Quote Originally Posted by King of Atlantis
GOOD CIVIL WARS-

I have actually found that sometimes civil war helpes me. With a low trait King in the early game on hard/expert, provinces can be rebelious. The best way to fix it is to try to make civil war and get a new strong leader in charge. This saved a Sicilian campaign of mine.
It saved a Scottish campaign of mine. My king was a worthless piece of crap and I was relatively bored, as the Mercians were too strong to take on and there was not much going on. My king had no heirs that were come of age but I decided to assassinate him anyway. I expected to lose but was surprised to see a civil war had broken out. I backed the rebels, who were led by a kick-ass prince who had long ago been in line for the throne himself. For the rest of the game I had decent-to-great kings.