Sweet Realistic Medieval Combat (Mount and Blade)

[Kekvit Irae]

I use heavy infantry for city/castle sieges, where horses cannot be used. I especially prefer the ones who do not have any ranged weapons, as anyone who stands still on the ground get chewed up by archers protected by parapets.

[rajpoot]

Nord Huskarls are the best infantry there is.......at least that is what I think. They are the units I use most often, clubbed with Vegir Marksmen, to take a city.

[Ferret]

I agree totally, if you get the trainer stat beefed up you can get a lot of huscarls and they can take any settlement providing their not outnumbered more than two to one, by lower tier infantry.

[rajpoot]

by lower tier infantry.

Ahh the lower tier infantry.......contemptible peasants........it pains me a lot to see them gang up on elite troops and take them down like wolves might do to a lion........ofcourse, I always win, but still, every elite unit dead means a lot, specially if you've spent ages training them....

[seireikhaan]

Okay, question to the more experienced players. I've taken every Nordic settlement. King Ragnar is being held prisoner by the Swadians. What more must be done for Lethwin Far-Seekr to officially take the Nordic throne?

[Mailman653]

Eliminate all the lords parties that might be traveling in the map this can be difficult and time consuming, I know some people (myself included) turn on cheats and enable the view all feature; then all you do is scan around and take out any yellow party you see.

[seireikhaan]

By "eliminate", do you mean capture? What if they get away?

[Somebody Else]

By "eliminate", do you mean capture? What if they get away?

If you've taken all the settlements from the faction, there's nowhere for the lords to respawn.

N.B. As soon as you win the rebellion, the Nord Rebel faction will turn into the Nord faction, and behave as normal - just with a different king. Which means you can no longer award yourself settlements...

This is speaking as the owner of every single castle in the Swadian Rebel Faction.

SE

[Abokasee]

City/castle taking the SE way. Train up a massive army of top-notch archers/x-bows (a mix is handy).

Besiege city with said army, tell them all to stand ground. Assuming tactics skill is high enough, and with a liberal dose of sharpshooting yourself, plenty more enemies should die than friendlies. Retreat. Repeat until there are very few left. Run in with men at your back and democraticly issue merry mayhem to the survivors.

(High medic skills help too)

Save the knights for field battles... (fond memories of taking down 700+ Vaegirs with a hundred or so Swadian knights at my back. In one go.)

Heavy infantry - I'm sure they have their uses, decorational perhaps. If they can't ride, they're not all that much more effective in melee than a bunch of archers - and plus they don't shoot. Unless they're Nords. When they rock.

SE

Heavy infantry have no real use in a siege, just there for defending your archers really, which of course isn't going to be important since anyone attempting to sally out will be shot, and top-notch archers are usually very well equiped

[Mailman653]

top-notch archers are usually very well equiped

VERY WELL equipped I'm more than certain in few cases I charged a couple of defenseless arches and out of no where they put their bows away and start swinging at me with insanely long poles and spears. Sometimes not even my own soldiers carry long reaching weapons like that.

[seireikhaan]

Hmm. just started finding the samurai equipment, got the armor, helmet, short and long swords. However, there's apparently supposed to be some boots, I suppose? Does anyone else know where the boots are?

[Abokasee]

If your playing Band Of Warriors, there should be Boots

Mailman653

The game is suposed to be based on early medieval times, however in the late medieval period most peasants were equipped with a ranged weapon and a polearm!

[Jubal_Barca]

The boots have gone in .960 they used to be in veluca.

Tihr is easy to solve - use edit mode and remove the blocker that forces you to go round the first wall.

[rajpoot]

By the way, what difficulty level do people here play the game on? What realism % ?

I max everything, my charecter's attack, the attack on him, the attack on my units. However, I do play with qutting without saving.

[naut]

Depends on my mood. If I want to relax, then lowest difficulty. If I want more of a challenge I'll up it.

[Mailman653]

The game is suposed to be based on early medieval times, however in the late medieval period most peasants were equipped with a ranged weapon and a polearm!

I should just build up an army of these polearm archers next time

[Mailman653]

http://forums.taleworlds.net/index.p...347#msg1122347
A few days old, but its an interview with the dev team about 1.0 and the future of M&B.

[Oleander Ardens]

I too love to stand my ground with a group of ranged units, Crossbows and Bows alike. You can often divert a lot of enemys and make their work easier.

[Rilder]

Man I love axes in M&B, whenever I fight as a footman I always have a 2h Axe if possible, especially in siege battles. You can really swath through enemies with one.

[Mailman653]

M&B has gone gold, its going to be released Sept 16th in the US and 19th in Europe.
http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/mountblade/908031p1.html

And possibly new screens as well:
http://forums.somethingawful.com/sho...0&pagenumber=2
Just scroll down to the bottom a bit.

[Mouzafphaerre]

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It keeps lagging hellishly despite my quadrupled RAM.

I'll stick with TLD on .8
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[Mailman653]

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It keeps lagging hellishly despite my quadrupled RAM.

I'll stick with TLD on .8
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Speaking of TLD, might be months after 1.0 is released before we see a new version.

[Crazed Rabbit]

A new, and much improved, trailer:
http://uk.pc.ign.com/dor/objects/782...nB_091208.html

CR

[seireikhaan]

Only 3 more days!

[Mailman653]

A new, and much improved, trailer:
http://uk.pc.ign.com/dor/objects/782...nB_091208.html

CR

That must be the new soundtrack, sounds epic.
Sieges look the same to me from that brief scene I wonder what's supposed to be different now.

And is that a new animation at the end? It looks pretty neat, it's like a high block with the shield.

[Veho Nex]

Any one else getting giddy?

[Ferret]

Nope

[ElectricEel]

I'll be playing the final version in a couple of hours . Because someone at Paradox did something pretty silly, it has leaked out to the 'net. The leaked version is apparently identical to the final release - copy protection and all, so you'd still need to have a valid serial code (i.e. have bought the game) to play past the trial level limit.

Not sure I should spread the link around. In any case, if you really want to get it, it shouldn't be too difficult to figure out how if you look around a bit on the Taleworlds forums.

[pevergreen]

Holidays in a few days

[naut]

Gah! Can't wait!