Strategy Question: Vassal Title holders

[OldRanger]

Hi all still learning and would be interested in your take on a strategy question:

1. How do you decide when to give counties/duchies to feudal lords to rule and when do you give them to burgers? Is there any particular strategy to this and does it depend on the county itself?

A related question: 2. When you put a burger in charge, do you simply give the county to the current mayor of the town or do you choose a courtier in your court? (If the latter, how can you tell whether they will be a count or a burger?)

Final question: 3. I have seen some posts about a republic bonous for income. How does that work?

Thanks a bunch.

 

[Tuerai]

1. Normally you would just use noble vassals. If a burgher is your direct vassal, but they're count-level or above so you don't get the wrong holding penalty, you will get more taxes from them. Cities just generate more taxes than castles do.

2. Yes to the first one. You just give the county to the "mayor"

3. probably just referring to 1

 

[justin6477]

1. Normally you would just use noble vassals. If a burgher is your direct vassal, but they're count-level or above so you don't get the wrong holding penalty, you will get more taxes from them. Cities just generate more taxes than castles do.

You do get a "wrong liege type" opinion malus though.

But yeah, the rest is spot on. I'm not certain if Lord Mayors make more money by virtue of being lord mayors, or if you just see more of it since you're taxing them instead of taxing the count who taxes the mayors, barons, and bishops.

 

[Ithvan]

Cities bring in more tax than castles, and republics might make more money just because they're republics. Not sure about that though, maybe it's just because they don't do a lot of stuff.

 

[Sweynforkbeard]

A city owned by or being a vassal of a lordmayor or duke will get a 15% bonus to its income. If the city is on the coast it gets a further 25% bonus. Finally, if the city is the capital of a doge it gets another 100% bonus on top of that for a total of a 140% bonus to income.

 

[Ahaz Flagg]

I setup mine now with the best way I found to have no civil wars after my ruler dies. Since I am playing as Denmark, I will use this as an example. I take Lubeck, Destroy the duchy you start with, usurp Holstien, And the create Slesvig. Revoke all counties, that should be 10. Make 4 lord mayors, and keep 6 as my own, the finger is 4, keep Skane and I think it is Jutland. Anways that gives you 4 counties with 5 slots, and 2 with 4, and 4 lord Mayors. Have not had an uprising in 130 + years. The doges make awesome dosh, if they are happy. They are not easy to keep happy, Doges always start wars. I do not like doges, and found the lord mayors over time are way better, steady cash, need no bribes. A title or educate a family member and they are happy. Also as Denmark is elective, you only have 1 vote this way, doges can vote, and that can get ugly.

I also did this with Ireland, with the north 6 counties as lord mayors, the gold is crazy. I had frigging 526 gold per year at one point, I was able to lower taxes on cities to 0 and was still raking in 276 a year. This has an added benifit of rich Lord Mayors, they upgrade like mad, which lets you focus 100% on your own holdings, other then Unis of course, I do not wait for AI on those.