not having fun...

[MelanieWard]

No, just because YOU have problems adjusting to the difficulty of this mod doesn't mean it needs to be rebalanced.
You could try learning to adapt, the mod may have a steeper learning curve than others, but unlike you, most of us see that as a good point, not some problem that needs fixed.

The only problem that needs fixed is the one between your keyboard and chair.

Goodness, let's be nice.  It's possible to disagree without being dismissive 

 

[Maximilionarie]

The way I started was by soloing Desouk Slavers for levels and money.

Would you mind sharing how you do it?

 

[Lord of Shadows]

The way I started was by soloing Desouk Slavers for levels and money.

Would you mind sharing how you do it?

I'm not Ifrit77 but I can tell you how. 
Go to Hakkon/Draharan territories and find Desouk Slavers parties. They are pretty easy to defeat, so just go and kill them. You can also take them as prisoners if you kill them with a blunt weapon.
You can earn a lot of money from them.

 

[Alex the Seeker]

Best Start for me atleast is in Tolrania beacause:

1st: Freelancer Men at Arms (freelancer t1 cavalry that costs 100 gold/troop)
2nd: lots of 10-30 men enemy parties that attack eachother, with proper pathfinding and spotting, u can get tons of troops, gear and prisoners
3rd: lymbad knights - with 3-4 looting skill, they have big chances to drop LORDLY items (plate armor, swords, helmets, plate gauntlets, plate boots)
4th:  nibor hood - 1 nibor guards = around 900 xp, and if u sell em as prisoners = around 900 gold/troop
5th: freelancer renegades = they always have atleast 2 Freelancer Marshall PRISONERS (best freelancer troop Cavalry, absolutely beast on the battlefiled)

 

[Joshua Ryde]

Best Start for me atleast is in Tolrania beacause:

1st: Freelancer Men at Arms (freelancer t1 cavalry that costs 100 gold/troop)
2nd: lots of 10-30 men enemy parties that attack eachother, with proper pathfinding and spotting, u can get tons of troops, gear and prisoners
3rd: lymbad knights - with 3-4 looting skill, they have big chances to drop LORDLY items (plate armor, swords, helmets, plate gauntlets, plate boots)
4th:  nibor hood - 1 nibor guards = around 900 xp, and if u sell em as prisoners = around 900 gold/troop
5th: freelancer renegades = they always have atleast 2 Freelancer Marshall PRISONERS (best freelancer troop Cavalry, absolutely beast on the battlefiled)

1) Hello Alex again.
2) Lymbard knights - i presume you mean if the CHARACTER has 3-4 looting not the knights? and also, doesn't looting increase the amount by 10%, not the quality? Or were you just saying that they have good armor for how easy they are to defeat.
Thanks

 

[Alex the Seeker]

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1) Hello Alex again.
2) Lymbard knights - i presume you mean if the CHARACTER has 3-4 looting not the knights? and also, doesn't looting increase the amount by 10%, not the quality? Or were you just saying that they have good armor for how easy they are to defeat.
Thanks

hello joshua ryde (i`ve gone AWOL for a while  )

as for Lymbad Knights - i noticed that when my Character has 3-4 looting, the amount and most importantly the Quality of the loot i get increases by alot,  the number of Regent Swords and Good Armors (with various attribute dropped way more ex: 'reinforced', 'tempered', 'lordly')

and yes the benefits of  defeating a lymbad knight party is great o.o, because if you have the right "points" u can get over 5k money/party defeated in early game (meaning before lvl 10)

 

[T.L.S.]

Best Start for me atleast is in Tolrania beacause:

1st: Freelancer Men at Arms (freelancer t1 cavalry that costs 100 gold/troop)
2nd: lots of 10-30 men enemy parties that attack eachother, with proper pathfinding and spotting, u can get tons of troops, gear and prisoners
3rd: lymbad knights - with 3-4 looting skill, they have big chances to drop LORDLY items (plate armor, swords, helmets, plate gauntlets, plate boots)
4th:  nibor hood - 1 nibor guards = around 900 xp, and if u sell em as prisoners = around 900 gold/troop
5th: freelancer renegades = they always have atleast 2 Freelancer Marshall PRISONERS (best freelancer troop Cavalry, absolutely beast on the battlefiled)

1) Hello Alex again.
2) Lymbard knights - i presume you mean if the CHARACTER has 3-4 looting not the knights? and also, doesn't looting increase the amount by 10%, not the quality? Or were you just saying that they have good armor for how easy they are to defeat.
Thanks

Increased amount leading to higher chance of good item because with increased number of loot slots more rolls for such items happens. And most valuable loot from lumbards isn't armors, it's realy expensive 2h swords.

