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Promethium posted:the autoresolve calculation assumes the looters don't break morale so your party gets full experience for beating them is that how it works? I wondered why I wasn't getting more xp from slaughtering columns of fleeing infantry
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every open field battle the first thing I do is 2->F3->F3 to put my archers in Loose formation
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I finished a campaign, sort of: I went it alone with my own imperial faction, seizing an isolated castle that Khuzait had taken from the northern empire so I could finish the kingdom quest and get access to the kingdom screen, then I started executing Khurzaits because they kept escaping from my dungeons. Later after killing probably 2/3rds of their leaders I realized that as a faction leader I could straight up ask people to join me, so I started doing that instead. The remaining Khurzaits hated my guts because for most of them I'd executed multiple family and friends but I still convinced a couple of them to become my my vassals even though my Honour was "Devious", probably from executing people, and I only had 20 charm. I had a huge pile of renown at this point though, so maybe that has an impact, but probably the conversation and barter mechanic just isn't close to properly balanced/implemented yet. Also, I'm playing on the middle difficulty, which is called 'easy', so maybe it really is supposed to be easy At this point Vlandia declared war on me and had expanded across most of the map (I started the campaign a few patches ago, before the anti-snowball stuff) so I paid whats left of Khurzait 15k gold to make peace. Vlandia doomstacks began sieging multiple castles and cities but I convinced some of their nobles to defect and one of them gave me half of Vlandia. I also convinced more random nobles from other nations to defect to me so I at this point I became the snowball. Eventually I took a settlement that I think gets me to the 2/3rd Imperial culture settlements I needed to win but if I try to assign it to a clan in the Election screen the game crashes. Close enough  I'll probably try a Realistic campaign as a vassal to see if the diplo stuff in that feels much different. 5 star early access game though, even if it did take a decade Flavahbeast fucked around with this message at 21:32 on Apr 5, 2020 |
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Also, fians are death gods. I want to get Leader 125 in my next game so I can turn forest bandits into fians. The super units for the other factions all seem to be cavalry but a AI horseman with 280 riding and polearm isn't going to rack up the kills like a 280 archer aimbotting it up. Here's a battle where the AI sallied forth from a besieged city to try and finish off my few remaining troops after I nearly got wiped out by a Vlandia doomstack: (I have no kills because I was at 20% health and archer AI gets real dumb if the player dies)
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Looters can't ransom prisoners in town, so captured peasants and soldiers are indoctrinated just like in the player's army: eventually they throw off the trappings of civilization and learn to love loot
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Something I just figured out: bowmen start out siege attacks in the 'scatter' formation, which looks really cool - they'll spread out and take cover behind barricades, but if you have a numbers advantage you probably want to just set up a firing line to hose down the ramparts. archers hiding behind barricades won't necessarily be in a position to shoot anything Also, you can actually move units around the field before starting a siege attack. Its probably pretty obvious to a lot of people playing but I just assumed the whole reployment mechanic was NYI since the 'auto deploy' button was greyed out
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Beefeater1980 posted:The “I have reserves” strategy. it actually reduces casualties, though: a firing line will suppress defending archers. every time a new archer or siege engine operator runs up to replace a dead one he'll get mowed down. Also, if you pull your infantry off the walls the defending infantry will pull away from the breach points, leaving the archers as the only targets for your archers I think walls get way tougher to assault as they get upgraded, though. There's one that has massive concave ramparts where pretty much all the defending archers are well protected
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Captain Oblivious posted:Just be aware that the way this is going to work for a while is scrounging for the odd Highborn Youth recruit becaus they’re rare as gently caress. Part of why Battanian archers are so good is that’s their noble ultra elite troop type. Alternatively, with Leadership 125 you can take the Disciplinarian perk and then every prisoner you get from forest bandit lairs you capture can eventually become a Fian (it's really hard to get though, as far as I can tell the only way to raise leadership is by putting armies together, and even after doing that it takes a long, long time)
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Jamwad Hilder posted:yea turning the sound to lowest quality remarkably improved the games performance for me, for some reason Try rebooting, my game chugged when I first installed it but ran fine after a reboot
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Midgetskydiver posted:Can the horses you and your companions ride die? I have noticed a couple times that equipped companion horses disappear. If so, this is extremely stupid. I don't think they can die in battle, but I think if you upgrade infantry troops to mounted troops they take the most expensive available horse or war horse, even if a companion is riding it. (I havent had this happen to me because I always choose a different upgrade path, its possible its been fixed or the horse was disappearing for some other reason) Flavahbeast fucked around with this message at 06:20 on Apr 8, 2020 |
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This was weird: the Vlandians retreated with over 2/3rds of their army remaining (They weren't doing great, but still) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL15-jZUekw I had my guys pick up arrows instead of chasing them down because I thought they were regrouping with reinforcement troops and coming back 
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If there's a spent arrow embedded in the ground nearby they'll go grab it automatically. As far as I can tell they won't refill from dropped quivers, though
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New patchquote:Crashes Flavahbeast fucked around with this message at 19:47 on Apr 8, 2020 |
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Nosre posted:it's dumb that all horses (including Sumpters) are called 'horse' at the top of the tooltip, but there's a 2nd 'horse' label down at the bottom which is the one that matters 
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Baronjutter posted:-I have a foggy memory about kidnapped siblings from the very start of the game. It's a year later and I've not heard from my brother, should I be worried? Looking at my family tree, I only have one sibling remaining so I'm assuming things didn't work out also for some reason I'm at -100 with my liege Caladog? Thats weird, I haven't been executing anyone and no one else in the game hates me nearly that much
