Of course you recommend archers over infantry. You're English.

It would be nice to have a command for our cavalry to engage a certain type of unit. like "cavalry engage enemy's cavalry/or infantry or archers"

I don't have a computer to play this game, but I'll watch this anyway looks like a super fun game

I've played a lot of M&B2 but mostly on easy difficulty, which you can just charge and win everything. Never bothered to control the army as I didn't need to. Nice to finally see how to effectively do it when I bump up my difficulty settings. Thanks Danny!

HahahahahHa 100 hours into the game and I never knew about dragging 😂😂😂

was literally just looking for a guide like this last night as i'm starting a playthrough with me not riding a horse at all. You rock man

Morale is honestly such an important factor in battles. That's why experienced, higher tier troops, is much more valuable than a numbers advantage. I have a cavalry-first type of army and when the enemy soldiers start to flee, that's when I can inflict most damage while my high-tier infantry just tanks damage and stalls.

Few months late but hopefully this tip still helps somebody: Another trick you can use (although slightly cheesy) is to use the archers the same way he did in this video where they're positioned above the enemy waiting for the charge. As the enemies move in, your archers could kill as many as 100 men, then riiiight as the enemies are about to reach your infantry, hold tab and retreat from the fight. After this you'll be able to restart the fight, but the enemy will have many less troops as your archers just shredded them. Then you can go ahead and set up your archers again with full arrows, I've won 100v1000 fights using this method :)

Thanks for the great tips ESO! Troop formations and keybinds are something I was really sketchy on in game.

Nice video mate. Looking forward for the Cav-Technique video! Cheers

Your my favourite you tuber I use all tips and never miss a vidio keep on the good work

Wow you are by far my favorite you tuber for banner lord, very simple and and every time I try them it works

Another great video ESO, great stuff my dude!

if seen this video just now really good explaining thanks mate

Having studied ancient warfare, particularly Greek and Roman I was already employing these tactics but it is a good tip for people who are unaware of this strategy. I also have cavalry (Imperial Elite Cataphracts) on one flank and veteran horse archers on the other flank. Also, I have a large number of companions as a mobile fighting force as auxiliary cavalry all bound to the 5 key (skirmishers) which I station behind my line and can be deployed to either flank as required. Good tip on your earlier video to use Battanian Fian Champions and Imperial Palatine Guards combined as ranged units. I favour Imperial Legionaries as infantry instead of Berserkers and they do the job nicely of holding the line and halting the enemy advance and mopping up routed units. Keep the videos coming battle brother. They are much appreciated.

Great guide and love your videos!

How weird that I’ve been looking all over for a command tutorial and this comes up. Thank you 😂

Best command vid I’ve seen to date! Thanks!

Hi ESO Just subed, really enjoying the content, nice work.

How to beat any Enemy: Step 1: have the best troops.

This was super helpful. Thanks Danny!

good stuff! keen to see your take on cavalry, feels like mine are quite ineffective when i have them just follow me while i charge into their infantry flanks, n they all just get themselves killed when i leave them on self-command

I needed this so much... I am still not sure I will get it right but this helps :) Thanks!

nice vid :D tnx for making them

Very nice thanks for your best videos about mount and blade2

I highly recommend using horse archers as well, not for harassing the enemy troops but for the rate of fire. I personally use crossbowmen, not regular archers. Proportions would be 10 Crossbowmen, 10 Mounted horse archers and 10 infantry. I can absolutely guarantee you`ll annihilate upwards of 3.5 to 1 proportions of enemy armies. Also, I highly recommend placing some 10-15 cavalry units to your left, that is generally where the enemy cavalry comes from...

Great video!

7:52 In situations like this i usually put shielded infantry at the foot of the hill, so they can draw enemy archers on themselves.

Good tactics like longbow men of English medieval warfare! There are many commands that was not shown. I hope you can make more videos in the future please.

