useless heirs

**andy447722** · 03-24-2005, 14:55

Oh how I hate my royal line.

My latest Sultan atrted with 0 in every category apart from 6 piety!!

How dop I best sort this, BTW his brothers are equally useless!!

**Zarax** · 03-24-2005, 16:17

Jihad a lot and conquer a faction or two.
Building stuff will also help.

**_Aetius_** · 03-24-2005, 17:42

My latest Sultan atrted with 0 in every category apart from 6 piety

oh the horror, be happy in the knowledge that this useless sucession of ruler's will soon lay dead in the inevitable civil war.

**Divine Wind** · 03-24-2005, 19:37

I think its something like every 3 provinces you capture, your king gets a bar of influence (if my memory serves me correct).

Plus if you want to keep that bloodline pure, accidently send those dim witted sons or brothers to invade Islands on there own, where they stand no possible chance of victory.

**King Ragnar** · 03-24-2005, 23:33

If my heirs e no loyalty or every thing else is low i just send them to die in battle

**Togakure** · 03-25-2005, 01:43

I just pluck mine.

**Martok** · 03-25-2005, 08:12

Originally Posted by Divine Wind

Plus if you want to keep that bloodline pure, accidently send those dim witted sons or brothers to invade Islands on there own, where they stand no possible chance of victory.

Or your sons survive their suicide missions--er, I mean "glorious battles"--and actually start to develop some good traits. I've had a number of useless heirs become worth something after they've gone through a few battles they were never meant to survive.

**Uesugi Kenshin** · 03-25-2005, 16:13

I have had that experience as well, after they survive I send them on another suicide mission and another and once they are worth something they get to live and lead real armies. Can't hurt if you have an abundance of heirs.

**Evil_Maniac From Mars** · 03-25-2005, 16:43

Originally Posted by Divine Wind

I think its something like every 3 provinces you capture, your king gets a bar of influence (if my memory serves me correct).

Plus if you want to keep that bloodline pure, accidently send those dim witted sons or brothers to invade Islands on there own, where they stand no possible chance of victory.

I dunno about sending them to conquer places by themselves. I sent one of my heirs with 20 men against a Byzantine army of 2000 men as the Holy Roman Empire, and he held a bridge for almost an hour by my clock. He slew around 1000 men, lost 4, and retreated. I sent him back later and massacred the rest of the army.

**Ash** · 03-25-2005, 17:55

Huh? 20 RKs slew 1000 men? What were they, peasants? Slav warriors?

The best I've seen was one of my High RKs (+3 armour, +4 morale) slaying a couple hundred MS plus at least one hundred Rus spearmen (headon).
I sent one of my crappy heirs to Livonia to get himself killed in one glorious battle, taking on 3 thousend rebels in total.
He survived that battle although his 19 comrades died in the field. Next turn though it was curtains.