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So my 35 dudes joined a big ravenstern war party to take out Aeldarian and it let me capture him. And he's offering to teach me the secrets of Noldor equipment. Maybe you need to patch to 3.611?

Good christ. Yeah it gives you EVERYTHING Noldor for your custom order. Super armor and spirit horses too. 0.o

So do you have to actually be a vassal of faction X to join one of their knight orders?

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Seems not, just have to have higher standing than what I currently have or something.

Well I'd joined in the past but it seems to be different now with the whole ranking system.

Party mechanics are pissing me off. I've got about 60 knights of the raven spear and 60 silvermist rangers. If the knights are above the rangers in the party list and I go into battle, I get about 50 knights and 10 rangers. Do I need to have a higher number of rangers to get a better ratio in battle? It's confusing the hell out of me.

Also, pretty disappointed with the rangers. They seem to be kinda squishy. My original plan was to get knights of the ebony gauntlet for infantry and roll around with all 3, but with their crossbows, the ebony gauntlet guys could pretty much fill the roll that silvermist are filling poorly. Maybe it's just because I'm not bringing enough to battles to make a difference. My knights of the raven spear are kicking ass. They rock at defending sieges and on the field.

Silvermist are pretty amazing, but yes, the party mechanics are the biggest reason why just massing heavy cavalry works the best. But while I love them, Silvermist are probably pretty unnecessary unless you have enough honor that upgrading to honor troops is really cheap. That's mainly because Pendor Grey Archers are already amazing archers, but also because the Ebony Gauntlet order is so incredibly versatile. Ebony Gauntlet knights are pretty mean with the crossbows and right bastards in melee, plus their sergeants come with blunt weapons so make fantastic slavers if you aren't doing a custom order.

Nobody defends a siege like Silvermist though. They are basically Noldor tier archers even without upgrading the order. They're also pretty good on siege offense because they clear the walls really quickly.

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This gave me a chuckle when I saw it.

Yeah, I try to take out a bounty quest for whatever army I'm going after before I take them out. They payout is nice.

Gavinrad_sl said:

Silvermist are pretty amazing, but yes, the party mechanics are the biggest reason why just massing heavy cavalry works the best. But while I love them, Silvermist are probably pretty unnecessary unless you have enough honor that upgrading to honor troops is really cheap. That's mainly because Pendor Grey Archers are already amazing archers, but also because the Ebony Gauntlet order is so incredibly versatile. Ebony Gauntlet knights are pretty mean with the crossbows and right bastards in melee, plus their sergeants come with blunt weapons so make fantastic slavers if you aren't doing a custom order.

Nobody defends a siege like Silvermist though. They are basically Noldor tier archers even without upgrading the order. They're also pretty good on siege offense because they clear the walls really quickly.

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This gave me a chuckle when I saw it.

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What's the rating about? Is that the number of units you dispatched during the quest?

It's basically the relative strength of your warband vs the strength of the bounty targets. In this case, I trained a 900 strong snake cult army onto a full d'shar war party and then assisted. I didn't actually expect any credit for the quest, I just wanted to get rid of the army because they were up to 3 and the d'shar campaign happened to be right there pillaging a village. In the past when I've assisted someone kill one of my bounty targets, I didn't get any credit at all for the quest, so I thought this was pretty funny.

Who needs honor troops.

That was the dungeon of Laria.

Since this thread got bumped, might as well mention they did a small update at theofficial sitea while ago, with some screens, concept art, and the broad strokes of the narrative.

MnB2 is going to be a prequel, doing a "fall of the Roman Empire" analog in terms of the story, although it looks like the tech level is still going to basically be medieval.

Uhm, PoP doesn't have that ability either, unless they changed something. You could ask about former companions who had left you, but not ones you hadn't recruited yet.