Death of a Retinue

**Tarkus** · 10-01-2007, 17:18

Howdy all,

Can't resolve this through searching the archives so I'll ask the experts myself...

I've been frustrated twice now in my Romani campagin by the death of a successful governor and the associated "death" of his retinue -- even if there is a younger heir / relative waiting in the city to take his place. My latest was in Karali where the governor was well-suited to scrape more than 2500 mnai per turn out of the mines there, only to have the city's income dwindle to about 750 upon his death.

Shouldn't there be a way to explicitly allow another family member in the same city to "inherit" selected elements of a governor's retinue as he dies?

By the way...it's now 237BC and the Maks and Sweboz and on a serious warpath...the Maks have made the Epirotes a protectorate, and the Sweboz have done the same with the Arverni. The Maks wiped out the KH about 5 years ago and are pushing the Getai around pretty well at this point. Invading the Peloponnese will be interesting to say the least!

Thanks!

**Maeran** · 10-01-2007, 17:29

You can do it manually.

When two characters are in the same city or stack, you can open the 'donor' character's card and then click and drag any retinue characters to the receiving family member's slot on the army page in the middle of the interface.

Some ancillaries will not go mind you, because they are incompatible with the character's existing retinue, or because they are loyal to their current master.

**Tellos Athenaios** · 10-01-2007, 17:38

Or because they are present on the receiving end already.

"Family Retainer" won't move.

**Hooahguy** · 10-01-2007, 17:54

in some societies, didnt the servants of a very powerul ruler also kill themselves when they died?

**Tellos Athenaios** · 10-01-2007, 17:57

That but in some cases they were killed as part of the burial ritual etc.

**Bootsiuv** · 10-01-2007, 18:09

I remember hearing something about servants being buried alive with their former masters....not a fun way to go.

**Tarkus** · 10-01-2007, 18:10

Thanks for the quick responses...

I understand about (and sometimes use) the ability to trade and redistribute individual ancillaries. My issue is that I want to keep a particular ancillary with a governor -- thereby gaining the highest benefit from that character -- until the governor dies. AFTER he dies, I'd like to be able to transfer the good characters to the family member that becomes the next governor.

If you don't anticipate the current governor's death, and he dies before you've done the desired transfer, you appear to be out of luck. So I was wondering if there was a way to make this transfer happen as the dead governor is being led away to burial...!

Thanks again...