Inheriting lands

[gunslinger]

Has anyone ever inherited lands because they married a princess into a faction that later lost its royal line? When you allow your princess to be married off , you get a message saying that this might happen, but in over a year of playing MTW, I've never seen it.

[caravel]

It does happen though it is rare. I think it's happened to me about 4 or 5 times playing the game since it was first released. The trick is to keep taxes low. None will join your faction if your taxes are too high. This may also be related the happiness of the province. The maximum is 200% but the game can probably handle far in excess of that internally, it just displays 200% to the user though. It seems that factions are more likely to join your faction when the happiness is ridiculously high. I had this happen as the English years ago, when I inherited the Danes' lands. Basically I married my heirs to all of his daughters, kept takes on normal, built town watches, watch towers, border forts churches etc over , to improve happiness and then assassinated the Danish family line. Bang all of their provinces joined my faction. I've tried this a few times ever since with various faction and have had limited success, but it does happen occasionally.

[Martok]

I've inherited lands a number of times, although it's still a pretty rare occurrence. I myself haven't noticed Caravel's observance that there may be a link between happiness and provinces joining your kingdom; but he could very well be right, since I've never paid particular attention to that aspect. Even if maximizing your peoples' happiness matters, though, I still doubt a player's chances of inheriting land from a defunct faction is greater than 10% or so. Unfortunately, it just doesn't happen that often.

Also, just to clarify: You won't inherit lands by marrying off your princesses--you'll only inherit lands by marrying your sons to princesses of other factions.

[caravel]

I've inherited lands a number of times, although it's still a pretty rare occurrence. I myself haven't noticed Caravel's observance that there may be a link between happiness and provinces joining your kingdom; but he could very well be right, since I've never paid particular attention to that aspect. Even if maximizing your peoples' happiness matters, though, I still doubt a player's chances of inheriting land from a defunct faction is greater than 10% or so. Unfortunately, it just doesn't happen that often.

Also, just to clarify: You won't inherit lands by marrying off your princesses--you'll only inherit lands by marrying your sons to princesses of other factions.

I don't get this as much now as I used to, this is because when I started out playing the game I used to keep taxes on normal and never set them to high unless I was desparate for cash. I had since adopted the bad practice of Using the highest taxes I can possibly get away with, and amass a huge treasury. I've continued like this now after years of playing. This is why I never see any faction's old lands joining my faction. Also since the AI taxes to the hilt, you never see wiped out faction's lands joining them either.

[Kavhan Isbul]

Actually I have seen an AI's faction to inherit another AI faction's lands once or twice, once at least. But it happend extremely rarely, that's for sure.

[bamff]

Are the rules governing re-emergences in any way similar to this? In my last campaign, as Sicily, my chief rival was England. The English carved out a truly massive empire before my assassins finally pruned the royal family tree back down to nothing.....and then a couple of years later the Danes re-emerged in all provinces from Flanders to Novgorod and as far south as Austria! It is the only time I have seen a re-emergence in more than about 3 provinces...