A Stalemate

[Gaurav]

Hi guys. So i am facing a bit of an issue and need some advice. I am a vassal of Sarranids and at war wih Khergits.
In m game, the Khergits own Yalen and its surrounding castles, Halmar, Durquba and Durrin Castle and Tulga(and one or two of its castles).
Sarranids own Shariz, Ahmerrad, Barriye, Narra and Ichamur(under my control.)

My fiefs are
Cities: Ichamur
Castles: Uhhun, Jameyyed, Sharwa, Terrama, Caraf
Villages: Zagush and Uzgha

Now the issue is that a sort of stalemate has occured. As you may be able to deduce from the above info the Sultan seems to love me and has already made me Marshall.
But it hardly seems to be any use.
Most Khergit lords patrol around Tulga and most Sarranids lords around Narra. And the war goes somewhat like this:
Khergits try to raid Zagush. Sarranids try to catch them. They run to Malaryug Castle or Tulga.
And most lords(both Khergits and Sarranids) have armies of range between 30 and 70. The only exceptions are me having 140 soldiers, Hakim having around 350 and Sanjar Khan having around 500.
Whenever i start a campaign no one comes except Hakim. I guess thats because i dont have relations with any of the lords above 2-3.
But that is because the lords get indicted for treason on a daily basis and keep changing. If having medium positive relations with lords is necessary then i will have to try to impress every lord.
The war consists of mainly me picking off 1-2 lords who try to raid Zagush. The others usually manage to run away.
My military strategy was to first capture Durquaba and then Tulga. Causing them to shift their base of operations to Halmar or Yalen. And i can do that with only Hakims party supporting me but the casualties will be to high. And the other lords simply do not respond.
And even though they are almost always resting at Narra i have never seen any of their party size exceeding 70.

Any Help?

 

[aBandit]

I almost had a similar problem  playing a loyal Vaegir Lord,

since allot of Lords were indicted for treason i ended up with 3 city's/towns and 3 castles and 4 villages, and in so doing crippled the Vaegir cause since if Lord only have a village no matter what their renown, they usually (in my exp.) won't field an army bigger then 50-70 (some even as low as 40)

Thus you holding so many fiefs are limiting your own faction's army size.

the solution, via it not me a good one (other than using diplomacy mod), is to renounce your loyalties from the lord (suffer -20 relational penalty) and ask him again by oath to be his subject. thus he will award the castle's to other lords, and he will usually award you with a castle or city (usually the one you captured yourself).

hope it helps a little...

 

[Gaurav]

Ya its a good idea. But that would mean losing ownership of Ichamur. I already have 600+ high lvl soldiers stocked there. I cant afford to lost a city.
What about this:
I own 5 castles right? The only castle i really want is Sharwa. So i empty out other castles and divide its garrison between Sharwa and Ichamur. Then let the Khergits takeover the 4 empty castles. Then recapture them and refuse to be owner of them.

Note: Theres another problem i forgot to mention. Whichever fiefs i refuse seem to go to Sultan Hakim. I recently captured Asugan castle and it was offered to me. But i refused. So instead of giving it to a lord Sultan Hakim claimed it for himself.
His fiefs are Narra, Shariz, Ahmerrad, Barriye, Asugan Castle, Sammara Castle, Bardaq Castle, Kedelke, Uhhun, Ayn Assuadi, Qalyut, Dhibbain, Mazigh, Habba, Mawiti, Fishara, Shibal Zumr, Mijayet, Mit Nun.

And even though the Sarranid Sultanate controls the most areas. The number of vassals except me are only 11.

 

[JosieJ]

It seems that Hakim is not on good terms with quite a few lords in the faction, thus any castles you lose will most probably only go to him. 

Have you got a scouting report on both your faction and the Khergits?  You know that you can send out companions to scout out factions: each is affiliated with a particular town, and will scout out whatever faction owns that town.  They'll be gone for about 5 days; if the town changes hands while they're gone, they'll give you information on the faction that owns the town at the moment they return to you.  I would do this with both your faction and the Khergits.  Here are the companions and the towns they're affiliated with:

Alayen: Reyvadin
Klethi: Khudan
Baheshtur: Tulga
Borcha: Ichamur
Jeremus: Halmar
Deshavi: Tihr
Marnid: Sargoth
Ymira: Yalen
Firentis: Uxkhal
Matheld: Wercheg
Katrin: Praven
Nizar: Suno
Bunduk: Jelkala
Lezalit: Dhirim
Rolf: Veluca
Artimenner: Narra, if he's bugged; Durquba, if he's working properly.  He's been bugged on all my games but one, so far.  He will always say Narra, but if he's working properly, you should get info from the Sarranid Sultanate (if they still own Durquba).

No companions are affiliated with Rivacheg, Curaw, Ahmerrad, Bariyye or Shariz.  As you can see, this leaves the Sarranid Sultanate very underrepresented.  The Vaegirs are also underrepresented, as only 2 out of their initial 4 towns are covered.  All other towns are covered and, of course, as the game goes on and towns change hands, the picture may change drastically.

This will help you get a handle on the relationships of the vassals to the lieges in both factions.

Secondly, if Hakim's just going to take over every castle you abandon, you're probably better off trying to trick the Khergits into besieging one rather than giving up a bunch of them.  You'll certainly never catch up with them in the field.  Uhhun's a great castle for defensive sieges: I'd empty it of all but a few ranged troops, let the Khergits besiege it, and then swoop in and fight it out on the walls of the castle.  Use plenty of ranged troops: the Khergits will lose most of their men just getting to the walls.  Plus, it requires a siege engine instead of simply ladders so, while they're building it, you can try and pick off armies arriving late to the siege, then attack the main army once they're committed to the siege.

 

[Gaurav]

Well the war is over currently. And i got most of the armies on the field because hardly any of them had actual Khergit Troops. They were all defected lords from other factions. So i soloed all the Nord armies. Used cavalry to get the Vaegirs and used the ifantry to de-horse the Swadians.

But the problem is the same with all the kings. You should see the number of fiefs King Yargolek owns. Its even more then Hakim. If this continous then soon the only people owning fiefs will be me and the kings.

 

[hruza]

Whenever i start a campaign no one comes except Hakim. I guess thats because i dont have relations with any of the lords above 2-3.
But that is because the lords get indicted for treason on a daily basis and keep changing. If having medium positive relations with lords is necessary then i will have to try to impress every lord.

Any Help?

As marshal, you can go to any lord and order him to follow you (or do what ever else you wish they do). Just reorder them from time to time again as they stop following you after some time (about two days). Giving them new order to follow you reset that time again so you can keep them following you indefinitely.