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[@PixelJohnny7]

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[@Eanso-706]

"Have a diversified army" My Khuzait army with 1800 pure horse archers

[@Deths0athb0w]

Same. I would have 300 and see 700 plus enemies like ez kills

[@sweden4thewin]

Same, best thing about horse archer spam is I can keep my troops alive by skirmishing while the rest of the Khuzait nobles bleed troops, leading to us gaining territory while my clan grows in power inside the kingdom.

[@afiqrizal645]

Lol true. I would however keep a few hundred melees/archers of random origins to take castles/cities with. Retraining hundreds upon hundreds of horse archers is not fun

[@Eanso-706]

@@afiqrizal645 most of it is khan's guard who are fantastic archers and infantry so it works

[@wilamthewilliam]

Horse archers till they run out of ammo cavalry when they run out of ammo infantry if their horse is killed archers if their horse is killed but they still have ammo I don't play Bannerlord, but what more can you ask for?

[@brenden084]

No just get only khans guard and have them charge or engage if outnumbered

[@AuthenticTomatoSauce1]

Yessir

[@uhh_brandon]

that's the best way to get them killed, you can wipe any party w khan's guards just by splitting them up into groups and kiting the enemy

[@sayemonowy9955]

Bro i just opened the comment section to write the same thing lol totally agree. Khan guards can destroy anything if you have enough of them. I've got like 250 and they just fucking destroy massive armies of even thousands sometimes

[@brenden084]

@@sayemonowy9955 its hard now to have any other units in my party

[@GameSquad306]

@@sayemonowy9955 solo khans guard get stomped by armies with lots of archers/heavy cav if your massively outnumbered. imo half archers half horse archers are stronger. ive been able to go like 150 vs 1k+ armies

[@swagdaddy8298]

If you want to take over a castle or a town that has way more men than you do, raze its bound villages to the ground and the castle/town will starved, their garrison will gradually drops to zero, leaving only peasants defending it

[@ekamandalaputra5517]

That's is used by Mongols. They burn the village, then make the refugee storm the castle. After it happen the Mongols throw the diseased body over the wall and causing plague inside. It doesn't last for months

[@たろう808]

I buy all the food from the town prior to siege and sell the food back to the town after taking it over to increase trade level

[@Davie03q]

Age of empires 2 song brings the memories

[@tekken.universal2343]

and all enemies lords will attack you in the meantime

[@Misiek2525]

@@tekken.universal2343 There is a possibility, but they may not make it in time. You can always gather such an army to defeat any enemy reinforcements.

[@mariodimitrov8185]

"Run from bigger parties" me getting flash bags about M&B Warband - my 40 swadian knights vs 600 horsy bois

[@casbah2075]

Late game mercenaries are great to maintain a Skilled professional army. Yes they are expensive compared to the recruits. But I’m sitting on five mil gold and I need infantry for the meat grinder.

[@tacolord2561]

for instant skilled troops yeah. i forget what its called, but there is a quartermaster (i believe) perk which lets you turn weapons and armor in exp, which can be crazy helpful for maintaining a high tier army, since it lets you power level units so long as the majority of you army is strong enough to take bigger fights and keep your non leveled units mostly alive, less helpful for building an army from scratch but crazy good if you just need to replace 20 or so units

[@johnethan8158]

or take skilled ones from your cities/castles

[@casbah2075]

@@johnethan8158 the problem is that late game you’re usually having to travel across the map to grab your troops from your castle. It’s much easier just to graband go and continue a push with mercenaries.

[@casbah2075]

@@tacolord2561 I know the perks you’re talking about. Using them also greatly affect your income; as selling loot tends to be a very lucrative trade. To add on, there is also perks that reduce the cost of recruiting mercenaries.

[@tacolord2561]

@@casbah2075 i mean yeah your income does take a hit, but i often felt that once your at that 150+ t5/6 army you have lots of alternate income anyways, also like i said i feel they shine bringing reinforcement units up to level, which is significantly less intensive than doing so for a whole army, you know patching up the 20 or so units you lost in a fight and quickly leveling them

[@phantan8294]

best advice someone gave me: have enough horses in your army (2 time your infantry count + 1 time your cav count) will give you maximun speed, you will run like a truck, grab every party on your way and get rich, get famous after 10 minutes

[@CasualGamingDad187]

My diversified army: High born youth High born warrior Hero Fian Fian Champion

[@AllyArtemisia]

Nothing in all of Calradia can stop a stack of 300ish Fian champs. Can easily mulch 1k+ stacks taking minimal losses if you use the terrain right. Definitely cheesing the game but it's extremely satisfying

