Crusader Kings II players unite!

[FC Groningen]

I personally prefer not to land them. Just too often they end up killing/maiming themselves in battle, picking up bad traits and I want to educate their children as well.

About crown authority, I actually see little reason to have anything higher than low crown authority. It keeps the vassals happy and a few of them growing too strong shouldn't matter as you can conquer faster than them.

I dunno wouldn't Viceroy titles work pretty well, and you need Absolute or High Authority for those, Byz seems to be able to do it from off the bat though (but that could be the mod I was using). Good thing with the Viceroy stuff is the titles (Duke or King) come back to you when the title holder dies so you can hand them back out again.

I know it works, but I prefer not to use them. Just because of the sheer work load it gives to keep granting out the same titles again and again. Efficiency wise, you're correct, but if you do keep conquering enough, none of your vassals will be powerful enough anyway to form factions against you, unless you end up being hated across the realm or have some really bad luck with succession.

 

[Shinkicker444]

I know it works, but I prefer not to use them. Just because of the sheer work load it gives to keep granting out the same titles again and again. Efficiency wise, you're correct, but if you do keep conquering enough, none of your vassals will be powerful enough anyway to form factions against you, unless you end up being hated across the realm or have some really bad luck with succession.

I guess you just end up with an assload of Dukes then? I hate the vassal cap so much.

 

[FC Groningen]

No, I just end up with kings. With no crown authority, you'll see them wage war on each other soon enough and sometimes, a rogue vassal goes independent or a kingdom gets absorbed into another one, but by then it hardly matters. As long as they're all happy with me, I don't care what they do to each other.

 

[FC Groningen]

Anyone up perhaps for a multiplayer game? I think it's best to be from Europe as I am as well.