Bannerlord Tactics: Weak Army Dominance, Volume II: Channel and Destroy Tough Armies

Welcome back future Khans, Emperors, Jarls and Sultans of Calradia! We're continuing to show our late-game campaign including huge battles, and winning(most) of these battles by deploying advanced tactics to overcome superior enemy forces. Our entire channel is dedicated to helping players improve their field command and if that's your desire, or just want to see huge, dramatic battles, you've come to the right place.
Part two of this series, we fight a tough force in a narrow place and use creative tactics to give them a strong fight...
As requested from a subscriber, we venture into battle with a watered-down force of most middle tier troops and scrubs and take on a larger, more powerful Western Empire force. Can we perform enough wicked tactics with our inexperienced warriors to win the day? Watch and see...
We continue with our demonstration of the Killbox, a complex tactic involving kiting, four sided flanking and combined attacks to utterly annihilate enemy infantry forces with minimal losses. If you want to know more about this tactic, there is an entire playlist available here:
• Bannerlord Tactics: In...
This series, a side-branch of my late-game campaign, demonstrates how an army of mediocre and weak troops can take on, clash against and even WIN battles against the most powerful armies in Bannerlord, using tactics. This series is designed to help players further their field command to the point where they will fluidly move troops depending on situations, and win battles like a Legend.
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
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[@Dylanwiniata]

You never disappoint, love watching the use of devastating tactics against a superior force allways a joy to watch, yes more and more please brother this stuff is awesome

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

Made two more episodes yesterday, working on another(a peasants 'revolt' lol), so stay tuned - and thank you for the kind words!

[@brettsalisbury1527]

I know this isn't the goal, but these battles are a great example of how seasoned you are at this.

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

Yep, like you, thousands of hours of play, and losing has brought me to this. Sometimes I will try to 'minimize' that effect, but it's common nature to play to your ability, so that's hard sometimes.

[@deanottinger1616]

Always love "The Valley" map. Made some epic stands with it. When you have an Army bearing down on their objective and you want to defend it, lead it to a known Valley area and decimate them.

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

No question one of the best places to hold back the tide. I had an epic "300" series battle in the valley today, though it's in 'line' to be processed and that may take a while.

[@arrgylerawrgyle3784]

Darn you! I need to sleep, now i have to remember to watch in the morning:p

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

They'll be content whenever you wake up. Goodluck on burning me out of content! :D

[@BrandstifterFussel88]

"I am going to kick some guys here." *Starts kicking some guys* lmao. Great commentary, great tactical play.

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

Thanks it's been a lot of fun sort of role playing the character in this weak army series, in fact the spin-off The peasants revolt should continue to Vons disrespect of the enemies with a foot in their face and a mace clubbing them to the ground so that other peasants can beat down the enemy. Thanks for your compliments!

[@BrandstifterFussel88]

@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions That sounds fun! xD Will check it out when I find the time!

[@atlas_au]

that right there is some gangster ass shit

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

If I am a gangster, it's an OG type gangster, Pablo Escobar or somethin' lol

[@horiadragoiu]

Very good tactics! thanks

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

Thanks bud, trying to show more and more overhead views too(using the RTS mod)

[@wetworks8]

Good evening . I mentioned my love of ridges in one of your previous uploads..my actual favourite ridge is just back and to the left of where you started..similar tactics,without the kiting..bottle necking the enemy into a satisfying slaughter...Has saved many a man,woman and horses liver. Hukttuu Raqatuu,Khan of the Khuzaits is turning into quite a bit of a bastard in what I expect will be some of his last living years at 55. Policies have been invoked and overturned,clans evicted from fiefs and armies with no purpose disbanded all in favour of the ruler. All retreating soldiers are slaughtered without question. Madwan ruler of the Aserai is slowly testing his patience whilst the Sturgians and Vlandians continue to be the greatest threat and hardest battles. Beer production and profit has been so good lately we bought a big ass swishy slaughter pole that was so good another two were purchased as gifts for loyal service. Family led parties have been created for a consistent army of highly skilled future Khans. You may take my hard won cities or castles but we will always take the Garrison first and divide it accordingly. Another great upload. May your mead flow sir.

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

I haven't tried to the left there on that ridge, but it DOES make sense, tucked in and with a peekaboo ridge. Perhaps I'll try it soon :) Love the details from your campaign. You're a Khuzait vassal, or rebel?

