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[Strategos]

Also, there will be recognized kingdoms when one guild vassalizes another or creates another guild to settle another city (so they can expand) and vassalizes them...

[Lukepop]

Dude., The thread was dead already.

[Strategos]

Your partly right... Should've reigned in the debate a wee bit...
But (and I know you won't respond to this) if someone joined it would reincarnate things a wee bit...

[Indi]

There are a lot of young men pulling "facts" from their asses about history in this thread.

[Daniloy]

There are a lot of young men pulling "facts" from their asses about history in this thread.

Welcome to the Internet.

[Firewaterfriday]

One thing that I haven't heard of so far, is whether there can be land disputes in a guild. Like in-fighting,civil war, desertion, etc. I want to be a merc/guard not attached to one guild how do I do that without the option to leave/desert? Time contracts consented to by both parties with promise of reward in specific amount?

[Engellus]

One thing that I haven't heard of so far, is whether there can be land disputes in a guild. Like in-fighting,civil war, desertion, etc. I want to be a merc/guard not attached to one guild how do I do that without the option to leave/desert? Time contracts consented to by both parties with promise of reward in specific amount?

I don't see why there won't be. People act stupidly and piss each other off, so the large guilds may fracture and have in fighting. Who knows, maybe someone will hire assassins? Or perhaps a guild will hire bandits to attack another instead of openly declaring war. Just as a means to weaken their competition without risking their own necks.

[Apep]

Imo, people claiming land on their own in medieval times has an example too. Mainly early medieval era, though, think about the migration period. Also it was quite common in East Europe aswell, especially in slavic regions. After the Saxons were conquered by the Franks, they simply moved on to the east and claimed land on their own instead of asking the Emperor about it.

[Siegbert]

Imo, people claiming land on their own in medieval times has an example too. Mainly early medieval era, though, think about the migration period. Also it was quite common in East Europe aswell, especially in slavic regions. After the Saxons were conquered by the Franks, they simply moved on to the east and claimed land on their own instead of asking the Emperor about it.

That's true, also for later periods of the Middle Ages. I'm thinking of Henry the Lion claiming Slavic regions for himself. But still he ultimatively was subject to his king and the regions where considered property of the kingdom/empire.
It was common practice for the kings to grant those regions to the local lords as fief. In the case of Henry the Lion who was accused of acting too much in his own interest when it came to imperial politics he was stripped of his lands which were newly distributed to smaller lords more closely allied with emperor Barbarossa.