Storymode Battles waaay too difficult.

[Sumtingwong]

So this isn't my first time getting to this part and the last time I got to it I had use the alt x cheat to kill off the opposing force.

Instance one is when the vikings attack doccinga (sp?) Unless you bring a sizeable force there everyone regardless of your skill level WILL GET MERCED.

Instance two Ulf's piss poor farm. Olivir attacks...but oh whats that, you can't bring more than 20 something guys with you...."they may think you're trying to attack" Well **** them they should.

Olivir's men not only outnumber you but they are also ALWAYS better than the guys you bring. This needs to be fixed, as well as the bull**** fact that I just lost 3 hours of time because it doesn't autosave anymore....

I refuse to adjust the difficulty to make it easier as any of fight is so easy I don't even have to do anything. Just the fact that I couldn't have my 30 something guys with me I lost that fight.

I also know that because of the autosave **** that it was messing with story quests...but really.....3 hours gone. I had so much good **** it isn't even funny. Im sure a fix could've happened and been most efficient that just outright removing that feature.

 

[CeltiberoCaesar]

Hi Sumtingwong,
Remember you have an option to decrease the difficulties in every single aspect. Try with an easy configuration 

 

[Dokka]

The same thing happened with me because I rushed the storyline, but the last I played, I took my time, got some money, trained some guys, then I did the irish storyline and got a ton of money, by the time I went to Ulf's farm, I already had a somewhat decent army.

 

[toxic-nova]

You hadn't played the Quest with Morrigan.  There you face a dozen kind of magical invincible warriors who machinegun you with javelins down. This part is very bad.

The parts you are talking of wasn't so difficult for me. But this can be because I had some luck to get some additional companions which I could fit with decent equipment from hunting down Renegades or Vikings.
At Doccinga I still had a army between 20-30 man. Those man build the force who face the enemy and I stab them into the back. The additional back damage gives good chances to overcome them before you lost too many man.
At Ulf's farm I followed the same strategy. When the assault starts going out of the way so the enemy force is closing up with my man so I can fall them into the back.

I choose Full Realistic setting and changed some of the settings to make them harder. So damage wise I got no advantages to my opponents.

 

[Sumtingwong]

Hi Sumtingwong,
Remember you have an option to decrease the difficulties in every single aspect. Try with an easy configuration 

As I stated I DO NOT want to mess with the configuration. THeres a difference between making a fight more fair, and making it to where I can could it with my **** in my hand. Why don't you go and try it with 20 guys like I did, you wont make it.

At the very least let me bring my entire force with me....

 

[Kjertesvein]

My hardest fights are when you're a northumbrian vassal and 12 other factions are waging war on you at the same time as you are trying to hold onto a keep far in the north. At one point I had 3 full campaigns from 3 different factions attacking the same settlement. Campaign AI on lowest. Leveling, budget and recruitment all on beginner, but that is something I felt was impossible. Maybe Im the only one... I dont know.

 

[Dokka]

My hardest fights are when you're a northumbrian vassal and 12 other factions are waging war on you at the same time as you are trying to hold onto a keep far in the north. At one point I had 3 full campaigns from 3 different factions attacking the same settlement. Campaign AI on lowest. Leveling, budget and recruitment all on beginner, but that is something I felt was impossible. Maybe Im the only one... I dont know.

For some reason the norse version of this quest seems to be harder, I had to fight a lot to defend the castle, sieges were constant, but then I played as a saxon vassal, it was much easier, the area you have to protect is very small and the king showed up to help me and I convinced him to stay for some time (you know, this wierd english people love tea, so I offered some tea ) I was attacked three times only.

 

[Faenwulf]

I attacked Dun Tarou when there were about 120 defenders in there. Took the castle with my roughly 80 or 90 guys. Didn't ask for it so that the KI automatically puts a few soldiers in it and then all my guys just sat around for 30 days doing nothing. 

 

[Kjertesvein]

I attacked Dun Tarou when there were about 120 defenders in there. Took the castle with my roughly 80 or 90 guys. Didn't ask for it so that the KI automatically puts a few soldiers in it and then all my guys just sat around for 30 days doing nothing. 

