How to make Crusader's army stronger?

[LeGOAT]

Hello guys. Just as the title said, I am currently hitting a roadblock as my crusade's army is only level 5 and cannot defeat enemy's armies lv 5 and above. How can you recruit more and make your army at least lv7 to progress the game? My army's morale is so low so there are only 2-3 soliders/archers to recruit weekly.
Please can you guys provide some tips for playing Crusade mode?

[Beewo]

Get a wizard for them fancy spells which at least at the beginning are very good. start recruiting as early as possible so you dont lose vast amounts of units each battle. And get some of those expensive boys like hellknights and clerics when they are cheaper (1.8k 3k. ignore 9k ofc).

[Dondu]

be patience and stack armies, it will take a while but thats how it is, youll get more army from diplomatic appointment on crusader management and quest and free armies if you are a lich, so be a lich :D

[Frostbeast]

Archer untis. Lots of archer units.

[Soul]

Just get Rangers. Rangers are tough as nails and mulch enemies fast. I ended act 3 with 800 rangers 500 paladins 200 Hellknights 250 Champions and 200 Sorceresses in my main army and several smaller armies that just sat in the rear out of the way. The rangers killed almost everything before it became a fight. They can also continue to use their bows even at point blank, and have a ton of hp.

[Mordred Morghul]

Cheat. When the game is actually playable in a year or so, you can try to play it honestly, but people on staff have privately admitted that the game is a buggy mess. Not as bad as Kingmaker, not anywhere near as bad, but crusade mode can get straight up unbeatable and can cause you to start the whole game over again.

Here is a simple guide to edit your save file to add units to your armies, no mods, no issues.

1.) Go to your saves in users>your name>Appdata>LocalLow>Owlcat Games>Pathfinder Wrath Of The Righteous>Saved Games, and then select your save (it helps to sort by last modified as the names of your manual saves won't always match what you wrote in game). Open the archive with 7zip.

2.) Scroll down to player.json, right click, select view. This should open a notepad document. It is large and gibberish, don't panic!

3.) Ctrl+F search for "count":#, where # is the number of units of a particular type. The entire line you are looking for "unit":"string of numbers and letters","count: and then a number.

4.) Change this number after "count:" to whatever you want. I did 3000. If there are more than one result for the # you searched, be careful you could be buffing a demon army! What I did was change each result to a different sequential number (3000, 3001, 3002), then I went in game and looked to see which one was my actual army, then I changed the others back to their default values.

5.) One-shot everything with every unit. Upgrade to better units if you want and use the same method to increase their numbers if desired. Roll over everything with roaming doomstacks.

6.) Profit.

[Soul]

It's really not that hard lol, ah well im a veteran Heroes of might and magic/Dom 5/Age of wonders/Master of magic player so I guess I have a bias and advantage.

[Mordred Morghul]

Originally posted by Soul:

It's really not that hard lol, ah well im a veteran Heroes of might and magic/Dom 5/Age of wonders/Master of magic player so I guess I have a bias and advantage.

Not that hard when it works properly. There are many confirmed bugs that the devs publicly admit break crusade mode, and a majority of players are experiencing at least one said bugs.

Even setting aside difficulty, HMM is a totally different game than a CRPG. I clashes too much in my opinion which is why I applaud the idea of making the mode optional. However, the implementation of making the mode optional is so broken that it is not worth it. You miss out on all the political RP stuff which IS awesome. Plus turning it off totally breaks, or should I say it further breaks, both the Lich and Swarm-That-Walks mythic paths.

[Soul]

Yeah all fair points I agree. I realize im in the minority of people who enjoy the mode even with the bugs souring it.

[Trekner]

Get a wizzard general... in my game all my general only ever increase in power, they never get any attack or defence (bet its a bug), and the warrior general only gets 1 power every level, where as the spell caster general gets 3 power every level.
3 good spells to look for are : healing, Scorcing ray and fireball, I dont used anything else.
Scorcing ray and fireball do (Power x Power+5)d6 dmg, at first level that would be 3x3+5 = 14d6, at level 9 30x30+5 = 905d6

[Rudel]

Originally posted by Soul:

Yeah all fair points I agree. I realize im in the minority of people who enjoy the mode even with the bugs souring it.

I love Homm3, but this is a very watered down version of it. I tend to put my Archers in a corner and surround it with 3 units, that solves most problems. Especially auto-retaliation is missing and takes all the strategy out of the minigame.

