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My greatest moment had to be when I was Marshall and I had decided to take the last scrap of land from the Vaegirs, Khudan.  My personal army was top tier, but the lords I had brought with me had a bewildering mix of recruits and skirmishers with them.  They thinned out the line and were a liability when placed with the responsibility of fighting side by side with my troops and defending their flanks.  With a heavy bastard sword and a medium shield I was the first man up the ladder. 

I was more of a frightened child than a fierce warrior when all I could do was clutch my shield as I tried to push past their front line at the top of the wall.  With a few cuts and scrapes I manage to squeeze past the first few, and slide against the wall to to make it to the left of the mass of men standing next to the breach.  Their attention now turned away from me to the next man up the ladder.  I was now on top of the wall by myself.  After taking a few more slashes I finish off the archers on the left side of the wall.  Too injured to rejoin the melee I pull out a bow to take shots at the meat grinder that was once a breach of their defenses.  My men couldn't even get a swing of their swords in.  One by one my men marched to the top to die within seconds, even my archers at the bottom were not being very effective.  We only had one hope for victory.  We had to get on top of that wall.

I grabbed my battered shield and ran down to help my dying allies.  Only a few of my foes were dropped before every face on the left side of their defensive line looked in my direction.  Ten swords and axes fell on me in an instant.  The only reason I survived was my quick feet moving me backwards, and my poor shield giving its very last ounce of resistance left to protect me.  My shield shattered, my back against the wall, on my very last leg, and with seven men trying to kill me.  I do only what anyone else would have done.  My left hand grabs the hilt of my bastard sword and now my only defense is the two-handed three foot area of death that was in between me and anyone who dared run up to me. 

With the bodies of those who dared to face me at my feet and run back to the fight which is now passed the top of the ladder.  We mopped up the archers on the other side of the wall and after another 20 minutes of fighting took the city.  I didn't have any red left on my health bar, and I am certain that if I didn't run up to flank their line at the top of the wall that I just would have watched all of my men die.

Hands down Khergits on open terrain.

My army always works out to be equal parts infantry, archers, and cavalry.  In those big thousand man battles I rarely have the time to set up my troops so that my archers are anything but standing targets, and though my heavier cavalry can take them out one on one, they can never catch them.  I like to be in control of my battles, but there is no controlling an opponent who is completely on horseback.  They are just going to run all over the place while shooting and spearing everything they can. 

Nords and Rhodocks I can handle because I will have time to set up my troops before they get to me, and they always stay in one mass.  Very easy to predict and control.  Khergits are uncontrollable and that is why I hate them the most.

I've had this happen.

The men defending with me were unable to walk out into the yard being that there was a big step they couldn't get across and I ran out of arrows.  So I had to walk them over from the left side all the way to the opening so I could finish them off by hand.  It took about a half hour, but I saved my city.

I guess it depends on the difficulty you are playing on.  Most people give advice as though the author is playing on the most advanced difficulty.  And with those settings 40 guys isn't going to be enough.  The Khergit are weak when it comes to castles, but sometimes even lancers get short bows.  A lot of arrows are going to be heading your way and you are bound to lose at least 20 just breaching the top of the ladder. 

Good luck to you though.

For me sieging is all about play style.

There really isn't a "cheap" way of going about it unless you are using some sort of tweak or hack to give you an advantage.  Some people don't like using bowmen, and thats just fine, but that doesn't mean that killing from a distance is cheap.  You lose a lot of guys when facing off against an enemy who is way up on a castle wall above you hiding behind protection.  And retreating is costly as well.

My old tactic in the original M&B was to be the first up the wall with my shield up, run right through the crowd and get behind them to be my one man second front.  From that point you only had to fight a stream of one or two opponents at a time, and the archers seem to ignore you.  That tactic takes advantage of some flaws in the AI, but I still don't think even that is cheap.

Like I said, it is all about play style.

If you want to spice things up a bit I would suggest getting into some mods.

Maybe just some changes to your game like the diplomacy mod or battlesizer to mix things up a bit.  Or you can change everything and find a mod that has a whole new world to explore!

If this game has a problem (as all games do), it is the repetitiveness of the game near the end.

When you first start out things change quickly.  At first you have no good equipment and you can't fight worth a damn, but after killing a few raiders and bandits you find that you have a nice little squad coming up.  From there you have a million choices you could make and you see yourself advancing towards the goals you have made for yourself.  But eventually you have the best equipment, the best army, and your goals are set.  Then it is just a matter of grinding until you have defeated all of your enemies which is just a matter of time because no army can reach the might of yours.

