Event - Strategos/Doux Military Life event

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Basic Info

• Random event triggered for Strateogs/Dux regardless of their focus

EVENT 1

• Immediate: select a random border province with an enemy realm for the possible modifier and localization and a random knight
• Description: There has been desertions and non respect of the obligations of the peasants reponsible for the watch service either from officer negligence and corruption or natural non inclination by locals
• Option A: Punish the local peasants: province modifier lowering popular opinion and slighlty taxes
• Option B: Punish the officer responsible (lower the selected knight opinion as well as other knights)
• Option C: Let is slide: apply a province modifier, Deserted Watchpots, reducing local defensiveness/fort level
• Option D: available to greedy or low honesty humility characters: Get in the money, get an income boost for a few years or some one time cash and apply the Deserted Watchposts province modifier

Source/Reference

• Dagron Gilbert. Le combattant byzantin à la frontière du Taurus : guérilla et société frontalière. In: Actes des congrès de la Société des historiens médiévistes de l'enseignement supérieur public, 18ᵉ congrès, Montpellier, 1987. Le combattant au Moyen Age. pp. 37-43. DOI : https://doi.org/10.3406/shmes.1987.1481