Quote Originally Posted by Advo-san
-But then again, life is a bitch...And you are dead.... Your heir haven't fought a fight in his life, he is a medieval total ass, but he became King because he was your son! Well, that is not enough to gain him some influence..
Build armies while a king has high influence, because they have more loyalty; when a low influence heir takes over, those armies seem to retain most of the built-in loyalty. I try to avoid building armies while a king is new, and instead rely on dad's old-age spamming for a while.