answers

[BaronNoir]

How are you supposed to beat with roughly equal numbers the Khanate invasion ? A stack of 15k eat through a 15k retinue with a 25 martial general with specialist defence, a 40 one on the right flank (he was possessed, however....might not be a good choise) and a 22 on the left flank that was at full moral and on a montain pass.

 

[Finarfin]

Is he a bastard or otherwise disqualified (bishop, holding land in a different realm and blocked by crown authority, etc.)?

On the trade posts thing (from cb types file):

not{ num_of_trade_post_diff = {character = FROM value = 3}}

So it looks like you have to have 2 or fewer more than the target.

Different titles can have different succession laws, even if they are held by the same person. It seems one of your Kingdoms is somehow Absolute Cognatic (Navarre? Are you Cathar?)

Actually, by all rights he was the heir to both of my kingdoms since they were both Agnatic-Cognatic, meaning that the male should always get preference. However, the one that was Elective kept the female that was the heir before he was born as heir until she died. Then, all of a sudden, he became heir to the kingdom as he should have originally been. If I had died before the old lady my kingdoms would have been incorrectly split up. CK2 seems to have quite a few problems with correctly keeping the succession straight.

 

[Finarfin]

What determines whether your Chancellor can fabricate claims? I have a new independent 3 county duchy next to me that split from its kingdom. However, I can't swoop in and add it to my kingdom because I don't have a valid casus belli and it's selectable for my Chancellor to make a claim. Why is that?

 

[brifbates]

Actually, by all rights he was the heir to both of my kingdoms since they were both Agnatic-Cognatic, meaning that the male should always get preference. However, the one that was Elective kept the female that was the heir before he was born as heir until she died. Then, all of a sudden, he became heir to the kingdom as he should have originally been. If I had died before the old lady my kingdoms would have been incorrectly split up. CK2 seems to have quite a few problems with correctly keeping the succession straight.

Elective works that way. Your courtiers don't automatically change their votes just because you changed yours. They are pretty reluctant to change votes to a newborn child.

 

[BaronNoir]

What determines whether your Chancellor can fabricate claims? I have a new independent 3 county duchy next to me that split from its kingdom. However, I can't swoop in and add it to my kingdom because I don't have a valid casus belli and it's selectable for my Chancellor to make a claim. Why is that?

Make a claim is an action that take time. Your Chancellor will (eventually) tell you that he suceeded in making the said claim.

 

[Finarfin]

Elective works that way. Your courtiers don't automatically change their votes just because you changed yours. They are pretty reluctant to change votes to a newborn child.

I'm sorry. I meant Seniority, not Elective.

 

[Finarfin]

Make a claim is an action that take time. Your Chancellor will (eventually) tell you that he suceeded in making the said claim.

Not if you cannot place your Chancellor in that county.

 

[brifbates]

Not if you cannot place your Chancellor in that county.

Assuming range isn't an issue...

Is your chancellor leading troops or currently locked into his last task? Both of these situations will inhibit starting a claim forging.

 

[Finarfin]

Assuming range isn't an issue...

Is your chancellor leading troops or currently locked into his last task? Both of these situations will inhibit starting a claim forging.

No, he was just standing around. The duchy in question had an intervening county of another country between us. Is adjacency required to fabricate claims?

 

[BaronNoir]

Is this duchy merely revolting or is an actually separate state ?

 

[MFCamillus]

No, he was just standing around. The duchy in question had an intervening county of another country between us. Is adjacency required to fabricate claims?

In Vanilla it is diplo range. If you are using PB in your mix of mods I believe the diplo range is restricted to essentially make it adjacency.

If you are using something else just find whichever is loading job_chancellor.txt

 

[Finarfin]

Is this duchy merely revolting or is an actually separate state ?

It's fully independent at this time. Until I finally get my hands on it.

In Vanilla it is diplo range. If you are using PB in your mix of mods I believe the diplo range is restricted to essentially make it adjacency.

If you are using something else just find whichever is loading job_chancellor.txt

I'm using PB so that's probably what's preventing me from skipping that intervening province. Just a minor setback to my master plan.

 

[rawrbear]

I just invaded Germany and won the war. I'm in the middle of being Operah and dishing out all the titles to everyone but it seems that every troop on the map is hostile towards me. I'm not at war but it seems that anyone at war with a rebel faction is also "at war" with me in that their troops are red and siege my land. I'm assuming this is a bug but is there any easy fix for it? My ruler dying doesn't seem to fix it.

 

[FreeSoc]

I just invaded Germany and won the war. I'm in the middle of being Operah and dishing out all the titles to everyone but it seems that every troop on the map is hostile towards me. I'm not at war but it seems that anyone at war with a rebel faction is also "at war" with me in that their troops are red and siege my land. I'm assuming this is a bug but is there any easy fix for it? My ruler dying doesn't seem to fix it.

Exiting the save and reloading it seems to solve the issue, AFAIK.

 

[BoleslavLev]

I am emperor of Italia and I want to give kingdom of Sicily to republic of Amalfi. How can I do it? I can´t just give it to it and I can´t destroy it (it says I have gavelkind, which is btw not true, so yeah ) If I´d control the whole kingdom and then give it to some count and then Amalfi would conquer that county, would they get the title?

 

[tamius23]

I am emperor of Italia and I want to give kingdom of Sicily to republic of Amalfi. How can I do it? I can´t just give it to it and I can´t destroy it (it says I have gavelkind, which is btw not true, so yeah )

This means you have gavelkind in any one of your titles, not necessarily the one you are trying to destroy.

If I´d control the whole kingdom and then give it to some count and then Amalfi would conquer that county, would they get the title?

No, it would get destroyed.

 

[BoleslavLev]

This means you have gavelkind in any one of your titles, not necessarily the one you are trying to destroy.

None of mine kingdoms has it. Could it be some of my vassals (republics) or something? Can I track it?

No, it would get destroyed.

Oh, yeah, I meant it like that. Then they can create it, right? (even as my vassals). Also, do I need to get to limited crown authority, so they could declare war on the "king" of Sicily? Thanks

 

[tamius23]

None of mine kingdoms has it. Could it be some of my vassals (republics) or something? Can I track it?

Hmm… could it be a duchy of yours?

Oh, yeah, I meant it like that. Then they can create it, right? (even as my vassals). Also, do I need to get to limited crown authority, so they could declare war on the "king" of Sicily? Thanks

Presumably they could, yes, providing they had 51% of the de jure land, and the requisite gold and piety. There don't seem to be any restrictions on k_sicily. And you'd need limited CA or below for the war to happen (and they need claims).

 

[BoleslavLev]

Hmm… could it be a duchy of yours?

Don´t know. Can I look it up somewhere in the game? With Sicily I´ll make some test, thx for the info.

 

[Tom013]

Don´t know. Can I look it up somewhere in the game? With Sicily I´ll make some test, thx for the info.

You cannot grant kingdoms to republics -- at least you could not a couple patches ago and it sounds like this is the case here. He COULD create it on his own if he meets the restrictions.