Can’t declare holy wars on evil religions

[ian]

I can’t declare war on a hostile religion, is this a bug or something else ?

[snuggleform]

need more info, screenshot plz?

[Greg]

did you get the event that lets you declare them? an event should pop up at some point letting you know that you have the ability to do that. If it has and you still can't idk.

[Razorblade]

Is your liege of a different faith than you?

[ZenFlakes56]

I have homicidal tendencies

[ian]

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198062371306/screenshots/

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198062371306/screenshots/#scrollTop=100

[endymionologist]

What is your Religion? Is is a Pacifist one? Does is have some other feature that would bar you from declaring a Holy War?

[ian]

it's Christianity i started in Wessex and haven't changed religions

[snuggleform]

what's the current fervor of christianity

[_bbg_]

Do you share a border? They need to be right next to you for you to declare a holy war.

[Khan Boyzitbig of Mercia]

Originally posted by _bbg_:

Do you share a border? They need to be right next to you for you to declare a holy war.

Or share a sea zone or two, Cornwall can declare a holy war for Navarra despite being overseas.

[glythe]

Some religions can't declare holy wars.

Fervor could be too low - catholic priests do a lot of bad things.

Some branches of a religion have different modifiers; one will prevent holy wars.

[Gorgeous_Joe]

Originally posted by ian:

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198062371306/screenshots/

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198062371306/screenshots/#scrollTop=100

By the look of things you should indeed be able to declare war upon him. The only thing i can think of if its not a bug is if one of the wars he is already in is preventing you from declaring a holy war against him. Such as if the pope was already at war with him?

[bri]

Could be a number of things (at least in CK 2, haven't played enough CK 3 to know all of the changes). Without seeing your character and religion screens it's hard to say exactly what is blocking the CB...

[NewbieOne]

Usually you can't declare a war against someone you're already at war with.

Having a liege of a different religion, even having the Basileus, who is Orthodox, as your liege when you're Catholic (think Italy or someone like the Rallis-Raoul Normans or the Affranghi guy), you can't declare holy wars. You can also be prevented by 'liege laws', meaning crown authority levels when you don't have an individual exemption ('wars allowed' in your feudal contract — and I'm not sure if that lifts restrictions unrelated to crown authority too).

Sometimes you don't have enough piety or your devotion level isn't high enough, but in those cases the Declare War option is available, you just can't proceed with the declaration or are threatened with harsh penalties in case you do.

You may be prevented from declaring war if you're in debt (if this was carried over from CK2), and you will be prevented if you have armies raised (and it's not impossible to forget that you have a stack raised somewhere).

Then there's distance. You need to border them on land or be a max of two sea clusters away, which sometimes may be difficult to tell looking less than carefully on the map. I remember being surprised based on the map a couple of times when not looking very carefully.

I'm not sure, but perhaps the new thing in CK3, called Fervor, may have something to do with the ability to declare holy wars. And post-RC there might be a cultural tradition or two interfering with them.

[Gorgeous_Joe]

Am i the only one who bothered to look at this poor guys screen shots before posting a reply?