It seems to be an issue with the fact that trajectory isn't a thing in the game since the catapults and archers were not firing over the walls, making castle sieges feel less impactful.

This honestly does show just how hard it is to actually take a castle. There's a reason that assaults usually only happened late into sieges when the defenders and their defenses are weak. If you breached the wall and tried to pour your men through it, it would be a slaughterhouse. Despite being outnumbered 20:1 sometimes during a siege and even higher, those odds are still very favorable for the defender.

Baron knew what the problem with the holes in the walls , but he did not try to prevent it. Never doubt the AI pathfinding

- My lord, the enemy force is 100 times larger than ours. We must use our castle wisely! - Very well. Put everyone at one gates. I'm sure other entrances will be fine by themselves.

Finally more UEBS 2. We want more!!!

I feel like you can kind of count this as a win, because in the grand scheme of things, a battle where you take out 25,000 men with only 1000 casualties is very resource-efficient, so if you had many castles then there may be a point where they simply don't have enough troops.

I'm curious about a different type of fight. Two factions spread out as small squads, WW2 theme! One faction: 100 German Soldiers, spread out in groups of 5, defending different points throughout the city in Defense mode! Second faction: 20 American assault soldiers and 5 American shotgun soldiers, split into 5 squads in attack mode! Sure it wouldn't be grand scale, but considering the AI's capabilities of problem solving I'd be curious about the behavior units would have, and if the Americans would have the advantage being on the assault!

Awesome video baron! I like that you used “smaller” amounts of units for this video. I honestly prefer it when you don’t have millions of units everywhere because it makes every unit in battle expendable. Also, battles are easier to observe when there isn’t so many 👍🏼

It would be cool if instead of a big block of enemies you'd put them in formations and then change them around to see if it would make a difference

Challenge: cover all of the walls in archers (as many as possible) and see how many footmen it takes to defeat them all.

Suggestion: Put on each hole in the walls 100 archers with 50 heavy knights and at the gatehouses 150 archers and 100 heavy knights and 50 catapults. And as reserves just normal footman like 200 you can control them and send them to wherever you want them. And the attackers get 10k on each hole and 50k on the front gatehouse and as special like 50 heavy knights

5000 medival defenders vs 200,000 ancient greece attackers castle siege

I would like to see 10k medieval troops fighting against 1 million zombies to see if they can hold the castle

I wonder what it’s like near the back of the death queue headed to the front gate. “I miss my wife, we just had a baby boy” “My wife was a witch, we burned her.” “Anyone know where the bathroom is?” “Shut up, Gerald”

A knight is one who wields a sword, or spear/lance, whilst mounted on a horse that is usually armored, A heavy knight must have a warhorse and greatsword or something, then. The “Heavy Knight” should be “Heavy Infantry” for maximum realism. There should’ve been a few squires too, squires assist their knights in battle.

Most medieval castle sieges were only 20 to one (Attackers to defenders). Also there was a "Flying company" of about 100-200 soldiers who would go to trouble spots and plug holes in the line. Also you may want to have "Reinforcement company" come in (Much like Gandalf in LOTR) from the opposite side of the Field to arrive in time. Gandalf went and found the Rohirrm (2000) calvary. Now, since you want an epic story of 1000 defenders against 100000 attackers. Then put 50 archers with 100 heavy knight on each flank with 5 catapults. Since there are four ways to come into the castle...This will protect the 750 archers, 700 heavy knights and 80 catapults to defend the main gate. Do not put any knights outside the gates. I would try this myself but my computer sucks. Cannot handle the program. As said in the beginning most sieges held to 20:1 odds in favor of the defender. Since you have 100:1 odds. It is now in the favor of the attackers. Also Sieges usually have their own siege engines. Just saying

As a guy who has had a crossbow for more than 3 years maybe 4 I can confirm crossbows are deadly accurate

Absolutely love the large amount of troops this game can support

If you want to see a game that has thousands of troops that actually use castle walls to their greatest capacity, check out Rome Total War (Or Rome Remastered). Loads of fun siege mechanics in that. Also there are onagers, which you can destroy walls, towers, and buildings with. You can't do hundreds of thousands, but you can do tens of thousands and there is a ton of unit variety.

