Crusader Kings II ~ Quick Answers

[yequr]

So, I was playing as a duke and made a faction for Primogeniture. King surrendered. The succession now reads "Primogeniture".

I made another faction to install my mother as queen. King chose war, I won. Succession was now Gavelkind again.

I made another faction for Primogeniture. Mom surrenders. The succession now reads "Primogeniture" again.

I wait a few years, maybe 5. Mom dies. I peacefully inherit. I check my royal succession and now have Gavelkind.


How? Why?


My ducal law was elective (but that shouldn#t matter), the mother was from another dynasty, and I didn#t read any popups about (Queen X surrendered to the Gavelkind succession faction). CA was between low (before claim war) and autonomous (after).

 

[Yxklyx]

Expelled my vassal Holy Orders and my character died. His son still has the "Expelled" attribute. Does it go away after a few generations? Also, I can't raise them anymore. Does it stay that way until I lose the attribute? If that's the case I might as well grant them independence no?

 

[Empress Matilda]

I've been away from CK2 for a while, and in my new game I see that when I capture new provinces the holdings of those provinces are often still owned by other rulers. As duke of Sardinia I've conquered some Sicilian provinces and all the holdings except the capital forts are owned by Byzantium, which is not the realm I conquered the provinces from either. How can I make them all mine?

You could press a county claim on them. Always available if you hold a county but not all the holdings in it. Of course you'd have to fight the whole ERE for them which probably isn't worth it. Think (but I'm not sure) you have to do it 1 holding at a time with a 10 year truce. I do remember it being a real pain.

 

[Aunel]

So, I was playing as a duke and made a faction for Primogeniture. King surrendered. The succession now reads "Primogeniture".

I made another faction to install my mother as queen. King chose war, I won. Succession was now Gavelkind again.

I made another faction for Primogeniture. Mom surrenders. The succession now reads "Primogeniture" again.

I wait a few years, maybe 5. Mom dies. I peacefully inherit. I check my royal succession and now have Gavelkind.


How? Why?


My ducal law was elective (but that shouldn#t matter), the mother was from another dynasty, and I didn#t read any popups about (Queen X surrendered to the Gavelkind succession faction). CA was between low (before claim war) and autonomous (after).

Are you perhaps of a religion that doesn't allow primo? Or tribal? It's kinda hard to tell without seeing.

 

[yequr]

Happened all within de-jure France, 100% feudal. Everyone involved is catholic. The mother was temporarily at her brother's tribal court in Pict/Scotland (switched to Scottish exactly somewhere during that timeframe), but that shouldn't matter...?

At least I managed to live 10 more years and switch to Ultimo in my mid-60s, but it's still weird.

 

[bman6185]

I just formed the Roman Empire, and I'm getting the "not my culture" modifier from my Italian vassals. Will I ever get an event that allows me to convert to Roman culture? How does this work going forward as the Roman Empire?

 

[aitaituo]

I just formed the Roman Empire, and I'm getting the "not my culture" modifier from my Italian vassals. Will I ever get an event that allows me to convert to Roman culture? How does this work going forward as the Roman Empire?

The Restore the Roman Empire decision has no effect on culture and is not affected by culture. Greek is still the official language of Rome.

 

[bman6185]

The Restore the Roman Empire decision has no effect on culture and is not affected by culture. Greek is still the official language of Rome.

So, there won't be any future option to change to Roman culture in line with creating the Roman Empire? Or will a random event happen that gives me the option?

 

[aitaituo]

So, there won't be any future option to change to Roman culture in line with creating the Roman Empire? Or will a random event happen that gives me the option?

No, Roman culture does not appear in vanilla CK2 under any circumstance without cheating or using the ruler designer.

 

[bman6185]

Gotcha, thanks.

 

[Yxklyx]

I have a vassal that controls enough of Pannonia to create the Kingdom but she's the wrong culture. If I grant her independence will she switch culture to Avar and create the Kingdom?

