How often does your faction produce heirs?

[Bob the Insane]

prompted to either accept or refuse a marriage

Interesting, but you can't setup marriges yourself? Even as part of deplomacy??

[Jacque Schtrapp]

Interesting, but you can't setup marriges yourself? Even as part of deplomacy??

Not so far. It doesn't appear that you need marriages to affect diplomacy since there are so many other factors: demand/offer money, demand/offer province, trade rights, map exchange, safe passage and various other things. It also seems the AI factions are well programmed to use these functions in both initiating and accepting offers as well as countering or refusing inadvantageous offers.

[Bob the Insane]

Sorry to repeat, but I am really looking forward to controling the world with my barbarian family....

Does the whole family tree thing work the same way for the non-roman factions???

[Tamur]

Hmm, good question. Anyone played non-Roman and know whether you've got a family tree to work with?

The family is a really wonderful hook. I've got one guy who was a LOUSY governor (took bribes, allowed tax evasion, added squalor) but I moved him out into the battlefield and he's been raking in the Senate positions -- Consul three years ago, and Consul again this year, with five cities conquered. I moved him out into the field in the hopes that he'd get himself killed, he was that bad of a governor. But he's been really kicking the Macedonians to bits out there! Besides, it's always nice to have a Consul in the family.

However, since he became consul I've noticed that he's starting to give himself surnames! At first he was simply Aulus Scipii, but now he's been:

- Aulus Victor
- Aulus the Lucky

and he's currently calling himself Aulus the Majestic.

[Jeanne d'arc]

Sorry to repeat, but I am really looking forward to controling the world with my barbarian family....

Does the whole family tree thing work the same way for the non-roman factions???

Well i am betting they have it, after all one must have a leader in a large faction in order to work as a whole , even the barbarian ones.Maybe even more a bit adoption based with the barbarians sinds they consisted of many tribes alltogether with eich there leaders.

[andrewt]

Husbands marrying a daughter for me come so rarely that I just accept as long as said guy doesn't have tons of bad vices. Most heirs start at almost nothing anyway and you have to build each and every one.

Does anybody what happens to retainers when a family member dies of old age. My faction leader is getting old and I'm slowly transferring his retainers to other people.

[frogbeastegg]

Thanks, Jacque.

That's rather disapointing; I was hoping for something similar to the family system in paradox's Crusader Kings. Well, I shall have to wait and see the game in action, but it sounds so ... limp, nothing like the real powers the head of a family had. :sighs: I suppose it is a gameplay thing, but until I play I don't know for certain.

[lars573]

I've unlocked the greek cities and have been playing them. The family tree works the same as for the romans. The spartans rule the confederacy of greek cities. So most of your initial heirs have names like Merikos of sparta.