Stainless steel (Medieval 2: Total War)

Comrades, questions have accumulated:
1. What is the role of vassals in the game and what do they give? Can you manage them?
2. How to increase the number of units of cannons and catapults in a squad?
3. How can you increase the authority of your ruler on the "Diplomacy" scroll?
I'm waiting for your answers. Thanks.

1. As far as I remember, you cannot manage them (damn it has not played for a long time =) and their whole role seems to be reduced to increasing your income at the expense of the vassal's cities.
2. HZ. Why are 2 guns in a squad not enough for you? Walls, especially city walls, already resemble a rotten fence, which does not even make sense to try to defend. And if you increase the number of guns, then there will be a complete fuck-up ....
3. Apparently you are talking about the reputation of the state. The only way that I could figure out the following - when taking cities, both foreign and Rebel, you should simply occupy it, and not plunder or destroy. In this case, the reputation begins to grow. Otherwise, it falls below the plinth =) Even did not notice any more dependencies.

By the way, who knows the thread, is there resin in SS? And how can you increase the HP of the walls?

There is resin, it is poured if there is a detachment above the wall / gate.

Huge medieval greetings to everyone!
Guys, explain to me a ram how to correctly install Stainless Still, patch 5.1 Igromania magazine was with a disc.
I zafigachil him, and what next I do not know (stupid, forgive generously).

Download yourself right away 6.1. Above there is a link to twcenter, and I downloaded from the torrent
http://torrents.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?t=815525. Highly recommend, with all podmods. True, I downloaded it for a week and a half: (((.

Thanks for the answers eDzeer. And in Medieval 2 - Road to Jerusalem there are as many as 4 guns in the squadron and the game only benefits from this because becomes more realistic.

The question is not what to download, the question is how to install it. I'm not a big computer expert, so it's hard for me

There, on the torrent, the whole process is written in great detail under the spoiler, how to put it, in what sequence.

Thanks friends! I still didn’t understand anything, but I downloaded it, I’ll call the hackers, let them screw me up and explain the fool to me.
I play only for Russia, I catch the full buzz (though I tried it for everyone, Venice is also interesting)

I don’t even know. I somehow really don't like it when, from some fucking stones, a 5-meter-thick wall crumbles with such speed that even a detachment standing on this very wall does not have time to knock off it, and heroically dies. IMHO questionable realism.

I already wrote here once that in SS I could not hire catapults in any way. Therefore, it was necessary to storm all the castles and cities, climbing the walls. Therefore, for me the advantages of artillery, as they are, are natural. There is no need to make them smaller.

Well, you can still put up with guns, after all, gunpowder is a serious thing. Although medieval castles were successfully used in the Second World War, and then the weapons were more serious.
But trebuchets and catapults generally kill realism. Personally, I would either increase the HP of the walls, or reduce the damage to buildings. What the hell is realism when one trebuchet shot blows 6% of the castle wall of the last level? 4 detachments will 100% destroy a piece of the wall to such an extent that the detachment standing on it will die, and from the 1st volley. How many played, if the enemy had 2 or more siege squads, he always dumped either to the second line or to the center. square. Delirium. = (((I remember RTV, in which oh, how difficult it was to dig the wall ...

It is known that Edward III the Black Prince took over 20 castles in France with the help of his huge trebuchet, which even had a name, but I forgot. Once the besieged, seeing that this trebuchet was dragged to their castle, decided to surrender immediately, but Edward did not approve of this: he loved to watch his car smash walls, he enjoyed it. Therefore, it was agreed that the besieged would pretend to be active, and Edward would break the wall for them. When the wall is broken, they will surrender and he will forgive them all for this.

Actually in SS it is right that it is difficult to hire a lot of siege sieges at once. Only there, in my opinion, they sorted out this case.

eDzeer I do not mean the collapse of walls and towers, but when you hack into the field. There are times when you do not have time to shoot properly, the battle is already a foregone conclusion. But you're right about the walls.

)))) In an open field, more cavalry is needed, and preferably universal. The cannons are not relevant here. Kava will run and trample in a moment)))

I have a question, what kind of advice do I have in 6.1, there is a military one

Which disc do you need to play in order to play Stainless Steel - main or Kingdoms?

Only kingdom, as well as almost all mods (with very rare exceptions). And use http://transli.ru, please.

Just no words .... I put SS xs which version (the disk was pinned) at first I even liked it, more provinces and other innovations .... But 15 minutes ago, Thorn defended the citadel (70 years have passed since the beginning) and did not quietly go nuts.
Then I was attacked by the Polish army, such as elite - 6 neg. foot Polish knights, the same number of cavalry, a couple of elite Polish guards, the rest of the crossbowmen and a couple of trebuchet units. Full stack.
I was annoyed before that some kind of fucking spy would get into the city - he would hack the lock server (I don't see any other reason that all the gates open at the same time), and a mustache. Open Day. What is called a couple of thousand enemy heads unexpectedly crept up to the castle.
Well, I don't give a shit, we are not the first to drive troops from all over the castle, especially there are a lot of elite shooters. Although they descend and climb the walls slower than the enemy rolls the trebuchet. He sent a squad of spearmen to commit suicide, won time, stared at the second line, quietly and peacefully shot 70% of the adversaries from the walls. And then the fun began ...
Not only that before that I had to regularly wind the camera and look for an angle in which there are no brakes (and it did not affect where to look, in a clear field or for 2 thousand vrazhin), then the computer made a feint with his ears, as they say, and so menacingly stood behind the wall by 3-4 detachments of Polish knights ... well, in general, he just stood there and that's it, he decided to scare him to a heartbreak.
I am sending 5 detachments of the princely squad from the other end of the castle, I wait until they finish sinking. And right through the wall with the Polish knights is my only squad of kava. (prince squad) ............ I see a wonderful picture - Poles shouting BANZAI! and with sabers naked, stubbornly trying to ram 5 meters of solid stone with my own head .... Well, I naively decided that the developed fashion still did not add to them the skill "effectively against the walls" it turned out to be added .. Where, from the 120th attempt, 5 - 7 knights on the pike to the dictum, they turned out to be on the other side of the wall and not only turned out to be, but demolished about 10 of my cavalrymen from the charge .... Then I got fucked up, hacked them to death. and out of harm's way he knocked down from this wall, otherwise the enemy will still learn to fly.

Well, in general, archers came and killed everyone. But the sediment remained bad. The fact that in M2TV there are not walls but a rotten fence, I knew before, but that they can be rammed by cavalry ??? even it seems to me this is not entirely historically plausible. And in the original I have never met such crap.
Even from time to time (if a spy has tampered with the security system), my general's detachment turns out to be outside the castle walls. And not near the entrance, but the devil knows where. What is this original feature ????