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Despite her kind words, I could tell she wasn't taking me seriously. I wanted to offer her my sword and my loyalty, but now was not the time. I needed to prove my skills and make a name for myself, so that when I entered Reimu's service I would be granted land and a title. Then I could help her unify Gensokyo and end this period of turmoil.

I would start by fulfilling smaller tasks as a freelance mercenary. As it happens, Reimu had some need for a skilled warrior who could move about without arousing suspicion.

The town was poor and desolate. It had been looted by rampaging tengu early in the war, and had never really recovered.

I soon found my quarry. She was trying to blend in with the locals, but I knew better the moment I saw her. She had the face of a killer.

I tried to convince her to surrender herself to the proper authorities, but she refused to see reason.

The duel was fiercer than expected. The fairy fought well, and stubbornly stood her ground even after sustaining what were surely lethal injuries, until she finally collapsed. The victory felt hollow, but I reassured myself that such bloodshed was necessary in order to achieve lasting peace.

if it pleases you, do post the mod link

>>20676549
It's Touhou: Origins. I'll see if I can figure out some place to upload it later. I'm not sure where to download it from these days, and I've made some modifications/improvements to it anyway. The mod never left an alpha state, and it's a bit of a mess. With my additions, it's still a mess, but a more enjoyable one.

these vanilla M&B lines in modded games always crack me up

>>20677229
Somehow they make it better than the original.

>>20677229
I considered messing with the dialogue, but so far it has felt like too much work for too little gain.

>>20677205
That model is going to give me nightmares.

>>20687665
Remilia is the one who gives me nightmares, because her face doesn't quite fit on right.

>>20690558
bearded lady!

Here's a link to my mildly edited version of the mod for anyone who is interested:

https://mega.nz/#!PHZjkYaR!JXjV0w8QEwPv9tpiOnVymjc4KVrHLcDdicl2WMvvwno

>>20694562
>mildly edited
What's different from the regular version?

>>20695021
Tons of things that still had default Mount and Blade names were renamed, as were a bunch of things that had largely incomprehensible or obviously incorrect names. A few units were added or rebalanced slightly, mostly to reduce the degree by which the SDM is better than everyone. There were several items in the game that were obviously intended for certain characters/lords that had never actually been given to them, which was rectified. I gave a few more lords custom equipment to make them more interesting, and tried to make fewer of them carbon copies of the default Mount and Blade lords in terms of skills/stats and weaponry. Troop compositions were adjusted a bit so that AI forces make use of some units that were previously ignored for some reason.

That's all I remember offhand. Nothing too huge, I mostly just wanted for things to have comprehensible names rather than "hmx_boli" or whatever.

>>20695352
Oh wow, you made these all those modifications yourself? You're a good /jp/sie. I'll have to try it out. I played the original mod a while back but there was so much nonsensical stuff (like the town/castle names that were just random I think) that I ended up losing interest within an hour or so.

bannerlord when?

>>20696095
Oh yeah, I also replaced pretty much all the mercenaries, because they were still the default Warband mercenaries and they looked hilariously out of place with all the touhou characters running around.

I will note that the mod does still have some significant problems. The biggest one is that a few maps/environments are still unfinished: you pretty much have to auto-resolve when assaulting two particular castles because it's impossible for your troops to reach the enemy troops. It's also impossible to complete the Prison Break quest in certain locations. There's also tons of balance issues and a lot of general weirdness, like how you equip a lot of headgear by putting it onto your boot slot.

I do still like it, though, even disregarding the touhou characters. There's something endearing about the gonzo kitchen-sink nature of it all, and a lot of the environments are pretty imaginative. It's hard to find other mods where you can assail a flying castle, battle against nekoromancers while they summon up undead on the battlefield, or fight through a fortified riverbank where underwater kappa barrage your troops with advanced weaponry.

I'm in the mood to ramble about something, so I'll give an overview of some things.


General Tips:

-Unlike in vanilla Warband, the patrols sent out by each faction are hostile to everything not belonging to their parent factions. This means that they can and will attack you just for wandering into their territory. Most of them are quite powerful due to their troop numbers/quality and/or some nasty gimmicks, and they will absolutely wipe the floor with a starting character, so watch out for them. On the plus side, destroying them doesn't harm relations with their parent faction, and they can be a good way to get renown and money once you can handle them.

-It's common for patrols and bandits to amass a ton of prisoners, sometimes including high-tier units or even super-units that the player cannot ordinarily recruit. Taking advantage of this should be a high priority later in the game once you have garrisons, especially because you don't want an enemy lord to suddenly gain hundreds of good troops.

-Lords are generally more powerful than in vanilla Warband. This is doubly true of the faction leaders, some of whom are effectively one girl armies. Some of the strongest lords have unique equipment with nasty properties, and you can generally expect to be one-shotted by any successful attack from people like Flandre and Utsuho. If you don't have your forces spread out when facing Remilia, she can and will kill your entire army with Gungnir.

-It's not uncommon to run into enemies with high armor values. Even some bandit troops, while not otherwise threatening, have enough armor that a starting character might have trouble dealing much damage to them (for that matter, don't be surprised if your introduction to the mod is having your face smashed in by a Rumia-clone.) As such, blunt and piercing weapons are very valuable, especially early on when you don't have much power attack/draw/throw. Military Picks and Military Hammers are both very good and affordable weapons.

-There are a lot of really powerful throwing weapons available, enough so that it's entirely viable to specialize in them. I think this is the only mod I've played where they are capable of being something more than a supplement to your primary weapon. Bows, crossbows, and guns are also all very effective, as you can carry a ton of ammo and shields are uncommon.

-Be careful of troop upkeep costs. It's relatively easy to recruit high-level cavalrymen even early in the game, but they will put a serious dent in your finances if you don't know what you're doing.

Each faction has a basic troop line recruited from villages, and an elite troop line recruited from castles. Certain lords, patrols, and locations also employ unique troops that cannot be recruited through ordinary means, and these unique troops tend to be pretty exceptional. Always try to rescue them if you see them being held prisoner by bandits or a faction patrol.

Hakurei Shrine
Mikos are the basic troop line, and they can be upgraded into either archers or melee infantry. The melee infantry forces are all equipped with polearms and throwing weapons. They're fragile, but they perform well in open-field battles, and the highest tier ones often use very good blunt weapons. The archers are arguably the best in the game, at least if you're looking purely at their archery skill: they're fragile and they suck at melee combat, but they will annihilate enemies at range.

The elite troop line consists of very strong and very expensive cavalry. They have two upgrade paths, but they're almost identical. Both of them carry lances, heavy weapons, and throwing weapons.

The Hakurei Shrine is a very large and strong faction. However, they share a border with practically everyone, and they tend to get worn down by constant wars on multiple fronts. Reimu herself is arguably the most dangerous lord in the game: her honor guard is composed of nigh-unstoppable killing machines, she fields a large army, and her personal combat power is very high.

SDM
The SDM has a very diverse basic troop line. Their war-meidos can be upgraded into heavy infantry wielding two-handed weapons, heavy infantry using sword-and-board, crossbowmen, spear-chuckers, or mounted archers. The shields used by SDM troops are absurdly overpowered, so any troops with them are pretty much impervious to ranged weapons. The two heavy infantry options are both pretty devastating, and the spear-chuckers tend to perform really well in sieges. The only real weakness of the SDM troop line is that it can take an awful long time to fully upgrade them.

The SDM's elite troop consists of a fairly standard knight unit.

Remilia and Flandre both field ridiculously strong knight units, and Remilia in particular is arguably the strongest lord in the game in terms of personal combat ability. These super-powered knights are included in one of the SDM's patrol squads, so watch out for that. They will mop the floor with most other elite units, and will inflict heavy casualties even on most late-game armies.

The SDM's territories are very tightly clustered, giving them a huge logistical advantage. They also have a lot of strong lords and very good troops of nearly every type, which pretty easily makes them the strongest faction in the game overall. SDM favoritism bugs me, so I make sure to always smash them.

The Underworld
The Underworld's basic troops are oni. They can be upgraded into heavy infantry, crossbowmen, or cavalry. The heavy infantry are extremely tough, and carry either axes and shields or two-handed weapons that can crush through blocks like tetsubo. Some of them also carry throwing axes, and they have enough skill and power-throw to inflict serious damage with them. They perform extremely well in sieges.

The crossbowmen carry siege crossbows, so they have long range and hit hard, but suffer from a very long reload time. They are also a whole lot tougher in melee than most ranged units, which makes them very hard to deal with when assaulting Underworld castles: when cornered, they will pull out tetsubo and smash your face in with one hit if you aren't careful. The cavalry carry lances and tetsubo.

The Underworld's elite troop line starts off as weak mounted skirmishers, which can then be upgraded into kasha or hell ravens. Kasha are extremely capable mounted skirmishers, which are also skilled and hardy enough to perform well in melee combat. They're incredibly versatile troops that can perform well in nearly any role. Hell ravens are lancers that also carry guns and swords: their guns have a really long reload time, but they will probably kill anything they hit. Typically, the hell ravens will fire off one volley and then charge into melee. Hell ravens usually perform better overall in open-field battles, whereas kasha are better at sieges. Note that it's sometimes worthwhile to have Kasha dismount during a field battle if you just want to station them on top of a hill and use them as archers.

Tsuchigumo can also be recruited from the dark blowhole. These troops have incredibly fast and maneuvarable "mounts," and are equipped with rapid-firing "guns" and tetsubo. They don't have especially high stats considering their cost, but their equipment is extremely good, and they can perform well in multiple roles. Since they can only be recruited from one location, it's hard to get very many of them.

Though otherwise an extremely powerful faction, the Underworld has a serious logistics problem. The real power of the Underworld is way down in the depths, far away from everything. As such, they have trouble gathering their forces to lay siege to their enemies or defending their territories near the surface, and they usually lose a lot of ground to the SDM.

