I've always been tempted (and often have given in) to keep and develop secondary (sometimes even tertiary) castles in my capital county; building "tall" for personal demesne. The rationale is to maximize the capital bonuses and build the largest personal levy size possible relative to my vassals'. I think that helps a lot to keep factions in check, reduce the threat of rebellions (maybe not whether they occur, but makes 'em pretty trivial to put down), and ability to conduct wars without having to put up with negative vassal opinion for keeping levies fielded too long.
That said, I always kinda feel like I'm gimping myself in some way by doing this. Maybe by foregoing too much potential city/church taxes?
Just interested to hear some other folks' approaches on how/why they put together and develop their demesne holdings.
Edit: for reference, am running LoR, SoA, WoL, and HF. If (and it's a big "if") I were to add more DLC in the few months before CK3, would most likely be Charlemagne and/or Monks & Mystics.
That said, I always kinda feel like I'm gimping myself in some way by doing this. Maybe by foregoing too much potential city/church taxes?
Just interested to hear some other folks' approaches on how/why they put together and develop their demesne holdings.
Edit: for reference, am running LoR, SoA, WoL, and HF. If (and it's a big "if") I were to add more DLC in the few months before CK3, would most likely be Charlemagne and/or Monks & Mystics.
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