The King's acumen

[EatYerGreens]

Hi Fred,

My thinking is that the Chancellery title has an empire-wide effect, much like the king's acumen does, so it does [EDIT: doesn't (gah!)] matter where he ends up residing.

I didn't check for changes when I did it in my campaign, so I can't say for sure how much percentage boost it gives.

Personally, I'd give it to my best acumen gov, assuming he hasn't got two titles already.

Nothing wrong in giving it to a gov with no title yet.

My only concern about roving/static governors is what would happen if I stuffed up, lost a battle and they got captured. I'd expect the ransom to be correspondingly steep. A bit like losing a prince, say.

I'd feel obliged to pay too, if it was a particularly good gov or worse, several of them.

Suffice to say that, conservative player as I am, I keep them off the front line and, time/training slots permitting, they get retrained with my top quality of armour plus church etc morale boosts.

[Ludens]

The effects of acumen differ for governors and kings. A province will see a 10% increase in income for every quill the governor has, and a kingdom will see a 2% increase in income for every quill the King has. The acumen of princes has no effect. You can find this in the numerology thread.

The Chanchelor's acumen has, BTW, no effect on the income of the state either, only the King's has. When I first played the game I thought the chanchelor managed the state finances as well, but it appears this is not the case. The poor king has to do it all.

[EatYerGreens]

Thanks for the clarification, Ludens.

You can find this in the numerology thread.

Well, if it was actually entitled 'numerology', I wouldn't have stopped to look at it, mistaking it for off-topic chat about the flakey mumbo-jumbo of the same name, or arguments over same.


@ichi,

glad you pointed that out. Thanks also.

[Ludens]

Well, if it was actually entitled 'numerology', I wouldn't have stopped to look at it, mistaking it for off-topic chat about the flakey mumbo-jumbo of the same name, or arguments over same.

The thread is pinned over at the .com forums, so it is hard to miss, but I should have told you were to find it. It contains a wealth of information about M:TW.