/mbg/ - Mount & Blade General:

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I'm posting Cao Cao in honour of the poster who was posting in honour of the original Cao Cao poster until we get a good Romance of the three kingdoms mod.

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[guitar solo]

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reminder that blood and steel 2 is apparently a thing

>>166791227
>tfw you forget the link
https://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,360013.0.html

webm is unrelated btw

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>King Ragnar has decided to confer Jeirbe Castle onto you
>ACCEPT ACCEPT ACCEPT

the siege of palermo isn't going well

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LONG MAY HE REIGN.

>>166791401
>accepting a Native castle
are you that desperate for a garrison slave?

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>>166791767
fugging image

remimder stale memes are not culture

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>>166791823
LONG LIVE THE KINGDOM OF SWADIA.

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>>166791925
they're waving a banner to taunt me now

>>166791925
Is that really all you brought against 875 men?

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>>166788530
Last remaining British soldier contemplates the battlefield. Battle of Fort Autism, 1879. (colorized)

>>166792141
Disregard that, I thought you were attacking. Well, that sucks then, but it can be done somehow.

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>>166792141
yeah because we just did another defense earlier and conquered a bunch of fiefs
this was on the way back to europe to get more troops, the french took an opportunity to besiege a town
if i can fend them off then i can completely fuck the french offensive and maybe steamroll the rest of their fiefs without them recovering

>>166792272
>crossbow versus shields in 1257AD
You're probably going to beg them to put you out of your misery long before you get through their entire army

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>>166792643
working so far
the bannerman keeps me company

>>166791963
what is?

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Hey the WFS/Caribbean!/B&G:C! devs just released their latest game. Maybe now theycan devote some more time to B&G:C!

>>166791963
the stalest meme is you complaining about stale memes

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>>166792732

>>166793452
Is this the Banner Lord?

>>166793452
>innocent man assaulted by dakota access pipeline protester while loading his peace-keeping device

>>166794046
>this is what rhodocucks actually believe

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>finally get into serious mercenary work in 1257
>suddenly find myself involved in 2v3 faction brawl in eastern europe
>non stop fucking action
>kill most of the armies around and more come from scandinavia by boat
Slaughtering ebin vikings has never felt better.
I'm farming honor like a motherfucker too.

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RIP Alberto Barbosa

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So do you think Bannerlord will have battles with more than 2 sides, like the tournaments in Warband?

Would be pretty neat to have 2 sides having it out then a third one come in and join the fray. Though with how battles work I guess this could eventually lead to one giant cluster fuck with people constantly joining the fight from the over-world map.

>>166794559
if it's anything like tournament then two sides will kill each other while the third gets to pick off the weakened opponents

>>166794559
As you mentioned Warband's engine can already support battles of more than two sides.

The real query is likely the following:

1) Can you join a battle against both forces already engaged in battle

2) Can other forces interrupt an ongoing battle that you are already involved in

I suspect Talesworld will evade this due to AI vs AI vs AI logic on the map but it would be neat.

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>>166794447
If I can't conquer 1257, nobody will get to play Bannerlord

>>166794559
Has there ever been an example of a battle like that in history which wasn't a horrible mistake?

If you're leading an army, and you see two enemy armies fighting, I'd think you would let them fight it out and attack after.

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this
castle
is
bullshit

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>>166793521
yes
F

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>>166795257
who needs invisible walls when you can have steep hills.

Best case KO worst case your troops are trapped there all battle.

>>166795061
this
it makes absolutely zero sense

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>>166795275
the day is ours
>>166795257
which castle is this

>>166795061
>>166795739
Mechanically it makes sense since battles on the world map can take hours if not days to resolve.

Even if the player did not freeze time when engaged in battle it may still be more efficient to just wipe them both out rather than waste food, morale, and time (opportunity cost).

if a Boyar defects to Swadia does his title change to Count? asking because I can't remember and it seems like lord titles are just stored as names, but I always thought lord titles changed

>>166795927
Yes

>>166795927
yes in warband
change to lord if they join player faction by default

>>166795970
>>166795980
interesting, in module_troops the lord titles are just part of the name string. titles aren't in module_factions either.

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>>166795836
Its a castle in North Africa. This region I believe. Actually did this last night so I can't recall.

The terrain somehow screws with archer AI such that even if you position archers in logical places they will never fire.

That thing I am in has the worst characteristics of a ladder and a siege tower combined into one.

And it later empties out onto a bottleneck where ranged can shoot at you from your flanks while you are surrounded by infantry of different elevation. The side walls will also confuse invader AI, making them stuck even if there are no enemies there.

The only way I could take that castle was to suicide charge that bottleneck myself, clear out the area, and then manually order my infantry/cavalry to move beyond that area.

