Crusader Kings II ~ Quick Answers

[Usually_Insane]

That is why I do not like Ironman mode. The game should have a slider where you can adjust how much money you want to invest in the attempt and the more you do the higher the chance of succes will be. The Intrigue skill would give a modifier ofc and play a major role in "attempt revealed" chance.
I wish you luck.

Well, I'm a sucker for steam achievements I guess

Anyway, it went as planned... and it went totally wrong.

I have to say I find your slider idea really interesting. Have you proposed this to the devs in some way?

 

[Aardvark Bellay]

The game should have a slider where you can adjust how much money you want to invest in the attempt and the more you do the higher the chance of succes will be.

NO !
Money doesn't kill, characters and their traits and attributes do and their position as an advisor in court. The more of them, the higher the chance that it happens, not that it succeeds.
As such you invest as much money as necessary. Otherwise murdering would be too easy and simplified.

edit: Wait, i responded to plots , not assasinations...

Well....
The money is basically what you give your spymaster to go ahead. He in turn will need to bribe some important people to let him do his work to get through to the person/victim.

 

[Agenor]

Hi everyone, I have a question about title loss under electoral law.

I'm playing as Duke of Tuscany. Unfortunately one of my rulers became King of Denmark, which has electoral law, and this changed the electoral law of my primary duchy title to electoral as well. After my Duchess died, her grandson inherited everything and had the primary title Duke of Sjelland. I changed it to Tuscany and moved the capital back to Tuscany, but now the Duchy of Tuscany also has electoral law.

Here's the question: the icon for title loss on succession says the Duchy of Tuscany will be lost. I also own the counties of Siena and Firenze, as well as five other duke titles. Will any of them be lost as well? If not, it seems a bit pointless since my ruler's successor (his daughter, he has only girls) can just usurp the Tuscany dukedom and so get it back into the family. So is the icon correct?

Thanks in advance for replies.

 

[No-Flag]

Just curious, do you mean revoke? Because if not, then you may be selecting the wrong option. You need to select 'revoke title' and not 'retract vassalage' or whatever the thing says. Other than that I'm not sure. When you say that your only option is to retract his duke title, do you mean that both titles appear but you can only select the Duke title or that the Duke title is the only title that even appears as an option?

I do mean revoke. And only the revoke Duke title appears.

 

[bagalas]

I have to say I find your slider idea really interesting. Have you proposed this to the devs in some way?

No I have not. I 99% sure that a slider implementation would be very very tricky into the current game interface (engine) and even if it is done, programming the AI to use it properly would be an even bigger nightmare. I doubt paradox has the resources for this kind of reprogramming for such a minor gameplay change.

 

[Yxklyx]

Hi everyone, I have a question about title loss under electoral law.

I'm playing as Duke of Tuscany. Unfortunately one of my rulers became King of Denmark, which has electoral law, and this changed the electoral law of my primary duchy title to electoral as well......

Really? Duchy succession is taken from the Kingdom? I didn't realize it worked that way. I thought each Duchy had its own succession law that could only be changed by the Duke.

I have a question: playing as a Republic I used the Seize Rome CB (I already owned a trading post and city in Rome) but one of baronies in Rome stayed as vassal of the Pope. Why is that?

 

[No-Flag]

I'm playing a catholic emperor (Brittania) an invited a man who had a claim on a duchy to my court. I gave him a county and made him king of Nubia wich is a title with no land since all that territory drifted into an other kingdom. So I pressed his claim, won and installed him as my vassal duke.
So far so good, but now I want to revoke that king title, but the only option I have is to revoke his duke title. He does show with a golden circle around his portrait and with the kingdom symbol on the map. He is still clearly a king (of nothing euh.. Nubia).
He already lost the county I gave him to start with, he's catholic.

Why can't I revoke that king title?

edit: typo.

That is why I do not like Ironman mode. The game should have a slider where you can adjust how much money you want to invest in the attempt and the more you do the higher the chance of succes will be. The Intrigue skill would give a modifier ofc and play a major role in "attempt revealed" chance.
I wish you luck.


I'm just guessing here but maybe you get a "10 year truce" for the titles you give away so, you have to have a special reason to revoke it? Revoke the duchy title first and see if the revoke title options is greyed out or no after that. (if you are not in iron man)

I revoked his duchy title, and he stayed king. Then I revoked his only county and that solved the problem. He lost the county and his king title that I could create again as a new title...
At no point I could see the option to revoke his kingdom, not even greyed out.

It's not a 10 years truce, I gave the Kingdom of Persia to a Duke of that kingdom and I could revoke that kingdom, his duchy and his counties.

Can anyone explain this? Is it because it's an empty title?