I don't know what number I am but this is amazing!!!! Keep up the good work Baron

No way. Baronvongames was my childhood and the reason why I’m I love with strategy games 😂 thanks

Run the same scenario, but have 7500 troops (split between all gates (interior gates too) and holes) defend the castle while 25k or more troops attack each side.

I don't know what it is but there's something so calming about watching baronvongames videos.

You should try no King no kingdom again( realised how I've said this alone lul).

Siege idea: 300 spartans on all sides 1000 Heavy Knights backed up by tanks and archers vs 100000 Romans

“I wish we had a castle siege simulator” Every total war game ever: Am I a joke to you?

The heavy nights remind me of the evfin soldiers that came in to help the darwfs in the battle of five armies(lord of the rings)

Fun fun, pretty cool little battle man. I like seeing this game every now and again.

Thank you for giving us more uebs 2 I really like this game and I hope we will get more videos👍👍

Then first fix for this battle is to take your forward force which you just sacrifice and plug the back hole with them. Also send some catapults and archers there to help. It'd be interesting to see.

Idealy when sieging a castle, you want to have at least a 4:1 advantage along with ladders and plentiful seige equipment. If the attackers had even a small amount of siege weapons it would probably have turned out into a much different result.

Nice touch, NASA won't let me use their logo.... Flerfs gonna go in to a conspiracy meltdown.

If you could hold the front lines for a few more minutes the bodies would literally have closed the gates and they would have been no choice for the attackers other than to flank and that could be an interesting case as would the knights have gone to defend the catapults and archers or not?

This gives 'Enemy At The Gates' a new meaning

14:30 Yes, there are games like that. They are called *Stronghold...* by *Firefly Studios* Stronghold: Warlords is the latest, but is more china-like. Stronghold 3 is more Europe-like, and has all of the things you listed, along with actual destruction/detirioration of the walls and buildings. There is also the king/queen there which you can have fight or escape... however you wish to play it. 🤣

nice

i just bought this game because of your videos. Keep up the good work!

Why would you check for other entrances to the castle and then leave them completely undefended? You should run it again with the same number of troops but put 1/2 of all types at the main gate and 1/4 at each of the breaches in the wall.

Ubs2 is insane

Can’t wait for you to try out the new Egyptian units in UEBS 2

i love how everyone acts like the middleages had only bows and catapults when in reality some of the biggest canons ever were fielded during that time and a wild variety of gunlike weapons existed for different offensive and defensive situations

100,000 Soldiers waiting to get through a tiny gate, screaming but not moving: in other words, average Queens traffic

Stronghold has what you're looking for in castle sieges. Crusaders is a classic in that regard.

They should make a Vietnamese map in raven field and use vechiles thats used in the vietnam war! :D

This is amazing

i love your UEBS 2 videos fr!!💪🏻💪🏻

3:15 I like how all of the Footmen are just slowly being slaughtered by the Knights and the Catapults

1:07 “these knights”? More like deez nu-

Lol love this vid dude. I just play total war games when I want massive siege battles. I know it's not 100k units but often times 1000 units to control seems like enough for me haha.

If you want a good medieval fighting game, i'd recommend Chivalry 2. 's got everything from open battles to sieges and cavalry battles

Am I the only one who wants to see Baron playing Chivalry again? They were great videos and seeing as there's a huge new update it might be a good time to try it again. What do you guys think?

those knights fought like true warriors, first to the frontline and last to the grave

Make a castle defense where you have 10000 men to defend a castle being attacked from all sides by 2 million men. great content as well Baron.

Hey Baron... The archers would actually be very useful... For the 100k battle... They could keep firing arrows at the enemy.. since their is a lot more of them WHICH IS PRETTY OBVIOUS. RIGHT BARON

Love u baron ❤️❤️❤️

UEBS 2 is honestly my second favorite that baron plays. My favorite is tabs, and Forts is my third favorite.

