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Diplomacy / attacked by cowardly Brootherhood

« on: October 28, 2013, 08:27:59 pm »

New Clan old enemies it seems.

And getting attacked by the oathbreakers to the CFA, to the Wolves and their former mentor who gave them their first fiefs and helped them establish themselves. Well nothing unexpected from these backstabbers.

Anyhow to conclude the formalities.

Wolves of Fenris do accept the challange and

declare war on the scum of the earth the Brootherhood.

May your blood flow down the river Ván and your names forgotten.
I am cursing you, may your balls shrink, may you loose your hair and teeth early, may noone trust your word ever again.



edit: title, thx CrazyCracka420

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Faction Halls / [Fenris] Wolves of Fenris (EU & NA, invite only)

« on: October 18, 2013, 05:17:06 pm »

Wolves of Fenris

banner creator & artist: Kass

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first banner by Niemand

After a dark fortelling by which Fenrir would consume Odin at Ragnarök.
The Æsir betrayed Fenrir and tricked him into binding. Fenris only satisfaction was by biting of Tyrs hand.
Ever since he is waiting


from the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá:

Brothers will fight
and kill each other,
sisters' children
will defile kinship.
It is harsh in the world,
whoredom rife
—an axe age, a sword age
—shields are riven—
a wind age, a wolf age—
before the world goes headlong.
No man will have
mercy on another

State of Affairs
moving to 'of Kings and Men'

Recruitment

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Process

• Read this page closely
• You need a person who speaks out for you, who is already in the Clan and willing to risk his reputation to step up to take you in. First step i guess is to befriend someone of us, then come back and continue reading. This is the invite only part. Befriending is to be seen as, greeting us ingame, following us around and helping out where we fight, over time we will take notice as we are in discord often together and then talk also about possible new wolves lads. So try last not least to talk with those Wolves you like and ask them about becoming a Wolves Member.
• any of the wolves members can then give your name to those with the privilige to accept you
• There is a 4 week trial period, within we would like you to meet us on our discord channel so we get to know each other, get on our steam group and registrate in our forum, for further communication we would need an email adress and if you want to take activly part in strategus we may need also a phone number(max 3 people will have access to email/phone data)  and use [Fenris]_ as clan Tag in front of your characters names, as well taking on our banner by joining on the cRPG website our clan.
• @NA community, Fenris is opening their doors to you, please be aware we have hugely different time zones, anyone who would join will be in the position to use our severs and pm us, but we will rarely play together. I imagine it more like a parrallel clan developing in NA, with their own structure, their own leadership. The main reason anyone would like to do so, would be that you like our theme and want the same in NA. Any groups of friends who would like to use therefore us as platfrom to get organized are most welcome to give it a shot. Within Strategus, we may support us economicly, merc for each other at times, but wont engage in each others wars by sending armies from EU into NA or vice versa, i will try to keep that sepparated as much as possible. Ping and time zone differences are one of the worst parts when fights occure between NA and EU, nothing i enjoy or want to see ressoruces wasted upon. That then leads to also a rather autark NA strategus diplomacy.
• If you got questions for recruitment reasons, PM me or hit me up in steam, do not apply here. We keep our memberships close to the chest. People will notice you are a wolf ingame soon enough.

we offer

• regular hardcore and casual fun players
• discord channel
• tips, advice and training on duel server

Requirements

We need people who are willing to take upon themselves responsibilities and engage activly with us to advance our community.

you should

• have at least installed and played crpg
• be 20 or older, we make exceptions in a few cases depending on behaviour, skill set and constructive engagement
• optimal have time at least 1-2 hours in 2-3 days a week. If less or irregularly it is no deal breaker, we have lots of casual players who are only now and then on the fields

you must ( no exceptions here )

• be capable of the English language.
• you have to have teamspeak 3 and be in our steam group.
• read and follow the EU server rules
• not be in another strategus clan with any of your characters, we dont support multiclanning or banner/xp leeching
• use "Fenris_" as Tag in front of your name
  
