Dithmarschen im Jahre 800 nach Christus..

[Ludwig]

Wie zur hölle soll man darauß was machen??

Ich werde permanent von Wikingern überfallen, kriege dadurch kein Gold mein Graf mittlerweile Herzog sitzt fasst permanent im Knast und ich kann ihn nichtmal freikaufen weil ich kein Gold hab.
Wtf soll der scheiß? Ich werde einfach von 3 Wikingern überfallen kann nichts dagegen tun weil die Wikinger einfach viel mehr Truppen haben.
Mein König ist ein Lauch und führt die ganze Zeit sinnlose Kriege gegen das Königreich Dänemark. Der kann mich nichtmal verteidigen und das als Lehnsherr. Ich will die Unabhängigkeit NOPE wird mir verwehrt.

Hat es irgendjemand geschafft mit dieser Grafschaft überhaupt etwas zu reißen???
Also ich fange jetzt schon zum 7ten mal mit dieser Grafschaft an und kriege es einfach nicht hin.

[armyissue69]

Dithmarschen im Jahr 800 n. Chr. …
Wie zum Teufel soll man damit etwas anfangen??

Also muss man in Dithmarschen einen Tempel und eine Burg bauen können. Bevor man das also tun kann, muss man es jemandem als republikanischen Vasallen überlassen.

Wenn man eine Burg bauen kann, kann man die Kreishauptstadt in die Burg umwandeln.

I dont speak german so, sorry if the translation is poor

[Ludwig]

No worries i understood that :D
wow great damn thats actually a very very good idea.
i try that in my next playthrough ;)

[armyissue69]

Hadn't played Dithmarschen in a while so I forgot lol, I was referencing Hamburg and what to do about it. I do like the duchy but, its really not strong enough.

A better run through would be to be a norse and vangarian to capture Veletia and make the kingdom (UNLESS you want to be a vassal of Germany). Then caputure the Dithmarschen dutchy and let a vassal rule it until you can fix Hamburg.

I don't actually like Hamburg set up in game as it was an amazing place during this time and had castles and very influential in its day. Would have thought Hamburg would be the duchy capitol, but I guess I don't see what the devs saw.

By being Norse and capturing Veletia, you can very easily hybrid with Polabian and get the Konni light cavalry AND have all the Norse.

Later (IF you are trying a run at German, you could hybrid again later with Franconian. I am not too big a fan of saxon culture and Franconian has the castle tradition which helps get dynasty traits quicker....but all that is easily done by changing culture traditions any time

[Ludwig]

yep these are some nice strategys to get through the pain of hamburg and dithmarschen but starting as dithmarschen is a pain in the ass :(.. you get raided by 3 countys and can't do anything against that. I played for 8 hours now and my results are from a single county to a 2 county big duchy called Holstein. I created Holstein with bare minimum and lots of sweat. I got constantly raided by the norsemen and the biggest issue is that the countys of hamburg and bremen are literally useless for the duchy you need to build a castle in the county of hamburg so you can actually change the main county state to like Ahrensburg for example but Bremen is literally useless cause you can't change the county state in that province :(

But you know a castle is extremely expensive in the early game even with the skills to reduce the cost. I can't just pull 300 gold out of nowhere :/