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Mount a Butt 2: BONERLORD
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so instead of here's your battle gear with
warhorse
chainmail armor
recurve bow
two handed great sword
like 50 dothraki looking motherfuckers with scythes
some quests will instead send you out in your civilian gear, with
dress
fancy walking stick
elegant flower hat
6 dudes all wearing cotton onesies
and you don't get to pick which setup you get before a scripted fight!
Doesn't seem very honorable to not give me time to draw my sword
At rank 1 clan you can join a kingdom as a merc and pillage and raid as you wish or follow as you please, vassal at 3 probs need 4 to have a army to siege a castle and start your own kingdom
its got everything you want. a long polearm, you can couch it on horseback, you can use it with a shield, but you don't necessarily want to since its bladed so you can swing it and pretty much take out high tier cataphracts with a single swing on a ride-by.
This kind of makes me want to get into a multiplayer game.
Be aware there is a large portion of the usual shitty internet gamer culture playing this. I saw multiple uses of the n, r, and f slurs, and sometimes all three. Several times they were player's names!
It did make killing those assholes feel real good though. Almost as good as using a spear to murder a horse out from under it's rider, then beating the rider to death before they can stand up. Smug fuckers.
PREVIOUSLY ON SULANA: WARRIOR PRINCESS:
CAPTIVITY? I THINK THE FUCK NOT. I BUST THE FUCK OUT YOU CAN'T HOLD ME DOWN
And then I bravely limp to the closest town, avoiding bandits all the way!
And perusing the local job board, I discover that some merchants need some work done! We're back in business! Apparently some of the competition is saying local law forbids something something? What? Can't hear you NERD, I've got deliveries to make and fat stacks of Denars to count!
it's a little dangerous trying to haul cargo on my own, but I carefully avoid roving gangs of looters and other assholes
success we're at the gates!
wait what why are we not allowed inside because maybe i did something illegal fuck
fuck
FUCK
find out more next time on SULANA, WARRIOR PRINCESS
i tried to command my first castle siege and... it didn't go well. if you're wondering about trebuchet.... don't.
i'm not entirely sure ANY of the siege stuff is good at the moment. just get those ladders up and hope your guys have more armor than their guys!
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I'm glad you liked it after your bad dumb game comment cause well I sorta agree till the game hands you your ass and the enjoyment level hits a separate level
Then it's like fuck you game I'm coming for you
So far after a few save scums and hard resets (two resets in total I'm bad without force save deletes but this game thrives on it) and it seems the non southern empire is a bad bet unless you wanna fight the mongols a whole lot which is a pain
I joined the sturgians and we keep having insane pointless battles with the green human nerds and it's turned into a 4 empire game where I'm on the mid level power size and getting 100g a day from my king so I'm curious what the world's gonna look like before I attempt and fail to fuck it up
I don't care about the money or troops but losing all your slow gained horses sucks ass and I could play in a easier difficulty but also why do you take 3/4s of my items flat and not like 3/4s of all total items
The bandits, when they capture you, are now no longer able to take the shoes from your feet.
This feature is 110% vital!
yeah if I knew i'd lose all my horses for any army loss I definitely would have just loaded game. takes hours of gameplay to build up that supply...
i didn't mean the game was literally bad its just... it's an old school game. it's rough. it's buggy. some shit makes no sense. but the gameplay itself is great. But you know.... when you build a door ram, lead your 500 man army up the hill, use the ram to open the door, order your army to charge in.... and they all promptly do a 180, run all the way back down the hill and then split to the ladders... instead of just running through the open doors.... yeah this game is dumb lol
I'm currently in the south desert empire, I married the sultan's daughter... which surprisingly gives you much less benefit than you'd expect... certainly not worth the 20k gold I had to spend to do it. At least not yet.
I'm mostly in "farm renown" mode, trying to figure out ways to gain a steady supply of influence... influence seems to be the real resource that opens the game up.
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I'm not sure what game mechanics are involved here, I don't know what I give up for doing this
but I'll tell you what I gain.... it seems like the AI really gets a LOT of mileage out of powerful nobles. Southern Empire was whipping our ass up and down the street for a year. But since I cut her head off of her body, suddenly when we siege castles, there isn't a 1000 man army instantly teleporting to us anymore. I think we're winning now.
Same for the horse archer rebels in the south... I just kill them now. Otherwise they keep respawning and terrorizing the countryside.
So... I can't wait to find out how this impacts me down the road. Well, I already know one way. If I get caught by a SE army, I can no longer buy my way out. Even if I put up 100k, it doesn't even more the barter meter
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https://bannerlord.party/banner/
introducing Keres, the second child and oldest daughter of an Aserai merchant family.
She's not much of a fighter, but then she never planned to be.
but then, Keres wasn't her name then either, turns out having your parents killed and younger siblings sold into slavery makes one do crazy things, like name yourself after the ancient personification of violent death and start throwing yourself headlong into arena combat.
...it's not a sprint, it's a marathon okay?
you can buy them from Aserai cities for about 30-40k but I'm not sure how good they are compared to others
i still use thrown spears because they're just an endless source of chuckles....
in the spy mission where you have to challenge a guy to a duel, the spears are just... completely unfair
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Unless I just have to fight imperial troops for crossbowmen but they might also not be in yet dunno didn't look at the damage and what not
You also need 20 crossbow to use the one on sale and it's tremendously hard to start with that stat, let alone with a crossbow so how do you even level the dumb skill
tbh I am not sure I've ever had a crossbow drop from a battle either... this is worthy of investigation.
i once was given one for an arena ROUND, not as an award, but just part of my loadout... and it was certainly more powerful than a bow.. point and shoot, very high accuracy.
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that's a feature
Welp guess I'm learning how to use a bow.
Fuckin monopolies, man
Anyway... was rolling around the map with like forty dudes and suddenly ran into King Derthert somehow with an escort of four dudes and no other nearby armies, clearly retreating into home territory from the Gaelic area.
So I overpowered his guard and took him prisoner.
... Along with thirty five other high level units, bc apparently if there are wounded with someone you defeat, you capture them too!
I'm trying to decide whether to ransom the king or just execute him. I don't think Vlandia is going to forgive me very easily either way, as they've declared war on me. Just me. I'm not a vassal to anyone and I have no family, so...
This may have been foolish.
I hear not-russia and not-africa are nice this time of year.
It also removes the main quest, if you find you're not into that
I've caught a few lords with ultra high level cavalry archers and for some reason they never join me even if they prisoner for like 150 days. there must be some renown requirement
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hey, I got this and thought it was well done, hi5
if you're just sandboxing you don't need to worry about it.
i finished it just by randomly wandering the map and talking to faction leaders who were out with their armies
you apparently have to finish it if you want to start your own kingdom
if you just want to loot and pillage as a freerider or vassal you can ignore it
ahh, shit. okay. i've been wandering around, but since I'm sworn to another kingdom I am at war so often that half the time I run into one I am at war with him...
guess I'll need to leave or something for a while to wrap it up
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