Questions About the Campaign and Countdown Timer

[Leonardilox]

I have a question about the campaign. The main mission has a countdown, and right now I need to create a kingdom, but I only have 700 days left and 200k. Forming a kingdom seems like a lengthy process, so:

Will I have enough time to finish the main campaign after creating the kingdom?
After creating the kingdom:

Are there more missions with the same countdown, or does a new one start?
Are all the main campaign missions on a timer?

How can I besiege a city if I’m not affiliated with any kingdom?

If I’m not part of a kingdom that’s at war with another, the option to besiege doesn’t appear. What should I do?

[Descri]

If this is your first play through you may want to be with another kingdom instead of trying to do it on your own. Cause the other kingdoms will attack you and you'll have to pay a lot for peace. This is mentioned on youtube and other guides.

The quest line is on youtube, and yes it does have a couple more parts.

The way you beseige a city is you have to be at war with them first, so you'll have to attack one of their villages/villagers, or lords, or caravans.

Does this answer your questions, and did you have any more questions?

[Ruffio]

The initial countdown is just the countdown to create your kingdom and return to Istinia or the other dude (if you do the campaign). Then the next timer start. (conspiracy stage), You will get hit by different missions you need to complete within a set time, Fail to do that and the conspiracy timer (countdown) will speed up.

Once the conspiracy timer is up, you will find yourself at war with either the 3 empire factions, or the 3 strongest non empire factions, depending on who you sided with. This is a war there is no chance of peace before you complete the objective.

Tbh, you would want to establish your kingdom as soon as possible, and start recruit more clans and take more fiefs to set up a strong position before the all out war. Imho majority of new players that take on the campaign quest will run head into a brick wall their first play through.

[Keijo]

You need more money, it takes 700k+ to recruit a clan. Easiest way to form kingdom is capturing a rebelled town, because you are sorta "independent" and the other factions can't dow you. You can even conquer more cities from a weak faction and they still can't dow you. You can't recruit any clans though so you are on a solo mission.

Another easy way is to join as vassal and get a remote city given to you, the game somehow takes distance from other fiefs and you seem to get alot of fiefs if no other clans have anything close by.

The main quest can be ignored, you can still play normally and conquer everything. When you grow big enough you are at war with ALL the factions continuously anyway, even if you don't do the quest.

I think the timer start at like 1800 days or so, and it does not reset when you do the next task. Also 1800 days is like 10+ years in game time, I don't know if years are shorter than 365 days in game or so but you have more time than it says.

In your case I would find a way to make more money(like smithing) and just relax and ignore the quest if you run out of time.

[Urmel]

Originally posted by Keijo:

Another easy way is to join as vassal and get a remote city given to you, the game somehow takes distance from other fiefs and you seem to get alot of fiefs if no other clans have anything close by.

i often join Aserei with my battania mainchar when they start a war with battania.

with clan rang 5 you will get 7+ battania fiefs cawse no other aserai clans are near this faction. and i dont get the -3 loyality cawse i have the right culture.

when you leave aserai for your own kingdom, aserai have big problems to attack your fiefs, cawse they are to far away.

[Teralitha]

Dont waste money on making peace. Fight until they give up.

[Leonardilox]

After forming my kingdom, I get access to a new mission, I think it's called "Unify the Empire," and I have to acquire 13 settlements.

Is this mission also time-limited, or can I take as long as I want?
Is the "Conspiracy" mission after this one, or is it, hidden, and the time keeps running without me realizing it?
Thank you for your answers, by the way!