Mount and Blade Napoleonic Wars: I put on my tall hat and green jacket

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Kekeke!: Nov 5, 2003; "Jesus christ man where did all these koreans come from!"

SeanBeansShako posted:

Give us your STEAM profile ASAP, I'll throw you on the spreadsheet too.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/lljkkekeke

I'm pretty sure I am already in the group but here it is anyway if you need it for anything.

# ? Apr 24, 2012 23:25

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# ? May 20, 2013 17:51

Sky Shadowing: Feb 13, 2012; At least we're not the Thalmor (yet).

Are we allowed to participate in the Line Battle if we don't have a mic? Want to participate, have watched videos, but can't figure out how to get any of your attention. I'm a silent killer looking for companionship when he kills!

# ? Apr 24, 2012 23:46

SeanBeansShako: Nov 20, 2009; 19th Century War is often harder on the aggressor than it is on the defender however, I also know that it doesn't necessarily turn you into a sad, depressed sack of Republican tears for the rest of your life.

Sky Shadowing posted:

Are we allowed to participate in the Line Battle if we don't have a mic? Want to participate, have watched videos, but can't figure out how to get any of your attention. I'm a silent killer looking for companionship when he kills!

You can join, mics are really needed for those who want to be an Officer. Also, we're doing a line battle soon so get in TS.

# ? Apr 24, 2012 23:50

Owlkill: Jul 1, 2009

Can't make the one tonight but just wanted to put myself forward for the line battle roster. I'm EU, happy to take whatever role is required. Except officer. I don't think I should be in charge of things.

# ? Apr 25, 2012 00:04

Stoic Commie: Aug 29, 2005; G's up
Hoes down

Hey retards

The server is United_NA_NW and the password is brutus

Jeez

# ? Apr 25, 2012 00:15

CodenamePink: Jan 27, 2011

its now silentsniper or silentsnyper and pass brutus

get on TS

# ? Apr 25, 2012 00:17

unlawfulsoup: May 12, 2001; Welcome home boys!

Also I was missed before.

https://steamcommunity.com/id/unlawfulsoup

# ? Apr 25, 2012 00:23

Party Plane Jones: Jul 1, 2007; Flying the friendly skies in relative safet-oh god the engine fell off

That linebattle had to have had the dumbest map selection, rules, and faction choice. No horseman or artillery for a faction that doesn't get riflemen? Gee, good choice. The riflemen on the opposing side were getting 40 kills out of a hundred people a map because they outranged anything we could field. It's only by luck (and suicidal charges) that we won the latter two rounds.

# ? Apr 25, 2012 01:49

babies havin rabies: Feb 24, 2006

Sorry goons. I left early, game kept crashing and I got mad at my videogame.

# ? Apr 25, 2012 02:26

Sicarii: Sep 29, 2011

That fort is in a terrible spot with the high ground all around it and a wheat field that covers approach, but trying to defend it was fun

# ? Apr 25, 2012 02:29

Sky Shadowing: Feb 13, 2012; At least we're not the Thalmor (yet).

Party Plane Jones posted:

That linebattle had to have had the dumbest map selection, rules, and faction choice. No horseman or artillery for a faction that doesn't get riflemen? Gee, good choice. The riflemen on the opposing side were getting 40 kills out of a hundred people a map because they outranged anything we could field. It's only by luck (and suicidal charges) that we won the latter two rounds.

We still won the Line Battle. Won the first two maps and only lost the last map because half our team quit (pubbies

).

Goons held the line in the last map, too. Last regiment standing both rounds.

# ? Apr 25, 2012 02:29

Rhymenoserous: May 23, 2008; Hiphopopotamus ain't got nothin'

Rhymenoserous posted:

I just bought this: send an invite http://steamcommunity.com/id/Rhymenoserous

And less than two hours later I was in a line battle. Holy poo poo that was fun.

# ? Apr 25, 2012 02:30

CodenamePink: Jan 27, 2011

Awesome fun tonight guys!

The ending was stupid and we knew wed die but defending that mini fort was awesome!

# ? Apr 25, 2012 02:31

nessin: Feb 7, 2010

Bummer that I missed out, but I just bought the addon and re-downloaded Warband. My profile is http://steamcommunity.com/id/nessin and I'm good for being cannon fodder!

