Commands Guide - Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord - How to use ARCHER & INFANTRY Tactics Tips!

Battlefield Commands Guide in Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord. How to use Infantry and Archers to win on Realistic difficulty!
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[@cornelljohnson8224]

Of course you recommend archers over infantry. You're English.

[@TheNickamd]

I knew I wasn't the only one who thought about this lmao

[@jxslayz6663]

I swear this is true. Even on Battlefield servers. US = Run n gun, snipers, smg's, well rounded gun selecions by players. UK= SNIPERS, MORE SNIPERS, very few other loadouts.

[@bernardocarneiro2110]

"Of course you recommend airships over navy fleets. You're Germain"

[@TheMelnTeam]

To be fair the devs are even more guilty of this, given how easily arrows defeat even heavy armor with high consistency. Agincourt was notable in history for a reason, but in Bannerlord every battle is Agincourt basically :D.

[@MajorCoolD]

@@TheMelnTeam Agreed, even with the best armor and 'high' HP it takes only like 3-4 arrows to take you down. I know I will get a lot of hate for this, but I personally think that right now bows are overpowered, especially with the fairly high accuracy of the AI, one can decimate troops RAPIDLY. Though in all honesty its not easy to find a good balance. But right now... I see little meta reason not to go bowmen rather than crossbows since even the higher tier weaponry there the Bows consistently do at least 2/3rds of the damage of the crossbows and shoot 3 times faster overall. It's also how armor seems to do VERY little difference to arrow effectiveness simply due to how the current damage system works. But I personally think they could easily fix it by making arrows less effective against armor, or armor simply twice as effective against arrows.

[@TybaltS]

It would be nice to have a command for our cavalry to engage a certain type of unit. like "cavalry engage enemy's cavalry/or infantry or archers"

[@jackmion]

Yes. So that I don't have to lead my cavalry into the archers personally.

[@juanpere9073]

I think your troops target somewhat the location where the flags are at the moment you order the charge.

[@TalonAshlar]

There is actually already is a way to order your troops to engage a specific target in mount and blade banner-lord. You need to assign them to the light cavalry class and select advance. By the way all the company slots have their own ai profile and when set to advance will act differently IE cavalry in the infantry slot will form tighter formations and try to dress ranks with units on either side.

[@shl6367]

Grouping troops into different number actually changes their behavior

[@deusvult6920]

It would be nice to have the ability to direct any unit type to attack a specific unit it's stupid we can't lol

[@tribsta1018]

HahahahahHa 100 hours into the game and I never knew about dragging 😂😂😂

[@outsider357]

same lol

[@LordSnackx]

I don't have a computer to play this game, but I'll watch this anyway looks like a super fun game

[@BlackSuperman643]

Exactly. I’m enjoying his gameplay until it’s released on console

[@jk.smalls]

Same man, I played warband on my old dell but I'm gonna have to upgrade to run this gem

[@szponixx]

You can play it on Geforce NOW

[@saiatoli1574]

I'm literally buying my very first PC just to play this game lol

[@CrazedAussie96]

@@saiatoli1574 I did the same for Pugb lol But that was in like 2017 i think.

[@shampdg]

How to beat any Enemy: Step 1: have the best troops.

[@TrueInvisible]

i don't get it why are viewers mad with you about difficulty level? IT'S YOUR DAMN GAME AND YOU PLAY IT AS YOU WISH! if they just want a masochists punishment this is not the right punishment in game skin for them! this is a fun game not a get gooders fuckery! in this game you can become really skilled with time and battles, you don't require to die over and over again just to learn what to do! in fact you learn more by surviving and winning! in this game you become a bannerlord with time, experience and tactics, you don't get good by dying endlessly and needlessly and STUPIDLY as well! you get satisfaction when you conquer castles and get lands! NOT BY GETTING CAPTURED OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN LIKE AN IDIOT until someone executes you and renders your game over! this is mount and blade 2 bannerlord, not shit souls!

[@ESOdanny]

Yeah honestly just do what you have fun with!

[@ludovicdomingues132]

what you can learn from this video : Whatever your tactic if you have full high end troops including fian champions against recruits you can win even 4v1

[@J0EB0B555]

Yeah I've been playing on very easy difficulty and I've literally beaten armies ten times my size because the other factions don't seem to level up troops. They just fight with whatever they recruit.

