I'm gonna try to get into Mountain Blade. Any tips? What are the best difficulty settings for beginners? Should I turn attacking and blocking to automatic or manual for the best experience? This is Warband obviously.
Hardest difficulty
Manual block
Attacks based direction
Might be punishing at first but once you get gud at blocking nothing can stand up to you
I started it on lowest difficulty but now I can't imagine playing on the hardest one possible. Wouldn't recommend it for the first try though.
I think the best choice is to start low and raise difficulty a bit every N hours or something.
Automatic block is no fun.
Also, Swadia is master race, remove sarranids and laugh at the kerghits
>>341632745
Shit. Can't imagine not playing on the hardest obviously.
>>341632745
this
after you reach lvl 25, it becomes so easy on the lowest difficulty. i would suggest turning on antisavescum option too
>>341632196
>What are the best difficulty settings for beginners?
Crank that shit up to max, son, then suffer your way up to competence.
>>341632196
>practice blocking, don't be a turtling shit fag.
>Lern 2 fient and you'll destroy 90% of the player base
>Lern to abuse animations and you'll destroy 99% of the player base
Set combat speed to medium and full damage obviously, then set combat speed to fastest to prepare for MP
Manual blocking, ofc. Blocking is half the fun of the combat system.
ctrl+space to speed up time during travel
>>341632196
While this guy >>341632661 is a bit extreme he is right also nords are best for sieging castles.
While swadians and saranids are the best for field battles due i their heavy cavalry.
Huscarls are definitely the strongest infantry.
>>341632948
>i would suggest turning on antisavescum option too
Why is that even an option, it should be forced.
Defeat some Sea Raiders very early to get some good equipment.
Just stay on your horse and take charges at them.
build an NPC army
the most NPCs you have have, which will get along with the entire group and never leave you is 9
there is a certain list of NPCs which work together this way, find them out on your own
get them as early as possible and start training them, and gear them up with all your unwanted gear
Farm sea raiders, sell their byrnies and weapons, win tournaments after betting on your self, invest money to start businesses in every town, horse archer OP
>>341633050
Also don't let these faggots talk you away from MP, MnB's combat system is too good for the SP bots to do it justice.
Anyone who doesn't play MP is a scrub who needs to lern2gitgud
>>341632196
Max difficulty is the only option anon, anything else is casual. You must slog through shit to achieve greatness.
Now ask me about swadia
Thanks for the tips guys
>>341633303
>horse archer OP
It's not so OP that it's unfun, right? I'm actually playing this game mostly because I want a good archery game.
Don't fucking turn on the hardest difficulty, otherwise you'll have to grind for fucking hours to raise a medium army of medium troops that won't change too much in any war.
>>341633072
Holding Dhirim as a Swade is my favorite thing about single player.
>Harlaus declares war on 2 factions while holding a feast like usual
>Dhirim and surrounding hamlets are the front line for both fronts
You basically never have to look for a fight.
Ignore Swadiafags. They are always first to get wiped out.
Nords a best. Ragnar is best king.
>>341633532
>It's not so OP that it's unfun, right?
Does gitting gud so good that you're ripping every Rhodok sergeant's cranium off with your arrows just barely over their shields sound OP to you?A shame the horse archer AI is more annoying than effective. Horsefuckers don't have a chance in hell.
>>341633532
Horse archery is great fun
Do you guys usually play in first or third person?
>>341633851
>OP to you
Sound unfun to you*
Also, it's as OP as there are enemy troops on the field and arrows in your quiver, unless if you're carrying like 6 other packs of arrows in your chest.
>>341633912
How is it even a question? First person for sure.
>>341633912
Third and I switch to first occasionally to aim my lance or shoot a bow.
>>341633912
Third is better
You have more spatial awareness and it makes footworks easier
>>341633986
This. Third person is great for the swirling melee, and first for aiming and getting exact hits. Sometimes I play in first person for the fun of it, though.
You should be getting warband if you haven't already. It's an updated version of the original game, rather than a proper sequel.
>>341633532
It takes a long while for horse archer to be truly OP, and by then most of your battles will be won/lost by army composition and tactical/strategic planning than by what you alone can do. The main draw of being a horse archer is that you can engage from a distance while staying mobile; even if you suck shit at aiming you can get ezkills firing into hordes, and you'll stay alive longer by virtue of not being in the fray
>>341633526
>Max difficulty
If you enjoy being held captive, dragged, and butt raped literally (literally) for the entire game
>>341633912
Seriously, the only time first person is more useful is when lancing from horseback or when using archery. That said, it's still fun for muh immershun purposes.
