Quick question on claims and truces....

[unmerged(616886)]

I am playing as the ERE and cannot for the life of me see any easy way to get Croatia for my empire. They are simply a small kingdom to my west, I have been fabricating claims for 80 years, with 3 different emperors, and yet the most I have gotten is the main duchy. Is there ANY way to move this along? I REALLY do not want to attack for a single county for each war.

Also, how do truces work? I sometimes seem to get them and sometimes seem to not get them. Is it different if I accept their surrender or if i just win with 100%?

 

[Prime624]

You can't fabricate a claim on a kingdom. I'm not sure if you can for a secondary title, but I don't think so.

The winner has to get the truce. The loser will not.

 

[Sopot]

Invite an unmarried claimant, marry them to a dynasty member(matri-marry to your daughter etc), thier child gets a weak/strong claim when the claimant dies, press claim for the whole thing once the child of your dynasty has thier claim.

 

[HiddenWolf]

Invite an unmarried claimant, marry them to a dynasty member(matri-marry to your daughter etc), thier child gets a weak/strong claim when the claimant dies, press claim for the whole thing once the child of your dynasty has thier claim.

Croatia is de jure part of the Byzantine Empire. Any claimant will do.