Keep those small armies moving.Īs your harrying forces get worn down and smaller, combine them as necessary. When they raise large levies (usually when you've been sitting in a county for a while then move away, so their levies have had time to built up before raising), bring some of your harrying forces together into a large enough army again, smash them, then go back to harrying patrols. This is to build up your warscore without suffering much (if any) supply limit attrition. They'll raise pitiful armies of a few hundred down to a few single soldiers in most counties, which you can flatten quickly. Keep these moving, so that the enemy can continue to raise levies. Now split your big army (or armies, if your realm is very strong) into small harrying/hunting forces that fit within the typical supply limit of the surrounding counties. You'll also get a very large warscore bump, around 30–40%.
You'll suffer supply attrition, but battles are fairly quick (quicker the larger your army) and the attrition losses will be few compared to trying to siege. Wait for full morale, and especially wait for the enemy to raise their armies! Those are your target.ĭestroy their armies, starting with the largest and working down. Marshal one large army in a nearby county that has a high supply limit. The strategy is to defeat their first big army head-on to get a good starting warscore, slowly grow warscore with harrying armies that are small enough to not suffer attrition, then besiege the target county to finish off your warscore. Eventually you simply don't have a large enough army to continue the siege, and that's assuming their allies haven't torn apart your siege force. These counties have huge levies and very low supply limits, often with more levies and garrison defending a siege target than there are supply limits! Sieging such settlements is nearly impossible, since it takes so long due to the large force of defenders, and your own armies are suffering massive losses due to starvation. The gist of the method is to win with battles, not sieges. I'm playing a game now that started with Poland and has successfully created Lithuania and the Wendish Empire, so I can share what I learned works and doesn't work from hard experience.
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