Once the event fires to off the guy pause the game, then land him with a few of your extra baronies/counties until you drop down to ~3-3.5k max levies, then make your merc band which will be around 800 men in size, and then unpause the game and watch the holy man die immediately and return all the land back to you as he wont have any heirs.Įven if the plot fails it will fire again quickly because most holy men are lucky to even have 5 intrigue, let alone 3. If you end up with far too much levies to start your merc band without it being some obscene size, you can consider inviting a holyman to your court for 25 piety (they have crap intrigue) and then immediately plot to kill him while he is in your court. You can do it before this but you will then need to through a batch of $50 at it to keep adding 100 cav to get it around the 800-900 mark. 3.5k troops is when you want to try it though, it starts with 25% of your levies, so 3.5k = 875 thats pretty prefect, the time to start it (as a cheapskate) is between 3k levies and ~3.7k levies.