Mild zone of control as at duchy capital?

[klopkr]

One of the things that really irks me about wars in CK3 is the constant running away of my enemies to go siege down my capital or the war goal but generally dancing around me. Often they'll run directly into the deepest heartlands of my empire then run off somewhere else if I get even close. I can chase them down but they can run across kingdoms before I catch them.

I'm going to be honest. I don't like the way zone of control works in any other pdox game. And I'm weary of the idea of every barony or county having zone of control as I imagine that would be the ultimate war slog of poking in and out of your border forts. But if it was at the duchy rank and a light touch, I think it could really work.

So what if every duchy had itself as a zone of control. You can only enter or leave from the duchy you came from until you siege down the capital of the duchy. If you have less than a duchy worth of land or you and an enemy share a duchy then the zone of control still applies to your land in the duchy, though you can move across the whole duchy, and your most prominent barony is the zone holder.

I think this would mesh well with marches as they could have some big primary fort bonuses to keep the war in a general duchy area and have real border areas.

What do you guys think?

 

[klopkr]

Heh my notifications say I've gotten 4 votes on this but it's at 0.

Perfectly balanced as all things should be.

Anyone got any better ideas of how to implement this? Or some way to keep AI armies from wandering across the whole map?

If you guys just hate zone of control that would be good to know too. Maybe there's another solution that's better.