 

[Joshua Ryde]

Best Start for me atleast is in Tolrania beacause:

1st: Freelancer Men at Arms (freelancer t1 cavalry that costs 100 gold/troop)
2nd: lots of 10-30 men enemy parties that attack eachother, with proper pathfinding and spotting, u can get tons of troops, gear and prisoners
3rd: lymbad knights - with 3-4 looting skill, they have big chances to drop LORDLY items (plate armor, swords, helmets, plate gauntlets, plate boots)
4th:  nibor hood - 1 nibor guards = around 900 xp, and if u sell em as prisoners = around 900 gold/troop
5th: freelancer renegades = they always have atleast 2 Freelancer Marshall PRISONERS (best freelancer troop Cavalry, absolutely beast on the battlefiled)

1) Hello Alex again.
2) Lymbard knights - i presume you mean if the CHARACTER has 3-4 looting not the knights? and also, doesn't looting increase the amount by 10%, not the quality? Or were you just saying that they have good armor for how easy they are to defeat.
Thanks

Increased amount leading to higher chance of good item because with increased number of loot slots more rolls for such items happens. And most valuable loot from lumbards isn't armors, it's realy expensive 2h swords.

Ah, i guess so.
Thanks for the idea. I've only really used looting skill for raiding villages as if you are lucky you can make a good 10k of a village.
I once got an "Exquisite Bar of Gold" which was worth 120,000 aurums. enabled me to buy basically whatever armor +weps i wanted

 

[T.L.S.]

8x excuisite spice  + 20 pieces of gold with different quality and 10 maps summary from 6 or 7 rich villages made me the king of Perisno in last playthrought

 

[Joshua Ryde]

8x excuisite spice  + 20 pieces of gold with different quality and 10 maps summary from 6 or 7 rich villages made me the king of Perisno in last playthrought

Yep. When you are starting your own faction, there are 3 things that actually should cause concern.
1) Money for holding 250+ man army of top-tier units.
2) Morale. Especially when using your old faction units to fight that same faction (e.g. revolt against Elves, then fight the elves with elves).
3) Turning your back on the Redwood Nation and then having to fight thousands of elves (literally) - i am doing this in my current game and i can't take a single town or castle without losing 40+ elite units. and i'm playing on easiest troop damage modifier. HOW THE HELL ARE YOU MEANT TO WIN?
Attacking Lille when there are 400-600 of the best archers in the game all wielding strong armor and 2H highelf swords....with 1 ladder. Even when using 70+ Highelf Wardens and ~200 elvarie rangers/archers/redwood ranger/duskfall etc, i still had a ratio of 60deaths (and probs 80wounded) to 12 kills. in favour of the elves. there is no way of killing them.
PLEASE RESOLVE THIS SOMEHOW. (i know it is hard to fix it, but by god...)

 

[Alex the Seeker]

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the easyest way i found to deal with the elves was to let my vassals attack them (X city i wanted to conquer), then after my vassals were defeated and the elves weakened i would go there with my elite troops and wreak havoc (ain`t saying this is cheap in terms of money or troops).

but the current elves fit the lore quire well ^_^, i`d like tho if we could get more shield wielding troops (i know about shieldbearers but they are crap imo).

best i found vs the elves were Hakkon Legionaires (since there is no other option to make your troops that have 2h weapons aswell to use 1h and shields - looking at you freelancer infantry  )

 

[MelanieWard]

For my part, I'd never become a vassal of Redwood should I aspire to be Queen.  My favourite choice is to swear fealty to Tolrania, which is usually attacked by Redwood and others.  I concentrate on attacking weak raiding nobles, setting them free when I capture them unless they have mean personalities (you'll learn to tell from how they talk), and wait until Galwe falls. 

Then, I quickly recapture it, don't ask for it, let it fall again, recapture it, and ask for it the second time.  Since I am female and play with Anti-woman Prejudice set to High, it's given to another vassal.  Then, I rebel, get to keep Galwe and all the villages, and I am at war with nobody except poor Tolrania, which is too busy to attack me.

隐藏: My little empire

I like Galwe because it's far enough from the coast that the Zann may not find us right away. 

 

[T.L.S.]

For my part, I'd never become a vassal of Redwood should I aspire to be Queen.  My favourite choice is to swear fealty to Tolrania, which is usually attacked by Redwood and others.  I concentrate on attacking weak raiding nobles, setting them free when I capture them unless they have mean personalities (you'll learn to tell from how they talk), and wait until Galwe falls. 

Then, I quickly recapture it, don't ask for it, let it fall again, recapture it, and ask for it the second time.  Since I am female and play with Anti-woman Prejudice set to High, it's given to another vassal.  Then, I rebel, get to keep Galwe and all the villages, and I am at war with nobody except poor Tolrania, which is too busy to attack me.

隐藏: My little empire

I like Galwe because it's far enough from the coast that the Zann may not find us right away. 

I ussualy use Krain (same advanages as Galwe, but because of constant recapturings have much less defenders) or Voldenberg (only Reich and Drahara can aggro to you, also reachest city of Perisno most  of the time and Illicans as bonus, but when your factions grows large enought some vassals would be unable to join campaigns of the marshal)

 

[Alex the Seeker]

Galwe is the best option imo, because if you recruit Dohosan, and send him to 'parley" with the other kingdoms, to have good relations with your kingdom, alot of caravans will visit Galwe (since it is about in the center of the map compared to any other city) = i get huge income from caravan tarifs in galwe if i play my cards right.

