Titles and Offices

[.:vVv:.Monkey]

I actually micro-manage all my governors, I keep an emissary in all provinces and as soon as a governor's acumen drops due to some negative V&V, I immediately replace him with a better governor (if available).

[ichi]

Totally manage my generals and governors. While I usually want my highest acumen guys for the best provinces, sometimes those command stars that come to the guvs of certain provinces are more important for a fighting gen, so I may sacrifice a few acumen to get makea 4-star into a 6.

Plus, there's lots of factors in assigned the non-guv titles, I want to put them where I need them.

This is just a matter of style. Some folks don't have the patience or the desire to manage their guvs, they want to fight and conquer. I enjoy the entire experience, managing an empire while taking over the world. and to me, auto-assign is basically telling the comp to play the game for me. But its OK if you auto-tax or auto-assign, whatever makes the game fun. Its all good.

ichi

[m52nickerson]

I tend to mirco manage titles until later in the game. When my empire get very large I tend to not care, as long as I hve positive cash flow and no problem provences. Then I wait and clean house every ten to twenty years.

[Patron]

Later in the game I just train a royal knight per province i own, give him the title and let him live in opulent splendour in his castle for the rest of the game, occasionally assassinating, framing for treason and burning on the stake them for fun. Though this one time I pick only acumen 5 generals and build 20% farms and destroy them over and over in order to give them the magnificent steward virtue and get provinces with a 1500 florins per turn agricultural income.

Do whatever you want, you're the king.

[Roark]

I micro-manage every title no matter how big my empire is, and I restrict governorship to gentry or nobility class units only.

[m52nickerson]

Later in the game I just train a royal knight per province i own.......

I may try that. Do you get any good generals by training royal knight? I'm always looking for more generals to lead armies.

[lugh]

I may try that. Do you get any good generals by training royal knight? I'm always looking for more generals to lead armies.

When you're King is very high influence you receive better generals. Now I haven't researched this, but it always seems to me that when you're training RKs and say feudal troops, the RKs reeeive a disproportionate amount of very good generals.
that being said, I crusade a lot, so I never have problems with generals, it's not uncommon for me to have 7-9* heirs very quickly and the ones that don't inherit go on to be generals.

[Knight Templar]

I micromanage, always. I've seen computer giving a city of Constaninopole to a general with 4 command but only 1 acumen. I'd not like 1a general governing my richest province while having only 1000-2000 florines in my cash.

[yesdachi]

I tend to mirco manage titles until later in the game. When my empire get very large I tend to not care, as long as I hve positive cash flow and no problem provences. Then I wait and clean house every ten to twenty years.

That is pretty much how I do it but instead of every 10 to 20 years for a house cleaning I will check on any gov in a stack I am looking at the time and if they are bad I usually swing the ax on them, no questions asked. “Exclusive Trader” my a$$, you don’t steel from the Kingdom.