#Raise tribal army ck2 series

At best, defeat still meant twiddling thumbs while I waited for my prestige to recharge. Tribes are the antithesis of вЂњrubber bandingвЂќ: just as success feeds on success, defeat вЂ“ and the consequent loss of prestige вЂ“ can leave the tribe vulnerable. Hit 500 prestige, raise one army, win a few wars and earn another 500 prestige, raise a second army and add it to the firstвЂ¦ itвЂ™s possible for a tribe to erupt out of nowhere and take its neighbours by storm.Д«ut while tribes are powerful, theyвЂ™re also brittle. One is passage of time: I spent the early years of my tribal game with the speed turned up to maximum, waiting for my prestige to hit the magic 500 mark. There are several ways to accumulate prestige. For context, WakhushakkвЂ™s starting levy is only about 350 men! 3 The army will disappear in peacetime вЂ“ but you can keep it around indefinitely by starting a new war before the old war is over. Given a sufficiently prestigious leader, tribal armies can spring up overnight: if a tribe is at war, the player can cash in 500 prestige points in exchange for a 2,500-strong army. In contrast, tribes use the leaderвЂ™s prestige as their main currency. Bigger and more developed realms can raise more troops, but newly conquered territories donвЂ™t contribute troops for some time, and developing holdings takes time and money. The key difference 2 is that in my experience, feudal armies are predictably sized and only grow gradually. In the process, I made my second discovery: the game has a pretty cool model of tribal societies, as distinct from feudal proto-states. The fourth time, I chose Wakhushakk 1, a tribal chief who rules over a single province in 769 вЂ“ and this time, after many saves and reloads, I was able to carve out (albeit not keep) a kingdom along the Silk Road. I didnвЂ™t last long: Vandad is surrounded by hostile neighbours, and Shorzan and his heirs live at the mercy of the Caliph. The first three times, I tried playing Persian Zoroastrian lords: Vandad Karen, an independent lord in 867 (twice), and Shorzan Bavandid, a vassal of the Abbasid Caliphate in 769.

#Raise tribal army ck2 series

This entry is part 1 of 5 in the series Crusader Kings IIДЄfter many attempts to restore the Persian empire in Crusader Kings 2, I have learned two things.ДЇirst, playing a Zoroastrian is hard.