Runaway Bride

**redhen** · 11-17-2006, 00:26

I only had one princess, and I went to marry her off, look what she did;

**Doug-Thompson** · 11-17-2006, 00:30

Ah, young love.

**Scipio Africano** · 11-17-2006, 00:42

Vengeance! Assassinate him I say. That'll teach her to betray her country.

Its difficult to find suitors. The Danes and Spaniards had anticipated my princesses's arrival and quickly married their sons off. 23 and no longer on the market. Only one turn away, curse those slow-moving coaches or whatever.

Taking my sons quite a lot longer to find the right woman.

**Basileus** · 11-17-2006, 00:51

If she did that you where not trying to marry her with him in a diplomatic way but rather to try and persuade him to join your faction by marrying your daughter.

**Quillan** · 11-17-2006, 02:42

I had that happen to me in reverse a couple of turns ago. One of the sons came of age, with 5(!) command stars out the gate. My general in the northwest was getting a little long in the tooth (around 60 or so), so I ran him up there asap to take over. The turn before he arrives, what do I see but some Polish trollop trying to pick him off? Come my next turn, I get the report that she's run off to Byzantium with him! SERVES YOU RIGHT!

**redhen** · 11-17-2006, 04:23

Originally Posted by Basileus

If she did that you where not trying to marry her with him in a diplomatic way but rather to try and persuade him to join your faction by marrying your daughter.

Hmm, I was trying to marry her off to someone in the HRE to get better faction.
I couldn't find any HRE nobility so I settled on this general from Saxony.

I think though that even if this worked it wouldn't really buy me anything.

In order to inherit lands or change faction you have to marry nobility right?

**Quillan** · 11-17-2006, 06:11

Well, if you have either your princess marry their faction heir, or through diplomacy have your faction heir marry one of their princesses, then you'll make a marriage alliance with that faction. Otherwise, marrying one of their unwed generals has a pretty good chance of making that general switch to your faction, but as you've seen it's not certain.