I like the changes to the map, in the original M&B it was too compact and small. Now it's bigger and more spread out, it takes time to travel now. :up:

Nice little addition is that the bandits have hideouts now, you get some stuff if you manage to kill all the enemies when you attack it. Not always easy due to small group of soldiers and a lot of bandits with bows. And you're on foot while doing it.

Oh boy...looks like I'm going to have fun with this...and that's just the tutorial. :yeah:

Definitely, just expect to lose and get dragged around as a prisoner a lot...

Has anybody else found the Forest Bandit hideout scene incredibly laggy and buggy (No collision trees and such)? It's so far the most annoying bug in the game...

Yup, the hideout is bugged. Not that I go there that much, I can get much better stuff from faction fights & raiding, so meh. :hmmm:

I wish they'd make improvements to the AI's behaviour on strategic level. Just now, 90% of our troops were all bunched together, Swadian troops were scattered all over the place and on top of that, I had 3 of their lords imprisoned. I kept telling the marshall to attack the darn Kernsomething castle that is "rightfully ours". He said 'ok, I'll do that', did he? No, he went to raid the town next to it. :damn:

And that's not even it, we are winning the war, we haven't lost a fight in ages, but no, they just won't finish it. :nope:

Of course, the Vaegirs saw this and declared war on us. Not that they're doing that well with it; just massacred 250+ of their soldiers defending a castle my "loved one" is in. :DL

The loot is mediocre to useless, especially with the Forest Bandits, but it is worth attacking just to get rid of those nuisences.

Let that be a lesson to all, never get between Dowly and some titties... :yep:

Teached them another lesson; Mere 150 poorly trained soldiers aren't a match against my band of 35 well trained (most have been with me since the beginning of the game, day 100 something now). Went and grabbed the Ishsomething castle from the Vaegir.

Poor bastards first tried to assault me outside the walls which resulted in total defeat for them. The next day I went in and they had only archers defending the castle. Not a hard job to run up the ladders and crack some skulls.

Now, this would all be good, I got me a castle as I wanted... but now every Vaegir army is sieging me. :wah:

Ow well, even for a brief moment, its mine, MINE ALONE!! WHAHAAHAH!! :smug:
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Ha, me and some 300 men are currently besieged in Uxkhal by the entire Rhodoks army of some 1,200 men (Every single one of their lords is there). Regardless if we could hold them all off, that's going to be hours of slaughter until one side loses...

Haha, good luck with that. :haha: King Ragnar came to save my arse with some 500 men, now it's time for a feast and then back to arse kicking. :yep:

**** **** **** ****! :o :nope:
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Just too many of them. :-? Was coounting on King Ragnar to come and save me again, but he never came. 49 vs 480, took 221 of them with me before finally being cornered and knocked out. :cry:

OUCH!! :o

Aye. :-? Ah well, after losing my army, I waited for peace between us and Swadia and went to recruit ten of their guys. Now got 10 Swadian Knights on my side, they mean business (well actually bad business, they tend to kill everyone so no prisoners to sell :O:).

Downside being that they cost a lot. 120d per knight or something like that a week, so with only one town pumping money for me, can't really have anything else than the 10 knights in my army. :hmmm: Started to build a mill, but that's only 5% increase on income.

In other news, I just had to pick the hardest gal to impress. Even the poet guy said she's tough. Rambling about morals and stuff, jebus, and her father's no good either. He was happily trying to forcefully marry her to this other lord whom I then duelled for her hand, so can't he just threated to throw her out or something if she doesn't stop the crazy talk. Morals, bah. :shifty:

Ow now you tell me... been playing on low settings all time. :doh: Darn the game looks nice now, compared to the original. :rock:

Ah, knew something looked off in that screenie.

Think I'm going to start a new game, the current one is completely messed up...

Yeh, I'm kinda fudged too. :-?