Choosing Which Counties to Give to My Vassals

[jayswimmer]

Are there any guidelines about which counties to give to my vassals when I'm granting them multiple titles? If I recall, in real life a ruler would grant vassals non-contiguous lands so that they couldn't have a real strong power base if they decided to get uppity. Does that matter in the game? Right now, I have a real mess. I've got dukes that hold counties under other dukes such that two dukes could be vassals of each other. I was thinking about trying to clean it up and grant each duke all of the counties within their duchy and let them figure out what to do with the counties.

 

[TempestDK]

Are there any guidelines about which counties to give to my vassals when I'm granting them multiple titles? If I recall, in real life a ruler would grant vassals non-contiguous lands so that they couldn't have a real strong power base if they decided to get uppity. Does that matter in the game? Right now, I have a real mess. I've got dukes that hold counties under other dukes such that two dukes could be vassals of each other. I was thinking about trying to clean it up and grant each duke all of the counties within their duchy and let them figure out what to do with the counties.

I usually start by granting what I have available ... but later on that becomes a mess. Then I sometimes, when no wars are brewing, take the BB hits in revoking titles and regranting them under the correct dukes. I think in one game spent quite a few years trying to sort out the Iberian peninsular, so when I split it in 6 kingdoms (all of which I had), all the correct vassals would go with the correct kingdoms.

I just try to keep my own demesne somewhat connected, and then don't pay too much attention to who gets what else.

 

[americanu197]

Yes grant the ones with the poorest financial potential and keep the richest ones for yourself.
To see which are richer either see the map in the FAQ section of the forum or while in game bring up the ledger scroll to the "Our demesne" tab and the second column after the county name is the financial potential
In deed you can get pretty stretched out and you might have to grant provinces that are to far away tho they are rich

 

[Antonin1957]

I'm not quite clear on how you gain by giving counties to your vassals. Does it increase their loyalty?

 

[TempestDK]

I'm not quite clear on how you gain by giving counties to your vassals. Does it increase their loyalty?

Eventually you are going to need to give out land, as you can't control everything yourself (if you expand). Even with a small realm, you run the risk of getting a moron as a ruler with very low Intrigue score, and he will not be able to run many provinces by himself.

Also having vassals give you monthly prestige gain.

If the question is directly about what you gain from giving a count a second county. Then nothing really, except you do not gain another vassal, which might make your life as a liege easier