Your biggest outnumbered battle

[Apocal]

Side note: What are throwing knives supposed to be like? E.g. What is supposed to be the upside of throwing knives vs. javelins or throwing axes in certain situations? I feel like they are just worse than other throwing weapons with little upside, but have not really tested carefully.

Your guess is as good as mine. I assumed they were meant to be for "civilian" use in the gang fights since the Hidden Hand have presence in a lot of Empire city's but they aren't civilian items. Either an oversight or an incomplete system that needs to be fleshed out.

Or they are following the Warband tradition of having some weapons which are just objectively inferior for literally everything (see: daggers).

 

[King Yngvar]

Your guess is as good as mine. I assumed they were meant to be for "civilian" use in the gang fights since the Hidden Hand have presence in a lot of Empire city's but they aren't civilian items. Either an oversight or an incomplete system that needs to be fleshed out.

Or they are following the Warband tradition of having some weapons which are just objectively inferior for literally everything (see: daggers).

That's not just a Warband tradition, that's how it worked in real life. It would be nonsensical to have throwing knives be on par with javelins.

 

[Apocal]

That's not just a Warband tradition, that's how it worked in real life. It would be nonsensical to have throwing knives be on par with javelins.

I agree completely but the questions were why are they even in the game and -- more importantly -- so prominent with the Hidden Hands, guys who do go out and fight field battles?

 

[TheShermanator]

I agree completely but the questions were why are they even in the game and -- more importantly -- so prominent with the Hidden Hands, guys who do go out and fight field battles?

Right, exactly. If there’re simply strictly worse in every situation, why add them at all?
Per Apocal’s suggestion, I can only speculate about some unfinished feature.

 

[King Yngvar]

I agree completely but the questions were why are they even in the game and -- more importantly -- so prominent with the Hidden Hands, guys who do go out and fight field battles?

You can hide a throwing knife. You can't hide a javelin. Civilian use, for whenever towns actually get some life to them.

 

[Sword_of_Light]

Twenty to one. Literally. A band of looters one score strong caught up to me after I escaped a different band of looters, and I managed to circle strafe on horseback round n' round til I'd killed the lot. It was actually a near thing, because infinite rocks that really shouldnt harm an armored opponent as much as they do battered me near to unconcious, and I was damned lucky they didn't unhorse me, or that'd been the end of it.

 

[Liffy]

Ah that's easy me vs 24 looters first day of the play through

 

[TheShermanator]

The internal dynamics of my party when we get caught by that giant enemy doomstack while besieging a castle:



Then, you slowly realize that they have mostly recruits and you still have a bunch of Fians: