u/Dragon6_

Yesterday I tried some custom battles on 1.4.5 beta because I wanted to start a new playthrough and needed to test how banner knights do against archers; the results were very disappointing.

I did 200 vs 200 in a plain map (steppe) so no terrain advance for the archers but cavalry still loses even again the sturgian T5 archers so you can only guess what happens agains fiann champions.

The only melee cavalry left it's the aserai faris but not thanks to their melee skils but thanks to their damn javelins that kill half of the archers before even getting contact, they can erase even fians (without putting them in advanced formations, just loose formation).

I guess they nerfed heavy cavalry a little to much.

Also, I don't know why, I'm not seeing any wars between Vlandia and Battania and this has to be my fifth game on this version of the beta, they both seem to be more interested in fighting Nords

With this beta they totally destroyed defensive sieges: before it was like finding a treasure, now the only thing you get it's the fief but fighting as a mercenary you don't really have a reason to defend anything.

I understand what they tried to do since before was way too easy, at least regarding the number of prisoners. As for the equipment it made sense taking everything as a loot considering routing troops would drop the equipment in order to run faster; there is a reason for the Spartan saying: ”Come back with your shield or on it”. Meaning you either come back alive with your shield or your companions carry your dead body on it; leaving it on the field would mean you ran away.

I just defeated an army of +1200 with my 175 party + about 300 garrison and you know what I got? Absolutely nothing because 100 of them escaped in order to "regroup". An alley army was waiting for them so as soon as they retreat my faction attacked them and I join the battle hoping I could get MY loot. Result? It was like the siege didn't even happen so I just got loot based on my party's kills.

I hope fhey fix this because it makes absolutely no sense. The only thing I approve is that you can't capture escaped troops anymore.

They claim they improved the naval presence but I have to say I'm not seeing armies on the seaa. I just found random, lonely and scared lords that are not even far from a threat.

I mean, if you have a dromon fully upgraded with nord troops you don't have to fear anyone (as a nord vassal).

Is your experience different?

As in the title what's the fastest ships on the world map?

I reached something like 8 in open sea with 2 dromons and 2 Corbita

Is this the max speed?

I downloaded it yesterday evening (36 gb) but I can't find patchnotes... Saw a video on YouTube with this guy reding them on TaleWords but if I try to search there I still see the 1.4.1 as the last update.

I'm just trying to understand what does it cheange and If I need to start a new playthrough in order to see those changes. My 1.4.1 savegame still working fine

I'm currently on the most common version on Steam, should be the last stable version of the game waiting for 1.4.1 going live.

Since I hate really bad ships going under the water in war sails and considering they say it's fixed now, I just wanna know how stable and playable this beta is.