Crusader Kings II ~ Quick Answers

[Tom013]

I am Leofwine Godwinessunu, King of England. I am also the Duke of Essex, East Anglia, Kent and Deheubarth. I control all the counties in Essex and Kent, one in East Anglia and none in Deheubarth. I want to grant land to a relative to reduce the demesne and duchy penalties, and to perhaps groom them to become future kings of England. If I grant Kent to someone, will they keep the counties for themselves or grant them out like idiots? Or should I grant East Anglia away? And what about Deheubarth?

P.S. I used to be Gyrth of East Anglia, later of England, but William assassinated me.

I also have the issue of holding land over my demesne limit. Playing CK2+, btw, so there are more counties than normally. Don't really want to grant Deheubarth to anyone, as all the local earls are Welsh.

You can always grant it to a non-local. It's messier and you'll want to clean it up again sooner rather than later, but it gives you more flexibility. If you can suffer the opinion penalty for now, the cleanest solution is to work on revoking one of the Welsh lord's titles and then elevate a new guy to count and then Duke.

 

[Kirikano]

Does the event where you find out someone is fabricating a claim on your title for their liege actually work? Where you have the option to assassinate them, bribe them, or ignore them? Is that why I can go 30 years without a claim fabricated because my target is bribing my chancellor?

 

[Yxklyx]

Does the event where you find out someone is fabricating a claim on your title for their liege actually work? Where you have the option to assassinate them, bribe them, or ignore them? Is that why I can go 30 years without a claim fabricated because my target is bribing my chancellor?

Yeah, I think there was sort of a consensus here that that's the cause. Your chancellor is being bribed away.

 

[Tom013]

Does the event where you find out someone is fabricating a claim on your title for their liege actually work? Where you have the option to assassinate them, bribe them, or ignore them? Is that why I can go 30 years without a claim fabricated because my target is bribing my chancellor?

Yeah, I think there was sort of a consensus here that that's the cause. Your chancellor is being bribed away.

Let's be clear: It's not always the cause. Sometimes you just have crappy luck.

If you move him every 6 months, it will unset that flag either way, so if you STILL aren't getting a fabricated claim, you probably just have lousy luck.

 

[Ciniod]

So, i fabricated a claim for the Petty Kingdom of Lancaster, i had two counties that i did not personaly yet control, and the enemy controlled them, then i declared war, it showed that i would gain 2 more counties and 2 baron level vassals in the war (The Orange border instead of red.)
After the war ended, i only gained 1 of the two counties i should have, i had full occupied both. (previously only one, then i declared peace and found this wierd so i went 2 months back in time)
I didnt get the 4 counties it showed i would, and i didnt even get both counties de jure part of Lancaster that i did not own, why is this?

 

[Kirikano]

Ok what just happened?

Also, does the method for vassalizing holy orders still work? ie granting them a county and duchy in your dejure empire, and offering vassalization? I know granting a county alone won't work if they aren't the same culture, and for some reason, they've only been producing weak claiments after every succession so I can't press claims on them.

 

[King Leto]

Under what conditions can the faction to lower crown authority be formed? I'm currently waiting for this to show up in my game for literally (game) years so I can bring down medium crown authority.

Thanks in advance.

 

[FreeSoc]

Out of the two scenarios below, which one would you guys recommend for a new game?
a) Germanic religion, Norse culture -> (reformed) Germanic religion, Welsh/Scottish culture (to get tanistry, better retinues and so on)
b) Germanic religion, Norse culture -> Sunni Islam, Norse culture (partly for the achievement, partly for general interest)

 

[Eisfunke]

Out of the two scenarios below, which one would you guys recommend for a new game?
a) Germanic religion, Norse culture -> (reformed) Germanic religion, Welsh/Scottish culture (to get tanistry, better retinues and so on)
b) Germanic religion, Norse culture -> Sunni Islam, Norse culture (partly for the achievement, partly for general interest)

I would recommend reformed Germanic. I love that religion's gameplay, raiding and river movement is great. Also being Fylkir. However, the second scenario would probably be more of a hard challenge. So, that's your choice, but personally, I would choose a)

 

[Yxklyx]

If you press a Bastard's claim does he become your vassal - or does that only work for non-bastards of your dynasty?

