I was having a nice time noodling around having just unified Britannia, and suddenly I have 30+ vassals who all hate me.
Married my spare to a Khan's daughter for an alliance, then she died and this happened
CK3Irish, but at this point they're all so inbred it doesn't really matter lmao
The Alban Canæit
Omg, sir, this is gold.
Did ye say the Alban Cannae?! I think ya'll find the Alban Canæit!
Same difference
Ah yeah, the proud Alban Empire that ruled most of middle east and Balkan
Why do you think Albania is called that?
greater Albania
So that’s how the Albanian people were created.
Shqip?
According to some sources, Genghis Khan was red-haired, now we know why.
Is that a thing that exists in steppe tribes? I know they had some contact with the west so it’s not impossible but still…
Well, mutation has occurred in Central Asia and Mongol and especially Turkic nomads have some Scytho-Sarmatian substrate. They could have red hairs, but it's very rare.
Possible aye. I wouldn’t be shocked if it was some lost in translation metaphor however haha
It is thought that the red hair trait first emerged in the steppes of Central Asia
Interesting could you point me to more about that? I’m not familiar with that theory and would like to know more
Red hair is both genetic and a random mutation. The random mutation occurs in 1% of the population in every culture, race, and region of the world.
From the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean, the sun never sets on Alba now
You could try asking a lot of your vassals to convert faith? That'd solve some of the hatred, but a lot of them will likely say "no". Usually I don't give out hooks when asking to convert, but I think I'd make an exception here 😂
It might give you just enough leeway that, when the inevitable rebellion happens, you've got enough troops to win.
To add to this, I suggest you install the mass conversion mod. It lets you ask all your vassals to convert with a single click. Saves a lot of time when you want to convert such a large territory at once. You should also convert indirect vassals, this speed up the conversion of the holdings themselves significantly (and will also prevent your direct vassals from having rebellions on their hand and getting replaced by someone of the other faith, which you then have to convert again). If you have 30 direct vassals, you might have like 100s of indirect vassals, so more reasons to use the mass conversion mod.
The Popups after are annoying tho. Still much better than converting one by one
Well... the popups are going to happen one way or another, it's just that you'd have to handle them one at a time. Now they all appear at once and you can just put your mouse over the button and mass click them. (AFAIK, the person who made the mod mentioned that they couldn't auto accept the conversion without the mod breaking with every update or something)
Ask them all to convert (dear god why isn't there a button to automate this).
Then start granting independence to the new Bible Belt.
Congrats your run is now a "restore the Roman Empire" run.
Congrats, you are Ottomans now.
Scottomans.
An Englishmans worst nightmare
On this day, Scotland discovered kebabs, and the healthcare system was never able to keep up again.
Praise be to Jessica
Step 1: create kingdom tier titles and grant them to dynasty members. You may need to revoke some titles from the current vassals so that your dynasty members can hold land in there.
Step 2: Ally with your dynasty members.
Step 3: Allow some time for your dynasty members to stabilize. You seem to be happy with having just one holding, but the AI generally doesn't like that, so they'll start revoking titles left and right and are certain to incur tyranny and eventually have a war against tyranny... you may need to go help them deal with that.
Step 4: When they've stabilized, grant them independence and start raking in tons of renown.
Step 3 always slips my mind. I’m so laser focused on what’s in front of me, I’ll forget I have vassals and other realms to tend to. Then tyranny war. Mass revolts. Declarations. I need to start this approach.
Congratulations on ur promotion
Are you doing a 1 domain challenge?
Not really, I was just trying to gain control of Alba as an Irish dynasty, and I was thinking about maybe expanding out a little bit as I get my head around the various war mechanics.
Think that decision's out of my hands now.
How loyal are your remaining subjects? This is almost guaranteed to cause many internal revolts, but the good news is if played correctly you can spring smaller wars against disloyal subjects, revoke their titles, and then grant them to couriers without any claims, while keeping the juiciest provinces for yourself
Yeah, I spent about ten years putting down revolts and ended up giving away a couple of empires within the territory to make things more manageable. Still making a decent amount of gold and prestige off the rest, and with waaaaaaay less stress lmao.
If you're new, quick tip for you - if you see an independence/liberty/claiment faction forming get the befriend perk off the diplomacy tree and befriend the first person in the faction. 9 times out of 10, their strength is holding the entire thing together.