>>166796137
i think the starting ones are but then it's altered when they defect
>>166796198
gabes? i took kairwan and tripoli last night and i must've taken that castle a while ago since i don't remember, but kairwan and tripoli had perfectly fine siege scenes

>>166796456
>i think the starting ones are but then it's altered when they defect
it seems that way, the singular name string has the lord's name and title, the "plural" field just has the name. but I don't know where the game gets the title to apply to a lord once they switch factions.

>>166796584
module_strings maybe?

>>166796456
When you see it, it will be obvious. You start outside the castle flanked by steep hills. If you go up these hills you will see what are functionally death falls.

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>>166796632
that's the one

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>>166796662
hopefully it's just that fief since i already have it
>>166796981
>boyarina
kek

>complete claimant quest, arguably the longest and hardest quest in the game
>no EXP or other reward whatsoever

>>166798005
the reward is being the most important vassal in a kingdom that gets any fief you ask for

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>when 3 fucking faggots with tiny armies siege down a city and your enterprises go to shit
I fucking hate sweden

>>166798164
>siege down a city for a month and a half***

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>>166798005
If there is no implicit reward in supporting the claimant outside of exp or denars you are supporting them for the wrong reason

>>166798127
May as well be king. In fact due to inability to conduct diplomacy of any sort until quest completion starting your own kingdom may even be easier most times.

>play dickplomacy today
>make a sandnigger character who i will use to unify the east to create an eastern sultanate
>win tournaments, get gear, get wealth, build myself an army of about 75 sandniggers
>go to war with khergs and rhodoks, see this as an opportunity to make money raiding villages
>on my way to a village, get caught by 150 khergits with lots of lancers and veteran archers
>army gets decimated, try to retreat, get caught
>imirza noyan rapes me in my asshole
>manage to escape after a few days of getting routinely sodomized
>get caught by bandits, get sodomized, they cum all over my face and stomach
>i escape again, walk off into the mountains and commit suicide, delete save out of shame

how was your day?

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>>166798371
>a slanteye
>with a sideways vagina
>in charge of anything
baka desu senpai

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>>166798519
>raiding villages
>get raped
There is justice in this world

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>thrusting instead of cutting
Do people here actually do this?

>>166798756
I don't see the problem so long as both warriors are using proper polearms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HExlBHxQ_60

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>>166798519
>get caught
>by 150 khergits

I can understand why the Bannerlord devs are wary of releasing information on gameplay features that may change.

But why in the world aren't we getting teased with random lore tidbits? At least some teasers on the faction soldiers, sovereigns, and claimants.

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>>166800369
dont worry
we'll see a new blog in about 25 days

>>166799425
muh 10 sarranid horsemen and 50 footman were annihilated

Cleaving is going to be so much fun. Infantry is actually going to be powerful when you can go around the back of an infantry clash and hack up multiple enemies at a time.

>inb4 they make 2-handers unplayably slow to compensate

>>166801153
>Cleaving two-handers are unusably slow
>All polearms lack cleave
I will be legitimately angry

>>166801153
>>166801313
At least that's just a variable that can be modded. The important thing is that the mechanic is in the game to begin with.

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>>166801313
I want to believe

>>166801382
hopefully

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>>166801382
>it is hard-coded into weapon category rather than a flagged parameter

>>166801654
only stuff like that in warband is penalties based on weapon class

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>>166801776
So what you are saying is that there is not only the possibility but clear precedence

>>166801153
>cleaving is going to be so much fun
You do realize that in order to get cleaving, we have to get Bannerlord first? Personally I think we should petition Taleworlds to fire the Ginger and have them hire Saxondragon for PR. The lore for Bannerlord would improve immensely.

>>166802043
not really since literally everything is done with flags

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>>166801423
Polearms don't get enough love, but chopping polearms in particular don't get nearly enough love.

>>166801423
>>166802339
I hope you guys aren't implying that you want cleaving cavalry charges to be a thing.

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finally

>>166802669
This would primarily affect the Hafted Blade and how many people seriously use that weapon mounted in Native anyways? Unless you are flanking an unaware archer line getting that close to incoming infantry to actually do a cleave with a low reach weapon is already extremely dangerous, especially in mods where horses aren't tanks.

Many swinging weapons such as the Poleaxe and Glaive lose their swinging capability once mounted. This can be balanced by modifying the moveset in a similar fashion.

>want to marry Kenshin
>also want my own kingdom
Is this doable?

>>166790872
What about that Dynasty Warriors mod?

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>>166803112

>>166803076
>Many swinging weapons such as the Poleaxe and Glaive lose their swinging capability once mounted.
those weapons shouldn't even be usable on horseback

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>>166803090
>Can't recruit sovereigns
>Can't turn factions into vassal states
Bannerlord needs to FIX THIS

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>>166803134
>those weapons shouldn't even be usable on horseback
take
that
back

>>166803371
ching bing bong polearms aren't like european polearms

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>>166790460
WHAT THE FUCK HOW THE FUCK DO I GIT GOOD AT THIS GAME REEEEEEEEEE

Playing Floris, can barely keep and army of 30 men standing for a week at best. Is it better to only have troops of one kingdom+ mercs or can I use any troops? morale seems to go down when I race mix

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>>166803474
>Floris

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>>166803474
>floris

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>>166803474
>Floris

>>166803163
The modders should make fewer pretender waifus and more noble/hero waifus. Kenshin and Saber aren't even that great in the games they come from.

