Crusader Kings II ~ Quick Answers

[Wezqu]

I'm too dumb understand how commanders work.

I'm king level and can appoint 6 commanders... Yet I have about 45000 men and those six people are obviously not enough to lead all of my armies. I don't know which DLC or patch made it so that I can't appoint anybody I want anymore, but just having six people to choose from feels impossibly limited. How should this be actually working???

You have eight possible people you can make to lead armies. You yourself, your marshal and the six commanders. So basicly you can have two armies with all slots used and one army with two slots used. Keep the commanders on the main armies leading them and if you want to use small armies to siege leave them without leaders. They don't need to be lead by a commander.

 

[LikeNothing]

Is people everywhere in my kingdom randomly converting to a Heathen religion a normal and accepted occurrence?

 

[Dragatus]

Is people everywhere in my kingdom randomly converting to a Heathen religion a normal and accepted occurrence?

Depends on your religion and how much moral authority it has. You can check that in the religion view.

 

[LikeNothing]

Depends on your religion and how much moral authority it has. You can check that in the religion view.

Thanks!

Does doing Low Piety also lower the moral authority of your religion?

Pretty much all my characters are raised Cynical and I execute entire families whenever I can rightfully do so. My dynasty usually totals to below -1000 Piety after one or two generations.

Perhaps I should not expect my people to stick to the True Faith when I disregard it so completely in my own dealings.

Also, if a Heathen religion has high moral authority, that makes them more likely to spread to my people, right?

FYI I'm playing as Tywin Lannister (my favorite!) and the people of the Westerlands are converting to the Drowned God. It's annoying.

 

[aitaituo]

Thanks!

Does doing Low Piety also lower the moral authority of your religion?

Pretty much all my characters are raised Cynical and I execute entire families whenever I can rightfully do so. My dynasty usually totals to below -1000 Piety after one or two generations.

Perhaps I should not expect my people to stick to the True Faith when I disregard it so completely in my own dealings.

The piety of the religious head gives a bonus to the moral authority their respective religion. The piety of other characters has no effect on moral authority.

 

[Dragatus]

I don't think your piety should have anything to do with the moral authority of your religion. The main things that influence it is whether the religion's holy places are controlled by rulers of that religion, success in holy wars, and whether or not the religion is organized (which gives a +20 bonus). Other factors seem to be things like rulers converting, characters fulfilling paragon of virtue/enlightenment ambitions, rulers obeying or defying the head of the religion, success in heretic revolts, rulers building new temple holdings, and so on.

Edit: As what religion exactly are you playing and what are your characters converting to?

 

[Lord_P]

I don't think your piety should have anything to do with the moral authority of your religion. The main things that influence it is whether the religion's holy places are controlled by rulers of that religion, success in holy wars, and whether or not the religion is organized (which gives a +20 bonus). Other factors seem to be things like rulers converting, characters fulfilling paragon of virtue/enlightenment ambitions, rulers obeying or defying the head of the religion, success in heretic revolts, rulers building new temple holdings, and so on.

Edit: As what religion exactly are you playing and what are your characters converting to?

S/He said s/he's playing the GoT mod, so that's another spanner in the answering works.

 

[Dragatus]

The post was edited after I posed my question, but you are right about the spanner thing.

Also, if a Heathen religion has high moral authority, that makes them more likely to spread to my people, right?

That is correct. Try to find out in which counties hold your holy places are and which ones hold their holy places. If a holy place is held by a priest of that religion that grants 5% moral authority. If the top liege of the priest also matches the religion of the holy place that's likewise 5%. Or at least that's how it works in the unmodded game. Winning a holy war also reduces the losers moral authority as much as it increases the winner's moral authority.

FYI I'm playing as Tywin Lannister (my favorite!) and the people of the Westerlands are converting to the Drowned God. It's annoying.

I see. That makes it a little harder to give good answers because that mod could've changed certain game mechanics, or at least the numbers involved. How high is the moral authority of your religion?

 

[LikeNothing]

That makes it a little harder to give good answers because that mod could've changed certain game mechanics, or at least the numbers involved. How high is the moral authority of your religion?

It's like 35%. The head of my religion has like 600 Piety, which seems pretty damn high to me.

But there is a -20% modifier to the Moral Authority for some reason like "being a puppet" or something.

That to me is a bit hard to understand because the religion is modeled after Catholicism (I think) and all the Priests in my realm are appointed by the Church, rather than by me, and afaik so it is with all the other major kingdoms in the faith. We also control all of our own Holy Sites, and all Holy Sites are directly controlled by Priests, I think.

