2236 days into Viking Conquest......

[X-the Unknown]

and this is what happens; Every faction goes to war with your faction or lieges faction. 6 or 7 factions at once making hit and run armies that sack and burn all the villages and keep you on the run around forever. One faction makes peace another declares wars so war is never over after this many days. Armies 31's to 77'[s continuously march frely into your arear and the ai allies seem to do nothing to help or stop it. They march around with big armise that can't catch up to these little amries. I have to breaak down my army to be able to catch them and guess waht? All of a sudden a large huge army appears the siza of gilbratra. It's laughable.

Then the kicker is factions you have destroyed come back, take some of your casles and villages and declare war on you also. It was fun ffor awhile but now I'm pulling my hair out just trying to hold onto what I got. Seems we weren't meant to play this long I guess. The whole world hates me except West Seaxe and the King ain't doin much but guarding Chipperham all the time. 2634 troops; biggest army on the map and does he go take a town or castle or two? Helll no; he just sits there and has tournaments all the time and feasts. lol

If Bannerlord is anything like this I want no part of it ; just ain't fun without faction help like the AI gets.

[White Knight]

My current game is at 2269 days and it was pretty messed up a while back too. I had them swarming my town Cantwaraburh, taking turns with their entire factions lining up at my gates. It was quite ridiculous.

I figured I could either quit my insanely long campaign or make some changes. So I got pissed off and went on the offensive. I took Dunwic, which took the wind out of East Engle's sails, then took Dorestad, Ribe and Tunsberg. Now the North Sea is quiet. Cantwaraburh is back to being the sleepy backwater dump it is supposed to be.

Only the Irish were giving me a hard time (for some strange reason), so I took Dubh Linn, giving them something to cry about. In each case, I took the only city belonging to particularly aggressive factions and that shuts them right up.

Tuidgy pointed out recently that there is a countdown on luck. It decreases over time and at a certain point, the player has no more "luck" going for them. It seems this luckless state leads to all manner of strange things? I'm not too worried about it though since I've probably spent the majority of my time in these games, getting by without luck because I always take my time.

My plan is to stick it out and see how far I can take it. I'm in a good position to run the map, all I need to do is not expand too quickly and keep the lands I've taken. By the same token, I have to be more aggressive so the AI keeps out of my way.

Smokingman managed to do it recently, so I'm inspired to stick it out now that I'm convinced it's at least possible.

I wish you luck with the rest of your game.

[X-the Unknown]

Why did they move my post?

[Sumarlithi]

Why not cheat us something to calm the place down.

[White Knight]

Originally posted by SLAYAH:

Why did they move my post?

The forum has been organized into different sections. Your post about Viking Conquest got moved into the Viking Conquest section.

It's a little confusing to those of us who have been here for a while but eventually, this new system of organizing threads will become the new "normal".

Personally, I like the effort being made to clean the site up. It makes it a lot easier to know what the hell some people are talking about. You were smart and considerate enough to clearly label your thread in the title...which is also why it got moved so quickly.

People who want to talk about VC will manage to find this section...and if they can't, well, that's probably a good thing, in my mind.

[the smoking mค็็็็็n]

Originally posted by les:

Why not cheat us something to calm the place down.

2634 troops is a giveaway

[Goweigus]

even though i doubt ill ever play a game that far, its extremely discouraging and makes me want to go back to Warband or Persino

[reesekid]

2064 days in and I am the only faction on the map. My strategy was to find the "king" and/or all of the large armies outside of the forts/towns first. Removing the armies allowed me to take the towns without issue. After taking forts and towns- I ALWAYS waited to assign the fief - giving me 100-150 troops without having to recruit. Concentrate on the towns then the forts removes the money which means less armies and more chance that faction lords would defect. Hopefully you were aware (already knew) and I'm just being Mr. Moto (Master of the obvious) as my wife says :)
Path of attack - Dorestead (all of Friese), then friended West Seaxe, took Tomtun, wiped out East Engle, moved up to Jovik and Bebbenburgh, got torqued with Danes and took Ribe and all of Danmark (solidifed right side of map), came back and took over Wales (leaving Yse Mon), up to Edinburgh, Breatann, Scuin, Cell. I did all of this without any vassal lords. Turned south and wiped out West Seaxe before moving over to NorthV. After clearing the whole right and middle - I put some love time in and got married (had a child) and built up to invade Ireland (7 ships - 305 capacity). Yse to Maistu and then around to Dubh Lihn - worked my way through Laign and then up and over through Connecha concentrating on one faction at a time. Rath Caltair and Ailech.
Barnejoy and Laithland were the final hold outs as both were island locked. I would run about 900 strong (although I could control up to 2600 by myself) and at max I was around 1250. On occassion I was ambushed by 4 or 5 lords with combined 1500 armies - wiped each out as I had about 80 calvary and ALWAYS ran an end-around. Ulfs armor and balanced godelic sword (41/16) - I didn't/couldn't use a horse. Good luck!

[X-the Unknown]

Originally posted by the smoking mค็็็็็n:

Originally posted by les:

Why not cheat us something to calm the place down.

2634 troops is a giveaway :tgrin:

When you play this many game days it's possible for the AI to accumulate that many troops as long as you leave them alone. I was and still am affiliated with Seaxe king so yes he has that many troops cause I've never attacked him.