Fierdsvein

It really doesn't matter. You can recruit, free or capture units. You should never be attached to your troops, they'll all die stupidly and you'll cry.

d shar are the best simply because they have the largest armies and when ever they go on campaign almost all their lords follow their marshal but for battles i would say ravenstern for seige attack because of their high tier infantry will take most forts without losing much, sarleon seige defense their armoured longbows in the right position will kill about everything and they can hold out while infantry comes to reinforce, and d shar field because their horse archers and their infantry are great at kill cavalry but their ranged is mediocre.

I am playing as Fierdsvein and we eat alll in our path except stacked good ranged (good cavalry do their damage in first charge but this can eb somehow fought with terrain and tactic, ranged are just meh...) - archers and ranged simply rule the Pendir no doubt.

I have to say I like balance in empire most - maybe their units has not superior stats on paper but they are very viable for all roles, Army of legionaries and armored crossbowmen is force to reckon with.

Somehow never had issue with defeating Ravenstern rangers and army of Sarleon armored bowmans gave me maybe bigger headache overall. Of course that ranger KO is superior but black archers too and they are just nobles....

Was not impressed by DShar so much. Their top cavalry is god, very durable, very efficient, but they are not so hard to pick up and all non horsed are weak trash. (but I can imagine massed them as player is VERY viable - if you have ton of trainer to level them high enough and money in pocket for feeding their mouths..(

Anyway as said above in time I utilize prisoners of all and filling roster with pendor. And at end of day it is KO that counts most so I would pick the one you want join (if it already exists)

I pickd Valkyries and neverending Valskyrr hunting as reminiscence to Sea raiders hunt - so Fierdsvein was first choice and I dont regret, getting decent loot from those too.

My opinion on this is either ravenstern or sarleon for a starting faction. I don't help the kingdom that much unless there are big fights in which I can get higher returns (like high tier troops from the prisoner trains). I roam around the jatu plains farming on jatu warbands and noldor patrols ( I do this on the highest difficulty). This is only opinion though :>

Originally posted by セックスが大好き:

My opinion on this is either ravenstern or sarleon for a starting faction. I don't help the kingdom that much unless there are big fights in which I can get higher returns (like high tier troops from the prisoner trains). I roam around the jatu plains farming on jatu warbands and noldor patrols ( I do this on the highest difficulty). This is only opinion though :>

you shouldnt farm noldor since you can get the best troops and armour from that guy in laria if you have good relations with them which is pretty easy also if your trying to win through your own faction you have to have good relations with them. instead you should go on campaign with factions as mercenary to farm gold and relations from ransoming lords i manged to get like 900,000 gold and made good friends with almost every sarleon lords.

Originally posted by dederpbutt:

Originally posted by セックスが大好き:

My opinion on this is either ravenstern or sarleon for a starting faction. I don't help the kingdom that much unless there are big fights in which I can get higher returns (like high tier troops from the prisoner trains). I roam around the jatu plains farming on jatu warbands and noldor patrols ( I do this on the highest difficulty). This is only opinion though :>

you shouldnt farm noldor since you can get the best troops and armour from that guy in laria if you have good relations with them which is pretty easy also if your trying to win through your own faction you have to have good relations with them. instead you should go on campaign with factions as mercenary to farm gold and relations from ransoming lords i manged to get like 900,000 gold and made good friends with almost every sarleon lords.

If you getting and release prisoners you can make those fights relation positive (5+prisoners for compensate 4 loss from fight)

But anyway why bother, it is easier to jsut friend them than try push troops against them - and they kill all but top tiers too easily.

Originally posted by Včelí medvídek:

Originally posted by dederpbutt:

you shouldnt farm noldor since you can get the best troops and armour from that guy in laria if you have good relations with them which is pretty easy also if your trying to win through your own faction you have to have good relations with them. instead you should go on campaign with factions as mercenary to farm gold and relations from ransoming lords i manged to get like 900,000 gold and made good friends with almost every sarleon lords.

If you getting and release prisoners you can make those fights relation positive (5+prisoners for compensate 4 loss from fight)

But anyway why bother, it is easier to jsut friend them than try push troops against them - and they kill all but top tiers too easily.

if you imprison them you get +relations with all the lords you sided with(which heavily out ways -4 relation by +1-3 for all lords you sided with but the honor from freeing them is nice) also you might not even take casualties if you pick the right ingagments plus once you have an army of high tier troops you could get paid upwards of 10,000 gold for just taking the contract and all of your troops salaries are paid for(most the time) and you get paid through the weeks even if you never fight for the side that hired you.1 last thing the last number of gold i had was exaterated i got a little over 100k gold which bout me some epic plate armor and other cool things like mercenaries and companions etc.

Originally posted by dederpbutt:

if you imprison them you get +relations with all the lords you sided with(which heavily out ways -4 relation by +1-3 for all lords you sided with but the honor from freeing them is nice) also you might not even take casualties if you pick the right ingagments plus once you have an army of high tier troops you could get paid upwards of 10,000 gold for just taking the contract and all of your troops salaries are paid for(most the time) and you get paid through the weeks even if you never fight for the side that hired you.1 last thing the last number of gold i had was exaterated i got a little over 100k gold which bout me some epic plate armor and other cool things like mercenaries and companions etc.

Talk was about Noldors.

There is only -4 relation penalty fight them, while release one capture soldier is +1 to Noldor relation (and some honot).

Otherwise I capture only bad tempered lords (you recognze them by language - like they call you dog and similar) and indeed - mercenary can be very profitable covering all expenses. On other hand even fully upgraded village can net about 3-4k profit and it is good get wallied fief soon for KO.

As far as gear goes, actually best is free - KO armor for raise ranks up to lrodly quallity. Rewards for Noldor Tournament that cna be further upgraded at KO HQ (got Noldor Ancient plate this way and upgraded to lordly quality - 8/72/32 chest armor for free (quigfen sell reinforced version for roughly 368k, lord quality could be close to 1 million:p Eventually weapons for qualis gems in in mines of Al-Aziz (yet you probablyb want more qualises to stats - I ahve invested 4 to ruby sowrd and bow though:p

Anyway I can only suggest start progress Noldor asap to uitiliye their tournament rewards most (+best armor in game after 10 wins) I was bit afraid of the quest fight and it was actually super easy - but made first torunament around day 300. now I am over 500 and almost finishing game... could get much more:p

Oh and quest for own hideout is superb as well - there is free upgrades of damaged gear to plain quality which is actually huge boost for rusty ebony weapons and similar stuff.