Eientei
Eientei's basic troops are earth rabbits, which can be upgraded into either melee infantry or archers. The melee infantry carry shields, one-handed blunt weapons, and throwing daggers, while the archers have longbows and blunt weapons. None of them are especially powerful, but they're serviceable and practical troops. They're also good at taking prisoners, which is a great way to gain income. Significantly superior numbers of earth rabbit infantry can overwhelm almost anything, since their blunt weapons are good against high-armor targets and will occasionally knock foes down.

The elite troops are lunar rabbits, equipped with muskets. They have extremely long range and high accuracy, and under the right conditions they can devastate foes wielding shorter-ranged weapons like bows. They can also inflict a surprising amount of damage in melee; those bayonettes hurt.

Kaguya inexplicably appears to wield a large aluminum baseball bat in combat., which amuses me every time I see it.

Youkai Mountain
The Youkai Mountain's tengu can be upgraded into melee infantry, archers, gunners, or cavalry. The melee infantry carry a wide variety of possible equipment, but tend to favor polearms and two-handed swords. The archers and gunners are both fairly typical: the archers tend to fare better at short ranges due to their higher rate of fire, while the gunners do better at long range. The cavalry are quite good, because their weapon can be couched like a lance, but it's also a serviceable melee weapon once they get stuck-in.

The Youkai Mountain's elite troops are priestesses, who can be upgraded into melee fighters, archers, or mounted archers. The melee fighters are initially terrible, but once fully upgraded they become very tough melee units that favor two-handed weapons. The archers are basically a slightly weaker version of the Hakurei Shrine's archers. The horse-archers are a bit less skilled than the foot-archers, but they have a horse, so they can run around and be generally obnoxious as horse-archers are wont to be.

Youkai Mountain also has a lot of strong specialty troops that can't be recruited through normal means. If you find them as prisoners, recruiting them can be very worthwhile.

The Netherworld
The spirits of the Netherworld use samurai-ish equipment, and can be upgraded into either melee fighters, archers, or cavalry. Most of them are pretty fragile due to their lack of shields, weak armor, and low ironflesh. The highest-tier melee fighters do have extremely high armor values, though, enough so to make them nigh-invulnerable to a lot of attacks. The AI lords tend to field a ton of the archers, and their high firing speed can make them hard to deal with. The cavalry are pretty standard lancers.

The elite troop line consists of...more ghostly samurai. These can be upgraded into gunners or cavalry. The cavalry are largely identical to the non-elite cavalry, just with much higher stats and a bit better equipment. The gunners have very high stats and are well-armored compared to most of the alternatives, but their guns are somewhat inferior to those used by Eientei's lunar rabbits. They're still possibly the toughest recruitable gunners in the game, though.

The Netherworld's shikigami patrols look weak for an elite faction patrol, but they have a very nasty trick. Troops killed by them are immediately ressurected as Netherworld troops. This means that if an arrow flies over your shoulder and kills someone wielding a two-handed sword right behind you, you have a problem. The kitsune are also amongst the best archers in the game, so it's hard to avoid taking some casualties.

The Netherworld's forces look weak on paper, but in practice they perform farily well. The sturdy elites and rank 5 swordsmen tend to draw a lot of fire away from the more fragile troops, who can then inflict a lot of damage with bows and two-handed swords. Many of the troops also have extremely good helmets even if the rest of their armor is lacking, which seems to make a big difference during siege assaults. The Netherworld's territory is also very defensible, and they have several capable lords. The Nehterworld often ends up quickly carving through Youkai Mountain.

Myouren Temple
Myouren's warrior-monks start off wielding polearms, and can optionally be upgraded into gunners. The gunners can be decent, mostly because it only takes one upgrade for the rookies to become gunners, and they're very cheap troops, so it's an easy way to amass an entire army of musketeers if you're so inclined. The pole-arm wielding warrior-monks are flat-out inferior to the Hakurei Shrine's mikos: they're both less versatile and less powerful, despite wielding a pretty good weapon.

The temple's elite troops consist of...more monks wielding the same polearms. They can be upgraded into cavalrymen, but they're pretty awful either way by elite troop standards. The Hakurei Shrine's mikos outperform them even without being fully upgraded.

So, basically, Myouren Temple sucks. The AI doesn't make very heavy use of their gunners and everything else they have is awful at siege warfare, so it's really easy to eliminate the Myourenji from the game (though Byakuren and Shou are very good at fighting open-field battles.) I've been meaning to make some of their lord's unique specialty troops recruitable through normal means: some of them are powerful and fun to use without being overwhelming.

Senkai
Senkai's daoshi can be upgraded as melee infantry or crossbowmen. The melee infantry are sturdy thanks to their relatively heavy armor and large shields, and their swords will tear through lightly-armored opponents, but they perform poorly against high-armor foes. The crossbowmen are armed with repeating crossbows, which are extremely good weapons, and they're also decent at melee combat.

Senkai's elites are onmyoji. They're a bit fragile for elites, and they can't be upgraded, but they have the equipment and skills to fight well either in melee or at range. Additionally, if you have onmyoji in your army, then they will occasionally supplement your forces with jiangshi (I forget the precise mechanics behind this, but you do need to have room in your army to recruit more troops.) Jiangshi start off weak, but when upgraded they become very durable "cavalry," though their offensive power remains pretty low.

Senkai's lords lack any unique specialty troops, which hurts them quite a bit, and Miko is the weakest of the faction leaders. They still tend to be harder to fight against than Myouren Temple, though, because Senkai's basic troops kick the ever-living shit out of those of Myourenji.

Mercenaries
In general, mercenaries are substantially weaker than similar fully-upgraded faction troops, particularly those of the major factions (Hakurei Shrine, SDM, Underworld, Youkai Mountain, and the Netherworld.) They're also pretty expensive for what they are. However, all of them are a lot stronger and better equipped than new recruits. Even lower-tier mercenaries often have pretty good armor and weapons, so they're very useful when you need troops in a hurry.

Thanks for the infodump anon. Is it possible to dress up as other 2hus/change your face, or are you stuck with the weird OC character look?

>>20704949
There's a lot of equipment that can change your face, and it's possible to make yourself look like any character in the game. Some of it is sold in shops, and some can be randomly obtained when defeating that character (or troops that look like that character.) If you join a faction, you can also ask allied lords to give you copies of their equipment if they like you enough (I forget the exact relation requirement.) I seem to recall it being possible to get copies of your companions' equipment as well, but I'm having trouble remembering how to do that at the moment. You might have to make them lords or something.

Equipment you get from friendly lords can be accessed through the camp menu (take an action->check your cosplay.) There are also a few pieces of equipment in there that can sometimes help with clipping issues.

Speaking of clipping issues, a lot of headgear doesn't work well with hair, so I usually start bald despite how weird that looks until you get a "helmet."

CREATIVE thread

Simply amazing
/jp/ still can produce content!

>>20704893
I take back what I said about oni crossbowmen suffering from a long reload time. I forgot just how much their astronomical crossbow skill cuts that down once they get fully upgraded; it takes them under two seconds to be ready to fire again. I suppose it does make some sense that oni would have no problem cocking siege crossbows in record time.

>>20676450
Keep going OP, this thread is wonderful.

Thank you for your hard work OP

>>20716060
Dumb Cirno.

>>20676450
You still there OP?
Bumping for interest.

>>20716060
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Cirno technically a faction leader as well? I recalled seeing her in the leaderhead lineup in a demo for the mod, but without a flag.

>>20713822
Shouldn't Oni be able to in essence crush an arbitrary amount of human/fairy units into paste if they attempt to close in? It feels like they would be a hard counter to human anythings.

>>20722428
She's recruitable as a companion, along with Akyuu, Elly, Shinki, Yumeko, Maribel, Renko, Sariel, Gengetsu, Tenshi, Iku, Kurumi, SinGyoku, and Yumemi. Companions currently lack custom dialogue, though, so currently Cirno will talk about how she needs to redeem herself after having killed her brother rather than anything appropriate. I've considered editing the companion dialogue files a few times, but it would be a bit of work, and I have no idea what to do with some of them. What exactly are "characters" like Sariel and SinGyoku supposed to say?

I should also alter the cost of hiring companions at some point. Some of them are fine, but a monster like Tenshi probably shouldn't join for just 300 denars.

>>20722795
This won't do. Bring me the code OP, fairy/outsider liberation starts now! The little people have been threaded upon long enough by long uncaring oriental brutes and man-eating savages! And likewise, a Human Village is needed to pin all these crimes against civilization upon!

>>20723367
If you can be arsed to you can use decompiler and create new faction feel free
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ucsmvc35ypgz5r8/AAAgGaMWKrD15iH60Mbr8Yyua?dl=0
But it probably won't be worth it
Creating fairy mercenaries probably wouldn't be difficult and only requires Morgh's

>>20724424
If there isn't a Human Village, who does Keine belong to?

>>20724424
I already replaced one of the generic mercs with fairies. Adding a new faction is a bit overly ambitious of a project, though, at least for me. I could probably create a new troop tree using Morgh's and some texture editing, but ceating new territories and castle/town scenes is another issue entirely, as is actually coding much of anything. I would rather try to fix some of the broken things in the game first, regardless.

I actually wasn't aware that decompiler existed. That would open up a lot of possibilities if I was more comfortable with the module system.

>>20724430
The human village falls under the purview of the Hakurei Shrine, and Keine is one of their lords. I have no idea why Akyuu is a companion while Keine and Kosuzu are lords.

>>20725114
Kosuzu has youkai powers!

Is the MC always an OC toohoo or can you be a normal knight man or skeletal samurai. In fact someone should add races to this and see how meme it could be.

>>20726652
I am pretty sure race list isn't fully filled so you can easily add loli race, assuming it isn't in there already
With some luck it will even work with equipment items

>>20726652
There are very few options available during character creation, but your appearance is determined almost entirely by your equipment. It can completely change your facial structure, hair, build, etc. Avoiding a feminine appearance is difficult, but possible. You can make yourself into a headless samurai or sinsack or something and cruise around the battlefield on a mini-UFO if so desired.

