For Crusader Kings III players, this is a guide oftips and tricks about how can you from a viking turn into an Emperor of France, let’s check it out.
The best place to get cheats, codes, cheat codes, walkthrough, guide, FAQ, unlockables, tricks, and secrets for Crusader Kings 2: Legacy Of Rome for PC. While playing press F12 on your keyboard 2. Open person profile view 3. In console window write cheat code: CHAREVENT 1085 4. Press enter and see how they accepting to change. I know the console code to do this, but what are the 'Code' names to change the religion via the console? If I wanted to change to R'hllor, what would I put into the console? 'R'hllor' wouldn't do anything. Is there a file in the mod files with these religion names? Crusader Kings 3 promises to start out beefier, with no unplayable factions and a map that covers the same area CK2 does now, but physically much larger, with locations that were previously hidden. The religion ID of the religion you wish to change the province's to, to put in the place of Religion ID. You can find this on our religion ID list. For an example, we'll use the religion ID for Catholicism, which is catholic and the province ID for Paris, which is 112.
Early Game
Start as Haesteinn of Haestening Dynasty. You will start with just one county, Montaigu, at Western France. But dont worry, it seems that Count Haesteinn brought 3000 of his viking followers with him and a large quantity of gold. You will also have alot of Prestige to begin with. So use these to your advantage.
Before unpausing, choose a Martial Lifestyle, focusing on Strategy. Also, you dont need to spend gold on Men-at-arms, because having 3000 soldiers early on, your forces is far superior than other counties except of course the king of france (so better stay away from him).
The First Invasion
At the start you are surrounded by several kingdoms including the Kingdom of Brittany and the Kingdom of France. If you make the mistake of attacking them, then you’ll die and end early.
Apparently, the King of France is an ally of the King of Brittany, so attacking either of them will bring forth the wrath of their ally and could wipe you out.
So instead of attacking these kingdoms, why not focus on the County of Leon at the Edge of Western France. The Baron here only have a couple of hundred troops which is far inferior than your viking horde. It should be a piece of cake.
Don’t think of a valid casus belli, since you are the viking invaders, basically you can invade every county in france.
Where to next?
So the next question is, since the Kingdom of France and Brittany will bring forth destruction to you, where will you invade next?
The answer is Ireland. Since Ireland is basically composed of several chiefdoms during these time, you wound expect big forces to counter you. Basically desmond and Thomond will go down without a fight. Connacht will also be easy to take (but i didn’t). Ormond and Ossory will be allied with the High Chiefdom of Meath so you can stay away from them.
The objective is to perform a blitz in these counties, with minimal losses. The problem I encountered after is that these are of different holding types. The solution is simple, I gave the titles to my son.
But if Ireland is to far, and you want to focus on france, you can skip these part.
Becoming a Vassal of France
The dilemma is should you stay as a viking horde or should you kiss the King of France and become his vassal. I chose the latter.
I chose the King of France as my DIRECT liege, instead of some duke of France. Why? because you will never become a duke if you are under someone else’s duchy. If you didn’t attack leon and Ireland early on, and chose to become a vassal of france immediately, you will be under the duke of Aquataine and become is baron. The trick for this not happening is to have other holdings and transferring your capital there for the awhile.
Having your capital transfered to leon or to desmond will mean that you will become a Direct Vassal of the King of France. In other words, he is your ONLY boss. Because the crown authority is low at that time, you can still attack other duchy, as long as you have a valid casus belli.
Also dont forget to change religion to Catholicism. This will allow you to invite Catholics to court (since you are in France and Catholicism is the main religion).
Invasion of the Kingdom of Brittany
This is the time to attack the Kingdom of Brittany.
Since you are a vassal of the Kingdom of France, then your liege wont object in attacking the Kingdom of Brittany, even if the latter is an ally of the former. Brittany won’t have much of a resistance. They would only have around 700-800 Levies at that time.
Congrats, now you will have the Duchy of Brittany and now you are a Duke.
Use your Family
The next step is not using your military prowess to take over france, rather, by carefully inserting your bloodlines into other houses.
The following tips and tricks are useful.
1. use your daughter to marry someone with claims, using matrilineal marriage. This means, all children will be under your house. Furthermore, the husband will relocate to your court, hence you can use his claim to expand.
