Current status of your campaign?

[CountMRVHS]

OK, I'll bite.

In between trying to fix my DarkAge Britain mod for MTW:VI, I've been having quite a good time playing VH/VH as the Scots in Kingdoms: Britannia campaign.

One of the rules I've imposed on myself is to try to limit my army to a single stack, or 20 units. The rest of my military consists of garrisons: a castle can have a garrison of 5 units plus any number of family members, and a city is limited to the number of free militia units it can support plus any number of family members. This makes a loss in the field with my army a bit harder to come back from, and means I have to choose where to fight -- maybe a bit more realistic.

Currently it's around turn 70. I'm *finally* finishing off the Norwegians, who cheat like crazy on VH, sprouting stacks of Gotland Footmen and Feudal Knights out of nowhere.

Had some surprises in the campaign. When Wallace appeared, he did a bit of fighting Norway and then I sent him to take Arran as part of a nobles' guild mission. The town was lightly defended, so Wallace had a fairly small army -- but then the Norwegians landed a stack of troops on the island and attacked. Wallace had nowhere to run, and was killed before he even got to fight any English.

Most of the fighting was focused in northern Scotland, around Inverlochly, Inverness, and Wick. Norway and I traded Inverness for awhile, but after I lost it the last time I headed north and took Wick, then eventually was able to return and take Inverness, their last settlement on the mainland of Britain. They had just landed a large menacing stack of Gotland footmen, Huscarles, etc., under a 7-star Prince, but after I retook Inverness their army boarded a transport -- and was promptly sunk in the Moray Firth by my Gun Holks. No more Norwegians on the mainland anymore!

I just took the Orkneys and own all the western isles except the big one in the NW (it's called Domon in VI), but that's under siege. After that, Norway will be down to the isle of Man.

Elsewhere, Ireland has taken control of their island and seem to have tons of armies roaming around there. I plan to take 5 Irish provinces as part of my 25 province victory, so it should be interesting to fight a strong Ireland.

The Baron's Alliance, predictably, appeared in northern England and now hold 3 provinces -- Carlisle and the provinces to the north and west of York. I just installed a new head of that faction by assassinating the faction leader as part of a mission.

Wales came out swinging but seems to have stalled. As far as I can tell they own all of Wales plus a couple towns to the east of the Severn, and York, which is strongly garrisoned.

England is still kicking, but not doing much. I'm hoping that things will become more interesting after I finish off the Norwegians. Of course, the thing I'd *really* like to see is an English invasion of Scotland, but that doesn't look like it's going to happen. Looks like with the Britannia campaign, CA really wanted the player to be the English, as there are lots of fun obstacles for the English to overcome. Unfortunately, it makes things a bit too easy IMO for the Welsh, Scots and Irish.

I started off with intentions of being chivalrous, but since Norway kept throwing stack after stack at me I've turned to executing prisoners most of the time and training up assassins. I still have my original king, Alexander; when he dies I'll probably go with a chivalrous king.

Guess that's all for now. Maybe I'll revive my photobucket account and see if I can get some screenshots.

CountMRVHS