-Having a big druchii kingdom without Malekith should indeed be a near-impossible task. Malekith achieved what he did with Naggaroth through a meticolous control since the very beginning and for thousands of years, during which the druchii became more and more deceitful and ambitious. With him gone, it is unlikely any other elf could manage to replicate the same achievement before the World Ends.I have a few questions that came up last week:
- How do you grow an independent Druchii Kingdom when you basically can't tax your own vassals and only call them into a war, not raise the levies ? It's kind of anoying once you get big. And the problem with human vassals is basically, you get max lev/tax but they hate you all the time, which lets to constant revolts and a lockdown in succesion law chances and other laws. How do you manage 20-30 counties + ?
(Also it is nice, that, if you hold regions with other cultures, you get your own cultures castle but without the elven reduction in manpower, which can lead to gigantic amounts of heavy infantry. This feels kind of overpowered.).
- is there a way to get the WitchKing government ? (because that feels to be the only way to rule really huge druchii realms )
- Concerning the empire: Compared with Ulthuan, the Empire seems to be a very powerful region, because it has insane good average holds per duchie. I can print credits if i play within the empire while I really struggle outside. Is the the way it is supposed to be ? Also what is the deal with electors' artifacts ? They way I understand it is, that they are bound to the title, but you only get the artifact, if you hold the title as the primary title (so no viceroy). Is that correct ?
- Is there any point in building castles as Ulthuan and building cities as Druchii ?
- Is there a reason for pointing out in numerous government forms (namely highborn_government, lizardmen_government) that you can raid, when the raid is then forbidden because the ruler can't raid, although he is a perfectly normal example (e.g. race, religion is correct) of the government form ?
-As follows, there is no way to get the Witch King government if you are not the Witch King.
-I do not know about the magic items, as for power, Ulthuan starts stronger, but is waning, whereas the Empire starts broken, but can rise again. If an Interventionist Phoenix King manages to establish enough stable colonies, those can provide a lot of income and military support, but if Ulthuan remains isolated, it is destined to slowly fade away.
-That depends on the playstyle, I suppose.
-I think that is more of a localisation problem with what concerns river movement.