Do characters flee/defect as in CK?

[Alexander Seil]

One of the mechanics I love most about CK is that the characters that inhabit a realm you annex can do several things -

1) They flee to their relatives abroad
2) They flee to seemingly random countries
3) They just stay in the Purple Limbo of Death for a while and come back to serve you

Also, characters can defect to other realms through events.

All of these lead to very interesting situations - for example, playing as the Byzantines in 1337, I ousted the Italian ruler of Epirus...who later ended up being a ruler of some Republic (Ancona, I think) in Eastern Italy! I also installed a minor Turkish ruler whose domain I annexed as a ruler of Crimea.

Are there such game mechanics in Rome? I think it would be interesting if we could put traitors in command of armies to invade their former homeland, or install banished members of foreign dynasties as our puppets. I will certainly be very disappointed if the CK mechanics like this were left out. However, there should be a restriction on where people flee - characters should flee to realms that control provinces of their ethnicity/religion, or to major neighboring powers (or to relatives).

 

[Assos]

You will have a chance that a character will become popular and become your rival and my revolt aginast you. I am not sure about defect, but I am guessin he/she could.

 

[unmerged(51416)]

I also wonder what about captured characters... Will be really cool if we could use them as our own commanders, especially those with low loyalty during civil war

 

[Alexander Seil]

More importantly, what happens if you capture the leader of the opposing faction in a civil war? Or, in general, what happens if you capture the enemy ruler? You'd think that it could create some major political issues in a monarchy.

 

[Assos]

I am wondering if they kept it like in real life. If a leader/king was captured, a pretender or various other claiments to the throne begin a civil war and attempt to seize power. I also wonder if you can back a side during a civil war as let us say, Rome goes to civil war and as Carthage, you want to back one side.

 

[joriandrake]

More importantly, what happens if you capture the leader of the opposing faction in a civil war? Or, in general, what happens if you capture the enemy ruler? You'd think that it could create some major political issues in a monarchy.

hmm...in a civil war? well, i guess that's the end of that civil war then

 

[Snall]

hmm...in a civil war? well, i guess that's the end of that civil war then

Hmmm, yeah, I never thought about how leaders could be captured on battlefield....PI ANSWER THIS TUESDAY PLZ...thanks!!

 

[Sute]{h]

Speaking of which I'm kind of wondering if the number of characters rival the numbers in CK. Somehow I get the impression from the screenshots, that we will be seeing fewer characters. Which might relieve the stressload of playing a major empire somewhat. I could easily be mistaken though, but the family trees didn't seem as extensive as in CK.