A couple things I’d like to remark: 1. I remember when the first 500 battle was played and how humongous it looked then; we are reaching such numbers on the regular now 2. You can actually see the different units getting better at fighting. You see a lot less of the lines just falling apart into a general melee but everyone is keeping with their allies and actually staying in formation. The captains have also visibly gotten better at keeping everyone reigned in
Exactly my thoughts and what I tell the soldiers. There’s moments in the battle I look the down the battle line. 1. It feels like a proper battle 2. I can’t even see the end of the battle line, leaving me to wonder what’s even happening on the far flank. Which is a cool feeling. Thanks for the comment brother
@@Benoniyoutube Oh, definitely! Especially in the first battle I was convinced that your flank,being outnumbered as it was was going to slowly cave in while the right pushed but the completely opposite happened. And you just can’t tell because there are too many people
Historian here, that was awesome. Maybe not totally realistic because medieval infantry IRL as in other eras, wouldn't charge that way breaking formation as it would be a certain death sentence and you wouldn't have a respawn, and even in gaming simulators you don't have preservation instinct to worry about, but you acted tactically like a real platoon leader, a real centurion, a real manipolo commander. Awesome.
You know what, you’ve hit the nail on the head. Without that sense of preservation is exactly what is wrong with these battles. I appreciate the comment! I hope you enjoy my future videos :)
this was amazing, and i think shows a lot more closely how real battles actually went on, it is hard to keep formation in a game, but you get a real idea of the importance of officers, order, formations, the pressure of numbers, or how devastating would it be to out of nowhere your formation gets attack from behind by cavalry, honestly im in love with this mod lol
Not to mention how ridiculous high armoured these people are. They look like a entire regiment of nobles due ultra expensive full armour. No peasant would have anything remotely close. Also the damage are are fully jancked. Sword vs armour? Lol.
Hollywood could learn alot about how medieval battles look from this video as opposed to the crazy, dumb mashing together of armies who get completely intermixed
When 2 solid lines slam into each other and the camera zooms out and the battle has somehow become a mile thick and every single person is fighting 1on1 kill me
Good Lord this was so cool. Knowing these are real people in essentially an unscripted battle using realistic tactics melted with video game mechanics. Seeing organized lines, moving behind the protection of other shield lines into their positions was amazing. Also very clearly shows the usefulness of banner bearers during the period. It’s so easy to get discombobulated in the battle, and then to hear your commanding officer, rally to the banner, and look up and see where that’s at very easily was an awesome moment.
Aye! The banners completely change how we fight! I remember before we had them how hard it was to rally. Keep an eye out for a new video I’m dropping soon. Some really strong banner team play. We also have a score between all our clan, who can capture the most banners
10:20 this is such a cool moment and impressive performance from both you and your opponent. How they try to bait you into a Hannibal's Crescent feigned retreat, but you immediately react, yet just as fast they notice you don't buy it and just rush your line - you shout for your troops to stand their ground, but in a glimpse there as you're fighting you can see the enemy's surprise worked and your line is pretty much routed, with stragglers getting cut down left and right.
Hannibal's crescent is more involved and spans an entire army, but this is a feigned retreat into a charge that worked very well. Love that we're all learning more about historical battles to apply to this game🙏
Also love that it is the roundshield faction doing this, as the false retreat into counter charge was a very common tactic in Scandinavian warfare between 500-1200 after christ.
I think if the yellows had not gone forward without orders, or had all listened to the instruction to hold (i.e. form a line again), the charge by black would not have been effective. As it was, the yellows were in a big L shape when the blacks charged into the apex of the L, and the blacks actually surrounded themselves with yellows briefly, which would ordinarily have had a bad outcome. However, the blacks seemed better at fighting and so, even though the yellow leader had several blacks backs exposed to his sword for a few seconds, there wasn't enough time to take advantage of it because the blacks beat most of their yellow opponents very quickly.
@@greatbriton8425 The surprise factor was very important too They were on the defensive with large round shields and suddenly feign retreat and charging right away with full force really was a masterplay Really gg to them, their discipline and fighting skills won the day
@@drejade7119 I remember watching a video of a first person soldier once and a Knight with helmet, the soldier can't tell how many people the enemies have in the backlines as he only see what's infront of him and he sees a sea of people.
At least 50% of any ancient troops were actually logistic troops, to carry food and supplies. (Not sure about modern army’s proportion) But imagine 1 million men fighting a single battle in ancient China. That was still like half a million men ACTUALLY fighting
@@napolien1310and if you’ve ever been in a big crowd, whether leaving a sports stadium or being at a concert, you can really see how you only see what’s going on right in front of you. You have no idea what is happening at the other side of the crowd or how many other people there are.
The first round of this event was incredibly stressful. As standard bearer I could not use my shield and I had realised that all of the Mousillon infantry had perished so it really felt like me against the world that round. I think I ended up with 7 kills just from that first fight.
@@IRON_KING_KNIGHT Mb for not replying but basically BRE can bring loads of players to the point we can have multiple units. The different colours you see are the heraldry of each dukedom. Benoni commands the Aquitaine footmen (yellow and blue soldiers)
@@zanderman4059 it’s alright brother some people don’t reply for a whole year Either way thx for answering I’ve always thought different colors mean different weapons and armor lol
@@IRON_KING_KNIGHT The Order of the Lake (soldiers in black) get unique shock infantry gear. So 2handed maces, axes and cleavers and of course archers and knights use unique gear as well. But yeah for the most part men at arms use the standard loadout of sword, shield and spear. You can also replace your sword with a 1h mace or 1h axe if its your preference.
Most skirmishes atleast to my understanding caused less than 50 deaths before a side buckled and fled. However this is before Medieval times. Also the men actually worrying for their lives was a huge factor, seeing a well equipped and uniform enemy was like a death sentence to engage which caused much of Roman success. However if it is defending a home town or such where morale is high they usually would fight to the death, so those skirmishes/battles are usually the ones we know of today. " Kings and Generals " got alot of history on this subject breaking down battles to be understood.
Being the banner holder implie so much responsability and it now important to protect him as it is your way to regroups to your chief and you cant use shield.
Try that with WoW players and you'll have 5% at least pull off a Leeroy Jenkins. Try that with MOBA players and they'll kill each other for the "best" spots.
Same in War of Rights in a regiment. Players listens to the officers and do what they are told. Wish i could join a "regiment" in Bannerlord but first time watching these kind of videos. Didn't even know this game had a fan base so well organized.
