I know that mountainous regions aren't bad for grapes by default, i just thought the climate needed to be warm enough for Wine quality grapes.

thats not true. France isnt real and is a chinese psy op.

@@Dare_To_Game look up Icewine hehehe

@@Dare_To_Game hot summers cold winters ?

I wouldn't exactly call the Oathsworns' shields "big".

@@felisasininus1784 They are rectangular and cover the majority of their bodies though, particularly the head. In personal experience it has kept them alive from Forest Bandits and Stergian archers long enough for them to skirmish.

@@A_Potato_of_Infinite_Wisdom Well, your live experience speaks louder than my prejudice, I suppose. Maybe I'll test it out myself.

A single sturgian shield wall and it's over for them, and depending on the level and number, even a vlandian cav charge.

​@@A_Potato_of_Infinite_Wisdom they are a good size but they hold them at a weird angle and it exposes their heads really badly if they held them straight I would agree

Damn bro, anyone else get hard reading this lol jk 😜

For Battania!

@@Dare_To_Game my favorite part. Is that there horseman look like the riders of Rohan 😂

"Civilization" has plagued us for too long!

That's a fair point. Unfortunately, i have now completed making these guides, and i did it on this save, but i regret my actions.

You are so welcome!

House stark strat

Glad you like them!

They are probably the biggest under dog in the game. Despite how good the Fians are, they just have the most disadvantages.

@@Dare_To_Game This surprises me, I’ve recently started playing bannerlord for the first time and they just blobbed hard to the south pretty early

They have the smallest lord base with the khazuits and sturgians not being far ahead of them.

i think vlandians have the most base fiefs in the game tbf

Good luck! A solid Fian base makes a very strong Battanian army.

Yeah, it does. The woods are of course a great strength for Battania.

Thanks for the visit

Hope you enjoyed it.

I definitely agree. They are really the only stand out unit in the entire faction, so it is fair that they are as good as they are.

That is an oddly specific wish, but hopefully, i will be able to oblige. I am having a lot of fun with Bannerlord, so lots of content is fairly likely.

I have actually already done one for the Khuzaits. Here is the link: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rNtmebOU36-UqX0.html

Yeah, it is rough when the king decides to pick the hardest enemy for the faction first.

The Germanic tribes are just a subgroup of Celtic tribes, so he is still right

They have the Mannerbund, the Wolfskins, which even include a reference to Tacitus' Germania. They have a minor Central Germanic influence, most likely to distinguish them from the obvious North Germanic influence found in the Sturgians.

​@@rapecelnationalistwell the sturgians are supposed to be inspired by the rus "vikings" from eastern europe (mainly ukraine)

@@aurelius7160 They are still North Germanics

Sounds about right. The Vlandians, Sturgians, and Battanians all compete with each other reasonably well, but when they have to face off against Khuzaits or Aserai, the challenge is a lot greater. I recommend luring their cavalry armies into the woods, where your battanians will once again have the advantage.

@@Dare_To_Game it works a great!, I didnt think of that!, had a huge battle go on, we were actually outnumbered by 300 on the battlefield and managed to overcome the odds, I'm putting it down to being in a wooded area. Lost quite a few men, but those Fian Champions are something else! Thanks dude.

Thank you. I am glad you are enjoying them. I hope you have a great time with Bannerlord.

I guess, i just imagine the Battanian region being rather cold, and i don't associate cold climates with Grapes. Especially when you have the rather mediteranian feeling empire in the game already.

@@Dare_To_Game Climate, yes, but we don't know that it actually is colder. Battania seems most similar to Brittany though (culturally), which is not the best region for wine in France, but still pretty good. But it wasn't immediately obvious to me either, on that we agree.

Kind of like the stereotype “Barbarian enemy of Rome”

The Dacians were actually somewhat celtic themselves.

@@felisasininus1784 Some Gaulish tribes migrated east, through the balkans and eventually settled down in Anatólia. They came into contact with the Dacians, maybe some cultural exchange might have taken place, but that doesnt make the Dacians Celtic.

