How to play Bretonnia in Total War: Warhammer 2 | Roster & Battle Strategy

[@ColonelDamneders]

What's your favourite Bretonnian unit?

[@Anatak2222]

I like the Grail Reliquae. Its a really interesting aura to help bolster the front line.

[@handleonafridge6828]

Grail Knights, I find them very useful at destroying the enemy’s frontline with cycle charges. Grail Guardians are good but I use them more as anti-cavalry since they can stay in battle for an extended amount of time and are pretty damn good at it.

[@shawnberry760]

Yes

[@classysquid7501]

None

[@dac314]

I love how low-tier bows are often overlooked by decent players, but tournament players are like "ungor raiders? Peasant bows? Thanks I'll take 6"

[@Someone-wj1lf]

They’re units that do really, really well for their costs and tiers.

[@dac314]

@@Someone-wj1lf yeah, especially considering volume of fire. Nothing better than 2-4 units of cheap bows dragging down a dragon or other SEM.

[@halfknight6706]

@@dac314 I've seen 6-7 skavenslave slingers take down a dragon, It ain't the power behind It, It's the volume that matters.

[@dac314]

@@halfknight6706 which, oddly, favors low-tier units with huge entities/unit count. Ungor raiders, skavenslave slingers, etc. Nothing like 1000+ rocks every 10 seconds to make some elf on a dragon feel real bad.

[@TannerWilliam07]

Infantry are so bad in this game 😩😅

[@nickdeboer4494]

03:56 they also have charge defence against large *Goes on to charge large units instead of bracing for the bonus*

[@ColonelDamneders]

+Nick de Boer that’s just how I roll 😎

[@nickdeboer4494]

@@ColonelDamneders Hahaha love it. They are just peasants after all....

[@Elenrai]

@@nickdeboer4494 Cant have the peasants develop delusions about their station in life now can we?!

[@AnodyneRain]

5:32 "Unfortunately they don't have any access to shields.." *Shows unit charging enemy with shields on back* xD

[@ColonelDamneders]

dont know how to use them tho :(

[@randomunusedaccount3153]

Booyah, finally. Honestly I love ur videos but my favourite is these roster videos as u zoom in and go into detail on the unit’s uses

[@ColonelDamneders]

+JustJack I try my best to get all the details I can find

[@thephoenixempyre2300]

For me, when I get access to Grail units and 5th tier cavalry, I take only 2 infantry, 2 archers, and 2 artillery. The rest is cavalry spam since they are the most capable units and can demolish enemy lines far better than any mixed force could.

[@benlex5672]

When the AI just brings in full-stack men-of-arms... Time to kill their legendary lords

[@ColonelDamneders]

+林鼎鈞 AI armies are so wack

[@benlex5672]

@@ColonelDamneders They will do anything to get 3 full stacks... no matter the units, no matter the cost lol

[@ColonelDamneders]

@@benlex5672 Legit. You see everything from full mammoth doom stacks to entire armies of Men at Arms

[@benlex5672]

@@ColonelDamneders Mammoth isn't that bad if you are the empire tho... But it's legit doom stack vs Britonnia

[@ColonelDamneders]

Yeah empire have handgunners and good artillery that can shred mammoths but bretonnia only have peasant archers who will break the second a mammoth comes near to them

[@skulffyyy]

"Less macro is always a win in my book" ... Proceeds to bring 3 types of cav 3 types of inf and 2 types of archers lmao

[@ColonelDamneders]

+SKleder WY infantry and ranged units are easy to manage. Cav that needs constant attention is a pain imo

[@matiasmattera6650]

@@ColonelDamneders "cav that needs constant attention" you know cav is THE strongest point of Bretonnia while inf and range are his weakest? Right? An infantry main army with Bretonnia is like a no-arty army for the dwarves.

[@fountainchristain]

@@matiasmattera6650 but not all of their cav needs you to watch it all the time.

[@matiasmattera6650]

@@fountainchristain of course not, you saw max out grail guardians? They're fucking tanks! They can be a main line with no problem letting you have a full cav army

[@pladook2553]

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[@TheRxNick]

Just finished my first bretonnia campaign! Ended up using rapanse + 3 paladins for a front line, 2pox archers, 3 trebuchet, 2 pegasus Knights, 2 hippogriff Knights, and 3 Grail and 3 questing Knights. It worked very well in all situations!