A more advanced and micro-management-requiring Tactic I use EVERY time: As soon the the Shield Walls bash against each other, PULL your Archers to their LEFT FLANK. Back it up with cavalry though. You pull them to the left flank, because the enemy is holding their SHIELDS in the LEFT HAND, so since you're coming from their RIGHT SIDE, you are shooting that juicy uncovered softspots, and every shot WILL BE A HIT. That's a tactic used by many Generals in History in Reallife, for example Hannibal Barca or Scipio Arficanus. If you even have some extra cavalry, just let them Hammer and Anvil the rest of the enemies, and let them pick off any withdrawing units. Just try it out, I've won battles with this tactic outnumbered 4:1 with Tier 3-4 units. Sure, it requires some sort of Nerve-racking MM, but that way you can play the game on realistic difficulty as it is supposed to be played, and turn up the fun factor tenfold. Maybe, if you are reading this ESO, you can make a vid about it, as I think it would be a nice tactical weapon every good General should have ;)

Thanks Danny.. good advice!

Great video, thank you, I had no idea what I was doing hahaha

There is a pretty good experiment built in the game. Just choose the custom battle from the menu. One can quickly found that 500 horse archer beats any combination of armies. So it is worth it to build an army like that. Very hard to beat, but you will ride your horses for a long time making rounds around your enemy sometimes. I really like it though.

@eso very nice video really helps out a lot! just a quick question is there a button to select all your troops agian at once? if i might want to have them all charge in or let them be commanded by their sergeant?

Hey Danny! You should make use of smithing more in Bannerlord. Its good for making some additionnal coin and for making yourself a unique weapon

Talesworld needs to put you on their payroll because I bought this game after watching several of your videos. I wasn't sure if I should get it or not but your efforts convinced me to make the purchase. Also, I subscribed because all your videos are top notch and extremely informative.

very helpfull, thanks.

what you can learn from this video : Whatever your tactic if you have full high end troops including fian champions against recruits you can win even 4v1

Next up: Anvil and hammer tactic. That's my go to. A mix of vlandian crossies and arboreal archer rain down arrows like you do, some inf act as the anvil, holding the enemy and then vlandian knights charge in from the sides. Crushes the moral in seconds

Bro, love the videos. I was looking for this guide yesterday! Glad you posted this. Gj

13:00 could this drawers methode be better with 2 lines of archers one shooting while the other is running to get always one rank shooting , even better if your infantry get javies too? i guess is more a matter of micro managment of units. is it a thing usefull to create composite lines : like skirmishers mixed with spears for protection or to mixe all kinds of cavs together or else ?

my tactic is usually infantry with the support of horse archer as stationary rear archer(not galloping) additional height on horse gave them elevated view advantage plus movement speed upon retreat.

M&B 2 and the first one have so many buttons. The challenge of learning them all excites me.

Nice vid. Personally I find changing shield warriors to shielded skirmishers might work better and I dont use shieldwall formation on them they just stand behind archers in loose formation and when enemy gets close they throw their javelines and if enemy has not been routed yet i charge with the skirmishers. kill some of the runners and then form the line again before the reinforcements hits. rinse and repeat. These tactics work only against forces that dont have lots of cavalry as they counter archers but small horse forces die before their charge hits.

Thanks!

this is amazing

are you gonna do any more Skyrim play through vids?

8:26 that was epic, whit the music

I feel like this is a good beginner video, but even so you should probably clear up a few points. Like the missconceptions of infantry blocking archers. If you can have your infantry in front of your archers right off the bat without them blocking line of sight, that's something you should probably do, cause it let's you focus on other things before the infantry forces meet. It also allows your shield wall to absorb a lot of the enemy archers' arrows, which might otherwise hit your archers. With armored forces like Battanian Fian Champions the damage of that wouldn't be the main problem, but rather their animations getting interrupted, slowing their rate of fire. The only real reason to have your infantry behind your archers are if they would block the line of sight, in which case having them like 1m or less behind them so they can quickly charge is better, cause that way you don't leave a gap for the enemy cavalry and it takes less time for the infantry to get in position once the enemy archers are in range. Further more, I know you didn't touch on cavalry this video, but for those interested, the idea is that your cavalry harass the enemy, to lower their moral, and take out as much of their cavalry as possible, before the infantry meet, at which point a final cavalry charge is often made from behind to take out the archers.

