Let's change the invasion period to winter

In actual history, most looting occurred in the winter. Because the raiders also had to engage in work, and there was plenty of stuff to raid in the winter and the fall harvest. If raids come while you are busy farming, it is easy for your farming to be ruined. What do you guys think?

Raids are short enough as is, being able to pull in all your non-productive farmers and foragers to man towers and barracks just makes the game easier, and many comments are about the game becoming too easy.

Which history was that? Because European raiders raided on summer

Exactly. In Europe campaigns were executed during summer cause in winter usually many soldiers die of disease and such. May have been different in more warmer climate regions.

Also, IMHO raids disturbing the economy in summer is one of the interesting challenges of the game. Would really not like loosing this.

Okay, I was wrong. I am Korean. Our country has been invaded mainly by northern nomads during the winter. I didn’t know European history. ok admit it

I think instead of arguing over if it is historical accurate or not we should instead consider the idea of having custom game options about how often and how intense we players want the raids per year to be.

For instance, imagine you have on map generation following settings:

  • Preset (Automatic/Manual/Seasonal)
  • Manual options
    • Intensity (determines troop amounts)
      • Small raids
      • medium raids
      • big raids
      • Automatic (default - scaled based on city size)
    • Time Frame
      • Seasonal
      • Mid-Year
      • Specific season
      • Random
      • Default
    • Troop variety
      • Foot soldiers (Yes/No | Priority number)
      • Archers (Yes/No | Priority number)
      • Cavalry (Yes/No | Priority number)
      • Siege Equipment (Yes/No | Priority number)

Setting the Conqueror difficulty level is an existing feature. However, your comment made it more specific and detailed. I would say it would be good to do as you say, but it doesn’t seem to be the top priority for development.