I like Sengoku, especially playing as the Nanbu. Something I've noticed in my several hours of playing, though, is that two wives just doesn't seem to be enough. My current clan head, for instance, produced all of two children with his two wives. His only male son died either of pneumonia or a ninja sword through the chest. I wasn't reading very closely, I must admit, but he had the pneumonia trait on death but died while I was in the middle of a war, had aggravated vassals, and with a ninja attack notice right around the same time (that I accidentally dismissed).
This would normally not be a problem, except as I mentioned he happened to be the only one. This doesn't appear to be an isolated incident either: I have a lot of trouble getting a sufficient stable of heirs such that I'm always playing as the clan head without ninjas getting involved. Am I doing something wrong here? I suppose moving up to four wives should be the first remedy I take, but are birth rates really so low? My current leader has the pneumonia trait as well, but I rather doubt it and its massive fertility penalty was there the whole time... At least I hope it wasn't.
This would normally not be a problem, except as I mentioned he happened to be the only one. This doesn't appear to be an isolated incident either: I have a lot of trouble getting a sufficient stable of heirs such that I'm always playing as the clan head without ninjas getting involved. Am I doing something wrong here? I suppose moving up to four wives should be the first remedy I take, but are birth rates really so low? My current leader has the pneumonia trait as well, but I rather doubt it and its massive fertility penalty was there the whole time... At least I hope it wasn't.
Thanks!
