Swarm of Princesses (Bug?)

**Jush** · August 12, 2007, 05:16 PM

Currently on year 1115 in my HRE Campaign (M/H), and something seems to be going amiss... my empire is covered in wandering princesses! I'm not exaggerating, I have never played a campaign and seen this. There are at least three princesses standing outside each of my cities, all doing that silent bow thing but not engaging in diplomacy (I assume they're trying to bribe or marry my governors). I tried to marry them to my family, but I have terrible relations with every faction except my ally, England. I would say there's a total of about 15 princesses walking around inside my borders, and it's really starting to piss me off...

Has anyone else experienced this in TLR? Are they sending their princesses to me because every faction hates me, or is this possibly some sort of family tree bug?

**Xeno_cws** · August 12, 2007, 06:41 PM

I've seen spain have close to ten all together once (most where spanish if that matters).

The main problem is that with so many factions now having princess' (muslim and new) that overall there's a large increase. Plus by 1115 most princes are already married, same with generals so princess don't have anything to do but wander around.

Both these coupled together results in quite a few on the world map.

Edit- The silent bow thing is them trying to bribe/marry your generals. It usually takes the ai many turns before it goes off to something else. Only thing you can do is kill them. Same problem happens with diplomats.

**Americanus Supremus** · August 12, 2007, 07:00 PM

Im not sure if this is possible but cant we get them to marry characters in our family that are not our crown prince. It seems that they can only marry your crown prince and try to bribe/marry away your other family members. Im sure this is hardcoded but from what I gather from history, princesses marry other princes that dont happen to be your crown prince as well. If it is possible I would like to be able to marry princesses thruout my family not just my crown prince. Sorry if this is off topic.

HC

**Xeno_cws** · August 13, 2007, 01:18 AM

Hardcoded unfortunately. Only your crown prince can marry (maybe your king too, don't know about that though).

However, if you have a princess you can have her marry any cousin you have no problems.

**acegogo** · August 13, 2007, 02:55 AM

Only princes and Kings can marry.

Marring the King is usually at the start of the game.

**Phil Stanbridge** · August 13, 2007, 05:14 AM

I see this regularly too - I've found that if you can't kill them you can move them around the map with your own men/priests etc. Just try it - When a Princess is next to your settlement push her out the way by moving a unit of yours in her path.

**Xeno_cws** · August 13, 2007, 01:53 PM

Um and what does that do phil?

**Fargham** · August 13, 2007, 02:11 PM

Originally Posted by Jush

Currently on year 1115 in my HRE Campaign (M/H), and something seems to be going amiss... my empire is covered in wandering princesses! I'm not exaggerating, I have never played a campaign and seen this. There are at least three princesses standing outside each of my cities, all doing that silent bow thing but not engaging in diplomacy (I assume they're trying to bribe or marry my governors). I tried to marry them to my family, but I have terrible relations with every faction except my ally, England. I would say there's a total of about 15 princesses walking around inside my borders, and it's really starting to piss me off...

Has anyone else experienced this in TLR? Are they sending their princesses to me because every faction hates me, or is this possibly some sort of family tree bug?

Kill them! Train your assassins up on those soft targets so that they will be ready to take out generals when they eventually come calling.