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  Supporters dont need our Tag. After the recruitment phase of one month and later on, only by choosing the Tag, you signal us, you would now be ready for a stronger commitment to the clan. Otherwise you just stay as a supporter.
  Supporters still have to follow all other rules which full members have to, too and meet all requirements.
  Supporters are not equal to the rank 0 within the clan ladder but to the rank 3, that way they can freely use our Armory in any way. Full Members with Tag are by default Rank 5 within the cRPG Clan
  
  On a similar topic, as Prefix we wont allow other clan tags, but if you f.e. want to show your former clan respect you can do it for your main char with a Suffix like
  "Fenris_Yourname_of_FormerClanName" or just for alt chars
  "Yourname_of_FormerClanName"
  
  what we dont want is something like
  "FormerClanName_Yourname"
• join with your main character, alt characters are optional
• accept a 1 month trial period within both sides can cancle the relation without a fuzz
• accept the following list of rules & principles:
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  The following set of rules shall gurantee continuity within the clan.
  
  Two base principles devide those rules
  a) static set of core rules, which are nearly unchangable only by a 70% majortiy voting of "all members"
  b) flexible rules which are changable by the the leader till we have 20 members, by the council where the leader will be part of later on with a simple majority 50%+
  
  core rules:
  1. The banner, the name and the Tag is never to be changed.
  2. people going afk, wont be removed from the clan, but get the status ghosts, when they come back, they can interact like no time had passed. An exception would be, when people who have a position within the clan would need to take a leave of absence. Those should make a small message in our forum roughly about from when to when. Depending on how long that would be, we would need to find a replacement for their position.
  3. every Fenris member can be part of recruiting new clan members, when you like people and got to know them and in general have a good feeling about them, give their names to FleetFox or me so we may approach them. This is formost about people "you like", which you can imagine to have around regularly, so do not pay attention to player skill but focus on personality when you give us those names. Playerskill can be trained, personality .. wtf we are not their fucking parents 
  

name change

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• go on the website
• choose the character you want to apply the name changes(click on character name in the upper left corner)
• choose tab settings
• fill in the new name tag Fenris_YourName and make sure you have 1000 gold
• Play your old char until the namechange is accepted. You will notice the namechange when your old char becomes a level 1
• then you can switch to the new name ingame - go to your character creation page in game and change his name there

• Name changes are done manually by admins, so it can vary how long they will take.
• Name changes are only for fixing typos or adding/removing tags again. If the developers feels like you do it for any other reason they may not change the name at all.
• When f.e. you want to change your name not to something similar like 'myname' to 'mynaaaame' but 'myname' to 'wtfisthisnamenow', then you can buy a complette name change on the marketplace.

Positions

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kinngrimm founder
QuisUtDeus leader
Trademaster
Spymaster
Tactician

Valhalla

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You are still a clan member, only for organisational purposes you have been taken out of steam group, crpg ladder and strategus faction That way we have a better picture of who is active. Feel free to contact FleeFox or me and you will be instantly reinstated at the time you feel like playing with us again.

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gear sets

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If you want to look more alike , i'll advice for choosing a combination out of the following gear list:

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useful links:

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Link to the mod: http://www.c-rpg.net/
Recruits Check first
Latest version download

crpg gameplay
Character Planer and Damage Calculater(author: Espu)
Crpg Guide - information about nearly everything concerning crpg(by Moscher)
Explanation of Melee Game Mechanics
Tactics in cRPG, a guide(by Phazy)
Warband Infantry Primer (by Reapy)
The Worth of a player(by kinngrimm)

customizing M&B ( will be updated soon)

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Custom cRPG Loading Screens/Wallpaper/Menues(author:Kajia)

here are examples of Kajia's Custom Pack also as Wallpaper included in the link above

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friendly clan matches - not yet organized
most likely after training on Wednesday 22:00[gmt +1]
Have a look at steam and forum events and announcements.


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Wolves of Fenris discord channel

Forum Recruits registrate there and use recruitment form

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Diplomacy / Radoghir Castel and Ulburban sold to CFA

« on: April 16, 2013, 01:10:38 am »

Radoghir Castle and Ulburban have been sold to the Cold Front Alliance.

Anyone who would attack and/or take those places during the transition phase would be seen hostile by CFA.

The handover of those fiefs should happen within the next 1 to 2 weeks.

