Concerns regarding the new rebellion mechanics

That's a nice concept, but aren't you guys sort of testing it and seeing where it takes you because the temp kingdom mechanic is interesting? I understand claimant and antiking factions functioning like realm kingdoms, just as the Carlistas did or the Jacobites at their best times, but a temporary kingdom for the leader of a Lower Crown Authority faction is not an improvement over how it was before but rather the opposite. Such factions should have councils rather than a single war leader. The same goes for independence factions. They fight together for the independence of all of them, but they don't go independent by acting like a centralised kingdom.

Rather, the AI should use more co-ordination and co-ordinate more smartly with an active role for the primary attacker to play (or primary defender), with the rest of the belligerents on his side somewhat deferring to him by default. The same is true for normal alliances, e.g. the Karlings, Jimena kings or the occasional in-laws on both sides of the Channel. Why should a bunch of LCA fans or separatists be more organised than, say, two post-gavelkind royal brothers fighting a joint campaign against a common foe?

Plus, you've got another problem with rank: a rebel count or duke should still be able to marry or arrange marriages for his relatives. His temp rank complicates matters here by getting him up a tier or two, which shouldn't be the case. In real life you don't get to marry higher just because you're the leader of an LCA or independence faction. Nor should a duke – when you're a count – have 'TempKing is my liege' modifier when you want his daughter and heir for your son.

Also what about Offer Vassalisation and 'too low rank'? Won't jumping from duke to tempking allow you to vassalise a neighbouring count more easily? What about keeping or not keeping such newly gained vassals when your tempking title dissolves?

Then there's the problem of temp kings creating duchies and handing them out... unless you prefer to prevent them from being able to grant titles. In fact, they could also create kingdoms if the faction holds the land if you don't prevent them. A count elevated to tempking could create some ducal titles while being tempking and keep them after the war, even if he lost.

Also what if a tempking goes to war against someone else and e.g. conquers a duchy in a holy war (using the faction forces), creates the ducal title and keeps it after losing the war?

And what with honorary titles and council positions? I can easily see that you might include some code to make sure that the Cupbearer remains the Cupbearer of whatever he used to be before (your permanent primary title) rather than of the faction rebellion, but what about the council? It would make sense to make fellow rebels your spymasters, chancellors, chaplains perhaps, even marshals or stewards, I suppose.

Finally, retinues. A tempking could dump his cash into retinue recruitment with all his new retinue base and actually keep the retinue after losing the war, just like in a republic you can inherit republic-sized retinues as a mere patrician.

(Nothing wrong with all of a faction's forces spawning in the same county, though, even without a temp liege, i.e. when they are all merely allied to each other, just as long as they have the element of surprise working for them.)

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