What was your favorite CK2 revenge play?

[StarSword]

A duke rebelled against my vassal King of Bohemia, intending to usurp the throne. He sieged down Prague and captured the king's wife, my daughter, and made her a concubine.

I sicced a snake handler on him, ending his life, his claim, and the civil war, and even re-married the rightful royal couple.

 

[tommister]

In the AGOT mod, I was playing as the lord of stillfen in the riverlands. Aegon bookmark, my lord Harran had a claim on my title, imprisoned my son and tortured him to death. He tried to take my title, the whole of the riverlands joined me. Won the war, stole his crown and beheaded him along with his sons. A new dynasty rules in the riverlands now.

 

[Dakilla TM]

This is a common theme in my games: During a regency, some ambitious vassal always lowers my crown authority. So when the regency is over, I murder his entire family and revoke all of their holdings. Yes it's "tyrannical" but I think it's justified.

 

[Captured Joe]

The Holy Roman Emperor burned my wife (who was also my lover) at the stake, so I challenged him for a duel. Two times he refused, but the third time he didn't and my character killed him.

 

[Sunshine Moon]

Was playing in 769 in Sweden, me and two other high chiefs, all with become king ambition, were racing to use repeated subjugations to form the Kingdom; while I was cleaning up the smaller surrounding realms, one of the two big rivals besides me subjugated the other and created the kingdom, sniping the title out from under me so now even if I get it I'll forever have to see him at the start of my lineage of kings and queens when looking at the title's history. I declare a subjugation war on him, the final battle for the crown as we're the only two swedish realms left, and halfway through the war he captures my character's wife and makes her a concubine. I win the war, though, leaving him as a very grumpy old man with multiple jarldoms under me, altogether too much power for someone so discontent with his new king, and besides, these offences cannot stand. I duel him, which he really shouldn't have accepted given my combat skill is somewhere in the 70s at this point, and with a single blow inflict a grievous wound that would cause his death within the year, breaking up those titles to much more manageable successors, and my dynasty has reigned since.

 

[Zoomun]

Cuck them and then murder/duel them.

 

[acsa4]

Was playing my Karen Persian Shahanshah the other day and he married for love. Had a couple of daughter's. Later on he got assassinated, leaving no direct male heir to the throne his rival brother inherited the empire.

I got a little curious and decided to look into the kill list of my new character and what do I find? Turns out I KILLED HIM OH THE HORROR.
At that point I figured I might as well drive the point home for this guy's personal vendetta and marry his brother's former wife! The real twist to it though was that she fell in love with him too! Had a couple of sons as well.

So for the sake of symbolism I married both brother's children together, as a divine marriage between half-siblings. It was a nice little drama that unfolded beneath my nose without me knowing it. Had a nice ending to it too! I love this game sometimes.

 

[Duskwave]

A while back (2017, so some things were different), tried playing a start as a Byzantine Emperor (forget which, likely 769 start). Did okay in terms of external power, but was having all kinds of hell wrangling vassals (I'd done some pretty successful big playthroughs by that point, but most had started very small and built up instead of having an established powerful vassal base. I was also pretty new to Conclave and WoL at the time). A random one-county count, with no apparent motivation- very positive opinion of me, no claims, no close relatives had claims, not lunatic, etc, but very fond of the Intrigue focus- abducted me. Refused to accept ransom, so the kind of absurd situation of governing from my vassal's vassal's dungeon persisted for two years... until he decided to castrate me (which auto-released). Didn't affect succession- I had 4 sons already anyway- so it's not like he got anything out of it. Shockingly, the game thought it tyrannous for me to imprison him in turn. I decided "you want to see a tyrant, I'll show you a tyrant", and set out to imprison and castrate every single male character of the Byzantine culture group not of my dynasty in the realm. Once I'd gotten most of them (took decades), I culture-changed to Italian and murdered the remainder. This was not exactly ideal for the aforementioned realm stability, but I had stopped caring.

I still usually turn off AI Intrigue on most games.

 

[fr-rein]

My sister bullied me.
When I grew up, I became Byzantine Emperor and seduced her, dueled and killed her husband, but then cast aside and married on her only (surviving ) child which I seduced. And then I married her to some unimaginably ugly, short and dumb eunuch I prepared for the occasion.

Not really original kind of revenge, but I just enjoy how irrational game allows me to be.

 

[Kazanov]

Yesterday i got second place in a crusade as the King of England (i got the achievement for the norman conquest), so the son of the Kaiser of the HRE got Egypt and my son got a duchy.

Then the Egyptian ruler executed my son.

So, for the next 10 years i challenged his entire line to duels and exterminated every single male dude from that dinasty. Then i got the achievement for winning 7 duels but died before founding a new bloodline.

The next time someone executes my son ill get the duelist bloodline achievement.