>>20726652
>In fact someone should add races to this and see how meme it could be.
Please do not.

How do UFOs work? Are they just really wonky mounts, or are they self-contained units?

>>20731322
They're mounts with incredible acceleration, max speed, and maneuverability. They're mostly used by Myouren Temple's super-units.

The mod has a number of unorthodox mounts. Mimi-chan very occasionally appears in shops, and is fast enough to allow you to cross the entire battlefield in seconds (though I think it also requires max or near-max ride skill.) Marisa has her broom, kasha have carts, and Suika inexplicably rides her sake gourd into battle.

>>20731588
Do armored vehicles (Rika) exist? How about artillery?

>>20731588
Do they have any ICBMs?

>>20731811
Nope, no vehicles or cannons or anything. Remilia's version of Gungnir hits like an artillery strike, though.

>>20734333
Just Mimi-chan.

The salaryman thanks you all for your hard work.

I might try to overhaul the banner textures next. The current ones are a mess: a lot of them are misaligned, there's no logic behind which lords receive which banners, there's a ton of duplicates, a bunch of custom banners are in a file the game doesn't actually use, etc. I also just don't think many of them look very good.

It might not be a huge issue, but it should be one I have the skillset to address, at least.

>>20734495
The engine does support it though? IIRC there's a WWI mod for M&B.

>>20704908
>Troops killed by them are immediately ressurected as Netherworld troops
I have never seen this before in any m&b mod and now I wanna play this.

>>20738954
Given that Remilia's gungnir attack does very much resemble an artillery strike or mortar bombardment, I strongly suspect that it was stolen from a mod that has such things. Touhou Origins in many ways is a Frankenstein's monster cobbled together from pieces of other mods. I haven't toyed around with many mods that have a more modern setting than the default one, though, so it isn't something I've personally encountered.

So, are the strongest firearms muskets, or do the moon rabbits have those weird laser megaphones?

I see now why the banner textures were so awful. This mod was made back before a patch improved how the game handles banners, which means that the banners in the texture file are all slightly different sizes, and it's hard to predict whether they'll be displayed horizontal, vertical, v-cut, square, or whatever in-game. I should still be able to fix everything, though, and I've made 40 or so new banners already.

>>20745274
The Lunar Rabbits have Napoleonic War-era muskets, which are superior to the Sengoku-era Japanese muskets that most other gunners wield. This includes carbines that can be used while mounted.

However, the best firearm in the game is actually a kappa laser-gun. While not otherwise especially remarkable, it's a semi-automatic weapon in a world of single-shot muskets, so it's incredibly effective so long as you have high enough skill to offset the gun's mediocre accuracy. Amusingly, the ammo for the weapon is freely available and interchangeable with other firearms, so you can shoot lasers out of a musket if so desired. The gun itself is very difficult to acquire, though.

There are also several weapons that function as firearms despite not really being guns, like mini-hakkero and Utsuho's control rod.

This sounds a lot like Dominions.

>>20746184
Hunting wild yukkuri, I see?

*bong*

At a glance, it looks like all banners now display properly, and all vassal lords now receive banners that are in some way appropriate to them rather than random ones. The faction leader/kingdom banners are still a little screwed up, as no fewer than 3 leaders insist on using Byakuren's banner. This is probably due to a coding issue so simple that even I can fix it.

I'm still feeling motivated, so next I'll probably go back to revising the stats and equipment of some of the lords who are still stuck with generic stuff, and maybe look into writing up some short companion dialogue that actually makes sense. I've had enough of Akyuu telling me about the "house of Rolf." I might also try to continue the silly story I opened this thread with.

>>20754763
Good work anon. I haven't played M&B in a long time but this made me pick it up again. All the nonsense is kinda amusing but also terrible so I'm looking forward to your changes.

>>20754763
I'm assuming the second from left on the bottom row is Minoriko's banner. Looks aesthetic as hell. The center far right that is Momiji's I guess, brings to mind the Canadian national hockey team somehow.

>>20754763
Can you fix the item names?

>>20754857
Glad to hear someone is giving the mod a shot. Feel free to chime in if there's anything in particular you'd like to see changed.

Mount and Blade is kind of a cyclic thing for me. I won't touch it for ages, and then suddenly it will draw my attention again and start consuming all my free time.

>>20755107
I'll look in to it. It seemed like too much work when I first considered it, but I've had some ideas since then that could lead to a more efficient workflow. I might not be able to do much with certain particularly puzzling pieces of equipment (i.e. items that don't even have a 3D model) but I can probably make most of the item names less bizarre and engrish-y.

>>20754763
Why is Sanae's flag so shitty? Even the bottom of the snake looks like it has too much left over from whatever it was cut from.

>>20755254
That was one of the ones originally in the mod that I kept around to save time/effort (along with Aya's and Suwako's banners next to it.) I hadn't actually looked at it all that closely before; it is indeed a bit lacking.

It would be pretty easy to replace, but I don't really have any good ideas for what to do with it at the moment.

>>20754763
Is that two-toned circle supposed to be Cirno?

>>20757074
That one's for Unzan. I did add in a Cirno-themed one, but she's such a baka that she'll probably use Byakuren's banner if she's made into a lord.

>>20758812
I think it'd look better if you flipped it so the light part is facing downward.

anyone know how to use the weapons special attack?

Which banner is Byakuren's?

I don't think I'll bother trying to rename all the body part/cosplay items beyond fixing some character names. There's a billion of them, and I don't think a name change will cause them to make any more sense. I'll focus on the actual armor and weapons.

I catalogued everything that's in the various mesh/texture files, which should make this and future tasks easier.

>>20761487
You mean something like this?

>>20761770
I've been meaning to spend more time experimenting at some point to figure that out, because I currently have no idea. I'm also not sure if the "witch item" actually does anything: my companions didn't appear to be activating any sort of ability when I gave it to them, and that item appears to have been added late in development, so it may not have been fully implemented.

>>20761925
This one. Currently, it gets used by Byakuren, Miko, and Kaguya. The first companion that you promote to lord will then take yet another copy of it as their personal banner, because it's just that stylish I guess.

I haven't attempted it just yet, but this is probably something I can fix.

>>20764022
>miko uses byakuren's banner
unacceptable
make some generic yinyang banner or something
also a moon banner or something for kags

>>20763994
Yep, for the Cirno flag, like it appears on the shields of the knights in Civ IV.

>>20764058
I already have unique banners for both of them, they just aren't getting used in-game due to a bug. I think I know what the issue is, and if I'm right it should be relatively simple to fix.

I can probably also prevent companions who are promoted to lord from taking copies of the existing lords' banners, but assigning them unique banners would be a little trickier due to how little experience I have messing with the code/module system.

>>20758812
Who is middle right?

>>20764178
You mean this?

>>20766966
Half the ones on that page aren't assigned to any character, they're just custom banners I shoved in for fun that the player can choose. I briefly considered using something similar to that design for Flandre, but decided against it.

I finished going through the list of 1600 items and renaming things, which was about as fun as it likely sounds. I probably made a few typos and mistakes somewhere in there, and I chose not to mess with all the body part/cosplay items. There are also a few things that I couldn't figure out well enough to name, like the "tmqiqiang," which so far as I can tell is an invisible polearm.

Overall, though, it should be a substantial improvement. I'll probably upload an updated version after I revise the lords some more and fix the kingdom leader banner bug.

>>20676479
>>20676485
>>20676491
>>20676493
Why is Luna in Sunny's dress?

>>20723367
Where can I find this monstrosity? I downloaded a mod called Touhou Epic but it doesn't seem to be the same.

>>20772174
An anon was working on converting Touhou Epic to be compatible with Caveman to Cosmos, and that was one of the screenshots provided. Last word was years ago, so not too much information.

Obviously her crime was murdering Sunny for her dress.

>>20775053
Poor Star
Now she's forced into role of broody veteran who lost everything

I finished revising the NPC lords. My aims there were to make sure all the unique equipment created for the characters is actually used in-game, and to ensure the lords all have distinct equipment loadouts/skill settings rather than boring faction templates. I also fixed the banner bug, so Miko and Kaguya's banners are now actually used.

I'll probably do a little more testing and editing for a couple days, then upload a new version. After that, I might try to add custom dialogue to the companions and the game intro, which will probably be a little time-consuming.

>>20778627
It's hard to even visualize Star being broody.

>>20778627
>>20779654
>It's hard to even visualize Star being broody.
She will be once she realizes she's been playing with the corpses of her former friends.

I love how tenshi bitches about being an old woman.

>>20779993
So this is how Tenshi dies
What faction does Heaven correspond to

>>20780000
none tenshi is a companion.

>>20780025
Oh. What happens to 2hus when the ded? Can you loot their clothing and drag their bodies back to your citadel for all to see?

The map/scene editor and module system are both easier to work with than I anticipated. I can probably fix the broken/unfinished castle maps eventually.

>>20724424
This thing is incredibly handy, thanks for bringing it to my attention.

>>20782821
A true 2hu never dies! They just get injured and have to rest for a while. It's like Advance Wars, where everything is just fun and games for the commanding officers while the faceless grunt troops die in droves.

I can't believe somebody is actually working on something. You're doing god's work OP.

Oh help. I've lost hours to this kusomod and I don't even know exactly why. Everything that's 'wrong' with it is charming and everything that's still default is funny by contrast.
Also there's something oddly satisfying about trashing a horde of spooky ghosts using an army of napoleonic moonrabbits and mecha.

>>20786106
I'm in the same boat. The mod has all sorts of obvious flaws, but I always find myself enjoying it anyway. Sometimes I'm even enjoying it because of the flaws, not in spite of them.

