Favoring Generals with your Daughter's Hand In Marriage

**Graphic** · 12-05-2005, 01:19

Does this offer any benefit other than increased loyalty? Could you marry a princess to a high star/acumen general and get his high command DNA into your royal bloodline?

**ichi** · 12-05-2005, 02:11

Husbands do not become members of the royal line, something that I wished they would do. Seems like when you marry a princess to one of your own gens all that happens is that he gets a loyalty bump.

Use the princesses as spies for a few years befoe you marry them off.

ichi

**Yoyoma1910** · 12-05-2005, 06:51

Well, I've never personally experienced this, but while sitting in a few dark corners I've overheard that if you're ruler dies with no heirs, and you've married off to a general, that general may lead the faithful section of the civil war and take over as a new blood line.

I'm not sure if that really makes sense or is accurate...

but I've heard things...

**Weebeast** · 12-05-2005, 07:45

Originally Posted by Yoyoma1910

Well, I've never personally experienced this, but while sitting in a few dark corners I've overheard that if you're ruler dies with no heirs, and you've married off to a general, that general may lead the faithful section of the civil war and take over as a new blood line.

I'm not sure if that really makes sense or is accurate...

but I've heard things...

Can there be a civil war if there's no king? Who will the "rebel" fight? I'm interested to hear more. If that's true then it's a good news. Last time my russian king died with no heirs and the game was over. I'm sure his daughters were married.

**Yoyoma1910** · 12-05-2005, 07:55

I think it has to do with instareimergergence, a rare phenominon in which a section of your society holds onto your factional heritage after the end of your families reign. And I believe I have heard that marrying off you daughters to your own generals assists in this occurence.

Mind you these are all rumors as far as I know, and from possibly shady, back room sources whose names I cannot reveal (mainly because I can't remember who I heard that from).

My problem is that I tend to hit unfreeze when a previously steril ruler hits around 40, so I just don't know for sure... I'll have to stop cheating I guess, so I can find out more.

**Knight Templar** · 12-05-2005, 08:20

Originally Posted by Yoyoma1910

Well, I've never personally experienced this, but while sitting in a few dark corners I've overheard that if you're ruler dies with no heirs, and you've married off to a general, that general may lead the faithful section of the civil war and take over as a new blood line.

I'm not sure if that really makes sense or is accurate...

but I've heard things...

This has been discused many times before, can the general married to a daughter of a royal family later become a king.
I made an experiment about two months ago (MTW:VI) to check this. I started to play as Polish in early period. I made sure all my princes to die in battles but I married 2 of my princesses to generals. So, when my king died without princes, my faction disappeared without civil war or generals succeeding the thorne.

**lugh** · 12-05-2005, 13:41

back room sources

Everyone knows that the Backroom people don't actually play the games, find better sources!

That's a pity Knight Templar, It's never come to pass that I needed it, but I always marry my daughters to half decent generals in case the royal line takes a dive and a King dies heirless.
And to think of all those times I recklessly charged my King and only heir into battle knowing there was a son in law back home ready to keep the kingdom going!

**The Darkhorn** · 12-05-2005, 15:45

As some of you mentioned, my game just ends when the king dies with no heirs. Is there really a Civil War sometimes? I'm too chicken to experiment I guess. It only has to happen to you once. I had a great GA French game going once and my king died promptly at 56 (still haven't fixed that) with a 14 year old son. Now, I simply hit .unfreeze. when he gets 39 and has no heir. I do proudly say it's the only cheat I ever use. In reality, often some distant cousin or something would get the thrown (um...only from horseback....should be throne). Sometimes there was a ruling family change, but sometimes there wasn't. Your brother's son would become king or something...or even your grandson.

I still think it would be neat that if you died off you could just watch and hope you re-emerge. It would be awesome trying to win back your former kingdom and start over!