Confederate Partition

[Andos]

What is the way the game/developers want us to approach Confederate Partition starting 867? I've seen alot on youtube etc but not sure if the usual discussed approaches are the way they want us to go about it.

[dwarfpcfan]

confederate partition is there to slow down early game expansion, it's an obstacle hard ingrained in the game more then anything.

What confederate partition really is about is forcing you to be utterly ruthless by either disinheriting and/or murdering possible heirs to avoid your realm being shattered to pieces by inheritance or keeping your realm small enough that there isn't two titles of your highest title (duchy, kingdom or empire) forcing you to take your time, build up your realm and tech up into higher inheritance innovations (partition then high partition then primogeniture)

This is especially obvious if you start as tribal government realm where their cheap conquest casus beli and their levies and men at arms being paid with prestige meaning you can raise gargantuan powerful armies to sweep across nearby lands like a tidal wave, taking multiple kingdom and duchy level titles. Then it gets all shattered to pieces into multiple independent realms even worse with no choice as to which titles go to which heir.

Then your heir has to reconquer all his father's conquest by warring with his brothers and sisters.

The only way to prevent this is to have only one heir by any means necessary until you reach high partition, or keep your realm small enough that it can only generate a single title of the highest you hold.

[Snakejuice]

The way I usually approach it is to build up my capital to the max, make sure I have decent retinue and money before I die. That makes reconquering your kingdom claims claims easy. Then when the truce is up you can just revoke your old counties if you want them back because you'll have claims on them too.

I used to rush to create an empire title to prevent the realm from splitting but then you don't get claims on the counties you lose so now I rather hold off on creating that empire title before I can get rid of confederate partition.

Another good thing with letting your realm split is that you get a good bonus to renown if you don't feel like taking back all the kingdoms right away.

[Kimlin]

All you need to do to deal with Confederate Partition is to give your non primary heirs enough titles that your primary heir will have a good domain and your realm won't split. It takes a little practice but become easy one you understand it.

[Germaine's Bra]

Originally posted by Sulph:

What is the way the game/developers want us to approach Confederate Partition starting 867? I've seen alot on youtube etc but not sure if the usual discussed approaches are the way they want us to go about it.

Be a Visigoth and switch to High Partition early. (in 867) It doesn't solve losing everything but it's much less of a problem.

[The Former]

Partition succession has the great benefit of giving you infusions of free troops (via alliances with brothers) and dynastic renown (via independent rulers of your dynasty). If you want to look at it from a gamer's point of view, you might consider it to be the "farming phase". In these stages, you gather up renown to unlock your early dynasty perks and you save on gold while it's sparse by getting your brothers to fight a lot of your wars.

[Dostav]

Almost every way to approach Confederate Partition is valid from devs point of view. If some way wasn't, then they could have make it impossible. You may murder, disinherit, reconquer, split for real, make bastards, send to take vows, embrace celibacy, not expand, rush a kingdom/empire title, send to a holy order, and so on. Though I despise such ways as sending sons as your knight to certain death in battle, or scheming murder against your own children, and some other ways.

[spasti696969]

Back in the dark ages they didn't fully realize or appreciate the fact then when you split a kingdom in half and give one half to each son it was almost inevitably going to cause problems. That was just the way things were done back then. The sons split the inheritance. You have to "research" the "technology" such as Heraldry or Divine Right which allowed them to move past such concepts.