![]() In the same year, he was Royal Justiciar in the Appin of Dull in Perthshire which meant that Alexander held crown authority from north Perthshire to the Pentland Firth. In October 1372, Alexander was given the Royal Lieutenancy for those lands outwith the Earldom of Moray north and west of Inverness and added lands in Aberdeenshire and north Perthshire. Alexander further extended his territorial gains in 1371 by leasing the Urquhart lands from his younger half-brother and then obtained possession of the Barony of Strathavon bordering his Badenoch lands. 102Īlexander's possession of Badenoch was unaffected by the restoration of the Earldom of Moray to John Dunbar in March 1372, nor were the territories of John MacDonald, Lord of the Isles, in Lochaber-similarly with the lands of Urquhart (south of Inverness) which had been granted to David Stewart, Earl of Strathearn and King Robert's eldest son with his second wife, Euphemia. 87 & details in Young, Annals of the Parish and Burgh of Elgin, p. (based on map in Boardman, Early Stewart Kings, p. Lands held by Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan}} His nickname was earned due to his notorious cruelty and rapacity, but there is no proof that it was used during his lifetime. Alexander is remembered for his destruction of the royal burgh of Elgin and its cathedral. He held large territories in the north of Scotland before eventually losing a large part of them. Alexander was Justiciar of Scotia for a time, but not an effective one. ![]() He did have a large family by his longtime mistress, Mairead inghean Eachainn. Alexander married the widowed Euphemia I, Countess of Ross, but they had no children. Small thing I typed up awhile back giving a player advice on how to place his villages.Stewart's sarcophagus-effigy at Dunkeld Cathedral, where he was buried.Īlexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan ( Scottish Gaelic: Alasdair Mór mac an Rígh), called the Wolf of Badenoch (1343 – July 1394), was the third surviving son of King Robert II of Scotland by his first wife Elizabeth Mure. ![]() Tightly packed villages in 1 or 2 parishesĭonations – You only have a single parish to donate to. The difference between a developed parish and a garbage parish is huge. The majority of the parishes I encounter have very little in the way of donations, as everyone is a freeloader and leaves the donations to others. If you place all your villages in a single parish however, everything you donate effects all of your villages. A hunter’s guild, for example, takes 324,100 wood, 303,150 stone, 70,000 iron, and 7,750 pitch to fully upgrade.Īt the end of the day, the only person you can truly rely on for donations is yourself. A ballista maker or a tunnelor takes hundreds of catapults and thousands of other weapons to max out, and these 2 buildings are very important for the defense of your villages.įlags – Capturing flags can be a chore, as you are unable to attack a parish with vassal armies. If all of your villages are in 1 parish however, each flag you capture ‘benefits’ all of your villages. Parish Army – Parishes have a limited supply of gold from tithes and goods sold to the parish. This can be an issue with the 1500+ troops it can take to destroy a mega wolf castle. However if all of your villages are near a single parish, you can ‘focus’ your troops to a single point. Consider this: a single village at 5x peasants can fully fill a 500 troop vassal army in 16 hours and 40 minutes. Ten villages all sending 500 troops to a parish can replenish those 500 peasants in 1 hour 40 minutes. Parish Honour – When the parish army attacks an AI castle, bandit camp, or wolf lair the honour is divided among the villages in the parish (assuming the target is within the parish’s honour circle). ![]() So if you have 8 villages in a parish and other players have 2, you’ll be getting the lion’s share of the honour.
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