Decisive Early Campaign Battle Ends in a Nail Biter Battle, Bannerlord, Aserai Campaign

[@DarcyAllenStrong]

The fun part about coming from an elite level campaign and starting a new campaign is realizing how underpowered you are.

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

Not sure if it's FUN haha, but it's illustrative how sick Zuvan is.

[@VPLEO]

Having 73 of your 82 man army wounded is just crazy. Easily one of the biggest nail biter battles of yours I've seen and a ton of fun to watch you pull a victory out of the jaws of defeat. Lol. I love the tactics and am loving how much I'm learning watching your videos. What I've already learned from you makes Bannerlord feel like an entirely different game.

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

I love hearin' this brother. It WAS a great battle and I think I'll make a separate episode featuring it. It was super close and no question the decisions we made and action we took saved the day.

[@VPLEO]

@HeadlessHorsemanProductions Absolutely. And to do it without a God level general to really tip the scales in your favor shows how well your tactics actually hold up. As soon as you went to the beach and the infantry started pouring past your square I thought "Welp, that's it. No way your coming back from that." But your level headedness won the day again when you got your cav in there and were able to plug the hole and turn things around. Great job man.

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

@@VPLEO They seemed to waiver though too, maybe a little bit of bad AI. Had they simply chased every single archer down in shield wall, it's lost, but then again, we KNOW the AI is not perfect, yet I still lose battles sometimes... thanks for the kind words and encouragement! Cheers!

[@apricot2879]

I just started playing bannerlord last week, and my brother had me install his mods etc. I haven't enjoyed a game like this in a long time lol, then I found your channel and I can't get enough of your vids.

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

Have fun and I LOVE to hear that brother. Crush it!

[@Lowkey_333]

You're a very good entertainer, not only because you're clearly knowledgeable about bannerlord, but in general you seem to be very chatty yet on point, very good stuff, and tho I came her for bannerlord, I can say that I'd watch you and listen to you play any other game that involves tactics Good stuff bro, keep on goin

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

Thank you for the generous words! I'm still shaping my online persona and trying to decide if this is something I'll do as a hobby job when I retire. I have been giving training classes for years at work and my profession as a firefighter and I think that has helped me keep a good tenor during these episodes. Not sure what games I'll play in the future but I'm sure they'll be something involving history and tactics. Cheers!

[@bengarrett8618]

Every time I see a video of yours come out I instinctively click on it and hit like since I haven't found one of yours yet that disappointed. Keep up the great work, I'm loving your banner lord content!

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

Wow, thank you! High praise indeed. More episodes comin' - you KNOW that.

[@brandoninacan2475]

I think as long as you are having fun and enjoying what you are doing. Role play, play tactically, play like a sweat. Whatever you want. It’s just fun to see some really tense battles and someone enjoying what they are doing. You said it yourself. You cant please everyone.

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

This nails it. Exactly how I am planning to proceed. I think most enjoy it and that's about the most I could ask for...

[@DailyDawse]

this has got to be one of the most entertaining ones I’ve seen so far. Love all your vids but this one I found myself laughing a ton and really really invested for your victory here

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

Great! I'm going to actually make a shortened version of this as my analytics suggest most people are 'tuning out' after 20-30 minutes and thus missing that beauty of a final battle!

[@johnmatrix5737]

Man that opening. I love those battles where you feel invincible.

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

That was from a 'raw battle', just campaign battles where I play them out either with no music and commentary or no music AND no commentary. Usually that allows me to focus a bit more on the inner-Samarai and fight better.

[@nikolaspanzella2584]

It’s cool you support similar KZbin channels and share the love. Looking forward to that upcoming broadcast !

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

Plenty of good channels out there, might as well share the love!

[@alexlower505]

I appreciate your application of tactics with minimal mods. I play on console and can't even reshape formations, but it's a lot of fun to recreate what I can.

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

Hopefully you can adapt some of the goods and dominate!

[@caleb4836]

That beach/cliff map for the final battle is probably my favorite in the game. I had a very similar battle on it recently, where I was a merc for the Asarai and I attacked a Vlandian Army that was sieging down a castle. The garrison sallied out, and charged like morons into teeth of Banner Knights and Sharpshooters and I just said fuck it and set up on the beach while they killed themselves. I had just watched one of your siege defense vids, and took inspiration from that. Square of infantry in the choke and a line of shield wall cav behind that. Left just enough of a gap that a few units would trickle through to get eaten alive by the two divisions of archers set up in the back. They just threw themselves into the grinder, until eventually my cav and infantry were gone, but the choke point was so full of riderless horses that they could only get a few units through at a time and I just sat there and watched a green line until they routed.

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

It's a beautiful thing, especially in an episode like this where it saved the day!

