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Yeah, I was wondering how detailed you were going to go. This looks like a reasonable balance-point.

Same. I'll pass on Epic. But I expect this will be an early buy for me once it is on Steam.

Good to know. I was interested in that one, but it sounds like I should probably wait for a sale or more development time on it.

This thread has reminded me of an old shareware game my friends and I got a lot of fun out of called Bob's Dragon Hunt.

Kind of a dungeon crawler where you get magic items and fight dragons. Graphics were pretty terribly 3D even then, but it was fun anyway.

I actually found it online! Though I have not tried downloading it or anything, so I'm not sure if this link is safe or works or anything. But I was amused by the screenshots.

Edit: Right, no sharing download links for abandonware.

Yeah, really wish I could I coordinate with the other armies. At the very least give them suggestions like "Hey, I think Ochs hall would be a good target" or something. Forcing the Vlandians to split their attention would be a huge boon.

If this assault doesn't pan out I may try to take Ochs hall myself next. See if we can give them a target to try and take back that isn't in the south so I'm not spending all my time on the defensive.

At least taking Charas for myself was a good call. It hasn't been assaulted once in the past few wars since I've kept their attention on Sargot. Which means someone else's town is the one that's been sacked and retaken a few times while my holdings are allowed to prosper in peace.

Oh, does anyone here know how governors actually work compared to the player's Stewardship? I'm assuming all my holdings that are left without a governor just use my bonuses, but I can't seem to find any good confirmation on it. Just lots of conjecture.

Given that I have a stewardship of over 150 now, I'm assuming that I am better off not having governors.

Damn, Caladog really wanted to marry my sister. He gave me literally all of his money (60K or so) for her hand in marriage.

I'll miss having her running around being a merchant, but I think she just paid for herself.

In other news, I'm finally trying a go at Jaculon. Last war we fought I spent the entire time fending off armies from Sargot. This time we crushed their first army quickly and have pivoted to go on the attack with a 900 strong army I'm leading.

We'll see how this goes.

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but I want to be able to give it a full garrison immediately afterwards since it'll be a prime target for revenge attacks. So I've been biding my time and buliding up Charas' garrison so that I'll have a strong base of troops to pull from.

Jaculan can be a tough nut to crack. It's got quite a large garrison due to all the militia from 4 villages. I went at it with about ~750 troops vs. their 500 garrison and they absolutely ate me alive. I don't really like prolonged sieges. All it really does is give the AI time to form an army to come stomp your guts out. So I tried rushing a siege at Jaculan, and I'd barley killed 100 of them by the time they'd slain over half my army.

Hmm, good to know. Sounds like I'll need a whole ton of high level troops for that. Which I guess is next on my list to do, then, as my garrison at Charas is pretty much ready to go.


@Scriver: No, I haven't tried independence in Bannerlord yet. Very curious to see how it works out for you, though, as I am in a similar situation (my holdings are all in and around Southern Vlandia).

Things are going well in my game.

I finally got around to really getting involved with leading armies, and I must say that I like whatever rebalance they did with the influence costs for that. Last time I played it was a struggle to keep enough influence to do much, but this time I've always had several hundred on hand so my limitations have been due to lack of troops or the other leaders all being in armies already.

In any case, with me actually being in command of some forces we've made great strides. Rather than trading Sargot back and forth every war we're actually holding territory. We now have Sargot and Charas plus all the surrounding castles in the south. After the last few swaps I elected to take Charas for myself over Sargot, since the AI always goes for Sargot first. Definitely looking to take Jaculan as my next fief, but I want to be able to give it a full garrison immediately afterwards since it'll be a prime target for revenge attacks. So I've been biding my time and buliding up Charas' garrison so that I'll have a strong base of troops to pull from.

I've also been doing strange things the AI would never consider doing...like plopping my army in Sargot to defend it rather than letting it get taken in the first place. Works like a charm, especially when you've got a noble bow and 3 stacks of arrows on you. I killed off nearly 60 people by myself in that defense.

I'm also generally focusing myself on wars with Vlandia and using wartime with the Empire or Sturgia as chances to rebuild my forces rather than leading armies around.

The results are very noticeable. The AI only seems to ever have 2 armies up and running at a time, so whenever I bring up a 3rd it shifts things considerably in our favor. And while we've taken a good chunk of territory from Vlandia all the other borders are fairly stagnant. A city or castle will change hands on occasion but are generally regained shortly after.