Recent content by munkibowl

Yeah, as far as equipment goes, generally the better looking the item is, the better it's stats. I will pass up an ugly helmet or something like that if it only offers 3 or 4 points above my current equips. I love my looted Balanced Jatu Honor Lance and I think it's the best looking lance in the game, they really stand out on the battlefield. I recently switched from the Fierdsvain War Axe, which is really nice to look at to a looted Singalian Death Saber, sadly I've never seen either item at a merchant's so I'd advise anyone who acquires either to hold on to them.

I'm not using Ansen right now, but I have Leslie, who also starts at level 1. I got her up to 12 str and 12 agi so she can ride a warhorse and has decent power strike, and kitted her out with a fine D'shar saber which does good damage and she does quite well on the open field. Thanks to this she levels fairly quickly these days and I can pump her party skills. I think that 12 str/agi is a minimum, maybe even 12/15 if you want a weakling to level at a decent rate.

Shatari said:

It's possible that they're appearing outside of the map. Try using CTRL-F4 to cheat kill them. Also, always save before accepting village quests. The bandit battles tend to crash if you aren't lucky.

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Yeah, I noticed that problem during bandit battles, but I've found that as long as I stay still and don't actually do anything in the battle, it doesn't crash.

When I took the quest to train the peasants of Bothuwathi(sp?) moon, none of the peasants appeared for training - I ran around the whole place, and stood still for 5 minutes, but no one ever showed up. I haven't encountered this problem when training peasants in other villages, so I think it's just that map.

Here's a pic when I started up my game yesterday.


Here's what I had at the end of my session, having captured 2 castles and sold a ton of prisoners(ransom broker finally showed up in my city). What a big difference in just 4 days.


I've beaten the empire and sarleon and have taken 3 fierdsvain castles and Rane, with only 2 or 3 unique spawns left on the map.

He obviously keeps it stashed in a safe place. You might need gloves.

The bulk of his score comes from his renown. Based on my own renown after conquering all of the empire and sarleon and destroying several wandering armies, I think I'll achieve total victory with less than his 10047. His example isn't a good one, since most people won't have so little conquest done after 1200 days. If he ever does decided to go for total victory it will probably be laughably easy thanks to his insane party size and stats, so I wouldn't say his character is too far from achieving victory.

It keeps the game interesting once you reach that point. Accelerating that would just shorten the most enjoyable part of the game. Once you've put together a 150 prestige troop army, the game gets boring, so most heroes make for an end of game challenge(some aren't too hard to beat). Sometimes you'll get lucky and other lords will wear them down to a point where you can beat them.

I'm pretty sure the polehammer is the only polearm that you can swing from horseback. I was also confused, since I'd seen them in use and bought myself a variety of halberds, bills and other polearms which couldn't be swung from a horse. I finally tired out a polehammer and they're pretty great, can't beat their reach for swinging weapons, even if they are slow.

I much prefer to collect tolls from them, you can collect 1k+ without a fight with less than 100 guys. The larger the party, the higher the payment.

Ok, I followed your instructions and it worked fine. Thanks.

I saw in the features list that I should be able to access my inventory during sieges. I read somewhere that it works both in the map screen while building towers and during actual battles by pressing I. I tried it in both situations without success. Am I doing something wrong?

A good trick is to have your lords follow you into the desert, and let them run off to attack some smaller band. Once they've all joined the fight, you go and find Burilgi, and lead him into the battle, then join it yourself. If they stop fighting before Burilgi joins in, you can attack him yourself, all nearby lords should join in the battle.

The fog is fun, and the enemy doesn't have an advantage, your soldiers know where the enemy is too. Basically, you're the one guy really affected, and you get to use a map to find them, rather than the psychic senses your troops seem to have.