Battania Only World Conquest Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord Guide
How I conquered Caldaria with Battania in 18 years.
Rules: Battania culture equipment and troops. Companion pool and wife must be from Battania.
No mercenary or becoming a vassal for any kingdom (including Battania)
NEW RULE: recruited Vassals must be of Battanian culture too
No mods and no exploits!
This is the second installment in my series of 6 world conquest videos where I add a rule each time, it takes me a long time to make so I hope you enjoy it!
The video started on version 1.1.4 and ended on 1.1.5 and was played/recorded/edited on a laptop.
This was 96 hours of gameplay and took over 100 hours to edit.
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(This is note for me in the future - at the time of posting this video 806 subscribers)
“To me she’s priceless, but to him she’s worth 52000 denars” 💀😂
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F for each brave companion who fell in battle. The Great Battan will not forget you!
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You mean the Great Butt Onion? They are Buttonions after all.
@@instinct922 HAHAHAHA!
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God, that companion attrition rate was insane!!! I don’t think even a fraction that many died in your previous vid
It got pretty crazy! I’m glad more and more kept dropping in!
5:51 it is indeed possible to know how strong a kingdom is, its in the encyclopedia in the kingdoms tab but not on one specific kingdom, then you sort for strength and now you know how much total garrison and army strength the enemy has without the kingdom tab.
I realise it’s easy to see who is at war with who without the kingdom tab but I don’t think I knew this! Will definitely check this out! Thanks
1.2's new kingdom destruction mechanic should make these easier to to do
I cannot WAIT for that to drop! When I saw that kingdoms get destroyed I was so happy! I’m also a fan of the mangonel shit also having the possibility to death too!
@@bim_94 got a post out for ya
3:20 "To me she's priceless, but to him she's worth 52k denars" 😅🤣
Everything is for sale 🤣
@@bim_94 Even my sistaaa!
Watched this and subbed because you have a wonderful pacing in your narrative, you speak clearly, concisely and in an educated manner. Also I too played as Battania and equipped the long bow not realizing that it could not be fired from horseback without the perk I thought it was broken for far longer than you appear to though I did not realize it until I had traveled all the way to Aserai lands it was very embarrassing.
Thank you for the compliment! I’m not one for long intros and, although this might change in the future: for now I just can’t say the words ‘don’t forget to subscribe’ As little waffle and as much content as possible is my goal. Haha not you too! Trust me I edited it down - it took me a long time to realise too! 🤣
This is literally how I roleplay everytime lol. I suck too so not doing it for the fun of a challenge 😂
Haha yess! My play style stems from my first day playing warband and I wanted to get to know the troops before getting overwhelmed so just stuck with the one culture - 8(?) years later I’ve still kept that up 🤣
Mono culture is the only way. Luckily there's a mod that converts captured towns and villages to produce units from the owners culture.
@tomoffinland123 that would be handy! I’ve heard of another mod that stops your faction recruiting other culture troops, this was pure vanilla though
Also, the fact that it takes lesser to conquer Calradia than it takes your children to come to age its incredible.
NEVER have I had an adult child grow up! I think it’s a really cool mechanic but it takes so long! I know people say they’re overpowered but I’d even accept something like ‘baby to adult = 10 in game years’ or something because with just never get to play them! Also thanks for the compliment! 😊
Sadly I get bored of the game a few years before my children come of age to fight
@@bim_94 There is a mod for this. It's called TimeLord and allows you to customize how fast you grow old, how fast children grow up, and other related settings.
Damn, can't believe I missed this in my feed. Time to be glued to my computer for the next 40 or so minutes.
Not late! You arrive precisely when you mean to! (Don’t forget take breaks and drink your water)
Your bow didnt bug out, itsa longbow, cant use on horseback, you need riding 200 for the trait. Also, elite units spawn only in castle villages, so frewuent them for replenishment, or use Improved Garrison mod, which you can set up to recruit what you want as garrison forces into your towns and castles, Once you have that, you can just return to your place, grab the recruited forces, and it will start recruiting the same again.
I realised the bow wasn’t meant on horseback after the battle lol. I knew noble units only spawned in villages but I didn’t know it was the castle specific villages! Thanks for the tip! - and that mod sounds like an absolute hand changer!
Hey, just to let you know I’ve credited you in my latest video ‘10 tips’ as the tip about the noble troops I got from this comment here!
been waiting for this video since the last one. Great video and keep it up!
Thanks for your patience and I hope you like it!
Amazing video again Bim
Amazing comment again @SecretSnip3r!