I see. I took it when it had 450 men. ^^

 

[kalarhan]

Hi Sumtingwong,
Remember you have an option to decrease the difficulties in every single aspect. Try with an easy configuration 

As I stated I DO NOT want to mess with the configuration. THeres a difference between making a fight more fair, and making it to where I can could it with my **** in my hand. Why don't you go and try it with 20 guys like I did, you wont make it.

At the very least let me bring my entire force with me....

See that name in red? That means @Celtibero is one of the game developers.

Being a nice guy like that is the best way to get a reply too, right? Not. But is the internet, right? LOL

You can play the game sidequests and build better forces. 20 recruits x 20 T3 spearman for example. It is up to you.

And yes the game has many many options to tweak it to your style. Make it easier or harder. It is up to you. Complain about that it is too hard for you on "normal", but that you will not "change to easy" is like... I don't know, I am lost here 

You can also cheat and get infinite money, armies, higher level, etc. It is up to you, as this is a singleplayer campaign. You play it as you want, noone will mind. You even have a cheat ingame to add troops to you! Use it if you want, or don't, it does not matter 

TLDR: game is challenging on "normal", easier on "easy", quite hard on "hardcore".

 

[CeltiberoCaesar]

Hi Sumtingwong,
Remember you have an option to decrease the difficulties in every single aspect. Try with an easy configuration 

As I stated I DO NOT want to mess with the configuration. THeres a difference between making a fight more fair, and making it to where I can could it with my **** in my hand. Why don't you go and try it with 20 guys like I did, you wont make it.

At the very least let me bring my entire force with me....

You complain about the difficulty, I tell you about the customizable difficulty and you say that... what can I say? Just try not to be rude (consider this as the first warning). I'm not a "pro gamer" and I make the whole storyline without cheats... Try with a bigger army or something, no one said you have to do the whole storyline straight, you can take you time to prepare special missions.

 

[Sumtingwong]

Hi Sumtingwong,
Remember you have an option to decrease the difficulties in every single aspect. Try with an easy configuration 

As I stated I DO NOT want to mess with the configuration. THeres a difference between making a fight more fair, and making it to where I can could it with my **** in my hand. Why don't you go and try it with 20 guys like I did, you wont make it.

At the very least let me bring my entire force with me....

You complain about the difficulty, I tell you about the customizable difficulty and you say that... what can I say? Just try not to be rude (consider this as the first warning). I'm not a "pro gamer" and I make the whole storyline without cheats... Try with a bigger army or something, no one said you have to do the whole storyline straight, you can take you time to prepare special missions.

You can't take more than 28 people with you. SO the try a bigger army point is moot. I got through it. The point here is you shouldn't limit the player to how many people he can take to a certain area....especially a story battle.

 

[Wheem]

I think it's fine when there's a story-related reason for the limitation, as there is in this case. The issue here is probably due to bringing low tier soldiers, which is completely understandable for players that have followed the story line without doing much else up until the farm battle. And while I wouldn't be completely opposed to there being some adjustments made to the difficulty of certain battles, I don't think that it's particularly necessary for the main story; breaking away to do some leveling up, recruiting more soldiers, leveling up the soldiers that you already have, etc...are better solutions, in my opinion.

Thinking back, I remember actually having some trouble with the two story battles in Friese when I first started playing. My "army" just melted entirely too fast, and I couldn't defeat everyone by myself...certainly not when equipped with just a tunic, seax, and a stick . But all it took to complete those was recruiting a handful of second tier Norse soldiers in Dorestad (and maybe I also got a few of my Frisians promoted from fighting bandits and questing? don't remember for sure).

When I first tried that farm battle, my experience was the same as it was in Friese; my army got waylaid because it was too low tier. I'm thinking that when I did finish that battle, it was mostly with companions and tier 3 Irish infantry (back before they had 1h/2h weapons ), but I can't swear to that. Since I'm also determined to not lower the game difficulty, I just postpone some things until I can put together a better army.

