The problem is that like 90% of counties will be held by nomads at any given time, so their fertility will be low, so there's not many good options to migrate to. You can abandon your lands to herders and easily claim lands from them, so you can technically do a local loop, but not reliably. - ThreadSky

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namehereguy.bsky.social • 61 days ago

The problem is that like 90% of counties will be held by nomads at any given time, so their fertility will be low, so there's not many good options to migrate to. You can abandon your lands to herders and easily claim lands from them, so you can technically do a local loop, but not reliably.

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namehereguy.bsky.social•61 days ago

Other nomads can displace your herders with no ability to contest this, so you can't "fallow" some lands until they recover. So you can up stakes and migrate potentially a long distance. Problem solved?

Not really, because there's not a ton of herder lands to migrate to.

namehereguy.bsky.social•61 days ago

Then there's the problem of confederations. They're sort of defensive alliances between members of the same culture, where they give up some ability to expand for a fertility bonus and crucially having every member of the confederation join a war.

namehereguy.bsky.social•61 days ago

The problem is, the AI weight for doing this is way too high and confederations are an entire culture. So in my games there's the two realms that started huge and their starting tributaries, and *everyone else is in a confederation*.

namehereguy.bsky.social•61 days ago

So to migrate I have to pick a fight with like a dozen realms at once, who collectively field like 20,000 troops, and I'm sitting here with 10K.

namehereguy.bsky.social•61 days ago

This could be solved by having fewer nomadic realms at the start and constricting the founding of new nomadic realms, so there's a reasonable possibility there'll be a chunk of empty herder lands to move into.

namehereguy.bsky.social•61 days ago

Also, confederation participation could be distance and threat scaled somehow, so a migration by a smaller realm doesn't trigger the whole confederation joining and they only collectively resist the big players looking to become Genghis Khan.

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