Raising levies twince

[Six-Monts]

Hello,

i'm new to CK2 so this might be a simple question but i just can figure it out! I'm at war and called my personal levies. After a while (couple of years actually) i would like to call my levies again (while the original are still out); they had time to reinforce so i'm thinking the extra soldiers will help. Can i do that? Do i need to disband them or let them die before i can call again?

Thanks
S

 

[tuareg109]

Hello,

i'm new to CK2 so this might be a simple question but i just can figure it out! I'm at war and called my personal levies. After a while (couple of years actually) i would like to call my levies again (while the original are still out); they had time to reinforce so i'm thinking the extra soldiers will help. Can i do that? Do i need to disband them or let them die before i can call again?

Thanks
S

Yes, you must disband them or put them into a battle they'll be exterminated in to raise new levies.
Remember that letting them die in battle will lower your warscore.
Also keep in mind that disbanding them in enemy provinces, or even in your own provinces while there are enemies in your lands, will cause only about half of them to return home.

What I do sometimes is detach half of your army, disband them, re-raise, and have them march to the enemy. When they get there, disband the other half and re-raise them. That way, you always have a presence in your enemy's lands, and can continue besieging holdings instead of waiting for your whole army to gather.

 

[whosthebestcop]

If you are going to disband them make sure you only disband them on your realm's soil. If you disband them in a foreign realm like 80% of whatever levy you disband will die immediately.

 

[Six-Monts]

Ok, thanks....

 

[Lord Finnish]

You could call multiple levies during a war before, but it was removed in a patch because the AI abused this to great detail, especially the Fatimids. Back then if you destroyed the Fatimid army, it would take only a few months for them to roll out another huge stack, and another and another...

 

[Hootieleece]

The AI still keeps reraising troops which becomes a pain in ass.Best bet is Kill their Army and carpet seige their holdings.Which is impossible with any geographical area bigger than a Duchy.

 

[Lord Finnish]

I haven't found it particularly bad recently. I can usually win a Fatimid invasion if I defeat their army, which always consists of two around 14k armies. Once they're dealt with they usually put up little fight.