As an example, one Netherworld castle in particular is pretty poorly set up. The AI pathing can't figure out how to assault it, so during an attack your army is likely to try ascending a mountain at a speed of roughly one millimeter per minute. Even if you have them follow you, your troops will inevitably get stuck on objects somewhere, thus making your forces mostly worthless. However, the defending troops are also really poorly arranged. If you're good enough, you can travel all around the map to the back door, infiltrate the castle while shooting a handful of archers, and then slaughter the entire garrison single-handedly. Because of the way the map is set up, the archers' line of sight is mostly blocked by terrain and the mob of melee defenders, so it's easy to bait a few samurai away at a time for an "honorable duel." It's a silly situation brought about by poor design, but going on a solo mission and hacking through ~150 undead samurai was also a lot of fun.

I also never fail to be amused when watching a squad of lancers crash into a horde of giant catfish, or when some angry fairies tell me they're going to drink from my skull.

Kyouko isn't as cute when she tries to hit me with an axe.

Alright, here's a new version with new banners, revised NPC lords, renamed items, and some other stuff. It won't break existing save games, but some changes may require a new game in order to take effect. At minimum, I know the faction leader banners will continue to be screwed up in an old savegame, and your own banner will probably be altered if you have one.

https://mega.nz/#!vDRQkYaQ!aRjuZ1gA-q1-X6Xh8-n220ltNjaLb7cbF6zAS9gN7oE

I haven't had time to do much playtesting, so let me know if I somehow broke anything.

Next, I'll probably focus on companion dialogue and the intro dialogue. I also have some interest in revamping the pretenders, since I find supporting them entertaining in Native and some other mods, but I'm not sure what to do with most of them. The Hakurei pretender already looks ilke Seija, which I could work with, and I have an idea for what I could do with the SDM one, but that still leaves the Netherworld, Myouren Temple, Youkai Mountain, and the Underworld (the other factions don't have a pretender.) The others being OC's would be kind of lame, but creating assets for touhou characters who aren't already in the game would be more work than I want to put into that aspect of the mod (and even then I'm not sure which ones would make any sense.) That doesn't leave many options.

Regardless, it'll probably be a bit before I make much more meaningful progress.

>>20786567
what happens if you fall?

>>20790548
You get knocked unconscious and have to leave the scene
I can't think of a mod that changes how getting knocked out in cities work

>>20790447
Pardon for asking, but how defined can you get with the dialog? Is it possible to give separate response sets for generic people based on faction and race: eg, making it so that fairies and humans have separate dialog for confrontation, or separate factions have different manners of speaking for patrols.

>>20790724
Bear in mind that I'm very new at this.
There's a lot I don't know, and anything more complex than replacing existing dialogue strings will take me some effort. With that said: adding/revising dialogue for specific groups encountered on the map is relatively simple. So, you could have different dialogue for each specific type of faction patrol, each type of bandit group, etc. You can even give them voice acting or sound effects if you're so inclined.

I'm less sure about how to go about, say, giving different dialogue to generic villagers from different factions. I know it's doable, but I'm not sure if there's a way to achieve it that wouldn't be a lot of work. Trying to do anything based specifically on race would probably be foolhardy, as the mod does not use the gender/race slots in a consistent fashion.

Yuyuko must be stopped.

you should make moddb, nexus or something so this won't disappear if thread dies.

Is economy in this mod broken? Pretty much nothing gives money, it's really hard to keep an army going.

>>20791213
>as the mod does not use the gender/race slots in a consistent fashion
What do you mean? Are races haphazardly slapped over the existing M&B ethnicity lineup?

>>20792634
I don't recall it being much different in that regard from other mods (though it has been a while since I played anything else other than Gekokujo); money tends to be pretty tight early on. It is relatively easy to get a bunch of soldiers who are much higher level than anything in Native, though, and upkeep costs are based primarily on level. It is definitely something you need to pay some attention to. Recruiting some elites and then taking a leisurely two-week long trip to the bottom of the Underworld will put a dent in your finances.

However, the abundance of high-level troops also means that you can make a ton of money by selling prisoners, which is where I usually get most of my income in the early and mid-game. If you employ primarily troops that favor blunt weapons, like oni or earth rabbits, then it's not hard to take a full stack of prisoners in a battle, which you can then sell for a bunch of denars. Even bandits can give a decent amount of money, so long as they aren't just looters, whereas high-tier faction troops might sell for 500+ denars each. So long as the ransom brokers don't prove hard to find, this can add up real quick.

Selling all the loot you get in battle helps a bit too, especially if you have a companion with some points in Trade, and a mercenary contract can provide at least some stable income. Later on, fiefs and businesses can take care of your upkeep costs, allowing you to slowly amass a fortune.

You might also just not try to maintain a full-sized warband right from the get-go, and/or dismiss some troops if you aren't going to be fighting for a while for some reason. Smaller parties are cheaper to maintain and they move faster on the world map, allowing you to get more done before your next weekly upkeep payment. They're also better at avoiding those nasty faction patrols.

>>20793453
For the most part, appearance and thus "race" are determined solely by equipment in this mod. Pretty much everything uses either the default female race/gender slot, or a third race slot that is shared by all sorts of things.

>>20792634
>>20794710
Also, once you do reach the point where you can start investing in businesses and such, it's worth noting that the Netherworld is a good place to set up shop so long as you aren't hostile to them. Yukari starts off in possession of the most prosperous city in the game, and it will usually stay that way. It's rare for the Netherworld's economy to take much damage from looting or bandits.

>>20794710
Don't forget you can built an outpost to stash troops and prisoners in. They actually cost no upkeep at all in there. Even after taking the human settlement and its 4(!) villages I just filled the garrison with Miko and kept my top dollar troops in my nearby outpost.

>>20796649
>>20794710
Oh, and I might add: make sure you put it where you'd like it to stay, because if you try to demolish one, you also get demolished. Like, literally deleted off the map.

>>20796660
Yeah, there's a bit of weirdness involved with the outpost. Most of its upgrades either do nothing or are broken in some way, and as you discovered dismantling it is a poor idea. It is plenty useful as a place to store troops, though, especially if you don't have a castle yet.

>Itauma renamed to Scarlet Steed
Dude, c'mon.

I had a suspicion that something had gone screwy somewhere, but I didn't notice exactly what it was until just now. For some reason, the Firearms skill of a bunch of troops was set to 0. I'm not entirely sure how or why that happened, but at least it's easy to correct.

Here's a quick fix for now. Just drop this in the module folder and overwrite the old one.

https://mega.nz/#!HGQVQK7K!yMaWEp8GO1wlaDg-y0cvVbOQy9rNNrkTf6yGNH07-sg


>>20797641
Yeah, I didn't catch that reference and I was a bit low on ideas/creativity. I'm still not really sure what would be an appropriate name for it, though.

I also accidentally labeled a cape as a pair of sandals because I wasn't paying enough attention.

>>20797791
hey I still appreciate the effort mate.

>>20798716
looks like a sunflower field of bodies

I hope no one else decides to join the anti-Reimu coalition. Having plenty of youkai scum to punish is nice, but I can't really fight on five fronts at once.

Surely the tengu won't be able to take their town back this time.

>>20802730

I love how ridiculous some of the units are.

After pondering why Cirno had goofy spaghetti-limbs, I discovered that a few race/skin slots got shuffled around at some point. So here's a new fix, same deal as last time: https://mega.nz/#!yeBBRS7S!AacAPkqLdkDwIFzDPfgQqWp7C3o817b-gviMSfQenG8

On the plus side, I think I figured out why that file got a little screwed up, so it shouldn't happen again.

>>20803912
Yeah, there's plenty of silly over-the-top soldiers, weapons, and mounts to go around. Trying to withstand a massive wave of elite mini-UFO riders when battling Byakuren and Shou is always amusing.

>>20804375
Speaking of grafics: is the water normalmap supposed to be that of cattle? Or everyone's hands being either six inches above or below their wrrists?

>>20804798
People's hands being in the wrong places is one of the issues that should be addressed by that last fix, at least partially (though it might require a new game to fix things for "permanent" entities like lords and companions.) There's always going to be some weirdness there due to both the way the skins are designed and the kitchen-sink nature of all the items in the mod, but troops having the wrong skins assigned does make things worse.

The water definitely should not look like cows, and it does not look like cows on my end, either in the world map or in scenes. A quick google search suggests that it's actually a problem with Warband itself, and not specific to this mod. The most commonly recommended fix appears to be pasting the TexturesHD folder into the Texture folder, and then deleting TexturesHD. I would advise making backups before attempting this, just in case.

>>20804981
I'll also note that the last fix has no impact on the player character, so the mismatch you see there when equipping gloves or something can be considered "normal."

This stuff's great. Keep it up, brave anon!

>>20778627
Or maybe this was all just a part of her scheme from the very beginning.

Poor Rinnosuke. Remilia didn't actually give him a fief, so he can't replenish his troops. Thus, every time he pokes his head outside a fortess, he immediately gets smashed by a Hakurei or Underworld lord. Such is the fate of a traitor.

>>20809344
I'm more worried about what happened to his face. Do all males in this mod look like Phineas?

>>20809430
Unsurprisingly, there aren't a whole lot of males around. Offhand, I can think of Rinnosuke, Unzan, and Youki. Youki wears a kabuto and mempo at all times, so who knows what his face looks like.

The models also look a bit better at higher graphics settings. I have a lot of things set low in order to help maximize battle size and framerate.

>>20809603
What about the random villagers?

By the gods, I've always wanted a Total War Touhou game, but a MnB Touhou might be the best thing after.

Can't wait to see where this'll go.

Maidens and Ransom Brokers all look kinda spooky.

>>20810547
I've been meaning to do something with the ransom brokers at some point. It's nice that they're easily distinguishable, but it is a bit jarring that about half of them lack any limbs.

>>20810654
RIP Rumia

I keep getting bodied by lord armies. Especially the SDM. Chaos Knight spam ontop of a lot of their lords being crazy powerful is actually really hard to deal with. Any tips?

>>20810737
Be a 1/4 damage bitch and lasergun their horses out from under them from astride your cruise missile.

