new to eb - question about client rulers

**Eusebius86** · 02-18-2009, 15:56

I just started playing EB after having vanilla RTW for years. I'm doing really well as the Romani, but have a couple questions about the client rulers for type IV govt.

I forget what the city name is, its the farest north one in Italy, before the Alps, but I installed a client ruler there initially to free up my Roman generals and units. This was good for a while, but the buidling options get limited real fast. So I changed to type 2, I discovered quickly that this made my client ruler an imposter, so had to take him out of the city.

My question is, what do I do with him??? I can't make him a governor over any of my other cities (all types I and II) but I can't get rid of him either. Would it be safe to put him in a fort as a general over other units? I would hate to have him turn rebel on me or something like that.

**soup_alex** · 02-18-2009, 16:24

The simple answer would be to tear down the type II government and rebuild the type IV :P
...but the sensible answer would be to use him to take another settlement and make him governor of a type IV government there, instead (Gaul and Iberia have some nice locally-recruitable troops for the Romani)

**-Praetor-** · 02-18-2009, 16:25

First of all, welcome to EB!

Second, you have the choice of killing him by placing him into a fort alone on enemy land, then after that fort gets besieged, make him sally out to attack and dying from the resulting mass rape.

You could make him governor of a fort. Not sure of the utility of him in that situation though. He drains quite a few resources as wages, you know?

You could off course conquer a new settlement and install a type 4 goverment there, and place this guy there.

If I recall correctly, you can turn recruited Generals into client rulers by sending them to a type 4 governed city. But I'm not sure if its possible the other way around by sending a client ruler to command armies on the field.

Cheers.

**bovi** · 02-18-2009, 16:36

Once a client ruler, he'll have slow movement. You cannot change this except by adopting him as Man Of The Hour and adding a few triggers to EDCT which you can find in one of the recent threads in the tech help forum.

**A Very Super Market** · 02-18-2009, 16:46

Just throw him into a rigged battle. Though I like to keep those guys, depending on their upkeep. They get more bodyguards than usual...

**Eusebius86** · 02-18-2009, 17:44

Originally Posted by bovi

Once a client ruler, he'll have slow movement. You cannot change this except by adopting him as Man Of The Hour and adding a few triggers to EDCT which you can find in one of the recent threads in the tech help forum.

If it wasn't for the slow movement, I'd probably keep him around as heavy cavalry... thanks for the advice.

**Ibn-Khaldun** · 02-18-2009, 17:50

Originally Posted by Eusebius86

If it wasn't for the slow movement, I'd probably keep him around as heavy cavalry... thanks for the advice.

I think he have slow movement points because he has 'Celtic Lesser King' bodyguards(who are on foot) and not some Italic general bodyguards with horses.

**Eusebius86** · 02-18-2009, 21:18

Originally Posted by Ibn-Khaldun

I think he have slow movement points because he has 'Celtic Lesser King' bodyguards(who are on foot) and not some Italic general bodyguards with horses.

So why would he get less movement points than a hastati?