Knights

[Emelio Lizardo]

Why not just name them nobles? Anyway, if I can only have eight governors and a king, it doesn't make sense to expand much beyond nine provinces. Or I'm wrong?

[Iskar]

I can think of several reasons:
Find provinces with more/better settlements.
Take provinces with resources your nine first provinces lack.
Take away provinces from strategic rivals.
Take provinces as strategic fortresses/chokepoints.
Take provinces just for a bit more food (even 10% helps), once your armies start eating through your supplies.
Take important towns for fame (Rome, Jerusalem, Mekka, ...).
Take provinces for roleplay reasons.

It rarely makes sense to take provinces just for map painting, though, which I think is a good thing.

As for the label "knights", well - the game IS called "Knights of Honour", not "Nobles of Glory", and these nine knights and their actions are the main focus and centre of the game, so I guess it makes sense to call them knights.

[Judeo-communism]

The fastest and most efficient way to win is by developing all trade goods by taking provinces with the resources you lack and producing them your self. Trying to win by Fame vote is immensely more time consuming and more effort, and still comes down to many RNG factors.

[stun]

There is literally no reason not to expand

[edcote]

Shouldn't you take as many provinces you need to actually win?

[ShadowFox]

Emelio Lizardo lähetti viestin:

Why not just name them nobles? Anyway, if I can only have eight governors and a king, it doesn't make sense to expand much beyond nine provinces. Or I'm wrong?

You are wrong, a knight is not a noble and a noble isn't always a knight anyways its knights of honor not nobles of honor lol but yes you get reduced income from ungoverned provinces but lets say you have 15 lands you make sure to govern any trade centers you have ofc and you have your marshals govern whichever ones have 3 or 4 castles for bigger armies and then you have some leftovers. Those leftovers in my experience are lands that only have one useful thing in them like cows or barrels or saltpeter or something. And eventually when you have 30-40 provinces that 10% from each is HUGE and income wise you can defeat anyone you want or need to at will (unless you get dog piled) the big reason you can't govern all of them is that otherwise the first person to get 15 provinces would win the game every time because they would have such a ridiculous amount of power over their competitors

[snakeboy]

Non-governed provinces still produce resources, and above all manpower & military units - that's huge in itself, plus the 10% and of course the option to govern better provinces with more choice.