Maximizing inheritance chances

[delra]

What can I do to maximize my chances to inherit another country (a huge one)?

I suspect that:

- New monarch (the one that takes over) needs high diplomacy skill (it's random isn't it)
- I need relations of 200 with the country I want to inherit (costy when they keep getting damned events that dump relation by 100, we need more relations improving events!)
- The more prestige, the better (so I need to build those 13 ships the game told me to build)
- Honourable reputation (I have it)

Anything else?

 

[TimurLank]

Big army, one of the crucial...

 

[Scorpi]

Big army, one of the crucial...

Really?

 

[benkern]

I thought it was mostly random - the only factors affecting it being 1) having a royal marriage making it possible and 2) having higher prestige = higher chance.

 

[Alerias]

Really?

no. That person was thinking diplo-vassalize/annex, rather than inheritance.

 

[dharper]

Keep in mind that you must be larger than the country you want to inherit. Other than that, prestige and a huge dollop of luck.

 

[Darkrenown]

I don't think that's true anymore, dharper.

Also: The diplomacy you ruler appears with is his diplomacy stat, that being high does help. You can also increase your diplomacy skill with an ambassador adviser. Austria also gets diplomacy skill via a decision.

 

[delra]

I saw this advisor only once at the beginning. Also, my kings had quite high diplomacy so far, 5, 6, 7, so on. And well, I saw Denmark inheriting Swedend and Norway and creating Scandinavia. They weren't bigger than what they have inherited, I'm sure of that.

 

[unmerged(57070)]

Keep in mind that you must be larger than the country you want to inherit. Other than that, prestige and a huge dollop of luck.

Is that true in-game? It sure isn't historically, for example the Wettin (Saxony) inheritance of Poland.

 

[SorelusImperion]

Keep in mind that you must be larger than the country you want to inherit. Other than that, prestige and a huge dollop of luck

No need to be larger. I tried this personally and used it to my advantage in MMG2. Once I got my desired PU with Bohemia after a succession war I handed over most non-core provinces and about twenty years later when my monarch died I inherited a huge Bohemia wich had grown to incoorporate most of Poland and the Netherlands while I had only administrated Austria's starting provinces + Bavaria up to that point.

 

[dharper]

Huh, that's interesting. I'm sure it was a rule at some point.

 

[Markusw7]

Is that true in-game? It sure isn't historically, for example the Wettin (Saxony) inheritance of Poland.

that is modelled as a persoal union in the game, Poland and Lithuania becoming the the Polish - Lithuanian commonwealth is more of the example you are looking for. When the larger country is the senior partner inheritance could happen with the next king when it is the other way around it needs a string of kings before an inheritance will happen.

Inheritance used to only be possible if you were larger, then it was if you were larger or richer now it doesnt matter anymore.