[Merc] Mercenaries

[Baldr]

true, but doing it without dying is way better

I do pull it off quite often, against 3-4 enemy's; if they are (which they mostly are) kill hungry. It makes the game more interesting since I am no more then OK at manual blocking, boredom and the lack of good team mates makes up for the other parts of my charges (being tk'ed or team hit since I dance allot to keep the shield at the right angle); I am not saying that I do it as a tactical measure all the time; sometimes its just fun to try out my timing skills against multiple foes. Servers are for practice Strategus is the test.

[M_Pully]

Enjoyed playing with you and pully, hopefully get back on later

yep, i'm omw.

Edit: critique on VVarlord,
I'm seeing you shield well but rarely mix up your attacks, this could be improved on, footwork is ok imo, not much feinting or holding of blows. You supported me (and vice versa) well on port assault when i had the spear/shield, this was good and what we'd look for in strat (didn't run away, backpeddle in sticky situations).
atm its a no from me though, but improvement on the killing side of your game would sway me matey. It was fun on ts and that counts too. Oh and i havn't seen you do much manual blocking, if this is important to you or not with shield, helps to surprise if it breaks and pick someone in the head afterwards ;-)
,MP

[Jambi]

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OK, I am going to apply again, felt a bit ignored 10-15 pages back or so.

Baldr and Nanna

1h+S and Archer.

Baldr
Strength   18   
Agility   17   


One Handed   146

Ironflesh   6   
Power Strike   6   
Shield   5   
Athletics   5   
Riding   3   For transportation
Horse Archery   0   
Power Draw   0   
Power Throw   0   
Weapon master *   5   

Nanna
Strength   18   
Agility   18   


Two Handed   51   [2 WPF cost]  (for a little edge on foot)
Archery   148   [9 WPF cost]

Ironflesh   0   
Power Strike   6   (see previous insertion)
Shield   0   
Athletics   0   
Riding   4   
Horse Archery   3   
Power Draw   6   
Power Throw   0   
Weapon master *   6

I am not crap but I am hardly never in the top 3, well I am hoping for a reply this time at leased. =D

*Edit*
I play on server 1, 2, both siege and BT 4 and 6
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*edit2*
I play between (05.05 and 06.00 before work ) 16.00 to 23 on weekdays
maybe 3 hours a day.
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I have spectated Baldr for several rounds, yesterday.
He reminded me a little of Phahz.
Overall good battlefield awareness, especially when it comes too the opponent zerg containment. He knows when too move, and flanks the zerg, while keeping himself busy turtling up against 4-5 enemies.
Good awareness on his teammates too, he helps them out occasionally. And he seems to not realy care about his K/D ratio, but puts teamwork before that.
His sword/board skill needs training in my oppinion.
Would also like too see him tag teaming with one of us, or have an archer backing him up. Too see how he reacts in combat. In relation too his footwork.
He handle's critique well, and is polite for so far.

Anyways, just my oppinion of him soo far. But he needs more spectating, it is too early to start giving him a concrete dicision.

[Jambi]

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I would like to apply to join Mercs. I play a shield and pick character at the moment mostly as a turtle but with my current build i have alittle bit more speed.

My ingame was SG_VVarlord i have just changed to VVarlord.

I have teamspeak and a decent headset with mic so if i am aloud to apply i wouldnt mind being allowed on teamspeak to join in with you guys while your playing.

Would love to join and be able to take part in strategus when it starts back up.

Current Shield build as level 30 4th gen.

Strength   17   
Agility   21

One Handed   156   
Two Handed   1   
Polearm           50   
Archery           1   
Crossbow           1   
Throwing           1

Ironflesh                5   
Power Strike        5   
Shield                7   
Athletics                1   
Riding                0   
Horse Archery        0   
Power Draw        0   
Power Throw        0   
Weapon master    7

I have a 1 : 1 kill/death ratio with me being a turtle im not sure if thats a good thing or bad thing lol

Currently about half way to level 31 and im not sure once iv retired if ill go back to my 12 agil rest in strength build or stick with the extra speed im currently at.

I play alot of hours on this game usually about 3-4 a night on the crpg1 server but have been known to play on the seige servers.

So hopefully i havnt missed anything just ask away if theres anything i have.

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Added current items usage.

