To inherit or not, that is the question...

**seireikhaan** · 01-30-2008, 00:11

Bamff, I don't s'pose that we might be seeing this in the Pics and History thread, will we? I'd love to see it, if possible.

**bamff** · 01-30-2008, 00:31

No worries, kamikhaan - I certainly will do. I just wanted to decide which way I was going to jump before writing it up.

Initially I was torn - on the one hand, it was a complete novelty that I had not encountered before. As a result, I did not want to dismiss it out of hand. Also, up until reaching "high", I had to make do with armoured spears as my main spear wall unit. Now I can train voynuk bladesmen and halberdiers, but I still view these two more as the flanking killer units...The Castile-Leonese seem to have been pre-occupied with chiv sergeants, and have gifted me a great many of these units.

On the other hand, it felt a bit like a "cheat" to suddenly score such a large chunk of territory...

I suppose there is potentially an issue with the ongoing loyalty of the various Castile-Leonese generals. They all seem extremely loyal at present, but they aren't Serbian, are they? So I suppose the loyalty question, allied to my inability to train replacement/reinforcement units may keep it interesting...and as somebody else noted, Sicily, the Danes, and Lithuania are all still very strong....and we all know who is coming to the party in just a few short years....hmmm...come to think of it, those Spaniards may get to prove their loyalty in blood when the horde arrives....

**seireikhaan** · 01-30-2008, 01:07

Hmm, you know, I've heard before that your taxes need to be relatively low(ie-not 'very high') to have any chance for this. Which might explain why I've never had it happen, on account of the fact that I have a rather high tendency to break my peasant's backs, regardless of my current financial standing, so long as they remain sufficiently loyal.

**bamff** · 01-30-2008, 01:29

Another possible factor is that the loyalty in all of my "Serbian" provinces was 200% at the time - so maybe the combination of low taxes and population happiness worked in my favour?

**Aldgilles** · 01-30-2008, 11:29

Well, it is such a rare ocurrance (happened to me once in years of playing) you should try how it works to the end. I'm curious t what happenes next, but if I remember correctly loyalty was not an issue with the new provinces...

**Martok** · 01-30-2008, 19:02

Wow bamff, that's one hell of an inheritance. My old roommate once inherited a bunch of Spanish lands as well (he was playing an English campaign), but even that doesn't compare to this!

Originally Posted by Aldgilles

Well, it is such a rare ocurrance (happened to me once in years of playing) you should try how it works to the end. I'm curious t what happenes next, but if I remember correctly loyalty was not an issue with the new provinces...

No, there's shouldn't be any major problems with loyalty. When my friend inherited most of Iberia in his English campaign, most of the Spanish generals appeared to be quite content with their new liege lord; and the provinces themselves were content as well.

**seireikhaan** · 01-30-2008, 20:04

Only issue might be religion. Serbs are Orthodox, while the Spaniards are Catholic. Martok, bear in mind that your friend was likely inheriting a lot of nice, like minded catholics to go along with his own, so that would've made it easier to coralle them.