When you go to see the list of factions from the plot menu thing, there is strength for each faction. and then there is a percentage, what does this percentage mean?
A Question about factions.
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The percentage represents the % of troops they have compared to you, their liege. If this number gets too high, the leader of the faction will present you with an ultimatium: meet their demands, or risk rebellion. If the % is very high, it is likely that you'll not be able to suppress the upcoming rebellion.
Does the percentage take into account currently hired mercs? Just curious
I am not sure at all.
Off-topic: When should one use mercs? I'm sure my inability to figure them out is limiting me.
off topic answer: i use them to assault fortresses as they reinforce alot fasted than my levies. aslo if i'm outnumbered at all, i get mercs. just don't run out of money for their monthly upkeep. they tend to get cranky. if you're lucky all they do is leave, sometimes they will attack you.
on topic of factions, how do you get people to leave them, so that the power goes down?
do things that make all vassals like you more, holding feasts, releasing a prisoner. If there's a powerful vassal causing trouble try to use the spymaster and arrest everyone you can who doesn't like for more than 50
If you're desperate you should give them land
The game seems to count in your retinues in the liege power calculation, so having lots of cheap retinue units instead of few elite ones can help in instable realms.
To prevent factions try to keep your vassals happy (85+ opinion).
To end or at least weaken factions send your spymaster on a scheming mission to a faction leader's or member's capital (go for the ones with the highest manpower first, even if it isn't the leader). Depending on your spymaster's skills you will get an event pretty soon where you can choose between threatening, blackmailing, ... your vassal to remove him from the faction. You need to choose the correct answer here, which is based on his traits (the better your spymaster, the more wrong options might be missing already). Shy or craven people can be safely threatened, homosexual or possessed ones can be blackmailed, and honest, diligent or brave ones can simply reminded of their duties as vassals. heavily mixed traits can make this difficult sometimes (diligent and craven homosexuals, for example) - not completely sure which traits trumps the other ones here...
Successful choices leads to a -10 opinion modifier and will remove the vassal from all (I think) factions, using the wrong simply one angers them (further -25 opinion)
To prevent factions try to keep your vassals happy (85+ opinion).
To end or at least weaken factions send your spymaster on a scheming mission to a faction leader's or member's capital (go for the ones with the highest manpower first, even if it isn't the leader). Depending on your spymaster's skills you will get an event pretty soon where you can choose between threatening, blackmailing, ... your vassal to remove him from the faction. You need to choose the correct answer here, which is based on his traits (the better your spymaster, the more wrong options might be missing already). Shy or craven people can be safely threatened, homosexual or possessed ones can be blackmailed, and honest, diligent or brave ones can simply reminded of their duties as vassals. heavily mixed traits can make this difficult sometimes (diligent and craven homosexuals, for example) - not completely sure which traits trumps the other ones here...
Successful choices leads to a -10 opinion modifier and will remove the vassal from all (I think) factions, using the wrong simply one angers them (further -25 opinion)