i have 2 towns with garrison of over 600 and a castle with garrison of 500 men and another 300 cavalry with me sou crushing Raverstern is easy. ( defeating Raverstern is easy with full cavalry even 300 vs 1600 i only get about 10 dead and 20-30 wounded max ). I will try recruiting more lords but i try to recruit them when i have a 100 relation with them to have less problems later. i currently have about 13 lords with 100 relation but some thous that i don't already have in my kingdom are happy with there king sou i need to just crush them before getting them and its not sou easy to do when im at peace with them thou i just just gather my lords declare war and go crazy on someone but im not realy looking forward to fighting the empire with there crazy javs. I think i will just go apes ageinst the D'Shar until they get totaly wiped out and then if the peace is over finish of the Friedsvein.
sou that's what i was doing wrong i have the axe equipd

finaly i can be a crazy man eating maniac and fight the blademasters . thanks!
how many times can i upgrade my knighthood?