Primogeniture or ultimogeniture? Help for a newbie

[Dragatus]

Better safe than sorry.

 

[Rags17]

This.....

is kinda genius...

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Of course if you want to be really gamey, you run gavelkind, only marry infertile women, and use the seduction focus to create lots of acknowledged bastards and legitimize one son per generation (with some daughters for matrimarriages to create dynasty members, if you want), enjoying increased demesne size while keeping your vassals from switching to primo and consolidating.
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Works a charm until your spurned wife decides that her loveless marriage is a joke and decides to add her 110% plot score to the assassination scheme against you.

I always find it best to keep my wife and my spymaster as happy as possible, no matter what the cost.

 

[Dragatus]

Imprison the wife and she can't plot.

 

[Rascar Capac]

Imprison the wife and she can't plot.

Makes me wonder, if wife is in dungeon and gets diplomacy malus, does player lose points of spousal stats?

 

[Dragatus]

I never checked, but I assume that would indeed be the case. When 2.6 comes out though you'll be able to safely keep people under house arrest, so that'll be -5 for the wife and 2/3 loss for you.