I have a nice wife, a nice fief too, a castle on a hill with a magnificent view. I have fertile lands, and villages that thrive, hundreds of troops who somehow stay alive. My coffers are heavy, my warband is fed, my enemies see my banner and occasionally drop dead. I have horses and armor, silver and grain, a hall full of nobles complaining again. By every measure, I’ve won at this game. I’ve conquered, grown wealthy, and built up my name. Yet I stand on my battlements when the campaigning is done, watching the mountains fade with the sun. My wife is beside me. My kingdom is strong. My vaults overflow. But something feels wrong. I’ve everything a lord could possibly acquire… Maybe what’s missing another fief to desire. submitted by /u/t-o-m-u-s-a [link] [comments]
So my kingdom has 2 towns, 7-8 castles, and 15-16 villages, I have 8 vassals and they each have a village. My tax inefficiency is about 20k each week and I only get maybe 40k from all my fiefs, but my wages are something like 50k (I have a few hundred troops in both towns and only 100-200 in each castle) So i end up losing almost 30k a week. I need the garrison in my towns cause if i lost them everything would really go to shit and I hardly ever garrison my castles cause i cant afford it.
Should i give away all my villages to my vassals so theres less tax inefficiency? Eventually the problem will come back when i conquer more. My castles give me 4k ish and If i gave them to vassals I dont think it would reduce tax efficiency by more than that and even if, im just breaking even and now my vassal owns one of my own potential castles. (Also if he defects i lose it)
There seems to be no solution besides having hardly any garrison which of course backfires in the case of war. What do i do?
Submitted April 20, 2017 at 07:35PM by taryn71 http://ift.tt/2owkOzx
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