Quote Originally Posted by oz_wwjd View Post
This is kinda off-thread but when I attempted to play Scotland using the XL mod, the fact that the scot King wouldn't stop producing heirs drove me to the brink of bankrupcty. I had about a WHOLE STACK of just royal bodyguards and the upkeep on them was insane. I hate to think how the AI handles that kind of minus on it's income..
This actually bankrupts the AI. If you run the game in debug mode and switch factions to check treasuries, you will notice that the Danes suffer the most and are in the red after only a few turns - the same happens to the Aragonese as well. This is because of the heirs maturing and the faction controlling only one province.

In fact if you turtle a campaign as the Danes and try to take only the Scandinavian lands at first it is extremely difficult to stay afloat financially. Playing on huge unit size you will probably have to disband many of your own units in order to break even.

Yohei