Incest isn't working

**Bartholemew-Varath** · 04-26-2008, 23:59

Like the others said, you can only marry your princess to your Faction Heir if they are cousins or even more distantly related, you cannot marry a brother to his sister, this probably stops you spawning uber generals at the start of the game by marrying your best princess to a great general, imagine france doing that, Constance and some other general, theyd have awsome children, so i might be slightly unfair, if you see my point

**PBI** · 04-27-2008, 01:54

You could do this in the original MTW, although it is not a good idea since your character and his sons will get very bad traits as a result; I sometimes did though when all the foreign princesses were stubbornly refusing to marry into my family and my family line was in danger of dying out; in MTW, only the faction leader would marry of his own accord, you had to arrange marriages for the heirs, so if you'd gotten sloppy about it you could find that your new king ascends to the throne aged 65, unmarried and with no heirs. This is the only way I've ever actually lost a campaign in a TW game.

But then, in MTW, the game would let you assassinate your own faction leader, even if it will result in you losing the campaign. Not generally a great idea, but nice that the option was there if you wanted it.