How the fuck do I get my own town?
How the hell am I, as an unaffiliated agent, supposed to take over a settlement to establish my own kingdom? Without a mod, I can't even form an army of more than a couple hundred, much less the 800-1000+ needed to besiege a settlement.
This is infuriating. There's no other way to become leader of a faction. Realistically, you should be able to depose a ruler by either seceding or deposing them through vote from within a faction. But the game, to my knowledge, does not have programming for that. So, I am left begging the question: How do I start my own kingdom?