Questions Thread

[Boogeyman]

Is there any advantage to not selecting "press all claims" when declaring war on a character you have several claims on? If I won the war wouldn't I want as much territory as possible, rather than specific provinces?

You lose warscore for objectives you haven't taken.

Is this a bug or a feature:

I was playing as the count of Amiens. The duke of normandy declared himself independend from france and the king of france grant me a claim on the duke of normandy.
So there were 2 wars going on: Normandy and France (Independence) and Normandy vs. me (Claim).

I managed to capture about 50% of all the normandy provinces, but suddently the king made truce with normandy and I get a message, that I couldnt capture normandy.
I lost the war and all my provinces I conquered.

But I still have the claim open and I can declare the war again. But I'm very unhappy that I lost the war, because the king made peace with normandy.

If your liege makes peace with your enemy the war will end inconclusively for you.

 

[Hinkelstein]

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If your liege makes peace with your enemy the war will end inconclusively for you.

Yes, but there were two wars going on.
In the claim war my liege was not part of that war. He fought his own war against normandy.

 

[-MoRiDin-]

Any map tutorials anywhere? I just played a hour of the demo as the Byzant guy and once nearly all my Vasals start rebelling (my dad wasted all the troops in a stupid war) I could not tell who I was at war with! Or where my Demense started and ended etc.

Also I was really annoyed that I could not raise any more vassal or realm levies when at war and once these guys started to rebel they could raise armies of thousands...

I need some advice lol!

 

[Boogeyman]

Any map tutorials anywhere? I just played a hour of the demo as the Byzant guy and once nearly all my Vasals start rebelling (my dad wasted all the troops in a stupid war) I could not tell who I was at war with! Or where my Demense started and ended etc.

Also I was really annoyed that I could not raise any more vassal or realm levies when at war and once these guys started to rebel they could raise armies of thousands...

I need some advice lol!

Diplomacy map mode shows on red who are your enemies.

Keep a mercenary fund available at all times and try to maintain alliances.

And you can't win all wars, it's better to lose a little than lose it all.

 

[Zghuk]

How is the pope elected?

 

[Wezqu]

"Landed titles" as in counties or just duchies?

Landed tittle is any baron, count, duchy, kingdom or emperor level tittle. So it can be a mayors position on one of the holdings.

Do succesion laws always change when a ruler dies?

Just happened in my demo as a duke where I had the one where it all goes to 1 son and then my leader died (old boy who had ruled for 45 years - 15 years under my control). My son inherited the title but the two pretenders had CB and they owned counties in my duchy and were vassels. However the succession law changed to open elect as soon as the old duek died. Why is this?

This is a known bug your heir was a mayor and his succession law open elective came with him. The reason this is a bug is that open elective is only for cities and citystates and so should not be a succession law for the players realm. It should be fixed in the full game. Demo has few bugs that for some reason sneaked in there even if they were already fixed it the main game.

Will be possible in CK2 to continue a saved game with another county/dukedom/realm like CK1?

It should be possible.

Is this a bug or a feature:

I was playing as the count of Amiens. The duke of normandy declared himself independend from france and the king of france grant me a claim on the duke of normandy.
So there were 2 wars going on: Normandy and France (Independence) and Normandy vs. me (Claim).

I managed to capture about 50% of all the normandy provinces, but suddently the king made truce with normandy and I get a message, that I couldnt capture normandy.
I lost the war and all my provinces I conquered.

But I still have the claim open and I can declare the war again. But I'm very unhappy that I lost the war, because the king made peace with normandy.

This might not be a bug as I think this happened. When you and your liege were at war with normandy the ruler of normandy most likely died as then the war ends. Thats just how the game works but the positive thing is that there is no truce and you can declare war immidiatly again without any penalties.

Is there any advantage to not selecting "press all claims" when declaring war on a character you have several claims on? If I won the war wouldn't I want as much territory as possible, rather than specific provinces?

