Bannerlord Tactics: Crush the Khuzait using Sturgian Tactics and Savagery (Custom Battles Vol. XIX)

Alright friends, we continue this series of instructional videos here hopefully demonstrating tactics in an environment similar to what you might be facing in your own campaign, that is to say, without my elite 8th corp, my elite beast of a character and my advanced army. In this series we'll take on our enemies outnumbered, often on the enemy 'home turf' and try and win battles with tactics despite the long odds. If you like this series, check out the playlist(coming soon), and I'll load more up in the future. If you have specific requests, always ask!
Volume XIX arrives from a subscriber's request to see how to massacre those pesky horse archers using their neighboring Kingdom, Sturgia. Using a technique that works in most settings, we smash the Khuzait cavalry here and send them running...
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
#bannerlord #war #medieval #bannerlordgameplay #bannerlordmod

[@brianschweifler1501]

Brilliant. I'll use this for sure. Keep them coming, I really like WINNING

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

As a teacher, there is nothing more than I love hearing guys are out there butchering the enemy with my help. Sally forth and crush 'em! :)

[@millenium-star]

"The falcon earns a victory through sheer savagery"

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

Love it.

[@Dilly-Winkus]

This game has such a huge learning curve. I just "F6" and let my companions command things while I ride around just trying to get a good grasp on combat. Great fun otherwise! I need to learn to save more often lol.

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

That was right with you when I first started, I can barely command my guy on horse and would get killed by looters. A few years later and a lot of mistakes and learning and here I am. By the way we have an intermediate tactic series for people who are at your stage trying to get better at commanding their army. Check it out!

[@nikolaspanzella2584]

After watching I’m am now tactically enlightened thank you for the video it was entertaining and full of sweet knowledge!

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

Haha, never had someone say that yet, we're trying to model this channel as an amalgamation of war tactics and the actual Enlightenment where thought were advanced and new concepts practiced(the term Dalonbert used was 'Practical Enlightenment'). Glad you're now ready to spread the word! :)

[@nikolaspanzella2584]

@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions keep having fun my brother never stop having fun

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

@@nikolaspanzella2584 Just processed another episode in the peasants revolt, we're attacking nobles with peasants so you KNOW I'm having fun :)

[@nikolaspanzella2584]

@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions what a time to be alive!!!!

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

@@nikolaspanzella2584haha, I love my fellow history enthusiasts!

[@brettsalisbury1527]

Your points on versatility are true. Every kingdom has its strengths for sure, and the Fian Champs may be the exception but for the most I think each kingdom is fairly balanced as fair as troops right now.

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

I'd tend to agree, REMARKABLY balanced considering how many units and differences there are between the kingdoms...

[@ferg4486]

It's actually funny how op fians are, but Battania never survives in my campaigns. Sturgia usually goes out first, followed by Battania. Vlandia is usually pretty strong, empire, aserai, Khuzaits don't do so well either. Aserai take over their territory. 🤔

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

@@ferg4486 In my campaign, before things went chaotic(war with all), Battania was actually doing OK, best was Southern Empire and Vlandia.

[@matasjuodzevicius4176]

dude you make me want this game

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

It's a great game but it has it's flaws. Fortunately there are mods for quite a few of the game shortcomings... (and thak you for the kind words!)

[@bobdenalio2074]

died at sack of rice lmfao. Great video!

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

Haha, fricken' coward horseman!

[@blackamericannomad7500]

Very cool usage of the circle formation. Im going to try and use this. Thanks for the masterclass!

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

You're welcome, bud, hope you crush it with the same tactic or something like it. I always expect fellas to take parts and pieces of the tactics we're showing as everyone has their play style. Happy crushing!

[@angelwin1243]

Good

[@ferg4486]

Hey Tactical, loved the video 😍 I will definately have to practice this battle until I get the hang of it. Thanks for your content, tactics do make the game more interesting and fun. I used to just delegate command and only use my main to clobber my opponents. But now I have to think about the various types of troops, love how you use skirmishers I think they have a bad rep, so I'd need to get some lake rats or sea bandits? Because sturgia just has t3 skirmishers. What's your army load out? Top tier or homogeneous? Lots of questions here! Cheers mate and thanks for the vid!

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

I usually run highest first, but if that's too unbalanced, homogenous(depending on the fight). I prefer wildlings, so just recruit some low level battanian skirmishers and upgrade them, lake rats are great too, last the aserai infantry has pretty good javelins...

[@domition2947]

When you split your units up after the battle starts, do they still receive the captain buff when they’re in a different group? I was thinking it might be good in campaign if you don’t have a good level companions or family members to fill the captain roles.

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

I don't know how it works and I'm not sure if there is an easy way to test this. I do generally like to build up 5-6 elite companions for combat and 2-3 as governor/party leaders though.

[@atlas_au]

nice! I realise its not tactically viable - but im interested to see how you would "turtle" against an overwhelming force - basically how would fight yourself but better.

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

I generally fight defensive, then counter-punch once I have taken the enemy hit. If I was playing offensive, it would be TONS of flanking, then multiple units attacking at once, looking for soft troops first(archers and skirmishers). Not sure if I could sim this or display it but if I can, I'll upload it...

[@Sir1Johnson]

Can we watch your best killing companion go on a tear one battle?

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

I haven't tried one of these challenges with Zuvan, but this is a video of 'Grygor', his grandfather, a level 60 beast with either legendary or custom elite weapons. Admittedly I had less skill at this point than today but it's still a good brawl: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pamro4uJqN6KnLs

[@Sir1Johnson]

@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions today was awesome

[@Andreitolca1]

Hey! RTS causes bannerlord to crash for me, what versions are you playing with on both?

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

RTS 4.1.30.0 Bannerlord Vanilla 1.2.8.31530 Goodluck!

[@eldonleatherdale3543]

Which kingdom do you think has the best javelin troops?

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

Battania, mostly because their wildlings are so nasty, and TWO stacks of 5 high-end javelins...

[@eldonleatherdale3543]

@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions ok awesome thank you I'll check em out

[@relicshorts6078]

How did u select multiple divisions to move at once I can only do one at a time

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

I can only move one too, what I am doing is moving one unit and then while moving it, holding down I think 'shift' which shows me where other units are already heading to(it shows their dots and I use that for reference).

[@foxsotired3038]

What's your pc specs and settings?

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

Had to look this up, says Intel i-7, 13th gen 2.10 Ghz, 32GB ram, NVidia Geforce RTX 4060 Ti

[@foxsotired3038]

@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions thanks.