 

[lymond]

Heretic Strongholds are something that I've not noticed for some reason. Maybe it is an Orthodox thing. An Ortho heresy pops up now and then in one of my provinces. I convert the province in short time but the stronghold and extreme revolt risk remain. Then it moves and pops up in another province which I have to convert. Ofc, rebels occur often.

Is there any way to get rid of the Stronghold? I thought of just leaving my Eclesiarch there, but he has other business as well. Just trying to know if there is a way to rid myself of the nuisance once and for all.

(interestingly, I throw my Strategos in there to suppress revolts but it doesn't lower the risk at all - maybe since it is so high - like 100%+ revolt risk)

 

[SovereignGrave]

Heretic Strongholds are something that I've not noticed for some reason. Maybe it is an Orthodox thing. An Ortho heresy pops up now and then in one of my provinces. I convert the province in short time but the stronghold and extreme revolt risk remain. Then it moves and pops up in another province which I have to convert. Ofc, rebels occur often.

Is there any way to get rid of the Stronghold? I thought of just leaving my Eclesiarch there, but he has other business as well. Just trying to know if there is a way to rid myself of the nuisance once and for all.

(interestingly, I throw my Strategos in there to suppress revolts but it doesn't lower the risk at all - maybe since it is so high - like 100%+ revolt risk)

I think you're just unlucky. As far as I know the modifier doesn't 'move' to another county. The modifier goes away after a certain amount of time, you must be unlucky and are just getting the event repeatedly. Either that or Orthodox's MA is really low.

 

[Kurblius]

How do I fabricate a claim on a duchy or kingdom, or heck, an empire? It seems I can only fabricate claims on the counties the spymaster is sitting in.

 

[SovereignGrave]

How do I fabricate a claim on a duchy or kingdom, or heck, an empire? It seems I can only fabricate claims on the counties the spymaster is sitting in.

You can only fabricate claims on Duchies and Counties. If you want to fabricate a claim on a Duchy you need to park your chancellor in the Duke's capital (I think). Oh, and I believe there's a minimum diplomacy required, but I can't recall what it is.

 

[bagalas]

How do I fabricate a claim on a duchy or kingdom, or heck, an empire? It seems I can only fabricate claims on the counties the spymaster is sitting in.

The minimum diplomacy skill for the agent, to have a chance at fabricationg claim on a duchy, is 15. Between 15-17 its 10%, at 18-19 its 20% and at 20+ its 30%.

 

[redsimonDE]

Which religions can have female heirs (and thus rulers, because I want female rulers)?
I know all Christians and Jews can have female heirs, Muslims can't.
What abou the others (Zoroastrians, Pagans, Indian religions, exceptions for weird heresies)?

 

[yequr]

I think unreformed Tengri are also locked in Agnatic succession, everyone else can have female heirs. Absolute Cognatic succession is of course exclusive to Basque culture and the Cathar and Messalian heresies though.

 

[SovereignGrave]

Which religions can have female heirs (and thus rulers, because I want female rulers)?
I know all Christians and Jews can have female heirs, Muslims can't.
What abou the others (Zoroastrians, Pagans, Indian religions, exceptions for weird heresies)?

Pretty much all the non-Muslim religions are able to have female rulers, but they only have access to Agnatic-Cognatic succession so women only inherit if there aren't men to inherit.

But Cathars (Catholic heresy), Messalians (Nestorian heresy), and characters of the Basque culture are all able to set succession to Absolute-Cognatic, so woman inherit on the same grounds as men.

 

[redsimonDE]

Pretty much all the non-Muslim religions are able to have female rulers, but they only have access to Agnatic-Cognatic succession so women only inherit if there aren't men to inherit.

But Cathars (Catholic heresy), Messalians (Nestorian heresy), and characters of the Basque culture are all able to set succession to Absolute-Cognatic, so woman inherit on the same grounds as men.

You forgot that there is elective succession. That's why you can choose female heirs. So who can get elective succession (can Pagans get it after reforming their faith)?

 

[Empress Matilda]

You forgot that there is elective succession. That's why you can choose female heirs. So who can get elective succession (can Pagans get it after reforming their faith)?

Reformed pagans can. Indian rulers can't but Jain and Buddhist can designate their heirs and Buddhist have no penalty for female rulers

 

[Kurblius]

The minimum diplomacy skill for the agent, to have a chance at fabricationg claim on a duchy, is 15. Between 15-17 its 10%, at 18-19 its 20% and at 20+ its 30%.

15? Wow. Thanks. Didn't know that.

 

[Wezqu]

15? Wow. Thanks. Didn't know that.

and to clarify the chancelor can't fabricate any other claims than for counties and duchies. There is plots to gain claims if you are a vassal for higher titles.

 

[eXistenZ2]

family members in prison dont give decaence right?