If its offering 0% for the scheme, try and kick off the war before they're ready to gain discontent by trying to imprison any of them. Warning though, using the latter while you have several factions will boost the strength and discontent of the others while the war is open, so try and focus on war leaders - the rest are superfluous as soon as you get the leader/their heir in prison.
That doesn't really explain why you only have 1 holding.
Maybe this is OP's first playthrough, and they don't quite have a grasp on succession mechanics yet.
Yeah, it's my first full run through. Think I've got the development mechanics down (or at least better than before), but succession not so much.
To kind of "game the system" for development, you want to convert your capitol to your culture (if it isn't already) then diverge culture. It should make that single county your new culture. Then you develop it, and your "average development" doesn't get bottomed out. You can hold multiple holdings while doing that though.
Ooh good to know, thank you!
Until you get into the early medieval era, you're going to hand out titles left, right and centre on succession. If you can't get your sons (and daughters, religion depending) to join holy orders or holy communes, then either make sure you don't extend so far as to hand down titles equal to your primary on succession (e.g. If you're a count, try and create a duchy early and only take one or two counties out of surrounding duchies so you don't gain enough to autocreate the title on your death) or become a King as soon as possible with the same mindset for expansion. If you're a King, it won't autocreate dutchies on your death, but creating ones where you hold no counties will hand down the dutchy without you losing any personal domains.
Otherwise, if you truly want to protect everything, play as a culture with a special inheritence decision, and enact the vote. Whoever inherits will get everything you own, but be careful because some of the votes allow any seated count to be eligible. I suggest playing the Norse on early playthroughs to get a good feel for the mechanics, especially culture conversion and melding (which you'll need to do to progress to the next era, unless you want to go out of your way to reform Asatru)
Create some new empire level titles, revoke some duchies/kingdoms in the new lands, and set some landless branch of your dynasty/younger child up as the Byzantine empire or whatever. You don't need to keep what you inherit.
Bonus points: you'll get a lot more splendor that way, too.
bruh, did you just kidnap the khans daughter?
lmao no, someone assassinated my original heir and then the Khan's daughter got herself killed in battle
KHAAAAAN!
Easy solution: Grant the vassals you don't want independence. Just make sure the ones you grant independence don't have counties/duchies in Britannia.
vassals you don't want
Does not compute.
I'm also in the "grant all the vassals independence" camp (after granting some of them any domain you inherited over there). See what happens to that part of the world after its former great power explodes!
That or give it all to the funniest person you can think of to suddenly be made an emperor.
Had one of these situations once in one of my first CK2 plays (probably my first real one after starter Ireland and a couple of quick first character deaths) - had only just gone from a single French county to a duchy, and suddenly I was in charge of most of Spain, half of Italy and Jerusalem during a Jihad! No idea exactly how, but my character had a lot of daughters married off, and there was a bit of a cough going around...
Create as many kingdoms as you can, grant them to dynasty members ideally splitting ethnic groups in halves to break up populist revolts if possible, then grant independence to all of them except for a tiny manageable bit and ally them. They should ally each other on their own and help with each other's revolts. Eventually some will fall and some won't and you can reincorporate stuff.
I know that’s kind of the point of the game but I lowkey hate when that happens. Like bro I’m trying to enjoy an immersive roleplay experience but random shit happens so much
You inherited the Ilkhanate?
Alaxanders empire nice
Minus Egypt
The glorious empire of Alba(nia)!
Jessica Alba?
Now do the "The Pharaoh Islands" achievement.
nia
The Mongols were extremely successful in your game
Oh yeah, they'd taken over p much all of Eastern Europe and a chunk of the Mediterranean so I figured an alliance would be a good idea. And it was, kinda. Kept Scandinavia off my back, at least.
You just have to teach them of the greatness and glory of British cuisine! 😐
I just can’t get the picture of Mongolian leprechauns out of my mind
An irish king on the throne if a middle eastern khanate good luck holding on to that
That "spanish" Castilla is killing me
I hadn't even spotted that! Truly beautiful lmao
Let them rebel and get them by attrition.
Good luck, managing this monster!
Africa as a wee tunisian lad
Scottish Khanate