Quote Originally Posted by Wonderland
Yowza, I love this mod. Playing for the past two days as Arthur's faction. I spent the first 4 years just trying to stay at peace and get out of debt. My southwestern-most city revolted and my only battle for a good while was taking it back. After getting out of the -24k debt, I was ready to take on the Saxons.

They had a huge army hanging around in a small but experienced fleet, so before any aggressive action, I built up a huge fleet of my own. In a few years, bam, I launch my attack. I sunk their boats along with the large army onboard and took their western cities. Had some excellent battles with huge armies, and how they're pretty much done for. Their main armies defeated, I just need to take their cities as I please. Great fun so far, been about 15+ years. Long live King Arthur!
Sounds like you're doing well... My campaign isn't going as swimmingly... I'm playing as Rheged and it's 497AD... My little kingdom has become pagan thanks to my christian king dying and his pagan heir taking the throne... But enemies to the south and east will not let me rest. My kingdom is tiny... 2 cities with a high enough population to recruit from and 3 tiny ones that are just taxes... A huge Pictish kingdom covering all of modern scotland lies to my north, i dread that they may attack me anytime soon as we are currently only neutral and they won't agree to alliance.

To the south i have lost 2 cities that i started with to the faction with the brown banners... (i don't know the names yet) But they lost thousands and thousands of men in the war so they aren't much of a threat anymore... To the east i have taken, lost, re-taken, lost, re-taken and once again lost a small town called Dent to the faction with yellow banners... I have barely any money but just enough to upkeep a moderately powerful army, and my cities are so lightly garrisoned that i daren't move my army anywhere for fear of a city being sieged... And i'm only playing on VH/M! I'm thinking of just taking my army and marching east to ransack the yellows and grab some land as quick as i can because everyone else seems to have expanded except for me...

This is awesome, i've never found myself in such a dire situation before in any mod i have ever played... I am playing as a vulnerable faction though that starts with a 32k debt.