This is my second ever real go at content creating so please do let me know what you think! (Because I actually have no idea what I’m doing) This isn’t what I do full-time and it takes me a very long time to make so if you want to be part of the discord community and stay up to date between videos please do join us and say hello! discord.gg/4gABdj2YQ8 Thanks for watching everyone!
Needs more views bro this is amazing
You’re too kind! It’s actually nearly tripled in views the last 24 hours 😮
Great video! I love the story!
Thanks!
Great video, well edited and good commentary
Thank you! I’m new to this and I’m trying really hard! 😊
I know this is an older video of yours, but I can’t stop coming back to this series! You have such a wonderful narrating ability with consistent pacing, yet still deliver every moment concisely. You have so much talent lurking here in this channel, I can only imagine how big you’d grow if Bannerlord had a bigger audience. Regardless mate, keep it up, and I’ll keep rewatching all your videos in the meantime :)
Thank you my friend! Haha what a wonderful comment - it’s 1am for me and I just decided to wrap up scripting for the night - working on the next world conquest and you popped up! Thank you for the compliment and it’s an absolute pleasure, I do this 50% for me and 50% for people such as yourself and I can tell you that I love very minute of it 😊
This is awesome dude, nice job
Thanks! Was great fun to play AND edit! 😊
I love your style man! Doing a Battanian only playthrough on my channel right now too!
Thanks Winds! Your channel is really kicking off well done! Hard work paying off!
Such a cool way you make this, good job! Imagine how many time u spend o this
Thanks! I’m glad you enjoy it - yeah they literally take me 2 months to play/edit
Fun fact: Battanian Fian Champion are the best archers in bannerlord 2, due to their high power, good armour and weapons and they have the most arrows and range in the game (if you don't count crossbowmen)
They’re probably in the top 5 shock troops too lol, half way through this run they just completely disappeared almost, couldn’t find any!
I really like the idea of this video, great content bro.
Thank you! I honestly can’t believe how popular this video is! To keep it fresh, I’m going to add a rule each playtgrough, currently doing the Khuzait video with no smithing and I can tell you right now it sucks 🤣
Man I love these! I'm pleasantly surprised at the lack of rebellions you faced with same culture-only vassals so that was super cool to see! I think next time, focusing on getting your wife to be a party leader instead of 4 companions will be a good idea, since so many are low-level with a focus on charm and intelligence, although that still depends on who you can manage to marry. Did you manage to get immortal charm? I find that having that perk is huge for setting up and maintaining control but I still found myself having to "joker strat" my own vassals (good natured and fire brand are huge for this) as I can drain my vassals of just enough influence to have them keep their war plans to themselves but still field parties. I look forward to the next installment, I saw Khuzait are in the que and I think that start should be pretty easy since they are weak in sieges as AI. Your clan member death count was insane, I don't think I've ever seen so many going down in a run. Godspeed for the next run may you ride with the Khan's Guard to victory!
Yes I had immortal charm! I think I had too many vassals? I had all the Battanian clans apart from King Caladogs, that’s the only thing I can think of. So I trained Taorse to be a steward/engineer as she had good stats to make her a better governor (I’ve never focussed on governors before, and I think she only came in handy in the first town to boost militia recruitment - maybe I’m not playing governors correctly though. It’s funny because in my last video I remember giving my vassals at least 10k influence each - this is why I love this game, it’s a different experience every time! I don’t know how to best/properly announce this (I’m very new to this) but the roadmap of this channel is; Khuzait + no smithing Aseri + no smithing + no bow Sturgia + no smithing + no bow + no riding Vlandia all of the above + clan only (and the only run to be in Champaign mode) Thanks for your comment and I’m glad you liked the video!
@@bim_94 ooh I like the road map! I think for pre-built companions as governors you're in a tough spot, oddly the melee focused ones make solid govenors for a bit since a lot of the combat skills add militia and security, but it's tough. I think one change for the roadmap is maybe allow merc work for Vlandia, since it's a pretty big perk for the culture and it allows for a new talking point.
@@bim_94 You will want to find perks that will increase loyalty per day for your governors. There are a couple of perks that are mid to high level, and they increase the loyalty per day by 1. That is a HUGE bonus because it negates the different culture hit, and you can focus more on the other aspects of governing. Make sure to handle vassal issues as they pop up, too, because they affect loyalty and prosperity respectively. It can also affect security, so make sure you are keeping your notables happy. If you are giving cities and castles to vassals, make double sure to keep their notables happy because the AI generally won't. It's one of the irritating things about this game, honestly, the AI doesn't work for anything even if it could mean saving themselves from rebellion. The thing I don't like about this game is the tedium increases on you no matter what, even if you delegate to other clans.
