My tips on efficient campaign play

[katank]

try it on a newly conquered province. a 0 dread is sure to drop the loyalty 5 or so.

I've often forgone a gov for a turn or two if I don't have decent acumen sufficiently dreadful fella around.

It's a tough decision as more cash always helps a rush but a big loyalist rebellion or the like can stop your rush cold.

so you captured a reasonable income province and have a 0 dread, 4 acumen fella around but not enough troops to garrison as you need to push on. what do you do?

[Blodrast]

hey, K., is that a rhetorical question ?
If I were you (i.e., blitzing), I'd forget the 0A 4D guy, and just appoint some geezer with 2-3 dread and noe significant acumen. This way I can happily whip about in a blitz of glory.
What I usually do (unless it's beginning of the game, when more or less everyone needs to rush), is just churn more troops and wait until the province is happy with a decent acumen gov and its peasant garrison. If I'm particularly bored, I'll let them rebel and see what funny VnV's I get from training a jedi...

[afrit]

I don't have MTW with me right now to test this, but I think that moving a governor into his own province improves loyalty a few percent, regardless of his qualities otherwise. That's one reason I tend to station them in their provinces (other than getting building virtues).

afrit

[Blodrast]

they get "builder" virtues anyway, they don't need to stay in their province.
AFAIK, this is not true for "steward" virtues, though.
But I most certainly have had builder/great/magnificent builder govs who were not sitting in their own province.

[katank]

yep, rhetorical.

I don't believe in govs staying in their own province.

I instead stack them together and move them around all the time.

I move them with the crown prince to where the buildings are completed next turn.

tons of completions means tons of good v&v's.

frequent travel also seem to reduce vice rate.

if they become a bit corrupt, I stick them into frontline stacks and keep em fighting until they are either brave beyond belief and reborn saints or dead.

[Maeda Toshiie]

"frequent travel also seem to reduce vice rate."

For laziness and drunkness only.

"if they become a bit corrupt, I stick them into frontline stacks and keep em fighting until they are either brave beyond belief and reborn saints or dead."

The vices that come along due to empire bloating is very irritating. I tend to get those money grubbing guys killed on the battlefield and appoint new ones (who again have short lifespans).

[Duke of Gloucester]

Originally posted by katank
try it on a newly conquered province. a 0 dread is sure to drop the loyalty 5 or so.

Sorry, Katank. I didn't explain myself properly. This is exactly what I did. I had just conquered Castile. The happiness went up, but not much. I suspect that MT's suggestion about piety matching the piety of the province provides the explanation.

Note, I am not suggesting that zero dread governors should be used, just saying that they don't always reduce happiness in a province. Your choice of governor should depend on the province and how rebellious and rich it is, how many troops you have and what you need to do next and your general style of play. I suspect I play more slowly than you, so I don't mind waiting while a province settles down before going on to the next one.