>>20810872
Where do I even get the laser guns and the strong meme ranged weapons?

>>20810907
Trash some mecha roaming Youkai Mountain.
Best gun and shield in the game.
Shield is so fucking massive you can barely see with it on though. Also laser bullets are +3 damage.

>>20810737
There's not really a simple solution to the SDM problem; I consider them to be the strongest faction in the game. Their forces don't have any severe deficiency that you can exploit with a specialized army, and Remi and Flan are amongst the strongest lords.

I generally don't consider it worthwhile to engage Remi or Flan in open-field battles unless they've already been significantly weakened. They can both field an unholy number of those obnoxious super-powered knights, and they have a lot of strong heavy infantry to back them up with. It's much better to crush them during castle assaults. The knights are far less threatening on foot, and the SDM's archers are nothing special. You'll still need a really strong force of heavy infantry, though. Fielding archers against the SDM is generally a poor idea: anything less absurd than a mass of mecha will be unable to deal much damage before the SDM's well-shielded heavy infantry reach the front. A whole bunch of fully-upgraded oni infantry in a castle will give the SDM a bad time, because oni infantry do not give a shit about shields. You do still need to be careful of Remi, though, since she's basically armed with a rocket launcher.

While Remi and Flan are recovering or imprisoned, it's much easier to launch an offensive against the SDM. Some of their other lords are still tough, but they don't field anyhing on par with Scarlet Knights or Chaos Knights.

>>20812780
If you've gained control of your own kingdom, it's also worthwhile to try getting Flan to switch sides. I forget exactly which, but has one of the negative lord personality types, and as the game drags on it becomes increasingly likely that she'll get pissed off at Remilia and the other SDM lords. If she builds up enough of a negative relation score and gets involved in enough feuds, it might not take much convincing to get her to join you.

>>20812817
>Warband mod where actually taking in lords with bad personalities isn't terrible idea
Holy shit

>>20812817
Flan's a naughty girl!

>>20810872

>>20809713
There aren't many of them around, and they just use the default Mount and Blade models.

This was an extremely silly battle. The village being raided was really small, and Tenshi basically split the map in two with the Sword of Hisou's stupid earthquake power. The farmers were all trapped on Flan's side, and got slaughtered. The handful of archers present on each side then had a great time shooting all the melee fighters who couldn't figure out how to circumvent the giant pile of rubble. I eventually won, but with heavy casualties.

I typically confiscate the Sword of Hisou prior to castle assaults, because Tenshi csn't be trusted not to clog the siege ramps/ladders with boulders.

How do you guys not get completely confused in the clusterfuck that is tournaments?

>>20815473
Tournaments vary an awful lot in this mod depending on the location. Some are pretty standard slugfests, others are long arenas dominated by lancers, and some are...unique. There's one where the primary challenge is avoiding falling to your death, a battle between lancers inside a giant hotspring where no one can build up speed, and a battle inside a confusing giant cavern where many of the contestants inevitably get lost somewhere, among others.

If you're having trouble due to bizarre tournament environments, I think I recall Myouren Temple and Youkai Mountain having comparatively straightforward and sensible ones.

>>20815505
Nice Sunrise pose.

>>20814378
Holy shit

>>20812780
another solution, get some scarlet/chaos knights of your own.

>>20816186
The upkeep must be pretty wild, how do you even recruit those?

>>20816186
What the hell is that 4 legged stick thing on the left?

>>20816190
find weakened luna knights patrols.
my full siege army of 125 men costs about 15K a week.
>>20816201
Yamame Kurodani

>>20816186
Yeah, that will certainly do it, so long as you can afford them. I've also brought Remi down with full mecha armies before. The amount of firepower 100+ of them can bring to bear is pretty silly, especially during castle assaults.

Late-game, I usually have a giant stockpile of soldiers in a castle and/or the outpost that I use to customize my force to deal with the current situation.

>>20816201
Tsuchigumo have very interesting "mounts."

>>20810654
That's not how you use sealing tags, silly miko!

>>20820664
I don't know, Rumia looks pretty sealed to me.

>>20814378
This is wonderful.

>>20815311
Eww, they need a low-poly animu face makeover

>>20825053
So they can look like >>20809613?

I had been assuming that the companions were using the default likes and dislikes, but it turns out this is not the case. Unlike in native and most mods, there are some one-sided likes and dislikes set amongst the companions, which is interesting. I haven't yet decided whether or not I'll modify this setup, but as things stand Cirno and Iku are particularly disliked, while Renko and Shinki are particularly well-liked amongst the companions.

>>20825512
Is it possible to modify castle/tavern/siege spawn locations? The scenes are usually alright but the spawn locations are god awful.

I'd like to get my hands on whoever thought the mile-long, cover-less map for Magic Library was a good idea. This isn't a siege, it's Yokai Normandy.

That being said, there's something immensely satisfying about having a limitless army of disposable Yoshikas. My castles are overflowing with Jiang-shi at the moment. Seiga was onto something.

>>20825675
Yes, that should be within my capabilities, though it's probably not something I'll get around to examining especially soon. Listing any specific problems you've encountered on that front would be helpful, as I may not necessarily feel like analyzing every single scene in the mod for those sorts of flaws.

It is pretty obnoxious how some fights in villages start off with both forces practically stacked on top of each other in tight little blobs, or how troops occasionally spawn in impossible-to-reach locations in a few castles scenes.

>>20825720
It's a bit simplistic, but I actually kind of like that scene (which is good, because it's used for more than one location.) Marching through the giant corridor of death while getting shot from every imaginable angle is pretty brutal, but it's made up for by how poor the setup is for the defenders once you do reach the front. There's no ladders or anything; you can march a whole mob of troops right up that wide staircase.

And yeah, the daoist forces can be pretty effective. It's easy to mount an extended campaign and garrison all your holdings when every battle gives you free troops. Jiangshi upgrade awfully quickly too, and are relatively tough once upgraded.

>>20825222
Yeah

>>20825829
Hakurei Shrine, for a start. Besiegers get stuck when trying to get upstairs.

>>20825829
In Moriya Shrine if you go to the arena you spawn on a pillar, and the tournament master is ontop of that pillar.
Literally ANYTHING about the Great Mausoleum castle
Most of the SDM taverns are gigantic hallways and have people spawning in corners far away from you.

Thanks for the info. I put a ton of time into playing this mod a long time ago, so while I've probably encountered nearly every scene in it, there's a lot I don't remember too precisely.

>>20827841
I'd completely forgotten about the Moriya Shrine arena one, since I don't go to arenas very often. That is pretty amusing.

The SDM taverns are a frequent irritation to me as well, so I'll add them to the list I'm putting together.

I seem to recall the Great Mausoleum castle exterior being alright, though it has been a while since I fought a battle there. While I understand your reaction to the interior, I'm a bit hesitant to do anything to it. It's a unique environment, and it is actually possible to reach most if not all locations of importance with some careful platforming. I kind of like the idea that the hermits' secret dojo/hideout isn't a place that ordinary people can just stroll into. Plus, it's not really a location you should need to visit very often; castle interiors don't provide many functions.

>>20827255
Yeah, I've encountered that one before. I won't be sure how best to address the issue until I open it up in the editor, but it should at least be easier than fixing 100% broken castle scenes like the one at Misty Lake.

Got a crash when attempting to join a tournament at the Nexus of Boundaries.

There seems to be a lot of tournaments and feasting in general, which might be a sign faction rulers have crappy relationships with their vassal lords. This might lead to issues later on.

So far as I can tell, the companion morality types and their effects are not well documented anywhere, so I'll probably leave those alone and try to work with what's in place. I've written up dialogue for a few companions now, and I have ideas for what to do with all the others aside from Shinki and Sariel. I know that this mod features a Gensokyo where the Prismriver sisters are vassal lords of Komeiji Satori, who is herself a mighty queen aiming to unify the land under her banner, and as such I probably should not be too concerned about canon. It's still a bit hard to come up with reasons for gods and archangels to join some random mercenary company, though.

>>20831345
I occasionally get crashes when I quickly switch from one scene to another (for example, if I go to the tavern, see that a ransom broker isn't there, and then immediately go to the castle instead.)

I imagine that the map structure, with all its clustered territories and chokepoints, leads to lords getting into more fights and getting defeated more often than in most mods, especially since all those faction patrols like to dogpile into battles against weakened lords. Losing battles is the primary way vassals lose relation, so its not surprising that the faction leaders struggle to maintain cohesion. It's like how King Harlaus in native is known for holding constant feasts, because Swadia almost always gets invaded by two or three other factions right off the bat.

>>20831591
Why is Shinki not the leader of some Makai faction?

>>20831941
I wonder many things about character affiliations. Why are the Prismrivers in the Underworld fighting alongside oni? Why are Wakasagihime and Yuuka loyal to Remilia? Why is Rinnosuke a lord in human territories but not Akyuu? Why is Kagerou a part of Eientei? Why does Lily Black exist?

I've decided against trying to overhaul that sort of thing for the moment, though. The basic premise of the mod is silly enough that it's hard to say that changing up the affiliations would really cause it to make much more sense. I actually wouldn't mind having another faction around to take up some conspicuous swathes of empty space on the map, but adding one would be quite a project.

>>20832152
Well some of those make sort of sense. Wakasagihime lives in the lake near the mansion and Kagerou lives in the bamboo forest where Eientei is.

>>20831591
>Shinki
She tried visiting but connection to Makai collapsed and she can't perform ritual to go back with all this warfare around
>Sariel
She just wants to bring all of these heathens light of the Lord but for some strange reason the locals aren't appreciative about her preachings and giving out tickets to afterlife

>>20832152
There have been talks about giving Cirno a faction as the fairy liberation front to give SDM something to snack on in between blobbing. Does anyone have a map of all the existing territories on the map?

>>20833776
I might be able to work with those ideas.

