Most effective way to increase war score?

[Amycus]

Might seem like a dumb question, but I have noticed that I sometimes dont get a 100% warscore even when I have besieged all the enemys provinces, and need to keep sieging. That got me thinking though, assuming that the war is only for one single county, is it better to just leave your whole army at that county and simply wait (assuming of course that the enemy doesnt try to do anything else to your kingdom), or should I keep trying to cover the whole map in stripes?

[NigHtEagLe]

i usually occupy w/e the claim for then run around looking for their army then finally occupy their capital.

[Vick'sVelmaRub]

If I have a small army, then I just slow-seige the wargoal and then claim the top holding of every nearby county until they give up, or I reach 100% occupation.
If I have a large army, though, I try to hunt down enemy armies that haven't grouped together yet; easy pickin's, weakens the inevitable enemy godstack and gives me almost free warscore.
Also, make sure that on the wargoal you seige every holding. If you seige every holding of every province, you have to get 100%. I'm pretty sure they have to add up to 100%. Also, I had to get rid of the knee-jerk reaction of ransoming prisoners because some prisoners convey warscore. You should also get a ticking warscore for holding the wargoal.

[Jirki88]

If they got a big army... Crush it. Battles are neat for it, if you're fighting a Kingdom vs Kingdom war, you usually can gain at least 50% warscore by crushing their army. Otherwise, yeah, sieging provinces is the way to go.

[Evil Crusader]

The most effective way ever is to rush the claimed area as soon as you can: that will give you a so-called 'ticking warscore', which increases passively as long as you fully control the war goal.

[Skaliton]

like others have said holding the "goal" makes it tick constantly, and killing enemies does alot

but be warned if it has been raging for years and years DO NOT lose the goal area because for some reason the game doesn't "reset" the occupation timer on it so you can be winning a massive war with 10 nations on each side..and the enemy sneaks in and quickly sieges the goal you may go from +80..well you can lose the war

[Corrupted Sanity (Vex)]

Originally posted by ThePowerofTower:

Also, I had to get rid of the knee-jerk reaction of ransoming prisoners because some prisoners convey warscore. You should also get a ticking warscore for holding the wargoal.

Personally, I just ransom them unless the score ends a war I might lose otherwise. The money is worth more that the time/troops IMO.


Yeah, the best way is to siege whatever the war goal is - It'll add more than other occupations, and you get ticking war score. If your enemy can't siege it back, you really could just disband your armies and wait after that.
Next up (though it usually happens first) is crushing enemy armies, you can get a lot if it's a good portion of their force.

After that, carpet sieging the enemy. Maybe keep some armies to hunt down whatever levies (or mercs) the enemy raises, but leave most of your armies sitting on enemy provinces. The best targets are usually the personal holdings of whoever you're fighting, since their levy is raised to fight you, and any lord mayors/ prince bishops and what have you since, again, that type of holding surrenders faster.

I disagree about only siegeing top holdings though - Cities and bishoprics surrender a lot faster and I find cities actually add more warscore than occupying castles.



If you have really massive armies and don't care about losing troops, you can also just go and assault everything. Sometimes you'll even lose less troops that way because you'll face siege events that make you lose troops otherwise.

[David]

The absolute fastest way is to destroy the opposition's army (like brutally, their entire army in one go, with barely any casualties), I'm getting up to 75% warscore just from doing that. Also, capture the wargoal, and their capital, asap.

What I usually do is head straight for the wargoal/capital, take at least one holding preferably all, and if I see their army and I can take it, I attack it. If I don't see the enemy's army or it's small then I just besiege and take all of the holdings in every territory until he raises an army worth fighting, assaulting if I have at least a 10:1 numbers advantage.

If you are lucky, you can get the opposition leader, you can always look him up to see where he is, he's probably in command of the army. That gives you 100% warscore if you get him, and I think if you get his direct heir, that gives you ~50%(forget the exact amount) warscore too. It's pretty hard to capture them, so usually it only happens by accident because you broke his army or beseiged his capital.