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Obliterati said:

then suddenly enemy are spawning in all around your guys (including behind them)

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Never fight near the enemy spawn point.
Never let your cavalry run wild unless the enemy is more than 90% dead. They will just run to the enemy spawn point and get slaughtered.
Never charge your infantry. Let the enemy come to you.

I can't confirm your results as I don't take many casualties anymore. I used to get slaughtered by spawning enemies. Now I use the spawn system to slaughter my enemies.

The reinforcement system in this game is awful. It's no better than Warband. Magically teleporting enemies is unrealistic and silly.

STAY OFF THE DAMN RESPAWN POINT AND WATCH YOUR FORTUNES IN BATTLE IMPROVE!!!

Maybe some day we will have a game that can take full armies on the battlefield. Today is not that day.

In Battanian castles, like Flintolg Castle, no one defends the walls. The defenders all stand around in a large clump in the middle of the castle. This appears to be an unfinished battle scene.

I have some companions that I added to the game myself. Their appearance is set in the XML files. Prior to 1.5.7 their bodyweight matched the file. Now their height and faces match the XML, but they are all extremely skinny when generated by the game.

This is definitely a bug as ALL companions are generated skinny.

With constant war the game ends before children grow up. In my current campaign my sister Alda is only fourteen and the campaign will end long before she will comes of age. War declarations come one after the other and there is no time to do anything else. Children seem pretty irrelevant when the campaign ends when they are still young.

They have never had a solid plan for creating this game. Rather than having a plan they had a vague notion. It's pretty hard to get anything done when all you have is a vague notion to guide you.

This is true of life in general, not just the floundering development of this game.

We need a balance sheet. My income tool tip has been too long to fit on the screen for two game years now.

A balance sheet and a message log are two features that are sorely needed!

Workshops don't seem to perform very well. This is partially be design as the devs seem to hate passive income.

That's why we have mods:
Workshops Work Better

The more fiefs your kingdom has, the cheaper vassals are to recruit. They can still be insanely expensive mind you, but the size of your kingdom and the number of vassals your kingdom already has are both factors in the formula.

They are trying to fix the whole smithing issue. One of the changes is that weapons will be much less valuable. Armor will still be ridiculously overpriced.

Philozoraptor said:

In 1.5.9, attackers cannot break the inner gate after the outer gate is broken by the ram. The guys that are supposed to do that mostly run to the ladders instead of gate, sometimes they confusedly run there and back again, only once some of them die (either by arrows or once they accidentally climb the ladder to the ramparts) will someone else be asigned to the job and maybe hack the gate to pieces. We managed to fix it on most of the maps (it took Marnah few hours but its kinda fixable even without access to the actual map and engine). Question is how did they manage to break the game between 1.5.8 (I think this was not hapenning in 1.5.8 ) and 1.5.9 so much.

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Some siege battle scenes are broken. In my current campaign spanning 1.5.8 and 1.5.9 I have found that the battering ram crew has about a 50% chance of breaking down the inner gate. The other half of the time I needed to do it myself.

Some sieges have terrible archer placement, where the archers all stand around in large clumps.

I think some of these battle scenes were rushed together for the early access release. Someone at Taleworlds needs to go back and revise all of the sieges that fail to work correctly.

Sometimes you can talk to a prisoner lord and they say: "I can't talk to you." Most of the time the option to talk isn't even present.

This seems to be very unfinished, although Warband was the same way. You could talk to lords imprisoned in a dungeon, but the conversation was simply pointless.

AnandaShanti said:

If you have vassals they vote for war all the time and you can't control them at all so it's just a miserable cluster**** with no strategy at all.

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This is where mods come in. There are many lightweight mods on the nexus that make being a king less of a pain.

The game isn't a true RPG. It is a battle simulator with some strategy and RPG elements tacked on. I tend to play it like a first person total war game. If I tried to play it as an RPG I would be disappointed.

There is a mod on the nexus called Better Exception Window. I highly recommend it if you use mods. It can tell you the error encountered and show the stack trace. It makes debugging crashes much easier.