Thanks for the advice, I've been working on reclaiming my lands by having an all mount skirmisher army (over powered as hell) and just picking off the new spawning lords. Ill run around sieging castles to draw attention while the other vassals do their thing. I found this to work for a while until the vassals defect. I found this play run to be super fun cause now it's me causing chaos instead of always being to reactionary. but yeah, I feel you on the full time job on constantly recruiting vassals as they leave. overall I'm incredibly happy with how this game is taking shape and I'm super excited with how the new leveling up system will play a role in a new playthrough. thanks for all the tips so far guys, I really appreciate it.
doesnt recruiting mercenaries as vassels still leave to another kingdom?
i see, i didnt know it took into account the the fiefs they bring in. i must have been lucky bringing people on my first kingdom play through of acquiring nobles who were fiefless. thanks for the tip
I agree, I do occasionally get a random neck shot from a bandit from a camp i got too close to or forgot to raid in an improper order. And i understand a lot of peoples concerns that have posted here, but I see it like this. in early game, everyone does the arenas to gain xp and gold. at some point, the arena gains slow down as it just gives 3 renown and about 500 to 1k gold. I find bandit camps as a next step to continue the smaller combats that arenas just sending troops to fight bandits as it gets a little repetative. the camps are just a nice change of play style to give my companions and main character time to skill up. and yes, there are times when you aggro'ed too many units and just have to sit there taking arrows or javs til they wilt down where you can start hitting them 1v4. i find it similiar to when youre in an arena and all your allies die and your up against 3 or 4 heavy armored gladiators. so you have to do the ol run away turn and swing for 2 minutes til you hopefully win.
sounds fun to me. imagine the renown you can get if you finish an 8 v 100 and the look stack.
ive personally never saw a bandit base more than 40ish. sounds like you have a more bandits mod activated
i guess eveeryones a critic...
I dont see this as a broken mechanic, you approach them with a shield up as they get peppered, and as you get closer, they draw their swords and you cambat them 1v1, 1v2 or sometimes 1v3, which i personally find enjoyable
I totally understand, in every bandit camp, you need a shield. personally i find the sea raiders way harder without a shield cause they can one shot you, with forest bandits, sit in front, tank all the arrows that do no damage to your shield, and have the archers behind you. they literally are in waves of 3 to 5 at each camp fire. not like youre fighting all 20 or more forest bandits at once