I myself have been playing predominantly EUIII for the past few years while also playing EU Rome and recently decided to give this game a try. While it has been both addictive and entertaining there's a few things I've had some difficulties with.
Firstly, fighting in North Africa. To begin with, I had little difficulty moving through and taking control of most of modern day Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. My neighbor is now Tripoli (a desert region), though, and I have found moving east from this position to be nearly impossible. For instance, when I attack with an army of around 5000 I often emerge from the initial battle victorious with some circa 4800 remaining, but for whatever reason a full regiment or two disappear from the army at the end of the month. This situation repeats itself as I try to siege Tripoli's large castle, and soon there's almost no one left.
Another approach I took was to send in a smaller army under my Marshal whose martial attribute is 23. Despite being small, though, he too continued to mysteriously lose regiments while besieging the city. The only way I was able to take it, in fact, was to park a huge army there and simply deal with the absurd losses, and it really doesn't even seem worth it. My fear, then, is that moving any further east will be virtually impossible as beyond Tripoli is the Emirate of Cyrenaica. In any normal situation I'd easily take them and their vassals on, but given the apparent difficulty of fighting in Libya I do not know if it is even possible.
So my questions are these.
-Is there something about the Libyan region that makes fighting difficult?
-Is there a useful strategy for approaching this situation?
-How important is "martial" ability? I know in EU Rome the difference of a point yields a large advantage to the more able general, but here I have a man with 23 martial while also possessing numerical superiority that still has trouble defeating an adversary with about 10 martial.
-Is it only the lead general's martial ability that matters, or does each individual regiment's leader play a part? I ask because my King obviously holds rank over some of my more talented generals and I'm curious whether this fails to utilize their talents.
That's all I have for now. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
EDIT: I've also just had an issue where vassals are creating independent nations despite not being rebellious and being "devotedly loyal". In addition, my reputation is damaged if I try to regain control. How can I deal with this situation? It doesn't seem fair in the slightest that 100% loyal vassals can just create their own nations without any reaction being allowed on my part.
Firstly, fighting in North Africa. To begin with, I had little difficulty moving through and taking control of most of modern day Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. My neighbor is now Tripoli (a desert region), though, and I have found moving east from this position to be nearly impossible. For instance, when I attack with an army of around 5000 I often emerge from the initial battle victorious with some circa 4800 remaining, but for whatever reason a full regiment or two disappear from the army at the end of the month. This situation repeats itself as I try to siege Tripoli's large castle, and soon there's almost no one left.
Another approach I took was to send in a smaller army under my Marshal whose martial attribute is 23. Despite being small, though, he too continued to mysteriously lose regiments while besieging the city. The only way I was able to take it, in fact, was to park a huge army there and simply deal with the absurd losses, and it really doesn't even seem worth it. My fear, then, is that moving any further east will be virtually impossible as beyond Tripoli is the Emirate of Cyrenaica. In any normal situation I'd easily take them and their vassals on, but given the apparent difficulty of fighting in Libya I do not know if it is even possible.
So my questions are these.
-Is there something about the Libyan region that makes fighting difficult?
-Is there a useful strategy for approaching this situation?
-How important is "martial" ability? I know in EU Rome the difference of a point yields a large advantage to the more able general, but here I have a man with 23 martial while also possessing numerical superiority that still has trouble defeating an adversary with about 10 martial.
-Is it only the lead general's martial ability that matters, or does each individual regiment's leader play a part? I ask because my King obviously holds rank over some of my more talented generals and I'm curious whether this fails to utilize their talents.
That's all I have for now. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
EDIT: I've also just had an issue where vassals are creating independent nations despite not being rebellious and being "devotedly loyal". In addition, my reputation is damaged if I try to regain control. How can I deal with this situation? It doesn't seem fair in the slightest that 100% loyal vassals can just create their own nations without any reaction being allowed on my part.
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