The game loses a bit of its magic when you realize that you are essentially unstoppable and you have to create limits for yourself just to make the game fun again.

Northern Mameluke Empire 说:

*I get several Javelins to the face, followed by a Couched Lance under my horse, and a group butt****ing all over me*

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I am literally still in tears from laughing so hard after reading this.

Thank you sir for making my day!

I am currently in a similar place as you are.  For the first time I am going to attempt to take over the map without joining any faction. 

My question to you is how many Denars are you saving up?  I currently have 60,000, but I am going to attempt to gain more while leveling up my Leadership skill.  My maximum army size is only 70 at the moment, and I believe it is going to need to be a lot higher if I want to be able to survive.

Another question (for anyone who feels like answering this time):  If you attempt to take over a faction (say the Nords) and hire Nord soldiers for your army to fight against them, will you take a morale hit because you are forcing your men to fight their own kin?

The quest to stop a war doesn't come from a Town elder, it comes from a Guild Master.  Check your cities and see if you can get that quest.  It will probably cost you a lot of money in the long run (or you can beat up the lords who want the war) but it sounds like it would be worth a try.

There are no guarantees when it comes to getting vassals.  If you are really hurting for some, use your companions as vassals.  But what you should really be focusing on is getting your right to rule up.  I have not seen many people have a high success rate at 12.

It can be really helpful depending on how many soldiers you have your settings let on the field at the same time. 

I am not 100% sure about this, but I believe if you have your settings to 150 soldiers on the field at the same time, and the fight is 50 vs 50, tactics will not make a difference since everyone will be allowed on the battlefield at the same time because it does not reach the cap point.

I could be wrong, and would appreciate it if anyone could prove something different or confirm my thoughts.

There is no strategy that works for every situation.  Fighting Nords in the mountains is much different than fighting the Swadians in the open plains.  You can have general rules of thumb such as "always keep your army together," but sometimes even that strategy will not yield the best results.

For example I was once fighting a larger force when I had an even mix of infantry, archers, and calvary.  My opponent marched towards me slowly from the north as I moved my calvary to east, and my infantry and archers to the west.  With my calvary being ever so closer to the enemy, they turned and slowly marched towards them (showing their backs to my archers who clearly decimated their numbers (took out 1/10th of the army).  Being outnumbered my calvary ran south, so the force turned on my archers and infantry.  I moved my shield men up to defend the archers, and as their axes met my mens swords, I had my calvary charge and hit them simultaneously.  It was a slaughter and I didn't raise my bow.

Just continue to practice on the battlefield, and don't be too worried about trying new tactics.  You will be surprised with what you are capable of.

Taking castles as a Khergit is difficult enough...

I was Marshall one day and I went to go take the city of Tihr from the Nords.  This was not the first time I had tried to take a Nord city before, and I have never been successful quite yet.  With my 200 elite troops plus whatever other Lord I could get to follow me (we had about 1000 soldiers total I believe) we headed out to Tihr.  Two lords were inside with the 300+ garrison.  Knowing we would have no chance charging up the latter to face the Huscalars ourselves, I ordered my men to release their quiver of arrows before going up. 

This process took ages.

When I had realized that no more reinforcements were coming, I ordered my men back down from the latter, and then told them to charge again but this time behind me.  With me on top we actually broke through the wall killing all we saw inside.  but we didn't see everyone.  There was a lone Nord Archer who was stuck behind some wall, and was somehow able to hit me in the forehead. 

RIP River Pirates. 

This poll has too many variables for me to be able to come to a concrete answer between the Vaegir Marksmen and the Nord Huscarls.

Different Castles have different advantages to them.  Some are equipped to support a garrison of mostly archers, while others have relatively few good spots for setting off volleys of arrows at their enemies.

Another variable here is the size of the armies.  In my opinion if it were 100 defending vs. 200 invading I would give the Vaegir Marksmen the slight advantage.  But in a 1000 defending vs. 2000 invading I would have to give it to the Nord Huscarls.

Also, what army am I using to invade the castle with?  Fast moving infantry with shields have a distinct advantage over the Marksmen, while the siege would be easy with sharpshooters and marksmen against the Nord.  I won't even get into the different factions of possible invaders.

There are a number of other variables that are not being controlled here such as whether it is night or day, do I have companions and if so how many, what are the odds  have going against the defenders... and so on.

In the end I looked at all of the possible variables I could think of sitting here on the spot, and I voted for the Nord Huscarls.