Sweet Realistic Medieval Combat (Mount and Blade)

[Beskar]

I know for a fact the arrow circle strategy won't work. I already tried it. Then again, it might be because I am playing with a mod, but the arrows seem to do next to no damage.

[Prussian to the Iron]

I know for a fact the arrow circle strategy won't work. I already tried it. Then again, it might be because I am playing with a mod, but the arrows seem to do next to no damage.

well there you go.

if you do horse archery, you have to invest just about every skillpoint possible in horse archery and power draw, and thrown weapons if you'd like.

in order to get good starting bow weapons, start out as steppe nomad, hunter, etc.

[Beskar]

I done that. It hardly does any damage, even then if shots aren't wasted hitting their shields.

Just having polearm and couch lancing them is pretty much 1 shots them.

[Prussian to the Iron]

did you ever try mounted crossbow-ing?

and remember you said you were using a mod; i'm only on the vanilla trial, so there will be some obvious differences.

[Beskar]

Crossbow's pretty much as a whole, cannot be used on horseback.

I played Lords and Realms, and the Prophecy of Peldan.

[Prussian to the Iron]

ummm......???

and one more thing:

It often takes several passes to get the perfect target, and I often end up firing as they raise thier shields and try to attack me, exposing their body for less than a second. This is the time to strike.

Admittedly, I almost never end up with prisoners due to a decisive lack of mercy.

[johnhughthom]

Admittedly, I almost never end up with prisoners due to a decisive lack of mercy.

You should try using jousting lances. They have the longest reach of all polearms and give blunt damage so you capture pretty much every enemy you come across. It's a bit odd to be soloing and carrying 25-30 prisoners around with you though...

[Husar]

Crossbow's pretty much as a whole, cannot be used on horseback.

I played Lords and Realms, and the Prophecy of Peldan.

Wrong, unless they changed that.
I mean at least in version 1.something, the last I played, you can shoot all of them from horseback and the light and hunting crossbows can also be reloaded on horseback.

[Beskar]

Wrong,

It isn't wrong. If the game could be screen shotted, I would post a picture. It explicitly says "Cannot be used on Horseback" in Lord and Realms for the Siege Crossbow for instance, But every other one I seen says pretty much the same.