Managing your vassals is one of the most tiresome challanges. Especially so if you want your vassal duchies and kingdoms to match their de-jure borders.
If, for example, the Strategos of Paphlagonia gets hold of the county of Ephesos, there is litte even the Eperor can do to force him to give it back. Well, I understand that my Strategoi want to increase their domain, but I want to have some say who has what.. I simply want to have options.
But I can't ask them to trade for an other county, I can't offer to give him other lands for that Ephesos. If I take Ephesos away from him and give him the whole principality of Edessa instead, other vassal will still regard that as tyranny.
I would have to wait for him to die to get a good opportunity to manage his Theme, and if he has given it to a baron already, there is even less I can do to split it from the other lands of that Baron. Maybe ask the patriarch to excommunicate him, imprison him and hope he escapes such that I get a valid cause to take the Barony away from him? But what if he has a different religious head? Maybe try to fabricate evidence of treason? This will take some time, and in the meantime, I will get penalties for not having given the Theme away to someone else to rule.
You might argue that historically, borders of duchies and kingdoms did not match their de-jure borders. Think of Charolais or the spread of the Anjou domain in France. And maybe this is the only way .. not to try to have your vassal duchies/kingdoms match their de-jure borders ..
But I would like to ask if there is another way. Could I program an interaction decision that asks vassals to surrender to me counties or duchies that are within the de-jure borders of other vassals of mine, perhaps in exchange for a favour? Is that even realistically possible, or is it too complex in cases of barons that hold territories in different de-jure duchies? I would welcome suggestions on how to implement such a decision since I have not been editing events since ... EU2, and what I gather from the wiki, a lot has changed, especially the concept of scopes seems strange to me.
If, for example, the Strategos of Paphlagonia gets hold of the county of Ephesos, there is litte even the Eperor can do to force him to give it back. Well, I understand that my Strategoi want to increase their domain, but I want to have some say who has what.. I simply want to have options.
But I can't ask them to trade for an other county, I can't offer to give him other lands for that Ephesos. If I take Ephesos away from him and give him the whole principality of Edessa instead, other vassal will still regard that as tyranny.
I would have to wait for him to die to get a good opportunity to manage his Theme, and if he has given it to a baron already, there is even less I can do to split it from the other lands of that Baron. Maybe ask the patriarch to excommunicate him, imprison him and hope he escapes such that I get a valid cause to take the Barony away from him? But what if he has a different religious head? Maybe try to fabricate evidence of treason? This will take some time, and in the meantime, I will get penalties for not having given the Theme away to someone else to rule.
You might argue that historically, borders of duchies and kingdoms did not match their de-jure borders. Think of Charolais or the spread of the Anjou domain in France. And maybe this is the only way .. not to try to have your vassal duchies/kingdoms match their de-jure borders ..
But I would like to ask if there is another way. Could I program an interaction decision that asks vassals to surrender to me counties or duchies that are within the de-jure borders of other vassals of mine, perhaps in exchange for a favour? Is that even realistically possible, or is it too complex in cases of barons that hold territories in different de-jure duchies? I would welcome suggestions on how to implement such a decision since I have not been editing events since ... EU2, and what I gather from the wiki, a lot has changed, especially the concept of scopes seems strange to me.