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[Pandarsenic]

The attacks were the easy part of it. The problems? Food and morale.

You need to go into a starve-out siege with a shitton of food and coming off a few really good battles. You want as much of several different kinds of food as you can get - no more than maybe six slots in your inventory being dedicated to things that are NOT food. You have to account for foods that are 30 units not lasting as long as 50-unit foods. The battles (at least against Rhodoks... <_<) are good, because the victories against much larger forces keep morale up. Speaking of which, you want around 50 maxed-out units (with or in addition to a set of heroes) to minimize your food consumption. If you pick a border castle, the morale and denar should come to you in the form of every enemy lord that passes by you attacking.

Unfortunately, I was never able to finish the siege. Their king showed up with a 150-man army just as I finished another fight, so I ran for it.

[kalida99]

Yea, it's pretty damn near impossible to starve out enemy cities/castles with a sufficient number of troops to continue siege defense, but enough food to keep fed and morale high, hell once you have an army of 200 they will eat 8 piles of food in a very small amount of time. Some mods really shorten out the starve out time, but i don't remember which ones do.

You'll probably take less casualties just attacking the castle than starve out.

On a side note, has anyone ever actually seen it rain in M&B? One of the hints mentions that rain decreases the crossbows efficiency .

[Soulwynd]

I have. But I think it was only once. It's waaaay too rare.

[Zangi]

I spent ages sieging one of their castles when I made the mistake of seeing if you can really starve them out,

...can you?
I've never tried. I can't imagine waiting that long, much less surviving against the likely constant enemy attacks (Except I guess against the rhodoks)

I've tried.  The siege defenders never gave up or starved to death....  I usually said screw it by the 2nd week after they had no more food.

[Morsigil]

I always figured that you wouldn't see any effect until the counter hit 0 days of food left, and even then probably not for a few days.

Keep in mind that once you quit a siege it takes a day or two for a siege to actually end. What this means is that you can siege, hang around until you have no food, run to the nearest village and buy/pillage more food, then come back and start it up again and it will not break the countdown in days.

[Ioric Kittencuddler]

I've seen it rain several times.  Usually only happens in the mornings.  It's annoying.

[Dr. Johbson]

What I hate, is that DEEP 1866 fog, where I can only see things that are right next to me, but the AI can see me just fine. Damn cheating computer.

[Akigagak]

Because the AI isn't cheating, it just isn't effected by the fog that the modder put in?

Which makes it a pointless addition, and thus the modder should either scrap it or change the AI.

[Aqizzar]

What I hate, is that DEEP 1866 fog, where I can only see things that are right next to me, but the AI can see me just fine. Damn cheating computer.

Well, it's not that deep.  And the AI being able to see through the fog helps the effect I think.  At least if you and I are talking about the same place...

The continuing adventures of Colonel Jack Kilrain and the New Confederate Army are stymied by the incredibly bad close-range hit detection (hint - aim high with pistols, or use first-person view), which makes fighting the living dead very annoying and nearly impossible.  And they won't stand around my dynamite like they're supposed to.

[Soulwynd]

You have to aim high with any weapon if you're using third person view, with any mod. The aim reticule is relative to the camera position, so the gun is actually lower than the reticule.

[Ioric Kittencuddler]

Living dead?  You can fight living dead in 1866?  How?!

[PsyberianHusky]

Mountain Blade

[Huesoo]

The adventures of Roland Deschain in the 1886 mod has been halted by Chinaman in the WW2 China mod.

[dogstile]

A group of 4 commandos and me just walked up and destroyed 36 Manchurians and their caravan without losing a single person.

[kalida99]

have any of you taken a look at Second Age? Looks pretty damn amazing!


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