Ronan37
Recruit
Hello there all, just wanted to add my 2 bits to this thread.
I've experienced exactly what Orange has already stated here. On the previous versions, I've been playing with my damages set to easiest (Newb has to learn), and both AI for battle and campaign set to "Good." I had done this because in previous versions, the AI lords seemed to run around like chickens with their heads cut off, and setting the campaign AI up seemed to help this..... a bit.
Now, I happily load up my game yesterday without realizing not one, but two new patches have occured since I last played..... and next thing I know, we lose two sieges against the Rhodoks when in each one they simply had 120 castle defenders, and we had around 300 troops worth with 3 lords participating. Cause? Castle suddenly stacked full of sergeants and sharpshooters instead of having a few o them and mostly trained or veteran spearmen or recruits.
Turn my back for a bit, figure.... hey, grab some more troops, some more lords, try again..... and realize that Praven is under siege by a Nordic army..... with 200 odd Huscarls in it. Needless to say, we lost THAT one. In my opinion, it seems that these other factions are gaining higher tier troops faster than my own now..... my Swadian lords rarely have more than 20 knights with them. Which is better than before, true..... but when the rest of your lads are footmen, it doesn't help much against Rhodoks or Nords.
Besides adding my experience there, I've got two questions a more experienced player may be able to answer.
First..... in previous versions my companions trainer skill stacked with my own, eventually resulting in thousands of experience being distributed throughout my army and allowing my later game characters to be able to field experienced armies much more quickly. This game, that seems to not be the case.... it is only registering my own characters trainer skill, even when Lezalit has a skill that is higher than mine. Also when I open the party menu, trainer does not show up at all upon the skill list on the left, despite myself, Lezalit and Alayen having points in it.
Is this the way it was supposed to be, with stacked and shared trainer from before being a bug? Or is this a result of the dreaded savegame incompatability I've heard a bit about? Is the trainer skill even worth putting on your companions now?
And also, for a player with a late game character out there..... we all now know that the AI Lords have a much higher chance of obtaining high tier troops from villages during recruitment. My question is, does this also pertain to you? I only realized in my last game that my village with 30-40 relation to me would give me militia instead of recruits..... can we now receive men at arms and knights like our lords do?
Thanks.
I've experienced exactly what Orange has already stated here. On the previous versions, I've been playing with my damages set to easiest (Newb has to learn), and both AI for battle and campaign set to "Good." I had done this because in previous versions, the AI lords seemed to run around like chickens with their heads cut off, and setting the campaign AI up seemed to help this..... a bit.
Now, I happily load up my game yesterday without realizing not one, but two new patches have occured since I last played..... and next thing I know, we lose two sieges against the Rhodoks when in each one they simply had 120 castle defenders, and we had around 300 troops worth with 3 lords participating. Cause? Castle suddenly stacked full of sergeants and sharpshooters instead of having a few o them and mostly trained or veteran spearmen or recruits.
Turn my back for a bit, figure.... hey, grab some more troops, some more lords, try again..... and realize that Praven is under siege by a Nordic army..... with 200 odd Huscarls in it. Needless to say, we lost THAT one. In my opinion, it seems that these other factions are gaining higher tier troops faster than my own now..... my Swadian lords rarely have more than 20 knights with them. Which is better than before, true..... but when the rest of your lads are footmen, it doesn't help much against Rhodoks or Nords.
Besides adding my experience there, I've got two questions a more experienced player may be able to answer.
First..... in previous versions my companions trainer skill stacked with my own, eventually resulting in thousands of experience being distributed throughout my army and allowing my later game characters to be able to field experienced armies much more quickly. This game, that seems to not be the case.... it is only registering my own characters trainer skill, even when Lezalit has a skill that is higher than mine. Also when I open the party menu, trainer does not show up at all upon the skill list on the left, despite myself, Lezalit and Alayen having points in it.
Is this the way it was supposed to be, with stacked and shared trainer from before being a bug? Or is this a result of the dreaded savegame incompatability I've heard a bit about? Is the trainer skill even worth putting on your companions now?
And also, for a player with a late game character out there..... we all now know that the AI Lords have a much higher chance of obtaining high tier troops from villages during recruitment. My question is, does this also pertain to you? I only realized in my last game that my village with 30-40 relation to me would give me militia instead of recruits..... can we now receive men at arms and knights like our lords do?
Thanks.