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/v/ how do you beat mount and blade warband?
>>344100071
Capture every single castle and city in the game and you get a little message that basically says, "Congrats you won!"
Overhead swings while backpedaling.
>>344100071
you get bored because your power snowballed so much that there's no reason to continue to play that campaign thus winning
I never understood how you capture shit when you have a max of 120 units and they have like 600+
Killing a hundred guys myself it still doesnt work due to eventual attrition.
I mostly play CRPG
Get annoyed that you have to manage too many properties with inefficient taxes or deal with nobles squabbling like children and quit to start anew.
When it turns into a civ sim instead of a maurader sim is when it's time to quit.
>>344101203
Generally it's because you have high tier units, work with your allies, or are a king/marshal.
>>344101203
You cheese them by going alone and headshoting enemies poking their heads outside. Repeat everytime you run out of ammo until you can capture it.
If you're defending you have to either snipe enemies climbing the ladder or meatgrind them as they climb it.
>tfw defending a city aganist 1200 enemies with only just 200 soldiers
>>344100071
You eradicate all the sarranids and save the world from the Sarranid Sultanate of Calradia, or ISIL for short.
THE GAME IS FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE SWADIA SUCKS MONKEY BALLS KING HARLAUS IS ADAUFHDUWNFJISENDGK
first time playing, /r/ tips
>>344104219
Luckily for you unit type is tied to specific locations and not the nation it self, so just betray the butterlord and recruit some swadian knights[sarranid]
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>>344100751
Fuck that autistic shit. Literally takes weeks, even months to do any of this. I remember seeing a let's player who took 2 years to beat a single campaign and with over 200 videos.
In all my time of playing Mount and Blade, even from its very primitive origins back in 2008, I haven't beaten it once. I just play the multiplayer.
Do you guys manually block attacks or use automatic block?
>>344102294
>1866
>US army takes fort from comanchies, map is a long trail leading up to a plateau
>decide to defend it with a force of 60 sharp shooters until Grant can decide to give me the fief or not
>suddenly 20,000 horse fucker show up
>to many indians to man the rim of the plateau, form a firing line 30 feet from the lip
>20 minutes 3,000 comanchies dead or wounded, but we run out of ammunition
>Indian melee units crest the plateau
>mfw
>>344105334
>automatic block
lol
>>344101051
This.
>>344104589
Horseback combat is easy mode.
Capturing prisoners and selling to a ramsom broker in taverns is a great way of doing money.
Increasing your inventory space is mostly useless.
If you want money early, you can save scum tournaments. Also, buy spices at around 300-400 in Khergit cities (purple) and sell them for around 800 elsewhere. Buying and selling other products is viable, but this is the most simple/lucrative.
Don't walk around with a full party. Leave room for recruiting released prisoners.
Upgrade your units constantly.
Mercenaries are too expensive early on. Recruit peasants and upgrade them over time.
All weapon types are viable. Both they're shit at low proficiency levels so keep leveling them up and experiment. They feel very different.
>>344106031
dude fuck that just pillage and sell for days, rich in no time flat
>>344106031
>All weapon types are viable. Both they're shit at low proficiency levels so keep leveling them up and experiment. They feel very different.
Even the daggers, anon?
>>344106179
That can be... problematic, depending on the party and political ties you're going for, specialy while not at war.
>>344106779
Yes, bearing in mind I said viable, not efficient.
It's biggest shortcoming is range though, so probably avoid it on horse back.
When going for horseback combat it's often wiser to go for a sabre instead of a common sword, even if it has a bit less damage because reach is so important.
>>344106179
>not racking up good boy points until all the good lords worship the ground you walk on
>not having an army of lords with 70+ relation to you without doing anything
>>344106779
daggers are mainly there as an oh shit weapon
>>344100071
>find weak city
>attack caravan
>capture city
>capture more cities
>everyone hates you
>switch to easy and kill them all
>laugh as whiny kings are losing their entire kingdoms while babbling about you being peasant unfit to rule
game is a trash rts
One handed weapons or two?
>>344109282
>switching to easy mode when the going gets tough
>not playing at over 150% difficulty
you are a peasant unfit to rule
>>344112206
I find 1h better on mount.
Chopping fools during sieges with 2h is god tier though.
PEASANT KING MASTER RACE
>>344112206
2h
there is polearm/2h axe that basically kills everything in one hit, including enemy 'heroes'
This isn't how I remember her looking in Fate
>>344117327
Thanks for the laugh. I forgot about the game doing that when you cross dress.
I have about 117 troops full of maxed out men yet I seem to wonder how the fuck people can take over a castle.
>>344117791
Kiss ass, when the castle is taken ask the king to give it to you, you now have a castle.
WHAT IS THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF PEOPLE YOU CAN HAVE IN YOUR GROUP?
>>344118057
Depends on your leadership skill and charisma.
>>344118157
CAN YOU HAVE OVER 1000?
>>344118057
>>344118157
and the number of castles you own, and whether or not your the marshal or king
300+
>there are people in this thread who don't play Blood and Steel
>>344117791
I hope they balance sieges better in the sequel.
The defender HAS to have a good advantage, but even if you atack with more troops it's useless to send units to be gang raped by a mob of mamelukes on top of a narrow ladder.
They could have used the tiered defense system better. Like having a portion of the fight to happen outside the gates, another one at the gates/walls and another one inside the castle.
>>344106031
>save manhunters
>hunt sea raiders
>???
>profit
>>344107819
> Spend the first 200 days pillaging and raiding Sarrashits.
> Eventually start besieging and taking over.
> Wipe them out.
> All their lords join us.
> Suddenly 50% of the lords in the Kingdom hate me.
Looting is a beginners mistake.
>>344119313
Fuck those petty lords. They're a bunch of assholes and if they don't agree with me, I'll pillage their shit too!
Spend 800 hours playing multiplayer until you are so fucking good at parrying and chambering that you can wade through the masses in your undies using nothing but a shortsword
>>344100071
How can you play a game made my filthy roaches...
>>344122063
How do I "git gud " at M&B combat? Is it a practice makes perfect thing?
>>344123013
Yes.
Play a lot of multiplayer. Hopefully there are popular servers with under 100 ping for you.
The strange thing is that skill doesn't really translate into singleplayer 'A LOT' considering how the AI swarm behaves by constantly running into you, where you should be more reliant on friendlies as meatshields.
>>344123162
explain chambering
>>344123271
a style of combat that offers no advantages
>>344122063
Honestly short swords are preferable in the fucking blob melee because there's no room to swing anything else
>>344123013
Start by turning off autoblock and play on mid pace easy combat AI
Then go to the training grounds and just spar with the AI. It's a good way to learn. Just don't guess which way to parry, take your time and watch their attacks and then react till you get the hang of it. Find a nice medium for mouse sensitivity to use too.
Chambering is done when you release an attack slightly after your opponent, mirroring his swing direction so your swing will intercept his. If timed right your swing will block his while attacking which is something quite hard to then parry as you're in recoil frames.
Then there's feints, if you play Warband you'll definitely find yourself doing this vs AI trying to find an opening. What you want to do is get smooth at it, practice swinging from the left, canceling and then swinging from the right until you can perform it as a seamless action showing no sign of a block.
Can someone duel with me right now in multiplayer
>>344123595
My overall preference is Arming Sword > Military Cleaver > OH Battle Axe > Elite Scim > Spiked Club
Elite Scim stupid damage and phantom hits feels cheesy
