From my personal experience, the only way I’ve managed to break stalemates is to accept that I will start losing heavily on one front. I will focus all my attention on one Kingdom and weaken them to the point of surrender as quickly as possible. Raiding is a good way of doing this but on a playthrough where I wasn’t raiding, it was amassing as big an army as I could, and taking as many cities as possible in one run. Then when they want peace, you move onto the next weakest.
I found I was able to gain ground faster on that front faster than the enemy would take it on the other fronts.
The only drawback is that yes, you are effectively fighting this war on your own because your allies will not be keeping up with your strategy. They’re just there to give you a big enough force to take several cities in one fell swoop
If i understand correctly, you are playing the campaign? In that case, just destroy the vlandians. Ignore everything the westerns do. None of your business. Just steamroll the vlandians. The westerns will join you, as soon as you beat the vlandians to pulp.
Of you are on sandbox, the decision is yours. Focus your attention ob the enemy you can fight faster and mor effective.
For me it would be the westerns, i just hate fighting vlandia.
Fight the one kingsom, ignore everything else. They will eventually beg for peace. Either accept, or wipe them out. Then turn your mighty wrath on the remaining one.
Be prepared for a sudden declaration of war from the other kingdom, if you decided peace.
Yes, playing the campaign. I can't make piece with Vlandia because of the storyline, so I can try to make peace with the West. I need to take back a city from them first I think. I'm at an area of the map where both Vlandia/Western armies converge, so I destroyed Western army and then I'm depleted when Vlandianshows up the next day. I think peace, even if I have to pay l, is the way forward.
I think having 2M Denars while being king of 1/3 of the map is really bad. Would be better, for your next run, to get waaay more Denar.
I assume you should make peace with one of them [even if you have to pay for it] and take down the other
Is that bad? This is my first run so I have no frame of reference. What should I be aiming for?
There are a lot Im going to do different in my next run. I've learned a lot amd made so many mistakes in the grand scheme of things.
Think I'm going to have to make peace with the West and take down Vlandia. Just going to take forever.
Pay for peace with one or two kingdoms while you focus all your efforts on one side. Once they want peace, accept their offer and either go to war with one of the others or utilize the peace time and recoup your troops, but be prepared to go to war almost immediately again.
From my experience, the end-game is non-stop war and paying for peace at high prices might cost you some influence and money, but it's far better to spend the money and influence than constantly trade cities back and forth.
You should've spent that 2.5M a couple days ago on recruiting lords to your side. You can still do it, just farm denars again.
You need numbers to win on multiple fronts.
So it's my first run. I didn't know you could do that. How? Is this a thing where I recruit lords from opposing kingdoms? Or lords from clan in Kingdoms that no longer exist?
If you have spare companions, give them an army and let them get better at fighting. Then make them hunt enemies in certain areas, giving you a break. Personally, I just made an army and went round everywhere ending lives and killing enemies armies on the March or in a siege of my castles and then went back to work on their cities. Remove the cities, the funds dry up and they’re really easy work
I just started experimenting with giving companions parties to hunt down rogue lords from kingdoms I extinguished. Can I give them armies in addition?
I have been trying to focus on the cities. I'm just having trouble when I don't get the city awarded to me and then I walk away to besiege the next place. The precious city gets retaken right away. I guess I need to wait for an opportunity to award it to myself amd then move troops around before it's sieged again.
If you’re new to it, start it fresh :) - honestly, it may be worth it.
This time, get the companions and get them running caravans to increase their leadership skills and then bring them back to be ready to start your faction - in this time, you will be able to smith your way to money and unlock stuff… when a castle rebels, you should be ready to take it out - build trebuchets to break the walls and then go in with tough fighters… from there, you’re solid. Keep the guys caravaning until you get a second premises s give it to your top guy. He will form a loyal faction with you and create his own fighters and family.
I probably have 50 or 60 hours into this run. I was having a blast until the recent grind. I did not get into caravans or smithing pretty late, so missed out on some early opportunities for growth. I've had good luck keeping my cities/castle from rebeling. Put enough troops in the garrison for security and make a companion of the right faction as governor and I'm good to go.
I'm going to give the shitshow run another night I think before I trash it and start over.
