couple of noobish questions!

[Ripken]

An important thing to keep in mind is that you should have the province where you would like to have your new ruler appear better developped than any other provinces you own.....

I should probably know this, but what determines where your new ruler appears when your old one dies? It doesn't seem to have any relation to where your heir was the turn before...?

[Martok]

I should probably know this, but what determines where your new ruler appears when your old one dies? It doesn't seem to have any relation to where your heir was the turn before...?

He appears in your most developed province. (This is why your new rulers often appear in Constantinople if you've conquered it.)

[Sensei Warrior]

Agreed. The King appears in the best developed provence. It's always funny to see the King trapped in Constantinople because he was cut off by a Naval faction you're at war with. The rest of your not-connected Empire (the English for example) rebells, and you're left with a provence of one. Although one could argue that since the one is Constantinople it might not necessarily be a bad thing.

[caravel]

Agreed. The King appears in the best developed provence. It's always funny to see the King trapped in Constantinople because he was cut off by a Naval faction you're at war with. The rest of your not-connected Empire (the English for example) rebells, and you're left with a provence of one. Although one could argue that since the one is Constantinople it might not necessarily be a bad thing.

One of the best campaigns I've ever played worked out like this. I was playing the English/Early/Hard and had crusaded to Constantinople, early in the campaign. The king passed away and the new king reappeared on the other side of Europe... and I had no way to return him to England, which rebelled. The French then seized the advantage and decimated the English, and I was left with nothing but Constantinople and the crusaders that had arrived there, whom of which were slowly expanding into the rest of Byzantine and Turkish Territory. In that particular campaign I didn't return to England until the late era. It was a case of billmen, Chivalric Foot Knights and longbows vs the Mongols in Gerorgia. Truly memorable campaign. I may try and intentionally do it again, which won't be quite the same, but should be interesting nonetheless.

[Sensei Warrior]

The poor English! They seem to have problems like that. Most of my for examples reference a game I played, as was that one.

I crusaded to Constantinople via ship and claimed it. The king died a few years later and was moved there. I was young (it was one of my first campaigns) and inexperienced so I left him there. The very next turn I was blindsided by an Ally who was a naval forcve to be reckoned with. With most of my fleet decimated and the rest blockaded, my English lands rebelled and I was left with little ole Constantinople.

I think it was the Spanish who consumed the rest of my lands as I slowly Crusaded into Africa, across to Morocco, and up the Iberian Pennisula. At one point when you looked at the map the English held all the initial Spanish lands and Spain held all the initial English ones.

The only reason it happened was because I didn't realize what a precarious position I put my Empire, but it was one of my more memorable campaigns. It's funny how someones experience helps make their campaigns more boring.