SO my first demand letter for some gold arrived about 2000gold was demanded and I could had afforded to pay it but F*c** that! So i was surprised they attacked immediately after I had denied to pay it
Got nasty and made about 50 villagers more in the graveyard which I had luckily just expanded as i think? that would have possibly caused maybe a rat outrage and some diseases possibly if not deal with immediately? Honestly I was surprised I did not lost a lot more since my villagers (well I guess militia at this point lol) Where fighting plate armored raiders with their bare fists but luckily I had just upgraded my barracks to a Fort just before the attack which I now wonder was it some sort of trigger to make the event happen? but also sadly I had lotās of palisade walls still a bit away from my Forts range and the Rams went to thoses wooden walls but luckily lot of them also attacked my walled Fort also so was able to make some dmg happen. After they breached the walls the other half of them went for town center which turned out to be pretty powerful when the ring had been alarmed since I eventually made the Raiders flee AND they did not even get to pillage nothing since I had build alredy a vault where all my gold was
Yup, when I had it for the first time, they caught me a bit off guard too. Basing on normal raids I simply underestimated them. Although I managed to hold em off, my fellow villagers didnāt manage to move the corpses to the cementery in time. Plague decimated my pop from 800 to 250 and I knew it was beyond recovery. That was my very first village named after lovely town I live in - Clitheroe
Ah okey so I was right about that possibly happening if I would have not expanded the graveyard just before the attacks. Seems I was wise to take a look of my graveyard and expand it since it was till 10 or so before it would have been full šŖ¦
God I hope this has some sort of Black Death end game mechanic if not needs to be a after full release update or something
yeah, you have to keep the window (you can move it) if you want to prepare for the attack, itās a bit annoying.
i usually just move the window bottom left corner, i hope they change that you can minimize the window, that would also make it more intuitive that they attack as you decline.
But when you canāt minimize the window youāre kinda thinking that you have to made the decision now, bc who the heck would give you such an annoying window for 12 months of ingame time that you have to stare at.
i mean, sure itās early access, but thatās just next level bad design.
No as i feel thatās a bit of cheating if you donāt decide it right away, I think itās meant be so and because of that was made so that it can be made smaller.
Because it means if you click accept you accept that you pay them so you then have 12 months to pay. But if you select no you just said no f*ck that or thatās atleast on how I see it. Have not actually tried to select yes that will it pay or outright or that you then have 12 months to pay.
So if you keep it just open it kinda holds the answer to them which in my Opinion would not make sense for raiders to keep waiting for huh to give them a responseā¦
The first time you face a real army teaches you a lot about what you need to do to defeat such raids. I had a well organized army invade my 800 person village. I sent my full barracks of troops (12) to meet them at an intersection of two roads and let them fight it out. They killed my entire barracksā¦ every. last. soldier.
I sent my entire town out to beat on the raiders with their fistsā¦ by the time the carnage was over I lost 199 peopleā¦ but they stole nothing!
What did I learn?
There are 2 different levels of raiders. Ransom demands often occur before the better organized, better outfitted ones.
I needed more soldiers. It was 12 against 1 at the intersection.
I needed to direct my soldiers. I had let the ai just handle the fighting up to then, but in this battle it bunched my soldiers up and they were overwhelmed.
Anything that slows down (or distracts) the raiders helps you in a raid as they appear to be time sensitive.
My cemetery had room for the dead. I immediately stopped non vital services, built up an army of 100 builders/laborers and insured all food was still being produced. Slowly over the next decade I refilled all positions.
The town recovered without losing a building to condemnation and life went on.
My biggest one was +300, but by that amount i had aproximately 1k inhabitants and 3 full barracks.
It always awful and painfull. They always break through the walls and get close to the town centre and vaults. Letting them in and wait for them inside is a good strategy. But Sometimes you gotta calculate whats more ācheaperā: afford all the damage caused and rebuild, reassign dead positions (including soldiers) or just pay the demand. Sometimes paying them is more profittable.
if not needs to be a after full release update or something 