@@BetrayingLightthere is a game this reminds me of “Planetside 2” its a small community most people are in outfits and its this massive 100v100v100 scifi milsim game, so much fun getting into a good outfit and getting an air fleet going or making massive armor ground pushes to bases
Watching this, it made me think about several battles from the Medieval Period and Antiquity, particularly the battles where it's mentioned that one of the flanks had done very well and pushed their opposing flank back, but had become overzealous and pushed back too far and became separated from their forces. For a second, I imagined myself in the place of a soldier who was utterly confident as his unit pushed back the enemy, only to turn around and see that we have left our line behind, and are now being surrounded by enemy forces.
I remember watching this video months ago and thinking it should have done much better than it has. I'm really happy to see it crack 300k now! Congrats man, your work deserves this level of attention IMO.
Bro, this is amazing. I cannot articulate how happy I am that modern gamming has reached to this stage. This is just incredible. To think we went from the 25 fps frame rate of Total war Atilla, to this 350+ multiplayer battle is pure joy! Amazing work. You got a subscriber!
This would be such a good Esport it would be even better if you had to fight with the tools your culture would have fought with example the Mongols horse archers ect and the cells essentially battania
I can tell you now there is a better way to experience a medieval battle. Dont get me wrong, this does look impresive - definately a lot of fun from the looks of things. But as a reenactor, I dont think anything comes closer to experiencing the sounds, the smells, the feeling of a horses hooves thundering underfoot than partaking in a reenactment of a historical battle (other than maybe living through a real one). I'm lucky enough to be able to say that I know what its like to look up and see a dark cloud of arrows falling towards you, to feel the awe inspiring boom of a cannon from only a few meters away. I didn't think anything could come close to that experience, yet this seems closer than I expected anything ever could. Well played. It was a joy to watch.
Those battles are one of the biggest reasons I want to buy this game. It looks good to watch, and probably feels even better when you're the one fighting. Good fight, I hope to see more soon.
Thanks soldier! It’s certainly it a different experience. Everything happens so fast once you start fighting! If kudos to the soldiers fighting, reacting when needed! If you want to join the shield wall, add one of the officers in the chat!
30 seconds in and the first thought that came to mind is - you speak more charismatic and emotional to your viewers, than to the 30 lads you are leading into battle. :)
It's difficult to be that charismatic in a stressful situation like this. You gotta maintain the temple and try to make coherent decisions in the heat of the battle, so there's little space for more charismatic and sweet talk :( I can tell it because I've been captain of a group of skirmishers/melee in M&B Warband and when shit comes down to your squad, you gotta make fast decisions. In a resume, it's better to lose some charisma at the time you give orders to maintain a clear mind so you can keep making good strategic decisions. That being said, Benoni was very supportive when things came down haha I'm not that sweet, but at the end of each battle, I gave my brothers-in-arms some pats on the back.
It is more important to stay composed and give clear commands than be emotional and cause unnecessary chaos or ramping up emotions ;) There is time for emotions after the battle. Ofc this is not the case for real combat when you're fighting for your life, but this is not such situation, even though it looks damn convincing and impressive.
Men have boxes. One is a combat box. Another is a feelings box. We might open the feelings box in conversation but never while we have the combat box open.
This is amazing, I have goosebumps! I stopped folding laundry and gave this video my full attention. I was able to imagine myself being in this moment and its absolutely incredible. Instant sub for sure, great content, thank you.
Aha I’m glad you enjoy it :) every video I try and learn something new or do something faster. So glad people like yourself leave these really appreciated comments :) have a good day! Also, this week a 10k special 20min long archer pov is coming out! So good timing. I’ve never done archer before
Great video! Some advice from a military person. Instead of saying something like 5:43 back row goto the left don’t use the front guys, try having your men form a 5/7/10 man front and the rest falling in behind them in rows. Your line disappeared for a second bc of confusion who the back row was (even if some were clearly the front). Still, this video is 3 months old and everyone is commenting how much better you guys are getting. It looks a lot of fun.
Hey dude some good advice. What do you mean by the 5/7/10 ? Sounds interesting. Regarding the front line. They should of kept their tight position and the back row manouver left/right. But half our soldiers miss the training session where we practice this. Appreciate the comment !
@@Benoniyoutube what i mean is if while forming you tell them to make a 5 man front then 5 people line up. Everyone makes rows of 5 covering down behind the front 5. This allows the front 5 to know they’re the front line. Or Vice, the back two rows knows who the commander is talking to and that they need to break off and cover left. Instead of the gaggle that occurred.
@@steffens260Couldn't make it more confusing or complicated if you tried 😂 Nobody speaks in that language - the way you coordinate people is to split big groups into smaller ones, and each one has a designated position and task. So if the 1st group fails for whatever reason, you simply tell the 4th group to take over or whichever one is the optimal for the task. If you want your individual team members to decipher where each of them should be, you'll end up with a chaotic mess of people overlapping.
@@ChessJourneyman that’s why you don’t give them specific positions to be. If I tell group 1 (7 people) that they are the front line, then they don’t need to know who’s first second third etc. they just need to form a line in the front. Everyone else roughly gathers behind them. Doesn’t sound specific or complicated at all.
Damn this is the best realistic medieval battle scenes i ever seen in a multiplayer game. I loved it. I want so bad to teleport in 20 years where we will have massive multiplayer games with more than 1 thousand players forming ranks in the same battle, but this is already really pretty
Yeah i knew that that's why i said we will have to wait 10 years before really enjoying a battle of minimum 1 000 players with nice graphics and with people having suffisant pc conf to run it as the game.@user-bh6kf9lg9m
the closest thing right now in the works is probably anvil empires, in development by the guys that foxhole which involves thousands of players operating in a single WW1-2 era war. not to the scale of a thousand players in a single battle but closer than most, and anvil empires is going for a more medieval style of game with settlement and army building.
I love like when the clash happens and there's all the chaos he orders to regroup under the flag. It's literally how it was done in medieval and exact use of those banners.
You BRE lads might need to start getting some reinforcements, a lot of the coalition groups are getting trained up and more organised so that numbers advantage is really starting to show as a result. It was a cracking event though
I wonder how Bannerlord would look-when-watching and feel-when-playing if the upper and lower body weren't so disconnected; imagine if making an attack was an animation lock that included set footwork, maybe even different footwork patterns for different WASD and swing-direction inputs. Edit: hyphens
I think I know what you mean. The footing does actually have an effect. Your character either has his right or left foot forward. Which wry slightly effects how you swing . ;)
@@TheGenericAssasin yeah, sounds insanely difficult to pull off so it's easy to see why it is as it is, would be mental if something like that could ever fruition
@@ChilledoutDevil It'll definitely happen, it's just a question of when. ML tools are going to completely reshape video games over the next 30 years or so.
