One of their cities to the very north-west of their starting territory is sorta isolated on it's own bit of land, with the only way to reach it being a narrow, often bandit-infested valley. Might be a good place to start. battania. rare archer, no horse archer, weak cavalry, means easier to beat in battles. their highland also easier to defend As you need it to become a kingdom, so cant raise an army, therefore have limited troops (say130 ish) as nobody will follow you. Playing on realistic and would rather find a way that doesnt involve temporarily dropping the difficulty if possible. Thanks Look for a castle that recently changed hands. get to tier 4 of clan level and your almost 100% likely to get a fief if not already got one. Then you steamroll from there, with influence/sieges you lead/being a big clan within your kingdom etc. In my battanian campagin, I went from being a merc to having 1 town and 3 fiefs within 5 years. How to add a Settlement as a Vassal. Getting to Clan Rank 3 is the first step. You will be able to take new settlement and castles as a vassal. You will need to then join the faction that controls the zone you want. As long as the ruling clan does not absolutely hate you, you should be able to join their kingdom. The only way to get on top of the aggro is to prisoner and rush or start chopping heads. Destroy the clans and then start, or you will be locked down for a long time. Also as your own kingdom you will never ever have a larger army. So your only choice is to take away parties from them. 2. Gift them gold or other stuff when you meet them in the field. The amount of rep you get depends on the size of your gift. (also only works if you don't have negative relation with them! ) 3. This is very counterintuitive but start a war with the kingdom of the lord you want to improve relations with. The second option is to renounce your vassalage to your king. This means losing all of your fiefs and a -20 reputation penalty with the king. After that, you need to take a castle or a town on your own to form a new kingdom. You cannot siege a castle or a town without having negative reputation with the faction. An easy way to earn a fief without being a vassal is to attack targets of oppourtunity. Look for poorly defended places away from the factions main bulk of land - I've found that the AI really seems to like capturing castles/towns that are the furthest from their borders, and the one castle I managed to capture, only one big army showed up, and zl5q1cy.

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