I like the recruitment system at the moment. At times I don't feel much difference from Warband. It's pretty same if you think about it.
I am not against the new recruitment system, I am categorically against the absence of the game, the transfer of the recruitment of new recruits for military generals to cities and castles, in the event of the ruin of villages, and since the villages have no respite, as lords with 20 soldiers begin to plunder their former village, immediately after the capture of the city or castle by the enemy, when all the villages move to another state. A chain reaction begins in the game, countries without warriors do not have the opportunity to recruit troops for defense, since the villages are all burning and ruining constantly until the faction is wiped off the face of the earth, this is further facilitated by a general escape from the country of lords or clans (it is not clear who who is standing now, because of these points of influence, the ruler essentially has no power). They have no money even to recruit troops over time. And they leave with possessions in another state as in Warband, and they do not get back to the country from the castles / cities that have left, so they also see a colored kaleidosk on the global map.
Now I’ve played further in the game, on the 350th game day I’m absolutely sure that the current single-player game has gross errors and is completely broken by Snowball, the more I play, the more I can’t see the logic in the actions of AI.
After playing a bit more I noticed that if some faction has a poorly manned city/castle, they often get a war declared on them and all armies then march on that fief, even if it is quite far away from their border. It's logical that would happen, but it would also stand to reason that reinforcing that fief would be the first priority of the lord. But a lot of conquered castles don't have any garrison, just the militia, which are quite poor soldiers and there is just like 100 of them. Maybe adding small number of higher tier militia would also help. Because right now they basically don't stop any army.
That's right, I also had a Sturgia war (where I went to prevent the faction from being destroyed in 20 days).
at first, only with Battania, now the Kuzaites and some of the Empires squatted on the war (I’m not good at imperial countries now, it’s highlighted on my map in red).
And you’re right, after the declaration of war, all the armies of the enemies passed near major cities, where there are still full garrisons from the start of the game, and went to capture only light garrisons (50-100 soldiers) inland, AI does not have an understanding of territories, they will only capture light garrisons across the country.
The Bannerlord game engine may be new, but the logic of the game has not changed from Warband, it was exactly the same there. On the Warband engine, it was just necessary to fill the garrison of the city of 2000 recruits in order to discourage the AI from attacking it, I believe that it works the same in Bannerlord, the AI will calculate the number of soldiers, and not their strength by levels, and quickly army misses past, in indecision to attack such a city.
And I also noticed that the best fighters are looters, I took part of them from captivity and they successfully throw imperial shrouded in armor, and what the Forest Bandit does on the battlefield is just wonders, in principle, like the Sea Raider, and Steppe raider. They are all the best and cheapest warriors, swing fast, stats are good, and the looters are generally excellent, it seems that before slipping into such a life, they were in the service of the imperial legions, throw one stone so that the warrior in a tin can immediately 1/3 of life is lost, knocks all thoughts out of their heads about the attack, and the warrior in armor is already thinking about whether I need to take my legs off the battlefield. And when a hail of stones, arrows, darts hits the infantry from several volleys, they have already piled on their pants, and rushing somewhere to the hilt, there remains only the cavalry on the battlefield, and the archers on foot, who then follow the example of comrades, run so that on horseback you won’t immediately catch up, I watched as the imperial archers ran through the snow faster than expected, at the level of the horse’s running.
Here is such an imbalance of troops, the game was created on the principle of greenhouse, i.e. incubator conditions for countries (there are no unique warriors, all with almost the same characteristics at each level for all kingdoms).
So I installed the tweaks mod and there has been no snowballing, it's currently 1089. There has been a few cities in that time that changed hands, but all of the factions are doing fine, and one faction just retook 2 of the cities they initially lost. So, the idea that it can't be done is false as it has already been unofficially done via modding, I think he simply buffed garrisons.
Please share the links of what and where to download and how to install, maybe it will save my 7 days of the game and attempts to save Sturgia, until the full snowball sets in, until the developers try to correct the situation in any way.
