Originally Posted by JasonF (Post 11328420)

It's funny now that I look back on it -- even though it's only been less than a week, that hunchbacked Queen was two or three generations ago. She's dead and burried. My current king conquered Scotland (carrying on the fine work of his father), then cracked some heads internally -- I had a few dukes who were getting too big for their britches, so I wound up throwing them in jail, stripping them of their titles, and sending them into exile and/or executing them. It got me very rich and enabled me to spread the titles out so no one vassal has too much power.



Yeah, I did figure that out. It makes perfect sense, now that I think about it -- what's the point of being vassal to the King of England if he's not going to stand up and defend your county when the King of Ireland and Scotland comes riding in with a manufactured claim and a massive army.

My current king's son/heir actually has a claim to England, so I'm probably going to just go for broke and see if I can take over the whole country. England is somewhat fractured right now with some upstart dukes playing out their own version of the War of the Roses, so I'm hoping to take advantage of that chaos to crush everyone under my thumb.

Of course, with my luck, once I put Junior on the throne of England, he'll fuck things up and wind up getting himself killed before I can pass on Ireland and Scotland to him. I've had that happen a few times -- I get my heir into a promising marriage, then either he dies before he becomes my PC or his wife dies before she can give him a kid.

Originally Posted by JasonF (Post 11328578)

Not a bad idea. My current character is a horny old goat with at least half a dozen kids, so if I kill the current heir, I got more where he came from. I just don't remember whether Junior has kids of his own who would be his heirs, or if his titles would pass back to me upon his death. Definitely something to check next time I fire up the game.

Originally Posted by JasonF (Post 11329196)

I've got Gavelkind succession. I've played through my PC's death about 3 times tonight, and every time, the realm just falls apart when he goes. I'm going to keep reloading until I get it right!

Originally Posted by WallyOPD (Post 11329610)

In my first 2 generations I'd amassed control of 4 duchies, but thanks to Gavelkind succession when my second character died I lost all but 1 (for some reason my gay character still managed to produce 5 sons and 1 daughter).

Originally Posted by WallyOPD (Post 11329616)

I'm trying to work my way now to primogenture, but only being able to increase crown authority once per generation (and having to meet lots of specific requirements to do so) has made that a slow process. I've got the HRE changed to seniority in the meantime, although this means that my son isn't set to inherit anything.

Originally Posted by WallyOPD (Post 11330133)

The wife was definitely lustful which did help to balance out the homosexuality.

And I thought the 2 duchies thing was only a rule for kings or emperors (which I am now, but was not at the time)?

Originally Posted by starman9000 (Post 11328317)

Sorry, here's the link:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008G0ZVLE

$19.99 includes CKII and the DLC as well as Magicka Collection, Majesty Gold, Majesty 2, Victoria II, and Warlock: Master of the Arcane