Quote Originally Posted by gunslinger
I prefer to give the titles to high accumen generals. The increased tax revenue easily pays for a few extra units of peasants or vanilla spearmen to garrison the place. I always leave enough of a garrison to keep taxes on very high with happiness around 200%. That way if I get an unexpected excommunication or my king gets cut off, I have plenty of wiggle room to temporarily reduce taxes to normal or so and prevent rebellions.
Obviously. Under normal circumstances you will want to find those with both high dread and accumen, if they've got very high dread however you may want to use them as a temporary solution to help stabilise a province like Lithuania or Portugal when the bloat effect hits.