I wonder though, can you continue to play with the female line or are we using the salic law here?
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I wonder though, can you continue to play with the female line or are we using the salic law here?
I'll be incredibly impressed if they include a distinction for Salic law / non-Salic law.
That being said, I'll certain forgive Snowball/Paradox if they decide it's more trouble than it's worth.
Considering that inheritence through the female line was fairly common in the Middle Ages (including, speaking of the topic being discussed here, in Byzantium), I would be very suprised indeed if female inheritence would be disallowed in the game...
That is IF you can arrange the marriage and IF nothing else happens to get in the way (like you have a more legitimate heir). Once you click the START button you and the fates (computer) make history.
Aye but since you are in most cases marrying into the male house that will make your initial house choice just that, initial. Bit cheap I think. I think one had to carry some hefty penalty to get away with a female heir, especially if you happen to be rulers of a nation.
They should advertise the game also in the yellow press, alongside articles about the British royals.
Looking forward to the Family Ties (will Michael J. Fox be in game?), and I bet we will see loads of soap opera AARs.
Looking forward to the Family Ties (will Michael J. Fox be in game?), and I bet we will see loads of soap opera AARs.
In a map with ancient laws I can see Salic LAw in the time the Visigoths ruled Spain, but think it became official with Hugh Capet some years before game starts, and as Sergei said you can assign laws in your different territories, think Salic Law, non-Salic will be in game.
Actually, it only became official in France as the main line of the Capetians was becoming extinct in the early 1300s. Before that, the problem of female inheritence never was an issue in France, as the Capetian kings all had sons to succeed them. The deaths of Louis X and his posthumous son Jean I in 1316 broke this string, and brought up the succession problem for the first time in Capetian history. A grand council awarded the throne to Louis' brother instead of to his infant daughter Jeanne, thus officially instituting the Salic Law...
Originally posted by Sonny
Sounds more like Capetian law.
Read the opening of Shakespeare's Henry V to see what the English thought of it being "Salic".
The recent movie adaptation does a wonderful job when the Archbishop of Canterbury says the line "...the land Salique is in Germany", with him being as mocking as possible when stressing "Germany"...
Originally posted by Demetrios
Read the opening of Shakespeare's Henry V to see what the English thought of it being "Salic".
The recent movie adaptation does a wonderful job when the Archbishop of Canterbury says the line "...the land Salique is in Germany", with him being as mocking as possible when stressing "Germany"...
Well, I was going to mention Germany but since it was the French implementing the Salic law...