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[lastverb]

Women can only be spy-master, and only if they're your wife. That's always the case, no change of laws.

That's most hated thing about ck for me. I mod it out every patch (remember to change events as well as jobs or you will get council member that cant do any action).

[EuchreJack]

Women can only be spy-master, and only if they're your wife. That's always the case, no change of laws.

That's most hated thing about ck for me. I mod it out every patch (remember to change events as well as jobs or you will get council member that cant do any action).

Mothers of dynasty (mother of liege or mother of siblings of liege) can also be spymasters.  Yeah, I'm highly critical of Paradox for restricting women leaders as opposed to the original Crusader Kings, where women simply couldn't be marshal.

[majikero]

Wahaha, I'm now the King of Ireland, Scotland and Wales. England is currently undergoing a war for the King.

What to do? Dismantle the power base of my Scottish Dukes or take England? What do I need to form the Empire of Britannia?

[Catastrophic lolcats]

Wahaha, I'm now the King of Ireland, Scotland and Wales. England is currently undergoing a war for the King.

What to do? Dismantle the power base of my Scottish Dukes or take England? What do I need to form the Empire of Britannia?

You need 80% of the de-jure land of Brtannia and three kingdoms I believe. I would personally try to take or marry into England. It's superior than Scotland in every way and you gain more land. Once you've united the isles you might want to consider putting your capital in England.
Since you have the kingdom of Scotland you can just de-jure war the dukes whenever you want. There's no rush. There will almost always be the unavoidable war with the king of Norway but if you haven't already fought him you should be fine.

Expansion after uniting the Isles is fairly limited. Before Sword of Islam I would go and take the Holy Lands but ever since Jihads ... good luck with that. It's possible but just annoying.
You could try a British Isles and France unification at the very least make sure you incorporate Brittany into your Celtic empire. 

[majikero]

I can't marry into England because it's going through a succession crisis after breaking off from Norway. I got Scotland and Wales because I had a weak claim on the Scottish throne from my previous queen. I manage to push my weak claim during the succession crisis. I still need to cut down the previous King though. He still has 2 duke titles and 5 counties and a few vassals.

[Catastrophic lolcats]

Well don't be too upset if you can't get anything out of England's current succession crisis. They have them every 20 years or so. England almost always suffers from different cultures, mega dukes and low crown authority which completely fragments and factionises the country.
I once saw an almost united England/Scotland get completely crippled by heresy once, the English protestant civil war was less bloody.

Offing the Scottish king and taking some counties might be worth it if you think you can't match the English army. You can also just save up for a bunch of mercs since you can manage spending better than the AI.

[Rilder]

I just came across the most amazing event chain I've ever seen in CK2.

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What next, my Mansa will join up in a random peasant's DnD game and get his Roleplay on?

[Leatra]

YOUR KING IS THE COOLEST KING EVER.

[warhammer651]

I just came across the most amazing event chain I've ever seen in CK2.

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What next, my Mansa will join up in a random peasant's DnD game and get his Roleplay on?

10/10 king, would swear fealty to.

Coming back after a long hiatus, what's an interesting character to play? I'm no fan of ireland, as I found it rather boring once I managed to unite it, and I always get my ass kicked in iberia

[Leatra]

I found playing as the Sultanate of Rum interesting. If you got sick of playing as the Ireland, it's a good challenge to fight against Byzantine Empire. I don't remember what age do they pop out in the Anatolia though. Probably around a hundred years after the earliest year in the game.

[Descan]

That independant Serbian duke is also pretty cool to play. :3

[Johnfalcon99977]

YOUR KING IS THE COOLEST KING EVER.

[Pnx]

I've played a little as a count, now duke in southern Greece who's angling for the throne.

I ran into an event when I was trying to improve my diplomacy where an opportunity to make peace between two warring peasant families it led to the most epic failure of diplomacy when I chose the "reason with them" speech, that led to me going, "It's senseless for different families to fight like this, I mean, you don't see the noble houses fighting with each other like this, follow their example an-" fortunately I dodged the resulting chickens.

[majikero]

Gonna try to play the Islam Count of Malta and see where that goes. Any idea how to expand/survive?

Also, I'm sad you cant play pagans. I wanted to spread the Norse religion.

[EuchreJack]

Also, I'm sad you cant play pagans. I wanted to spread the Norse religion.

Try out one of many mods that allow you play as pagans.