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Re: Mount and Blade
« Reply #240 on: March 01, 2010, 10:50:57 pm »

I've sieged in Native a few times.

Step 1: Get tons of renown. Get a hundred or whatever, get a moderately sized force of Swadian Knights or Khergit veteran archers (pure mounted force), get a Heavy/Spirited Courser and a good lance, piss of Rhodoks and fuck their lords up over and over. You only need about 30 horse pros to start doing this.

Step 2: You should now have at least around 500-800 renown, depending on how many of them you messed with. Recruit a shitton of Vaegir archers or Rhodok Crossbowmen and train them up.

Step 3: Raise battle size and attack; have a few heroes with good shields to soak arrows and watch you pro archers or crossbowmen shoot everything on the battlements as you approach. Bring a polearm, a sword, a shield, and some backup Javelins or Jarids or something. The polearm should be something like a Balanced Military Scythe, a hardcore one-shot-head-splitter you can use to back up your heroes and stop your archers from being destroyed once you make it on the walls.

Step 4: Laugh. Your pro rangers will be annihilating everything they have line of sight on by this point because at raised battle size (I think this is how it works...) you should have an unreasonable number of archers on your side.

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Re: Mount and Blade
« Reply #241 on: March 01, 2010, 11:56:29 pm »

Aqizzar, siege towers only move forward when soldiers are standing next to them.  Only infantry will do it by default.  The more infantry standing next to them the tower the faster it moves
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Re: Mount and Blade
« Reply #242 on: March 01, 2010, 11:58:41 pm »

No, he's right. In mountainous areas the consistency of the towers goes wonky.
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Re: Mount and Blade
« Reply #243 on: March 02, 2010, 12:03:29 am »

Infantry don't stand next to towers no matter what. You have to push it yourself.
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Re: Mount and Blade
« Reply #244 on: March 02, 2010, 12:07:16 am »

Infantry don't stand next to towers no matter what. You have to push it yourself.

Why would you say that?  Was that supposed to be a joke?
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Re: Mount and Blade
« Reply #245 on: March 02, 2010, 12:15:01 am »

My infantry don't. Ever. It just doesn't happen. AI fail or something? I never knew they were supposed to.
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Re: Mount and Blade
« Reply #246 on: March 02, 2010, 12:16:40 am »

Well that's a bug specific to you then.  I don't think you even can push them yourself.  I've tried it before when all my troops died.
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Re: Mount and Blade
« Reply #247 on: March 02, 2010, 12:22:01 am »

Well that's a bug specific to you then.  I don't think you even can push them yourself.  I've tried it before when all my troops died.

No, it's not a bug specific to him. The tower will not move for me, either, unless I run up next to it.
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Re: Mount and Blade
« Reply #248 on: March 02, 2010, 01:03:10 am »

Awesome game...

I'm definetly looking forward to the multiplayer expansion

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Re: Mount and Blade
« Reply #249 on: March 02, 2010, 01:12:21 am »

Just an FYI, Nord Archers are about equal to the Vaegir at range, and are insanely better at melee then them. Makes a much better siege force.
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Re: Mount and Blade
« Reply #250 on: March 02, 2010, 01:15:16 am »

I'm not sure I agree.

They may have better melee stats, like strength and power strike (I haven't looked in a while, but I think that's why I originally took nord vet archers over vaegir marksmen), but Vaegir Marksmen wear much, much better armor.
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Re: Mount and Blade
« Reply #251 on: March 02, 2010, 05:33:22 am »

They also fire faster.
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Re: Mount and Blade
« Reply #252 on: March 02, 2010, 05:57:38 am »

I've soloed castles. Get a good bow, assault, kill as many as you have arrows, retreat. Rinse and repeat till they're all dead.
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Re: Mount and Blade
« Reply #253 on: March 02, 2010, 06:07:12 am »

I've soloed castles. Get a good bow, assault, kill as many as you have arrows, retreat. Rinse and repeat till they're all dead.

That seems like an unnecessarily long process.
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Re: Mount and Blade
« Reply #254 on: March 02, 2010, 06:08:38 am »

Nah, if you bring nothing but bow and arrows you can take out like 70 guys in one iteration. And bow is the most fun weapon anyway.
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