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Title: What's the best Warband Faction?
Post by: Templar_Skipper on September 30, 2012, 04:53:38 pm
What's the best Warband Faction?
Title: Re: What's the best Warband Faction?
Post by: Zlisch_The_Butcher on September 30, 2012, 05:04:12 pm
Looters are the best.
Title: Re: What's the best Warband Faction?
Post by: Kafein on September 30, 2012, 05:27:01 pm
In native it's vaegir because you can farm those sea raiders and tundra rapists for billions of cash
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Post by: Torben on September 30, 2012, 05:30:28 pm
sarranids and swadians.  just stalk up 100 knights/mamluks and kill just about anyone allways anywhere.  perty boring actually,  you dont have to do jack :P
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Post by: Kafein on September 30, 2012, 05:34:07 pm
sarranids and swadians.  just stalk up 100 knights/mamluks and kill just about anyone allways anywhere.  perty boring actually,  you dont have to do jack :P

This too. Vaegir knights are not excellent.

But an archery stack can be quite good too.
Title: Re: What's the best Warband Faction?
Post by: Torben on September 30, 2012, 06:05:38 pm
This too. Vaegir knights are not excellent.

But an archery stack can be quite good too.

true. though sarranid master archers thingys rock the world quite well,  considering them having such a strong cav and inf force.

i did always love the vaegirnas though . )
Title: Re: What's the best Warband Faction?
Post by: the real god emperor on September 30, 2012, 06:08:39 pm
In native SP, for me its Vaegir, but in native MP, rhodok is the best ( khergit is not allowed usually ) long spears, crushtrough, sharpshooters...
Title: Re: What's the best Warband Faction?
Post by: LordBerenger on September 30, 2012, 08:14:11 pm
Sarranids and Rhodoks.


Vaegirs are just dirty communist inspired faction.

Swadians are just gay idiots who constantly breaks alliances and good relations.

Khergits are weeaboo scum

Nords are racist scum


Rhodoks are badass xbow-ers and spearmen = Ultimate teamwork and Sarranids got epic epic castles and cities as well as badass cav.


Title: Re: What's the best Warband Faction?
Post by: Malaclypse on September 30, 2012, 09:12:19 pm
I usually lean towards Rhodoks, though my army is typically an amalgamation. Vaegir + Sarranid archers, Rhodok Crossbowmen and Spearmen, Swadian and Khergit cavalry, Nord Huscarls.
Title: Re: What's the best Warband Faction?
Post by: Tibe on October 02, 2012, 02:02:28 pm
In native I usually just keep having Swadian Knights. This also reminds me of PoP mod. Were I had like army only made out of Noldor archers. First 15 seconds of the battle and they already shot and killed like 150 troops. Nomatter what army, nomatter against how many, this was always the outcome. Funny as hell. :D
Title: Re: What's the best Warband Faction?
Post by: CrazyCracka420 on October 02, 2012, 04:57:14 pm
I typically try to have a variety.  I typically pick up nord footmen right off the bat, since they are the best infantry, and the most useful for sieges.  Vaegir sharpshooters are the ranged I like to have.  And Sarranid horsemen (mamlukes) are my favorite horsemen.

If I had to only pick one faction however, I'd say it would be the Vaegirs for the most well rounded.  They have archers, pretty heavily armored footmen for the top units, and pretty heavily armed horsemen/knights as well.

An all nord army is great for sieges, but is slow on the map, and gets destroyed versus khergits or an almost all cavalry army. And conversely Khergits fly across the map and rape in open battles, but suck at sieges.
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Post by: Berserkadin on October 02, 2012, 07:28:54 pm
Nords and Rhodoks. With a mix of Sarranid Mamlukes  :twisted:
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Post by: Arthur_ on October 02, 2012, 07:56:50 pm
try army mixture of 50 sarranid master archers and 50 mamlukes and 10 5-10 sarranid guards to guard archers, I havent lost any battle with that, but archers must be on the top of party so u have like 50 archers 10-20 mamlukes and 3-5 guards. Its really OP.
Title: Re: What's the best Warband Faction?
Post by: Taser on October 03, 2012, 10:45:24 pm
I've always loved nords. Their infantry is badass and destroy enemies in sieges and open battles. They do poorly against khergits in open battle by themselves but their throwing does enough damage that I never worried about any other faction. Khergits were annoying to fight true but nord infantry could still hold their own unless the khergits got smart and didn't charge into their lines like they did almost every battle.

