
Levies from vassals can be raised in any province controlled by the vassal. Levy teleportation Levies in their home realm can disband and be raised again instantly. Waypoints Hold ⇧Shift to create a custom path with intermediate destinations.
Event troops, important for tribal characters.Īrmies are normally ordered to move by right-clicking. They only fight religious enemies, and are free of maintenance when defending. They replenish their numbers even in hostile territory. They are very expensive, but can get you out of a tight spot. They are hired and reinforced using prestige or wealth, and Manpower Horde troops, the nomadic equivalent of retinues. They are expensive to hire and reinforce, but nearly free to maintain when at full strength.
Levies form the bulk of your army, and reinforce only in friendly territory.
Levies, peasants recruited from your demesne and from vassals. They can be lost to attrition when not properly supplied. Adds the opinion modifier "Broke a Truce" from all independent rulers of the target's religion group, lowering their opinion of you by -25. Adds the character modifier "Truce Breaker", lowering diplomacy by 5 for 10 years. Costs 200 prestige plus half of your current prestige. Thus, the negative effects of breaking a truce can be circumvented by either murdering the enemy ruler, or in the most extreme cases by commiting suicide. Truces are between individual leaders, so if the ruler of either realm dies, the truce becomes irrelevant. All war outcomes lead to a truce (except for "war ended inconclusively"). Most truces last 10 years, but some casus belli have shorter truce durations. Non-levy troops do not impose this restriction.)Įnding a war binds the attacker with a truce - a promise not to declare another war against the same character. title revocation and faction wars, are still possible.
You cannot declare war through the diplomacy menu if you have any levies raised. It is also possible for a war to end inconclusively, which happens when the CB becomes invalid, the defender's liege title changes, the defender becomes unlanded, or (depending on the CB) the attacker dies. The CB used affects how warscore is calculated and determines the results of the three possible peace treaties: See also: Diplomatic actions#Declare war and Casus Belli