I think i got the big deal with large familiy marriage.

[SilentK]

As the title says i think i may know what the dev team (mount & blade team), wanted to do.

If you talk to any skald/troubadour, and ask what are the benefits of marrying, he will mention that the greater families may have at some point mingled with royalty, meaning that it was meant to be as a way to get to overthrow the king and take the place yourself

My guess is while they were developing it, they saw it was a bit silly, since no 5th cousing-brother-in-law could truly overthrow a king and instead kept that away and sticked to the claimants to replace current rulers and of course independent kingdom

I know its a general m&b warband thing but i thought to share this here since i asked a question a while ago about the benefits of marriage in large families

That also explains why the king has the option of "lasting alliance with your house".

There could had been more ideas into it, maybe having children who could have a better claim, but i guess it was too complicated, just a thought.


What do you guys think?

 

[noosers]

This one´s mine and it cries out loud for it

"Less talkin´, moar raiding!"

 

[SilentK]

Y u no like me noosiez 

 

[Mad Vader]

Yeah, they had big plans, but decided it's too much trouble and said "nah, leave this to the modders, we are missing our deadline".

 

[LevonVeldspar]

I've seen families torn apart by the cruelty of battle and change, father against son, brother against brother, uncle against nephew, but I've never seen one of them give a rat's ass... such is the horror of war....

 

[Mad Vader]

If you think about it, the horrors of war are such that no one in Pendor has sex and makes babies. They've seen too much cruelty and betrayal to be able to get close to another human being.

 

[SilentK]

If you think about it, the horrors of war are such that no one in Pendor has sex and makes babies. They've seen too much cruelty and betrayal to be able to get close to another human being.

Or maybe they have a normal human gestation period of 9 months, and not all are there for the business , besides 1st year they might as well keep him hidden, in case some jealous family member wants to murder him, who knows .


But I agree they should had added small children in villages, not noble ones, they wouldn't show up in official matter, they'd be studying, w/e, but i think in towns and villages it would make sense to have some running around. But that bucket wish is surrounded by also more interactive npc's, like they should stop at shops from time to time, and have an animation of leaning over checking the goods, would had helped the immersion, hope they get that in warband.

 

[Mad Vader]

If they introduce children, 90% of the players would immediately start killing them for fun. Even if the game disallowed it, several smartasses would race to find a tweak to allow it.
Faith in humanity? Don't bother with it.

 

[LevonVeldspar]

New minor faction spawn: A mysterious Pied Piper style figure leading an army of armed children. Increases in size as the player creates more and more orphans until even the Noldor tremble.

 

[Jeames]

If they introduce children, 90% of the players would immediately start killing them for fun. Even if the game disallowed it, several smartasses would race to find a tweak to allow it.
Faith in humanity? Don't bother with it.

That's because video game children are always annoying cu**s.

New minor faction spawn: A mysterious Pied Piper style figure leading an army of armed children. Increases in size as the player creates more and more orphans until even the Noldor tremble.

Fun fact: there was a childrens crusade. They all ended up dead or enslaved before they reached their destination.

 

[Elensil the Numenorean]

If they introduce children, 90% of the players would immediately start killing them for fun. Even if the game disallowed it, several smartasses would race to find a tweak to allow it.
Faith in humanity? Don't bother with it.

That's because video game children are always annoying cu**s.

New minor faction spawn: A mysterious Pied Piper style figure leading an army of armed children. Increases in size as the player creates more and more orphans until even the Noldor tremble.

Fun fact: there was a childrens crusade. They all ended up dead or enslaved before they reached their destination.

Or raeped by hairy pedo bears DD

 

[noosers]

They weren´t crossing Numenorian lands.

Starvation did it for most.

 

[Ansiktslos]

New minor faction spawn: A mysterious Pied Piper style figure leading an army of armed children. Increases in size as the player creates more and more orphans until even the Noldor tremble.

A great idea! Pendor already has all sorts of freaks - why not have a myriad of sick starving insane fanatic children pilgrims?

Or raeped by hairy pedo bears DD

Or pedo elf.

They weren´t crossing Numenorian lands.

Starvation did it for most.

Do not worry. Once they enter Pendor, they won't have much time to starve. If they have Qualis, of course. If not - screw them. Besides, Pendor allows poor children to hire lots of strong troops from released prisoners.

Children's Crusade Army:
Nicholas the Shepherd
1000 Orphan Boys
1000 Little Girls
120 Jatu Lancers
30 Adventurers
90 Vanskerry Warriors
etc.

~~~~

Poinsbruk has been sacked by hungry orphans.

Because everybody sacks Poinsbruk.

 

[Elensil the Numenorean]

Or raeped by hairy pedo bears DD

Or pedo elf.

They weren´t crossing Numenorian lands.

Starvation did it for most.

Do not worry. Once they enter Pendor, they won't have much time to starve. If they have Qualis, of course. If not - screw them. Besides, Pendor allows poor children to hire lots of strong troops from released prisoners.

Children's Crusade Army:
Nicholas the Shepherd
1000 Orphan Boys
1000 Little Girls
120 Jatu Lancers
30 Adventurers
90 Vanskerry Warriors
etc.

~~~~

Poinsbruk has been sacked by hungry orphans.

Because everybody sacks Poinsbruk.

well I bet that an elf would rather seduce the truth out of the tree if you give him the choice to have a tree or a kid to have sex with.

Also Numenoreans statisticly tend to rape women far more frequently than they do kids and i have personally 2 doomguides at my disposal for that :3

Nonetheless, i bet that the snake cult would not waste any time to get their hands on *new recruits*, that will also explain why pendor has no kids anywhere*

*Sssneaky Snake cultists invented a vaccum cleaner that absorbs kids everywhere in pendor (even the noldor kids are not safe from em) and teleports them to whatever snake recruit camp they are ordered.

 

[Nikomakkos]

and i have personally 2 doomguides at my disposal for that :3

For what? Raping kids?

 

[habeo123]

For quite sometime, I have been wondering about why rulers does not have a family (i.e queen, prince, princess ect) even though all other vassals has.

 

[Mad Vader]

For quite sometime, I have been wondering about why rulers does not have a family (i.e queen, prince, princess ect) even though all other vassals has.

Quite. They are either homosexuals or killed off their families in succession disputes and conspiracies.

 

[habeo123]

Or they hid their relatives somewhere safe, in-case "someone" overthrow them.

 

[LevonVeldspar]

My guess is  that they just live where all the Lords and Ladies who've pissed too many people off and "left the realm" end up: Arizona.

 

[SilentK]

I think the option to marry into kings family need the game to run in years instead of days, and require children, well at least the children part, the rest can be scripted to happen.

This way you would get some family drama/murder, but im not sure if its suited/able to work on mb: warband, maybe we see something in bannerlords