 

[dehen]

Is there a benefit to being the dominate religion vs being a heresy? My Cathars are close to overtaking the Catholics, but I've limited myself to a single kingdom, and the faith had been exported about as far as I can to the pagans.

Unless I really push it, we're not gonna grow much more. Is there any gameplay reason to go for it?

 

[nanomage]

Is there a benefit to being the dominate religion vs being a heresy? My Cathars are close to overtaking the Catholics, but I've limited myself to a single kingdom, and the faith had been exported about as far as I can to the pagans.

Unless I really push it, we're not gonna grow much more. Is there any gameplay reason to go for it?

Once you become majority religion, you get the religion's Holy Orders and can use them against the former orthodoxy. On the downside, once you're orthodoxy it's you who becomes affected by spontaneous spread of heresies.

 

[Lord_P]

It's like 35%. The head of my religion has like 600 Piety, which seems pretty damn high to me.

But there is a -20% modifier to the Moral Authority for some reason like "being a puppet" or something.

That to me is a bit hard to understand because the religion is modeled after Catholicism (I think) and all the Priests in my realm are appointed by the Church, rather than by me, and afaik so it is with all the other major kingdoms in the faith. We also control all of our own Holy Sites, and all Holy Sites are directly controlled by Priests, I think.

Unfortunately you will have to seek help in the GoT-mod forums. The Quick Answers are mainly for vanilla issues.

 

[Dragatus]

It's like 35%. The head of my religion has like 600 Piety, which seems pretty damn high to me.

But there is a -20% modifier to the Moral Authority for some reason like "being a puppet" or something.

That to me is a bit hard to understand because the religion is modeled after Catholicism (I think) and all the Priests in my realm are appointed by the Church, rather than by me, and afaik so it is with all the other major kingdoms in the faith. We also control all of our own Holy Sites, and all Holy Sites are directly controlled by Priests, I think.

35% moral authority seems fairly low to me. But as Lord_P said above, I'm afraid we already helped you as much as we could here in general CK2 discussion. I'd recommend seeking further help in the Game of Thrones mod subforum: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?forums/game-of-thrones-mod.840/

Note that you might have to register the game before you can access that forum.

 

[Glen_Runciter]

so, playing in Ironman, I've accidentally settled down as a tribe instead of pillaging a county (this is really well designed BTW, you can totally screw up your whole game if you screw up one single click of the mouse amidst dozens of county pillages), deos ironman keep a roll-back save somewhere?

 

[Tyriion]

Quick question. In my Jorvik game I succesfully completed a prepared invasion for Frisia. Now I want to reform the faith. Sjaelland controls their holy site as well as the one in Norway. Their main title is still the duchy. Will I get both sites after a subjugation war?

 

[Slayen]

Hypothetically speaking, say I was the Basileus, and if I were to say get fed up with my no good bastard producing heir and decided to eat the tyranny and imprison+castrate him, who would become my new heir? The huevos-less one's eldest son, or my next oldest born-in-the-purple son?

And on a related note, I finally understand all the bitching people have been doing about the Seduction focus.

 

[aitaituo]

Hypothetically speaking, say I was the Basileus, and if I were to say get fed up with my no good bastard producing heir and decided to eat the tyranny and imprison+castrate him, who would become my new heir? The huevos-less one's eldest son, or my next oldest born-in-the-purple son?

Your born in the purple second son will be heir.

 

[Slayen]

Your born in the purple second son will be heir.

And it worked. Had to gain the cruel trait and eat -80 tyranny once all was said and done, but it was soo worth it. I'm 67 any.

 

[Dragatus]

so, playing in Ironman, I've accidentally settled down as a tribe instead of pillaging a county (this is really well designed BTW, you can totally screw up your whole game if you screw up one single click of the mouse amidst dozens of county pillages), deos ironman keep a roll-back save somewhere?

As far as I know it unfortunately does not.

Quick question. In my Jorvik game I succesfully completed a prepared invasion for Frisia. Now I want to reform the faith. Sjaelland controls their holy site as well as the one in Norway. Their main title is still the duchy. Will I get both sites after a subjugation war?

Depends if they have any other duchy tier titles. If they don't, then subjugating them and usurping their duchy should make you the liege of all their lower tier vassals. If they do have other duchy tier titles, you'll likely only get the de jure vassals of their primary duchy (after you usurp it).

 

[Robert II]

And it worked. Had to gain the cruel trait and eat -80 tyranny once all was said and done, but it was soo worth it. I'm 67 any.

I'm late with this help but you could have had him excommunicated by the patriarch for 100 piety who would have said yes as he's your vassal. This will save tyranny in future.