Dragon banner. WHat are my options?

[VirtualGamer]

I've read many comments, most ppl skip civil war because you fight 3 factions at the same time. As far as I know this are the 2 main options if you use the dragon banner.

1) Give the Dragon Banner to the king of my faction so I don't loose the castles and city I already have and prepare for civil war

2) Make my own kingdom and become the emperor and defeat all factions. First, I don't know how to become independient kingdom (I have 3 castles and 1 city and don't want to do it again). Second, I don't have the resources for civil war. As in any game, npc "spawn" money in their wallet but not players.

3) This option I thought by wondering if... I read that if you kill a main npc, their whole clan attacks you, so If you plan to do so, you have to kill the entire clan ( is this real or a mod?) So if there are only 2 factions remaining in civil war you can join the winning faction and kill the entire king's clan. Though, I also read that if the king dies, the player is elected as new king (much easier) but not when you want and that the player may take the burden of paying lot of wages for the kingdom (you know we can't "respawn" money a npcs).

other big question, if you become emperor do you need to conquer all castles and cities? if you do that, the game ends? or how is the game then ?

[Clovis Sangrail]

2) -- Leave the kingdom. There a button on the kingdom page.

When it asks if you want to keep your holds, tell damn skippy, you do. You will immediately be at war with your old kingdom, but as you are not a kingdom, just talk to any lord and barter for peace. It shouldn't cost you all that much.

Then you will be an independent clan, and no one will attack you unless you attack them first.

Don't be in a hurry to declare your kingdom, Take your time and develop your clan and save up a war chest.

[Action Man]

Originally posted by Gamer16:

3) This option I thought by wondering if... I read that if you kill a main npc, their whole clan attacks you, so If you plan to do so, you have to kill the entire clan ( is this real or a mod?) So if there are only 2 factions remaining in civil war you can join the winning faction and kill the entire king's clan. Though, I also read that if the king dies, the player is elected as new king (much easier) but not when you want and that the player may take the burden of paying lot of wages for the kingdom (you know we can't "respawn" money a npcs).

This is not vanilla behavior. If you're at war with a faction, an NPC dying in battle does not start any kind of blood feud with the clan. If you execute a prisoner, you will get a lot of negative relation with a lot of people, not just the clan that NPC came from.

Civil Wars do not exist in the vanilla game.

In the vanilla game, it does seem to be a very likely the player is voted the next leader. I don't think the AI just spawns money, but they do have a 'hidden' bank account they can draw from. If that goes dry, the faction is just broke. As the player, you have the ability to earn way more money than the AI (not even needing Smithing to cheese in your money), so it's not that hard once you have a better grasp of the game. Faction expenses are shared between all the clans.

other big question, if you become emperor do you need to conquer all castles and cities? if you do that, the game ends? or how is the game then ?

If you're trying to do the Campaign quest, you must conquer your eventual foes. Painting the whole map is not a requirement. If you want to go for that on your own, go at it. It's a Sandbox game, and it's up to you to determine your objectives.

[Azunai]

There are essentially 4 ways to play the quest. The main choice is between restore the empire and destroy the empire. And in both cases you can either swear fealty to an existing empire pretender or barbarian king and play through the quest as a vassal or you form your own realm with you as the king/emperor