Hmm, I hope there is still a reason for shock infantry and the skirmish (javelin armed) infantry? I would have thought the javelin infantry could skirmish and launch their javs (in loose formation) at the oncoming enemy. Also, how would you use the Battanian and Sturgian cavalry? Specifically the javelin armed and sword armed cav? Those are my favorite factions.

A basic understanding, thanks for not assuming im looking up tip videos because im already a seasoned player.

I notice that A.I don't tend to have many archers in their ranks and even if they do they're normally low level archers so they have lower range, so all you need is about 40-50 mid to high tier archers which is easy if you just farm big looter partys or just large bandit partys in general and then whenever your in a fight your archers will always out number and out range the enemy and just melt them.

Cool vid!

Ok, probably dumb question but how did you get the cool looking banner? I can only see an option to create a plain background with a symbol on that (that can be mono-colored and resized).

And thank you for the videos

Hey eso I would like you to explain a little more in depth on how the morale system works. I've only ever been able to keep morale around 60 in my game and have no idea how to raise it. If you could also explain how to level up the leadership skill I would appreciate it. Excellent video by the way helped me out alot.

Have you guys train the escort caravan after the patch? Damn there allot harder now. I have 78 descent troops and got wrecked by 80 horse archers

omfg I had no idea you could remap units to different numbers...that is going to make things so much easier

Thanks for an awesome tactics video Danny! Love all of your content, especially your hilarious play throughs. Keep up the awesome work

Skirmish can be really great to deal damage and keep your troop safe. But instead of using advance, use your position tactic but mimic skirmish and lower the frequency to ask they move. Also use those infantry to block enemies from getting close to archers while they fall back. If first wave of enemies break, you can take back those ground again and kill enemies much easier rest of the round. if the map is flat enough this is the best tactic you can use.

What polearm is that you are using? The couchable one around 17:40.

When you have a slope that allows your archer to shoot over the head of your infantry, why not place them behind the infantry from the start? Also, I noticed that a "move" order (F4) is good to keep formation for an attack, however if you attack an army that has infantry and archers, your guys will only move to the melee troops then stand there idle as they are getting shot at by the enemy archers.

Another word to the wise, use your fire at will button. At the start of the engagement, hold your fire. Wait until the enemy is 75-100 meters closer than the archers usually start firing, then fire at will. This will save ammunition, because the first two volleys rarely hit at such a long distance. Once the enemy starts fleeing, hold fire again, wait for the next wave of enemy to get close, then fire at will again. Usually you will only have enough ammo for 2 waves of enemy, at which point you are going to have to charge and break them with everything you have.

Danny nice work you look normal agien :)

Can you do a video on how to use skirmishers most effectively? Whether its charge or advance/fall back?

how do you remove the icons on your troops when in battles? can be a bit distracting

My method is inspired from the German blitzkrieg, I basically charge at them. My cavalry are trained and seasoned, with them we Disrupt the npc formations. So ,by the time my heavy infantry and archer come into range their moral is lowered. I’ve fought armies double my size, but I’m still new rn I have 253 troops under me and 12 fiefs and 1 town

If you command shield wall ahead ıf the archers it will be more beneficial cause they have a chance to stop chavalary charge if the stay together and you can defeat 3 times army if you charge infantry with your cavalary

Yeah...I had to adjust my tactics when I went up to Realistic...taking a City ends up in a lot more deaths now...