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The Duggler posted:Is there a good starting guide to this? I can get off the ground, get a couple of dozen men under my command but I kind of lose what to do next. Should I be trying to join with an existing faction? Just keep doing jobs for whoever? Once I outnumber every group of bandits/looters I see I am stuck in a place where I can't exactly take on anyone else because they have way better and way more units than I could gather. Yeah, the best thing to do is find two factions that are fighting and join one as a mercenary. Places where lots of big armies fight are where you get rich early on. Also, if you happen across a big battle and your employer's side is losing slightly you might want to wait for them to lose the battle - the winner will have a ton of veteran troops as prisoners and if you beat them you'll get to instantly recruit all those troops into your army
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Thats weird, I just recruited a guy named The Falcon (one of the new companions they added in the last couple patches) and made him a party leader, gave him the troops from the old party leader I kicked out and he gained 10 points in Steward the next day. My other party leaders have been leading the same number of dudes and have gained less than 5 Steward in dozens or hundreds of in-game days All are Int 0, no focus in steward 
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I might be wrong about how it works but I think settlements go to the leaders with the least settlements in the kingdom. I got a bunch of enemy generals to join Caladog and I haven't seen myself or most of the og Battanians show up in a vote for a while
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The Locator posted:Now that it can't be couched, is it as good or better than the Large Executioner's axe? Better in general imo, but the axe is better indoors for siege battles and can hit multiple dudes at once
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I convinced this guy to betray Raganvad and pay me for the privilege  
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longbows like the ones used at Agincourt were powerful enough to puncture tank armor
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OwlFancier posted:Poor freckles, heard about arrows and crashed the game. horses are so drat stupid
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you might not like it but this is what peak performance looks like
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Drakes posted:Guys I think smithing is still good for money, you just need to craft an actual weapon. Yeah it seemed like a pointless money pit but then I unlocked Eastern Steel Mace Head. I get 1-2 skill points and 1-2 unlocks every time I make one of these and they sell for 1800 dinars:  edit:  
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and now I'm manufacturing this reality defying fella which gives me 3-4 skill points and 2-3 unlocks per craft and sells for 5800
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you get way more smithing xp/unlocks if you make something valuable, but its kind of a crap shoot whether something is valuable. Some high tier stuff isn't actually valuable at all edit: but yeah as far as I can tell it's totally random what unlock you get
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I think you get that rep from local notables from having a big army parked in town that's part of your kingdom
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Destroyenator posted:Yep, turns out prisoner recruitment is this: its a really annoying way to do it since it rewards having a billion stacks of 1 prisoner each
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terrorist ambulance posted:Ok, but how do you get to 125 leadership? as far as I can tell you have to get to the point where you have your own kingdom or are a vassal, then you can form armies. Once you're leading armies around your Leadership will increase. Slowly. (A lot faster in 1.1 than in earlier versions, but still pretty slow) Flavahbeast fucked around with this message at 23:43 on Apr 12, 2020 |
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ok I have unlocked Long Falx Blade for 2H swords and achieved victory in the smithing minigame 
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if you want to get a big, unethical leg up on smithing early on, look out for throwing knives: they're dirt cheap, I found stacks with dozens of them in settlements around Battania and they give tons of materials when smelted
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BeAuMaN posted:What has been everyone's go-to big gently caress-off shield? I've been using the Large Round Shield but I did pick up a Pavise recently and I'm tempted. Battered Kite Shields seem to be worth a lot of coin for some reason. I think the Pavise is the best in the game, at least for single player. If you kneel down with it raised you can't be hit by arrows in a pretty good arc
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Jose posted:where can i get myself a tier 6 glaive that has good length. currently using the long glaive it doesnt get much better than the Long Glaive but you might like the Rhomphalia more you can also craft stuff if you feel like spending a few hours leveling blacksmithing: if you want you can make a glaive with 260+ length but that will tank your handling and swing speed, I feel like around 200-220 length is a good spot for trading length vs handling/speed at high levels you can proc bonus stats from the blacksmithing skills but I'm not sure how they compare to store bought weapons. Here are some glaives with extra stats from smithing:  
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crafting also gives you infinite money in the current version of the game once you unlock certain parts:
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Right now smithing is really buggy: very often if you make another weapon with the same blade type as a crafted one you have in your inventory the new weapon will become the same as that weapon and go into the same stack. I wouldn't be surprised if stats were getting overwritten all the time for one reason or another
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Diplomacy is this is really psycho, my kingdom just randomly declares itself at war and peace with other nations, with zero input from me. As a vassal I didn't mind it, but I am the king!!
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Companions with a full set of T6 cavalry would probably do a great job of chasing down and mulching every bandit
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Eltoasto posted:To be fair, you ARE doing a service to the kingdom so it's not exactly an exploit. Maybe not worth the cash you are making but hey, there is profit to be made in war. yeah mercs going around recruiting troops and using them to fill the garrisons is super helpful, I'd totally pay a premium for the AI mercs to do that for me
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Lokee posted:Getting real tired of conquering stuff and watching it get voted off to someone else, is there a way to mitigate this? Own fewer fiefs - you won't even be in the running if your realm has 4+ clans and you have significantly more fiefs than the others. This is the case even if you have your own kingdom, unless you limit yourself to three clans or fewer (which is a big handicap) you'll be limited in how many fiefs you can personally own because the three clans that can be awarded a fief will be three of the clans with the least number of owned fiefs
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Vargs posted:
just put a square of melee infantry in front in shield wall formation, if you have decent archers you should be able to wipe them out while the melee take all the arrows with few or no losses (except the ones without shields but melee infantry without shields deserve what they get)
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