What is happening in your game?

[Desideratus]

In the span of a exactly 10 days, all hell has broken loose. The Sarranids have taken Tulga and Halmar. The Nords have taken Dhirim, and Uxkhal went to the Rhodoks. The Nords then declared peace with the Swadia, and Vaegirs are at peace. Still.   

What is going on in your game?

May 11, 1357. The Vaegirs have declared war on the Sarranids.

 

[Lancefighter]

I dont get it.

did you LIKE lords sitting around and doing nothing?

 

[xenoargh]

In the span of a exactly 10 days, all hell has broken loose.

Perfectly normal game of Blood and Steel

 

[Desideratus]

I dont get it.

did you LIKE lords sitting around and doing nothing?

I expected there to be a city here and there being taken. Nothing like this o.o

 

[xenoargh]

Like we've said... perfectly normal game of Blood and Steel

 

[Desideratus]

I love this mod. ^.^

 

[Bacardi]

Me to!

The sword rules not politics!

 

[Steffenximus]

By day 75, the Nords took all of Vaegir towns, Swadians took two Khergit towns, the other two fell into my hand, and the Rhodoks took three Sarranid towns. How about that ?

 

[Wu-long]

Lulz I had an old version where the Rhods died out and Khergets switched entire areas with the Vaigers lol they were out campagining againest ea other lol

 

[xenoargh]

By day 75, the Nords took all of Vaegir towns, Swadians took two Khergit towns, the other two fell into my hand, and the Rhodoks took three Sarranid towns. How about that ?

I guess they're balanced again, lol, at least for auto-battle.

 

[The Sniper]

I started my own fac and killed off all the nords, then started beating on the vaegirs and swadians, the vaegirs were almost wiped out, all they had left was Nelag castle, the swadians held only praven and harringoth castle, the rhodocks suffered my wraith as well losing much of their army and many castles and half their towns.The sarrinads and the khergits were all that was left to escape sort of unscathed (the khergits lost sungetche castle and the sarrinads lost a castle)

 

[Steffenximus]

I started my own fac and killed off all the nords, then started beating on the vaegirs and swadians, the vaegirs were almost wiped out, all they had left was Nelag castle, the swadians held only praven and harringoth castle, the rhodocks suffered my wraith as well losing much of their army and many castles and half their towns.The sarrinads and the khergits were all that was left to escape sort of unscathed (the khergits lost sungetche castle and the sarrinads lost a castle)

Try playing on Mommy without cheats or export/import char.

 

[Tinky_Winky]

I was on day 47 or something playing for the nords and lost my army of 150 all expert so I raged quit for a few days =/

 

[Volkodav]

After 25 days, Swadians are almost completely annihilated by Khergits, Sarranids are fighting a stand still war with Rhodoks and Nords are running like rabbits before Vaegir hosts, I'm a vassal of Vaegir kingdom and I'm going about with my warband of 70 elite troops raping, pillaging and conquering.

 

[Fuzzballx]

about 200 days in....

After about 50 days, the khergits had lost all 3 of their cities to Vaegers, the other factions were all giving and taking a castle or town here and there, but the Vaegers were just unstoppable...especially vs those khergits.

I signed on with the Bastard son of the Vaeger ex-king to help him regain his throne....and then we set forth on a 150 day war against the Vaegers....to prosecute this war, we first took Revahdin (sp?) then built up a standing town guard force of 1000 elite Vaeger troops for it.  Then we went all mercenary with Destroyers, Felhammers, Cannoneers, Female Irregulars, and Female Pistolera.  Took a long time and it was obscenely hard fighting over some of the area and towns and castles but we conquered in the end.  During this 150 day period, and to get us going, i promoted 3 of my 15ish companions to be lords of their own castles and field their own armies.  Without that bit of extra help i despair that we'd have lost the war vs those freakish Vaegers.

Now the throne is ours and we own all the Khergit towns to boot since we won them from the last Vaeger king after he won them from the Khergits.

Now i've built training camps in all the towns and castles i've taken and have commanded them to train Nords.

We're going to build a sexy army now...havn't decided on the front rank, but it's going to provide cover for several hundred Nord Longbowmen in the rear rank.  I plan to lay down a storm of arrows so thick it blocks out the sun as we set our sights on next finishing off the khergits!  I'm thinking either Destroyers or Vaeger pike's at the moment.  Shields are heavy armor + heavy damage from destroyers, but i really love the idea of Vaeger pikes for staring down the khergit cav while my archers make swiss cheese.

I'm in love with the improved combat, especially archery mechanics, of this mod.  It's so real compared to normal M&B.

I've also been working on arming all dozen of my remaining compaions in matching arms and armor...which is fun, cool...and damn hard!  We're close to halfway there on the full bronze armor for everyone, almost there on the fine 2handers, i forget what type i'm giving them, one of those really high end 2handers thats rated like 170 damage or something...they need it cause good grief they were doing jack all with 1h axes.  All companions have latticed Flatbows and arrows.

