healing after a succession crisis

[ve3609]

Im the king of Ireland and I get nothing but succession crises. so im wondering if you all had tips on how to either prevent them, or heal quickly after they're over?


PS: Or do I just make every male after my first a bishop?

 

[Tokie]

What I usually do:

- Try to imprison leaders of plots, since people in prison cannot join a faction
- Have lower amount of direct vassals and appease your most powerful ones(titles, give them land, gifts etc.)
- Excommunicate ambitious vassals and imprison them
- Elective succession and pick an heir that has (Kind, Just, Brave, Gregarious)
- Have a decent personal army size so factions are not as intimidating

I thought about sending all my male children to serve the church, but thats only when my dynasty is well populated with cousins that have no claims to the throne. Otherwise I want them to make more babies! And grandchildren will get claims anyways so no point.

 

[ZechsMerquise73]

If you have high vassal relations and still have plots against you, just imprison the leader or the claimant the faction is lobbying for. The tyranny malus isn't that bad.

If you're pretty big and about to expand, you can hand out landed titles for big relation boosts. Transferring vassals is also a pretty good way of increasing relations.

 

[dr eng1ish]

One thing that took me a while to get was proper organization of duchies. If your vassals are de jure liege of a county but you control it, give it to them (or someone else and then transfer the vassal over). Just generally look at why vassals don't like you and if reasonable fix the issue. If they like you they won't revolt.

 

[ZechsMerquise73]

One thing that took me a while to get was proper organization of duchies. If your vassals are de jure liege of a county but you control it, give it to them (or someone else and then transfer the vassal over). Just generally look at why vassals don't like you and if reasonable fix the issue. If they like you they won't revolt.

I sometimes use this to keep my vassals fighting eachother. If you criss-cross claims they'll tend to be more interested in taking their rightful land rather than messing with the King/Emperor.

 

[Shadowkire]

In my games I don't need to criss-cross claims, there is almost always a count trying to usurp the duchy title of his liege.