Currently in my game I am a vassal of the Empire and we have Sarleon, Laria and Avendor (although they were taken before I was a member) but since the start things have fallen flat for the Empire and this is because of the snake cult. Up until 30 minutes ago they had 3 massive snake cult armies (669, 980 and 1081) and the dread legion (780) bossing around doing everything they can to ruin the Empire. Their numbers are so great that the Empire Lords cannot do anything about them and I cannot do anything about them, at least until I have a castle and time to strengthen.
I was getting resigned to the fact that they would be ruining our work until I am able to deal with them which would most likely have been much much later but just now I caught a Barclay army (150 men) taking on the 669 party snake cult army. I thought I would jump into help them as Barclay mercenaries are tough and I have some tough troops myself....
All I can say is that Barclay armies are amazing! with our powers combined (more rep to them) we butchered the snake cult army completely and utterly. Then from the prisoners I was able to reach my troop limit of 191 with the vast majority of the troops being top tier (26 Empire knights and 10 legionnaire recruits being my greatest touch) so my army is now a force.
The Barclay army is now 600 strong with about 120 of Barclay troops as well as hundreds of strong Empire troops (including 25 Empire Knights of their own) and I had just made friends with them . Now I am thinking that this 600 strong army and my 191 high tier army could take on any of the remaining big armies in the Empire and win right now
Sure enough the Barclay army turns away and heads up to the area between Ethos and Cez where the 3 remaining armies are. I head to Singal to recuprate my wounded and see Ramun.
I was extremely happy at the outcome and I just started laughing when I saw another 150 strong Barclay army heading up the same way as the other I could not believe my luck. My new best friends and after one 20 minute battle I went from thinking I wouldn't be able to sort them out for ages to a place where they could all vanish quickly if these Barclay armies and myself can hit them head on. This would leave the Empire clear for the lords and the economy to strengthen again as we have been weak in the field for ages with low army numbers.
Anyway I felt compelled to tell the story as I couldn't believe my luck. Have you ever had similar out of the blue turn of events which have completely changed your fortune and turned the tide in your favour?
I was getting resigned to the fact that they would be ruining our work until I am able to deal with them which would most likely have been much much later but just now I caught a Barclay army (150 men) taking on the 669 party snake cult army. I thought I would jump into help them as Barclay mercenaries are tough and I have some tough troops myself....
All I can say is that Barclay armies are amazing! with our powers combined (more rep to them) we butchered the snake cult army completely and utterly. Then from the prisoners I was able to reach my troop limit of 191 with the vast majority of the troops being top tier (26 Empire knights and 10 legionnaire recruits being my greatest touch) so my army is now a force.
The Barclay army is now 600 strong with about 120 of Barclay troops as well as hundreds of strong Empire troops (including 25 Empire Knights of their own) and I had just made friends with them . Now I am thinking that this 600 strong army and my 191 high tier army could take on any of the remaining big armies in the Empire and win right now
Sure enough the Barclay army turns away and heads up to the area between Ethos and Cez where the 3 remaining armies are. I head to Singal to recuprate my wounded and see Ramun.
I was extremely happy at the outcome and I just started laughing when I saw another 150 strong Barclay army heading up the same way as the other I could not believe my luck. My new best friends and after one 20 minute battle I went from thinking I wouldn't be able to sort them out for ages to a place where they could all vanish quickly if these Barclay armies and myself can hit them head on. This would leave the Empire clear for the lords and the economy to strengthen again as we have been weak in the field for ages with low army numbers.
Anyway I felt compelled to tell the story as I couldn't believe my luck. Have you ever had similar out of the blue turn of events which have completely changed your fortune and turned the tide in your favour?