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Kettle Helmet
Heraldic Mail With Tabard
Mail Gauntlets
Mail Chausses
Balanced Military Pick
Huscarl's Round Shield
Sniper Xbox
Steel Bolts

Also use Sidesword and lower shields depending on the battles

Havent realy focused my attention towards Warlord yet.
Since Baldr applied earlier them him, i think we should concentrate on Baldr first.

[VVarlord]

yep, i'm omw.

Edit: critique on VVarlord,
I'm seeing you shield well but rarely mix up your attacks, this could be improved on, footwork is ok imo, not much feinting or holding of blows. You supported me (and vice versa) well on port assault when i had the spear/shield, this was good and what we'd look for in strat (didn't run away, backpeddle in sticky situations).
atm its a no from me though, but improvement on the killing side of your game would sway me matey. It was fun on ts and that counts too. Oh and i havn't seen you do much manual blocking, if this is important to you or not with shield, helps to surprise if it breaks and pick someone in the head afterwards ;-)
,MP

@ PullyThanks for the comments i will work on my manual blocking and feinting hopefully improving while playing with you guys, have changed my items to use a war spear which has improved my assists when teaming up, close to retiring so i will be improving my build giving me more athletics but removing ironflesh as muffin put it the increase in hit points just doesnt out way the athletics.

@ Jambi ill stick around teamspeak and generally play with you guys i have no problem waiting a while to be looked at hopefully ill have improved on the pointers by then

[SquishMitten]

This Clan seems to have the highest skilled players and be big on teamwork, so I would like to apply too :3

Ingame name is SG_Kitty

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Strength   18   
Agility   21   

Two Handed   163   

Skills
Available points: 0
Ironflesh   4   
Power Strike   6   
Shield   0   
Athletics   6   
Riding   0   
Horse Archery   0   
Power Draw   0   
Power Throw   0   
Weapon master *   7   

Mainly use German great-sword or longsword

[Burr1ck]

@ PullyThanks for the comments i will work on my manual blocking and feinting hopefully improving while playing with you guys, have changed my items to use a war spear which has improved my assists when teaming up, close to retiring so i will be improving my build giving me more athletics but removing ironflesh as muffin put it the increase in hit points just doesnt out way the athletics.

@ Jambi ill stick around teamspeak and generally play with you guys i have no problem waiting a while to be looked at hopefully ill have improved on the pointers by then

Hi Warlord, your making good progess, nice to see that your active on TS getting to know us more  . At the moment it's a no, however your making very good progress at a fast rate by plaing with us. I like your defensive and observant style, holding back any urges to charge. I see that a defensive player like you to keep the everyone alive is very important asset for the team. As mentioned before by Pully, please do work on feinting your attacks, holding attacks and varying the pace/ speed of fights when you engage with the enemy, you want to be a tough opponent right. So, I suggest that you go onto the duel server to practise attacking techniques and some blocking. Keep the progress up and at this rate of improvement you should convert me to give you a +1 sometime .

[Burr1ck]

This Clan seems to have the highest skilled players and be big on teamwork, so I would like to apply too :3

Ingame name is SG_Kitty

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Strength   18   
Agility   21   

Two Handed   163   

Skills
Available points: 0
Ironflesh   4   
Power Strike   6   
Shield   0   
Athletics   6   
Riding   0   
Horse Archery   0   
Power Draw   0   
Power Throw   0   
Weapon master *   7   

Mainly use German great-sword or longsword

Good luck, keep a watch out for us Mercs on the servers, tell em of your presence when you join  . Join the teampeak public channel sometime (address in first post) when there're Mercs on.

[Kingtrisp]

I am here to apply to one of the best clans in crpg! And would like to join this clan if possible.

Ingame name SG_KingConan

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Strength   32 
Agility   3   

Two Handed   80
Throwing 95

Skills
Ironflesh   10
Power Strike   10   
Shield   0   
Athletics  0
Riding   0   
Horse Archery   0   
Power Draw   0   
Power Throw   10
Weapon master *   1

I play on alot of servers such as cprg 1,2,4,6 i do like playing battle but i prefer to play siege as there is a objective to it compared to battle were the only objective is to destroy everyone.
I also would like to add i do not mind making a different build to fit in more with what u want.

[Blueberry Muffin]

VVarlord is improving and but need to be more imaginative with his attacks - get that pinned as well as some manual blocks and u have my approval.

