chokke
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So, around day 75, when I reached 50 vaegir appretiation to get the Ivory bow, I said that DK should advance onto the field. Which was a huge mistake.
For about 25 days they were relativly passive, took like two-three castles. Fair enough. So I started my own small kingdom, beeing already hateful against the swadians, I took one of their castles. I have now kept the castle filled with about 75 ivory guards, 50 highlanders and 75 arblesters and slowly and steady filled it up with about 500 tier 1-2 troops (tier 1 beeing weakest). But the problem is, during my own little turtling for about 100+ days, the DK has mass expanded (Oh god, RTS-terms :p ) and now own about 50-60 % of the castles and like 5 towns, and the other kings don't do anything, or maybe they are, not unusual that I see 5-6 lords of Swadian or Nords around one of their earlier castles now owned by DK, but they either get wiped out, or just cancel the siege. So what can I do with this? Not having any lords (using the elite force of Swadian, the wholy quartett [the four NPCs around level 30]), I only have roaming parties around my castles, so I don't want to take a town right away before I at least have one lord. But meanwhile, DK keep taking castles and towns. I sometime run into a DK, and they are still on about 500-800 troops, allowing the autocalc to just demolish me (heck, 150 DK from castle took out my 500 army (about 150 top tier kingdomtroops) with like 5 losses. Fighting them, would mean drop all my other NPCs, and take a bunch of archers, and start wacking, which is booooring.
So what can I do, turtlign their castles and let them take them back takes to long and is not fun at all
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And for the other questions, beeing at war with swadian, I am unsure which cavalary I should go for? I got Praetorian (spelling) trained now, and prince seems to be a descent sidekick, but I feel I pay to much, for to little seeing their stats. Any other options? What about the Thanes?
And now I forgot the other questions I had.. God damnit :p
For about 25 days they were relativly passive, took like two-three castles. Fair enough. So I started my own small kingdom, beeing already hateful against the swadians, I took one of their castles. I have now kept the castle filled with about 75 ivory guards, 50 highlanders and 75 arblesters and slowly and steady filled it up with about 500 tier 1-2 troops (tier 1 beeing weakest). But the problem is, during my own little turtling for about 100+ days, the DK has mass expanded (Oh god, RTS-terms :p ) and now own about 50-60 % of the castles and like 5 towns, and the other kings don't do anything, or maybe they are, not unusual that I see 5-6 lords of Swadian or Nords around one of their earlier castles now owned by DK, but they either get wiped out, or just cancel the siege. So what can I do with this? Not having any lords (using the elite force of Swadian, the wholy quartett [the four NPCs around level 30]), I only have roaming parties around my castles, so I don't want to take a town right away before I at least have one lord. But meanwhile, DK keep taking castles and towns. I sometime run into a DK, and they are still on about 500-800 troops, allowing the autocalc to just demolish me (heck, 150 DK from castle took out my 500 army (about 150 top tier kingdomtroops) with like 5 losses. Fighting them, would mean drop all my other NPCs, and take a bunch of archers, and start wacking, which is booooring.
So what can I do, turtlign their castles and let them take them back takes to long and is not fun at all
And for the other questions, beeing at war with swadian, I am unsure which cavalary I should go for? I got Praetorian (spelling) trained now, and prince seems to be a descent sidekick, but I feel I pay to much, for to little seeing their stats. Any other options? What about the Thanes?
And now I forgot the other questions I had.. God damnit :p