Bannerlord Tactics, Let's Crush it with Khuzait: Volume I: An Introductory Battle

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

Don't worry if the series of videos you want to see hasn't had an update in a little while, I am STILL making videos for all of these side series and will release them over the upcoming weeks and months: 1. The Death-Match Campaign against ALL of Calradia 2. The "300" series, the Spartan challenge. 3. The Companions in Blood series(ALL Companion army) 4. The Weak-army series, challenging though foes with weak armies. 5. The Peasants Revolt of 1154 6. Epic Siege Series(Every Saturday!) 7. Village Defense series(every Sunday!) and more!

[@anemone9895]

Just come home from work. A can of beer and my favourite channel uploaded another video. Sweet

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

It's sweet, and I'm honored to be part of your R&R time, thank you for the kind words and patronage!

[@naiyakin]

Been lurking your channel for a few months now, and I have to say, you have some of the best bannerlord content, period. I cannot express to you how much enjoyment you’ve given me through both entertainment and LITERAL ‘tactical enlightenment’ lol. Thank you for your passion and knowledge.

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

Haha, you're welcome and I'm glad, like Voltaire, to spread the enlightenment. We're all better off when we use our brains more, even if it's to be more creative about destruction, it is, after all, just entertainment. I appreciate the kind words and hope you visit often - you know I'm hard at work(playing lol)

[@TheCephalus]

I am hooked. I had no idea bannerlord could be like this. I am just starting out

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

TACTICS are the best part of the game. Honestly, the rest of the game is a little rough around the edges... But the combat.... It's almost sexual.

[@arrgylerawrgyle3784]

Day off, slept in, and new video.. good start to the day. I'd like to mention that horse archers don't need to be moving. Your comments about mobile archers is correct. But it needs to be stated they don't have to be shooting while moving, for others. Get them to a side quickly and then have them stop to shoot and their accuracy goes up tremendously. Don't waste arrows on the move.

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

Glad to be part of your day, honored rather. I'm sure my tactics will evolve considerable in the 4-5 weeks I will probably dedicate to this side-series. A fun faction to try different things and I'm just getting started. As usual, I appreciate comments, suggestions and even critical remarks. It all HELPS in the end.

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

I will be running some tests. HOW much more accurate they are standing still vs. moving. Should be illuminating.

[@absolutebinlid4994]

the goat of bannerlord 🐐🐐

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

I appreciate that kind of hyperbole, I'm hard at work to improve though!

[@absolutebinlid4994]

@@HeadlessHorsemanProductionshonestly what makes you the best bannerlord youtuber, would genuinely watch a 48 hour stream of you just playing! Keep it up man

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

@@absolutebinlid4994 Well that's very kind and a little bit of PRESSURE too as I am sure there are some REALLY good players out there and always new players improving rapidly as well. Still, I really appreciate your encouragement and will remember comments like this if and when I stream a long campaign some day. Cheers!

[@absolutebinlid4994]

@@HeadlessHorsemanProductionspressure is for tyres my friend can’t wait for that!

[@tolveor]

@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions I would watch a stream like that as well from you. Doesnt have to be 48 hours though, that seems a little excessive. But yeah would love to hang out if you are streaming

[@angrygoldfish9607]

Thanks for the props at 20:20 Brother. In my next three episodes coming out you'll get to see me use my Legendary Noble Menavlance more two handed on foot, for variety. Great episode, as always. I'm sure this series is going to be another great one.

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

You got it, and earned it. In some regards, the entire Companions in Blood series was inspired by your original videos. I'll stop by when I have time and Goodluck out there and have fun!

[@angrygoldfish9607]

Speaking of The Black Lion, he has less than 100 million EXP to go till he hits level 60! I don't often get a chance to play him anymore but once in a while I make some progress. I'm honored to have inspired, in any part, one of your series. No wonder I enjoy "Companions in Blood" so much. I never would have made any of my videos without the nudge you gave me. I owe you a lot for that. I appreciate all of your support. There are several people who have supported my video making but you're the only one who has the shared experience.

[@tim3tRav3l3RR60]

Like the damn video

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

Yeah, what he said!

[@Demonvoi]

Love your videos, doing great things for the game's community! Your 8th corps is my Khan's Guard division - maybe when I get up to 40 companions I'll replace them - and depending on army size I'll have 50-100 to just sit in reserve on hold fire. Once enemy is overextended I have them charge (and circle) whichever group is most vulnerable. These guys are great at turning the tide if things don't go well. My infantry/archers can all die just to have Khan's Guard in reserve who will go ahead and K/D 10:1 to comeback and win.

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

I'm JUST now starting to delve deeper into the mist of horse archer tactics, so it will be interesting to see what kind of tactics I can work out - and what you're suggesting here, feint attacks and counter charges, will for sure be part of the mix.

[@Demonvoi]

@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions Awesome dude! Another tactic if you don't mind casualties, they distract enemy archers quite well and allow your infantry to advance unimpeded once they start circling

[@codyrush8780]

love your videos man. very well done. i cant really play bannerlord on xbox right now since there’s a bug that forces the game to crash in any medium sized battles. this helps a bit. appreciate it!