I love this! Thank you for your message - I’ve actually never focussed on governors, I’ve not had many issues I can’t solve myself (the perk where if you wait in a town it’ll increase loyalty comes to mind) and I’ve always like either party leaders or companions that help with the smithing grind (I can’t seem to play any other way lol)
@bim_94 if you make your companions party leaders, turn around and make them caravan leaders after their scouting and medicine go up. The resulting perk increase in scouting and trade are pretty worthwhile. Also, make sure you train up some engineers as governors because they can help your build times if the cities aren't developed to your liking. I make party leaders as a training ground for future governors, especially my family members. Same with merchant caravans, honestly, because trade can also be a useful perk tree for governing if you know what you want out of it. This is great if you want to profit and don't mind waiting on the buildings.
Amazing video lad!
Thank you! I’m happy you liked it!
holy moly. you made this video so damn good!! i am at minute 8 and hyped for the rest haha
Haha thank you! did you finish it? what did you think!!? I hope it lived up to expectation!
@@bim_94 yeah it was great! difficult to keep up the tension in a video where you basically do kind of the same thing over and over again but the way you filled it with story, was nice! :) made me hop on to bannerlord right away haha
@@sharpi9014 every video I have that fear! That there’s nothing interesting it’s just me saying ‘then I did this, then I did that, then I retook this, then I did that’ haha but the video turns out OK 😊
@@bim_94 totally get it, but really, bannerlord 2 lacks still a bit it variety of content. But as I said, you made a damn nice video! :) really loved the mentioning of the dates as well
@@sharpi9014 my main inspiration for my style is Strat_Gaming’s fast paced no nonsense facts and the HistoryMarche channel that does real world history, that is probably where I got the dates idea from! I’d definitely check them out if you haven’t already, top tier channel’s!
Fantastic😮
Thank you!
10/10!
Another 10/10! Thank you! I’m glad I could keep up expectations 😊
Dude. You are awesome. Inspired!
Dude, YOU’RE awesome 🫡 I’m glad you liked it! I will look for you on the battlefield 🫡
great work!
Thank you!
Ayyy this is the content i was always searching for :D using ONLY faction based things
Yesssss I’m so happy KZhead pushed my video to you! I’ve honestly never played any other way! Even years ago when playing Warband!
@@bim_94 Yeah I always searched for this kind of thing but could never find it 😂 Then this just randomly appeared today
@@swft89 well you’re in luck because I’m going to do all the factions! It does take me a long time (2 months (I have a 1 year old))to produce but they’re all coming! (And maybe like a bonus bandit only run? Or an ‘execute all the lords’ run?)
@@bim_94 I shall subscribe and look forward to it!
2:24 Ever since I started naming my main characters Breadan I see Battanian npcs with that name everywhere; now I see they're even showing up in other peoples games! Thank you Taleworlds I guess...
Haha no way! Honestly I think there were 4 in this game, 2 of them were ‘Breadan Cowtheif’ 🤣
Amazing video, felt like I was watching a movie.
Thank you! I love reading comments like this ❤️
Great vid!
Thanks! 😊
Great video again
Thanks! I’m glad you like it 😊
love the vid man
Thank you! More coming!
Good vid man! Good narrating and story
Thank you!
Love to see a Khuzait one next!
As soon as 1.2.0 is on full release I’ll start the Khuzait playthrough!
Honestly I’d love to see this over a longer period of time, multiple episodes dedicated to your decisions and seeing your thought process throughout. I also believe it would be easier on you for editing, instead of cramming 20+ hours of gameplay into 30 minutes.
I love that idea! Thank you for your wonderful comment! I honestly didn’t expect this to be so popular and I really only did it for me, but now there’s so many of you with so many great ideas! Thank you for the feedback I’m so new at this i honestly have no idea what I’m doing 🤣 Oh, and the ‘20+ hours of gameplay’ was in fact 97 hours! 😮
28:11 xD "princess turns eleven and as a present we declare war on the northern empire" hahahaha
Hahaha what a thoughtful gift 🤣
Do you have vids on how to controle and manage town/castles/empires? Thats usually where I struggle a lot. Good video! Enjoyed it :)
I don’t currently, I’ll suggest Strat Gaming and Flesson19 - two excellent bannerlord professionals! Strat gaming has a world conquest guide and Flesson has videos and guides on the intricacy of workshops etc!
Great video!
