
This depends on your own character and the way you rule your nation.Įxample: if you have a very high honor, honorable lords will start liking you, even if they never met you. This allows you to set a policy which can affect relations with your vassals (both good and bad), this will make time your friend.Īs to assigning them fiefs, each lord should have at LEAST have 1 fief if they have no fiefs then their relations will keep dropping until they defect, even if the lord loves you when he joins.Īs stated above, never give a lord 2 fiefs which are far away from each other, because the lord will neglect one of them.Īnd, as stated above, keep your castles and towns for good lords, these are the lords that have a high relationship with you without your active attempt to raise it. The more lords you have, the more annoying it becomes, so the more time you'll have to spend patching up relationships.įirst of all, use diplomacy mod instead of native. I prefer to stick to a small but highly dependent group of lords, but this leads to other issues as you expand in territory it becomes harder to patrol and defend your borders. Hosting a feast (only do this in times of peace) is a good way of mass bumping everyone's relations up by a point or two. After granting a fief, spend some time patching up relationships with the other lords to keep their relationships up higher.

Give the important fiefs (towns, castles) to lords with higher relationships and the villages to less dependable lords.Most lords have a preferred 'home' and giving them a fief on the far side of the map means he'll most likely neglect one of them since he can only be one in place at a time. Try not to give a lord two fiefs on the opposite sides of the map.This is rather time consuming and annoying. Before granting a fief, it helps if you talk to each lord to determine who they support.

So you always want to make sure your important fief holders for castles and towns have good relationships with you.


Yet, giving a fief to a lord is not enough a big enough bump for him to overlook you giving a fief to two lords he despises. Your relationship with all of these lords may drop by several points.
