Something that surprised me that I thought I would share.
I recently bought LoR and decided I wanted to try out the uber strong heavy infantry cultural retinue that everybody has been talking about. I decided to play Norway which has a surprisingly strong start in Dec 1066. In my current game as Emperor of Scandinavia, my mother who is the oldest daughter of the former King of Denmark had a strong claim to Denmark. This seems rather unusual as I thought females normally inherit weak claims. The current King of Denmark had only 1 child, a female who is married to a duke in Rus normally. 3 of his brothers are dead. His 4th brother is a Bishop who does not have a claim on Denmark (he must have rebelled and lost as he had a strong claim before). His youngest sister who is 15 has a weak claim on Denmark. I'm not sure why my mother has a strong claim as opposed to a weak one. This is a first for me as I have never been able to press a females claim on an adult male ruler before. The inheritance law in Denmark was and still is Agnatic-Cognatic Primogeniture. My initial plan was to wait till my mother dies before pressing my own claim for Denmark, but I got bored waiting. I was in a truce with the Fatimid and everybody else I wanted to take land from. So I pressed my mother's claim. Upon winning I was expecting the Dowager Empress of Scandinavia to become the independent Queen of Denmark. You can't land a female and every other time I've pressed a female's claim they've gone independent. Denmark was running Absolute Crown Authority which normally means I cannot inherit her lands after she dies. My expectation was to inherit her claim. What happened was not what I expected at all. When my mother won the claim to Denmark, she took a county and the Kingdom title from her brother as expected. But unexpectedly she became my vassal. So by pressing my landless mother's claim, I actually gained a county over pressing my own claim. This is actually a real coup because what this means is that for the next few years while my mother is still alive, I have a relatively stable Kingdom in Denmark as my mother is Danish and a Ylving as opposed to a Yngling. I can safely draw troops from Denmark for all my wars with no fear of a rebellion.
As a side note, retinues by dint of the fact that it gives you more troops makes your empire significantly more stable. I've only fought 1 independence war in over 100 years.
I recently bought LoR and decided I wanted to try out the uber strong heavy infantry cultural retinue that everybody has been talking about. I decided to play Norway which has a surprisingly strong start in Dec 1066. In my current game as Emperor of Scandinavia, my mother who is the oldest daughter of the former King of Denmark had a strong claim to Denmark. This seems rather unusual as I thought females normally inherit weak claims. The current King of Denmark had only 1 child, a female who is married to a duke in Rus normally. 3 of his brothers are dead. His 4th brother is a Bishop who does not have a claim on Denmark (he must have rebelled and lost as he had a strong claim before). His youngest sister who is 15 has a weak claim on Denmark. I'm not sure why my mother has a strong claim as opposed to a weak one. This is a first for me as I have never been able to press a females claim on an adult male ruler before. The inheritance law in Denmark was and still is Agnatic-Cognatic Primogeniture. My initial plan was to wait till my mother dies before pressing my own claim for Denmark, but I got bored waiting. I was in a truce with the Fatimid and everybody else I wanted to take land from. So I pressed my mother's claim. Upon winning I was expecting the Dowager Empress of Scandinavia to become the independent Queen of Denmark. You can't land a female and every other time I've pressed a female's claim they've gone independent. Denmark was running Absolute Crown Authority which normally means I cannot inherit her lands after she dies. My expectation was to inherit her claim. What happened was not what I expected at all. When my mother won the claim to Denmark, she took a county and the Kingdom title from her brother as expected. But unexpectedly she became my vassal. So by pressing my landless mother's claim, I actually gained a county over pressing my own claim. This is actually a real coup because what this means is that for the next few years while my mother is still alive, I have a relatively stable Kingdom in Denmark as my mother is Danish and a Ylving as opposed to a Yngling. I can safely draw troops from Denmark for all my wars with no fear of a rebellion.
As a side note, retinues by dint of the fact that it gives you more troops makes your empire significantly more stable. I've only fought 1 independence war in over 100 years.
I don't know what trouble you've been having with it, but I've even been able to make female bishops! (When handing out a bishopric title you hold personally instead of just appointing a successor, females are eligible.)