# ? Apr 25, 2012 02:38

Party Plane Jones: Jul 1, 2007; Flying the friendly skies in relative safet-oh god the engine fell off

Sicarii posted:

That fort is in a terrible spot with the high ground all around it and a wheat field that covers approach, but trying to defend it was fun

Yeah, the last map was fun.

# ? Apr 25, 2012 02:40

SeanBeansShako: Nov 20, 2009; 19th Century War is often harder on the aggressor than it is on the defender however, I also know that it doesn't necessarily turn you into a sad, depressed sack of Republican tears for the rest of your life.

Sicarii posted:

That fort is in a terrible spot with the high ground all around it and a wheat field that covers approach, but trying to defend it was fun

That was some serious Rorkes Drift stuff yeah, we could have held it if our allies weren't loosely grouped pubbie rabbie lead by poor old 5arge. Here are some screenshots of it. The rest are in the NW Goons Screenshot album here.

Thanks for showing up to everyone including our officers, flags men (nice suicidal charge Desu) and music men. Next one is a 12/20 man affair with a new regiment Blue Spy organised. So new guys and guys wanting to try Officering do that!

# ? Apr 25, 2012 02:49

Gamerofthegame: Oct 27, 2010; Could at least flip one or two, maybe.

SeanBeansShako posted:

flags men (nice suicidal charge Desu)

You're going to have to specific.

That happened a lot.

Anyway, we did pretty good! Better at shooting then we tend to be, which was nice. Seems our real shining point overall is still some melee, though. If you aren't confident at melee... Just go play on a pubbie server for a while. Siege as a attack on a good day and battle will help you out - Don't do TDM, though, as lives have no real meaning. People just toss themselves at you, not really what you'll see in reality.

The maps were kinda eh, but things are still being ported over and tried out. There was no cavs or arty because all the regiments on our server were way to big, Sarge tried to do it. They didn't have that many skirmishers, we just spent most of the time fighting them while the other lines were else where, strangely.

Still, we did pretty well.

Edit: VV Ah yes, that was pretty good.

Gamerofthegame fucked around with this message at Apr 25, 2012 around 06:31

# ? Apr 25, 2012 03:14

SeanBeansShako: Nov 20, 2009; 19th Century War is often harder on the aggressor than it is on the defender however, I also know that it doesn't necessarily turn you into a sad, depressed sack of Republican tears for the rest of your life.

Gamerofthegame posted:

You're going to have to specific.

That happened a lot.

Charging across that bridge in the first map at like forty Austrians and just walking into them blocking them with the flag pole. You even got two of them to TK each other in blood lust.

# ? Apr 25, 2012 03:23

Party Plane Jones: Jul 1, 2007; Flying the friendly skies in relative safet-oh god the engine fell off

Gamerofthegame posted:

They didn't have that many skirmishers, we just spent most of the time fighting them while the other lines were else where, strangely.

Their skirmishers devastated our armies though, they got 65/75 kills as a group per map. We, on the other hand, averaged at most 15 gun kills per map but made up for it with masses of melee kills during that ambush.

# ? Apr 25, 2012 03:24

CodenamePink: Jan 27, 2011

Being a officer is hard as hell lol. I liked whoever was a officer after me though.

Also oh man, that ambush was amazing! Except for the fact that we took even loses...

# ? Apr 25, 2012 03:29

Rhymenoserous: May 23, 2008; Hiphopopotamus ain't got nothin'

SeanBeansShako posted:

Charging across that bridge in the first map at like forty Austrians and just walking into them blocking them with the flag pole. You even got two of them to TK each other in blood lust.

The best part of that whole thing was they completely ignored the line that had formed across from them to gently caress with the one guy with a flag nearby and got shot to gently caress due to it.

# ? Apr 25, 2012 03:32

Rhymenoserous: May 23, 2008; Hiphopopotamus ain't got nothin'

CodenamePink posted:

Being a officer is hard as hell lol. I liked whoever was a officer after me though.

Also oh man, that ambush was amazing! Except for the fact that we took even loses...

A shooting class is in order. Back when I played competition battlefield we used to spend days just practicing shots at different ranges, and in that game the bullets generally go where you aim. You could actually watch our line aiming in different directions, some high, some low, some left, some right.

Not that I know anything I'm just a new guy who literally bought this game today (I can't hit poo poo with my gun).

# ? Apr 25, 2012 03:35

SeanBeansShako: Nov 20, 2009; 19th Century War is often harder on the aggressor than it is on the defender however, I also know that it doesn't necessarily turn you into a sad, depressed sack of Republican tears for the rest of your life.

