Bannerlord Tactics: Custom Matchups: Battanians(Fians) Vs. Aserai(Faris) Which is Better?

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Tactical Enlightenment

Tactical Enlightenment

Ай бұрын

Alright friends, we continue this series of instructional videos here hopefully demonstrating tactics in an environment similar to what you might be facing in your own campaign, that is to say, without my elite 8th corp, my elite beast of a character and my advanced army. In this series we'll take on our enemies outnumbered, often on the enemy 'home turf' and try and win battles with tactics despite the long odds. If you like this series, check out the playlist(coming soon), and I'll load more up in the future. If you have specific requests, always ask!
Volume XVII gives two custom battles pitting the Aserai Vs. Battania, and highlighting the strength and uses of the Battanian Fian Champions and the Aserai Vanguard Faris. Which do I prefer? Which do you prefer? Watch and see...
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.com/mountandbla...
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.com/mountandbla...
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.com/mountandbla...
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.com/sharedfile...
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.com/mountandbla...
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:
/ @epichistorytv
#bannerlord #war #medieval #bannerlordgameplay #bannerlordmod

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@HeadlessHorsemanProductions
@HeadlessHorsemanProductions Ай бұрын
Apologies in advance, friend, for the audio mixing. I'm still a fledgling craftist, so it's still a learning curve.
@ragnarok6521
@ragnarok6521 Ай бұрын
This is by far the cleanest and best audio setting for your voice, hope you keep this. Game sound just need to go down to 20-40/50% ish or play around with it. Top shelf video as always. 💪
@HeadlessHorsemanProductions
@HeadlessHorsemanProductions Ай бұрын
Yep, SO many things to tinker with but with your constant feedback, I'll get there. Thanks for all your help and glad you liked it!
@angrygoldfish9607
@angrygoldfish9607 Ай бұрын
Good video, I really liked how, in the second battle, you turned the tables and won with the other army. Good idea.
@HeadlessHorsemanProductions
@HeadlessHorsemanProductions Ай бұрын
Thanks bud, I'm doing this a bit more of late to prove also that tactics are vital for victory in close battles...
@blackamericannomad7500
@blackamericannomad7500 Ай бұрын
Good stuff! Pretty tough to hear you in this one. I don't usually have that issue with your videos. Fians are so nasty I'm glad Battania fell first in my campaign.
@HeadlessHorsemanProductions
@HeadlessHorsemanProductions Ай бұрын
Yep, still not perfectly mixing the sounds. Fortunately I don't expect this episode to be very popular so the complaints will be less! I just hit six months old on my youtube 'career' so I'm still working out the kinks.
@ragnarok6521
@ragnarok6521 Ай бұрын
@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions A good place to keep in game sounds when recording is usually in the 20-40/50% range, but just play around with it. :)
@kurremkarmerruk8718
@kurremkarmerruk8718 Ай бұрын
This was an interesting one. The Faris are easily my favourite troops. You moved them around really well. Keeping the Fians on the back foot like that was very satisfying to watch. Bannerlord really rewards javelin damage (you know this), and bunching up enemies the way you did is the perfect way to maximise that damage. If you use stationary Faris to unleash javelins on a grouped enemy they have the fastest KD ratio in the game (they're like dragoon skirmishers). Charging them through enemies is a late battle mop up, but honestly you could have liquidated that army when you herded their elites. They have to be stationary, though, their javelins don't hit their mark on the move.
@HeadlessHorsemanProductions
@HeadlessHorsemanProductions Ай бұрын
You nailed it bud. I wouldn't want to fight you as Battania against your understanding of Aserai tactics...
@kurremkarmerruk8718
@kurremkarmerruk8718 Ай бұрын
@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions A player who knows what's coming would be a tough opponent to break down. Micro-managing cavalry, manipulating the enemy, positioning just right on the flanks, and knowing when to back off, is not quite as simple as the Fian's "just be there" tactic. I actually owe you some kudos for your circle tactics vid. You saved about 200 lives for me the other day in an against-the-odds battle. I'm not sure I'd want to fight against you! . .
@HeadlessHorsemanProductions
@HeadlessHorsemanProductions Ай бұрын
@@kurremkarmerruk8718 Maybe we would BOTH benefit hugely from fighting each other. After all, competition makes us all stronger, even those who lose. I know I have been taught quite a bit by subscribers here and other hard-core enthusiasts! Glad to be of help.
@bradleyjohnfinnell7118
@bradleyjohnfinnell7118 15 күн бұрын
Love all your vids bro. Keep up the good work!!!!
@HeadlessHorsemanProductions
@HeadlessHorsemanProductions 14 күн бұрын
Appreciate it! Thank you mate.
@ferg4486
@ferg4486 Ай бұрын
