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I enjoy both, but I prefer A World of Ice and Fire by a significant margin. Both difficult, A Clash of Kings becomes very easy after level 15. I also wouldn't rely on the sidebar topic as it's kinda outdated.AWOIAF has a similar setup to Viking Conquest and ACoK is based on the Floris module.If you are used to playing Warband, I would download ACoK 4.0 and do a serious playthrough, and wait for the next update of AWOIAF, which will be on 3.5. If you wanna try AWOIAF and mess around in it, get 3.0 and just get used to the features, the options, and the general system before doing a serious playthrough in the next update.
AWOIAF: Viking Conquest features such as religion and naval warfare are used to enhance the immersion. Companions based upon characters in the books/show. Difficulty progression going from early, mid and late games is smoother, although the start is basically, 'Fuck you.' ACOK: More things to do in Essos.
More diversity and interesting specialties in faction troop trees. Special troops are more easily acquired. More companions and lore-friendly ones. A wider variety of weapons. Much better scenes.Disclaimer: I play both but prefer AWOIAF, but after shifting around the balance between weapons (by default all axes do piercing damage in AWOIAF, which diminishes the value of armor in a setting that goes out of its way to state armor is almost always an advantage) and adding a few more (halberds and poleaxes, similar to what Stannis' men were using when they marched on Winterfell).
I suppose 'better' is subjective but Corzur certainly has done a lot more of them for ACOK. I personally don't care about it at all, but I can see that he really put lots of love into places like Lord Harroway's Town, the Crossroads Inn, various Dothraki encampments, etc. Especially with respect to the lore. It is impressive, even if wasted on myself.If produno did quite as much, he hid it away somewhere.With respect to the troop trees, the Reach, Westerlands and Stormlands, Riverlands and Vale should be somewhat similar. I don't have as much a problem with that so much as within troop trees, there is a lot of sword-and-board. I did not play ACOK yet, but if you are masochistic, play AWOIAF. And not because it's 'hard', it's just as approachable as the other 'hard' mods out there, but because of the 'realism' features you can't turn off(but you can in VC, the basis of the mod).
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I have played dozens of mods, but the frustration i accumulated in AWOIAF is worse than all of those together.Few mentions: battle wounds(you will often lose stats when hit, and you must find a 'healer' to cure you. This is extremely annoying, especially if you like to fight a lot, and the first healer is half a continent away. After few days the stat loss becomes permanent).Guild Masters - you must talk to them in the town first, to be able to access them in the town menu - if you are lucky, this takes 30 seconds, but in some shitty cities you must walk around half a hour searching for that cunt. There might be more i can't recall.When i have played it, it rarely had city scenes which did not bug out in a way or another. Either in sieges, or bandit ambush scenes. I tried ACOK first and really enjoyed it!I ended up raising my status and flirting with a widow Lady who owned a castle in the Reach.
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Eventually I married her and we quickly grew our influence within the faction, ultimately obtaining marshalship and conquering the Westerlands, Crownlands, Dorne, and the Stormlands. Ship battles sucked so I stayed away from them.I had always heard people say that they preferred AWOIAF so just a few weeks ago I decided to install it and was pretty disappointed. Yes, it's more difficult, but imo it's not in a good way. It's not challenging so much as it is unfair and annoying. There are enemies called 'robber knights' that are WAY faster than you will ever reasonably be at any point in the game and WAY stronger than you will be until you have 100 mid-level troops.
Imagine if vanilla Warband just had groups of 30 swadian knights that just boned you every other day.This makes it impossible to travel safely across the MASSIVE map (I like the size of the map, but not when it's a guaranteed defeat/capture anytime you travel). Since you can't make money off selling/trading goods city to city, the only reasonable way to make money is to hunt deer/boar. There are small groups of deer/boar in wooded areas and you can hunt them for their meat/fur. Except for the fact that deer are way faster than any horse you can buy and they run away whenever you get with 20 feet of them.All of this just makes for incredibly frustrating gameplay and forces you to save scum/lower difficulty options to the easiest degree.Finally, my biggest complaint is that you can't marry female lords.
I tried courting the same character (Lady Arwyn Oakheart) as I had in ACOK, but was seriously disappointed to learn that she's essentially a male lord with a female character model. Since you can't make money off selling/trading goods city to city, the only reasonable way to make money is to hunt deer/boar.OK, while I fully agree with the statement that AWOIAF's starting game is basically, 'Fuck you,' I'd like to step in and say it isn't nearly as difficult as you've found. Here is the trick; travel by sea. Get yourself to the North (I know this involves some skill/luck) then o a few bounties for stags. Once you get a nice buffer, buy furs at 39-60 per, go to White Harbor and take a ship down to Gulltown, Maidenpool, and Weeping Town to sell for 500-800 a pop. Traveling the full breadth of Westeros is definitely dangerous as hell, but that is because you're traveling through the middle of Westeros during the events of ACOK.
It is supposed to be dangerous as hell and not the sort of thing you do without a strong escort.