Is the enemy faction supposed to have 300+ troops by the end of the first year?

[jetsetsoaper]

I'm new to this, but by the end of the first year, the enemy faction had captured a region right next to me. H had over 100 troops in this army. Later that year he captured a second region, then at the beginning of the 2nd year, he started to capture another region, and I clicked the button to challenge his claim on the battlefield, only to see he has 300+ units sitting on the point.

Am i supposed to be at a huge disadvantage like this? I only have 36 spearmen, and I thought I went into making weapons quickly. Again, its only been about 14 months total in my game so far.

[Reeree]

your suppose to have at least 1000 units by the end of your 2nd year youre just playing wrong

[Agent707]

Originally posted by The most racist man alive:

your suppose to have at least 1000 units by the end of your 2nd year youre just playing wrong

LMAO wut?

[Ronin]

Originally posted by jetsetsoaper:

I'm new to this, but by the end of the first year, the enemy faction had captured a region right next to me. H had over 100 troops in this army. Later that year he captured a second region, then at the beginning of the 2nd year, he started to capture another region, and I clicked the button to challenge his claim on the battlefield, only to see he has 300+ units sitting on the point.

Am i supposed to be at a huge disadvantage like this? I only have 36 spearmen, and I thought I went into making weapons quickly. Again, its only been about 14 months total in my game so far.

What difficulty are you playing? I'm on year two and the AI is just running around with two sets of 36 Mercenaries lol. Default difficulty.

[Nay]

Originally posted by Agent707:

Originally posted by The most racist man alive:

your suppose to have at least 1000 units by the end of your 2nd year youre just playing wrong

LMAO wut?

He's just trolling.

The AI is currently too aggressive and gets multiple unfair advantages, so unless you have a lot of gold to bribe them, there's no way you can compete.

[jetsetsoaper]

I guess i was just lucky they never attacked me. They had two parades right through the middle of my town, each with of over 100 troops, but never attacked me. And this was during the "challenge claim on battlefield" war. So idk whats up.

[Abigor]

ye i watched them the AI take hole map by year 2 while i was still figuring stuff out lol. never saw any camps or buildings on the maps when i went exploring though. maybe AI cheat like every other game. kind of silly but what ever.

[GrimReaper85]

I JUST GOT DONE IN OF A PACK OF BRIGANDS. THE TWO PARADING ARMIES, AND THE NEW RAIDERS CAMP ON THE EDGE OF MY REGENT WASN'T A CONCERN IN MY EYES, HAHAHA TRY AGAIN TOMORROW I GUESS.

[DWI_Suriil]

Its not even the pb that AI put in field 300 men...the pb is that you have a limite for 6 little armies and thats it.

Look at this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
https://ibb.co/sKBQq8z
Here are 16 armies of 36 (includint 2*36 retenue!) + 2 of 18 = total of 612 men.

You can put in field 1 army of retenues + 5*36 militia = 6*36 = 216 men at best.
SO.....WHAT THE ♥♥♥♥?!

[N8Rush]

The AI needs to be completely cut-off from Mercs. They very likely have unlimited treasury and they will use it. Everywhere I read or watched reviews showed that this game was supposed to be small-scale, skirmish warfare, but that seems to definitely not be the case.

[Sythalin]

Originally posted by DWI_Suriil:

Its not even the pb that AI put in field 300 men...the pb is that you have a limite for 6 little armies and thats it.

Look at this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
https://ibb.co/sKBQq8z
Here are 16 armies of 36 (includint 2*36 retenue!) + 2 of 18 = total of 612 men.

You can put in field 1 army of retenues + 5*36 militia = 6*36 = 216 men at best.
SO.....WHAT THE ♥♥♥♥?!

Jeez, I thought the 5 that arrived in my game was ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. That is literally impossible to win in the game's current state. Dev needs to fix something that is clearly busted.

[DWI_Suriil]

Originally posted by Sythalin:

Originally posted by DWI_Suriil:

Its not even the pb that AI put in field 300 men...the pb is that you have a limite for 6 little armies and thats it.

Look at this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
https://ibb.co/sKBQq8z
Here are 16 armies of 36 (includint 2*36 retenue!) + 2 of 18 = total of 612 men.

You can put in field 1 army of retenues + 5*36 militia = 6*36 = 216 men at best.
SO.....WHAT THE ♥♥♥♥?!

Jeez, I thought the 5 that arrived in my game was ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. That is literally impossible to win in the game's current state. Dev needs to fix something that is clearly busted.

Well it is possible if you can field more than 6 armies.
At some point there is no more Mercs, so if by year 3 or 4 you did well, you can field like 400 men with chainmails and staff. Once you started to eat cchunks for AI army , he cant recover , as he only has 36*2 renetunes that he can recover.
And those 72 at the end as easy to beat with number advantage - 2 armies in hold position, 2-4 armies of billmen to flanc onagressive stance.

Again - 2 issues . the AI buying year 1 ALL mercs, the AI using 18 armies when you can use only 6