Personally I like both formats of combat, your ultra-late campaign and this custom battle type, but I prefer your ultra-late campaign as the army composition is more akin to what I'd encounter even though I try to keep a certain type of troops. I also enjoy seeing you defy the odds when outnumbered by the enemy 😁
@HeadlessHorsemanProductions
@HeadlessHorsemanProductions Ай бұрын
Thanks for the feedback - and you're in luck, I'm rejoining my uber-late game campaign soon and we no doubt have some HUGE battles coming...(late June probably)...
@jefmorard5923
@jefmorard5923 Ай бұрын
Cavs skirmishers are hard to controle you must place them manually all the time for facing enemies during runs.
@HeadlessHorsemanProductions
@HeadlessHorsemanProductions Ай бұрын
My next campaign is likely as Aserai, so that's something I'll probably have to deal with a lot...
@derkylos
@derkylos Ай бұрын
Engage is a useful command for mounted archers. One of my favourite tactics is to split my mounted archers in half and have one group on 'engage' while I personally lead the second group to the enemy's rear. Both groups will then have shots into the back of the enemy as they try to shield against missiles coming from both sides.
@wesselbooi
@wesselbooi Ай бұрын
Good to see the Faris getting shot of their horses in this one man 😂👌
@HeadlessHorsemanProductions
@HeadlessHorsemanProductions Ай бұрын
I know who I'd pick to win! :)
@hawk16-85
@hawk16-85 Ай бұрын
Do you have any videos about how to approach the AI when they are being defensive and refuse to move from a hill on the border of the battlefield? I will still beat the AI but it doesn’t come without a lot more casualties than I’d like and it’s mostly due to numbers and troop quality. Keep up the great work
@HeadlessHorsemanProductions
@HeadlessHorsemanProductions Ай бұрын
This was an epic battle where we tackle a MUCH larger Battanian force that was UPHILL and refusing to get off the hill. This, to me, was one of the best fought battles I've ever had and yet it's not very popular. Might help. Please forgive the mic/audio, this was within a month or so of publishing videos... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/osqajc2ExrfFopc.html There's this destruction too of an entrenched enemy: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jJyFqrCCttaommQ.html
@derkylos
@derkylos Ай бұрын
Shoot them or, if you don't have missile units, feign retreat like William at Hastings. Honestly, though, killing enough of their men with missiles will cause them to come at you. Only if your entire army lacks missiles do you actually have to charge up the hill.
@MackHall-ic7ug
@MackHall-ic7ug Ай бұрын
Any chance you could a video with different formations and tactics that can help me with stopping a massive amount of calv I’ve tried so many things and nothing works out for me
@HeadlessHorsemanProductions
@HeadlessHorsemanProductions Ай бұрын
You're in luck friend, and searching for the videos would also yield you good results... Enjoy: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ZtWTfdJqrdK1mnU.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rLSSi9Fj3aivZ5c.html
@MackHall-ic7ug
@MackHall-ic7ug Ай бұрын
@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions thank you so much I’ll have to try it out tomorrow
@ZacharyDarkes
@ZacharyDarkes Ай бұрын
Fian Champion vs Khan's Guard, it's time to see what's really the best unit in bannerlord.
@HeadlessHorsemanProductions
@HeadlessHorsemanProductions Ай бұрын
I have some videos like this coming up, but sooo much to process! Stay tuned...
@derkylos
@derkylos Ай бұрын
Depends on the terrain. If the ground is flat and unbroken, KG can kill FIans with horse bump damage. However, if there are trees, rocks or hills, Fians can use their 2-handed swords (and the KG will be whiffing their glaives off each other). In a shootout, there's not much difference (although, the AI can have a hard time hitting a horseman travelling perpendicular to the arrow's flight path, meaning a KG circling a Fian will get more hits than the Fian will. But, again, a tree, rock, etc will make the KG stop dead if he hits it).
@HeadlessHorsemanProductions
@HeadlessHorsemanProductions Ай бұрын
@@derkylos ive tried a few battles so far with the custom battle mod and mangled the khans guards with Fians. Videos to come...
@ZacharyDarkes
@ZacharyDarkes Ай бұрын
@@derkylos In my current playthrough I have my own kingdom and the Khuzaits are a kingdom that I'm fighting a lot and what I have discovered is if you charge your tier 6 heavy cav into their horse archers they get absolutely destroyed. While the horse archers are stuck in hand to hand my fians are picking them apart. I'm truly convinced with my personal experience that fians are the best unit in bannerlord and it's not even close.
@derkylos
@derkylos Ай бұрын
@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions Oh, yeah. It can go either way. Have you tried treating the KG as shock cavalry and pulling them through the Fians repeatedly, though? The Fians will be too confused with changing their weapons to actually attack the KG effectively, and only broken terrain or the Fians blobbing up (something the AI doesn't do with archers) will stop them.
@Illijixz-Alper
@Illijixz-Alper Ай бұрын
Game sound waaaaaaay tooo high.😮
@HeadlessHorsemanProductions
@HeadlessHorsemanProductions Ай бұрын
Mentioned this in a comment, still configuring my audio but I think I have it dialed in better(after this!)
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