How do you even begin to fight the Karlings?
I'm King of Brittany. I've found myself in a position where the only way to expand is either by majorly upgrading my fleet and attacking the British Isles... or by fighting Karlings. I have West Francia to my north and south, and East Francia to my east.
I've waited about 80 years in this position for an opportunity that looks good. West Francia has several of my duke's de jure lands. So, I finally see an opportunity. Aquitaine and East Francia's forces are completely depleted. West Francia has about 12k troops to my 15k troops. So I declare war.
I gather all my troops, and I figure the best strategy is to take out any stacks that are big but smaller than mine. I find a 3k stack of Aquitaine troops and kill them. West Francia is marching an 8k stack around somewhere in the fog of war, so rater than chasing them down, I begin sieging Paris.
Then the 8k stack marches comes out of the fog of war, marches into my 13k troops in Paris, across a small river, and proceed to KILL 8,000 of my troops and win the battle... and that's pretty much the entire war. I don't know how to salvage this. I have 500 gold. But his 7500 troops (since I only killed about 500 of his troops even though I had a river advantage) are probably just going to follow my 5k remaining troops all over the map and completely wipe them out. I doubt I can afford enough mercs to come back, right?
I've been murdering Karlings as much as possible. My spymaster and diplomat are constantly parked around West Francia trying to encourage revolts.
I mean, once the Karlings have all the territory around me and the only way to expand is by attacking them, is it time to just start a new game, or what?
I'm King of Brittany. I've found myself in a position where the only way to expand is either by majorly upgrading my fleet and attacking the British Isles... or by fighting Karlings. I have West Francia to my north and south, and East Francia to my east.
I've waited about 80 years in this position for an opportunity that looks good. West Francia has several of my duke's de jure lands. So, I finally see an opportunity. Aquitaine and East Francia's forces are completely depleted. West Francia has about 12k troops to my 15k troops. So I declare war.
I gather all my troops, and I figure the best strategy is to take out any stacks that are big but smaller than mine. I find a 3k stack of Aquitaine troops and kill them. West Francia is marching an 8k stack around somewhere in the fog of war, so rater than chasing them down, I begin sieging Paris.
Then the 8k stack marches comes out of the fog of war, marches into my 13k troops in Paris, across a small river, and proceed to KILL 8,000 of my troops and win the battle... and that's pretty much the entire war. I don't know how to salvage this. I have 500 gold. But his 7500 troops (since I only killed about 500 of his troops even though I had a river advantage) are probably just going to follow my 5k remaining troops all over the map and completely wipe them out. I doubt I can afford enough mercs to come back, right?
I've been murdering Karlings as much as possible. My spymaster and diplomat are constantly parked around West Francia trying to encourage revolts.
I mean, once the Karlings have all the territory around me and the only way to expand is by attacking them, is it time to just start a new game, or what?