Damage set to Normal.

[diavel]

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Lol, anyone get knocked out by a rock....I mean, really?

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Well in RL... not me... but by me. I was 5(?) y.o. and was curious. And yeah the guy was knocked down. Nobody found out who threw it. I'm so sorry for this guy now but fortunately everything was ok with him after short time.

I liked this game for it's mechanics realism. I would like more of it even at cost of supposed playability and balance. But as far as I know realism makes it more playable at least for me. I'm not a good player in MP and I die quite often in SP but I want to try again. I don't like one thing - how statistics change your character in superhero after ~20 level. I'd like to make these stats far less important. I can't imagine not playing on Normal damage and Good AI.

 

[Madf11]

Lol, anyone get knocked out by a rock....I mean, really? I did, had my shield up and everything (well shield skill 0). Damn looter.....lucky bastards. I hunted them down shortly after I escaped. But....a ROCK! man, those stones are no joke with no helmet.

xD

 

[allthesedamnnamesaretaken]

get a good helmet. I can't even count the times I got headshotted and survived with 1 or 2 hp. It's funny riding around with an axe in your head. Sometimes that extra point in ironflesh helps too.

 

[Puerkl8r]

try doing a forest bandit lair early in the game when all you have is militia and a crappy shield. on normal damage it is impossible.

 

[Pejot]

I love when on normal damage i'm participating in tournament in Praven and in the final round we knock out each other in the first charge but don't know why it's me that always lose cause if we knocked each other in the same time it should be a draw or something.

 

[Hammo]

I don't wear helmets because you look way more badass without them and I get one shotted by Raiders/Bandits all the time. I still haven't learned my lesson.

 

[TheHevy]

Yep.. Normal dmg can cause quite epic moments...

1 of my best was my first battle ever against Tundra bandits. Had couple swadian men at arms with me againts about 15 bandits.
Decided to make normal charge against then thinking that they can't be that hard to take down. Well result was that as soon I did get to range of their jarids and javelins both me and my horse was taken down faster than I could even understand what had just happened. Once again lesson learned. Never rush enemy you don't know

 

[Apthorpe]

Even with a helmet with 50+ head armor, the chances of surviving a jarid to the face on normal damage are somewhat slim. I know from a rather recent experience in SP.

 

[Fattyfat]

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Lol, anyone get knocked out by a rock....I mean, really?

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Well in RL... not me... but by me. I was 5(?) y.o. and was curious. And yeah the guy was knocked down. Nobody found out who threw it. I'm so sorry for this guy now but fortunately everything was ok with him after short time.

I liked this game for it's mechanics realism. I would like more of it even at cost of supposed playability and balance. But as far as I know realism makes it more playable at least for me. I'm not a good player in MP and I die quite often in SP but I want to try again. I don't like one thing - how statistics change your character in superhero after ~20 level. I'd like to make these stats far less important. I can't imagine not playing on Normal damage and Good AI.

For a challenge, limit your strength to 6 or 9 when you sit down to play in SP - it makes the ride a lot more fun for me, at least   It removes that superhero power level to some extent.

 

[rapier17]

it's those easy kills which make me play on easy setting. I do re-enactment, everyone dies in about 90% of the fights, and that's how M&B on hard mode is. If I wanted to die a lot, I'd play on hard, but I get enough of that with re-enactment combat, so I'd rather play on god mode, and die at practice on wednesday and saturdays (that, and I'd rather not have to rebuild my army every time I die). On the other hand, since this is about epic wins and/or deaths, I'll just describe a re-enactment win instead. During the week at Moesgaard, I was standing in the middle of a shieldwall. I took out a german guy who reached out too far to kill someone, and that created a small hole, a reasonably fresh daneaxeuser stepped into the hole, and I killed him too when he reached too far, then I risked it, and sprinted through the hole, and managed to not get struck, I proceeded to rush down the whole line, striking people down, and the whole thing collapsed.

Does that count?

I'd say it counts!

