Twins...

[Bodew]

I'm playing as the Spanish and by King is breeding heirs like crazy. I've been getting a birth announcement every year. Well I go into my heir screen to see when my next prince will come of age and I notice that I have two 5 year old princess' http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-surprised.gif

Even better I see that I also have two 2 year old princes. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-2thumbsup.gif

Seems the king is shooting with two barrels. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/cool.gif

I have never seen twins before in a game and I was wondering if this has happened to anyone else, and/or if it happens often.

Thanks,

[Sociopsychoactive]

I had it once, and it was really gutting.

My english king had two sons first time around, so effectively two crown princes. Waited till they came of age, noting which was above the other in the listings, thinking that would be the one to get the throne.

When they come of age one is an 11 toed drinker, the other is a greta warrior and natural leader, the stats on the leader are pretty good, the drinker has crap all. To top it off, the drinker seems to be first in line for the throne http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/frown.gif

Then, when my king dies, his brother inherits instead http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif So I get the good king, great warrior natural leader and so-on, but the loyalty of the other twin drops loads, down to about two, and with the loyalty drop of losing a great builder I start worrying about civil war (twins was a VERY common cause of civil war in medieval time) and send him off to die nobly against the germans.

Only time I;ve ever noticed it, but I was very confused for a while there.

[RZST]

i havent had one BUT i would love to have one.

[Eastside Character]

I've once had twin princesses.

Regards,
EC

[Russian Threat]

My Turkish Sultan's wife recently gave birth to twin princes...both with average dread and acumen. Sadly, when both came of age, I lost them in an epic battle vs. The French at Tripoli. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/frown.gif

[RZST]

w00t i just had my 1st twins as hungarians.
one was a 5 star natural leader, educated while other.. um 3 star strange, secret adultery O_O;

[Dîn-Heru]

Are you sure they are actuallly twins and not cousins? http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/idea.gif

[Fortebraccio]

In my current Italian campaign I haven't seen twins yet, but I've seen clones. I have a couple of Francesco Petrarca (he is featured in the game as a 3 star emissary)...talk about plagiarism.

[Seven.the.Hun]

i have had twin princesses also, and a few times, but havent noticed twin princes yet, i wouldnt mind dealing with that royal strangeness, sounds cool

[Ulair]

I have twins... Uh, oh, sorry - that's in real life.

http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-jester.gif

Ulair (father-of-three and Pa de Deux)

[Bodew]

Ulair,

congratulations on being the lucky parent of twins. I also have twins in real life. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/bigthumb.gif

[Seven.the.Hun]

well damn, now where are those rarity triplets, how about a few mammasita triplet princesses...no this might drive home the sibling rivalry thing, hmm http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif

[Nowake]

Happened only once to me http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

[Aymar de Bois Mauri]

Want to have fun?

Write, in the same turn, 3 times .unfreeze. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-wink.gif

[Ulair]

Quote[/b] (Bodew @ Mar. 12 2004,20:49)]congratulations on being the lucky parent of twins. I also have twins in real life. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/bigthumb.gif
Cheers, Bodew http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wave.gif

This is why I ask so many questions at the Org - don't have enough time to play the game and find out for myself http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-smile.gif

Ulair

[Seven.the.Hun]

cool, yesterday i had twin hiers, i agree this is quite interesting, now i shall see how they do... http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-book2.gif

[Lord Ovaat]

Twins? Yeah, I've birthed twins quite a few times over the last year or so, but ONLY if they are gay, adulterers, multi-digited of foot, severe alcoholics, lazy, and terminally obese. Anyone actually seen a sixteen year old secret adulterer in real life? http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif

BTW, congrats to all the twins & trips. One at a time is more than enough for me.

[yonderboy]

Ovaat... I have. Long story, don't ask.

So has anyone had two twins where one didn't have a nearly debilitating vice from the outset?

[Lord Ovaat]

I haven't yet. I think my king's twins are coming from his sister. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-oops.gif

[Bodew]

One of my twins in this case was excellent. 5* natural leader. The other wasn't completly horrible, but did have a bad vice. Can't remeber which one any more, but he was a 4* and a pervert, or something like that. Of course you can guess which one actually became king. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/angry.gif

[VikingHorde]

The twin could be the brother of the king, who was born same year as his son. I't can happen is the heir is married before the king dies. Have newer seen a twin in my games. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-confused.gif

[Apocalyp$e]

Is childbirth randomized or not? I have never had twins in my game, princess or otherwise-sounds cool though, now I will have to play until I get some...
BTW this is kinda off topic but i just found out something weird... My great grand parent on my dad's side had FIVE sets of twins Isn't that crazy? All of them were boys too You could have 2 groups of 5 boys walking around and they would look exactly the same....

[Tricky Lady]

Quote[/b] (VikingHorde @ Mar. 29 2004,21:39)]The twin could be the brother of the king, who was born same year as his son. I't can happen is the heir is married before the king dies. Have newer seen a twin in my games. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-confused.gif
Yeah, I've seen this too. My king died, but the future king was only 5 or 6 years old, so the king's brother took the crown. And then his son (of the same age as the future king) appeared in the royal line too.
It was a pity that the future king had lousy stats though, whilst his nephew had superb stats... http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-disappointed.gif

[JAG]

I havent had twins - i'll keep an eye out for it now tho.

[Tricky Lady]

I was just wondering... Has there ever been any king who had a twin as oldest sons/heirs to the throne?
I remember the movie The Man in the Iron Mask where Leo Di Caprio was playing King Louis XIV and his twin brother, but I suppose that this 'twin' was a result of a creative scenario writer http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-jester.gif
Have there been any real historical twins/heirs to the throne?

[nick_maxell]

Just got (female) twins in my current game - no wonder my King has the chinless wonder virtue as he named them BOTH Arlette - or maybe identical twins and he didn t want to get confused http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-jester.gif

http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/cheers.gif

nick