#Crusader kings 2 holy roman empire update

In February of ii84, one of my daughters comes of age в—Љ. In addition to the obvious effect of producing a child, this gets me a bit of Prestige. Oh well.ДЄ bit later, my wife becomes pregnant в—Љ. I chose to end the rivalry because he was my Spymaster, but I'm not entirely sure it worked. Later in the year, this event pops up в—Љ, allowing me to end a rivalry I apparently had with one of my vassals. If he succeeds, Ill get a strong claim on the county, which can be pressed at any time (unlike a weak claim, which can only be pressed under specific circumstances). Muslim rulers don't get this position, instead getting a Court Imam who can't be dismissed and works slightly differently.ДЇor now, I send my Chancellor to Thuringen в—Љ, because Thuringia is the weakest power in central Europe at the moment. He can be sent to convert the populace of a province to your religion, research cultural tech in a province, or improve religious relations with your bishops (so that they'll pay taxes to you instead of the Pope).

Lastly, the Court Chaplain is your spiritual advisor, and his duties use his Learning.

The Spymaster can be sent to uncover plots of all types (handy when you've got a large family), he can build a spy network in a province to improve your ability to assassinate anyone in it, or he can steal technology from more advanced provinces. Having a good, loyal Spymaster is incredibly valuable, because you really don't want your Spymaster to accept invitations to people's plots against you.

The Spymaster is important for all Intrigue-related matters.

He can and should be sent to collect taxes to increase the income from a province, or if you don't like being rich for some reason you can have him hurry construction or research economy tech.

Your Steward uses his Stewardship to assist in managing your realm.

He can be sent to suppress revolts in a specific province (which also improves your chances of arresting people.unless you're trying to arrest your Marshall), he can train troops in a single province (increasing their numbers and replenishing them faster), or he can research military tech to give your troops a bit of an advantage.

The Marshal uses his Martial skill for a number of different military tasks.

The Chancellor can be sent to improve diplomatic relations with any ruler, he can fabricate claims on other realms (which I'll talk about in a bit), or he can sow dissent between a ruler and his liege.

The chancellor uses his Diplomacy to affect foreign relations-his Diplomacy is added to your ruler's Diplomacy when determining what other rulers think of you.

There's one council member for each of the game's five stats, and they can be sent to perform various tasks. Let me introduce you to the most useful people in my realm: my council в—Љ. I don't have either of those for any HRE provinces, but I can fix that. Now, if I want to take someone's land in a war, and they're a fellow Christian, I'm going to need one of two things: either I need a claim on their land that can be pressed, or I their land needs to be a de jure part of at least one of the titles in my realm. So I'm going to have to do this the hard way. The guy in that screenshot wouldn't agree unless I was both German and in control of the title that Brunswick is a de jure part of. When I try to offer vassalization, any dukes I could offer it to get so many penalties to their chance of agreeing that I might as well not bother в—Љ. Technically I could diplomatically vassalize the various dukes, since I do outrank them, but there's a bit of a problem with that. Now, time to deal with the issue of gaining control of the de jure HRE. You can see that in addition to the historical Roman Empires we've got Britannia, Francia, Hispania, Scandanavia, Russia, and Persia (the greenish-blue one in the south is Arabia, and it probably won't be formed anytime soon).

You see, for people to recognize me as Holy Roman Emperor, I'll need to control quite a bit of the territory that is commonly recognized as being part of the de jure Holy Roman Empire.ДЇor the record, here's a map of the de jure empires в—Љ. While that is indeed a fine goal to work toward, it'll be a while before I can pull it off в—Љ. So, last time I talked about possibly trying to reform the Holy Roman Empire.

#Crusader kings 2 holy roman empire update

I suppose I should offer some explanations of the game for those who haven't played it, so this update will contain plenty of that.