Where to begin... So the Battanians get into their fateful war with Vlaandians, but the western empire declared war upon their new Vlaandian neighbors. The western empire and the battanians pushed back the Vlaandians, but then the Aserai attacked the Western Empire. The Vlaandians made peace with the Battanians to focus their efforts on the western empire, and though the Battanians were doing well on their own, the Sturgians declared war on them. Battanians lose Flintolg castle but gain the Kranirog and Mazhadan castles, and then they claim Sturgia-owned Epicrotea during the Sturgian's battle against the Western Empire. The Khuzait declare war on the Sturgians and claim Tyal from them, so the Sturgians make peace with the Battanians to focus on the Khuzait. The western empire loses ground to both the Aserai and the Vlaandians, so they are forced to make peace with the Vlaandians. As the Aserai are recovering from intense wars of keeping Tubilis castle and Garontor castl...
There I was, a brash young Captain, traversing the lands of Pendor with my ragtag band of rouge knights and mercenaries. When what should I happen upon but a siege, the Fierdsvain were assaulting Dagon castle.
I set up camp nearby to watch it happen, it lasted a while in-game, both parties numbers rapidly trickling down, and then suddenly a message flashed up on the screen.
"The Kingdom of Ravenstern and the Fierdsvain made peace"
"Well that was anti-climactic" I thought to myself. I prepared to move on, but as I hovered my cursor over Dagon castle one last time to check on the Ravenstern casualties, I noticed they only had 10 able-bodied men left. At this point I had around 50 men in my company.
Fast-forward several minutes and I am the King of the new Kingdom of Pendor, with only Dagon Castle, and it's connected village to my name.
I knew that Ravenstern would be coming in great numbers to retake their castle, and with 3 right to rule It was only a matter of time before the other realms try and cut me down to size. So I came up with a plan, I swore fealty to the Kingdom I just took a castle and village from, and they accepted, letting me keep both.
Hours later (In game:months) I've built a training grounds in the castle, and have myself an assortment of Ravenstern units couple of Knights, along with a small handful of Rangers and Kierguard, plus what was left of my original mercenary band, all in all, around 90 men.
We went back to war with the fierdsvain, and, within minutes I was under seige, the force was far too large for me to defeat, so I fled, planning to let them take it, and then counter-seige the small garrison they left behind. This plan succeeded, but they returned almost instantly, so I left again.
This process repeated itself about 8 times, I had fewer and fewer men left to counter-seige with each time. I knew a truce had to be just around the corner, I could only hope that I was In control of the castle when peace was made. It was like an extremely tense game of musical chairs.
Luckily, peace was made with the fortress in my hands, and I gave a prayer to Astrea in thanks. I deposited what was left of my party in the garrison, planning to recruit more men from the villages to make up for the heavy losses sustained during the war (we made no actual gains in the war, even though our king declared it)
No sooner had I set foot out the castle gate than another message appeared on my screen. "Sarleon has declared war on Ravenstern" and now they have taken Dagon Castle from me.
I have very few men left, I have no patience left, all I wanted was a castle as a base of operations while I built myself up to the equivalent of the great lords, never did I expect to face such hardships, only to end up back where I started.
TLDR: Don't Steal castles and then swear fealty to the man you stole them from, fate will punish you...
Submitted February 27, 2017 at 05:02AM by GThellraiser http://ift.tt/2m2v456
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