Crusader Kings II ~ Quick Answers

[Froxis]

So as the Emperor of HRE, I landed the heir to the Kingdom of Hungry. Then, the Queen of Hungry happened to die (murder may have been involved but no one proved nothing). Should the vassal become free?
My understanding was that he only become free if he gained an equal title level as my own.
Any one have a thought

 

[hamlet had an uncle]

You will still get the -25 "heir being raised in a foreign culture" penalty with your vassals if your child gets tutored by a foreigner in your court, even though there is no chance that the child will actually change cultures. This is pretty much the exact opposite of the real world situation where royalty would sometimes pull in tutors from all over europe.

 

[needleninja]

I JUST bought The Republic so this is a basic question: how do you build trade posts?
Any hierarchy on where to build them?

 

[aitaituo]

I JUST bought The Republic so this is a basic question: how do you build trade posts?
Any hierarchy on where to build them?

In coastal provinces, when you select the province there is a little box on the bottom right for the trade post view. Simply click on it, then click on the empty holding slot to build a trade post.

You get a bonus for controlling a majority of the trade posts in a sea zone and another bonus for being connected to your capital, but I forget how the connected to capital bonus is determined.

 

[hamlet had an uncle]

Is there a mean time to form for pagan holy orders? My impression had been that they formed immediately but I reformed the West African Church like 5 years ago and still no Spirit Guardians.

 

[Tom013]

Is there a mean time to form for pagan holy orders? My impression had been that they formed immediately but I reformed the West African Church like 5 years ago and still no Spirit Guardians.

Its MTTH is low, but not zero. 36 months, so 5 years is not so implausible.

You do have Sons of Abraham, right? All of the new holy orders were introduced in that DLC. They weren't around earlier, and the event won't fire without it.

 

[hamlet had an uncle]

They eventually popped up but then elective gavelkind split the empire between my 10-year-old son and my dumbass nephew in literally the worst possible way, guess I'll switch to the kid and wait six years while the moron holy wars himself into the ground (his capital is down in Ghana so every time he declares an insane holy war the enemy will get like a year to ravage my demesne in Mauretania before the Spirit Warriors show up.)

 

[hamlet had an uncle]

omg and he just got a super sweet nickname too: "sword of the spirits", this is infuriating

 

[Chief of Staff]

Feudal tax is currently set to none in my kingdom (as a note, mine contains all of what is now Spain except for Barcelona and Mallorca plus the island of Sicily and couple exclaves in North Africa). Is it worth raising it to Minimum?

 

[Tom013]

Feudal tax is currently set to none in my kingdom (as a note, mine contains all of what is now Spain except for Barcelona and Mallorca plus the island of Sicily and couple exclaves in North Africa). Is it worth raising it to Minimum?

If you need money, yes. If you don't, no. I frequently run Minimum, but not always.

 

[Chief of Staff]

If you need money, yes. If you don't, no. I frequently run Minimum, but not always.

I usually have surplus income during peacetime but runs deficit during the wars. I was wondering if feudal taxes would be worth reducing wartime deficit. Vassals I can handle, though. I have a good sized retinues and personal levy.

 

[Tom013]

I usually have surplus income during peacetime but runs deficit during the wars. I was wondering if feudal taxes would be worth reducing wartime deficit. Vassals I can handle, though. I have a good sized retinues and personal levy.

Then go for it. The opinion penalty is really not so bad unless you have a really borderline situation already.

 

[Will Steel]

Having a bad opinion reduces your levies from vassals though. So you'll have to balance it out somehow.

 

[Jakalak]

So, uh, any word on whether or not Paradox is planning on fixing the regency faction bug where the crown authority faction will automatically push through their agenda? It's making me increasingly aggravated with the game, especially when trying to play in Ironman mode.

 

[aitaituo]

So, uh, any word on whether or not Paradox is planning on fixing the regency faction bug where the crown authority faction will automatically push through their agenda? It's making me increasingly aggravated with the game, especially when trying to play in Ironman mode.

The bug is actually with the regent lowering CA on their own initiative. They are only supposed to be able to do it once, but because a flag isn't set when they do it, they can repeat it indefinitely.

Regents always folding to lower CA factions may be WAD. There is note in the event "# Regent is in on the plot" which then causes the regent to accept the demand, but the part of the faction demand decision that triggers the event doesn't actually check if the regent is part of the faction, it only checks if there is any regent at all. But I wouldn't know if the note is just misleading or if someone forgot to make it check if the regent is part of the plot.

 

[Jakalak]

The bug is actually with the regent lowering CA on their own initiative. They are only supposed to be able to do it once, but because a flag isn't set when they do it, they can repeat it indefinitely.

Regents always folding to lower CA factions may be WAD. There is note in the event "# Regent is in on the plot" which then causes the regent to accept the demand, but the part of the faction demand decision that triggers the event doesn't actually check if the regent is part of the faction, it only checks if there is any regent at all. But I wouldn't know if the note is just misleading or if someone forgot to make it check if the regent is part of the plot.

That's odd, I could've sworn it says in the pop-up that it was the faction leader doing it because the regent was in the plot.

But, it firing continuously regardless of whether or not the regent is in the faction can't be WAD, that would just be insane. You would never be able to keep any crown law above the lowest if that were the case.

 

[needleninja]

The bug is actually with the regent lowering CA on their own initiative. They are only supposed to be able to do it once, but because a flag isn't set when they do it, they can repeat it indefinitely.

Regents always folding to lower CA factions may be WAD. There is note in the event "# Regent is in on the plot" which then causes the regent to accept the demand, but the part of the faction demand decision that triggers the event doesn't actually check if the regent is part of the faction, it only checks if there is any regent at all. But I wouldn't know if the note is just misleading or if someone forgot to make it check if the regent is part of the plot.

Yep, this was incredibly annoying in my big game as the Byzantines as it is so hard to raise CA in an empire.

Having given up Axum, I want to play a republic, but I have gotten invaded twice now and lost early. How do I defend a merchant republic?
What's the best early game strategy for them, should I attack holdings or play defense and build trade posts.
Should I care about elections early? How do I maximize the dosh - I'm in it for the $

 

[Kirin Frost]

I have a question.

So right now i have a huge holy war problem.

Playing as the duke of munster in ireland and used the ruler designer to create a buddhist character.

When i declared a single county holy war against my neighbours, i could only vassalise them instead of seizing everything. Unless PI changed holy wars, but otherwise idk what i have to do to seize all holdings so that i can redistribute it. Furthermore, i cannot revoke titles from the catholic vassal even though he is an infidel without a huge penalty.

Can anyone help me? X.x

 

[aitaituo]

Buddhists use a different holy war CB.

You can only revoke infidel titles freely if you have either medium tribal authority or medium crown authority. Is that the problem?

 

[Kirin Frost]

Ok right now i only have low authority so i will see how it goes.

Does it work even if i have medium crown authority but for ducal level and not king level title?