Sweet Realistic Medieval Combat (Mount and Blade)

**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!

**Jubal_Barca** · 08-12-2008, 12:27

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** · 08-12-2008, 12:56

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** · 08-12-2008, 13:11

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

**Mailman653** · 08-13-2008, 02:30

Originally Posted by Abokasee

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** · 08-23-2008, 16:02

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** · 08-31-2008, 18:19

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.