That is true. We get the full loyalty benefits of every vassal support policy when we have less subordinates than our cap, whether we have one, five, ten, or fifteen slots open. The loyalty benefits are then distributed to our vassals, marches, and colonies.
We already have a professional state army. Ceasing to pay and organize them won't improve it.
They are not our professional state army. They are mercenary companies. Academia Nut said we'll get an actual professional army if we do Double Main Raise Army. I'm pondering a possible alternate path to getting that professional army.
No we would not. Legacies are only lost when a civilisation fractures or collapses.
If we lose all of a type of subordinate, we lose the associated "3-of-a-kind" legacy. We've been told this explicitly in regards to losing Protected Core (since we're down to a single March).
Fair enough. I think losing the legacy would be worth getting a professional state army, but better to get some confirmation from AN if that's actually what would happen before we go through with it.
I was saying that Academia Nut said that Double Main Raise Army would give us a professional army. Your quote does not change what he said.
I think what Dakka is trying to say is that Mercenary Companies are professional state armies.
You are on the right track. It was Rulhuthyn who said this by way of a word of AN, our heroic martial king who was Rulwyna l's father. For more context he was the king who dreamt of cavalry.
We should suppress them into oblivion.
We kinda already did, though? And now the Second Son crisis is over and their political influence is low.
We didn't. The lowest it got down to was 1. It needs to go down to 0.
I did not say we should give it to the patricians.
The Yeomen were down to like, -2 during the end of the Second Sons crisis, since they were being suppressed by the Patricians.
Ah, right, I forgot about that. I was thinking in terms of base amount of faction power they had, which was 2 if I remember correctly. Still, getting them down to 0 would result in different things than artificially doing so via patrician suppression.
And I'm pretty sure it's the low level rural Patricians that are the biggest problem with half-exiles, since they're the people best positioned to halt corruption like that.
