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Originally Posted by Raptor1
Didn't you have any slightly less incompetent second-born that could be arranged to take the throne instead of the useless first-born?
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I noticed it too late. The current king is the first grand son of the previous king: the previous king's heir was actually not that bad at all, and I was hoping he would inherit, but then I guess one of my bananas found back home when he passed away at the age of 34.
Once I realized that I was going to lose my kingdom to an imbecile (literally), I tried assassinating him multiple times, but it didn't succeed and eventually I ran out of money too. I also tried seeing if there was any loophole I could use to put him in prison and execute him, but no. I even tried giving him a bishopric, but it didn't succeed either, because I had already made him a duke in Ireland for early prestige gain. Then the already old king passed away, and ding, all hail King David II "The Moronic".
In retrospect I should have just imprisoned and executed him and take the tyranny penalty, because the old king was going to die soon anyway. It's still manageable. He isn't going to expand the kingdom a lot, because all the time is spent watching the vassals, but on the other hand he has forced me to pay extra attention to the stability of the realm. I don't think I have ever, either in CK 1 or 2, switched vassals so often and spent so much time in finding the most compliant sycophants to be my dukes. Once his hopefully more competent son inherits (yes, the imbecile at least managed to get laid), the stable kingdom creates opportunities for some crusading or otherwise productive stuff.
Disclaimer: "That's the plan!"
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Originally Posted by Crécy
Classic CK: just when you have finally accomplished everything you dreamed of, all goes wrong.
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Aye, I'd say it's one of the funniest things in this game, the positive frustration. "Why doesn't anything ever go as I wanted" is actually a good thing for once.