Goveners...?

[Morindin]

IMO, it was better in MTW, where you could physically assign a particular unit, general or not, to be a province's governor. In RTW you can disable the auto-manage features for building units and strucutres, but you won't have direct control over the tax rate without having a Gov/Gen actually in the city. In the main menu you can disable this feature all together and control everything, but your city won't benefit from the added management skills (RTW's Acumen equivalent) of a proper Gov.

It wasnt better - it was just "different". I always thought it was silly in MTW how you could assign a govener of a province, and then he didnt have to be around AT ALL to govern that province.
I could argue that RTW is better as it's more realistic AND puts game balance checks in place, but I wont because I realise its just my opinion.

However in the later stages of the game youll probably end up with more family members than cities anyway, I've got about 30 of the buggers now, and you realise that captians can be adopted to family members after winning battles right? Send captians to clear out all those annoying brigands that keep popping up and you'll have the biggest family in no time.