Quote Originally Posted by TinCow
That said, I do see a major potential in your levy idea: ownership. I get the sense that people really, really like "owning" things in the cataclysm. They like being able to look at the map and say "That city and that army are mine. No one else can take them away from me against my will unless they pry them from my cold dead hands." That gives people a great deal of incentive to protect their assets and accumulate more. It is the basic building block of a true balance of power and a proper political system. While basic KOTR rules can "give" people Counties, I doubt many of us have really identified with them to a great extent.
I can't speak for how it would have been precataclysm, since I just joined, but I can say that during it the system TCset up makes a big difference. When I was first put in charge of Antwerp, I thought it was great, but I didn't strongly identify with the city, and wrote a back story having my character coming from elsewhere.

Then when Tincow posted this past turn, and I saw my character's options and resources (including florins per turn) limited entirely in terms of my County it made a huge difference. I became determined to defend it, and to try to prepare to get deguerra's county(Bruges) back, to protect my and my allies resources.

In one day I became so attached to my county I hoped very strongly that Hummel would not order me to abandon it and join him in the south, and prepared arguments to try to change his mind if he did. This was all a result of a feeling of ownership that would be lacking if if my resources and armies came entirely from the Chancelor. Even now I'm planning on the best way to face the French army that will be bearing down on Antwerp after it takes Bruges, and worrying about what the many Danish stacks in Franconia are up to.

I think that feudal levies will contribute a feeling of ownership after the cataclysm.

I don't suppose those armoured and mounted sergeants my guy spawned with can be part of my levy? I've grown attached to them as well, as an aspect of my background story that showed up ingame. I'll start with points in the hole if neccessary.