Am I the only one that's purposefully lost a war against pretender rebels?

[4 Sale]

[kaiyl_kariashi]

I do if it's an upgrade or is close enough to my current king that fighting rebels is more annoying.

You can also usually gain legitimacy if your legitimacy is garbage already due to a weak claim.

[4 Sale]

Originally posted by kaiyl_kariashi:

I do if it's an upgrade or is close enough to my current king that fighting rebels is more annoying.

You can also usually gain legitimacy if your legitimacy is garbage already due to a weak claim.

Was playing Castille earlier. Found a child in the reeds. Took him because my ruler was in his ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 70s. As expected weak claim, and for some reason his culture wasn't anything Iberian. 1/2/4 Pretty good, but then I saw the pretender rebels. Big army, not worth the fight, and their leader was a 3 star. Knew I had to have em.

[Turbo ♥♥♥♥♥]

I do it many times, unless you like keep your dynasties clean like in my byzantine campaign (kept the trebizond royal marriage for role playing reasons). In your case it was a great decision, you get legitimacy you get a better ruler and you dont waste manpower and ducats.

[Inquisitioner]

Just keep an eye on countries you have a personal union with. Since they tend to also let the pretender rebels win and through that lose the personal union with you.

[MhaelL']

Of course not. It's a very good way to remove a weak/incompetent king from office.
And you dont waste manpower fighting a rebel stack.

[Fellini_Fiend]

Yeah as someone else mentioned be aware of possible pretender rebels in a junior partner of yours. Other than Separatists those are the ones you want to worry about for subjects. That said if YOU ever fall under a PU just wish that you randomly get some pretender rebels yourself. Allow them to siege your capital and wait until they enforce their demands and voila you’re independent without a nasty independent war. I did that in a Denmark game I had where my ruler died and France got a PU over me. We were at war together when it happened so I was able to instantly get the alliance back with them but it was strange that their AI just seemed to not care that I had those rebels. I certainly didn’t care because I was very interested to see if my theory about them enforcing their demands would change me to being independent and that theory came true which is now the reason I always take care of a subject’s pretender rebels if they are a junior partner even if I’m in an important war.

[Roarak]

I got PU'd as Castille by Aragon and during the Succesion War (Where Aragon completely stomped England...somehow) I had Pretenders rise up and take my capital within a month of the war ending, so Aragon did all of that work for nothing.