Hehe my favourite trick when I used to do re-enactment. Make a hole using my spear, then into the gap with a scramsaexe working my way down their shield wall. Used to partner up with our 'Priest' (who had a cloak of +5 defence...no-one could hit his left side when he wore it  ) who would pin one of the enemy with his spear, then bang! I'd be on to him with scramsaexe, make a hole in their line then we'd 'scissor' our way down the line.

My most epic moment was in York at the 'Jorvik Viking' festival thing in February 2005/6 or so, I forget which. We, the Saxons, were lined up in this square in the 'shopping centre', glamorous place that it is. As we were waiting I got bored and started to hum to myself and absentmindedly beat a ryhtem with my spear butt on the flagstones. Then the person next in line started joining in, then others, until the entire Saxon contingent was hammering spear butts on to flagstones or weapons against shields to create this cacophony of noise that was incredible. We were given a very rousing speech, and my blood was so up I wanted to fight for real. That was epic...

...we got crushed that battle

Epic in-game moment was back with M&B and my Nord contingent of 50+ Huscarls stood on a hilltop, with fog all around us and about 100 Swadians marching on us (I used to use the battle enlarger thingy). Was rather good to walk forward of my line, look back to see them shrouded in fog, look back to the front to see these dark shapes emerging from the fog...I've never wanted a sprint button more than at that moment 

Not all epic moments involve fighting

Now, to be truly on-topic, I personally, being a little wimpy, have the damage to self set at 50%, full for allies & best AI/normal speed and that is a hell of a challenge for me, especially with manual blocking (I'm determined to learn! Took me an hour to beat the guys at the training field). This is challenging enough for me that I will lose, but not so tough that I won't /ragequit. Anyone who plays successfully with full everything is one hell of a player

 

[UnfortunateCrow]

I started a female character on normal damage and realistic saves...Oh boy.

Started out alright, working out on looters and such.  I had a few swadian recruits that I trained up to footmen and militia, as well as one man-at-arms.  I decided to jump on a band of five forest bandits to hopefully swipe some half-decent gear for Rolf or Marnid.  Opening volley from the bandits scores a solid hit on me, leaving me in pretty bad shape, my men get cut down in seconds, and I attempt to flee the map, lol!  I get near the edge of the map, zig-zagging all the way when finally one of their arrows nicks me and I go down.

So of course I get taken prisioner and get to watch myself get carted all over the map for a while until I escape.  First thing I do is find the nearest city and find out where Rolf and Marnid are.  Marnid is close, so I'm able to get him back, but Rolf is in Sarranid lands.  To make things really bad, I am broke, so it is just Marnid and I trekking across the desert.  Well As I am headed into the desert I realize "Hey I don't have a horse!".  Those damn forest bandits took it!  No matter, I willmake a beeline for the city.

I get within about an inch of this city before I get intercepted by a group of desert bandits!  The battle goes as expected, and I end up getting carted around the desert for a week before escaping...only to be captured again!  So begins an epic string of 5 more captures and subsequentescape and re-captures...  =(  Finally I get loose and make a run for it, escaping into Khergit lands.  I can only imagine the horrors my pretty little female character endured at the hands of the desert bandits, again and again.

She finally did get loose for good in Khergit lands and got ahold of some cash by selling the precious little gear she had.  She raised a small band, and headed back to the desert bandit camp she'd seen in her "travels".  The first attempt at eliminating the bastards came up just short and they moved the camp, leaving a bitter taste in her mouth.  I figured she'd have a pretty big figurative hard-on for them though, and so I scoured the desert looking for the new camp, killing as many desert bandits as I could in the process.  Finally she found it and exacted some bloody retribution.  Afterwards, she emerged from the desert wearing desert garb and sarranid weaponry that was much different from the swadian gear she had entered the desert in som many months earlier.

After that, I went to the nearest city and exited the game.  It felt so epic that I don't even want to continue the character.  It was just the perfect ending, and I am pretty happy I stuck with it!

 

[kweassa]

Well, it's not a s hectic as playing Blizzard's "Diablo" on hard-core servers. (1 'death', and you are literally 'dead')

There are a lot of good advices here, but I guess the best advice would be to;

(1) take your time in becoming a more powerful warrior
(2) never over estimate your abilities
(3) think realistically - you are but one man/woman. Rather than jump to glorious death, live to fight another day

 

[MindFlavor]

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I started a female character on normal damage and realistic saves...Oh boy.

