Odd happenings in my current campaign

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In my current campaign (normal/GA/early/Spanish) the English launch a crusade and wish to pass through my lands, I refuse to let them pass and of course I am excommed, however that very same turn the Pope offers me an alliance . tis odd. Anyway my main question is my king who is 9 influence, 8 command, 8 acumen, 7 dread, 7 piety. has had 2 children both of them are great 8 acumen, high dread and piety, good v and v yet they both have no command, anyone know the reason for this i thought if you had a very good king you would have excellent heirs.

[BrSpiritus]

If you're excommed and the pope allies with you then other factions can't crusade against you. It's game's equivalent of lifting the excommunication without your faction leader or the pope dieing. As for the king that is strange. In my current campaign (English/early/normal/XL) My king had similar stats and his heirs all came out with 2 stars command no acumen and all had the strange vice. By the time his son took the throne he was crack brained, good thing he cose to die young though.

BrSpiritus

[Ironside]

Getting zero star sons from good kings is known as the wrap-around bug. It seems that when a son gets 10+ stars, the game cannot really handle it and the hier gets 0 stars instead. Thats why the sons got exellent stats in the other areas. My record is 5 out of 6 sons getting 0 stars, when the king was an 8 star.

Getting more than 0 stars on the sons seems to indicate lousy son though. BrSpiritus they had lousy other stats too? Check the influence of your king, might be low.

Piety and influence can bug out occationally too.

If you launch multiple jihads (10+) then you'll basically end up with random piety.

Influence can occationally drop to 0 and then recover back to 9 by itself during some turns. Can be annoying if you gets sons during that time.

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Thanks for the replies. luckily I got 2 more sons who were 8 and 6 stars respectively. Another odd occurance though is that the GH appeared in Armenia, never seen that haoppen before. This game is starting to get wacky, I wonder what will happen next

[BrSpiritus]

BrSpiritus they had lousy other stats too? Check the influence of your king, might be low.

My king had maxed out influence allied with just about everybody and I'v come to the assistance of allies. Just a weird bug I guess. Low stats I can put up with it's the crack brained vice that gets me. The newer set of heirs don't have any vices so it actually worked out well enough in the end. My 5 star general though is another story. He became an unhinged loon and I had to remove him because he was having a negative effect on his men. Of course this is in the newly liberated province of Antioch and my armies there are beginning to doubt the success of their occupation.

BrSpiritus