Regent screwed my ironman game, any suggestions?

[Starcetereus]

So I managed to form the brittanian empire as jorvik, then did a great holy war for west francia. I easily won and took all of west francia. The problem is that the day after I signed the peace deal, my ruler became incapable for some reason, and now my regent wont give away any of the land in west francia, thus putting me way, way over my demesne limit, making all my vasals stuck at -100. Now they are all forming dangerous factions, the largest being independence at ~400% my army strength. Does anyone know how to make your regent approve granting landed titles? My regent is kind, so he's not completely opposed to giving away land (Kind: +, Base: --).

[Racketeer]

Send him a gift, give him an honorary title. This will increase opinion considerably and he will start listening to you. If you are lucky

Also, try giving land to different courtiers. His personal opinion of them matters as well

[Nehebsis]

This is why you should always designate regent. I have had the less trouble with my wife/mother as regent.

[Racketeer]

Originally posted by Falk0:

This is why you should always designate regent. I have had the less trouble with my wife/mother as regent.

I have once designated my wife a regent. Years passed and I've changed my wol to seduction, became an incestious adulterer, hedonist and had a pretty bad reputation overall. Then my king was nearly killed in a battle and became incapable. What a good time his wife had with giving out all of his money, reducing crown laws to non-existent and finally killing him. Guess she did not like the fact that out of a dozen kids my king had only 2 were from her

Give regencies to only those you trust ;)

[Starcetereus]

My regent has a +100 opinion of me

[Racketeer]

Then you are in trouble. Try sending your spymaster to discourage most powerful vassals from this independence faction. Also make sure that your spymaster hates you and cancel auto-plot ending. This will likely result in him killing you.

[Starcetereus]

My regent is my spymaster lol

[Starcetereus]

I guess I could try getting a new one that hates me, but I think ill have to fight factions before I get killed

[Racketeer]

Sadly you cannot remove your regent from the council or his position yourself. You can only hope for the best man :) like if some court intrigue disposes of him or that vassals will not revolt until your character dies

[John Hadley]

If your vassals already hate you I would try making all the people in your court hate you too by imprisoning random people from my court (not vassals that own land), if you still have that power. You are sure to get assassinated fast if the people inside and outside your court and your vassals all hate you. Whether it will be fast enough to to stop an independence revolt remains to be seen. That depends on how many troops you have vs how many troops they and their allies have.

[Hekatonkheires]

Any idea what causes your regent to be replaced? A couple of times I've had a popup that's something like "Due to reasons beyond your understanding, x is no longer your regent".

[Racketeer]

Originally posted by Hekatonkheires:

Any idea what causes your regent to be replaced? A couple of times I've had a popup that's something like "Due to reasons beyond your understanding, x is no longer your regent".

I think it is random, as I've seen courtiers without intrigue take over ambitious and intrigue regents. Seems like there is no other explanation. And the few times when I was a vassal and was a regent nobody replaced me, so I guess that's all random.