That´s massive good feedback but did you create a ticket?...more than two years of ringing that bell and here we are still ringing. How young and naive we used to be...
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Well I would make horse archers more difficult to actually acquire if I had my way tbf.
This is a truly great suggestion. Frankly I think a faction should NOT ever give you access you their best troop lines (specifically the noble lines, like Fians) unless you were a SWORN vassal. This would in itself help create a much better balance.
It isn't more realistic when multi-cultural armies were entirely common in the medieval period.
It used to be close to this way, because of the way generating troops went, you needed high relations with a powerful (200+) landowner to get access to them. The AI could cheat a little and grab a few that way but their relations never went up. The reason it changed was because those troops were hard to get. Everyone complained about how much of a chore it made the game to recruit more, so TW changed things so it was any rural notable with no power requirements.
Crusaders (or similar medieval period) armies comprising troops from Spanish, Franks, Normans, Saxons, Swiss mercenaries, etc. - sure.
Crusader armies (at least after the First Crusade) had Turcopoles.
Yeah 100% - I kind of was rambling through my points to @five bucks but the point was both systems (Armor performance, weapon damage, damage "types) are tied together but implemented right we should have relative parity at equal tiers but I 110% still want my army of Elite Cataphracts to be able to immediately decimate a rabble of T1-T4 fillers.
I can definitely catch 30-man AI parties with my army of ~250?the point is that you should never be able to catch AI lord party of 30 with your 270 horde...only if you manage to ambush them...oops...no ambush in this game
LuciusDomitius... stated a "cav only doomstack" - they will surely run down a smaller infantry party every day of the week.the point is that you should never be able to catch AI lord party of 30 with your 270 horde...only if you manage to ambush them...oops...no ambush in this game
IIRC different languages such as Palaic and Dryatic (?) etc., are mentioned. Language barrier therefore probably does exist but is abstracted for the purposes of gameplay when communicating with army leaders, like it is in almost any game set in the real world.
"The Sacred Heavens" are alluded to frequently in the Empire and Aserai dialogue, while Khuzaits have some mention of vaguely sounding Mongolian style shamanist religion, the Sturgians have sacred oak groves in their city description, and Battania has its own mythology.
Under what metric? Art, architecture, clothing and armour, music, place naming conventions, weapons used, food eaten, economic focus, all different. The culture descriptions and backstory go out of their way to make them sound different too.
Yes, but turcopoles were often recruited from native Christians, or even from Europeans. So in that sense they shared major cultural traits with their recruiters. "Turcopole" really just meant "armed in the manner of a Turk". The Crusader states were largely maintained by mercenaries, the Templars and Hospitallers, and a constant influx of Europeans immigrating from the west. Not from local recruitment of people from a totally different culture, for the most part - though it certainly occurred to an extent.
This is it...
...more than two years of ringing that bell and here we are still ringing. How young and naive we used to be...
First of all, small groups are harder to track. Not the case in this game as we all have a GPS radar google map thingy at our hands. In real, your 270 cavalry party also had supply wagons or mules or whatever that slowed you down. Having horses didn't mean automatically you were faster. You could maybe march longer hours then on foot but this is debatable. European horses didn't feed on grass around the road. That was a unique feature of steppe breeds. You had to carry lots of food for your european breeds. Small group would, in case of detecting large group of 270 cavalry spread up to 1km along the road, just disperse or change their trajectory to avoid it. What would be more realistic is that your scouting party would cross the road with this 30 size group and skirmish, if odds were favourable. But you cant have scout detachments in this game. I would also welcome such small skirmishes as it would be more realistic and gave more chance to small group to even defend itself. And we need ambush mechanics as salt in this game. One of the basic tactics ever.
I totally agree that skirmishes would be awesome. Can the devs implement it? I doubt it.
It DID work in Warband because archers did not machinegun down entire armies before they could even get into the fight.
That's missing the point. Nobody is saying Warband is perfect. But I am saying archers were not overpowered in Warband, because armor WORKED.
There are certainly other things that need fixing, and yes battles won't feel "good" until some of them are fixed. However, battles will definitely not feel good if all those other things get fixed but armor doesn't. We will still be seeing Fians firing into masses of melee troops and racking up hundreds of kills, no matter how good the melee troops' AI is.
Thank you.
Unfortunately RBM does not fix cavalry AI. It turns cav into an odd kind of support unit, where you use well-timed charges to stun the enemy infantry/archers with their hooves while the melee infantry does the killing, a bit like Viking Conquest.
