changing the primary heir without the highest crown authority

[zoleeeee28]

Hi

My primary heir is lame, and my second born son has way better stats. What are my options to get rid of my first born son? I am a Duke in the Holy roman empire.

Thanks in advance

[AC Denton]

1. Make him disappear permanently.
2. Assign him to lead a small army doomed to fail and send him off to die in battle or get captured & executed.
3. Disinherit him, this costs renown and I think some prestige
4. Click on your primary title and establish a new law; this will cost a lot of prestige but will let vassals vote on who will inherit the title, then you can enforce votes etc. Of course this is expensive and risky, as someone else entirely could get the title if you can't secure the vote.

[Bordric]

Yeah I would say use disinherit but the legit hit is ridiculous.

[armyissue69]

1st - Its a game and those "people" / NPC's dont have feelings ... only you do.
2nd - I just got done putting my primary heir (who didn't want to become a monk, despite have all super awesome monky traits) in front of my levies (making sure him as a knight was in the unit AND leading the unit. Then sending him in with my elite unit behind him just enough to arrive in time. Needless to say, after 3 battles, he perished.
3rd - Dungeon, but this is risky as some kids just inherently live long in a dungeon. Add some torture for flavor?
4th and probably the easiest, just murder the guy.

This list could probably go on quite a ways, but I think these 4 are tops.

[zoleeeee28]

I have appointed him as a commander of a small army (57 levies lol), then shipped to the middle east, and attacked a way bigger army, the outcome: he is the only survivor and he teleported back to my main holding right away after the battle was over, he is not even wounded.
What did i do wrong? How is it possible?

[armyissue69]

Originally posted by zoleeeee28:

I have appointed him as a commander of a small army (57 levies lol), then shipped to the middle east, and attacked a way bigger army, the outcome: he is the only survivor and he teleported back to my main holding right away after the battle was over, he is not even wounded.
What did i do wrong? How is it possible?

Lol. Take this as a sign from your in-game religions god that... HE IS THE CHOSEN ONE

[CreutzFeldJak0b]

iam doing a game right now where i started as a mongol and had very similiar problems.
i solved it when i hybridized my culture with han culture and got Eunichs.
basically you just cut off as many balls as you need until you son of choice becomes your heir.
according to wiki you need either a Communal, Ceremonious or Spiritual ethos if you want to reform your culture with court eunichs.

i havnt tried this yet but maybe you can also put him into an army and then park him in some epidemic center?`

[zoleeeee28]

Originally posted by armyissue69:

Originally posted by zoleeeee28:

I have appointed him as a commander of a small army (57 levies lol), then shipped to the middle east, and attacked a way bigger army, the outcome: he is the only survivor and he teleported back to my main holding right away after the battle was over, he is not even wounded.
What did i do wrong? How is it possible?

Lol. Take this as a sign from your in-game religions god that... HE IS THE CHOSEN ONE

LOL

actually second time he finally died, and what happened?
My 2 years old third son become my heir, instead of my 19 years old second born wtf..
What to do now?

[Bordric]

Originally posted by zoleeeee28:

Originally posted by armyissue69:

Lol. Take this as a sign from your in-game religions god that... HE IS THE CHOSEN ONE

LOL

actually second time he finally died, and what happened?
My 2 years old third son become my heir, instead of my 19 years old second born wtf..
What to do now?

Educate the 2 year old the best you can.

[Hydra_360ci]

Just know if he has kids... his kids are next in line to get stuff, not the brother.
(so you'll have to murder the kids, too)

[armyissue69]

Originally posted by zoleeeee28:

Originally posted by armyissue69:

Lol. Take this as a sign from your in-game religions god that... HE IS THE CHOSEN ONE

LOL

actually second time he finally died, and what happened?
My 2 years old third son become my heir, instead of my 19 years old second born wtf..
What to do now?

It's odd but, the game sometimes glitches and shows what it thinks is the next heir but, after a bit it adjust OR log out log back and it's fixed.