Royal Marriages

[Bowden]

Does marrying your charming princess to an other faction's heir serve any purpose besides granting that faction a very cunning wife?
I'm talking about inheritance, here. Or at least trying.

[Leaf-Fan-Forever]

I'm pretty sure it just creates a stronger bond between your two countries. (If you marry him through diplomacy). If you try to charm him and succeed, he gets added to yuor family tree but you don't get to use him, he just remains in his own country.

[Double A]

You get a super alliance!

However, I normally hunt down the other faction's princess and get them to marry my leader or heir, considering getting a charming wife is a much better deal than losing a valuable agent. After I'm done using a princess for diplomacy, I either use her to marry a low loyalty but otherwise awesome general, or to steal another faction's general.

[The Source]

i get my faction heirs to marry thier aunts

[Double A]

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

A Bit Odd (Inbred 1)- -1 Fertility, gained after 1 point of Inbred
Of Dubious Lineage (Inbred 2)- -2 Fertility, upgrade after 2 points of Inbred
Inbred (Inbred 3)- -1 Command, -2% Tax Income, -3 Fertility, upgrade after 3
points of Inbred
Woefully Inbred (Inbred 4)- -1 Command, -1 Authority, -5% Tax Income, -4
Fertility, upgrade after 4 points of Inbred
Spawn of Incest (Inbred 5)- -2 Command, -2 Authority, -10% Tax Income, -5
Fertility, upgrade after 5 points of Inbred
Betrothed to Mother (Inbred 6)- -3 Command, -3 Authority, -15% Tax Income,
epithet "the Idiot", upgrade after 6 points of Inbred

Inbred has a NoGoingBack level of 1.
On coming of age, a character gains a point of Inbred with 1% probability. A
character whose father has one or more levels of Inbred gains a point with
50% and then with 25% probability. A character whose father has two or more
levels of Inbred gains a point with 50% and then with 25% probability. A
character whose father has three or more levels of Inbred, and then four or
more levels, and then five or more levels of Inbred, same deal. This trait
is awful. Do not let inbred people marry.

[The Source]

.....IM A MONSTER

[Tom Crooze]

.....IM A MONSTER

You got relatives who married each other?

[tudor93]

.....IM A MONSTER

damn, I didn't know this will affect my generals ... I got a mission from some nobles to marry my hot princess Maria with a addopted general who has some really bad traits
Eh, I hope they'll have healthy children

[Leaf-Fan-Forever]

So the creators of M2 frown on incest.

[Tom Crooze]

So the creators of M2 frown on incest.

You sound disappointed?

[Double A]

So the creators of M2 frown on incest.

Biologically, if you screw your first cousins for generations, you're gonna have some messed up descendants.

[painter]

The game doesn't properly apply the inbred trait. It randomly gives any children a 1% chance to have the trait, even if you have been marrying off first cousins for generations.

[Double A]

Still, though, it's usually not a good idea due to the age difference between nephews and aunts. The woman could end up dying before she pumped out 4 youngins.

[EmperorDan]

...and it's kinda wrong....

coming back to the topic, princesses are a lot more usefull than diplomats, but does anyone know if they can charm rebel generals? I'm thinking of El Cid...

[Orion the hunter]

(The reason Why the Ottoman empire fall
is Because the lineage Of the great Ottoman Sultans Were Gone And There descendants Marry Their Sisters to preserve the Throne Thats why it resulted To Some Batsh!t Crazy Sultans Like the Sultan who likes To Burn womens Breast And shoot arrows at Bystanders)
Random Fact

[Jambat]

...and it's kinda wrong....

coming back to the topic, princesses are a lot more usefull than diplomats, but does anyone know if they can charm rebel generals? I'm thinking of El Cid...

No they can't. It's bribery or nothing.

El Cid however is a tantalizing smoke and mirror trick pulled on us. Nevermind the fact he wants all the gold in Iberia, plus some, but he's so old that he'll die off in a couple of turns if you do get him.

Oh, and here's a post you may find helpful if you really, really want El Cid (or others).

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...98#post7911398

[painter]

For the people living in the M2TW world, incest isn't wrong, since the same inbreeding trait may also appear in children whose parents aren't related in the previous few centuries. Well, unless you explain it as the wife has been cheating on her husband with one of her male relatives and didn't get caught.

[Orion the hunter]

For the people living in the M2TW world, incest isn't wrong, since the same inbreeding trait may also appear in children whose parents aren't related in the previous few centuries. Well, unless you explain it as the wife has been cheating on her husband with one of her male relatives and didn't get caught.

Fckd up families )

[painter]

You can ignore the Council of Nobles if you have a better suitor in mind for your daughter.

[midget_roxx]

I remember when I was Milan I was at war with everyone yet France was allies with everyone. I was going around with a diplomat trying to get peace with people when I saw that I could offer to have a royal marriage with France. So after deciding what the heck I'll give it a go, and basically bribed the French with 50k to have a royal marriage . What happened surprised me greatly and everyone who was allied with the French and was at war with me, was now not at war with me