Is there a good trick to getting "Dynasty of Many Crowns"?

[jpinard]

I thought I'd seen someone write they made a bunch of little kingdoms somehow to game the system to get this option, but I can't seem to find it anywhere. Any other ideas to making this work? I'm at just 2 of the 10 needed right now.

[Kimlin]

Marry your female relatives off to the grand children of kings who are directly in the line of succession and wait. You can also do the 2nd in line son and kill off the first heir.

Have a huge empire and create several kingdoms, give them to your family and grant them independence.

Those are my tips.

[snuggleform]

take the cultural tradition "by the sword" so you can launch kingdom level holy wars unlimited during one lifetime

Attach a bunch of kingdoms back to back, making sure to quell any religious uprisings. Make dynasty members your vassals of those territories. When you have 10 kingdoms (outside of your empire's dejure!) then grant those kingdoms independence.

That's probably the easiest way. You can still do it without by the sword but it might take 2-3 generations instead of just 1.

[shiggies713]

those are good tips. You can also marry your sons normally to daughters of kings and wait for a chance to press their kids claim, or even your own claim if you married your primary heir to one and then died a couple times.

Then once you have enough kingdoms under a big empire you could just hand out the titles/independence like mentioned above.

[jpinard]

Awesome. Thanks! Will be a lot more work than I thought.

[pi73r]

Crusades

[Jackochainsaw]

Form an empire, then when you get independence wars, you will lose some Kingdoms. Just make sure that those you grant Kingdoms to are family, and that they remain your house (so pick men where you can, even in an equal inheritance). I found this achievement easiest with the North Germanics (Vikings) but now you can hybridise, you can breed in a bit of viking into your culture with some cultural acceptance.

Another tip is to have a faith with a head of faith that goes for Great Holy Wars. Each time you win the Great Holy War, and put in the highest contribution, your appointee will gain the land (A Kingdom Title). Try and pick a man if you can, but pick a woman who has been married Matrilineal to retain your house, they'll form a cadet branch and you should be gold from there. Just come to their aid if they are getting beaten to death.

[blackhand_lost]

There are also small kingdoms like Venice and Sardinia and Corsica, you can just conquer them, easy +2

[Avataristche]

Step 1: secure your succession
Step 2: get 9 kingdoms you dont want, hold the titles yourself
Step 3: give them all out
If you make an effort to prepare those kingdoms (convert, build etc) you can secure a solid renown boost as well.

[KJ]

You must build a kingdom for them that is stable - the long game, if you cant do the "hold all titles and then give em away). You likely wont get 8 kings in one lifetime, so if they fall apart in one lifetime, it doesnt help you in getting the dynasty perk.

Crusades are a way, but they dont happen too frequently and
When you marry your son to a kings daughter, she will have a claim (unless its male only succession law). But you can only attack/press the claim if the current holder of the king title is another woman, or a child (if the succesion of the target kingdom is male preference).
Get the kings dauchter, then kill current holder until his child holds the throne and then press the claim to conquer the kingdom. This can be a bit unstable however, because new kingdoms can quickly fall apart.

Pick stable kingdoms. If the king only holds king title and one country - hard pass. The realm will rebel on succession right away most likely, since king is very weak economically and militarily. Only bother with kings that hold a lot of counties.
Once you get it you must pay close attention to the well being of your new king couple. Murder deceitfull vassals of them with high intrigue, and too powerfull vassals. The later by causing succession through murder (doesnt work well when they have primo/ultimogenitur already). Its a long process

When they get the kingdom, gift them money so they are not broke right away - this is critical. It also helps giving them a barony inside one of your counties to them before you conquer the kingdom, so that they can earn some money and experience.

Its a long process and you need quite a bit of money to pull it off. Once they are established, check on them once in a while how they are doing (in terms of heirs, money and power).

I was the king of germany (under an emperor) when i made my children kings of all the neighbouring countries through the above method + crusades. But i had alot of money and MAA because i held both mines (in thuringia and bohemia), with lots of well developed counties (very high steward from my ruler and his wife on the +steward duty).

[Brittanian]

I got the achievement just through regular gameplay. if you are going wide and having lots of kids, keep giving them the biggest landed titles you can (duchy as king, king as emperor) and you get there reasonably fast. Starting as norse county, I have my english throne, with family members on the east +west fraconian thrones, as well as Lotharinga, Frisia and Brittany (all independent) and I am only on the year 960, and I haven't even been trying for kings specifically just trying to farm dynasty renown. Once you have your solid economic base that can support a huge expensive military it becomes rather easy to roll up and take a kingdom piece by piece, if you play as norse at least (no warmonger penalty).