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i remember that battle. the game was crashing so you decided to go down in an epic battle, but turns out you didn't stack the odds enough against you. those epic battles really do make Bannerlord a great game.
I thought for sure it was GG lol I think the AI being so hesitant and the bridge map saved things though!
@@Strat-Guides just for curiosity/learning why did you hold on the cavalary for so long? i kinda feel like it could have helped the troop leakage into the archers
No they don't because they are not epic at all. Being able to easily survive any battle which your side wins, and being able to win, even against 5 times bigger army only proves that this game on singleplayer sucks, is extremely easy and simple.
@@thehuntermikipl1170 if you cheese it isn't an epic battle. he didn't cheese so it was not a given win. he won due to all of his troops being high level companions. the same thing happens on MP all the time when you have a group of people who are playing as a group against a bunch of noobs. even a group against equal skill level that are randoms and don't work together lose when they should win.
@@jamoecw Every battle in M&B sp is cheesing, because AI is dumb af. Having OP troops is cheesing. Spamming LMB at the bots who aren't even looking at you, and killing dozens of them this way is cheesing. Hell, you can even win a whole battle just by yourself this way, kiting bots and spamming LMB at them. On sp everyone can win 1:1 battle. Most people can win 2:1 battle. 5:1 is insane ratio, and he didn't exactly do an excellent 200IQ strategy (not like it's even possible on sp), but he won anyway. On multiplayer, there is no way this would happen. Opponents there are skilled, they have brain, can focus on more than 1 opponent, have situational awareness. They can execute mor complicated orders, and 1 player there can't just run around spamming LMB and killing everyone. Even if for some reason there is a big battle, when one side uses strategy, and is coordinated, while the other is not, they still wouldn't beat them at 1:5 ratio!!!!! Probably not even at 1:3. It just reminded me of an idea for an mp event, where one side was an experienced, and well coordinated clan, facing a larger force, of less experienced, and not coordinated players.
Pov you auto resolved in a defencive siege battle:
Lol
I just wish game had not crash at This point I was absolutely loving This series
Yeah it's a shame it ended like that, but I'm almost done editing the restart so it's not over yet!
@@Strat-Guides Sweet
This is an amazing battle. Nice job!
Yeah I thought for sure it would be a loss, but the enemy infantry were really slow and passive for some reason which helped a lot
Ah yes, my favorite member of Spartacus’ rebellion: Dingus Malingus the 5th What are these companion names? 🤣
Haha he was a valiant warrior :D I had people submit their names on a community post so I could use them for companion names in the campaign
This is one of the few "bannerlord moments" that are actually awesome
What a cinematic masterpiece! Love the commentary with what you’re thinking strategy wise. Really enjoyable to watch
I had a battle with odds like this against the Sturgians, the only reason I got out of it was because their forces were already depleted to mostly fresh recruits. Despite them not being at peak power the battle was still insanely bloody and I had to maneuver through the heart of sturgian lands with about 30 men to spare
Nice, battles like that always make me want to play more (even though they only happen a couple times per long campaign)
@@Strat-Guides yeah I was a mercenary for Battania at the time, later on in the campaign I became an Aserai merc and defended Uqba Castle against 2 armies of Vilandians counting about 3000 men total
i can't even win a 400 vs 400 against sturgian Raganvad, despite changing strategies multiple times, ambush using archer and flanking tactics. their infantry was tough as hell.
I love these asymmetric tactics videos. I feel like for all the improvements RBM makes there are some drawbacks. Like how the troops maintain unit cohesion much better, but at the cost of being very passive when harassed by lone troops. As bad as the base AI is I don't think you would have had as easy of a time pick off the their archers for example. They just kind of stand there and let themselves be picked off.
Yeah would be nice if they commanded like 2-4 troops to charge you down. Enough to maintain cohesion but prevent the active threat
Rbm is great but doesn't support custom armor or weapons ofc, so if you want to add new weapons like katanas and whatnot your screwed
@@InternalxHD Not entirely true. I run lots of custom armor with RBM. RBM comes in two separate and independently functioning modules: the first is the overhaul module (the armor/item changes and the point of incompatibility), and the second is the AI module (the AI-altering and highly compatible module). You don't need to activate the overhaul module to get the AI changes. You can just activate the AI module and you're set.
