Holding on to your conqured territories.

[NicklasK]

It seems that there are no real penalties when you expand, shouldn't it be harder to hold on to the land that you've got?

Shouldn't you get massive economic penalties during the first many years of occuping provinces? as it is at the moment you get stronger every time you expand. I can't think of many situations where a nation grew stronger due to warfare, only their enemies getting weaker.

how about making it so that you have to invest money in the newly gained provinces. The more money you put in it, the lower the revolt chance gets. If you cannot pay enough the peasants will revolt and declare independence. This should not got for territories that you inheirt though, that would make it more attractive to expand through marriages.

The reason that I'm feeling something should be done about this is when I recently played a game with the HRE. The bigger I became, the easier it was, and if you start as a count in the HRE (1066) you will be pretty much invinsible when you reach 1020, maybe even earlier.

The same goes for countries like the ERE and France.

 

[Wezqu]

Peasents didn't really care that much who ruled them during that time period. They only cared if the noble taxed them too much. They didn't really care that much who the noble was.

 

[kraussda]

Just to be clear, when you conquer territory it DOES become useless for a period of at least 5 years (longer if it is of a different culture/religion) to represent the resistance of the populace. However, when you are a vassal fighting another vassal these modifiers don't trigger. This is because a liege would quickly find himself with no army at all if his vassals all fought each other and caused these modifiers to crop up in counties across the realm. I believe paradox has done this to improve gameplay over realism. I think it may be possible to mod the game such that these modifiers DO trigger from intrarealm warfare. I don't know how to do it, but I'm fairly certain it could be done.

 

[Gqarz]

The only thing that seems to matter is religion. This is accurate. Life was hard and short in this world. Heaven was forever. Peasants didn't care who their lord was very much. They only cared about tax rates and the various nasty laws that some lords put in place. (prima noctu for example)