Quote Originally Posted by katank
They should really force factions to go into debt to ransom their last family members like original MTW.
I agree. I wish they'd let me go into debt to pay ransoms. I'm not very good at keeping a cash reserve and so when I do lose a battle, I almost never can pay ransom. Its a point of pride, though - I really would like to and wouldn't hesitate to go into the red to do it.

One thing that's been bothering me a little is I have yet to bribe a surviving family member from a destroyed faction. I used to do that a lot in Rome - hire these out-of-work generals from factions I'd destroyed. But in M2, they seem to retain their hatred or something.

I'm always looking for capable generals who arn't Selvos in my Venice games. And then I try to maneuver them into being the heir. That is a family very prone to insanity, it seems. I actually managed to do it once and had a German Doge that I'd aquired with a princess by marriage, though it required a big-ol Selvo Family Cruise to the west coast of Africa to accomplish.