Map really need more parties

[mikeboix]

Is just me, or the map looks pretty empty? I'm not talking about castles, villages and cities (well, maybe I'm also talking about this), but I'm mostly talking about bandits, pirates, vikings parties. Where are they?

Naval travel is too secure, no pirates chasing you. In addition, your ship always moves way faster than the enemy (having on my ship just 7 men rowing), so there is no possibility of being attacked by pirates.

In land there are a little ammount of bandits, and if you don't have battles with bandits it's really difficult at the beggining of the game to make money and raise the men's moral.

So... please, take this into consideration and make the map look more active.

 

[Hibernicus]

map is also laggy as hell for me

 

[Gothyc]

I really agree with the OP here. It's very difficult to find any bandits to fight in the early game, and if you do, they're usually just 4 hapless ruffians that your men devour in 3 seconds.

 

[Froi]

I've given up on going after the 4 little Thieves or whatever they are.  They never move from their spawn, just sit there and wait for me to run all the way there, then there is the last guy that runs away, so we have to chase him until he hits map border.

 

[Dendz]

I remember at danmark kingdom, the ruffian and thieves is not seen anywhere, there is only christian priest and pagan priest parties just walking around the map so i though maybe i should attack one of those and because i am pagan  i decided to attack the christian priest and ....... turn out it is a bad decision. After that christian priest badmouthed me and my reputation suffer constantly with christian kingdom.

Or maybe i am not viking enough to be the heathen

 

[Tovias]

Seriously, I had to leave Denmark to search for some headhunting somehwere else, not to mentioning that the little parties that pop up are destroyed by the lords that never leave the damn islands.

 

[kalarhan]

Or maybe we need to play this game as it is. Instead of the native free hunting we need to focus more on ... you know... the Conquest part of it. Raid or Conquest. Less free hunting.

 

[Skraedos]

Danmark and Norvegr are VERY GOOD about killing any small parties in their lands. I noticed that each kingdom is restricted to a small area and they don't sail away much at all. This means both kingdoms have 5-6 armies running around killing all the bandits and such most of the game. Frise has a harder time because they only have 4 armies total. I find (late-game at least) there are 80+ groups of Vikingr wandering around the British Isles. I find most ruffians and vikingr groups in Northern England/Scotland. However I almost never needed to fight these groups. Between pillaging monestaries and fighting Picts, there is usually plenty of war somewhere in England. I also find that Happy Widows are the best thing for moral, 1500 gold for 13 moral and you can repeat it.

 

[Tovias]

Or maybe we need to play this game as it is. Instead of the native free hunting we need to focus more on ... you know... the Conquest part of it. Raid or Conquest. Less free hunting.

The last thing we need is people excusing the shortcomings of this game, mate.

Another thing, what were they thinking when they gave the nordic countries a single city? God damn, at least get them two or something.

 

[Do not look here]

Another thing, what were they thinking when they gave the nordic countries a single city? God damn, at least get them two or something.

I guess that was supposed to somehow motivate them to go out on the seas and conquer.

 

[Dendz]

Seriously, I had to leave Denmark to search for some headhunting somehwere else, not to mentioning that the little parties that pop up are destroyed by the lords that never leave the damn islands.

Haha, yes that hilarious.

Or maybe we need to play this game as it is. Instead of the native free hunting we need to focus more on ... you know... the Conquest part of it. Raid or Conquest. Less free hunting.

Noted, i think i can try to change my style and take a different approach to the game.

Another thing, what were they thinking when they gave the nordic countries a single city? God damn, at least get them two or something.

I guess that was supposed to somehow motivate them to go out on the seas and conquer.

Duly noted. Sometime the village is unbearable poor, i cant .... just cant 

 

[Plovercrest]

I really agree with the OP here. It's very difficult to find any bandits to fight in the early game, and if you do, they're usually just 4 hapless ruffians that your men devour in 3 seconds.

Probably because you can't see them over the dark green blob texture that is the map.