Im confused about the 2/3 empire reunion quest

[Walter]

My assumption is that I literally need to be a warmonger and capture like 30 odd settlements of imperial nature, i.e. those that have "Western/Southern/Northern" empire in their name. I found you can determine the faction is of imperial nature by checking villages to see what types of recruits they have.

Am I right in assuming this? Or do I need to speak with people to form some kind of peaceful reunion? Really unclear what this quest wants me to do :/

[mrtats]

Originally posted by Walter:

My assumption is that I literally need to be a warmonger and capture like 30 odd settlements of imperial nature, i.e. those that have "Western/Southern/Northern" empire in their name. I found you can determine the faction is of imperial nature by checking villages to see what types of recruits they have.

Am I right in assuming this? Or do I need to speak with people to form some kind of peaceful reunion? Really unclear what this quest wants me to do :/

A perk in trade skill tree allows you to trade fiefs. So you can actually buy those settlements.

[Walter]

Originally posted by mrtats:

Originally posted by Walter:

My assumption is that I literally need to be a warmonger and capture like 30 odd settlements of imperial nature, i.e. those that have "Western/Southern/Northern" empire in their name. I found you can determine the faction is of imperial nature by checking villages to see what types of recruits they have.

Am I right in assuming this? Or do I need to speak with people to form some kind of peaceful reunion? Really unclear what this quest wants me to do :/

A perk in trade skill tree allows you to trade fiefs. So you can actually buy those settlements.

Oh, lol. Well I just went to war with northern empire but took Morenia Castle successfully. Does this add to the settlements now in my "Calradian Empire" ?

[mrtats]

Originally posted by Walter:

Originally posted by mrtats:

A perk in trade skill tree allows you to trade fiefs. So you can actually buy those settlements.

Oh, lol. Well I just went to war with northern empire but took Morenia Castle successfully. Does this add to the settlements now in my "Calradian Empire" ?

It does, I believe

[Arcanum Elite]

you have to essentially wipe out 2 out of the 3 empire factions entirely and own all their starting land for your reunification of the empire to be complete.

[Gunnar Hurtya]

Originally posted by Arcanum Elite:

you have to essentially wipe out 2 out of the 3 empire factions entirely and own all their starting land for your reunification of the empire to be complete.

So which settlements are the imperial homelands, I have most of the imperial recruiting cities yet quest is unfinished. Do you have to personally control them, ie, remove the governers?

[mrtats]

Originally posted by Gunnar Hurtya:

Originally posted by Arcanum Elite:

you have to essentially wipe out 2 out of the 3 empire factions entirely and own all their starting land for your reunification of the empire to be complete.

So which settlements are the imperial homelands, I have most of the imperial recruiting cities yet quest is unfinished. Do you have to personally control them, ie, remove the governers?

You also have to control castles

[Walter]

Originally posted by Arcanum Elite:

you have to essentially wipe out 2 out of the 3 empire factions entirely and own all their starting land for your reunification of the empire to be complete.

What counts as wiping them out? Do I need to execute all the leaders? (Lucon, Garios, whatever their names are) I ask because prisoner heroes ALWAYS escape my captivity even if I have plenty of space, so I don't know what to do here.

Originally posted by Gunnar Hurtya:

Originally posted by Arcanum Elite:

you have to essentially wipe out 2 out of the 3 empire factions entirely and own all their starting land for your reunification of the empire to be complete.

So which settlements are the imperial homelands, I have most of the imperial recruiting cities yet quest is unfinished. Do you have to personally control them, ie, remove the governers?

My quest is unfinished too, but the conspiracy is getting dangerously close to 2000/2000 and simply wonder what happens after that; do I just need to cease back to Argaros' plan, or can I restart the quest and try again with creation of my own Kingdom?

[Gunnar Hurtya]

I triggered the next stage, I grabbed Epicrotea, and it went bibliobonk, now at war with the Red yellow and teal, quest says to crush them all, there seems to be a score bar for each empire. I fully recommend sorting your defences before you trigger it. 3 large empires at once is tricky, and there doesnt seem to be any way of bartering for peace with them. Assume the conspiracy starts once its at 2000. Hope this helped, lots to do, lol.

[Arcanum Elite]

Originally posted by Walter:

Originally posted by Arcanum Elite:

you have to essentially wipe out 2 out of the 3 empire factions entirely and own all their starting land for your reunification of the empire to be complete.

What counts as wiping them out? Do I need to execute all the leaders? (Lucon, Garios, whatever their names are) I ask because prisoner heroes ALWAYS escape my captivity even if I have plenty of space, so I don't know what to do here.

Originally posted by Gunnar Hurtya:

So which settlements are the imperial homelands, I have most of the imperial recruiting cities yet quest is unfinished. Do you have to personally control them, ie, remove the governers?

My quest is unfinished too, but the conspiracy is getting dangerously close to 2000/2000 and simply wonder what happens after that; do I just need to cease back to Argaros' plan, or can I restart the quest and try again with creation of my own Kingdom?

you have to own 2/3rds of all the empire's starting land... essentially you have to take the land that 2 out of the 3 empires started with so that you control 2/3rds of all the land the empire originally controlled. Any land they acquired since then doesn't matter you just need to own 2/3s of all empire cities/castles.

[mike280zx]

so if i choose fo unite the empire i have to attack it? that doesn't make sense?

[Arcanum Elite]

Originally posted by mike280zx:

so if i choose fo unite the empire i have to attack it? that doesn't make sense?

sure it does... the goal is to rebuild the empire and unify it under 1 banner... if you conquer them and make them part of a single nation then you are unifying the empire thru conquest... i mean there is no longer 3 empire factions fighting each other correct?

[Walter]

Originally posted by mike280zx:

so if i choose fo unite the empire i have to attack it? that doesn't make sense?

This would be your objective if you chose NOT to create your own kingdom, rather be a vassal of an imperial one and attempt to conquer non-imperial lands.

As I understand it, following Istiana's approach means you will have Arzagos try to undo your progress over 1000 game days. So you have 1000 game days to conquer 2 thirds of the land that is imperial.

Many factions battle it out across the game days so to determine which factions are imperial (there should only be 3 in total), go to villages in different parts of the land and try to recruit troops

There, if you see a recruit type that starts with the name "imperial" it means they are part or were part of some empire, meaning that faction (be it Vlandia, Battania or anything etc) was conquered by either the Western, Southern or Northern empire.

[Gunnar Hurtya]

Northern western southern starting cities

[echoes222]

just so you know - once you'll get 2/3 of Empire, everyone else will DoW you and you won't be able to peace out before beating them bad. As you will be fighting with every faction unless it was already killed off,prepare for a lot of lost cities and castles that you will have to re-conquer.

[Walter]

Originally posted by echoes222:

just so you know - once you'll get 2/3 of Empire, everyone else will DoW you and you won't be able to peace out before beating them bad. As you will be fighting with every faction unless it was already killed off,prepare for a lot of lost cities and castles that you will have to re-conquer.

Just to clarify, have I to attack the north, south and west cities and capture all fiefs and towns within them; to unify them into one Empire of Calradia?