Quote Originally Posted by Andronikos View Post
I would like to know a few things.

Firstly, when you play a dynasty based faction, how you choose your faction heirs? Do you leave it as it is (the AI chooses brothers), or do you choose your own according to some houserules?

I prefer to keep a line, the heir is the eldest son. If the king has only daughters, he is chosen among kings brothers and sons-in-law as the most able. If the heir is going to be really crappy FM with bad traits, the heir becomes the most able from his brothers, uncles and brothers-in-law (brothers have higher priority). I tend to preserve the family name (like Syriakos or Baktrios).
By the most able I mean: highest influence, good traits or some deeds he has done before, like conquering an important region, victory in an important battle, governing capital or other important city.


Secondly I would like to ask how it was in reality, if being firstborn was important and how future kings were chosen (yeah, I know that in many cases knives played an important role when somebody thought that he would be a better king )
I also keep them alive. Their back name, their ethnicity and if possible, a father (first) son line.

I achieved this with Epeiros, Klearchos Aiakides was the Mollossian Basileus when I was finished, he was S/C/V and U/O/L, He excelled in the Spartan Agoge and conquered a lot of regions. He had three sons ready to go on if I wished to play further, Menandros Aiakides was ready to follow in his footsteps. Klearchos was the son of Pyrrichos Aiakides, who was son of Ptolemais Aiakides who was son of Pyrrhos Aiakides. Here I always got the firstborn as the most able, if the firstborn was a moron however, I would look to brothers and then the closest Molossian Aiakides to follow.

I really like the dynasties, I always try to keep them alive... In my Arverni campaign I sadly had, that my Arverni family members only got daughters....

~Fluvius