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[Ozyton]

When I set it higher than medium or whatever I noticed the enemies chamber blocking the hell out of me all the time. Even online chamber blocking is kinda rare I think.

[Sordid]

Yeah, it doesn't really make the AI smarter, just faster in attacking and blocking. They'll still get stuck in doorways and such.

[Paul]

Yea, it just makes the AI block more. On the highest they are very bad about chamber blocking you.

As for the behind them thing in sieges, maybe it depends on the situation - I just tried it in the latest version of warband and I was able to cut down 30 or so of them one at a time, I got one or two turning after me but the huge mob on the wall just focused on attacking my huscarls on the ladder, even though only the first couple of them were actually able to swing at them. The "smart" thing to do would have been the 10 or so nearest the ladder keep focusing on that while the 30 or so behind them turn and rush me, but that never happened - at most I had 3 of them turn on me at once, and just by backpedaling and whacking on them I killed them then went right back to hacking the rest in the back. I took more damage while jumping over them (I got the weird thing where you jump and kinda bounce over them and slowly float above the mob off to the side, and got whacked a bit on the way) than I did the entire time fighting them.

It could be that the large amount of huscarls I had trying to get up the ladder (I tested it with a save where I had 100 huscarls, heh) were drawing their attention, but even if that's the case it really should prioritize mobbing the guy slashing their troops down from behind over rubbing against the friendly soldiers in front of them in a futile attempt to reach the ladder and get a swing in at the guys trying to come up.

[Sordid]

It could be that the large amount of huscarls I had trying to get up the ladder were drawing their attention.

Nope, that's not it. A few times I ended up being the last remaining attacker and the defenders still clustered around the ladder even though I was on the walls behind them and splitting their skulls open one at a time. Another time I pushed through with a bunch of my men and because the outside was completely swarming with crossbowmen I parked my guys inside a tower. A new wave of defenders spawned, and they just marched right through said tower without even trying to take a swing at my guys and parked themselves at the top of the ladder, even though all of us were inside and there was nobody else coming up at the moment. The AI is just dumb like that.

[hemmingjay]

wow, i've never had the AI completely fail like that. I guess you must just be lucky. They are often dim, but not downright retarded like that.

[dogstile]

Actually no, I realised today that they'll do that. I parked all of my archers in the courtyard, and it got down to it just being them left against the enemy (close siege this one). They stood at the top of the ladder and took arrows in the back until I won. Its like the game tells them to hold their ground there at the start of the siege

[Vibhor]

From my experience the AI was quite good.
It used many different tactics like Placing archers on hills, covering them with soldiers and shit like that.
After losing badly from them I set the AI level to lower than normal.

[Blaze]

Also: STEAM SALE!

Original M&B for $4!
Warband for $6!
Fire and Sword for $13.50!

And you can get the entire pack for $20!
(Not including tax)

I'm really excited about F&S, mostly because:

A new century of warfare that brings pistols, muskets, grenades, and other advanced weaponry to the battlefield.

Fully customizable armies; players can outfit their soldiers with each piece of weaponry & armor.

More political intrigue with colorful factions. More adventure in a new land.

New Siege options to choose before besieging a town or castle.

[Mephisto]

I've been having fun with Warband over the past few days. Are there any must-have mods that are out there? I'm downloading the Floris Extended Mod Pack right now as it seems highly regarded. The mod pack is three times the size of the base game, though.

[Blaze]

The Native Mod Compilation has many features that should have been in the game. You can combine it with FMP with few issues.

Sword of Damocles and WWII:China Battlefield were ported over from M&B and definitely deserve a look.

Brytenwalda is pretty good too.

FMP has a lot of new scenes, sounds, and images, so it's significantly larger than Native.

[umiman]

I've been having fun with Warband over the past few days. Are there any must-have mods that are out there? I'm downloading the Floris Extended Mod Pack right now as it seems highly regarded. The mod pack is three times the size of the base game, though.

I love you for telling me about this.

[Soulwynd]

I wish someone would port the starwars mod over.

[Astral]

Downloading the FXMP now... playing it tomorrow. Torrent's fast enough, just don't have the time to... lose myself in what it looks like M&B should have been.

That being said, glad they added modability to the game. It would've gotten fairly old, fairly quickly otherwise.

[atomicwinter]

I wish someone would port the starwars mod over.

Star Wars Conquests? The concept is great, but the gameplay is horrible. The ballistics my god the ballistics are absolutely horrible  .

[Hugehead]

I highly recommend Brytenwalda as well, very big mod, very good.