Duck and Cover

Posted: **Mon Sep 08, 2008 1:20 pm**

Kashluk wrote:The limited command interface does not allow much anything even close to 'tactics'... It's basically just STOP, GO, FOLLOW with the bonus of being able to tell your men to unmount (why?!) or tell archers to GO, infantry to STOP and cavalry to FOLLOW. In Mount & Blade I trust in sheer brute force and the "meat wall" strategy. The more men you have and the thicker sheets of metal they've got wrapped around them the better. Then just rush rush rush rush. Works surprisingly well.

I think that was the prevalent military tactic in the medieval times, instead of some sneaky, braveheartesque, swell guy maneuvers.

Posted: **Mon Sep 08, 2008 1:30 pm**

Well, yeah, but you can't tell them to move in formations, order ranged weapon wielding infantry to stop for a moment to shoot or specifically give a command to a soldier or a unit of soldiers. So it's RUN RUN RUN RUN hack & slash and in the end we'll see who was the victor, muahaha.

Posted: **Mon Sep 08, 2008 1:35 pm**

You can ask them to hold the line, move 10 paces forward or 10 paces back. Close or wide formation for your missile troops. Ask the cavalry to dismount and joint your main force. And ofcourse you cannot give orders to individual units. Do you really think that was the generals job during a fuckoff big battle?

I think that is quite enough.

Posted: **Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:21 pm**

What I have realized is that them tournaments are fucking retarded... it's all jim dandy, and then you get a bow, and it's all over.

Posted: **Tue Sep 09, 2008 4:17 am**

2 releases ago, 9.something they had formations and more tactics in one of the mods, hopefully to be implemented into the 1.0 release as the tournaments, different arena battles, betting, castles, raids, etc have been introduced from mods.

honestly i'm quite impressed how far they've come since 7.3.1 or whatever when i started. it might look like only graphics being enhanced but they've been ironing out the bugs quite a bit it would seem.

Posted: **Tue Sep 09, 2008 6:18 am**

So is this really worth getting and getting into?

Posted: **Tue Sep 09, 2008 7:11 am**

From what i have seen it really looks like it could be quite a lot of fun. The fighting on foot is really cool, though you do get your ass kicked around a lot more than if you are on a horse from what i could see.

Posted: **Tue Sep 09, 2008 8:43 am**

Three years ago :

Quite an amusing game for an hour or two.

Numerous versions later, present day :

Three years ? For this ?

Epic stagnancy. Some find static reassuring. I find it profoundly disappointing. Fortunate that the cost was negligible.

Posted: **Tue Sep 09, 2008 8:52 am**

Yup, being on horseback is the key to success... Thus it should not come as much of a surprise why Rhodok armies are quite easy to over-run.

Posted: **Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:10 pm**

hm....how much is it now? well worth the $12 i payed for it years ago

Posted: **Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:19 pm**

29 â‚¬, I think. Could be wrong.

Posted: **Fri Sep 12, 2008 12:54 am**

why buy when u can leech? lol.. but the game got boreing untill i relised how cheap it looked adn the travel map as some have mentioned. but the sword slashing on the horse was cool until 5hours later.. worth the download. ill pay 10bucks for a full game with better graphics. (not going to happen)

Posted: **Fri Sep 12, 2008 7:11 pm**

BTW, i pwn at the tournaments with a bow.

Posted: **Thu Sep 18, 2008 9:10 am**

So, version 1.0 is out now. Mostly graphical improvements tho'.

Posted: **Thu Sep 18, 2008 9:46 am**

Does torrenting an indie game make one a bad person?

Discuss.

Posted: **Thu Sep 18, 2008 11:15 am**

Not rilly....
Tho' if one really enjoys it I suppose that one should buy it just to ensure further development by the studio.

I bought M&B, mostly because 'twas cheap, but also because I appreciated what they're trying to do, even though they aren't quite there yet. And I had some moneys to spend.

Posted: **Thu Sep 18, 2008 11:30 am**

Buy samorost. and machinarium when it is released.

Posted: **Fri Sep 19, 2008 3:53 am**

Mismatch wrote:Not rilly....
Tho' if one really enjoys it I suppose that one should buy it just to ensure further development by the studio.

I bought M&B, mostly because 'twas cheap, but also because I appreciated what they're trying to do, even though they aren't quite there yet. And I had some moneys to spend.

M&B promised lots of improvements since the first versions; they sucked a lot of money and all they improved was the graphics, apparently.

Posted: **Tue Sep 23, 2008 4:31 am**

I have checked the internetand i found nothing on version 1 of M&B

Posted: **Tue Sep 23, 2008 4:39 am**

its out

new music, new animations, some new graphics and new sounds