"different WASD and swing-direction inputs" if I understand u correctly Morrowind tried something like that, but it was not very effective Apparently, at least I've never heard anyone say it was good?
this was so fricken cool, seeing players coordinated like that in the moments where it didnt turn into more of a brawl was awesome, that false retreat by the sturgian-looking clan was really cool to watch too, great vid
To make it even more accurate, have it so the unit commander can only give so many commands. To replicate the idea that once combat starts, its hard as hell to order your troops around with an efficiency.
Aha that is a good idea. It’s very hard to get the troops together once the fighting does start! But realistically in a battle they wouldn’t have headsets
This is very cool! Do you like have an army commander that tries to coordinate all these sections? Would love to see some more advanced strategies from the commander rather than what looks like basic line ups and smashing together.
Fun fact: In medieval warfare the best commander was the one you could hear. Because your vision is obstructed by a plate helmet and clangs and roars from all directions you had to risk looking around or dropping your guard to make sure you were still next to your brothers-in-arms. This often led to both armies responding to commands being screamed by either side. If their side shouts "fall back" it wasn't unusual for both armies to fall back unless of course there was a language barrier.
Those guys with the round shield did it right. Even during the meelee, they were very tightly packed, each one covering each other with their shields. That shield charge was awesome too.
I wonder how combat would have to change for polearms to play more of a role in these line fights. In IRL reenactment you tend to see a lot more poking and prodding before any sort of charge, and spearheads can slip through very slim openings. In games, shields work almost as a binary defense - you're either fully protected from a given range of degrees, or not at all, so it's comparatively easy to advance on any formation. I'm sure there are other factors at play too, like the inherently frantic movement of a multiplayer game, but I'll stop here :P Very cool to see these kinds of organized fights! I used to be part of something similar in Napoleonic Wars for Warband
ok, so im fairly new to the community of the sword, but here's why i think spears are normally a bit trash in games: psychology, in game u never actuly die so one charge in and fights more with weapons than shields. in war, you only die once. so you would fight way more with ur shield than ur sword. even horses would not actually, willingly run into a wall of pikes. which is why they where used to harass, flank and chase down the enemy once routed. so real men fighting would charge but probebly not rush in head long. as they get closer the front rank starts slowing down, and gradually the momentum is lost. most battles would probably have been a stand off, with men tossing projectiles and move in and out of the moral tension zone to strike, which is a helluva risk. so in real battle, the longer ur weapon, the closer to ur own line u could stay while still striking at the enemy. not only is that range advantage a huge factor 1v1 psychologically, im sure it gives the combatant a bit more confidence to strike. becouse they dont have to get so far away from backup or quite so close to the actual enemy. as for making spears better in this game, IDK, faster attack rate and stabs only for spears, helberds could have thrust and over hand only. maybe with overhand being able to strike through allies. its beleved they where pretty much used this way in actual battle, the second line striking over the first. hence the pollaxe, pole but poll or crown of the head, at least according to some.
1:41 the first moments are honestly a good example why medieval armies usually avoided a charge when in a shield wall, the attacker is at a disadvantage so it's either very slow progress or waiting for the enemy to come. Some scribes mention that a formation must be standing so close shoulder by shoulder that an apple can't pass between them, which can't be ensured when moving, it just needs one little bush or rabbit hole for a small gap in the formation that the enemy can use
People be talking about the intense battle, formations, and all that. For me, the synchronised marching on 8:27 is cool enough to give me goosebumps. The cohesion in the line is just 👌
Hello Benoni, greetings from Turkey, I have been following your video contents for a long time and, I am thinking opening a bannerlord themed channel just like yours when I have the time for it. Maybe in the future I will join the Turkish players in your army, or who knows, maybe I will have the honor of commanding them. As a former and passionate Warband player, this will make me really happy. I wish you continued success. Cheers!!
U dont get to join and lead my friend.. u have to join the Bretonnian clan first and than grind... to become a leader takes time, commitment, charisma and loyalty
@@kiramilovanovic443 Thank you kindly for your comment Kira, i understand what you are pointing, just because of that i mentioned "..maybe become the leader..." (it is the ultimate goal and a long way)... Men are living with their dreams, isnt? :) Have a nice day.
@@sonererucar3247 didn't mean to be rude my friend... you just said it like it's that easy... i'm just saying it doesn't work that way... but if you want you could join and give it a try
Thank you for your great comment. Anything you can do to spread the games epic battles to more people Is always brilliant! Thanks again and glory to the empire!
I would love to join something like this as the sheer immensity of battles such as these would be amazing. I would ask though, how do you get placed into specific ranks, do you simply ask to join CAV or are you recruited to the Frontline?
Execellent question! In the BRE you’d be placed in either the infantry or archer divisions. Cavalry is a very sought after position. If you can imagine 200 players on one team with only 15-20 cavalry. It’s hard to cater for everyone. The longer and more loyal to the clan you are, your path may eventurely become a mounted sergeant or a squire to a lord. Effectively there is a waiting list.
Man I'm surprised. I never thought the online battle with all players can be that good, also in shocked how important it is the role of a good commander for guiding the troops lol I was holding my breath most of the times 😂
They definitely feigned retreat, formed a proper shield wall, and pushed straight through the fight, separating Benoni’s line. It’s a combination of both the feigned retreat and the penetration of the center tactics, both of which are among the 8 classic military maneuvers.
4:00 If the gents in your unit were trusted/experienced enough, you could have called for a schiltrom (or half schiltrom facing the enemy) around the banner. Rapidly regained the advantage of formation, against a broken unit.
The Bait-back into a consolidated charge maneuver seemed unstoppable! I expected it coming once you said they were going to do something interesting, but I did not expect it to have such a immediate result.
Here its not so many individual fighters. But imagine 1000s of soldiers trying to flank. It is enough to have a little physical barrier like a ditch or stones or uphill slope to tip to your advantage any enemy manover from the left flank. Here you guyes were too exposed, but you fought your way through and won your advesary. You only lost when leftover of enemy army converged on you from all sides. Cheers to the guys following your commands. Its amazing.
That move at 10:21 thats called the false gap. Makes the enemy think that your retreating so they push forward which ends up exposing their flanks allowing for a quick counter charge.
