Mount&Blade (Warband too) thread V. Knights of Calradia - Games

What this game needs is gore. I want to lob off the heads of fleeing enemies with this damn axe!

[QUOTE=KommradKommisar;37264698]What this game needs is gore. I want to lob off the heads of fleeing enemies with this damn axe![/QUOTE] After a hundreds of pages long discussion about gore in mount & blade that has been going for years they conclude over and over again that it might be unrealistic and that M&b has to remain family friendly in that aspect for some reason.

[QUOTE=Falchion;37264895]After a hundreds of pages long discussion about gore in mount & blade that has been going for years they conclude over and over again that it might be unrealistic and that M&b has to remain family friendly in that aspect for some reason.[/QUOTE] I don't see the family friendly aspect when this game makes you get face to face in melee combat, hacking and slashing your enemies to death.

It's not so much that gore is unrealistic, but the degree and style of gore that you would have seen would be pretty hard to represent in a game. Disembowelment, crushed bodies, people with their faces shot/stabbed, etc. I think the majority of killing injuries in medieval warfare would have been wounds to the face (especially around the eyes) or downward injuries to the shoulders, or sword/polearm strikes to the legs. Corpses would be mangled/crushed, rather than dismembered. I'd just like to see better usage of blood effects. If somebody gets a lance through the face, it should probably cause a pretty disfiguring injury. Likewise if huge piles of bodies start forming on the ground, they should probably make the ground bloody.

I actually remember there was a mod that would allow gore. You would attack a limb, and it would spawn a new one in its place and it would fall to the ground, with blood spawning at the wound too. I remember cutting off heads was fun cause they would role all the way down the hills. Shame i cant remember the mod name.

Who has the best archers? I might try an army of archers only.

[QUOTE=tom1029;37301073]Who has the best archers? I might try an army of archers only.[/QUOTE] Rhodoks for damage, vaegirs for volume of fire, sarranids for armour, nords for range. For an archer only army I would say sarranids since they can defend themselves somewhat up close.

You managed to completely disregard the khergits, the army with the best horse archers and the army which is the most fucking annoying to fight in open terrain.

[QUOTE=Falchion;37301492]You managed to completely disregard the khergits, the army with the best horse archers and the army which is the most fucking annoying to fight in open terrain.[/QUOTE] When used correctly, pairs of Khergit lancers and Horse Archers can decimate a full army of Swadian Knights.

[QUOTE=hypno-toad;37206919]In 1257 AD (mod) I've actually had Knights in tournaments chamber block my [I]couched[/I] lances, has anybody ever had that done to them in MP? :v:[/QUOTE] I've seen it happen in MP only once

I used to roll with an army of 100 Rhodoks crossbow men, and we pretty much mowed down everything in our path. The Sergeants were useful when you took castles, and the crossbow men provided great covering fire.

[QUOTE=Falchion;37301492]You managed to completely disregard the khergits, the army with the best horse archers and the army which is the most fucking annoying to fight in open terrain.[/QUOTE] I deliberately left them out since using a pure horse archer army would be mind numbingly dull - run circles around the enemy until they're dead.

Anyone have any clue where I can find a good WWI or WWII mod for singleplayer? Multiplayer hardly works on my computer, and the Taleworld's Forum is giving me nothing.

[QUOTE=RichyZ;37368998]for normal m&b you have desaster and china battlefield ww2, otherwise, no sp mods[/QUOTE] Desaster? Never heard of it, gotta link, mate?

[QUOTE=RichyZ;37369045][url]http://mountandblade.nexusmods.com/mods/855/[/url] [url]http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,43354.0.html[/url] only way i found the thread is i made some shitty posts about making the mod better, and overpowered the germans[/QUOTE] Mod won't load, got an alternate download?

Is it sad if I've barely played vanilla Mount and Blade? I downloaded a mod called The Last Days, and I've been rolling with that this entire time. (In my defense, everytime I made a person in M&B, I got assfucked by bandit hordes.)

How do you even get an army of like, 100 people. After about 50 it seems really hard to increase it.

This isn't my issue, but my buddy is experiencing some weird lighting shit and massive stuttering on a high end system, anybody have issues like this before? [t]http://niggaupload.com/images/Eadou.jpg[/t]

[QUOTE=tom1029;37371540]How do you even get an army of like, 100 people. After about 50 it seems really hard to increase it.[/QUOTE] just keep recruiting and improving leadership and hiring mercenaries.

