Bannerlord Tactics: Infantry Guide, Volume IV: Squares, Lines and Deadly Circles
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- Heya fellas, in this series, each focusing on the different kinds of battlefield units, we get deep into trenches of Bannerlord and look at things on a very granular level. Let me know what you think and I'll stay hard at work(while at work), to make more helpful content for your Bannerlord experience.
Note that there are CLEARLY more statistically oriented guides out there(Strat gaming guides is your man for this kind of content), my guide here is based partially on intuition and experience as much as statistics, and often like real life, an amalgamation of information is more valuable than just statistics and 500 vs. 500 examples, after all, when are you ever fighting 500 Palace guards with your 500 Sturgian line breakers? You don't, it's always a mix...
Please comment, like and subscribe if you're interested in more of my ultra-late-game campaign, that may end up ending in utter despair, but that's the challenge of it. Any challenge where success is assured is no challenge at all.
My campaign is an extremely late-game campaign where I am resolved to give no peace to these scum Kingdoms attacking me - seven of the eight have been at war for years, with only Sturgia at a neutral stance. My family of warriors is now large though and with what remaining strength and valor we can must, we stand against the map of Calradia.
Join me on this adventure if you like huge battles, the use of advanced tactical maneuvers and intense Bannerlord gameplay, and subscribe to my channel if you want to follow along. This campaign is very lightly modded:
I use four mods:
Lord Retinue Uptier(Makes the enemy forces stronger, much less peasants and lower ranked troops)
www.nexusmods....
Improved AI Troops(Also makes enemy lords and their armies tougher by giving them a higher daily xp rate. This means you'll routinely face armies with HUGE numbers of the highest tier units, sometimes four or five times the normal amount in vanilla Bannerlord): www.nexusmods....
Death for all: This mod allows you to set the rate at which nobles die more often. I want both a harder challenging late-game but also a more realistic game. If you're cut down with a massive aserai two-handed axe, you shouldn't just be injured 99.9% of the time. It's a very customizable mod so you can just a little more death or set the death rate so high you get several deaths every battle. The number I often like is '10', some deaths but not a massacre of nobles...
www.nexusmods....
I also use the Dismemberment Plus Mod: It's highly customizable and works seamlessly with the new beta(and versions back to 1.28). I thoroughly recommend it if you enjoy carnage!:
steamcommunity...
I've also used Realistic Battle Mod in the past and highly recommend it for Ai and battle realism BUT I find the pace too slow for my taste and the AI is actually rather predictable after a half dozen battles. Still I wanted to put a plug in for it here, it's a GREAT mod and highly configurable. www.nexusmods....
Much of the music and inspiration for this and other videos in the channel are inspired by Epic History TV - probably THE best channel on youtube(and the internet for that matter) covering the Napoleonic wars. With amazing work Epic History TV takes you through the dramatic and incredibly story of Napoleon covering all of his most famous battles. I HIGHLY recommend it.
Epic History TV:
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Still working on muting out the backround sounds but I think the mic and my voice is now dialed in pretty well. Please continue to leave feedback if something is off, you can't hear some part or whatever, and ENJOY!
23:25 sick javelin toss! The audio was fine, no issues at all. Keep up the good work 👍
Thanks for the feedback and kind words!
That throw was a sacrifice that must occur for flawless victories!
@@arrgylerawrgyle3784 He knows me well...
Everyone keeps saying javelins are where it’s at but I have never been able to master them…they are alway too high or too low. Give me a bow and I’ll doink enemies all day but pointy throwing sticks are my bane.
The real slick throw starts at 24:07 🤭
13:00 We are about to die salute you! Ave Caecar
Or run lol
Your audio has always sounded great to me. When you mention having made adjustments I never noticed the difference. I'm sure some people are more sensitive than others. I'm betting the sensitive viewers are much more vocal so I wanted to add my voice to those saying "your audio is great".
I like what you're doing with the circle formation it's inspiring some tactical experiments of my own. Have you ever considered using mounted skirmishers for your ring of cavalry? Either sturgeon brigands, Aserei faris or battanian mounted skirmishers? I realize they are mainly fodder and their job is to hold up their shield but I think you could have them on hold fire most of the time and then at the right moments have them open fire. Something to think about.
As always, great video! Thank you for creating great Bannerlord content to help people maximize their enjoyment of this great game. You're awesome.
