Noldor tournaments

[SilentK]

So i have done and won 1 tournament, got my qualis gem and unlocked the mines, but as i read, you need 2 more for the mines reward, and the guy in elacrai said tournaments were held the first 4 days of the month, that means that if u win (or lose) one, you have to wait another month to participate again? 

 

[iskar]

thats exactly what it means. but cheer up, a month is no time if you have enough quests to do. i prefer traveling from city to city visiting the taverns to get all the rumors, thus increasing the chance for invading armies to spawn. the distance from city to city is approximately half a days travel, so you still have time to chase bandits, lords, whatever you like to kill.

 

[Rojiru]

This is sort of a story spoiler bro. =/ Should use spoiler tags to hide this stuff.

 

[SilentK]

Oh so rumors increase spawn chance of invading armies? crap, the empire is being hammered by 2 factions and have like 3k snake guys running around in their lands...

the mountain guys are easy to deal with, dealt with wolfbode and the invading army of 1k, but those snake guys... impossible...you need super soldiers, thats why i want qualis gems, so i can get noldor guys in my army, they should be able to deal with them...

any tips on how to massacre the snake guys with faction troops? i have the best cavalry, but they are no match, the order of the dragon are no match, hero guys&ladies manage some kills before falling down, and the rest of the merc cavalry is more like fodder than anything

 

[Dalkar]

If you're really desperate for Qualis Gems you could use Cheatmenu, if you're not averse to cheating.

 

[SilentK]

Cheatmenu? didn't see that ingame, i could use it to get some gems so i can hire some anti snake guys

 

[Shingen]

The big snake cult, dread legion, and heretic armies you generally have to chew down a little at a time. I use lots of rangers, legionaires and hero adventurers. Sometimes you can lead them into faction armies, and let them do the dirty work.

One time, the Empire was besieging one of their castles I took, and while they were outside waiting for the ladders to build, an 800 man snake cult army came along, chewed them all up and spit them all out! I was laughing the whole time! It ended the seige, and reduced the 800 snake cult army to about 250, which I quickly dispatched. I got a few Netherworld chargers out of it.

 

[SilentK]

well you get lucky i guess, but against the full might of 1k snake guys or if unlucky the whole 3k, there is little you can do, the empire has been fighting them, but their numbers just increase! i had them, last time at 667, 2 weeks pass and their back at 850... + the new snake armies arrived as well...

 

[Shingen]

I don't have that problem anymore. I have about 3 Noldor armies (which I helped to build in the upper 300 range), that help keep the snakes, heretics, and Jatu culled.

 

[Yg0r]

You could always (if you have time and a very strong willpower) lure these invading armies to other factions territories. Did this a couple times and at least always bought me some time.


And i may be wrong, but don't waste your qualis gems with mercenaries. Go make a lot of cool weapons or get stronger with elixirs.

 

[SilentK]

my 50 noldor warriors are kinnda the backbone of my siege army, they just slaughter everything, i took a city ofr 566 with 1 casualty....

i do have 2 medics, so yeh most didn't die, but they completely killed those shield coward fierdsvain, there were so many arrows flying around (both noldor and raven ranger support), those shield didn't stood a chance

i had to retreat a few times cuze the arrows weren't enough to kill more 

 

[Nierra]

Snake cult armies are easy - most of their knights have no shield at all  - so just put your cavalry infront - to keep incoming riders, while your archers gonna make hedgehogs from them with their arrows from the hill in the back. I wiped out 2 or 3 armies with 3-4 casualities in total. Same tactics works against any invading army actually - with exception of Jatu probably - you'll have more casualties with them cause they have bows and most of them have shield. Still they won't be too bad.

 

[SilentK]

i only want to win vs them, or have a fair starting army...

casualties are a rare thing now that i have 2 medics in my army ( 1 was enough, but i was like meh, why not )

problem is i go with 350'ish guys vs  1k if im lucky, so the advantage clearly goes to them :s

 

[Nierra]

Learn Tactics - always helps. Especially if you play with less then 200 battle size.

 

[Sir OnuSetallis]

Woah woah woah, so you're telling me that there's some tournament held at the beginning of each month that gives a qualis gem as it's prize? What city is this in, I never knew about this! How is it possible to join such a thing?

 

[Placid]

Woah woah woah, so you're telling me that there's some tournament held at the beginning of each month that gives a qualis gem as it's prize? What city is this in, I never knew about this! How is it possible to join such a thing?

It said Noldor tournament, so i imagine the Noldor city (never been there myself, not played the mod enough)

 

[Dalkar]

You need to gain the Noldor's trust so they reveal their secret castle to you. I think you need to do the quest that Quigfen gives you where you destroy a 200 man Jatu warband. That's how I unlocked it anyway.

 

[SilentK]

the 200 quest army is deadly (imho) so be prepared, have some Hadventurers with you, or if ur a infantry fanatic, empire pikemen and (damn well) protected archers, cuze ALL of them come at you in couche mode, so ur first line is dead instantly

 

[AxeMaster3]

The whole deal with killing the snake cult armys is easy. Aim for the head. They all have Netherworld chargers and if you hit the horse like its a D'shar courser, your stupid little Knife will just bonce off and do no damage. Snake cults are made up of generally low level troops on industructable horses. 1000 couched up jatu honor lances is more frightening.

 

[Nierra]

Hmm, actually you'll get qualis for Noldor tournament only the first time. Then they'll gonna give you random noldor item for the prize. (At least it was so for me).