@@Imagine_Baggins well obviously, I been using ai rbm for a very long time.. but again like I said if you wanted to use modded weapons and armor then your screwed, rbm only has compatibility patches for a very small sum of weapons and armor otherwise they do 0 damage and. Adicslly got godmode
@@InternalxHD The modularity of the mod itself isn't obvious to people who haven't yet looked into the details of the mod, hence why I clarified. The AI changes are the most important part of RBM for most people. And that specific component of the mod is *highly compatible,* and doesn't require any kind of patches. I'm making this distinction so that people aren't dissuaded from using the mod strictly for AI changes because they were led to believe it implicitly causes armor conflicts.
I remember one of my battles where I was defending a castle in Aserai territory and all my troops died and was left alone. My blood ran cold when I noticed that there was 40 enemy troops left. Luckyly they prioratised taking up positions up on my wall insead if hunting me down. I was able to pick them off with bow an win.
A big Thanks from France for all your job on this game.
Dude youre so good at fighting.
This is what happenes when you have a bunch of disciplined, angry gladiators fighting for you. It seems like the AI is getting better.
I had the RBM mod active, which changes the AI behavior :)
@@Strat-Guides another L for us, console peasants 🤣
Parabéns mano , excelente estrategista de guerra.
well played my friend!!!
Great job on the Spartacus videos! Sorry it had to continually crash. :(
What a slaughter! Quality vs quantity
Hey it's one of the combatants from the battle! You did fine work that day :)
Can you please share your mod list, this looks amazing and well played with the spear dude lol. Thanks for the content
Spartacus!Spartacus!Spartacus!
As a new player I really struggle to come up with tactics but you seem to make it so much easier
Just think of it as making the best use of your own troops. Like for example, the safest tactic to use in general is to have infantry at the front, archers on the back, and cavalry on the flanks. The infantry makes contact with the main body of the enemy, archers weaken them before the lines collide, and the cavalry can flank or prevent flanking. You can spice things up by, for example, pulling your archers up front with cav supporting them. This way you can pepper them with arrows for way longer, always retreating, essentially kiting the infantry until your lines collide, with you cav there to hold off any attempt at wiping your missile troops. Another would be to separate your infantry into 2 groups, one whose main job is holding the line, probably in a thinner line, but that will give you more time for your second group to go around and flank them. You can think of a lot of ways to give yourself an advantage. Hiding your archers in forests so cavalry is less effective as they hit the trees, hiding your infantry in a valley if you feel like they have stronger archers than you, flanking with your archers, etc. A lot of variety in strategies. Don't be afraid to save and try something new!
That moment you were like “wow that’s a big bridge” lol. I’m just surprised they didn’t just rush you down. I’ve even had maps where the ai just throws their 200 peasants at me in a spread formation and I’m just like “well shit”. Took a few loads and a quick tight circle formation to win that one x.x was on an open plain so I perched a squad of archers and prayed their calv unit wouldn’t just rush ‘em. Got lucky and they tried to crash the infantry.
You know, I heard some people are making a Lord of the Rings mod for bannerlord it looks pretty promising, and it looks like a pretty big map. I would love a future series of it, but here's a fun question which faction you would join. Would you join Sauron would you join Isengard, or would you join the free peoples of Middle-earth
Use some punctuation mate.