Well if you have claim for some far away province that the enemy holds you would might have hard time win the war as he would start to get more points overtime if he holds that far away province as you get more warscore over time if you hold the war goal. So more wargoals more harder the war might be as you would have to take many of them until you warscore might let you win. Not to mention you might not want anything else than those areas near you.

 

[unmerged(169164)]

I noticed that the foreign cultural penalty diminishes over time. For example, my character conquered a muslim holding in Andalusia.
In order to diminish the penalties due to culture, a matrilineal marriage was set with an orthodox Andalusian, who was given the county. Over time, his foreign penalty moved to 16 from 20 (end of demo)

What is that? What can be expected from that? What is the explanation?

I had a similar trend when vassalizing to the King of Denmark.

 

[unmerged(169164)]

This might not be a bug as I think this happened. When you and your liege were at war with normandy the ruler of normandy most likely died as then the war ends. Thats just how the game works but the positive thing is that there is no truce and you can declare war immidiatly again without any penalties.

The war was declared by the liege so he is the one to end it (save the vassal through claim declared the war on his own, dont know if it is possible when a liege has started the war on his behalf)

As the land is captured for the liege who distributes it to deserving vassals, even with no death of the enemy, he could have lost theland he conquered, even in case of victory.

I think claims are only valid if you go at war yourself. I dont think you can ride a liege's war to press your own claims.

 

[Solo?]

What do defensive religious wars achieve? In my latest game a group of Baltic pagan nations occupied Poland entirely then signed a white peace one by one without deposing the Polish king or any territorial changes.

 

[Secret Master]

They are meant to allow third-party wars to defend someone under attack in holy wars and crusades. It lets the Baltic pagans team up against invading Christians if they want. Defensive holy wars don't allow for territorial changes, because the purpose of the war is to let you stop aggression without being allied to the person being attacked.

 

[Secret Master]

They are meant to allow third-party wars to defend someone under attack in holy wars and crusades. It lets the Baltic pagans team up against invading Christians if they want. Defensive holy wars don't allow for territorial changes, because the purpose of the war is to let you stop aggression without being allied to the person being attacked.

Anyone can use them. France can be particularly generous and help out the Iberian Christians using this kind of war when they get attacked.

 

[Solo?]

Ah, I see. They don't seem to form a coalition though. A third party starts a separate war with a separate peace from the nation they were protecting even if the latter signs a peace deal with the attacker.

 

[Templaric-]

Can someone explain how technology functions? I've got my Demesne technology and my Realm technology, so whenever a tech finishes, does that boost the tech in my demesne or my capital or my realm?

How fast does tech spread from province to province?

Will the tech in all my demesne provinces be exactly the same if I've held the same demesne long enough?

How does "steal tech" with my spy function, based on the demesne or the realm or the province he goes to?

 

[Secret Master]

Ah, I see. They don't seem to form a coalition though. A third party starts a separate war with a separate peace from the nation they were protecting even if the latter signs a peace deal with the attacker.

Correct. Several smaller wars rather than one big one.

 

[Alexianus]

Seems quite simple, but it's only just occured to me - can a character be king of more than one country? So could you be King of England and King of Scotland ? Or would it all just be classed as whichever he/she ruled first ?

 

[Brannart]

How is the pope elected?

I don't think anybody knows.

 

[Wezqu]

Seems quite simple, but it's only just occured to me - can a character be king of more than one country? So could you be King of England and King of Scotland ? Or would it all just be classed as whichever he/she ruled first ?

You are a king of England and Scotland if you have the tittles. The main tittle is by what kingdom name you go as even in history the kings were always linked to one tittle more than the others. You can always change what kingdom you want to be called if you have more than one kingdom tittle.

 

[0Emmanuel]

Seems quite simple, but it's only just occured to me - can a character be king of more than one country? So could you be King of England and King of Scotland ? Or would it all just be classed as whichever he/she ruled first ?

You can have as many king titles as you like (well, and as you can hold together). There is always one primary title, though.