Rebel Faction

[Apostle Zodd]

At the vary start of the game Rebel faction seems to have ungodly unified armies when i would think them being rebels they should have splinterd small unorginaized armies...

just an observation

[Atterdag]

Good observation.

That's because the rebels in Chivalry represents minor factions and not your average rebel Jeb.

[DaVinci]

... what Atterdag says, they represent independent tribes, lands and whatever.

"Rebels" are only the from time to tome spawned rebel units (labeled as "Pirates", "Rebels" or "Rebelling Peasants") besides the settlement-rebellion-Rebels.

[Apostle Zodd]

granted but its like this in nearly all surrounding rebel towns,cities what have you are still too orginized compared to lets say europe,fact is these so called 'minor' factions were obviously not that important to bump off a major faction so why are the minor factions so well orginized before major factions are?

case in point scottland and ireland compared to the status of england on 1st turn. if they are indeed minor then they shouldnt be so efficiant at the beginging is all im saying.

[warluster]

I like the way its set up.

I thought along the lines you did at first and didn't attack anyone... eventually dieing as everyone killed me. But when you actually play the battle (Don't autoresolve, AI always loses) it is quite easy. Trust me, 500 against 1000 and you can take 50 dead and they 800.

[DaVinci]

I like the way its set up.

I thought along the lines you did at first and didn't attack anyone... eventually dieing as everyone killed me. But when you actually play the battle (Don't autoresolve, AI always loses) it is quite easy. Trust me, 500 against 1000 and you can take 50 dead and they 800.

... also on VH-battle in 1:1 ratio? I don't think so ...

But correct is, that the slave factions (the independent factions) have huge disadvantages due to less available family character leaders, and because they don't recruit a lot.

[Pompeius Magnus]

@Coni
First of all some words to your Post.
I second that. 100% agreement!
Blitzing is no option for us. And, by the way, this (blitzing) would be a-historic.

And I saw good news. DV invided you to join the Team as Tester.
Please write a PM if you want.

[Jingles]

The 'rebels' in Chivalry work perfectly fine. When I first tried to conquer Scotland as the English, I got a nasty shock when I met a full stack of angry scotsmen, backed up by another one. They beat me badly and tbh, I was quite pleased that I hadn't succeeded in eliminating the scots in the first few years. Heck, even Wales put up a stubborn fight. If you're not a sore loser then you shouldn't have a problem. Besides people are always complaining that the game is too easy, no matter wether it's vanilla or any of the mods. Making the game a little more difficult is a GOOD thing if nothing else.

[DaVinci]

Good to hear that there are people who appreciate a little challenge ... honestly, during all the time of development since ca. May 2006, i had to decrease the difficulty of this mod due to betatesting-results of the official and unofficial testers - if it were gone alone after my personal taste, this game would be much harder, but just for a tendency to a rather average gameplay for the majority of average players (who chose mainly M/H or maximum H/H), the tendency were often to drop the challenge.

On the other side, medium to hard gameplay can also be fun ... just less stress for the nerves

In certain earlier Chiv versions i often feared to not survive very long ... that was also a lot fun, but also a kind of stress.

Now, the next version will be something inbetween ... i hope. Of course, always depends on the chosen faction and difficulty.

[hammy the hamster]

I agree, if the independent forces didn't have big armies then they would all be swept up in 10 turns or so as in vanilla RTW. also I like the way they don't just sit in their settlements but patrol around the place, it always felt like in vanilla that all the battles were sieges even on VH campaign.