How do you fix that? Ohh and he is 8 so the queen mother took over as spy master and I can't change it and she sucks.
KIng died, my heir is nearly universally hated by all.
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You mean she's the regent right?
At least she won't conspire to kill you since she is your mother.
And if your vassals hate you, that may be harsh for the first years, but basically you don't have many options here. Send gifts, award honorary titles, and hope for good traits for your ruler.
At least she won't conspire to kill you since she is your mother.
And if your vassals hate you, that may be harsh for the first years, but basically you don't have many options here. Send gifts, award honorary titles, and hope for good traits for your ruler.
If you have any sisters that are over or near 16, you can marry them to your direct vassals as well. That will make the vassal your ally, and thus less likely to attack you. Of course, this means that you're going to lose out on the good alliances your sisters could get you. Marrying them to other rulers or their sons to try to get some nearby kingdoms to ally with you can be helpful too if your vassals end up revolting. Other than that, you're pretty much just going to have to bite the bullet for 8 years. Remember, of course, that once you turn 16 your short reign modifier will be nearly up, and by the time you are 25 it will be a long reign modifier that will only get better. I often end up expanding the most during the reigns of rulers who started young for exactly that reason.
Namfuak is wise!
Also never neglect the 'entrusted a ward' or 'mentor/student' bonuses. These come from having your vassals educate your brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, and yourself. Vassals who you educate, for example, are usually very loyal because not only is there a 25 point (IIRC) opinion modifier, but also because they are likely to take up your culture.
Sometimes you get an heir that's unfit to rule anyway, and at least the vassals and Queen Mother will be likely to take care of that. Maybe a brother, cousin, or uncle would have the diplomacy to rule the realm better and make for a more fun gaming experience.
Also never neglect the 'entrusted a ward' or 'mentor/student' bonuses. These come from having your vassals educate your brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, and yourself. Vassals who you educate, for example, are usually very loyal because not only is there a 25 point (IIRC) opinion modifier, but also because they are likely to take up your culture.
Sometimes you get an heir that's unfit to rule anyway, and at least the vassals and Queen Mother will be likely to take care of that. Maybe a brother, cousin, or uncle would have the diplomacy to rule the realm better and make for a more fun gaming experience.
Gold solves all problems. You can effectively rule no mater how bad your ruler is as long as you have enough income.
Let take a minute of silence for all this gold we have spent to keep our empires together.
Its sacrifice will never be forgotten.
Thank you.
Its sacrifice will never be forgotten.
Thank you.
You are in for a rough ride. You can somewhat fortify yourself by saving every spare coin for use buying mercenaries to keep your dynasty in power. Keep an eye on the factions that would remove you from power and if they look way too powerful and you have a decent chance of success, you can try to imprison the leader of the faction. Yes it gets you some tyranny, but that can go down with time. If you have a decent realm intrigue, you can try to assassinate the leader of the problematic faction as well. If some of your direct vassals only somewhat hate you, you can buy them off when they join the I hate you faction with gifts and honorary titles and maybe even a bit of land if you really get desperate.
Thing is your heir is only 8, how many negative traits can he have? Yes, your regent may suck, but who is your tutor? They probably don't suck all that bad.
Thing is your heir is only 8, how many negative traits can he have? Yes, your regent may suck, but who is your tutor? They probably don't suck all that bad.
At least your regent likes you. Had one regent for one of my rulers one time go insane trying to kill my character. Was a funny serious of events but also a stressful time for me being forced to watch assassin attempt after assassin attempt fire every few days for 3 years tell he went so crazy he had a mental break down trying to come at me with a knife and finally the guards took him a way to his new happy place a dungeon cell. xD
initially, send out gifts, give out wards, transfer vassels in their de jure territory, and maybe even give away one or two titles if you really need to. if a major vassel plots, imprison. thats one less revolt. make ABSOLUTLY sure yoy get a guardian with the education you want and good traits. stats are of secondary concern. you dont want to end up with a slothfull craven cynical envious deceitful ruler hated by all. once you manage to survive to your twenties or so, the fun starts. your short rule penalty is gone, you should have decent stats, and by the time youre 30 and have racked up some prestige and possible some piety by waging some wars, you should be liked enough to turn him into your best ruler ever because of the truly massive long reign and prestige bonus youre gonna rack up. thats possibly the greatest strenght of elective as well, elect a young heir and live till youre 70 and boast a +50 opinion bonus from long reign alone. never forget: the higher the opinion, the more levies(what is the great high ca vs low ca problem. guaranteed levies and more control again less revolts and LOTS UPON LOTS of levies if youre great).