This thread could be used to discuss Sweboz and general issues having to do with starting a small faction.
I am trying to get a Sweboz campaign going, but I seem to run into problems all the time. My fourth attempt is about crash now on medium battle difficulty and hard campaign difficulty, so I appreciate if any of you have any pointers.
If I make my opening move and take Luppae, I am not able to get the region even pacified because the army upkeep takes more money than I can earn in a season. I don't think that I can dissolve my army either, because there are Eleutheroi stacks all over.
I found a thread that is many years old. Forum members there suggested going for Scandinavia first instead of Luppae and not recruiting too much. I tried that. I won a battle against one of those roaming stacks with very few losses, because I put a lot of effort into the confrontation. I went on to besiege the main settlement. Immediately, another Eleutheroi stack besieged my capital and conquered it. My only stack involved in the siege had no chance to intercept and was in fact cut off from the mainland already by a third Eleutheroi (Kimbroi) stack. And still I was losing more money than making, so I would not have been able to build or recruit anything even if that had not happened.
This is not supposed to be a very difficult faction to start with according to the information in the new campaign menu. Yet I am surrounded and broke during the very first year. Am I supposed to play this on normal campaign difficulty? When playing an easy faction like Romani, normal campaign difficulty makes enemies really passive, so I was under the impression that normal is not the preferable option for someone who is not new to these games.
So what is the deal here? Am I supposed to not build anything and not recruit a single unit and bum rush a settlement near by, hoping to still have 2,000 to spend on regional pacification by the time I have conquered one region? I feel pretty humble right now, and if you know how to do this, this is your time to shine.