Quote Originally Posted by History Geek
Any general can lead a civil war, heirs and former heirs are usually the most inclined to do so, but the ability to lead a civil war dosn't make you royal
No, but I suspect the old coding about the generals are still in place, when the generals lived forever the royal blood never disappeared. And I suspect this is still true coding wise.
I tried to have a bizzaro campaign and get "King" d'Arc once, but it didn't work as every former hier that had ever existed had stronger claims than the best general in the French army (who was royally married).

Quote Originally Posted by History Geek
I still need proof that you actually can have a civil war instead of a "game over" I think it was Caravel who mentioned it would happen one out of ten times, but is there a screenie or anything else out there to support this claim?

/HG
Only died out 2 times due to lack of hiers so I cannot say for certain for the player, but the computer has it (that's why it's hard to kill them off with assassins sometimes).

Your land (and the comps) can be inhierited by another faction without that faction dieing out though (suspected to be caused by a civil war occuring at "game over" but you land getting inhierited happens first, so you have no land and no troops on either side).