How to make those bastards serve me?

[Procrustes]

In games where I've had a bad reputation I never managed to get vassalls. However, I got my reputation up in my Turkish campaign, and had both Egypt and Hungary as my vassalls, althought they soon backstabbed me.

You can get your reputation back up, if you can be bothered, I'm not sure its worth the trouble. Anyway, if you do hope to just:

Always occupy conquered settlements
Always release prisoners
Keep good relations with factions
Set low taxes
Get high chivalry Generals
Make alliances and keep them
Attack factions with bad reputations

EDIT: Also better change this thread title before a mod sees it...

And don't use assassins - they take away chivalry and give you dread. This annoys me - I'm supposed to just sit there and watch a bunch of priests (or imams if I'm a Catholic faction) and other nasty guys running around my territories without knocking them off? No way.

[Askthepizzaguy]

And don't use assassins - they take away chivalry and give you dread. This annoys me - I'm supposed to just sit there and watch a bunch of priests (or imams if I'm a Catholic faction) and other nasty guys running around my territories without knocking them off? No way.

Then put them underneath your boot and STOMP them.

Surround the idiot agent in question with up to 8 little units on all sides. Then, once you're sure the agent cannot move (click the agent and look for yellow movement regions) STOMP HIM LIKE A BUG!!!

(move one unit into the middle of your donut of death)

Agghhh.... ughhh.....

Mmm... what a satisfying noise.

Cheating? Let's just say my soldiers 'captured' this foreign agent and held him on suspicion of espionage. Any non-spy or assassin isn't hidden anyway, and should my men choose to arrest this foreign mischief maker, that's my business.

Then, to the chopping block. I've no more space in my jails.