Hello all, this is my first post on this forum but I've been reading lots of the others.
I have a few questions about Princes and Princesses and how they should best be used.
Firstly Princesses - as far as I am aware are good to marry off to your favoured generals to improve loyalty. This makes sense to me. Do they become peers of the realm in this case? Do they have any right to the throne if they marry a princess?
They can be wed to foreign kings and princes to seal an alliance or secure a peace treaty (ala Henry V) but this means the foreign power may have a claim to your throne if your monarch dies and has no heir. I was wary about doing this at first but now i've been thinking about it, does it matter?? If you have no heir your game ends anyway doesnt it? Or does it mean during a civil war that the foreign power may try to seize the throne?
Lastly princesses can move about freely and effectively 'spy' on other lands, are they vulnerable to assassins etc when doing this?
Next, Princes:
The eldest heir will inherit the throne when the king dies. Where ever he is on the map he will 'teleport' to the homeland and take the thrown. He also gets a small band of Royal Knights as retainers - I assume these are rather better than the other knights in the game?
Princes can make good generals ( sometimes ) but it may be to risky to use them in battle unless you have a few 'spares'. Is there any advantage to using a prince as a general rather than a normal general with equivalent Command level?
Sometimes a prince seems to lose his 'Prince' title and become a Sir or a Lord (cant remember which) - why does this happen?
If a prince and a governer both occupy the same land who is actually ruling it in terms of trade, loyalty, piety etc? Example: I send a Prince leading an English army to invade Scotland - they take the land but must remain there to garrison it against rebellion. I award one of the generals in that army the title 'King of Scotland' to improve his stats. Now is the prince or the general running things?
What happens if the newly appointed 'King of Scotland' moves to another land, who will effectively be running it then?
last question for now.....
If you end up with an heir whose stats are far from good, in what ways can you try to improve him before he becomes king? With generals you can give them titles or marry them to princesses - so how can i improve that 'good for nothing' prince?
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