Part 5: Turn 5: Fuck.
Update 5: Fuck.![](1-apa4VvL.png)
The Knight has a large army (mostly peasants likely) that he turned around and moved toward me immediately after this screenshot.
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Luck would have it that I got some archers, and threw in 50 meat-shields to hold off the enemy.
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I moved my Swordsmen north to take over a county that was set up pretty well with cows. I hate taking over starving countries.
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The worst happened, we were surrounded.
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We lost a bit more troops than I had hoped, but still won the county.
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I began "operation kill everything" with some archers that I had bought.
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But it soon looked like I was going to be in trouble.
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I took the county to buy myself some time, then shipped everything useful from it to my other county. Fuck those peasants.
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The Knight said "nuh uh, that's my county"
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My men fought valiantly. I should have taken more meat-shields.
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They weren't enough to stem the tide.
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Then something glorious happened. His troops spent like 20 seconds trying to regroup into individual units. My archers fired as fast as they could.
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It wasn't enough, and there were no swamps to hide behind.
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On the other side of the map, the Earl and Bishop meet face to face. Also there are revolting peasants (starving) or an army gone rogue (also starving).
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The Countess came down to say hi. I have 200 archers with 50 swords and 50 peasants just below this. I also have the remaining 70ish swordsmen just above this.
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Current map. Countess has 3 armies marching down toward me. Knight has 2 marching up toward me. Fuck.
Suggestions, ideas, want me to just do something dumb and reload the save? Alliance with Countess? Edit: I can hire 200 xbows in the middle county, and have 50 bows I can equip too. Maybe throw in a hundred peasants as meat-shields and we can take anything that comes at us early-game.