[@TheMysteryMushroom]

@@J0EB0B555 change the difficulty then xd

[@coolcam271]

Few months late but hopefully this tip still helps somebody: Another trick you can use (although slightly cheesy) is to use the archers the same way he did in this video where they're positioned above the enemy waiting for the charge. As the enemies move in, your archers could kill as many as 100 men, then riiiight as the enemies are about to reach your infantry, hold tab and retreat from the fight. After this you'll be able to restart the fight, but the enemy will have many less troops as your archers just shredded them. Then you can go ahead and set up your archers again with full arrows, I've won 100v1000 fights using this method :)

[@Paulunatr]

Bout to pick this game up and I'm always in the market for cheese. Thanks for the tip!

[@blacksanta7367]

Morale is honestly such an important factor in battles. That's why experienced, higher tier troops, is much more valuable than a numbers advantage. I have a cavalry-first type of army and when the enemy soldiers start to flee, that's when I can inflict most damage while my high-tier infantry just tanks damage and stalls.

[@robertwildschwein7207]

I have a huge army of random looters, bandits, sword sisters, mercenaries and the odd normal troop. My main strategy is F1 F3.

[@geneko8633]

If your archers are already on a hill, shouldnt you position your infantry in front of them? That way the enemy archers would focus on the shielded infantry instead of your archers and your archers can still shoot since they are elevated above the infantry. Also, don't use 'Advance' when you're using crossbowmen. They will run away the entire time without firing a shot since their reload takes too long to shoot and run away

[@ESOdanny]

On certain hills yes, as i said in the video. But early on if you get a cav charge they will stop in your wall of footmen and you can take them out. Also it seems the AI simply does much more damage if their is nobody infront of them. At least in all my testing.

[@lgamradt]

A more advanced and micro-management-requiring Tactic I use EVERY time: As soon the the Shield Walls bash against each other, PULL your Archers to their LEFT FLANK. Back it up with cavalry though. You pull them to the left flank, because the enemy is holding their SHIELDS in the LEFT HAND, so since you're coming from their RIGHT SIDE, you are shooting that juicy uncovered softspots, and every shot WILL BE A HIT. That's a tactic used by many Generals in History in Reallife, for example Hannibal Barca or Scipio Arficanus. If you even have some extra cavalry, just let them Hammer and Anvil the rest of the enemies, and let them pick off any withdrawing units. Just try it out, I've won battles with this tactic outnumbered 4:1 with Tier 3-4 units. Sure, it requires some sort of Nerve-racking MM, but that way you can play the game on realistic difficulty as it is supposed to be played, and turn up the fun factor tenfold. Maybe, if you are reading this ESO, you can make a vid about it, as I think it would be a nice tactical weapon every good General should have ;)

[@SL-mj2eq]

Uhm the Ai is braindead. No advanced tactics required to win any battle in this game. i can summarise the commands that win you every battle in this game. 4-f6, 2-f3-f3, Wait 45 seconds 1-f1-f3 wait 5 seconds and 0-f1-f3 or 0-f6. And the battle is won with less then 20 casualties. Yey onto the next battle... :)

[@lgamradt]

@S L You‘re right, it‘s often just stupid. That’s one of the main reasons I don’t put my Cav (4-F6) into AI Control. My recommendation was also more for the inexperienced gamer, that doesn‘t want to bother with simply theoretical Hotkey advice.

[@JoeMartinez18]

so... basically what people do in Warband while playing Rhodoks :D

[@pyotrchirikhin628]

Your my favourite you tuber I use all tips and never miss a vidio keep on the good work

[@troyani5992]

9:41 its not the power of the tactic, its the fact that you are using legionarries and Battanian highborn Champions, literally the best infantry and archers in the game, of course your gonna win the battle with minimal losses.

[@GoSlash27]

Which key combination issues the "get rekt son" command?

[@zablujnc]

F1 F3

[@arniepage1662]

F7 with over a hundred horse archers

[@Medusa_Alope_Demeter_X]

Mad Jack I tried this command and got one million gold, thanks bro!

[@sezione]

I highly recommend using horse archers as well, not for harassing the enemy troops but for the rate of fire. I personally use crossbowmen, not regular archers. Proportions would be 10 Crossbowmen, 10 Mounted horse archers and 10 infantry. I can absolutely guarantee you`ll annihilate upwards of 3.5 to 1 proportions of enemy armies. Also, I highly recommend placing some 10-15 cavalry units to your left, that is generally where the enemy cavalry comes from...

[@SL-mj2eq]

Thats not hard the AI sucks balls there army composition is 60%-80% low tier troops. The first and last battle i lost was against 17 looters vs me at the start of the game. And even then they lost 90% of there party. If only the AI would be asgood as there rock trowing :).

[@weixianng]

Are crossbow men more effective than archers? Don't they have lower fire rate?

