Bannerlord Tactics: Pre-Battle Tips and Tricks, Volume VII: Army Composition & Troop Types

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6 ай бұрын

Welcome back future Emperors, Khans, Jarls and Sultans, in this episode we continue our series covering some of the pre-battle strategy that is necessary for you to succeed in Bannerlord. I cover several important subjects that will help you with Kingdom, a summary of how I form my army composition, what troops I like, how much of each kind and then a little on army and noble management. I recommend the playlist for those who REALLY want to get better at the game and dominate.
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
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@Strategic-Monk 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for the glimpse at your elite army and your thoughts on troops. I prefer more heavy calvary since I can F1+F3 lol but I am applying more and more tactics after your tutelage.

@HeadlessHorsemanProductions 5 ай бұрын

Heavy cav does work pretty well with F1 plus f3 but obviously on this channel we're teaching people far beyond the normal bounds of baseline tactics. You're welcome and thank you for the comment!

@MileHighMafia307 5 ай бұрын

This was interesting. I have a lot of time into this game and I still learned a lot.

@HeadlessHorsemanProductions 5 ай бұрын

Glad we could help - there are plenty more videos with tidbits for players that I think even some highly experienced players like you might still glean some tips. See the playlist for the pre-battle tips and tricks - and by all means if you see something I should add from your own experience, let me know! :)

@kylefickett2190 5 ай бұрын

I would love to see a video on your 8th Corp and how you level/equip them throughout various stages of the game. I've recently been inspired to start a longer term campaign after seeing what you're 8th corps is capable of. I'm also curious as to how you deal with the deaths of important companions and the replacement/leveling process you use for party members with specific roles and what your target perks are for them in each roll. When exactly do you decide a party member is ready for a new role?

@HeadlessHorsemanProductions 5 ай бұрын

This video showcases the inventory and skills of about a dozen of the eighth corp: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g-BpetCaztLFZac.html Keep in mind that my long-term campaign is essentially contrived, or artificially created: First it's a result of me playing through the first character as a ruthless mercenary, switching sides 2-3 times early in my campaign. Second, right before my original character died of old age, we had nearly a third of the map conquered as our unique Kingdom and I intentionally decided at that point to make things extremely hard by declaring war against SEVEN of the eight kingdoms at once, even when they offered me tribute for peace, I refused it - even though they started to take over the castles and cities I had added to my empire and started to hem us in. Finally, to get a huge group of family members, this is now the third and even FOURTH generation of the family, and that results in a huge number of kin: if you can imagine, our original character had like nine children with three or four wives, those nine children married, out of those children they had 25+ total children, who we then married and added spouses to potential eighth corp members, finally we've had some companions until they were OLD, like 65+ years of age and obviously were very high level. I'd caution you that if you plan on recreating something like I have done it will take LITERALLY a year of playing an hour or two a day. If you really want something like this, have a blast, and I'll be happy to make suggestions but it's not something you can just build overnight.

@kylefickett2190 5 ай бұрын

@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions thank you very much, that'll be my next watch! Gotta study up to conquer Calradia

@HeadlessHorsemanProductions 5 ай бұрын

You're welcome bud, anytime, just ask. @@kylefickett2190

@fkzx77AkaJonasTornqvist 5 ай бұрын

I do remember that Napoleon choose not to take the high ground in a battle! And that become a trap for the opponent!

@HeadlessHorsemanProductions 5 ай бұрын

Sometimes there's a reason to leave the enemy the high ground but almost 95% of the time I want the high ground.

@fkzx77AkaJonasTornqvist 5 ай бұрын

@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions true! I do want the high ground my self if I can!

@barcotics1880 5 ай бұрын

how did you get that scene from the beginning of the video

@HeadlessHorsemanProductions 5 ай бұрын

It's from the ending of a battle - just a cool looking scene so I saved the clip.

@fkzx77AkaJonasTornqvist 5 ай бұрын

Do you have this playthrough somewhere? 🤔 I didn't se that on youtube!

@HeadlessHorsemanProductions 5 ай бұрын

Playthrough? Is that where people show a campaign gameplay from start to finish? I am very late-campaign(5000+ days). I didn't even start recording battles until about two months ago, showing this extremely-late game and *contrived* scenario. I could conquer the map of course if I wanted by isolating my enemies by declaring peace with several of them, but I'm purposefully going to run this campaign to it's end fighting against the entire map, even if we fall in the end.