levies management : much easier to 'teleport' all levies from England by raising them in a county in Egypt

Lategame, when your dynasty prestige is high, relection is a shoe in relatively safe succession: Even if your prefered heir is not ready, you can vote for one of your kinsman as a backup plan. faster expansion : kings will holy war on their own and expand the empire while you're on truce Destroy the duke titles for my demesne, so the kings do not desire them. There's always playstyle preferences of course, but it's really not that hard to run an empire with vassal kings.Īfter a lot of experimentation, I found my prefered set up for an Empire is: It's much easier to reclaim a duchy or a single province than a Kingdom. There will be some unlucky chain of events that causes you to have your Empire split for a bit. Originally posted by Ludovin:In my experience, rebellions WILL happen. Pressing their claims, transferring de jure vassals, and the annual intrigue events are useful for staying on their good side. Normally I can keep the kings themselves pretty happy, and am sure to keep the rulership within my close family (typically as soon as the ruler is a 'kinsman', I wed their heir to one of my daughters (matrilinearly if possible) or sons).

It's usually one of the duchies directly under me or it's the duchy of one of my vassal kings. In my experience, rebellions still do happen, but more often than not they're still small rebellions.

I'm on the 'it's easier to keep a few people happy than everyone' side. In my experience, rebellions WILL happen. I'd rather not deal with rebellions at all than just small ones. Especially when transferring a meaningless barony in the far reach of your empire to one of your king vassals gives you a flat +20 opinion modifier. It's also easier to keep one person happy all the time rather than 50+ people with dfferent issues across your empire.

Crusader kings 2 over vassal limit