well its just annoying. im playing my ass off here, my leadership skill is at 4, i have approximately like 600 renown, and my party size is 72! 3 levels per each leadership skill is for just 5 men!
taking castles is a pain in the arse. i have to scout around for weakly defended castles, and then siege them quickly and hope that my 72 man army is strong enough for the job. i generally pounce with top tier units, but they're not all knights. it's hard to upgrade them all ot that level, and a lot of the work/killing is done by me either ways!
for example, i just took Foix. Im still not sure how in the heck I took a 110 man castle with 72 men, but I did it (hardest settings possible, but battle size limit is 100, haven't done the 'fix' to make battles larger). Foix is also a rather poor fief, but there is no way i can take a city. Its the day.. I dunno, 200.
So, basically, I want to know how to fix this because right now I cant take cities or a heavily defended castle. the king of france has 750 renown, and a 250 man army.