Talinoth
Knight

I thought I had the hotfix installed. Turns out, it was an earlier hotfix. There we go, I suppose.
I didn't realise I hadn't installed the hotfix until I noticed that the hire all and garrison all/ungarrison all troops/prisoners commands didn't work when I tried to use them. Now they do... AND THE GAME IS AMAZING AGAIN! Do you know how much of a pain in the ass it is to manually garrison and ungarrison 600 men? To hire 200 men of 26 different unit types after a battle? These hotkeys are amazing!
I wasn't too excited about the bow nerf, and was glum when I saw that I was doing only 45-70% of my previous damage on highly armoured targets. I couldn't kill Kaiserliche Drachen Marksmen in one body shot any more, and if I didn't pull the bow all the way back I sometimes wasn't one-hit-killing Drachenritters even with headshots.
...But as it turns out, the bow nerf may be working in my favour right now even though I use bows exclusively. Because enemy archers do less damage to me as well, and I'm wearing a LOT of armour.
- I can still kill in one shot with the Strong Perisno Flatbow... as long as I bother to aim instead of firing indiscriminately into the crowd.
- Kaiserliche archers don't do painful damage to me with headshots anymore, it's more like 40 damage from a headshot instead of 75 damage.
- Archer damage was the main thing stopping me from going on rampages with the Highelf Sword. Now I can go into melee more, and worry less about getting perforated by archers. Thanks Leo!
- The Maccavians are already eliminated so I don't have to deal with the horrifying menace of Maccavian Heavy Marksmen with armour penetration bonuses on their Bladed Crossbows.
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EDIT - Finished off Voldeburg. It's a shame the game doesn't keep track of how many people you kill in sieges. I used both of my quivers of arrows, then restocked from allies/enemies alike about seven or eight times, and then when I had the opportunity I managed to flank a huge ball of Drachen Landsknechts and just keep hitting them from behind with the Highelf Sword.
There's nothing like these sieges in terms of leveling up FAST. I nearly had a heart attack when I saw that I needed nearly 600,000 exp to go from level 43-44. Turns out that you can get 100,000 exp from one good siege if you have the equipment you need, so that's awesome.
... Reaching level 50 is still going to take an atrociously long time (20 million exp total) and I'll probably run out of stuff to attack. I'll probably have to take Solaire into the second playthrough on Hard Mode. It sounds like the Zann will spawn even more units in Hard Mode, so that's nice.
I didn't realise I hadn't installed the hotfix until I noticed that the hire all and garrison all/ungarrison all troops/prisoners commands didn't work when I tried to use them. Now they do... AND THE GAME IS AMAZING AGAIN! Do you know how much of a pain in the ass it is to manually garrison and ungarrison 600 men? To hire 200 men of 26 different unit types after a battle? These hotkeys are amazing!
I wasn't too excited about the bow nerf, and was glum when I saw that I was doing only 45-70% of my previous damage on highly armoured targets. I couldn't kill Kaiserliche Drachen Marksmen in one body shot any more, and if I didn't pull the bow all the way back I sometimes wasn't one-hit-killing Drachenritters even with headshots.
...But as it turns out, the bow nerf may be working in my favour right now even though I use bows exclusively. Because enemy archers do less damage to me as well, and I'm wearing a LOT of armour.
- I can still kill in one shot with the Strong Perisno Flatbow... as long as I bother to aim instead of firing indiscriminately into the crowd.
- Kaiserliche archers don't do painful damage to me with headshots anymore, it's more like 40 damage from a headshot instead of 75 damage.
- Archer damage was the main thing stopping me from going on rampages with the Highelf Sword. Now I can go into melee more, and worry less about getting perforated by archers. Thanks Leo!
- The Maccavians are already eliminated so I don't have to deal with the horrifying menace of Maccavian Heavy Marksmen with armour penetration bonuses on their Bladed Crossbows.
-
EDIT - Finished off Voldeburg. It's a shame the game doesn't keep track of how many people you kill in sieges. I used both of my quivers of arrows, then restocked from allies/enemies alike about seven or eight times, and then when I had the opportunity I managed to flank a huge ball of Drachen Landsknechts and just keep hitting them from behind with the Highelf Sword.
There's nothing like these sieges in terms of leveling up FAST. I nearly had a heart attack when I saw that I needed nearly 600,000 exp to go from level 43-44. Turns out that you can get 100,000 exp from one good siege if you have the equipment you need, so that's awesome.
... Reaching level 50 is still going to take an atrociously long time (20 million exp total) and I'll probably run out of stuff to attack. I'll probably have to take Solaire into the second playthrough on Hard Mode. It sounds like the Zann will spawn even more units in Hard Mode, so that's nice.


