Trick of the month or is it not as easy as it seems?

[NewbieOne]

Basically, sometimes a city republic gets usurped. In my current game, the ex-doge of venice has 12K gold on his character, now courtier to some count. How I wish I could pull it off.

Turn on notification about all characters from your faith, especially title changes. When you see a mayor getting ousted, move in with a gift (20 gold since it's a courtier). Mayors don't marry and are childless, therefore as liege you're his heir. Probably nothing close to 12K if it's not venice but a doge or lord mayor (respectively duke or count) should be rich enough and even a baron level mayor may have several hundred on him.

May also work on deposed monarchs and bishops and certain other claimants, some of whom have quite a lot of gold.

Now, what am I missing? Other than the deposed mayor fleeing to somebody he likes and afterwards having no reason to move?

 

[bmullins0118]

Marry heir and when they have a kid he will inherit it.

 

[NewbieOne]

Marry heir and when they have a kid he will inherit it.

Mayors don't marry, so their heir is whoever is their liege. If that liege has a liege who has high crown authority or higher, you will never see the money. (Unless money can be inherited when land cannot).

 

[Mods]

Sorry to rain on your parade, but if a mayor dies a new mayor will simply replace him, elections and all that stuff

 

[NewbieOne]

Sorry to rain on your parade, but if a mayor dies a new mayor will simply replace him, elections and all that stuff

I was talking about an ex-mayor. He has the gold on his character, and the winning claimant doesn't take it over. He's a normal courtier with a huge amount of gold. If you keep him at court without giving him land, you will inherit him. But you can, of course, make him a mayor somewhere or grant him a barony. Normally, it probably won't be as much as the 12K that the ex-Serene-Doge carries on him in my game.

 

[Mods]

I see, that is pretty neat then.

 

[NewbieOne]

I see, that is pretty neat then.

Especially for the count of Parma in my game.

 

[Ithvan]

Imprison him, that way he won't be able to go to another court.

 

[Alerias]

Its an old trick that I use once in awhile.

An unlanded courtier with lots of wealth isn't always easy to locate, but whenever you have one on hand, its certainly worth considering marrying him or her to an heir (for immense fortunes) or more often to a landed dynast so their heir can use it to improve a key duchy or something. If you want it yourself and you want it now, there's pretty much only one way, and its far from an exploit because there's a cost: imprison and banish him. That will seize all his monies, but you take a Tyranny hit. I've done it for a 2500 ducats fortune once, I could afford the hit and needed the cash NOW, YMMV. In my case I had negative cash and mercs in the field, so it was time to pull all the stops.

 

[NewbieOne]

Its an old trick that I use once in awhile.

An unlanded courtier with lots of wealth isn't always easy to locate, but whenever you have one on hand, its certainly worth considering marrying him or her to an heir (for immense fortunes) or more often to a landed dynast so their heir can use it to improve a key duchy or something. If you want it yourself and you want it now, there's pretty much only one way, and its far from an exploit because there's a cost: imprison and banish him. That will seize all his monies, but you take a Tyranny hit. I've done it for a 2500 ducats fortune once, I could afford the hit and needed the cash NOW, YMMV. In my case I had negative cash and mercs in the field, so it was time to pull all the stops.

Any experience as to where to find them other than claimants/history on empires, kingdoms, Italian cities etc.?