Treason

[zobicus]

Treason ramps up like crazy.

In the two campaigns I've run, in the latter part of the game I see 5-10 lords a day get convicted of treason.  Lords disappear while I am chasing them.  I slaughtered this one lord's army and the next day I was chatting him up as a fellow lord of my faction!  It gets a bit silly, when I am wondering if I should stop killing their armies because later in the week they will be on my side, and I don't want to get too negative on my relation with them.  Vuldrat is probably the worst, he was on 3 different factions in the same week...

 

[CL0VER0]

Its just a part of the game. A faction with a lot of fiefs will draw in more Lords and a faction with less will start kicking Lords out. A lot of it is random so it almost acts as an auto balance feature. It is a common tactic to not take any Lords prisoner so that if they eventually end up on your side they will like you, but at the same time you have to be careful as a lot of Lords take it as an insult

 

[zobicus]

Yeah I like to take the lords prisoner so I can reduce their offensive capability.  Like recently I had 5/11 of the Khergit lords in my castle's prison.  I could then focus on our other front and refused the next couple of offers for their release, as I had a lot of honor built up so I could take a couple dings to my honor.

The other thing that really ramps up late in the game is the kings don't seem to trust anybody any more.  My king, the Sultan, trusts myself and our marshal and refuses to award fiefs to anyone else besides us two and him.