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My King, age 64 has 2 brothers, age 63 and 47, and a son, age 3.
He dies.
Instead of one of the brothers taking over, when I looked at the heir screen, both brothers are gone (no longer in line for succession) and the son had mysteriously became 15 years old and is now King.
The band of brothers is not mysteriously gone, they have been demoted to general status. For example I usually - okay, ALWAYS - play England and I was wondering why after a succession I got a whole lot of Plantagenets all of a sudden. Then it occurred to me that these were the former princes now demoted to general status. They can now be made governors of provinces or be married off to their nieces (yikes!!). Its a really nice touch by CA. Try looking for the units that they were commanding and chances are they're still in command but with a different name.
Gilbert de Clare
I'm aware of the brothers become generals thing, it makes perfect sense.
But how about the son who went from age 3 to age 15 immediately to take the throne. Is it a feature by CA such that your line will never die out as long as you have a heir, no matter how young, allowing the heir to "cheat" in aging to the min required age of 15 instantly.
No, I have had kings die with only underage heirs, and civil war was the result.
I've noticed royalty names are reused over and over. Chances are that your prince who assumed the succession was married and off having children before the original king died. He's only a prince so you're not notified of these babies. Then, your king dies, your busy prince assumes command and suddenly his children appear as heirs because they are no longer nephews of the original king, but sons of the new king. MTW uses relationships in regards to uncles of kings no longer becoming heirs, so I would only suppose that nephews becoming princes are considered as well.
Did you notice if the name changed? and if it did not then I would still believe theres a chance that the king's son, and the prince's son may have had the same name anyway.
[This message has been edited by Kaprikorn (edited 10-04-2002).]
I've had happen what Kaprikorn described. I had a really old unmarried prince rise to the throne. He died in a few years and his equally old brother became king. I thought great, he's gonna die and there will be no heir. Turns out though he had a son who was of age and became king within a few years when his old man had an unfortunate incident with an arrow.