One of their kids each survived, hoping they'll actually manage to have kids of their own, but it's got me helicopter parenting those two damn kids trying to keep them alive.A Noble from Suno who killed his own brother in a drunken fight over a temptress they were both in love with…. Then recruited him from jail and made him Marshal.) Was happy as they started having kids, looked forward to getting that in. But a White Peace still ends it and imprisons him, so I took that at ~70%. meaning if they occupy any of your land at all, it's impossible to hit 100%, no matter how much you've whooped their troops. Was still tricky because they were sieging everything down fast, and the warscore is capped at 100% for battles for the defender. (he split up his stacks into 10k each and had them a bit apart. against one of my duchies in Kashmir, with 50k troops to my 30k. They launched them almost exactly at the same time- Seljuk's failed, and he lost a leg, but survived I was able to invite him over afterward. This time, instead of poaching them early like I did Timur last game, I decided to wait and see if they'd do their conquests. They start with their bloodlines when they're just courtiers, usually seeing those bloodlines in the ledger is how I know they've appeared. Seljuk and Sabuktigin are ones to watch for, too. Usually it's more of a gradual process, as availability of dynasty members and bloodline holders and relative ages and whatnot complicate things, and of course you want to watch out that the cousin marriages aren't too frequent or close, often useful to throw some no-ancestor commanders and debutantes in there every now and then to be safe (especially when you get a commander with Strong or Quick). The fewest-step pattern for a single bloodline when it goes right is: invite man with bloodline to court (I've used favors for this a lot lately), matri-marry him to a woman of my dynasty, when they have a daughter, matri-marry her to male heir (heir being junior in marriage is fine when it's same dynasty and wife is my courtier). Obviously sometimes you get lucky and can skip steps. Generally, my priority is on preserving bloodlines at all- AI lets them die out too much- then getting them into my dynasty overall, then getting them mixed with others, then getting them onto my ruler. Then you can start the cousin marriage game. If you want to do it the optimal way, you need to build a massive dynasty where each individual person has one or two bloodlines, but there are 10+ bloodlines in the dynasty as a whole. This probably requires some form of elective succession. If you want to do it the lazy way, you can try to skip generations: your second ruler is your first ruler's daughter's son. Also, it can be pretty difficult to ensure that your daughter inherits. However, if any of these female rulers forge their own bloodline, it will be a matrilineal bloodline and difficult to maintain. You can in theory add one bloodline per generation if your rulers are all female: mother matri-marries man with bloodline A daughter matri-marries man with bloodline B granddaughter will have bloodlines A and B. but I've never seen one of those.)Īs at 3.0.1, children of concubines can only receive patrilineal bloodlines and children of consorts can only receive matrilineal bloodlines. (Unless you find a bloodline that doesn't have "matrilineal transfer". If two characters are married matrilineally, their offspring receive both bloodlines. As noted above, matrilineal marriage is the magic ingredient.