[@RichtofenE115]

Came for the strategies Stayed for the ragdolls

[@ColonelDamneders]

+Richtofen115 _ I honestly wheezed when I saw some of the extreme ragdolls

[@BierBart12]

It's even funnier when you turn down the gravity in lab battles and they just go flying off into orbit

[@vanlao6367]

peasant mobs is a decent choice in early game if you mainly focus on letting your cavalry do the damage, having them take on the brunt of the first charge, and then your knights do a frontal charge against the enemies ensure massive amount of damage dealt while providing a better survival chance for your knights if you are afraid of being sandwiched while flanking, which happen a lot for new players. Plus, they can be recruited anywhere with a farm, so you don't have to worry much about losing a unit or two. Bretonnia focuses mainly on cavalry, so for me their infantries are only good for delaying at best and be meatshield at worst no matter what type

[@jrodkoola1989]

I got recommended this channel and I can see why! Very good quality my friend!

[@ColonelDamneders]

Glad you enjoy! Also nice that someone out there recommending :)

[@spiffygonzales5899]

Glad SOMEONE made this. The old one was useful but dated AF

[@tastefulavenger]

Zerkovich's video is still feasible and helpful not much has changed about the bret lineup since game 1 outside of campaign stuff and some unit buffs they're functionality is literally all the same.

[@nasir6r996]

Perhaps Norsca next? Also glad you're liking TW: Warhammer. As an older dude I used to love the tabletop when I was young. It was dank af.

[@igorokinamujika2073]

From my experience in the campaign, I think its better to ditch out infantry all together in the late game and use melee cavalry as frontline. I don't know if they have been nerfed, but in my campaign with Couronne, I got one of the most OP armies I have ever had in Warhammer I or II. It consisted of 7 Grail guardians in the front, 6 Grail Knigts (3 on each side) , 3 Royal Pegasus, 3 royal hippogryph knights and Louen in Beaquis. Even in the last battle against chaos I was so overpowered that the chaos armies got destroyed in seconds, like 1 o two charges and they were gone.

[@DIY_Miracle]

The first time I saw the Grail Relique, I thought it was a glitched hero

[@deemerald3990]

Nice job man, never knew brettonia had so much chaff. But would really want to see a Norscan one. There is but one strat there that you should never deviate from: War mammoths by turn 50 and the campaign is over

[@ColonelDamneders]

Seems the AI loves that one too. They always bring a couple at least. I play races based on the poll but eventually I'll get everybody (hopefully in time for game 3)

[@johnp4000]

Hi Colonel, Bretonnia has always been my favourite faction and this is an excellent guide. Would you always recommend using the ROR's perhaps it is my previous total war experience that I rarely use mercenaries finding them expensive however their upkeep doesn't look that bad.

[@ColonelDamneders]

+johnp4000 I see RoR as always being worth taking as long as you’d have the base unit in your army. They often get great bonuses and are max experience but are rarely better than superior units. For example in the empire the deathjacks are archers but I don’t bother with them if I have crossbows are higher as they just aren’t worth it

[@leadpaintchips9461]

@@ColonelDamneders Deathjacks are fantastic for arty sniping in campaign. Like if I could get more than one of them, I'd throw a unit of them in every army that is going to face arty because they just tear them a new hole. There are some RoR that are not just a straight upgrade, but have a different battlefield use. Like regular archers we want to replace asap, but the Deathjacks are good to keep around for said arty sniping regardless of how late the game is. Better to have them tearing into the arty than trying to out flank their cav and *then* dealing with their arty. Better to have the cav part of your army dealing with the front line and just sending this one unit to deal with all of their arty. Bretonnia's RoR though are just straight upgrades, so this really doesn't apply to them. Also, most of the time I don't actually recruit the RoR because of them being insta recruitable, so I keep them in reserve for 'oh poop' moments where I need to raise an army super quickly.

[@ColonelDamneders]

That would probs be the best way to use them but stuff like that always tends to go wrong for me lol. its good to keep them and build and instant stack when poop hits the fan

[@johnp4000]

@@ColonelDamneders Are Deathjacks the flying cavalry?

[@leadpaintchips9461]

@@ColonelDamneders Ya, just give it a bit before you start to actually fire on the arty (like making them commit their potential counters to other things) and it's easy.