I appreciate all the feedback brother - I DO prefer the Aserai Vanguard Faris for the ring defense, just as you said because they are offensive/defensive and hold out very well. Basically ideal for this strategy. For custom battles you cannot mix kingdom troops but you're 100% correct, it's optimal for jav cav in your ring defense.
Great video! Thanks for posting it. I personally have a tough time vs Vlandia for that reason, x-bows. They're so annoying. I always tried sending in the shield wall infantry but they're so slow that I end up sending in the shock troops just to kick their teeth in. I'll be using cav wall next time. Thanks again!
Cav wall IS the answer mate, ESPECIALLY protecting shock troops, shield and shock your way to victory!
I've been watching your videos for a few weeks and I'm wondering how many microphones have you used so far on this channel.
Your voice is different whenever I switch between your videos :)
Yep, it's just two but the episodes are mixed together(some of the campaign videos are now battles I fought a few months ago and I have been trying to space out content). Also I have voicemeeter banana, so I am trying to configure things like sound-gate which removes things like clicking sounds, etc.
Still working this complicated part of the channel out and leaning towards a nice, new, mic like you see podcasters use.
Audio is vastly better compared to some of the earlier videos, you nailed some good settings.
Cancelling out background noises will most likely be tough without one of those mics with the noise cancelation button. Usually around 150-200 dollar range. Other improvements could be a pop-filter but you rarely if ever go that hard on your sentences or s', so don't worry about it. Same with the sound clearance between mic and headset mic.
That is purely cherry on the top down the road, should you really wish to invest in it, but by no means necessary with your current adjustments.
Thanks for the continuous uploads of great videos 👍
Thank you for the ongoing feedback, support and encouragement, I'm just an old timer trying to figure out and work through all this technological stuff. Yours and others feedback is hugely valuable!
@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions Old timers unite! I am one too :D
Thank you for the ongoing entertainment sir.
@@ragnarok6521 My pleasure.
It's always so rewarding to defeat heavy cavalry in open Fields 🎉
And PROBABLY too easy. Here, I would say RBM might be a better representation of cavalry in the open field...
At 36:00 you were mentioning having infantry divisions with the wrong number of troops, and went with cavs instead. Maybe you forgot that you can re-arrange the divisions by allocating your troops from one division to another in the same menu where you tell them to dismount. Just an observation 😉
That's pretty much nail-on-the-head kinda stuff right there. Sometimes I forget some of the tricks in my bag, jangling around in there with so many tactics and things happening at once. A good reminder!
@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions Glad I could help! I also forget stuff. I only form armies with my clan's parties because I can decide what kind of troops I want them to have and I always take them to my party before every battle in order to use my healing skill.. often times I forget and pay for it with my top troops dying 😪
@@ferg4486 live and learn I guess, thats what we do...
I have a specific “suicide squad” infantry division (my 1st) to square in the middle of the fight. Then have two archer flanks, and a skirmisher division flanking them from behind. At the same time my two cav divisions just run down their archers. My 8th corps has just 8 guys at the moment, so they are just there for fun 😅🫡
Sounds like a completely destructive mix to me... Eventually that 8th corp can be enlarged and destroy everything...
Hey man, would you consider covering the mod Realistic Battle Mod? I'm having some trouble assigning the right units to formations where I want them (playing as Sturgia and nearly everyone has javelins)
I have multiple videos covering RBM, though your formations shouldn't be too different than Vanilla Bannerlord. Your Strategy however, WILL be different.
Here's a MASSIVE RBM battle with a gigantic amount of troops on both sides:
ua-cam.com/video/Deb3_HCbI_s/v-deo.html
I tried a variation on your ring in hell, only I did outer ring normal cav, a second ring of horse archers, then the other troops inside wiped a Kuzait force of 6K with my 1500 man army.
Yeah, LOVE this idea, maybe even an inner ring of jav cav too... love it...
I wonder how would it go if the enemy was commanded by a player. I would love to see a battle of enemy players commanding armies.
I'm right with you though maybe we'll have to wait for modders to work this out... I'd love 500 vs. 500 PVP...
CAN YOU PL DO CITY TACTICS😀😀
Do you mean city defense tactics?? If so, then I have several awesome episodes on the way :) :) :)
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