PoP Ultimate Goal, Endgame edition.

[Elensil the Numenorean]

Probably one of the most ambitious playthrough I will ever have taken on. Stay with me as I grind on and post pics on my progress! Gib suggestions on how to prolong ze game further!


Endgoals:
Kill every Spawn at least 10 times.
Play for at least 10.000 Ingame Days Currently (365)
Earn overall Renown: 100.000
Get Highest overall affinity with most lords and kings.
Make whole Pendor Peasants love you (100 affinity in all villages and towns)
Create a bigass NN-Army (Noldor + Numenor CKO)


Completed goals:
Become a Noble (Done by Day 360) - done
Play only on highest difficulty: Over 136% - done
Play on 400+ Troopsize only - done
Befriend the Noldor (Done by Day 304) - done


Restrictions:
Do not take over pendor completely. Make sure all factions stay alive. Be the savior force when a faction seems to be on the brink of extinction.
Do not cheat. EVER!
Do not adjust Troopsize to your advantage.
Have fun!

 

[Ansiktslos]

Good luck with your difficult task!

P.S.: The Renown part would be tricky due to 0.5% weekly decay. Unless this decay was removed of course.

 

[Raviollius]

I don't think the renown one is possible currently, for the reason above.

You can cap honor, though.

 

[Elensil the Numenorean]

The 100k renown is based on the overall aquired renown. Which is viewable aswell as the current renown. I know that current renown wont be easily reaching 100k, becuz of decay reasons

 

[Elensil the Numenorean]

Day 707:
All factions still alive, Fierdsvain and Ravenstern are owning 70% of the current territory with Sarleon only owning Sarleon and Empire only owningg Cez and Ethos.
Ravenstern is in a full out war with the Fierds and the Dshar, they previously started a war on my Kingdom of Numenor that owns Valourshield Castle. But 3 Days later simoultaneously the Dshar and the Fierds Joined in and started fighting Ravenstern aswell, so after 7 days of small Skirmishes they sued for piece with me. Olaf Oakenshield went over to my side and is currently the only Vassal of my Kingdom.

Managed to earn 250k gold total and have a total of 300 high tier troops. 26 out of them are noldor nobles. 1 Noldor ranger , 2 noldor maids and 1 twilight knight. Ravenstern tried to siege Valorshield Castle but gave it up soon afterwards.
Jatu got hunted down by a combined effort of Koningur Valdis and myself. I didnt ask him to join in but he did it regardless and now there are stacks of Ravenstern Lords Patrolling the Jatu Wastes.

The only mentionable spawn still present is a 700 troop strong Heretic army. Also the King of Sarleon is running around with 500+ Soldiers since I didnt fight him and was at war with him for 80 days.

 

[Lucan]

What woud be a nice little addition is, if you try that each faction only has their Capital left ^^

 

[Elensil the Numenorean]

Day 894

I joined Empire after Ravenstern swiped over my Valourshield castle with their 3,5k combined army. I managed to rescue most of my troops but not all were so lucky. Afterwards I reclaimed it with some heavy losses and pledged allegiance to one of the wayning factions. But oh lord I have never been soo wrong in my entire life. Ithilrandir, who at that time was down to 500 soldiers and 3k captives (Mostly due to me luring all armies into laria woods), got piled on by my "new friends" and they quickly tripled their manpower. Since then it was war after war, they dragged me into all sorts of ****. Rape, murder, raidings. You name it. Justus Dux has managed to reclaim 4 towns in one campaign and take over major parts of ravenstern, roflstomping any army that tried to hinder him. Nothing stands now in their way and I never felt so useless throughout my whole gameplay. Towns and castles all man 400-600+ troops, Windholm even mans 840... How am I supposed to do anything in the current state with my meagre 150 stack army. All the lords run around with hundreds upon hundreds of troops. All I ever wanted was to have a nicely secluded city that I could call my own and govern over it. I will need to work on my plans and maybe in another 1000 days I will be able to bolster a force that is worth mentioning.

 

[aaaa1]

could you post your stats/your build (int/char/str/agi)?

 

[Elensil the Numenorean]

Heres the summary for all ya folks Gaze upon Numenorean way of playing.

