vassal stats

[Masquerade]

when giving away counties do my vassals stats matter or not? should I prioritise those with high stewardship?

[DavesBarbaricCookie]

there is no easy answer to that question. generally, I personally tend to keep people organized in douchies so if a county is part of a douchy that has allready been established it goes to the douchy owner no matter his stats. If I won a new douchy however, I usually preffer either vassals with high stats or with trusting to generate good vassals.

Stewardship might at first glance be a good idea since higher income leads to more tax money for you, but counties are so small that stewardship doesn't really matter all that much. Don't neglect other stats on your vassals.

But different people have different playstyles, some preffer to keep their empire splintered into little counties, some revoke their vassals every so often so their stats don't matter anyways.

[Masquerade]

Fair enough, I'll try not to worry so much then :)

[madracc00n]

If u want more leavies give ur holding to people with high marshal,more money=more stewrdship,i also tend to give mutiple holding to same person if they have enough skill to hold it,so it is easier to manage.

[Khonsu2]

I would only priorities your powerful vassals, so if you are a king and have no dukes/duchess you could elevate someone who has like 15+ in a stat to take over. My personal favorite is to make raise someone in my family (so they love me) with intrigue and place random people with horrible traits lustful, greedy, sadistic ect. and spy on them to get hooks to take blackmail gold, raise taxs and men, and have an excuse to arrest them and kill them off.

[Tom Trocky]

My strategy is to avoid people with intrigue stats, less problems. Also for newly conquered counties it is wise to put characters with high martial, as Mil lifepath gives bonuses to control growth and are ussualy able to fend of the popularists rebels.

[Heraclius Caesar]

Originally posted by Masquerade:

when giving away counties do my vassals stats matter or not? should I prioritise those with high stewardship?

That doesn't necessarily matter unless you're already planning on putting them on your council in the position that goes with their high stat number. Don't look at it as "what can their high stat numbers do for them?" You want to look at like a medieval ruler: "what can their high stat numbers do for me?"

1 of the best things you can do in this game when giving away titles is give them to characters that have the "content" and/or "trusting" traits. These types of vassals are generally loyal even after your current ruler dies and are much less likely to join factions against you or be troublemakers.

[brownacs]

I'd argue that prioritising your dynasty should come before anything else. That way you're stacking renown bonuses which'll really build up later on in the game. If your entire Empire of several Kingdoms is all owned by your dynasty, and you're marrying your children to those characters and they're marrying theirs to yours, the bonuses really, really stack. The rulers' stats themselves are honestly fairly irrelevant (unless you're planning on going insane with the micromanaging) cos this game is played in centuries, not decades. In half an hour, all those high martial and high stewardship dons will be replaced by their incompetent heirs and you'll have nothing to show for it... unless they're of your dynasty. Plus you get a weak hook on all your dynasty members if you're the dynasty head (which you should be), which doesn't hurt.
EDIT: pesky grammar.