I had to do this sort of thing in real life at empire Larp back in June. actually being in one of these was a hell of an experience. If it was a real battle I would be dead right now
I know this is a very late comment, but dang, this is my first time seeing you or this game and you already got me wanting to buy it. My first reaction to this video was how much like a commander you actually sounded like, in ways I haven't ever seen before in video games. Also, the combat looks extremely hard, and yet, in the first game you killed so many before dying yourself. You have earned this subscriber, I'm blown away.
What the actual f... Ive played some of mount and blade, but i had no idea you could make 400 player battles. The closest thing ive played something like this was server wars in Guild Wars 2, the chaos, the tactics... so amazing. Maaybe Ill ge tthis game.
This is so fun to watch. I'm from SEA and joining the server would mean a latency of around 150ms, wonder if that is playable since the game isn't really fast paced.
probs coolest thing ive seen today! great vid. only thing I think u should incorporate is give ur self's a little more space, and use ur archers in a way to force them together. for example a shield wall shoot the left or the right depending on whats happening ofc and if its just a single wall shoot the left and right and thin the wall and make them go tighter easier to flank and surround them. Plus in bannerlord u cant walk through small gaps between soliders so if u have slight gaps u can use spears through the gaps.
Some good ideas. We do sometimes slightly separate the wall when the archers are directly behind us. It’s hard to always pull off in the chaos of battle. Normally happens in the opening forming up
I wonder if battle historians should study these as experiments. I wonder what insight it will give on human behaviour in battle. How natural lines and paths form. How the battles will change overtime, as the players learn and adapt. Constant stream of new players basically being levy troops. Super narrow voip would be good so you can hear the very close players. The commander could have a horn function and louder voip command. The potential for this is incredible man.
It’d be sick af if ck3 did their battles like this. Like the entire rest of the game doesn’t change, but when you go to battle it plays like a bannerlords battle
Paradox needs to make a game like this, people are starving for this type of game. I’ve played a few that have tried like total conflict resistance but they never live up to the hype
In the first fight you guys did amazing, I thought ya'll would have been massacre fast. You had three contigents plus the cavalry arrayed against your single contingent. And you managed to hold the left and take out almost all three contingents and gave their cavalry a hard time. In the end yes you lost but you folks put up an excellent fight.
A couple things I’d like to remark:
1. I remember when the first 500 battle was played and how humongous it looked then; we are reaching such numbers on the regular now
2. You can actually see the different units getting better at fighting. You see a lot less of the lines just falling apart into a general melee but everyone is keeping with their allies and actually staying in formation. The captains have also visibly gotten better at keeping everyone reigned in
Exactly my thoughts and what I tell the soldiers.
There’s moments in the battle I look the down the battle line.
1. It feels like a proper battle
2. I can’t even see the end of the battle line, leaving me to wonder what’s even happening on the far flank.
Which is a cool feeling.
Thanks for the comment brother
@@Benoniyoutube Oh, definitely! Especially in the first battle I was convinced that your flank,being outnumbered as it was was going to slowly cave in while the right pushed but the completely opposite happened. And you just can’t tell because there are too many people
Exactly! It’s great these battles are growing so much.
The in-battle feeling is really awesome
And unique
It's like I'm watching the evolution of mass melee combat in real time
How can I get involved
Plot twist, he's the only human player, and just talking to himself.
I do feel like an NPC sometimes :)
Aha :P
@@Benoniyoutube plot twist: the entire bannerlord community is an ai made to deceive benon into thinking hes playing with real players
Nut twist
Soon we'll have AI mods where you can actually do that... It picks up what you're saying through voice and your army responds to your instructions.
Historian here, that was awesome. Maybe not totally realistic because medieval infantry IRL as in other eras, wouldn't charge that way breaking formation as it would be a certain death sentence and you wouldn't have a respawn, and even in gaming simulators you don't have preservation instinct to worry about, but you acted tactically like a real platoon leader, a real centurion, a real manipolo commander. Awesome.
You know what, you’ve hit the nail on the head.
Without that sense of preservation is exactly what is wrong with these battles.
I appreciate the comment! I hope you enjoy my future videos :)
@@Benoniyoutube Hold the line shield on while charging. It will make a huge difference. Slow, but deadly.
this was amazing, and i think shows a lot more closely how real battles actually went on, it is hard to keep formation in a game, but you get a real idea of the importance of officers, order, formations, the pressure of numbers, or how devastating would it be to out of nowhere your formation gets attack from behind by cavalry, honestly im in love with this mod lol
Not to mention how ridiculous high armoured these people are. They look like a entire regiment of nobles due ultra expensive full armour.
No peasant would have anything remotely close. Also the damage are are fully jancked. Sword vs armour? Lol.
@@DácioNunes-l1v Its a game, obviously its going to be unrealistic at some level
Hollywood could learn alot about how medieval battles look from this video as opposed to the crazy, dumb mashing together of armies who get completely intermixed
We can only
Hope they do !
Some body said it!!!
When 2 solid lines slam into each other and the camera zooms out and the battle has somehow become a mile thick and every single person is fighting 1on1 kill me
I’ve said this shit for more than a decade! 👏
I can’t watch that crap
Good Lord this was so cool. Knowing these are real people in essentially an unscripted battle using realistic tactics melted with video game mechanics. Seeing organized lines, moving behind the protection of other shield lines into their positions was amazing. Also very clearly shows the usefulness of banner bearers during the period. It’s so easy to get discombobulated in the battle, and then to hear your commanding officer, rally to the banner, and look up and see where that’s at very easily was an awesome moment.
Aye! The banners completely change how we fight! I remember before we had them how hard it was to rally.
Keep an eye out for a new video I’m dropping soon. Some really strong banner team play.
We also have a score between all our clan, who can capture the most banners
@@Benoniyoutube as did the warriors of old. with Rome (according to legend) doing a howl campaign to get one back.
10:20 this is such a cool moment and impressive performance from both you and your opponent. How they try to bait you into a Hannibal's Crescent feigned retreat, but you immediately react, yet just as fast they notice you don't buy it and just rush your line - you shout for your troops to stand their ground, but in a glimpse there as you're fighting you can see the enemy's surprise worked and your line is pretty much routed, with stragglers getting cut down left and right.
This.
Hannibal's crescent is more involved and spans an entire army, but this is a feigned retreat into a charge that worked very well. Love that we're all learning more about historical battles to apply to this game🙏
Also love that it is the roundshield faction doing this, as the false retreat into counter charge was a very common tactic in Scandinavian warfare between 500-1200 after christ.
Reminds me of Battle of Hastings
@@joeflame1130 same :D
It's crazy to see such a well coordinated charge at 10:20 and how effective it was at breaking the recipients cohesion.
