Unit tier (or level - which determines tier anyway), horse units also have higher hire price which is probalby determined by some modifier.
They are definetelly too complicated for current strategic AI, armies are starving all the time ATM even without increasing food consumption for cavalry.
Ask TW about it, they change stuff under the hood every patch.
Its unfortunatelly more complicated than that, if parry / block is too low, you end in situation when you can win majority of battles by spamming attack. Also parry chance is not exactly parry chance, its more of a reaction time - so if you attack fast low tier oponent might not be able to react at all, while if you attack slow it might seem like he can parry pretty much every attack. We went with the logic of same tier oponents being able to block parry majority of thier attacks 1 v 1, this is then complemented by the posture system, which when depleted makes you (or your enemy) vulnurable to attack even if they parry.
Do you mean that they engage slowly or that they disengage after charge, if it is disengage it might be either result of reinforcements coming due to losses from projectiles or it might be skirmisher formation that prefers to fight fromm range.
Posture damage caused by high speed attacks (lances etc) is gonna be buffed in next patch.Momentary i play also with that mod if no collision with other mods. Clear it is not perfect but it is more challenging like vanilla. Realism is surely something different, but that depends also surely on the entire bannerlord system. But it is a great mod because it makes combat more challenging. Factly in vanilla if your controllers are all ok you nearly cannot lose any fight (only per purpose)... also lowskilled chars. So the mod is more than only ok.
Sure as i first played it and i seen a heavy highskilled cavalryman charging with lance against a slightly in cloth covered small knife wielding peasant and that poor peasant blocks the lance blow with a small hand gesture in hip-height... a small grin i could not prevent. But like the fellow above wrotes in other words, modding is a hobby and we the non-modders should be happy such folks exist... and really most make the game more interesting, even better. The bad ones soon disappearing
This is more of a request for some campaign mod. We are trying to stay away from campaign changes that would mess with save file somehow because it would make the mod impossible to remove mid game.
Welcome to 1.8.0, TW changed some core AI behaviour under the hood, they did similiar thing multiple times in the past.@Philozoraptor I notice some strange AI behavior in RBM AI module for 1.8.0 beta. It looks like AI don't know about melee weapon range they use. I made 2 videos with troops using longest pike in the game, one on v1.7.2 and another on v1.8.0. Both videos use mods RBM AI + Spear Rework + My Little Warband (for custom troops) and same units.
1.7.2 my pikemen attack enemies when they are in range, you can hear many "pierce dmg sfx", they perform great, keeping enemies at distance:
Bannerlord_RBM+SR_1.7.2.mp4
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1.8.0 my pikemen are autistic, brainless and blind, attack only at point blank, only "blunt dmg sfx", not using their weapon range, stand and die:
Bannerlord_RBM+SR_1.8.0.mp4
I also notice that AI likes face hugging in 1.8.0 even with long weapons. For example - vlandian tournament, billhooks 1v1, AI hugs me and smack with a stick instead of using blade dealing low dmg. I can imagine how painful would be strugian 1v1 with shields and spears even with Spear Rework.
So I think the best fix for this is to alter recruitment. Because what I see as the problem is not so much the power of the Cav forces but rather that there is just too much of them. AI Armies are running about with 1/3 Cav when in reality they would be about 1/10th Cav, or for some like Byzantines and Mongols they were just smaller overall with larger proportions of Cav. This was due mostly to the aforementioned logistics issues. Too much cav in armies is what causes them to dominate because they just do the AI equivalent of f1/f3 and they really just can't be stopped.
Volunteer uptier already put noble recruits to 20% of all recruits, which is probalby a nerf since right now lots of caslte recruits are noble in vanilla.
That's what I thought. Thx for response. I guess my rhodok uprising have to wait.
Big thanks. This is something I have really missed from Warband.
Very Cool.
Sorry but we wont go for inconsistent gear even though its more realistic, players need to be able to tell units quickly and incosistence in armor is hell to balance.Here is a few weeks of tweaking gear based on the foundation your team built, if you like it I donate my work to the team. I built it for personal use, but turned out pretty sick imo so I decided to share it with the RBM team.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9qy9hoh2hibpmke/unit_overhaul.rar?dl=0
I brushed up all factions, here is what I did
-added new armors/gear that is not in use
-added in more variation to give factions more of a distinct look
-keep balance roughly the same as far as adding new gear to variations
-tested all entries and cleaned up any loose or broken/typos
-fixed slot placement
-changed a few names of units
-based the Battania culture more off Welsh/Romano British rather than Gaul, just seemed out of place and many Battanians served in the legion.
Here is a few screenshots to show case some of the code additions:
players don't "NEED" to tell units quickly, that's just how you feel the game feels better, design choice, not a "necessity" choice xD
I have done more experimenting than is healthy. I am consistence kind of guy, so we are going for consistency.
easy there mate, just suggested that you can add varying degrees of gear into a item pool, not that they need to be arbitrarily outclassed.
Take a hint. Re-read his posts. He doesn't want to do it in his mod and won't do it in his mod. If you want it, make your own sub-mod.
