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Hi Duh, Thanks for replying. By "waiting for it to be adjusted to the actual required need" I take it I have to wait for the population to increase?

I did it by conquering the last town from a dying faction that pretty much only had that last town and I know his forces (standing army) are weak too at that time. I wasn't even that strong then. I could only field a little over 200 but I made sure I took as many elite and higher level troops as I could. Took over the town, put most of my good troops in and immediately started to recruit new ones to train over time and frantically played diplomacy to the nearby factions.

To the author, yes this happens in my game.

http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,248154.0.html

I just **** them all bad, the starting part is the worse.

Some tips:

(I run my own faction so some of my tactics won't work for you)

1. I would capture any of their weakly defended lands and give them away as a gift to friendly factions I know would not attack me. That way I do not need to defend a place I cannot hold while at the same time weaken them, as they cannot take a land from a faction they are not at war with. If you give the land to a faction not in their clique but nearby them, sometimes if one of them attacks that faction, one of their friend factions in the clique who may be friendly with the faction not in their clique will break the 'hand holding' and go to war instead with its former friends.

2. Your best bet is play defensive at the beginning when they all declare war on you. Learn to smash their individual important lords while marshalling your army. And learn to hold important towns of your own by marshalling your army into it when they bring their host there to siege. Take prisoners (they are all at war with you eventually anyway) and never release them, that way they weaken over time. Don't accept peace offers if you already captured most of the lords especially the ruler.

3. If you are not strong, just play defensive, no need to go on the offense. After a long period of hard fighting , if you smashed some of their lords and if you attack some of their weak lands, they will accept peace offers.

4. For some of the factions, all they have is a town and nothing else. For such cases, at good opportune periods you can starve these settlements out. You need at least 200 men , good troops at that to try this tactic.

Hope this helps.

Congrats and thanks. But yes, a changelog is needed!

Can we get a preview of the changes and new features coming in v1.4?

Tatem said:

@Iron
I most certainly can express my opinion if I will. I will point to another quote by another great man directed towards lessor men such as yourself.
I may disagree with what you are saying, but I shall defend, to death your right to say it.
Voltaire

What I had given to you sir, was advice. As have all others whom have posted. In your arrogance, you have chosen not to take that advice, and continue your attack on one of the best mods I have ever seen. While I respect your opinion I do not have to agree with it. I would ask that you take the many suggestions and apply the knowledge that we have bestowed upon you. I would also ask for an apology to Ibil for your smear campaign and demands; Though I expect none.
Thank you for your time.

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They say to speak to idiots would reduce you to their level. So off I go to play the flute...

PS: tatem, the irony of *you* is priceless

Palestine said:

I'd say it's rather easy if you accept that this is realistic mod. You can't maintain good relations to everyone, but sure you can try to with as many as you can. You'll need reputation and renown and some friends among lords, even enemy.

There is no love between me and Mercia, but I release their lords all the time, I make peace with those I can and play as a good guy.

Pengwern was friendly to you, you could have maintain that relation with them for a while.

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I did maintain that r/s for a long while but then they stopped wanting to make treaties with me. The answer is obvious.  Anyway its strange I can take over their towns, 'rape' their lords, none of which provoke other nations to attack me but only when I capture their lords as prisoners other factions actually declare war on me?

There is this line that appears when you capture lords
"you relations with other factions change"

followed by messages on screen

it might go something like "powys decided to go war with crafu"

and the lord i captured would be from crafu.

Why the odd messages then? If this was intended? It should be "powys decided to go to war with [player faction", which is what happens in game but will get reported otherwise. I'm pretty sure there is some bug along the lines.

Does anyone know if the fire effect from the fire arrows are a script? trigger? or something? How do I modify it and is it even possible to add the same effect to another item in game via editor?