[@mentalwarriorshow1458]

Fian Champs. Sturgian Infantry. Vlandian Cavalry. I win 220 vs 600 lol

[@travisbout9494]

​@@mentalwarriorshow145878-100 fians and 200 and 100 druz (I have a follower or wife in an army with just spearmen) when in a battle against larger armies I have 2 infantry grounds in shieldwalls on spaced apart with 2-3 lines of the fians in between them in loose formation with the cav in wedge formation flanking them. Basically any and all mounted archers typically attack the left flank of your centre line (which in this formation is technically my archers) this basically forces them to run in a circle around them which has a shield wall on each flank meaning they get stuck on them and completely blasted of their horses within 2-3 volleys whilst also being hit by the infantry. Once cavalry is taken care of and if the enemy isn't charging my next target is opposing archers, I send my archers ahead holding fire until in range then unleash devestation forcing the enemy to chase my archers. I tell them to hold fire and run back between the 2 infantry blocks that are no in line formation still on opposing flanks. I've noticed that all enemy lord focus weaker troops on the flanks and have their line as wide as yours. This means even if they have 200-300 infantry (sturgians) my too 100 strong blocks will be clashing with the weaker units first, the enemy line will be confused as to which direction to charge in until my infantry start meeting in the middle against the enemy elite. Which now have the backs and flanks exposed to my archers and cavalry charging them. I've taken armies of 1000-2300 using this method in a single battle. Once the battle starts it only lasts about 5min with maybe 6-12 losses on my side mostly infantry

[@romanshimanov]

@@AllyArtemisia my tactic is one half is a elite sturgian druzhinnik and second half is khan guard. Use reallife mongol strike-retreat tactic and you be able to defeat army x5 of your size (i once defeat 2.5k with 200 heavy cavalry and 200 khan guards) Imho, cavalry in M&B is OP as hell

[@SimplyG.G]

Okay fine.. I’ll play some bannerlord

[@devintown8667]

Usually I hate the music in the background of videos like this. The AOE2 music just hits different though

[@gabrielczubak5126]

Legendary game

[@aijazvali]

The AOE 2 music in the bg 😍

[@ironic4910]

How do you build siege engines but hold and deploy them at once?

[@gg-sr9lq]

If you right click on them on PC, or just hover over and press x/a on console, it will come up with an option that’s says something like “add to inventory”, do that. When you’re ready to put them all down, press on the space, as if you were going to build them, and it will show the number you have in your inventory to deploy

[@Okimnotcreativewithnames]

​@@gg-sr9lqthe help is appreciated but I think he meant like how do you do it fast and I think the answer is pausing the game itselr

[@Mik_Aerospace]

@@gg-sr9lqyou’re correct It should say “send to reserve” Keep doing this until all siege engines (preferably trebuchets) are built and send them all out to knock out the castle’s defenses

[@ironic4910]

Thanks guys this has made sieges way easier btw I just became the leader of the northern empire and have been at war for hours🤣this has been a life saver

[@ObtuseGoose2]

@@ironic4910tell me about it, the ai has been brain dead leading me to have to personally take castles it’s crazy like how on earth did they survive so long 😂

[@rathfoks5051]

All solid tips. The only thing id change is instead of a mixed army at the start I would start with infantry and archers to get a solid core built before incorporating cavalry. Much cheaper and sweeps bandits

[@madmattox4962]

The only thing I suggest is if you have enough denars try to buy elite crossbowmen, compared to vlandian sharpshooters, they are less money in the long run.

[@matthewfew3278]

I regularly erase armies 3,4,5, even 10 times the size of mine. You have to look at the composition of your enemy's army then strategize based on that. Army size is not as important as it seems. Archers are very, very powerful when combined with a good cav. Shock troops pair well with ranged units. Or you could just go khan's guard and have the best of both in one unit. Khan's guard are even good at sieges (both attack and defense).

[@GameSquad306]

100% agree. I dont think people realize this quite as much. fighting a 1k army of just infantry slop is so much easier than fighting 500 heavy cav/archers.

[@matthewfew3278]

@GameSquad306 precisely, 300 cataphracts will give any army a hard time. I can do 300 infantry with 50 khan's guard in a matter of minutes. Most of the GIGANTIC armies you see are mainly composed of recruits and they don't even count as enemies.

[@FranklynSantiago-h3o]

You also want terrain and change some settings to allow yourself an easier time against larger forces. Especially when they are higher level. This made me take down 1k or more sized war parties.

[@FranklynSantiago-h3o]

I genuinely don't like the Khan guard but they are not terrible.

[@MrAdriaxe]

And if you put KGs on hold fire, they are by far the best cavalry in the game.

