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anonymouswolfm

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How do you go about playing as a count? Whenever I play I struggle and never am able to expand my territory. Is there a way to get your vassal to give you another piece of land?

Apart from using the chancellor to fabricate claims, look out for female counts to whom you or your heir can marry.

Prioritise on getting enough land in your de jure duchy either to form it or usurp it from another.

The added prestige of being a duke allows you to form marriage alliances with dukes or even kings more easily.
 

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I put a link to my description of how I managed to rise from Count to Duke in my signature. Skip back a page or two in that thread to read about my earlier experiences of failure in this regard, and also at responses by various guys to my posts for additional information on it.

In sum, it is not easy, and there is no 'fool proof' way. But if you understand the general principles of how to go about it, focus your efforts, and persist, it will eventually come your way.
 

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Fabricating claims, assassinations, marrying female counts and duchesses. There's plenty of ways to expand as a count.

To be honest I find counts and dukes to be much more fun to play as than kings and emperors.
 

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I had a character go from Count to King in 34 years. It was nice.

I find counts to be infinitely more fun. You can organize your realm as you want it and you start with two or three vassals that basically can't rebel (though you need to keep them happy; their tax is critical in the early years).

Now every duke of mine loves me, and upon succession they love my successor. It's flawless.