Playing an evil lord

[cascinova]

Has anyone played a game as a really evil lord? At least through the later part of the game? I am tempted to play a game where i forgo all honor, but I don't want to waste the time if it becomes impossible to play past a certain point.  I mean if all the towns and villages hate me, as well as other lords it might become impossible to play.
How do the companions react and can you still recruit other lords?

 

[Dent]

It's definitely doable. There are quite a few bloodthirsty lords who wouldn't mind helping you oppress the common man. If you're willing to let your reputation go down the drain, you get the bonus of denying ransoms, so you can keep those good samaritan lords locked up forever, crippling most small-medium sized factions.
As for companions, I've noticed that Ciniod is a lot more tolerant of cruelty/bloodbaths than the others I've recruited.

 

[cascinova]

Thanks, and I was thinking it might actually be easier to recruit lords as an evil guy.  Since most good lords don't seem to want to defect. In my last game on the previous version I couldn't get anyone to join me, even when i wiped out kingdoms and had pretty good relations with quite a few lords.

 

[Makememove]

If you really want to be evil, kill all those lords you capture and don´t want to join you. Real dictator-style. Also strip those of their ranks and lands who disobey you by not following your call to arms, and kill them when you catch them again. Only thing that might be problematic is in my opinion to recruit from villages - when I played as a good lord I got quite decent troops in large numbers there so I didn´t really have to care about them. Might be you should be friendly to merchants and commonors, maybe thats helping.

 

[bisthebis25]

Without honor : capure peasants as prisonners, kill lord, oh, i need !

 

[Untitled.]

Unless anything has been changed killing lords makes the game more or less unplayable. So don't do that.

 

[bisthebis25]

for relations  or for little number of lords ??

 

[Untitled.]

Well, every single lord, peasant, monk and druid will start hating you, so for relations.