u/East-Future-4880

I was playing an empress with a good 220 personnal combat stat, but i don't know how this is possible but i just lost 4 duels in a row, with the last one concluding with my death. And not against some trained warriors, they were novices or diplomats. HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE ? Is there a bug if you go over 200 ? Or am i just unlucky as hell ? It was a mess to reach this point without the duellist lifestyle, if i did all of this for nothing it kinda sucks.

Is it possible for a COD to be pacifist ? I thought they were supposed to invade a kingdom with some event troops when they could but my daughter is an happily married small peaceful count turning 25 this year with 2 daughters and show no project of invading my neighbours. What the hell is going on ? Where is my promised bloodline ???

Can holy orders create kingdoms by their own without the Teutonic crusade ? And if so do they stop taking independence when they are not happy? As an emperor a have one of them as my vassal and he control a whole de jure kingdom, so I was wondering about what would happen.