All you need in the new system will be a Lord for the region. But you will need a lord, unlike (at one point) when even lords weren't needed.
If you don't have the number of knights the game thinks you need, then your tax collection will be inefficient and you will get less gold. Your stats will not be otherwise hurt.
Cool.
Will this control be held on production levels, on tolerable tax limits, or as an extra tax reduction factor (like the absence of a lord at tax collection)?. I would personally favor the third.
