Suitable Husband

[Kekvit Irae]

it depends who they are marrying.. In my Egypt campaign, I have a 58 year old married to a 12 year old.. and they have a child..

Off topic, that's not uncommon to see among royalty back in those days.

On topic, I accept everyone for proposal. If I get low on family members, I take a captain with a small army out and win a few battles for the "Man of the Hour" event.

[AntiochusIII]

Actually I'm very picky about the marriage. Only the best youngster gets in. A daughter is never to be wasted with a loser...

However, I'm often so low on family members that they'll occasionally offer free adoption opportunities for me time and again. They tend to be ordinary - a bit good - and *without* bad traits. You have to develop them from the start but they tend to be easy with, and young.

The commander from victory adoption tends to be a good general to use...

Suitors often sucks...

Sons of older members often rise up either as junks or superbly skilled, but they always somehow got bad traits..

[Arkantos]

I accept youngster (

[Shadar]

You see, the main problem with waiting is that the older the girl gets, the older the suitors are. In other words, i now accept the youngsters around 20-30 almost instantly unless they have a debilitating problem. This allows me to groom them to become either a great general, or a good administrator. First one, just win lots of battles and he'll get up there in command stars - the harder the better (its not hard. you should be able to get at least 6 stars within 10 years, so you've got a good commander for the rest of his life). In the second, just dump your guy into a city with the academies to boost up his retinue with influence and management ancillaries, then move him to a ungoverned town and start grooming him for better government.

I always seem to be low on family members - which is why i take every one i can. i can usually only manage to keep my capital and most of my important cities governed while keeping 2 standing armies, or more depending on my need.

[Cardinal]

Patch 1.2 will make the suitors more suitable. Anyway (this is just an educated guess though) but I think the female charachters stop having children after 45, so if you female is old(ish), who cares who she marries (except her).

[Oaty]

Well I use a simple formula 30 and younger for a 19 year old or less. Once they hit 20 it's pretty much anyone who will take her under 45 years. The shorter you are in family members the more of them will be young. If I'm close to 1 general per city I may except greater age differences as not too many opportunties present themselves in this case.

Also for those that don't know how to tell who's marrying who, heres how.

You get the message 35 year old Cornelius Scipio wants to marry Fastia. First go to your factions folder, it will automatically minimize the marriage screen. Open your family tree and look for Fastia, you can see her age and if the her age compared to the husbands age is suitable to you tastes you can either accept it or turn it down.

Another thing daughters are a bit preprogrammed from my observation. I noticed this when I ran into a minor bug with one of the husbands. I went back a few turns and the same husband's kept showing up in the exact order. I believe they had some kind of feature in there with possibly civil wars but changed it so that it could only happen to the Romans and did'nt use family members to provoke it.

[Craterus]

I'll allow anyone to marry into the family as long as I think they're useful... or if I might one day need them.. I'm running a bit low on generals at the moment..