Assigning Fiefs - Whats your strategy?

[Babaganoush]

Now before I start, I already read the FAQ and that guide on how to assign fiefs, but I feel a bit iffy on it.

When I played through other times, I used to always assign a lord his own castle and the surrounding villages connected to it so every lord was happy. If the lord wasn't happy, I always had a lady I had 1 rep with to pay him to be happy. If a lord came crawling up to my capital, saying how's been mistreated, if I didnt have a spare city/town for him, I'd kick him the fack out.

Now on my 100% difficulty playthrough, I feel that I can improve on this... if it's possible.

How do you guys assign fiefs? Do you give some lords a village only? Do you give lords more than one castle? Do you only recruit lords with high renown?
The reason why I don't recruit lords then just give them a village is because I felt that they dont regenerate. They seem to be always stuck with 50-70 soldiers.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[noosers]

The economy has been boosted for PoP´s AI. AI lords are now able to upgrade their villages thus earning more money out of them. More money for a lords weekly purse means larger and better armies for him.

This means a lord with high reknown and experience (thus having high leadership on top of it) will be able to gather a far larger army than a lower reknowned lord with little experience if they own a similiar wealthy village.

Ideally, you hand out the richest locations to the most influential lords, if you want to do it scientifically.

It´s far more important how improved and rich a location a lord gets than how many he has. Four rich villages can generate far more income than a single impoverished town. So take that into consideration as well.

 

[Shimmmy]

I made Sir Alistair one of my vassals and we've beaten Jatu army together, I didn't had a place in my army to hire all the Jatu prisoners, but he appearently had and now he has more than 400 men in his army lolz, it's insane.

 

[aguds]

I keep most for myself, and some unassigned to lure greedy bastards to my cause.

I assign the majority of the castles to a close posse of maybe 5-10; 70+ relations, honorable Lords.
Usually I give those lords the belonging villages, but I save some villages for those 30-40 relation lords to ensure they can have a slightly bigger purse to sustain a respectable force.
Cities I keep. Cities are taken very slowly, so how I deal with those is situational. Often I keep most of them, but my Marshall usually gets at least one, whilst the top 3 superbestfriends might also get one eventually.

Dishonorable Lords, or Lords joining from abolished factions get nothing and is perceived as nothing more than patrols.

But sometimes I just get really bored beeing on the opposite side of the map and getting one of those 'emergency' -quest, and give them all away except Laria and it's surrounding fiefs. When you start to become the significantly biggest faction, it's easier to do this, since the possible loss of a fief due to a rat jumping ship isn't so much of a problem.

 

[Arddene]

I give most castles and towns to my close inner circle and lords that I gave grown fond of during the course of the game. Trusted lords with high renown get more more lands than others. Lords that I don't like for some reason or another get nothing. I use them merely as patrols.

 

[ppga]

I play catch and release a lot with lords, which both boosts your relation with said lords (except for the sadists I think) as well as with all honourable/good-natured lords.  By the time my honour reaches 300, I have 100 relations with all of the honourable/good-natured lords, and it doesn't decrease no matter what I do, or at least it hasn't so far.  So you can get them to join you, take your time assigning them fiefs, not have to worry about upsetting them every time you hand out a fief to someone else, etc.  There's usually enough of these guys to go around, at least for me as I tend to give my lords at least a couple of fiefs apiece.

 

[Babaganoush]

I play catch and release a lot with lords, which both boosts your relation with said lords (except for the sadists I think) as well as with all honourable/good-natured lords.  By the time my honour reaches 300, I have 100 relations with all of the honourable/good-natured lords, and it doesn't decrease no matter what I do, or at least it hasn't so far.  So you can get them to join you, take your time assigning them fiefs, not have to worry about upsetting them every time you hand out a fief to someone else, etc.  There's usually enough of these guys to go around, at least for me as I tend to give my lords at least a couple of fiefs apiece.

Thats because despite being "100", it actually raises higher. Piss them off enough and it starts decreasing.

I always thought that lords without castles don't regenerate. And I think I've changed my opinion to lords without castles regenerate slower than than lords with castles. Lords without castles have their troops raised everytime they visit one of their villages, so I have to keep a close eye on them so they won't get ambushed.

I just captured Justus Dux with a relationship of 20.... too low for me. He owned Ethos. I recruited him, then kicked him out for "treason". Ethos is now mine. And with it's 6 surronding villages and with my guy recruiting from them, I have an overflow of worthless Pendor Units. The good thing about them is that I gave them all to my lords. Right now I have half of Empire lands with 7 lords, all having at least 200 people because of all those Pendor units.

Feels good.

 

[noosers]

Lords get a small basic purse awarded by the game each week no matter wether or not they own a fief. This will enable them to raise and support a very small army - the more cash they get the larger their army becomes.

Just the same as for towns - the more wealthy a town is, the larger it´s garrison becomes.

 

[Babaganoush]

Lords get a small basic purse awarded by the game each week no matter wether or not they own a fief. This will enable them to raise and support a very small army - the more cash they get the larger their army becomes.

Just the same as for towns - the more wealthy a town is, the larger it´s garrison becomes.

Yeah. Which explains why those defected lords always run around with 30-40 armies with no fiefs...

However it seems like the "unique units" don't change. I took Titus Legatus' fiefs and he still spawns with like 60 Guardian Empire Knights.

Same thing with Livius Dux (who imo is the biggest ******* in all of Pendor). He keep spawning with 50 Jatu Mercenary Riders. Wtf is a Empire Lord doing with Jatus anyway..

 

[noosers]

Killing you.

 

[X-Warrior-X]

Give your Fierdsvain Lords towns, proceed to get 100 relations with them, and bring them to every siege you go to. Then continue on to raping and pillaging everything. EVERYTHING.


ALL HAIL KINGDOM OF PENOR !

 

[SilentK]

Give your Fierdsvain Lords towns, proceed to get 100 relations with them, and bring them to every siege you go to. Then continue on to raping and pillaging everything. EVERYTHING.


ALL HAIL KINGDOM OF PENOR !

This guy forgot the "D" in PENDOR in a garrison in a forgotten place. 

(fail i know XD)

 

[Babaganoush]

ALL HAIL KINGDOM OF PENOR !

Oh boy...

 

[Remonster6x]

Just started a game where I plan to only recruit lords with 100 rep. It will make things difficult but it should be hard to recruit a lord. First half of the game will be spent doing quests for as many lords as I can. 

I try to give castles and towns to lords with unique spawns. I also give them an extra village. The rest of the lords get the scraps.

 

[mayjori]

What are the restrictions on the max size of lords army's? Is there a point where giving them anymore lands is pointless?

 

[Arekai]

ALL HAIL KINGDOM OF PENOR !

Pervert.