Tips for playing as a monarchy?

[Fart_Gas]

I recently did a Philippines run where I became a democratic republic with universal suffrage, then became a council republic with universal suffrage.

However, now I'll try a run where I turn the Philippines into a monarchy with universal suffrage (because my brother is a monarchist IRL who blames all the Philippines' problems on not being a monarchy) to see if I really will get better results.

What can I do as a monarchy?:

* Can I conduct royal marriages?

* Can I disinherit my heir?

* Can I end up in civil war due to a dynastic dispute (Carlist wars in Spain)?

* Can problems arise from a female heir (e.g. Pedro II of Brazil didn't bother preserving his throne because he didn't have a male heir)?

* Can I suffer problems resulting from inbreeding?

* Can I make more personal unions?

 

[GrounchoVilla]

I recently did a Philippines run where I became a democratic republic with universal suffrage, then became a council republic with universal suffrage.

However, now I'll try a run as a monarchy with universal suffrage (because my brother is a monarchist IRL who blames all the Philippines' problems on not being a monarchy) to see if I really will get better results.

What can I do as a monarchy?:

* Can I conduct royal marriages?

* Can I disinherit my heir?

* Can I end up in civil war due to a dynastic dispute (Carlist wars in Spain)?

* Can problems arise from a female heir (e.g. Pedro II of Brazil didn't bother preserving his throne because he didn't have a male heir)?

* Can I suffer problems resulting from inbreeding?

I don't think there are mechanics for any of that. that's more a crusader kings thing

 

[MathyM]

You can do none of that. You are not playing as the monarch.

CK3 lets you do all of those. EU4 lets you do some of those.

 

[Fart_Gas]

You can do none of that. You are not playing as the monarch.

CK3 lets you do all of those. EU4 lets you do some of those.

So in other words, monarchs are randomly generated and I can't train their skills?

Also, I noticed some countries are under personal union - are those fixed, or can I make more personal unions?

 

[MathyM]

So in other words, monarchs are randomly generated and I can't train their skills?

Also, I noticed some countries are under personal union - are those fixed, or can I make more personal unions?

They gain some skills as they age, but they are randomly generated (hopefully with hair).

Personal Unions are a special type of subjection that is fixed at game start. You can’t make more (but you can make a nation that is in a PU a subject, I think you inherit the PU if the target was the senior part of the union).