Vassal per 1 month

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Ryusai

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Would it be possible to reduce the vassal recruitment to less than a month? I have a giant country and only have 2 vassals..
Is this easily done by changing something in the .txt?

Or am I missing something obvious that allows me to recruit alot more vassals (exept using my companions).
Having my castles without owner is so harsh for my people :razz:
 
Alfredthegreat said:
what i usaully do is join a faction, stock my town/castle to over 1000, and then form into regiments. then take my old town, which now has zero troops, and then recruit. you should give a vassal who hates his king a bunch of troops, then ask him to join you, hopefully it will help, also, when you are a vassal, you can still recruit lords, they just won't show up until you are king.

Oh interesting, ty!
 
A good trick...almost a cheat, really...is to recruit lords who no longer own a fief and have been captured.  This is most easily accomplished when you are at peace with everyone.

You do this by keeping track of lords who have lost all their lands to another faction, and watch for them to be captured...or ask another lord in that faction about the landless lords every now and then.  When one of these landless lords that you have at least a 0 relationship with gets captured, you wander over to the town/castle where they are held and walk around the streets/courtyard.  Smack the jailer around for the keys, and step into the prison to have a chat with the landless lord.  Tell them you're there to free them, then kill all the guards scattered around outside after leaving the prison.  Once you're back outside of the town/castle you'll have the option to let them go their own way (big relation boost), make them pay for their freedom (big relation loss but cash gain), or since they have no lands to call their own, you can ask them to join you as a companion.

Once the lord is a companion, you talk to them again about holding a fief in your name, just as you would any other companion.
 
Digital Terror said:
A good trick...almost a cheat, really...is to recruit lords who no longer own a fief and have been captured.  This is most easily accomplished when you are at peace with everyone.

You do this by keeping track of lords who have lost all their lands to another faction, and watch for them to be captured...or ask another lord in that faction about the landless lords every now and then.  When one of these landless lords that you have at least a 0 relationship with gets captured, you wander over to the town/castle where they are held and walk around the streets/courtyard.  Smack the jailer around for the keys, and step into the prison to have a chat with the landless lord.  Tell them you're there to free them, then kill all the guards scattered around outside after leaving the prison.  Once you're back outside of the town/castle you'll have the option to let them go their own way (big relation boost), make them pay for their freedom (big relation loss but cash gain), or since they have no lands to call their own, you can ask them to join you as a companion.

Once the lord is a companion, you talk to them again about holding a fief in your name, just as you would any other companion.

Interesting..
 
@Digital Terror
:grin: Thanks for this DT, I put this feature in-game but I was never able to test it myself as I never really have the time to make a long play through, I end up coding after every playthrough. Just for this post I'll add more features for landless lords in the next release. I'm also making "heroes" more flexible so just about any Hero NPC can fulfill any role.
 
Computica said:
@Digital Terror
:grin: Thanks for this DT, I put this feature in-game but I was never able to test it myself as I never really have the time to make a long play through, I end up coding after every playthrough. Just for this post I'll add more features for landless lords in the next release. I'm also making "heroes" more flexible so just about any Hero NPC can fulfill any role.
Exploiting the ambitions of disenfranchised sons? But that never happened in history...except for when there were people with more ambition than sense. So, pretty much always.

When I was in Iraqi Kurdistan it was very Byzantine how it played out. Of course the Iraqi Kurds did pretty well as Byzantine subjects, so preserving that cultural artifact makes some sense. Much better than the more modern method of denouncing your rivals to the secret police so they would be executed. Freaking socialists have no sense of style, and imagine that ruthlessness is the same as efficiency.

As a related note, killing enemy lords to grant their fiefs to your vassals should bear a huge unrest and relationship penalty. People remember that sort of thing FOREVER. There is a reason Vladimir Putin, KGB operative, had the Romanoff family dug up and re-interred, and it wasn't because he valued the dynasty. It was the only way to wash the blood from his hands. 
 
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