transfering retinue between family?

Is it actually possible (and if so, how do I do it?)

thanks,
Clare

Yes it is possible...and very useful I think.

Have the generals in the same stack; open the general who is giving-drag and drop the members of the retinue onto the portrait of the receiving general (portrait on lower bar; where army is shown) It can be done with subterfuge agents as well; want to give a youngon a dancing monkey from your 92yr old spy? Follow the same process. Outside of a city, subterfuge agents can only be stacked if accompanying an army.

When a new member comes of age I usually grant him all the priests, retinues the current governor has and then send him away to fulfill another duty. The governor will get the same ancillaries (temples related) I took off him back in the following turn. Just a tip ~;)

Though for some reason some ancillaries can't be combined, which can be quite annoying if you don't know which don't work together...

Thanks for the tip, I did not know how to do this, so now I will be able to make my new young Seleucid heir into the powerhouse he should be, though he is already ancillary happy! ~:cheers:

As much as I like this feature I never use it and don't plan to. As of right now unless you pick one of the smaller or geopolitically challenged factions the game isn't very hard on H or VH levels, especially once you've gotten your economy on its feet and can build armies of size and of decent quality. Mixing and matching retinue members only serves to make the game easier. I rather enjoy having less than stellar family members interfering with my grand plans. I think it takes the fun out of the game if every heir instantly becomes an Augustus or Alexander simply because you can swipe retinue members from aging family members to keep them from disappearing.

Furthermore does the AI even exchange retinue members between its own family members? If it doesn't that's even more of a reason to not take advantage of this feature.

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Originally Posted by Spino

As much as I like this feature I never use it and don't plan to.

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I seldom use it either just because it's too much micromanagement.

Once established, the payoff is rather small in since I never seem to be lacking money or high rank generals.

I only plan to make my faction heir/leader young and good, otherwise you end up being communist Russia with leaders that are constantly spitting up blood and unable to walk to the outhouse, I prefer to have my heir combat capable and even better once he takes the reigns.

I think AI does swipe mmebers. Ever seen those uber senate general??