Stay clear of these fiefs.
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the fief transfer has been stopped due to disagreements within Kapikulu about selling these fiefs.

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Strategus Issues / please fix

« on: April 10, 2013, 01:20:57 pm »

critical:
- siege equipment
- maximum troops needed for attacking (1.6k as limit, whereby more would be allowed but not obligated, thereby 1/3 rule only applies below 1.6k) or change sieging complettly the way it works.
- unseen/unvisible goods above around 10k per trader

none critical:
- NA spawns in EU

additional suggestions:
- Blacksmithing, so that lower level gear could be upgraded at places where it has been loomed to a higher level, for a partial fee.
- ability to see the loom lvls of gear within fiefs

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Strategus General Discussion / How to prepare for strategus fights

« on: February 18, 2013, 08:02:36 pm »

Through tutoring a lot of new and small factions in strategus there are several pointers coming up over and over again, so i will try to structure here how you would prepare for a battle from choosing the target till preparing battle plans and doing rollcall.
Army compositions are a very individual thing i will put in the end some examples for armies as i think they should look like for several purposes.

I ) troop count

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as attacker you should have always a bit more(20%) troops then the defenders. Exception is depending on the time limit for strat fights. 1.5k(1500) - 1.6k(1600) troops for attacks on fiefs is what we have seen as usual army size in this strat to attack fiefs as maximum.
If you go above that you may face loosing troops and gear if the time runs out before you would be able to kill all defenders or take their flags.
Another exception would be if you intercept big armies so they can't resupply fiefs more to that later.

As defender to be able to play on time having 1/3 more troops is mostly sufficient, that if you have similar gear level or even better then the attacker.

Never forget the 1/3 rule, this game mechanic was introduced so that small armies can't just lock down any bigger sized army. Basicly for overland attacks it says the attacker has to have at least 1/3 of the troop count the defending army would have. IT also applies to the garisoned troops inside of a fief(not the population tickets). So when you attack a fief you also need at least 1/3 of the troops stationed inside of the fief.

II ) gear

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you need to buy it or through successfull attacks loot it.
To buy it you need to know where to buy what. With the addon of dotnet, you can go inside a fief, choose "0" loom level and click on the chest within the Weapons Tab. That way you get an overview of what is loomed at that location. Of every place you visit write down that information so that you later on can decide where to buy what at what price. Mostly in castles and towns stuff is loomed and also has discounts, as those places can more easily handle that. Also it is advisable to speak with the Lords and the faction of those places that you have free passage there to buy stuff, they wont mind to make a bit extra cash through taxes as long you can make them believe that gear ain't used against them afterwards 

III ) siege equipment

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As attacker you want to build a forward spawn to reduce the time from the front line to your spawning position and keep up the pressure.
As defender if you have a nice defendable spot which you either can shield with Siege Shields or through terrain you want to build a healing tent.
Ladders are not only be used to crawl up on houses or walls, but as spawn and forward spawn protection to put them around those against cavalry or in the case of forward spawn which had been seen lately to protect the forward spawns against enemy ranged attacks.

construction sites and (materials) allow you to build
Small Siege Tower (55)
Large Siege Tower (85)
Healing Tent (25)
Catapult (45)
Forward Base (35)
if you want to built one of the above you mostly will build a
Weapon Rack (5)
first out of which you can get more materials sites or bring back weapons from the battle field to store it within.

All of those have also been applied to overland battles, Siege towers to get superior firing angles for ranged, catapults to take down enemy forward spawn positions without suicide charging those and other tactical approaches.

IV ) Target selection

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IV a ) Caravan attacks

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If you are without a fief and also have no trading agreements or there are no free trade places in the area you operate, there is always a possibility to take the goods from someone else ^^. if you have fiefs but still want to cripple the eco of your enemies this is also your way to do it or well S&D stealing, but it is much more gratifying to take the goods out of the cold dead hands of your enemies 

Trade caravans often go from one fixed position to another as the factions have trade agreements. Get a spotter on top of a mountain or outside of woods and have an attack force ready to stand in the caravans way.
You can identify them by excess number of crates they carry, make sure you have enough horses as those caravans may have lots of them and just run/quickmarch to the next fief or into the woods. As you are the attacker you should have more troop tickets and at least the same gear level.

