Family Tree? (Teutonic)

**Gaius Julius Cæsar Augustus** · March 18, 2011, 06:35 PM

I don't see any button for the family tree. Am I missing something?

**Heathen Storm** · March 18, 2011, 06:39 PM

Originally Posted by Gaius Julius Cæsar Augustus

I don't see any button for the family tree. Am I missing something?

The teutonic family tree is different. They do not have a specific "family", but their best general (with most command stars) is elected the leader.

**Gaius Julius Cæsar Augustus** · March 18, 2011, 07:13 PM

Originally Posted by Heathen Storm

The teutonic family tree is different. They do not have a specific "family", but their best general (with most command stars) is elected the leader.

Disappointing...

**Canaris** · March 19, 2011, 04:48 AM

Byzantine Empire should have a system like that too .

Because its little weird when some young (just because he is adopted by the Emperor ) assface becomes heir when there are other way more prominent Byz nobles .

**Watercress** · March 19, 2011, 08:47 AM

Originally Posted by Gaius Julius Cæsar Augustus

Disappointing...

That was the system used in M2TW: Tectonic, and it's probably the most realistic.

**Gaius Julius Cæsar Augustus** · March 19, 2011, 10:06 AM

No family tree = realistic? Riiiight. Sons never inherited the throne or whatever you want to call it.

**Coeur de Lion** · March 19, 2011, 11:04 AM

Originally Posted by Gaius Julius Cæsar Augustus

No family tree = realistic? Riiiight. Sons never inherited the throne or whatever you want to call it.

Not with the Teutonic knights, they were a chivalric order, not an ancient dynastic kingdom.

**TaronQuinn** · March 19, 2011, 05:46 PM

Exactly, the territory of the Teutonic Knights endured as a monastic state until after the Reformation, when the Grand Master of that era (late 1500s?) converted to Protestantism and established his dynasty as the hereditary rulers of Brandenberg-Prussia...etc. etc.. So for this time period, the Teutonic Knights are accurately represented as family-treeless faction that ran itself much like any other monastic entity; emphasizing merit and ability over heredity. Bloodlines were important, and nobles from Germany and even Poland held the highest offices. They probably weren't perfectly chaste, and many most likely had children out of wedlock, and those children might have even inherited some lands or titles through round-about ways, but they would not have been able to inherit any authority within the Teutonic Order without being a member.

TQ