Caravan raid mission

[Sonic Boomer]

I'm in between wars right now and a house is offering me a mission to raid a caravan and killing everyone. There needs to be not a single survivor.

The question is, does attacking said Caravan put me at war with that particular house it's from?

[turtle225]

Attacking the Caravan will put you into hostile with the House that owns it.

If anybody escapes you get half pay.

For each person who escapes there is a 15% chance of contract failure.

[Sonic Boomer]

so... screw these missions then...

[Eriktion]

Not sure how it works in the noble war - but if you do the raid caravan mission outside of the noble war the house wont turn hostile on you after that contract

[Whatever100500]

Worst part is you can get other party interventions during these fights.
Killing every single unit in caravan while also fighting off undead attackers, and especially considering that some of them will get scared of undead and flee long before battle is close to finishing... Is obviously impossible.

[Sonic Boomer]

Originally posted by Eriktion:

Not sure how it works in the noble war - but if you do the raid caravan mission outside of the noble war the house wont turn hostile on you after that contract

ah ok that makes more sense. Having an entire house turn hostile for a single mission seems a bit extreme.

[ChemicalBacon]

Originally posted by Sybreed:

so... screw these missions then...

The noble war is probably the worst crisis there is to do - you'll frequently get impossible quests and the quests that are possible normally demand some incredibly steep feats from you to accomplish. It pretty much killed all interest I have in playing this game further. It was the worst experience i've ever had in it.

[Sonic Boomer]

Originally posted by ChemicalBacon:

Originally posted by Sybreed:

so... screw these missions then...

The noble war is probably the worst crisis there is to do - you'll frequently get impossible quests and the quests that are possible normally demand some incredibly steep feats from you to accomplish. It pretty much killed all interest I have in playing this game further. It was the worst experience i've ever had in it.

weird, I think the noble war is the best to get first as it gives you a bunch of high end gear early.

[ChemicalBacon]

Originally posted by Sybreed:

Originally posted by ChemicalBacon:

The noble war is probably the worst crisis there is to do - you'll frequently get impossible quests and the quests that are possible normally demand some incredibly steep feats from you to accomplish. It pretty much killed all interest I have in playing this game further. It was the worst experience i've ever had in it.

weird, I think the noble war is the best to get first as it gives you a bunch of high end gear early.

It does but you get raiding quests which are impossible to complete - they require you to destroy specific buildings which can be days apart from each other and if you don't destroy them all you won't get the full reward.

On top of that you have battles where the highly trained, heavily armoured AI will either charge a line of waiting pikemen or just skulk at the back and do nothing the entire fight, and these battles normally require you to fight a battle on your own beforehand which, if you survive, you only have a day to recover from before the main battle.

On top of that you can have factions which refuse to defend their towns and lose them very quickly, limiting your jobs, marketplaces and other buildings to buy/sell from - all because the AI can't defend a few simple locations because its armies are busy chasing 4 peasants across the countryside.

There are more reasons as to why its the worst event, but I think I may wear my keyboard out trying to list them off. Like a lot of BB, its a nice idea but horribly done.