IV b ) village attacks/defense

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So you have build up an army and now you choose a nice village as your home, but there is someone else occupying it. Well you know the deal, what they can't or won't hold ain't theirs to begin with  . A claim is only as strong as the troops defending it.

You want to have ladders to get on the houses, interconnect them, build Siege Shields on top of houses or as attacker in a way you can safely attack their ranged on top of their houses. Mostly Medium Ladders are enough, larger ladders perhaps to interconnect houses, that you would need to check first when you look at the pictures of that place. Make it habit to check out the location first when you attack or defend a fief. I myself make often battle plans using google drawings and share them with others to speak over suitable strategies.

IV c ) castle-town attacks/defense

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those are a complete different animal then villages. You may need double the troops as the defender has. Lots of preparations are needed.

If you have access to a server where the maps of strat are available, walk within that map to get an idear of the place you attack or defend. Every map through its environment will have a certain dynamic/flow, which can be changed by ladders and wholes in the walls or siege towers from where you can focus fire onto a wall section or ladder up onto those walls from the siege tower. Siege Towers are by far not that good in current strat as they should be. Defenders can ladder on top of them and just destroy them from the roof. The handling of Siege Towers often is pure fail and defenders can increase that risk by switching brakes or some dipshits who aren't supposed to handle it blindly do it anyways.

Defenders should put ladders from the yards onto the walls to have additional access points, ladder from walls to top of gate and keep and other hardly to reach positions to neglect the enemy those positions in the long run, use ladder to interconnect wall segments and structures to reduce reinforcement times to the one or the other spot, also still allowed to ladder from the walls to the outside so that ladders a) block incoming ladders and b) get superior firing angles to the outside of the walls to shoot down siege equipment or just shoot people in the back trying to ladder up.

Every side has a wood pile, where you can take out materials, when the attackers comes to the wood pile of the defender, they can waste there construction materials.

When you plan to take a castle have a very close look at the defenders stairs. Any attempt to take down walls should take into consideration to separate wall segments in a way those can't reached anymore without a ladder. If you achieve that you could be successfully building a forward spawn in certain locations inside of the castle/town.

Your engineering team should have a plan to what shoot first and the battle commander should position bat 4-6 to point out those targets. Battalion 3 f.e. could be used for forward spawn position, battalion 1 and 2 for rotating attack positions of the infantry where they would need to ladder up the walls or go through possible breaches in the walls.

IV d ) intercepting

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when you are about to attack a bigger target which seems to be easy enough ^^, you don't want the enemy sneaking by and reinforcing it. For that reason besides your siege army(ies) you have interceptors. They are built for overland attacks and should have a shitload of horses on them to catch anyone. This can be very costly when you attack a bigger target, but it would be even more costly if that bigger target would reach a castle/town and reinforce it. If you would have more then one interceptor you may also attack a second time and that way get the loot. In any case neglect any attempt for reinforcements if possible. In this case i also would go so far and say "fuck nighttime battles" and just lock the reinforcements down who tried to sneak in by night.

V ) securing an area

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If got a good defendable position, you need to reinfoce it straight after taking it.
Therefor when you plan to take fiefs, plan also for afterwards holding them and using them. Prepare trade caravans who can already use that newly availabel S&D, have police forces ready to take out remaining enemies who are just in small parties there, before they can regroup and make trouble.

Not every village is really a good defendable position but could be used as honey trap, i haven't seen yet a castle or town which couldn't be seen as not good defendable in comparison to villages, but a few villages are fortresses themselves. Uzgah and Tulbuk coming to mind ^^.

VI ) attack has been initiated what now

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So you attacked something and you can see that now on the battle roster on the cRPG website. With that you now also have an entry in your Battle Tab on the strategus Website. There you will be able to accept Mercs who want to fight for you in the upcoming battle and also as attacker you can switch between raid and normal siege when attacking a fief.
Raids are a good option if the troop count of a fief is below strongly below your attacking forces while the enemy still would have population. If a raid is successfull you rip them of their gear which may be inside and by that then the enemy would need to defend with peasent gear and you would have additional gear. This can be countered by a vigilant defender. The defender can take out troops and gear when he sees an incoming attack and he places it only inside after the attackers reinforcement time of 2 hours. The Defender has 5 hours reinforcement time within he can get additional stuff to the place of the battle and drop it onto either the defending party or insight the fief.

