Is it worth fighting in wars?

[Majickthyse]

Hi All,

In my game two houses started a war, and I took a mission to go to the generals battle camp for 2900 crowns. When I arrived I was sent on 3 missions culminating in a battle. All this for 2900 crowns...

Considering I have made an enemy of the other house and lost a couple of guys in the main battle, it doesn't seem viable to me to ever take such a mission again for so little money. Is it ever worth taking sides in these wars for such paltry rewards?

[Teeyo(Chicken&Rice)]

Yes because noble army(when you have the team to deal with them) are basicly free looting. theirs armors,helms and weapon sell for so much after you repair them, so yea the contract give you 2.9k but you can get almost double if not more in worth of stuff.

So basicly, if you can do it without to much risk, it is very very lucrative.

[Teeyo(Chicken&Rice)]

Ps. The relation with other nobles houses reset after the noble war crisis.

[Majickthyse]

Thanks for the response. I expect I need to work on my looting skills. Once my men are relatively safe I try to finish off enemies with daggers, but I'm probably not doing that enough to reap the full benefits of the war situation.

Also, I hadn't realised it was cost effective to use up repair tools on armour to sell.

[Teeyo(Chicken&Rice)]

Originally posted by Majickthyse:

Thanks for the response. I expect I need to work on my looting skills. Once my men are relatively safe I try to finish off enemies with daggers, but I'm probably not doing that enough to reap the full benefits of the war situation.

Also, I hadn't realised it was cost effective to use up repair tools on armour to sell.

It is but only in T2 weapon and more like spiked mace and up, armed sword and up, english is not my first language so its tough to explain, but not all weapon are worth it to repair, only the better version are, if you got a decent price for tool. I hope im clear xD

for armor i would say when the armor have a durability of 140 and up its worth it to repair and sell if you dont use it.

[Heron]

Originally posted by Majickthyse:

Also, I hadn't realised it was cost effective to use up repair tools on armour to sell.

It is ultra cost effective on most weapons and something you should be doing from day 1 on non crappy items. Armors not so much because they take too may tools to repair.

[Teeyo(Chicken&Rice)]

Originally posted by Heron:

Originally posted by Majickthyse:

Also, I hadn't realised it was cost effective to use up repair tools on armour to sell.

It is ultra cost effective on most weapons and something you should be doing from day 1 on non crappy items. Armors not so much because they take too may tools to repair.

Hey Heron isnt worth on good armor as i said like 140 and up or something? i saw someone doign some maths on this a long while ago
I might be wrong tho

[Heron]

Originally posted by Teeyo(Chicken&Rice):

Originally posted by Heron:

It is ultra cost effective on most weapons and something you should be doing from day 1 on non crappy items. Armors not so much because they take too may tools to repair.

Hey Heron isnt worth on good armor as i said like 140 and up or something? i saw someone doign some maths on this a long while ago
I might be wrong tho

It might be, I honestly don't know. It depends on your tool price of course.

In practice, I often struggle to buy enough tools at good (<=250, preferably 200) prices to repair my loot and keep a tool reserve for my equipment, so I don't bother repairing armor I want to sell unless I'm swimming in tools, which only happens on great seeds with lots of tool supply or when I hire the scavenger retinue.

[Teeyo(Chicken&Rice)]

Originally posted by Heron:

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It might be, I honestly don't know. It depends on your tool price of course.

In practice, I often struggle to buy enough tools at good (<=250, preferably 200) prices to repair my loot and keep a tool reserve for my equipment, so I don't bother repairing armor I want to sell unless I'm swimming in tools, which only happens on great seeds with lots of tool supply or when I hire the scavenger retinue.

I guess it depend on playstyle as well, im more of a hoarder so.
AND i take more time to check seeds than actually play sometimes xD

[Cat®]

Noble Wars is the easiest world event and while payment is not inherently better than any other contracts; you will be looting footmen and mercenaries during these contracts. You can bag a knight's armour and weapons if you got the gumption. That alone makes it a highly profitable business. Doesn't that 115 helmet look a bit light on you? Wouldn't you prefer a 300? All you have to do is plunge a crossbow bolt into the eye of Sir Dankrad over there.

At the end of a noble war the houses hostile to you will be set to 'cold' relations, thus neutral and ready to be charmed again. The house(s) you fought for will be unchanged.

[The Duck Knight]

These fights are also rather fun to fight.

[Cat®]

Originally posted by The Duck Knight:

These fights are also rather fun to fight.

And the best music, in vanilla, that is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI30VzfqV8M

[Desperado]

The Raid mission is super cool imo, lot of fun to avoid bigger patrol and burn those location poorly defended. In the big fight you dont need to rush the middle, let them battle a little and then join the fight, you just need to give the last blow and if your ally Sir IhAveAgoAtOntHeHeAd died its a shame but you get paid :D

[turtle225]

Originally posted by The Duck Knight:

These fights are also rather fun to fight.

Yes.

Great Battle is one of the most fun contracts in the game imo. I love the Noble War.

Always excited to see my random crisis roll Noble War. Very disappointed when my random crisis is Undead every... singe... time.

And to OPs point, as far as making money goes, Noble War is maybe the most lucrative crisis.

[Fabricated]

The noble war is a fantastic source of armor after you got your brothers up to snuff. The contracts at the end can be nasty (multiple consecutive fights against lots of guys that take lots of killing), but you can get completely kitted out to start farming the open world camps if you pick your targets for a Caesar Circle each fight.

[McGrits]

As a strategy tip, only fight one house if your team is not that powerful. After picking a noble house to side with, only choose mission against one of the other houses,. All missions say who you are going to fight against before you accept the mission. You dont even have to take missions if you dont want the restrictions. AS long as you are not in a current mission, you can attack a friendly unit by cntrl-clicking on the mob. This will let you control encounters to stay in your favor by reducing the enemy.

The holy war is a bit different but you can implement the same strategy. In the holy war, any mission against the city states makes them all enemies. Any mission against the north makes the two houses your enemy. The thing is, you do not have to take missions at all during the crisis. Just attack one city state or north house and not worry about the others attacking you.