Theory about Harlaus always feasting

So I have a theory: what if Harlaus' AI constantly starting feasts is on purpose and is meant to make Swadia less powerful? What I mean is, considering their powerful cavalry, average infantry, and central position on the map (which allows them to expand is virtually any direction, except perhaps the Sarranid lands), what if Harlaus' AI constantly starting feasts is purposefully meant to keep the vassals distracted so that Swadia will only expand at the same average pace as every other faction? I've played campaigns where Swadia pretty much "awakens" and starts expands like Russia on drugs. In one, they took Halmar and Narra, conquered all of the Rhodok Republic except for 2 castles, and I'm pretty sure they may have captured a few castles and/or towns from the Nords as well. Of course, every faction declared war on them to curb their power and if I had continued that campaign, they probably would've been destroyed, but still. It could be that in early builds of Warband, Swadia was expanding like crazy in this fashion and the devs had to think up some way to make them less powerful so that they don't dominate everyone's game.

Sorry if this theory has already been brought up before.

Submitted March 23, 2018 at 01:42AM by Nitrate55 http://ift.tt/2FWD2aN