Dullathehan
Recruit
I am following the main story line and have an army of fairly well trained veterans around level 21 and am currently stuck and demoralized on collecting the last pieces of the banner. Azargos points me towards a forest bandit hideout and no matter how I seem to approach it on easy difficulty they just melt everyone. I try and stealthily take on one pocket at a time? I get melted to only having a few left by the 2nd wave, whether I have everyone shield wall together or charge from separate sides. Open field fights are cake walk yet I absolutely dread and avoid doing any bandit hideouts as they range from impossible (without having to retreat over and over throwing men into a blender night after night) or barely doable by the skin of my teeth if its a mountain bandit hideout.
I am currently just flat out hard-stuck on my campaign with zero motivation to continue because of these hideout quests. If I could wait for them to leave and ambush them with my army, encircle the hideout and close in on them, or really any other method but having to do an "ambush battle" where I take a small fraction of my army into a forest to get absolutely shredded by machine gun bandit snipers I would be happy.
The funny thing is that I have the settings on easy because I am by no means an expert and while it feels easy on open field battles and fighting in a tournament, yet these hideouts are just disproportionately hard in comparison to the rest of the game, especially forest bandit hideouts which are simply in a tier of their own.
Hopefully they get re-balanced at some point since they are nothing more than an incredibly hard challenge with an incredibly huge penalty for failing, and typically not enough payoff to make me even begin to care about attempting them in most cases. In my case they are a roadblock so overdone that I will be put off from even bothering until it is fixed.
I am currently just flat out hard-stuck on my campaign with zero motivation to continue because of these hideout quests. If I could wait for them to leave and ambush them with my army, encircle the hideout and close in on them, or really any other method but having to do an "ambush battle" where I take a small fraction of my army into a forest to get absolutely shredded by machine gun bandit snipers I would be happy.
The funny thing is that I have the settings on easy because I am by no means an expert and while it feels easy on open field battles and fighting in a tournament, yet these hideouts are just disproportionately hard in comparison to the rest of the game, especially forest bandit hideouts which are simply in a tier of their own.
Hopefully they get re-balanced at some point since they are nothing more than an incredibly hard challenge with an incredibly huge penalty for failing, and typically not enough payoff to make me even begin to care about attempting them in most cases. In my case they are a roadblock so overdone that I will be put off from even bothering until it is fixed.