Baptism of fire even more bugged in 1.6 (PC)

There are to my understanding several bugs in this quest hence why there’s so much confusion on how to solve the problem. My problem is that as soon as i reach the second wave of defenders and fight for a few seconds a message always pops up saying" too many of your men has died"this happens due to the bandits being flagged as allies instead of enemies.

I am still unsure of what is the cause of this problem that has been in the game since release, i have been able to complete this quest before but now in 1.6 i had to wipe my game after attempting everything to complete it.
Some claim its the bandits in the quest timmy and others say its when you interact with the priest in Uzhitz.

Whatever it is it was gamebreaking and i had to start a new game due to maximum saves.

damn , never had this happen in any of my 5 play throughs on pc. jw, did u try lying to radzig and telling him theres the least amount of bad guys there u can say out of all the options. if not, maybe that will help, i never did that but id assume that he would then bring the least amount of reinforcements.

Other than crap for FPS (5-11) I did not have problems. I killed Moorcock & company, caroused with Godwin, scouted the place, massacred the place the night before and burnt arrows and poisoned the food( strangely I wasn’t given credit as it seems there is time limit of the day you report), told them to bring maximum troops. set the hay bale alight, shot down/melee’ed all the archers, killed anything wearing black and killed runt(10-20FPS).
Oh ya , an under powered PC and 1.6

This was surprisingly caused by a mod, what mod i don’t know precisely as i took them all out. After i took them all out i was able to lock on the bandits once more.

I wish i had known in my last game, well better than never.

what mods were you using? I used mods and they did not interfere.

-Instant herb picking(to bypass the annoying animation)
-Trader Restock
-Hardcore hud restored with map marker
-Deep water horse.
-Perkaholic(this did not cause the bug as i had it enabled)

It’s one of the first 4 above that somehow caused this, flagging bandits and cumans as allies which explains why i couldn’t lock onto them.

I used : bow dot, faster arrows, richer merchants, cheat, robinhood. colored arrows, pebbles is a batter horse.
might be one or 2 more but not in game ATM.

You could do a tedious method of trying one at a time to see if they screw up.
if you don’t mind you could use a bandit ambush you know is ahead , save and test each suspect. if pass then retry for the next one.