[@Surgical_Bomber]

I disagree on the “only fight enemies that are weaker.” You can easily beat 500 man armies with at least 150 troops if you are smart and use tactics. I recommend challenging yourself in these battles.

[@GarageGamere]

You mostly need calvary is like half the tactics. Number 6 should be infantry squares.

[@okkydirgantaraohara126]

That's only true if your army consist of only elite troops. You can't defeat 500 troops with peasant levies or a tier above it.

[@corymoon2439]

Well it's recommendations for beginner players. Who will have low tier troops and probably little skill in commanding.

[@winstonlewis5630]

Five tips for NEW players

[@alexhughes6329]

On console it’s difficult cause you can only commands your troops to do one specific tactic

[@ch3rlo_1]

Just fill your army with Fian champions or Khan guards. You don't have to worry about anything after that.

[@Hagurmert]

Yea having like 430 fian champions in my party is pretty nice

[@Shaka-Vibe]

thanks man last tip made siege so much easier

[@haroonahmed1077]

I loved how you used age of Empires 2 music with bannerlord video. Both are my favorite games.

[@HeroicBreadroll]

I was just about to say that too!

[@haroonahmed1077]

@HeroicBreadroll nice to know.

[@devon8438]

My recipe is usually a 1:1 ratio of battanian archers to vlandian crossbowmen, 2:3:1 of sturgian spearmen to legionaries to battanian longswordsmen, 1:2 faris' to cataphract, and then of course khuzaits because the bucellarii arent useful at all. Very nice blend of shields and two handers

[@hickspaced2963]

Once you are able to build fire onagers go for those instead. They are so much better when you actually fight the siege. With three or four fire onagers and a little bit of cheese you can win any siege you attempt.

[@mqdboy9278]

For sieging what I usually do is build 2 trebuchets and put them on the reserve and release them once the third one is out, after that I built one siege tower and a ram. Once those are built I either built another trebuchet if I want xp or just siege it.

[@JugglingJuggalos]

How to do this on xbox?

[@tyson6570]

That age of empires music in the background did something to my soul 😅

[@EuropeanPatriot8008]

“Diversify your army” *proceeds to create an army made only from heavy Cavalry and horse archers from all around the world* “Checks”

[@AttilaGOD]

Mercenaries are worth it when you start getting into for ing armies.. other lords will recruit damn near everyone so buying mercenaries helps fill the ranks imo

[@trevorestep4678]

Another good tip is to pay attention to the map terrain. Depending on the map, you may have an advantage or disadvantage. I know when fighting cav I prefer to be in the mountains or forest and when I'm using mostly cav I prefer open ground or the plains.

[@pl0xie494]

Idk if it's just me but it feels like a coin flip. Can't count the amount times I specifically planned to engage an enemy party in forest terrain only to be met by a massive open field with sparse trees and 0 elevation.

[@alex2005z]

​@@pl0xie494the campaign map isnt a good indication overall, but you start to know the spots once you play some more

[@trevorestep4678]

I wanna say I've had back to back fights and not moved at all and the map come out different.

[@swagdaddy8298]

The ridge area that spans over the southeast side of northern empire and northwest side of the southern empire is an example of using terrains for your advantage. That place is a meat grinder for cavalry and horse archer, my favorite place to lure and ambush multiple khuzait armies since their horses are rendered useless there. Good to exhaust their war power until it is your turn for the counter offensive. They suck at siege so it'll be a quick steam roll once their army gone and their lords rot in my captivity

[@sleepless9994]

What I have about bannerlord is when you want a diversified army by having the best troop in each region, you’ll have to go back to said region just to refill your army.

[@miragemain105]

One thing i like to do when taking cities is waiting for their food to run out, it takes longerbut more of your army will live as most of theirs die of starvation or leave, just make sure youve got enough piints to keep your army together

[@bravoent.8938]

Been playing since it was 1st on early access and just learned you can build multiple seige machines at once

[@dogukankaya150]

thanks for siege trebuched tip i have 188hours of gameplay and couldnt think about it

[@pyro6698]

"The key to victory is realizing that fians are also shock troops" -Sun Tzu

[@goodmoney2998]

I wisht there was the same system as in fire and sword where you order your troops and if you don t belong to any faction , you re forced to take mercs

[@coltonlang-rw7in]

Bannerlord player with 500+ hrs, These are great tips! Especially the siege tips. After you create a siege weapon, pause the game briefly and click on the equipment, and you will have the option to store it. Once you have 3/4 created and stored, you can place them again and they build quickly, allowing you to have 3 different lines of fire and 3 targets. This confuses enemies prioritization when they are attacking your equipment.