When I did warband SP though, I always tried to have at least 10 of each faction's best troops as a sort of honor guard. It was my way of pretending that I showed the people that I was trying to unite not destroy. I always just went on my own and did trade runs until one faction I was willing to war with took a castle or town worth taking then I went to war with them, taking a very undefended and wealthy fief.

And for some reason that fief was almost always Dhirim. The swadians could never hold that place.
Title: Re: What's the best Warband Faction?
Post by: Kafein on October 04, 2012, 11:46:19 am
Dhirim is intended as a quite rich zone that attracts all the factions but that can't be well defended by any of them. Swadians own it at start because swadia has the worst geopolitic situation in warband, having to go to war with all the other factions regularly (but that's also why they have the strongest cav + inf combined forces).
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Post by: Gnjus on October 04, 2012, 01:55:58 pm
What's the best Warband Faction?

Templars. They accept everyone.
Title: Re: What's the best Warband Faction?
Post by: Taser on October 04, 2012, 07:45:12 pm
Dhirim is intended as a quite rich zone that attracts all the factions but that can't be well defended by any of them. Swadians own it at start because swadia has the worst geopolitic situation in warband, having to go to war with all the other factions regularly (but that's also why they have the strongest cav + inf combined forces).

True. Swadia almost always did poorly in my games.

I actually liked having Dhirim as my first fief. It was the fief that seemed closest to being the center of the map. Made sense to me that I would have my capital at the center with a goal of uniting all the factions under my banner.
Title: Re: What's the best Warband Faction?
Post by: Gravoth_iii on October 05, 2012, 12:29:55 pm
Swadians are probably the best, but having an vaegir marksman army is awesome too. I like Rhodoks and Nords aswell..
Title: Re: What's the best Warband Faction?
Post by: isatis on October 05, 2012, 03:05:31 pm
Mercenary and manhunter

my personnal guard was 20 slaver chief... mauling everyone on horse was epic!!

also sword sister are just badass!!

mercenery inf, best for siege

and when you recruit them they are already high level!!

(yes I was a greedy marchant for the first level, then a slave seller when I had more place, then a faction loyal guy who conquier lot of place, and finally a king who have to destroy his old BIG faction.... oh and I always kill khergit first... they suck so bad at siege xD)
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Post by: Joseph Porta on October 06, 2012, 02:22:05 pm
I like the nordic gear and weapons options. Allthough any faction with 2handers as a pick is op. :lol:
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Post by: Chagan_Arslan on October 06, 2012, 03:50:35 pm
Khergits
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Post by: Templar_Skipper on October 07, 2012, 03:41:41 am
For some reason i am draw towards the Rhodoks for unexplainable reasons, i suppose it might just be i like the colour green. I also take a note of capturing Durrin Castle from the Sarranids as in my opinion it is the best fortification in the game due to the fact its on a big hill and armies have to go all the way round the back to scale the walls.
Title: Re: What's the best Warband Faction?
Post by: Germanicus on October 07, 2012, 04:56:28 am
Swadians because of their big similarity to the Germans/Holy Roman Empire (just look at their weapon like the Ahlspieß,Guard and Topfhelmet)

and ofc the Nords with their superior infantry if you combine swadian cav and nord inf you r the man in siege and land battles
Title: Re: What's the best Warband Faction?
Post by: HardRice on October 07, 2012, 05:32:31 am
Rhodoks in sieges. The fucking sergeants and Rhodok snipers are just amazing.

Swadians in field battles, the knight/inf combo was solid.

Khergs are bad, Sarranids are bad, Nords have OK(Best) infantry. Vaegirs are decent.
Title: Re: What's the best Warband Faction?
Post by: Firebrand on October 07, 2012, 05:45:07 am
Native(multiplayer)Warband for me(played only 2h\polearm my old friend):
1   -   Nords
2\3 - Vaegirs\Swads
4   -  Rodoks

Others are shit.

Nords have cheat throwing axes with 4 per slot. You can crush enemies shields with them. GLA is pretty OP!
Vaegir have GLB extreme power with crazy reach.
Swads are great too Great long sword stab is really OP!
Title: Re: What's the best Warband Faction?
Post by: Mala on October 07, 2012, 11:22:43 am
the Zendar liberation  movement