Mount And Blade Warband Morale Cheat
Hilma Klingaman
Now I am trying to help the female Claimant on the Throne. I have captured 1 Castle of Swadia, which has a good position since a lot of Nord Castles are between it and the remains of the Kingdom of Swadia.
Capturing the remaining Castles seems to be very difficult, since my army's max size can be around 90, but all swadian Lords have around 200-400 Men in their Armies. And Swadia has still many lords, I think it is around 7 or 8. And they often group up on me, which makes me fight more than 600 men with my 70-90 men, depending on the current state.
You may have decided to support the claimant a bit early. There's really not much you can do when all you have are 90 units with 1 lord vs 600 and 9 lords unless your party's stats (like surgery/first aid) are super high already.
A max army size of 90 means that you don't have enough Renown and Leadership. A good army size to have when declaring for a claimant is at minimum of 150. Next time you should try to boost your renown (by taking fewer units into battle against a higher number of enemies). Having a renown of 1500 to 2000 is probably a minimum before striking out on your own. Also, put more points into leadership/charisma.
Try to build up relationships with the lords of the faction your claimant is from (capturing and releasing them repeatedly will gain you relationships fairly quickly as well as improving your honor). If you do that, you can visit their lords while they are in their castles and persuade them to join your cause. This will increase your holdings and lords without having to fight them. Since you'll always be the marshall of your faction, you can then ask your lords to join you in battle.
Use only high tier units and play to their strengths. For the Nords, their best units is huscarls, but they aren't mounted so suffer when fighting in the open. Your best bet is to fight in moutnaineous terrain and tell all your units to hold out on top of a hill. This will drastically slow any mounted units heading at you, giving your huscarls plenty of time to throw their axes for tons of damage.
Try to wait until there's a war between Swadia and someone else, when their leaders are distracted, go in and take their territory. Also, wait until you see Swadia conquer a city, this is the best time to go and take that city from them as it won't be heavily defended.
There are also some really cheap tricks you can do to take a castle without any losses, but that requires you to get some rhodok sharpshooters first. Just tell them to use their melee weapons and defend at the start of a castle battle. They'll be nearly invincible when hiding behind their board shields. Then wait until the enemy runs out of missiles, then tell them to open fire. After your guys run out of missiles, retreat, and repeat.
My strategy so far has been to get as many of the companions as i can and max one of each stat on different ones (the party skills only of course, and research the noble companions. best tog ear them for being a Lord rather than party member). 10 in wound treatment, surgery, first aid, trainer and path finding makes your downtime very...short.
Archers: Rhodok Sharpshooters and Nord Vet archers. I mix and matchbecause I feel rhodoks while powerful in ranged combat, they cannotmove and fire and their melee skills kind of stink. The nord vets arebetter at melee defense if cavalry happen to get through.
Cavalry: mix of merc cav, Saranid horsemen/mamlukes and swadianKnights/MAA. (While very expensive to upkeep, a completely cavalryarmy of this mix offers very good NON-SIEGE victory. Never bringcavalry to a siege, they will die or be incapacitated quicklycompared to hired blades and huscarls.
For sieges I have everyone hold their fire, and station my archers behind my huscarls (if I bring archers, sometimes i don't). I then go up the ramp/siege tower behind the second rank of huscarls (so I'm in the third 'set' to hit the walls). I then jump down and get to the opposite wall of the castle/town (if there is an opposite wall) and have the archers hold that position so they can pepper the enemy with arrows from behind. I then sit back and keep enemies off my archers.
Go for a city that is fairly secluded (wercheg is my favorite) or a city that is VERY easy to get to (Dhirim or Suno for example) and build your prison tower. Start filling your barracks with Highlevel troops and use the city as a storage closet for your cavalry if you are going on a siege spree.
Get as many of the Manhunter line as you can (I usually stop at 50-100, they are pretty spendy) and add a small mix of other cav units too. Use this as your main "field engagment" force. Capture as many enemies as you can hold and barracks them in this city.
When you get a certain troop PAST what you can carry for prisoners, put ALL of your troops into the barracks and grab that troops set out. Set camp recruit them (if they accept) then IMMEDIATELY barracks them. DO NOT grab your old crew back out yet, unless they have better than "below average" morale as you risk losing some to desertion. Grab any over that and go find looter/bandits AND SLAUGHTER THEM until your morale is back to average/below average on the troops in your city.
