Are Bolts/Bullets and Arrows infinite during battle?

[Phallus Erectus]

I finished off 12 highwaymen by standing behind a hill and firing around 200 bolts at them. When the bolt counter reached 0, it would go back to 50.

 

[xenoargh]

It reloads after 5 minutes, in open-field, and every 3 minutes during a siege.

 

[Phallus Erectus]

I'm assuming this respawn works for thrown weapons?

On a different issue, could you remodel the Valkyries to have long blond hair and have them also use bows? If the hair is an issue with helmets making them bald, then maybe you could implement a helmet+hair model to give the illusion they have hair? Also, I just saved the Nord merchant's brother and the guy was black. I read elsewhere that in previous versions, daughters of white kings and queens would be black. Perhaps, it's a similar problem?

 

[Emperor Milton]

I read elsewhere that in previous versions, daughters of white kings and queens would be black. Perhaps, it's a similar problem?

Or perhaps the queen isn't as virtuous as we would expect? 

 

[rhettronnuked]

Just thought I would throw my 2 cents in on this topic.  Maybe putting a cap on the number of reloads would be a bit more realistic.  I like that you can rely on ranged attacking more than in the original, but in very long battles ammunition should begin to factor into the outcome a bit imo.

 

[Steffenximus]

I finished off 12 highwaymen by standing behind a hill and firing around 200 bolts at them. When the bolt counter reached 0, it would go back to 50.

You're nothing compared to me. I just played an impossible siege defend. 1000 of our troops, 200 mine vs 4500 vaegirs. And yes, THEY ALL HAVE UBER ARMOR !!! Long story short, i think i placed around 500 arrows at head and torso, and around 50 bullets with best weapon. of course it took a few arrows/1-2 bullets to take one down. And they kept coming, and coming and coming. In the end, all my troops fell, and then i was attacked by everyone. Needless to say, i went down in seconds, swarmed by Uber tankers. At least i was the last one to fall, and it was one hell of a fight ! 1100 vaegirs killed, around 300 by me i assume Proud of it.

 

[xenoargh]

It's funny how those sieges where you can't quite stave them all off are some of the most memorable

 

[Steffenximus]

It's funny how those sieges where you can't quite stave them all off are some of the most memorable

Oh yes ! I always enjoy a good fight, even if i loose. But really now, that vaegir armor is way too powerful, and even the recruits have it.

 

[xenoargh]

Beating the Vaegir is pretty easy, really.  Fighting them in a siege where they're the attacker is like rubbing steak all over yourself and stepping into a tiger's cage  

You need to defeat them in the field, using the right mix of troops.  It can be done

 

[Steffenximus]

Yeah, that's what i do. I have an impressive selection of heavy cavalry, heavy infantry and arquebusiers. Really i'm undefeatable on the battlefield unless greatly outnumbered, but i have another huge problem. Fatigue. And i just can't get rid of it.

 

[pampl]

I like the reloading - especially during sieges - but wish that ammo stacks were a little smaller, so that dedicated missile troops would still want to sacrifice two item slots to ammo and only have one slot for melee.  ATM it's impossible to use bolts/bullets fast enough to run out of a stack, so the player doesn't have to choose between being able to fire all the time and having a backup sword and board

 

[xenoargh]

That is a thought, for bolts / bullets.

 

[Splintert]

make the restocks slightly slower (at least a 30 second wait in between the fastest range weapons)
and limit restocks for field battles and siege attackers, plenty of reloads for the defenders (since defenders dont swap out with new soldiers, as they would IRL)