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what I don't understand is... how am I winning the fight. virtually destroy 75 percent of the enemies army lost about 25 percent of mine. Yet because they kept taunting me my leader unit flees and I lose :( Taunts are way to overpowered in this game. I doubt someone yelling "low born orc" will make me lose more morale than someone completely demolishing the two units that charged into the fight with my unit
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great game... the only thing i can complain aout is the fight advantage system give it 15 seconds because the arrows go so slowly i cant hit even one of them and if i get 4-5 then i lose 202 soldiers and the enemy loses only 120...wtf
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I wish it would have some sort of improved morale indicator... EX: A white ring (More seeable than the one there now) that slowly drains in a clockwise/counter-clockwise fashion.
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What the heck is up with the impossible timing minigame for the fights? Is it supposed to be almost totally unresponsive?
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Great game (1000/1000) I love it that much, plus, its over my favorite war. I love the Normans due to their calvary, plus their awesome,but I like the anglo-saxons (English) because their Huscarls are legit on the battlefield. on a side note, The Vikings suck a big on, that's why only 24 of their 300 ships returned to Norway.
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Finally beat the game on hard mode. Reward? Never have to play this game again. 2/5 stars. Nice videos in-between, didn't like the combat or morale system. Seems like how the enemy does is based on morale, but in hard mode it's virtually impossible to maintain a higher morale than the enemy.
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On the game itself, I'd just hope that there's a sequel set in a different time period, perhaps the Hundred Years War, with the English longbows under the Black Prince or Henry V against the French heavy armoured knights (you can nerf up the attack of the knights to compensate for the real-life devastating defeat of the knights in the face of the longbows).
Or perhaps the Crusades, where you get heavy-armoured knights vs. Marmaluks, maybe even add in the Mongols and have mounted archers!
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Personally, I like to maximize the number of archers (4 for the large battles), and put only 2 units of knights (used for flanking in the beginning, as even if the enemy formed a shield wall, breaking them at the side is much easier than charging through the center). The rest would be men-at-arms forming tight formations to prevent any units getting to the Norman archers. And since the archers have the most range, those of you who have faith in your aim can place them along the furthest line so that enemy archers can't reach you, but I recommend that you focus on their archers and possibly the king in the beginning.
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The Normans are quite frankly have the most powerful units in the game in my opinion. The knights have incredible damage, especially when you use charges, but they deplete quickly, so it's best if you don't invest too much on them aside from shocking the enemy lines before they form shield walls at the start.
The men-at-arms are extremely versatile, while they don't have the high defenses like the English spearmen, but the shield walls can still hold a Varangian charge. And their Boar-snout attacks can still punch a hole in the enemy defenses. Also, regading their morale, I find it that as long as they stay in formation, and William the Bastard survives/gives taunts every so often, it doesn't really matter.
Now, let's not even get started with the Norman Archers, there extreme range/damage/accuracy makes them the most formidable unit in the game. In most of my games as the Normans, half of my kills are from the archers, and about 1/3 from kamikaze knight charges.
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So I did a hard mode practice skirmish with the (norman) computer. Killed their king, massacred their army, had half of mine left and rushed to finish off their single remaining archer. Just as I neared him (staying out of range) my 2 varangian guards and 1 warriors all flee at once. So I tried to finish the map with just my king. He too decided to flee just as he got close enough to attack. So.... my whole army lost to a single unit of archers that didn't fire a shot basically. Seeing as my side had higher morale the whole time (dropped to 3 against their 3 on the last turn) I really don't think that should have happened.
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"Soldiers, why did you retreat?!" "They were shouting mean names at us, sir!" "..." I had over half the enemy of the first battle surrender because I dropped their morale to the minimum with taunts. Were we that emotional back then?