Medieval II Total War: Princess Guide

My guide to the princess agent in the game medieval II total war.
Apologies if quality is poor; this is my first proper video.
I also stream on twitch: / thesavagekitti
Cheats/console command information:
Open console command: '@' or '~'.
Full list of traits and ancillaries (thanks Edwardmath): steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Further trait information: www.honga.net/totalwar/traits...

[@NotFinnish]

never knew that my princesses were becoming snobbish because i had money, will keep that in mind and be poor next time lol

[@fartz3808]

I noticed when I was in bankruptcy my princess started getting higher stats because of 'humble' traitline

[@Jd-bu1cv]

@@fartz3808wtf lol

[@rianvoogt4701]

yeah crazy, never knew.

[@dannyalex5866]

One serious aspect of a princess is the her ability to make a fort unbribale,by attach her to the specific fort Highly important when you want block a crossing and you don't want an enemy diplomat bribe ur precious fort

[@thesavagekitti5668]

I didn't know this, thanks.

[@darkknight84123k]

That is clever, possibly, an exploit but clever

[@christopherwebber3804]

I've never seen an enemy diplomat do that, but I've only played against the AI

[@dannyalex5866]

@@christopherwebber3804 in a hotseat all are changed

[@limitess9539]

@@darkknight84123k given how many crazy exploits there are in medieval 2 its not an exploit lol

[@askthepizzaguy]

Otto Von Kassel became Otto Von Castle.

[@thesavagekitti5668]

Yep, there was a reason I picked Otto von Kassel :P

[@thenoobprincev2529]

Had no idea that Princesses would turn into nuns and become unavailable after the Age 40. Such a small but detailed mechanic the whole princess system(and some other features in MedII) was....

[@patmcgroin6916]

Ha ha...I recently had a Portuguese princess who was on the verge of going to the convent after an illustrious career of diplomacy... She found a dysfunctional 16 year old English boy and the cougar pounced, lol! Turns out her positive traits rather nullified his dysfunctionality, they busted out 4 kids, and through some deaths in the family the English boy eventually became king of Portugal! And because his wife nullified his dysfunctionality...not the worst king...

[@anitaibele7743]

You can find the triggers for traits in the game files. Successful negotiations are a trigger, but for the higher levels of these traits you have to conduct a lot of negotiations. I'm not 100% sure, but for the highest level of a trait it was 16 negotiations

[@christopherwebber3804]

Normally, with diplomats, every time a negotiation fails, the diplomat's ability goes down one step. I'm interested that with princesses, doing this won't reduce their ability to 0?

[@askthepizzaguy]

What I've noted is that if you use the princess to do several negotiations at once, all successful, she is likely to pick up +1 charm, +2 is possible, +3 as well, and the maximum for gaining this way over several negotiations (iirc) is +5. She has to have the rest of her charm come from her looks, intelligence, personality, desire to start a family, and other such traits that add charm, which you cannot influence directly. She does tend to pick up charm just from traveling far from home, and negotiations can sometimes grant her positive retinue as opposed to negative, but its about 50/50. Note also, if the negotiation is refused for any reason, that tends to scuff the ability to gain a charm from that negotiation. It's still possible but it feels a lot lower odds, whereas several successful agreements and no refusals almost always works. The negotiations should also be actual deals instead of just gifts, while gifts of gold will work, the more balanced the proposal, the more the game values it for diplomacy and charm purposes I think. I'm a bit iffy on this point. If you do trade rights, exchange map information / sell map information, offer a standard nonmarriage alliance and it is accepted, or buy a settlement from the other faction successfully, those things usually gain charm. If you gift military access and then separately ask for military access in exchange for X (usually 500 gold will do, if the thing says generous, it should work a lot), that also works. If your princess has a charm in the negatives, doing this stuff could bring her positive, but it is still limited to a possible gain of five only. A particularly unfortunate princess may only ever get a charm of like 3 or so, and could lose that much just from yappy dog or the obsessed suitor or other negative retinue you can pick up. If you want to use her to bear children for your faction, the traits of the husband will matter, the traits of her father and herself will matter, and you want to do it sooner rather than later. Also, children are more likely to happen if the total number of family members alive in your faction is less than the number of cities and castles you have combined. If you're near that limit, the rate of adoption and birthing children slows dramatically. Also, some traits weaken the ability to have children, of course. If you marry within a faction, beware of picking up the incest traits, it's always better to marry a general, unless your princess is the daughter of a member of your faction that was adopted by royalty and ascended to the throne and now have different blood. In which case, then it might be better to marry someone who is still related to the original faction leader, because then you can get the positives back from actually being blood related to them.

[@LucasCunhaRocha]

pretty sure the incest and inbred traits are totally random.

[@valder8423]

@@LucasCunhaRocha Yes, but it in Medieval 1 it was actual thing

[@winndypops]

Throughout all my Med2 time I never actually had them marry my own generals, usually just had them for Alliances but some of those buffs would actually be pretty useful, 15% extra cash from a big city is a few extra units on the field.

