So I thought of this idea but im to busy to test it if someone wants to test it or discuss the idea cause its the only one i have for Any% route here it is. So to maybe speed up Any% you could join each faction and make them go to war with Swadia seeing as that could speed it up but im not sure how negative it is when you leave a faction as it is likely youll have to become a vassal and im not sure it would be easy to start a war with Swadia with all of them but its the only idea i have.

Easiest method I've imagined would be to gang up on one faction, most likely Swadia and just be a mercenary for whomever is fighting that faction at the time... That way you can go around taking out lords/castles while the marshall of the faction is doing so as well. If multiple factions gang up on Swadia it will obviously go quicker. But the main problem is if too many factions get into war with Swadia peace will kick in since they try to avoid fighting 3 or more factions at once.

So you're really better off just trying to have one or two factions at a time beating on them while you're essentially doing it for free, potentially even starting your own kingdom and just letting another faction take it while you continue to beat up on the one.

See i mentioned multiple factions because it takes quite some time to get enough men to take a castle and defeat some of the smaller lords it was more in the sense of making the run less than 24 hours or 12 hours and i do know that you can get 50 men quickly but it isnt going to allow you to take castles and progress the run yes you can defeat the smaller lords but you are barely furthering the goal you would be lucky to find a castle that wasnt just taken to have less than 50 men because if you do it was most likely just taken and by taking it you actually havent furthered the goal we need to take advantage of game mechanics because we dont have any glitches that give us XP or Money or let us insta win fights i do see your point. Also i mention this because it took me 12 hours (about) to destroy Swadia and thats not reliable so without something to make it go faster the run is going to be very long and very unreliable more unreliable than any other run i could estimate it taking anywhere from 7-8 hours to a whole 24 hours or longer. I'll look into this more this was just an idea because i really want Any% to be run-able because it would be longer than the others but hopefully not to long.

Though, by capturing lords you also take one person away from them for a time which means your lords will be less likely to break their sieges. I am still slowly working on my optimal method of doing it, hopefully I can get something consistent at the end of it. But basically early tournaments for gold, quick merc train and nord units for huscarls and then Lord hunting as a merc company while conquering/reconquering castles... Remember helping out lords in battle will give them good disposition towards you which may help in your own conquests... Also save & quit so if you lose a battle you can just try again. Lol.