How do I play this shit? Its just shittier Skyrim

How do I play this shit? Its just shittier Skyrim

I'll take things that are bait for $600, Alex.

Not bait, I started up the game and entered an arena thing and its just dudes ramming into people and none of my attacks hit.

fell for this meme aswell. The game feels clunky as fuck

don't play vanilla

I'll humor you. Arena is maybe good for getting one or 2 levels. But what you need to do is start an army, particularly of the swadian variety, and conquer everything.
Also mods are amazing. Get prophesy of pendor or star wars conquest.

How do I go about doing that? Everythings so clunky how do I know what to do

just get some money, go to swadian villages, get d00ds, kill bandits until you get strong. Leadership is good. Surgery, tactics, and spotting are very important.

focus on self development early on, in late game get training stats and anything else you're interested in
also jeremus and artimenner are good companions however if memory serves correct they might not get along well so make sure you've got charisma points

>Compares to Skyrim
You literally haven't played it. Also, turn up the difficulty for AI and play with full damage.

Hit up the generals thread on /vg/. Vanilla is OK, but stick to Vanilla-expansion type mods.

Floris Mod is shit on all the time by chan, but it's arguably the most comprehensive Vanilla++ mod out there. There's a continuation of it under a different name that's up to date if you can find it. Highly recommend it, especially since it's own wiki is comprehensive for this mod in particular.

Not OP here.
Is there a mod that's fun and adds a lot of content, but not completely bullshit in terms of difficulty?
A few years ago I installed some Sup Forums-recommended mod and it was nothing but instant oneshot deaths from archers.

>floris
kill urself dumb floris poster. Floris adds retarded new troop trees and ENB. If you want Native+ than just get dickplomacy and turn off the lewd stuff.

>but not completely bullshit in terms of difficulty?
Go in options and turn down damage. You can reduce it to taking 1/4 damage at the minimum IIRC.

Difficulty?

Vanilla AI is so shit you should never get killed. Learn basic tactics, learn what different units are good for and how to exploit terrain.

>Floris adds retarded new troop trees
Kill yourself, you drooling shittard.

Vanilla has no fucking troop trees. Each faction in vanilla has 2-3 fucking types of units. They literally can't function as functional armies. Half the time the factions implode because they don't have functional armies.

Floris Troop trees, each faction can field a functional army with all unit types. Use the simplified tree option if you're too dumb to count to 10. The option is there. Use it.

Anybody that bitches about Floris's troop trees is a drooling moron that just fields nothing but a single unit type.

different guy here, what should I be playing instead of vanilla?

anybody that likes floris troop trees are a no-fun faggot. The thing abotu Native troops is that their fairly unique and separated with stuff like Nords and Rhodoks having no cavalry while Khergits are almost entirely cavalry. Floris takes an anachronistic shit all over this and destroys the flavor of native troop trees by making every army play the exact same way.

>anachronistic

hol up nigga

Floris is pretty close to historical authenticity for each faction, by relying on the very obvious cultural inspirations.

Yes, the Swadians have top tier knights, but longbow dudes and armored sergeants were also things, but not so uniform as "ALL ARCHERS ARE LONGBOWS AND ALL KNIGHTS HAD LANCES", so floris adds content to have varied and fun armies.

If you complain about anachronity, then it's because the french, the italians, the huns, the kebab, the scandis and the rus did not live together within a weeks journey from each other, and the cultural insipration of each unit was seperated about century or so. You should not play this game if that bothers you.

And yes, italians and scandi did field mounted units. And frankly, the lack of cavalry gimped both the Rhodoks and the Nords when the AI fought each other.

Even then, Floris still stayed true to Vanilla balancing. Rhodoks and Nords had shit cavalry, with Rhodoks having their Italian Baliesteo crossbowmen and Nord elite infantry as their top units. It just added more flavor in my opinion. Not to mention the units looked authentic as fuck if you were to base them on their prime in history.

>spend first points getting to level 4 leadership/trade/prisoner and int for inventory management
>get a hoers and a lance
>farm sea raiders in the North part of the map for gold and prisoners
>sell prisoners and nord shit until you get enough to put weavery/dyeworks in every city that it's profitable to do so
>put whatever is profitable in other cities
>use relationship chart to choose group of followers
>outfit them with nord shit until you have good income
>once you have dyeworks in every city conquer a town/castle with no garrison in a weak faction
>expand from there
>do surrounding villager quests and garrison your capital with a shit ton of troops
>expand
>win game

You supposed to build band of strong army not randomly running around shouting at people.

Obvios bait. Holy shit how is thia game so good and replayable?

Star Wars conquest is Vanilla Mount and Blade chucklefuck

>quality not quantity
Focus on getting trained soldiers
>pick your battles
don't try being a hero in the beginning just get gold, build relationships with kingdoms, and do some quests
>Relax and feast
There is no need to try to play "fast" take your time, make smart decisions and TAKE YOUR TIME TO LEARN THE GAME

Not him but Floris fucks up its own unit diversity settings though. They try to relevate the factions to real life counterparts and that's a perfectly fine and nice idea but then decide to go full retard on how its implemented. Rhodoks are the worse offender of this. They become medieval Italian but with a mix of Scottish highlander aesthetics. You have crossbowmen wearing a highland frock and cavalry units armed with bucklers for whatever the fuck reason and half chataphract horses that would look more in place fighting for the old Sassisinid Empire then any Italian city state what so ever. To top the Rhodoks off they have an infantry line unit that gets decent plate armor, a sword and a shield called the Ventura. Whatever possessed the mod creators to give these units 9 power strike but no other stats of note let alone the strength to even have that stat is a mystery. The vanilla troops were balanced enough except the veigers shortcomings and each had a central unique theme while not just saying "lel its europe but not xd" and looking like copy pastes out of osprey books. Rhodoks can barely be seen as anything like the Italians so many say they are while Floris is a bunch of differing osprey pics but in the same factions.

Floris itself also just fucking sucks in so many ways that you hopefully will notice past the initial wanderlust of playing your first mod. The game adds bandit lords that stalemmate the game more then the player could ever achieve (Black Khergits bandits in crusader armor that you need to mod out of the game yourself Killing Sarranid Lords for example). Plus the godawful enb thats become standard in so many mods thanks to floris' success. The original game was nothing much to look at but modders dont relise that darkening everything does not make it look better or more realistic. Grass irl is a bright green on a sunny day provided you dont live in some sub Saharan shithole or southern South America. Skyrims grey filter looks better.

Get a lance
Get a horse
Kill everyone

Fun combat, everything else about it (especially the character building) is awful.

>and none of my attacks hit
Stop trying to play this game like it's Skyrim. Also, you need to be+18 and blah blah blah

Basically just play fucking Dickplomacy because most Warband modders are all seemingly autistic and non wrongly placed historical mod authors think they are Tolkiens gift to man and that's why crap like the Prophecy of OC donut steal Pendor exists and ACOK gets falls lower every update possible.