On the military tab, this is the green and red bar on the right hand side.Īs you can see, my vassal duke has his troop contribution penalized by 5% for being over my vassal limit by 1. You can see the impact of the penalty in the summary screen for levies or taxes by hovering over the per-vassal contribution.
You risk losing vassals if your character dies. You have M/N vassals, give you less taxes and levies from your vassals. The over vassal limit warning – the notification that pops up in the center, if you haven't disabled it – says the following: Having too many direct vassals will negatively affect the amount of taxes and levies you get from vassas, and you might lose the grip of your vassals upon death. Your vassal limit indicates how many direct vassals you can have at count tier or higher, excluding nomad clans.
The vassal limit tooltip from the top-right of the screen says the following: Note: this answer is current for game version 2.4.2.