2. Use you daughter or sister to marry the prince of France. Not necessarily the heir of the kingdom of France, but rather the other sons or grandson of the King of France. This will ensure that one of your nephew will have a claim on the throne. With a little luck and sway (scheme), their opinion of you may be high enough that you can use matrilineal marriage, and your nephew will be part of your dynasty.
3. Use your sons to marry the daughter of some nearby kings or duke, with a big army. Marrying off will automatically grant you an alliance (by blood), hence look for those kingdoms with an icon of “potential alliance” in the marriage window.
In my scenario, my sister Vigdis married Prince Carloman of West Francia. Because Prince Louis (the other Prince of France) is disfigured, he can’t marry and wound have children, hence Prince Carloman is the potential heir of France.
Use Schemes / Intrigue
This will take careful planning.
Since my sister, Vigdis, married Prince Carloman of France, using Martrilineal marriage (how i did this i have no idea. I may have had a hook or their opinion was high enough or he wasn’t the primary heir, so the king of france agreed to this). I waited for them to have a son. You can offer guardianship to him after if you want so that he will transfer to your court. Btw, your nephew will be under your dynasty. His name in my scenario was Angelbert Heistening.
So the Line of Succession for the Kingdom of France will be Prince Louis (Primary heir), then my nephew Angelbert (I dont know why Prince Carloman wasn’t the next in line).
This is the tricky party.
You want to to kill them all so your nephew will become the Heir of the Throne.
Luckily, for my part, Prince Louis died in a battle of Feb 881, he was 18.
Next, I planned the murder of the King Louis II of France. You need a very good spymaster to support this scheme. Furthermore, you need allies and good opinion from other vassals.
Finally after several months, King Louis II died under suspicious circumstance (by me of course!)
My nephew, Angelbert Heistening is the new King of France!!!
Take the Throne of France
Now, my nephew Angelbert is the new king.
Patience is the key to take over the throne. I waited for him to be engaged in several wars against neighboring kingdoms. Furthermore, by this time, I have allied with neighboring kingdoms. Remember, even if you are allied with several vassals, they wont help you with your fight against the throne hence find allies outside France.
When I saw 6000 troops from the Kingdom of France were engaged in a fight against other kingdoms, and somehow got depleted, I use the best casus belli to take over France.
I am the head of the Haestening Dynasty hence as the head I have claim to the throne. I acted fast, attack Paris head on, and captured several valuable family members including Prince Carloman of West Francia. I eventually won the battle.
I am now the King of West Francia.
Consolidate France
France was divided between the Kingdom of West Francia and the Kindome of Aquitane.
My nephew Angelbert become the King of Aquitane. You have 2 options, wait until the truce ends before taking over the Kingdom of Aquitane or break the truce and became a tyrrant.
I chose the latter. After 2 years of waiting for me to form allies and reinsforcement, I broke the truce and attack the Kingdom of Aquitane. My nephew lost and was killed of course, and I consolidated power in france.
I am now Finally the King of West Francia, Brittany and Aquitane.
Keep Vassals Happy
Since I became a tyrrant, my vassals’ opinion weren’t good. Here are a few tricks how i controlled them.
1. Sway (scheme) them to improve opinion.
2. Offer council positions (this improves alot)
3. Focus your chancellor to domestic affairs as this improves vassal opinion by +10
4. Switch lifestyle focus to stewardship and administrator. Get the branch with likable and positions of power.
5. Ask them to change religion to Catholicism. If they refuse, throw them in prison. They can’t revolt there.
6. Revoke titles (if they will allow you).
7. Invade / plot to kill them.
Create the Empire of Francia
Since you now hold 3 dejure Kingdoms (Brittany, Aquitane and West Francia), while King Lothaire III holds the Kingdom of Burgundy, you can create the Empire of West Francia.
What you need is 800 gold. Just wait, and don’t spend on unnecessary things.
Alas, you are now the Emperor of Francia.
Expand and Enjoy the Game
Xbox app for mac computer. Being the Emperor, there is nothing left to do but expand.
Luckily, one of my Vassals, Duke Karel III has claims on the Kingdom of Italy. With the use of 1500 prestige, I invaded the Kingdom of Italy. With the help of my allies from the Kingdom of Lothargia and Kingdom of Bavaria, I conqured Italy with ease.
