Dear Knights Hospitaller,

[Warborn304]

How does it feel to lose 65 tickets of horses and gear to,

Peasants.

Edit:
http://c-rpg.net/index.php?page=battlesparticipated#!?page=battledetail&id=1206

[Zanze]

Guerrilla tactics to the max. If only we had kept doing so we could have drained more tickets and armor. However, you guys and your conventional warfare of shield walls and line tactics...

Still hilarious killing coursers/destriers/rounceys and transitional armor while armed with nothing but broken pitchforks and unwashed linen tunics.

[Lt_Anders]

This was the Hosp only versus Some HoC guy right? 130 vs 178 or something like that?

Btw you should always link battles if you going to trash talk. People who just pass by wish to know what is going on.

[Digglez]

lots of fun
1 dead destrier paid for ALL of the peasant gear

[The_Slim]

Nothing not normal to be honest, if you have a full roster of peasants you will kill some enemies no matter what gear they are in.  Hospitallers have had probably 10 battles just like this but reversed where Hospitaller peasants take out 50-150 fully geared tickets.  It is just how that game works.

Hospitaller peasants Vs. fully geared enemies:

68 killed
http://c-rpg.net/index.php?page=battlesparticipated#!?page=battledetail&id=873

147 killed
http://c-rpg.net/index.php?page=battlesparticipated#!?page=battleroster&id=871

75 killed
http://c-rpg.net/index.php?page=battlesparticipated#!?page=battledetail&id=737

[Lemmy_Winks]

Nothing not normal to be honest, if you have a full roster of peasants you will kill some enemies no matter what gear they are in.  Hospitallers have had probably 10 battles just like this but reversed where Hospitaller peasants take out 50-150 fully geared tickets.  It is just how that game works.

Hospitaller peasant battles:

68 killed
http://c-rpg.net/index.php?page=battlesparticipated#!?page=battledetail&id=873

147 killed
http://c-rpg.net/index.php?page=battlesparticipated#!?page=battleroster&id=871

75 killed
http://c-rpg.net/index.php?page=battlesparticipated#!?page=battledetail&id=737

Ya all you need really is some decent weapons, which you can get from dead enemies dont even need armor. I remember one battle a long time ago, i actually think it was hospitaller vs HOC. It was like 150 vs 150 and we (hospitaller) had literally no weapons and no armor. We managed to punch one guy to death and spaniard got his flachon and started killing other people giving us more weapons.  Soon the other side ran out of armor and we wiped them in teh village and went up and started spawn killing them, unfortuntally we had already lost to many tickets and eventually the last few of us died in their spawn and we lost, but very close still.

[Aztek]

Umm, Congrats for killing a few horses!?

But thank you for letting that small group of men through several enemy armies, the goods "0nly" had on him will feed the starving children and maybe.. possible..  buy some of our men some nice new weapons.

But any way.. good fighting to both sides, Sorry I didn't make it! =)

[Garem]

Fallen pulled the same on Occitan in the Tadsamesh battle with broken low tier equipment. Hell, we had half as many players too. And they played the match perfectly, it's just how that goes - and why it's important to fight EVERY battle like it matters.

Even peasant suppression costs lives and gear, and it should. Hell, look at what happened at Reyvadin.
Wait, that was a real ba-- oh, my bad. Nevermind.

Just kidding guys! It was a great fight. =D

[Turboflex]

well to be fair, it was a hilariously bad map. Huge hill in middle, and another big one on one side so all their cav was basically useless otherwise it prolly woulda been more of a slaughter.

[CrazyCracka420]

Well I went into the battle fully expecting to lose we started with like 20 people (versus the enemy 32) and we ended up with 22 people.  Being down 1/3 of the people in game is a daunting task to overcome no matter what your gear is like.  I was glad we were able to hold out.

Good fight on the peasant side as well, almost able to use having 1/3 more people in game to your advantage.  Wish we could get more mercs signed up for us, guess we'll need to start spamming NA1 more often.

[Garem]

Well I went into the battle fully expecting to lose we started with like 20 people (versus the enemy 32) and we ended up with 22 people.  Being down 1/3 of the people in game is a daunting task to overcome no matter what your gear is like.  I was glad we were able to hold out.

Good fight on the peasant side as well, almost able to use having 1/3 more people in game to your advantage.  Wish we could get more mercs signed up for us, guess we'll need to start spamming NA1 more often.

Yea, this gets really frustrating very quickly. NA side just doesn't have the number of players to fill rosters like EU does, but we have the same player limits.

Instead of shrinking the roster size to fit the community size I'd hope that we can get over the "who mercs for who" mattering as much as it does now. The community isn't that big, and Strategus in particular is a niche game since it's more about politics and economics than battlefields... much like real warfare back in the day.

[CrazyCracka420]

Yea, this gets really frustrating very quickly. NA side just doesn't have the number of players to fill rosters like EU does, but we have the same player limits.

Instead of shrinking the roster size to fit the community size I'd hope that we can get over the "who mercs for who" mattering as much as it does now. The community isn't that big, and Strategus in particular is a niche game since it's more about politics and economics than battlefields... much like real warfare back in the day.

If more people that were casual players in NA1 or NA2 even knew what strategus was or how to sign up for battles I think you'd have more random pubbies signing up.   But for your average player who's not part of a faction, how would they even know what strategus is, or how to even see the list of battles or sign up? 

I think communication could improve greatly from the devs to the players about strategus and teamwork (how to use the battalion's and move flags).  Just a popup when you join any of the servers explaining in one sentence how to use battalions (Press "P" to join a battalion, hold F1, and release to move that battalion's flag.  Strategus.c-rpg.net is the multiplayer version of Warband single player.  From c-rpg.net on your main character, click on battles to see a list of upcoming strategus battles (and to sign up))

[Spanish]

Yeah that was an amazingly fun battle you brought up Lemmy. Ahh good times and it was sad I killed that guy with my fists and then went on a murdering rampage because the offense wasn't aware of the one peasant dangerously armed. After that people grabbed fallen weapons and the battle turned from peasant slaughter to an actual battle were the offense had to regroup and actually use tactics to overwhelm us. And the map may have been bad for horses but that comes with attacking a village most aren't suitable for Cav and we used that to our advantage just like you guys used the houses for an archer platform it was well done. Sadly I have not been in a fun battle like that this strat.

[CrazyCracka420]

Yeah that was an amazingly fun battle you brought up Lemmy. Ahh good times and it was sad I killed that guy with my fists and then went on a murdering rampage because the offense wasn't aware of the one peasant dangerously armed. After that people grabbed fallen weapons and the battle turned from peasant slaughter to an actual battle were the offense had to regroup and actually use tactics to overwhelm us. And the map may have been bad for horses but that comes with attacking a village most aren't suitable for Cav and we used that to our advantage just like you guys used the houses for an archer platform it was well done. Sadly I have not been in a fun battle like that this strat.

The Teutonic (or maybe it was FCC) raid on Slekz castle was epic two nights ago, felt like we were going to be able to hold out for a while there (damn catapults). 

[Tanken]

Yeah Teutonics' raid was great. Wish we had maybe 100 or 200 more troops and it would have been largely more in our favor. Damn raids! Now I know how SWF felt  But nonetheless it was a blast. That castle is awesome to defend.