– Don’t create additional duchies or kingdoms. While they give a temporary prestige bonus and casus bellis for quicker expansion, in the long run they cause more instability within your kingdom, as vassals will attempt to acquire these titles via rebellion or some other means.
How do you make a duchy title in ck3?
To create a duchy, kingdom, or empire:
- You must control 51% of the title’s de jure counties (for duchies or kingdoms) or 80% (for empires)
- If a vassal, you cannot create a title higher than or equal to your liege’s.
How many kingdom titles can you hold ck3?
Too Many Held Duchies: If a character is a King or Emperor, they can hold a maximum of 2 Duchy titles without penalties.
What happens when you create a duchy?
Allows your vassals to expand on their own (i.e. if your duke owns 2 of 3 counties in a duchy, you can press the claim on your own, or you can let him do it himself. Dukes are more likely to make improvements on their own (since they gain more money), so less micromanagement.
How do you transfer titles in ck3?
if you want to transfer a duchy under a king vassal, give the duchy to yourself, then grant it to the king, switch to playing the king (console command), grant the duchy to the previous title holder and switch back to your character. Voila, duchy transfered, no opinion hit.
What happens if I destroy a title ck3?
If you are under gavelkind system and hold (for example) 2 king titles, if you destroy one your kingdom will remain united upon death and transfer to your heir. If you do not destroy one, your kingdom will be split in half and one kingdom will go to the younger son.
What happens to a duchy when a king dies?
If you are a king when you die then your heir gets the kingdom and your sons will get the lower titles like duchy and county assuming you only have one kingdom. Succession law will impact this, but this is the norm until you get the later succession laws.
What should I do if I give out Kingdom titles?
Opinions differ on this but for kingdom titles, if you’re an emperor, the most common answer is to try to not give them out at all. Kings make terrible vassals. Either hold on to kingdoms or destroy the titles. Whenever giving out titles to dynasty members, try to find landless individuals that already have male children.
What happens if you destroy two King titles?
If you are under gavelkind system and hold (for example) 2 king titles, if you destroy one your kingdom will remain united upon death and transfer to your heir. If you do not destroy one, your kingdom will be split in half and one kingdom will go to the younger son.
What’s the benefit of destroying a Kingdom title?
If I take those last holdings, I assume his kingdom will be destroyed. Will that still give a opinion penalty for “not being de jure liege” or something? The -50 for destroying a kingdom title only lasts for 10 years for the de jure vassals of the destroyed title (or until death of the vassal or liege).
