Morale sucks
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Lord Louchar
Recruit
Morale is awesome. I love having to keep my men happy. Its so much more realistic. /end
QuailLover
Marquis
Shire said:
and your point is?
I don't like that it's so simple in terms of the men needing to fight every bloody day at some points, but you get used to it / counter at high levels by slamming an army or castle and getting 40 morale 
munkibowl
Sergeant
I do think the party size penalty is too severe, and that the recent events bonus should last longer - capturing an enemy town should keep your troops in high spirits for at least a week. When I build up a huge party I tend to keep 1 of each food item in my inventory to really boost morale. The morale system in this game is pretty good despite any complaints I might have.
http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,36638.0.htmlTemujin said:
that's because recent events is a misleadin' description of what your army's actual morale is from battles and then subtracted from the sum of other morale modifies above it.. it's just a formula and if ya run outta food buyin' more food won't increase your morale's total.. it will just decrease the recent events instead.. stuff like that.
Togakure
Master Knight
I like the morale feature. It adds another facet that you have to take into consideration while managing your party, making the game more interesting.
I'll probably get blasted for this, but I think it would be cool to see morale implemented on the individual troop level during battles. If you're getting slaughtered, troops would become fearful, even routing from the field if things got really bad. The check would need to be for each soldier and occur at regular, short intervals. If you were demolishing the enemy on the other hand, your troops would fight with greater enthusiasm and perhaps, effectiveness. A Loyalty factor could apply too, where a higher loyalty to the character would lessen the affects of a battle going bad, and heighten the affects of a battle going well. It could help to distinguish merc troops from troops trained from raw recruits a bit.
This kind of morale is something I really liked about playing the older Total War games (Medieval 1, Shogun) online in teams against other teams of human players. It was the player/team that maintained morale in addition to effective strategy and team tactics that won the battle.
I'll probably get blasted for this, but I think it would be cool to see morale implemented on the individual troop level during battles. If you're getting slaughtered, troops would become fearful, even routing from the field if things got really bad. The check would need to be for each soldier and occur at regular, short intervals. If you were demolishing the enemy on the other hand, your troops would fight with greater enthusiasm and perhaps, effectiveness. A Loyalty factor could apply too, where a higher loyalty to the character would lessen the affects of a battle going bad, and heighten the affects of a battle going well. It could help to distinguish merc troops from troops trained from raw recruits a bit.
This kind of morale is something I really liked about playing the older Total War games (Medieval 1, Shogun) online in teams against other teams of human players. It was the player/team that maintained morale in addition to effective strategy and team tactics that won the battle.
Togakure
Master Knight
Interesting. At some point I'll have to check that mod out. Thanks for the pointers.
Hmm ... coagulating in the corner isn't what I had envisioned. I was thinking they'd route in the direction they came from, and leave the map when reaching the edge. Reinforcements would arrive with reduced battle morale, affected by their fleeing mates. Conversely, reinforcements for the winning side would be impetuous, anticipating victory, etc..
Hmm ... coagulating in the corner isn't what I had envisioned. I was thinking they'd route in the direction they came from, and leave the map when reaching the edge. Reinforcements would arrive with reduced battle morale, affected by their fleeing mates. Conversely, reinforcements for the winning side would be impetuous, anticipating victory, etc..