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>>166803474
>floris

>>166803474
>floris
you only have yourself to blame. If you are new though, then save up enough money through tournaments or doing quests for guildmasters/lords to purchase an enterprise in a city for weekly cash flow. Mercs cost something like 1.5x more per week compared to their kingdom level counterparts of the same level so you should really try to get kingdom if you can afford the time spent training the. troops get +/- morale based on who they fight, so if you have rhodok troops and you kill ehodoks their morale will go down but if you have swadians and Swadia is at war with Rhodoks, you kill rhodoks and their morale will go up

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>>166803617

>have 15 castle/village fiefs in my name
>find out about tax efficiency
FUCK

Are archers the worst units in Gekonewer? The Cutting damage bows are just laughably shit, especially when the alternative is spammable pikemen, musketeers, and powerful samurai units.

>>166804086
While peasant archers are a joke Samurai archers were the most powerful units in the game IIRC.

Is the slash damage arrows a Gekonewer thing? I could have sworn base Gekokujo had pierce damage bows.

>>166804086
they're still good because of lmao no shield

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>Marshal force is so massive I can only deploy 1 soldier out of my 240 troop army
This is a serious problem considering that my companions tend to get 30% kills minimum

>>166804460
http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,46821.msg1217848.html#msg1217848

>>166804086
>tfw making conservative japanese women use my superior western longswords and muskets instead of Katanas and bows.

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>>166804554
Do not believe Western lies. Guns (Tanegashima) were made in Japan first, and then the Nanban stole them and claimed to have invented them. This is 100% fact. My dad said so.

>>166804496
I'm the Marshall though?

IIRC they give you full command during sieges even if you aren't Marshal as well. Its been a while so I am doubting myself here a bit. I tend to siege solo in most mods or ignore offensive sieges as a mercenary since they are a waste of time (allows very low renown and loot, talking to lords for +1 relations is a pain).

>>166804697
>IIRC they give you full command during sieges even if you aren't Marshal as well.
i think they do if you have good relation with that lord, but otherwise they're under their command

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>>166804554
>making conservative japanese women use my superior western longswords
legitimately disgusting please commit sudoku now

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>>166803637
>Kenshin and Saber aren't even that great in the games they come from
>still no Historically Accurate Isolla/Saber
Feels bad man.

>>166804813
Speculation of Kenshin being female is legitimate centuries old meme though. Saber is just random rule 63 anime wank.

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>>166804898
That is why I said
>Historically Accurate Isolla

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>be outnumbered 5 to 1
>enemies have to go through the tiniest fucking chokepoint I have ever seen
they're literally tryin to break through the front door, this doesn't make any sense.

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>>166805007
Ah I missed that refined detail senpai. I retract my statement.

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>>166790460
>VC Dark Age 2.0 is out!
>Changelog barely mentions anything but states that there'a a lot of new armors.
>All of the new, interesting helmets are gone, replaced for vanilla ugly ones.
>All armors are just vanilla replacers and retextures.
>Not a single lamellar armor just mail and a a fre identical scale armors.
>It's not even compatible with previous Item Packs.

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>>166804689
>>166804809
Even Kenshin knows Nanban a best.

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>>166803668
>floris

what is this meme, it makes native playable. What did I do guys?

Is there a way to edit the game to relinquish all your fiefs? Having all these shitty villages is actually killing my run.

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>>166805774
>being this new

>>166805881
pretty sure diplomacy lets you give up/trade fiefs

>>166805774
>it makes native playable
Its exactly this attitude that made me hate Floris so many years ago.

Sorry if I don't make any sense with this question, I'm a bit tired.

For some reason, Viking Conquest is showing Native-sized battle sizes in the menu, though in battle the battle sizes are what you would expect for VC. To try and explain it better:

>Battle size in options: Goes from 30 to 150
>Battle size in-game if I used battle size 30: Around 150.

What text file do I have to edit to get Viking Conquest to display the correct battle size in the options menu?

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>>166805007
:3 Ymira is CUTE

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what
why would they do this

>>166804183
Gekokujo uses pierce damage, upstab mod changed that to cutting for some reason and Newer uses upstab changes.

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>>166807006
this is how relevant the order is

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>>166807006
Thou shalt not suffer a sheep-fucker to live

>>166807059
>Newer uses upstab changes
Which in hindsight was a huge mistake because I had to go go through and undo pretty much everything Upstab did. If someone had said something about bows doing cutting damage when I was still working on it I would of fixed it. I didn't know they were changed to cutting damage, That does suck.

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>mfw bullying scots

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>>166807498
You're doing the Lords work, anon. Godspeed.