[@shahar_3411]

The Age of Empires theme sent me down memory lane

[@harrysalt5277]

If you want great mercenary units hire veteran caravan guards from defeated caravans I'd say empire probs have the best but vlandians are pretty good too

[@WMD.88]

Bannerlord with Age of Empires soundtrack? Life is good

[@Dageneral-i7n]

I was shocked for seeing this on the ps5

[@TitanPheniox]

Wildlings smoke Fians. Wildlings smoke cavarly. Wildlings smoke infantry. When paired with a high throwing skill captain, the wildings one shot high armored mounts, sheilds, and armored units.

[@moderncolonizerjr]

A few days ago I won against a bigger force because of luck and strategy I placed my Calvary on the sides on the hills and in my front line so they could encircle them while the infantry and archers went straight to the front

[@KeeperCharlie]

That AOE2 theme

[@IIXeloII]

Tbh not watching tutorials and, never using the bow, made my campaign really interesting

[@aydennuula979]

Mercenaries are only good if you can afford them, and you don't plan on keeping them around very long. Their higher wages add up, so only use them to bolster your forces for one or two battles, then fire them.

[@PixelJohnny7]

very true, thank you for sharing the tip with the community

[@alessandroamici7337]

SIEGE TIP: build one trebuchet and all ballistas and replace them immiadiately if the go down; the trebuchet is sturdy and will take most of the fire while ballistas will snipe enemy's war machines. When almost all of them are gone your single trebuchet will start to demolish the castle/city defense undisturbed

[@Greenbee12964]

Get any type of unit you want, horse archers or Calvary archers

[@rhynostar1139]

Best tip: When in doubt - Battanian Fian Champion doomstack.

[@Echo.Unknown]

Have a diverse army! Me with my hundreds of archers

[@serfwallace]

"Get a bow and a set of arrows." *Shows a crossbow and a set of bolts.*

[@Madman42069]

Just go around ortysia and build an elite cataphract army of only them and overwhelm them

[@began4895]

holy i didnt even know u could pick the siege machines up and put them down after so many hours.

[@saintjiubtheeradicator]

When starting out it's actually best to go for ranged units instead of diversity

[@warlordz5779]

The seige strat is something i use even still, it just works too well and let's you win seiges with very little losses a lot

[@trevorpeace9486]

I figured out the 4 trebuchet drop on my own, and now im watching this to send to my gf because i made her addicted to bannerlord. Made me smile so wide to see that simple tech on here

[@TalhaShaikh-v8w]

So diversified. Plsying aoe theme music on bannerlord 😂

[@alex2005z]

Extra tip: try getting at least 40%-50% of your army being ranged units if you want a strong army

[@kittenconsumer9960]

If you’re rocking in an army a lot of the time infantry will be covered by other lords. horse archers and cav late game destroy everything

[@alex2005z]

@@kittenconsumer9960 I just run around with my own party every time. Weak units in an army slow you down more than they are worth tbh. In my current playtrough I have 540 party size, all max tier units (most tier 6) and Im running around fighting 2k + armies easily

[@sovietrazor]

Thats shitty advice, while rangers are good to pepper up enemy, unless youre dealing with battanian fians or khuzait khan guard, they arent strong enough to fill other roles, generally your army composition should be around 40% infantry 35% archers 25% cavalry for optimal formations.

[@alex2005z]

@sovietrazor the only way to win hugely outnumbered battles is ranged damage. You can't really win a 1 to 4 ods battle with infantry as your main force

[@nugsnjugs9954]

I have 1.8 million gold as a merchant. I only have 25 men which are mostly companions or family. I think if you are new, you focus on building a massive party first and thats a mistake. There are a lot of ways to make money before building an army. Smithing is the most boring, but once level 100 in it, longswords can make some good money, or javelins. If you want something more exciting, you can become a merchant like I do every start of the game. You can fight looters and make sure to buy low/sell high!

[@coreyostrander1763]

Mercenaries are good to keep the ranks full on long campaigns

[@benwilliams3539]

Horse archers or cavalry archers? Great variety right there

[@marmottetueuse]

Og Age of empire ost bring back memories

[@guyunknown6224]

Always check your garrisons for mercs , they will drain your coin purse

[@AbdullazizS]

Nice tips bro , but give an order to your cav to flank on the enemy infantry and charge them from behind , so infantry in the front and cav from behind

[@erikkallner7417]

Nobody talks about that you can lock onto single enemies with the zoom button for bows and throw weapons

[@vishalsharma7002]

Age of empire theme in the background ❤

[@tashoncalvin9788]

Kinda i favor the carval mercanaries

[@aaronwright7950]

I'm guilty of attacking partys higher then mine and getting cought most the time.i make it out on top some of the time I'm taken experienced troops make a big difference

[@cameronpowell6778]

You’d be surprised what you can pull off with a party of about 50 elite troops.