Indeed! Something so simple but so effective :)
I think if the yellows had not gone forward without orders, or had all listened to the instruction to hold (i.e. form a line again), the charge by black would not have been effective. As it was, the yellows were in a big L shape when the blacks charged into the apex of the L, and the blacks actually surrounded themselves with yellows briefly, which would ordinarily have had a bad outcome. However, the blacks seemed better at fighting and so, even though the yellow leader had several blacks backs exposed to his sword for a few seconds, there wasn't enough time to take advantage of it because the blacks beat most of their yellow opponents very quickly.
@@greatbriton8425 The surprise factor was very important too
They were on the defensive with large round shields and suddenly feign retreat and charging right away with full force really was a masterplay
Really gg to them, their discipline and fighting skills won the day
@@Benoniyoutubeit was (intentionally or not) an actual historical maneuver.
@@thebigenchilada678the good ole feigned retreat
This looks crazy with just 200 people per side, I can’t even imagine the armies that consisted of 50000+ men 🤯
this but stretched longer and people just tapping in and out for days
And they all play in first person unlike these players who have the full advantage of third person.
@@drejade7119 I remember watching a video of a first person soldier once and a Knight with helmet, the soldier can't tell how many people the enemies have in the backlines as he only see what's infront of him and he sees a sea of people.
At least 50% of any ancient troops were actually logistic troops, to carry food and supplies. (Not sure about modern army’s proportion)
But imagine 1 million men fighting a single battle in ancient China. That was still like half a million men ACTUALLY fighting
@@napolien1310and if you’ve ever been in a big crowd, whether leaving a sports stadium or being at a concert, you can really see how you only see what’s going on right in front of you. You have no idea what is happening at the other side of the crowd or how many other people there are.
The "Feigned retreat" by VSC was PERFECT
The first round of this event was incredibly stressful. As standard bearer I could not use my shield and I had realised that all of the Mousillon infantry had perished so it really felt like me against the world that round. I think I ended up with 7 kills just from that first fight.
The faith you had in the colours helped you strike down your foes,
Clearly.
Speaking of colors why your clan has troops with yellow and troops with red, does anyone know?
@@IRON_KING_KNIGHT Mb for not replying but basically BRE can bring loads of players to the point we can have multiple units. The different colours you see are the heraldry of each dukedom. Benoni commands the Aquitaine footmen (yellow and blue soldiers)
@@zanderman4059 it’s alright brother some people don’t reply for a whole year
Either way thx for answering I’ve always thought different colors mean different weapons and armor lol
@@IRON_KING_KNIGHT The Order of the Lake (soldiers in black) get unique shock infantry gear. So 2handed maces, axes and cleavers and of course archers and knights use unique gear as well. But yeah for the most part men at arms use the standard loadout of sword, shield and spear. You can also replace your sword with a 1h mace or 1h axe if its your preference.
Tbh I would love to watch historians to react to this sort of multiplayer battle, looks so fun.
Certainly I would too!
Some battles are more realistic than others. Then again, I’ve never seen a real battle aha.
Most skirmishes atleast to my understanding caused less than 50 deaths before a side buckled and fled. However this is before Medieval times. Also the men actually worrying for their lives was a huge factor, seeing a well equipped and uniform enemy was like a death sentence to engage which caused much of Roman success. However if it is defending a home town or such where morale is high they usually would fight to the death, so those skirmishes/battles are usually the ones we know of today. " Kings and Generals " got alot of history on this subject breaking down battles to be understood.
Being the banner holder implie so much responsability and it now important to protect him as it is your way to regroups to your chief and you cant use shield.
Write down an elaborated idea surrounding that and send it in to a network. I mean why not? Fun idea.
The fact that you were able to keep all other players together and have them actually listen to you and play effectively is in itself amazing
Try that with WoW players and you'll have 5% at least pull off a Leeroy Jenkins. Try that with MOBA players and they'll kill each other for the "best" spots.
Same in War of Rights in a regiment. Players listens to the officers and do what they are told. Wish i could join a "regiment" in Bannerlord but first time watching these kind of videos. Didn't even know this game had a fan base so well organized.
@@BetrayingLightthere is a game this reminds me of “Planetside 2” its a small community most people are in outfits and its this massive 100v100v100 scifi milsim game, so much fun getting into a good outfit and getting an air fleet going or making massive armor ground pushes to bases
Watching this, it made me think about several battles from the Medieval Period and Antiquity, particularly the battles where it's mentioned that one of the flanks had done very well and pushed their opposing flank back, but had become overzealous and pushed back too far and became separated from their forces. For a second, I imagined myself in the place of a soldier who was utterly confident as his unit pushed back the enemy, only to turn around and see that we have left our line behind, and are now being surrounded by enemy forces.
This happens so often! Especially now we have 400 soldiers.
You can really feel like your winning only to realise the rest of the line has broken!
@@Benoniyoutube How do you cordinate as an army? do you like split up and get orders from uptop induvially?
I remember watching this video months ago and thinking it should have done much better than it has. I'm really happy to see it crack 300k now! Congrats man, your work deserves this level of attention IMO.
Hello there
Thanks Strat!
Means a lot.
We are going to have to get some tips from your videos to apply to the battles.
Bro two of you are my biges favorit youtubers
Bro, this is amazing. I cannot articulate how happy I am that modern gamming has reached to this stage. This is just incredible. To think we went from the 25 fps frame rate of Total war Atilla, to this 350+ multiplayer battle is pure joy! Amazing work. You got a subscriber!
i can imagine this being in a tournament. like a nation v nation, making it a world war tournament game. and spectating it would be very amazing imo
This would be such a good Esport it would be even better if you had to fight with the tools your culture would have fought with example the Mongols horse archers ect and the cells essentially battania
@@MichaelKelly-q2gAs long as “unbalanced” and “meta” stuff don’t ruin it lol.
Bannerlord is so much fun, imagine large 300v300 battles
We’re close!
We can make it happen
I can tell you now there is a better way to experience a medieval battle. Dont get me wrong, this does look impresive - definately a lot of fun from the looks of things. But as a reenactor, I dont think anything comes closer to experiencing the sounds, the smells, the feeling of a horses hooves thundering underfoot than partaking in a reenactment of a historical battle (other than maybe living through a real one).
I'm lucky enough to be able to say that I know what its like to look up and see a dark cloud of arrows falling towards you, to feel the awe inspiring boom of a cannon from only a few meters away. I didn't think anything could come close to that experience, yet this seems closer than I expected anything ever could.