The quote a waste of valuable military resources is from saving private Ryan

Worship Baron feed us more uebs 2

Cool video! Youre awesome at defending!

bruh the "bye have a good time" killed me

Cool video! Please make another video but covering the two flanks with some knights backed up by archers.

bro has a nasa computer

someone finally knows lord of the rings

14:17 nah bro that’s age of war 😂

Make a huge wall of heavy knights supported only by catapults. I wanna see the front gate completely blocked off by attacker bodies.

He said 300 was a good amount to hold a narrow path Me:tell that to Leonidas

14:30 Try Stronghold 2 or Warlords, that is exactly the game you are Looking for

I want to see a video where you do something like this with the rts mode thing. So you move the guys around mid battle to fit the needs of the moment.

They should make distractible physics. But you can destroy the walls of the castle and knockdown trees with the right things

This is so satisfying

There are a whole bunch of smaller castles on that map that are worth exploring.

Seemed a bit weird to let the mobile reserve charge out the front and then let everyone get flanked. Seems to be a rule in these videos that once the battle starts you can't adjust anything.

I’ve never been the first before. Love your content Baron, I’ve been watching you for about 5 years now, and I’ve loved every second of it.

Creative scenarios showcase the game's versatility.

"Too bad there isn't any castle siege simulator." - introducing Stronghold, a castle siege simulator series.

15:48 "It's hard to make out who's left. They're all right here."

I have a battle suggestion: Team 1 on the bottom of Mount Olympus: 1 million soldiers (besides ancient units) 100 cave trolls 2500 catapults Team 2 on top of Mount Olympus: 300 Spartans Nikolai Tesla (buff him to replicate his power for Zeus) 100 archers 1 super archer (buff firerate + dmg to replicate Artemis) 1 super Spartan (to replicate Leonidas) 1 Action Man (to replicate Hercules)

500,000 Spartans vs 300,00 archers 1000 heavy nights and 190,000 footmen

The knights are really strong but they don t have much heavy knights

Baron i love this video why do i always miss them

Challenge idea: Romans invade a medieval castle

14:28 Any of the mount and blade games, they are absolutely amazing

Baron you should try Amazing Frog

This game looks so fun. I need a pc one day. These are my kinds of games

Bro always comes up with the coolest ideas

That's a beautiful castle city.

When u saw them splitting i thought u might be thinking of "oh they are in a.i sync mode XDXDXD"

I truly think if you had maybe 40 catapults on the walls, maybe sixty archers on the inside of the castle, then mostly heavy knights for reserves and flank coverage, you definitely could’ve won that. I think the problem was that you had too many ranged units and not enough melee. I think that the heavy knights were doing better than the catapults, mainly because at least the heavy knights were capable of taking on several opponents without just keeling over, whereas the catapults had little chance against several units swarming them. Same with the archers, it mostly has to do with attack speed. They couldn’t attack fast enough to keep the flood of opponents from coming, and they couldn’t tank hits enough to kill an active threat that was too close

"THERE SHOULD BE MORE" SunZu art of-"CONTINUTY"

imagine the pain of having to clean up the bodies

Evil castle and good castle defending against good attacking forces and evil attacking forces in the same game.

2:52 "Artarion." "Goodbye Brother"

Notification gang where you at

makeike a story now:when they have that castle the defenders rebel,and from different sides you put small groups of defenders' troops

Baron, it's an old game, but it fully works around siege warfare and I've not seen much better: stronghold 2

They were just sitting in a line basically going like yea I’m a wait for my turn to go through

08:34 "What can men do against such reckless hate?"

Making the ai so it can use the walls to could be so cool! (Maby even with ladders)

Start both the attackers from all four sides of the castle and defenders at about 100 each opening. Ranged attackers in the middle

this kinda reminds me of the battle between the 21 soldiers against 10000