[@aladdinbaddn]

All true execpt early build. Make as many archers as you can. Only archers

[@aznwan92]

F1 F3 with whatever army still top tier

[@awayfromkeyboard157]

What a cross bow in the beginning well you can cross out everything that you are saying. Go wil a bow that way you can upgrade it faster and it helps with your arches I recommend Khan’s guards. With Khan’s guard all your problems are mostly solved except for the bill later in game but nothing smithing can’t help with.

[@Se-du7sh]

As a guy that just started a Khuzait playthrough... All you need are horse archers 😅

[@Shammer1]

My army is diverse they are what ever archer are available in bannerlord

[@stupidchukhna3111]

“have diverse army” Me: HOOOOOOHOOOOHOOOÖÖÖ🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹

[@Elrobogameplay]

No way you used the age of empires 2 theme, I thought nobody knew that game anymore

[@robertcrittenden3230]

As T90 says, no trickle treb.

[@jasperlawson6315]

Once you get decent st it you can handle a much larger force... Not until you have upgraded your troops though... It's more about quality than quantity... Check what they have also. 200 maxed out troops can take 1000 pesants... But not 950 peasants and 50 higher level troops.

[@CSnake4Gaming]

How do you put trebuchet in reserves so they don't get instantly destroyed?

[@kingjay3370]

Modern-day Sun Tzu 😂😂

[@minus3331]

I only use Calvary, Banner Knights baby!

[@ShacolateClown]

for some reason playing without a crosshair is fine for throwing weapons / bows. but using a crossbow is so weird. you have to aim at the ground for the bolt to go like in the middle of the screen.

[@potato6403]

If you have a town put the focus on the villages to farm prosperity. I got like 10k in mine 😂

[@Lacey7758]

I am literally half an entire horse army 30 ish archer horse and 30 ish melee horse and then 60 infantry/archer

[@Hungary_Ball253]

I love building a trade empire

[@tobitictac852]

You need a vew realy good knights with shields they distrackt the archer and your horsemen can go kill the archer without them you can just use hirse archers

[@cats-uo9gl]

last time i played bannerlord 2 i would get an all cavalier army would win almost 95% of the time on field fights \

[@retro2485]

Never retreat always fight either win or die that the Sparta way😂😂😂😂

[@Dbzfanz1243]

How do you put trebuchets in reserve? I’ve been looking for this

[@jpwashere2868]

Another tip get companions from other cultures, a pain holding castles and the culture isn’t the same

[@filippleshchinski2187]

whats with the AOE 2 music?

[@Azazeel._]

as soon as you have 30k gold, build a caravan

[@HistoiredeSagesse]

Amazing game

[@PixelJohnny7]

it is indeed

[@dobrujan]

Broo the age of empires song 😭

[@udozocklein6023]

"run from bigger armies..." then how do you stack up your renown early? you have to be outnumbered and outpowered. also the loot is insane when ur solorekking whole armies with like 50 guys

[@grimskid]

Horse archers is all you need

[@NoahBarrett-d1q]

My units are so upgraded that 100 of my units can take 1k enemies that are in a castle

[@nitroux6969]

no. 5 Get archer No, 4 upgrade archer No. 3 get spear No. 2 put spear below a slope and archer on top (incase no slope spear behind archer) No. 1 let archer shoot when they get close let archer go back of spear and let them shoot the back of spear :D win any match.

[@chocolatemilk10101]

Why did u show a realm of thrones clip in the beginning 😂

[@gentlemangoat2401]

cavalry only got me the whole map xD

[@DECSECT]

Just buy a bow and recruit battanian archery 🏹 then win all battle

[@emilbortnowski128]

my tip would be, installed ton of mods to make the game way harder. It's so much more enjoyable when you're less OP compared to NPC's.

[@tinybraingaming]

The AOE music hits haaaaard

[@vinnyepefanio7157]

Nah you don’t need to diversify your army if somethings broken like line breakers and certain line holders get them also vlandia sharpshooters are good just have no ammo so make sure you get some bows to help that out. Also I don’t run a bow I throw javs….

[@tofu1639]

Have a diversified? What is that. I’m over here struggling with my no mounts run. Like I don’t understand why it’s so hard to combat Aserai and Khuazit with no mounts 🥲. My range only run was so much easier

[@FlugabwehrRaketenSystemRoland]

I use spear not bow