I think this sunday we should practice both with shooting and possibly the return of the platoon system.

As well as minor Officer training.

# ? Apr 25, 2012 03:44

Leal: Oct 2, 2009; "Butt Bounce?"
"Butt Bounce, kupo."

I picked this up earlier today, been running around on siege to get the jist of things. I have some issues though, whenever the map changes I'll click auto-assign and nothing will happen till I quit and select the server again. I haven't been able to play battle mode at all cause by the time I can choose my class its too late for me to start

I'll be on the TS server at times, I'm just a shy person and wont talk much.

# ? Apr 25, 2012 04:40

Wooper: Oct 16, 2006; Champion draGoon horse slayer. Making Lancers weep for their horsies since 2011. Viva Dickbutt.

Are you sure you are waiting long enough? It takes a while to load up everything, it keeps loading even when the nation selection screen pops up.

# ? Apr 25, 2012 04:46

Vyacheslav: Aug 4, 2003

Hoping to cadge an invite. I'm on the US east coast

http://steamcommunity.com/id/greifeldb/

# ? Apr 25, 2012 05:20

Leal: Oct 2, 2009; "Butt Bounce?"
"Butt Bounce, kupo."

Wooper posted:

Are you sure you are waiting long enough? It takes a while to load up everything, it keeps loading even when the nation selection screen pops up.

Looks like that was the case! I was just being impatient it seems.

# ? Apr 25, 2012 05:46

Sicarii: Sep 29, 2011

Hello! I liked stabbing people with musketballs with you guys. That was fun.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/zurrik

# ? Apr 25, 2012 06:13

Commissar Kip: Nov 9, 2009; Imperial Commissariat's uplifting primer.

Shake once.

We need a drill session for the newer dudes and to tighten up the rules. Everyone at least needs to have TS and be on at the time of battles. Listen to your drat officers and learn the difference between line 1 and 2. Also, goddamn stop being retards. Also get on IRC for instant information update and either prod Conot or me.

Do note that even though the above seems rather strict for goon standards we have the problem that to be able to play in these linebattles we need to be invited by sperging pubbies who yell about their immersions and will loving BAN us if we even do something as not poop era wise. It's poo poo and until we have 200 goons with which we can run our own linebattles we're stuck with these pubbies.

I'll be writing up a doc for artillery and skirmishers - I suggest some other officers write up one for cavalry, line infantry and sappers.

Next week I'll spend some time mapping the bullet drop on the musket, cavalry musket and rifle to see if there actually IS a sweet spot.

tl;dr learn this game, take pills against retardation, get on ts and irc

Commissar Kip fucked around with this message at Apr 25, 2012 around 06:34

# ? Apr 25, 2012 06:30

Moist Missle: Jun 27, 2004; God I fucking love Diablo 3 gold, it even paid for this shitty title

Signing up for some hot and disciplined line battle action.

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198039025130

# ? Apr 25, 2012 06:40

ANGRYGREEK: May 3, 2007; If you meet the Storm Spirit on the lane, gank him.

Rhymenoserous posted:

And less than two hours later I was in a line battle. Holy poo poo that was fun.

Baptism by fire for our new conscripts

Nurdbot, do you have specifics about that mini line battle you mentioned? Didn't you say it's EU, too?

And please write me (Defcon) up for every role except artillery (haven't tried it yet) and officer. Although I am tempted to try officer in that battle Blue Spy organised...

e: (we need a

with a bayonet and silly hat on)

# ? Apr 25, 2012 06:44

Wooper: Oct 16, 2006; Champion draGoon horse slayer. Making Lancers weep for their horsies since 2011. Viva Dickbutt.

If you haven't been in several linebattles with goons and actually been commanded by decent officers you shouldn't even try to do it yourself.

# ? Apr 25, 2012 07:32

TheBlobThing: Feb 16, 2012

That was pretty fun, although I had to drop out after the first map due to extreme tiredness.

I agree that we need more training. I couldn't stop laughing every time we were ordered to make two columns and ended up with three, where noone did anything to correct it. Would it be practical to have a sergeant or two to help dress the lines?

# ? Apr 25, 2012 08:02

Commissar Kip: Nov 9, 2009; Imperial Commissariat's uplifting primer.

Shake once.

TheBlobThing posted:

That was pretty fun, although I had to drop out after the first map due to extreme tiredness.