>>341634635
Just don't be retarded
>>341634689
>Just don't be retarded
>>341634635
>>341634806
>Yeah attacking this group of 20 sea raider with my 15 recruits sounds like a good idea
Just don't
I like everything on max with 400-500 battle cap depending on mod, except player damage on 50%. It's just not very fun to play otherwise because one stray bullet and you're out, which is pretty common when you get into big fights.
How do you niggers deal with vassals? I can generally do just fine up until the point that I need to start expanding beyond the few fiefs I can hold alone; at which point shit falls apart because managing a dozen different niggers who hate each other. Getting supplies for feasts is a huge pain in the ass also. I just don't know how to break into that part
>>341634806
Seriously, there's nothing hard about this, it's a numbers game. Get tons of recruits then go fight bands of deserters or bandits. Refine troops, replace dead ones, rinse and repeat.
>>341634986
>playing WFAS
What should I put battle size at?
>>341635094
Only recruit lords with the goodnatured and upstanding personality
you can get a few martial lords if you need it but stick with the first two primarily and never accept shitty lords like the sadistic ones
>>341634986
>le epic stray projectile meme
>>341635219
Most mods have guns, I haven't touched native in years.
>>341635270
max
>>341635270
The smaller the battle size, the more effective the unstoppable engine of destruction that is your character will be.
Also more tedious.
It's a difficulty setting. Max it out for max fun.
Who here is hoping for a proper Mexican-American/19th century North American based mod for Bannerlord?
"1860s Old America mod" for Warband isnt that great, its a nice mod, but it has way too many problems moreso than Napoleonic Wars hass
>>341635270
>>341635596
>>341636025
I hope all you lads edit your battlesize beyond the default maximum
>>341635270
I'd say 50 until you actually have an army going, othwerwise you will get wrecked. Espcially if you have it on hard, but you should try it on 500 once.
>>341636187
Not until I have over 200 people in my army
>>341636187
I wish the game ran less like ass on super high numbers.
I go above 500, I lag like hell and get blackscreen stutters, and my PC is pretty goddamn good.
I want 1000+ battles
>>341636439
>I want 1000+ battles
In the siege video for Bannerlord https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iObwq1WaxQ8
there's ~500 troops and they said they want to support more in the final release.
>>341632196
DONT BELIEVE THE RHODOK MEME
THEYRE TRASH. OTHER ARMIES DO THEIR JOB BETTER
>>341632196
Easiest settings
Largest armies in the battle
No army/Very small army for yourself
You won't believe how fun it is to dispatch hordes of enemy all by yourself.
>>341637540
>You won't believe how fun it is to dispatch hordes of enemy all by yourself.
It's more fun to do because of your own skill than playing on easymode.
Self damage at lowest, everything else as hard as possible. Otherwise fighting rhodok is pure cancer with one-shots no matter what armor you have
>>341637692
>one-shots no matter what armor you have
>lying
>on the internet
>>341637686
True. Also forgot to mention a mod that basically forces that kind of playstyle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQn0Qn4FJ-Y
>>341638592
Blood & Steel lets your character get CUHRAAAAAZY but its still dangerous because a ton of the troops are strong too, and armies are bigger so you still have to be careful
>>341639095
Can't wait to see what modders do with sieges in Bannerlord
>>341637894
they can, rhodoks crossbows and even nords throwing axes can oneshot you easy
>>341640540
Only the top tier units will ever do that if you're actually wearing decent armor, and even then it will have to be a headshot.
If you can't take at least 1 shot from a siege crossbow or 1 heavy throwing axe to the body on full damage without getting KO'd then you've got shitty armor.
>>341640819
>headshot
That's what I'm talking about, if you get unlucky a stray bolt or an axe out of nowhere will oneshot you and lose you the battle
>>341641083
>a stray bolt or an axe out of nowhere
this will never happen if you're not a retard
get a shield or don't go charging out into the middle of a bunch of angry huscarls or sharpshooters and you won't get shot
>and lose you the battle
not necessarily
>>341636829
I can't wait for the improved sieges in bannerlord so I can give rhodokshitters a piece of my mind
