Herding cattle

[Konrad]

Herding cattle is the single most stupid, idiotic and mind numbingly task I have ever witnessed in a strategy game. Congratulations dev team, on making a cowboy simulator out of an otherwise quite interesting game. /end rant

Question. Is this "mission" deemed entertaining amongst the average player? Am I missing a level of "fun" here? Does my brain simply not function in the same way as those who find this quest entertaining? Am I simply not "cowboy" enough? I'm truly at a loss here. /end second rant

Need I equip my flame suit?

[Aragosnat]

Yes. It is mind numbingly boring. Thankfully there is a mod to fix or a way to that. Where it basicly makes them follow you. Otherwise I avoid those.

[Konrad]

Thank you for indulging in my rant. I was geniunly pissed when I realised how stupid the mechanics behind that quest is. Seriously, the game is a real gem but this quest and the mechanics behind it must have been designed, and implemented by a trainee or something. Either that or I must have seriously misunderstood something.

[Aragosnat]

No problem. But, thing is. I do agree that it was not implemented in a fun way. It would have been nice f they had a mechanic that if we hired X then we don't have to chase after the cattle. We have someone else doing that. As I can understand we should not be able to do everything ourselves.

[Gefilte Fish]

You're right. I can't stand the cattle herding either !

[Shaneeester]

I don't even do those quest lol ♥♥♥♥ dat ♥♥♥♥

[Tuidjy]

I think it is there so that, at some point, you slap yourself on the forehead and say:

"Gоddamnit, I'm a sovereign in my own name,dozens of lords and thousands of soldiers have sworn allegiance to me, why the Hell am I stepping around cow patties?"

[Sentient_Toaster]

Yup. Should have been delegatable. The same goes for the other fetch quests.

"Oh, you need cattle? Sorry, you're on your own, I've got towns and castles to storm".

[White Knight]

TweakMB is the tool I've heard about for fixing this. Some mods, like the Viking Conquest DLC have changed it so cattle follow your army instead.

I stopped doing those quests a long time ago. In the early game, when I'm still making friends in villages and such, I'll go fetch them a few cows from the next village over but that is it. I find that small movements and frequent spacebar use can be helpful (assuming you can keep up with the herd at least).

[Vain]

Yea they follow you in viking conquest but the only problem is that they don't keep up with you. The same can be said about escorting merchants. They need to make it that they follow you at the same speed like when you accompany a Marshal or Lord.

[Konrad]

I'm glad we all agree. As for the Viking DLC, is it worth it?

[White Knight]

^^^It is. There is still enough Mount & Blade in it for it to be awesome. Some of the changes they made are absolute improvements, like the cattle thing or having ships for example. Some of the changes aren't so wonderful, like crappy bows, expensive horses and unprofitable business ventures.

There is plenty to love and hate in there but in the end, despite frustrations, it is still a pretty great gaming experience.

[Sovereign]

TweakMB. You're welcome :)