King's traits and attributes

**Ironside** · 02-22-2008, 10:40

Originally Posted by MJF

does the king's influence affect the prince's traits when they are conceived or when they actually come of age.

e.g. if king has influence of 3 and his wife gives birth to a sone, but then during the next 16 years gains massive influence, say 9, which influence is used to roughly determine the prince's attributes?

v&v is when coming of age, while the stats are from when the last time your king (and that can be the heirs brother) had a stat change, even an invisible one due to being too small (aka winning or losing a battle/province).

The prince's attributes are +3--4 of his "father" (in practice his king), with better rolls the higher the influence is. +3 only happens when the influence is high and the king got low stats and the opposite for -4.

Originally Posted by FactionHeir

Hmmm is it better to have him gain dread or gain happiness though? I remember releasing a few times giving -1 dread but +20 happiness.

They take out eachother, but the dread is inheirited, making it a better stat.

**FactionHeir** · 02-22-2008, 11:51

Hmmm does dread actually have any effect on the battlefield as it does in M2TW?

**Ironside** · 02-22-2008, 12:10

Originally Posted by FactionHeir

Hmmm does dread actually have any effect on the battlefield as it does in M2TW?

Rumoured, but never confirmed.

**Martok** · 02-22-2008, 18:37

Originally Posted by FactionHeir

Hmmm does dread actually have any effect on the battlefield as it does in M2TW?

It doesn't, unfortunately. As Ironside has indicated, this was long-rumoured to be so, but eventually it was figured out that dread has no effect in battles.

At one point CA had indeed planned for this feature to be in MTW -- which is what I believe started the rumours -- but sadly, it never actually made it into the game.