Challenge: Peasant Revolt

Challenge: Peasant Revolt

Starting Steps


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Step 1: Select a nation for your revolt. You can only capture land and recruit units in this nation.

Step 2: Create your army. You can only use the first two tiers of units (Ex: You pick Swadia for your revolt so you can only use Swadian Recruits and Swadian Militia.) If your nation has no archers at tier 1 or 2 then you can use whatever the lowest level archer is.

Step 3: Make a personal guard. Your personal guard can only number 20 men and can be any units of any tier as long as they're from your nation. Since they will be doing the heavy lifting, you'll want to make them tanky like Swadian knights if you picked Swadia for your nation.

Step 4: Become a hero of the people. Go around your nation and do quests for villages. This will help you recruit your peasant horde when the time comes. You may do quests for nobles and towns but try to keep them limited.

Step 5: Pick your starting village. It should be a village that you have a particularily high relation with and should be fairly remote. This is where the rebellion will kick off. Of course it has to be in the nation you picked.

The Rebellion


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The revolt will not be easy. You will be constantly losing troops due to their crappy quality so try to ignore losses more than you usually would. Tactics, timing, and luck will all be needed to win. You should only revolt if your nation is in a war. Preferably multiple ones or one that they're losing.

To kick off your rebellion, you need to capture a castle in your nation. This will most likely be quite difficult so try to pick the castle with the smallest garrison. You may recruit mercenaries after you take this castle but there can only be 15 at most. If you lose this castle, do not worry. Just retreat into the hinterlands, recover, and try again.

Of course all this constant recruiting and wages will have an effect on your income. To collect money, you can pick one neighboring nation whose villages you can raid. Picking just one nation to raid will limit your enemies. You CAN NOT raid villages in your own nation.

As for open field battles, you will have to use numbers and terrain to win. Force them to fight up hills or break their cavalry charge by making defending in forests. For Swadians and Sarranids, cavalry will be your worst enemy. To counter cavalry, make 5 rows and tell your troops to stand as close together as possible.

Once you've captured all of your nation's castles and towns, you can continue on as you normally would. Recruit whatever troops you want and attack whatever nations you want.

Extra Info


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I have yet to try this challenge myself. I just thought it up and thought I would share it with everyone. I plan to start my playthrough as soon as I'm finished writing this. I'll try to make changes and improvements as I go on.

If you have any problems, questions, suggestions, please comment.

Now get out there and behead those filthy noblemen!

Special thanks to Witherfang. This guide is partially based off of his Knighthood Challenge guide.

Source: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=501698481					

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