inherit the throne?

[unmerged(6777)]

Strager has it right except for the part about personal unions...

A has RM with B

A's king dies. There's a (small) chance that A will become the junior partner in a personal union with B. If this happens, A's ruler is now the same as B's ruler and A is restricted in what it can do diplomatically (no RMs, no DoWs, etc.). This state of affairs continues until B's ruler dies. At this point either (1) A gets a new independent ruler and B gets a different independent ruler, and the union is dissolved; or (2) there is a chance that A is inherited outright by B unless A is a country controlled by the player (since that would be game over). If player controls B, the chance of A being inherited is less than it is for B being controlled by the AI (to offset the player's immunity to being inherited). The chance of this inheritance at the end of a PU is greater than the normal chance of being inherited when your king dies and you have a RM with someone.

The only way for the player to avoid the dangers of becoming the lesser partner of a PU or getting into a succession war is never to make RMs (in which case you might also want to consider changing your form of government to a republic).

 

[Nimic]

About this personal union.. does the leading part in the union get 50% of the income to the smaller part, like if it wasn't brought on by royal marriages?

 

[unmerged(6777)]

About this personal union.. does the leading part in the union get 50% of the income to the smaller part, like if it wasn't brought on by royal marriages?

Yes, I believe that's the case (so it's a bit like being a vassal).

 

[Dagda]

That is how it works in the demo. As Scotland I had a RM with Connaught, and my next king was Connaught's: I was the minor partner in the PU.

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Not to derail or anything, but how were you able to play as Scotland in the demo?

 

[unmerged(52228)]

You can play as Scotland.
In the Nation Select screen, as long as the play now button is light, then you can play that nation. You just have to click around the map to find one.

 

[Captain Frakas]

Strager has it right except for the part about personal unions...

A has RM with B

A's king dies. There's a (small) chance that A will become the junior partner in a personal union with B. If this happens, A's ruler is now the same as B's ruler and A is restricted in what it can do diplomatically (no RMs, no DoWs, etc.). This state of affairs continues until B's ruler dies. At this point either (1) A gets a new independent ruler and B gets a different independent ruler, and the union is dissolved; or (2) there is a chance that A is inherited outright by B unless A is a country controlled by the player (since that would be game over). If player controls B, the chance of A being inherited is less than it is for B being controlled by the AI (to offset the player's immunity to being inherited). The chance of this inheritance at the end of a PU is greater than the normal chance of being inherited when your king dies and you have a RM with someone.

How does the Kalmar union work in EU3 (if we start in 1453) ?
Sweden and Norwey are auto-annexed (2) or become independant (1) from Danmark at the death of Christian Ist ?

It isn't possible for the heir of Christian Ist to keep the personnal union with Sweden and Norway as it was in real History (with Hans Ist and Christian II) ?

I know that EU3 isn't mean to follow the real History and I find that it's a good thing, but... the actual design of personnal union doesn't allow us to even follow the logic of the era.

That really seem wrong to me.