How do I stop constant raids?

[Gerfreckle]

Playing as Wessex on the Old Gods start and I'm suffering constant raids along my coasts by parties ranging from 150 to 750 troops. They're not really a threat since I always outnumber them, but my vassels are getting annoyed at the levies being raised on-and-off again constantly, since as soon as I disband them another raiding party shows up.

[Spekkio]

You cant really stop cosntant raids, you just have to fight them off. Normally they will go away as pagans convert religion and they become weaker.

[Admiral Obvious]

The way I tend to handle it is, if it's not my directly owned territory, it's not my problem.

Also avoid raising vassal levies when you can avoid it. Having an opinion penalty tick up with everyone over time is a pretty easy way to end up murdered.

[Gerfreckle]

Originally posted by Admiral Obvious:

The way I tend to handle it is, if it's not my directly owned territory, it's not my problem.

Also avoid raising vassal levies when you can avoid it. Having an opinion penalty tick up with everyone over time is a pretty easy way to end up murdered.

Yeah I gradually realizes that none of the raiding parties even came close to having equal numbers to me, so often I'll just raise my levies from my capital (which is part of my personal desmegne), split them in half, disband one half and send the other half to defeat the raiders or chase them off. Most times they run off before I even reach them though.

[kazaddum]

Originally posted by Gerfreckle:

Originally posted by Admiral Obvious:

The way I tend to handle it is, if it's not my directly owned territory, it's not my problem.

Also avoid raising vassal levies when you can avoid it. Having an opinion penalty tick up with everyone over time is a pretty easy way to end up murdered.

Yeah I gradually realizes that none of the raiding parties even came close to having equal numbers to me, so often I'll just raise my levies from my capital (which is part of my personal desmegne), split them in half, disband one half and send the other half to defeat the raiders or chase them off. Most times they run off before I even reach them though.

Well, yeah. That is raiding.

[gregoryconnolly]

Religious conversion is the play here, they can't raid you if they are of the same religion. This is an easy way to get rid of characters you don't care for by the way, as missionaries ofen get imprisoned and/or killed.

[that guy]

If you observe closely, you'll realize that your raised troops draw their pay on the same day each month. So what you can do is to keep your troops raised all the time, and then dismiss them a couple days before you need to pay them. Once that day passes, raise them again.

Viking raiders will not attempt to land if they do not think they could defeat your raised troops. I once kept ~15 bands of raiders sitting off my coast for 10 years like this. But then I went off to war and all of them pounced on my empty provinces, sacking them and burning them to the ground.

NOTE:
I was playing as Brittany and controlled the whole duchy. If you are not personally in control of the coastal province being targeted, don't do this since you'll just be pissing off your vassals.

[roach]

you an also try for non-aggression pacts with the ones with the largest armies, then they won't be able to raid.

[Stevcorp]

Arise necro-thread and torment the living once more.

[samsungvsapple]

Asking to stop constant raids is like asking your problems to go away in real life. Unless, you turn off raiding in the game setup option.

[roach]

or settle an adventurer

[Yxklyx]

Yeah, settling an adventurer prevents all raids in your currently held counties for 10 years. The adventurer can be turned to your advantage in some cases especially if they have a large tribal army that you can call to war.

[Borsch]

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