I that case, don’t flood the garrison. An early castle struggles on prosperity and eats your finding slowly and grows slower, too. The higher the garrison, the slower the prosperity grows. I made a mess early on, so, it’s never too late to steer it right. Once they start becoming prosperous, if you don’t have many lords yet, give your castles away to your companions- it will save on any losses for now on your pocket while you beef up your own squad. It will also get a family goon on the companion’s side, so you will have a growing army for the future. I ended up with three rows of clan banners beside my name on diplomacy and a power at 52k last I looked but I crushed everyone now, so, I don’t know what it is… it was fun - I was warring with 3 nations at once and eating them lol - the setting was “realistic”
From my personal experience, the only way I’ve managed to break stalemates is to accept that I will start losing heavily on one front. I will focus all my attention on one Kingdom and weaken them to the point of surrender as quickly as possible. Raiding is a good way of doing this but on a playthrough where I wasn’t raiding, it was amassing as big an army as I could, and taking as many cities as possible in one run. Then when they want peace, you move onto the next weakest. I found I was able to gain ground faster on that front faster than the enemy would take it on the other fronts. The only drawback is that yes, you are effectively fighting this war on your own because your allies will not be keeping up with your strategy. They’re just there to give you a big enough force to take several cities in one fell swoop
If i understand correctly, you are playing the campaign? In that case, just destroy the vlandians. Ignore everything the westerns do. None of your business. Just steamroll the vlandians. The westerns will join you, as soon as you beat the vlandians to pulp. Of you are on sandbox, the decision is yours. Focus your attention ob the enemy you can fight faster and mor effective. For me it would be the westerns, i just hate fighting vlandia. Fight the one kingsom, ignore everything else. They will eventually beg for peace. Either accept, or wipe them out. Then turn your mighty wrath on the remaining one. Be prepared for a sudden declaration of war from the other kingdom, if you decided peace.
Yes, playing the campaign. I can't make piece with Vlandia because of the storyline, so I can try to make peace with the West. I need to take back a city from them first I think. I'm at an area of the map where both Vlandia/Western armies converge, so I destroyed Western army and then I'm depleted when Vlandianshows up the next day. I think peace, even if I have to pay l, is the way forward.
I think having 2M Denars while being king of 1/3 of the map is really bad. Would be better, for your next run, to get waaay more Denar. I assume you should make peace with one of them [even if you have to pay for it] and take down the other
Is that bad? This is my first run so I have no frame of reference. What should I be aiming for? There are a lot Im going to do different in my next run. I've learned a lot amd made so many mistakes in the grand scheme of things. Think I'm going to have to make peace with the West and take down Vlandia. Just going to take forever.
Pay for peace with one or two kingdoms while you focus all your efforts on one side. Once they want peace, accept their offer and either go to war with one of the others or utilize the peace time and recoup your troops, but be prepared to go to war almost immediately again. From my experience, the end-game is non-stop war and paying for peace at high prices might cost you some influence and money, but it's far better to spend the money and influence than constantly trade cities back and forth.
You should've spent that 2.5M a couple days ago on recruiting lords to your side. You can still do it, just farm denars again. You need numbers to win on multiple fronts.
So it's my first run. I didn't know you could do that. How? Is this a thing where I recruit lords from opposing kingdoms? Or lords from clan in Kingdoms that no longer exist?
If you have spare companions, give them an army and let them get better at fighting. Then make them hunt enemies in certain areas, giving you a break. Personally, I just made an army and went round everywhere ending lives and killing enemies armies on the March or in a siege of my castles and then went back to work on their cities. Remove the cities, the funds dry up and they’re really easy work
I just started experimenting with giving companions parties to hunt down rogue lords from kingdoms I extinguished. Can I give them armies in addition? I have been trying to focus on the cities. I'm just having trouble when I don't get the city awarded to me and then I walk away to besiege the next place. The precious city gets retaken right away. I guess I need to wait for an opportunity to award it to myself amd then move troops around before it's sieged again.
I never joined a faction and did it from the start as just me…
If you’re new to it, start it fresh :) - honestly, it may be worth it. This time, get the companions and get them running caravans to increase their leadership skills and then bring them back to be ready to start your faction - in this time, you will be able to smith your way to money and unlock stuff… when a castle rebels, you should be ready to take it out - build trebuchets to break the walls and then go in with tough fighters… from there, you’re solid. Keep the guys caravaning until you get a second premises s give it to your top guy. He will form a loyal faction with you and create his own fighters and family.
I probably have 50 or 60 hours into this run. I was having a blast until the recent grind. I did not get into caravans or smithing pretty late, so missed out on some early opportunities for growth. I've had good luck keeping my cities/castle from rebeling. Put enough troops in the garrison for security and make a companion of the right faction as governor and I'm good to go. I'm going to give the shitshow run another night I think before I trash it and start over.
I that case, don’t flood the garrison. An early castle struggles on prosperity and eats your finding slowly and grows slower, too. The higher the garrison, the slower the prosperity grows. I made a mess early on, so, it’s never too late to steer it right. Once they start becoming prosperous, if you don’t have many lords yet, give your castles away to your companions- it will save on any losses for now on your pocket while you beef up your own squad. It will also get a family goon on the companion’s side, so you will have a growing army for the future. I ended up with three rows of clan banners beside my name on diplomacy and a power at 52k last I looked but I crushed everyone now, so, I don’t know what it is… it was fun - I was warring with 3 nations at once and eating them lol - the setting was “realistic”