As a rule of thumb, when you have accepted someone only kick him out again if he wouldn't show up for roll call. We all have lives and need to make time for special events and people are getting rightfully pissed if they are accepted, clearing their schedules only to see shortly before a battle they would have been kicked out again.
There are 2 battle descriptions. Make sure you have a teamspeak available you are allowed to use or have your own. Ndtions and also cotgs.de teamspeak if cleared before would be available. Write in the description the teamspeak address where to meat up for the battle and also depending on the size of the battle give a time people need to show up in for front for roll call. This last really is important. if you have a battle with lets say over 1k troops involved overall it becomes more interesting for players and they will more often show up and apply. So they should be on ts at least 15 minutes before. If there are overall 1k-1.5k troops involved go for 20 minutes, everything over 2k troops involved are battles where people are struggling to get into and you will get lots of applicants there they should at least 30 minutes before the battle show up on teamspeak for the first roll call. People who aren't there for roll call will be replaced simple as that as you need to make sure you have enough players for your battle, don't make any exceptions for your own clan mates, if they don't show and didn't tell you they would be late a couple of minutes take them out .
Rollcalls will be repeated till you have a full roster. So after going through all the names and applicants once and before saving the roster, you could check another time for those who haven't showed up yet and you unchecked them. That way you can make sure that if meanwhile they are there they would still be in the roster. Then you start a second rollcall again going through all the names who have been accepted, often you missed out on some with the first roll call and you now double check. When through with those names you then read the names who haven't accepted yet and take in complettly new mercs. With the third roll call you should be aware of those people who have been accepted and you can go through the names pretty much on your own only those where you are unsure give it a bit time so they can make themselves being noted. It is for several purposes not a bad idea to have a application/lobby channel and a accepted channel with sub channels for special purposes. The accepted channel should be password protected and one of your guys with enough ts power should move those into there when they have been called and confirmed. Reasons would be a) security b) sorting out the names left in the lobby will become more easy and less crowded less people talking ^^
Teamspeak configuration can be a bitch if you are new to it get someone from another faction who admins it and let him help you with it, Buba mentioned in the comments for this article that Priority Speaker would be helpful and i agree, the same thing can be annoying afterwards in normal conversations so you should be able not only to hand it out but also to remove it after the battle.

Choosing mercs also important, do you have overland battle? you need more cavalry players ask players to make their character builds available within the description.
You are defending a castle, you need more ranged ...
You want also to some extent have more high level players then lower level players, for Wolves battles f.e. we have minimum lvl 25 by default and it also should be stated in the description, only siege engineers may also have lower levels. Don't forget about your friends, you want to keep spots open till around 2 hours before the battle to take your clan mates in or those lads of your alliance.
If you are not fighting in prime time, people will be more likely to not show up at your battle, good intentions don't help with sleep deprivation and over all it is not their problem that you chose a fucked up time. So make sure in the battle description, that people still should join your teamspeak as there it is more likely that people may not show up. Those now thinking yeah well as you said so i don't need to show up .. please dudes at least one hour before a battle retract if you still don't know if you can stay awake, if you then would be still awake just be on the teamspeak server and you can get back on the roster.

VII ) The Battle

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Ok we have come now that far, all the organizational marathon is behind us now lets have some fun. Within the battle you will need to address your army with commands and give them orders to make the things which may lead to a victory. The battle leader in the best case should be the dude who did the roll call before, that way people already know his voice. If he is a well known commander he still can outsource the task of the roll call and prepare himself mentality for his command.

His tools are battalions and tasks combined with those.
Setting battalions is easy, you choose a battalion by pressing "P" once for battalion 1, twice for battalion 2 and so on. If you look at your feet and press "F1" afterwards, the chosen battalion flag is put onto your character. If you face a spot somewhere while pressing "F1" you put the battalion flag onto that spot in the landscape.

