Avatar 720 wrote:Mount and Blade: Warband can throw up some pretty rage-quitty moments. One I learned when I just started was do not ever, EVER, start out in the Kingdom of the Nords. Sea Raiders are ridiculously fast on the map, and can catch up with you effortlessly; they're also usually seen in fairly large parties; they're bloody everywhere; and they're comparable to T3 Nord Troops.
The other bandits in the game are fairly badly armoured, and not many of them utilise shields. Sea Raiders, however, combine both decent armour and the use of round shields, meaning that you have to hit their legs and feet with ranged weapons to damage them, or break through their resilient shields (and they can take a beating), both of which are difficult for a player just starting out, not least because, until you have decent (cross)bow or thrown weapon proficiencies, you'll have difficulty hitting anything at all with ranged weapons, never mind hitting a certain spot.
Getting close to shoot them is also deadly, since the ones that don't carry bows instead carry thrown weapons, which deal heavy damage and which are thrown quite expertly by the AI.
Dealing with Sea Raiders is extremely difficult until later on in the game, when you have a decent army of your own and decent enough equipment, but usually at that point you're enough of a threat to cause them to run away on sight, and you're also slower than them, so you can't easily catch them up. If you can catch them, they're a great source of cash (both by selling the items you get and selling them as prisoners to ransom brokers) but they're very annoying.
Most other bandits can be beaten by swarming them with men, but sea raiders require the use of heavier stuff, like decent archers/crossbowmen or cavalry, units that the player isn't likely to have at the start. So when you just start playing a game, and 5mins in, they come out, kill the few men you've got, steal your items and gold and haul you across the map to where they all tend to lurk, it's understandable that you might be more than a little displeased.
Bandits aside, one of the other most rage-quitty parts of Warband is when you're in a tournament, and you've bet on yourself and got through to the final round, and you're given a bow and arrow against an enemy with a 1H weapon and a shield. It's easier if you're mounted, but it's still very difficult to win under those match-ups.
" -KingCracker
