Recent content by androsh

This mod looks very promising, especially the function to allow your named NPCs to continue leading the battle.

I'm not entirely sure how Auto-loot and Auto-sell work, though. Could anyone clarify that for me, please?

flazard said:

androsh said:

Heyo, I've been trying to download the new awesome version, but alas, every time I click on the download icon, it offers me to download a file named "pike", that seems to be unusable. Am I doing something wrong? 

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just download it and rename it to pike.rar, worked for me.

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That... worked. Holy crap, it worked! Thank you, flazard

Oh, and while I'm at it, here's some feedback:

- Had a battle with a Swadian noble. He had 80 dudes, I had 50. My army was 1/3 archers (some skirmishers, some crossbow men), the  rest was Rhodok infantry, ranging from basic pikemen and cleavermen to sergeants. I won, losing only 10 men  I lined up my archers in front of the infantry, and made the latter charge at the last possible moment. Meanwhile, I assaulted the enemy's behind with mah two-handed axe and my Companions. It was glorious.

So far, I'm really liking the infantry-based gameplay, even though I'm used to fast-paced cavalry battles. It's pretty cool, making my guys form up in lines, and organize them according to the situation, and knowing that if I win it's because of good tactics, rather than telling my troops to CHARGE all the time.

Heyo, I've been trying to download the new awesome version, but alas, every time I click on the download icon, it offers me to download a file named "pike", that seems to be unusable. Am I doing something wrong? 

Beautiful, beautiful work! You're improving the game's looks LDKsoldier, one armor set at a time

Aeon221 said:

So, key question since I don't see you mentioning them: are you using crossbowmen? While the mod is "infantry" focused, I generally consider the ranged guys to be a healthy part of a good breakfast, and keep them at 1/3rd of my troop composition.

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I did get a ratio of crossbowmen like you suggest, but I can't comment on 'em as of now; I'm new to having xbow + infantry combo, so I'll have to test it out some more to say aye or nay

Aeon221 said:

I'm also curious to find out whether you're using the skirmishers, and how handy you find them -- I particularly like them when fighting the various wandering bandit groups, as their large shields, high speed and ready supply of javs makes them a particularly good force for screening the main line.

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I'm curious as well  I have like 5, but I need to find a way to keep track of 'em in battle, to see how they work. They look nifty.

Should I consider them infantry or archers? 

Aeon221 said:

But keeping in mind that you're fighting with loose organization, I think your casualty numbers are perfectly normal. I'd actually be extremely worried if you had said you were fighting and not losing anything!

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Oh, good, I was getting worried.

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Oh and I see you found the macemen! I feel like they're probably my best idea ever, and I can almost certainly die happy having thought of them! Just be careful, as they are fragile as hell.
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They don't have shields, so agreed, very fragile. They remind me of berserker warriors.

Aeon221 said:

Thanks for the report, and feel free to keep me posted on how things go. Be careful fighting those Mamelukes!

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No problem. And Mamelukes? *shudder* Good God, not even with an army of 300 Sergeant Pikemen 

Shimmmy said:

Honestly, that's rather poor imput, not really related to this mod.

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I'll let the mod maker to be the judge of that, I wrote it for his benefit

It's hard to tell what's part of the mod and what isn't, so I just wrote my observations.

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Further testing revealed the following:

- Macemen destroy infantry. This is good. Nothing better than watching one of 'em one-shot an enemy 
- Waiting for the enemy to come at you is better than going after him with your infantry. Enemy units tend to come one at a time, and that's when they die to my wall of pikemen 

A'ight, I've been doing some testing with the following settings, playing as the Rhodoks.

- Wages: default
- Leadership: 15 units per skill level
- Food consumption - Less food consumption
- Troop recruitment at villages: minimum friendship level to get large recruitment is 0 (to speed up getting a big infantry army)

Everything else is pretty much as default.

So far I've only played for an hour or two, and this is what I've noticed:

- The infantry travels very tightly in the battlefield, even without the "Stay closer" order. This is good
- They all have appropriate weapon/armor/skill combos, or at least that's what I've seen so far.
- Not sure if this is intentional or what, but I'm getting really close to getting a high level infantry troop, a Veteran Sargeant, if I remember correctly. In only two hours, that's kinda fast. I have 5 Cleavermen, 5 Pikemen, a dozen or so Infantry, and a Veteran Pikeman.
- Having a big army means a lot of money to pay in wages, even for infantry. I'm considering tweaking the mod to reduce army wages.
- Having a big infantry based army means, well, waiting a long time to clash against the enemy. I'd suggest bumping up the Athletics skill of all Infantry units by at least 1 point (I'd personally do it by 2) to make battles more exciting, so that the enemy and your troops meet sooner.
- In battles against looters, mountain bandits, and deserters, my army did alright. And this was with slightly favorable odds. I'd basically have them charge or form a tight line, and I always end up losing a handful of Cleavermen or Pikemen, which is odd, since they should be tougher than the regular recruits.

That's all I can think of. I haven't fought cavalry yet, so I'll let you know when I do. If you have any questions, do let me know

Aeon221 - Thanks for the suggestion and instructions, but I'll probably stick with doing both mods separately. Heck, while I wait for 81 units to be released, I might just try Pike and Blade. I've always wanted to try a Rhodok knight 

I'm all for more unit diversity, especially for them Nords and Rhodoks, the proverbial last slice of bread in the bag. A simple mod that adds much needed anti-cavalry units is what we need, that's for sure. If only we also had spear bracing 

I haven't tried the mod yet, mainly because I want to first try the 81-new units one that should be updated soon. If you found a way to combine your mod with that one I would definitely try it right away.

tobmic said:

dzorro said:

Is this mod compatible with patch 1.3 ?? after trying it on my system i get strange hickups. sometimes it looks like my system is frozen. Wait a while and it continues ?? I haven't tried it on previous version so i don't know if it was already present.

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I will need to make a new version for the 1.3 Patch.
I will release a new version probably this evening.

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Good to read! I was waiting on exactly that before I create my new character

Say, tobmic, what version are we at for the mod? When do you think you'll be close to calling it a day and saying it's finished?

Adorno said:

androsh said:

... is this save game compatible?

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Yes it is.

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Heh, I tried it out anyway before I got an answer Thanks anyhow.

The armors look even better in-game. A must have for anyone playing WB, really. Can't wait for other armors to be revamped 

Mod looks really good!

Problem is, I need to start a new save file to play it. Also, the newest, small patch requires to start another new save file, even if you have the mod already

So I'm gonna wait a bit until the "new save file required" patches are out of the way, and then I'll download it and play for sure

Good job, soldier

Here's question that I expect the answer to be "yes", but I wanna make sure just in case: is this save game compatible?

This mod is awesome - now battles feel realer (is that a word?)! From the horses' gallop to the drawing of my bow, everything sounds more solid and powerful.

Welll done, Checkmaty. Now I can't think of playing without your mod 

Checkmaty said:

That happens when you try to use the sounds.txt meant for the original with Warband. You need to use the sounds.txt in the Warband folder of the package.

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I'm guilty of having made that mistake, thanks for pointing that out 

Thank you all for the answers, that's what I was looking for. I'll let you know if I come up with more.