Mount & Blade: Wind of War

Boulders were thrown and crossbow bolts shot through the air.

The fireball exploded and flames burned, and the sounds of furious war cries of orcs and human warriors mingled.

This is a competition for survival, and there is no absolute right or wrong. Both sides are fighting desperately for the people they value to live a better life.

They value their family more than themselves. This may be the reason why orcs are called orcs: when human nature defeats animality, they are no longer beasts.

The siege has been going on for a week since the beginning. The Centaur coalition has gone from 6,000 people at its peak to the current significant attrition. The originally high morale has been significantly shaken, but the human camp has also suffered heavy casualties.

However, most of the human camp is from human slaves, and their psychological expectations are low enough. Otherwise, morale may collapse faster than that of the Centaur coalition.

Standing at the top of the city, looking down at the corpses strewn in the fields and the crows flying around, even a strong-minded person like Rhodes couldn't help but sigh:

"I suddenly understood why this place was called 'Canyon of Crows' before. Maybe when the first harpy witches established their clan here, this place also experienced such tragic wars as now."

"So in this cruel world where the strong devour the weak to survive, we must not weaken, otherwise, we will be the ones who get eaten."

Kress, who was next to Rhodes, did not hear his master's emotion. Instead, he clenched his small fist with high morale, showing off Mao Mei's tough demeanor.

"Uh...haha, okay, then let us become the most powerful existence in this world and swallow up all the good things as our own."

On the other side of the battlefield, Sao Feng Mulila's hair had turned gray in just one week.

He really couldn't understand, if the people on the opposite side used a trick to destroy his sneak attack troops, then why didn't they announce it and suppress their own morale?

Sao Feng Mulila was both afraid of this and confused as to why the other party didn't do this.

Because if it were him, the city wall at this time would probably be covered with corpses of black-armored heavy cavalry troops!

This week, the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces has been very uncomfortable. If he can easily defeat the enemy, he will not feel uncomfortable. If he really cannot defeat the enemy, there is no need to be so entangled.

But the current situation is that the mountain fortress gives Sao Feng Mulila the feeling that it is still a little bit close, just a little bit close. As long as we work harder, we can definitely attack it. But in fact, even if we add more strength, it will only increase the battle losses.

It's like the moon in the sky. It feels so high, but it's still so high when you stand on the roof. It's still so high when you stand on the top of the mountain. The distance between you and it seems close but actually far away. It seems you can touch it but yet it's so high. After all, it is unattainable.

Sao Feng Mulila couldn't imagine that the offensive and defensive momentum had quietly changed with the passage of time.

Elite crossbowmen are the easiest type of arms to train, but also the most difficult to train.

The good thing about training is that crossbow soldiers take shape quickly. As long as they can learn how to use the crossbow, aim, shoot and form a formation, it is basically enough. If you are in a defensive position at level 2 or 3, you can use both offense and defense to develop into a level 3 or 4 unit. combat strength.

However, the difficulty in training elite crossbowmen is that this unit is very dependent on foreign objects. Without high-quality crossbows, even if the level of the crossbowmen is increased, the actual attack power will not be significantly improved.

This is the dilemma Rhodes is facing now. Although there is the "Incomplete Rhodok Crossbow Training Manual" and there are dwarf craftsmen with outstanding forging abilities, it still takes time to research and make heavy crossbows, and it also requires a lot of corresponding materials.

At least for now, Gushan Castle only has the ability to produce light crossbows. For heavy crossbows, it is okay to produce one or two in small quantities for the first-line generals to use. If there are too many, there will be no basic materials.

After understanding this, Rhodes no longer blindly pursued advanced arms, but began to systematically rotate the auxiliary soldiers in the town to the battlefield, improve their combat level, and then upgrade them from first-level human miners to second-level Roman miners. Doc crossbowman.

Because compared to dozens of high-level crossbow units that cannot be changed, one or two hundred second- and third-level Rodok crossbowmen and Rodok skilled crossbowmen are more defensive.

It can even be said that in the matter of defending the city, quantity is more important than quality in a certain sense.

After a week of fierce battles and persistence, Rhode's two hundred auxiliary soldiers in Gushan Castle were gradually promoted to second-level Rodok crossbowmen.

This is also the actual reason why Sao Feng Mulila always feels that he can break through this city with more effort.

Because Rhodes always replaced the soldiers who had been trained and added a small amount of auxiliary soldiers. Although some people would die in battle, training troops with the strong city behind them was, after all, much safer and more efficient than other methods.

During this process, the ones who never left the front line were the wilderness demons. Rhodes had been gradually selecting forty people on the front line. However, the killing experience required to upgrade this special force was astonishing, nearly three to five times that of other arms.