[@wetworks8]

@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions Currently ruler of Khuzaits, voted in after Moonchung died. I pledged allegiance early on and did not think I would play on as far as I have..I was initially just playing as a refresher after I had noticed they had added a Sandbox since my first and last time playing,which was quite a while ago... Now here we are..renaming children with i,ii,iii,iv,v and (s)ix at the end of their birth name simply so I can remember in which order they were born.. I have only just realised there is relation involved with my characters children,most of whom are party leaders or governors so i might have to put some effort in there. Its a game that as you mentioned has its flaws. I have randomly found the glitch of ransoming lords at the tavern over and over and I have used that to my advantage..simply adding a worthy bounty is my reasoning..I added 25k-50k per captured lord accordingly. A couple of day's ago I thought I had found a glitch with garrison refilling if you left and returned to the town..i quickly figured out it seems to be my armies parties troops..almost an hour of carefully filtering troops by tier/class to distribute. Worth it i suppose but not the free extra high tier troops I thought it was.A good way to balance out parties though if I am correct. I tend to find a game and pretty much only play that game,No one I know plays it,most have never heard of it, but a few think it sounds pretty awesome and will hopefully pick it up if only for some decent chat at least. The regular chat I get of what fucking KD they have really does not interest me..lets talk about KD when we just wiped out 600+, arse to the wall with only a ridge to save us. Your regular uploads are seriously a fucking bonus at the end of a working day right now. Much appreciated..have a great fucking day dude.

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

@@wetworks8 It sounds very much like you're as hooked as I remain. Ultimately it's a niche audience, very complex and also requiring a lot of time just to 'build' a good game. That said, I feel your passion and appreciate your support greatly!

[@wetworks8]

@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions Indeed..Even as a relative late comer this game could have so much more potential and currently there is nothing like it that fills that gap for me.The Pc version with mods looks incredible..I'd be happy simply with war horns at this point. The effort you put into each upload,without fan boying,put's your content beyond anything else available at this point.But that is my own opinion and there are other great creators out there. You hit it with the music score every time.

[@skitz-oh]

You wpuld make a great General in times passed my friend!

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

The most generous compliment of all, other than hearing that players are starting to dominate their own games through our demonstrations here... I love TEACHING even more than killing/commanding, so this channel is an ideal mix of my skills and strengths...

[@skitz-oh]

@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions youre doing a great job mate! Ive been doing much better since watching your videos aswell! Keep up the great work man, i thibk i speak for us all when i say we really appreciate your hard work and making things easy to understand aswell

[@OleaiD]

I always fumble with the actual controls for issuing units. The nested menus within the F-keys are so awkward. And how is it you have perfect previews of where units will stand? I just get little flags you can barely see, and that's only if I click and hold. I'd love a video on just how the unit order controls function.

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

I have an infantry series coming up that details formations in depth. Is that what you mean? I also have a formations video that I released recently under 'Intermediate Tactics Series' volume I that has indepth pre-battle setups, might help too? Finally, the colored locators for the troops is a mod(RTS MOD).

[@ferg4486]

Hi man, really loving your content. Could you do an all Sturgia guide? Vs Khuzaits specifically. Their infantry is better, plus the Khans. How do you beat them?

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

Shield and shock, shield walls in front, slow down their cav, maul with shock troops. I'm working on a guide RIGHT NOW(more on infantry than JUST Sturgia), but it's coming pretty soon.

[@ferg4486]

@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions Awesome! Can't wait! I love infantry but they are so underwhelming when against khans and fians, which happen to be Sturgia's neighbors. I've been playing with dismounted Druzhinnik Champions vs opponent Infantry and they've been great 👍

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

@@ferg4486 I think you'll want them mounted to slow down and trap Khuzait horse archers. I have an ideal, dominating tactic and formation for you... stay tuned :)

[@ferg4486]

@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions Looking forward to learn. I'll be watching

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

Your video is up, mate, I mean, it's not titled 'Ferg's video' lol but it is what you were looking for. Enjoy!

[@wesselbooi]

Loving this series! It’s really interesting to watch you still dominating with these ghetto-armies 🫡😁

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

More coming, can almost make one of these episodes a day. :) Vlandian and Khuzait challenges in processing.

[@wesselbooi]

@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions very cool man 😁 looking forward to it as always 🫡