retipuj,
No one is a good general from the start. I also smashed my armies against walls and sent them to their deaths many times. You will eventually learn what to do and find your own style. Until then, brace yourself for a rough ride
because you won't be mastering it over a day or two which can only lead to a lot of dead troops and angry nobles.
You don't usually need to have more than 50 SEs. Usually a bit less will do the trick as well. If you can overpower(with infantry) your enemy then you can do with a lot less. We should have gotten some gold from our allies instead of asking them for actual units. If we had gold to cross the sea, we would have saved ourselves a lot of time. Although this sounds weird, using the ferry is pretty much same thing as walking over land. SEs slow your movement speed down a lot. But using boats is different. It also moves a lot faster. Instead of 8 hours a turn, it moves 12 hours or more. And usually, you can move one sea zone within a day (2 turns, 3 at max). Also, another reason why it cost so much to embark was b/c Paisly was a rogue region
Also, it is usually good to minimize your risks but sometimes it is good to take more risks for the bigger gain. Many generals don't like risking their reputations but if you don't take risks you will never reach higher. Of course your goal and gain should justify your risk.
I understand why people don't attack their allies but desperate times call for desperate measures. Taking Madina islands away from Fissona was probably the most feasible plan. Sure they stuck around a lot but when your own arse is on fire who cares! You first, your allies second. Not the other way around.
Marching across Luria was fine. The problem lies with how you executed the campaign. You gave too much time to Luria. At least enough to let them mobilize their armies. If you were planning to strike a city, you should have whipped your army all the way to SP first. Wasting time looting a rural region is not productive. The region didn't even have that much gold and food to begin with and at the end, it only made the situation worse.
When you have one shot, you don't waste it on looting some regions. You go straight for your goal.