[@oblivionfan345Tony]

Foot squires should be sure to change weapons to the sword and shield on their back to turn into tanky infantry

[@Elliott1518]

Late to the party on these vids but I enjoyed them, and more importantly found them helpful. Got yourself a sub

[@godwrote01]

Damn, i speak enough english to understand a native speaker quite good. But you just talked much to fast for a foreighner like me. I am now at 1:05 and ok i do my best, challenge accepted

[@LaMOi1]

Your channel makes a wonderful companion to Zerkovichs!

[@konst3d]

4:35 - That was some serious sword...

[@sirknight3180]

Bretonnia needs a serious buff, its infantry is pretty mediocre, i guess you could buff battle pilgrims so that they have organized lines and more melee defence (the reason why it’s important for organized lines is so because organized lines can absorb cav charges easily. And like add a shielded varient of foot squires. And add longbow unit, with 180 range and armour piercing and is no longer inaccurate.

[@olavosampaio2517]

Nice video, I like the explanation about each unit and recommendations on how to use them. But you could talk a bit slower and clearer. I found it a little hard to understand sometimes. Good work!

[@ColonelDamneders]

+Olavo Sampaio I get that a lot so it is sobering I try to work on haha

[@SeanWinters]

17:30 he said "peppered"... Did he get that from Crosoul?

[@PurddyBirddy]

Is no one going to talk about the guy that broke the sound barrier at 10:26

[@BeefIntoCake]

05:28 "They dont have acces to any shields" THERE IS LITERALLY A GIANT SHIELD MOUNTED ON THEIR BACKS !!!

[@R4V1D]

Great video!

[@matiasmattera6650]

Let me change that hideous army comp for an actual competent one for the end game... ahem... full stack of hippogryph knight + Damsel (Life) + Melee Lord. That's literally all you need. Maybe toss a Paladin in there to help guard the Damsel and help the Lord with the killing.

[@matiasmattera6650]

@@KokkoroConnoisseur that's not really a problem in late game. If you don't like that go full Grail Knight/Guardian army

[@firstchushingura]

I really like them but hard to handle them all together in real time. I slow the pace of battle to achieve win.

[@turtlecheese8]

"Sadly the foot squires don't have any shields..." The shields on their backs:

[@henrymonroe4300]

My general all purpose army consists of: lord - occasioly a damsel or paladin - 7-8 men at arms (assorted) - 5-6 cav (usually one mounted bowmen) and the rest bowmen. Standard medievil two army lol peasant bowmen aren't the best but when you focus fire you obliterate anything in your path Higher up dukes I confederate with (Bohemond, Chilfroy, Alberic, Adalhard) obviously get a few tastes of flying cav as well but only if they have the corresponding vows unlocked. By the late game I like to get a full stack of paladins too all on pegs... amazing siege battles, especially if you are trapping an army in the settlment too.

[@snakycake4790]

The guy playing at the end is definitely an empire peasant and not bred for the warhorse

[@chriswarburtonbrown1566]

How about pursuit? This can add 20%+ to your campaign kills. Mounted yeoman are worth having for this alone. Ignore 'End Battle' button and spend 3 mins riding down routing enemy units, especially leaders.

[@Someone-wj1lf]

Wait. Why are the battle pilgrim shields upside down?

[@TheSunMoon]

Nice video! Would love to see more; subbed!

[@steviep789]

I absolutely love these videos. Doing a fantastic job. Only criticism is the way you say Melee! It's driving me insane 😂 its pronounced "May-lay" not "mee-lay"

[@yuhyuh5674]

Big problem here. How do I counter a chaos roster with Brettonnia? My infantry is literally useless against chaos warriors or God forbid, chosen. Also, my cavalry seems to struggle big time against chaos cavalry. Any ideas?

[@ColonelDamneders]

use ranged units like pox archers and trebuchets to thin out the melee lines to make it easier for your infantry lads. use cav that is better in sustained melee to fight other cav if you keep getting bogged down. these will be the swords units rather than lances. I'm no pro with the roster but I hope this helps!

[@vanlao6367]

You'll never win against chaos in infantry battle as Brettonnia, so instead use your infantries to delay enemy as long as possible. Spear men-at-arm (shielded) are the best due to their high defense rating, and if you use them together with blessed trebuchets ( no friendly fire), they can allow the trebuchets to do the killing for you. Questing knights are pretty good against most shock cavalries due to their high attack/defense rating and they have armor-piercing damage which is good against chaos generally. 3 stacks of peasant archers with poison attack can wipe out even the toughest chaos S.O.B. If they have anything bigger than a horseman, use pegasus knights/ gryphine knights to cycle charge that big boy, because those knights are better at killing big enemies than knights of the realm.