[@ShacolateClown]

0:17 for a moment i thought those were rhodok crossbowmen xD would have been a whole different story :D

[@Sir_Hammock]

wait whats a rhodak? are they a mercenary band in bannerlord? or some cut feature i genuinely dont know

[@DarcyAllenStrong]

At least you were able to finish the battle at the end! I had a major early campaign victory in a castle siege against Vlandia where I was down to my last handful of troops. Had to abandon it right at the end because I didn't have enough left over to storm the keep lol

[@SeboPlaysReal]

I honestly love your genuine chuckles at your own jokes while playing the game you love! 😂 that’s what this sh*t is about, having fun! Peace to you good sir, thank you for the awesome content you keep putting out. (:

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

Glad you enjoy it, you can TELL I did haha. Was just so hilarious that like 9 Vlandian nobles were captured by our raggedy 90 guys. On top of that, we had like 12 guys survive, so 12 guys dragging hundreds of prisoners is a VERY funny picture...

[@amritanshdayal3124]

That shoreline defence is something I recently incorporated in a battle where I was hopelessly outnumbered by Kuzaits. The map was a bit different, with the beach having multiple access points, making the set-up a bit trickier, but the tactic still worked like a charm. Seeing those horse archers get popped with a constant green stream of messages was so exhilarating! One issue that popped up was that they'd just camp outside, so I had to sac some cavalry to bait them into the kill zone little by little. I'd appreciate if you had any tips for that, if not, it's fine, I'll also try to figure something out. This was a nice departure from your usual single battle videos, and gave some real insight into merc life in Bannerlords. You get some good skirmishes where you're evenly matched with a couple other lords and then you join in on massive battles with hundreds of enemies and need to use your few handful to turn the tides, or end up succumbing to them. Another great video, love your work!

[@angrygoldfish9607]

Awesome battle at the end! Talk about worth your weight in gold as a merc. Im getting really excited to see your playthrough campaign.

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

Thank you brother, you helped inspire me to try a new campaign.

[@angrygoldfish9607]

Glad to return the favor. I probably never would have made any videos without the nudge you gave me.

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

@@angrygoldfish9607 Also I couldn't find your earlier message but I wanted to say, you're right about the death-match campaign, it's more like a death-wish campaign. You're perception is highly in tuned, there's no hope for victory, but at least hope for a dramatic final stand and that's worth playing for... Cheers!

[@angrygoldfish9607]

It's good story telling. I can respect that. Have you thought at all about what the terms of completion for your new campaign will be? What will be the overall goal? I do wish you and I had a different, less public means of communication. I felt badly about perhaps giving the game away in my aforementioned message.

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

@@angrygoldfish9607 That will be a mix of what people want to see and what I'm willing to do. I talk about it a bit in episodes 3-6 of this practice run, basically getting pre-feedback. I'm considering 'stalling' the main character again, once he is a vassal so the kingdoms become mature, and thus harder, but we'll see what people say...

[@eeyore3301]

Came here for the display of tactics (and really looking forward to seeing some Khuzait getting dunked on), but that moment of beheading a charging cav unit with a jumping attack with a one-handed sword was something else. That guy's pretending to be an archer but he might be Achilles in disguise.

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

lmao, yeah love magical little moments like that. And he yells DIIIIIE!! HAha!

[@bigredbudgaming]

watching bannerlord, while playing bannerlord.

[@Ragdoll6]

Nice

[@bryansteen4903]

Bro, I wish I could be right now. I got school.

[@thisiswherethefunbegins]

Enjoy your day, i'm still working, but in 3 hours, i'll start playing too! Time to kick some vlandian ass!

[@fkzx77AkaJonasTornqvist]

They tell you what too do if you are apart of an army! 👍

[@MalcomDhill]

The all vlandian army😂😂😂 Thanks Zuvan!!!

[@realhumanbeing3599]

One mod to look at is Better Troops! Aims to balance the different factions troops and I think it does a great job!

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

Soo many mods, so little time.

[@Sir_Hammock]

those 12 men will have the greatest dad lore if they survive long enough

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

Yep, a glorious, close battle...

[@goinklersupreme]

that was so bad ass damn haha well played!

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

Thanks mate! Sometimes it all comes together(as you'll see soon, we lose too)

[@goinklersupreme]

@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions hey now no spoilers! 🤣

[@nielsvancauter961]

love this sh*t man😂 keep up de work!!

[@JugglingJuggalos]

The expression is "Feeling his oats"

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

That's right and there's also showing his wild oats. Lots of oats LOL

[@JugglingJuggalos]

@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions Crazy battle. Us console players wish we had that mod. I got killed once early battle, I cornered the battanian army, 6:1. Caladog or whatever his name is was in it. My plan was just to set up a shield wall with two large infantry divisions, and bombard them with 3 archer divisions while I led some cav once we wore them down. Anyway, I was at half-health when I started and got too close. I died and when the ai took over the idiots charged with everyone including the archers. One of the other lords in my party captured him. If I had the mod I could have captured him. Oh well. Again, wonderful battle!

