What's your culture? If it's Irish, you'll only be able to create Brittania, and not Francia (requires Frankish/Occitan/Burgundian culture, IIRC). Especially bad when your capital is on the other end of the world, like mine ATM (Nantes). Kinda makes my preferred blitzkrieg strategy hard to apply (I usually gather up a huge army and crush counties one by one in matter of a few days). The only problem with holy wars is that I hate fighting in the Middle East - supply limits are low, attrition is immense, garrisons are large and distances are huge. Other than that, doing the same with ducal claims and holy wars work the best (I usually use holy wars to get counties which I can then distribute among claimants on Christian duchies that I can't HW for). But then you don't get the king title yourself. Usually pretty much all de jure vassals of the kingdom (except the one you usurped the title from) will be willing to vassalize.įastest way to expand is being emperor, inviting people with claim on whole kingdoms, giving them some remote county and then pressing that claim. absolute primogeniture)? Might cause a revolt or two due to the hit to vassal opinion, but I think it's hardly a difference from increasing authority and changing succession laws normally, in fact it's probably a significantly lower hit and to less people to boot.Ĭreating/usurping kingdoms means instant expansion through peacevassaling.

Oh and BTW, anyone else destroy the kingdom titles after usurping (and voluntarily vassaling every de jure vassal who's willing to, after gifts), and then re-create them to have the usurped title (usually some horrible minimal authority gavelkind junk) turn into the level of your primary title (i.e. In my current game, I'm Emperor of Britannia & King of Brittany, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Portugal, England, Mauretania, Aquitania, France and Leon (in order of creation), all A-C primogeniture absolute monarchies, and survived one succession with only 3 or 4 duke rebelling, and they were so kind as to rebel sequentially instead of all at the same time. So what do you think is better, stockpiling king titles or king vassals? Interesting idea about the mentorship switcheroo, though. Well, panic, stockpiling cash and pause are all stuff I do already.

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