And hey, he has a claim on the Kingdom of Sweden. At least one of my courtiers has a stewardship stat of 19, so his marriage won't be a COMPLETE waste. And an inheritable claim on Norway, if they ever suffer total dynastic collapse (which could very plausibly happen if my experience is any indication).ĮDIT: Aaaaaand my son is a spymaster in a foreign land. Do vassals just hate backing anyone with a weak claim?Īt least I have a damn adult son this time. But then a string of bad regencies mean there hasn't been a strong line of succession in like three generations, so that might have something to do with it. I'm not sure I understand how elective succession works, exactly, since there didn't seem to be anything I could do to convince people to vote with me (even vassals with 100 opinion were as likely as not to pick somebody else). Managing three kingdom successions simultaneously with no access to primogeniture in any of them is hard. At least the 7,000-some-odd soldiers in my personal demesne were untouched. Seriously, my liege levies went from 40,000 to 4,000. My holdings in Scotland and Ireland went to his sister (I created the Kingdom of Ireland just in time), but Norway was lost. My regency ended and then my ruler died of illness before his 17th birthday. The central European powers seem to be kept in check by gavelkind succession, but every other nation that is larger than its neighbours seems destined to keep growing forever.Īh dammit, it finally happened. I have spent the last 40 years of my game taking Iberia from the western Caliphate, crushing them in war after war and even sending raiders to destroy their armies if there is a rebellion during a truce, but in that time they have not lost a single province to rebellion but rather kept expanding, taking the few holdings they lacked in Iberia and invading Burgundy. They all have occasional revolts, especially when I stab them until a young boy gets on the throne, but they are never even remotely close to losing one of them. The map is entirely dominated by me as the Pagan Roman empire and three Caliphates, one controlling all of the middle east (used to own Egypt until I took it from them), one controlling Mauritania, Iberia and all of France, and finally the Seljuks who have taken all of eastern Europe up to Hungary. I have not seen a single empire collapse for three hundred years in my current game, despite me constantly murdering their leaders and demolishing their armies every 10 years. It still sucks though, especially if you have an inland empire.ĭoes anyone else feel like blobs are stupidly powerful this time around? To be fair, it is the only way they could make those invaders even remotely challenging to a player. Attrition is something that should affect every invader.
#CRUSADER KINGS 2 DEMESNE TOO BIG MODS#
Fortunately I changed my elected heir of Norway to match the heir for Scotland just in time, but that means that I am currently a three-year-old.Īre there any mods yet which give the Aztecs and the Mongols attrition on their stacks? Hopefully I'll be able to put an end to the constant torrents of rebellion that have torn it apart since.well, since I engineered it two rulers ago.ĮDIT: Oh god, I abruptly died at age 23 for no good reason.
She's way too powerful now, and gradually conquering even more from my other vassals (Scotland's crown law is still jack-all, and I guess that still affects my de jure Scottish territory), but on the upside I now have enough territory to usurp the title of King of Scotland. Okay, it turns out that most of the people who hated my guts the most were already either traitors or holding titles that I had claims to, so between revoking, murdering, and getting my excommunication lifted (apparently I was excommunicated before I inherited), things got worked out and now everything is mostly stable.Īs an added bonus, one of my duchesses inherited a massive chunk of Scotland for no readily apparent reason.