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Mind you now fierds seem to be the major force but 200 days ago half of fierds territorry was held by ravenstern, basicly Dshar, Fierds, Sarleon joined in on an a grind orgy once Baccus Empire gained momentum and steamrolled all of Ravenstern. Basicly a Blitzkrieg with me being the spectator. On half the sieges I was stuck on siege equipment so I just idled through sieges anyway. Ravenstern seems to not have recovered from it and has retreated to rebuild, while Dshar and fierds and for some odd reason Sarleon are fighting each other. And Baccus Empire is going solely for Ravenstern, hellbent on their extinction. Oh and Ithilrandier is back.

 

[Alavaria]

Surely you can grab all the Empire lords and use them to get and then hold a town for yourself. Or two or three...

 

[Elensil the Numenorean]

Surely you can grab all the Empire lords and use them to get and then hold a town for yourself. Or two or three...

that may be true, if I had enough influence (relationship) with them, which I do not possess at the moment. But that was not my point. The point is, I want to have my own kingdom under my own banner and not be some silly liege lord. So I have to suck it up until the moment comes that I can field 400 troops into battle. maybe 500 or 600 will be needed. until then I will need to sit back and let my influence and my renown grow as I slaughter through ranks of enemies.

 

[Vissy]

Just slowly build up a bank of Noldor in one of your castles. The true way to achieve this is to feed Noldor patrols to Jatu and then kill off the Jatu, recruiting their Noldor Warriors into your party and storing them in a castle.

Once you've got a few hundred Noldor Warriors, just rebel. They'll do all of your work for you. 

 

[Elensil the Numenorean]

Just slowly build up a bank of Noldor in one of your castles. The true way to achieve this is to feed Noldor patrols to Jatu and then kill off the Jatu, recruiting their Noldor Warriors into your party and storing them in a castle.

Once you've got a few hundred Noldor Warriors, just rebel. They'll do all of your work for you. 

I can only recruit noldor nobles. Which line do I have to edit to have noldor warriors and rangers be recruitable?

 

[Alavaria]

Surely you can grab all the Empire lords and use them to get and then hold a town for yourself. Or two or three...

that may be true, if I had enough influence (relationship) with them, which I do not possess at the moment. But that was not my point. The point is, I want to have my own kingdom under my own banner and not be some silly liege lord. So I have to suck it up until the moment comes that I can field 400 troops into battle. maybe 500 or 600 will be needed. until then I will need to sit back and let my influence and my renown grow as I slaughter through ranks of enemies.

Um, you can't use them to help you successfully assault a fief (which counts as you taking it) and then get the king to give fief to you? Will be harder if you're holding castles, etc... I always found it amusing to hope to lose a village etc so that I have less non-town fiefs. It's fun to rebel with 3 towns because the king denied you #4.

Hmm, I never really worried too much about getting more than 200 party honestly. Rebelling with a few towns means if you want you can probably convert "companions" (picked up just before) into lords as well as quickly 1v1 some lords with your ubercko/heroic adventurers then convert them.

I suppose since grinding honor will take a bit more now (can't get it from simple Noldor Warriors, etc) I would have higher reknown that I had in 3.6 when I rebel. Then again, CKOs are faster and I didn't use the mass-conversion option before, that might allow a 250-300 size to be rediculous with Noldor Bows, maxed powerdraw, plate armor etc. Even if you can't really constantly convert tons of units, I imagine a healthy stock of reknown, good honor and things like Surgery 10+4 would let you ride that all the way to autoresolve land.

 

[Elensil the Numenorean]

This statement was true in the light when you are setting the difficulty to medium or low. But Im playing on hardest difficulty (Over 130%). So Basicly even a spawn of 1:1 is a deadly encounter and is not an easy task to accomplish. Of course I do not possess CKO yet.
That being said I will continue my seeking of independence once I aquired enough influence. One thing doe. If you rebell, will you always loose your castles, towns?

 

[Alavaria]

No, this as on hardest which is 130 or 150 or whatever. Why assume easy mode, I've never not done full damage etc

Not sure what you mean by spawn, if you mean spawn armies, you can use lords for those too. If you mean fighting AI lords, 200+ should allow you take down a solo lord if you geared up specifically for it (ie: at start of kingdom).

 

[Elf]

All the goals listed are grinding.  They have nothing to do with skills or difficulties.

I would choose something like the toothpick challenge or soloing a Noldor army if I seek real ultimate goals.  Grinding is boring.  But it's your game.