[@sezione]

@@SL-mj2eq they do start with good tier troops I think? I`m not sure, I remember reading in some patch notes that after the lords are defeated, their armies will have more recruits, which would make sense realistically, but if that is not the case and it`s just a standard setting in the game then yea, sucks balls

[@Tavor57]

I feel like this is a good beginner video, but even so you should probably clear up a few points. Like the missconceptions of infantry blocking archers. If you can have your infantry in front of your archers right off the bat without them blocking line of sight, that's something you should probably do, cause it let's you focus on other things before the infantry forces meet. It also allows your shield wall to absorb a lot of the enemy archers' arrows, which might otherwise hit your archers. With armored forces like Battanian Fian Champions the damage of that wouldn't be the main problem, but rather their animations getting interrupted, slowing their rate of fire. The only real reason to have your infantry behind your archers are if they would block the line of sight, in which case having them like 1m or less behind them so they can quickly charge is better, cause that way you don't leave a gap for the enemy cavalry and it takes less time for the infantry to get in position once the enemy archers are in range. Further more, I know you didn't touch on cavalry this video, but for those interested, the idea is that your cavalry harass the enemy, to lower their moral, and take out as much of their cavalry as possible, before the infantry meet, at which point a final cavalry charge is often made from behind to take out the archers.

[@rpscorp9457]

Aye....my shield wall infantry is *always* in front....in hopes that the enemy will try and shoot down my infantry first, which are a lot cheaper in resources then a squad of high tier archers. My archers will be behind them hopefully on higher ground, and my cavalry off in the back to one side or the other... As soon as my infantry gets engaged the cav will start flank orders .

[@patrickcharzin3062]

I agree with all your tactics, but I've got to point out that it doesn't take a tactical genius to win 2:1 fights when you're force is all imperial legionaries and fian champions and your enemy is mostly recruits lol. Honestly you could have just hit F1 F3 at the start of the battle and rolled them.

[@Wisconsonne]

was literally just looking for a guide like this last night as i'm starting a playthrough with me not riding a horse at all. You rock man

[@ParallelMango]

Man I tried this but it really is a challenge to not ride at all. You lose so much distraction and kill potential. Especially vs calvary.

[@droe2570]

@@ParallelMango You're also slooowwwww. It's hard to catch up with many enemies on horseback. Your lack of mobility on the battlefield is also a problem, making you very vulnerable.

[@chopyodikov]

I would not get off the horse when commanding. The oversight you get on horseback is just vital. If it is an easy battle, you can of course just press F6 and jump in the action.

[@calmbirth1]

I've been playing a centurion role … I swear if 1 more of my men runs in front of my pila … grrr

[@Ravenoustoxic]

my tactic is usually infantry with the support of horse archer as stationary rear archer(not galloping) additional height on horse gave them elevated view advantage plus movement speed upon retreat.

[@noone184]

ESO can you please number your campaign walkthrough parts. İt is really hard to distinguish between the videos

[@ESOdanny]

Their in order in the play list, their are a few guides in between but aside from that

[@dookiedawgzstudios9452]

Hey Danny, when do you think we’ll get to see the Skyrim civil war finale? Like so he sees this

[@ESOdanny]

I liked it!

[@ESOdanny]

I've edited 1 or 3 episodes for it

[@dookiedawgzstudios9452]

Thanks man

[@alharrington6973]

I've played a lot of M&B2 but mostly on easy difficulty, which you can just charge and win everything. Never bothered to control the army as I didn't need to. Nice to finally see how to effectively do it when I bump up my difficulty settings. Thanks Danny!

[@louisvueghs6217]

Next video eso will upload: how to besiege your wife in mb2

[@ESOdanny]

She is a true fortress, she can withstand army's

[@Taooflu]

How to storm her castle!

[@GoSlash27]

His wife is frankly terrifying! I lack the forces to besiege her.

[@vonblunder]

When you have a slope that allows your archer to shoot over the head of your infantry, why not place them behind the infantry from the start? Also, I noticed that a "move" order (F4) is good to keep formation for an attack, however if you attack an army that has infantry and archers, your guys will only move to the melee troops then stand there idle as they are getting shot at by the enemy archers.

[@keevch2893]

I'm doing it cause, it forces the enemy archers to move further and makes them even better targets for ur own archers. Feel Like the AI knows the optimal distance for archery ^^ I move my Infantry up as soon as the enemy archers stand still.

[@droe2570]

"When you have a slope that allows your archer to shoot over the head of your infantry, why not place them behind the infantry from the start?" That's exactly what he said. If you have a very steep slope, you can do that, otherwise, put your infantry behind the archers to maximize the amount of killing field.

