[TIP] Campaign realism / Capturing lords

[Avarek]

Everyone playing Campaign should know that capturing an Enemy Lord stops them from building another army. That means, that the more Lords you capture, the less Lords the enemy has.
But obviously it's pretty hard to catch a Lord after each fight, which is actually pretty lame. You end up having a 400 x 400 battle, losing so many troops and the Lord still escapes after knocking him out each time?

This is pretty unrealistic and lame tbh, they shouldn't be able to escape an army that knocked him out 5 times a row. But theres a simply fix for every DLC, including Viking Conquest, Native, etc.

[Solution]

1. Look for the Mount and Blade: Warband Directory,
Steam : C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\MountBlade Warband\Modules

2. Choose the mod you play on. If it is native, click the native Module, otherwise choose the mod you play.

3. Check for a file called "scripts.txt" in the chosen module.

4. press "ctrl + f" and look for:

cf_check_hero_can_escape_from_player -1

5. There you can change the Percentage of the Lord escaping after fight. underneath the line
"cf_check_hero_can_escape_from_player -1"
it should look like this:

28 21 1 1224979098644774912 2133 2 1224979098644774913 0 4 0 200 1 504403158265495585 1073742370 3 504403158265495585 2 1224979098644774912 546 3 504403158265495585 4 1224979098644774912 2133 2 1224979098644774913 1 5 0 30 2 1224979098644774912 360287970189642736 2147483678 2 1224979098644774912 360287970189642738 4 0 200 1 504403158265495639 2133 2 1224979098644774913 1 5 0 2133 2 1224979098644774913 -1 3 0 3 0 2133 2 1224979098644774914 0 4 0 31 2 1224979098644774913 0 2136 3 1224979098644774915 0 100 2147483678 2 1224979098644774915 70 2133 2 1224979098644774914 1 5 0 31 2 1224979098644774913 -1 2133 2 1224979098644774914 1 3 0 31 2 1224979098644774914 1

6. The Number that determines the chance of escape is the "70" at the second last line
70% is the percentage that the Lord can escape. This can be different for each module. In Viking conquest it was 65% so don't look directly for the 70, but for the numbers next to it like 2133.

7. If you look for realism like me, change it to either 15 or 10, as a knocked out lord shouldn't escape. If your a cheater of course, change it to 0 lol

8. Don't forget to save! it's not necessary to make the file unwritable, as the Game wont change any number back.

[Horcerer]

Download TweakMB for this and a lot more of easy stuff like this with a user friendly UI, also works with most modules.

[Avarek]

Originally posted by Snake! No! You can't die! SNAKE!:

Download TweakMB for this and a lot more of easy stuff like this with a user friendly UI, also works with most modules.

I was trying that, but it didn't have exactly this feature for Viking Conquest sadly, thus i made this small guide

[Horcerer]

Really? I thought it might. But generally it does work.