Your problem might be of engaging head on. War elephants mow down bandits like grass, with very few casualties.Ī decent foot soldier army is effective against bandit armies as well. One last tip: employ the bandit hunters as you can the teir one is called 'slaver' this eventually upgrades into a bad-ass war elepahnt.

A decent force of cavalry will easily ride down a much larger bandit army. And as far as facing the main bandit armies: yes they are more numerous untill your a king or have a very large personal company, but those rebels are still a undiciplined horde.

Horseman armies are perfect for engaging the smaller companies of bandits before they can join their main army for saftey, because they have the speed on the overworld map, and on the battle map their charge is very effective against the broken ranks of the undiciplined rebels. & as far as defeating the bandits: keep an eye out for smaller companies and catch them before they join other companies to form armies. I say set it down for now and restart when you get burnt out in Vanilla mode even if you still feel the same way about the features you mentioned :If your patient enough you will discover many more awesome features to perhaps null out the bad. I think that the difference between our experiences with the mod is that I have already played the vanilla game for hundreds of hours maybe? I like everything about it, especially the bandit armies, and whatever degrees of extra difficulty. Is anybody else out there not liking it? Because reading forums looks like everyone and his mother loves it. And why do the tournament organzers let you choose what kind of teammings will the match have escapes my comprehension.Īll in all, it has a good deal of features that I'm really liking, but some others than I hate beyond words and that are going to bar me from playing this mod. It's cool that you can select the weapons you want to use in the tournament, but seriously, that arena sucks IMO. Now I'm even poorer than when I had nothing. Anyway, I've lost my army again to an army of deserters. And I don't see why anybody would lend thousands of denars to the first idiot who comes by. Is the only way to do anything to get yourself a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of loans and mercs so you can do ANYTHING at all? That doesn't sound like 'rags to riches' to me anymore. Then you get to the unexplainable absence of low level bandits and getting your face smashed in by forest bandits/sea raider/deserters/steppe bandits/whatever again, and again, and again.

Praven mount and blade