@@fived9424sorry voice typing they leave those out sometime I don't know why😅
@@dominicadrean2160 Ooohh hahaha, my bad. It's just that it's hard to understand it without punctuation. Have a good one!
in The Last Days of the Third Age i played Rohan first since it was the most similar to MnB. later i did a Dwarf campaign, but since they do not use horses i got curb stomped before i could recruit enough troops to fight off basic animals, so i did an elf campaign instead. after the elves i decided to try an Isengard campaign, but the early game is similar to Dwarves so i got curb stomped again. i played some of the evil men, then with some updates the Dwarves were made so they don't get ridden down as much in the prewar days by animals so i did a Dwarf campaign, and after that i did an Isengard campaign but couldn't close it out against the elves since orcs take too many casualties and it gets hard to find weak parties to go after to build your forces back up. one of the best, maybe even the best of the MnB mods out there.
name of the mod?
wow, insane battle, hopefully soon I can do something similar
Well done man
I remember watching this, believing the campaign was at its end especially when the cavalry flanked you. But I should've known Strat gaming always finds a way
How come you have legionaries throwing their pilums?
This is Sparta!
Im currently enjoying a Bannerkings/RBM combo and holy gosh its good.
Good tactics i wouldn't have thought to use infantry javlins
Dang, All logic dictates that you should have lost that battle and the romans win with minimal casualties. But amazingly you and your rebels pulled out an amazing win. Bravo!
He is napoleon, he is caesar, he is alexander
484 against 94? Simple. You just have to take over 300 troops by yourself. It's that shrimple!
Lol that certainly doesn't hurt :) I think the archers and javelins helped a lot too
Well its isnt that efishent
this is amazing i always took myself as a strategy guy and hated blundly attacking my enemies and instead using strategies while being outnumbered but this is on next level can you tell me what mods u used to make it realistic? and what mode were you in realistic?
So the full video has all the mods. It’s the Spartacus series. But the realistic combat and enemy cohesion mod is RMB. Sadly they maintain cohesion at the loss of being picked off by the player easily.
What do you use for all the companions? Those 50 guys are all companions right?
Woow, great fight :) Which Weapon are u using in this Video? You nearly onetap every soldier with that spear… :)
How do you do battles with these maps & units? Like I saw your video with Roman’s vs gauls and other similar videos, & this one, with unique units & maps. How do you do these? Mods?! I’ve never seen a bridge or units like these in vanilla.. just curious
On what version was this playthrough?
How do u get the spear thrust on foot doing so high damage? Mine is pathetic, only works well on horse back
A couple things - it's custom crafted and min maxed for thrust damage, I've got a very high level in polearm and perks to boost thrust damage and finally I'm using the mod RBM which makes thrust damage actually usable
Which spear do you use on foot strat? Great video
Thanks! It's a custom crafted one - the spear tip was tier 5 part, I don't recall the name. The shaft was 300 length so it had some good reach!
Hey Stratgaming - can you make a guide on battles where the enemy outnumbers you or roughly has better total strength but they refuse to charge or attack first?
what is this spear and javeline ? its so awsome
I don't recall the name, but it's from the Eagle Rising mod!
bro rocking the ck3 music
Heya, quick question but is it possible to recruit tier 5 and 6 units? I've been getting conflicting information and i havnt noticed being able to recruit them despite having a hundred prisoners on me for months
Yes you can recruit them as prisoners. The problem you're having is you probably have a ton of different types of units in your prisoner hold and each of them have a random chance each hour to gain confirming. So if you need 30 hours to recruit a single one, but you have 50 types of units as prisoners, you'll only be getting one hour of conformity every 50 hours on average, so it will literally take you over a year just to get one to convert. Instead, only keep one or two TYPES of prisoners at any given time and dump the rest. You'll see a big difference in recruitment rate. Quick note, you can have as many of the same type of prisoner, just don't have a lot of different types of it will show you down a lot
@@Strat-Guides thank you, i had been hoarding every tier 4+ unit i could find and wondering why none were recruiting now i know :D
I sometimes think: "Is he Sun Tzu? Or am I just not good with tactics?
Lol I'm sure if you had 4k hours in the game, you would be just as good or better :)
@@Strat-Guides Well I only 37.3 hours, so its a long way ahead of me! Currently in my campaign I am trying to create the Byzantine empire, so I'll see how that will go 😀
Man that spear is fast!!
what spear were u using and what was ur polearm spear ?? that's gotta be the fastest and best spear performance i've seen lol
You had Crusader Kings III running in the background? :D
Just the music - it's a sign of what's to come in the near future :D
I've noticed some of the shielded units are holding them over their heads. Did you find a testudo formation mod that works in the latest patches?