Commands should be short and clear, go to Battalion X and make shield wall.
Repeat your orders slowly and in a calm voice so people respond to it. Overall if you are over exited and would show it people may get over exited and would respond less to your commands. So be firm but calm. If people repeatedly wouldn't do what you want , call them out by names, that normally in combination with everyone listening to your reminders is enough to get people to do stuff correctly .. who wants to be called out in a front of the group negatively after all. The other way round when you see people doing it exactly how you want it , give them notification about it that they did it correctly, that way others can orientate themselves after those.
I myself don't like to shout at people but if i am sleep deprivated, have lots of other tasks to do and would be in bad spot overall it can happen, after the battle i may apologize to those i shouted at personally. Within the battle , they still need to do the shit i tell them to do. Within the battle you as commander are not anymore the character you play or the person behind the keyboard, but you are responsible for the efforts of yourself and the faction you represent. The mercs are responsible for their lives and their K/D to some extent, but you as commander have to carry the weight of loosing or winning the whole match, the way you interact with your crew and your mercs will reflect strongly onto the atmosphere and therefor the psychological stability of your team. Even if you would face a NoWin situation, you still would be able to damage the enemy, after all it may be a fight but not the complete war decided by this one battle, thereby also try to get as much out of a NoWin situation as possible as in the long run it counts to Attrition.

VIII ) aftermath

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If you successfully took a fief or defended it, at once take out everything out of that fief, goods, equipment gold and troops. There may be an imminent attack on that position and you would need to make a new set of gear to defend it with only as many troops you would need for it. Too many troops inside a fief and you would lose you also would waste troops. Sell of small stacks of crappy gear and replace them if possible with bigger stacks of nice gear. So that in the next fight people don't always need to switch between gear or would spawn without it.

XXXXX) i may restructure this article later as it is quite a bunch of information and there may be better ways to structure an present them. Please let me know about any mistakes i would make in terms of game mechanics.

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Diplomacy / Action & Reaction

« on: February 03, 2013, 09:11:21 pm »

As we witnessed that Ottomans reinforced Grey Order with 6-8k troops and also sided with ShuHan against our allies the Crusaders we hereby declare war on Ottomans.

The attacks have started early in the morning, sorry for those times , i hope it will be less unusual battletimes from now on, i will try to do it at civil times. We got certain intel which leaded to leap of faith.

If Ottomans can agree, then sieges should be done between 20:00 - 22:00 gmt+1
exception the attacks on reinforcements and sieges below 700 troops involved on either side.

Please keep in mind that Wolves_Overlord, still has his fucked up nighttime setting we weren't able to change even after consulting admins. I am not fully aware of the night time setting of the other CFA members involved but i will make an effort to get it set all to the same time.

i wish us all some nice fights

also:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGhWtaSMNHk
 

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Strategus Issues / Server for Strat Castles & Towns [suggestion]

« on: January 25, 2013, 08:45:11 pm »

What i would like to see, is a test server for Strategus Castle and Town maps.
This could also be used to test strategies.

Only those would be in rotation.

Every map would be online for 30m-1h,
in that time people could build catapults and shoot the crap out of them.
Try different other siege stuff and see what would work and what not.

In the end everyone who sees there are no walls you can just walk through or, invisible walls or other issues, can then vote if that map is buggy or not, like the voting for map rotation on the offical server.

When map is fixed it would be taken out of rotation till everything is at least once fixed. Then the process starts newly, to find more issues.

As there are also issues with other maps, it is imaginable that all strategus maps could be treated this way, but i would set the priority onto Castles & Towns.

If all maps would be fine, then a voting could be allowed, so factions, can go onto that server and test a strategy before the actual battle would take place. There are already some servers set up for this purpose, but smaller factions clans without the manpower and know how often don't even know about that.

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Strategus Issues / HP & build restrictions and other Siege Equipment related issues

« on: January 15, 2013, 05:21:20 am »

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The following suggestions i hope will be considered.
These things mentioned afterwards, often induce stomach pain, which is no fun at all. I hope this can be implemented or balanced differently as it is now.

increase HP of
- siege towers by 1/3 (it is rediculous, that the defenders ladder onto those towers and then they are just destroyed in no time, Siege Towers atm are complettly useless!! exception if they are used as Archer outposts ^^ as that was always their main task back in medival time^^)
- Ladders by 1/5
- Forward Spawn by 1/2
- Weapons Rag by *3 or more (if these things are shot by 2-3 arrows this is just unplayable at times or do i really always need to have 2-3 shielders who just camp the weapons rag and bore the hell out of those dudes?)

