OptiqueMarquis
i need help please. i must be doing something wrong.
i dont know what to do at this point. i am literally bribing all my neighbours to leave me alone. i am spending thousands of gold so i wont get ganked. there is no way i can start a war without having other 2 or 3 of my neighbours jumping in on the action.
i am a small kingdom. my few nobles are tier 2. i can only summon one large 1k army. i am grinding influence like crazy to keep one mercenary faction on my side because i cannot count on my nobles to keep my small kingdom safe.
i realise my neighbours are being opportunistic but maybe there is more i can do? i am starting to hate this game because its so frustrating to having to do all of it myself with no support. at the beginning it was manageable but i think the AI realised i am a ****ing bank and even sturgia who isnt even a neighbour declared war on me to get free money. and i have to pay. theyll burn my villages down and my ****tard nobles canot do anything about it. my nobles thifs are all understaffed. with like 20 garrison in them because they cant pay their wages. totally badly managed but who can blame them perhaps they havent discovered smithing yet.
they come to me asking me to sign peace treates with other factions but they wont even tell me how much that costs.. so i go along with them and then realise i am paying thousands which comes out of my pocket.
i try to talk to nobles from other factions even though some ive got 90 relationship with and they wont even entertain my proposal to join me "neither your purse or frienship is enough for me to join you". well great.
people want to nerf smithing but smithing is what keeps me afloat. how on earth do people get by without it? i am thinking of starting a new save and play as a vassal from now on because the game goes above and beyong to prevent snowballing on small kingdoms but does nothing to help me. i am done being ganked all over the place.
i dont know what to do at this point. i am literally bribing all my neighbours to leave me alone. i am spending thousands of gold so i wont get ganked. there is no way i can start a war without having other 2 or 3 of my neighbours jumping in on the action.
i am a small kingdom. my few nobles are tier 2. i can only summon one large 1k army. i am grinding influence like crazy to keep one mercenary faction on my side because i cannot count on my nobles to keep my small kingdom safe.
i realise my neighbours are being opportunistic but maybe there is more i can do? i am starting to hate this game because its so frustrating to having to do all of it myself with no support. at the beginning it was manageable but i think the AI realised i am a ****ing bank and even sturgia who isnt even a neighbour declared war on me to get free money. and i have to pay. theyll burn my villages down and my ****tard nobles canot do anything about it. my nobles thifs are all understaffed. with like 20 garrison in them because they cant pay their wages. totally badly managed but who can blame them perhaps they havent discovered smithing yet.
they come to me asking me to sign peace treates with other factions but they wont even tell me how much that costs.. so i go along with them and then realise i am paying thousands which comes out of my pocket.
i try to talk to nobles from other factions even though some ive got 90 relationship with and they wont even entertain my proposal to join me "neither your purse or frienship is enough for me to join you". well great.
people want to nerf smithing but smithing is what keeps me afloat. how on earth do people get by without it? i am thinking of starting a new save and play as a vassal from now on because the game goes above and beyong to prevent snowballing on small kingdoms but does nothing to help me. i am done being ganked all over the place.
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