do princes get divorced

[barocca]

I have had a number of married "crown" princes, who not only lose their armour upgrades when they inherit the throne,
but who also were married when they were prince,
but when they ascend the throne they are unmarried...

do they do a "henry the 8th"? http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/ceasarno.gif
B.

[Rufus]

I've noticed that too. My assumption was maybe the poor girl (the first wife) died in childbirth or something.

[ah_dut]

They died how is irrelevant http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-jester.gif

[Tricky Lady]

I've had also several first princes who were born before my King got married.

He he, another bastard made king... http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/tongue.gif

...but it fits in the historical context...

[katank]

I don't know about marriage thing but the armor upgrade one is possible to explain.

when they ascend, they get teleported to capital which is most developed province and the unit is treated as if retrained there.

thus, since there is auto-replenishing for king units, I tend to go with warrior kings to abuse the free cav feature.

I also tend to use my crown prince heavily in combat so when he is about to be king, he has very few men left. when he is made king, voila, free full unit now http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

heirs get upgrades depending upon retraining or the province they were in when they were born so it's conceivable that the heir was in a less developed but armor granting province and thus the heirs gets armor and he loses it when he become king and teleports to the capital which has no armor buildings.

[Ludens]

Quote[/b] (katank @ June 10 2004,00:04)]when they ascend, they get teleported to capital which is most developed province and the unit is treated as if retrained there.
Exactly how is the capital determined? I know it is the province with the most advanced palace, but what if you've got two of those?

[Tricky Lady]

In one of my Byz campaigns, I owned err... Carpathia (the province north of Wallachia), where I built a metalsmith, and since then all my "new" emperors were teleported to Carpathia (to get a +1 weapon upgrade) even when Constantinople was upgraded to +2 armour. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-confused.gif

Probably weapon upgrades > armour upgrades?

[katank]

number of buildings and tech level all part of the equation.

don't know for sure as this is about as random as the most tech advanced thing.

I just build constantly and usually don't pay much attention to this.

[Xiphias]

It's the province with the most buildings, I don't know whether upgrades count as buildings but I don't think so.

[Tricky Lady]

I can't remember exactly, as it happened in one of my first MTW campaigns (v1.1), but it would seem a bit odd to me that I would've teched up Carpathia better than Constantinople? http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wacko.gif

[Oaty]

Quote[/b] (Tricky Lady @ June 11 2004,12:01)]I can't remember exactly, as it happened in one of my first MTW campaigns (v1.1), but it would seem a bit odd to me that I would've teched up Carpathia better than Constantinople? http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wacko.gif
Constanople may have been more teched up but carpathia could have had more buildins especially if you took it from the comp. There could be an inn, metalsmith, a seige engineers workshop, brothel, tavern and possible more. Even though Carpathia does'nt have a high tech level it has more buildings wich causes this.

[katank]

the AI usually tries to build all the buildings in a level before going onto the next level of castle provided the province has no specialty builds or the AI will try to tech to that ASAP.

[solypsist]

you sure it's the same prince?
usually when a king is made, the heirs list changes a little, and you may be looking at "new" heirs