Am I the only one to thing that Matilda gets less and less pretty as the game evolves? I liked the fatty one of the begining.
The reality is... You also need a duchy of higher title. So only make them coastal doesn't help. You also must give them a duchy. Costal, county republics aren't playable
It depends on the start date (the Hansa does not exist in 1066, etc). You can currently not use the Ruler Designer to create a Patrician, but it's something we are looking into.
Just to clarify, we can't actually create playable merchant republics anywhere, right? Some users seem to think that simply having a coastal republic will create a playable merchant republic.
The dev's posts suggest that only the 5 listed will be playable under any circumstance (including later start dates or save-loading).
Now, somebody mentioned a playable Ancona, and since Ancona's not part of the list I'm wondering if I've made a false assumption here.
That's the answer he gave on page 2.
what do we want? Overland trade routes and inland republics! When do we want em? January 14!
The reality is... You also need a duchy of higher title. So only make them coastal doesn't help. You also must give them a duchy. Costal, county republics aren't playable
No, that was the answer to an entirely different question-creating a new Patrician from a previously feudal ruler, not renaming an existing Patrician's dynasty.
Well, in the post number #27 Doomdark says that if you create a republic in game (something you can do already), the game generates 5 patrician families...
That can be solved with titular dukes. Which a number of mods do.
Yeah, but does that include the non-listed Republics?
Feudal lords cannot switch over to Republican style gameplay, but they can create proper vassal Merchant Republics by granting a county and a Duchy to a vassal Mayor in a coastal province.
Yeah, but does that include the non-listed Republics?
Why does it have to be titular? One coastal county run by a Lord Mayor, give him a ducal title, you have a Doge and a republic. Even at moment I don't give them another/all the counties immediately. For example in my current Brittany game, I gave a mayor in Cornwall (Penzance) the county of Cornwall. When the "granted a county" bonus was worn out, a gave this Lord Mayor Duchy of Cornwall. Now he was Doge of Cornwall running the Republic of Cornwall. I didn't grant another county for a decade.
Of course titular Dukes, in this case Doges are easier, because they don't desire the other county/counties, like in my other current game where I have a Titular Republic of Zaragoza in Tarragona as a nice vassal. He is actually a Muslim, which means even more money (republic run city +25%, republic run coastal city +100%, grand republic capital city +100%, jizya tax +25%)...
Because Ancona is in the duchy of Spoleto. Personally, I'd just make Romagna and Spoleto a single duchy of the pentapolis, flagged as uncreatable by anyone but the Byzantine empire, and with every province having a duchy level titular title (archbishop of Ravenne, dukes of Urbino, Spoleto and Ferrara, republics of Ancona and Bologna)
No, Ancona is the other county in Duchy of Ancona, the other one being landlocked Urbino. Duchy of Spoleto, on the other hand, consists of Apprutium (Abruzzo, coastal) and Spoleto (landlocked).