who else is a skeptic?

[Accrsd]

so i've been following the development of the republic like everyone else and i have to say with what i've seen i'm not impressed. For one i'm most skeptical about the "five famlies" system that has been getting so much billing. Sure it sounds like interesting that i'll have to compete for control of the wealth and armies of my quaint little republic but i'm concerned that the big five will get tiresome and that at some point it'll all boil down to sending waves of assassins to kill patrician families in mass so that no one enemy family gets the prestige or investment enough to wretch away the reigns of power.

Don't get me wrong i'm eager for the release and am excited to see how the game will play when you don't have to worry about silly things like no longer being the head of state.. but for that note I'd likely have more fun playing as the swiss band on holiday in genoa

 

[tnick0225]

I am pretty sure some people will game it that way of just assassinate assassinate assassinate. What makes me skeptical is being under the control of a tiny AI control republic of which is surrounded by the HRE all around! I hope it will be alright I enjoy a challenge. I have no idea how it will all play out in game though.

I hope it will work well because I would quite enjoy playing Pisa or Venice or Genoa. I dare say if you assassinate an entire family a random one will be generated though. I just like the idea of becoming a merchant family with ties into many of the European Royal Houses. And perhaps the families will provide legitimate pools of matrilineal marriage possibilities

 

[takedown47]

What makes me skeptical is being under the control of a tiny AI control republic of which is surrounded by the HRE all around! I hope it will be alright I enjoy a challenge. I have no idea how it will all play out in game though.

easy to fix. the only valid casus bellis against a republic would be those which make it a vassal. if genoa gets conquered it is not game over your republic just loses foreign policy autonomy.

 

[tnick0225]

Oh yeah good point it'd just be vassal to the HRE then. Forgot about those types of CBs.

 

[takedown47]

Yeah it makes sense. I don't see landed nobles wanting to conquer republic, wrong holder type anyway. They prefer countryside and castles. Counting money and organizing trade routes, tax duties, import/export quotas would just make their tiny little minds explode :happy:

 

[Battle bunny]

Yeah it makes sense. I don't see landed nobles wanting to conquer republic, wrong holder type anyway. They prefer countryside and castles. Counting money and organizing trade routes, tax duties, import/export quotas would just make their tiny little minds explode :happy:

Well, republics are just provinces with a city as their main holding. It's easy to convert a republic into a county.

I'm sure it'll be fun enough to try out, but as always I'll wait a while before buying it. (And preferably for a Gamersgate discount, but that's because I'm stingy to begin with.)