@@FaithfulOfBrigantia Sure, but some Dacians must have literally had celtic blood, making them somewhat celtic. lol

Celtic blood doesn't exist. (TLDR at the end) European populations are genetically composed by 3-5 different groups that predate the Celts. Hunter Gatherers (Western, Eastern, and Caucasian), Farmers and Steppe Herders (themselves the result of a mix between Eastern and Caucasian Hunter Gatherers). These 3-5 groups occupied all of Europe and mixed with each other giving origin to the Celts, Germans, Latins, Greeks, Slavs, Iberians, Basques etc... The devil lies in the percentages. Some populations were fairly homogenous, such as the Germanics and Slavs (mostly Steppe Herder) and the Greeks, Latins and Iberians and Basques (Mostly Farmer, with Hunter Gatherers too in the Basque case). The Celts are more complicated, because the celtic languages developed "vertically" along the Atlantic coast of Europe, so the Celts were very genetically different from eachother. Those from Britain had mostly Steppe Herder, so they ended up being genetically closer to Germans and Slavs, while those in Iberia had mostly Farmer, so they ended up being genetically closer to Basques, and to Iberians and Romans too, to a lesser extent (Iberians and Romans had less Hunter Gatherer, unlike Basques which had a lot, just like the Celts). Those from Gaul were... you guessed it, unsurprisingly, something in the middle. So, where do the Dacians fit? Well, coincidentally, also somewhere in the middle. The main difference being that while Celts had Western Hunter Gatherer in the mix, Dacians had Caucasian Hunter Gatherer instead. So, genetically speaking, Dacians were, indeed, quite similar to Gauls, but not because they were mixed with Gauls, but because they both were a result of mixing in similar amounts by the same groups, way back before Celts existed. There is another way of looking at things, through direct paternal linneage, which is better at mapping migrations because it traces direct linneage rather than genetic similarity, although they usually correlate, it is often not the case. As far as linneage is concerned, then the Celts had around 3 linneages, The Northwestern group (Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, and large parts of England, and Brittany, possibly a result of the Celtic Britons fleeing to Brittany after the Saxon invasions), the Southwestern Group, which comprised the Celts of Iberia and most of the Gauls. But also Basques and Iberians, in higher amounts even. And the Eastern Group, which is found overwhelmingly in Northern Italy, but also in Gauls and Romans to some extent. I am not entirely certain this linneage was already common in Gaul by the time they began speaking Celtic, thus making it a Celtic linneage, or if it was introduced in Gaul later by the Romans, making it it not Celtic in that case. None of these groups are very common in Romania, (Instead they share overwhelming a group with the Illyrians) but they do exist in small amounts, expecially the Eastern group. However, since it existed in higher amounts within Romans than Gauls per say, it's hard to tell if this is a result of Gaulish migration or Roman colonization. TLDR: "Celtic" is a linguistic term, and the historical populations that spoke Celtic and thus were the historical Celts (Gauls, Britons, Gallaecians, Celtiberians, Gaels, Picts...) belonged to at least 3 distinct genetic linneages (British Islands + Northern Gaul / Iberia + Southern Gaul / Northern Italy + Alpine Area). Dacians had some admixture with the third group, but arguably more likely due to Romans, which also belonged to that linneage group. However, when comparing the whole DNA, the Dacians were, indeed, very similar to the Gauls.

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My Khan's Guard horde will slice up your army any day

Sounds like a fun mix.

You are correct. I overstated this as an issue. They are quite easy to collect.

Was about to post that. Best tip imo!!

So you can only get the Highborn Warriors at a village bound to a castle?

me when fian champions

Yes, you are correct. That is the distinction for where the noble lines can be recruited.

That's fair. You have built in attrition, but it works.

Interesting I found Derthert in my first play through and killed him lol Also Battanian archer with Sturgian infantry is op.

we battanians always thought nice about you sturgians, but it appears that the sturgians are always attacking us in our back while we grind it out with the empire or the vlandians i mean, we didnt turn north when the khuzait raped threw your mountains 😢 now we feel kinda meh about sturgians

@@platoonmexx9278 yeah but thank fully it happens rarely

I like the Vlandians but they are bullying my Battanians, quite strong. Need to find a way to punish them :))

@@agrikantus9422 Battania's weakness is Vlandia, Vlandia's weakness is Sturgia, Sturgia's weakness is Battania. And the cycle goes on. 😅

Yeah, they are definitely bad in a grind, that's why i only use them as shock infantry. Smash and retreat style.

Yes, if you leave the AI to their own devices, typically Battania falls early, usually with the majority of their territory being taken by Vlandia.

I agree. Its not ridiculously OP when you consider they carry the whole faction.

I'll try to remember that, but certainly no promises.

A creed for any true Vlandian.

Depends how you look at it. It isn't huge in the sense that an open world game map is, but it can take multiple days to cross it depending on the makeup of your army.

It is definitely fun, but the lack of varied gameplay can get old.

I find easy mode to be the chad experience, because you dont take as much damage and can go bezerk more often therefore more fun