Threndor 说:
i don't say you have to join another faction and i can understand that you don't want to join any of them.
but loosing your castle cause of joining a faction depend on which faction you would join and what relation you have with it's lords...
that for the joining
may i ask which castle is under your controll?
cause not every castle is the same to defend...
maybe if we know the castle, we find someone who knows how to defend specially this castle with minimal casualties against a great number of enemy forces.
anyway you should get yourself some good archers/x-bowman
btw, you know your recruitet prisoners lower the moral of your troop?
if you get a break from enemy attacks, try to sneak into some nord-town and look if the guildmaster has this "please stop the war" quest.
that would be the best option if you try to hold your castle and enemy is approaching from all side
Yeah, I know morale goes down when I recruit but my morale overal is pretty high, I guess because I'm constantly fighting and i keep most of my troops in my castle so my party is actually pretty small.
Anyway, the castle is Sungetche castle, and when it gets besieged they actually use a siege tower, which I believe is much easier to defend against then ladders. The rhodoks are attacking with about 650 troops and I have almost 170 to defend. What I tried is having an "archer war" until the siege tower is at the right place, and when they try to send their troops up the tower and in my castle I simply retreat and fight again, so that the siege tower goes back to the starting place. This would actually work because I'm winning in the archer battles, however when I retreat I lose up to 20 troops and they lose only about 2, so that kinda screws it all up. Still, I'm not gonna give up that easily and if anyone knows a better strategy I'd love to hear it.
If you have a decent army, your best bet is to kick the ass of any enemy lord rash enough to come into your sights! Nothing encourages nations to sue for peace as well as getting curbstomped does!
I have actually been doing this and had the upper hand in the war, but it was not enough to get peace (with the nords atleast, havent tried the other factions)
Good to know about the peace quest, I'll definitely try to do that if I can get a break from the attacks. And yeah I have been sending companions to right to rule missions but those take pretty long and I'm only at 15 right to rule now.
My backup plan is to simply take all my strong troops and let the rhodoks have sungetche castle while I take a different one, but then I'd want one that is really easy to defend. But I only want to do this if I really can't defend my current castle.