Thank you! 😊
Such a good video
Thank you! 🫡
Btw, once you have the -100% prisoner escape chance you can simply capture one town and just wait for them to send wave after wave of armies to recapture it. Then, you just defeat them and capture them. Once they are down to a handful of lords you can just steamroll through their fiefs np
Is this possible in the OG MB? I have captured the queen of a rival kingdom and i put her in a prison in my castle and have surrounded her with my best troops hoping she never escapes, because after awhile my prisoners always escape when they are with me while i ride out so my logic would be they cannot escape while in my castle.
That’s a good tip actually! Especially once 1.3 drops and liquidates broken factions! Also I’ve never played OG MB but I do know warband - and im pretty sure there’s never a -100% escape chance, might need verification though it’s been a while!
@@bim_94 yeah I'll have to check the fandom wiki for information on it aswell, I've gotten multiple denar trade deals for her and rejected them all lol so now i am anxious to get the notification of her escape 🥲.
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@@bim_94 i also picked up a professional torturer to get information out of captives...sadly there is no torture feature, *sad sadist noises*.
Usually after I wipe a kingdom out I go around and donate all lord prisoners to my vassals before I make peace for big relation gains and sweet sweet influence, again, great vid
I must remember this for next time! I just set the policies up and never thought about influence again!
This was mental!
It was a real roller coaster to play I tell thee!
YES BROTHER
Haha! I could have done with some Battanian Bards in battle 🥁🎺🫡
Fun video. Shout-out to Oros.
Thank you! Haha poor bloke
Awesome stuff.
Thanks!
cool
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Battania only actually works really well, Fian champions are arguably the best unit in the game
It was a lot easier than I thought, the only thing was at the very late game I couldn’t seem to find any of the noble troop tree recruits to train to Fian Champians, but still the infantry held up!
1:10 the game wasn't glitched it was working as intended, long bows cant be used on horse back unless you have a perk to do so (saying it before watching the rest of the video, now I saw it haha) (^～^;)ゞ
Haha yep just me being an idiot! ‘I’m not wrong it must be the computer!’ 🤣
I was confused why you equipped that bow, glad you realized why you couldn't use it; I had the same experience but with a crossbow. Battania isn't bad unless the computer is playing them, they're just surrounded and since they aren't in Warband, I'm guessing that's intentional. I'm also doing Battania but I'm using Valandian cavalry because holy shit does Battania have terrible cavalry. I'm also executing all the men from any faction that isn't from the north because then they have to marry my clan to survive.
So many people tell me that the Bow wasn’t a glitch and then reply to their own comment saying ‘oh, just watched the rest of it’ haha thanks for waiting 🤣 Battanian and Vlandian would be a good mix also because you could recruit them all in one clean circuit, I like it! Love that marriage tactic haha there excellent 🤣🤣
@@bim_94 I did type it but I wait until I finish a video before commenting because of this exact kinda thing. Yeah I know Vlandians aren't technically mercenaries anymore, but I feel like they are the most like that of the actual factions, and using them on a non-empire run feels somewhat fitting. I could just not use cavalry at all, but that's not as fun. Yeah they'll hate me for a while for killing all the men, but if you let them go after battle a few times they get over it.
Nice Video. Do you have a character creation guide for this playthrough? There's not much too see in your short pics from your build. Looking forward to your answer. Have a nice day.
I don’t but that’s a good idea, I hadn’t thought about that. My character builds stray slightly but are all based on Strat Gaming’s world conquest video from about a year ago, not the solo clan one he did just recently but the ‘Frederick the Great’ playthrough has an excellent character creation segment that’s really helped me!
Can't wait until Bannerlord gets a Pendor-like mod(if not PoP itself). The potential!
Was never able to play that (warband console player) but I’ve heard so many good things!
After seeing how you misclicked on disguise yourself to enter the castle button instead of besieging it, I really think talewords should make an improvement here on the UI and perhaps either move that option further apart or add a secondary pop up when you choose it, asking you if you are sure or not. I would simply abandon the run if that happened to me.
Haha I was pretty devastated! To be completely honest I’ve never explored that feature and you’re absolutely right - I expected an ‘are you sure?’ Screen. I didn’t even know what I had done until I saw the footage lol
This man lost companions quicker than I lost hope for Vlandia.
Hahaha! I have never lost so many companions before 🤣
I have found that you can actually combat warmongering clans by doing what I like to call "Shadow Ruling", while using the 175 charm perk "Good Natured" (you get 100% of the influence back you spent on a kingdom decision if it fails). Basically you "Abdicate" the throne and then blow through the other lords' influence by repeatedly making proposals they oppose (they will spend max influence every time). Once they have wasted all of their influence you can make whatever kingdom decisions you want bc they will not have influence to oppose you, allowing you to "rule from the shadows". (You do need to wear down their influence fairly regularly, however).
Ohhh amazing, I like this a lot!
