
I often quit campaign around turn 100 because "well, I've obviously won and now it's just a matter of steamrolling the map" kicks in, and I didn't feel that way at all until the Carsteins made me their buddy.ġ: Turn 1, recruit 3 javs.

It's a blast once you get rolling I'm just starting to feel the momentum of the steamroller starting, which I refreshing. On turn 103, now that I've sacked Altdorf and Naggarond, my treasure is around 150k, and I lose about 6k. But once you can get your hands on some of the monsters, resistance shouldn't be an issue, you should be sacking a settlement or two every single turn. Having positive income is a luxury as Norsca I only had it for a while in my early turns while I was still turtling a bit to get access to higher tier units. He'll more than makeup for what you pay in upkeep and will let you stay afloat for a few turns at a time. Early on, before upkeep is too high, have a third lord scouring the seas for treasure. I also beeline all the blue traits on all of my initial lords to get upkeep down. Make your big armies end in raiding stand as often as humanly possible it's a -20% for the armies upkeep. Unfortunately, with the Vampire power house, I'm practically done with the victory conditions of having to "own" all of those faction capitols. They've allied with me, so I walked through their desolation to take Altdorf. They have WIPED OUT Kislev and most of the Empire factions. Meanwhile on the old continent, something has happened with the Vampies. I ended up catching her in an ambush eventually, and just recently occupied Naggarond, but it took a WHILE. I find her literally impossible to defeat on the field, even with massively superior numbers (she also always had like 3 Har Ganeth Executioners and 3 Black Guards in her army, so my low tier backup army really couldn't fight her). Crone Hellebrone immediately went after me, and really stopped my campaign for a while. Around this time, the Aghol tribe to the northwest DW on me, so I mustered a second army on my northwest to march in and B-Line their leader, caught him in an ambush, and took all that land.Īnd that's when shit got REAL.

I started by confederating all of the Norscan tribes on the peninsula, and then raiding the lands just to the south of the Longship Graveyard to keep things in check.

I got lucky that the Dwarves focused on the Norscans to their east for most of the campaign they kept dealing with rebellions and whatnot so they didn't bug me. I'm about 100 turns into my Throgg campaign, and yea, the start was kind of tough.
