Mount and Blade Bannerlord was the perfect experimental environment to test out a childhood idea: the archers (mostly, that is) strategy. Behold the archers ONLY experience.
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*STAYA WAY* More segment challenges coming soon - I've been dying to cover more games and more ground all year - I'll be doing Rimworld (possibly a SeaBlock), made up religions in CK3, and another Factorio Death World of some sort soon - tell me what you'd most want to see! *Winners of the Kenshi keys have been replied to from the last video - though there will be another giveaway for Kenshi soon :)
I want to see kenshi :D
I want more of that hilarious factorio death world philosophy. Maybe some fatalism this time? Hmmmmmmmmmmmm
Idk what to comment Reeeeeeee octane main go brrrr
To me it really doesn't matter what you upload, i just really like the narrating commentary you do. Really helps with sleeping 2 ;D
I'd love to see another Rimworld saga begin. The struggle is real!
Alternate Title: playing Bannerlord the way you eventually end up playing it every single time.
It’s like Skyrim Stealth Archer
Weird way to write heavy cavalry there :D
@@RodnyAlDar no, I blot out the sun with archers
Sometimes you just gotta run full horse archer armies, it's not like I don't like the games mechanics. I just like to see the ai struggle
In Warband with the Floris mod: RODHOK CROSSBOW WALL
Ambiguousamphibian's house motto should be "Don't touch me, or I'll scream."
“Like that annoying kid that hid behind a car during tag” the range of this man’s philosophical rambles is LIMITLESS
Those faces... I want them to stay as far away from my dreams as possible.
By the nine divines...
@@ambiguousamphibian I also would just like to explain why you did not get a castle. It was because you were not a high enough clan, you need to be tier 3 and formally join the southern empire. Hope that clears it up!
@@thomaswiltherford9265 So that's a good reason to do another video. *hint hint, nudge nudge*
Have you seen the mega weird smile bug?
Ahhh yes we used rocks, then smelted metal for swords, and finally used those shiny metal swords to sharpen sticks into pointy polearms. I remember seeing the great wooly mammoth hunt pictures in school. The brave cave man and their bastard swords and kite shields
I was thinking the same thing lmao, the wildest thing was that BOWS were at the end of it
@@PossumPunx closer to the start than weapon handles 💀
And by weapon handles I literally mean round wood
This guy could play that google browser dinosaur game and I'd still watch.
That dinosaur is on an extremely important spiritual journey.
"And here I am. Running. In the desert, completely alone. Alone. Alone. There's nothing but me... and cacti.. and birds...."
i want this video now
@@bionicdragon5 He's on a path to pursue a life of religious fulfillment.
Archer only experience sounds an awful lot like the “4 hours into my first play through” experience.
Yep. The veteran experience is milling about the map getting your ass kicked for 2 hours befriending the one NPC who sells Vigla recruits so you can buy Viglas and Forest Bandits.
true chads go for a companion only army using that mod that removes companion limit
Holy shit love your guys channel didn’t expect this crossover
Howd ya know? 🤣
"Horse Archery OP nerf plz" - Theodosius II, probably.
"Horse archers OP" - Crassus
Horse archer's OP - Moscow Probably
"What're you doing Stappe Bandit?"
"Steppe bandit brother, what are you doing?"
"oh my god steppe bow you're penetrating so deep!"
Savages, *TIME FOR A CRUSADE*
Meanwhile Me: *destroys entire steppe bandit army easily*
A few tips for archer only challenges: Use Battanian Fian Champions, scan the battlefield for hills to place your troops on, spread your troops out to increase the area covered by arrows, and keep infantry units behind ranged units until enemies are close.
lol, what infantry units?
@@marcinzysko1653 peasants who haven't upgraded yet
@@MrLandShark55_55 nah infront is better. tank for muh archers
15:26 "we're also rich" (11k gold) clearly you've never sold crafted javelins
Now it's two-handed
For a sec, I thought I was about to rewatch the legend of Hobin Rood.
I love this man's voice and the why he talks
Random inspirational/religious quotes?
The way and the why of his speech is a great wonder to all of us
Personally I'm a far of the where he talks
He's christian
Soon he and Sseth will become one
hey man.. love your work, but i kinda miss the continuous series.. the sea ice series in rim world is possibly one of my favorite contents here on youtube
Agree
Hey buddy! Unfortunately you can’t take a castle until you’re actually a vassal of a kingdom, which requires clan tier 3, once you hit that then talk to the queen and offer your vassalage, you’ll get a high chance of a castle then since they try to even out the fiefs. Keep it up!
Glad you posted this as I’m lazy :-D but really want to see him defend one. It can be hilarious with lots of archers
You can be a vassal at tier 2, I'm pretty sure
@@cdru515 when you talk to the king/queen, it fades out the option saying it requires tier clan 3
No u
You can absolutely take a castle without being a vassal. I literally captured a town with my own faction's army and own three castles.
