How do you conquer empires in CK3?

[From Ghandi with Love]

I hab tryedon this now several times. Get a dude, declare war on an empire title with his claims, winwar andwatch him be independant.....
How doi make himmy vassal?
Id even tryed to give him titels before.
is emperor title the strongest? so he get independant cause were even in "power" ?

is there a way? or must i take kingdom after kingdom?

[♠.brT]

Yeah Emperor is the highest title, and you can't have emperors as vassals, so if you pressed a claim on an empire on behalf of someone, they will not be your vassals because you can't have emperor vassals.

[DoomMaster18895]

Gotta breed those claims in the line. Adds a bit of drama "Yes honey I only married you because our son and or daughter will have claims on your fathers empire so they can go to war to take it after he and I are dead. But that doesn't mean I don't love you."

[Vincent_Krys]

The quickest way to just become an emperor without going through the grueling process of conquering and waiting for truces to end is to be a steward and a vassal to an already emperor, then get the Meritocracy Perk and Claim the Empires throne, then you get a pressed claim on an empire title; note that it's pressed too, meaning you have 2 generations to build up to overthrow the current emperor.

[brownacs]

Originally posted by Vincent_Krys:

The quickest way to just become an emperor without going through the grueling process of conquering and waiting for truces to end is to be a steward and a vassal to an already emperor, then get the Meritocracy Perk and Claim the Empires throne, then you get a pressed claim on an empire title; note that it's pressed too, meaning you have 2 generations to build up to overthrow the current emperor.

Actually it's to click on an Emperor/Empress when choosing your character. And the quickest way to 'become' an Emperor is to click on an old Emperor's heir when choosing your character. That'll do it in zero-one generations. It'll also get you the count-emperor achievement very, very easily... or it used to.

[From Ghandi with Love]

Originally posted by DoomMaster18895:

Gotta breed those claims in the line. Adds a bit of drama "Yes honey I only married you because our son and or daughter will have claims on your fathers empire so they can go to war to take it after he and I are dead. But that doesn't mean I don't love you."

Yeah, that fixes it. Not as stressfull as to conquere each single kingdom with with kidnapped claims.
thx