[@deni140492deni]

I Just love seeing infantry flying anfter a charge

[@ColonelDamneders]

Don't we all

[@Aliff_Klg]

Battle pilgrim - hold the line vs low to mid infantry - high morale/frenzy - dont have armor piercing Foot squires - To versus them with units with armor - have armor piercing - have bonus vs infantry - not tanky even though have 70armor Knights Errant - to kill enemy archer and support infantry - anti infantry - NO armor piercing Questing Knights - Your number one anti infantry unit - armor piercing - anti infantry - to kill off enemy heavy infantry or support your own infantry. - No shield. Grail GUARDIAN - The most poweful anti infantry unit - Very tanky - magic damage - To hold the line - Not use for cycle charging but hold the line. Royal Hypogrith knights - Your very own mosnter unit - causes terror and fear - have armor piercing - to wreck enemy infantry - To wreck enemy lord ========================= Knights of the realm - to versus large enemy with weak armor - to versus enemy cav that have weak or medium armor. - to support your infantry when fighting large enemy(Like horses and upwards) Grail Knights - Better version of Knights of the realm - Anti large - To fight with enemy cav or monster - Magic damage Pegasus Knights - Anti large but dont have staying power like grail knights. - To versus large enemy units with weak or medium armor. - very mobile perfect for killing lord or enemy flying units - To kill off enemy archers or artillery quickly or units that are isolated. Royal pegasus knights - Same as regular pegasus knights - Much better damage - Have a bit more staying power. - The proper anti large unit - have anti vigour and phychology

[@menglv2954]

You don't need creatures that walk with only two legs in the late games for Bretonnia.

[@liamcarnahan1346]

I love the Bretonnian army but man it's a micro intensive army.

[@vanlao6367]

it doesn't have to be micro intensive unless you make it happen yourself. Bretonnia is actually pretty straight forward like the Empires: they have variety of cavalries fit for different roles. You see the enemy having lots of armors ? bring knights of the realm and questing knights and see them mowing down those armors. You see the enemies having lots of large unit ? bring pegasus knights/gryphine knights and see those large units get melted down. Grail knights are the best for every situation: they are immune to stamina, they have magical attack that bypass armor, they hit like a truck, they are immune to psychological horror and they have decent attack/defense stats. If you get access to grail knights, you can forget about other knight units aside from flying cavs. And never forget: BLESSED trebuchet, the best trebuchet which is a must have in your army

[@kenny3179]

@@vanlao6367 having magical attacks means you bypass physical resist not actual armor, you still need armor piercing damage to do that

[@Not2Bad2Watch]

Well, I really like the video but for max performance in sp I would rely on good ol' doomstack of royal hippogryphs royal pegasoi grail knights and maybe one or two blessed trebuchets for sieges. It's probably not the best doomstack out there but in comparison they are pretty cheap (with the vows), get stackable boni from buildings, are good against all the nasty ranged armies empire or vampire coast field and without the supply lines and massive movement range, you can literally flood entire factions away in late game.

[@someguy3763]

11:29 Was that a Discord ping?

[@belisariusvera2211]

Please do tomb Kings next

[@ColonelDamneders]

I'm at the mercy of the poll unfortunately but I will eventually get round to them

[@belisariusvera2211]

@@ColonelDamneders ok

[@DeathByRabbit]

Blessed trebs don't damage friendlies? Is this true? D:

[@ColonelDamneders]

+Rabbit only the explosion. The impact will still hit

[@DeathByRabbit]

@@ColonelDamneders Good to know, thanks!

[@MrJimmibambo]

wathich your endgame army comp for bretonnia is so painful

[@deni140492deni]

Attacking walls: 4-6 foot squires, 4-8 flying units (half griffons at least)-griffons will.destroy anything on walls. heavy cav for the rest/heroes. Fight on the Fields? Lots of cav And some flying for rear charging And killing artillery. In PvP follow the vídeo.

[@deni140492deni]

Against bretonia: corner camping with a Lot of spearman And archers/magic

[@awsomeman350]

Is it actually good to spam the Pegasus and demigriffs? I have a even split 9/9 in my main army. Or is it better to have a army more balanced?

[@Bazerald777]

Yes. Get 18 griffs and 1 hero to auto win any battle. Just cycle charge.