[@justanameonyourscreen5954]

Yeah...I had to adjust my tactics when I went up to Realistic...taking a City ends up in a lot more deaths now...

[@TheMelnTeam]

If you can win in the field, build trebs and move them to reserve. Deploy 4 at once. It will kill a good chunk of defenders before the assault and if you wait for the trebs to breach both parts of the wall before assaulting it's the most trivial way past walls in the game. Downside is that it takes a long time to make 4 trebs, so AI will pile a ton of troops onto you. Hence the need to be able to win field battles.

[@justanameonyourscreen5954]

@@TheMelnTeam yeah I've just now got into building trebuchets, but I've been saving them to use with the actual assault. I'll have to try this out. And yeah field battles are still fun. Just gotta watch out for those one shot arrows and lances a lot more now...

[@NukerMunkyGames]

Ahhh yes, the dreaded Mounted Archer Cavalry; A man with a Bow riding a horse that's riding a *bigger* horse. Terrifying. So much more effective than those boring regular Mounted Archers. =P Also, just a tip, Archers are programmed to fire upon the closest enemy unit to them, no matter what. So you /really/ should *always* put your infantry in front of your archers, in shieldwall formation. This effectively makes the enemy armies archers pointless and amounts to them having ## less troops on the field if they have ## archers on the field. I'm about 200~ hours in and have yet to find a battlefield where I can't find a hill/bump to take advantage of allowing my archers to sit behind my infantry and hit the enemy. Using this, and the fact that Cavalry will /always/ target Archers, to your advantage is a great way to get the upper hand on much, *much* larger enemy armies and even outperform higher levelled troops. Protip: If you don't see a hill anywhere when you spawn, look behind you, it's there. And I know ESO says you need a large hill that's *also* very steep to put your archers behind your infantry, but I can promise you, this just isn't true. All you need is a little speedbump, all you need is for them to pelt the enemy infantry right up until the point of contact, then any of your archers who can't target the Enemy Infantry will switch and target the Enemy Archers which is more than enough to get the job done. For whatever it's worth, I play on the exact same difficulty settings as ESO, realistic everything except I myself only take 66% damage. (Thank you ESO for helping me get over my self loathing about lower personal damage so I'd stop playing on Realistic Player Character damage and get one-shotted by any archers over Tier 2.) Really, there's no substitute for practice, once you get the hang of the Command system you will be able to absolutely roll over armies that even outnumber you 3 or 4 to 1. Edit: As a side note, while I'd personally say that army composition/ratios are really 100% up to personal preference, and I see no problem at all with ESO's build (even if I think it's cheesey because Archers are still OP in the current meta) the build/ratios I would recommend is this: 20% Cavalry - 1 Horse Archer for every 3 Lance Cavalry 25% Archers - 1 Crossbowman (Imperial Sergeant/Vlandian Sharpshooter) and 1 Battanian Fian to every 3 Imperial Palatine Guards (The most Heavily Armored foot unit in the game.) (To Clairify, the reason you want XBows is because blunt damage does significantly more damage to super heavily armored units, and allows for more captured prisoners, and while Fian's output more arrows per second than Palatines they are much less armored, even if they are still beefy, more survivability is always better than damage, especially since Fians are so hard to come by w/o exploiting Disciplinarian/Forest Bandits.) 55% Infantry - 1 Pike/Spear (Preferably with shield) and 2 Battanian Wildlings(or equivalent shielded skirmishers) to every 3 or 4 regular shielded infantry. Bonus Protip: Any non-shielded Spear infantry you capture/are awarded for quests, instead of getting rid of them, go into your party menu and add them to your Archer group to make it even more resistant to Cavalry. ESO, as always, I love you brother, your videos are phenomenal! Thank you so much for hours and hours of entertainment, especially during these crazy-ass pandemic-laden times we find ourselves in, cheers.

[@SL-mj2eq]

How is forest bandits exploiting... its clearly how its suposed to work not an exploit... Its exactly what that trait is for to make ur bandits regular troops. They where just stupid to make it go from bandit to noble... no idea how that works in rl but i guess alot of nobility where bandits anyway :) so reverting the other way would seem more logical :).

