Uncontested Claims

[Red Bird]

One of the biggest factors in my worsening infamy rating is my modifier for "Uncontested Claims". I've been looking all over in the manula for an explanation of this but, alas, cannot find it.

What exactly are Uncontested Claims and how does one address them?

 

[The Blood Eagle]

They're cores you have on provinces you haven't yet captured. They also have no effect on infamy. If your infamy is rising, you must be an HRE country holding HRE provinces illegally (without a core)

You can afford to have some, but too many will outweigh your infamy decay.

 

[Red Bird]

They're cores you have on provinces you haven't yet captured. They also have no effect on infamy. If your infamy is rising, you must be an HRE country holding HRE provinces illegally (without a core)

You can afford to have some, but too many will outweigh your infamy decay.

So, I'm playing France. I have a bad infamy rating. Burgundy has some of my 'cores'. If I attack and take those cores my infamy will not go up?

 

[Profane]

So, I'm playing France. I have a bad infamy rating. Burgundy has some of my 'cores'. If I attack and take those cores my infamy will not go up?

Yes provided you use the reconquest cb to take those cores.

/me tickles IndirectHero with a blue bird

 

[IndirectHero]

So, I'm playing France. I have a bad infamy rating. Burgundy has some of my 'cores'. If I attack and take those cores my infamy will not go up?

Attacking foreign provinces with your cores cost no infamy when using the reconquest cb.

 

[unmerged(1047)]

Yeah... "uncontested claims" means other countries holding your core provinces. It does not apply when you are at war or have a truce with them, or if they are your vassal (although it DOES if they are your allies, oddly enough).

In the case of France, it's going to be the cores held at game-start by Provence, Burgundy and England.

 

[Pistachio101]

Uncontested claims only effects your prestige. If it effected infamy then a country like Byzantium would be dishonorable scum within the first few years of a game!