Ulair
03-04-2004, 14:14
Folks,
Couple of questions: do people think generals on the battlefield (as in the square-flag-carrier man) are ridiculously difficult to capture/kill, and; is there an easy way to mod things so they're a little less super-heroic?
I mean, I had a single Spanish general - OK, a royal knight, but just the one of him - pinned by a whole company of feudal sergeants, with a half-company of Swedish woodsmen charged into his rear, and he's killing a couple of FS here, a couple of woodsmen there, and he's *still* going, and *STILL* going, and another couple of FS are dead...
Many minutes - and getting on for a dozen dead Englishmen later - he finally goes down. OK, I'm happy that generals are a bit tougher to kill, but that seems a way out. I mean sure, he kills a couple of FS but then his horse gets five spears in it, he goes down and is hacked to pieces by two or three longaxes seems more realistic (that's how Bernard Cornwell would write it, anyway :-).
Cheers,
Ulair
Couple of questions: do people think generals on the battlefield (as in the square-flag-carrier man) are ridiculously difficult to capture/kill, and; is there an easy way to mod things so they're a little less super-heroic?
I mean, I had a single Spanish general - OK, a royal knight, but just the one of him - pinned by a whole company of feudal sergeants, with a half-company of Swedish woodsmen charged into his rear, and he's killing a couple of FS here, a couple of woodsmen there, and he's *still* going, and *STILL* going, and another couple of FS are dead...
Many minutes - and getting on for a dozen dead Englishmen later - he finally goes down. OK, I'm happy that generals are a bit tougher to kill, but that seems a way out. I mean sure, he kills a couple of FS but then his horse gets five spears in it, he goes down and is hacked to pieces by two or three longaxes seems more realistic (that's how Bernard Cornwell would write it, anyway :-).
Cheers,
Ulair