[@NukerMunkyGames]

@@SL-mj2eq I say exploit because I believe it wasn't intentional that they made it *cheaper* to get to Fian Champion from Forest Bandits than it is to get to Fian Champion from Battanian Highborn Youths. I've fine with them being able to join that line, but I think it makes more sense for a spoiled nole's son to run off and wanna become a bandit. Not an established battanian war hero like it is currently. The Normal Fian Champion line is Highborn Youth > Highborn Warrior > Battanian Hero > Battanian Fian > Fian Champion, and the foprest bandit is effectively a Battanian Hero, if they just changed his appearance to be more youthful, and then had them upgrade into Battanian Highborn Youths, i'd be happy. Another alternative wpould be to make it super, *super* expensive to make the initial upgrade from Forest Bandit to Battanian Fian, like 1000 gold or something. TL:DR The exploit isn't that it's possible to, it's that it's actually cheaper to get the best bow unit in the game through bandits rather than actually hiring and training them. Being a bandit would not be good experience for training a soldier, if anything it would take you more time and be much harder to 'unlearn' bad habits ingrained into the mind to make them into an effective fighter within a group.

[@xcho20]

7:52 In situations like this i usually put shielded infantry at the foot of the hill, so they can draw enemy archers on themselves.

[@PalebobUK]

That's what i do, they can block some of the incoming arrows with their shields, and its maybe better for cavalry to hit a shield wall than plough through your archers while you're distracted by something.

[@CattusVert]

I notice that A.I don't tend to have many archers in their ranks and even if they do they're normally low level archers so they have lower range, so all you need is about 40-50 mid to high tier archers which is easy if you just farm big looter partys or just large bandit partys in general and then whenever your in a fight your archers will always out number and out range the enemy and just melt them.

[@naokigaming0808]

F1 + F3

[@jonnyzuma6884]

Another word to the wise, use your fire at will button. At the start of the engagement, hold your fire. Wait until the enemy is 75-100 meters closer than the archers usually start firing, then fire at will. This will save ammunition, because the first two volleys rarely hit at such a long distance. Once the enemy starts fleeing, hold fire again, wait for the next wave of enemy to get close, then fire at will again. Usually you will only have enough ammo for 2 waves of enemy, at which point you are going to have to charge and break them with everything you have.

[@geraldimhof2875]

Next up: Anvil and hammer tactic. That's my go to. A mix of vlandian crossies and arboreal archer rain down arrows like you do, some inf act as the anvil, holding the enemy and then vlandian knights charge in from the sides. Crushes the moral in seconds

[@axellno1759]

There is a pretty good experiment built in the game. Just choose the custom battle from the menu. One can quickly found that 500 horse archer beats any combination of armies. So it is worth it to build an army like that. Very hard to beat, but you will ride your horses for a long time making rounds around your enemy sometimes. I really like it though.

[@Locutus.Borg.]

Having studied ancient warfare, particularly Greek and Roman I was already employing these tactics but it is a good tip for people who are unaware of this strategy. I also have cavalry (Imperial Elite Cataphracts) on one flank and veteran horse archers on the other flank. Also, I have a large number of companions as a mobile fighting force as auxiliary cavalry all bound to the 5 key (skirmishers) which I station behind my line and can be deployed to either flank as required. Good tip on your earlier video to use Battanian Fian Champions and Imperial Palatine Guards combined as ranged units. I favour Imperial Legionaries as infantry instead of Berserkers and they do the job nicely of holding the line and halting the enemy advance and mopping up routed units. Keep the videos coming battle brother. They are much appreciated.

[@SL-mj2eq]

Why not use dismounted sturgian druzzhiks as infantry dismount there horses on the left flank of ur archers.

[@MetalGamer666]

Romans and Greeks didn't really use these tactics, though. They had much fewer archers than infantry. The Phalanx and the Maniple did the heavy lifting most of the time.

[@MetalGamer666]

@@SL-mj2eq Are they good as infantry?

[@popkahchin]

all western strategies are useless against Mongolian calvary 😂😂😂 That was also how they conquered Europe and Asia.

[@Locutus.Borg.]

@@MetalGamer666 I guess in my comment I confused the issue of my study of ancient history and ancient warfare with the tactics I use in the game. What I was trying to convey is that I have a decent understanding of ancient military tactics. I don't suggest that I am a Caesar or an Alexander but I understand much more about this subject than the gaming casual would concerning military tactics. My mistake making a comment that appeared to merge two different empires and ages of warfare with the tactics I employ in this game.

[@UnitedGamersAuthority]

This method totally works, my army of 99 mixed men destroyed an army of 197 men...I will be sending you the screenshots later...now get a video showing how to input cavalry.

[@impulserr]

I've noticed that infantry is useless, crossbowmans and cavalry is op. I've won game just by building strong cav and range units with just some infantry, killing enemey archers with cav and when enemy infantry was near my arachers/crossbowmans I was just rushing their back while their archers were still far far away. You can beat this way army 4x,5x more then urs, the only problem was horse while fighting 700+900+ enemy army, but there is always some to change :P

[@braden6288]

are you gonna do any more Skyrim play through vids?