 

[DrunkenFrenchman]

Hi Sumtingwong,
Remember you have an option to decrease the difficulties in every single aspect. Try with an easy configuration 

As I stated I DO NOT want to mess with the configuration. THeres a difference between making a fight more fair, and making it to where I can could it with my **** in my hand. Why don't you go and try it with 20 guys like I did, you wont make it.

At the very least let me bring my entire force with me....

You complain about the difficulty, I tell you about the customizable difficulty and you say that... what can I say? Just try not to be rude (consider this as the first warning). I'm not a "pro gamer" and I make the whole storyline without cheats... Try with a bigger army or something, no one said you have to do the whole storyline straight, you can take you time to prepare special missions.

You can't take more than 28 people with you. SO the try a bigger army point is moot. I got through it. The point here is you shouldn't limit the player to how many people he can take to a certain area....especially a story battle.

On top of what everyone has said, if you play your cards right, you get reinforcements from the King which help a lot. So there are plenty of options at your disposal.

I can't wait to see yout reaction when you try the irish questline... this will be interesting.

 

[Sumtingwong]

Hi Sumtingwong,
Remember you have an option to decrease the difficulties in every single aspect. Try with an easy configuration 

As I stated I DO NOT want to mess with the configuration. THeres a difference between making a fight more fair, and making it to where I can could it with my **** in my hand. Why don't you go and try it with 20 guys like I did, you wont make it.

At the very least let me bring my entire force with me....

You complain about the difficulty, I tell you about the customizable difficulty and you say that... what can I say? Just try not to be rude (consider this as the first warning). I'm not a "pro gamer" and I make the whole storyline without cheats... Try with a bigger army or something, no one said you have to do the whole storyline straight, you can take you time to prepare special missions.

You can't take more than 28 people with you. SO the try a bigger army point is moot. I got through it. The point here is you shouldn't limit the player to how many people he can take to a certain area....especially a story battle.

On top of what everyone has said, if you play your cards right, you get reinforcements from the King which help a lot. So there are plenty of options at your disposal.

I can't wait to see yout reaction when you try the irish questline... this will be interesting.

Haven't had an Issue with the Irish one at all....probably because horsemen are OP I literally just said **** it, and just grabbed all the horsemen I could...no opposition on the field, at all.

 

[DrunkenFrenchman]

Haven't had an Issue with the Irish one at all....probably because horsemen are OP I literally just said **** it, and just grabbed all the horsemen I could...no opposition on the field, at all.
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I've never seen horsemen as a threat honestly. Tight square formation with javilineers and spear infantry makes mince meat of them.

 

[Sumtingwong]

Haven't had an Issue with the Irish one at all....probably because horsemen are OP I literally just said **** it, and just grabbed all the horsemen I could...no opposition on the field, at all.

I've never seen horsemen as a threat honestly. Tight square formation with javilineers and spear infantry makes mince meat of them.
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AI is not as smart as players, one man can draw fire from the entire javvy area, the spears yeah are sometimes an issue....>_> unless you swarm them so they can't thrust at point blank.

 

[CeltiberoCaesar]

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Hi Sumtingwong,
Remember you have an option to decrease the difficulties in every single aspect. Try with an easy configuration 

As I stated I DO NOT want to mess with the configuration. THeres a difference between making a fight more fair, and making it to where I can could it with my **** in my hand. Why don't you go and try it with 20 guys like I did, you wont make it.

At the very least let me bring my entire force with me....

You complain about the difficulty, I tell you about the customizable difficulty and you say that... what can I say? Just try not to be rude (consider this as the first warning). I'm not a "pro gamer" and I make the whole storyline without cheats... Try with a bigger army or something, no one said you have to do the whole storyline straight, you can take you time to prepare special missions.

You can't take more than 28 people with you. SO the try a bigger army point is moot. I got through it. The point here is you shouldn't limit the player to how many people he can take to a certain area....especially a story battle.

If I'm not wrong, there is only 2 missions in which you are forced to have a certain amount of soldiers... all the others you can go with as many soldiers as you can get (leadership, charisma...etc). So... not really much to discuss about if it's limited.