Plus, paying for peace doesn't seem to last for much longer than a few days, so it's just flushing money away. So then I have to hike all the way back to where the other empire is, pay them off so they won't snap everything up behind me, and then go back to the real front. All of my cities are constantly under attack, and empires keep declaring war just when I think I might have a handle on dealing with another empire. But taking anything new - and then keeping it - has become roughly impossible. I have a big ol' army, highly-trained, and sufficient towns conquered to afford it. Pretty sure I'm done with this for a while. I'm sure the original owner probably doesn't like me, but he's not the king, so the Khuzait have no (apparent) official interest in getting it back, so fuck 'im.ĭo I even need to defend it since I'm not a Kingdom and no one has any default negative opinions about me?Īnd why only 900? The beef was pretty old by that point, and I'd slaughtered at least a dozen Steppe bandit camps to endearing myself to the notable townies, but that army had me dead to rights and I was prepared to pay 20x that as I'm pretty sure the daily tax revenue was more than 900. Requested an audience with the commander of the immediate counter-siege (now 600 strong), asked to end the war, the auto calc thing offered 900 denar, and I came out of that conversation with +3 rep on that lord (Social perk), and 0 with Khuzait kingdom. (Didn't have any towers built, thought I was fucked, but I guess ladders are really all you need vs tier 1 walls?) Took the castle in a hasty siege right before 240 Khuzait-proper troops came crashing down on our camp. (And bought myself a fancy 5-figure Noble Bow) Decided to stock up on archers and come back later. They never bothered me again, not sure if that's because we just never happened to cross paths or because of the rep. Fought off a few mercs, released their leaders, which seemed to result in a pretty decent net gain in rep with that faction. Picked the southern most castle (closest to Azeri territory, furthest from the Khuzait front with their proper wars) Tried to sneak into a town and failed, causing the Khuzait to declare war on me and the 40ish people in my employ. Still haven't formed a kingdom, but I managed to take a castle as an independent clan for, basically, 900 denar and almost no lingering resentment.
Finally managed to stick with a character and get some stuff going.
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