[@RazORKful]

Dont really even need the army in the end game, leoncur/lord with a paladin and heavens wizard... Send them in to tank and drop overcasted comets on their blobbed infantry, manual target the trebuchets in the interim in the same fashion, rinse and repeat. The entire bretonnian army is just for show.

[@benedeknagy8497]

Hehehe... i just imagined a battlescene where the whole Brettonian army is just watching their king solo-ing the enemy army. The knights enjoying the finest Bordeleaux wine, analyzing the details of their king's skilled strikes, while the peasants are loudly cheering and shouting monty python style insults at the enemy.

[@nath9091]

I am lazy so generally do 2 trebs, 4 or 5 archers, Paladin, damsel and remainder cavalry. Really like Grail Guardians esp with a few armouries where they become invincible against anything who doesn't have AP. Laziness continues with the AI commander mod where I can just press shift F9 on my whole army and Lord hunt with my Lord.

[@NightWhisper8462]

So which mod is this as I'd love to have flyers move at those speeds, they just seem to either get picked off by missiles or wait for the missiles to shoot something else by which point I might as well of brought another guardian cavalry

[@ColonelDamneders]

+NightWhisper Sebidee’s realistic flying I think

[@robrobusa]

@@ColonelDamneders so wait - you're putting out guide videos with mods enabled?

[@ColonelDamneders]

@@robrobusa Not anymore but a few years back when this came out I did use some mods which you can find in my essential mods vid

[@GiftRumble]

Pros: Good Cavalry Cons: No Helstorm Rocket Battery No Helblaster Volley Gun No Steam Tank

[@TheifMasterSpaz]

I started a coop campaign with a friend of mine and I'm playing Alberic, I just lvled him and unlocked his Royal Pegasus skill but even though I've used a point on it I don't have it in my mounts. Do you know if this a bug?

[@ColonelDamneders]

that does sound like a bug. could you join the discord & send me some screenshots and I'll see what I can do

[@LaMOi1]

Great video. I really like the variety of infantry units they have. It’s a shame they have such weak leadership!

[@raisequimm6611]

How can I get the regiments of renown ?

[@ColonelDamneders]

for most factions it's by levelling up your faction leader

[@raisequimm6611]

@@ColonelDamneders no I don't have the regiments

[@ColonelDamneders]

If you Hover over the Units in the menu it might tell you

[@TheShizzo]

here's my ideal army: 1 lord, 1 hero, 18 royal hippogryphs lol. cycle charge til win

[@ИванБондарев-д6ь]

nearly same i play lizzards. but more heroes, becose they can ride glorious dinos. so just 5+ heroes and ancient dinos. thats strongest than "3 types of dat, a little of dat, 2 guys with poison to poison enemy..." **ck dat! just take a bunch of strogest units and roll enemys to dust!

[@AzureRoxe]

We got crazy Orcs and Goblins, pissed off Dark Elves, burly Dwarfs, resurrected corpses, undead counts AND undead PIRATES.......and it's the French faction that loves Chivalry that, literally, sends 3 weirdos to parade around the dead body of one of their warriors.

[@spiffygonzales5899]

Bretonnia needs more units and buffs for their cavalry. My personal opinion.

[@ColonelDamneders]

+Spiffy Gonzales they need something doing. They felt very awkward

[@spiffygonzales5899]

@@ColonelDamneders That part is actually okay. Bretonnia is supposed to be awkward cuz they mostly cav. BUUUUUT Blood Knights, Demigryph Knights, and Dragon Princes are all better than Grail Knights/Guardians. And Bretonnias only real tactic is hammer amd anvil, which would be fine if the anvil didnt break before you swing the hammer. 😅 id say bretonnia as a concept is AMAZING. My favorite faction. But when other cav beats yours id say its too little. Grail Knights/Guardians need buffs (and cost increase), knights errant and KotR need buffs, and the ENTIRE Bretonnian infantry save pilgrims and Squires needs like +5-10 leadership.

[@ColonelDamneders]

I think that’s the real problem. They’re more of a concept than a fully built up and balanced faction. They’re passable sure but really lack the polish of the others

[@spiffygonzales5899]

@@ColonelDamneders Agreed

[@officechairpotato]

I went with 8 trebuchets and 10 cavalry units with 2 cav heroes. Sounds ridiculous? Well, if you charge into the enemy and then dance around them *just* out of their range, you can get them chasing the cav and ignoring the trebuchets. Heavy micro, but pretty much guarantees victories even when massively outnumbered. A single army can take on 3. Feels dumb because you're exploiting the AI, but oh well. You can have the heroes on pegasi target enemy ranged units while your cav just lead the mass of enemies around and get them all nice and bunched up for the trebuchets to just rinse through them. Micro a box so you're charging around in a square and they'll bunch up.

