Question about selecting a marshal

[Rei]

i have my own faction and selected one of my lords as a marshal, my faction really isnt that large yet. mainly takes up some of the kherigate lands, (i wiped them out) and currently at war with swadia, but my marshal i selected doesnt, i only selected a lord as one in hopes he would take other castles because i can take one on my own. now for my question, is there a specific lord thats best for marshal? or should i just keep myself as marshal?

[JtDarth]

Until you have a ton of lords you are best off maintaining marshall position for yourself.

[Rei]

alright, i'll keep the marshalling to myself until i have more land

[Rei]

i have 18 lords and a fair bit of land..so i decided to try for marshal again and he still does nothing.. still to soon?

[JtDarth]

Originally posted by Ergo Proxy:

i have 18 lords and a fair bit of land..so i decided to try for marshal again and he still does nothing.. still to soon?

Its best to give marshallship to lords that owned profitable cities in their original faction, they tend to be moer successful at calling the lords together for a campaign. That said if you arent actively at war, a marshall wont do anything. I dont usually bother with the politics of my lords, I assign a competent one the marshallship and let him do whatever. Even if he slacks off by the time you reach faction level gameplay you should be more than capable of roflstomping most of the nations solo.

[Rei]

i am at war,, though i dont remember what lord owns what.. lol but i recently changed who the marshal was.. so hopefully something happens

[Red Bat]

I'd only pick another marshal if your controversy is high or you need your lords to go conquer stuff while you do something else.

[Rei]

thats why i want a marshal besides myself.. so they can conquer other castles while i conquer at the same time

[JtDarth]

Originally posted by Ergo Proxy:

thats why i want a marshal besides myself.. so they can conquer other castles while i conquer at the same time

I wouldnt rely on them to do so. Campaigns have an alarmingly frequent tendency to fall apart in the siege stage because a group of villagers passed within aggro range.

[Reno Story]

When I was king, I didn't even have marshal staus myself. My kingdom lacked a marshal of any kind. Of course, I didn't really need a marshal, because all my lords had armies of 200-300+ men per army, so there was no real need to form together to create a large army to take a castle.

In fact, without marshals, it makes it easier to just order lords to go take a certain castle while you are attacking another, allowing me to take two or more castles at the same time. It certainly helped a few times.

[JtDarth]

Originally posted by Renomaki:

When I was king, I didn't even have marshal staus myself. My kingdom lacked a marshal of any kind. Of course, I didn't really need a marshal, because all my lords had armies of 200-300+ men per army, so there was no real need to form together to create a large army to take a castle.

In fact, without marshals, it makes it easier to just order lords to go take a certain castle while you are attacking another, allowing me to take two or more castles at the same time. It certainly helped a few times.

I usually don't even bother using lords for that purpose. I usually just treat them like the national guard. They stay in the home area and prevent bandits from becoming too big an issue, and defend from enemy incursions. I myself end up green berets and just conquer all the things on my own. If all you have is a hammer, lol.

[Rei]

i only usually ever need a large army to take like a town. i have enough money so i just buy hired blades fro mtaverns and use them with vaegir marksman for ranged. though i found out capturing nord castles is hard.

[JtDarth]

Originally posted by Ergo Proxy:

i only usually ever need a large army to take like a town. i have enough money so i just buy hired blades fro mtaverns and use them with vaegir marksman for ranged. though i found out capturing nord castles is hard.

eh, Rhodok Sharpshooters roflstomp marksmen unless outnumbered. The sharps are deadly accurate, and also capable in close quarters. Capturing nord castles simply keep your troops out of throwing range and run in yourself to get them to waste their throwing axes, and then send your infantry up. I would reccomend using either Rhodok top tier infantry, Sarranid mamlukes, or Swadian knights. It's kind of messed up that cavalry make better toptier infantry than most top tier infantry. The hired blades have better survivability than sarranid or vaegir infantry, but are generally inferior to faction troops.

[Rei]

ehh i dont really like cavalry. but whenever i play again i will try them, though im not at war with the nords anymore atm.

[Red Bat]

Originally posted by DarthNachoz:

Originally posted by Ergo Proxy:

i only usually ever need a large army to take like a town. i have enough money so i just buy hired blades fro mtaverns and use them with vaegir marksman for ranged. though i found out capturing nord castles is hard.

eh, Rhodok Sharpshooters roflstomp marksmen unless outnumbered. The sharps are deadly accurate, and also capable in close quarters. Capturing nord castles simply keep your troops out of throwing range and run in yourself to get them to waste their throwing axes, and then send your infantry up. I would reccomend using either Rhodok top tier infantry, Sarranid mamlukes, or Swadian knights. It's kind of messed up that cavalry make better toptier infantry than most top tier infantry. The hired blades have better survivability than sarranid or vaegir infantry, but are generally inferior to faction troops.

Calvary in general are OP in this game. But the top tier infantry of the Rhodok's, Swadia, and Nord's will all beat any dismounted calvary. Especially the Nord's as Huscarls are incredibly powerful.

In With Fire and Sword, calvary are even more OP as the absolute best infantry in that game are all dismounted calvary units, with Winged Hussar's standing out as being more OP than Swadian Knights ever were.

[Reno Story]

Originally posted by Azazel:

Originally posted by DarthNachoz:

eh, Rhodok Sharpshooters roflstomp marksmen unless outnumbered. The sharps are deadly accurate, and also capable in close quarters. Capturing nord castles simply keep your troops out of throwing range and run in yourself to get them to waste their throwing axes, and then send your infantry up. I would reccomend using either Rhodok top tier infantry, Sarranid mamlukes, or Swadian knights. It's kind of messed up that cavalry make better toptier infantry than most top tier infantry. The hired blades have better survivability than sarranid or vaegir infantry, but are generally inferior to faction troops.

Calvary in general are OP in this game. But the top tier infantry of the Rhodok's, Swadia, and Nord's will all beat any dismounted calvary. Especially the Nord's as Huscarls are incredibly powerful.

In With Fire and Sword, calvary are even more OP as the absolute best infantry in that game are all dismounted calvary units, with Winged Hussar's standing out as being more OP than Swadian Knights ever were.

And don't forget Swedish Reiters, who both have the speed of cav, the heavy armor of infantry and the firepower of a musketman. On foot and horseback, they are the most powerful and effective unit to use, to the point that it sometimes seems to be the ONLY unit worth using, since most other units tend to be lightly armored and awfully weak (Even the top tier versions).