There seems to be a problem or several problems with the ending for the line I took through the quest.
edit: Just noticed I posted this in Story & Lore, meant to post it in support.
I gave the letter to the vikings and succeeded through the story line to where we crush West Seaxe and I go to meet Sven where he's holed up at Readingum. I show up there with 211 top end troops plus the 50 or so Arnvid gives me when I talk to him.
So I speak with Arnvid, 3 dialogue choices all 3 end up with me leaving half his forces so 50 men. So far so good.
Then I enter alone outside Readingum and as I approach the gates there's a dialogue between me, mother and Sven, also ok.
After that dialogue is where things head south.
Bug 1) I spawn in the mass of a fighting men. All of my men spawn inside Readingum, about half of Svens are inside and half are outside the gates. I have to lead my men over the ladders to get back outside to kill them. It's a complete slaughter, I lose very few men, Sven's army is wiped out. I'd expect to spawn outside and Sven's forces inside and I'd have to assault over the ladders to get in, not to get out.
Bug 2) After we kill everyone and I have upwards of 200 troops left I then spawn inside the mead house alone with Sven, my mother and about 6 of his troops.
There's a brief dialogue where my mother tells me not to die but seems otherwise happy with me and then they all attack.
Bug 3) My mother is the first to attack me with a knife. Kind of hard for me to kill the rest without killing her too.
Bug 4) Killing the rest isn't really an option, I'm in a room against 7 or so fairly well armored troops. I've tried various tactics but its a pretty short fight and I die.
Now maybe that's the way it's supposed to be but to my mind I have 200 troops. I could just dismantle that building if I wanted so I suspect something has glitched in the script. It it really is supposed to be some 1 vs 7 fight that's kind of an implausible forced ending. 1v1 is fine but if it's more than 1v1 then I'm bringing my army with and it'll be 200 vs 6 not 1 vs 6.
So I speak with Arnvid, 3 dialogue choices all 3 end up with me leaving half his forces so 50 men. So far so good.
Then I enter alone outside Readingum and as I approach the gates there's a dialogue between me, mother and Sven, also ok.
After that dialogue is where things head south.
Bug 1) I spawn in the mass of a fighting men. All of my men spawn inside Readingum, about half of Svens are inside and half are outside the gates. I have to lead my men over the ladders to get back outside to kill them. It's a complete slaughter, I lose very few men, Sven's army is wiped out. I'd expect to spawn outside and Sven's forces inside and I'd have to assault over the ladders to get in, not to get out.
Bug 2) After we kill everyone and I have upwards of 200 troops left I then spawn inside the mead house alone with Sven, my mother and about 6 of his troops.
There's a brief dialogue where my mother tells me not to die but seems otherwise happy with me and then they all attack.
Bug 3) My mother is the first to attack me with a knife. Kind of hard for me to kill the rest without killing her too.
Bug 4) Killing the rest isn't really an option, I'm in a room against 7 or so fairly well armored troops. I've tried various tactics but its a pretty short fight and I die.
Now maybe that's the way it's supposed to be but to my mind I have 200 troops. I could just dismantle that building if I wanted so I suspect something has glitched in the script. It it really is supposed to be some 1 vs 7 fight that's kind of an implausible forced ending. 1v1 is fine but if it's more than 1v1 then I'm bringing my army with and it'll be 200 vs 6 not 1 vs 6.
edit: Just noticed I posted this in Story & Lore, meant to post it in support.