[@davidcopplestone6266]

Nice guide, but the pronunciation of yeoman hurts. The E is silent. It's "Yo-", like slow.

[@Sodacacik]

if the letter is in the spelling you pronounce it because fuck that silent letter BS

[@WizoIstGott]

Oh Shit, I said this wrong so many times. Thanks!

[@firstcaptainvaleriusrensor463]

*always bring a full knightly cavalry army to battle*

[@kapitankapital6580]

I feel like your army list doesn't truly play to the faction's strengths. Your army should be basically all cavalry. Try 6 questing knights, 2 grail guardians, 2 grail knights, 4 pegasus knights, 2 hippogryph knights, 2 foot squires or trebuchets, whichever you prefer, and a lord on hippogryph and mounted damsel. You send your qk straight up the middle, grail guardians into any particularly strong units, gks round the side to wipe out enemy cav/monsters, pegasus knights straight into archers, and hippos to focus on any particularly sticky targets or to terror rout trash.

[@aristotelsb8874]

Patrick Ellis how do you win siege battles with an army like that? Pegasus and hippogrypg knights are good on the walls, but the tend to get tied down and get a lot of damage. Other cav units can’t climb walls and you need to wait for quite a bit until your catapults make holes in the walls and since Bretonnian trebuchets are so bad, you need at least 2 of them to effectively break dowb walls and towers

[@kapitankapital6580]

@@aristotelsb8874 You can just siege them until they come out

[@aristotelsb8874]

Patrick Ellis they usually don’t if your army is stronger. And if you wait until they get attirition to easily autoresolve you will spend like 8-12 turns

[@vanlao6367]

@@aristotelsb8874 here's the trick: get 2 armies, one fodder army (only have 2-3 units) to do the siege, the main army will stay in ambush stance close enough to reinforce that fodder army, if you do that, and there's no enemy heroes nearby, then it's 100% guaranteed that the garrison army will sally out and fight your army on plain, with no stupid walls around.

[@leoestellar5232]

What in the name of the lady IS THAT UPKEEP?

[@judoocean4376]

Tomb Kings next? 😌

[@DimanArtworks]

This is the first dude i have to actually slow to 0.75 instead of boosting lol

[@kevinshirley9344]

Use your generals and heros to lead out and draw enemy fire rather than cav units or any other units. Your heros and generals can take a lot of damage and are single targets so they are hard to hit...NEVER let your Pegasus knights or your Griffons take any fire at all. They should never be used to draw enemy fire. Also use your heros, instead of infantry units, because your heros can be used to attack whole units while your archers focus on the enemy. Your archers will have full view of the enemy with your hero out in front rather than firing OVER your infantry which results in less enemy deaths due to your own men getting hit in the backs. Heros can also outlast any infantry units so its better to have heros out in front. Avoid using infantry at all and just have 3 or 4 heros blocking your enemies access to your archers.

[@dirkschulz7282]

What language is that ?

[@ColonelDamneders]

Engileesh

[@leoestellar5232]

Bretonnia desperately need elite infantry... like Dismounted Knights.

[@sora64444]

maybe only maybe a heavy micro faction is not the best to start playing this game

[@helloitsme6056]

Or You just make a Doomstack with Hippogryph Knights and a healer

[@immortalemperor7276]

Yeah I think my army is absolutely fucked, you see, I have 1 Lord, 1 Paladin, 4 Foot squires, 3 Fire Archers, 2 Pox Archers, 2 Yeoman Archers, 3 or 4 units of shock cavalry, 1 Royal Hyppagryth, 1 Royal Pegasus, 1 Regular Pegasus and even though I have all that, having a racked up 5500ish gold upkeep with 4 other armies and still somehow turn a profit of 4000, half my army gets rekted by Scavern (mostly my foot squire all of it and most of my archers, 1/4 of my cavalry and half my shock cavalry, some of my flying cavalry and my lord and almost my paladin for the record I've gone through around 2 Lords prior to that one both murdered by Scavern with a whole lot of Ratling Gunners and 2 Wizards and 1 Mortor) so I literally did the dumb thing and sent my Lord and Paladin in first while the rest of the army was miles off and I couldn't save my lord with a pegasus.