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

Thank you bud, very much appreciated and I hope you get that sorted out!

[@tolveor]

This looks goodrrrrrrrrr man, looking forward to the rest of this series

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

Great - thanks for the feedback!

[@olzhasibragimov269]

finally my favorite faction is on the channel! thank you very much sir for the video

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

You're very welcome, SIR, A whole series coming brother - open field battles, vs. Sturgians, Siege defense, etc!

[@lunarflare9114]

I was just getting bored, this should satisfy my schedule to sleep

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

Hope I'm not PUTTING you to sleep lol

[@Sir_Hammock]

haven't seen the video yet however i did find out one thing if your troops are stuck becuase the enemy is infront of you then all you have to do is tell them to move to a position futher then the enemy and they will be pushed back however as far as i can tell this seems to work on light armoured troops or if we have a large amount of troops so more testing must go on

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

You CAN push them around some but higher quality troops 'push through' enemy troops easier. Lower level ones, of course, just die lol

[@potatolord2196]

My head-cannon is that all the side series are cannon, and Zuvan just loves war too much to actually try and win it.

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

Lol .. there's something to that namely the fact that once you get about a third of the map conquered banner Lord does become very much a rinse and repeat overwhelm the enemy snowball effect and the campaign is effectively over. I have no idea how people have the patience to repeatedly play out a campaign fighting to the very last battle when their enemies outnumbered 100 to 1...

[@anubisftn]

I really like the glowing indicators on the ground that I believe is from the RTS mod? Which version of Bannerlord are you playing to make it work? I was under the impression that it wasn't compatible with current version, but if it's still close, maybe I'll consider running it. Great work as always. Keep it up!

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

I feel very blessed. 1.2.8.31530. I've updated to a beta, but I HAVEN'T updated to the newest/newest beta, and I'm fortunate that my system is still highly compatible with a large variety of mods. I'm scared now to update since it may cause everything to crash. Oops and yes, it's the RTS mod, SUCH a necessary mod!

[@joelhall3820]

I’m on 1.2.10 and it’s working for me

[@anubisftn]

@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions Gotcha. Thanks for the response.

[@anubisftn]

@@joelhall3820 great to know. thanks for sharing!

[@joelhall3820]

I’ve done an entire playthrough of Kuzait lancers and khans guards only, no foot troops, and it got so repetitively easy to win I kept making my parties smaller and smaller to make it a challenge

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

I'm afraid this is one of the perils and risks of getting too good at tactics and understanding the combat system too well Joel that we have to create artificial challenges for anything to stop our mad scientist armies. Obviously you know I'm right there with you basically disinterested in fighting any kind of army less than twice my size unless I have all peasants LOL. Still my channel is more and more being developed to help somewhat newer players with some of the videos even if I still relish very complicated tactics and getting deep into the minutiae with guys like you...

[@maxxgrumpy]

off topic, when opens the screen to vote for a owner of the fief, on the portrait, sometimes I see someones with the Sergeant stripes, 1, or 2, or 3, I am always without, what that means? because, I became the ruler of sturgians, have many fiefs, level 6 clan, 10k+ influence, $5 million and still no Sergeant stripes

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

I'll have to look at my own campaign and compare to this. It might be that if YOU'RE in charge, you don't need stripes because YOU ARE Mr. Stripe.

[@bnvsolomon1151]

Where does one find a beautiful two handed weapon like that

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

In the smithy's vault I'm afraid. I've had a *few* very good loot items that were close to the same quality, but this is a 89 speed polearm from my grandfather the smith.

[@bnvsolomon1151]

@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions ahh good to know!

[@skytpe6096]

Is it perk that your horse gives 30 dmg each enemy or a mod? Because in my campaign i can only give 5-10 dmg even with a top tier horse.

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

I have had people ask this before and I really have no other context to what is going on here. I don't have any mods that's affecting it although I do have one of the best horses 330 riding skill and obviously all the perks that increase horse charge damage. It would be nice if someone else answered your question by saying they have similar results so I would know that my own experiences weren't the outlier here and that there is something you can do to increase your charge damage...

[@tatersandwhiskey6543]

@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions I've had similar results. It depends on the horse, which has a charge damage stat, and your Riding Skill. Riding perk at 275 will give +1 charge damage per 10 points of Riding above 200. So at 330 skill that's 13 points plus whatever the horse charge damage stat is. I think your speed relative to the target plays a roll but I don't have any solid information on that other than I think i've seen it pop up in the damage report in the lower left of the screen. I always try to go full speed through a formation while having a group of heavy cav set to Follow Me so that they hopefully also just plow over the formation, which I see results in the Kill Feed but i'm sure how much of that is from the horse damage or them using their weapons. Royal Destriers have the highest charge damage at 36, followed by Cossians and Tyal Horses at 31. Chart here - mountandblade.fandom.com/wiki/Horses I'm not sure if horse armor affects the damage, and there's a flag that adds a bonus to Charge damage that i'm not sure affects the damage.

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

@@tatersandwhiskey6543 Thank you(and bingo), collaborating evidence here, hopefully this ameliorates the original question, look to your perks(and horse) for more charge damage, brother.