Get some pre-upgraded counties OR make sure your core tribes are fully built out. You will likely need them anyway, as the first years are crippling, but it's good to have some extra just in case. If you have enough gold, you can just use mercs whenever needed. Notes: they won't come help if they have a war of their own, they won't always come help if the war is from you trying to revoke a title and you have to renegotiate the alliance if a character dies (best marry off your sister to a realm with Gavelkind or Primogeniture and a ready heir) Allies will help you against external enemies, as well as factions. Preferably 2 that don't have any conflicts with each other. I'll leave them in for historical accuracy) ( Note: the last 2 bullet points no longer work with the latest patches as you cannot build multiple tribal holdings in one county and get crippling penalties for wrong holding type. These are loosely ordered from easy to complex/historical to gaming the system. Upgrading from tribal settlements is always tricky, whether you are aiming for a republic or feudalism! I don't have much experience with republics at all, so I'll give general advice. I worry that if AI wins the next election (which is likely since my treasury is always low due to having to hire lots of mercenaries) then my fledgling state is doomed. Not to mention prepared invasions where I seem to be everyone's target of choice.ĭid I just transition too soon? One of my neighbours (Saxony) had already transitioned earlier to feudal and didn't seem to experience such a large drop in levies, so seems like it's possible to do it without being destroyed. This makes it difficult to have enough breathing room to raise cash needed for the next invasion, let alone to develop my state and build up the levies.
I've become a target even for vassals of my neighbours. This wouldn't be such a big problem in itself, as I can hire mercenaries, but since AI looks purely at the levy when deciding which neighbour is weak enough to be attacked, I am getting attacked by virtually everyone around me. As soon as I transitioned to a republic, my number of troops decreased by a factor of 5-10! I had almost 5k troops I could raise + those of vassals as a tribal, now I have around 500-800. This is proving harder than I anticipated. My goal from the start was to eventually transition to a republic and build a trading state that encompasses the Baltic and Scandinavia. The biggest challenge is the succession system, but that can be dealt with by fighting a few wars every time after succession (a hassle but it doesn't destroy your state).
Things went really smoothly as a tribal, large armies and I easily defeated the neighbours.
I started a game as Pomeranian tribal in the early middle ages bookmark (Charlemagne).
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