Captain Ralh
Recruit
Hello, hope anyone reading this is doing well!
I've come to kind of a halting point in my campaign. I've sided with Vlandia, become a vassal with decent influence, a few castles and a town. I have awesome wealth and my character is progressing nicely. I am able to maintain parties and armies without much trouble. Derthert and I have a great relationship and our families have married into each other.
My problem is that it seems the Vlandians, Battanians and Western Empire are always at war back and forth but any progress made is always reclaimed by them. We are at a state of constant tug of war for border castles and towns. Always ends in one of us declaring peace with no real progress being made or the loss of what we had previously taken. Recently they've been taking Sargot and Chardas, but we usually muster up and take it back. There lies the problem, that's all we've been doing. No real ground is ever being made. The rest of the kingdoms are doing their own thing but us three seem to always be in this back and forth struggle.
I can raise a decent army, usually around 1200~ men and take a town or castle, but then that's it. No real momentum is ever carried by the other lords of my realm.
What's the play here? What needs to be down to make a good push and really weaken one of these factions? Vassals of the Western Empire royally pissed me off last war and I executed a handful of their lords, that was not a wise move now they seem to be more aggressive.
I guess my question is: How does one take down Battania or the Western Empire in this kind of situation? Is there a specific town or region to take? The vassals of Vlandia and I are all on pretty good terms, can't say the same for the Western Imperials though.
Thoughts?
I've come to kind of a halting point in my campaign. I've sided with Vlandia, become a vassal with decent influence, a few castles and a town. I have awesome wealth and my character is progressing nicely. I am able to maintain parties and armies without much trouble. Derthert and I have a great relationship and our families have married into each other.
My problem is that it seems the Vlandians, Battanians and Western Empire are always at war back and forth but any progress made is always reclaimed by them. We are at a state of constant tug of war for border castles and towns. Always ends in one of us declaring peace with no real progress being made or the loss of what we had previously taken. Recently they've been taking Sargot and Chardas, but we usually muster up and take it back. There lies the problem, that's all we've been doing. No real ground is ever being made. The rest of the kingdoms are doing their own thing but us three seem to always be in this back and forth struggle.
I can raise a decent army, usually around 1200~ men and take a town or castle, but then that's it. No real momentum is ever carried by the other lords of my realm.
What's the play here? What needs to be down to make a good push and really weaken one of these factions? Vassals of the Western Empire royally pissed me off last war and I executed a handful of their lords, that was not a wise move now they seem to be more aggressive.
I guess my question is: How does one take down Battania or the Western Empire in this kind of situation? Is there a specific town or region to take? The vassals of Vlandia and I are all on pretty good terms, can't say the same for the Western Imperials though.
Thoughts?