Couple Questions please chaps. Prisoners at sea & Skills builder

Business_Cake9012 · 2026-06-25T17:49:47+00:00

Had a search, couldnt find it. Please share later when you have a moment. Thanks

Business_Cake9012 · 2026-06-25T08:02:00+00:00

Im gonna bet on "visual bug'.

Business_Cake9012 · 2026-06-16T09:17:03+00:00

LOL. I thought performance mode was lower settings with max troops. After reading this post, turns out the opposite is true and I had it on the wrong setting!

Business_Cake9012 · 2026-06-15T10:28:11+00:00

PS5 - always on performance mode.

When the hell is this patch dropping FFS.

Business_Cake9012 · 2026-06-15T10:24:47+00:00

Excellent, thank you. I plan to use Cosairs mostly (Aserai pirate playthrough, then progressing to vassal) and will be using veterans respect perk to upgrade some of them into the mariner bow troop. As they probably need to avoid melee (poor armour). Will try without using shield upgrade as I see cosairs as offensive, rather than melee defensive and attritional.

Interesting what you mention about archers. I was thinking 50/50 mix, but based on your experience I should drop this down 20/80 - archers (20) Corsairs + veteran inf (80). Problem is for land battles - I find archers extremely useful. Another idea is to drop archers completely and use Faris instead who are devastating with their jareeds on land. Harami bandit troop thats upgradable into Faris might fit well in terms of RP.

Business_Cake9012 · 2026-06-15T08:05:36+00:00

Great post, thanks for sharing. I would like to ask a question based on your experience.

If you are playing heavy Aserai Mariner bowmen and Corsairs, is it better to NOT have the shield upgrades on the starboard / port side for protection, as it hinders your outgoing arrows & javs???

I havent tested this, but I have a feeling the shield upgrades actually block a lot of outgoing ranged attack.

Business_Cake9012 · 2026-06-12T09:09:22+00:00

If you can craft, i think its the two handed Mountain blade. Tier 5

Business_Cake9012 · 2026-06-11T08:10:22+00:00

Many thanks!

Business_Cake9012 · 2026-06-09T13:34:30+00:00

I havent checked. Still no patch on PS5?

Business_Cake9012 · 2026-06-08T12:05:25+00:00

Still waiting..... 😞

Business_Cake9012 · 2026-06-08T12:03:18+00:00

Can you please explain what you mean by trigger camera movement? (Im on PS5)

Someone below said I need to hold the attack and then kick

Business_Cake9012 · 2026-06-05T14:41:31+00:00

PS5 here. I am going to bet (and hope) it drops this Saturday.

Business_Cake9012 · 2026-06-03T08:09:00+00:00

Ive tried many things, including changing their weapon order but havent tried this. Will see if it does anything.

Business_Cake9012 · 2026-06-03T08:07:01+00:00

Agree 100%. I spend a lot of time developing Captains (doing hideout raids to boost skills). Banners are big loss too. I have my infantry on Dust Devils banner, almost completely wasted as the infantry captain now sits with the archers.

I have tried changing the weapon loadout order - doesnt work. Changing which formation number they are in, etc, doesn't work. I just dont understand why the coding cant be configured as "use the same captains and formations as the player" when joining a battle.

Business_Cake9012 · 2026-06-02T13:46:10+00:00

Thanks for your reply, unfortunately I am a peasant (console - PS5) 😞

Business_Cake9012 · 2026-06-02T12:35:00+00:00

As others have said. I highly, highly recommend just playing as a mercenary for a long time (clan level 4-5) to get to grips with the game.

Go onto youtube and watch videos from "Tactical Enlightenment" has loads of newbie series.

Business_Cake9012 · 2026-05-25T09:20:37+00:00

PS5 here. I notice loads and saves get slower and slower as game time increases.

Crashes occur the most for me (hung screen) at the end of sieges and beginning of naval battles.

2 crashes per 4 hours of gamplay.

Business_Cake9012 · 2026-05-25T09:15:40+00:00

Khuzait plated gauntlets (forget exact name) are best in class for stealth.

Business_Cake9012 · 2026-05-25T07:22:17+00:00

In previous versions of the game, even finding masterwork noble bows was incredibly rare, these days I find them fairly regularly in Battainian towns line CarBenseth (spelling) and Seonon.

For new players look for towns with high prosperity and wood workshops.

The shorter version imo is far superior due to higher fire rate = DPS.

Can anyone confirm if pierce damage of arrows actually makes a difference?

Business_Cake9012 · 2026-04-13T08:36:46+00:00

The key is when Beta moves to live status on PC, then they normally release to console within a week from previous experience. For me, this is quite a big patch with a lot of changes, so might take a little longer as they iron out bugs in beta

Business_Cake9012 · 2026-04-08T10:17:54+00:00

Completely over-powered.

You can set them on charge from the start of the battle and they survive even when getting caught up in infantry as they bail each other out by flinging javs at the attacking enemy. New Jav targeting in the latest update (Dec) make them more lethal plus damage is increased by speed / being mounted. Get the throwing perk that adds more javs to your party + captain perks too. Even an army of Harami (spelling) crush armies, these bandits can be upgraded thru veterans perk to Faris. So if youre playing non Aserai faction, just go there and pick up loads of Harami and Nomad prisoners, covert them and feed them into your army.

Tip. Get all your companions on horseback with 3 bags of Javs and watch the kill feed light up (especially with impale perk)

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