Combat sucks in this game. You have no control of who your guys attack in melee, so ganging up on that dangerous robber captain is not possible. Despite being given direct orders to attack a specified enemy only one will attack that enemy while the rest instead attack someone else. Even using the flee movement to get in better position doesn't work.
This game has a great premise and an even greater setting, but the combat is a turn off, especially when you feel you have no control in hard combats.
The hell are you going on about?
Every time I've played, combat has worked in the following manner: If a character gets attacked by an enemy, they will stop what they were doing and enage that enemy unless they are already taking hits from another enemy.
Yes, this makes it difficult to gang up on individual enemies, but I always felt that it helped with the realism.
True. But gameplay is more important than realism.
Still, once I know the "rules" and that they also apply to the enemy it's less frustrating. Too bad I'm always outnumbered and my melee fighters can't tie up enough of the enemy.
Get a boar tooth and place it after your equipment in the list. You can accidentally sell your equipped items in this game, but the boar tooth, which weighs nothing and is worth nothing, cannot be sold. This will protect you from selling your plate mail or something as you sell 32 suits of leather armor.
Never seen a boar tooth. But then I haven't been attacked by boars yet. I guess you need to get off the roads to meet them.
Anyway, wouldn't Clothes do the same trick, since they are worth 0?
You need two guys at least with 40 str and 40 endurance.
I'm using the default party which seems to have been a mistake, since only Gunter is strong enough to wear plate (once I have enough money to buy it). And Hans and Eberhardt take too much damage, even against cultists and bandits, when wearing ChainV + CouirbouiliL (boiled leather?) or LeatherL.
Low Latin skill (23) also hurts when dealing with universities, and it takes a long time to study it.
But I've come too far to start over and the game is not
that good, that I want to replay it right away.