help me assassinate + get rid of child heir

[NuggetSex]

He does't deserve the Purple he's a 3 year old heir to the throne. I'm playing Western Roman Empire and have been pushed back to Hispania and West-North Africa. Things are as dire as they can be. There is precisely 0 chance anyone general with an army would respect that line of succession and bow down to toddler emperor. How do I get rid of him and get one of my fully grown generals/governors to be emperor?

[Hark]

Should really pay close attention to family tree. There are Intrigue actions you choose to take with those characters, which require Influence. You can mouselook over a character and see their Influence, or in top left of family tree is a lil button to show it on all chars in the tree.

FYI any character with more than 100 influence won't have illegitimate children, even if they remain unmarried. So fight some battles early on when someone comes of age, get them above 100, and don't spend influence that drops them below that if you want to keep a tighter/smaller family tree.

Anyways, if you can kill the parents in the tree, the kid will likely disappear assuming the actual king is still alive (otherwise it'll prolly spawn a random regent into the tree).

PS - I doubt the character would be that much of a problem in terms of loyalty of everyone else, you're probably overthinking that bit and have other bigger issues in the short term.

PPS - You can adopt non-familial generals with Intrigue action.

[NuggetSex]

Originally posted by Hark:

Should really pay close attention to family tree. There are Intrigue actions you choose to take with those characters, which require Influence. You can mouselook over a character and see their Influence, or in top left of family tree is a lil button to show it on all chars in the tree.

FYI any character with more than 100 influence won't have illegitimate children, even if they remain unmarried. So fight some battles early on when someone comes of age, get them above 100, and don't spend influence that drops them below that if you want to keep a tighter/smaller family tree.

Anyways, if you can kill the parents in the tree, the kid will likely disappear assuming the actual king is still alive (otherwise it'll prolly spawn a random regent into the tree).

PS - I doubt the character would be that much of a problem in terms of loyalty of everyone else, you're probably overthinking that bit and have other bigger issues in the short term.

PPS - You can adopt non-familial generals with Intrigue action.

Nice, looks like mummy is going to be a dead one.

[David]

you can adopt your generals, didnt u know that?

[NuggetSex]

Originally posted by David:

you can adopt your generals, didnt u know that?

Yeah I've done that, but his only heir, not emeperor