Conqering Calraidia

[the-warlord-nosand]

Hello everyone! Ive played at least 100 hours of warband and Calraidia is mostly swadian. (Id say 83%) We just killed the Khergit and now we wait...

LIST OF DEAD FACTIONS
Rhodoks
Vaegirs
Khergits

Any suggestions on what to do with Nords and Sarranids?

Thank you and have a good day 

 

[Asulador]

Well, I suggest you rebel against your Kingdom for a good challenge.

It would be harder to be 'King of Calradia' later on if you're going 1 Faction vs. 1 Faction on the map. So as much as possible try not to conquer the whole map completely when you don't even have your own faction.

隐藏

This in my opinion would be the ultimate end game. Being King yourself that is.

 

[Vraelomon]

Also, if youre going to become your own faction, you had better do it soon. Like, right now. Pretty soon all of the vassals are going to start disappearing, until its just you, king harlaus, and maybe one other guy. Makes for a pretty lousy rebellion. Makes for a pretty lousy everything, in fact.

However, if you are so hell bent on following harlaus and his kingdom swadia like a blind sheep, I can offer you some advice:

1) Bring a nice hat that can shade your face from the sun, it gets real hot down there with the sarranids.
2) Im not actually going to give you any more advice on helping the swadians, because Swadians are rats and I hate them. Join the Nords because theyre obviously the coolest faction ever, and the best too. Huscarls or bust.

隐藏

The entire sultanate is flatland, so cavalry will work wonders all over the enemy troops, *cough cough Swadian knights cough*

Try and spread the nords as thin as you can, and then pick them off slowly one by one with crossbowmen or knights, if you can manage to get the horses over to them. Better yet, recruit some Rhodok sergeants and some sharpshooters to back them up.

Good luck! 

 

[Umlüx]

i think being king sounds better than it actually is.
you have to deal with stupid vassals, vassals getting angry when giving out fiefs, politics and relations... blergh.
its nice if you are satisfied with only a small kingdom and 3 or 4 vassals. but any more and it is more work than fun.

anyway, just my 2cts

 

[Kentucky 『 ＨＥＩＧＵＩ 』 James]

Hello everyone! Ive played at least 100 hours of warband and Calraidia is mostly swadian. (Id say 83%) We just killed the Khergit and now we wait...

LIST OF DEAD FACTIONS
Rhodoks
Vaegirs
Khergits

Any suggestions on what to do with Nords and Sarranids?

Thank you and have a good day 

Ye done screwed up, the sarranids and nords are terrible siege targets due to srranid archers and nord huskarls, so you're most likely in for a tedious lategame of carpet-sieging. I'd recommend attempting sally-outs with a core of good melee infantry, doing this multiple times to wear their garrisons down. If you're unlucky or waited too long this wont work though, as the last faction will be full of lords with multinational entourages.

 

[bakters]

i think being king sounds better than it actually is.
you have to deal with stupid vassals,

  Not necessary.  It's possible to do it without any lords.  Barely.  That is, some will join you when there is only one kingdom left.  There is no way to stop them.

 

[the-warlord-nosand]

Thx for the advice guys, BTW

I got my hat on. Time for sarranids to git rekt ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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[Cheezeninja]

GO FOR THE SARRANIDS.

They are my faction, and I know everything about them.

They have multiple castles built into the mountain, so you can lead an entire army into the castle without waiting for the siege tower. Yes, they have terrible archers and Mamlukes to kill, but its better than fighting the Huscarls and their throwing weapons. What you need to do in siege is stand your archers back, and have cav and inf right infront as shield wall. Do this until you have killed as many archers as possible. Then, sneak up the ladder with a xbow, and stand just out of reach of the enemies. When they swing, shoot them before they block again. Its slow, but it works. I took out a Vaegir city full of 300 guards with this tactic. Also, to continuously get ammo, order your troops to fire once, and then stop. Each time, collect the missed bolts.

Good luck 

 

[KingofallSwadia]

Nords first, they're closer to your capital.  And it's going to be more of a challenge to take their castles with all of those huscarl tanks waiting for you inside.  Sarranids are easier I find.  Save them for last.

 

[Stevebob]

One tip on siege. If you can’t get in because the castle or town has some 300 troops reduce the battle number to thirty till you clear the walls. Then you can bring the number back up. 

 

[bakters]

Well, you might as well reduce the difficulty. 

What I do against big garrisons is to attack them with small enough force to get "sally out" event.  With good troops you usually win those easily, which gives lots of renown and lots of morale.  Especially if a stronghold is full of freshly respawned lords it's an easy farm.  Lords are required to get "sally out" event without being incredibly outnumbered (like 20/1-ish) and they bring into battle lots of raw recruits. 

Easy farm.  With high battle-size you get to reduce the garrison quite effectively, especially if you have high Engineering skill.

 

[Kentucky 『 ＨＥＩＧＵＩ 』 James]

The hidden advantage of that is also the ludicrously close spawn points. If the enemy has a lot of dangerous ranged units like crossbowmen or javelinmen, the cramped scene prevents anyone except the front row from firing at all, so you can end up taking zero casualties in a sally out if you charge straight at them. For xtra lulz you can go behind the enemy bob and spam the down attack for up to 30 kills.