Marrying off your children

[harrio502]

Is they anyway you can pick the bride or groom for your children when trying to marry them for alliance with another clan. Seems like everytime I want to marry my 18 y/o old son the AI matches it with someone who is much older when they have younger options available

[Clovis Sangrail]

That's what it does.

When you talk to the clan leader, he tries to pawn off the oldest marriageable female in the clan. This may be a fecund and fulsome 22-year-old, but it may also be a barren 50-year-old spinster.

Your choices are to take what he offers or move on to another clan.

Sucks, doesn't it.

[RJboxer]

Yep. Thats why it is great when u see "Rhagea has died in battle". or "mesui has died in battle". on your chat screen in bottom left.

Now you can marry the non spinster spouses from their clans.

I wish you could choose. I mean who would marry off their 18 yr old brother, to some 55 yr old female. AND LOSE him as a clan member.. and the Spinster and brother still cant breed, and make that clan last longer.

Needs fixed IMO

[rjsbox]

Originally posted by RJboxer:

Yep. Thats why it is great when u see "Rhagea has died in battle". or "mesui has died in battle". on your chat screen in bottom left.

Now you can marry the non spinster spouses from their clans.

I wish you could choose. I mean who would marry off their 18 yr old brother, to some 55 yr old female. AND LOSE him as a clan member.. and the Spinster and brother still cant breed, and make that clan last longer.

Needs fixed IMO

I've never actually tried it (shocking i know) but can you marry off your daughter? Do you lose that daughter to the male clan or do you gain the male clan member as a part of your family.
Also, does Clans actually level up their tier? Or are they stuck to that tier forever.

[avil]

Originally posted by rjsbox:

I've never actually tried it (shocking i know) but can you marry off your daughter? Do you lose that daughter to the male clan or do you gain the male clan member as a part of your family.
Also, does Clans actually level up their tier? Or are they stuck to that tier forever.

You lose both. What's rather weird mechanic that only way for player clan to reproduce is to marry the head of the clan.

[Emperor2000]

Originally posted by avil:

Originally posted by rjsbox:

I've never actually tried it (shocking i know) but can you marry off your daughter? Do you lose that daughter to the male clan or do you gain the male clan member as a part of your family.
Also, does Clans actually level up their tier? Or are they stuck to that tier forever.

You lose both. What's rather weird mechanic that only way for player clan to reproduce is to marry the head of the clan.

This is not true.
Only males can be married and stay in your clan, as long they don't marry a female clan leader, in this case they join the clan of the female clan leader, but if the female is only a clan member, she will join your clan.

Only females leaves your clan and join their husband's clan.

[RJboxer]

Originally posted by Emperor2000:

Originally posted by avil:

You lose both. What's rather weird mechanic that only way for player clan to reproduce is to marry the head of the clan.

This is not true.
Only males can be married and stay in your clan, as long they don't marry a female clan leader, in this case they join the clan of the female clan leader, but if the female is only a clan member, she will join your clan.

Only females leaves your clan and join their husband's clan.

This is how I understand it as well.

If you marry your male to a female. She joins.

If you marry your female to their male. She leaves. (I used to NEVER marry the females off, because I thought it was smarter to keep them all. Makes sense. I was wrong).

As the game progresses if you did campaign mode, not Sandbox mode. You should probably have 50+ heirs by about year 20 of the campaign. Probably more. And this doesn't count wanderer companions.

That's a LOT OF "heroes" to manage. Far more than you'd need. So it's not a terrible idea to marry off some of YOUR females to other males. This helps their clans survive (Marry off your young females to THEIR young males if possible).

I only do this when a clan is tier 5 or 6. I rarely find the need to prop up a tier 3-4 clan when campaign is 20 yrs old or so. (and honestly, as the player we dont even NEED to do it. We can just buy other clans into our fold.. but for RP purposes. I marry off the daughter to tier 5-6 clans in MY kingdoms, or a kingdom on other side I play on recruiting)

As to clans leveling up. I was 99.99999% sure they do. But since you now ask, I am not so sure. I have many clans at tier 5-6 by year 15-20... and I know they didnt all start that way in year 1. I never actually followed them though.

So I will offer a hearty "I'm not sure, but have always played and assumed they DO LEVEL up in clan tier"

(answering rjsbox post, while quoting Emperor because he says what I believe to be true as well)

[rjsbox]

Well most of my games gets boring after a while but I recall doing a few long games but dont recall what beta build that was. I remember promoting a companion and they were stuck at Tier level 2 for a long while - the entirety of my campaign (probably 10 plus years after creating my own kingdom).
I've seen new/newly created npc clans join a kingdom.

[harrio502]

Thanks all