Okay, so I’ve been playing for 26 hours. The raiders on ‘pioneer’ are ridiculously over powered. I have double walls, watch towers galore, dual barracks on both ends of my town (I’m sandwiched between 2 lakes) and they still just come through and decimate everything. Then I can’t even recover by the time they attack again because they’ve wiped out half my population and I can’t get enough resources to fix the things they’ve destroyed.
In fact the resource system need fixing. Either there needs to be a quarry building so my villagers aren’t having to trek halfway across the map for small amounts of stone, because its just not worth it to have heaps of tiny villages all over the map due to the raiders and the cost to constantly rebuild, and/or there needs to be a choice to substitute stone for bricks.
At this point though I’m going to have to bow out of the game and come back in 6 months or a year when the game is better balanced.
Oh and the frequency of raiders/armies needs to be altered. I literally had an army of 62 soldiers attack and then 2 months after they left I had 33 raiders attack from the same direction. They wiped out everything. I went from having close to 400 villagers to less than 200 after they were done and then all the houses that were upgraded to large houses decided to become abandoned so then another 50ish villagers left.
Kind of ridiculous to have to build to that extent though… I agree with @Girthy the raiders and/or battle mechanics need re-work. They are far too frequent sometimes and ramp up in difficulty (quantity and health) far quicker than they should. To me, a raiding party from a nearby village is just that, a small party of maybe 10 that want to be stealthy, break in and steal stuff.
Not sure what you are doing then because the raiders are easy. The army is a lot harder, but raiders are pretty weak. Usually, the raiders barely knock down my stone gate before the towers/barracks have killed so many they flee. The invasion army will tend to get inside the city a little but they are usually killed before getting in too far.
Does your army have the plate armor and crossbows?
Just had a 134-man army invasion, which is a step above the raiders. They destroyed 3 gates, barracks, 2 watch towers, a garden, a statue, and my compost heap. I have 28 soldiers, wearing all platemail, crossbows, and heavy weapons. Just a guess but I’d say maybe the gear your army is wearing is the issue?
I have 28 soldiers, wearing all platemail, crossbows, and heavy weapons. Just a guess but I’d say maybe the gear your army is wearing is the issue?
