Sweet Realistic Medieval Combat (Mount and Blade)

**seireikhaan** · 08-07-2008, 16:47

Originally Posted by india

Taking cities is one of the hardest thing one has to do in-game.......the most men I've ever carried at once was 150, and even then it was damn hard to take it.
I normally just use an axe to crash through the chaps on the wall and drop down on the other side, then, finding cover, I use my bow to pick men off the wall from behind one by one, picking up discarded arrow bags when I run out, and continue this as long as I can. Then once I'm knocked out, I just wait for a while and then begin another storming. With all my army, I manage atleast 150 in a go, with a loss of no more than 15 dead and 20 wounded. This way, I finish off the garrison and take the city

Well, its not that I can't take any city. I've already taken Suno and Sargoth with help from a couple of my allied lords. Tihr, however, is just a whole other level of ridiculous because of narrow ladders and a spike wall...

**Kekvit Irae** · 08-07-2008, 21:47

Originally Posted by makaikhaan

Well, its not that I can't take any city. I've already taken Suno and Sargoth with help from a couple of my allied lords. Tihr, however, is just a whole other level of ridiculous because of narrow ladders and a spike wall...

I never go in with the first wave. I always hang back and snipe with my crossbow while my Sword Sisters and Knights do my dirty work. Once my soldiers made a beachhead on the walls, I move in and stay on the top of the ladder with my pike, attacking whoever gets close to me. I switch to a war pick or other light melee weapon when the walls are cleared.

**Somebody Else** · 08-09-2008, 04:34

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

**Kekvit Irae** · 08-09-2008, 09:56

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** · 08-09-2008, 11:04

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** · 08-09-2008, 12:03

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** · 08-09-2008, 15:33

Originally Posted by Eliit Tuhkur

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....

**Abokasee** · 08-11-2008, 08:42

Originally Posted by Somebody Else

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** · 08-11-2008, 22:59

Originally Posted by Abokasee

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** · 08-12-2008, 07:39

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** · 08-12-2008, 09:00

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!