Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord

Its not looking good. I even abused some save/reload to try and fix some of the dumb mechanics. I rewound time on the "truce". And did stay inside the castle. she did leave. I then basically had to sit there for a while, recouping, and letting her get far away.
of course, catalog then built himself a 1300 man party, took back Dunglanys. Ergeon, who I recruited bailed on us, when that happened. then both catalid with her 700 man party, and Catalog with his now 600 man party both targeted Nevyansk castle... I was able to fall back into it, and between myself, and the garrison I made, I was too big of a threat.
however, eventually my cohesion dropped, and I had to let go a few parties. which suddenly catalid decided to attack... I even paid her to "truce", but this time she left, and riading my village, and immediately turned back and sieged again. not even 1 day.. 790 vs 200+50 garrison+30 militia.
I got her down to 150. sadly raw numbers won. I even personally smashed the ram by throwing rocks on it. and then leveled 11 in bows, after I ran out of javs throwing at one of the seige towers.. I had 4 50 man ally parties outside. I thought, oh well, getting captured to her 150 man party, and then those parties outside would immediately take her down.. but nope.. she somehow WON that fight.. so I reloaded that bs. grabbed my garrison and just bailed out. let her have it.
mazhadan castle was taken by battanian during this. so I went and took it back. spent 100 influence... and wasnt given it.
(im not actually sure how the hell I still have Jogurys over there. lol. I did put alot in the garrison..)

dude still has not made peace. I even have the diplomacy mod, that should have war fatigue.

sturgians have declared war on the western empire.

Edit:
2 days later.
Stugrians have declared war on the northern empire.

we lost ov, kranirog castles, and a clan bailed, taking Revyl, and ustok castle with them.

one more lost city and its time for a vote of no confidence and a New Sturgia.

im on main. Im pretty sure most of my mods are 1.3 capable though.
black bar, hentai censure bug is in 1.2 as well. need to turn off "screen space reflections" in performance, if thats the graphical bug you are getting.

no surprisingly, Sturgia completely collapsed fighting a 6 front war. Jogurys was hilariously the last to go.
I bowed out before that. Vlandia took most of Sturgia west of Balgard, including it. Khuzait took everything east.

I tried taking ustoc first, I thought being deep in that peninsula it would be fairly easy. surprisingly not. 260 defenders, and Battanian managed to respond fast, with 400 man army, and 600 man one, despite being the "weakest" nation beside me, and the now broken sturgia. Gave up on trying to get that, and hit Ov instead, which only had 150 or so, and despite being more in the open, armies didnt really respond quickly.

Taking that first castle is tough still. no kingdom, limited to 1 party. So, despite having 3 parties... had to hit the castle with only the my main party, which was at 200 men cap at the time. Once done, of course, New Sturgia... Sturgian empire? still need a good name... was able to form, and things got much easier. As a kingdom, +15 royal party size, and can form armies. so 360 man army. was able to declare war on Vlandia and take Omar, and Mazhadan. even ranking up clan size, and passing noble retinue. now have something like 450 man army potential.
Now to start taking back territories. recruiting back the traitors that bailed on Sturgia.(all of them. Sturgia is just clan Rag). need to build up rep to recruit units easier, and build up some cash too.

If you execute every one you capture...do they come back? Is there a point that no one will help?

When you execute a noble, they are permanently gone. If you execute a clan leader, ownership changes to another clan member. if you execute the entire clan, ownership of fiefs transfers to the next strongest clan within their faction. if you execute an entire faction, ownership of fiefs transfers to strongest clans in other factions. Eventually this is you.

Hunting down and murdering nobles when they are in solo parties is definitely one of the easiest ways to "win". There isnt really any counters to it, without rebellion, unrest, etc. nor any diplomacy issue with the negative rep hit. doesnt even make sense there is a negative relation hit for executing at war nobles.

Done broke alot of mods too!

probably the 1.3 modlib change.

yeah, the "leave us alone" option doesnt do shit. promise to not attack them for 10 days, they make no such promise. so will generally break off the siege, and then immediately attack again 10seconds later. the use would only be, to pay off and run away.

diplomacy fixes is good. but might be a bit too easy to cheese making peace.

About to pick this back up after not playing since about April 15th. Any highlights on major changes in the last month? I stopped my last campaign right when they were stopping daily patches and moving to stable / experimental builds.

vast majority of fixes have been bug/crash/performance honestly. very few real content changes I'd say.

most of that would be in the mods. A good number of solid mods are out, addressing game balance, or missing features.
heres my list as of yesterday. (is there a way to export the list as text for easy, "this is my modlist" sharing?)