"If it makes any moves down north" - Zerkovich

In my experience looting and occupying is awful, costs just as much sometimes more to repair the buildings in the town than you make

Fact: 93% of KZfaq “Guides” are actually “Let’s Plays”

who needs scouting when youre skarbrand. see somethin thats breathing? make it stop.

Another scouting aid you didn’t mention was checking the enemy settlement public order tooltip - even if you don’t have visibility, you can still see if they are getting a Military Presence modifier and if so, how much, giving an indication of the size of any garrisoned army.

Unless CA fixed it - you need 25 movement points to assume the Ambush Stance, not 25% of your MPs.

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So this isn't a critique of the forced defensive play style by CA adding the portal mechanics?

Nice guide! Will somebody be making a guide for CA on how to expand their franchise without losing half of their concurrent players?

level 2 settlement often are worth sacking since you always get them at level one, nice video will look at the economy video but i will never ever look a loremaster of sotek video again this guy is a total .... .

good guide. heres some extra tips for anyone who is a beginner:

I did enjoy that, and it has helped me quite a bit. Not only am I struggling to remember my ‘rock, paper, scissors’ unit match ups, but I find myself running back and forth a lot to defend my provinces. Inevitably losing some to try and wipe out bigger armies. Thanks!

I love those videos which teach general concepts because they are applicable to all of your playthroughs and i feel like they help me the most in understanding the game.

Wow what a nice team of youtubers!! Well done CA!!

Cheesy tip that I found in my second Katarin play through, with the Vanaheimlings being a quest faction intended to be wiped out quickly, they do pretty much nothing if you leave them be. Instead of attacking them first, go after Praag first and loop around with the Vanaheimlings town being the last that you take. Their quest army won't move or grow, and their second army only grows to about a half stack, by doing this you have a "safe" eastern border until you feel like completing the province.

Fast and clear, as usual !

Love the collab!

Loot and Occupy does come with a much more significant cost than public order; it downgrades the captured settlement by an entire level - on top of the automatic downgrade you get for taking in the first place. This can be no problem; if you only want to hold onto the city temporarily as a staging post for your armies, even level 1 is fine. For high-growth factions it can be fine to drop a small town to level 1 instead of level 2; it doesn't cost too much or take that long to upgrade later, especially if you've got full-level towns elsewhere. For high-level cities and especially low-growth factions, it's an awful idea - the difference between level 3 and 4 can be a dozen or more turns just to get the growth then 4-6 more turns to actually build it up, plus whatever buildings you lose for loss of slots.

Required movement remaining is actually done by points, not percentage as the game suggests. Look at your movement bar and long as the number is at or above (game will sometimes round down and fail to display so staying at least 1 point above is advisable) the required number for the stance you'll be allowed to use it.

I have to keep coming back to your videos cuz these games have soooo much