Question, how do you prevent rebels from taking over settlements? Im pretty new to the game and after taking a Southern Sturgian town it fell to rebels and I got absolutely wiped by the Sturgians who declared war soon after. (My imperial overlords were stuck dying in Aserai, yay.)
You can put a companion with the same culture as a governor, or even train up a companion in steward/engineering to be a better governors (but honestly I don’t often use governors) but I choose all the kingdom policies that effect loyalty and I’ve never lost a town! Strat Gaming did a fantastic world conquest guide that I’d highly recommend watching if you haven’t already! I was new, a little burnt out and needed help with the game and after finding him it made me obsessed!
One of the perks that means the most to me regarding Loyalty is one where if you ‘wait’ in a town it’ll increase the loyalty - can’t remember which skill this is in unfortunately but this is probably the most helpful, especially if you combine that with waiting for the smithing stamina bar to refill! I normally wait until the ‘risk of rebellion’ notice disappears then move on 😊
Thanks! That's basically how I've been feeling for a while, train up troops, be a mercenary, get my self entirely deleted by a rebellion or big Faction, and then start a new playthrough. I'll definitely check the video and perks out. Cheers!
Another question, what kind of battanians did you mainly use? So far I've been using a mix of the archers and the wood runners.
I am looking at the battanian troop tree on the Wiki and it might make more sense reading this while looking at that too I looked at each top tier troops equipment and decided that there was almost no difference in the ‘Wildling’ and the ‘Oathsworn’ Meaning that I just did a 50/50 split from ‘volunteer’ to both ‘clan warrior’ and ‘wood runner’ - the clan warriors would be upgraded to Oathsworn (I did not upgrade to horsemen often (Battanian cavalry = bad)) and wood runners would be upgraded to Veteran Falxman (I did not EVER upgrade to mounted skirmishers as Javelin cavalry never hit!) And as I came across high born youths then obviously there’s my Fian champions (best archers/unit in game) But I did not plan a composition like ‘30% archers 50% cavalry…etc, I picked up everything and dumped the excess in towns for more opportunities to replenish later if I fell so I could get 100’s troops back instantly
Bro how'd you reach trade 125? w/ only 1 focus point? how many attribute points did you put on?
10 attribute points (as I was working getting charm and leadership as high as possible) therefore combined with one focus point you can reach level 130 max! There’s a formula that should be searchable on google ‘bannerlord skill cap formula’ so you can plan your points 😊
14:34 you probably know this but you can also use "tribesman throwing daggers." they give the same as "Pugio" just 1 more iron instead of crude iron
YES! i learnt that during/after this playthrough - i did a poll post about this and it turns out 79% of voters prefer pugios or just don't know about the throwing daggers, 9% of voters chose them!
Princess MoJiwa was my favourite... 😂
Named after the biggest Princess I know 🤣
To be fair, I didn’t mean for you to be a daughter especially 🤣
Let’s goooo
this is a good video :D love the pacing, how long did it take gameplay wise?
Thank you! It took just under 100 hours!
Do the Empire next
kzhead.info/sun/g9VsitinjJ2aiHk/bejne.html
^one step ahead!
@@bim_94 I want to see the khuzait there nodal units are op on hors and good skirmishes
Stop it you guessed it again! Khuzait is the next video I’m doing!