[@ModernTalkingCentral]

Quality over quantity always wins!

[@banjokazooie370]

Well my 1000 looter army just took Makeb on realistic.

[@1983Baw]

How do you do when the enemy has a lot of cavalery and you archers focus on them (has they charge first), and so do not focus on the main enemy army? I faced that a lot. Then my infantry is over runned by the enemy and I lose the battle :(

[@KitZunekaze]

Keep the infantry close behind the archers, it will make cavalry charges a bit less effective. If you have higher ranked archers you can get them to skirmish, or enter a circle formation if they only have the cavalry to deal with. But if the main body of the army is approaching, your own cavalry troops (including yourself) should run interference, and interrupt the cavalry charges by distracting the enemy cav.

[@hollywoodandcoexperience9657]

You should use the pike units to move in and out of the archers, 1 unit in close other in lose then there more or less fine, big long pointy stick vs man on a wild beast easy win!

[@ThomasAeschbacher]

Why wouldn't you put the shielded infantry in front of the archers? The shields should absorb any incoming damage and the archers stay save.

[@SL-mj2eq]

Cos people dont understand that when the infantry block there archers field of fire its time for melee combat... :p Its so that archers can take 1 more potshot at the enemy... its kinda like they did in history bring the archers forward then let em shoot some volleys then move in the infantry. But its pointless in this game cos most of the time u put ur achers onto some form of elevation anyway... So mainly to show that ur archers need a clean line of sight :).

[@PendlayRoe]

@@SL-mj2eq Putting your inflantry in forward right away puts them in range of enemy archers faster, then your troops take free damage from the enemy for no reason. Also it's not like you can use your shieldwall to protect your archers from enemy fire while still being able to shoot, the AI is not yet ready for HBO Vikings.

[@SL-mj2eq]

​@@PendlayRoe The AI is to stupid to use there archers effectively... All they do the entire fight is run around like headless chicken... So what free damage?

[@charlesjoy7321]

Hi ESO Just subed, really enjoying the content, nice work.

[@ESOdanny]

Thank you! Glad its helpful!

[@MLPDethDealr32]

Give them horses and youd have Dothraki Blood riders ready to burn and pillage the countryside XD.

[@nightwalker3377]

Hey Danny! You should make use of smithing more in Bannerlord. Its good for making some additionnal coin and for making yourself a unique weapon

[@cr4zyme1]

@eso very nice video really helps out a lot! just a quick question is there a button to select all your troops agian at once? if i might want to have them all charge in or let them be commanded by their sergeant?

[@ESOdanny]

Yes if you have troops on 1,2,3 then you press 4 you will select them all.

[@cr4zyme1]

@@ESOdanny thanks! i have been trying to figure it out just didnt try that yet :D

[@xianzai_ad1928]

My method is inspired from the German blitzkrieg, I basically charge at them. My cavalry are trained and seasoned, with them we Disrupt the npc formations. So ,by the time my heavy infantry and archer come into range their moral is lowered. I’ve fought armies double my size, but I’m still new rn I have 253 troops under me and 12 fiefs and 1 town

[@robertodykirk]

Of course archers are powerful have we learned nothing from the battle of Agincourt? A mix of Crossbowman and archer. Crossbow for it's damage and bow for it's speed. Mix 2 to 1 crossbow heavy.I.e 14 crossbowman, 7 Bowman, etcetera.

[@fallenshaw5659]

I know this about formations and using them in battle, they fucking suck when you forget you pressed one of the dam keys and try to attack and your head get caved in by the enemys mace. Seriously the way they went about controling units sucks in this game. And the flags are crappy 2, they should of used a Conquer's blade approach to controling units. Make selection number pad only or something since your controling more than 1 unit unike conqs blade, but the formation and charge ect should be the same. The arrow indecators are alot better in that game, as well as using x c and v quick commands which I argue you don't need in Mount n Blade for anything in combat.

[@elhananiluz8435]

Danny nice work you look normal agien :)

[@azerosblank5036]

The gameplay so far is decent. Lots of differences when compared to Mount and Blade I, but that is to be expected. One of the main thing I really dislike in Bannerlord is that the character models massively suck, as with Warband etc. Most of the characters are balding, and the females still do look like some form of troll people. Like seriously? Why is it that the females in all the Mount and Blade franchises look so horrifying? Couldn't they make them look a little better? Do the game designers have something against females?

