Missing CB - prepared invasion?

[Halavorn]

Viking King of Jorvik. Been readying a prepared invasion of Sultan Abdul-Jaleel of the Umayyad Sultanate.

Got just over a month left to declare the war.. but... my CB is missing. I can only single county conquest his coastal provinces? Which, as you can see in this test screenshot, doesn't count as the prepared invasion!

Any ideas on how to fix this? Can't carry on with my game while it's like this.

 

[Silversweeeper]

If the target has too many holdings (>40, I believe) in the target de jure kingdom, you can't declare a prepared invasion. I believe there also is a limit on your holdings (it has been some time since I played a Norse game), so that may also be an issue.

 

[Halavorn]

Yeah, I had to grant independence to some counties in order to be below 40 holding in order to issue the prepared invasion. But it let me declare the invasion and the countdown has begun. Just I can't declare the actual war.

 

[Halavorn]

Well, I let the date pass. Nothing else I could do. It really screwed me over though with hate for failure, and then the "dislike of former ruler" modifier when he died too. Ugh.

 

[BD13]

Guessing I just saw this happen to an AI Widukind. Kinda sad. Wasn't going to affect me at all but it was making the game interesting. He broke free and took most of Pomerania. He had a prepared invasion going for France. Had 15k troops and nothing. Now he has the failed invasion modifier and his vassals hate him.