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>castle goes 20 days with literally no food at all
>WE CAN HOLD THIS CASTLE UNTIL WE DIE OF OLD AGE
I thought you guys said this game was good?
Is there any downside to having nothing but cavalry in warband?
>actually trying to force a defender to surrender in a siege
What the FUCK are you doing
you're supposed to attack them you mong
>>320219539
not really, but there's foot troops that generally outperform them in places like castle fights where cavalry can't have horses
>>320219539
Unless they're Khergits you're fucked when it comes to replacing them
If they're Khergits you're fucked because you're using Worst Faction exclusively like a faggot
>>320219585
I didn't know the game was broken
>>320219712
>you're supposed to attack them you mong
So starvation is a broken mechanic, got itI've already united calradia twice
>>320219826
even if it wasn't it's still fucking stupid
you're just sitting there for weeks while enemy armies can attack you or blob up and then attack you
>>320219431
You know that it takes longer than twenty days to starve a castle, right?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlech_Castle
Seven years to get this castle to capitulate.
Castles have some long ass food stores, and there were decent methods of food preservation in medieval Europe. Some of which are shown in Calradia. (Cheese, for example.)
Twenty days ain't fucking shit.
This is where M&B:WB has problems. There is no way to make sieging a castle viable, and there's very little chance of making it surrender to you. Unless you have high persuasion and a fucking massive posse.
>>320219539
Sieges. Vaegir and Rhodok marksmen are great at whittling down defenders while Nords get the best infantry. However most heavy cavalry units are still capable fighters even without their horses, though obviously not as great without them. And when it comes to sieges you usually should be relying in superior numbers anyways by calling other lords to help you or stick with the realm's current campaign force.
>>320220007
It's the last vaegris castle, I'm doing a run where I try to win without pussying out and joining a faction
I've captured half of their lords, and the other half are trapped in the castle (0/1) after escaping
Sieging vaegris is really hard because their archers are so fucking good so i just thought Id try this mechanic Ive never once used
>>320220080
you don't understand
it's food stores lasted 30 days
I waited 30 days
then another 20
>>320220221
literally the best bowmen in the game
>>320219539
Expense mostly. You can field a larger army without horses for less.
>give such a good dicking
>you gain renown
>>320220187
>relying in superior numbers
Get a bunch of Marksmen and nothing but, sit them outside the walls and let them shoot until they have no more arrows, retreat with no casualties, repeat until you can personally wade in and crack the last few heads remaining
>>320220353
how are you supposed to catch up to anyone without horses?
>>320219539
Depends on what your goals are, tactically. A small cavalry force of elite soldiers following you while you rampage the battlefield is pretty fucking good. If you can micromanage infantry and archers at the same time, it's even better.
But if you go cavalry only, then you can use the entire battlefield as your weapon. Have them follow in wedge formation behind you, charge through their ranks, take a long sweep back around and do it again.
You really minimize lfie loss that way. Especially if you have decent ranks in tactics and can keep getting good rolls of random terrain.
However, I've also conquered Calradia with a pure Rhodok army. Abusing rough terrain with crossbows is really fucking stronk. In the end, it's all down to preference in the campaign. Because the AI is pretty bad. If M&B's campaigns had player opponents, it'd definitely be more interesting.
>a campaign mode where it connects you with a player to head the opposing army when possible
>a game mode where you can sign up to command enemy armies from another player's campaign (from lord phase and up only)
This would be pretty fucking awesome.
>>320220428
Shoot them.
>>320220080
Don't be a medieval autist. Game told him they had 20 days and it lied.
>>320220505
So the game lied about the castle's supplies. What's OP gonna do, storm the walls and kill everyone inside, or wait like a bitch until the war's over?
>>320220502
on the map, i mean
infantry make your army slow as hell
>>320220428
Archers on hills, surrounded by pikes, or in forested areas
>>320220505
You do realize it takes like 4+ weeks to die of starvation.
>>320220415
That's warphilia, isn't it?
