Blocking a great lance?

[Schiester]

This is severely unrealistic and it needs to be fixed. A lancer riding at nigh full speed with a great lance can have his great lance parried with a sword. Unrealistic and bad game design.

 

[Ebdanian Admiral]

Press X to couch, couches are unblockable.

 

[Terrible_Swordsman]

Yes, because this weapon needs even more of an advantage on the field 

 

[Bubs]

Press X to couch, couches are unblockable.

You can chamber a couched lance.

 

[Achilles_TheIV]

You're completely right, let's change the mechanic that we've had since 2005 boys

 

[schubertt]

The quality of game design is not based on realism, it based upon how well it fits within the game. This sort of advantage for a cavalry player over an infantry would make the game unbearable.

 

[Terrible_Swordsman]

Press X to couch, couches are unblockable.

You can chamber a couched lance.

Yes, but its stupidly risky and again why do we want an unblockable weapon in this game?

 

[Snazzi]

Press X to couch, couches are unblockable.

You can chamber a couched lance.

Yes, but its stupidly risky and again why do we want an unblockable weapon in this game?

you could still use a shield to block any weapon?

 

[Calamity]

Yeah no. Great lance is fine how it is.

 

[Oliveran]

Press X to couch, couches are unblockable.

You can chamber a couched lance.

Yes, but its stupidly risky and again why do we want an unblockable weapon in this game?

you could still use a shield to block any weapon?

What about when you need to save your shield for other purposes, like here:

 

[Keller]

Only Caius would have done it in an official tho. I miss Caius 

 

[Oliveran]

Only Caius would have done it in an official tho. I miss Caius 

Caius: "Voulez-vous faire l'amour avec moi, bébèveran?"

 

[Chaingun]

1) They're not going to change the game now, you might have better luck posting Bannerlord suggestions.
2) Realism is not a good argument if it would make the game worse. It definitely would for infantry players, assuming a simple "make lollance unblockable" change without anything else.

 

[Liwi]

you only have my permission to change it when finally these 358° cavshields disappear 

 

[Orion]

Press X to couch, couches are unblockable.

You can chamber a couched lance.

Don't you still need a shield, though? The only purpose it serves is to reduce damage done to your shield from the couch.

 

[Kragen]

Press X to couch, couches are unblockable.

You can chamber a couched lance.

Don't you still need a shield, though? The only purpose it serves is to reduce damage done to your shield from the couch.

Twohander or Poleweapon work without shield aswell I sink

 

[Watly]

Realistically, it is not possible to stab from horseback with a great lance, but this would severely nerf its user. I feel it is fine just as it is.

 

[Kaiser Otto IV]

The quality of game design is not based on realism, it based upon how well it fits within the game. This sort of advantage for a cavalry player over an infantry would make the game unbearable.

Pikes and spears, ever heard of it? If the devs merely had replaced the "parry" action against a charging knight for a "bracing" position, that would be tremendously realistic and far better in game play aspects. Besides, depending on your position, a shield COULD block against a lance, so there is that, and I don't believe the OP is asking that you make even shields useless against lances.

 

[Kentucky 『 ＨＥＩＧＵＩ 』 James]

Bracing mechanics don't feel right in warband. They encourage defensive play and usually boil down to "you touched this spearman at speed, suffer arbitrary damage x50" since that's about as far as you can go with the code.

Couching is fairly easy to circumvent by other means unless you're in a confined area. Even from a realism perspective, a single spearman bracing against a single horsemen (a la multiplayer) is a bit silly, especially for a pike, although those nevrr make much of an appearance in warband.

On a side note, I've heard of a guy who said he chambered aa guy's lance with a club four times in a row, then died to the lance because he was laughing so much.

 

[Apollo ?]

Too be honest, in real life could you block a big heavy lance with a small sharp edged sword? Like for real? No you could not so I think it is rather realistic

You could also argue that they should take Archers/Crossbowman out the game because they are largely hard to defend against. But no because they play a big role in the game singe-player/multiplayer and the countless great mods out there. They also play a big role in history and during the medieval times which this game is based