Sturgian campaign is starting to get rough. I'm starting to think my sworn Prince Raganvad might be an idiot.
It started well enough, I had spent my early time, building up a trade empire. Finding a husband, to start a lineage.
Sturgia was in nearly constant war with Vlandia, and occasionally Battanian, as per usual. After getting a husband, and setting up a few workshops I decided to sign up, as a Vassal.
I personally, turned to patrol Battanian, and vlandia, and hit smaller solo noble parties. Raganvad did the amazing thing and made peace with vlandia. Which allowed me to actually go and visit vlandian territory to finish off speak with nobles.
2 days later, Sturgia declares war on Southern empire. I was in vlandian territory still. So Ragnavad packs up a huge army, and decides to travel south past makeb, Amprela, and Myzea all Khuzait held, to seige Syronea. I made my way over trading, etc along the way through western/northern empire territory. At some point he gave up on Syronea, and seiged Jorgurys castle instead. And... proceeded to give it to me. uh... thanks. and immediately disbanded his army and fucked off back to Sturgia, leaving me to defend Jorgurys castle deep in southern empire terrritory, alone. 100 man army vs multiple 600-1000 man armies... Also the moment I would leave the castle, to go trade with Myzea, amph, or makeb, a 100 man raiding party would hit the villages.. blew through all my influence trying to call back parties to defend. amazing after about 2 weeks of this. He makes peace..
I still have this castle in the middle of nowhere...
I return back north... rebuild my ruined army, etc.
Sturgia has declared war on Vlandia. 3.6k vs 3.7k ok. sounds good, lets take it to them!. 3 days later. Sturgia declares ware on Battanian 3.2kpower. dude... we start getting hammered. varchag is lost, taken back, omar is lost while taking back varchag, ov is lost..
I make the play. take back omar, 700 man Battanian party coming to break me, with my 300 man army. Batt my eyes... Ergeon, I know you and Caladog despise each other..
Success, break the army apart and crush the left overs. Battanian is shattered by this. By luring away Eregon, I steal Aster castle, and Dunglanys, and claim 300 men, and killed 400 others. Battanian power is down to 2400.
not one day later.. "Sturgia has declared war on Khuzait." dude. wtf.
we take back Varcheg. But lose Tyal to Khuzait. and a giant fu army immediately shows up to take it again. 700 men, vs 230 defenders. I was outside with 200, spent influence to get up to 330 or so. not nearly enough to take em. Sturgian army is def weaker then the Imperial one was. my shock troops/vets die often, and never get over 10 combined, as they die so much. archers are mostly vlandian prisoner convert xbow men, which also are not as good. very few calvary. like 5-10, and 1-4 horse archers.. I can't win 2:1 or 3:1 odds. I've gotten a few fians from battanian wars.
so, I sit there, letting them fight the miltia. waiting for the them to whittle away at each other. hopefully get that 700 down to 500 or so before I go in. amazingly, Sturgia declares peace. seige ended. oh, wow good.. but still at war with Vlandia and Khuzait at once, at opposite sides, and each equal in power to us..
dude just keeps declaring war on everyone..
pc itself, throwing has been a huge disappointment. seems cool when you get one shot in tourneys, bandit raids... but in practice, its kindof shit. aim is awful. you need to judge the arc like crazy. and then, the throw will go wide all the time, not on target. esp on horse, where it never locks in. so you need to basically be within 10ft to hit a target reliably. may as well just use a polearm. even then, I swear many times my throws go right through targets.
Might be slightly better when perks are fixed. I tried the community patch, but it gave me errors.