


And unyielding gives a whopping 80% defense stat increase to all battles inside your borders, meaning any prepared invasions or hosts or even external realms attacking you will be utterly shreded by your armies when fighting inside your lands, allowing for almost guaranteed david vs goliath war wins. Stability is a very good choice as you can spend 150 piety every 3 years to permanently boost a stat on your character (or heir) resulting in some prety god tier rulers, with the added bonus of no short reign penalty so as the name suggests very stable realms. Unyielding Nature + Stability is another very good combination. So if you like seeing dukes in the middle of other kingdoms take distant kingdoms and break out of their vassal king resulting in non stop dejure wars and infighting, then sure prepared invasions are for you (masochist).ĭogmatic Nature + Unrelenting Doctrine is a pretty powerful combination as it gives a flat 10% attack bonus to all units as well as makes your religion MA always high meaning easier polythesising, not to mention the removal of pagan attrition from your reformed religion, allowing you to continue ripping pagan lands to shreds without melting. I would suggest against prepared invasions/warmongering as it leads to rather unstable vassals, and generally does not benefit you personally as the leige as you will far exceed the maximum realm size requirement. rules? Might as well forgo one whole religious doctrine for the rest of the game and just go to imperial elective. What is the point of agnatic-cognatic meritocracy if you cant choose the girls to inherit but they can normally? Sorry quick, attractive, zealous, ambitious, born in the purple daughter, daddy may be the sacred Ashina temporal ruler of Rome but he cant pick you cause uhhh. Rather infuriating due to lack of communication. It explicitly says in the wiki, not the game itself, that even if you have ONLY girls you are not allowed to choose between them. If you're a Nomad (usually Tengri) then succession isn't as important because Nomad succession is already powerful.Īlso, check these out for hidden reformation combos: Īnother thing I realized too late was that meritocracy does NOT allow you to choice girls if you have agnatic-cognatic like previous versions. The open succession mode is one of the best succession types in my opinion. So you'll want to plan some kind of succession option, either by being Feudal before you reform or by picking Agnatic Clans or Enatic Clans for access to open succession. Something I found disappointing with meritocracy is that it doesn't override Gavelkind succession if you're still Tribal. Stuff that sounds good at first sometimes turns out to be not so great.

Originally posted by Squid:I'd suggest backing up a copy of your save game at the point where you can reform the religion and then trying a few combinations.
