Crusader Kings 2 Vassalize Mercenaries
Apr 18, 2012 - Crusader Kings II Topics » War » Mercenaries. Which include a simple process for vassalizing them which will cut their fees dramatically. There are actually vassal limits? When did that happen? Now properly include special units when calculating mercenary costs. Fixed a serious bug. 'The New Crusader Kings II Thrust-Controller! Control the future of.
Vassalize Mercs Mod for Vanilla CK2 2.1.6 as well as AGOT, Diadochi Kings, Elder Kings, HIP, Sengoku, and Witcher Kings. Extract the desired dist.zip file to your mod directory to install. The current version of the generator script is included, but is for advanced users only. Note that you only need to enable the mini mod pertinent to the mod you are running (e.g. Vanilla or elder kings, etc) not both.Vassalize Mercs Mod for Vanilla CK2 2.1.6 as well as AGOT, Diadochi Kings, Elder Kings, HIP, Sengoku, and Witcher Kings. Extract the desired dist.zip file to your mod directory to install.
The current version of the generator script is included, but is for advanced users only. Note that you only need to enable the mini mod pertinent to the mod you are running (e.g. Vanilla or elder kings, etc) not both.
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Experimental version for After the End 0.4; Seemed to work fine in my limited testing, though mercenary coverage itself is kind of spotty within the mod, so not sure how useful it will be in practice depending on what religion/culture you are part of.Experimental version for After the End 0.4; Seemed to work fine in my limited testing, though mercenary coverage itself is kind of spotty within the mod, so not sure how useful it will be in practice depending on what religion/culture you are part of.
Vassalized mercenaries are an underutilized type of army, because they are hard to get and require a gamey approach. However, they are one of the most useful troops, for a number of reasons:. They are cheap. If you directly own the title, they even come for free. They are convenient.
A retinue sits in the middle of your kingdom, annoying you, with no easy way to tell it from some stray levies, and you can accidentally disband it. Vassal Mercs sit in your pocket, not showing on map until they are needed. They do the blitzkrieg. They can be raised before a war declaration and storm your enemy before your levies arrive.
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They fight everyone, unlike those pesky holy orders. They are always available. No one can raise vassal mercs but you. They are with you forever, unlike those pesky holy orders that eventually decide to leave.Who can be vassalized (works in 3.0 / Holy Fury)First, let's recount which mercs can be vassalized. Definitely not user-created mercs.
Even when user-created mercs go independent, they do not become standard mercs, and display weird behaviour when you try to vassalize them. Only premade mercenaries work.Also, the mercs should share your culture and religion. This limits the culture/religion combos you can play with and get them; for example, there are no premade Ilmenian Slavic mercs, so no luck for you if you are a Perunist from Novgorod. You can try to adopt a different culture/religion for the sole purpose of vassalizing mercs.If you are an emperor, you can vassalize mercs that share your religion but not culture. This is not guaranteed to work.If you are a duke or lower, you cannot vassalize mercs, because the mercs themselves are a duke level title.
Even if you are a king, you need to be a super king or at least own a province from another kingdom.How to do itThe process of vassalizing mercs relies on one simple mechanic: mercs that are not paid can rebel and seize lands. Once they are landed, they become a holy order like entity that can be vassalized. You can't give lands to mercs directly, and you can't invite and land the captain's successor, this will generate a different successor. Getting them to rebel is the only way.Hire the mercs and move them to a province that belongs to a de jure kingdom other than your main one.
It is best if you are a super king or emperor, so you have a kingdom you can afford to lose temporarily and conquer back easily. Move them to that kingdom and wait for your money to run dry.
When it does, pray to the RNJesus.If your prayers are answered, the mercs rebel instead of just disbanding (note that you have to do it in peacetime; in wartime they flip sides instead). They get a CB to conquer the kingdom they are in (or, more precisely, your lands belonging to that kingdom).
You need to lose this war. You can't surrender right away, so you need to nearly beat them before you get the surrender option.OK, so they have a kingdom.
Now they are as good as yours. If the kingdom title belonged to you before, you have a claim.
A lot of claims, actually. But you do not need to push them all at once: you need to leave the mercs with a small landed title such as barony or county, and this one title has to be located on your de jure territory. Chip at them title by title, or press many claims at once, just make sure that you do not de-land them completely.Once the mercs are left with one tiny title on your de jure territory, they are ready to become yours. Give gifts to the captain, sway him. If you made a -100 enemy of the captain, assassinate and sway the next captain. Once the captain likes you, is of your religion and/or culture and is landed on your de jure lands, he will answer yes to vassalization.Yay! You vassalized those mercs!P.S.
Keep your pet merc captain happy and well fed. He is a vassal and is capable of everything vassals do, such as rebelling for gavelkind and shit. If you keep him happy, however, you will be able to raise the mercs pre-emptively and thwart budding rebellions: normally mercs do not count as military power of the liege, but they do when they are raised. They get a CB to conquer the kingdom they are in (or, more precisely, your lands belonging to that kingdom).
You need to lose this war. You can't surrender right away, so you need to nearly beat them before you get the surrender option.Let me explain in case someone is confused and is wondering why you would need to beat someone first before you can surrender to them. Since the CB is an invasion, a victory doesn't just usurp the de jure titles of the targeted kingdom but also all occupied counties & holdings, including those in other de jure kingdoms.So when the war first breaks out and nothing is occupied, the attacker is eager to get their hands on as much as possible and will not accept a surrender which would only turn over the de jure titles. Once they feel they have no hope of winning they will gladly take it though.