What is "forced partition"

[Tendeza]

I have a hook on a vassal and would like to change the contract. I read the description of "forced partition" but dont get what it does. This is my first CK game and I got less than 20 hours. I need someone to explain in easy words what that will do and in what situation I should use it in

[GorishiDan]

it forces your vassal to use one of the multiple heir succession laws aka partition

but in my experience its not always reliable, ive done that in hopes of weakening a vassal on succession but they kept their house seniority (single heir succesion) even tho the contract is supposed to FORCE them out of it, sometimes they change it sometimes they dont, and i dont know why

but yea, partition means when ur vassal dies their titles will be divided amongst their kids, leaving them with less lands and subsequently less power, so a vassal that once was a threat to you, now they might not be as much

it is mostly useless if ur playing 867 start date as nearly all cultures wont have any innovation to allow anything other than confederate partition (save some historical rulers that start with primogeniture)

[Sid1701d]

though are just vassal that use a strict doctrine of no marriage to be apart of the church inner circle, like cathlic christian. The game will randomly replace your bishop if there is no other bishop to take the place of your bishop when he dies, to keep the Bishop tree going for a single faith bishop that can't marry, the simulate that by allowing the bishops to have bastard children that will enherit the throne when he dies. So you can take advantage of that and make lots of money off of hooks on the bishops because they have to have bastard children before they die. Same for head of faith. Edit: if you have a different faith than the vassel your need a high relationship to convert him.

[Half-lidded Bruiser]

I suspect it's bugged. Using that contract modification late enough for rulers to have access to primogeniture seems to do... nothing. Succession results in a single heir. It's possible I'm just a moron and don't understand what it's supposed to do.

[Average AMD neanderthal]

Originally posted by Half-lidded Bruiser:

I suspect it's bugged. Using that contract modification late enough for rulers to have access to primogeniture seems to do... nothing. Succession results in a single heir. It's possible I'm just a moron and don't understand what it's supposed to do.

i get the same feeling. on some it works, on some it doesn't. though doing this early seems to help alot. personally i think forced partition forces someone who isn't on primogeniture already to use partition laws. people who already have it, are merely forced to choose between partition based successions if they desire to change succession laws after contract changes.

don't forget though, the best partition law is high partition. where your main heir gets almost everything. so it still allows a duke to remain pretty powerful. this is why powerful dukes need to be kept happy, and why you might need to resort to 2-3 assassinations of direct heirs to split the titles up between multiple family members, and find any possible reason to revoke titles. so you can redistribute lands they took outside their little duchies or kingdoms.