SCOTLAND FOREVER

>>166807006
Well you see
These guys were always a bunch of giant faggots so them being assholes in game is excepted

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>>166807885
>mfw bullying scots as a mercenary for england

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>dickplomacy anon might have killed himself and we would never know it

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>>166807917
rip them then
pretty successful day, managed to eliminate two factions
down to 8 other factions now

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>>166807059
>changed that to cutting for some reason
because guns were completely useless with pierce damage bows, the change is the right thing

>>166808364
You're an inspiration to me, Welsh anon.

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You just follow that port, man.

Anyone created a custom knight order in PooP? How exactly does the equipping of the knights and sergeants work?

>>166809448
I'll go ahead and try it and get back to you. Coming for you, Empire bastards.

>>166809602
I'm just asking because I am somewhat disappointed with the ebony gauntlet but I like the idea behind them.

WHERE IS THE BUTTERLORD

>>166809798
Alright, so; took an Empire fort and set up a Knighthood there.

You'll get a army of specialized peasants, at first. Name your Knights (base), and Sergeants (base), i.e Scarlet Knights, Scarlet Sergeant-at-Arms (with and without plurals), you can buy gear from stores to replace their current armour or find recipes from unique spawns. Those items available are only what the Knight can use.

how is the parabellum mod?

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1257 spawned 1300 people at once, what do. Thought my PC would do a little better desu, is it the engine limitations?

>>166807006
>>166807106
>>166808364
I'm a mountain blade newfag, what mod is this?

>>166810580
AD1257

>>166810618
thanks pal

>>166810041
Thanks dear anon. I guess I'll just set-up my own order and give them mettenheim crossbows and make the sergeants not suck.

>>166810508
looks fucking rad though

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>>166796137
>titles aren't in module_factions either

You shouldn't expect them to be, there's extremely little information actually stored in module_factions. A lot of the stuff pertaining to factions is stored in slots, which are dynamic and initialised in the game_start script in module_scripts, though not in this case.

Here's the actual code for setting troop titles, which is stored in the troop_set_title_according_to_faction script in module_scripts. kingdom_titles_male_begin is defined in module_constants as "str_faction_title_male_player", which can then be found by looking for faction_title_male_player in module_strings. It has the following strings:

faction_title_male_player: Lord {s0}
faction_title_male_1: Count {s0}
faction_title_male_2: Boyar {s0}
faction_title_male_3: {s0} Noyan
faction_title_male_4: Jarl {s0}
faction_title_male_5: Count {s0}
faction_title_male_6: Emir {s0}

The code gets the faction ID, subtracts the ID of the player faction to get an offset and then adds that offset to the string ID of faction_title_male_player to end up with the correct string.

>>166800369
We confronted ginge about this when he did a Q&A here and he was extremely adamant that no matter how many people were pissed off, he knows better than the community and never giving us anything is definitely the correct approach to community management.

>>166811057
>>166796981

And yeah, didn't read further before replying, my bad.

>>166811215
Ginge is just on damage control because he knows there's nothing to show but they can't admit that after 50 years of development.

If you read between the lines, it's obvious the game is still at most in a pre-alpha stage, with Armagan still wanting to tweak combat after ALL. THAT. FUCKING. TIME.

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>Star Citizen will release before Bannerlord

I can't tell, is Polearms the golden child of M&B or not? On one hand, you can use polearms skill for every melee combat application in the game. On the other hand, it's really not the best option in any of them.

>no Bannerlord footage before E3

>>166811991
>no Bannerlord

>>166812028
>no

>>166812046
>

>>166812137

>>166809798
Xbows on a hill in PooP means endless corpses.
Just get some good infantry to absorb the initial charge.

Does the difficulty scale up at any point once you're able to take castles and towns in a single siege? Or is it just a long grind of conquering a static power-level map with your increasingly powerful army?

>>166812709
why would you even want difficulty scaling? it's artificial difficulty. If you want a mroe difficult endgame just put campaign AI on good and they'll get cheats against you

>>166812816
Wait, in what way does the AI get cheats?

>>166813120
Better tax efficiency for the AI, so more and better troops for enemy lords.

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>>166791347
every part of my body is now erect

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o-oh my

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>>166809798
Best to create a chapter in a fort/town you own after joining an order yourself- you get way more bonuses in terms of items etc when you work your way through an orders ranks.

How does trainer skill work? Should i stack it for me and some of my companion aswell? Playing acok.

>>166814084
it stacks

Can anybody re-upload anon's mod for Hispania 1200? Also, does it come with diplomacy?

>>166790460
Has anyone made a King harlaus feast parody of this yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoEHFisDV78

Where is the new blog for fuck sake? Can anyone living in Ankara beat shit out of ginge please.

simple modding question:

i want to move a weapon from a mod, i googled and found a way to move armours through open brf. does moving weapons use the same method? and if so is there a quicker way to find the weapon than going through all the brf files? thanks

>>166815790
move the texture and meshes to their respective folders and add them in with morgh's or copy and paste them from the item_kinds text

>>166815790
Openbrf has a function for searching meshes.
Module -> Find in module

>>166815876
>>166815938
thanks for the quick response.