 

[10thavesleazeout]

Is there a list with achievements roughly sorted by difficulty? The list obviously doesn't have to be complete, and I know that difficulty is sometimes a matter of contention. The one in the CK2 wiki does not say anything about difficulty and, what is worse for me, includes tips on how to obtain the achievements, which I'm not too fond of (and its sadly hard not to look once you're on the page), but if that's the only one (apart from on Steam obviously) I will make do with it. Just looking for a couple of inspirations on who/how to play to get into CK2 again

 

[Illanair]

Does CK2 have levy rally points yet?

I haven't been keeping track of updates for a long time because the lack annoys me to no end, when playing something like Scandinavia. Every war is an exercise in godlike patience and logistics.

 

[Lord_P]

Does CK2 have levy rally points yet?

I haven't been keeping track of updates for a long time because the lack annoys me to no end, when playing something like Scandinavia. Every war is an exercise in godlike patience and logistics.

I don't know what you mean by levy rally points, but I would guess that no.

 

[Illanair]

Rally points... you know... a common gathering point for everything? Aka. "Everyone go here when raised"

 

[Tom013]

Rally points... you know... a common gathering point for everything? Aka. "Everyone go here when raised"

Nope. Shift+click-drag -> click. That's your "rally" =\

On the bright side, at least your vassal levies start merged these days and jump up in a single province together. No more Duke's count's baron's 5 men starting by themselves...

 

[Illanair]

Multi-Select doesn't work for the water based areas though - Like my typical game of Scotland into Scandinavia. You have the British isles that need shippage, as well as Sweden/Norway usually if I am attacking or defending south towards Germany.

Ah well... At least I'll have EU4 for now.

 

[arthaeon]

Is there a cooldown on tribal invasion? Or rather mongol invasion I guess? The Ilkhanate showed up in my Empire of Jerusalem game, invaded one kingdom, then waited a long time before invading Persia. Wondering if that was a fluke or if I have a long time before they can use the invasion CB against me.

I kind of hope there is no cooldown so they hopefully invade me soon, so I can hire all those lovely Catholic holy orders on the cheap and destroy their event troops in my territory vs theirs..

 

[Frontovika]

In regards to the Gavelkind Succession Law (in my Navarra Kingdom playthrough):

- I have several sons/daughters who are bastards and only one daughter who is of my blood. When my current ruler dies, will the titles go to her since bastards won't qualify for titles? Or will the titles go to other members of my dynasty.

- In regards to inviting people to court: debutantes are for siring bastards if your ruler has no heir, noblemen are for granting landed titles, and holy men for bishoprics, correct?

- About vassal management: should each county have a mayor/bishop/baron to manage it or should I just leave it up to the count to manage? Will they appoint their own bishops/vassals? Should I have a count for every county that's not part of my demesne?

- If I manage to unite all of Spain, can I just idle by until the end-date, or will the AI always find a way to be aggressive towards me (either fabricating claims or attacking me)

 

[aitaituo]

1) It depends on your succession law. You can always tell who your primary heir is by looking at your character sheet. Your heir's portrait is just below yours. You can also check by mousing over the coat of arms for your title, the tooltip will list the first three characters in line. You can also check in the laws screen.

2) Debutantes are always 16 year old girls, holy men are always men with a learning education trait, and noblemen are random men. You can use them how you see fit.

3) It sounds like you are still a bit unclear on how the feudal system works. Every holding needs a holder and every vassal needs a liege. A county is ruled by whoever has the capital holding, any baron tier rulers there merely rule their own holdings. Typically, all the baron tier holders are vassals to the count who is in turn the vassal of a duke who in turn is a vassal of a king who may or may not be a vassal of an emperor. But a baron can be the direct vassal of an emperor or even an independent ruler and the barons in a county might not be vassals to the holder of the county itself.

Don't worry about it too much. Just hand out your extra titles and let the vassals you've created worry about the rest. The only thing you need to be particularly concerned about is staying under your vassal limit and making sure no direct vassal of yours has enough power to challenge your rule.

4) The AI will always look for a CB to attack you with, but is quite cautious in declaring wars. If they don't have more troops than you, they will very rarely attack.