Forgive me, this may have been brought up prior in the thread, but why is Soissons a king-level title in the first place? Under Aegidius it was run a bit more properly Roman-like, but I thought Penny MacGeorge demonstrated fairly well that under Syagrius the whole enterprise devolved into little more than a warlord's fiefdom, best illustrated by the domain-ending Battle of Soissons in 486-- a proper state can at least scramble for successors and maintain some administration when a battle is lost, have pretenders flee abroad, have a bureaucracy, etc., but when a warlord starts to lose, his domain disintegrates rapidly.
Now, I recognize that Soissons was often called a kingdom, but it's also entirely possible to grant any title any other title's tier with a simple "name_tier = [count/duke/king/emperor]" line in the appropriate entry in landed_titles. Given how quickly Soissons fell, I would advocate making Syagrius holder of a ducal-level Soissons that merely is named a kingdom in landed_titles. A ducal Soissons would disintegrate more rapidly, better reflect the challenges of just keeping such a state together with what meager administrative power Syagrius had at his disposal, and this could all be done using mechanics already in CK2 and so would not have to rely on special events or CBs for the Franks to beat the crap out of it, if that's how the AI chose to roll. A proper king-level Kingdom of Soissons (titular) could serve as an update if Syagrius just survives the initial deluge, if it's felt necessary.
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Now, I recognize that Soissons was often called a kingdom, but it's also entirely possible to grant any title any other title's tier with a simple "name_tier = [count/duke/king/emperor]" line in the appropriate entry in landed_titles. Given how quickly Soissons fell, I would advocate making Syagrius holder of a ducal-level Soissons that merely is named a kingdom in landed_titles. A ducal Soissons would disintegrate more rapidly, better reflect the challenges of just keeping such a state together with what meager administrative power Syagrius had at his disposal, and this could all be done using mechanics already in CK2 and so would not have to rely on special events or CBs for the Franks to beat the crap out of it, if that's how the AI chose to roll. A proper king-level Kingdom of Soissons (titular) could serve as an update if Syagrius just survives the initial deluge, if it's felt necessary.
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Julius Nepos had a wife.
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