Xprez said:
Bob the Insane said:
I have to admit to having some difficulty with the DK's as well.
I was doing well enough, start was a little tough but it is not hard to focus on trading to get some cash, and once you have built up around 40 decent troops you can start taking the bandit groups apart and making more money...
The DK's came as a surprize, they are currenty leagues ahead of any other faction with their heavy cavalry. I joined a group of 450 Nords that had isolated a 155 DK unit. The battle was a joke, the Nords where torn apart and my troops didn't last much longer...
I have no doubt that once you learn to deal with them and have a good group of maxed out troops you can fight back. But I am 140 days in, have one fief (a bit slow I know) and the DK have 4 towns now...
It is just a pretty sudden, and steep, step up in difficulty compared to fighting anyone else. But I suppose that is what it is designed to be like...
u do know the NE is for advanced players right?
best way to deal with them is to get swadian cavs or rhodok spearman (to stop the horses from ramming through) and rhodok crossbow man
It doesn't have to be for advanced players. I consider myself advanced due to playing since the first mount & blade, and I am now at the stage where I can take on those roaming warbands and bandits.
What got me interested in Native Expansion wasn't the extra difficulty, but features that add to the native gameplay like new buildings, new quests, redone troop tree, etc. I'm sure most people want this mod for those refined features.
But the start really is difficult and needs to be toned down. Like selling a new game, the start should be made easy to hook people in. The sharp difficulty spike will just chase potential users away, and I'm sure the mod doesn't want that.
Looters party size scaling to your level can be put back in the game so that new players can get into the mod easily. As mentioned, you can make the mid and late game stages hard.
If you want the 20+ bandits at the start, you can always transfer that to Brutality mode.