Splitting the Archers into 2 groups helps a lot with Cavalry aswell, they can only molest half of them at once rest can keep firing.

does anyone else notice or have issues with the skein or column formations when using large numbers of cav? I'm talking about a cav only army. clan rank 5 and 6. 100 cav. 100 horse archers. the collision on the horse archers is terrible and they turn into a jumbled mess when trying to circle the enemy army. and the cav do the same thing to when advancing and the formation instantly falls apart because of the colision. I would love to use them but find them completely useless formations for high cav armies when fighting other horse armies of the South and East.

Which key combination issues the "get rekt son" command?

interesting strategy, there is the obvious fian vs recruits comment but i think the idea is still valid. for my strat i tend to have a loose formation archer wall on a hill with a shieldwall infantry team infront an slightly below them, the wall tends to take most of the arrows from the enemy an my guys can still shoot with plenty of visibility, then slightly earlier than you ill charge my shieldwall to keep the enemy at bay an allow my archers to keep nailing them, i found in harder situations against better trained armies the arrowfire would do too much damage to my guys, hence the shieldwall 'tanking' in the front

I didn’t see you uses F2 (face enemy/direction) order. The battle that your inf was in a way of your archers and you used drag order you can use the face direction instead. I always use it on my archers so they don’t move because they can still shoot anywhere while they don’t have to move around when the battle become chaotic which people are everywhere. I saw the AI archers do that a lot and they don’t do much damage that way as you said.

my friend thanks to you i take on 250+ armies with 98 soldiers because of you

Awesome

Did they switchthe behavior for the Charge and Advance commands for archers in 1.4.1? When I use advance they just run forward into melee range and charge has them use their bows while moving forward- this is the reverse of what I've seen in all the videos from everyone in April

where is that trainning place you are at the first, i cant find a mod or a vanilla place, can you tell what place is that?

so... basically what people do in Warband while playing Rhodoks :D

amazing simple video for noobs like me thanks man

How do you do when the enemy has a lot of cavalery and you archers focus on them (has they charge first), and so do not focus on the main enemy army? I faced that a lot. Then my infantry is over runned by the enemy and I lose the battle :(

Early on you showed how you can place troops in certain "teams". Can you place all your companions in a team by themselves and use their superior training, weapons, and armor as a sort of special unit?

Is there a way to ”alt drag” troop lines on xbox controller? Thanks!

Battanian Fian archers are in comparison to every other archer almost like if they had an automatic 50cal sniper rifles vs wooden sticks. Arrow performance vs armor aside, they vastly outperform any other unit in the game. They can snipe whole armies before they get close :D

as one else use the battle of Agincourt tactics with their archers (guard your archers with spear men, instead of ground spikes) having them in flanking towers

You should use the pike units to move in and out of the archers, 1 unit in close other in lose then there more or less fine, big long pointy stick vs man on a wild beast easy win!

woooow excellent

I have around 200 hours in Bannerlord, but you just schooled me on basic commands. I was solely using the F1 key to position troops, unaware of the click and drag option. Feels bad man.

I always have difficulty fighting against khuzait. Can you please do a video explaining how to fight them?

Damn thats wild and i was just using charge everytime

The infantry often spread out when I drag them eventhough I dont choose that, what happens? Is it a bug?

How'd you get the lamellar chest armour? Been looking for it all over the Imperial lands, and trying to find people wearing it to battle, but no joy. Even tried looking for a wife wearing it, but again, no luck.

This method totally works, my army of 99 mixed men destroyed an army of 197 men...I will be sending you the screenshots later...now get a video showing how to input cavalry.

Been using this tactic myself but like to engage the infantry with my cav as it clashes with my shields to shatter moral ..

Just got this and couldnt find the charge comand, so thanks my guy

Legend

16:24 Danny just friendly-fired one of his own infantry :)

i like to use squire formation works well when cav attack i mic in spear aux inf with in my archers they get owned

So i did this and i get obliterated, even when the enemy army is the same size, what im i doing wrong?? Or is this like patched or something

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