>>166815478
just 25 more days anon

>>166811576
Polearms are better on and against cavalry than two-handers, but are worse on foot against other foot soldiers
AKA most of the end game

>>166816461
Where did 25 days come from? Was that an actual promise for the new blog?

>>166817115
Not exactly, but it was (then) 25 days since he said he'd work on a new blog.

>>166817280
Ah, right. Fuck I'm tired of waiting. Forget modding, I'm installing Unreal Engine 4, what's the bet I can put a game out before Bannerlord?

>>166817527
25-1

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>Gekonewer
th-thanks

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time to p u r g e the undead scum off this land

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I'm posting this every thread to honour the anon's dying wish.

>>166819229
So this... is the power... of cutting damage on arrows

>>166819394
>bullying undead
You should be ashamed

>>166819229
Really have a hard time enjoying Gekokoju and its derivatives. Don't know why.

Is there some sort of guide for enterprises in acok? Not sure what to invest in or should i just build something in every city?

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>>166820340
fuck the undead
fuck the vampires
praise sigmar

>>166820482
Or is the estimated amount that the GM says how accurate?

>no new info about the game since summer
I'm not buying their shit game and I hope they die. Ginger faggot first for talking shit all the time.

>>166820367
Lack of troop variety probably, that's my problem with it anyway.

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>>166820563
DAILY REMINDER
CoMM has better undead, magic systems and vampires than Wanksword

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where the fuck do i buy a lance

i've been looking all across swadia's marketplaces to find a polearm with couched lance damage effect but the only thing i'm finding is shitty pitchforks

>>166823472
try nords

>>166823472
try rhodoks

>>166823472
>all across swadia'
try looking elsewhere, unless you're playing a mod that has regionalized merchant inventory it just spawns at random

>>166824079
>>166823472
Also if you still can't find one consider fighting some desert or steppe bandits

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this made me laugh harder than it should have

Why can't I see Youmu in my party? Gekonewer.

>>166795275
>That glorious ragdoll
What's the mod?
Gimme gimme

Where's the best place to set up a refuge in VC? I'm running as a pillaging Norseman btw.

>>166826272
Maybe you only recruited her ghost half.

Does Gekonewer have concubinage? I want to marry all the waifus.

Will lady suno be a less retarded ruler of swadia than harlaus? If she isn't, i won't bother

>>166826937
why would she be

Honest question, what makes AD1257 good? It seems like it's the most popular mod on mbg.

It's got a big map and it's cool to play such a historically accurate mod, but what else makes it good?

>>166826937
Isolla of*
>>166826970
Harlaus only feasts in the one castle that swadia has left, i just want to make swadia great again and remove faggot italian rhodok scum

>>166827053
The combat is very satisfying(sound plays a big role in making everything feel more 'meaty') and the scenes are all pretty good.

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>tfw /mbg/ filled up with newfags overnight
>tfw they will end up as bannerlord starved suicidal fuckers, just like everyone who comes here
Not sure how I feel about this

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So I think I said a couple days ago I was working on a WWI mod
well, here it is:

https://www.sendspace.com/file/zflnvq
https://www.sendspace.com/file/582ri7

couple things:
When I said it was a WWI mod I meant that it doesn't actually take place during WWI
Also it had to be split it up into two parts because sendspace is a bitch
part two is the textures, part one is everything else

This uses a bunch of fun scripts, some of which were in red wars, like the ability to zoom in on sniper rifles, and automatic weapons
There are buildable sandbags which you can see in the picture, equip the sandbag item and hit g to deploy
There are also healing bandages sold as goods, as long as you have some in your inventory you'll be healed when you press h
you're going to want to do that, trust me

Also several of the rifles have bayonet versions, you can switch between them with the b key
there was supposed to be an animation but it doesn't seem to actually work
WFAS formations and motomataro battle ai are in there too

Also many fun bugs
replace the map_min bits in module.ini with this to be able to scroll around fully:
map_min_x = -140
map_max_x = 60
map_min_y = -140
map_max_y = 80

The deathcam from gekokujo is implemented but doesn't actually work and I'm not sure why
I copied it but that failed, so I copied it from the original thread
that failed too
I am sure I am missing something obvious

Also I hate the cattle herding quest guild masters give you so I took it out, this seems to have the side effect of removing all cattle from everywhere ever
for the time being just say no to anything cow related

it seems I'm retarded. i'm the guy who wants to move a weapon to another mod. i did what this guy said

https://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php?topic=234830.0

but I can't see the added item in the in game cheat menu, even though i edited the items_kind1 file and started a new game. i have tried to move the item to native and dickplomacy to no avail. plz halp. thanks

>>166827343
They'll all slit their wrists within 10 days so I'm not sure how it actually matters

>>166827207
>>166827053
lets not forget the objectively superior recruitment system

>>166827671
Your added items won't appear in the cheat menu unless you added them in through the module system. Otherwise, you should find it at shops or if you know the item's id you can edit them into your save with the mb save editor.