>>320220581
>recruit Borcha
>give Borcha points in pathfinding and level his int until he gets to 30/10 and has at least 5 spotting and tracking, dump extra int points elsewhere
>>320220581
Get some pathfinding, give your followers horses and keep a couple spare horses to carry your loot. But not too many because too many spare horses slows you down again
>>320220575
see
>>320220295
however you wanna damage control this is objectively a broken mechanic your gamefu is broken
>1257 AD
>crusader in the holy land
>killing saracens like it's nothing
it's the game I've always wanted
>>320220664
nah man. it is YO HO HO.
update: day 40(day 70 of siege) and still no surrender
really epic game paradox!!! :^)
>>320220774
The wars in WB happen so fast that starving a castle is not a viable tactic, and it was never meant to be. If you want to siege castles and shit, go play Crusader Kings II. You're just wasting your time, not earning income (save for passive rents), not levelling any soldiers outside your training skill, and generally not progressing while you siege.
If you siege, you're a boring person and you'll likely die alone.
>>320220575
>wait like a bitch until the war's over?
Which was a widely used and preferred way of doing battle.
There's a reason why "siege" is translated as "seat." Have some tea, nigger, and starve the fuckers out.
>>320220927
the estimate is based on your fat ass food consumption
clearly vaegirs are made of stronger stuff than you, boy
>>320221012
Preferred tactic in real life.
Warband isn't real life. Scale the walls and slaughter the cowards.
>>320220998
Im earning 2k a week by existing you fucking casual
Games broken deal with it
>>320221078
No shit.
I wish they implemented starving them out correctly.
I guess I finally have a reason to select inventory management, kek
>>320220927
The number is just how much food the army had with them, the castle-owned stores are gonna last for years
>>320221098
>he thinks 2k per week is a lot of money
Come to me when you've got the best possible enterprise in every single town, several towns and villages that are prosperous, and you're earning more than 15k in profit every week, on top of all your garrisons of top tier soldiers at castles, which you only keep so you can quickly replenish soldiers.
And make sure to have at least 90 reputation in several villages, so you can recruit some retarded high amount of middle to high tier soldiers repeatedly, so you can throw them in the grinder.
>>320221364
Thats cool but you kind of just made it up.
it says the castle's food stores not the army's food stores you dip
>>320221382
>he spent this many hours
>on a single player video game
>>320221382
>he thinks 15k a week is alot
LOL
>>320221438
Of course I made it up
>>320221382
How the fuck do I start making enough to break even
>>320221607
spam tourneys, buy enterprises. fiefs a shit cause they always get pillaged when you're fucking around with the warparty.
>>320219431
I never had the patience to siege a castle long enough to starve them but I'd like to have the option anyway. Kind of shitty that they pretend to have a mechanic that isn't really in the game. Sieges are the weakest aspect of M&B anyway. I know Bannerlord is doing a lot to improve sieges, so hopefully starving them out will be, if not viable, at least doable.
>>320221607
talk to guild masters and choose the most profitable venture
after 5-6 you will effectively negate food costs and troop wages forever
>>320221607
dye works
dye works everywhere
>>320221937
choke on penis
>>320221472
You do want to conquer Calradia, right?
>my steam version has 611 hours
>my old pirate version I originally had, clocked in at least another 400 hours
>the pirate version I keep to play old mods has another sixty hours or so
To be fair, M&B is literally the game I dreamed up as a child. And I fucking love the game to death.
Oh and
>being a casual scum that can't put an investment of time to build a campaign
>>320221607
>start killing bandits
>get decent gear
>go to tournaments
>bet on yourself
>repeat
>keep small group of soldiers to kill bandits
>go to M&B wiki and find a group of compatible companions that you can allocate to level skills for you, and which work for your goals and motivations (being honorable, for example)
>start buying enterprises around the land
>turn down your first few offers of lordship until you have enterprises in at least one of every nation's cities
>remember that any money sequestered from your enterprise during war time is rewarded back to you if you succeed in getting a peace treaty, meaning windfalls every time you win a war
>proceed to get a lordship at your shit village, protect it and build it
>take some stupidly defensible castle(s) and towns
For this, I prefer the delta region of Swadia, Uxkhal and the two castles on the river by it. Right in the middle. Close to Rhodoks for sharpshooters, three castles with big garrisons close to each other for defensibility. If you can take those three towns, that's a huge seat for your power base when you decide to become a king.
>>320221937
Fuck off, autist.
http://arch.b4k.co/_/search/text/bLT_pJalsME/
>>320219539
Foot troops make a great distraction and hold your enemy in place while you line up your cavalry and charge them from the side or behind. It's useful to prevent the other army from clustering up into little groups that your cavalry gets caught on.
