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That stub achievement was brilliant. Writing a stub is not nearly as intimidating as an article, but it really flushes out the wiki if you chase links. I can't bring myself to stub out Antioch or Odriss Rockheart because I know so much more than a stub, but it'll take me forever to find it :| --Msallen

I tend to agree, all things considered, even despite Slitherrr's massive scale gaming of the achievement system. ;) -gm

Gaming, pah. What did you expect with an award like "+1 level"?

Anyway, does anyone know why exclamation points are appearing on the "recent changes" page? They're evidently "unpatrolled edits", but I'm not sure what that means. -Slitherrr

Nevermind, found it here [1]. -Slitherrr

I have some text vomit about elves that starts with "So, a little about elves. Interesting because some of this obviously can't go on the wiki." Maybe a stupid question, but should I put it on the Wiki? I'm digging up those emails and posting them so slith can farm them for achievements ;) --Msallen

Mount & Blade is pretty sweet. I finally branched out from just companions into recruiting some Khanate tribesmen and training them up to a cavalry. Now Sayid is taking time out of trading to beat the crap out of bandits and sell them into slavery! --Msallen

Haha, nice. I thought you'd like it - it's just like Pirates or EVNova! You should do a search for Native Expansion - it's a user mod that increases by a shit ton the number of units, makes it possible to be a rogue king, and has a bunch of other cool tweeks. (Braced Spearmen, etc.) -gm

It does need some better story arcs, but its pretty sweet. I definitely need to work on my army skills. I can't seem to pull off the 'help peasants defend their village' quest even with my 20 men. I think I need to get better issuing orders, which was also pretty critical in EV.

Since I spoiled the game, my current plan is to support the Khanate usurper and lead a rebellion, then turn on him and take over the khanate as an unaligned warlord. That's what Sayid would have done. --Msallen

The problem is that without the Native Expansion, the cost of defending your empire is faaaar more than you can make from your holdings, to say nothing of having to visit every village or castle seperately to collect your tithes. I'm actually awful at giving orders, just like in EV. Instead, I max out all my followers Training skill and just build up the biggest, most elite units possible. 20 men is a pretty paltry sum, actually, that might be part of your problem as well. Man, I really, really love M&B. -gm

Yeah, I just got my first non-companion units on sunday, and I only got to play with them for two hours. Still very new to them.

I was pretty good with orders in Nova... at my peak boredom, I took over every planet in the pirate, human, and auroran planet. At that point, though, I couldn't even take over a single polaris planet because their ships were too good. Or maybe I could take over the small ones. I can't remember.

I only ever finished the Polaris quest line, I think. I tend to start and restart rather than getting crazy conquesty. There are some people on the MeFight forums who have eliminated entire FACTIONS from M&B. Wow.

I hear the game is pretty heavily modded. Do you recommend any besides the native expansion? --Msallen

Probably, but NE is all I use and, honestly, it's really more than enough. Combat is MUCH more lethal, and they've beefed up spearmen with the ability to set vs. a charge. Charging into a set spearmen is an auto-kill for your horse. Additionally, they've added improvements to castles and villages, plus made it so those villages and castles actually pay enough to maintain an army. (The problem I ran into in M&B is somewhere around my second or third castle, the cost of garrisoning them - even at the 1/2 price you get for stationed armies - was far more than I was taking in, leading to me having to spend all my time looting and checking my expansion.) NE also, I think, doubles the amount of value you get for Leadership and Prisoner Management, varies the price you receive from the slaver (better units = more money), and a lot of other clever stuff. It also stretches out leveling a bit : in standard, it is very hard to progress past about level 25 or so, and I think NE starts to grind around 30-35. I'd check it out. My characters, FWIW, all tend to be INT/CHR builds, usually with something like power draw/horse archery 3. My goal is, one day, to own my own city, but I have not managed that yet: they're hard as hell to take.

And don't forget, the multiplayer beta is out! I really want to get back to putting time into this game, but I keep getting distracted by LoL and Dragon Age. >.< -Feantari