Any of your "councilors" (ie, the people that, prior to Conclave, you sent out to do things like collect taxes, train troops, and convert provinces/vassals) will automatically have a seat on the council.
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Depends on the ruler/religion; you can bet Melisandre would be on it for Stannis, for example.
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True enough but as Maegor I, I doubt a septon from Dragonstone is there.
What about coalitions and shattered retreat ? The coalitions don't fit into the ASOIAF universe and the shattered retreat might make playing characters who are usually out numbered like Robb Stark or Stannis Baratheon more difficult or even impossible.
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There were some coalitions, albeit they were many years before the books began. There was the Rhoynar coalition against the Valyrians as well as a Free City coalition against New Valyria, and the Ninepenny Kings can be considered a coalition as well. Perhaps the system can be tweaked a little for the mod's purpose, so instead of a coalition between nations as in vanilla, there can be a coalition between families? House Tully, Stark, and Martell hate House Lannister, so make a coalition against them? No idea what can be made of that since most wars are put down by King's Landing anyway, but it's a neat idea in my opinion.
The Starks, the Martells and the Tullys don't need the coalition mechanic to unite against the Lannisters, they can already do it with the alliance system. Including the coalitions would only take out the elegance and sophistication of the diplomacy in the mod.
Well the countries of slavers bay formed a coalition against Danny when she started liberating the slaves
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For now we have the coalitions removed mainly because they are not yet perfect even in vanilla, I think they could be good once they get tweaked a bit and we can modify infamy on a case by case basis via events and different cbs because at the moment Aegon the Conqueror get pretty max infamy during the War of Conquest so then the whole world will feel like joining a coalition against him which just did not happen.
Shattered retreats are going to be in but have been tweaked so they have a smaller max distance they can retreat to so you don't lose a battle in Harrenhal and have your troops run all the way to Highgarden or something.
Shattered retreats are going to be in but have been tweaked so they have a smaller max distance they can retreat to so you don't lose a battle in Harrenhal and have your troops run all the way to Highgarden or something.
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Is it possible to work the council mechanics into the game, given that vassals become independent in wars?
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Yes, I made a solution that basically boils down to that you get an event at the end of a mega war to reappoint your old council
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That makes sense considering there's an event that does the same thing for the Wardens.
What about the issue of powerful vassals wanting a seat screwing up the council setups in many starts? Or the fact that many of the Lords Paramount didn't see council service in a city of vipers half a continent away from their own holdings as a privilege?
They do not get the flat opinion malus, instead if their traits etc allow for it then they will be more likely to join faction or plot etc. So character liked Ned will not care too much but people like Tywin will care more
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Will this prevent Varys and Littlefinger and similar characters from being displaced by the AI merely because they have less (formal) power?
I honestly don't think that these two will be a problem, at least in latest start date.
I mean, Littlefinger is already a Lord Paramount and Varys is likely to end up in Essos after Aegon fails.
No idea about other characters though.
I'm more concerned about their fates in starts like Robert's Rebellion and the Crowned Stag.