Build restrictions
- separate the maximum to be build limits of attackers and defenders, especially with weapons rags this is just awful
- increase limit for Weapons Rags to 7(for defenders and attackers each 7) and Siege Shields to 14(also defenders as attackers each 10), whereby i think if there would be a difference in attackers and defenders limits, i think the attacker should gain a small advantage to their limits so the game dynamic is not too much interrupted when positions are changed.

There are still the bugs, which show material/sites but they are not anymore in the equipment pool.
Also the bug with huge amount of different throwing stuff, which then makes the sites unchosable(Weapon Smith upgrade for old gear or sell the leftovers for a higher % as it is now[lower equipment loot then perhaps]).

Ladder physics, if a ladder is put onto an object, the larger end of that ladder on the angel point should drop down, you know like in reality.

Walls should stay in their state they had at the end of a battle if not invested heavily in terms of gold and/or Production Points.

Increase the battle timer.

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Scene Editing / Slezkh Castle (Strategus)

« on: January 14, 2013, 01:25:32 am »

this castle becomes my nemesis.


1) The main keep is reachabel by ladders from the defenders, which i cant imagine was the intention of the dudes who created that castle. With ladders from there on top of that keep up in the sky, it is impossible to build anything around that main keep as attacker.

2) indestructable wall sections on the front. 4 Catapult shot 20 minutes onto 2 wall segments, and they didn't go down any further after reaching certain status. Seen from attacker perspective the wall to the right of the none-lowerable gate stopped at 6k HPs and didn't loose anymore HP. The section on the left to the gate pretty much the same.

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Scene Editing / Orluggs Hold

« on: January 13, 2013, 08:20:50 pm »

Defender spawn all in the one building, from which after the main gates are down they can't go back to flag easily.

In most cases defender loose because they cant reinforce the flag after attacker went over the outer right wall(seen from attacker perspective).

My suggestion would be to move or add the defender spawns to the building to the right of the flag building(seen from defender perspective)

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Strategus General Discussion / [Suggestion] current location

« on: December 11, 2012, 03:58:27 am »

i sometimes wonder where my folks are, i guess others do too, well not wonder where my folks are but theirs ^^

That Information included into the faction list of members, for members who are in a fief. If they are outside you can find them anyhow by just looking at the map, but inside a fief over time you may loose track over your own guys.

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Strategus General Discussion / Suggestion: Battalions & General

« on: December 08, 2012, 07:50:29 am »

both suggestions for strategus servers only

1. Battlion Enhancements:

Activating a colored boxing around banners, the colors depending on the Battalion you have chosen.
This also perhaps could be setted first time by those who make the roster, but later on people could still switch freely between the battalions as needed.

You only would see your own battalion with this graphical enhancement, not the other battalions and not the enemy battalions.

That then should lead to a better clearer organized formations and grouping within strategus battles.

2. General Free Camara

Also chosen within the roster, the general would get a slightly enhanced camera perspective.
He could zoom out by special keybind for 10-20 meters into all directions, quite like in spectator but reduced in range from the point where he stands.

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Strategus General Discussion / Strategus Enhancment Project

« on: December 06, 2012, 07:10:14 am »

We all made suggestions over the years and in my case i got impatient to wait for things to be implemented or not considered or there were just not the time for implementations by crpg/strat devs. Since i came back to cRPG in the Summer i looked back onto several of my suggestions and problems i have seen. With chorts eyecandy script last strategus i saw that third party developers would be given a chance to work something out and then share it with the community.
I am proud of what we have accomplished within 3 months so far and as half arsed information is spreading already over the forum i here share the current state of our developments.

The developments are partly very game changing and therefor devs and admins have been informed within the first month and i got the go for further developments till further notice.

