The king raising authority when defeated!

**Handel** · 12-03-2006, 16:42

My new King of England was very stupid - just 1 authority. His nickname was "The Mean" and if I left him as a governor somewhere the happiness dropped greatly.
So I decided to suicide him in the battle and sent him alone vs strong rebels. But was lazy to play the battle myself so pressed "autocalculate". The king was "clearly defeated" and escaped in a nearby city. The next turn I selected him to throw it in the battle again and... suprise! He gained 2 points of authority. After one more battle he become "The scarfaced" or such and I decided to let him live without more suicide missions. Now he is with 8 points of authority and has the nickname "The cunning".

BTW - does someone knows is there a penalty if the king is not in the capital?

**Aenlic** · 12-03-2006, 23:20

Perhaps he gained authority for having the willpower to admit defeat and talking his enraged troops into withdrawing to fight again another day? So the troops see him as being concerned with their welfare and not going off half-cocked in the heat of battle and being suicidal; therefore, his word arries more weight when he actually does go into battl. His troops trust him more because he doesn't ask them to commit suicide. Beats me. Makes an odd sort of sense, though.

**Handel** · 12-03-2006, 23:33

CA created several such "oddities" in the game. Maybe the reason for this is the proberb "What doesn't kill me makes me stronger"... errr... wiser?

**Trithemius** · 12-03-2006, 23:39

Originally Posted by Handel

CA created several such "oddities" in the game. Maybe the reason for this is the proberb "What doesn't kill me makes me stronger"... errr... wiser?

"I will never do that again!" ?

**metatron** · 12-04-2006, 03:50

His scars of battle are indicative of his tenacious ferocity in combat, so despite the losses, people fear and obey him.

**Spartiate** · 12-04-2006, 09:40

Originally Posted by metatron

His scars of battle are indicative of his tenacious ferocity in combat, so despite the losses, people fear and obey him.

Absolutely.Who is going to argue with a guy who charges an enemy army with just his royal bodyguard..............and survives?Not me.That's who

**Kraxis** · 12-04-2006, 13:18

Originally Posted by Spartiate

Absolutely.Who is going to argue with a guy who charges an enemy army with just his royal bodyguard..............and survives?Not me.That's who

Indeed... not only are there tales of that feat, butthe man can actually prove it by his many scars on his face. He is not afraid to get into the thick of it himself. Such a man would have a considerable authority over the peasants.

**Darius** · 12-04-2006, 18:00

If the man had his arm hacked by an axe, his shoulder pierced by a lance, his chest struck by bolts and arrows, and his hip stabbed with a spear, and then he went on to kill 10 more people simply because they decided to wear gray, would YOU ask him to lower taxes?

**Handel** · 12-04-2006, 18:04

I did it again and this time was carefull enough to read the "trait increase" info. It says "gained 2 authority because he proved it is very hard to be killed"

**Alexander: The hellenic empire** · 12-04-2006, 22:56

Makes sence

**Nutranurse** · 12-05-2006, 01:14

Ha, thats a amazing. Hell I know I would poo myself to see him waltz back into town, bodyguard exhausted and some men dead on their saddles, thinking he had been killed by some rebel curs. And to not submit to him? The audacity of that is so immese that I can barely compredhend it...

Just think, some peseant walked up to him and asked, "My liege, why are you so full of marks of battle?"

Then he replys, "Our god sent me the divine inspiration to attack the rebels by myself, all I did was follow."