#CRUSADER KINGS 2 FABRICATE CLAIM HOW TO#

A weak claim is the game’s way of representing that you have some legitimacy in claiming the title, but not over a strong ruler who already has it. Weak Claims: Weak claims are a special form of claim that you can’t always use. Intelligent marriage is something I’ll be covering in another guide, but marrying for claims is one of the most important aspects to look out for in a spouse. But, it will help you to secure claims further down the line, and with intelligent marriages you can end up with a lot of potential claims somewhere down the road, so that you’ll have plenty of options. This isn’t a great way to grow right now most of the time, so don’t use it for your short term goals. If her child is your heir, you’ll eventually have that claim for yourself. Their daughter will gain a claim on that land when her parent dies, then her children will gain claims when she dies.

So, if you want a claim on someone’s land, then marrying their daughter is a good way to get it. The important thing here, is that these claims can also be passed on to the children of the character who has them. Those in the line of succession will gain strong claims, and everyone else will gain “weak claims”. When a ruler dies, they pass claims onto their children, no matter what their succession law actually is, as well as passing claims onto the second and third in line of succession. Inheriting claims means playing the long game, but when you have 400-700 years of game play, it’s just a drop in the ocean. However, if you can get your hands on a duchy, it is often the most convenient way to increase your realm size, and each duchy will have its own de jure claims for you to press. So, in order to get access to this CB, you need to already have enough land to create a duchy, making it not so great for expanding as it is for consolidating power. To create a duchy title, you need to hold more than 50% of the counties that are part of that duchy (or otherwise generate and press a claim on the duchy title itself). To generate a de jure claim you need to be a duke, which means creating a duchy title. You can only declare for one at a time, which makes it somewhat slow, but is a great way for dukes to consolidate their rule. This grants you the special “de jure claims” Casus Belli, which allows you to declare war to take a single county belonging to a duchy under your rule. When you are the holder or liege of a ducal title, you can ‘legally’ expect to be ruler of all of its constituent counties as well. This system governs multiple different mechanics, but the most important for this guide is the de jure claims. Every province belongs, de jure, to a duchy, every duchy to a kingdom and every kingdom to an empire. De Jure Claimsĭe jure is Latin for “from law”, and is Crusader Kings’ way of dividing the map into various duchies, kingdoms and empires. If you can afford to wait for multiple claims to generate, this is a great way of expanding quickly as a small count or duke. Even better, as long as you start the war with this specific CB, any claims you fabricate during the war will be added to the victory condition of “all claims”. If you have multiple claims on a target, you earn the new CB “Press All Claims” which, if you are successful, will give you all of your claims on the target, rather than just one county. Press All Claims: Another strength of fabricated claims is the ability to press multiple of them in one war. It’s often worth using your Chancellor for this, but not as your exclusive method of expansion. The chances of success are based on your Chancellor’s diplomacy stat, and with a high enough stat he can even create a claim on a whole duchy if the target holds one.Īlthough this is powerful when it works, the low chance of success and the fact that it’s entirely up to chance makes this a very unreliable method of expanding. Simply tell your Chancellor to sit in a neighbouring province and he’ll have a percentage chance over time to generate you a claim.

#CRUSADER KINGS 2 FABRICATE CLAIM HOW TO#

In my original guide, How to Get Married and Go to War I briefly touched on the ability to fabricate claims on your neighbours. Understanding the theory and practice behind earning a CB will ensure that you never have to be at peace for long. What I’m going to be focusing on instead is how you actually go about earning these CBs.

If that’s the information you’re looking for, take a look at the Casus Belli section of the CK2 Wiki. Far too many for me to go through them and explain what they all do. Although it might not seem like it when you start as a Catholic ruler, there are a lot of Casus Bellis (CBs) in Crusader Kings 2.

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