Try to build up relationships with the lords of the faction your claimant is from (capturing and releasing them repeatedly will gain you relationships fairly quickly as well as improving your honor).
Also, put more points into leadership/charisma. Having a renown of 1500 to 2000 is probably a minimum before striking out on your own. Next time you should try to boost your renown (by taking fewer units into battle against a higher number of enemies).
A good army size to have when declaring for a claimant is at minimum of 150.
Here are some tips that may help you out:Ī max army size of 90 means that you don't have enough Renown and Leadership. There's really not much you can do when all you have are 90 units with 1 lord vs 600 and 9 lords unless your party's stats (like surgery/first aid) are super high already. You may have decided to support the claimant a bit early. What is the best late game strategy to win against these lords and/or capturing their castles? Restricting the Number of men in battle at once is not an option since you still have to fight the rest in a second battle and if you loose some in the first battle, the second one can still go ill. And they often group up on me, which makes me fight more than 600 men with my 70-90 men, depending on the current state. And Swadia has still many lords, I think it is around 7 or 8. I have captured 1 Castle of Swadia, which has a good position since a lot of Nord Castles are between it and the remains of the Kingdom of Swadia.Ĭapturing the remaining Castles seems to be very difficult, since my army's max size can be around 90, but all swadian Lords have around 200-400 Men in their Armies. Now I am trying to help the female Claimant on the Throne. I am playing a female character and have fought a long time with the Kingdom of the Nords against Swadia, which resulted in them having only a few castles left.