Well played. It was a joy to watch.
Those battles are one of the biggest reasons I want to buy this game. It looks good to watch, and probably feels even better when you're the one fighting. Good fight, I hope to see more soon.
Thanks soldier!
It’s certainly it a different experience.
Everything happens so fast once you start fighting!
If kudos to the soldiers fighting, reacting when needed!
If you want to join the shield wall, add one of the officers in the chat!
I don't think i've enjoyed a video so much in so long.
This was fantastic! Well done everyone who took part! It was a fun watch.
30 seconds in and the first thought that came to mind is - you speak more charismatic and emotional to your viewers, than to the 30 lads you are leading into battle. :)
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Ah your not the only one to say this.
I use a different mic for playing and voiceover. But it’s still very different energy
It's difficult to be that charismatic in a stressful situation like this. You gotta maintain the temple and try to make coherent decisions in the heat of the battle, so there's little space for more charismatic and sweet talk :(
I can tell it because I've been captain of a group of skirmishers/melee in M&B Warband and when shit comes down to your squad, you gotta make fast decisions.
In a resume, it's better to lose some charisma at the time you give orders to maintain a clear mind so you can keep making good strategic decisions. That being said, Benoni was very supportive when things came down haha
I'm not that sweet, but at the end of each battle, I gave my brothers-in-arms some pats on the back.
It is more important to stay composed and give clear commands than be emotional and cause unnecessary chaos or ramping up emotions ;)
There is time for emotions after the battle. Ofc this is not the case for real combat when you're fighting for your life, but this is not such situation, even though it looks damn convincing and impressive.
Men have boxes. One is a combat box. Another is a feelings box. We might open the feelings box in conversation but never while we have the combat box open.
this games combat system makes it perfect for realistic skirmishes where orders are being given.
Exactly! Best we have in gaming
This is amazing, I have goosebumps! I stopped folding laundry and gave this video my full attention. I was able to imagine myself being in this moment and its absolutely incredible. Instant sub for sure, great content, thank you.
Aha I’m glad you enjoy it :) every video I try and learn something new or do something faster. So glad people like yourself leave these really appreciated comments :) have a good day!
Also, this week a 10k special 20min long archer pov is coming out! So good timing. I’ve never done archer before
This was a blast to watch! Well done
Ah what an honour, thank you!
o7
Great video! Some advice from a military person. Instead of saying something like 5:43 back row goto the left don’t use the front guys, try having your men form a 5/7/10 man front and the rest falling in behind them in rows. Your line disappeared for a second bc of confusion who the back row was (even if some were clearly the front). Still, this video is 3 months old and everyone is commenting how much better you guys are getting. It looks a lot of fun.
Hey dude some good advice.
What do you mean by the 5/7/10 ? Sounds interesting.
Regarding the front line. They should of kept their tight position and the back row manouver left/right.
But half our soldiers miss the training session where we practice this.
Appreciate the comment !
@@Benoniyoutube what i mean is if while forming you tell them to make a 5 man front then 5 people line up. Everyone makes rows of 5 covering down behind the front 5. This allows the front 5 to know they’re the front line. Or Vice, the back two rows knows who the commander is talking to and that they need to break off and cover left. Instead of the gaggle that occurred.
@@steffens260Couldn't make it more confusing or complicated if you tried 😂 Nobody speaks in that language - the way you coordinate people is to split big groups into smaller ones, and each one has a designated position and task. So if the 1st group fails for whatever reason, you simply tell the 4th group to take over or whichever one is the optimal for the task.
If you want your individual team members to decipher where each of them should be, you'll end up with a chaotic mess of people overlapping.
@@ChessJourneyman that’s why you don’t give them specific positions to be. If I tell group 1 (7 people) that they are the front line, then they don’t need to know who’s first second third etc. they just need to form a line in the front. Everyone else roughly gathers behind them. Doesn’t sound specific or complicated at all.
This is actually awesome, I like how everyone's trying to listen and stay in formation.
Damn this is the best realistic medieval battle scenes i ever seen in a multiplayer game. I loved it. I want so bad to teleport in 20 years where we will have massive multiplayer games with more than 1 thousand players forming ranks in the same battle, but this is already really pretty
I love how important the banner is for cohesion. It's hard to appreciate how confusing the chaos could be but this really helps to visualize it.
Yeah i knew that that's why i said we will have to wait 10 years before really enjoying a battle of minimum 1 000 players with nice graphics and with people having suffisant pc conf to run it as the game.@user-bh6kf9lg9m
@user-bh6kf9lg9m I think you missed where they said "in 20 years". In other words, they want to skip ahead to when these limitations are surpassed.
the closest thing right now in the works is probably anvil empires, in development by the guys that foxhole which involves thousands of players operating in a single WW1-2 era war. not to the scale of a thousand players in a single battle but closer than most, and anvil empires is going for a more medieval style of game with settlement and army building.
I love like when the clash happens and there's all the chaos he orders to regroup under the flag. It's literally how it was done in medieval and exact use of those banners.
You BRE lads might need to start getting some reinforcements, a lot of the coalition groups are getting trained up and more organised so that numbers advantage is really starting to show as a result. It was a cracking event though
Definitely a good thing :) the more we play the better these battles seem to be getting!
The way you guys fight at 7 minutes gave me chills. Well done dude
I wonder how Bannerlord would look-when-watching and feel-when-playing if the upper and lower body weren't so disconnected; imagine if making an attack was an animation lock that included set footwork, maybe even different footwork patterns for different WASD and swing-direction inputs.
Edit: hyphens
I think I know what you mean.
The footing does actually have an effect. Your character either has his right or left foot forward. Which wry slightly effects how you swing . ;)
That might be something the next game can implement using AI generated contextual animations. As it is now it just isn't that practical I think.
@@TheGenericAssasin yeah, sounds insanely difficult to pull off so it's easy to see why it is as it is, would be mental if something like that could ever fruition
@@ChilledoutDevil It'll definitely happen, it's just a question of when. ML tools are going to completely reshape video games over the next 30 years or so.
"different WASD and swing-direction inputs" if I understand u correctly Morrowind tried something like that, but it was not very effective Apparently, at least I've never heard anyone say it was good?
this was so fricken cool, seeing players coordinated like that in the moments where it didnt turn into more of a brawl was awesome, that false retreat by the sturgian-looking clan was really cool to watch too, great vid
To make it even more accurate, have it so the unit commander can only give so many commands. To replicate the idea that once combat starts, its hard as hell to order your troops around with an efficiency.
Aha that is a good idea.
