So recently, I started my own kingdom, the kingdom of the crystal lulz (yeah, I'm sorry >.<)
its been going... decently well, and I have both durquba and Shariz, as well as all the castles in between,
My current force composition is around 600 sergeants, 600 sharp shooters, 30 slaver chiefs, 100 mamelukes, about 100 huscarls from my time as a vassal of king ragnar, and a smattering of other units
The problem is, though, I am currently at war with both the sarranid sultanate and the Rhodoks, and I am... vaguely winning, meaning both my sarranid and rhodokian troops have roughly -99 to their morale....
Since I've noticed people in castles don't desert, all of my castles/towns have roughly 100 each of sharpies and shooters, with my mamelukes stuffed in caraf castle
So currently my only useful forces are my slavers, which are.... difficult to get, and huscarls, the villages of their origin being on the other side of the continent...
Another thing I've noticed is the fact that troops desert only in evenings, so I've been wandering around with my companions, wait till evening passes, grabbing out troops and doing hit and run attacks on the lords trying to raid my villages, before hightailing back to one of my castles
While this works perfectly well for defending, attacking... not so much
I've already checked it out, and all the castles bordering my little nation requires siege towers, meaning 2-3 days out in the field, after which I would be lucky to have half my army left...
Another problem is ending these wars
I've read about doing "war damage" to their villages in order to force a peace, but thats honestly not a possibility for me, as I had painstaking increased my reputaion with the rhodok villages, (all of them are 20+), so I would very very very strongly prefer not to raid my source of troops...
Currently, I have been using a mix of rhodok sergeants and sarranid mamelukes to knock out an entire enemy army (I use pre battle o&d) which I proceed then to recruit (hey, my guys already have terrible morale, why not?)
Another question is, do knocked out troops that I don't take prisoner rejoin their faction? because if I take on an army of 300, knock out 250 of them, and only 50 get taken prisoner, will those 200 make their way back to veluca and rejoin King Graveths armies?
Also, Shariz has been under siege for about 2 weeks now, constantly
The sieging army is some 400 men strong (down from the 1200 is was previously), about half of which are sharpies and sergeants, and they've just been camping around my town for a fortnight
The problem is, I can't take a force that size on the open field, but they refuse to attack my town, and while they're there, I can't go on the offensive, less he decides to lift the siege and go raid my villages instead
in the long term, if I can't take them out, they might actually succeed in starving shariz out
This is fairly early in the game (300 days?) and I made my kingdom accidentally, meaning I don't have particularly high renown, honour, or right to rule =/
so how do I get lords to join my faction?
I don't exactly have the time to travel the length and breadth of calradia, begging lords to join my cause, because I have to stay at home defending my territory...
also, I heard making your companions as lords is a bad idea, because they all have tiny groups, and none of my companions have particularly high CHA/leadership]
Thanks =]
its been going... decently well, and I have both durquba and Shariz, as well as all the castles in between,
My current force composition is around 600 sergeants, 600 sharp shooters, 30 slaver chiefs, 100 mamelukes, about 100 huscarls from my time as a vassal of king ragnar, and a smattering of other units
The problem is, though, I am currently at war with both the sarranid sultanate and the Rhodoks, and I am... vaguely winning, meaning both my sarranid and rhodokian troops have roughly -99 to their morale....
Since I've noticed people in castles don't desert, all of my castles/towns have roughly 100 each of sharpies and shooters, with my mamelukes stuffed in caraf castle
So currently my only useful forces are my slavers, which are.... difficult to get, and huscarls, the villages of their origin being on the other side of the continent...
Another thing I've noticed is the fact that troops desert only in evenings, so I've been wandering around with my companions, wait till evening passes, grabbing out troops and doing hit and run attacks on the lords trying to raid my villages, before hightailing back to one of my castles
While this works perfectly well for defending, attacking... not so much
I've already checked it out, and all the castles bordering my little nation requires siege towers, meaning 2-3 days out in the field, after which I would be lucky to have half my army left...
Another problem is ending these wars
I've read about doing "war damage" to their villages in order to force a peace, but thats honestly not a possibility for me, as I had painstaking increased my reputaion with the rhodok villages, (all of them are 20+), so I would very very very strongly prefer not to raid my source of troops...
Currently, I have been using a mix of rhodok sergeants and sarranid mamelukes to knock out an entire enemy army (I use pre battle o&d) which I proceed then to recruit (hey, my guys already have terrible morale, why not?)
Another question is, do knocked out troops that I don't take prisoner rejoin their faction? because if I take on an army of 300, knock out 250 of them, and only 50 get taken prisoner, will those 200 make their way back to veluca and rejoin King Graveths armies?
Also, Shariz has been under siege for about 2 weeks now, constantly
The sieging army is some 400 men strong (down from the 1200 is was previously), about half of which are sharpies and sergeants, and they've just been camping around my town for a fortnight
The problem is, I can't take a force that size on the open field, but they refuse to attack my town, and while they're there, I can't go on the offensive, less he decides to lift the siege and go raid my villages instead
in the long term, if I can't take them out, they might actually succeed in starving shariz out
This is fairly early in the game (300 days?) and I made my kingdom accidentally, meaning I don't have particularly high renown, honour, or right to rule =/
so how do I get lords to join my faction?
I don't exactly have the time to travel the length and breadth of calradia, begging lords to join my cause, because I have to stay at home defending my territory...
also, I heard making your companions as lords is a bad idea, because they all have tiny groups, and none of my companions have particularly high CHA/leadership]
Thanks =]
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