What difficulty was the battle on since I never got this much damage on a spear. (I use a two handed axe and a noble bow)
Still new to RBM was wondering how your posture meter isn’t getting lower. I hit the enemy shield 3 times and my meter is gone. What am I doing wrong ?
It has to do with your Athletics skill! If you have low athletics, it will drain very fast. I think I was around 300 for this battle so close to maxed out
@@Strat-Guidesah that makes sense thank you. I’m also just starting an eagle rising campaign with the RBM mod. But it says to disable the combat and tournament module from RBM for this mod. Since you used the Combat module there should be no problem if I turn it on right ? Or did you do anything else to be able to use all the RBM modules?
As much as I like the eagle rising mod (I've played mainly as carthage for quite sometime, a bit on dacia and rome as well), my slight issue in the mod is that the sturgians are not yet replaced with any modded faction yet (for the last time I played, correct me if there is now). This makes the game really unbalanced, especially with rbm, since the sturgians' arsenal of weaponry and armour are practically 11th century which isn't really fair against ancient armour and weaponry (and trust me, that time difference shows). Elite vanilla sturgian infantry and druzhina cavalry with their lamellar plates and closed mail helmets are almost invincible (by arrows, swords, spears, axes, etc.) when compared to the other factions such as rome with elite tier troops which mainly uses mail, with helmets that are rather open which makes it easy for attacks to one-shot them in the face. Same goes for carthage, dacia, etc.
I've not played RBM or Eagle Rising, but what you described is exactly why I love Sturgian infantry - combine Heavy Axemen with some Captains that have high Athletics, 1 Handed, and Throwing, they become heavily armored and hugely shielded beasts. It's like fielding an army of literal tanks.
what mods were you using?
Good story. Now back to the cross!
Man I’ve been trying to learn to play banner lord but I just don’t understand how to increase the max amount of troops you can carry pr where I can pull enough gold to buy stuff for all of them 😭
Holy jesus i wanna see the parts you used for that one handed spear cuz it works like godly weapon
This campaign was using RBM which changes some weapon parts and makes polearm thrust damage actually viable. If you haven't tried out RBM, I highly recommend it! Weapon skill is much more important than weapon stats, so make sure you level up Polearm a bunch.
@@Strat-Guides k
The horse 🐴 kicked a man 😂
Did you buy that spear or forge it? What are the details in either case? Looks insanely good (or do you just have super high polearm skill?)
I don't recall the exact parts, but it was 300-350 length and picked parts to max thrust damage. I also had RBM on which makes polearms actually viable compared to vanilla.
@@Strat-Guides Thanks, realized after commenting I wouldn't be able to tell a soul what my bannerlord weapons were five months ago so I appreciate the detail Always enjoyed your content btw, for this and other games. real ☝☝☝☝☝
What weapon are you using? Why does it deal a lot of damage
It's a custom polearm. I was using the RBM mod which makes polearms actually usable
id like to use these mods myself is there any way for me to know which mods he used ?
How come you don't play with RTS Camera/Command? I know you've covered the mod before so is it because you want to keep this playthrough low on mods like that? Or maybe just because it's not updated for current versions of Bannerlord? Either way I'm curious!
Nice video ! Did you use any particular mod to get the roman shields on your troops, as well as banner bearers units ?
Yeah it's called Eagle Rising! It's a really well made mod
@@Strat-Guides thanks for the tip ! I plan to wait the holidays before running a brand new campaign (hoping TW will "fixe" -again- v1.2.0), and this mod looks like the perfect addition. Great channel btw
That spear is good
I love how the gladiators ale heavily armored and with good weapons and the romans are some random dudes with or without armor XD
wow that was sick! what spear is that? its like a perfect balance of speed and reach while still having good damage
It's called the "Biggus Dickus" from the Montey Python movie lol It's a custom made one using the RBM and Eagle Rising mod
@@Strat-Guides lmao i gotta check out rbm. 500 hours and still havent fucked with it yet
Damn I gotta get my polearm skill up.... literally one shotted most of em with the spear
Beautiful
sparticus got that potion of invisibility
How are you able to deal that high damage on armored units with a spear? When i use a spear i deal like 7-8 damage
Some of it is the high polearm skill and perk selection, but also from the RBM mod which makes spears viable on foot. If you're on PC, I highly recommend trying out RBM
Show me tactics but cavalry only!
