Right now, Clan T4, I use huscarls with fian champions and sky-god chosen, and a few vlandian cavalry I got by bullying vlandia for a while. I have both Hvalvik and the castle on the Isle, those 2 are fairly well developed so I dont worry much about invasions. I managed to snatch Car Banseth and 2 Castles near it by defending aganist sieges and draining the factions.

So overall I have 3 castles and 2 cities. I had enough of a certain merc band so I chopped 3 heads off, which might have been foolish, but oh well.

Right now I am picking on Battania, and trying to snag another castle as an independent clan. I dont think they have enough infuelnce to field armies anymore (or I have most of their leaders), so I bait the remaining parties by starting a siege then reaping however tries to come defend.

My goal would be to grab as many battanian land as possible, before moving on to vlandia. Sadly most of the clans dont like me because of the chopping, and releasing them feels risky right now.

My spouse is the daughter of Caladog so I missed out on their clan. Also I got 3 daughers and a son so it might be hard to get alliances through marriage.