@@bim_94 I'm predicting the future and past
Wow, I'm surprised you've never before realized that longbows couldn't be used horseback. Heavy crossbows and pikes are similarly restricted, and originally so were the really big shields (though I haven't noticed that lately, which could be due to playing with RBM). I guess you just aren't used to checking your equipment properties. Still waiting on a perk that lets you use pikes on horseback, since they're now the only type of equipment that doesn't have one ... but considering I can make a polearm with over 300 reach and that's nearly as long as the biggest pikes in the base game, it's not too much of a problem. If you struggle to raise scouting levels quickly, you should consider running around solo or with a small, fast party while at war with a major faction. Armies will zero in on you but can never catch you, so you can lead them around in circles for days getting tons of scouting xp while they waste time until their armies collapse and in some cases start to starve. TONS of xp to level on that even an untrained scout can pick up, and potentially easy noble kills if they aren't smart enough to resupply. Another tip for culture-only runs, every bandit unit in the base game except for looters can become either the normal or noble units of a faction (looters only act as standard recruits, as they have no bandit upgrades). Forest bandits become Fians, Sea Raiders Druzhnikk, etc. Get yourself 150 in roguery, leadership, and steward (to donate gear for xp) and you can recruit hundreds of top tier noble units very quickly, from a wider area than you can recruit troops directly for that faction. Btw, if you haven't seen Strat Gaming's channels, you may want to check him out. Some of the best bannerlord tactics guides I've ever seen, with a lot of testing to find out what works. He has a favorite tactic for whittling down an enemy kingdom in the beginning of a war. He'll conquer a castle and leave it with a weak or nonexistent garrison, relying on free militia to defend it, and keeping his forces nearby, but not inside. The weak garrison will attract every enemy lord in the war, which he can run around picking off one by one to hold forever, or if they arrive in armies, he'll let them siege until their army is weaker (since autocalc sieges are always skewed toward the defenders) and then hit them before they can finish the siege. My personal take on this tactic is that you should set up one city as a fortress with a large garrison and a skilled governor, ideally with the prisoner perks from Riding, Roguery, and Engineering (totally 90% less prisoner escape) and some defensive perks, including anything that cuts the cost of garrisons and extends food stockpiles during a siege as the AI seems to love starving out garrisons. That should be your main base where you can dump prisoners and loot/troops beyond what you need so that you can stay mobile. The castle should be governed by someone with as many +militia and +loyalty perks as possible, and then you can pull them out before a siege begins, or give them some defensive perks as well and let them try to hold it. Then you can hold all nobles in your personal party to guarantee they stay until the war is basically done, and dump them into your stronghold once it's basically over. Use only your own clan parties to form armies and let any recruited nobles seek out and destroy any rising lords from fallen factions, making sure to give them concentrated territory so they won't have divided attention. And if you want to do more of these culture-only runs and are okay with mods, I would highly recommend the mod Distinguished Service, which allows normal units that do well in battle to be upgraded into companions with appropriate skills and gear. This mod also gives two chances to pick additional training for these new companions, which can net you an instant medic, engineer, scout, or quartermaster, or give a head-start on training a party leader or governor. EZ-mode, pick the same training in both menus and you can end up with skills over 300 (I once got lucky with an engineer at 400 skill, which is the max level I set in XPtweaks), or you can only divide training choices to limit yourself.
I do normally check the weapon stats but that now was the lowest tier noble now, I didn’t expect it to be that good and I was so surprised that I convinced myself that it just be a glitch and not my error 🤣 I love that scouting tip! I never thought of that! And I’ve never explored roguery (before the Khuzait run I’ve just finished) so I’ll probably be hitting those stats in future playthroughs and might do that bandit prisoner - troop tip too Huge fan of strat gaming! I would not be able to play this game if it wasn’t for him! He’s half the inspiration to my video style actually(him and a history channel called HistoryMarche) I’ve always advocated for complete vanilla plays, so everyone can understand and even follow along BUT I did just get one that lets me rename companions and lords after my channel members, and I’m half tempted to look at this mod that makes all lords and companions only recruit their own culture troops - but they might not be very well balanced and it’ll probably change the game too much, I’m not sure! I’m not a mod person Thanks for the comments though! I’m not a ‘good’ player (just a wannabe content creator) but I do love the gene and love the in depth discussions like this!
Top Tip. You can't use a longbow on a horse.
I’m going to be thinking about this for years ‘it can’t possibly be my fault it must be glitched!’
If you don’t mind me asking, what was your money making strategy
Smithing! Currently making a smithing guide video that covered exactly what I did. I’ll reply to this again once it drops!
@@bim_94 thanks boss
make sure to grab the tribesman daggers those can come in like 40 stacks pretty often
Yes! Everyone talks about Pugios, no one talks about the Tribesman daggers!
hello, great videos can you plz upload your flawless battle and siege victories (maybe at 2x speed) for us to see the strategies?
Working on them now! Currently doing a big ‘Vs Sturgia’ video and an Aseri siege, is there anything else that sticks out that you’d like to see?
That would be great... mostly sieges and deffences! how can I win them with minimum casualties @@bim_94
I like using plugins for smithing, but I found that eastern highland daggers are better considering they are basically the same, but come in larger quantities.
Good tip! I don’t used mods or anything but I do remember there was one version of the game that if you just hit enter you crafted the item, regardless if you were out of stamina or not ❤️ it’s funny because when that was patched I ended up quitting the run 🤣
I meant pugios but I got auto corrected
@@bim_94 thanks for responding, I used to travel all across the empire and couldn’t find any pugios, so when I tried different weapons and I discovered how op eastern highland daggers were I loved them, and only had to go to a few towns across my whole play through. I just wanted to add that tip cause your videos are good.
That actually makes so much more sense haha. And yes you’re right, if you just do a loop of the Battania towns you can probably fill up more than you could looping Empire for pugios! Although I have found a stack of 40 for purchase in one town before!
