As yourself will also be too depleted.Īt this point I take a look at my own troops. This is important because if he gets back with more than 2k troops he is still a threat to you when you start your invasion. Thereafter I would keep going after Harold until his troops are depleted before he could flee back to England. The chances of winning is more than even. Then I launch an immediate assult at him. What I do then is to wait until Harold lands and seige one of my county. Usually it would take 2 months from the start of the game.Īt the end of the first month, I would hire the merc called Great Company for the hvy calavry as I noticed that Harold does not bring them over to Normandy. From there I keep track of Harold and have a sense when his troops woild arrive at Normandy. Nine times out of ten, Harold wins against Norway without much losses. Then I send my Spymaster to York immediately so that I can have a sense of the troop movement. My experience was that immediately after I became King of England, HRE came after me instead of France and that ended my game rather quickly because there was no way I could win a war with HRE after all my troops were attrited.
Currently I am try to get an alliance with King of Norway by marrying William's half-brother (Odo) to his daughter. I did my usual marriage and betrothal actions for alliances. These are some of the actions I do to maximise my chance of winning. I think a fair amount of luck is involved plus the fact that I decided to splurge on a Mercenary company (I chose the Great Company for its heavy calavry. Two nights ago I finally managed to become King of England with William (after at many many replays).
As what Paul Marshall had said - the patches had altered the way the AI worked. I realised that most of the walkthroughs for William the Bastard are no longer valid as they were written back in 2012. I got CK2 a week back during the Steam sales.