"Oh my God, my parents... They're awful." -Me at therapy
Plot twist: "They are dead because you ate them. But they tasted awful."
I’m sure any army would BOW down to yours, Archery Army 🏹
Every army would QUIVER before him
"I need a voice that can intimidate" It startled my cat so it worked lol.
For a minute I zoned out and went - huh not a single joke about tea, Spiffing Brit has changed :D
I love Mount & Blade. You playing this is right in line imo. Keep it up!
"Warfare has always involved hitting people." Words of the most wise one.
Love your videos on mount and blade. It's very nice that you uploaded another one.
Great videos as always, id definitely watch more of this gameplay. Keep up the great content!
Love mount and blade with AA's narration style. Makes for great content every time. You're great bro keep it coming
0:44 _"Therefore, today, we undertake a strategy that will make you say, 'No one will ever touch me.' Of course, I mean, everyone in our warband wields a bow."_ Joke's on you, I've already mastered the art of being completely untouchable, and it involves zero bows, and a whole lot of collecting and displaying sexy anime figurines all over my room.
God tier comment
Awesome to see more of this game!! Would love to see more challenges like this or maybe another cool weird Rimworld save. Thanks for the great content AA!
Just started rewatching Mount and Blade playthroughs randomly again too, great timing
Mount and Blade is a surprisingly nice game to watch I wouldn't mind a more long-form playthrough, either with a challenge aspect or just a normal (or modded) playthrough Though challenge series are also super fun too!
This is one of the strats I used in Warband. Everyone would be in the same archer crew, with the exception of companions who were mounted. A few melee guys mixed in with the archers, but not more than 10%. Just a few mixed melee units, particularly spears. Battle starts: archers moved to best high ground they can get to and remain on in time. If cavalry are coming at us, stand closer. If not, maybe stand apart. Depends on enemy charge. After that: cavalry follows me. We wait for our archers to start unloading on them, then we just sweep by them in the front of the line, causing a portion to chase us. We drag them to the right or left of our front line, within archer fire. After that: cavalry, charge. Make sure they don't get clumped up, let them charge when they're in the open, otherwise they just get themselves hurt. Once we've cleaned up most of battlefield, archers are free to charge and shoot down fleeing opponents.
13:03 You missed a perfect opportunity to say "I have the high ground."
I just started playing this and I can say without a doubt it’s easier to be an archer on a horse than to be literally anything else. Awful for hideout raids but ultimately worth it 🤷🏻♀️
To get a castle in Bannerlord you need to be a vassal of a Kingdom not a mercenary and then you will be able to participate in voting on who get a castle, most likely you will win because you dont have any.
God I've been missing Mount and Blade Bannerlord content. I'm happy you picked it back up, it's awesome!
How about a merchant playthrough? Going from city to city finding the most profitable items and becoming the richest man in the world?
The most boring playstyle as well as ironically the poorest
We love you, you magnificent Amphibian of Ambiguity!
I love how you say hello at the start of every video
in the original, im pretty sure you had to swear allegiance to the ruler in order to hold property for that empire, you would be given a Ummm "starter town", looking forward to these, I was wondering how this game was coming along
Watching your videos is like speed running church 🙏🏻
here's me 1 am in the MORNING after watching invincible good show btw
I really enjoy your episodic videos, so please don't abandon that format!
I always love the mount and blade content!
I absolutely love ranged and Tournaments in this game I saw the title and watched it... I soon remembered I watched it a week ago then continued to finish it. I enjoyed it again lol.
"then we got bows, the longest of all weapons" *The sling will remember this*
No idea if you have done it but a Underrail playthrough from you with the concise editing and commentary would be amazing.
1:40 COME ON I WAS SO CLOSE
I have Onica Castle in my current play through. I was the buffer between the Western and Southern empire, and the Empress keeps trying to break down my door. I have defended from like 20 seiges at this point in that castle. I approve this spot for keeping the enemy away.
Amazing video, amazing editing, love it.
5:10 what are you doing step bandit
“What are you doing Stepp-bandit?”
😂😂😂
The video structure reminds me a lot of how The Spiffing Brit structures his. Was enjoyable to watch.
You get around shields by using horse archers. Just f1 f2 and give your enemy formation a wide berth. Make sure your circle counter clockwise. Retreat your forces when your boys run out of arrows. Sturgians gave me the most trouble, but I was able to destroy an army of 600 with my 120 khans guards.
Hell yeah. I've never been interested in this game series, but watching you play has made me reconsider. If you wanna make more episodes, I'll watch 'em.
