Circinae said:
How/when/where do you guys start your own faction? I somehow always end up playing as a loyal Northman, devoted to Robb Stark. Still, it got a little bit boring, especially because of the fact that the North takes so long to rally and are really passive. I'd like to start my own thing on my next playthrough. Any tips?
2. Income from businesses is very volatile. One week I'll earn 10+k from Goldengrove, the other tenth of that.
3. Food is too scarce. Plums should be edible.
4. The Ironborn seem to overpowered. They have the best infantry units which annihilate everyone in sieges, and in most of map battles. Not to mention that lore wise they are by far the weakest of the great houses/regions.
5. Sellswords are also a bit too good, especially halberdiers. Top tier armor and excellent weapons, those guys are really tough to take on.
Of course, the mod is fantastic. Not only that, it is the best GoT game there is, so a big thank you to Cozur and everyone else who helped. Looking forward to diplomacy changes in the next version, nice solution in unlocking it only for Essos.
First to your question. I generally watch the Tyrosh/Lysani wars and when one is reduced to their city or their major lords are captured, I go and take the city. You can cheese this by having the battle size small, acting as decoy for all the fire power coming from their archers, while your archers kill them until your archers run out of arrows, then retreat and do it all again.
I like those locations because they are in the middle of all the action, Tyrosh is my favourite of course.
You have to plan early because they get to it pretty quickly, start by recruiting tons of archers from the vale and crossbow men from the Reach, as well as knights of the Reach, I think they have the best gear, but the Westerlands will do as well. I like to have 30% knights and 35% crossbow, 35% archers mix and then my companions. The Reach crossbowmen have good armor and shields, I separate them into Archers 1 and they stand 10 or so yards in front of the other archers, while the Knights and I kill everyone. I do like to mix in some Northern Knights because they have blunt and you can make several thousand extra gold per fight with 4 or 5 in prisoner management (there is a book).
With that troop mix you might even be able to do it straight if you are really good at dodging the jarids being thrown at you by the Sellsword Skirmishers. The AI won't come down the ladders, so you can stand down there, kill their archers, who suck compared to Westeros ones, you should be able to clear them out no problem, and then retreat and repeat. You need REALLY good Engineering though, there is a book, and you should have a companion go to 9 as soon as possible. That vastly reduces the time they have to get their crap back together while you siege.
If you want slightly more legit, join with Lys, take battles and stuff, when you get to relations 15 or so, they should all support your request, then suggest sieging Tyrosh, go and do it and see if you can get it. I don't know, I just normally do it myself since the AI is kind of poopy in siege defence, you can stand at the top of the ladder with a halberd or something and kill everyone in there without ever being in danger once they have no archers left, skirmishers suck though.
Income from business wobbles based on how many times the city has been attacked and cities been looted. At the beginning of the game Golden Grove and Tumbleton show good numbers, but they fall fast as nearly all of their villages go to very poor from being raided constantly. That will kill your income, also you can't just put dyeworks everywhere as then the components get so expensive that they can no longer make a profit.
As to your #3, eat plums all day and see how you do heh, but seriously, build a couple of bread factories.
#4 the Ironborn get killed by any forces with shields in actual combat, they just do well in auto combat. With 100 troops at full level like I suggested earlier you can probably take over the Iron Islands.
I like to grab troops, go up and start killing wildlings like crazy, occasionally running down to White Harbour and Barrowtown to heal up and sell prisoners (with luck, can quickly boat to Sisterton as well), when you get enough renown/leadership to need 20 newbs, head down to Oldtown and buy business and recruit, you should have a lot of money buy then, buy business, go back to wildlings, and then buy more business, get Caul and any other expensive companions, until you have 100+ troops of elite level and very good armor, shields and weapons for you and some of your top companions.
Really, this should take a couple of hours and you will get better at fighting on horseback and managing your troops (hold f1 down to put a move order elsewhere), how to separate your army into fighting units and getting used to the hotkeys to move them around.
You might want to just have your comps for this stage though, and just get training up to 10 on a couple of them, that way you can earn much more renown for having a small party and get to the 100+ capacity very quickly, but you will have to recruit troops and wait for them to level then. You can kill time if you do this by doing quests for villages and towns you plan to rule later as that will increase their rep with you and their wealth.
Don't loot towns, it just kills their income and your income from businesses, and all in all, you can make more money in a shorter period of time killing wildlings. Build up looting/spotting/Pathfinding on companions as quickly as possible and the sky is the limit.
abadgaem said:
Does anyone else find Westerland troops to be overpowered? Their Veteran Man at Arms seem so much more powerful than equivalent tier troops of the North and Reach. I don't even want to talk about their higher level troops.
Despite outnumbering them 2:1 in battles, I know the kill death ratio will usually favor Westerland troops.
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