First of, happy new year everybody!
So there is this new feature which automatically forces lords to donate soldiers to your garrison after a siege. It's causing me big head aches and I think it's actually bad game design the way it has been released.
I'm not sure if I'm playing this game differently than others though. I always make a very huge kings army (=lead by me) at the beginning of a war, crush as many important cities in the shortest amount of time I can, then I release 50 to 75% of the involved lords to hunt down enemies and besiege on their own. My own army acts like some sort of fire fighter then.
This results in my sieges becoming a total mess. For example yesterday I attacked the last remaining, kinda huge faction in my current playthrough. The first strike contained 6000 to 8000 soldiers, I'm not sure anymore. However, it doesn't matter, what causes pain is that after a very successful and very fast siege on their wealthiest and most central city, my lords donated 4000 soldiers to the garrison. For some reason, my son (in the army too) ended up having 900 soldiers after the siege, not sure how that happened. That's just insane. It will not only cause the city to suffer hunger and troops potentially dying like flies, it also results in my army becoming very weak. So I end up transfering all troops back to myself and donating them back to my army, only leaving some trash units in the garrison. This takes a considerable time for each siege and it's no fun at all. To increase the pain, there is another trap hidden here. If you leave the city and re-enter, your army will donate again. If you don't know it, all your hard work is gone. Finally, there is a cheat option here as you can repeat this process over and over again and harvest influence by donating soldiers back to your lords. So after doing all of this and avoiding all traps, I have to wait for the settlement to be voted for someone else or just don't enter it again with my army if I keep it myself.
From my perspective, this feature is half baked, it's bad game design and I would like to turn it off. But I understand why it's there, don't get me wrong.
Any thoughts on this? Does this wreck your nerves too? Is it only me with a strange play style causing this to bother me? Did I miss a setting to turn it off? Any comment from the devs?
So there is this new feature which automatically forces lords to donate soldiers to your garrison after a siege. It's causing me big head aches and I think it's actually bad game design the way it has been released.
I'm not sure if I'm playing this game differently than others though. I always make a very huge kings army (=lead by me) at the beginning of a war, crush as many important cities in the shortest amount of time I can, then I release 50 to 75% of the involved lords to hunt down enemies and besiege on their own. My own army acts like some sort of fire fighter then.
This results in my sieges becoming a total mess. For example yesterday I attacked the last remaining, kinda huge faction in my current playthrough. The first strike contained 6000 to 8000 soldiers, I'm not sure anymore. However, it doesn't matter, what causes pain is that after a very successful and very fast siege on their wealthiest and most central city, my lords donated 4000 soldiers to the garrison. For some reason, my son (in the army too) ended up having 900 soldiers after the siege, not sure how that happened. That's just insane. It will not only cause the city to suffer hunger and troops potentially dying like flies, it also results in my army becoming very weak. So I end up transfering all troops back to myself and donating them back to my army, only leaving some trash units in the garrison. This takes a considerable time for each siege and it's no fun at all. To increase the pain, there is another trap hidden here. If you leave the city and re-enter, your army will donate again. If you don't know it, all your hard work is gone. Finally, there is a cheat option here as you can repeat this process over and over again and harvest influence by donating soldiers back to your lords. So after doing all of this and avoiding all traps, I have to wait for the settlement to be voted for someone else or just don't enter it again with my army if I keep it myself.
From my perspective, this feature is half baked, it's bad game design and I would like to turn it off. But I understand why it's there, don't get me wrong.
Any thoughts on this? Does this wreck your nerves too? Is it only me with a strange play style causing this to bother me? Did I miss a setting to turn it off? Any comment from the devs?
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