Please do more of these, of any videos, your commentary makes the videos 1000% times better like the moon walking dude lol
as a Turkish guy which is quaranteened for over two weeks that's exactly what i needed to get my mental health recover. THANKS 🙃
I know it's a year old video and a lot of people probably know this already but this is actually how you cheese through the game. Get only archers and then destroy even the most organized armies even when they have cav. Get into a fight then run when they get close. I have no idea if they've patched this tactic tho since I haven't played bannerlord in such a long time. I don't even know why this is in my recommendation but it was an entertaining watch.
Made my night seeing you uploaded. Cheers to ya.
This is the spiffing brit if he drank coffee
Definitely post some more mount and blade I love that
I did this without ever considering it a challenge run. The power of bows and crossbows are terrifying. I used to do this with the Rhodoks in warband all the time.
"Warfare has always involved hitting people" Ah yes, indeed. I do concur indubitably.
Id love to see more! To get a castle you either need to be a vassal, not just a mercenary. Or you can take it bott yourself (i think)
Just discovered your channel, getting some Sseth vibes and I can dig it. cool videos pimp
Absolutely love the videos!!!
bruh I just got into the series with this game the other day, and now my fav content creator makes a vid on it :> hell yeah
Staya way. Father and occasional abuser of Goa Way, the mad musket-hermit of the dark mountains
I have been binge watching your Rimworld content, now expanding to other content. Can I just say your voice and intellect are as good as your content? Of course I can say it and I do. :)
Gotta see more! That was awesome
Great vid. Definitely interested in more
I would recommend a blacksmithing video. You can do some absurd things like making 100k plus value two handed swords at low level and making harpoons that sell for 250k+ out of wood and crappy metal. Once you have as much money as you want the high value weapons make great gifts to lords.
to remove 1/10th of your enemies army without taking a single lost is known as decimation
No it's not. When a Roman legion was punished it was decimated.
@@BudMasta yes... but the term means to remove 1/10th of an army... wether or not it's your army or your enemies is irelevent...
Vlandian sharpshooters only...... seeing 250 of them mow down a group of horse archers is one of life's simple pleasures.
Well, I Never knew violence could be so entertaining.
This was really entertaining. The sassy commenting mixing forced enthusiasm with roasting the game engine was gold.
"Why would you retreat into the enemy?" The Imperial Commissar would like to know your location.
Hey Ambigious, wondering why there was no Rimworld uploads came recently just to see that you played the same game as me! :D Keep this in mind: Battanian second Tier archers (highborn youth) are the absolute best archers in game... Fian Cahmpions are just elven Archers! If you manage to get 100 of them in your army, you are unstoppable. You can gain them by luck in Battanian settlements or just clearin Forest Bandits hideouts with a blunt weapon for prisoners. You need the Leadership skill at i think 225 to upgrade bandits to regular troops (Forest bandit to Fian if i remember correctly) Keep up your Work, i admire your way of commenting things and the sound of your voice. Best regards!
Thanks ambiguousamphibian. Very cool
When this game first went into early access, I bought it cause I loved warband. Well I instantly saw the value of the Palatinate archer.... I got an army of like 250 archers and well... let's just say no cavalry charge made it more than 100 feet from spawn, and infantry were dead before they reached the half way point. 10/10 would play again.
While sieging a castle and using a bow, along the wall where the NPC archers spawn are large containers holding arrows (12:55 to the left of your character is this object) and if you interact with it you will resupply your arrows, and I believe it also refills spears. I think there is also some barricades outside the castle that spawn with this resupply, or you can literally pick up arrows NPC's have fired and use them, even taking them out of alive and dead NPC's. I am not even joking about this.
Definitely interested in more M&B content delivered in the amphibian's soothing voice.
i really love the video that this man makes
This was great! Please more Mount and Blade.
watched all 15 minutes, what an experience
this was uploaded 6 minutes ago
I seriously couldn't stop laughing for 16 minutes, thank you for the entertainment man. Keep it up!
5 Days is much too long a time of a wait, the feeling of an eternity between true enjoyment.
"... a shield wall of peasants." About spat out my coffee lmao.
It would be cool if you did another short series of this
More of this please. I really want more bannerlord from you.
Thank u for reminding about this game!
You don’t need to capture steppe bandits, just get regular Khuzait recruits (or aserai) and train them into horse archers. You need to buy them horses but it’s far easier in bulk than steppe bandits.
More of this series would be great
Me: Sneezes Ambiguousamphibian: 00:03:09 Me: "Thank you... oh wait."
"Then came swords, then came spears"
Love the M&B vids, I'd like to see you continue the archer playthrough, take a castle and declare war on everyone. See how long you can hold it.🥴
This was good, I liked this. Factorio death world was also quite pleasing.
Another gane I didn't know... great video, super interesting UwU
Archers, OP. Especially when you command to hold fire until the time is right
What are you doing? Step Bandit?
His characters voice killed me for about 10 minutes... this is gonna be a good video XD
This video is awesome! Have you thought about doing Bannerlord solo and seeing how far you can get?