Character Age

**flame7926** · October 18, 2011, 05:57 PM

How old should the characters be? Right now, my king is 84, my prince is 77, and my other king died in his mid 60's. Everyone seems to be getting at least to 65. How old should they get, it seems pretty old for the time period.

**YourOnlineHero** · October 18, 2011, 06:05 PM

Are any of them unmarried? If so, marry him to a 14 year old hungarian princess. Just for the giggles.

**Latin Knight** · October 18, 2011, 06:30 PM

Originally Posted by YourOnlineHero

Are any of them unmarried? If so, marry him to a 14 year old hungarian princess. Just for the giggles.

Why Hungarian?

And, OP, its not exactly uncommon for the faction members to be older than 65. Granted, 84 e 77 are a bit ancient... but, look at the bright side: if they're good leaders (with good traits, i mean), than, long live the king!

**Galain_Ironhide** · October 18, 2011, 06:41 PM

Originally Posted by flame7926

How old should the characters be? Right now, my king is 84, my prince is 77, and my other king died in his mid 60's. Everyone seems to be getting at least to 65. How old should they get, it seems pretty old for the time period.

If I was 3rd in line for the crown I'd be getting pretty excited with those 2 old fogies.

I believe there is a script which (sorry for this description) kind of rolls a dice every turn once a character gets to a certain age. The older they get, the probability of them living for another year reduces.

**flame7926** · October 18, 2011, 06:53 PM

I was trying to marry the heir to a Portuguese princess. The king is the original Duke Robert of England, early campaign, and the prince is Robert de Mowbrays, the best English general at the start. He was adopted by Duke Robert. The king has one other real son, Edgar, and the prince has one adopted son iirc. I wanted it to pass back to King Henry's branch, to either his adopted son, Miles, or his real son, Hubert. How do I figure out who is third in line?

**Losthief** · October 19, 2011, 06:27 PM

on my silicy campaign my king made it to 89 years old...he won a battle actually that year....(he was still a 7 star general on bgr, w/ the two senile and crazy traits for -5/6 command) but it sucked for my prince, cause he was 60 somethign and his son was 30 or 40 and all of my princess from the son of the prince didn't become map characters cause of the old fart.

**Raveyn Ravensworth** · December 09, 2011, 05:59 PM

Interestingly enough, my current campaign's(Novgorod, early) original ruler is still alive 40 turns into it, making him in his nineties, he has outlived not only every single one of his own children, but a few of his grandchildren aswell.. And they say people in the Middle Ages didn't live that long, HA!

More seriously now, whilst kings and princes getting around 70 could well be correct, aslong as they wouldnt be chopped to pieces during some battle about who raided which farm, I must say that anything over 80 is starting to get somewhat odd.

**Ferdiad** · December 09, 2011, 06:09 PM

Originally Posted by Raveyn Ravensworth

Interestingly enough, my current campaign's(Novgorod, early) original ruler is still alive 40 turns into it, making him in his nineties, he has outlived not only every single one of his own children, but a few of his grandchildren aswell.. And they say people in the Middle Ages didn't live that long, HA!

More seriously now, whilst kings and princes getting around 70 could well be correct, aslong as they wouldnt be chopped to pieces during some battle about who raided which farm, I must say that anything over 80 is starting to get somewhat odd.

Oddly enough most of my characters never mae it past their 60s or if they do theyve become pretty much uselsess.I also get a lot of births and adoptions though so maybe thats related.

**Ichon** · December 09, 2011, 07:19 PM

70s was not uncommon if battle, accident, or disease did not kill but I can only think of a single ruler who lived last 80. Several kings were died on campaign in their 70s

**Judeman266** · December 09, 2011, 08:40 PM

My faction leaders usually last to their late 60s. My original faction leader lived till 89 in one campaign. whenever my leaders heirs get past 60 they usually begin screw with the faction tree by preventing great-granddaughters and granddaughters from being princesses. Usually when I become desperate I organize a suicide battle or have them lead a futile charge. These accidents work very well.

**Fatecheater** · December 13, 2011, 01:47 AM

Originally Posted by Judeman266

My faction leaders usually last to their late 60s. My original faction leader lived till 89 in one campaign. whenever my leaders heirs get past 60 they usually begin screw with the faction tree by preventing great-granddaughters and granddaughters from being princesses. Usually when I become desperate I organize a suicide battle or have them lead a futile charge. These accidents work very well.

You DARE conspire to murder your KING?! TREASON!

**Ferdiad** · December 13, 2011, 02:02 PM

Originally Posted by Fatecheater

You DARE conspire to murder your KING?! TREASON!

It's not treason when Its for the good of the Realm, I like to call It....patriotism instead.

**Losthief** · December 14, 2011, 11:00 PM

Originally Posted by Judeman266

My faction leaders usually last to their late 60s. My original faction leader lived till 89 in one campaign. whenever my leaders heirs get past 60 they usually begin screw with the faction tree by preventing great-granddaughters and granddaughters from being princesses. Usually when I become desperate I organize a suicide battle or have them lead a futile charge. These accidents work very well.

i did that in my silicy battle, its was him....just him you mind and his bodyguard, huge units so about 50ish maybe. Against a 3/4 stack of argonese troops. I had my castle they were seiging with 5 units inside, all spearmen....he was the ''relief force''. The dude won the battle at 89 with like 12 gaurds (actually 9) left. Killed over a 1000 (actually close to 1200 caught/killed) men.....they didn't even get thru the gate...it was sickening....he died two turns later in his sleep.

attached is the after battle pic (the deaths for spearmen were during clean up mostly i believe).

**Raveyn Ravensworth** · December 14, 2011, 02:07 PM

The king is dead, Long live the king indeed.... Though sometimes i just wish they would die before all their sons, the ones i trained and educated so they could be strong kings themselves, instead of outliving them by 10 years.. oh well