Well, today I managed to purchase Warband for a mere £12.33, not bad considering most other distributors want well over £20 for it.

The Nords shall rule once more!

:rock::salute:

Has anyone tried to overwhelm the enemy with craploads of cheap units? I'm currently hiring every Swadian recruit I can find to build up my garrison at my new castle.

I believe that was standard practice for garrisons in the original game, but I've no idea if it still deters enemy lords in Warband.

Hmm... will have to try that. I currently have some 60-70 guys of a mixed recruit/militia holding out at my castle. Just took part in recapturing Ishsomething which was once mine, King Ragnar is supporting me on getting it. It's just that I disbanded most of my recruits I took to war as I needed the speed to scout the area deep inside Vaegir borders for our marshal. If I get the castle, I need to be sure the other castle can hold with militia/recruits while I take my main guys to defend Ishsomething. :hmmm:

Atleast we are at peace with the Swadian people, so I don't have to worry about defending two of my castles at the same time. :yeah:

Well, the bastard gave me the Ishamal castle, but didn't bother to come help me out when the Vaegirs attacked with 1200 soldiers against the garrison of 330. :stare:

They attacked twice before they decided to retreat after some heavy losses (~500 KIA). Almost had it on the first attack, accidentally fell down from the walls and was immediately attacked by 6-7 guys. :doh: Good thing I switched my 2h sword to an 2h axe, first swing usually breaks the shield and a quick side-swing takes care of the guy. After dealing with the guys, I ran around the castle and flanked the guys climbing the ladders (thank god it was their last wave :)).

Need to go get me some Rhodok archers me thinks. :hmmm:

You could also try to get vaegirs archers, they do wonders in the castle defence.
In the m&b, several castles were easy to defend, if they were the stone ones and if the atackers way was one one ramp/ladder. How are the attacks/defence in the warband? I didn't kame to that point yet, I'm only destroying bandids lairs! Damn that boyar meriga...

How many drunks have you kill? I was suprise in the first time a drunk person in the tavern wanted to cross swords with me.

Ah, I've killed quite a few drunks already... then I realised that (i guess) depending on your renown if choose the "Don't you know who I am" option, he quickly changes his mind and bugs out. :O:

As for castle stuff, it's still mainly just one ladder leading to the wall, seen few cases with 2 ladders. You can build siege stuff, but have never looked into how it's done. I did saw a siege tower just now. :yeah:

Right, another war against the Vaegirs over, got two castles from that one. :rock: Was abit surprised when the window popped up that King Ragnar would like me to have some castle I didn't even know we had taken. :O: So, accepted and almost had an heartattack when I checked the budget screen; they had left 250 strong carrison there which ate almost 3000d a week. :o Thanks, Ragnar..

*sigh* Now I have to rush to the other side of the continent to prepare my Swadian castle as we declared war on them... kinda sucky spot that castle in.. deep into the Swadian territory. :oops:

EDIT: Ow and update to the love front; She's still a whiny bitch. What the heck she wants me to do?! I'm friend of her father, good friend of the King, friend of one of the most powerful lords in Kingdom of Nords. Jebus, I've even freed her brother from enemy prison! I wish I could smuggle a dagger with me the next time I go meet her. :nope:

You're doom....

:haha:

GGGRRAAAAAH!!!! :damn: That Ishsomething castle is a baddie magnet! Swines (swadians) travelled all the way there to attack it, of course, Ragnar being the wanker he is, no help. 42 vs. 900+ :shifty:

So, now I'm stuck with no army, no horse and by the end of the week I'm broke too. :damn: Gah, time to make some adjustments to the tax income, this is ridiculous. First I have to bust my balls to get relations up so I have a better chance to get a castle and when I get it, it does more harm finacially than good. :nope:

If her relation to you is high enough, and her dad says it is ok then all I can think of is your Honor is too low. Quickest way to build it up is to capture and release enemy lords. It is also the fastest way to get them on your friends list. (Although some will resent and hate you for it, but very few of them). Beware though, all she is good for is holding feasts and giving the odd "smooth relations between X and X" quests... actually I guess without her you don't have extra storage in your main castle.. so she is not totally useless.

The pathing on alot of the sieges is crap. People getting stuck on the ladder etc. It allowed 85 of us to hold off 1300 defending Bayyrie or whatever it is called. :hmmm: It seems most of the problems are in the Sarranid cities and castles, and some of the older ones that were reworked since the original M&B. There is a mod from the old game that apparently works still to fix the pathing and add multiple ladders to most sieges, but being from the original it won't affect any of the Sarranid ones.

Ya, I'm pretty sure that it's the honor I'm missing. :hmmm:

EDIT: Ummm... why not a single one of my castles/towns give me rent now?? :doh:

This sounds like a fast paced stress game.:woot:

They all on fire with bandits everywhere? :DL Sounds about right for the luck your having.

You could always go bandit hunting and sell what you loot off em. Or small packs of guys that have good equipment to sell off.

Or mercilessly burn villages down and sell off the loot...

Bull, started a new game and if some kingdom asks me to serve them, I tell them to shove it. I kill bandits and get my lvl up, then with all the money I've gathered, get me a huge ****ing army and go capture a castle and start my own kingdom. :shifty:

So going Dom Claude Frollo are we Raptor?

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Raptor1: BUUUURN IT!

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It's constant work. :doh: If you don't join a faction, you don't have a solid income and have to do quests or just hunt bandits to pay stuff. When you do join a faction and work for them a bit the King gives you one town which gives you tax income. That's good at the start of the game when you're army isn't that big and you can catch a break... up until your faction goes to war and the opposing side raids your village making it not give taxes for the next week. :stare:

There is a way to make towns produce more income, one is building a mill, which sucks. It costs like 4000d, takes 30-50 days to build and gives a 5% boost to income. :nope: Another way is to make economy quests and stuff, which slowly makes the town richer, but the catch is that if it's raided (and you can count on it) the prosperity goes back to 0, so not really worth the hard work.

The fun starts when you get your castle which usually has one town attached to it. At first you're all "Whoa, moar money! :rock:", but then you realise that if you want to keep the castle you need a big garrison which will eat all the money you get from it. :doh: You can always depend on the faction to save yer arse if you come under siege, but there's always a chance that they are busy with something else and you lose the castle.

I'm not sure but I think the castle garrison thing is bugged, as you should only pay 50% of the wages when units are in garrison, but the wages seem a bit too high atm. :hmmm:

If you are going to restart you should export and import your old guy after selling off everything he owns. Will save you a lot of grinding time unless you don't like how your old one is leveled up

Yeh, noticed that after starting a new guy (still had old save games for the other). Handy. :up: