Does dealing with rebels harm your King's health ?

[Jxrc]

Silly question at firt glance but bear with me a second.

I start to have the feeling that once your king has reached his fifties, it becomes "dangerous" to have to use the pop screen asking you to kill/enslave/free the rebels and ringleaders since most of the time you king dies just after ...

Been playing the game (VI with the official patch and nothing else) for ages and it something that I have not noticed for more than a few months so perhaps I am completely wrong about this... Just wondering if anyone had the same impression.

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[CrazyGuy]

I'd be surprised. If anything I've found the opposite, the more I use my king the longer he lives. The benefits of exercise I suppose! Sitting around in his capital just makes him fat and lazy and untimely dead.

[Martok]

I'd be surprised. If anything I've found the opposite, the more I use my king the longer he lives. The benefits of exercise I suppose! Sitting around in his capital just makes him fat and lazy and untimely dead.

Seconded. Battles seem to give the old guy vigor.

[Jxrc]

Sorry guys but that was not my point. Apologies if I was not 100% crystal ...

My impression is that if you suppress a rebellion (whether using your king or another general), you will get the pop-up screen asking you what is to be the fate of the captured rebel and that once you select one of the three option available you have very good chance that your king will die immediately afterwards if he is beyond 50. Imagine that you have to provinces A & B, your king (52) is in province A and B revolts. You use your best general (and not your king) to deal with the rebels. You select the "Kill them all" option in the post battle pop-up screen and surprise your king dies ...

From my experience it usually happen when I decide to kill all captured rebels (but I almost always select that option). Perhaps it could be due to some reason like if you king's stats get modified after he is 50 (+1 dread) he basically dies immediately. Have not tested it extensively but once I had my faction become extinct and made a few reloads ... After three attempts (fighting each time the same silly battle) my king got past 53 when I selected "kill the ringleaders" (no V&V gained) rather than "kill them all" (would have gained swift justice +1 dread if had not died) ... Could be just a coincidence but I found it puzzling. I was to happy to have "solved" the problem to consider testing more and was wondering if anyone giot the same kind of hunch ...

I have seen some weird stuff regarding king's death ... Some might remember that after VI but before the patch all kings were doomed to die when 56 ...

[Martok]

Ah, I see what you're saying. My apologies.

That's an odd one, Jxrc. I've not noticed any particular effect from executing everyone, but then I only rarely excercise that option. (I only kill all the rebels if they rise up in a province I already own, which doesn't happen to me very often.)

[Innocentius]

My experience goes against that of CrazyGuy's and Martok's, since my kings tend to die just about after any physical activity past the age of 50, so I guess you could be onto something, Jxrc, although from what I know doing anything with a 50+ king is harmful to him. Of course, this might only be for the better of you realm, since your new king will gain the throne at a younger age, giving him more time to earn influence and produce plenty of heirs.

[Geezer57]

I start to have the feeling that once your king has reached his fifties, it becomes "dangerous" to have to use the pop screen asking you to kill/enslave/free the rebels and ringleaders since most of the time you king dies just after ...

Hmmm, I haven't noticed any link between rebels and my ruler's life expectancy, but then I usually only kill the ringleaders (the neutral choice), as I don't like to take chances with random V&V's.