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Agreed, Ananda. The AI in the interior of the castle/town is atrocious, pretty much on both sides. I hate that I will break in on one side, just to see my soldiers leave the area. Then the next group of reinforcements will go to the other side instead of coming to where they have free entry. Then the enemy just takes it back the side I broke through..

I usually just attack on ladders with overwhelming numbers. Once the garrison troops go down, the militia is just paper soldiers. But I want to bring down the enemy siege weapons before attacking.

As an additional note, if you build siege towers; which clearly indicates you plan to go over the walls, not through them; the guns still focus on destroying the walls rather than the guns that are killing them.

Regarding your suggestions, I agree a court system/messenger system would be a big improvement. Other clans get mercenaries easily, but once you become leader, you don't have the time to contact mercenary leaders. They should have a contact in your court or you should be able to message them. Also, quite frankly, when I am regularly leading armies for the never-ending wars, I don't have time to track down other lords to ask them to join me. There should be a system where either I should be able to message them or, when a small, dying empire has less territories than lords, they should be able to contact you at your court for them to propose joining your empire.

Wasn't aware of that. Yes, once you leave a kingdom, it makes no sense to have them change their banner to match yours when you aren't even there.

I kind of feel that once a kingdom exists (whether starting kingdom or created kingdom) their Coat of Arms/flag should stay the same whether the ruler changes or not. In the U.S. we get different rulers, but the flag stays the same. On the other hand, I do think that the ruling clan's Coat of Arms should not change to the ruling kingdom's.. You have remained the same family whether you stay ruler or not.

No worries. As I said, A) I find it amusing and B) while it doesn't bother me, it should be fixed.

Quite frankly, I find reassigning prisoners to my companions parties & mine, & getting rid of excess to be the most time consuming, Particularly when I don't have a fief near the battle lines to dump lords in. Selling goods doesn't take long. If you are talking end-game, I assume you are the ruler. So the garrison isn't a problem, it makes it easier to justify taking troops I want for my party.to strengthen my party as well as my companions. Also, I generally have an army of about 1k-1200. I'm lucky f they donate 150-200 to the garrison total. I don't recall ever seeing 400+ donated to a new town/castle. Occasionally when necessary I might have an army of 1500, but if my army is too big it prevents the other lords from doing anything, even if all they do is be a nuisance to the remaining enemy. Not sure why you need an army of 2k+..

When you join a kingdom, You become eligible to be voted on for a settlement/holding. But settlements are awarded based on the votes of all the lords in a kingdom. If you are the only lord without a settlement, usually the lords will vote to give you one. But in the instance you gave above, another lord within the kingdom also did not have a settlement. So the lords voted to give the settlement to the other lord, who has been in the kingdom longer, than to give it to you.

The next time a settlement is taken, if all the other lords have settlements, then it will likely be voted to be given to you. That was what Marda meant by a second vote. Really, she meant next vote. Be aware though that if an enemy kingdom takes a settlement from your kingdom and the lord no longer has a settlement its possible it could be voted to be given to the lord that just lost one. Or if an NPC lord without a holding joins the kingdom before the next vote. You might get it, but its possible the other lord might instead.

I suppose it should probably be an option for your own family/companions, but... You say you are trying to take over the kingdom, but if there's nothing in the garrison a single party of 50 troops can take it over. You are just making it easier for the kingdom you are trying to take over to take it back. Plus you are inducing other kingdoms, some not even next to you (which is stupid) to declare war on you. I got real annoyed when other lords in my kingdom refused to donate to settlements owned by me, even when I was the ruler and they had just taken over the castle/town. I'm glad they fixed that.

I've noticed that when I am part of a kingdom and the ruler dies; then I become ruler, my clan's flag becomes that of the previous ruler as well.

Since this has been a while and wasn't a regular problem, I couldn't confirm fixed or not. However, I thought I'd mention you advised it is fixed, but the thread status is still 'in progress'. You might want to update the status.

Yep, fix working & its definitely a plus. Thank you.

Actually, I'll change what I said previously. It used to be if you zoomed in or looked from a different angle you could see them. Now you can't. The only way to know what siege engines are there is to zoom in enough to see the health of them.

I find that when this happens, you can zoom in a little or change the angle of your view and they will usually show up. Shouldn't be necessary, but its a work-around.

Yeah, I currently have a town I lost to rebels (Hubyar). My only town. When rebels took it I besieged it planning to starve out the defenders. Then I got 2 other armies to help, but they also took control. We weren't at war, but then the Aserai declared war on us. They came and attacked our besiegers, but we won that battle with about 25 troops left in fighting condition. We recovered and now have over 300 troops to their 75 militia. The walls are down, they have no siege engines, we have battering ram and siege towers, but of course we don't attack.

I lost the town because the stupid game instituted Debasement of currency and I am empire culture. So loyalty is -3 because of my culture and another -1 due to Debasement of Currency. I do have an Aserai culture governor there (my wife). When I took over the town there was no fairgrounds upgrade in place so thats my top priority. Unfortunately the highest I can get loyalty is 20%, which gives 0 build. So I can't build anything and the town is constantly under risk of rebellion. At first 3 villages were flaming from having been raided. When they recovered they immediately had tasks for me. When I was over 15 loyalty I risked going out to do the tasks. I did 5 of them before it eventually rebelled. I spent probably about 2 seasons at the town just trying to get up to 25 loyalty so I could build stuff. It simply couldn't be done. Although this is off-topic for this thread, here's some questions for you. What use is a governor of the town with 300 troops if they don't do village tasks or fight off rebellions? They also don't take care of hideouts in the area. Nice that they can give you a bonus to loyalty, but they don't actually seem to perform any actions as governor. Why would any lord besides the ruling clan vote for Debasement of currency? Yet it receives 100% approval and can't be overridden unless you are the ruler. Why is the penalty for ruling a non-culture settlement so stiff that it basically destroys any chance of owning it unless you put all resources into getting fairgrounds in place (if able). I understand having a penalty that can affect your income from the settlement and force you to have a higher military there. But its ridiculously too high of a penalty.

Edit: Here's an update from my game play tonight...Rhagea came to Hubyar with an army of over 900. I thought, "Oh good. She'll gain control because she is the kingdom leader and she'll attack with her fresh troops that have them outnumbered about 6 to 1. Nothing happened even though the walls are still down, there's no ballistas/catapults in the town, we have trebuchets, and we still have the ram & siege towers. I decided maybe if I joined the siege and then left it would trigger it. Nope, didn't work. As an additional note, the rebels joined the Aserai, so now its even part of a kingdom we are specifically at war with.

Lol. I don't play mods, but thats amusing. Kind of glad to know dismissing a character will kill them. I believe at times I dismissed a character when I had a pressing need for someone of a certain culture, but it was either warband or simply something I considered. The plan would be to rehire them when I leveled or got more room, But I won't do that now. I like to show loyalty to those that join me.