>>20833966
My IP range seems to be blocked from uploading images right now for some reason, but there's a big empty patch of land around Genbu Ravine and the Nameless Hill that I think would work well as the central territory of a minor faction. There's a lot of room to work with, and it's not a particularly remote location.

There's also tons of space all along the outskirts of the map, especially near Eientei and the Netherworld. If a theoretical fairy faction was both extremely tiny and wanted to duke it out with the SDM to liberate Cirno's homeland, there is at least a small sliver near the lake that isn't occupied. That location looks like a death sentence for a tiny faction, though.

Defenders of Clock Tower can spawn in inaccessible locations.

>>20834203
Are those Kedama?

>>20835788
Yeah, they're one of the "bandit" groups.

>>20837666
Not to mention a bitch and a half when trying to aim at them.

>>20834167
>nameless hill
Medi-chan will rise up to punish mankind!

I'm really bad at this. Any general tips for playing Mount and Blade?

>>20838988
Enterprises are really useful
Don't start your own faction without tons of RtR
Marriage is useful
Right click to block

>>20838988
It really depends on what exactly you're struggling with, though I guess I can attempt to give some general tips.

Ideally, you should focus on personal skills and leader skills with your character. You can hire companions to cover party skills you need. It may not sound like a significant bonus, but path-finding in particular is really handy.

In the very early game, you'll probably want to spend a bit of time crushing bandits. You should be able to handle them even with a small band of fresh recruits. This will get you renown, money (from selling loot and prisoners) and quite possibly some better equipment. Watch out for faction patrols, as they will completely steamroll a band of rank 1 troops.

Early on, you should probably avoid spending your money on anything but the necessities: food, and paying/upgrading your troops. Maybe buy a cheap shield if you need one, or hire a useful companion.

Once you're a bit stronger and have a better handle on things, becoming a mercenary for one of the factions isn't a bad idea. The income isn't great, but it does still help offset your rising upkeep costs, and it gives you good opportunities to gain more renown, get better equipment by defeating enemy lords, and to build relation with the lords of a faction.

In combat, make sure to actually give orders to your units. Having an army of archers charge directly into the enemy tends to be sub-optimal, as does having your cavalry hit the enemy line two minutes before the rest of your forces arrive. Making good use of the terrain can have a huge impact on a battle.

>>20838022
Yeah, they're kind of annoying to fight despite how weak they are. The Namazu and Yurei are even worse in that regard.

>>20838022
>>20839482
Aiming at the centre of the "face" seems to yield some results. No idea about Namazu, I just let my troops handle them most of the time.

For some reason I really like sieges

>>20840204
Can you loot the pantsu of fallen foes?

The more powerful lords are incredibly handy to have around during siege battles. I saw Utsuho blitz directly into the enemy's defensive line way ahead of everyone while shooting constantly, then get completely surrounded. Fifteen minutes later, she was still standing and helping to mop up the survivors. She wasn't even at full health when the battle started.

heh

I keep asking for reinforcements to protect my lands; trouble is they're so far away Kaguya always starts a feast halfway there, causing all my allies to turn around. I've been fighting alone against all of Yukarin's 700+ forces over the same four holdings for hours now.

Stupid NEET princess.

At some point my companions ended up with 200% HP. What's up with that?

>>20844425
Right now, my allies are almost too eager to help me. Anytime my holdings are besieged, Marisa charges into the fray and engages the enemy, even though she's usually outnumbered at least 3-1. She always has a tiny army because she gets into fights constantly.

>>20845841
I believe that companions and lords receive an HP multiplier when battle starts, which is part of why lords can absorb so many hits before going down. So, if a companion goes into battle with 70% HP, it becomes 140% for the battle, and then goes back to 70% shortly after it ends.

>>20846147
Marisa's such a bro. Be sure to bail her out every now and then, okay?

Look at all my friends, NOW TO FUCK EM!

>>20846315
What did Koakuma ever do to you?

>>20676450
Question! what version of M&B is required? unless i skipped the post that says it?

>>20846468
I'm using Warband on steam and its working fine, though I have gotten a couple weird model issues occasionally.

>>20846468
Any version of Warband that isn't completely ancient should be fine.

>>20846219
I would feel bad if I just watched her get massacred, so I always sally out and join the battle even if I don't think I can win.

>>20839009
>>20839477
Hey. Person who played Mountainblade like 10(? it's been a long ass time) years ago. Does this mod still have the thing where some lords don't like other lords? Also, is the best place to get RtR from tourneys?

>>20846899
You get RtR from your faction getting peace deals and sending companions out

>>20846939
This comes from after you've decided to make your own faction, yes?

>>20846899
Lords still have the usual personality types, and some of those personality types conflict with each other, resulting in feuds. Some of the more bad-tempered lords will get into feuds with pretty much anyone.

Tournaments can be a good source of money and renown, but not Right to Rule. Telling your companions that you intend to be king and sending them out on tasks to support your cause is the fastest way to gain RtR, though that's a one-time thing with each of them. You also gain RtR when your faction makes treaties.

>>20846952
It also works when you are lord
There's also sending letters to other rulers but that may be Diplomacy feature and if you need to do it you already fucked up

>>20846959
>>20846972
Alright, thanks. Also, sorry for this question since it's tech related... I downloaded the latest complete mod that was posted in the thread, but I'm getting errors saying the get_object function can't find the skeletons for a few models? I don't suppose you'd know about that as well.

>>20847085
Scratch that. I was dropping them into the main folder instead of the module folder, thinking they needed to overwrite. Don't mind me fumbling around.

>>20847085
Did you actually put the mod in the correct folder?
Protip: If you overwrote anything it was the wrong folder
Also, are you using Warband or original game?

>>20847119
Warband. I forgot how modding-accessible this game is and that you can just drop it into a folder and load it from the menu.

>>20847123
It has nothing to do with any problems you're having getting the mod running (and it sounds like you resolved that anyway,) but I do recommended grabbing this file before starting a game if you didn't already:
>>20804375

I'm just about done with companion dialogue. There aren't really that many lines for each of them, but between all 16 of them it adds up.

>>20850172
How customization is dialog? Can you add additional trees and subjects, and base them on situationals (e.g. asking a character about their opinion on a certain settlement if you happen to be present.) I might be interested in lending a hand if that's the case.

>>20850172
How customization-friendly is dialog? Can you add additional trees and subjects, and base them on situationals (e.g. asking a character about their opinion on a certain settlement if you happen to be present.) I might be interested in lending a hand if that's the case.

How do you get chaos knights?

>>20851404
Beat them up, imprison them, then add insult to injury by recruiting them. If you're lucky, you might even rescue a few who have been taken as prisoners by enemies.

>>20851106
I appreciate the offer, but I'm just about finished with this. All I have left is a smattering of lines based on who each character likes/dislikes, and everything related to Sariel. I'm largely limiting myself to replacing existing dialogue strings for the moment, because that takes a lot less effort.

That said, in case you feel like expanding on things or replacing some of my weaker writing attempts at some point: it's possible to add new conversation topics to each companion that can be selected when talking to them, and those can lead to branching conversations and/or be based on conditionals. This isn't something I've toyed around with much yet, so I don't have the clearest picture of what all conditionals are possible or how much work that sort of thing would be to add in general. I'm kind of learning how all this works as I go along. There are quite a few things that I can at least make a good guess at how to execute based on the list of operations, but having the appearance of a coversation topic be based on map proximity to something is not one of them.

>>20852505
Noted. Should I wait until you've got a stable "next" version put together before I start adding in my own machinations?

>>20853198
That's probably not a bad idea. It should help ensure we're both starting on the same page with things, and it will likely only be a few days before I release a new version anyway, so long as I don't somehow break something.

>>20677229
>going through the game
>feast at Hakurei shrine
>gang is all here
>3 fairies, Rinnosuke, Reimu, Marisa, Kasen, Lord Castor of Veluca

>custom hair that goes on the feet armor
why
at the very least if its gonna be there couldn't feet be added to the model

>>20856327
I really do need to figure out what to do with the pretenders at some point. I might try to come up with something before moving on to scene editing.

>>20856438
But then it wouldn't work with the feet that are attached to the chest armor it was designed to be used with!

I have no idea why the equipment was designed that way. It seems like even the original mod designers found it confusing, given how some characters are randomly missing bodyparts. Speaking of which, I should fix how some of the ransom brokers look. I've played the mod so much that their missing legs and warped hands have almost started feeling natural.

You may not like it, but this is peak performance.

>>20856501
Makes them easier to find. Just look for the naked lady with a raccoon head.

Met my doppelganger in the Palanquin Ship's courtyard. I asked her about myself and she lectured me on why lord Kastor of Veluca isn't the true ruler of the Rhodoks. There was also an option to swear fealty to myself.

>>20856877
I haven't seen it myself, but I've heard of people encountering that bug in other mods. I'm not sure anyone knows what causes it.

>>20856877
Don't listen to her! You speak only lies!

>>20856327

>>20856604
The hero Gensokyo deserves.

>>20856622
They are distinctive, yes. That's actually part of the reason that I haven't already replaced them; I would want to be sure the replacement still stands out. That, and it's hard to guess which combinations of items will result in something that doesn't look terrible.

The Tournaments in the Scarlet Manor suck hard, the AI doesn't know what to do with a horse and lance.

In general, every time a Tournament gives me a lance or bow I know that the match is going to suck.

I was just defeated by a stray cart. Defying all logic, it went from resting peacefully to careening uphill at high speed, and dealt 20 damage when it ran me over.

>>20859211
I'm not a big fan of those arenas either. Whenever I'm given a lance, I usually just try to kill someone wielding a sword really quickly, then use their weapon to easily defeat everyone who rode into the walls like a moron. A lot of tournaments in Native have the same issue, because the AI just cannot handle riding horses in an enclosed space. I might look into editing the tournament equipment loadouts at some point.

