How are sieges and chevauchées (ie, lare raiding operations) handled? I suppose you can't play them in FOG2edieval, right?
I'm not sure how raiding works, I've only been the target, never the raider, in which case there was no battle – instead the game rolled a dice against the local defenses in the raided region and used the result for whether the raid succeeded or failed. Successful defense against a raid gives you 2 authority, by the way, and I made sure to exploit that fact to the fullest.How are sieges and chevauchées (ie, lare raiding operations) handled? I suppose you can't play them in FOG2
Even devs themselves now admitting it's too much lol:
You only get a chance to get progress tokens once you hit 60 authority, not before. Sedition from nobility is tied to your authority level – the higher it gets (above 50) the higher the mallus. The way to beat the system (and sit at stable 100 authority) is to build authority-raising buildings. Late game it's not a problem to get +7 authority each turn just from buildings. To prevent neighbors from raising claims on you, send them gifts to make them like you more. Also pro tip: if you're in deep shit in the tokens, just let it happen and let it fall all the way to the bottom. It'll spark a civil war, which is unfortunate, but also reset you back to stable and with 0 tokens. It's much faster to win a civil war than to revert all the decline.I played around 60 turns hoping to stop crumbling, manage to get total authority over 50 and was hit by a "sedition from nobility" modifier, that made me gain only 0.3 authority per turn. My nobility is pissed off that we are doing better? You can't win lol. I'm still in the red and keep getting those bad tokkens with no hope of raising it, while my economy is excellent. Also as a vassal you can't declare war on other vassalas, which makes zero sense and other countries claims on your land reduce your authority.
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But you can issue Raid orders to your stacks, that will, well, raid an enemy region
Right, it is very hard to represent (and I don't know of any board game that managed to do so. Maybe the Levy and Campaign series?). The whole chevauchée of Gaunt was Gaunt trying to plunder France (from Norht to South West) while the French army shadowed him and occasilonnally engaged small groups in skirmishes to whittle it down and deny its raiding opportunities, but something simple like Raiding/counter raiding and trying to force a large battle would do.
Makes zero sense, that neighbours having claims reduce your authority. It would only make sense if it was previously owned by this neighbour, so you could argue, that there is still some loyal nobility left. But if it's a complete foreigner? Why would anyone care?
There is no authority cost if neighbours with claims are allies, vassals or you have positive relations with them. My guess this is supposed to model frictions between potentially rival states and encourages you to build relationships with them.