[@jonnyzuma6884]

At 8:00 you are using the wrong hill. You should use the hill to your right, spread archers starting from hill 1 all the way to hill 2, which will have all the archers raised to high ground, then put your infantry between the two hills, 10 paces forward in a square. Why a square? Because the enemy army will wrap around the square, and your archers will still be able to hit them from the sides of the infantry square, and they will be shooting into the backs of the enemy. If your infantry are in a shield wall, once the enemy hits your line, the archers cannot shoot them, and will have to be moved, screwing up your formation for wave 2 and 3 of the enemy attacks. Sorry, dude, you are Amateur... lol

[@mihaelii3064]

I think Realistic difficulty in Bannerlord is equal to Very easy ( or maybe Easy) in Warband. In other words Bannerlord is too simple to play on max diff. in Beta 1.2 and I just hope they will fix this in the future and made the game at least challenging:)

[@lieffers111]

does anyone else notice or have issues with the skein or column formations when using large numbers of cav? I'm talking about a cav only army. clan rank 5 and 6. 100 cav. 100 horse archers. the collision on the horse archers is terrible and they turn into a jumbled mess when trying to circle the enemy army. and the cav do the same thing to when advancing and the formation instantly falls apart because of the colision. I would love to use them but find them completely useless formations for high cav armies when fighting other horse armies of the South and East.

[@kalzonenu]

FINALY A GOID FUCKIN GUIDE !!! This should be #1-5 instead of the others cause they were useless to a complete beginner that havent played the old games.

[@itwasjustaluck]

Your 90 troop army is elite and enemy 200 are peasants(Recruit) with no morale... Sorry mate but this is a joke, even if enemy have 4 to 1 advanntage, you will still win easy, even without tactic...

[@Claude-Eckel]

2:35 Just quickly press F7 for "Look that way!" and they will look in the current camera direction. Easy way to turn them without having anything to drag around by turning your cam e.g. to the left in case say, they get flanked from there, cavalry is charging or whatever. Choose the unit [1] quickly look yourself at the flankers and press F7. The AI will turn towards them, maintaining its formation and position. And the other quick and important direction command is F3 - F1 "Ready yourself!" (or Face the enemy!). F1 - F3 is already a familiar command (to attack), 'Face the enemy' is just in reverse. Easy to remember. Especially helpful when you sent them farther away and don't want to have to check where they'll be looking at. This way you could also send them behind the enemy lines and they will always look into the correct direction: towards the enemy.

[@empiredirt6530]

Did they switchthe behavior for the Charge and Advance commands for archers in 1.4.1? When I use advance they just run forward into melee range and charge has them use their bows while moving forward- this is the reverse of what I've seen in all the videos from everyone in April

[@aonirsplayground6224]

Im amazed no one asked for this (that I can see) so... Banner..code when?

[@steaven7585]

You are comanding 36 elitiest archers and 51 of the heavyest armor infantry in the game... if you want to show some noobies how to destroy army twice of their size, take normal troops, not the ones that can destroy anyone :) actually kinda scam man xP bcs you will not show they how it really works out

[@feltheawesome5]

MY GUY, YOURE USING FIANS OF COURSE YOU WON! 50 fians with 50 infantry could take on over 400 enemies given good terrain

[@Vel0cir]

How'd you get the lamellar chest armour? Been looking for it all over the Imperial lands, and trying to find people wearing it to battle, but no joy. Even tried looking for a wife wearing it, but again, no luck.

[@cameronm9763]

Hey Danny, another awesome video. Could you do a video on what happens skill based when your character dies and your child takes over. Maybe not your Danny battle born character but even it's a new different slotted game.

[@TheCoolt56]

I have no problem with mopping up on bannerlord with my all imperial army. Palatine guards, bucellari, cataphracts, and legionary. Tactics is key in this game unless you’re playing on easy.

[@ensklcy]

Well I guess you havent tried horse archers of Khuzait yet.Which wipes around 250 enemy troop until they finish their ammo. Rest is playground for your lancers.Cheers

[@sickbiel9449]

If you are trying to prove that your take on archer + shield infantry combo makes sense in a real battle scenario then maybe you should pick some lower tier troops? Your party was full t5 so bragging that you can crack an army twice the size of yours is kinda dumb

[@aldousbrawndo996]

Just imagine a Game feature where with a head sect you could voice command hundreds of troops and each leader of these hundreds of troops have magical abilities or technology I'm drunk but I know this is a really good idea so I had to post this LOL

[@nakkihammeri]

Nice vid. Personally I find changing shield warriors to shielded skirmishers might work better and I dont use shieldwall formation on them they just stand behind archers in loose formation and when enemy gets close they throw their javelines and if enemy has not been routed yet i charge with the skirmishers. kill some of the runners and then form the line again before the reinforcements hits. rinse and repeat. These tactics work only against forces that dont have lots of cavalry as they counter archers but small horse forces die before their charge hits.

