Entire family including my wife instantly gets thrown in jail whenever my capital is sacked.

[mrinku]

Whether it's a raid or not does not affect the chance of prisoners being taken. Pagans and Zoroastrians double the chance of taking a prisoner if the character is a woman.

Anyone who is at least rank 2 in a warrior lodge multiplies their chance by 10 (!), as does anyone who has a reaver bloodline (the ones who give you an extra chance of looting artifacts or taking prisoners).

All these stack, so if you have a warrior lodge member of rank 2+ with a reaver bloodline we get 100*10*10 = 10,000 weight of taking a character prisoner vs. 1,000 weight of not taking them prisoner. Make that 20,000 if the character is female.

This way raiders and attackers can quite easily take most or all potential targets prisoner.

Yeah, that'd explain it. Even a mere rank 2 pagan dude with no other modifiers moves to 2000 weight of capturing females vs 1000 of not doing so. 66% capture will see "everyone" captured as a not too uncommon event, especially if the actual numbers are small. And most of the eligible targets are preselected as female anyway, since it's women and child relatives, and rulers at the location that are checked for.

 

[Tryvenyal]

When I get his wife, I make her my concubine, land her, and execute her so his child will become my vassal. Then I give the child an empty kingdom title or two to raise his opinion to 100, and imprison and execute him too.

Sorry for OT question: How exactly do you land your concubine? Normally, it´s not possible to land females with "Grant landed title". Assume it´s a Gender Equality law/game rule thing?

 

[mrinku]

Sorry for OT question: How exactly do you land your concubine? Normally, it´s not possible to land females with "Grant landed title". Assume it´s a Gender Equality law/game rule thing?

Very dependant on that, yes, although AFAIK all you need is Agnatic-cognatic, which is trivial to change to for most (no special Tolerence level needed, and many realms start with it. Muslims, Aztecs, nomads and hordes will need Tolerance, however). And may annoy the council, though from the tone of jwalche's post, I doubt that's a concern.

 

[Karlington]

Very dependant on that, yes, although AFAIK all you need is Agnatic-cognatic, which is trivial to change to for most (no special Tolerence level needed, and many realms start with it. Muslims, Aztecs, nomads and hordes will need Tolerance, however). And may annoy the council, though from the tone of jwalche's post, I doubt that's a concern.

Don't you need full cognatic?

 

[Rockphed]

Don't you need full cognatic?

I have only been able to grant non-landed women titles with full cognatic, but I don't have conclave or Holy Fury.

 

[Karlington]

I have only been able to grant non-landed women titles with full cognatic, but I don't have conclave or Holy Fury.

I've had the same experience, and I have all DLCs.

 

[mrinku]

Okay, I must be confusing it with *landed* women, then. Though there may be a difference if they have claims.

 

[Rockphed]

Okay, I must be confusing it with *landed* women, then. Though there may be a difference if they have claims.

As far as I have seen, no. Which makes women with claims less useful for conquest than men with claims (unless you have full cognatic or they are your relatives).

 

[Revshawn]

Been a little bit, but I thought I would post an update. I have upgraded my computer to a new rig and Windows 10. Ever since then, I haven't had any problems with this issue.

 

[majdavlk]

I made a guide on how to protect one's capital durning sieges. But it makes the guy unable to have nomadic holding as a capital for those nice cavalry and archer bonuses.

If you loose the last of your county titles, make sure your last holding is a 7th holding in a county. This way you can have your capital protected durning raids and sieges, your capital wont be changed to a different holding unless you acquire a county title again. And you can take controll of the rest 6 holdings in the county and keep the capital as the 7th holding

 

[Larva]

No not a 'chance.' You need to read my post completely buddy. My entire family gets thrown in jail when my capital is sacked, 100% of the time. Every single child of mine. Their grandchildren. My spouse. Everyone gets thrown in jail 100% of the time the instant my capital is sacked. That's what is happening in my game. I'm asking if that's a game feature or if it's a bug.

Time to uninstall