[Discuss] Peasants kick out duke.

[Joshua Dudik]

Samuel Knowlton <sam at iamsam.org> wrote:...

On top of that, in both cases, the lord had been there for a day and a half 
(the city) and half a day (a rural region on FEI that had just been taken 
over). Not exactly enough time for the peasants to even know who he was, 
much less blame him for things that have obviously been bad for a while.

I appreciate that BM peasant revolts are an order of magnitude more serious 
than real peasant revolts were, but at the end of the day they're still 
revolts and it seems like it should have something to do with military 
units, since armies were parked in both regions. If we want to accept that 
peasants can kick out a lord, okay, but why are all our paid soldiers going 
to sit around and let it happen? Why can peasants accomplish what the entire 
nobility and ruler cannot (see recent posts about 'the lord -is- the 
region')? 
Immediately kicking out a new lord might tie into the fact that titles are, in theory, inherited.  The fact that he didn't assert his claim before things got bad is a sign of his incompetence.  Or, since I assume a TO was involved, the peasants notice that the new lord was a member of the army that just leveled their region and blame him for their current state of despair.  

As for military units preventing the revolt, its already included:  hanging rebels and police work.  While the game says that the lord was "kicked out", that doesn't mean his estate was literally attacked and the peasants dragged him into the streets before banishing him.  Its more figurative, meaning that all of the surrounding villages 50+ miles away refuse to recognize his lordship, ignoring the tax collectors and military recruiters while not acknowledging that they are a part of his realm.  Its the same general concept with running TO's.  So you won a battle in one corner of the region and slaughtered 500 peasants.  There's still another 8000 across the 10,000 square mile region that still refuse to listen to your laws and rulings.  

       
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