Baldr is a good teamplayer - he will suck people in to mindlessly and pointlessly battering his shield until they are dispatched.
He is however lacking vastly lacking in 1v1 skills - i know his build is not centred around that but it still important. I would like some more aggression from him and he should perhaps go on a duel server and learn to duel. Also - you can cover up those suicide charges with whatever bullshit you want but they are still suicide charges - I (and other mercs) would be greatly more inclined to give you our support if you cut them out.

i havent seen the other recruits because you all jumped on us at once and we are drowning in u damn applicants   

[karasu]

Oh hello there mercs! Since it seems you're still recruiting, I'm willing to give it a shot.

I'm a friendly player from Portugal (GMT +0:00), and I mostly play in the battle server EU1, spending lately more than 5 hours a day playing it, most of the times teamplaying alongside with my RL buddies, the bastard admin from hell IRC//:Unreal and the bunny hopper Guardion (just some extra info).
Teamspeak always on.
You can always find me on the IRC channel #mount&blade-crpg with the nickname karasu.

Played alongside (as in, same team, respecting tactics(whenever possible)) with some of the following mercs: Phazh, Jambi, Mustikki, Tempest, Varyag, Lizard_man and Blueberry Muffin.

The character name is Koldborn, which this gen 2nd have been Polearm specc'd with the next build/gear:

Age: 45 [30]
Generation: 2
Gold: 136'190
Experience: 8,167,500
                           +568,343
Level up at: 8,735,843
Kills: 810
Death: 605

    * Strength: 20
    * Agility: 18
    * Hit points: 57

    * Converted: 6
    * Ironflesh: 1
    * Power Strike: 6
    * Shield: 0
    * Athletics: 6
    * Riding: 6
    * Horse Archery: 0
    * Power Draw: 0
    * Power Throw: 0
    * Weapon Master: 6

    * One Handed: 1
    * Two Handed: 1
    * Polearm: 156
    * Archery: 1
    * Crossbow: 1
    * Throwing: 1

 - Gear: Splinted Leather Greaves over Mail, Mail Gauntlets, Nordic Helmet and Banded Armor. Some maps that require more movement options, I change to Druzhina Mail Shirt, Light Leather Boots, Leather Gloves.

 - Weapons:  Balanced Heavy Lance, Glaive, Long Maul, Sniper Crossbow, Steel Bolts.

 - Mount: Sarranid Horse.

My first gen was spent as a Archer/2hander, which helped to gather enough gold and ranged side experience in cRPG needed to achieve better results as a soldier.

As it can be noticeable, I'll will be in gen 3 soon enough, speccing finally a pure 2 hander build, which is the gamestyle I like the most. Feinting with polearms feels a bit empty to me.

The build I've been thinking of using would be something like this:

    * Strength: 21
    * Agility: 18
    * Hit points: 70

    * Converted: 6
    * Ironflesh: 7
    * Power Strike: 7
    * Shield: 0
    * Athletics: 6
    * Riding: 0
    * Horse Archery: 0
    * Power Draw: 0
    * Power Throw: 0
    * Weapon Master: 6

    * One Handed: 1
    * Two Handed: 157
    * Polearm: 1
    * Archery: 1
    * Crossbow: 1
    * Throwing: 1

With this build the main weapons of choice will be Danish Greatsword and Longsword to add some dynamic in 1vs1 situations, while still making use of the Sniper Crossbow whenever needed.

With this said, all I can do is thank you for the time spent reading this wall of text, and that I'm looking forward for a feedback. Either way, see you on the Battlefield.   

[M_Pully]

Koldborn gets a +1 from me for his cavalry play, the rest not really seen.

[Baldr]

I must start with saying:

I had a blast the short time I played with you guys and you made me strive to better myself in both teamplay and mechanics, but I must regrettably retract my application to join your ranks. Why you might ask as my wife asked over my shoulder while I wrote the previous part, sadly there is no easy answer. I would have loved to join you all in strategus fighting for gold and glory but alas the timing was bad on my part and so I add an apology for wasting your time.

Thank you for the experience and I hope that you will allow me to reapply at a later date.

Respectfully,
Baldr.

[Olwen]

no prob, feel free to re-apply when you feel like you're doing better

[karasu]

Apply update: Currently level 23 in Gen 3.