Newbie Question

[Josephus V]

Hello everyone

I'm new to this game and this site. I just bought the game a couple weeks ago and have been addicted ever since. My wife is ready to divorce me and my 9 month year old is already bored of watching from my lap...not enough action.

But anyway...now to the important stuff. I was playing my second real campaign and I'm playing as Irish on hard. After a slow start in which the Vikings pillaged me for a few years I was finally building up. It was around 915 AD and I was finishing off the Scots in two epic battles. My next move would have been to break my alliance with the Picts and take all of northern England. I was looking very good though.

Well after my battle ended my King up and dies at 55 years old. His two sons were 13 and 11 but he had like 5 brothers scattered around the islands. The game said with no heirs that the kingdom was split up and I lose I was so shocked that the game ended so suddenly. Four days all for not But my question is...the manual said if I had brothers than I can continue. Why didn't then with four other brothers to rule??

[Accounting Troll]

Greetings Josephus V and welcome to the board

Looks like you've had a really bad experience there. You've been hit by a bug in the game that causes every single king to die of old age on his 56th birthday. The good news is that it got fixed in the patch for Viking Invasion.

It is possible that the brothers were in fact uncles, who don't inherit the throne?

And that slamming noise you heard was your wife walking out the door