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

@@JugglingJuggalos yeah I feel for the console players. Maybe someday they'll upgrade to a 600-700 PC that runs bannerlord pretty well.

[@JugglingJuggalos]

@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions Maybe when I have the money 😂. I'll still be using my xbox controller, I can for the life of me learn the keys

[@timothyhoyt2927]

I'd love to see a stream campaign from character creation. That would be awesome.

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

Coming later this year. First, I have to fix some copy right strikes against the channel, then a little break and I'll be back for that. Start to... finish? Well, not sure I'll take every last city but something like that. :)

[@timothyhoyt2927]

@HeadlessHorsemanProductions Hope you win them. I'd be crushed if any of your content had to be taken down.

[@fpvflightairborne2168]

Had me on edge

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

I WAS on edge too...

[@DailyDawse]

Could maybe title it a little differently? That nail biting fight at the end would be a great intro, and also if something about it was included in the title I think it’d be a great invite to click

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

Workin' on it, and I think I'll publish it with JUST that last battle in a shorter style. It WAS a great battle and would probably be enjoyed by a lot of fellas. Thanks for the kind words and suggestion!

[@DailyDawse]

Obsequies is crazy ☠️

[@ZacharyDarkes]

I literally started a Asari campaign because of this lol.

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

haha, awesome!

[@marcm.]

47:43 😂 Yuha Shatijamil. I think a page from history is in order. Yuha or whatever his name is, should be awarded a last name for this last battle. And for that matter so should the two other guys who took over the last of the squad and managed to keep order. Yuha of the Sandy Beaches... Shati Jamil (beautiful beach).

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

What language is that?? Or is it made up? Either way I love it.

[@marcm.]

@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions modern Arabic. I'm assuming they are the Moors of old, so therefore I thought of that considering it was a beautiful beach))). I'm not fluent in fact I don't really know much Arabic at all, I know a few words and that's it. I know more Russian or for that matter Hebrew than I do Arabic, in fact I think that might be borrowed from Farsi. Ask me about Italian or French or Spanish and I would be much more able to give you a full answer). The bit about the history, has to do with my particular last name, which was awarded about four or 500 years ago, to 'the' ancestor, of my family, as a title for having saved the bacon of the Duke of Milan from a long, very long, siege. Which then became the name of my family

[@megamillionspowerball]

how are you getting rts camera to work? isnt it outdated?

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

I've been on a stable beta 1.28.31350 for a while(and won't update as long as I hear things like that!)

[@jefmorard5923]

I have a mode that increase sword sister they are litterally fian but with crossbow that make sens for me having the best troop not spawning everywhere

[@fkzx77AkaJonasTornqvist]

If you looking for a really cruel guy look at Temur Lenk! He litarly left pyramids of skulls!

[@zomtromyes2199]

What mod do you use that speeds up the game during a battle?

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

RTS mod, it's a quick key...

[@bojan9211]

Check out War and Ai Tweaks mod.. It changes ai war tactics and battle behaviour to be more realistic..and its customisable..

[@serkanerol3409]

which button speed game in war ?

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

RTS mod. Then you can set quick keys...

[@serkanerol3409]

@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions thx, i am using this mod but i cant find out how make fast in war :(

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

@@serkanerol3409 It's the SLOW MOTION option, and turn the slider from slo-mo to fast

[@serkanerol3409]

@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions thank you very much 🙂

[@ActiveAdept-x7e]

Hey does anyone know what his PC specs are?

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

MSI Aegis R Gaming Desktop - 13th Gen Intel Core i7-13700F - GeForce RTX 4060Ti - Windows 11

[@ActiveAdept-x7e]

@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions Thank you for your reply. Love your videos, definitely learning a lot thanks.

[@Celticrasta89]

Off topic here but Zuvan spawned into my campaign last night safe to say I was star struck 😂😂. RIP the real Z 😭

[@alex2005z]

I had the same today. As the leader of Sibir's rebels

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

lol, yeah Zuvan isn't too rare a name. I'm in your games in spirit fellas lol

[@Celticrasta89]

@@alex2005z if they go unsieged they can be pretty chill have their own caravans etc

[@SnaketheJake87]

Why can’t this game be two player co op? Fuck man. Two human players with two massive armies? Damn.

[@alex2005z]

And what happens to the play speed?

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

it WOULD be fun

[@AnubisMRM]

Using complicated words is fine... as long as you don't confuse etymology with epidemiology (again) :)

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

haha! Thanks, and I'll TRY not to. If I was giving a prepared lecture I would promise not to do so, using these brain taxes words while I am trying to survive, pull of complex tactics AND narrating? I'm sure I'll make an arse of myself again in the future lol

[@peacegardenpress4843]

Epic last battle! Was laughing my ass off with you after 47:02 .

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

lmao, it makes me laugh just THINKING about it.

[@SnaketheJake87]

6:36 Fuck I wish we had mods on console.

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

I feel for ya