How do I defend a large kingdom?

[dagmarthepirate]

Firstly, I had a hard time noticing when my castles/settlements were under siege, since all you ever get is a banner that disappears pretty quick. There is an icon over the settlement, but its small. I suggest a more noticeable warning, similar maybe to when a kingdom declares war on you, which pops up on the right and you have to dismiss it.

Then I got some vassals, and gave them castles/towns. You don't even get a warning when their stuff is under attack. Plus you can't seem to give them troops or make them stronger. Seems like vassals are almost a waste of time other than a small troop boost to your own army, since you'll just lose your kingdom with no alerts if you give them property, and dont notice off hand that they're getting overrun.

Here's a map of my area, how would I defend it if im on the right side and the left side gets attacked? I've got 400 maxed out troops in a castle at the front border of the two entry points to my kingdom, but enemy armies just walk past them. ...


anyone have any tips on this? I assume we just have to wait for more features?

 

[CoolYo]

I think there are policy decisions in kingdom tab that cot 50 influence to propose that you can use to make you and your vassal more powerful, focus on the ones that help your vassals and at the same time don't hurt you to bad, so your vassals clans can help out and be semi-reliable. Also, recruit lords clans with neutral to positive relations, cause bad rep clans will leave you, haven't had 1 take any property with them when they ditched my created faction though at least.