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Date:
1/29/2018 5:51:17 AM
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RE: Warband Update Thread 2
I reinstalled the game and checked file integrity, even though I was sure that the problem resided in the data state of my save files. If this is a bug, I was correct, of course. Khudan and my village were still mysteriously in the hands of the Swadians. I could start a new game or play on. I decided to continue just to see what would happen next.
What happened next was that King Yargolek awarded me Radoghir Castle. I was not aware that anyone had besieged it, but okay. I started gathering troops to populate it but noticed that it was already nicely garrisoned.
This made me wonder: what if this is not a bug but some weird result of an even weirder political perfect storm?
As you may know, the Swadians are centrally located on the map, and King Harlaus is not an especially astute leader. Players expect Swadia to be attacked from all directions and eventually swallowed up by the other factions. In my game, this is not happening. Instead, the Nords were the first group to disappear, and Swadia somehow got bigger and bigger. The Rhodoks are almost gone. The Khergit Kahnate and the Saranid Sultanate are seriously diminished. The two superpowers are the Swadians and the Vaegirs.
When you have this kind of thing going on, you get a lot of defections, particularly among the superpower lords. My screen is constantly lit up with defection notices. Both King Harlaus and King Yargolek can hardly draw breath between announcements that their lords have changed allegiance. So I wonder if this is the reason for all the property shifts. In such bizarre political turbulence, maybe this real estate is being sorted in puzzling but legitimate ways. It may explain why the new Swadian sites are full of Vaegir soldiers. It may also explain why I lost my village but not Kelredan Castle, and why I was awarded Radoghir when it wasn't in contention.
It also means that unless the situation is somehow stabilized, I will never be financially secure. As long as Swadia and the Vaegirs remain roughly equal in their acquisitions, and as long as they are at war (which in my game promises to be for a very long time), and as long as the poorer factions remain on the map, the political shell game will continue. This means that at any moment, another town could change hands, and if I have an enterprise in that town while it belongs to the enemy, it will be sequestered.
If I'm right, this is actually sort of exciting. As soon as possible, I must go to Sanjar Kahn and Sultan Hakim and mend our relationships somehow. I must also find out who owns their remaining towns and get on their good sides so I can buy more property there. This will be tough because I'm constantly having to police the villages around my castles and/or having to report to our marshal for some silly campaign. Also, the Khergits and Saranids could declare war on us again. The more I think about my predicament, the more interesting it gets.
Meanwhile, I will just have to keep beating up on bandits to maintain a steady flow of loot. There's a legitimate problem associated with buying and selling too often in the same town. The merchants' inventories and bank rolls are affected by supply and demand, so I have to range afar when trading just to avoid this.
This game is amazing.