It’s very hard to get the troops together once the fighting does start! But realistically in a battle they wouldn’t have headsets
That maneuver the black circle team did was so cool. Most entertaining thing I’ve seen in a minute. Wonder how often that works so well.
Great battle BRE, prob one of the most amazing battles I have ever played with the formations. See you in the next sunday
Yes it was some truely beautiful shield walls forming up on this battle!
Beautiful it's like playing total war on the ground level
It is!
If you oook at my recent videos, I do a spectator pov, which is awesome to watch over the battle
This is very cool! Do you like have an army commander that tries to coordinate all these sections?
Would love to see some more advanced strategies from the commander rather than what looks like basic line ups and smashing together.
Fun fact: In medieval warfare the best commander was the one you could hear. Because your vision is obstructed by a plate helmet and clangs and roars from all directions you had to risk looking around or dropping your guard to make sure you were still next to your brothers-in-arms. This often led to both armies responding to commands being screamed by either side. If their side shouts "fall back" it wasn't unusual for both armies to fall back unless of course there was a language barrier.
Bannerlord really has endless potential
It definitely does, it’s a slow burning masterpiece.
Those guys with the round shield did it right. Even during the meelee, they were very tightly packed, each one covering each other with their shields. That shield charge was awesome too.
Aye the VSC are strong adversaries of ours. We have since acknowledged this move and try our bests to counter it
I wonder how combat would have to change for polearms to play more of a role in these line fights. In IRL reenactment you tend to see a lot more poking and prodding before any sort of charge, and spearheads can slip through very slim openings. In games, shields work almost as a binary defense - you're either fully protected from a given range of degrees, or not at all, so it's comparatively easy to advance on any formation. I'm sure there are other factors at play too, like the inherently frantic movement of a multiplayer game, but I'll stop here :P
Very cool to see these kinds of organized fights! I used to be part of something similar in Napoleonic Wars for Warband
ok, so im fairly new to the community of the sword, but here's why i think spears are normally a bit trash in games:
psychology, in game u never actuly die so one charge in and fights more with weapons than shields. in war, you only die once.
so you would fight way more with ur shield than ur sword.
even horses would not actually, willingly run into a wall of pikes. which is why they where used to harass, flank and chase down the enemy once routed.
so real men fighting would charge but probebly not rush in head long. as they get closer the front rank starts slowing down, and gradually the momentum is lost. most battles would probably have been a stand off, with men tossing projectiles and move in and out of the moral tension zone to strike, which is a helluva risk.
so in real battle, the longer ur weapon, the closer to ur own line u could stay while still striking at the enemy. not only is that range advantage a huge factor 1v1 psychologically, im sure it gives the combatant a bit more confidence to strike. becouse they dont have to get so far away from backup or quite so close to the actual enemy.
as for making spears better in this game, IDK, faster attack rate and stabs only for spears, helberds could have thrust and over hand only. maybe with overhand being able to strike through allies.
its beleved they where pretty much used this way in actual battle, the second line striking over the first.
hence the pollaxe, pole but poll or crown of the head, at least according to some.
I do love the very brotherly nature of the archers. The provide and protect nature towards the little brother character at the back.
It was an honor being a part of this :)
How do i join these or are the pc only im on xbox x
Get a life lol
I'm not sure how xbox works but if you can get mods its possible@@wjeenzy6787
Lifes about love and fun brother, I hope you are happy
If you can get mods im sure you could join, im not in it anymore tho so idk@@wjeenzy6787
1:41 the first moments are honestly a good example why medieval armies usually avoided a charge when in a shield wall, the attacker is at a disadvantage so it's either very slow progress or waiting for the enemy to come. Some scribes mention that a formation must be standing so close shoulder by shoulder that an apple can't pass between them, which can't be ensured when moving, it just needs one little bush or rabbit hole for a small gap in the formation that the enemy can use
loved partaking in this, great to see it as a video too!
Thanks soldier!
Only thing that could make this cooler is first person and the ability to peek around your shield.
bannerlord does have first person, but no peaking sadly.
Most then to me the shield blocks your view lol.
Also it’s extremely hard!!! I’ve tried it a few times
Was really fun to fight with you guys on the front line for once. Were hard but epic battles.
Next event I support you again with my bow :)
I only played the singleplayer, didn't know multiplayer was this amazing
I had privilege to be part of this event by not joining the battle because of my wooden PC :DD Nontheless im still proud of our lord Captain Benoit!
Not only peasants 😀
Aha thanks! Get saving for an upgrade and get in the shield wall!
:)
I'll be there for you !
Doo do doodydo do doo doo doooooo
People be talking about the intense battle, formations, and all that. For me, the synchronised marching on 8:27 is cool enough to give me goosebumps. The cohesion in the line is just 👌
I’m the same! I prefer the moments before the battle starts!
Thanks for the comment
Hello Benoni, greetings from Turkey, I have been following your video contents for a long time and, I am thinking opening a bannerlord themed channel just like yours when I have the time for it.
Maybe in the future I will join the Turkish players in your army, or who knows, maybe I will have the honor of commanding them. As a former and passionate Warband player, this will make me really happy.
I wish you continued success. Cheers!!
U dont get to join and lead my friend.. u have to join the Bretonnian clan first and than grind... to become a leader takes time, commitment, charisma and loyalty
@@kiramilovanovic443 Thank you kindly for your comment Kira, i understand what you are pointing, just because of that i mentioned "..maybe become the leader..." (it is the ultimate goal and a long way)... Men are living with their dreams, isnt? :) Have a nice day.
@@sonererucar3247 didn't mean to be rude my friend... you just said it like it's that easy... i'm just saying it doesn't work that way... but if you want you could join and give it a try
@@kiramilovanovic443 np, will give it a try soon (i hope)
Thank you for your great comment.
Anything you can do to spread the games epic battles to more people
Is always brilliant!
Thanks again and glory to the empire!
the way the sides clash, skirmish, retreat, then re-form to do it again is mesmerizing. If only movies were like this
I would love to join something like this as the sheer immensity of battles such as these would be amazing. I would ask though, how do you get placed into specific ranks, do you simply ask to join CAV or are you recruited to the Frontline?
Execellent question!
In the BRE you’d be placed in either the infantry or archer divisions.
Cavalry is a very sought after position.
If you can imagine 200 players on one team with only 15-20 cavalry. It’s hard to cater for everyone.
The longer and more loyal to the clan you are, your path may eventurely become a mounted sergeant or a squire to a lord.
Effectively there is a waiting list.