[QUOTE=RichyZ;37384624]stay in 1 place on the map and work up relations in the neighboring villages, eventually you can recruit like 20 dudes per village and it all stacks up from there[/QUOTE] I may have phrased it wrong, I dont mean finding enough people to fill your party, I mean increasing your party size limit. Also, I want to start my own faction, but I feel I will get raped. Is there a setup that can just take over castles really easily? Like, 100 Nord Huscarls or something?

well yeah, but its not like you can really just get 100 huscarls

[QUOTE=Flubadoo;37385918]well yeah, but its not like you can really just get 100 huscarls[/QUOTE] Takes some time yeah, but you need more than just manpower to keep a faction. And 100 hurscarls won't make much of a difference when your castle gets sieged by 1000 troops.

[QUOTE=Sanitizer;37385958]Takes some time yeah, but you need more than just manpower to keep a faction. And 100 hurscarls won't make much of a difference when your castle gets sieged by 1000 troops.[/QUOTE] Pfft killing 1000 is easy with 100 top tier troops is easy, its 2000+ thats a problem most of the time.

Well, I started my own faction, warred with the Nords for a while but have now made peace. I am rolling with mostly swadian knights (which destroy everything in the field, but are less effective when taking over towns). I am on the easiest difficulty though (say what you like, I just find it more fun). Ive got a major town + a castle and a few villages. How do I get people to defect and join me? I have no vassals yet and need some.

[QUOTE=tom1029;37389788]Well, I started my own faction, warred with the Nords for a while but have now made peace. I am rolling with mostly swadian knights (which destroy everything in the field, but are less effective when taking over towns). I am on the easiest difficulty though (say what you like, I just find it more fun). Ive got a major town + a castle and a few villages. How do I get people to defect and join me? I have no vassals yet and need some.[/QUOTE] Go to taverns and find companions. You can make them a vassal, but other people are always gonna say " Don't give a crown to a peasant" or something like that.

God DAMN multiplayer can be frustrating Playing against Swadia=WOOO GREATSWORD JUMPSLASH AND ONE-HIT UNCOUCHED GREATLANCE [B][I]SHABAM[/I][/B] EVERYONE'S DEAD

[QUOTE=Sanitizer;37385958]Takes some time yeah, but you need more than just manpower to keep a faction. And 100 hurscarls won't make much of a difference when your castle gets sieged by 1000 troops.[/QUOTE] you kidding? 100 huscarls defending a castle could basically hold 1,000,000 troops. Defenders get a ridiculously good positional and numerical advantage when fighting and huscarls will melt equal number infantry forces of any other faction like butter [editline]24th August 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=killkill85;37391068]God DAMN multiplayer can be frustrating Playing against Swadia=WOOO GREATSWORD JUMPSLASH AND ONE-HIT UNCOUCHED GREATLANCE [B][I]SHABAM[/I][/B] EVERYONE'S DEAD[/QUOTE] yeah but everyone's so shit in native mp all you basically have to do to counter those is a) know how to block b) take a spear, respectively [editline]24th August 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;37303425]I've seen it happen in MP only once[/QUOTE] Incidentally after saying this yesterday I accidentally chambered a couched lance. When I heard hooves I spun around and chambered a thrust and it happened to be right as the lance was hitting me felt like a bamf

You guys saying it's so easy to defend a castle with 100 against 1000, are you really playing on the hardest difficulty and with battlesizer at at least 300? :v:

[QUOTE=tom1029;37385800]I may have phrased it wrong, I dont mean finding enough people to fill your party, I mean increasing your party size limit. Also, I want to start my own faction, but I feel I will get raped. Is there a setup that can just take over castles really easily? Like, 100 Nord Huscarls or something?[/QUOTE] Leadership and renown increase your party size The largest stable war party I've been able to have was about 230 with 2000 renown and 10 leadership, so with 5 leadership and 100 renown you should be able to roll with about 100 people.

[QUOTE=Profanwolf;37392888]You guys saying it's so easy to defend a castle with 100 against 1000, are you really playing on the hardest difficulty and with battlesizer at at least 300? :v:[/QUOTE] I'm playing with everything hardest except lance control on manual easy which has nothing to do with sieges