[@thegingerwon2795]

YO-man...... Or yo-man-ree

[@leadpaintchips9461]

Peasants in the end game? Pleb! All joking aside, I don't actually use peasants in the end game. 8 grail guardians, 4 royal pegasus knights, 4 grail knights, 2 questing knights, a paladin, a caster, and the lord is just devastating for campaign. Might not be able to siege all that effectively but anything outside of a siege you can take on almost anything.

[@ColonelDamneders]

+Lead Paintchips just thinking about all that micro makes me wanna vomit

[@leadpaintchips9461]

@@ColonelDamneders Not much micro because I suck at it. Using the Grail Guardians as your front line, just cycle charge the other land based units and goon squad their ranged with the pegasus knights. Most things break on the first charge from the flanks so it's really not that intense.

[@victuz]

Dude that comp is excellent but it made 21 units... You need to choose between a Paladin or a Spellcaster.

[@leadpaintchips9461]

@@victuz derp, it was 7 grail guardians as the default template.

[@victuz]

@@leadpaintchips9461 Oh, ok then

[@renewoffles4369]

How do u guys play total war in a birds eye view....I like to see the soldiers fight n shit I think that’s what a lot of total war content makers do not understand.

[@ColonelDamneders]

I like to give an overview of the battle rather than being too cinematic

[@victuz]

When you're fighting a fullstack you don't have time to admire things, you have to put effort. Now also with replays, if you're teaching a strategy you need to have full vision of the battle so people know what each units is doing to win the battle.

[@ElBandito]

I just use buttloads of unit mods for Bretonnia.

[@ColonelDamneders]

+El Bandito probably for the best till they get some love

[@lordkameguru7851]

Wow a balanced army being someone's preferred method within the TW community?! What rare inhuman species are you?!! In all seriousness it's awesome to see someone judge the merits of a unit solely rather than basing the merits against the dominant strategy and meta of the game. The game suffers a lot in regards to balancing and I see a lot of complaints. End game, and even some factions mid games, are marred by a horrible lack of unit diversity, not so because there aren't units, but instead because some units are just an unholy level of better even when it might not make sense for them to be. I personally bring a balanced army and try to use actual tactics to win for my own personal enjoyment as it's more fun for me to get into the role of whatever faction I'm playing. Makes it more "real", I guess, for me. That being said I fucking love joke doomstacks and army comps regardless of whether they're trash, middling, or fantastic because....well I mean it's hilarious to see. I don't begrudge anyone playing the game they want to and I don't stress myself out enforcing my own rules on myself. I'll goof off when I feel like it.

[@ArdaUnhail]

I respect it and all but 2 trebs (blessed or not, they do the job) 4 spearmen with shields and rest archers with Fey is probably better then this. How? Well you need lords to accompany you of course! Works nice enough on VH/VH, not necessary to be Fey, any Breton Lord would do fine but i prefer my lord not tanking because of reasons. Accompanying 3 lords can also bring paladins and at later game they can also host various damsels. At mid/late game, each 3 lords with 3 paladins is a really, really good tanking force total of 12 cavalry lords at any army you field. They can tank and cause a blob of at least 12, maybe up to 24 units means you can lock at least 24 of the enemy units out of your archer horde. Then trebs and archers can shoot to the blob around your lords and boy they kill. This happen to be not working against Skaven and Woodelves but as Bretonnia, i could never find a way to fight mid and late game rats and woodies. By the way, you can throw a unit of cavalry or two to the lords to increase confusing force. They chase the flankers so if you can throw 2 -4 cavalry to flanks, even without attacking much they become the most useful unit of this setup. I really do not like pegasus knights because they are squishy and they cause me to pause and replenish for some turns before they become a power again. Most of my games i reach to 1500 chivalry and around before i have the necessary buildings anyway. The only way i can get them before turn 60 is to confederate other factions and their lands, otherwise my growth is really slow to pace up. Griffon knights? what now, should i wait to turn 150 before i start my campaign? No sir. A good breton general must do with peasants and the noble lords and damsels in his court! Only griffons i happen to use are the accompanying lords griffon. Lately i started to think VH-VH is too tedious a job though, so i now play at Hard-Hard but then i do not need any strong units at all. What a dilemma.

