I finally got invited to a kingdom in my new game (680 renown before first invite... personal best for me). So I ran and joined the Nords built up a small army and figured since we were at war with Swadia may as well go get Dhirim....
Now I totally understand that Swadia wants their land back. I totally get it. But at what cost? I know the AI is limited but still sometimes the decisions they make like repeated assaults on the same town that land in utter defeat every time just astound me.
I get why they keep attacking I mean I didn't have a lot of troops. The only way I could leave to recruit would be to take an army with me big enough to scare off the lords instead of tracking me down but at that point I had no room for new recruits. I did not keep track until the 5th assault but in the end (because of peace treaty not because they decided it wasn't worth the losses) I had lost only 42 troops. Started with 72 (including mercs I hired after taking the town) at the 5th siege I was up to 83 (got lucky with big recruitments for mercs). So in the end I was left with 30 troops, but had killed a total of 7,382 with 2,190 wounded... And again not including the troops in the first 5 sieges because I didn't keep track of those.
It just seems to me that about the time your losses are around 2k, or about the third campaign army that gets destroyed on the walls you would give up on Dhirim, at least for a little while but no instead I was under constant siege for 3 months!
Now I totally understand that Swadia wants their land back. I totally get it. But at what cost? I know the AI is limited but still sometimes the decisions they make like repeated assaults on the same town that land in utter defeat every time just astound me.
I get why they keep attacking I mean I didn't have a lot of troops. The only way I could leave to recruit would be to take an army with me big enough to scare off the lords instead of tracking me down but at that point I had no room for new recruits. I did not keep track until the 5th assault but in the end (because of peace treaty not because they decided it wasn't worth the losses) I had lost only 42 troops. Started with 72 (including mercs I hired after taking the town) at the 5th siege I was up to 83 (got lucky with big recruitments for mercs). So in the end I was left with 30 troops, but had killed a total of 7,382 with 2,190 wounded... And again not including the troops in the first 5 sieges because I didn't keep track of those.
It just seems to me that about the time your losses are around 2k, or about the third campaign army that gets destroyed on the walls you would give up on Dhirim, at least for a little while but no instead I was under constant siege for 3 months!
