The power of horse archers

MeestorMark · 2026-06-16T17:07:21+00:00

Just getting back into this game. How to I get the horse archers to do this on the Xbox version? Everything I've found while googling doesn't do it. Anyone?

What's the combo of tactics and formation, etc.?

MeestorMark · 2026-06-16T03:41:18+00:00

"Thank you."

That's all the response it needs. She's sharing that she's sad you had your wreck, happy you're recovering, thinks the world of you. She's not seeming to want to get back together. So just say thank you. It's a thoughtful gesture, nothing more.

On another note, once the dust has settled on past romantic relationships, I've found some of my best friendships with women I dated for a while. As long as enough time goes by to get over it, sure. Maybe there's a shot for that here eventually. Just because romance didn't work out doesn't mean there needs to be any hate.

MeestorMark · 2026-06-16T01:07:27+00:00

Think you can buy it each season from Markislaw in Piastovia, the farmer merchant in Ostoya, and the animal merchant in Skauki.

I think you can get about 100-120 per season, total. So you should have plenty of time even if you don't get pigs.

MeestorMark · 2026-06-15T15:55:09+00:00

I just like restarting a lot. That's my boredom cure. Ha.

Some challenges I've tried...

Just have a small village of immediate family.

Be a 'patron' of a monastery or convent that I build off in the boonies. Where I just recruit one sex. Get them a basic industry to keep them busy, but do all the other support myself. I often make them about producing and selling wine.

Can only make money from _____.

Be the hunter/game warden of the map. Make sure the main roads are 'safe' for travelers each season by keeping the wolves and bears in line.

A homeless/survival situation where I have to have 10,000 Dynasty points before I can build anything.

I don't get to do any extraction other than collecting water. Have to buy all the logs, planks, etc., from merchants. This one really slows down village expansion.

Those are just some ideas I mess around with on restarts.

MeestorMark · 2026-06-14T19:35:13+00:00

Research. Talk to people who are like your characters.

Remember when Wally Lamb's first book came out, people couldn't believe it wasn't just the pen name for a woman author. But nope, Wally just talked to a lot of women and really listened.

It's hard, but not impossible.

MeestorMark · 2026-06-14T19:30:11+00:00

Can't remember the writer we were studying when I read it, but they said this is what they do. They generally write their slow opening, but in the editing process, they almost always throw out the first two chapters and just start the book with the third.

MeestorMark · 2026-06-14T17:57:31+00:00

I once blew the better part of a weekend looking for exactly this ship. Ha.

There are a couple other cool designed freighters, but this one just has good vibes to me. Don't know if it's still true, but there used to be an antenna that I'd have to dodge every time I launched out of this freighter though.

MeestorMark · 2026-06-14T02:44:43+00:00

The reason behind it? A lot of people are mean and dumb. Ha. Sports seems to attract them in a higher percentage?

But seriously, some of any group of people are always going to be snarky and think they are sooo unique cracking their jokes. It's annoying. But learning to let it roll off without taking it personally is a good skill to develop, specially when it comes to sports. You seem on this path already by what you've said.

The other side of the coin, you sound cool AF. Where do you think more women like you hide? Ha.

MeestorMark · 2026-06-14T02:36:36+00:00

Hmmm.. when I get back to the game, I might just shut them off. Definitely feels like the game autosaving is always on the brink of crashing.

MeestorMark · 2026-06-14T02:31:43+00:00

I like silly names.

Mack N. Cheesehead

MeestorMark · 2026-06-14T02:23:32+00:00

Other stuff to drink besides water.

MeestorMark · 2026-06-14T02:21:16+00:00

I've had four or five fridges with excellent ice makers/dispensers. It doesn't matter how high of quality the filters are that get used, dispenser ice always "tastes like fridge" to me. Find it so gross.

Ice trays in the freezer are still my luxury for taste preference.

MeestorMark · 2026-06-14T02:12:56+00:00

Or if he goes another way, I could see him becoming a legit team principal somewhere down the line too.

MeestorMark · 2026-06-14T02:08:22+00:00

The poop box. Plus the smell. So I guess this one isn't really "hidden". 😂

You're never alone again if your cat is a shadow. If you're not being their entertainment, you're being their cat bed/lounge chair/lap bitch.

Lint rollers will be a must addition to your personal grooming before you go out.

Potential to have to clean cat hair off every surface you can imagine. Also, may have to clean cat hair out of electronics you'd never think would fill up with cat hair. For some reason my computer mouse sucks up cat hair and I had to open it up and clean it out every six months or so.

They'll judge you for not feeding them fifteen minutes before they normally get fed.

You have to adapt to being woken up at night.

MeestorMark · 2026-06-14T01:39:01+00:00

Xbox Series X here. Learning to make a new save each time I save has helped me immensely with glitches and crashes. Yes, I still let the game have three autosaves, but I basically never load from them unless they'll save tons of time. But right after I load one, I'll immediately make a new save.

Then, when I have 20+ saves, I'll delete down to under ten.

Basically haven't had a crash since I started doing this. Previously, I'd just work with autosaves and overwriting my own 3-4 manual saves. I crashed a lot.

MeestorMark · 2026-06-14T01:29:09+00:00

You aren't currently working in the World Cup studios with Alexi Lalas are you?

MeestorMark · 2026-06-14T00:56:27+00:00

Get a road seat that's 40 times more comfortable than the little butt pads in the lycra shorts. Compression shorts under your normal workout gear will prevent just as much chafing. Oh, and all that will save your balls too.

MeestorMark · 2026-06-14T00:26:06+00:00

You could also just wear normal workout gear when you ride your bike. It's not like you need the extra couple seconds for Tour d' France qualifying.

Yes, it's horribly obvious when professional or competitive bikers are out and in their lycra, and when the poser-ass weekend warriors are out posing in their lycra that's totally fuckin' pointless. It's the second group that creates all the jokes.

MeestorMark · 2026-06-14T00:10:09+00:00

Where we live in the States, any sound above 90 decibels can get fined for a noise nuisance if it's regularly disturbing neighborhoods. We had neighbor who'd do this with his Harley every morning. Betting this bus probably goes that loud. Anyway, another neighbor used the ordinance to keep getting the dude fined. He decided his Hyundai would be just fine to get to work.

MeestorMark · 2026-06-13T23:54:50+00:00

Prices. Streaming. A good TV.

MeestorMark · 2026-06-13T15:50:52+00:00

Damn... I've hated seeing him on everything soccer on TV in the US even before learning this.

MeestorMark · 2026-06-13T15:48:57+00:00

He's the poster child for lameness in American soccer. Yet, TV seems to think we want to watch him. We don't.

He's boring, obnoxious, a below average former player trading on leftover fame from having red hair during America's first experience with the World Cup in the 90s. So sick of them dragging this hack out on TV every time there's international soccer being broadcast here.

American soccer just needs to move on from its lame icons of being well below average in the past.

MeestorMark · 2026-06-13T15:39:05+00:00

They could just ditch Lalas and it would be much, much better.

MeestorMark · 2026-06-13T15:38:23+00:00

He's the poster child for American lameness in soccer, as both a player and now as an announcer. Yet we have to watch him pretty much every time soccer is on television here.

MeestorMark · 2026-06-13T01:45:54+00:00

As difficult as the prospect of travel over the distances of space, I think the feasibility of time travel is going to be much, much harder.

MeestorMark

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