Three of the past adventurers have been woman. That seems a tad ridiculous due to the time period.
Why are all the leaders of the reconquesta Women?
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Check your set of rules. You can change before starting a game. Still the game is not checking for historically accurate, but most likely for ruler or commander with "best" stats. And if they are cathar, well, you'll see plenty of female commanders.
About the likeness of these things to happen. I mean. chances are that next time you play you could see no women at all, it really is random.
It's fine.
About the likeness of these things to happen. I mean. chances are that next time you play you could see no women at all, it really is random.
It's fine.
It's the reconquesta adventurers. A forth one appeared and it's the forth woman in the row. One I can believe but four Random lady's decided to fight Muslims and gather warriors with backward views on woman? The game rules are historical. Are you sure the adventurers are not generated instead of being selected?
A cursory look at the events shows that when an adventurer is generated, it's got an even shot of being male or female. Looks like it's just RNG messing with you.
I've got the same experience and it don't bother me at all. I just find it kind of good and interesting that women will take the fight to the Umayyads. With me backing them. 
If it's even chance then 4 women in a row is about 6% or 1 in 20 so not that uncommon when you consider the number of players.
During the middle ages the view on women wasn't as backwards as many people claim. Especially for noblewomen. Noblewomen were quiet powerful and lead their own armies too during this era. And this leaders are not some peasant women.
It happened, but it wasn't as common as you claim. There is literally a wikipedia page dedicated to women in medieval warfare listing every single one. One single noblewoman in Europe leading troops every ten years doesn't warrant the leaders of the reconquista to be all women. And a lot of the ones that are listed were simply "accompanying" their husband. (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_post-classical_warfare)
Similarly the existence of shield-maidens is a disputed matter. Paradox has a very pro-feminist view and as such included them in their game, but I would like to see an option to turn them off. Same for women leading pagan warrior societies. Based on what Tacitus reports, warfare was the man's primary and pretty much the only field apart from hunting and basically everything else was handled by the women (and weaker/older men).
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Nah, you don't look like a git. Random, or even good pseudo-random, results tend to look weird to people. We tend to not generate enough repeating parts when we try to make "random" things by hand and tend to find patterns where none exist. We're basically hard-wired to do it.
I do find the weighting on that event odd though. While the popular modern view of the status of women in the middle ages tends to be wrong (at least in the western bits I mostly focus on), and vastly underestimates/misunderstands what was going in, 50% still seems really high unless you are playing with the game rule for gender equality turned on.
(So you don't look like a git, but maybe a bit like SVN in that your actual use and experience doesn't match the theory behind how it was expected to be used and that view needs to be updated.
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(So you don't look like a git, but maybe a bit like SVN in that your actual use and experience doesn't match the theory behind how it was expected to be used and that view needs to be updated.
