Single Player, Companions as vassals/lords, do stats matter ?

[MimiCry]

I have my own Kingdom and granted villages/castles to some of my companions.
All my (former) companions have trainer- and surgery skills about 8 to 10 (trainer is underrated, stacking is awesome). 

It seems once companions are lords, their stats get completely ignored.
Do i miss something ? Is this a bug or is this by design.

 

[RalliX]

I am also curious, because I wish to know whether my lordling companions are any decent at their job.

 

[Vigil80]

I'd like to know this, too.

Someone with their own kingdom right now in the game could try to test it out. Be sure to save your game so you can revert back. 

I think that companion stats can be changed in edit mode, but I've never tried it myself. If so, then the most decisive test might be to make one companion's skills all 0, and the other all 10. Then vassal-ize them both and see how they do.

If edit mode doesn't work that way, just level one companion with CTRL-X, boost the pertinent skills, and then see if there's a difference.