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CK3 War Score question - Preemptively abducting an Important Prisoner? (self.crusaderkings)

submitted 11 months ago by cjoll4 to c/[email protected]

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I want to seize important territory from a significantly stronger ruler. Using one of the Intrigue perks, I've managed to abduct his primary heir. While I work on bolstering my army, I figured I'd ask if you all know the answer to this.

Will I start out with +50 War Score for having his primary heir as my prisoner? Or does it only count prisoners taken during the war?

Follow-up question, is there any way to exploit a hook against the enemy ruler in the war? I'm in the middle of a scheme to fabricate a hook against him but I'm not certain how I should use it.

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[–] tron 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure it will just give you the war score if you have the heir already captured.

A hook against the war leader is probably not very useful because he's gonna super hate you forever anyway if you take his land.

[–] cjoll4 1 points 11 months ago

Thanks, it worked and I started with the +50 war score.

Also I see what you mean, not much you can really do with a hook in the middle of a war. I think the best I could have hoped for would have been digging up a secret that I could expose in order to hurt his reputation with his vassals.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I formed Rum by repeatedly abducting the Byzantine heir then killing the emperor. It gets easier the more you do it as chaos is seeded in the opponents realm.