Duke Karel III become the King of Italy, and still my vassal (Wow!!!).
I also created other titles like the Kingdom of Brittany. I gave the Kingdom of Aquitane to my heir and son, knowing that when I die, he will inherit the Empire and the Kingdom of West Francia. His brother will become the King of Brittany and his vassal.
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So what now? you can expand to the west and conquer the Infidels occupying Hispania. Or Expand north to the dejure kingdom of Britannia. Nothing is impossible for the Empire of France!
That’s all we are sharing today in Crusader Kings III How to Become an Emperor of France Guide, if there are anything you want to add please feel free to leave a comment below and we’ll see you soon.
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A big part of Europa Universalis IV is the religion game mechanic. There are over 50 religions in the game, thankfully there are many console commands that you can use to change and modify the religions of countries, states and provinces easily. This guide shows you how to:
- Add Authority (to patriachs)
This guide assumes you know how to open and use the console in EU4, if you need help opening or using the console, see this page. Here are some links to pages that might come in handy when reading this guide:
How to Change the Religion of a Province with Cheats
To change the religion of a province, you must use the change religion command. This command's syntax is as follows:
change_religion [Province ID] [Religion ID]
You'll need to replace [Province ID] with the ID of the province you wish to change the religion of. A province ID is simply a unique number that's assigned to each province in the game, Stockholm's is 1, Berlin's is 50, etc. To find out the ID of a particular province, search our province ID list.
The [Religion ID] field needs to be replaced with the ID of the religion you wish to change the province to. A religion ID is a short code that is unique to every religion, you can usually guess them - the Catholic religion's code is 'catholic', but some are impossible to guess, like the Slavic religion, which is 'slavic_pagan_reformed'. Guessable or not, you can find all religion codes on our religion code list.
Say you wanted to change the religion of London to Jewish. London has a province ID of '236', and Judaism has a religion code of 'jewish', the command would look like this:
change_religion 236 jewish
That's all there is to changing the religion of a province.
How to Change the Religion of States with Cheats
In Europa Universalis IV, there is no simple way to change the religion of a state. However, it is possible to do quickly with cheats by starting a religious rebellion.
To start a religious rebellion within a state, you will need to change the religion of 75% of the provinces within the state to your desired religion. You can do that with the change religion command, which is explained above (change province religion). Find the IDs of provinces on our province ID list.
After making sure that 75% of the provinces within the state are of the religion you wish to switch to, you will need to wait for a religious rebellion to start. You can speed up the time it takes for a religious rebellion to start by reducing autonomy within each of the provinces using the add/remove autonomy command.
How to Change a Nation's Religion with Cheats
Changing the religion of a country is easy with cheats. It's done using the same command as you would use to change a province's religion - the change_religion command. Here's the syntax:
change_religion [Country Tag] [Religion ID]
You'll need to replace [Country Tag] with the country tag of the country you wish to change the religion of. Usually they're quite straight-forward, for example, Germany's country tag is GER, France's country tag is FRA, etc. Although most country tags can be guessed, some aren't - Wales' is WLS and Jeruasalem's is KOJ. If you aren't sure what a country's country tag is - see our country tag list, which has a neat search feature.
The [Religion ID] field needs to be replaced with the ID of the religion you wish to change the province to. A religion ID is a short code that is unique to every religion, you can usually guess them - the Catholic religion's code is 'catholic', but some are impossible to guess, like the Slavic religion, which is 'slavic_pagan_reformed'. Guessable or not, you can find all religion codes on our religion code list.
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If you wanted to change the religion of Wales (country tag 'WLS') to Iconoclast (religion code 'iconoclast'), you'd use the following command:
change_religion WLS iconoclast
Adding Religious Authority
You can add patriach authority to your country with the add_pa command. This command adds 10% patriach authority to a country - you can't change the amount that is added unfortunately.
All you need to do is type 'add_pa' (without quotes) and the country tag of the country you wish to add religious authority to, separated by a space. The country tag of England is ENG. To add 10% patriach authority to England, you'd type:
add_pa ENG
See this page for a list of country tags.
That's all there is to this guide. You can find more commands on our console commands list.
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