Threat in the intrigue tab

[Aries666]

So after 1000's of hours play I still have no idea what the number in the threat tab under intrigue actually means. Is this the % chance they have to kill you in a plot, the number of troops they have compared to you (maths doesn't add up for this) or something else?

 

[Xenrek]

its the amount of troops they have in comparison to you, so i DO believe it just straight up adds the levies they have for themselves and what they get from their vassals.

and you gotta remember, if you rule a big kingdom, a very large portion fo your levies will be from your vassals; and every vassal that joins that faction adds to that factions troops, and takes away from yours so say 100-100 becomes 75-125; so the "% of liege troops" shifts quickly, math looks funky but its usually right

 

[Enriador]

I believe it's the likehood of a vassal rebelling, a claimant adventurer declaring war or a plot firing against you. The vassals' power in relation to you appear on the Factions tab.

 

[hagagaga]

Hint: If you build a retinue doomstack, the threat percentage gets smaller.

 

[kmh42]

I have over 1700 hour of play and I have also no idea what this is indicating. I ignore this completely, like the 'go into hiding' stuff.

 

[Ultima_Ratio]

Before factions it used to indicate when a vassal would rebel. Then it's just kind of been sitting there with no real purpose.

 

[Mofiros2000]

In Pre-ROI versions of the game, vassals with high threat rebelled without a faction, now it has no use.

 

[hagagaga]

In Pre-ROI versions of the game, vassals with high threat rebelled without a faction, now it has no use.

I didn't even notice the Threats tab until several DLC's later.

 

[RagingJaws]

The Threats tab is about as useless as my Councillor eunuchs voting against handing out landed titles to anyone but them.

Wonder how THAT got through QA.

 

[hagagaga]

The Threats tab is about as useless as my Councillor eunuchs voting against handing out landed titles to anyone but them.

Wonder how THAT got through QA.

I'm pretty sure that the council is supposed to block everything just to annoy you.

 

[RagingJaws]

I'm pretty sure that the council is supposed to block everything just to annoy you.

Might seem that way but it's not. The eunuchs thing is an obvious oversight. You can't give them land, so they shouldn't care about my parceling out of land. Nonsensical.

For the most part, the council works as expected. I certainly don't agree with the balancing of some of the traits to council stances but normally doable to work around or simply another thing to ignore. My tyranny record is -270 ish. AI can't strong arm me with their damn whiny complaints.