For security reasons you need a key to registrate on our website, please for now only factions with 5+ members contact me.
For keys a pm in the forum is sufficient.
If you want to get a first hand introduction then i would prefer you visit me on teamspeak(cotgs.de) or we chat in steam(kinngrimm). Later on we may chose a simpler approach, when/if implemented into strategus this wouldn't be needed anymore.

associated with this project besides myself
Guika(main developer)
Airstike(testing, math)
dotnet(client site scripting)
Kass(graphics)

We intend to develop several greasmonkey/tempermonkey addons

1. Strategus Viewer
basic Line of Sight sharing, as seen in many Strategy games. The information shared is diminished from what a player sees in his spotting range.
The parties which are additionally seen consist of Troop Count, Player Name, Faction Color and if the party leaves the spotting range his last position which is fading out(getting trasnparent) over a duration of 18 hours.
That information would be shared like this, people need to have installed the addon, be registrated to our website and need to be online.

2. Instructions
There is a small messaging system included, whereby higher ranking members can send to lower ranking members of a faction orders what to do, no discussion just do this or do that. Also provided is a log, which stores information like if the instruction has been confirmed and what the instruction had been in the first place.

3. Diplomatic & Contract System(atm in development)
Factions in between as also Factions to singleplayers and vice versa are able to engage in treaties and contracts.
There will be a fast number of different diplomatic relations you can choose from and you will be able to fine tune those agreements. Every diplomatic relation will be public for anyone to see. Contracts on the other hand work differently, someone who offers a contract, the contract will be public but not the entity who is offering it. Only after a faction or a singleplayer accepts a contract and the offering entity accepts him as contracted, the guy who is taking the job gets to know the entity offering the contract. If then the contract wouldn't be fullfilled it could earn you notority, you may be seen as unreliable. Contract can vary from "Buy stuff there and deliver there" to "scout that area" to "attack target", over "Protect/resupply" etc.

There are several other concepts which are also stated in the "About" section of our website, which but are still in the future, at the time they would be ready for testing i would add them here too. Also through the development process things change, therefor everything told sofar can be different tomorrow, this is work in progress and by far not finished.

Installation walk through:
1. install greasmonkey for firefox or tamper monkey for chrome
2. install Strat-V 0.65
3 .pm me for keys
4. register with key
5. create faction(automaticly faction leader and all rights included)
6. create roles
f.e.
Leader - rank 10 (make every option available, all checkboxes checked)
Army Leader - rank 10 (upload data and download data)
Vassal or Trader or Scout (only upload data)
in the end it is upto you atm whom in your faction you want to give the right to see more
Later on it could be fixated within the strategus ranks
7. get others to register with the keys given to you and then to apply for your newly created faction within the website
6. give your members roles according to their strategus or somehow differently defined task
7. reload strat map, it can take some minutes till the effect is seen on strat


statement of chadz onto this third party addon
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Diplomacy / Noooooo, they want our Reindeer Meat -_-

« on: November 25, 2012, 10:19:21 pm »

Hi lads,

Reindeer Meat seems to be popular with DRZ
http://c-rpg.net/index.php?page=battledetail&id=1590

You know, you could have just asked and we would have made some trade caravans if you are so keen on Reindeer Meat, but nooooooooooooooooooooooooo you needed to attack it pfffffffff 

Well so be it, some nice battle and please leave afterwards Sumbuja alone hrhr 

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Strategus Issues / Blacksmith Services

« on: November 21, 2012, 05:28:18 am »

Problem: After every battle you have from one type of gear up to 8 different loom states. Not only does this make icons unbelievable small, but also when you run out of small stacks you always need to switch to the next stack etc. and not to forget about not being able to use some stuff at all because of the ongoing problem that when you have too much gear in one row you wouldn't be able to even choose it.

Solution: Those places where you can buy loomed gear also would offer a Black Smith Service which would allow you to upgrade the damaged gear upto the loom level available at that place. You then would need to pay a fee % of the original price depending on how many loom level you would like to upgrade it and on discount.

So what you would see afterwards, is that gear will be transported back to repair it and get it battle ready again and not just sell or waist it. Armies will more often just have a clean pool of equipment easily accessible, and to hell with that mess you have to sort through all these things to see if you haven't missed a position and wut not enough shields ...