You only have 5 videos and 1200 subs. That is insane for the production quality! Are you a streamer or something? Is this a second channel?
Two months ago I had 36 subscribers! I used to Twitch stream but I had to stop as I was working full time and had a baby - and streaming had to go! I’m not famous if that’s what you’re saying haha! The Bannerlord community are just a lovely bunch ❤️
@@bim_94 I meant to say, your not yet famous. But this channel will grow, if you keep up the production value. Those number already are rising. Good luck with your baby!
This was my first playthrough, fian spam, our arrows blocked out the sun.
Ahh the Battanian Sunset 💚
How long did this play through take??
My recordings add up to 96, I have a baby so some of this time may have been left on record while I do a night feed but I think 80+ is a good guess 😊
That's why I don't play with companion death on. They drop like flies, but take so long to level...
It honestly has never been as bad as this! It was getting silly 🤣
Long live Great Bottom!
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i need to know some tips to winning fights with way less troops
I’m currently making a few combat videos but was there something specific you’re having difficulty with?
@@bim_94 mainly just controlling my troops and how to position them because they die way to quickly
Best generic tips I can think of is - a longer infantry line normally perfume better than a deep one, I currently have an army that has 500 infantry and I normally go into battle with them 2 deep and really long, send cavalry to reduce enemy cavalry but don’t charge, send infantry right up to enemy infantry and when they are close enough to flight THEN charge the infantry and cavalry
But I’ll continue to make more specific battle videos, and check out the ‘big battles’ playlist if you wanted to see some of my tactics in play
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I want to follow the equipment rule in this, is there any easy way to tell where equipment is from? Some are obvious but surely if I see something I like, I don't have to go mouse over every item in every troop in the tree to check right????
I did exactly that and made a database available in my discord! Link in description :) It’s filtered by culture and then by type and then by tier so you can easily check
Any chance for list of mods used?
0 mods and 0 console commands! 100% vanilla
out of curiosity, in what difficulty do you play, do you mix and match settings or just go with one of the presets (freeloader, warrior, bannerlord, etc) .. trying to find the sweet spot to play without being a complete hassle nor a snowflake ride, cheers , amazing content mate! @@bim_94
How did the other neighbouring kingdoms not declare war on you in a dogpile? When I've tried going independent kingdoms such as Khuzait will declare war and travel across the entire continent to take a piece of me.
I think it’s because I was fighting Vlandia and everyone must have thought ‘good on him’ lol I honestly don’t know! I was very lucky at that point!
How is it possible to win so many battles outnumbed, would really like to know (i struggle with things like sieges all the time)
Was there a particular moment you’re talking about? I’d gladly upload the sieges. My strategy with sieges (if possible unless there’s a larger army coming at me) is to break both walls and hop on a mangonel myself and aim at the gap. In one of the sieges I actually took it without entering the castle but that’s only ever helped that one time. Sieges give advantage to the defenders so even if you’re evenly matched they’ll still have more troops, great way to even the field!
Thanks for the quick awnser @@bim_94, i will have to try that. But i just feel like you are playing on freebooter, given the insane K/D you have (due to your insane skill at this game). If you could upload some of your battles here and there, i think it could help some of us not as good players 😅
If you want to preserve the walls you can build 3 trrbuchet and only destrpy catapult. Its important to put them in reserve first until all are done and deploy them all at once.i like to just charge the stairs but you can do whatever when theres no pressure from catapult.
Wonder how long it took to beat the game
About 100 hours. Took me an entire month just to play!
I get rekt by the Scandinavian muddy tuckers everytime
I remember early on thinking I had aced the game and confidently went up against these techno Vikings for the first time and…yep got absolutely stomped! I have actually made a ‘how to fight against Sturgia’ video that may be helpful to you! If not, then you better bend the knee to King Raganvad 🫡🤣
Ah yes, Taleworlds math working as intended I see. I mean, it's only been 3 years since the Early Access and 1 year since the full release, you can't possibly expect them to patch janky AI nonsense like paying 10000 denars a day for a peace deal with a kingdom that has 0 holdings, nowhere near your combat strength and has been losing handily the entire time. Or such genius tactical decisions as lords incessantly pushing for waging 5 wars at once with enemies that don't have anything left but troops.
I am so keen for 1.2 to release so I don’t have that again. I deleted the next run for it but I’m not sure how much longer it will take!
I was kinda hyped to get Bannerlord at some point soon, and while I still will, this kinda gives me no hope of achieving victory. Is there a way to permanently remove the other factions so they can't come back or will they always return eventually? I'm kinda hoping that you were just ignoring the last remnants of them to focus on conquering the map.