 

[FoxyX22]

Whenever my council gets out of line, IE: i have too many titles but they refuse to let me give away any titles, i just kill them all and their families and replace them with more, shall we say malleable, councillors. That applies doubly to any councillors who also back another claimant to my title.

Also if ANY member of my family decides to try and take my stuff from me.

 

[LordHarromont]

Its a little disturbing how easy everyone here talks about murdering a whole family. All of my big intrigue plays usually end up blowing up in my face.

As for me, I was searching for a good wife for my future heir. The second she arrived in my court, about 5 of my vassals all seduced her at once. I checked and the girl had 5 lovers, most dirty old men with seduction. This is not a rare occurrence by the way. I always have to marry of my daughters very early on since the moment she turns 16 all of my seducer vassals will pounce on her. When I played a young empress myself she too got a lot of pop op messages of people trying to seduce her.

So my character died a few months after that and I now played the guy who was married to the seduced wife. So of course I picked the war focused and dueled every single one of her lovers one by one until they were all dead. The wife I eventually send to a cloister, which is still better what most of the murder happy CK2 players would have done to her, so I tell myself.

Not very imaginative or extreme, but I like it. It felt like justice.

 

[Rockphed]

I have been trying to kill off one of the rival families because they took 2 trade posts from me the one time I let them get the doge-ship. In the interim I have managed to kill off the other 3 original families and another 3 or 4 generated families. Hopefully I get the Venice trade post and enough other ones to link my trade zone from Venice to Alexandria when I finish killing them off.

A few versions ago I was playing as the Di Canossas. I was on my 2nd or 3rd ruler and had won a crusade for the Holy Land, but was still a vassal of the HRE. The HRE was in a war on the continent and got Jihaded for Jerusalem. The emperor surrendered, so I declared independence war on him and made him lose all his other wars before I accepted peace since I had more troops from Italy and Sicily than he did from the rest of the empire. I think I might have left it at that, but I might have vassalized the pope just to force his excommunication.

 

[Timjames]

In the AGOT mod, while playing as Aegon the young dragon, I conquered Dorne and later Pentos and installed as Lord Paramount of Pentos a peaseant I had taken on as squire and raised like a son.

Then the Lord Paramount of the Stormlands rebelled against me for no reason (he was provoked by a plot, as I later learned) and the LP of Pentos joined him! Aegon the Young Dragon died in battle. Then his first and second son were assassinated by lords.

His third son grew up to adulthood and became a psychopath from this experience. He was able to imprison the LP of the Stormlands, torture and mutilate him to death, and then fight the LP of Pentos in a duel. When this boy who my character had been raised alongside and had once seen as a brother begged for mercy, the drove his sword into the traitor's heart.

Unfortunately this lord died soon after too, and by this point crown authority was so weak the Iron Throne had been reduced to a figurehead monarchy.

 

[Bregil]

This one happened a long time ago (right after Republics were added in fact) so there was a bug at play that has since been patched. Anyway, I was playing a multiplayer game with some friends and one of them bribed the HRE to do an Embargo War on me. Needless to say, I couldn't let that stand so I plotted to murder him in return. This is where the bug comes in, at that point in time, there was no cap on the number of assassination attempts that could happen simultaneously. He escaped the Inn that was rigged to blow, narrowly escaped getting killed by highwaymen, arrived in a second inn, got bit by a snake, fell off a balcony, and got blown to smithereens all at the same time. We still talk about that one from time to time even though it was 6 years ago at this point.

 

[vandevere]

Sounds like the script for a Final Destination Movie...

 

[slightlylooney]

This occurred before Holy Fury:

My character, the King of Britannia, was excommunicated right after his regency ended for no apparent reason. It was lifted when my character agreed to join the ongoing crusade but my character was re-excommunicated when the crusade was lost before my forces arrived. I managed to convince the next pope to lift the excommunication but he later would again excommunicate my character for no reason whatsoever. Fed up, I installed an anti-pope on Christmas day and declared a war to install the anti-pope on the same day, a war that I would proceed to win.

A few generations later, the papacy would be part of, or maybe lead an internal rebellion and would somehow find itself taken over by the Byzantine Empire. The papacy would, for whatever reason, later regain its independence. Interestingly, one of the popes was a bastard of my dynasty. His successor would again excommunicate my character for no reason. I concluded that the papacy needed another lesson about there being people that they really shouldn't poke for no good reason. I had to wait a bit as a someone else's anti-pope had been deposed, declared another anti-pope and installed him in Rome. Then, I had the deposed pope excommunicated - let's see how he likes it.

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THe escaped the Inn that was rigged to blow, narrowly escaped getting killed by highwaymen, arrived in a second inn, got bit by a snake, fell off a balcony, and got blown to smithereens all at the same time.

Send Rasputin my regards.