Princess marriage bug

[glasket]

Hi
I am playing as Russia in the grand Campaign.

I used my princess to marry a Danish Family member (The member was NOT a faction leader or heir and I am at war with Denmark). When the family member successfully converted to my side his picture does not appear under my family tree and similarly the princess whom I used to marry disappears from the family tree.
Should the converted family member appear under my family tree?

Further I have one family member (who is the son of one of my family members) who does not appear under the family trees.

Are these two issues bugs in the game or just in my campaign or is this normal?

[Zenicetus]

I had that happen (the first one); a new family member not showing up on the tree, after a successful marriage negotiation by my princess. The family tree programming is very buggy, and this is probably just another example. I had a faction leader with a living father, at one point.

FWIW, princesses are a potentially interesting addition to the game, but I stopped doing much with them after finding out that having them negotiate a marriage resulted in a new general stranded in neutral or enemy territory. I worsened my relations with several factions, and started one war, just by trying to get the new guy home across territory where I didn't have military access rights. So I now use my princesses as diplomats until THEY get a good offer, and I marry them off instead of trying to "score" husbands in distant places.

[Shahed]

Have a look in the bug list sticky on top of the forum... and IIRC there was someone else who mentioned a similar situation. Can't remember but here is a search:

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/searc...searchid=56741

[glasket]

Thanks guys, I figured it may have been a bug.
I looked at the bugs list and it appears that if you marry a princess to a faction heir then he will join your family tree but a normal general will not show up in the family tree. Thats strange and unfortunately buggy.

I will definately use your advise Zenicetus. In almost 180 turns I have only married my princess to other faction generals 2 times just to see how that worked and evidently it turns out to be useless.

[Nebuchadnezzar]

Ahh yeah! and use your new general in a battle and you may get a "man of the hour" with all his traits and ancillaries and then he magically appears in the family tree.

This game is full of surprises.

[Quillan]

It gets better. In my Spanish campaign, I used one of the many princesses I got in that game to steal a French general away. He didn't wind up in my family tree, like happened to the original poster in this thread. SOMEHOW, the game selected him as the faction heir when my king died and the prince became king, still not showing up in the family tree. When that king died and the (formerly French) prince became king, my entire family tree vanished completely! The only thing showing were the greyed out portraits of the original king and queen from the beginning of the game.

[katank]

@ Quillan, that's hilarious. All the generals and so on still show up on the map, right? I hope you don't end up losing the game when that fella kicks the bucket.