So it seems that Raunaeril trains troops of a random faction each game? Spooky, never heard of that before.
... Either that or some weird occult shenanigans occurred and he decided he was a born-again Draharan that one time only.
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I've got two questions of my own to ask;
What are the exact differences between normal mode and Hard mode in Perisno? I'm successful in normal mode, a bit too successful, with 6 towns at Day 306 and 18 lords, and I've already beaten the Elves. As long as the Falcons don't screw me, I should be in position to win by day 500, 600 at the latest.
Will Hard Mode make the enemy lords/marshals a bit gutsier, increase the size of enemy armies, and most importantly, give the Zann a larger bank account so they don't run out of money for their Spearhead parties? They ran out of steam and now they're being hamstrung and utterly defeated. I see Emperor Zann getting defeated and managing to escape every week.
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Speaking of the Zann, they were the best thing to happen to me, attacking Elven cities that I was in position to defend, letting me score roughly 2000 kills personally from all the sieges (I actually went from level 27 to 38 in one week of game time, that was one brutal week...), but if they had've kept it up for longer *everyone* including me would have been in serious trouble because I was running out of archers and I only barely managed to save the Elven fiefs.
As it stands, they just gave me heaps of kills and loot, helped me get my Archery proficiency over 400 in no time at all, didn't declare war on me when I split from the Elintor (effectively allies for free), and just put pressure on every other faction long enough for me to kickstart my own Kingdom - like their real mission was to provide a distraction so the Kingdom of Perisno could arise.
Literally tens of thousands of brave Zann men have died, and now they've lost Arendal and Reichberg on the northeastern shores, crushed by a powerful Reich campaign. I earlier stole Leuven from them before I rebelled, and now they only have Forde and - all the way in the south-east - Amarna, which is soon to be lost permanently to the Falcons. I've never even defeated any of the Horde parties - the Zann should be fighting at full numbers but they're just out of steam.
So soon all they'll have left is Forde and two former Tolranian castles in the northwest. That's all that remains of the largest invasion force Perisno has ever seen - a failed campaign that ran out of cash too soon. All they have succeeded in doing is helping me create a united Perisno. The land doesn't even need the Jin Dynasty to clean up the pieces - the Zann will soon be gone before the Second Expedition even arrives.
And I don't have to lift a finger now. I'll just watch them die while I inherit the Empire.