>>20859294
please remove all lance and bow sets from the tournament equipment
not even the javelins suck as much as those

>>20859299
>He can't defeat everyone with any of the sets
But yeah, lance only tourneys are pretty shit

>>20859299
Javelins are great; Reimu dealt 150 damage to me with one in a tournament a while back. They hit hard when thrown, and when needed you can switch to melee mode and slowly smack people unconscious with them.

Lances don't tend to be much fun to use in arena environments, though, and bows can be kind of annoying too. If I haven't been investing in power draw, then I usually set the bow aside and just shank people with the knife until I can grab something better.

>>20859392
>>20859299
I like the lances far more than javelins.
On certain maps it's guaranteed round wins.
But fuck when an AI decides to stay near you for a 0 damage pokefest.

>>20859211
Myouren Temple runs the best tournaments I've fought in so far. Just a big melee brawl.

Encountered some invisible walls in the Magic Library's arena.

By the way, some quality descriptors shouldn't get applied to certain items. Faces don't get rusty, and shinigami boats probably don't get swaybacked. As far as I recall it could be easily changed with the item editor.

>>20859299
I use bows unless I have to resort to melee. My archery is at around 230~ right now. I hate the thrown weapons more than anything, but lances are cancer if you end up not having a horse.

>>20860321
I like the Youkai Mountain ones too. They have ranged weapons, but lack squads of lancers plowing into walls and getting stuck.

>>20862698
>Encountered some invisible walls in the Magic Library's arena.
I'll make a note of it. I don't tend to spend a lot of time in arenas, so I don't think I've encountered that before.

>By the way, some quality descriptors shouldn't get applied to certain items. Faces don't get rusty, and shinigami boats probably don't get swaybacked. As far as I recall it could be easily changed with the item editor.
Yeah, descriptors are easy to change, I just hadn't paid any attention to them thus far. I do like the mental image of Komachi struggling with a stubborn shinigami boat, though.

>>20863040
Nearly all of my tournament losses come from starting with a lance and having my horse get nailed with a few javelins before I can grab another weapon. It's a shame you can't break the lance and use the remaining stub as a club.

>>20863085
The arena master in moriya shrine is inaccessible if you want to talk to them.

>>20863126
Unsure if this'll help you or not since it took me a bit to get used to it, but you can attack with the lance normally if you build up some speed and not rely on the couched attack. Likewise, you can still kill people on horses if they're coming at you. I used to think it was impossible to land a proper hit with the lance unless you couched it.

>>20863693
I often find that the best way to use the lance. It still inflicts fairly heavy damage, and re-couching is time consuming.

>>20864037
It's good to mix on a crowded battlefield if your enemy is too weak to properly fight back.
>couch into a strong foe
>slip in a jab during cooldown on another passing enemy
>recouch and swing back in
Of course, you could always just take a two hander and just whap your way through crowds if there are no pikemen.

Also, in terms of bugs: when you start in Hakurei (sarranid) the youkai encounter starting map is buggy as fuck. Real bad scenery placement. For that matter, is it possible to change the new game text to at least properly describe the kingdom you are going to?

>talk to reimu
>she looks at my weapon and tells me to find marisa
>marisa is two feet away

>>20864699
>she tells me to go to a village
>go there, suddenly become marisa in a different part of the area
>npc called 'alluring woman' has text from the tutorial merchant's brother
>can't leave with tab, have to save and quit then reload to be back to the village interaction screen
I think there's a leftover vanilla thing or broken quest.

>>20864728
>try again, wait a bit
>suddenly I can fly
>talk to women, get told to go to another place
>at there I get warped into marisa memory(?) again and can fly again
this is a solid what

>>20864738
>>20864728
>>20864699
Who are you quoting?

>>20864567
>Also, in terms of bugs: when you start in Hakurei (sarranid) the youkai encounter starting map is buggy as fuck. Real bad scenery placement.
Noted, I've encountered that too. It occurs to me that I have no idea which scenes are used for the intro, but I can probably figure it out.

>is it possible to change the new game text to at least properly describe the kingdom you are going to?
Yes, and I intend to do that soon.

>>20864699
>>20864728
>>20864738
A question: you get a weapon from completing the tutorial quest with the merchant, the blessed shide. Did you have that equipped? I found something that looks very interesting in the code, I'm going to see if I can reproduce this.

>>20864918
I am now master sparking fairies while flying around as Marisa. I had no idea this was in the game.

>>20864947
Its kinda bizarre, isn't it.
Did you manage to end the event at the castle? I killed all the enemy fairies and nothing happened.

>>20864989
The first castle? Yes. However, I'm having trouble with the attack on Clock Tower. Flandre kicks the crap out of me and I'm not sure how I'm supposed to avoid her attacks.

If anyone else wants to join in on the fun, start the questline by talking to Reimu at the Hakurei Shrine while you have the blessed shide equipped. It appears to consist of a series of flashbacks where you play as Marisa and witness the start of the war. Note that it's pretty buggy, so you might want to be careful with your save file in case something screwy happens.

I recommend relying on Master Spark and Earthlight Ray, and never using Deep Ecological Bomb because sometimes it permanently freezes you in place. I don't see any way to complete the mission at Clock Tower, but I might be missing something. Glancing at the code, it looks like that might be the end of the questline. I'll investigate that more later.

Why is everyone a huge pussy?
Even elite soldiers slip out of rank and back off when ordered to charge, and every now and then both armies just flee.

>>20864728
I went to the village, saw this and couldn't find a way to progress further, so I gave up. I'll try again with the shide.

>>20865232
Fighting with real weapons is scary!

I'm not sure why the AI seems so flighty in this mod. The faction patrols in particular often start fleeing as soon as they take one or two casualties from archers or gunfire. I might look into it at some point.

What is the best Calvary that can be recruited easily? I keep losing them against Rampaging Youkai.

>>20865077
I don't play M&B, but reading this thread it sounds like it was a really ambitious mod. It's a shame it seems like the official developers abandoned it.

>>20868170
I wouldn't say there is a definitive "best" from amongst those units. It depends on what you're going up against, what other troops you're using, how high of an upkeep cost you're willing to put up with, and how long of a training/upgrade time is acceptable. I'll note that the Rampaging Youkai bands are made up exclusively of level 45 troops, so taking casualties against them shouldn't be too surprising. They have high stats and can hit very hard.

Your best easily-acquired cavalry choice against those enemies in particular is likely to be kasha. Nothing in the Rampaging Youkai bands carries a shield, and kasha are very good archers. If you really want something you can have charge into the enemy instead, then youkai hunters are probably your best bet. Youkai hunters have really high stats all-around, and usually carry a good variety of weapons.

If you need something cheaper, tengu cavalry and tsuchigumo are both very effective despite not being as high level.

>>20868356
Given that the core of my unit is Mecha 3, I'm willing to pay a lot.
I want stuff that would be useful against everything all around, because I want to build up to the point where I can engage luna knights eventually.
Also, how does the whole being a mercenary/joining a faction stuff work?

>>20868264
Yeah, it is a shame. The mesh/texture files are full of unused assets, and it looks like they had some pretty unique features planned.

>>20868383
If you're looking for multi-role cavalry, kasha are pretty hard to beat. They're primarily archers, but they also carry swords and are highly proficient with them. They do really well both in field battles and sieges, though they'll be a bit outclassed by more specialized units.
Plus, if the core of your army is archers/gunners, you probably don't want a small melee-focused cavalry squad to charge into the enemy alone, get bogged down, and die.

I'm not sure exactly what info you're looking for regarding becoming a mercenary/vassal, so I'll just give a basic overview. If a faction is at war, sometimes their lords will offer to hire you on as a mercenary when you ask if you can help them out. For the duration of the mercenary contract, you are mostly treated as a member of that faction, save that you won't be awarded fiefs. You also receive a bit of money each payment period.

Once your renown is high enough, faction leaders may occasionally offer to make you one of their vassals, or you can just approach them and ask to swear fealty to them. Fiefs tend to provide pretty good income.

And, of course, you can just overrun some random castle while independent and start your own kingdom. Doing this with low Right to Rule and/or few friends will lead to an exciting game.

>>20868464
I don't think you can conquer castles independently in this mod.

>>20868487
You can, you just need to antagonize the enemy faction in question first. This is easily achieved by beating up on some of their farmers or a caravan.

>>20868501
Or attacking one of their lords, of course. In one game I got my start after Eintei just barely managed to seize a town from Hakurei Shrine. Eintei's armies were so weakened that I annihilated all of them the moment the siege ended, then knocked over the puny new garrison. That bought me a decent amount of time with which to fortify.

It was a fun spur-of-the-moment decision.

I'm really liking this mod. Too bad it suffers for a lot of unpolished things.

>some siege maps are almost unplayable with some enemies unreachable(doesnt help that the AI from warband is pretty bad)
>some items/costumes get in the way preventing you seeing what you're doing, first person mode doesnt fix a lot of these either
>hitboxes for some things are janky, jiangshi for instance seem to have non-existent hitboxes on most of their bodies? Also, using the boat seems to mess with melee hitboxes.
>some enemy skins make their hitboxes ambiguous, minor annoyance, but still one nonetheless
>the castles are ridiculous(admittedly, I find this hilarious and love it. great mausoleum is a good example what with you needing to jump around to even talk to people)

>>20868745
The broken siege maps at least I intend to address eventually, though that's likely to be a time-consuming project.

The issue you're having with jiangshi most likely isn't their hitbox, but that they carry invisible shields. I believe it was meant to represent an ability to block attacks while unarmed, but it is a little awkward to deal with. It is at least a pretty weak shield, so a few attacks from about any weapon are likely to break it.

>>20868820
>The broken siege maps at least I intend to address eventually
Godspeed on that. Seems like a hefty undertaking, but that's considering I've never dealt with AI.
>most likely isn't their hitbox, but that they carry invisible shields
I figured it was meant to replicate something like needing to hit them in the head. They're the only thing I can't hit with arrows consistently. 95% of them seem to go through.

>>20868820
It's kind of amusing how the jiangshi "weapons" are lootable. I was kind of tempted to pick up their size 200 invisible shield.