The good thing is that there are no special equipment requirements. If you choose the wilderness demon melee enhancement path, you can use the orthodox swordsman equipment to unleash your full combat power.

However, until now, the number is still too small, the level is too low, and the experimental significance is greater than the practical significance.

In the dwarf arsenal in the underground mine area, the dwarf clan and a large number of human apprentices have done nothing else during this time except making crossbows and crossbow arrows.

Although it was very hard, they were also afraid that the dwarves would be in danger after the city was broken. After all, the orcs who were attacking the city at this moment were known for their low IQ and cruelty.

Therefore, a steady stream of large numbers of light crossbows are continuously increasing the defense level of Gushan Castle.

If all this could be seen in data, Sao Feng Mulila would have withdrawn at this time, because as time goes by and the entire Centaur coalition is invaded and filled in, it becomes increasingly impossible to break through the situation in front of them. A town.

[Do you want to spend 90 dinars to upgrade your troops? 】

【yes. 】

Today, another batch of secondary unit upgrades were completed.

At night, Rhodes lived on the frontline city wall. In a relatively sturdy room, he kept writing reflection notes.

This is a habit left over from his previous life. Whenever he encounters difficulties, Rhodes likes to write them down, and then thinks about whether he can handle it better. Whenever an idea flashes in his mind, he writes it down. , through this method he accomplished a lot of things.

Therefore, he still retains this habit until this life.

"Lord Lord!?"

There was no door to this room, so when Janice walked in, she couldn't knock on the door, so she could only put her head in and whisper.

"Huh? It's Janice, what do you want?"

Rhodes greeted him kindly in the room, but he did not stand up or put down the quill in his hand because he was still immersed in thinking.

Several books and notes were spread out on the table, including Rhodes' own notes, the "Incomplete Rodok Crossbowman Training Manual", and some miscellaneously collected books.

"Lord, it's like this. I have something I can't figure out, so I came here to disturb you."

"It's okay, just tell me." Rhode put down his pen, stood up and pressed his forehead. At this time, just relax your mind.

"We obviously drowned many enemies in the underground mine tunnels. Why did you ask us to seal the place and not let us search for the corpses? It's not just the loss of loot, but more importantly, if those drowned corpses were hung up If you put it on the city wall or throw it, it can effectively reduce the enemy's morale, right?"

Hearing this, Rhodes raised his gaze and looked deeply at the person in front of him through the dim light in the room.

This woman, Janice, is really talented.

A person from the Middle Ages, and she did not have the opportunity to receive any aristocratic knowledge or military education, but she was willing to ponder and think, and she was able to realize many things on her own slowly.

If this woman had a better family background or even good fortune, she might have the potential to become an elite or even a heroic figure.

It's a pity that she is too old now and is too distracted in various aspects. According to the principle of maximizing interests, Rhodes will not invest extraordinary resources in her.

In this world, from Rhodes' system perspective, everyone has his or her own level and values. Even the soldiers who are loyal to him have levels and values ​​when he clicks on the panel. The average value of each item for an adult male is around 5.

After joining the army and obtaining a combat profession, the level and values ​​will gradually increase, but for most ordinary people, their levels and values ​​will not increase throughout their lives. But skill level and skill proficiency will increase.

Many veterans already have a very high combat level, but this value remains the same no matter how many levels they improve. Only the level is increased but the value is not increased. Or if the value is increased, the value will also decrease due to factors such as retirement and aging.

Elite and heroic template people have the ability to break through the average value as their personal level increases. However, the older they are and the higher their level, the greater the potential consumption, and the lower the value of training from Rhodes' perspective.

It is easy to understand that the growth rates of becoming a hero at the age of ten and becoming a hero at the age of fifty are of course different. The former is a superimposed growth, while the latter requires constant extraordinary efforts to fight against one's own natural decline.

Just like the undead witch Caitlin, as a witch, her intelligence attributes are lower than Fatis.

However, she possesses the characteristics of "Death Frenzy" and "Twin Spirits", both of which greatly reduce the difficulty of practicing necromancy and the backlash she receives.

What needs special explanation here is that Aunt Caitlin’s two sons were adults. One died in the war and the other died of the epidemic. After Caitlin practiced necromancy, she dug her two sons out of the graves to accompany them. I did not suffer any death backlash. It can be said that I benefited from the warmth of my heart and did not suffer any harm from it.

Without the blessing and protection of these two twin spirits, Aunt Caitlin might not be able to become a hero at this age with her potential. This can be said to be a very rare and unrepeatable opportunity.

In this new era, if you want to achieve extraordinary things, you usually need to have a foundation in one of three aspects: talent (Kress, Fatis), origin (Fatis), and luck (Fatis, Raymond, Clay S, Caitlin).

Or have extraordinary talents in a certain aspect, but this also needs to be supplemented by encounters.