What is the best Band of Soldiers you've had?
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Me, M+B, 84 other hired blades + vaegir knights.
Skanky Burns
Recruit
The two heores and everyone else Sword Sisters. Very fun. :b:
Skanky Burns said:
Yeah, I always end up with a ton of sword sisters too. My best party is I guess the one I'm using now; about 20-something sword sisters, ~10 hired blades, ~5 Vaegir knights, and maybe 10 assorted Vaegir marksmen/archers I've been training up. Oh, and Marnid and Borcha, who have finally become useful rather than always riding with me when I tell them to hold their position and shooting me in the back like they used to.
For some reason I enjoy picking on large parties of mountain bandits and vaegir veteran deserters. Both easy to handle later in the game, but oh so much fun to lead your troops in to slaughter without losing anyone, while still getting a little bit of a fight from them.
allthesedamnnamesaretaken
Knight
try modding your starting stats to give you a lot of charisma. with the mag7 mod and 9 heroes with max training skill, you can train troops really fast, especially if you only use troops captured from prisoner trains. i had a party of 150+ swadian knights/sharpshooters, and with the battlesize cranked up to 500% you can have some specatacular battles. only problems with the large partys are
1) you move very slow. i wouldn't recommend too many foot units (although i wanted them for variety) otherwise you wouldn't be able to catch anyone, and everyone will run from you
and
2) your party goes through food like mad. i regularly had to keep 10+ food items in my inventory, and food weighs a lot, slowing you down further. fish weighs 10lbs less than other foods, so i stocked up on fish
1) you move very slow. i wouldn't recommend too many foot units (although i wanted them for variety) otherwise you wouldn't be able to catch anyone, and everyone will run from you
and
2) your party goes through food like mad. i regularly had to keep 10+ food items in my inventory, and food weighs a lot, slowing you down further. fish weighs 10lbs less than other foods, so i stocked up on fish
jknemesis
Recruit
DUdes! My hero r0x0rz j00r b0x0rz!
I have 1000 Swadian Ultra-Heavy Cavalry with Dragonlances!
AND I have 200 Amazonian Sword Sisters all of them with Bows of Seeing
AND I have Borcha and Marnid at level 200, and 2 Gorgon heros who have level 20 STONED gazing! IF they look at you, YOU GET STONED!!'
AHAHAH!!! ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!!!
I have 1000 Swadian Ultra-Heavy Cavalry with Dragonlances!
AND I have 200 Amazonian Sword Sisters all of them with Bows of Seeing
AND I have Borcha and Marnid at level 200, and 2 Gorgon heros who have level 20 STONED gazing! IF they look at you, YOU GET STONED!!'
AHAHAH!!! ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!!!
Garth
Veteran
I'd say my favorite was a group of 30 Vaegir marksmen and 30 Vaegir guards. It wasn't my best, but definitely the most fun and challenging.
Only thing is they would never come in equal numbers. It would either be a ton of guards with some marksmen or a ton of marksmen with some guards, depending on which unit was on top.
And fighting horse archers was a major pain in the ass.
Only thing is they would never come in equal numbers. It would either be a ton of guards with some marksmen or a ton of marksmen with some guards, depending on which unit was on top.
And fighting horse archers was a major pain in the ass.
Can O Soup
Recruit
Good job JK. You sir, are being a moron. I say,"Good day, sir!"
Not sure what got into you today, jknenesis ...
If you can ... try and make posts that are relevant to the thread. Going OT is ok (and unavoidable) sometimes ...
Anyways ... my favorite group is: me. In lieu of that I like to bring: myself. Otherwise I'm forced to bring: I.
Me and the two heroes have been known to enjoy the good company of a few sword sisters when we can get them ... and as many as we can get. They seem to die faster than knights but in my opinion are much more effective.
If you can ... try and make posts that are relevant to the thread. Going OT is ok (and unavoidable) sometimes ...
Anyways ... my favorite group is: me. In lieu of that I like to bring: myself. Otherwise I'm forced to bring: I.
Me and the two heroes have been known to enjoy the good company of a few sword sisters when we can get them ... and as many as we can get. They seem to die faster than knights but in my opinion are much more effective.
Damien
Sergeant at Arms
I'm partial to maintaining a small group of knights/mounted soldiers supplemented by archers. So my best group ever was:
35 Swadian Sharpshooters
12 Vaegir Knights
5 Vaegir Guards
Never disrespect the Sharpshooters. Put those guys on a hill or in a cluster of trees and force your enemy to chase you around in front of them.. hooooowee.
35 Swadian Sharpshooters
12 Vaegir Knights
5 Vaegir Guards
Never disrespect the Sharpshooters. Put those guys on a hill or in a cluster of trees and force your enemy to chase you around in front of them.. hooooowee.
Garth
Veteran
Or try the whole Vaegir Knights-only party and charge at an enemy past the cavalry and straight to the infantry. The onslaught is beautiful, especially when you hold '~' and watch it all from behind.
All sharpshooter or marksmen parties are beautiful too until the enemy actually arrives.
All sharpshooter or marksmen parties are beautiful too until the enemy actually arrives.
Raybur Ravenloc
Regular
i played around with different units by cheating to max them out..
why is it that all the ranged units suck so bad?
either they start shooting from just the right range where they land one in ten shots or they decide to pull their little melee weapons and charge, regarless what commands i give them, there doesn't seem to be a middle ground, where they shoot from mid-range, and actually hit things consistently
lol, i had like 15 or so archers on a hillside shooting at incoming sea raiders, they sat there shooting and missing for a while, and then when the first raider came within twenty yards all but like two of them rushed him, and continued to the next..
my favorite strategy lately has been to get nothing but foot soldiers, and just having them sit in one spot while i ride around unhorsing every enemy i can or leading them right into the center of the group to be zerged and jumping clear myself
usually the infantry mop up anything that gets too close
only problem is when the enemy have lots of ranged units (swadian deserters), they force me to run around behind them and sit there letting them pepper my shield while my troops charge from the other side
why is it that all the ranged units suck so bad?
either they start shooting from just the right range where they land one in ten shots or they decide to pull their little melee weapons and charge, regarless what commands i give them, there doesn't seem to be a middle ground, where they shoot from mid-range, and actually hit things consistently
lol, i had like 15 or so archers on a hillside shooting at incoming sea raiders, they sat there shooting and missing for a while, and then when the first raider came within twenty yards all but like two of them rushed him, and continued to the next..
my favorite strategy lately has been to get nothing but foot soldiers, and just having them sit in one spot while i ride around unhorsing every enemy i can or leading them right into the center of the group to be zerged and jumping clear myself
usually the infantry mop up anything that gets too close
only problem is when the enemy have lots of ranged units (swadian deserters), they force me to run around behind them and sit there letting them pepper my shield while my troops charge from the other side
Mage246
If I could have a theoretical best army, it owuld be a bunch of guys with 4 shields and no weapons. What they would do is form up around me, blocking all enemy shots and keeping themselves (and me) from getting killed. Then I could snipe/2-hand my enemies to death, from behind/among my wall of invulnerability
Crazy Eyes
Recruit
^ = H4xx0r!
I can't remember my best at all... urgh... I never seem to get good parties. I don't think I've ever excelled, like, thirty.
I can't remember my best at all... urgh... I never seem to get good parties. I don't think I've ever excelled, like, thirty.