Final companion build: Riding level 5 horses (all matching), all in full bronze armor, all with latticed flatbows (except deshavi with his own bow and 3 stacks of arrows), all with fine 2 hand sword weapons, all with red lances (matches saddle blanket color and goes pretty good with the bronze armor).  My companions and i going in for a charge looks just awesome even part way there on the matching gear

 

[Malakias]

In the span of a exactly 10 days, all hell has broken loose. The Sarranids have taken Tulga and Halmar. The Nords have taken Dhirim, and Uxkhal went to the Rhodoks. The Nords then declared peace with the Swadia, and Vaegirs are at peace. Still.   

What is going on in your game?

May 11, 1357. The Vaegirs have declared war on the Sarranids.

I'm in the day 100 and something, the serranids have taken  all cities except one and castles of the Khergit, and half the cities of the rhodoks (with a lot of my help, since its my faction in the game, im playing barbarian) the vaegir have taken all the cities of the nords, and one of the khergit, the swadians have taken half the rhodoks and havent lost one citie.. thaths pretty much all...

i think that this changes are inevitable, the game is very ofensive if you see.. with the cannons and the large parties, its very common to see a lot of lords with 500 and more soldiers.... and i think the khergits are in a big disavantage, in all the games of all versions that i play they allways get crushed, a lot of times the Rhodoks last longer, even conquer shariz in a lot of the other times i played. the vaegirs tend to be very powerful in all games i played they get bigger and always crush the nords...

but seriously, i think the khergit warrior tree should be enhanced... maby the archers get thougher or something... i feel theyr army is the worst or one of the worst. in the native version they have the advantage of past the peasent level all khergits had horses, in this version there is too much infantry....

 

[Steffenximus]

The khergits are already tough enough. Play on mommy and you'll see how well they fight, with elite spearmen and halberdiers which have piercing weaps, lancers which are deadly and rocketeers which may be the best artillery units. I play barbarian too, and getting close to great numbers of khergits is a bad idea, I'd rather fight vaegirs.

 

[Volkodav]

but seriously, i think the khergit warrior tree should be enhanced... maby the archers get thougher or something... i feel theyr army is the worst or one of the worst. in the native version they have the advantage of past the peasent level all khergits had horses, in this version there is too much infantry...

I feel the same way for Nord troops, i mean, it's day 40 something in my current game, I've crushed Nords in less than 15 days, all they have left is Wercheg, and Nord Berserkir, is actually weaker than a Veagir Regular Legionnare. Seriously, Nords should be dominating, I cut trough Nord lines like a hot knife through butter alone. I'm dominating them only with my Vaegir Crusher Elite bodyguard (25 men).

 

[Steffenximus]

I feel the same way for Nord troops, i mean, it's day 40 something in my current game, I've crushed Nords in less than 15 days, all they have left is Wercheg, and Nord Berserkir, is actually weaker than a Veagir Regular Legionnare. Seriously, Nords should be dominating, I cut trough Nord lines like a hot knife through butter alone. I'm dominating them only with my Vaegir Crusher Elite bodyguard (25 men).

Have you tried playing on mommy ? If you do, the Nords will come at you with Seeker-of-the-Slain (heavy cavalry), elite Nord Spearmen (piercing weap), Nord Axemen (gun-axe piercing rounds) and Felhammir mercs (veeeeery good vs armor).

People, there is a big difference between the difficulty levels. The factions are generally balanced at the elite level, which is the one used in mommy. If you find the game too easy for normal (I know I do), then try Mommy, and then you'll see how "easy" is to defeat a single enemy lord with 800 elite troops.

 

[Malakias]

The khergits are already tough enough. Play on mommy and you'll see how well they fight, with elite spearmen and halberdiers which have piercing weaps, lancers which are deadly and rocketeers which may be the best artillery units. I play barbarian too, and getting close to great numbers of khergits is a bad idea, I'd rather fight vaegirs.

ofcourse that in the hardest setting everything is hard, its supposed to be like that, what we were talking is a different thing, its about the comparison of the diferent factions in the game, expecially in the normal mode.... i think that the majority of people will play in normal mode, since the hard mode is too impossible, and the easy mode just dumb easy, the normal mode being the most balanced for most players, even though it can be pretty easy as well.... so i think its the most important dificult setting, since most people will first play in that dificulty....
i wasnt saying that the khergits were easy to defeat, just that in comparison with the other factions i feel they are in a disavantage, ofcourse they can kill you very easily, but if you notice, they are easier to shoot in sieges, since they have no shields for example, its those kinds of things that make me say that they are somewhat worst than the other armies... but that doesnt mean they are weak, or dumb easy to defeat, its just that in every game i play they always get crushed by other factions....