Loyalty and Authority

[Ruinae Retroque Rursus]

What do they actually DO?

I've never had a problem with generals rebelling, the only unit an AI ever bribed was a Captain with four petty units, and the only time one unit rebelled was when I sent it scouting in the Americas campaign.

[Gunther von Rittersburg]

The less loyalty, there is a risk they'll rebel, or send them on a mission to take another region, good chance they'll ditch your banner.

Its extremely disruptive to your campaign when the rebel.

[Dark Angel]

Keep disloyal characters close to high ranking loyal nobles and over time their rating will improve. It's all part of the deeper subtlety of the game, just like tutoring and learning skills from other mentors.

[deemarksu]

If you play multiplayer campaign (hotseat) , Authority points is important and worth to make it high. This will cause higher cahnce for those your lost settlement being revolt to be yours.

I seen many times , Antioch taken by Byzantine but one turn later it's revolt back to Turks with almost full stack.

[Lie Chen Zhou]

not just Multi, Single also the same, dee.
having low authority kings can cause settlement to rebel but in vanilla there isn't that many low authority kings.
@aidenpos nothing in this game hurts more than having your stack bribed by enemy diplomat cause they were lead by a low loyalty general, it doesn't happen often... thankfully

[Ruinae Retroque Rursus]

Originally posted by Lie Chen Zhou:

not just Multi, Single also the same, dee.
having low authority kings can cause settlement to rebel but in vanilla there isn't that many low authority kings.
@aidenpos nothing in this game hurts more than having your stack bribed by enemy diplomat cause they were lead by a low loyalty general, it doesn't happen often... thankfully

The AI's always too poor to bribe :P



So if I have a low loyalty general, I should keep him with another general with high loyalty, or just send him on more dangerous missions? :P





And so authority only affects rebelling settlements turning to yours...? Is that it?

[Lie Chen Zhou]

best to keep him with high loyalty general, or just make him charge into hordes of spearmen.

and generals and captains turning to rebel/enemies.... if you have a low authority king, expect "A Traitor to our country" event to pop out

[deemarksu]

I think "Authority " take effect on desertion. And may be take effect on diplomacy talk too.

I think "Authority" will get higher if kings always command main army and fight a lot of battles. Some game that i used too much of my Prince or other generals and put the kings in capital with few unit, the result is very low authority my king had.

[CHE]

Originally posted by Dark Angel Ascendant:

Keep disloyal characters close to high ranking loyal nobles and over time their rating will improve. It's all part of the deeper subtlety of the game, just like tutoring and learning skills from other mentors.

Originally posted by deemarksu:

I think "Authority " take effect on desertion. And may be take effect on diplomacy talk too.

I think "Authority" will get higher if kings always command main army and fight a lot of battles. Some game that i used too much of my Prince or other generals and put the kings in capital with few unit, the result is very low authority my king had.

These pages show how characters gain or lose loyalty and authority points, and traits and retinue in general:
http://totalwar.honga.net/traits.php?v=m2tw&f=venice&c=family&encode=en
http://totalwar.honga.net/retinue.php?v=m2tw&f=venice&c=general&encode=en