Just wanted to sum up some regular frustration i have with some of the mechanics.
Perhaps others share a similar feeling.
The new TO mechanics requires active support which is extremely boring and annoying, some troop leaders dont even bother to do it.
I seriously preferred the old system where you just had to be in the region.
Perhaps support options can still be kept but are not necessary to finish a TO, just help it speed up or better: to just help making the region more stable once it is taken.
So no Support will not slow down TO but simply give you a slightly unstable region once the TO completed.
Especially for less active players in smaller realms it can be very boring, clicking support to for days in a row.
Diplomats, the new diplomats changed the game, they are not necessary once your regions are fixed(love you and your allies and hate the enemy).
But as long as they are not, which is nearly every region taken in war, you need an army of Diplomats to restore those regions with no other choice but to have allot or very active diplomats.
Diplomats simply click on the same options day after day and i don't see anything exited about it.
It has some cool options but i'd rather see them add something instead of being a necessary tool for your realm to expand.
These Diplomats could have recruited men and fought battles instead.
Now they just sit in a region for weeks doing something that is boring but very required.
Without diplomats, those regions will keep revolting, even with 2% tax rate and a lord doing police work and courts does not work for even a small realm.
A lord should, with some basic attention and decent tax rates, be able to hold almost any region part of a small realm, once it is taken in my opinion.
Why should peasants bother THAT much about who there lord is anyway.
The peasants of today BM almost seem like some western democracy middle class citizens.
the faith of a lord should mater more then what realm he is part of.
Perhaps the realm he belongs to looted them a few times, so what that's basically what they're usual lord does by taking so much tax from them while holding 'harsh' courts.
It is better to have an 'enemy' lord then to have some pagan noble in charge, who knows what witchcraft or divine punishments might come from that?
I want to fight other nobles (armies), not peasants.
I seriously wish these mechanics where taken away or changed.
I have not seen anyone who liked it yet, perhaps the concept but not the way they work now.
But if you disagree, please speak up.