When looting the enemy after a battle i ONLY pick up items worth at least 200 gold (until i get my bags full). when my bags are full and I'm on my way to a friendly (or neutral) city to sell I still battle (morale is important, so are prisoners if I can get my hand on em) I will start replacing low value, nonfood/alternate weapon items with higher value gear, starting at the lowest value and replacing my way up.
I usually don't worry about honor before I get to around 750-1250 renown. Keeping your army outfitted/paid/upgraded is more important then moral feelings and as such should be your first concern. When you finally start warring with other factions (be it by yourself, helping a claimant or a faction) you can keep attacking caravans that ARE on the enemy side but almost always let enemy lords go (inc faction with them usually). I only keep kings for ransom, or if I'm doing a 'capture an enemy lord' quest I will not release my next captured lord. It will make it so you have more enemies to train your troops off of (enemy lords keep recruiting when you release them) but also makes defending your realm a more challenging objective.
A word of advice, do not try to persuade lords to defect until you have a VERY high relationship with them, I have a game I enabled cheats on (and import/exported my character for max stats). She has 109 relation with Jarl Olaf but he just refused her attmpt to defect to Swadia (he is mad at ragnar, mad at most of the jarls and loved my reason he should defect. he also fealt safer among my faction than his own).
SiegesOffenders vs Defenders in a castle or town setting. Defenders will come out only if they have TRIPLE the offenders troop number. very useful if you have max level troops and they have mainly low level troops. otherwise, HAVE FUN STORMING THE CASTLE!
Also, try making friends with enemy lords. at the cost of some relationship points some of them will agree to avoid the battle, making it so the other lords have to catch up to you if they still want to fight.
Cavalry is the way to go. I have taken armies of 60-80 Swadian knights against forces numbering 1200+. Take down all the enemy lords in the first round, then you can just sit back and watch your knights clear the field will often no casualties whatsoever. Knights are still pretty decent when taking castles - but I find that I can support them with a good bow and a large pack of arrows. Shooting the archers off the walls as they try to plink your troops makes a huge difference.
Get Hired blades. and kill Bandits and others to get Manhunters. Belive me Manhunters at thier best (Slave Chief) and Women peasant at their Best (Sword sister) are great just like Hired blade (best of Peasent).
I have only 95 troops, but I am unstoppable because I have 36 Merc/Cavalry and around 21 Hired blade, and 10 Vaegir Knights and other Troops.I have about 3/4 of my Army (However small it may be) Cavalry because there is less chance of them getting injured/killed because they are on horseback.Hired blades are also very good, Under those awesome Great helmets (I have one) They are actually very strong and look very intimidating with their armour!
Just the other Day, I fought against a Count from the Kingdom of Rhodoks and he had 125 troops verses my 95 and I demolished his troops in less than 3 minutes just because of all my cavalry! (The only bad thing is I was battling him in the Mountains. Because I have Jamiche Castle and that is in Southern Mountains, and it was really hard to maneuver)
Swadian Knights are the best units, even against Swadians. On the hardest difficulty, I usually can kill enemies that have armies ten times the size of mine. Adding some Nord Housecarls when attacking fortresses is a good idea as well. I only use Archers to defend my towns and castles. While attacking fortresses, I destroy enemy ranged units by myself using Masterwork War Bow with two bags of arrows. After you breach the ladders, most of the garrison should be destroyed.
Just as the accepted answer tells, you decided to support claimant way too early. What do you need for it? Well, lots of things. I played my last campaign long ago, so I am not sure if I remember everything.
Don't get too many. If you have a good engineer, build everything you can build in your starting village, otherwise don't bother as it will take too long. If you lose it after you establish good relationship with it -- good! You will be able to reconquest it soon, but it will not take space in your fiefs count. What space, would you ask? Isn't it always better to gather more? No, it isn't The more fiefs you have, the more taxes get lost due to poor management. 1 city is good, 2 cities are around 1.5 times better, then you will quickly lose more money than you will get. I once owned around 6 cities because I got them before I understood the problem and there is no way to give them to someone else.
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