Man I'm surprised. I never thought the online battle with all players can be that good, also in shocked how important it is the role of a good commander for guiding the troops lol I was holding my breath most of the times 😂
Love that youve just discovered this. It’s a really under the radar experience ! :)
Wdym awesome maneuver, they just walked in a straight line and you broke your formation XD lmao
Hard to do mid fight with all this chaos. I can understand why an outsider would think otherwise though
They definitely feigned retreat, formed a proper shield wall, and pushed straight through the fight, separating Benoni’s line. It’s a combination of both the feigned retreat and the penetration of the center tactics, both of which are among the 8 classic military maneuvers.
The way they pulled back and then charged forward and broke your line was nuts.
Those solders were having so much fun. I won't mind at all being like them just for the experience
This is the single coolest thing I’ve seen. Amazing how tactics play out in the game. Great command. I’m flabbergasted.
"The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies."
Napoléon Bonaparte
that was beautiful to watch, how both sides fought and how the tactics worked, it was amazing to watch
It’s great fun to play too!
It's impressive how this game and server can handle these flawlessly
Also directional combat is very good
Bro those battle scene look so fking dope, cavalery movement into the battlefield feel so real
Wow, the horses zooming through here and there, looks so realistic :)
Wow. This looks amazing. like childhood dream come true. i always thought that bannerlord was more of a RTS strategy
Having played Bannerlord singleplayer for a long time, this is the first time i want to try multiplayer. Instant sub!
I love the tone in "for the glory of Brettonia." notice the lack of exclamation point. But it's so fun when you can play a game like this.
love the vidya as well.
Hell but I really need to get a gaming pc. Mine broke about 6 months ago.
Patient, caring, composed, and smart. Like a good father for the men.
4:00 If the gents in your unit were trusted/experienced enough, you could have called for a schiltrom (or half schiltrom facing the enemy) around the banner. Rapidly regained the advantage of formation, against a broken unit.
The Bait-back into a consolidated charge maneuver seemed unstoppable! I expected it coming once you said they were going to do something interesting, but I did not expect it to have such a immediate result.
Here its not so many individual fighters. But imagine 1000s of soldiers trying to flank. It is enough to have a little physical barrier like a ditch or stones or uphill slope to tip to your advantage any enemy manover from the left flank. Here you guyes were too exposed, but you fought your way through and won your advesary. You only lost when leftover of enemy army converged on you from all sides. Cheers to the guys following your commands. Its amazing.
That move at 10:21 thats called the false gap. Makes the enemy think that your retreating so they push forward which ends up exposing their flanks allowing for a quick counter charge.
I’m learning that so much of medieval fighting is just Pyrrhic victories almost entirely at a small scale but everything in large scale just adds up.
I had to do this sort of thing in real life at empire Larp back in June. actually being in one of these was a hell of an experience. If it was a real battle I would be dead right now
The only thing that could make this even cooler is if everyone could be heard. (Proximity voice chat)
All those days of horrendously learning right and left faces etc finally paying off in this game.
The round shield guys have similar tactics used by the vikings in The last kingdom movie ❤
I know this is a very late comment, but dang, this is my first time seeing you or this game and you already got me wanting to buy it. My first reaction to this video was how much like a commander you actually sounded like, in ways I haven't ever seen before in video games. Also, the combat looks extremely hard, and yet, in the first game you killed so many before dying yourself. You have earned this subscriber, I'm blown away.
That vsc feigned retreat was class
first time seeing this, wow what a fucking sick game. So cool that everyone actually listens to the leader
10:30 what an amazing tactic right here
I am amazed how well they were organized together
Aye! They got us good then.
They use it regularly too!
We’ve got better at countering but it is very effective.
Most realistic medieval battle game fr. U fought well! Excellent guide
What the actual f... Ive played some of mount and blade, but i had no idea you could make 400 player battles. The closest thing ive played something like this was server wars in Guild Wars 2, the chaos, the tactics... so amazing. Maaybe Ill ge tthis game.
Every time the background music reverted to low E timpani all I could think of was Monty P's Sir Lancelot the Brave charging the castle xD
This is so fun to watch. I'm from SEA and joining the server would mean a latency of around 150ms, wonder if that is playable since the game isn't really fast paced.
Always fun seeing all the clans and your clans custom armor change and getting new ones
probs coolest thing ive seen today! great vid. only thing I think u should incorporate is give ur self's a little more space, and use ur archers in a way to force them together. for example a shield wall shoot the left or the right depending on whats happening ofc and if its just a single wall shoot the left and right and thin the wall and make them go tighter easier to flank and surround them. Plus in bannerlord u cant walk through small gaps between soliders so if u have slight gaps u can use spears through the gaps.
Some good ideas.
We do sometimes slightly separate the wall when the archers are directly behind us.
It’s hard to always pull off in the chaos of battle.
Normally happens in the opening forming up
I wonder if battle historians should study these as experiments. I wonder what insight it will give on human behaviour in battle. How natural lines and paths form. How the battles will change overtime, as the players learn and adapt. Constant stream of new players basically being levy troops. Super narrow voip would be good so you can hear the very close players. The commander could have a horn function and louder voip command. The potential for this is incredible man.
Gives a pretty good idea of what was happening and how actual people handle it.
It’d be sick af if ck3 did their battles like this. Like the entire rest of the game doesn’t change, but when you go to battle it plays like a bannerlords battle
Paradox needs to make a game like this, people are starving for this type of game. I’ve played a few that have tried like total conflict resistance but they never live up to the hype
Dude I need a new computer to join in on this action looks amazingly fun
My favorite part was when they were holding and the command was ok boys get ready to hold 😂
Holly wood you gotta hire ghis guy
I'm at 1:00 currently and this already looks way more fun than a chaotic brawl would be,
can we see more of this type of content, maybe even streams?
Cant wait for the VR first-person games like this in the near future
Wow those VSE lads totally broke your line that was excellent
oh wauw!! that’s awesome :) :) your soldiers are reacting so well to your commands. and your commands and overview is excellent!
In the first fight you guys did amazing, I thought ya'll would have been massacre fast. You had three contigents plus the cavalry arrayed against your single contingent. And you managed to hold the left and take out almost all three contingents and gave their cavalry a hard time. In the end yes you lost but you folks put up an excellent fight.
This is awesome!! reminds me of irl large battles like pennsic and bicolline who use larp weapons and whatnot. Looks just like it!
What a battle 🛡️⚔️ GLORY TO THE EMPIRE !
that wave attack from those round black shield guys was very effective.
Aye caught us completely off guard!