Hey, both me and my friend recently did playthroughs of Aegon II, and found a few problems with the whole. I don't know if our suggestions would fix the scenario for the better, nor are actually implementable, but it might be a good idea to put them in consideration.
a) The allied AI for Aegon II's side is broken. The Lannisters sit at the Casterly Rock area and take no part in the fighting, the Baratheons tend to do suicidal dashes into massive Black armies; Tullys, who sided with me, practically watched battles happening right at their border, in which they could've easily tipped the scale. Also, this might be WAD, but the Three Sisters soldiers tend to invade Dragonstone and Driftmark alone.
b) Aegon II's soldiers should be raised at King's Landing at the start. At the present state, Rhaenyra has a decent sized host at the Crownlands and can easily march down south, but the most particular danger is all her Crownslander allies, who can raise their personal hosts immediately and push into Aegon's vassal levies in the Crownlands; it takes a lot of skill in manouvering to gather your armies without losing bits and pieces, making an already hard playthrough very hard.
c) Increase the military stats of Aemond Targaryen. In the story, he is a capable commander and a match for Daemon Targaryen himself in a dance of dragons; but in the current state of the scenario, Daemon is a sexy shoeless god of war that is virtually unbeatable on the field. It is understandable, since the books make a large point on how he is the top military guy of his age and half the reason Rhaenyra finds any support is his reputation, but still.
d) I don't know if this is possible, but if the Ironborn AI could be tweaked to raid the Westerlands instead of Crownlands, it'd be swell. In the story, the only reason Dalton Greyjoy sides with the Blacks is that they offer him the opportunity to pillage the Westerlands rather than ask him to come and fight for them.
e) When Rhaenyra dies, the war ends unresolved, her heir inherits Dragonstone, and the succession law of the Iron Throne is not changed. Would be swell if it was possible to make her heir continue the war.
f) When Aegon dies, he is inherited by his daughter, who is pegged as the elder twin. It's somewhat unrealistic, since normally he would've been inherited by his son - a way to fix this might be to make the boy twin elder, or change the succession law of the Iron Throne to favour males, and make its change to equal primogeniture a result of Rhaenyra's victory, rather than the other way around.
g) Criston Cole, arguably one of the greatest knights (in terms of combat prowess, that is), is a rather uninspiring soldier in the game. It's understandable that in a war with dragons a mere knight won't be that useful, but increasing his martial skill to the levels of Daemon Blackfyre would be a good idea, IMO. I mean, Criston is famous for breaking the bones of a guy literally named "Harwin 'Breakbones' Strong", he deserves better.
Anyway, this is all I can think of right now. In its current state, I had two ways of victory; Rhaenyra's death, which ended the war unresolved and forced me to load a save - and cheating via console commands to give myself money, use the money to hire faceless men to assassinate Daemon 'Ares' Targaryen and also a lot of luck and manouvering, since at one point, I think I faced a combined Black army of 100,000 with around 15k of mine, while my allies just watched me take them on (naturally, not all the 100,000 at once - there was a lot of guerilla strikes; it was actually rather cool, the Targaryen brothers whittling down a massive enemy piece by piece).
Edit: Oh, and one more thing - I don't think this is something you can fix, but I should still mention that when your army is reinforced by an allied army (or your enemy is reinforced), its leaders tend to change into the leaders of the reinforcing army. This is particularly dangerous when your dragon riding leaders are changed into military incompetents, since the dragon bonus is gone.
a) The allied AI for Aegon II's side is broken. The Lannisters sit at the Casterly Rock area and take no part in the fighting, the Baratheons tend to do suicidal dashes into massive Black armies; Tullys, who sided with me, practically watched battles happening right at their border, in which they could've easily tipped the scale. Also, this might be WAD, but the Three Sisters soldiers tend to invade Dragonstone and Driftmark alone.
b) Aegon II's soldiers should be raised at King's Landing at the start. At the present state, Rhaenyra has a decent sized host at the Crownlands and can easily march down south, but the most particular danger is all her Crownslander allies, who can raise their personal hosts immediately and push into Aegon's vassal levies in the Crownlands; it takes a lot of skill in manouvering to gather your armies without losing bits and pieces, making an already hard playthrough very hard.
c) Increase the military stats of Aemond Targaryen. In the story, he is a capable commander and a match for Daemon Targaryen himself in a dance of dragons; but in the current state of the scenario, Daemon is a sexy shoeless god of war that is virtually unbeatable on the field. It is understandable, since the books make a large point on how he is the top military guy of his age and half the reason Rhaenyra finds any support is his reputation, but still.
d) I don't know if this is possible, but if the Ironborn AI could be tweaked to raid the Westerlands instead of Crownlands, it'd be swell. In the story, the only reason Dalton Greyjoy sides with the Blacks is that they offer him the opportunity to pillage the Westerlands rather than ask him to come and fight for them.
e) When Rhaenyra dies, the war ends unresolved, her heir inherits Dragonstone, and the succession law of the Iron Throne is not changed. Would be swell if it was possible to make her heir continue the war.
f) When Aegon dies, he is inherited by his daughter, who is pegged as the elder twin. It's somewhat unrealistic, since normally he would've been inherited by his son - a way to fix this might be to make the boy twin elder, or change the succession law of the Iron Throne to favour males, and make its change to equal primogeniture a result of Rhaenyra's victory, rather than the other way around.
g) Criston Cole, arguably one of the greatest knights (in terms of combat prowess, that is), is a rather uninspiring soldier in the game. It's understandable that in a war with dragons a mere knight won't be that useful, but increasing his martial skill to the levels of Daemon Blackfyre would be a good idea, IMO. I mean, Criston is famous for breaking the bones of a guy literally named "Harwin 'Breakbones' Strong", he deserves better.
Anyway, this is all I can think of right now. In its current state, I had two ways of victory; Rhaenyra's death, which ended the war unresolved and forced me to load a save - and cheating via console commands to give myself money, use the money to hire faceless men to assassinate Daemon 'Ares' Targaryen and also a lot of luck and manouvering, since at one point, I think I faced a combined Black army of 100,000 with around 15k of mine, while my allies just watched me take them on (naturally, not all the 100,000 at once - there was a lot of guerilla strikes; it was actually rather cool, the Targaryen brothers whittling down a massive enemy piece by piece).
Edit: Oh, and one more thing - I don't think this is something you can fix, but I should still mention that when your army is reinforced by an allied army (or your enemy is reinforced), its leaders tend to change into the leaders of the reinforcing army. This is particularly dangerous when your dragon riding leaders are changed into military incompetents, since the dragon bonus is gone.
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