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In practice the game works a bit different than one would expect.

Rhodok Sergeants are not the best anti cav infantry. That would be Nord Vets and Huscurls. Their shield wall is almost as good and they hit harder with their axes. And they have throwing weapons which can cause lot of extra causulties among cavalry.

What Rhodok Sergeants really excelt at is in castle defense. They are best close quarter fighters in the game. Huscurls might be slightly better but are lot harder to get. But in anycase Sergeants have better armor, stronger shields and their weapons generally even better than Huscurls for close combat.

Hired Blades ? They do great against weaker tier infantry like bandits or Sarranids but are easily overwhelmed by heavy infantry of other factions. Their main problem is unwieldy bastard swords that are difficult to use in cramped spaces. In siege assaults they are at disadvantage.

Swadian Sergeants and Vaegir Guard are both beasts in different ways. The Vaegir guard is probably highest damaging infantry in the game when using the bardiche. He frequently kills warhorses in a single swing. In siege assault guards often one or two hit kill other elite troops. The problem is Vaegir guards are bit fragile due to weaker armor. He is easily swarmed by lesser troops and is very easy bait for archers. The Swadian Sergeant is opposite. He is not uber vs another tier 5 but he is almost invincible vs lower tier infantry and archers due to best infantry armor in game. Sergeants in siege defense can survive wave after wave. His morning star with block crush is great in close quarters of siege. Sergeants can fight Nord troops and beat them, even when outnumbered which is pretty rare for any other infantry in game.

Nord troops are most reliable ever for castle assaults. You dont need huscurls, anything from trained footmen up is a beast.

Gwynnerz 说:

agility gives, riding, athletics, weapons master and some others which are incredibly good for being a skilled fighter, Charisma is a leader thing

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Without agility you have no shield skill, riding skill, athletics or horse archery. It makes you much less effective fighter if your agility is low.

Rocktopus85 说:

I have a friend who has been capturing lords but just throwing them in his prison and not ransoming them. He has 30+ and I was wondering if this eventually affects how effective they become in terms of an army

Does anybody know?

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It is THE way to totally destroy a faction. Without lords a faction can not defend against sieges. If Khergits were fighting Swadia say and your take 1/3 of Khergits prisoners it is very likely the Khergits will lose multiple fiefs within weeks. And as they lose fiefs the effect snowballs because fiefloss lords defect or get extradited. If they somehow reconquer them back their faction instability increases as new fiefs get redistrobuted.

When soloing a faction taking their lords prisoner make the conquest a breeze. I took 3/4 of Sarranids prisoner and then blitzes through all their cities one of another unopposed. Siege, kill 150 troops, replenis 10-12 dudes who died, repeat. An entire faction killed in 3-4 hours of play time.

Sir Robert Lannigan 说:

I would think that this "Dead is Dead" method really fits freelancer, cause we're soldiers, and yeah...

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Tried that. Not very fun. Death is either unexpected (random lance, crossbow to head) or unavoidable (lord gets into unwinnable fight). It's kind of realistic but in a game bit frustating.

If you have a horse there is no reason to fight a little. Even the most weakest character can kill 5-6 Knights or Mamelukes in a single battle using lances.

A few pointers to improve accuracy.

1. Thrown weapons have very steep ballistic arc. Take it into account and aim above head of targets. There is a reason why AI gets so many headshots with otherwise inaccurate jarids. Indirectly aiming for the head is only way to get any accuracy when throwing at range. Don't bother to aim for body or legs when target is not very close.

2. Zoom in when throwing. It makes the crosshair tighter and greatly enhances accuracy. Switch to first person mode if you can also.

In general once you get decent powethrow,proficiency and some practice thrown weapons are amazing. My Swadian knight carries only 4 Jarids, I kill 30-40 in each battle. Yet the most memorable kills are from those four jarids. Lords, two hander berserks etc tend to get a jarid to the face in the most dramatic moment,

Not really fond of Vaegir marksmen. Takes extremely long time to train. The intermediete units are very medicore. By contrast even a tier 2 Rhodok crossbowmen is a serious threat. Nords have better archers IMHO. Their accuracy is good enough while being quite fast to raise.

Rhodoks are better defenders because of ranged weapons rather than stats. Nords are tough but still beatable with numbers and elite troops. Now crossbows on other hand don't care how elite someone is. One shot from a sharpshooter may kill any troop. If he shoots from side or behind or when shield is not raised there is absolutely no defence at all. Before the siege crossbow a knight is as vulnerable as a footman. I actually attack Rhodok keeps, if they don't have sergeants with expendable troops like Hired Blades and Swadian Footman. No need to risk my knights when their armor and skills are of no use against entrenched crossbows inside a castle.

I give Alayen a bardiche and a warbow. He is a true Eastern Cataphract knight. He shoots but can also fight close combat. Basically an elite Vaegir knight.

Swadia because of great cavalry and decent infantry and archers. Other factions have glaring weaknesses in one or two areas.

Rhodoks first. For a skilled player field battles are not a problem regardless of who you are fighting. But Rhodok keeps, once upgraded with Sergeants and sharpshooters are almost impossible to take no matter how uber your army is. It does not matter if your 50 knights can defeat an entire campaign army. You will never take a Rhodok castle without horrific losses and frustration.

It's been a while and I am going off memory so this may not be entirely accurate.

According to script AI lords and centers receive certain amount of XP every 2 days. AI lords also have trainer skill which can be upto 6 at most, with 3 being average.

AI does not seem to pay for upgrading troops like it does not receiving reinforcements.

kaeden 说:

Some good suggestions here. I guess I'll have to try and raise some crossbowmen and bring those out for any sieges. The suggestion of giving allied lords troops to make them a gigantic deathstar is a nice one, but feels a bit gamey.

What about autoresolving when you have a couple of lords with you (or are helping them) and thus outnumbering the enemy, would that be better than heading in and doing it the 'hard' way?

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You can keep only your companions with you and garrision rest of your army when auto resolving sieges. That way the only causulties will be from allies not yours/

For autoresolve if you are marshall or king give your allies tons of troops by using dialogue option "I want to give you some troops". AI has no troop limit so you can give them 1000+ swadian militia and turn them into a Death Star that busts any fortress.

Do not look here 说:

Average calradian night
"Hey, guys, there is someone in full plate, with large sword strapped to his back. Let's ignore the fact that there are lone merchants all around the town and rob commander of huge army that arrived today!"
"Alrighty. Don't forget to scream loudly while standing around the corner, or he might not draw his sword. Have some honour, gentlemen."

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You would think they would reconsider coming after a guy with personal kill count in thousands like most end game chars.

Grunwalder is not too bad if you take it early game when garrision don't have Sergeants. Rhodok spearmen are weak, once heavy infantry reaches top of ladder it's game over for the defenders.

Real frustrating castles are where crossbowmen alone can hold it like Tevarin or Ibdeles. Bunch of skirmishers beat off my combined Swadian and allied lords nord army at Tevarin. Nothing but militia and skirmishers beat back Sergeants and Nord Veterans !

The lords of destroyed faction slowly join one of the surviving faction.

Lords only vanish when you see a message that says "lord somebody has gone into exile outside of Calradia".