Babies

[Megas Methuselah]

Sure. But seeing as how that number is inexplicably tied with the number of provinces owned, the number of family numbers will inevitably be well below infinite.

[Chris_]

There must be hardcoded max number of FMs you can get

From what I've seen, saves store it as a 16 bit number, so its probably 65536 (or it might be 32767, if they used a signed one). Unless there's some sort of cleverness going on that I didn't see. But you would have to play for a very long time to get that

[satalexton]

i doubt thats possible considering....It'll be 4AD before it reaches half......unless u somehow manage to bribe over every single FM there is in the game.....or maybe somebody whould try that? >_>

[antisocialmunky]

I know that after a certain point, recruited generals in BI would lack the general.

[Chris_]

The actual limit may be lower than the number I mentioned, as that number was the techical maximum limit based on actual space used to store the number. However, the engine might impose a logical limit on the number of family members. The same is done with provinces, from what I know.

[HayGuy]

The number of children born to a faction, is that affected mainly by the number of provinces you have in addition to ancillaries/traits or is that only MTW2?

[Aemilius Paulus]

The number of children born to a faction, is that affected mainly by the number of provinces you have in addition to ancillaries/traits or is that only MTW2?

Not, RTW mechanics in this regard are identical to the MiNO (M2TW) ones. But I have never had an FM have less than four children. Not unless an adopted general took place of one of the FM's children.