Brah, about 3 major updates ago she got some nice buffs and the AI was a bit tamer and I felt like I finally 'mastered' her but now she's once again just awful to play in legendary/very hard. Plus with the buffs louen, alberic, and repanse have gotten since then she's back to being the worst of the pack so now I just keep her benched.

Granted she's still doable albeit with copious suffering but I just play head to head really and in the scope of dealing with another player and all the 5 million other things she's straight up impossible and not even worht trying.

Must have practice run her like 30 times since the 'Great Plan' and everything you do comes with massives cons, also count noctilus has a faye fetish and does nothing but send his stacks straight to brionne, tho this may have changed in 'Last Kiss'- I havn't tested.

If you do manage to figure out a strategy lemme know because I'm all ears. How I used to play her before nocs AI went ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ was carve straight to sartosa by heading left and around, killing beastmen, killing ikit for his trait and then capturing eitherr from that tilean city down or straight to sartosa depending on army dispositions, all of which could be done before turn 15. Then I just captured back to carcasonne and I'd get like 10k gold a turn once your territories hit t3.. Also while all that's going on I had a lord sailing the seas next to mousillon to pull aggro from him and clothique and i'd just have them chase the lord around at sea to give me time to confederate lyonese but now bretonnia reliably murders him despite all that too. But alas that strategy doesn't work anymore and you're just stuck in abject poverty in carcasonne getting hammered by everyone and their mothers. If there is a way to play her I can only imagine it involves going north to kill mousillon and then declaring war and killing louen, the pain of negative chiv is going to be less than the pain of playing her normally; ironically because of aggressive war declarations/confederations louen is your biggest threat playing as a bretonnian faction.

If there's two changes that I hope could be made to make bretonnia not play as a suffering simulator it would be to disable AI louens ability to confed and make bretonnian factions way less likely to war one another.

We are looking on her performence. You can expect some buffs in coming days.

Originally posted by Venris:

We are looking on her performence. You can expect some buffs in coming days.

The changes make a world of difference thanks man!
With melancholic and +36 growth from tree on a fresh lord you can fortify brionne before noc bum rushes you, and with the extra peasant cap you can start recruiting chev 5 peasants from turn 1 to run after and reinforce faye right before she blungeons the rat to death.

Your welcome :)