[LeGOAT]

Thanks for all the respones guys. I have progressed to Act 3 of the game and managed my army to level 6. I have never fought a crusade battle by myself lol, only automated them and tried to reload if I did not have a victory. My only problem now is that the morale of army is so low (broken and critical) even though I won battles. Will they effect my gameplay in any ways? I have not encountered any bugs in the crusade mode so hopefully I can experience the game fully.

[Serapae]

Originally posted by CS | Lebron James:

Thanks for all the respones guys. I have progressed to Act 3 of the game and managed my army to level 6. I have never fought a crusade battle by myself lol, only automated them and tried to reload if I did not have a victory. My only problem now is that the morale of army is so low (broken and critical) even though I won battles. Will they effect my gameplay in any ways? I have not encountered any bugs in the crusade mode so hopefully I can experience the game fully.

If your morale is always low, I think you got a bug where the Banner of Defense are always in red due to your fort is besieged. I think this bug happens when there is a scout report that some fearsome demon lord is leading an army to besieged your city but if you manage to defeat his army before he actually besieges anything, the game treats the event like he are still besieging it.

[Athos Atreides]

Originally posted by Mordred Morghul:

Cheat. When the game is actually playable in a year or so, you can try to play it honestly, but people on staff have privately admitted that the game is a buggy mess. Not as bad as Kingmaker, not anywhere near as bad, but crusade mode can get straight up unbeatable and can cause you to start the whole game over again.

Here is a simple guide to edit your save file to add units to your armies, no mods, no issues.

1.) Go to your saves in users>your name>Appdata>LocalLow>Owlcat Games>Pathfinder Wrath Of The Righteous>Saved Games, and then select your save (it helps to sort by last modified as the names of your manual saves won't always match what you wrote in game). Open the archive with 7zip.

2.) Scroll down to player.json, right click, select view. This should open a notepad document. It is large and gibberish, don't panic!

3.) Ctrl+F search for "count":#, where # is the number of units of a particular type. The entire line you are looking for "unit":"string of numbers and letters","count: and then a number.

4.) Change this number after "count:" to whatever you want. I did 3000. If there are more than one result for the # you searched, be careful you could be buffing a demon army! What I did was change each result to a different sequential number (3000, 3001, 3002), then I went in game and looked to see which one was my actual army, then I changed the others back to their default values.

5.) One-shot everything with every unit. Upgrade to better units if you want and use the same method to increase their numbers if desired. Roll over everything with roaming doomstacks.

6.) Profit.

Is there a solution for adding morale to counter the siege bug?

[Mordred Morghul]

Originally posted by Athos Atreides:

Originally posted by Mordred Morghul:

Cheat. When the game is actually playable in a year or so, you can try to play it honestly, but people on staff have privately admitted that the game is a buggy mess. Not as bad as Kingmaker, not anywhere near as bad, but crusade mode can get straight up unbeatable and can cause you to start the whole game over again.

Here is a simple guide to edit your save file to add units to your armies, no mods, no issues.

1.) Go to your saves in users>your name>Appdata>LocalLow>Owlcat Games>Pathfinder Wrath Of The Righteous>Saved Games, and then select your save (it helps to sort by last modified as the names of your manual saves won't always match what you wrote in game). Open the archive with 7zip.

2.) Scroll down to player.json, right click, select view. This should open a notepad document. It is large and gibberish, don't panic!

3.) Ctrl+F search for "count":#, where # is the number of units of a particular type. The entire line you are looking for "unit":"string of numbers and letters","count: and then a number.

4.) Change this number after "count:" to whatever you want. I did 3000. If there are more than one result for the # you searched, be careful you could be buffing a demon army! What I did was change each result to a different sequential number (3000, 3001, 3002), then I went in game and looked to see which one was my actual army, then I changed the others back to their default values.

5.) One-shot everything with every unit. Upgrade to better units if you want and use the same method to increase their numbers if desired. Roll over everything with roaming doomstacks.

6.) Profit.

Is there a solution for adding morale to counter the siege bug?

So there is this super army set to spawn 1.5 years in game time. Problem is, the code is broken and your forts think he is coming right from the beginning. The only "fix" is to not kill everything. Let an army attack your fort and then kill them.

[Athos Atreides]

Thanks. I'll try that. Hopefully I didn't ♥♥♥♥ my save up.