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They should just make it so that it's harder to get to that point. Factions should consider the overall situation and be much more likely to team up to prevent the largest faction from steamrolling, and maybe there should be some kind of revanchism bonuses thrown in too, where factions that have been beaten badly get benefits for a while and incentives to go after their lost territory rather than just easily spiralling into complete destruction.

I'm going to have to restart my playthrough AGAIN because this keeps happening to me. This is by far the biggest of the game. There's always one or two empires that steamroll the map in the course of a year and since you can't start your own kingdom from the get go there's no way to combat it. They're simply too powerful.

Or just make the beaten kings claimants you can join to take back their kingdom.

or like always you just end up having rivalries that escalate into full blown civil war and the once unified continent becomes fractured once again

>revanchism bonuses
user stop playing EUIV

doesn't happen to me, did you pirate the game?

They could very easily fit this into the game in the form of a Mongol invasion because there are those strong steppe tribes to the East that the Khuzaits were running from

If you don't run the kingdom you haven't won yet.

Personally I'm massively against any of these kind of forced events in a sandbox game like M&B. I like everything A.I/player driven. I Hate the "main quest" as it is, because kingdom creation is locked behind it. I hope they release a pure sandbox mode soon with none of the main quest stuff, and keep all of this scripted shit for campaign mode.

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I guess they could also do internal strife as well

Well I was thinking it would be something you have to intentionally trigger, I agree that it’s a sandbox game first I only want something in there that I can do to challenge the final strength of calradian empire 2.0

Is there ever going to be a penalty for making huge armies? Making doomstacks seems to be the way to go right now.

>kingdom creation is locked behind it
No, its not.

civil wars are already confirmed, just not in the EA yet

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Some of the posts you replied to don't sound forced at all, just giving more options for the AI

Band of the hawk mod when?

I'm against scripted shit too, but you need systems that work against snowballing because otherwise the only part of the game that actually matters is the very beginning. It doesn't have to be scripted events, ideally it should be a natural consequence of well balanced game mechanics, it should be difficult to take tons and tons of territory in a short time and hold it all, but right now it simply immediately makes you stronger and causes a steamroll.

It's not economically viable in a long run conflict

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Yes, it is. You literally have to go through the main quest to recreate the banner and then you get the option of creating a new kingdom.

The cohesion penalty theoretically is supposed to counter this, but it's too tiny right now to matter. If a 500+ army could only exist for a few days before it was forced to break apart, they couldn't keep snowballing and taking towns without giving the enemy a chance to restock on troops

Having beaten kings flee into exile with the player being able to help them if he wants doesn't sound forced. Could also be expanded upon with other kings making them a puppet ruler they use to weaken the faction that beat them.

>battania
>longbow
absolutely based and athletic

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Factions don't completely disappear when they have no fiefs. Or at least mine didn't. I still see Garios wandering around with like 50 men even though he hasn't had any territory for ages. I haven't tried it, but is there anything actually stopping you from going and signing up with one of those landless rulers?

Hopefully. In warband there was another claimant for every kingdom.

What's the best polearm in the game currently?

UGH what could have been...

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in my playthrough, 3 factions that had been wiped off the map managed to retake a city each in the very late game

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Custom made Glaives have a ridiculous reach and attack without being too slow when two handed, i like them a bunch

is the world map almost unplayable for anyone else after a certain days have passed?

I don't know if it's when I start putting up workshops and caravans, but the game lags a lot in the world map

There's some mods that supposedly help with this. I'm trying War Attrition and it does cause factions to make peace constantly so maybe that will work.

No its not. Attack a castle and take it over.

The snowball should not really happen if you start a new game past 05. If you do continue game from before those patches, shit has already started rolling and currently there is nothing to stop it, just slow it down.

Glaive + bow + horse combo

Just trying to unite the empire and we're at fucking war with everyone. I stopped the Battanian snowball only to face the Vlandian snowball next. I committed unspeakable atrocities in Sturgia before they made peace. Now I've conquered the Khuzaits single-handedly but the western front has completely collapsed and the massive Southern Empire has just declared war. I just wanted to unify the empire for the Senate on very easy for my first playthrough please help!

Blatantly untrue. Snowballs still happen. Whether they are delayed by a year or 6 years is the only different.

Five years into two separate camapaigns and no, the game is nowhere near snowballing.

Its different for every game but thats still hopeful. The majority of my latest game was post 1.5 but battania still stretched across the entire map.

It just needs some basic EU4 mechanics like coalitions, alliances, guarentees ect. All really basic shit, but if it was implemented correctly it would stop massive nations from quickly gobbling everyone up. The battles are sieges are amazing but right now, in terms of conquest, the game feels like a grand strategy without any actual strategy

I'm partial to the falx on a stick.

That doesn't create a kingdom.

Yes it does. You own the castle now. You can proclaim yourself whatever the fuck you want.
You might be confused with the fact that all the options are greyed out, so there is no kingdom management, but there certainly is a kingdom. Unless creating a kingdom via assembling the banner is completely different from creating a kingdom via having independent fiefs.

No.

tehre's already a mod that fixes that

>playing as sturgian vassal
>war with Vlandia
>it's close but we win a castle
>war with western empire declared 2 days later
>we lose two cities but manage to recapture them
>lose a castle
>war with southern empire 2 days later
>take a city
>war with the western empire at the same time
>lose 3 cities and 3 castles
>finally peace
>3 days later war with Battania
>one vassal defects immediatly taking his castle on the border with Battania with him
>castles are lost and taken, borders don't change
>we manage to hold on
>declare war on western empire

Who wrote this AI? It's like it's trying to suicide every fucking week

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Now that practice arena grab weapon skills, can I just train in one city forever and emerge a superhuman, like some kind of hyperbolic time chamber?

Im wrong. I just tested it. It still says im not in a kingdom even if i break free from a faction.

Gear is more important than skills desu

Dont know about mercenaries but I took a look at the Empire's Sergeant Crossbowman and he has 80 in crossbows and 180 in bows

Vlandian Crossbowmen seem to have the correct skills

Train for 60 years and maybe you can reach one handed level 120.

In all 4 campaigns I've done so far Sturgia has been wiped out within a month. Anyone ever experience Sturgia doing well yet?

what is this supposed to be

They didnt even create a new map?

lame

you didnt play warband, tourist troll

>Battania has annihilated all Empires except the Southern one
>Sturgians got wiped out by Southeners
>Steppe bronies are raping Battanians
>Holy shit nobody gives a fuck about Aserai
>I'm at war with Vlandians
>I'm also a vassal of Southern Empire
Just your average tuesday in Calradia.

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>see that mountain?
>its just for show

And that's real life years, not in game.