What's the most children you've had at once as a Clan Leader in the same dynasty

[JaguarXJ6]

I am up to 9 children and think there's one or two left in the pencil.

Is there a cap to the number of children, by the way?

In order of birth, 1 girl, 5 boys, 1 girl, 1 boy, 1 girl with 4 wives playing as Urano Ietsugu the 1st Grandchild of Urano (third Clan leader of this games Urano dynasty).

Yokozane had Grey Eminence and gave birth to 2 girls and 4 boys, one of the males was Ietsugu who also had Grey Eminence.

I nominated Ietsugu as my Clan Leader and paired him with four wives as soon as he hit 16, all of them with 30% or higher fertility, one of them being Lustful 50%, and one special lady with +80% being a Lustful/Rogue.

This doesn't come as a surprise, but I figured there was a cap at 6 children because for years (8 years or so) there were no more births. Then mysteriously, every 2-3 years a new child has appeared. Maybe normal randomness taking hold.

The first six children were all born within three years of each other, too.

One of the children (sixth child, fifth boy) is Lustful and at 16, I just completed the same marriage process to ensure direct descendants control as much territory as possible. Direct descendants can't revolt, or am I mistaken?

 

[Def Zep]

Impressive. I've never had more than 6 children to a Clan Leader. And, usually, the eldest will reach maturity before the youngest is much more than a toddler.

In your screenshot, what do the kanji characters represent? Is it from a mod?

 

[JaceX]

Each wife can only have 4 children and so it is possible for your 4 wives to bear a total of 16 children for your Clan Leader (rare).

 

[DarthJF]

Each wife can only have 4 children and so it is possible for your 4 wives to bear a total of 16 children for your Clan Leader (rare).

But you can have more than 16 if you remarry after your wives die, or force them to monastery when they get older and then marry younger and more fertile ones to replace them.

 

[JaceX]

Oh, but that is just... so... Man, go get em Hugh Hefner.

 

[JaguarXJ6]

Thanks, will continue the game this weekend hopefully!

I'm playing the Monumenta-Iaponiae-Historica mod, formerly Genpei mod. It features expanded, rebalanced traits and kanji instead of vanilla icons.
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...rds-of-the-Japanese-History-between-1180-1600

I wanted to expand the dynasty and while you can have vassals and descendants revolt, direct descendants can't form a new clan which is what I was thinking of when wanting to have a large pool of heirs. You can kill me, but you can't end my game!

 

[James_Manring]

You can kill me, but you can't end my game!

I love it. Seriously that should be a Chosokabe AAR title using your method.

 

[mario1789]

Each wife can only have 4 children and so it is possible for your 4 wives to bear a total of 16 children for your Clan Leader (rare).

Actually, the limit depends more on the husband. A couple normally can have only two kids. A ruler or heir can have two more children than normal. And as DarthJF says, sending older wives off to a nunnery opens up all kinds of options. But if your court gets too large, then each couple is allowed less children.

 

[mario1789]

Direct descendants can't revolt, or am I mistaken?

Although I don't think an heir can start a civil war, I do think direct descendants can revolt--it's just rather unlikely given normal game play and the modifiers available. You start out with some very good bonuses due to giving the titles and being a blood relative and in a father/son relationship. But abuse a kid enough though, and sure. Pick one with somewhat incompatible traits or with traits like ambitious or envious (or all of these). Make him a daimyo with 55% of your military. Demand seppukku. Demand territory back. Send your Master of the Guard to undermine relations with the lad. Flee battles and get craven. Drop your honor to 12. Insult your neighbors to encourage a plot.

 

[JaguarXJ6]

Got it. I have not had a vassal break off yet but I've ran out of money once to see what would happen and three children had major negatives and at risk of revolt (but still comfortably 20-30 positive rep).

I looked deeper into my heirs and the first seven children were born 3 years apart, my oldest daughter is 18 and the last of the seven children is 15 going on 16. There was a 12 year "dry spell" and then I had the remaining boy and girl.

My choosen heir is not only Lustful, but Chrismatic, Benevolent, Charitable, and Generous. Three wives 16-18 and one 31 who's the Underhanded/Lustful/Honest/Brash, which is kinda how I like 'em!

 

[Kensai7]

Lustful? I presume this is a modded-trait, right?

 

[1alexey]

Lustful? I presume this is a modded-trait, right?

considering it was present in CK1, noo.

 

[DarthJF]

considering it was present in CK1, noo.

Actually, it's not in Sengoku, so I assume it comes with the mod. However I kind of wonder why it wasn't used.

 

[Kensai7]

There are some extremely rare traits. My Daimyo became Incapable after an event. In the beginning I thought it simply another way to say Infirm, which happens quite often to various characters, but no, this was unique. However, Lustful is not something I had encountered in the vanilla game.

 

[chatnoir17]

Lustful is added by me.

 

[JaguarXJ6]

Game is over in 1242 (62 years of playing time) before a Great Grandchild could take over. Each of the male children depicted above had between 6-8 children each and the Clan was 368 members strong at the end. I think I'm ready to tackle a Normal difficulty game next.