I’ve been thinking about the earlier start dates, and how gavalkind really doesn’t work that well to mitigate blobbing. And it occurs to me that one of the chief benefits and aims of blobbing is to increase your resources (gold and troops). However, early kingdoms didn’t work that way - at least not smoothly - and they tended towards far greater decentralization. It took a bureaucracy to maintain cohesion.
So, when at low legalism, before you should basically be totally unable to tax your vassals, perhaps even have them provide negative tax (balance manpower higher to compensate), to represent how early kingdoms had to continually reward their followers.
So, when at low legalism, before you should basically be totally unable to tax your vassals, perhaps even have them provide negative tax (balance manpower higher to compensate), to represent how early kingdoms had to continually reward their followers.
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