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>>16617680

greathelmets have smaller helmets inside them. a bit retarded, but it works.

>>16618382

imagine wearing a great helmet during 50 degrees celcius saranid summer.

>>16617783

<implying 108 heroes is good

>terrible models

>terrible balance

>terrible translation

>you have to understand 1000 year old chinese epic to understand character creation questions

>you have to duel enemy champion before every. fucking. battle, otherwise your troops run away

>some bullshit quotes end up clogging up your screen after death of EVERY FUCKING HERO. you cannot fucking imagine how irritating it is during a siege

>>16617746

pretty much all mods are great. perisno and pendor are good. that one with indochina is good, at least when you accept that elephants dont have a hitbox,gekokujo is great. most mods are based on diplomacy mod either way because it is so good.

>>16617680

>What do you want from Bannerlord?

2 things

>Diplomacy.

The number one thing Warband was missing is meaningful interaction with the AI. Besides doing bitch work to raise relations for the purpose of gaining votes or allies, there is nothing else to the lords. They're walking information booths until you spend 200 days in-game grinding your character. Have the lord personalities actually do something like: Maybe honorable lords wont attack you if you have a certain percent of women and peasants in your army, quarrelsome lords will fight you even in peace-times just because they hate you, upstanding lords will lend you some troops if you're doing badly, martial lords have special troop options like paying them to instantly upgrade your troops. The Diplomacy mod showed how much potential there is here.

>Overland map

Besides attacking fiefs and attacking enemy parties, what good is the overland map? Viking Conquest, any of the GoT mods and PoP showed that the overworld map can be just as interesting as the combat. Give the player options to construct his own temporary camps and hideouts. Have random events that leave short and long-term effects on both your party and character. Add more objects; more bandit camps and maybe bandit fortresses that work like dungeons that give the player late-game loot for clearing them out and maybe a permanent, new fief. Neutral objects like mercenary camps that let you hire mercs, neutral farmsteads that yield poor income but are independent of the economy. More bandit types and have them be a threat in the late game like a horde of 400 steppe nomads that raid fiefs, or 80 mercenaries that have been hired to fuck your shit up for pissing off the wrong lord, or maybe when a town has been raped enough times it revolts, goes neutral and a special meatstack comprising of a thousand peasants appears and guards it.

Really, what I want from Bannerlord is more interesting shit. The core game is there, it just lacks soul, something that has been fixed in numerous mods. You don't need to upgrade the combat (although the option to hit multiple targets per hit is nice), you don't need more equipment, more factions is nice, but really, what the game lacks is details. Something that is really easy to ideafag about and in the same time implement.

>>16617680

>What do you want from Bannerlord?

TO FUCKING BE RELEASED

>>16620143

This, and we also need different types of engagements (and more control over them) other than pitched battles and sieges, since fighting is the main part of this game.

Things like raiding camps, ambushes, fighting marches, better caravan and village defense, better castle infiltration, sabotaging, fortifying position, maybe even duels that are not lady related.

Would be nice if the game was robust enough to allow something like the battle of Al-Fule

>The Muslims harassed them with archery and constantly renewed attacks; these were on occasions pressed home to an extent which provoked the Franks to counter-attacks to clear their lines. As in 1111 and 1182 the Franks executed a fighting march which never quite became a pitched battle.

Or something like the battle of the mounds from Conan the Barbarian, where you and a few companions defend yourselves in a fortified position against a numerically superior enemy by preparing in advance.

>>16620361

Have some OC

>>16617746

If "rape" is one of your favourite tags, Prophesy of Bendor.

Otherwise also Bendor.

>>16620534

I played a thousand hours of pendor and never managed to conquer the map or even hold a single city in my kingdom, and I'm too proud to lower the difficulty.

>>16622010

define difficulty

merc until you maximize your income, accept an invitation from your favourite butter enthusiast, grind RtR and renown for a while, butter up your preferred noble house, become marshall to tank your controversy, then just rebell when the kang doesnt want to give you that seventh town you conquered, all that while harvesting knife ears and jatu for rape slavery and pottery

up XP rates to something retarded like x12 if you want to skip the a fraction of the needless grind

>>16620327

>>16622485

Have you considered that the difficulty increase from vanilla may not take into account custom difficulty settings?