Started out alright, working out on looters and such.  I had a few swadian recruits that I trained up to footmen and militia, as well as one man-at-arms.  I decided to jump on a band of five forest bandits to hopefully swipe some half-decent gear for Rolf or Marnid.  Opening volley from the bandits scores a solid hit on me, leaving me in pretty bad shape, my men get cut down in seconds, and I attempt to flee the map, lol!  I get near the edge of the map, zig-zagging all the way when finally one of their arrows nicks me and I go down.

So of course I get taken prisioner and get to watch myself get carted all over the map for a while until I escape.  First thing I do is find the nearest city and find out where Rolf and Marnid are.  Marnid is close, so I'm able to get him back, but Rolf is in Sarranid lands.  To make things really bad, I am broke, so it is just Marnid and I trekking across the desert.  Well As I am headed into the desert I realize "Hey I don't have a horse!".  Those damn forest bandits took it!  No matter, I willmake a beeline for the city.

I get within about an inch of this city before I get intercepted by a group of desert bandits!  The battle goes as expected, and I end up getting carted around the desert for a week before escaping...only to be captured again!  So begins an epic string of 5 more captures and subsequentescape and re-captures...  =(  Finally I get loose and make a run for it, escaping into Khergit lands.  I can only imagine the horrors my pretty little female character endured at the hands of the desert bandits, again and again.

She finally did get loose for good in Khergit lands and got ahold of some cash by selling the precious little gear she had.  She raised a small band, and headed back to the desert bandit camp she'd seen in her "travels".  The first attempt at eliminating the bastards came up just short and they moved the camp, leaving a bitter taste in her mouth.  I figured she'd have a pretty big figurative hard-on for them though, and so I scoured the desert looking for the new camp, killing as many desert bandits as I could in the process.  Finally she found it and exacted some bloody retribution.  Afterwards, she emerged from the desert wearing desert garb and sarranid weaponry that was much different from the swadian gear she had entered the desert in som many months earlier.

After that, I went to the nearest city and exited the game.  It felt so epic that I don't even want to continue the character.  It was just the perfect ending, and I am pretty happy I stuck with it!

Cool. Thank you for sharing it with us 

 

[Fewd]

You need to man up and grow yourself a facial battle armor. Surprisingly considering the health bar, that's on normal.

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[diavel]

that's iron beard ability

 

[Masterja]

Here is the most epic way to get knocked out in combat:

I was fighting Swadians over king's title, and while i was fighting 2 Swadian knights alone, on foot, supplied with bow and 60 arrows and pike... I stopped first one with pike, but second one hit me from back and left me with very very low hp, about 1 or 2. He turns around and charges at me and - BANG, i score headshot with bow and kill that poor guy instantly... However, his warhorse still charged at me and you can imagine the rest... i got charged over by a horse and it took me 6 hp, enough to knock me out.

 

[mrdang]

Lol, anyone get knocked out by a rock....I mean, really? I did, had my shield up and everything (well shield skill 0). Damn looter.....lucky bastards. I hunted them down shortly after I escaped. But....a ROCK! man, those stones are no joke with no helmet.

when i had just started warband in version 1.105, i picked up 5 recruits, just finished the first lair quest and was a little injured when a looter party of 14 walked by me. i figured, hey i can take them down pretty easily eh just like old times? since i wanted to keep my recruits alive to train later, i had them hold position and charged forward alone... only to meet an adulterer's worst nightmare--stoning to death. my character was no pincushion, but more like a newly formed mountain given how all the looters spawn with throwing rocks now.

 

[Aule_the_creator]

yeah, that happened to me as well, I started a character on normal, and while I was loading my crossbow, to kill said looter... shot him once, not dead, shot him twice, probably very low hp left, but with his third rock, he knocked me out... epic failure I say...

 

[Snall]

OP: Zig.  Zag.  You zigged when you shoulda zagged.  Heh.