How many of you trade Retinue?

**Budwise** · 03-20-2007, 09:59

Originally Posted by Agent Smith

In RTW, I liked trading ancillaries between father and son. It was kind of a neat role playing "inheriting."

You trade his Adultress too? That would be a good role model for
inheriting for the son wouldn't it to "inherit" his mom as a cheap sexual fling. Ewwwwww.

**Didz** · 03-20-2007, 11:08

In the early games I used to routinely pass the positive retinue traits from my older characters to my younger ones. Basically once a character hit 50+ I used to move a younger guy over to him and transfer anything worthwhile across, letting the older guy die a natural death and take the 'Drunken Uncles' with him.

I haven't actually bother doing that with MTW2, and I don't even know if its possible.

**edbenedict77** · 03-29-2011, 02:15

I tried changing retinue from William the conqueror, his drill master to his son Henry and it didn't work then i tried an exp with the venetian faction and the apothecary who was with the Dodge was transferred to councilman barthelomeo.... hummm strange indeed...

**Didz** · 03-29-2011, 10:52

When trading retinue characters you need to be aware that both the generals involved in the trade have to be in the same stack. So, you must move them to meet each other first. That could be the reason for your problem, alternatively it might be because the person you are trying to give the trait too already has one occupying that slot. You can't have two retinue characters occupying the same trait slot, so you might need to dump the one you don't want on a third character to free up the space.

**Myth** · 03-31-2011, 09:29

You can't trade retinue in M2TW like you could in RTW. You can only trade specific artifacts like the relics from the middle east etc. You can't trade Shieldbearers or Hospitalier knight ancillaries.