How do you prevent vassal rebellion after your child heir take over

[adacome]

Right now I always save up money and hire mercs when a fight broke out, I want to try executing prisoner after succession method but my friend said its the peasants who will revolt instead.

[EA Latium]

An alliance with a strong Vassal could tilt the balance already, an external Alliance as a deterrent could be good too.

Normally I set the Wife on the Diplomacy assistance, Chanchellor to increase vassal's opinion, and try to Sway some of them (either who is closer to leave already or one of the strong ones). Your Spymaster looking for secrets may help too. Sometimes a Council position for a powerful vassal as well.

These are a generally some steps I follow, but your Focus may make quite the difference. Last but not least, if I have new land or got some "spare" vassals, I keep them for succession.

[Markus Reese]

Way I dealt with a violent revolution leader is I denounced and got got help a bit with spymaster assisting so I could try for a chance at arrest. Once arrested, I proceeded to move to dungeon and tortured where he died shortly ever and that dispanded faction for a good while.

[adacome]

Originally posted by EA Latium:

An alliance with a strong Vassal could tilt the balance already, an external Alliance as a deterrent could be good too.

Normally I set the Wife on the Diplomacy assistance, Chanchellor to increase vassal's opinion, and try to Sway some of them (either who is closer to leave already or one of the strong ones). Your Spymaster looking for secrets may help too. Sometimes a Council position for a powerful vassal as well.

These are a generally some steps I follow, but your Focus may make quite the difference. Last but not least, if I have new land or got some "spare" vassals, I keep them for succession.

Well, if an adult take over I could definitely do all that, I only have this problem when a kid takeover which has limited option.

[adacome]

Originally posted by twistedmelon:

Way I dealt with a violent revolution leader is I denounced and got got help a bit with spymaster assisting so I could try for a chance at arrest. Once arrested, I proceeded to move to dungeon and tortured where he died shortly ever and that dispanded faction for a good while.

After I successfully imprison the faction leader the rest will revolt immediately last time I tried.

[EA Latium]

Originally posted by adacome:

Well, if an adult take over I could definitely do all that, I only have this problem when a kid takeover which has limited option.

I didn't realise you meant "actual" child, sorry. In that case it's definitely more complicated, so far I had it happening once only in my campaign, I guess I was lucky as the Faction never grew too much, I can't remember if you can gift in that case but maybe spending money could be useful.

[Markus Reese]

Wierd. I only had revolt on failure.

Perhaps the arrest had side effect of getting the uprising to below the minimum threshold.

[ZAMBULA]

I send my vassal to a lost war and force him to fight..he gets killed then his heir in this case was a kid, i plot to kill, didnt go thru, he revolted, i won the fight, revoked his tittle and beheaded him..my dread went up, but opinion went down, i had my marchall set on control, after i while it went away and i kept all domains

[BoydofZINJ]

Befriend your vassals. Make sure most of your vassals are under a vassal and only have vassals that are directly to you within the council. This is hard, when they died - their heirs normally are terrible. You then revoke titles and hope they are okay with it. :)

[MinimalEffort]

Accumulate some heretic prisoners before your current ruler dies, and once he/she does and your child takes the throne, host a demonstration of how dangerous challenging a child of you dynasty can be by executing your non-faithful prisoners. That way, you gain dread without the Tyranny opinion modifier.

[Twelvefield]

Be as diplomatic as you can! Likely there will be factions building against you. You can bribe them to sue for time. Avoid war at all costs, it's too expensive. You have to turtle up and wait until you are an adult, then you get revenge.

It's a tough situation, and there's a good chance you may be deposed. If so, well, them's the breaks, but likely you will find allies to help you win back the land you lost when you become an adult.

[Commodus]

Guardianship over vassals children should could as hooks, that would solve the problem i think:)