>>166827897
thank you very much, kind anon. i was going crazy.

>>166827584
neat. good work, anon.

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>>166827053
Off the top of my head
>Fuckhueg map that actually matters because of just how diverse it is in terms of troops and scenes
>Lance recruitment is pretty ebin
>Looks pretty fucking good with decent assets (still don't like the shit filter all over everything)
>It's the ultimate /his/fag mod

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Are there any decent mods of the renaissance era?

how do i bring up the territory map?

>>166829201
If you're talking about that fancy map where it shows all the factions and their borders then it depends on the mod, probably in the reports menu.

I'm a newfag. Which mods should I install to make Warband less shit? I tried Floris and had fun but it seems like it's a meme here or something.

>>166829443
Dickplomacy is the Way Native Was Meant to Be Played™

>>166829443
>floris
>warband less shit
If your new you have no idea what your talking about since native is completely fine, if a bit lacking. Just play native until you understand how to maintain morale, keep weekly income in the green and how to earn renown. Diplomacy/Dickplomacy is a good Native+ mod though since it greatly improves your options when your a lord or ruler.

>>166829704
The thing is, I never get the opportunity to be a lord or ruler, because any time I get a single fief it ends up sacked to shit by every single lord in the game as soon as I bother to step away from it to do literally anything else.

>>166830316
Never give a shit about a village unless you're sure that it's not going to get looted every 5 minutes, it's a waste of time. Getting Castles and Towns should be your priority.

>>166828263

You can make it appear with use of Notepad++ and Morgh's editor.

Here's something to get you started:

https://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php?topic=110691.0

>>166829528
>>166829704
What does Dickplomacy do differently than Diplomacy?

>>166831712
makes it a little more realistic

>>166831712
It gives an accurate academic representation of the plight of women during the state of constant warring characteristic of the middle ages.
It also makes the khergits not complete dogshit.

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Is there any mod that allows me to change the vassal's prefix in my kingdom?

>>166831796
>>166832110
wait i just read the posts about it above
is it all weird sex shit where whenever you get captured you get your asshole gaped by horse-fuckers for weeks on end?

>>166804813
>still no Historically Accurate Isolla/Saber

I could do it pretty easily, but I don't really want to do every vanilla-ish mod all at once

>>166832380
It's the best diplomacy variant, the most up to date and with the most features.
You can also disable all the sex stuff if you're a faggot.

>>166832380
You actually need to install the NSFW content apart from the base mod, then you have to enable it from the Camp menu, and it can be disabled anytime.

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Hey lads, looking to start a modded playthrough, nothing fancy.

Should I go with latest Diplomacy or is there a mod that's really worth a play?

>>166831514
thanks

>>166833494
floris

>>166833706
I'm not retarded anon

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how2khergit? here is how

>>166808361

Dickplomacy anon got doxxed by SJW's for including rape

>>166833494
Wait 10 more days for Warsword.

>>166833494
some anons were talking about preisno. if you don't want to try it you must try dickplomacy. the best vanilla+ mod ever.

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>horse falls dead after being lamed many times
RIP Palfrey, you will be remembered as the kingdom's first senator.

>>166835692
>not discarding horses after they get crippled
I've no use for useless vehicles.

>>166835795
>he doesn't heal his horses

>>166835795
>Can't take care of a single horse.
Worst commander, desu.

>>166836057
>>166835960
horse and men both are cannon fodder, friendos

>>166835795
>tfw too Intelligence to discard horses
god bless wound treatment

>>166836162
>>166835960
>riding normal horses
I'm out of this fucking casual general.

It should come as no surprise that a good commander rides no less than a champion warhorse.

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>>166836257
>tfw too INT for AGI

if you don't value your men you deserve to lose

>>166810508
thanks for the product key

>>166836257
>he doesn't bond with his trusty steed
No one will miss you

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>>166836378
I value my men for their willingness to die for the money I pay them, and if they won't, there's more mercs waiting for me in the nearest town.

>>166836257
>not healing it back to normal then selling it

>tfw to jew too waste horseflesh

>>166836378
>getting attached to disposable flesh
I bet you haven't conquered the whole map in any mod yet, let alone native.

>>166836545
men win wars, not money.

>>166836378
They're all going to the meat grinder anyway, why value them if villages have orgies 24/7 to support your armies?

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>>166836665
Wrong.

>>166836665
What do you buy these men with you pleb

>>166813889
I'm already grandmaster of the ebony gauntlet. Do I need to quit my order in to upgrade my custom one?

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Stop riding horses.

Anyone playing ACOK did the "hunt down that fuck hiding in bumfuck nowhere" quest ?
I'm in a village (High Castle) right now and I can't fucking find him.