[@joeh7824]

"I've got a new castle! thank you otto von kassel" 😂

[@NUCCubus]

Oh wow, I never considered marrying my princesses to my own generals! And they might even get bonuses too?! Insane

[@lifewikipedia]

Hey awesome video I just got back into this game and I was literally so curious abt it so this was enlightening 😩

[@christopherwebber3804]

Ha, ha, the snobbish princess, I love it, I didn't know that! Note that whatever percentage chance it gives you, in fact it decides what will be the result and that never changes unless you 1. save the game 2. make your attempted marriage/diplomacy, spy attempt etc 3. fail, reload, SAVE the game, then try again. Saving after the reload resets the randomiser. You can also reset the randomiser by reloading, doing some other really chancy thing like attacking something or doing a chancy attempt on something, then trying again.

[@valeriussulpiciusmaximus8392]

Great video! KZbin finally recommended me some quality content. Merry Christmas btw!

[@thesavagekitti5668]

Merry christmas

[@voidghost84]

Nice video. In my personal experience, expanding the family was the best way to go. Trying to use a princess as a diplomat to get more positive traits, usually ended up doing the opposite as she gained bad traits with age. Marry her fast. If you can get another factions general (as you've shown), great. I always felt that time passed to quickly in this game and you didn't get enough time to play with your agents and family members. I usually married my princesses to someone young as the guy you've shown (57 years old) would be unlikely to sire any children and would die in a few turns.

[@randyflores2489]

I'm glad to be your 100th sub!

[@Seallussus]

THAT'S AMAZING. LETS GOOO

[@patrikvavro1611]

07:27 if I remember correctly (I haven’t played this game in years), if you have a high tier market building in a city where the princess is spawned, there’s a chance that she will gain an ancillary called “exotic cosmetics”, or something like that, that increases her charm, so you can actually increase her charm with at least this building chain

[@tikitong7285]

Always thought they were useless thank you.

[@nachoesposito6673]

Great video! I always accept adoptions, no wonder i never get prinecsses in my campaings

[@koppo9172]

Thank you so much

[@derrickbonsell]

So Victoria doesn't even choose white because of "purity," like the modern expectation, but because machines were replacing weavers so in a show of support she chose handmade cloth and lace, and white was the best way to show it off.

[@philipjones3599]

Super interesting!

[@torgomaghanyan7633]

For the console command you don’t need to write the name like in rtw 1, or remastered, just write “give_trait this” and trait that you want. Giving diplomats traits to Princess doesn’t work. The only not direct trait you can give is march traits like energetic or disciplinarian, or spy trait such as goodspy, she won’t be able to work as spy, but her vision will triple as consequences

[@petresko1041]

I tend to place mine in between 3 foreign faction settlements and keep right clicking on those settlements every turn, in order to snipe a general who's just come of age. Marrying old generals is a waste for me, even if they have good traits. They often produce fewer faction members and die sooner of natural causes.

[@Sssniperwolf1996]

Please more of those videos

[@ScavChav]

Love this, have you tried Crusader Kings 2 and 3?

[@christopherwebber3804]

wow, I never knew you could deliberately marry a princess to one of your own guys! One problem is that the AI will suggest a marriage to one of your own guys and you have to keep saying No if you want her to marry someone else. I've always been careful not to deliberately marry a princess to one of my own faction as I think that makes him a faction heir and liable to revolt. Also, if the king dies and has no other heirs , he becomes king - a great way to capture a foreign country (or lose your own if a foreign princess marries your own guy). I may be confusing this with some of the rules of "Blood Royale" which I'm sure you would enjoy if you haven't played it.

[@SamuelHallEngland]

Just get trade rights, sell that map info, and have her married to a member of her own faction imho!

[@thesavagekitti5668]

Yeah, but then there's no one around to deprive Otto Von kassel of his home.

[@xyAKMxy]

Time to become a pretty princess!

[@xyAKMxy]

Nevermind I misunderstood the video's title :^(

[@thesavagekitti5668]

@@xyAKMxy You can only become a princess if your father is a faction leader or faction heir, and you are a female. Most of us are all out of luck.

[@neimeksneimeks7470]

wow

[@koppo9172]

This was helpful :) sub from me. please more med 2 content

[@lokkj1641]

Can you marry a princess from an allied nation?

[@thesavagekitti5668]

Yes you can.

[@lokkj1641]

@@thesavagekitti5668 even if its a muslim faction?

[@thesavagekitti5668]

No, the base game won't let you do that. It will let you marry catholic to orthodox, but not to another religion, including pagan@@lokkj1641

[@TechnaFox]

As a work around for roleplaying sake, you can bribe the muslim general first, then once he's one of yours he can be married to a princess.​@@lokkj1641

[@user-by6ri3cu4y]

tldr: they are useless (but nice work on explaining the mechanics)

[@boarfaceswinejaw4516]

far from useless, but i do wish they were more useful.

[@siluda9255]

they are a free diplomat

[@Kijekin477]

Free upkeep, unbribable, possibility of better start in early game (for example as Spain by marrying El Cid 6 star general in turn 2) So they are not useless.

[@user-by6ri3cu4y]

@@Kijekin477 I had my fucking lame ass princess run away with one of my generals, claming her offspring heirs to the throne.

[@fallenaeon7084]

If you were into using cheats they were very useful in keeping your family's bloodline alive. 🥲

[@P4GYY]

bro what the fuck, a women who plays med2 and also has cool factoids about medieval marriages Marry me now.

[@thesavagekitti5668]

Don't worry, my video on spies should be done by the end of this week.

[@AAAaaaaaeeeeeeeee]

Cringe

[@messedupet1875]

Gamers when women:

[@XDSCoN13X]

Based .....literally me

[@Jd-bu1cv]

Who tf plays as Portugal lol