[Question]How can I complete this mission

[Mountaingoat]

I need to attack Dun Taruo, but I have no idea how to do this, I only have 171 people in my army and in Dun Taruo there are 3 parties of people and a garrison with in total more than 600 people in it, so I can't possibly take it and even if I could, I could not hold it for 30 days, so can somebody help me with it?

 

[kalarhan]

thats like any castle in the game, so lets forget about quest or spoilers.

1) The 3 lords inside it will move away eventually. Wait a few days to a couple weeks. They may be there for a feast or to gather new troops.
  1.1) If they dont leave you can always attack somewhere else to provoke then. Conquer another castle/town and the marshal will call the lords to reconquer it.
2) Recruit more and better troops for yourself
3) Raise your name within the kingdom and you can ask other lords to follow you when you attack it

171 troops should be more than enough as soon as #1 is done.

 

[Mountaingoat]

thats like any castle in the game, so lets forget about quest or spoilers.

1) The 3 lords inside it will move away eventually. Wait a few days to a couple weeks. They may be there for a feast or to gather new troops.
  1.1) If they dont leave you can always attack somewhere else to provoke then. Conquer another castle/town and the marshal will call the lords to reconquer it.
2) Recruit more and better troops for yourself
3) Raise your name within the kingdom and you can ask other lords to follow you when you attack it

171 troops should be more than enough as soon as #1 is done.

The castle itself has 244 in the garrison, so it will still be a hard fight and recruiting better people isn't possible, because you can only recruit the lowest tier of people and trying to upgrade them is a very long process.

I have now just enabled cheats to teleport to parties due to the unbearable lag and try to get exp that way, but even then it is going to be a hard mission.

I think 30 days should be nerved to 3 days or something, because if you hold it for 29 days and then lose it that would really suck.

 

[kalarhan]

The castle itself has 244 in the garrison, so it will still be a hard fight and recruiting better people isn't possible, because you can only recruit the lowest tier of people and trying to upgrade them is a very long process.

Recruit vikings
Recruit prisioners
Build up your refuge and train there

A elite group of 75 can take that castle and hold it against 400-500 normal troops.

Make sure you have high skill as a doctor (you or companion) so you wont lose troops after battles (wounded and not killed). Your character would be better for the bonus ->

base: 25%
10 skill: 40%
4 bonus: 16%

total: 81% chance of being wounded and not killed in action

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or find lords to join your attack and bring a army 

 

[Mountaingoat]

I am not sure where I can recruit vikings, I can only find freeman or spearman, which aren't that great.

I am also not that great with upgrading my skills the right way, but I guess that is fine.