Who likes the new combat?

[queermobile]

In fairness, an archer can't really kill a White Walker as easily as good old Valyrian Steel, so in the world of ASOIAF the nobles with weapons made of said steel will feel quite justified in placing the sword as the superior weapon. However, isn't there a noble family that favors the bow over the sword? I'm not really that knowledgeable when it comes to the lore, but if there is, it'd make sense if you could somehow decide if your family should favor the sword or the bow, as well as decide if they favor fighting on foot or horseback, but I'm not sure how to do that without the inclusion of retinues, a decision to raise a unit of event troops of a specific type, or have two sets of laws that allow you to build certain buildings that add soldiers of a specific type to the holding's levy (which I don't think would work that good if you changed the law type)

I THINK you're thinking of House Caswell of Bitterbridge, but I don't know that we've gotten any indication that their levies are archer-heavy as opposed to a preference amongst the lords Caswell for longbows. It would be interesting to perhaps see building chains where you can only focus on one type of levy building to the exclusion of others for specialization. I personally would like for most of the Buildings Submod to be integrated into the main mod.

 

[Wandering Sentinel]

That would probably be them, it was mentioned in someone's Orson Lannister AAR and I only glanced at it briefly, so I wasn't sure if it was just some random house that they decided to make up a backstory for or if it was an actual house that exists in the lore.

 

[SgtSmuckers]

That would probably be them, it was mentioned in someone's Orson Lannister AAR and I only glanced at it briefly, so I wasn't sure if it was just some random house that they decided to make up a backstory for or if it was an actual house that exists in the lore.

House of Sarsfield
Words: True to the Mark
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I have no clue if this noble house of the Westerlands has any affinity with the bow. I believe they do however, as their words and coat of arms make it appear that they do.

 

[Wandering Sentinel]

Yeah, I remember that coat of arms now. If they don't have an affinity with the bow I don't really think the coat of arms or their words make much sense.

 

[Dimension3500]

A minor example of how dragons DID make his conquests easier in the books:

"Despite Aegon's refusal, House Arryn felt secure in the Vale. Visenya Targaryen, however, flew Vhagar to the Eyrie's inner courtyard, and Sharra found sitting on the knee of Aegon's queen her son Ronnel, who asked to fly on the dragon. After flying three times around the Giant's Lance on Vhagar, Ronnel became Lord of the Eyrie and Aegon's Warden of the East"

and

"Following the death of Harren the Black at Harrenhal, Aegon sent his sister-queen Visenya to demand the submission of Crackclaw Point. Its lords understood they had no chance, so they laid their swords at her feet. Visenya took them as her own men and they would owe no fealty but to the Iron Throne.[10] They bent the knee to her without qualm, and in return she promised them that they would be direct vassals of the Targaryens."
- both from the AWOIAF wiki.


It seems giant armored flying fire-breathing lizards were deemed as a reasonable enough reason for surrendering.

Visenya is best sister-queen.

 

[Wandering Sentinel]

Honestly I think it'd be more interesting if you could hold multiple dragon eggs by virtue of the trait changing from "has a dragon egg" to "has two dragon eggs" and finally to "has three dragon eggs" to represent getting a "clutch" of dragon eggs.... If for no other reason than to allow a "steal dragon egg" plot to spice things up. It wouldn't make Aegon's conquest any more complicated, but if enough eggs were stolen from the Targaryens and the thieves rebelled years later....... And besides, Dany did have three eggs at once didn't she?

 

[DorlasAnther]

Honestly I think it'd be more interesting if you could hold multiple dragon eggs by virtue of the trait changing from "has a dragon egg" to "has two dragon eggs" and finally to "has three dragon eggs" to represent getting a "clutch" of dragon eggs.... If for no other reason than to allow a "steal dragon egg" plot to spice things up. It wouldn't make Aegon's conquest any more complicated, but if enough eggs were stolen from the Targaryens and the thieves rebelled years later....... And besides, Dany did have three eggs at once didn't she?

Problem is that this would eventually cause huge numbers of dragons and with unfortunate adventurer mechanics (where every dragonrider wants to create their own realm, which by the way happened only once in Targaryen history, or wants to conquer Westeros...which happened only twice and both of those cases were people who were heirs, but someone else was declared king), there would be tons of wars, where everyone wants to get something.
Not to mention lower dragon death rate in wars than in history of Westeros. There were 20 dragons at the start of Dance of Dragons and only 4 at the end. Yes, many died because of unfortunate events, but even if we discount those who died in Storming of Dragonpit, there are still more dead dragons than in any version of this mod´s Dance (and I have seen many Dances, many ended with only one, two or three dragons dead).
So, unless mechanics of this mod are changed, adding more dragons would be really unfortunate, IMO (although, adding more options for buying/finding eggs would be great, right now, Summerhal is only reasonable one).

 

[Wandering Sentinel]

That's true, but another thing I've noticed is that the AI tends to try and hatch a dragon egg the instant they get any knowledge about dragons, leading to unfortunate consequences most of the time and the egg is removed from play. Having it possible to steal eggs would at least mix it up since I've had it happen in one game where a feud broke out between the Targaryens and the Starks in the middle of the conquest (the LP of the North refused to support Aegon during the rest of the conquest and the religious/cultural differences between the Targaryens and Starks was enough to push it over the edge). It'd be interesting if a jealous Lord or LP could try to steal a dragon egg from another house and trigger a feud, or for a member of a house feuding with a family of dragon riders to try and steal an egg from them and get half their own family killed when they try to hatch it with little-to-no knowledge of dragons.