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[Urist McScoopbeard]

Alas, no SoI, but that may have just persuaded me to get it.

[majikero]

Wahaha, my dynasty consist of the King of Aragon, King of Scotland and Emperor of the Byzantine Empire. My main kingdom is Abyssinia.

Now I'm trying to get the future son of the Byzantine Emperor to be my heir.

Edit: Ok, here is my plan, the current Byzantine succession law is eldest son inherits. First, have child born, then kill the Empress. Child becomes Emperor/Empress. Kill child. Father(my heir) becomes Emperor.

Will this work?

[Mini]

Why would you not just leave the child alive, if the father is your heir? Did you do a matrilineal marriage?

[majikero]

The father is a genius so I want him to be the leader. The first born is also a genius so no need then.

[Dragor23]

You don't even know how easy this gets. I'm holding back.

[majikero]

What did you start as?

[Dragor23]

Adrianopolis.

[majikero]

So how did you get the seat of the Emperor of Man Rome?

[Dragor23]

Well, it was easy. I just made a faction for ursurping the throne, got some valuable members, which fueled the manpower and declared war against my liege, the byzantine basileus 

I was basileus then, organized a bit around (giving the duchies mainly to my sons and so on) and started to get the patriarchs of the pentarchy. I got lucky there ,since the Ftimids got a succession crisis, which gave me a good chance to conquer both Alexandria and Jerusalem. Then, I conquered rome... And that was it. I mended the schism, every gone batshit in the catholic holds, which gave me to oppurnity to sack south italy, as well some of the north. Croatia was still catholic, so I had easy holy wars against them, which led to usurping and giving the despot title to my uncle.  I conquered north italy (and saw that the HRE became a fuckfest between Lollards, Catholics and Orthodoxian) and founded the roman empire... And then I casually just got half of germany, enough duchy titles to vote myself to emperor of the holy roman empire. Which I then destroyed. France was easy after that, as well England.

[guale]

Are there any ways to encourage the Pope to dislike someone? I'm trying to find a way to invade England right now but I can't find any strong claims to marry into and trying to request an invasion has three +'s in my favor but 3 -'s in addition to the two from base reluctance.

[Catastrophic lolcats]

Not from what I can tell sadly. Way back there was a bug where you could send your Court Chaplain to research culture tech on any province and he would get the event turning an occupant into a heretic, sometimes this would fire on kings. That's been fixed now however.

The best method is waiting for a bad heir and offing the king so the sinful heir takes the throne. You could also support a revolt against the king if the leader of the revolt has lower Papal opinion and then back-stab him with an invasion. This gives you the added advantage of a much weakened country to invade.
I think certain traits like Crusader and True Christian Knight will give you more sway over the Papacy outside of the relationship bonus. Not sure about that so don't quote me on it.

The next DLC really should focus on the Catholic church. Should have really been made before that silly Orthodox one. Right now we have no meaningful interaction with the Holy See, there's no cardinals and any heathen or heretic can take Rome without effort or back-lash from the West.
Playing the HRE without any form of the tension that existed between the Emperor and Pope is heresy in my (non-holy) book.

[majikero]

I haven't even become the Byzantine Emperor yet and it already feels overpowered. When he answers my call-to-arms, it's a guaranteed victory.

Gonna have to restart my Abyssinia campaign.

[Mono124]

So I picked this back up, cause of the patches and stuff, and I've hit a snag. Started off like I normally do as Earl of Dublin, made Ireland, took over Wales and England, took a few of Scotland's counties and made Britannia, then took over Scotland. I then took over a few counties in Brittany and took over a Dutchy over in North Africa. This is where the problem comes in. I've been fairly easily juggling around how much my vassals like me, and keeping them under powered, but my Emperor decided right after I bribed ALL my vassals into loving me (50+ opinion for like 70 vassals... it cost me about 2k gold) and left my treasury floating at around 200 gold, he was going to die at the age of 27 leaving me with a 0 year old heir. All my vassals hated me, and started up factions, I barely kept them from attacking me, and I had to transfer some of my vassal titles (transfer titles... or lose half the empire. I chose the titles). He died at age 13 before he could take over (shame, cause his stats were nice) and left his 2 year old brother in charge. Same issue, everyone hated me even more though, and it seemed a faction for independence was imminently going to spring any minute. Then he died at age 5. Now my new ruler is his sister, who is 16, and everyone hates her. I KNOW that if I can somehow manage to get through this, I can beef up my son to have claims on France, Denmark, and Leon (who de jure owns all 3 of the Spanish kingdoms now) through getting husbands with those claims, getting a son, giving the husband a useless title and killing him, rinse and repeat. The issue I have is actually GETTING THROUGH this. It seems anything I do is going to cause a good 1/4 of my empire to break away, and chances are the other parts will fracture as well for other issues. Help?

[Catastrophic lolcats]

Make Arch-Prince Bishops. They almost never revolt, won't try to claim the throne, almost never plot and they'll always vote for your candidate in a Feudal Elective. With a couple virtues you'll be near always maxed at 100 relations with them.

Making your realm out of Prince Bishops will make your empire stupidly stable.

[Chattox]

How can I make it so that, after inviting someone to my court, pressing their claim to a title and gaining them that title, they stay my vassal? They always seem to go independent.