Crusader Kings 2

Yea, I realized it's that, but it's super annoying how it takes so long for your levies to regenerate.

But I'm about to have (it hasn't happened yet! :lol:) my great-nephew inherit the throne. This is after three children, three brothers, and a few other heirs died (madvking induced and not). But my king is still kicking around at 71.
 
Sorry for double posting.

But I'm about to have (it hasn't happened yet! :lol:) my great-nephew inherit the throne. This is after three children, three brothers, and a few other heirs died (madvking induced and not). But my king is still kicking around at 71.

Damn, I thought I was unlucky. At least you still have someone around to inherit the throne.

My ungrateful son just decided to rise up and dethrone me, while another duke was already fighting me for God knows what. You'd think a humble albeit-failed crusader would get more respect.
 
One of my dukes managed to get the county of Ypers from the HRE on the mainland, and then somehow we lost it (probably due to different succession laws). I attack during a massive HRE civil war to press his claim... and then he betrays me and declares independence. His pre-backstab relations were around 10, not great, but nowhere near traitor levels.

So I am forced to auto-white-peace the HRE immediately... I can't even press the claim and then beat up this rebellious duke. After some more border-shifting, the county belongs to France. No real chance of getting it back anytime soon.

W. T. F.?
 
I lived to 85 in my Scotland game, and my grandson had to inherit :p
And he was like 45
 
From my second game, after making a mess of Scotland while learning some of the basics.

My family members tend to have a very short life expectancy, with knife to the back being the leading cause of death, hence the terrible piety of my current character. Started as the Duke of Athens, and have been gradually expanding throughout the Aegean through marriages and assassinations. I eventually plan on declaring independence, but first I need to strengthen myself, as I don't think I would be able to take on that giant 11k man Byzantine army just yet.

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That is some impressively terrible piety, good sir. And I thought my one character's -100 was bad.
 
My game as the duke of Holland, I might have gotten carried away a bit.

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And the -400 piety probably means he's been abusing the somewhat broken assassination mechanic, but has not figured out how to do so effectively.
 
I've only pulled off a few assassinations, and my getting-caught rate is disturbing. Probably haven't been using it effectively.
 
Look up in their character profile where the soon to be dead is right now (usually "reining in x, y"), place your spy master there to build a spy network and almost every assassination will be about 40% success, 10% of getting caught, I even had 40-20 for the Kaiser, you get the boosted assassination stats the moment you move your spymaster there so it can all be done while paused.

Another part of this is getting good spymasters, what I like to do is go through the character search function for: Men, not married, not in prison, then arrange them by Intrigue and find some likely girl to matrilinealy marry him to, after the latest patch this can be somewhat difficult though, having a spare daughter lying around can be useful, and make sure the future spymaster has no claims or comes from a great house so he won't mind giving up his family name for the good of your's, ignore anyone who's not a courtier.

You can ofcourse also fix this with good breeding in your family, but I prefer to get spymasters from outside as they tend to die a lot if you let them spy for technology most of the time like me (finding some random arabian/north african county who are far away from you is generally best).
 
One of my provinces is constantly having rebellions. There is one every few months it seems. Any ideas why this is? Could it be a result of it being completely seperated from the rest of my holdings?
 
One of my provinces is constantly having rebellions. There is one every few months it seems. Any ideas why this is? Could it be a result of it being completely seperated from the rest of my holdings?
Move your mouse over the revolt risk, it tells you what is causing it.
 
Look up in their character profile where the soon to be dead is right now (usually "reining in x, y"), place your spy master there to build a spy network and almost every assassination will be about 40% success, 10% of getting caught, I even had 40-20 for the Kaiser, you get the boosted assassination stats the moment you move your spymaster there so it can all be done while paused.

Another part of this is getting good spymasters, what I like to do is go through the character search function for: Men, not married, not in prison, then arrange them by Intrigue and find some likely girl to matrilinealy marry him to, after the latest patch this can be somewhat difficult though, having a spare daughter lying around can be useful, and make sure the future spymaster has no claims or comes from a great house so he won't mind giving up his family name for the good of your's, ignore anyone who's not a courtier.

You can ofcourse also fix this with good breeding in your family, but I prefer to get spymasters from outside as they tend to die a lot if you let them spy for technology most of the time like me (finding some random arabian/north african county who are far away from you is generally best).

I must not have the best of spymasters, even with moving the spymaster I can only get 35% success and maybe a 20% chance of getting caught, and very often I tend to get caught.
 
Damn, I thought I was unlucky. At least you still have someone around to inherit the throne.

My ungrateful son just decided to rise up and dethrone me, while another duke was already fighting me for God knows what. You'd think a humble albeit-failed crusader would get more respect.

The number of revolts in this game are simply unrealistic. Sure, they happened sometimes but not 20 times a year.
 
How much intrigue does your spymaster have? The values given where from spymasters of mine usually somewhere between 21 and 27, and does your spymaster like you? I am not 100% on this buy I think if they like you more, they do a better job.
Even in my new game as the king of Scotland 1066 with my first king who was completely incompetent and powerless (1 county, no duchy, not a single stat above 10, with diplo being 0) I could at least find a 20 spymaster that gave me 10 - 50 on murdering a child duke, as my son had married his sister and heir. If possible murder your target while it's still a child, I suspect intrigue and a couple of other stats determine chances of succeeding, so a king usually has better stats then a duke due to better councilmen, so is harder to assassinate, and children are even easier because their stats are not formed yet and they get no bonus from a wife either.

Sometimes finding someone capable can be a bit of a hassle and requires a lot of work, when I'm still weak I will usually mary most of my daughters out to extremely gifted courtiers and if I have a lot of them my sons as well, it strengthens the bloodline, in case of unfortunate accidents its always nice to know you'll become a capable brother instead of some celibate idiot that forces you to give away half your counties due to a 2 for stewardship.

Edit: Oerdin, the last patch that was released yesterday cuts the number of revolts in half, and you can even mod the values yourself, currently I get about 1/5th of the normal revolts, as it works for the computer as well there's no debalancing and saves me the constant "Ugh this bullshtik again.".
There's a thread on the Paradox forum about peasant revolts that describes how to do it, it's just a matter of editing a .txt file, I provided links to the relevant threads and pages in either this thread of the Paradox games thread.

Edit2: the Paradox Interactive games thread, last post.
 
I got the best ruler ever last night:

Duke Eoghan of Munster

- imbecile
- sloth
- gluttonous
- proud
- ambitious
- fortune builder (thank god for this otherwise I would've sent him to the Shia Caliphate to be captured and imprisoned and die)
- envious
- kin-slayer
- crusader

His stats are 0/4/5/5/1
 
My current spymaster has 18 intrigue, a 75 opinion, and does a fair job of acting as court secret police and the envoy of assassins. Mostly the former.
I find the chancellor far more useful for the way I expand: fab claims, then invade. I successfully jump started the third English civil war in 50 years today.
 
Fantastic discussion! I just got CK2 yesterday, and I learned a ton just by checking out this thread. My "To Do: Spring Break" list just got put in the circular file.
 
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