YES! the game is about to have an update that eliminates factions that have no properties - the clans inside that faction have a week or so slot immigrate to another faction or them themselves will be ro moves from the game too! So you’re actually at the perfect time to start playing, the patch I’m talking about is ‘1.2.3’, it’s in early access so you can play it now and there might be a 1.2.4 etc before full release but if you’re interested in playing Bannerlord I’d keep a close eye out for that update to drop
26:42 💀💀 happens to the best of us
Still smashed em 😎
25:08 "british man captured in eastern territory disguised as a local despite being obviously white" walking in the footsteps of lawrence of arabia
Hahaha no wonder I had literally 0 chance 🤣
also, as a king let's say, i'd love for us to be able to tell other armies where to go, just give us some way to control them so they arent completely useless :/
YES YES YES YES YES! You can set them to ‘offensive/defensive/neutral’ for different factions when at war but I honestly don’t see what a difference that does - imagine if you can set a patrol route for parties/armies! Like you could say ‘I want you to patrol around 1,2,3 towns’ etc!
Or even better ‘attack/defend x town’!
@@bim_94 i can't believe it's not a thing yet tbh xd end game is so pathetically boring at some point that i never go past cus id simply have to spent 50 hrs doing the same thing over and over
Wildings wildings and more wildings with some Fian championships to top it off
I couldn’t see the difference between oathsworn and wildlings initially but holy crap those wildlings ❤️
@@bim_94 the javelins are night and day when you have lots of them , oathsworn are cool but they're kinda easy to kill with cavalry units and veteran falxman were elite until they changed the AI of the game and now they're mid
It was quite late in the game when I saw the anti cav capabilities and I was like ‘woah, you guys’
@@bim_94 exactly honestly without them your pretty screwed as an all battanian army
you can use the ecyclopidia to see power of king doms
I might be wrong, but i don't think you can see kingdom power - you can see if they're at war and who with but not total troop strength
Imagine being the guard who got paid just short of half a million to release you. Honestly, if it were me i'd just take that money, buy an island and fuck off for the rest of history, living in wealth and peace.
The most expensive transaction I’ve ever seen. Even when Empress Rhagaea captured me she didn’t want nearly as much. One stubborn prison guard with an expensive retirement plan I reckon. Haha or it was Taleworlds themselves schooling me for mis-clicking 🤣
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Bannerlord is easily one of the best games ever made with one of the worst stories ever made. Imagine how great this game would be with KCD style storylines and missions.
100! I remember in Rome:total war your actions and decisions influenced the diplomatic outcomes later on. I loved the nemesis system in the shadow of Mordor/war games it’ll be cool to have a soldier that knocked you out be promoted to a minor clan lord! So many possibilities and that’s just extra sandbox stuff not even story things!
My issue with Battania was they are so central, any teritory gained one direction gets eaten up in the other direction
Absolutely, that’s why I struggled taking land from Vlandia first. I had to abandon the fighting a few times just to recruit - they’re nearby but I lost castles every time
At 0:46, a long bow can not be used on horse back
I did find out straight after haha! Oops
ha ha, yea, i found out that you found out right after this comment 🤣🤣
@@quanvo9283 I love the eagerness 🤣
yeah nice game takes a while to learn to conquer the map :)
I love the amount of random events the game throws at you. Before, I used to reload at the slightest inconvenience but I’m so glad I’m doing this series and embracing them!
@@bim_94 yeah in the 1st 400days you really want to be carefull and only build good relations and decent economy,get best gear money can buy,i notice you become unstoppable after day 800,taking every capitol&country by storm even with 600 man i break sieges of 1200 plus,i always play out battania and sturgia against vallandia,i played west Empire and clans of battanians joined us,there where 3 wars with sturgia and battania in 900 days they ended the war after 2 or 5 minutes no battles or sieges done,gave us time to focus on aserai take all they have then valandia,now north empire then south,last but not least the khuzait who own over 10 capitols now :DD,youre 1st play troughs are learning curves this is not a eazy or quick game you definatly need smart politics to win fast :D
Oh hey. Remember that Bannerlord was a game?
Not a game - It’s life ❤️
Lol I just saw in this in my homepage I was trying to do it with sturgia but it’s really difficult cuz the ai keeps declaring war on khuzait
Aha no way! I’m currently playing as Khuzait and at war with Sturgia now lol (sorry) how are you finding it?
Its a fun challenge to do, but really difficult since cavalry archers shread my troops before they can get good lol
Please do sturgia only next
I can’t WAIT to play the Sturgians! I think that’s one of the ones I’m most looking forward to