Caravan battles in early game are fairly simple affairs BUT in late game when bandit bands can become large armies, caravans can easily be destroyed.
Do you want the ability to actually fight caravan battles yourself ? This should be easy to code, it's just a matter of changing the battle commander from your main character to the caravan leader..
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Hello.
That could be fun to play our hero which is the caravan master to do this.
The game could just ask us if we want to do it ourselves or let it resolve the fights.
Because it seems the game thinks 60 looters are stronger than a 30 member caravan.
It is when the game resolves it.
I don't kill looters anylonger cause when I, the player do it in real time, after having taken like 5% losses, looters start to flee, and it is a f*** PAIN to kill them all. And using the send troops causes looters to be able to kill tier 4+ units (only, it would seem) even when you have 200 and they have 20, above I resolve myself, games does anything resolving alone.
So I think that a caravan led by a hero, with usually no infantry and half cavalry/half ranged can make it against a finite superior number of ennemies.
We agree that Sea Raiders are much more stronger and dangerous than looters, or steppe bandits.
I would also have the chance to kill myself (with the hero leading the caravan) those minor clans lord whose main occupation seems to be :
- raiding villages
- attacking caravans
- attacking heavily weakened armies
- occasionaly, when participating in a true battle, charging like idiots and getting killed for good, but for nothing lol - which is not so bad provided all the s*** they seem to be limited to be able to perform lol
ATM, I still can't bear this and abuse of CTRL + CLick* to try to kill them when they attack my caravans lol
I know I must progress in my head lol so as not to cheat with this lol, and try to go normaly to help the caravan (often too late or too far).
*Using the console mainly to fix some issues (for example when you send troops, 200 vs 9 looters, and they manage to kill a Banner Knight, I replace it with the console, cause there were also 50 or so Xbowmen, so the 9 looters can NOT make it at all
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