Cant defeat empire rebels

[Kael]

Yea - i remember this game is hard. But i dont remember this hard. The AI-Rebels from the beginning Empire-Campaign are entrenching in Helmgart
My Income is already on +14 and i cant recruit more men. I cant assault the city cause the attack would give me a hard defeat ( 40 - 60 )

i also charged it with direct combat. But still: Its completly equal to the part when the garrison joins. I simply cant 'withstand' these defending. I cant flank them cause i dont have cavalry yet.
I cant shoot with artillery cause i cant get the buildings up (i need money)
while the AI already has mortars, riders and all the cool stuff in their armament.

How to deal with this? im running out of ideas.

btw - i have 2 armies (20 + 6) in slots
the enemy just have a 16 Slot army + Garrison.
Still they beat the ♥♥♥♥ out of me - even when i try to flank them and all the nice stuff.

[Captainbeastfeast (Rat-ee-JiK)]

you should snuff out rebels quickly. start again and wipe em out fast. getting all of reikland is a priority for the empire so that you can grow quickly and tech up. if rebels have walls you are doing something wrong.

[Wyvern]

Depending on if you started with Franz or Volkmar/Gelt (Gelt is best starting lord as far as campaign goes), you should have all of reikland in your grasp by turn 4 or 5. If the rebels are getting actual quality troops then you really dun goofed somewhere and its probably best to restart.

Also, 40-60 battles are usually pretty easy to win, just not autoresolvable. Working on your battle skills might help you with that a bit(or sharing what the issue is in battles so we can give you some more advice)

[[AJSA]MeloDeath]

Turn 1 kill the army build more swordsman build lvl 2 on barracks Turn 2 take over first settlement build more soldiers Turn 3 head towards helmgart build Crossbowman Turn 4 Take Helm Turn 5 Take last settlement. Works on every difficulty

[Kael]

Originally posted by AJSAMeloDeath:

Turn 1 kill the army build more swordsman build lvl 2 on barracks Turn 2 take over first settlement build more soldiers Turn 3 head towards helmgart build Crossbowman Turn 4 Take Helm Turn 5 Take last settlement. Works on every difficulty

have done exactly this. i was on the border to helmgart - BUT the enemy generl run to helmgart and manned it. So i cant take it.

now i besieged the city and after 7 turns i got it -.-'

[Harry Flashman]

In round one, recruit a new lord. In round 2, send that lord almost as far south as he can go with forced marching and build a new one. In round 3, the original lord goes north to close to Eilhart and the new lord and Franz move close to Helmgaard. In round 4, take all the cities using the single generals to lead the attacks (I like to send Franz back to take out Skarsnik with yet another general).

You WILL own all enemy cities by the end of turn 4 (works every time) as the enemy keeps chasing your single generals (who retreat) and doesn''t make new troops.

A similar method takes out Marienburg, setting up a march north to wipe out Nordland and the Middenland.