[@CaptainRumPanda]

this is guide good for campaign and story mod, but if you want play online and have a chance at winning .. stay away from this guide. royal hippogryph knights is the worst unit in Bretonnia .they are big, easy to get shoot and they cost a lot . stay far away from this guide if you want to play online hahahaha 5 unit of man at arms 5 bowman normal bowman 2 units of knights of the realm 2 units of grail knights lords: Louen Leoncoeur / Fay Enchantress and Repansa / stay away from Alberic heros: online bring healers nothing else strategy: hammer and anvil

[@ColonelDamneders]

I specifically state these guides are for campaign lol

[@CaptainRumPanda]

@@ColonelDamneders i did say this guide is good on campaign right ? but some viewers may get confuse like my friend who shown me your video my friend just started playing this game and he main bretonnia and to be honest i was laughing my ass off when you recommend hippogryph knights the worst unit in bretonnia that is because he only show me half of your video . (there are clumsy people out there} . but i do wonder when will you give us an online competitive army guide . because some of us just want's to play online . plus you gonna get lots of views if you put out an up to date online guides trust me. why my friend found your video is because he wants to play online but any way its a good guide ... for campaign

[@marc3502]

yo-man not yeo man

[@HughJaxident67]

Yeoman is pronounced 'Yo' -man as in 'Yoyo', not 'Yewmen' as you pronounce it and Melee is pronounced 'Mel' as in Melanie and the second syllable is pronounced 'ay' as in 'lay' and not meal - ee as you pronounced it.

[@ИванБондарев-д6ь]

nice introduction, but why fight like that? iz just " those units are strong, so i send 3 of them against all enemy army! see, they doing great! oh, they die, but is acceptable loss! we also lost cavalry squad, but is still okey!"...

[@KageMinowara]

Dude you are talking WAY too fast. Its hard to understand what you are saying and it makes me feel anxious listening to you.

[@jjrap3]

that battle was terrible lol

[@ColonelDamneders]

Thanks for the constructive feedback! I appreciate it!

[@chinoschmino9108]

Idk abt y’all, but my Royal Hippogriffs somehow get themselves killed in .02 seconds and KoR perform better than them for some very strange reason

[@sampoth9564]

Royal hippogriff knights are best used en-masse because they have such powerful stuns when they land. I like to bring as many as I can, with just some trebuchets and battle pilgrims for support. Mind you this is on normal but it’s what’s worked best for me

[@maxharrison7580]

This video is structured exactly the same as Zerkovich's faction guide videos. Shameless.

[@ColonelDamneders]

+Max Harrison so you’re just gonna ignore that I cover the campaign and lords separately? :(

[@maxharrison7580]

@@ColonelDamneders It's a difference but it's a bit too close for comfort in my opinion. It's still an excellent video and it's clear you take care creating them, but you might want to set yourself out a bit more. Things like the pros and cons list are almost exactly the same. The separate lords and heroes part is unique and interesting with your coverage of quest battles and campaign effects.

[@ColonelDamneders]

Ok well, in my opinion, nothing on KZbin is truly original. If I'm making an army guide then how else is it possible to make it different? There are stats and facts about how factions and units perform so it's not like I can change that. If I'm making guides for factions then I obviously am not going to leave out battle since its a huge part of the game and I also arent going to just refer to Zerkovich. I've seen some of his guides but I never let it influence my thoughts on each unit. I don't just read stats and facts. I also give opinions and it they tend to be similar to his then that's just coincidence. By your logic, if its the structure of videos that are too similar then every single movie review of the same movie is a shameless copy. This is obviously not true as different people have different opinions even if the structure is exactly the same. Yes if the graphics and commentary and pacing were exactly the same then I could understand that but this isn't the case. Everyone is entitled to an opinion and you can think what you want but if you want to call me out for a shameless copy then at least offer some further feedback with how its a copy and how it can be changed to not be a copy. No hate and I appreciate you taking time to reply and your thoughts on the other parts. I just want to understand what I can do to set myself aside if it truly is the same

[@maxharrison7580]

@@ColonelDamneders After reading your response and giving it some thought, I may have to agree with you. Plenty of Total War KZbinrs just upload similar online battle videos and in my opinion that takes much less passion and time than what you have created here. Some of the graphics used are similar to Zerkovich in trivial ways such as the layout of the pros and cons list and how the stats are edited next to the unit as it is being discussed. This threw me off at first but at the end of the day, it's probably the easiest way to do it. I apologize for calling it shameless without thought. Keep doing what you're doing

[@ColonelDamneders]

I appreciate you changing your mind and of course accept your apology. Hope you decide to stick around and have a great day!