You can eventually get the hedonist trait. Its one of those choice lifestyle events where you have to possible options to chose from.
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You can eventually get the hedonist trait. Its one of those choice lifestyle events where you have to possible options to chose from.
Can anyone tell my why my army is so ridiculously small (its my first CK2 Game)? I'm the King of Portugal (and 3 other kingdoms!) and I have about 5000 Soldiers, + 4000 of my Vasalls. I can't fight Castile with this! I'm upgrading my holdings as far as I can afford it, anything else I can do?
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Check you direct vassals opinion of you if they don't like you. You don't get so much troops and martial effects your own demesne troops so having high martial ruler helps.
They all like me more or less. With my old king I had about own 8000 Men, now only 5000 >_<
It is mostly better to invest in retinues and, in case of war, mercenaries than to improve your holdings, especially in your situation. Personally, I only invest in holdings if I'm bored and have a lot of money to spare. Try to take more lands and give it to people with high martial, try to educate the heirs of your vassals with martial characters, and your own heir as well, probably. Alliances and inheritance can help as well, of course, but you might know that already. Good luck!
Awesome, that's what I thought (My family's a bit wonky in that my present ruler - the youngest child to the initial ruler - was actually growing up with my initial ruler's grandkids. Gotta love young wives).
It's just going to be making it to when Adam is able to inherit. Right now I have direct control over 4 counties when my maximum allowable demense is two. Main reason for this is because when Adam's mother inherits it's going to be a rough road, as she is Arbitrary. I presume if I were to start handing out "Crown Lands" to vassals now, that would only make the mother's job all the more difficult when she does take the throne.
I have about 65% of Ireland under my control thus far. I don't want to see that collapse simply because I had to jump through hoops to nominate the successor I wanted.
Being an old guy, you could easily have her killed and take the kinslayer trait without much issues - you're not going to last long anyway. Just make sure to nominate the kid and make sure he is the heir.
You mean the icons that popdown from the top of the screen. You can enable them from the right side popup window. There is button on the top corner of that popup window, press it and chose the option that says somthing about icons and then just enable the icons from the list.
Ok, I keep hearing about retinues, but what I've got is my cultural retinue are Ethiopian Light Infantry. Should I go with that, or one of the generic types? If so, which are good?
Okay, some more family inquiries from myself.
Figured out how to get Adam as the Heir (Gave him an Earldom, and there he was on the succession screen). Unfortunately, his cousin is also an Earl and an obnoxious git to boot (I decided to start pawning off my holdings to family members in the hopes that would increase fertility among them).
Ambitious, Arbitrary, Craven...all around bad apple. He's the Earl of Thormond. I imprisoned him after he made a move against Adam. Now I'm questioning what to do with him. He's married to a claimant to Navarra and has a son - and then he immediately went Celibate afterwards. So he's not going to be contributing anything to the Dynasty outside being a problem.
I can banish him, take his titles and get a hundred gold, but that would mean his three year old son went with him, and my Dynasty still is very thin on male heirs right now. I could just keep him imprisoned until his son was of legal age and then banish him. Or I could execute him, take the opinion hit from the vassals, but the kid gets his county with the hopes he does well with it. Or I could simply just leave him locked up indefinitely.
I've got the option to create the Kingdom of Ireland, but I don't want to take it while he's in a position to cause stability problems. I should also note that if I did banish him, that also gives me a demense hit for holding five counties when my maximum size is two...and I'm flat out of family members to pass out titles to.
On a unrelated note - how do you acquire retinues? I'm Petty King of Tara and a Duke, yet it keeps telling me "You are at your retinue cap" when I go to buy one.
Figured out how to get Adam as the Heir (Gave him an Earldom, and there he was on the succession screen). Unfortunately, his cousin is also an Earl and an obnoxious git to boot (I decided to start pawning off my holdings to family members in the hopes that would increase fertility among them).
Ambitious, Arbitrary, Craven...all around bad apple. He's the Earl of Thormond. I imprisoned him after he made a move against Adam. Now I'm questioning what to do with him. He's married to a claimant to Navarra and has a son - and then he immediately went Celibate afterwards. So he's not going to be contributing anything to the Dynasty outside being a problem.
I can banish him, take his titles and get a hundred gold, but that would mean his three year old son went with him, and my Dynasty still is very thin on male heirs right now. I could just keep him imprisoned until his son was of legal age and then banish him. Or I could execute him, take the opinion hit from the vassals, but the kid gets his county with the hopes he does well with it. Or I could simply just leave him locked up indefinitely.
