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I thought I was doing pretty well in my game as the Duke of Barcelona (now King of Aragon.)

So when the King of Castille declared war on my vassal, I knew that the number of troops he could muster was much less than my total, so I thought it would be OK to support my vassal.

But in every battle, even when I outnumber the enemy by 3 to 1 or more, I'm getting my ass thoroughly kicked, and it's back to the old story - they have conquered most of my provinces, will not accept any reasonable peace proposals even if I offer some of my titles, and there's nothing my army can do to get them back.

Any tips on how to actually win large wars (other than to outnumber the enemy by an even larger amount?)
 
Did you save and reload while your army was mobilized ? If so, then that is the reason why you lose that battles.

Since if you save and reload, all mobilized regiments will start with zero morale.
 
I don't think my armies have 0 morale because they do stand and fight before losing the battle.

But I think it's something to do with morale, as I am sometimes losing battles even when my losses of troops are less than the enemy's.

I'm not really sure how morale works in CK; do troops regain morale when standing in a province and not moving?

Also, I've been neglecting the effects of terrain; it's not very clear how this modifies combat, but probably all those hill provinces in Spain are part of the reason why I'm losing.

Edit: what's really annoying about this is not losing the war, but the fact that my enemy refuses ALL peace offers. Even when I offer him all the titles he has claims on and the maximum amount of gold he still refuses, even if the value is much higher than the actual war score, so I don't know how it will ever be possible to make peace.
 
I have experienced this before. More than likely, the senior commander of your stack is a complete dolt. If he has a relatively low martial rating and your opponent's senior commander has a higher one, I have found that you will almost always lose, no matter what your manpower advantage is.
 
When you are fighting a large battle, the troop numbers don't seem to matter all that much, since neither side is likely to run out of men. The main factor in who wins the battle is moral. If you've lost one battle, all your units that fought in that battle will have zero (or very low) moral. So if you immediately send them into battle again, they will lose, no matter how much they outnumber the enemies, they'll just turn and run. This is probably why you keep losing battle after battle. Let the men rest for a while, if the enemies win a siege while you're resting, oh well, thats the way it goes. Have your army stand between them and their target; defenders seem to get some sort of bonus.
 
If Sancho or his Castille's original marshal , Rodrigo de Vivar (I think) are still around then this could explain your problem. 21 martial is very deadly.

I loved Castille even when little bro out numbered me I was still able to beat him and conquer Leon.

Very bad intrigue though, made it hard to do anything but straight steamroll my enemies.
 
I've encountered similar - even with my army having a clear numerical advantage (almost x2) and good morale, I still lost the battle. I could only pin it down to the martial stat of the generals leading the armies. Mine was a middling 12 vs his incredible 24...
 
I faced the same situation.

I was loosing the first battle every time, although my army was twice as much and leader's martial skill was better. At first glance even the moral bar was full. In my case the solution was to stop saving game after mobilization and before first battle.

P.S. Is there really any terrain bonuses in CK? Where can I read about it?
 
If this is the Hasting scenario, the king of Castille have an advisor with 21 marital skill, on top of his 14. 35 martial skill is pretty imba, and if you got much lower than that, that is probably why you're loosing.

Try to take advantage of terrain though. Don't attack him when he is defending in mountains, trick him to attack you in those instead. If you have to attack him try and do it in plains or something, where the defense bonus is much smaller.
 
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