 

[Semigall]

Can barons become independent through elective gavelkind succession ?

 

[Lord_P]

Can barons become independent through elective gavelkind succession ?

Most likely no.

If you press a Bastard's claim does he become your vassal - or does that only work for non-bastards of your dynasty?

If you land him first as your de jure vassal and you press his claim on a title of lower rank to yours, then yes.

 

[Narvait]

How do leadership traits compare?

For example:
Unyielding (Un) gives you +20% of defense + 10% of moral damage (http://www.ckiiwiki.com/Traits#Leadership)
Winter Soldies (WS) gives you +50% winter combat.
Flanker (Fl) gives you + 20% flank.

So, I need to choose 2 guys to put in winter in flank and let's say everything else they have is equal.
Now, how does it work?
a)
Un gives 20% of defense, 10% of moral damage
Fl gives 20% of defense, 20% damage, 20% moral defense, 20% moral damage
WS gives 50% of defense, 50% damage, 50% moral defense, 50% moral damage

OR
b)
Un gives 20% of defense, 10% of moral damage
Fl gives 20% of defense, 20% of damage, but dont touch morals
WS gives 50% of defense, 50% of damage, but dont touch morals

OR
c)
something else.

If A is correct then in flank flanker beats a lot of other skills. But winter soldier in winter beats everyone and everything.

 

[Kirikano]

Do I lose imperial administration if I lower crown authority from absolute?

 

[AlSid]

I am playing as Byzantine emperor; my heir was married to the queen of Bavaria. She had born a boy and died soon after, my grandson, and second in line, inherit the kingdom. They choose a guardian for him – frankish catholic of cause. I’d offered me as a guardian, but they declined the offer – ‘hostage’ you know. A conspiracy to kill the guardian is unlikely to succeed and anyway they chose guardian with the same religion. What can I do to prevent my grandson to change culture and religion?

Of cause I can change both by decision when he became emperor, but I’ll lose my culture building and next emperor (my son) will have a penalty for heir’s culture.

 

[King Leto]

Do I lose imperial administration if I lower crown authority from absolute?

No, you only need absolute crown authority to install imperial administration.

 

[gimel]

An antipope was recently deposed. How long do I wait before I can set up a new one?

 

[hajutze]

Hi, a quick question .

I've started as the duke of Armenia (867) start and picked up the "Become king of Armenia" ambition but I cant use subjugation CB on anyone in the dejure Armenia. Any ideas why ?

 

[DarkCruor]

Uhh, I'm not sure if I hit a bug or what but...

So I started a game as a random count of Lucca using a custom starting Dynasty name as Medici, of course, intending to become Tuscany/Florence. The problem is that I can't become a republic.

I've tried dozens of weird ways over the past two or three hours to try and get this to work but nope. I made my original guy move duchies and swap primary titles, but can't seem to give my now ex heir all the land in Tuscany or even Pisa. There are some cases where I can give Pisa (the whole duchy) but can't give anything in Tuscany. What I'm doing is I give my heir a City, gave the now Mayor a county, and the Lord Mayor a Duchy (though, sometimes I can't do this for some reason). I've tried just giving him a county city (like Pisa or Siena) and then giving him a bunch of cities. Nope. Blah I'm too tired its 6 AM.

Oh, there was one time when I did succeed but then when I went to reload into it it said 'I can't play Republics!' when I have the DLC on and can even play a different Republic I also released under a different guy (Genoa). Is there some rule that the leader of a Republic can't own any Baronies (including county baronies) or something?

Is the idea to destroy the Tuscany title, move primary title + capital to Spoleto, transfer titles, then reload? Bah I can't think. I think I even tried that.

 

[gimel]

@hajutze: Unreformed Pagans only, Christians need not apply.