How to currently clean hideouts? bandit infested villages?

[Hptm. Jaadoo]

Since the latest patch, I can't clean bandit infested villages and hideouts, because they are full with over 500 enemies and when the battle start, all enemy spawn at the same time, which leads to a extrem slowdown and then a crash of the game after a little while.

I can't even tell If could defeat them, if the game wouldn't crash and slow down so much.

any ideas?

 

[pingupower]

Villages with more than 500 Bandits Oo? What's your level?

 

[Merak]

whenever i do this i usualy get normal amount of bandits and allot of villages that is my allies the villages it self a realy allot but they you do not have to kill are those you are talking about?

 

[Hptm. Jaadoo]

nope I really mean lots of bandits etc spawning at the same time

before the latest patch when i attacked a hideout, the were a lot of enemies, but they didn't spawn at the same time, they came in the usual waves and now there so many...

i have played custom battles with 200 soldiers on each site and it worked fine, no problem, that's why i assume it has to be over 500, it's definetly at least 400 - at once.....

maybe my savegame is broken?
I guess i just start a new game, since i'm kinda stuck anyways...

 

[Archimbaud]

I don't think the problem is the number but more the fact that they spawn at the same time : physical collisions are consuming a lot of resources.
Thus, if the spawning is tight, there are a lot of such collisions between models.

To temporary solve the issue, you may try and limit the size of the battle.

 

[Hptm. Jaadoo]

thx, i did that, but it didn't help...
but after reinstalling the game (took quite some time with steam), savegame worked fine, no idea what had been wrong...

 

[unmerged(59875)]

For hide outs i like to hold position at the start than lure all enemies to my troops.

takes a bit longer but works fairly well

Equip 2 shields so u can sustain more arrow fire.

 

[Poach]

I struggle dealing with hideouts, there seems to be simply too many waves for me. I go in with the small number of men and we steadily get whittled down until only I continue to fight, and I only last so long....

 

[Camara]

I struggle dealing with hideouts, there seems to be simply too many waves for me. I go in with the small number of men and we steadily get whittled down until only I continue to fight, and I only last so long....

This. I wiped out out 2 hideouts (one sea raider the other steppe) and in the sea rider my troops always die too soon. I lost there 2 times because of that. And I play on easy setting.

 

[unmerged(169164)]

This kind of quests might be for the later stages in the game.
I did it only once. A difficult task as bandits keep reappearing everywhere, a real danger when they are forest bandits as your troops are flanked all the time by archers. And my companions all donned top notch equipment.

Yet there is something that should be tried: clean the exterior of the bandits hideout before entering it. Maybe there is a relation between the number of spawned bandits and the number of bandits outside the den.

Or not. Yet this should be tried.

A good idea, these bandits hideouts. Dont know exactly their effects on trades. Apparently, 1.105 removes the sea raiders landing near Rivacheg.
Would be good also if they respawn later in the game once destroyed.

 

[MetGreDKo]

Yet there is something that should be tried: clean the exterior of the bandits hideout before entering it. Maybe there is a relation between the number of spawned bandits and the number of bandits outside the den.

Or not. Yet this should be tried.

It's quite possible to manipulate the respawns. They typically respawn within a given radius of where you and your troops are so if you stick close to the house you'll usually have them spawn up the hill behind it or the house itself and this strategy is useful in using line of sight to pull them in closer to you.

 

[Wyvern]

Also make sure to keep your men together with e.g. the Follow Me order. I find that the biggest single help in taking out bandit lairs, otherwise your men tend to get ganged up on and picked off one at a time.