Startegy for mass-title/vasal creation?

[Sunsanvil]

So even though this is my first game I'm doing to well for my own good. I started as East Anglia...and without even trying inherited the Kingdom of England. Being a noob when ask by the bishop if I wanted him to doll everything out I said "sure!".

Then I joined the crusade for craps the giggles....and won...all of it. Now I'm like 30 over demesne limit and I have no idea what the common sense is in terms of:
- Giving landed titles.
- Resolving wrong holding types.
- To create...or not...the half dozen titles I can now create.
- Creating new vassals all over the place.

Any general tips here would be much appreciated. I feel like this is a golden opportunity yet have no idea how to exploit it.

 

[StarSword]

So even though this is my first game I'm doing to well for my own good. I started as East Anglia...and without even trying inherited the Kingdom of England. Being a noob when ask by the bishop if I wanted him to doll everything out I said "sure!".

Then I joined the crusade for craps the giggles....and won...all of it. Now I'm like 30 over demesne limit and I have no idea what the common sense is in terms of:
- Giving landed titles.
- Resolving wrong holding types.
- To create...or not...the half dozen titles I can now create.
- Creating new vassals all over the place.

Any general tips here would be much appreciated. I feel like this is a golden opportunity yet have no idea how to exploit it.

Here's what I did when I ran into this.

If you have some claimants you need to land to press claims for, put them in some of the baronies. After that, go to the "Find Characters" window and select the following options:

• Search Realm
• My Religion
• My Culture
• Not Ruler
• Adult
• Males Only (unless your laws let you grant titles to women)

Then sort the results by Stewardship, high to low, and start handing out counties to characters who are not direct heir to any titles, and make sure to check the box that says "include all titles underneath". You may want to grant a couple of them temples or cities first, then counties, because church and city vassals pay more taxes.

After that, hand out each duchy to whomever you like. You can give a duchy to a previously created county-level priest or mayor, too.

 

[Sunsanvil]

If you have some claimants you need to land to press claims for (...)

How do I find/identify those?

 

[Yenzen]

Click the title itself and then "claimants".

If your realm is short on people, you can grant 4-5 count-level titles and wait a few days, they will then generate a court of their own, you can then grant titles to the members of this court. If there's a sub-barony you can also right-click, generate a new vassal, then make the baron a count by giving the county to them.

 

[Naufragus]

In this situation, I would just use the create vassal for counties. You are then creating fresh dynasties with YOU as the heir. Your family will like you for a while but you will always have -25 claimant with them later if you hand them out to relatives.

If you need better councilors then I would use the search and go for Low Borns with great stats. Realm, My Religion, My Culture and then Un Check Great House. This way no one will have any claims either. If they arent married then you are also the heir.

Any cities ALWAYS just create vassal.

For Bishophrics, I would use the search function - Realm, My Religion, My Culture. If there are religious differences with the territory, I sort by Learning and just pick the top people. If the religion is the same depending on circumstances I will go Highest Martial or Highest Diplomacy

Keep a "Wales". Its always good to have holding so you can make your heir "prince of dragonstone", that way they can focus and level up before they are king. Then when you die they just pass it down.

 

[StarSword]

The reason you want high Stewardship in particular is because that increases their tax income, in turn raising what they pay to you. High Stewardship also improves county culture conversion rates.

 

[StarSword]

One further tip, keep an eye out for useful combat traits such as Siege Leader. If you see one outside your court, make him a duke so you can use him in battle.

 

[Naufragus]

You can spend an hour on this and get really in depth - but 10 minutes later 1/2 of them are dead and the other 1/2 half are at war.

 

[_Perun_]

In this situation, I would just use the create vassal for counties. You are then creating fresh dynasties with YOU as the heir. Your family will like you for a while but you will always have -25 claimant with them later if you hand them out to relatives.

If you need better councilors then I would use the search and go for Low Borns with great stats. Realm, My Religion, My Culture and then Un Check Great House. This way no one will have any claims either. If they arent married then you are also the heir.

Any cities ALWAYS just create vassal.

For Bishophrics, I would use the search function - Realm, My Religion, My Culture. If there are religious differences with the territory, I sort by Learning and just pick the top people. If the religion is the same depending on circumstances I will go Highest Martial or Highest Diplomacy

Keep a "Wales". Its always good to have holding so you can make your heir "prince of dragonstone", that way they can focus and level up before they are king. Then when you die they just pass it down.

Being the heir of a freshly created dynasty member does not work. Sooner or later he is going to have his own heir. I used to rely on that mechanic and give titles to old, single and preferably celibate lowborns as a temporary holders of my titles but even those old f***ers seemed to procreate efficiencly enough to annoy me.

Cities may come useful if you have a heathen claimant and you want to make sure that he or his heir is not going to annoy you even more by accidental inheriting something you did not want them to inherit. Land a claimant as a mayor, press his claim, revoke the pressed title, leave him the city and stop worry about him. It is a super irrelevant thing but I believe that city-landed claimants have less tools to annoy and they subject to revocations same way as others.

Bishoprics are great if you want to exclude somebody from inheriting. It comes super useful in vassals management.

 

[Naughtius Maximus]

I personally recommend nepotism