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    Bringing down the vulgaroisie Member King Henry V's Avatar
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    Do you have cash problems? Is your treasury bleeding more than a haemophiliac? Find too much money is being taken out of the till? Then there is one easy solution: get rid of your family members! Just move them out of your cities and send them for a nice long holiday in the countryside, coupled with a bit of brigand hunting. Most of the time, you'll find your decifit might turn into a profit and your citizens will be happier to get rid of the lazy scroungers!
    This what I just did in my ERE campaign. I had gone up to about 40000 dinarii, then I just plumeted overnight. At one point, the exchequer was just gushing out money at the rate of about 9000 florins a turn. I was reaching the bottom when I decided that I should try to take my family members out of the cities, and I soon had a pretty sound annual profit coming my way (6000 dinarii per turn). My treasury did slump that turn to the lowest point ever, just two dinarii, but that was because the Goths plundered Thessalonika.
    Now I'm going smash those Sassanids once and for all and take back old Constantinople!
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    Well, I do think that every faimly member should oppose 1-2 cities. So if you have 10 family members, you should have 15 cities and so on. That way, you can't blame your goverenors for they high upkeep. High upkeep means good quality, so use them in battles to gain more cities to support that opposition is a better thing to do.
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    Dyslexic agnostic insomniac Senior Member Goofball's Avatar
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    Default Re: Get rid of 'em

    Quote Originally Posted by King Henry V
    Do you have cash problems? Is your treasury bleeding more than a haemophiliac? Find too much money is being taken out of the till? Then there is one easy solution: get rid of your family members! Just move them out of your cities and send them for a nice long holiday in the countryside, coupled with a bit of brigand hunting. Most of the time, you'll find your decifit might turn into a profit and your citizens will be happier to get rid of the lazy scroungers!
    This what I just did in my ERE campaign. I had gone up to about 40000 dinarii, then I just plumeted overnight. At one point, the exchequer was just gushing out money at the rate of about 9000 florins a turn. I was reaching the bottom when I decided that I should try to take my family members out of the cities, and I soon had a pretty sound annual profit coming my way (6000 dinarii per turn). My treasury did slump that turn to the lowest point ever, just two dinarii, but that was because the Goths plundered Thessalonika.
    Now I'm going smash those Sassanids once and for all and take back old Constantinople!
    This only applies if you governors have money-costing vices (i.e. "Embezzler"). Some governors actually enhance city revenue based on their traits/retinue. Just read up on each family member before banishing them to the boonies.
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    Family members should have some qualifications before being assigned to cities as governors. I leave them in a town with "higher education" institutions until they have an entourage. Also, strip some characters of their entourages and assign them to "good" family members, making those governors.

    It's amusing to remove some family member's "mistress" and assign her to another.
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    I just started a new Brutii game in 1.5 (hadn't played a Roman since my first game, so I thought it was time---and they're SO much easier than everyone else!) and built an academy in Tarentum; the governor there picked up 3 retainers with management bonuses in the first turn, so I may send him on a tour of the provinces to drop those off to his brothers, then go back for more.

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    Default Re: Get rid of 'em

    The rules are simple.
    If governor descreases city income while in city and has no other useful benefits (like better public order), then don't have him in the city, use him like cavalry or if having good command as general.
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    Default Re: Get rid of 'em

    Quote Originally Posted by Doug-Thompson
    Family members should have some qualifications before being assigned to cities as governors. I leave them in a town with "higher education" institutions until they have an entourage. Also, strip some characters of their entourages and assign them to "good" family members, making those governors.

    It's amusing to remove some family member's "mistress" and assign her to another.
    Call me stupid, but i never realised you could actually do that! How do you do it?
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    Just make sure they are in the same army or city. You then select the guy whose retinue you want to give away and it's 'drag and drop'...

    Note that generals can have a maximum of eight retainers and obviously no doubles. (Also, have fun with clicking away the 'retinue expands'-messages).

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    Default Re: Get rid of 'em

    Quote Originally Posted by Herakleitos
    Just make sure they are in the same army or city. You then select the guy whose retinue you want to give away and it's 'drag and drop'...

    Note that generals can have a maximum of eight retainers and obviously no doubles. (Also, have fun with clicking away the 'retinue expands'-messages).

    Thankyou!
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