 

[Joshua Ryde]

Galwe is the best option imo, because if you recruit Dohosan, and send him to 'parley" with the other kingdoms, to have good relations with your kingdom, alot of caravans will visit Galwe (since it is about in the center of the map compared to any other city) = i get huge income from caravan tarifs in galwe if i play my cards right.

Tariffs and rents. What is the difference? I usually set mine to low taxes to improve relation then back to normal.
Never understoof tariffs as it fluctuatues randomly (it seems)....
Thanks

 

[Alex the Seeker]

rent = tax u collect from the city populace

tarrifs = (to my knowledge)  rents/tax/toll u get from every caravan that visits your town., it is like they pay X sum of money to be able to enter your Town to  buy and sell stuff.

 

[Joshua Ryde]

rent = tax u collect from the city populace

tarrifs = (to my knowledge)  rents/tax/toll u get from every caravan that visits your town., it is like they pay X sum of money to be able to enter your Town to  buy and sell stuff.

AAaah, okay. So you want Galwe ideally and the "Caravan Escort" upgrade in towns is worth it, right?
Time i "restart" (with a bonus ) my game and play with the Tolranians.. galwe is mine.

 

[Alex the Seeker]

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AAaah, okay. So you want Galwe ideally and the "Caravan Escort" upgrade in towns is worth it, right?
Time i "restart" (with a bonus ) my game and play with the Tolranians.. galwe is mine.

well kinda, i usualy round up atleast 100k money so untill i built the Caravan Escort, i can use Dohosan to buy Peace with other kingdoms because:
1st- lowers chances they`ll attack me (not that they can win anyway vs my tactics  )
2nd- if on friendly relations more caravans pass through my Town  = more money for my pockets.


plus galwe is good because u can find Nibor Hood pretty easy to farm him for xp and money, not mentioning Wolf/Eagle Knights and Demon Worshipers.


plus as i always say, my fav start is in Tolrania because it is close to the Freelancer Outpost (my fav troops in whole game atm), for me Tolrania lands are easyest start if you understand how those "Fearsome and Hard to Start Lands" actualy work, you will find it very easy even on hardest difficulty 

 

[Joshua Ryde]

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AAaah, okay. So you want Galwe ideally and the "Caravan Escort" upgrade in towns is worth it, right?
Time i "restart" (with a bonus ) my game and play with the Tolranians.. galwe is mine.

well kinda, i usualy round up atleast 100k money so untill i built the Caravan Escort, i can use Dohosan to buy Peace with other kingdoms because:
1st- lowers chances they`ll attack me (not that they can win anyway vs my tactics  )
2nd- if on friendly relations more caravans pass through my Town  = more money for my pockets.


plus galwe is good because u can find Nibor Hood pretty easy to farm him for xp and money, not mentioning Wolf/Eagle Knights and Demon Worshipers.


plus as i always say, my fav start is in Tolrania because it is close to the Freelancer Outpost (my fav troops in whole game atm), for me Tolrania lands are easyest start if you understand how those "Fearsome and Hard to Start Lands" actualy work, you will find it very easy even on hardest difficulty 

Yes, i completely agree. unfortunately i've always made the mistake (still am making it ) of allying with the strongest faction to take the most towns and then rebelling. unfortunately i find it quite difficult to defeat 400 Elvarie archers in each village, town or castle...
And yes, the Tolranians are perfect for taking towns off because of their weak defense; hailstorm with arrows or heavy infantry will easily massacre all of their troops except Kingsmen/Kingsguard/Archers.

As a general rule for setting up a kingdom, how do you anticipte/know who will attack you? I know your "right to rule" affects this, but how high should it be to be respected by other kings as a faction. Because if i settle in Galwe, i will want to expand to Krain?Unuzdaq and the surrounding Tolranian castles...but i don't want to annoy Drahara (beyond what i have to), Maccavia, Reich des Drachen and the Hakkon Empire...
Thanks
P.s. Do you prefer to use Perisno units once you have started your own faction? And also (this may just be for MelsPerisno, but i hope it is implemented), the Perisno Great Knight is now a heavy knight unit whereas the Perisno Ranger Knight is a heavy cavalry with a longbow...(in normal Perisno i think the Great Knights are just OP-SUPER-INVINCIBLE infantry..)

 

[MelanieWard]

P.s. Do you prefer to use Perisno units once you have started your own faction? And also (this may just be for MelsPerisno, but i hope it is implemented), the Perisno Great Knight is now a heavy knight unit whereas the Perisno Ranger Knight is a heavy cavalry with a longbow...(in normal Perisno i think the Great Knights are just OP-SUPER-INVINCIBLE infantry..)

In normal Perisno, the Perisno Great Knight will sometimes have horses, but it's not guaranteed.  That's problematic because you end up with some foot knights carrying lances, and some infantry riding horses.  For MelsPerisno, I made a judgement that they were intended to be mounted, and set them as Mounted/guaranteed horses.  They are very, very tough.  Compared to, say a Dragoner Knight, they have lower offence (280 v. 320) but higher level (50 v. 41) and peerless armour.