Between a Rock and a Hard Place

[_Aetius_]

The situation seems abit better considering your latest update, the big problem i see is you have no hard hitting army that you can rely on to fight your wars, having an empire of garrison class armies wont hold the frontiers forever, 1 enemy with a decent amount of heavy cav and infantry will steamroll them no problem.

You need professional armies, how developed is switzerland? when i got the hre switzerland is developed to a citedal in no time, swiss halberdiers are great, plus swabia for swabian swordsmen, if you have armies of them then your fine.

Just use this relative calm, to rebuild and expand your armies, territorial expansion shouldnt be attempted in fact if anything sacrificing some of your less necessary territories might be a good idea. Consolidation is whats needed, if you regroup youll be much harder to break down, its still hard to give proper solutions because most of the area in and around your empire from your description sounds in ruins and a mess lol.

So rebuild, regroup, consolidate, and most importantly train advanced troops.

[Hold Steady]

The situation seems abit better considering your latest update, the big problem i see is you have no hard hitting army that you can rely on to fight your wars, having an empire of garrison class armies wont hold the frontiers forever, 1 enemy with a decent amount of heavy cav and infantry will steamroll them no problem.

You need professional armies, how developed is switzerland? when i got the hre switzerland is developed to a citedal in no time, swiss halberdiers are great, plus swabia for swabian swordsmen, if you have armies of them then your fine.

Just use this relative calm, to rebuild and expand your armies, territorial expansion shouldnt be attempted in fact if anything sacrificing some of your less necessary territories might be a good idea. Consolidation is whats needed, if you regroup youll be much harder to break down, its still hard to give proper solutions because most of the area in and around your empire from your description sounds in ruins and a mess lol.

So rebuild, regroup, consolidate, and most importantly train advanced troops.

Thx, doing most of that, butta, Halbs? aren't those high and late only?

[Hold Steady]

The French attacked Friesland, off all places! With two stacks of troops and a 4 star king (He was in Flanders or came by sea from Brittany. What I wouldn't give for the English to attack the French..). My mixed but small army didn't stand even a chance of severely damaging this kind of numbers of Men at arms, so I decided to pull back, having a defensive line now in Saxony (allready reasonably garrisonned with a men at arms, a viking, a few spear and Urbans and archers, so together with reinforcements from brandenburg This will probably make a bit of a stand, Lorraine also has a bit of an army and (Franconia? the province below saxony) can be filled with that of Friesland. Then his two stacks face three of my armies. IIRC, the AI won't attack with everything leaving no garrison on one of three opposing armies, but more divide his armies.

The Aragonese have attacked Toulouse with a four star prince with RK's a few peasants, urbans and hordes of Archers. Think I'll choose a nice spot in the woods, There his archers and RK's will be nullified and my one and a half unit of FMAA and a Feudal Sarge and a Urban militia must be able to make a succesfull stand, only trouble is to run after them archers with armoured FMAA is a bit of a drag..