For all of my years playing Pendor, I have mostly played as a mercenary, rogue-like warrior. A while ago I joined the Empire as a vassal (I admire the Greek/Roman style culture) and we captured the majority of towns and castles; D'shar only had Torbah, Fiersdvain were down to 4-5 castles, and Sarleon - who initially were steamrolling over everyone and held Ravenstern cities and castles - only had Rane, Ravenstern, Poinsbruk and several castles remaining. But suddenly and recently, Sarleon declared war on us, and maybe 5-6 of their Lords had armies with the strength of 1100-1600 troops; King Ulric had 2400 and he even employed a mercenary company who had 1100. As of now, we have lost four of our towns and can't even touch the Sarleon armies, nor stop them. Does anyone have an answer for this? It honestly took me by surprise.
I completely understand the nature of Pendor's gameplay and how fun this can be, but its a huge letdown to see all that time and effort lost to a near defeat, which I am sure is imminent.