I've got the option to create the Kingdom of Ireland, but I don't want to take it while he's in a position to cause stability problems. I should also note that if I did banish him, that also gives me a demense hit for holding five counties when my maximum size is two...and I'm flat out of family members to pass out titles to.
On a unrelated note - how do you acquire retinues? I'm Petty King of Tara and a Duke, yet it keeps telling me "You are at your retinue cap" when I go to buy one.
To be honest, I don't have experience with Ethiopian Light Infantry. Some time ago, I've read that light infantry on the whole wasn't very good, but things changed a lot with later patches; light cavalry has become a lot better, I've heard.
There are a couple different opinions on which standard retinue types are the best. I've heard defensive are very good, shock as well, maybe combined with skirmish. Sadly, I don't have the exact numbers in my head right now, but there have been a lot of discussions on the topic of retinues on these boards, You'll find what you need there, I think.
This is one I've just stumbled upon while searching: Link
It seems your light infantry is indeed pretty bad.
GCRust - I guess you are at an early stage in your game? Retinue cap is raised by the Military organization technology, and by the size of your realm, if I remember correctly.
Okay, I've only vaguest of ideas on how merchant republics work. I'm currently king, but I do have coastal cities. Is it possible to set one up, and have it continue outside my direct control, because, tax revenue. I've seen how much they make.
EDIT: One more question. Do the "Become [Councilor]" Ambitions have event chains which improve stats, similar to "Improve [Attribute]"? I continually see courtiers with 5 Intrigue trying to become Spymaster, but if they can improve, it might not be so laughable.
EDIT: One more question. Do the "Become [Councilor]" Ambitions have event chains which improve stats, similar to "Improve [Attribute]"? I continually see courtiers with 5 Intrigue trying to become Spymaster, but if they can improve, it might not be so laughable.
You can't have a merchant republic in an another merchant republic.
No they don't and its realistic or do you really believe no real person would think he is great at something but in reality are not.
Ok, but I'm not currently a Merchant Republic. What I want to know is if its possible to set up a merchant republic in my kingdom(s), even if I won't have direct control over them.
Yes. You need to give the mayor of a coastal city the county title (this will make him a count-level Lord Mayor) and then a ducal title. Bear in mind that merchant republics get a -30 relationship penalty towards feudal lieges so they tend to be quite rebellious.
I have a number of unrelated questions:
1) where do holy orders get all their troops? Their troops levels appear to be completely disproportionate to the number of holdings they have.
2) what causes the "disrespects dynasty" opinion negative modifier? I am pretty sure I did nothing wrong and yet I get it with some characters.
3) what causes the "dishonorable scum" opinion negative modifier? I have a few guesses, but I have a scenario where I did absolutely nothing and got this modifier.
4) what is the income impact of holding duchies and kingdoms? If I hold 20 provinces under one duchy, would I make more money creating the extra duchies and holding all of them, or does it make no difference?
5) does the two duchy limit limit apply only with vassals or also with co-equal parties (fellow dukes in a kingdom, etc.) and your liege as well?
1) where do holy orders get all their troops? Their troops levels appear to be completely disproportionate to the number of holdings they have.
2) what causes the "disrespects dynasty" opinion negative modifier? I am pretty sure I did nothing wrong and yet I get it with some characters.
3) what causes the "dishonorable scum" opinion negative modifier? I have a few guesses, but I have a scenario where I did absolutely nothing and got this modifier.
4) what is the income impact of holding duchies and kingdoms? If I hold 20 provinces under one duchy, would I make more money creating the extra duchies and holding all of them, or does it make no difference?
5) does the two duchy limit limit apply only with vassals or also with co-equal parties (fellow dukes in a kingdom, etc.) and your liege as well?
The numbers are specified in mercenaries file and are static. As far as I know, they never grow or shrink (except after battles obviously)
If you turn down a writer who wants to compose an epic about your family history, you get this modifier
Assuming you mean dishonorable scum and not just dishonorable, this modifier can come about by either getting your spymaster imprisoned while studying tech or not saving your spouse if they are imprisoned.
I'm not sure if they penalty applies to lieges or co-equal parties. But if you hold two duchies and are under a liege, other vassals will conspire to get one of your duchies revoked because you have "too much power".
If I recall correctly,their size is based on the moral authority of their religion.