I believe there was some cheat which knocks out/kills a random enemy soldier. Ctrl+T or something. I need to look it up, it'd quite useful against unreachable enemies.

>>20869050
>Seems like a hefty undertaking, but that's considering I've never dealt with AI.

I wish the AI was the only issue. There are two castles that consist of random bits of scenery floating in the sky that can't be reached by any means during sieges, several with long sets of stairs that are too tall for anyone to actually climb, one that is nothing but a 500 foot long ladder ascending a shaft that ends in a platform containing all the defenders, and so on. The castle scenes are simultaneously the best and worst thing about the mod: the good ones are extremely imaginative and fun, whereas the bad ones are broken incomplete messes.

Thankfully, the scene-editing tools actually look pretty accessible. I won't know for sure until I plunge into it, but even building castles from scratch might not be all that bad.

For christ's sake I've tried to enter Clock Tower dungeon to rescue a lord five times now and it's crashed every time.

Can you fly in this mod? Some of these descriptions seem like you're supposed to be able to fly.

>>20870648
I seen screenshots of player flying around when I was downloading original mod ages ago so probably?

>>20870613
Hey, so it's not just me. Unfortunately, I have no idea what causes that, so it's probably not something I can fix. Even without the crashing, though, rescuing lords is occasionally impossible because of how sloppily the prison maps, or in some cases the entrances to them, are designed. I don't recommend taking quests to rescue lords at the moment.

>>20870688
Generally crashes on loading are related to the instance being loaded. There may be some asset related problem with the dungeon map itself.
It could also be triggered by something worn by its inhabitants. It could even be some shitty code called by the dungeon

>>20870648
That would explain the Great Mausoleum castle.

>>20870648
You can fly when playing as Marisa in a few unusual quests, but otherwise no. It's possible the original developer intended to expand on that at some point, but who knows.

>>20870700
I might be off on this, but it seems like most of those issues would lead to a crash every time someone tries to enter the scene. What I actually experience is that trying to enter certain prisons leads to a crash 60% of the time or so, which is puzzling. I'll look them over in the editor at some point in any case, but I'm not too optimistic that I'll be able to identify a cause.

It must consume more!

>>20870979
Ban this sick filth.

>>20870979
I once saw a 999 member strong Netherworld caravan slowly making its way down towards Chireiden. I wonder just how many bandits and patrols it had to plow through to end up that huge.

>>20872526
And here I thought the near 200 ones I've seen were big.

>>20872553
units scale in size as the player levels up. it's a feature I don't particularly like of Warband, or in any games in general

Fought in a few more sieges. Myouren Cemetery is oddly enough a Native wooden castle scene. Palanquin Ship looks like a Gekokujo import, but requires the attackers to walk for like 5 minutes before even coming in contact with the enemy.

On the other hand, I found out you can get cosplay from captured lords in exchange for setting them free. It can be accessed through the camp menu. Does anyone know what the "change race" option does?

>>20870556
>nothing but a 500 foot long ladder ascending a shaft that ends in a platform containing all the defenders
Sky Docks? It also has a bug where troops get stuck on the side of that platform. Many defenders easily fall into the abyss, and if they're alive by then, attacking forces will keep shooting at them.

>>20873168
As far as I can tell this doesn't apply very strongly to caravans, or not at all. Most are still normal-sized, and I haven't seen caravans that huge in Native or any other mod.

>>20873679
Change race is broken because races were never properly implemented before the project quit out. Not the OP, but I might eventually get to implementing them in full and experiment around with weapon effectiveness - make youkai harder to kill with conventional weapons like guns, weaker to magical weapons. Should help partially offset the SDM who relies largely on fairy and human troops.

>>20873168
This is true, but even at very high levels caravans only start with 40-60 troops or so. The multiplier to max troops sizes isn't that enormous.

>>20873679
>Does anyone know what the "change race" option does?
It lets you change your skin, which in turn alters your body proportions somewhat. Depending on what you have equipped, this may either do nothing, or make certain items fit better or worse. As an example, using the "female" choice will make gloves/gauntlets actually fit properly, but will make most of the mod-exclusive equipment have clipping issues...at least when the race selector actually works. It seems to stop functioning occasionally for some reason.

>Sky Docks?
I'm actually thinking of one of the Youkai Mountain castles, though I forget exactly which one it is. I'm fine with the defenders having a significant advantage during sieges, but that place is completely unassailable. Sky Docks has a similar set up, but is far less difficult to assault barring defenders spawning in inaccessible locations.

Are the touhou's set to be guys? The game lets me offer to marry them even though the mod forces you to be a girl.

Also error from when I engaged some Oni and Meiling joined me.

>>20873809
That seems to be the case. It almost makes sense though? Most of the characters are taking over the original spots of the lords. There's only a handful of women you can marry in vanilla.

>>20873863
I mean, it kinda gets silly when female lords mock me for being a girl or offer to have me marry one of their soldiers.
Its not like this is eratohok, but I'd still like to play as a guy to marry one of them, but if the AI is working fine that would probably be low on the list of fixes.

Also based Zeon Kappa.

>>20873992
I understand. I'm mostly saying to think of it as a limitation to the mod. rewriting all of the lords as female would probably cause some issues with how it's all written. Kaguya is my favorite for instance, but they're a ruler, which I think limits things a bit.

>>20873809
No, it's just that Mount and Blade by default expects lords to be male, and most lord dialogue never checks their own actual gender. It's something I might address at some point, though I haven't decided on what solution would be best to attempt yet.

>>20873823
That will happen after any battle with Corpse Collector bands. I know what causes it, but I'm not sure there is a good way to fix it. It should be harmless in any case.

>>20873719
That sounds like a cool feature, but there is one potential complication depending on how you were thinking of implementing it. Currently, the mod makes use of three new skin/race slots, which are used to have troops of different sizes. Skin 3 is basically the default, and used for all sorts of humans and youkai. Skin 4 is used for larger characters, like oni, whereas smaller characters like Cirno and the Scarlets use Skin 5. Fairies of different types inexplicably use all three of these, and a handful of units use the two default slots.

So, if you were thinking of basing it on those slots, they're already in use and do not indicate the unit's actual race.

>>20874268
Yeah, codifying race is going to have to account for the skin system, so there's probably going to be duplicates of models to represent same body styles of different races, but it shouldn't be that much of a headache, beyond the inherent pains in modifying all the units on the roster typically is.

>>20874281
I would be willing to handle the process of going through the troops list and assigning new race/skin slots where needed, if/when you feel like attempting this. I know that's not a whole lot of help, but it's something.

I'm paying like 4000 wages for my party and my garrison now. I probably should have less calvary but they are so useful.
Also how do I make a town I own less poor

>>20874814
There's no especially fast or reliable way of increasing a town's prosperity, so far as I'm aware. Certain quests from that town will increase it, and it tends to increase over time so long as nothing is disrupting the economy. Caravans failing to reach their destinations, the town being besieged, and nearby farmers getting massacred are all harmful to prosperity. Caravans in this mod have a very hard time reaching their destinations in this mod thanks to the genocidal faction patrols, which hurts all the towns a bit.

We have been at war with the underground for 300 days, Make it stop.

>>20875149
Underworld and Scarlet devil have too similar colours. It's hard to tell at a glance who is who.
For that matter it's almost impossible to tell what is a city or a castle without actually going there.

>>20812945
>>20812945
Ohhhhhhhhohhoohoh
Who are you quoting.

Some ransom brokers almost look normal. Almost.

>>20877164
Looks like she broker elbows.

>>20877164
Is that a fairy?
Are fairies scam artists?

I took a brief break from dialogue writing to learn more about how the module system code works and to play around with scene editing, which is why progress has been slow. Replacing all the companion dialogue was a larger project than I anticipated, and after writing ~20000 words of it I'm a bit burnt out on that. I'll still finish it before long, though, as there isn't much left to do.

>>20880042
That's cool, pace yourself. If you burn out too hard you'll drop the project. It's always really hard to go back to something you haven't touched for a while, especially if there's a community (however small) with expectations built around it.
If you need a hand with menial things, there seems to be a few of us willing to help.

So how exactly do I upgrade the cosplays like these travelers are implying? I have kaguyas outfit in the appropriate spot on the screen but it still isnt working

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>>20880595
I had always assumed that this was completely unimplemented, as I could never figure it out either, but I decided to check the code and figured out how to get it working. I'm still not sure what the upgrade actually does, though. My items gained a couple "upgrade" properties when I tested it, but it's not clear what those actually do. I'll have to imvestigate that more later.

Anyway, here is how it actually works: you need to have the two items you want upgraded in the first and second slots of your "cosplay" storage, the inventory you bring up when you select "check cosplay." You also need to have at least one R18 book on hand, because the traveller apparently only accepts payment in the former of lewd Reimu pictures. If you satisfy those requirements, your gear should gain a "cosplay upgrade" quality, which may or may not actually do something.

>>20875363
It's meaning of sentence I quoted
Duh

What kind of game is mount and blade anyway? rts?

>>20884303
RPG where you can get your own army, gather companions and conquer the world
Or something like this
In other news this thread is on bump limit already

A note for when the thread dies: my IP range is currently blocked from uploading images, which also prevents me from creating threads. So, if anyone feels like discussing this further after the thread dies, feel free to create a new one.

>>20884303
It's fairly unique, sort of a blend of a strategy game and an action-RPG. In combat, you can give orders to your troops, but you only directly control your own character. So, you engage in large medieval battles from the perspective of a single soldier. The combat mechanics are quite good, and I'm surprised other developers haven't been imitating them.

Outside of combat, you can recruit troops/allies, acquire supplies, take on quests, join factions, make friends, start up business enterprises, etc. It's the sort of game where you largely define your own goals, but in general you start with almost nothing and work your way up to becoming one of the most powerful lords in the land. Conquering all territories, either in the name of your king or your own, is typically the assumed end-goal.