>>166836828
No.
You stop impotently waving your axes at- and trying to chase down cavalry.

I get that you've been headbutted more times than you could count if you'd still remembered how fingers work, but you gotta try and use your noggin'.

>>166836779
when the last time a shekel won a war?
>>166836786
you recruit & pay a wage, reprobate. you can't buy men if what they see later is death.

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>>166836834
>ACOK

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>>166836665
You are wrong and therefore not deserving of the quads you nearly got.

>>166836994
>lmao he's playing cocks XD

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>>166836965

>>166837156
someone post the one with reversed positions

>>166837512
>do things for me because I'm incompetent
Classic Swadian.

>>166829146
No

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>>166834110
>he didn't bring a shield
asking to get KHERGIT'D

>>166812816
There's nothing artificial whatsoever about the AI nations growing in strength over time like you do. If anything it's more artificial that they don't.

>>166816609
The best infantry only weapons are polearms though. War Hammer and Poleaxe come to mind. Weapons such as Pike and Glaive are also much more competent for infantry to cavalry combat and furthermore good at getting free hits whiling mobbing engaged opponents unopposed.

>>166836378
those that do not appreciate the value of 10+(4) surgery deserve their losses

>>166839168
The only reason you're growing in strength is because you're metagaming or taking advantage of player knowledge. AI can't do that-- so them compensating with larger armies and shit is artificial. There's no reason for them to scale with the player.

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don't mind me, I'm just patrolling

I might go back to play VC. Are there any soundtracks you recommend?

>>166820367
It just doesn't have enough content variety for it's size, which is a shame since the combat is really fun. It's not an easy issue to answer while maintaining historical accuracy either.

>>166840501
just listen to some Dark Age tunes, all of them fits

>>166839572
AI armies don't grow in size (like bandit parties do) as the player grows in power. Lord army sizes are always a byproduct of their renown and fief holdings. Kings get an army bonus (+100 IIRC) atop of this.

>>166840727
Not really. The mod goes out of it's way to homogenize factions and limit variety. The most obvious example being the complete lack of mounted archers despite one being on the starting menu screen.

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Swadians and nords are quite unbalanced

>>166839572
>utilizing resources at your disposal is "metagaming"

Yeah, the AI could never do that. It's not like grand strategy, 4x, or rts genres exist.

I think the real problem is that AI autocalcs every battle against other AI, which is always a bloodbath on both sides, which means that any progress the AI may gain is wasted on enormously costly battles even when they win, when proper battles are usually much more one-sided.

The autocalc in general is just unbelievably shit, to the point where a bunch of peasants will kill fully armored high tier troops with high regularity, which is probably why the AI always has huge shit armies of peasants in the first place and few high tier troops. It also gives NO in-battle EXP, which is the majority of the EXP that battles generate to begin with.

>>166841116
That's a good point, horse archery is something that some parts of Japan culturally practices even today. Not having them is a pretty big miss.

I do wonder if it's possible to have good bows, horse archers, and no shields without breaking the game though.

>>166841116
>>166842196
Also where are the fucking boats? 90% of the cities in the map are coastal, and Japanese were very seafaring at that point. Nobunaga is even known for building huge warships. The lack of naval gameplay is shameful.

>>166842732
it does have sea battles though

>>166842196
in order to balance HA you generally don't make them as good as foot archers in terms of proficiency or PD or maybe both

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I remember reading that mounted combat culture was also weakening in many regions in Japan as well. Part of the reason Takeda and Uesugi were renown for the Cavalry was that they were among the few clans that could really leverage such Cavalry.

Then you have other factions such as the Oda and Otomo whom embraced and integrated western technology and you have another vector.

>>166842196
>I do wonder if it's possible to have good bows, horse archers, and no shields without breaking the game though
In trying to make a historically accurate mod or simply embracing variety for fun I think the bigger shame is being too scared to attempt it at all.

And besides in a worst case scenario it is not much different than Vaegir vs Kherjit. Yes Vaegirs have shields but they are so shit and unreliable for most troops they may as well effectively not have them.

>>166842784
Mounted archers would be inherently limited to top tier Samurai and the lack of formation AI + every normal infantry having pikes means that you would have to baby them before they kamikaze.

>>166842782
Yeah, at like 3 points in the map they put in naval routes (and thus travel) because they would have to cut off chunks of the map entirely otherwise. The lack of ships is very jarring though.

>>166843756
While naval battle scenes are one thing one thing that all mods lack is meaningful naval variety between factions.

Oda should have their ironclad warships after all. I suspect this will always persist too as Bannerlord geography doesn't lend itself to naval combat.

Anyone got acok 3.0 troop trees? Can't find them from anywhere.

>>166842196
How does japanese horse archery work?
I thought about adding the 1257 script but it didn't seem to fit.

>>166844091
Geko just really needs boats in general. The map is very long and narrow and full of mountains, trying to travel it by foot is slow and bottlenecked as fuck. Boats would alleviate this immensely and increase the number of war/trade options significantly. Not to mention it fits the setting considering Japan's history as sea raiders and fishermen.

