What happens to the garrison after being denied a castle?

[Hakkapeliitta]

I'm playing my first game of MBW and now that I've got my first fief (the village of Mazen) I have set my sights on getting myself a castle (or town). So far I've only captured towns jointly with my faction’s forces.

What happens if I capture a castle on my own? I guess it would need to be garrisoned by me and I would also need to rush to see the king to ask him to grant it to me. As my relations with the Vaegir king & other boyars is still pretty neutral I wonder what happens to the said garrison if I do not get the castle. Would the new owner inherit the troops I've left temporarily to guard it? I would hate to see my only army to be given to some other boyar.

How important would it be to try to persuade the other lords to support me for the castle? How much does the king listen to their opinions when he decides who will get it?


Cheers, H.

 

[miloc]

when you capture a castle, you get a message option to ask the king for the castle. He will give it to you or not. More likely not if it is the first.
After you captured it, you will have the option to garrison the castle; these soldiers will be lost however if you don't get the place, they go to the new owner.
I don't know if diplomatic interference will help you, I never understood how this interaction really work.

(one of my pet pieves: when one captures a caste, one gets the option to take all freed prisoners up to the party limit, the rest just disappears. A second later one has to take the garrison out of one's party. Imho freed soldiers which are not taken should automatically go into the future garrison.).

 

[unmerged(169164)]

With the last version, any new castle capture comes with a minimal garrison.

You dont need to leave soldiers most of the times to defend it. The minimal garrison is enough to fend off an attempt to retake.

Another thought is that the game aims to castle/city capture to be the climax of a campaign following the destruction of the main enemy army.

Without it, at earlier stage, castles are recaptured because it is not possible to garrison it enough.

 

[Hakkapeliitta]

Thanks for helping out guys! I decided to start my attemps by recapturing Werchek for the Vaegirs (our marshall had already captured it earlier in the war but the Nords took it back. The city had a minimal garrison of around 70, about the size of my party, so I could do it alone. Unfortunately I did not get any free garrison after capturing it (I am running 1.27).

I hired couple of mercs to have a nominal garrison while I go and replenish my losses. The nords have now laid siege to it again, they have few hundred soldiers, but many of them are rather inexperienced (due to losses in the hard fighting against swadians & us). I hope I can defend it.