>>719229891
Good luck anon, PoP cant be a real ballkicker.
I spent 500 days getting a castle, a custom knighthood order, level it up, prepare a big army for rebellion, and when I actually rebel and the army I was expecting shows up from the other side of the world, they fight a deathstack and one of the lords rescues 7000 prisoners into his army making it impossible to defeat. At that point I restarted my ~10-hour save.
But it's the only mod that I know of with a reworked auto-calculate battle system that actually makes endgame conquest tolerable. One time I went from rebellion to world domination in 5 real world hours in 1 sitting.
As for the gems, they're indeed very hard to get. Try the hideout one next, and once you're a king or marshall you can hunt deathstacks.