Not really an easy mode, but you can tweak the difficulty settings in the options menu. Like how much damage you and your party members take and whether you have to aim your parrying yourself or let the parry direction be decided automatically.

Directions are clear enough, if you combine them with a good tracking, spotting and pathfinding skill. With higher tracking skills the tracks become more informative, for example you'll be able to see how large a party is. Your target may not be at the location first indicated, because all lords move around doing their own thing. Ask for new directions to other lords you encounter on the way and you should be fine. Also, having an army of only horseman increases your party speed a lot, which is one of the reasons I like the Kerghit so much. As for the controls, you can tweak those as well in the options menu. You can choose to aim your attacks with the movement keys or mouse movement. I think they're fantastic, its certainly one of, if not the best melee combat systems I've seen in a game.

You are right that the game is flawed, but not in the nature of the flaws. The only flaw is lack of narrative in the quests and more interesting dialogue, though that would probably be hard to implement in such an open ended game. All the things you and Gamgee mentioned aren't the game's fault, you're both just really bad at it. Which is understandable, its quite an unforgiving game. You'll improve if you stick with it a little longer. Having companions with high party skills helps a lot I find. I always use Nizar, Matheld, Borcha, Marnid, Katrin and Bunduk, since with that configuration there's no fighting and everyone has a friend, which is beneficial to your party morale. With a good army and the use of proper tactics in the field (instead of just charging ahead), you'll find that battles can be over before you know it. Except sieges, but they're supposed to take a while.

Ah, ok, thanks for that. I might pick it up, I've seen it around for pretty cheap.

I have a party member (Klethi?) that provides those tracking benefits, already, but it's still difficult to find who I'm specifically looking for, at times. I'm told that so and so are in the field near , but running around the entire settlement and spreading out a bit reveals nothing. They move on without me. The tracks provide little information as to the specific nature of a group. A smaller group could be bandits or they could farmers. I'm also not sure what the different colors of the tracks mean. I'm sure the colors may reflect hostility, or something such as that, but I don't know for sure which colors mean what. For example, what does a light blue line mean? What about an orange line?



Would it be possible to have an army of horseman simply through the recruiting of soldiers in the Sarranid region? I love that region.

One of my favourite indie games.

Its nice to have a medieval rpg setting thats not dominated by magic and goblins for once.

Even then it's still better if you make them move towards the enemy in formation and charge when you're close, so they hit the lines in one massive unstoppable block. Though it isn't really necessary, an army of Swadian Knights is almost unstoppable no matter what you do with it . Not cheap to maintain though.

It's not an indie game


no it's definitely not cheap to maintain.. my biggest problem in the game is getting enough money to keep my army going. :/

Oh? The game originated as an independent project of Arma?an Yavuz, founder of TaleWorlds, and his wife, ?pek Yavuz.
Its won best indie game a few times i think as well.

It may seem like a chore, have you tried fighting sea raiders to the north of the map?, there loot after battle sells quite well, i typically farm them until i raise enough for a business.

Alright, it was an indie title. But you can't really call it an indie title when it's being published by a huge game publishing company. :shrug:

Sea raiders? I'll check it out. thanks for the tip

Yeah Sea Raiders are tougher than your average bandits (they're pretty much Nord Warriors) but the loot they drop is worth it, especially early doors. They usually drop nordic helms and chainmail shirts.

I love fighting nords They don't have any cavalry

Haha, I'm the same. I usually play as Vaegirs and invade the Nords. Use Nord infantry to as my garrison troops, and use Vaegir knights on the field. Unless I'm fighting Rhodoks, then the Huscarls make a field trip.

my army is 100% Swadian knights. They are awesome as infantry as well (during sieges and such)

my army is 100% Swadian knights. They are awesome as infantry as well (during sieges and such)

I have a party member (Klethi?) that provides those tracking benefits, already, but it's still difficult to find who I'm specifically looking for, at times. I'm told that so and so are in the field near , but running around the entire settlement and spreading out a bit reveals nothing. They move on without me. The tracks provide little information as to the specific nature of a group. A smaller group could be bandits or they could farmers. I'm also not sure what the different colors of the tracks mean. I'm sure the colors may reflect hostility, or something such as that, but I don't know for sure which colors mean what. For example, what does a light blue line mean? What about an orange line?

Would it be possible to have an army of horseman simply through the recruiting of soldiers in the Sarranid region? I love that region.