Also your inability to hold a city might actually stem from a lack of preparation. Having a noble house buttered up and several hundred thousand denars in store as well as at least 50 Right To Rule in order to start a kangdom are not optional, they are the basic requirement. You absolutely need to have at least 5 lords and a waifu when starting one. Also if you start a kangdom before the 3 year mark on your first go at it you might not have the renown required to field an army sufficientely bloated to hold a town by yourself, that is assuming maxed leadership and all.

If you want a head start heres some powergaymen you can do:

>do not import character, just boost XP rates in the ini

>set lord escape chance to 0 for balance reasons

>start with looting 7

>prioritize ironflesh and powerstrike, then weapon master before all other skills otherwise

>theres hidden chests in Rane and Valonbray that have shit in them at the start of the game, Rane has additional qualis gem, grab the shit ASAP and trade the qualis gem for the elexir at one of the book merchants, thats 6 free attribute points per sip

>always ask the wanderers and slavers in taverns for rumors, wanderes sometimes tell you about new free shit in one of the chests, slavers can sometimes tell you about red brotherhood hideouts (free shit assuming you reach the chest) or sell you some rare units

>the first brotherhood hideout you find will have another qualis gem in its chest, as long as you reach the chest at the end of the valley and grab everything from it, you keep it even if you die afterwards, use that qualis to get another elexir, thats another free 6 attribute points

>join a kangdom as a merc ASAP, and grab the most expensive units you can get from taverns, theyre worth it and the faction you work for pays their wages anyway

>easiest way to earn cash is to ride around with 50 high tier units and gank minor faction bands, assuming looting 7 you can get 2k denars worth of shit from a 20 man heretek party

>start in Ravenstern, the bandits there are the jack of all trades type which means they are master of none and are the easiest to deal with, vanskerry raiders will pelt you with axes, hereteks and snek tits are too heavily armored at the start of the game, singalian raiders will swarm you and ride you down

>hunt bandits for cash, spend cash on the heaviest armor you can buy, then go on a world tour hunting bandits, companions, wanderers and slavers

>from there do whatever

you have to prioritize personal survivability, so heaviest armor and 2 shields is what you want before you can go without

throwing is better early and mid-game, archery is better late-game, crossbows are okay and guns are nieche material throughout the campaign

thats pretty much as optimized of a start I could think of, if you prioritize hunting the 2 free gems thats 12 levels worth of attubute points right there for free

>>16631106

for ranger patrols, rule of thumb is 2x to 3x numbers advantage with high tier troops to have an almost guaranteed win

Ideally you want 80% high tier troops 20% mid tier as arrow padding, however you can go as low as 50% high tier 50% mid-tier fodder but you will really REALLY be edging on disaster

if you can get the removal train going you can make 20k-50k per removal expedition as they respawn constantly

and regarding knife ear rape stacks, become marshal, get about a 3x-5x numerical advantage and you have a good chance of removal in real time battle

oh and never autoresolve, knife ears get an invisible x2 buff on autoresolve

>>16631543

Yes but you can just raid knife ears all day every day for stacks of denars, and when its time to befriend them you can still get their relations up into positive. Once you hit positive tho its a fools errand to try and get them into negative again. If you wanna befriend knife ears you can do that way into the late game when money is not an issue and you ganked their lords for their CKO shit already. You basically deprive yourself of an infinite source of easy cash and top tier gear by befriending them too early.

>>16632840

>Never had trouble with denars and good gear is not hard to find or buy or loot.

Nigga you dont NEED to optimize your strategy but you sure as fuck can.

>And trying to befriend them after they are hostile is a tedious grind. No thank you.

The pic above your post is one raid into knife ear land, release the 70 prisoners and you get a 70 relation boost with the knife ears. Thats 3-4 raids from -100 to +100.

New PoP patch has apparentely been out for a week.

Commence the cheesening