I agree that we need more training. I couldn't stop laughing every time we were ordered to make two columns and ended up with three, where noone did anything to correct it. Would it be practical to have a sergeant or two to help dress the lines?

We'd be two line infantry less because we can't dress the line and need two extra dudes running around with flags (sergeants spawn with flags). Better idea might be to designate two people first in line and have them do the upper block mode to specify who they are. Then everyone files in after them.

So you'd have the following:

code:

0 - - - - -  line 1
0 - - - - -  line 2

0 line designator

Whenever the line designator gets shot the first person besides him becomes line designator. This requires the designator to declare his death and the person besides him speaks up as line designator.

code:

X 0 - - - -  line 1
X 0 - - - -  line 2

X dead line designator
0 new line designator

Whenever the person next to you dies you dress the line and fill the gaps. You need to stand shoulder to shoulder.

I'm going to make an info pdf with screenshots next week, so I need some of you to help me take pictures. We also need a fact sheet in this pdf for officer training and the other roles.

Commissar Kip fucked around with this message at Apr 25, 2012 around 08:25

# ? Apr 25, 2012 08:22

Gamerofthegame: Oct 27, 2010; Could at least flip one or two, maybe.

Or you just do what we do now and when someone accidently starts to form a third or further line someone who realizes tells the line to scurry to the back and they do so in the span of less then two seconds.

Very simple, that.

Regardless, I didn't notice anything particularly bad with the Linebattle, organization wise. The officers (Not just you, Codename) sometimes made a error of moving off to lead the line before they really followed them and there was the occasional error with communication and what not, but none of it was absolutely critical.

We're just a random bundle of people playing a game together, remember. We're never going to have a heavy amount of organization to a strange psychic link. If you want that, you probably should join a "real" regiment then our pile of tenbuxs.

That said, any of our issues seems to be on a case by case, individual basis. We can kick people out, it's a thing we can do.

# ? Apr 25, 2012 08:35

SeanBeansShako: Nov 20, 2009; 19th Century War is often harder on the aggressor than it is on the defender however, I also know that it doesn't necessarily turn you into a sad, depressed sack of Republican tears for the rest of your life.

It didn't help that the 84e's Ensigns and Officers hilariously looked alike from the back and when they didn't have the standard and weren't paying attention you'd realise you'd been following Desu all along.

Also, we do need a Napoleonic bayonet smiley and I do believe that the small line battle against the 44th is European time.

# ? Apr 25, 2012 08:47

ANGRYGREEK: May 3, 2007; If you meet the Storm Spirit on the lane, gank him.

Wooper posted:

If you haven't been in several linebattles with goons and actually been commanded by decent officers you shouldn't even try to do it yourself.

True dat. I thought about what I would do as officer in certain situations and sometimes couldn't come up with an answer fast, so it would propably decent into total chaos.

# ? Apr 25, 2012 09:14

Commissar Kip: Nov 9, 2009; Imperial Commissariat's uplifting primer.

Shake once.

Gamerofthegame posted:

Regardless, I didn't notice anything particularly bad with the Linebattle, organization wise. The officers (Not just you, Codename) sometimes made a error of moving off to lead the line before they really followed them and there was the occasional error with communication and what not, but none of it was absolutely critical.

We're just a random bundle of people playing a game together, remember. We're never going to have a heavy amount of organization to a strange psychic link. If you want that, you probably should join a "real" regiment then our pile of tenbuxs.

That said, any of our issues seems to be on a case by case, individual basis. We can kick people out, it's a thing we can do.

Well, everyone knows I'm hardly the one who spergs about discipline or hard straight lines in linebattles but tightening up our show might give us a better shot at the pubbies who do sperg.

Else we'll just commence the jigglin.

# ? Apr 25, 2012 10:42

PhantomZero: Sep 7, 2007

The ambush was really a surprise, especially with two enemy regiments. I wanted to lure the enemy into the wheat field with our standard and drummers, but I hadn't expected them to be pushing hard into the forest.

We were lucky we were on the edge of the map and the enemy lines were just running forward. The whole even losses thing could have been avoided if we had managed to hit anything with our volley but that was a bit my fault "Everyone face left!"

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Imapanda: Sep 12, 2008; Majoris Felidae Peditum

Goretooth is a goon right?

Why doesn't he use the tag?

# ? Apr 25, 2012 11:03

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