Playing as Robb stark is ridiculous. On onel ets play, the greyjoys invaded ( easily defeated.) Then the Lannisters ( both armies) captured most of the Riverlands. Then, just as my big-ass army was returning south robb stark died OF OLD AGE AT 18!!!!???? and then Brain dead Edmure Tully STARTED AN INDEPENDENCE WAR AGAINST ME, IN WHICH LANNISTER FORCES DIDNT ATTACK HIM, AND HIS ARMY WAS TWICE THE SIZE OF MINE-despite only 2/3 of the riverlands joining him. Oh and my allies the Freys refused to join me. How do you win as Robb stark???
Crusader Kings II - Paradox Entertainement (02/12)
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Rush to King's Landing and take it before Stannis does.
Do not do this. You'll get caught between the Iron Throne and Stan, and get crushed.
It's not difficult to win as Robb, at all. Follow these steps:
1. Ditch the Frey. Find a better wife. Marry Margaery as soon as Renly bites the dust. You may need to remove Robb from command temporarily to do this. Tyrell levies help tremendously, but aren't strictly necessary. If Renly and Stan make peace, great they're the Lannister's problem. If not Margaery, Arianne Martell is good, as is Dany if you keep an eye on her and marry her after her widowed-removing event fires. Dany will give you a dragon. Don't try adn tame it without gathering Dragonlore.
2. At the start of the scenario, move an army led by Robb to Harrenhal. Hang out for a few days until Arya shows up (you may need to switch Robb in and out of command if you want to follow step 1).
3. Disband your armies.
4. When you get the DoW from Balon, re-raise your levies. You're now in a defensive war, and can call up more troops.
5. March your entire army north (keeping an eye out for attrition). You have more than enough soldiers to stomp the Greyjoys. They tend to land armies of 10-15k, crush one and Balon will WP out. Crush two or three and he'll surrender (you might want to hold off offering terms to keep the defensive war bonus though). Just keep an eye on the ticking warscore in your war with the IT so it doesn't get too negative.
6. Whilst you're securing the North Tywin will either be losing to the Tyrells (if you married Marg) or wasting time and men besieging castles in the Riverlands. This is why you need to keep an eye on WS.
7. Nine times out of ten Tywin is so busy besieging your castles in the Riverlands that Stannis just rolls in and takes Kings's Landing virtually unopposed. You can then either bend the knee to Stan or carry on fighting. Beating Stannis is relatively easy, as everyone hates him.
8. If Stannis loses, you'll have a harder time of it, but with the defensive-boosted levies it's perfectly doable even if you don't have the Tyrells.
9. If Dany shows up and DoW's you, either bend the knee or hope you get lucky with Dragonslaying.
There's no 'died of old age' tag. You sure it wasn't Ill Health or Infirm?
Derp. I meant natural causes, which still meant no sense. Anyway, i did indeed try all these steps. Unfortunately, Renly didn't die ( so no Maegary,) i defeated Tywin at Harrenhal and rescued Arya only to be immediatly curbstomped the Ser Steffons army before i could escape and disband, and with Maegary of the cards I married the Frey girl. Then I marched north and completely crushed the Greyjoys ( killing Asha) before white peacemaking. However, on the march back Edmure, utterly out of the Blue, declared his independence war. I managed to win that using attrition and Guerrilla tactics-but am now left with a mere 8,000 men. I feel that i'm utterly doomed.
Tengri too as Hungary, the pagan free CB helps enormously; likewise, if you exploit the free troops you get from decisions.
So I'm modding a custom religion into the game, but I feel very tempted to just include all the cool things from all religions in it: invasions, incest, raiding, concubines, secular head of religion, etc. Any ideas? Like is there some really obscure branch of christianity I can appropiate?
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What about Slav paganism? I'm currently playing as the Rurikovichs and so far what's stopping me is low piety.
That story is amazing. Developing characters is one of the best points of the game in my opinion
Weird. Edmure's normally loyal, sounds like he screwed you. If you beat him and he's locked up, banish him. Your mum will get the Riverlands.
Not sure how Steffon caught you- disbanding is instantaneous.
Anyway, if Renly's alive he and/or Stannis should take KL pretty soon. Tywin and the Lannisters are done for when that happens.
Which Baratheon is in charge? Renly's harder to beat than Stannis. If it's Stan try and hang on, he'll face a bazillion rebellions. If it's Renly, it might be better to submit.
Divorce your wife. You can still keep an eye out for Dany, or one of a dozen better matches.
Seriously, never marry the Frey. You get nothing for it.
TWO Interesting things
1. the Knights Templar managed to take over ALL of Hungary in a Crusade! Now their is a Grey blob of Catholic Crusaderism sitting in a sea of Pagans
2. In my Cuman campaign I may have erred when I wasted my large Retinue trying to push into Persia as now The Saffarids have taken over mostly and even the Samanids are able to recruit more then I can. Amusingly enough though the Khazars, Penchengs, and Boghlurs all pretty much went down in flames of Tengri, Orthodox, Peasent, Usurper Revolts making way to Crimea easy pickings now that I've seized things east of the Volga. My momentum though will be quite slow.
1. the Knights Templar managed to take over ALL of Hungary in a Crusade! Now their is a Grey blob of Catholic Crusaderism sitting in a sea of Pagans
2. In my Cuman campaign I may have erred when I wasted my large Retinue trying to push into Persia as now The Saffarids have taken over mostly and even the Samanids are able to recruit more then I can. Amusingly enough though the Khazars, Penchengs, and Boghlurs all pretty much went down in flames of Tengri, Orthodox, Peasent, Usurper Revolts making way to Crimea easy pickings now that I've seized things east of the Volga. My momentum though will be quite slow.
yourworstnightmare
Banned
Do you want to play as characters from the books or not?
Because Robert's Rebellion and the Crowned Stag deals with characters such as Ned Stark and Robert Baratheon while they were young, wile War of the 5 Kings and A Feast for Crows are dealing with things happening in the books. All other scenarios only deal with ancestors of the characters from the books.
yourworstnightmare
Banned
The Ironborn have loads of CBs if they win independence. They can also raid. The early Targaryens and Dany have the Dragon invasion CB, though it's ridiculously easy to win all the wars, because dragons kill everything.
Steffon caught me because i didn't want to disband at Harrenhal and lose alot of men. So it tried to get to friendly territory only to be intercepted....
Its Renly i'm facing-hence why no Maegary marriage. And depite having the Reach and the Stormlands, he's losing against Dorne, Crownlands and the Vale-badly.