Hell, Edo's placement among water routes is what made it the trade hub of the nation.

>>166844663
The modern practice is called Yabusame, which is mainly a tradition like Kyudo. There probably wasn't much relevant horse archery by Sengoku, when guns dominated the battlefield.

Would you prefer to have Bannerlord lessen the effect of camera spinning speed?

Once you get someone to spread your right to rule it doesn't matter if they object to you sending a companion they don't like out, right?

>>166840501
warduna

>>166798756

Not realising the potential of thrust. Oh boy, I sure hope you like disregarding the swing with the quickest potential speed, and best zoning potential during forward movement.

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>>166826616
it's 1257 but ragdoll isn't module specific, it's a rgl setting in documents/M&B warband/rgl_config and set realistic_headshots to 1, should be at the bottom
this'll make anyone who gets killed by crossbows or firearms sometimes ragdoll on death

>>166849357
Huh, never knew there was a setting like that, thanks Anon!

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>>166849557
that's because warband does a pretty shit job at explaining all of the mechanics in game
it's like playing gothic without reading the manual

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>>166790460
Does anyone have a link to a download for WSE 1.170? I've tried download it from the Taleworlds page, but both of the Dropbox links are broken.

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>bannerlord never ever
>guild 3 is likely to miss its release date
>no new historic tw title for a few more years
>ck2 expansion is magic
fugging hell

>>166852616
at least Bannerlord won't have DLCs, am i right

>>166852616

I feel like history gaming indeed history itself is waning in the face of popular nerdom and revisionist 'muh minorities' teaching.

People aren't drawn in by the martial aspects of history (what gets most historians and readers started) in lieu of fantasy bullshit. Or they're never introduced to it at all and instead learn about women in the middle ages.

>>166853631
at least it keeps the normalfag out

>>166853712

Yeah but we won't get any games if no one is buying them.

>>166853937
there's plenty of games now plus modding

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is anyone feeling creative/autistic enough to brainstorm 5 unique variation of this troop tree?

>>166854413
well first why does the crossbowman tree appear twice
i'd probably change one of those into an archer tree, and the peon or militia one into a skirmisher
also i don't think pikemen were around in 1200 so i'd change those to spearmen
probably make knights and jinetes their own branch too

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>>166832269
Any Diplomacy version or mod with it should have that option.
>mfw first time I made a kingdom I made the title "Baron" to make "Baron Rolf" legitimate

>>166854413
>5 unique variation

what do you mean

>>166855026
I think pikemen, as in guys with two-handed spears, are a pretty old concept.

>>166855308
Right now that troop tree is shared by 5 kingdoms. I plan to diversify them, like how Native factions have different gimmicks.

>>166855651
well it's like that to us, but historically i'm not aware of any medieval battles using pikes pre 1300
using M2TW troop pages can give you ideas too

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>>166855929
well here's a guy from the maciejowski bible (13th century) carry a 2h spear who could be called a pikeman

>>166857317
proportionally that spear's long enough to be one handable
and the line between pike and spear is very vague
there's also people who say a number of the weapons in the maciejowski bible are too fanciful which i disagree with

Where's the best place for melee castle defense in Geko? The final keep doesn't actually seem that great because it's a stairwell instead of a doorway.

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>You will never have a pure steppe waifu

Why even live?

What mod best allows me to play as an overulordu?

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does anyone know if the offhand dagger does anything in dickplomacy? i was going through the cheat item list and found it, it goes in the shield slot and everything but doesn't seem to provide any effect

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>>166859746
Chronicles of Might and Magic.
It even comes with OP magic for you to decimate entire armies.

>>166861089
It looks really rad. I'll check it out, thanks anon.

>>166861524
It's really unpolished and appears incomplete, so don't get too hyped. It's still pretty fun.

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>>166813864
What mod are you playing? Looks like some kind of warhammer stuff.

>Mfw going in like Conan only results in getting mobbed by five dudes at once or getting arrows in the face

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>>166790460

Pleb here who was playing at 1/2, 1/2 damages. This is way too easy. In one single war my Rhodok buddies completely BTFO the Sarraniggers with me single handedly taking two cities just becase I had 125 soldiers.

Does anyone here actually plays at 1:1 damages all around?

Is this even possible without playing a VERY slow game with 90% of the time being you rebuilding your army from scratch?

Following the AI around during wars is terrible because most of the time they'll make stupid decisions and not take cities that they can to, instead, roam around the absolute other side of the map with the entire campaigning army. So you kind of are forced to play by yourself.

>>166861841
>Does anyone here actually plays at 1:1 damages all around?
Pretty much everyone does. If you command your army better, have some good troops, and actually employ basic tactics you will crush equally sized opponents with minimal casaulties.

Invest in path-finding so you can always choose whether to fight or not, and surgery, so that your troops will likely be wounded instead of dead.