Province Governors and Acumen

[katank]

ya know, I don't think in VI the extra spies have much effect.

IIRC, only the highest valor spy has an effect even though if they do provoke a rebellion, everyone of em gets a valor bonus.

stacking agents would be cool so that I can really order a swarm attack with assasins or inquisitors.

individually tasking them reminds me of packs of zerglings snapping away at an ultralisk or something.

I have a strange mind... maybe swarm attack association? who knows...

[RedKnight]

yeah it is so boring to move huge numbers of individual clergy too... anyway, it's a great game, eh?

[Doug-Thompson]

Thanks for the kind remarks earlier, ichi, although I think you're being over-generous to me.

Loyalty is almost too obvious to mention, but I will: I disband peasants with four-feather acumen but low loyalty. The title might give enough, but I don't have daughters to use as a Muslim player.

[Tomcat]

Thanks very much for everybody's comments and particularly for so many of the very detailed replies. It really is great to have such constructive responses to what may appear to some to be very basic questions.

I now see this whole issue of Province Governors is quite complex and different people use different strategies depending on the way you play.

My initial comment with regard to "I realise some Virtues are only applicable when the Governor is in residence" may well have been inaccurate - although I do see from some of the responses there are specific V&Vs for this situation when the map is very considerably owned - with regard to this point. For example, the V&V which says "Fervent - +1 Piety, +10% Zeal when governing" I originally took to mean "when the Governor is in residence". Since I have now seen units acquire this V&V when they are not Governors at all, I understand the significance of it!

Rather than leave Provinces completely ungoverned while waiting for that 4 acumen plumer to come along, it occurs to me that if building Peasants for the sole purpose of acquiring 4 Acumen Plumes, it may be a good idea to use those that come along with 2 or 3 Acumen Plumes as "temporary governors" until all the slots can be filled with 4 Plume Governors. The 2 or 3 plume units can be simply disbanded when a 4 plumer comes along and are unlikely to have acquired significant V&Vs in only a few turns. At least it gets those Provinces producing +20% or +30% before you get that 4 Acumen Plume unit.

Lars573 mentioned the probability of Peasants with 4 Acumen Plumes being produced was about 1 in 5. This would seem to tally with my current experience as I have been quite surprised just how frequently they do appear. So the aim of having 4 Acumen Plume Peasant Governors in each Province is not really that difficult to achieve .

Tomcat