I don't usually do a player kingdom but decided to give it a shot for once and it really shocked me how abjectly absent any sort of strategic gameplay there was available. I mean I always knew this but it didn't hit me until I wanted to actually wipe out an enemy faction and couldn't actually coordinate anything. My armies just did random things. I even had them abandon a siege that was already in progress in one area of the map only to go siege another castle on the other side of the map only to end up getting caught by an larger enemy army half way through the move.
Honestly I don't know how to fix this. I mean I would love to be able to assign 'War Targets" or maybe assign specific tasks like raid, attack a specific target or even a just a specific area, defend, etc. but I also realize that having those abilities as a faction leader would be overpowering since the AI is too dumb to even remotely counter a player having the capability to command his Faction on a strategic level. I also know Taleworlds doesn't have the technical capability, time and/or probably even inclination to design an deep, strategically proficient AI that can do this at this late in the game development cycle but I am surprised at just how disappointing being your own faction is without having any sort of control over wars on a strategic level.
If only Total War and Bannerlord had a child I guess.
Honestly I don't know how to fix this. I mean I would love to be able to assign 'War Targets" or maybe assign specific tasks like raid, attack a specific target or even a just a specific area, defend, etc. but I also realize that having those abilities as a faction leader would be overpowering since the AI is too dumb to even remotely counter a player having the capability to command his Faction on a strategic level. I also know Taleworlds doesn't have the technical capability, time and/or probably even inclination to design an deep, strategically proficient AI that can do this at this late in the game development cycle but I am surprised at just how disappointing being your own faction is without having any sort of control over wars on a strategic level.
If only Total War and Bannerlord had a child I guess.