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Date:
2/25/2018 8:07:40 AM
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RE: Warband Sitrep 4
While I no longer think my game is bugged (in spite of the fact that I saw a sea raider group with 1 farmer prisoner and 0 sea raiders), I do think something is wrong.
The defection spam continues unabated. Literally every second, I can expect to see a that a king has indicted a lord for treason and the lord has joined another faction. These guys relocate faster than white trash going from one trailer park to another.
Also, with very rare exceptions, all parties are small -- usually around 30-40 men -- but they have weird mixes of unit tiers. Some have 20 recruits and 20 knights; that kind of thing.
Estates are reassigned constantly. In our faction, Boyar Talbar, King Yargolek, and I own almost everything, maybe because our faction -- like everyone else's -- has a wildly unstable cast of players.
Kings, meanwhile, amass parties as large as 800-900 men. Do they use these parties to besiege towns? Almost never. Instead, they derp around raiding village after village and then mosey back to whatever town they call home.
What am I doing during all this? Apart from waiting for a new marshal to be appointed to start a new campaign, I roam around protecting villages and farmers from dinky enemy parties. I suppose I could besiege castles, but there's no point. I don't want any more property because I can't afford the tax and garrison payroll hits. I don't want another boyar to get any more property because they don't properly garrison the estates they have. For example, I took Uxkhal from the Swadians, then retook it three times, fighting off both Swadians and Rhodoks until King Yargolek decided to give it to some goober who has never installed more than 120 low-rent troops in the garrison. What's the point of taking a place if the king gives it to a slumlord?
In the rare event that a marshal leads a campaign, it's made up of five or six raggedly little parties who couldn't besiege a post office, let alone a castle full of beefy infantry and sharpshooters. Mostly, they get chased off by some king who bumbles by with his improbable great host.
My payroll right now is about 7,000 denars per week. With battle loot and the occasional lord ransom, I'm making an average of 3,000-4,000. If I park my knights in a garrison on paydays, I can reduce my payout to about 5k. As you can see, I'm still losing 1k-2k per week. At least a third of my earnings to to food.
So you may ask, why don't you run around with fewer knights or fire some of your high-tier guys in the garrisons? Because I cannot count on those kings and their roaming city states not to attack me or one of my properties. Oh, I can see them coming for miles, but that's not how an attack would happen. Instead, I would be passing by some little party at night and suddenly -- impossibly -- the enemy lord would chase me down and challenge me. What I wouldn't see are the other parties just outside the night-time fog of war, including somebody like Sanjar Khan and his 850 merry men. Otherwise, yes, I would downsize.
So that's the state of things, and unless something completely unexpected happens to rebalance the factions, I see little point in going on. I may return to Fallout 4 or Diablo 3. The important thing is that I ignore the other perfectly good games sitting there on my hard drive. If I actually start those, I can never again point to them and say I haven't even started them.