2:00 that was a great war tactic💯
What an epic battle. I still did not watch the second part of campaign. 4h+ is too much right now. And i hate when i don't finish the video 😀
You can win any battle out numbered just put archers in front and when they get close retreat and repeat
my teacher said that you could not increase the adjective impossible (like you do with big-bigger). But then I showed her the new Strat Gaming video and proved her wrong
xd what is that 1 poke kill with the long spear as well as so fast
What spear are you using? You are one hitting them like crazy
is there a mod where you can play sparta's battle of thermopylae?
Yo, how are you doing so much damage with that big ass pole? what are your settings? Your one hitting everyone.. I saw when you was on horseback you got over 500 damage with one blow.. lol
Bro you should've used your cav to help your archers, bro I was lowkey mad you didn't.
Oh shit, was this Eagle Rising? Have they updated the mod yet?
What is this Weapon. I Love this
Can you make a video how to install europe 1110 ad mod.all empires on 1.4.1 version nexus mods empires like seljuks fatimits hungarian etc
Hey bud, as much as I love your content.. I used to be sonexcited for 8 A.M. my time. I still look everyday. I just feels like a month's wait now. I freaking miss it man. I need my fix.
Yeah I know what you mean - I should have left the Let's Play channel alone :( I'm working my way back to that this month
Wow good strategy! W ithout a good strategy, this wouldn't have been possible at all.
So i have a lot of success when i use delegate command just on Calvary. They seem to just protect my flanks well enough and not run straight into the thick of infantry formation like the damn horse archers do. But maybe i just get lucky with the AI decision making.
very good)
Hi, which mods do you use ? And how you get your masse ? With smithing ?
This video covers everything for the mods! kzhead.info/sun/hNqmqLetjGqdpn0/bejne.html&ab_channel=StratGaming
@@Strat-Guides thanks !
What is the build for your pole arm it’s OP??
Can you make a mod list for this vid :D
along time ago i had an awesome battle it was at the end of the playthrough i had almost reformed the empire the west only had a castle left i collapsed the khuzaits took over 90% of the aserai some gains agaisnt the sturgians and where battanians is was a major conflict zone since they were the first faction to fall and no one was capable of holding their cities for long at the end i got into an endless war with the vladians i hit their armies hard obliterating multiple thousand size armies and they moved to siege on city i had like 600 defenders total almost all high tier troops 600 agaisnt 4000 we almost won if the ai didnt go derp and let a good chunk of them climb the walls and those stupid crossbowmen i would have won
this was am amazing battle I wonder what mods did you use for this playthrough????
Thanks! Eagle rising - I highly recommend it. The attention to details is amazing
RIP Paintus Bucketius 😭😭
The moment i even think about going after enemy archers i get instakilled by volley that can block out the sun..... I have no idea why are they so passive towards you.
Yeah that can be tricky. If I start to get targeted, I'll typically ride in a very erratic motion to throw their aim off. They were targeting me pretty hard here, but the horse took the brunt of the damage for me lol poor thing
Pls tell me what is that polerm I want to buy it 😢
What's the name of that pike and where can it be bought
2:10 that flank was not a surprise
Here's a funny question would you like a World War mod for bannerlord
I'm open to any mod that makes the game fun to play, so if they can make a compelling World War mod then I'm on board :)
ca you post what mod is this, thanks!!
What mod allows you to play as Spartacus and adds all the historical roman generals, i.e. Publius Varinius from the time of Spartacus' rebellion in 73-70 BC?
Eagle rising changes all the weapons to that time period and then I used character reloader to change AI names and appearances. I made a video about it if you look on my channel for mods
Without crashing.
what are the weapons you are using in this video?