[@SL-mj2eq]

This is why u need to use sturgian druzhinnik champions or sturgian horse raiders as infantry.... dismount them to form a wall of horses to protect ur archers ... Lol. The raiders have javi's cos u like em i guess but are less armored then the druzhinniks offc. And using cav makes u faster on the map :p just a bit more costly offc. but yeah money isnt hard to get anyways.

[@vorwi1116]

-we are outnumbered here(theory) -there are 90 top tier units against 200peasants(practice) You could at least show the diffrence between tactical battle and just charge battle.

[@balvarinenz]

interesting strategy, there is the obvious fian vs recruits comment but i think the idea is still valid. for my strat i tend to have a loose formation archer wall on a hill with a shieldwall infantry team infront an slightly below them, the wall tends to take most of the arrows from the enemy an my guys can still shoot with plenty of visibility, then slightly earlier than you ill charge my shieldwall to keep the enemy at bay an allow my archers to keep nailing them, i found in harder situations against better trained armies the arrowfire would do too much damage to my guys, hence the shieldwall 'tanking' in the front

[@pet3rlustig667]

Nice video mate. Looking forward for the Cav-Technique video! Cheers

[@inigomontoya6968]

Ok, probably dumb question but how did you get the cool looking banner? I can only see an option to create a plain background with a symbol on that (that can be mono-colored and resized).

[@teapotdome]

i can't wait until you have to fight battania, vlandia or khuzait... going up against them when they are strong at hard difficulty really makes the game fun for me.. for some reason the imperial armies always are easy.

[@BlackDiamondGTV]

where is that trainning place you are at the first, i cant find a mod or a vanilla place, can you tell what place is that?

[@foxdoe7540]

step 1, tell everyone to charge, step 2, tell cavalry to follow, step 3, backstab the opposing army as your foot soldier make contact. step 4 profit.

[@GameOver-fn2og]

when playing as vlandia, my enemy is experiencing medieval Omaha beach over and over again.

[@atakanbayram251]

If you command shield wall ahead ıf the archers it will be more beneficial cause they have a chance to stop chavalary charge if the stay together and you can defeat 3 times army if you charge infantry with your cavalary

[@ormen80]

have to say that this gye are making weary well made movies. he explain and thik about alot ow questins that can pop up and i like hes movies wery mutch. he explain all wery well and are good at it.

[@anthonygarrido7737]

Hey eso I would like you to explain a little more in depth on how the morale system works. I've only ever been able to keep morale around 60 in my game and have no idea how to raise it. If you could also explain how to level up the leadership skill I would appreciate it. Excellent video by the way helped me out alot.

[@ESOdanny]

If you hover over it will help seeing where plus and minus comes from. Having lots of food types, winning battles etc really helps bump it up

[@Sandrosian]

If you are just doing "normal activities" your morale is always stuck around 60. If you win a lot of larger battles or capture castles it will go up a lot. As for leadership skill, you have to assemble an army with other lords.

[@PaulVmax]

Do you gain more exp playing on realistic mode ?

[@ESOdanny]

Currently no

[@coffeefox5703]

3:04 - For some reason my commands don't have "category names" like "movement" or "formation" and it's confusing as hell...

[@storm0fnova]

this game needs to balance out the infantry a bit. out of all 6 types of tier 6 units 1 is archer, 1 is horse archer, 4 are cavalry but not a single tier 6 infantry type.

[@martinbartos2275]

thats not a good tactic and ofc u can win with battanian fian champs against tier two enemy archers and peasants. If u wanna prove that your tactic is good do it against same quality troops.

[@0707RD]

Can you do a video on how to use skirmishers most effectively? Whether its charge or advance/fall back?

[@jamessantangelo912]

A basic understanding, thanks for not assuming im looking up tip videos because im already a seasoned player.

[@kylegoyak]

I had an army of 25 against an army of 87. As soon as I killed their Lord the whole army collapsed and routed

[@johndymond4596]

I still can't get my archers to go where i want. Well I do but once I say attack everyone goes at once. When i want my archers to stay still

[@danielshahar4273]

you cant use this tactic against Sturgia they'll come in shield line formation all the way to you and your archers wont do enough damage

[@nathanl2771]

should use the voice attack commands its a mod called screamlord i love it personally i can just scream infantry form a line and they do it

[@Sgmorris0054]

i like to use squire formation works well when cav attack i mic in spear aux inf with in my archers they get owned

[@chrisd9739]

It would have been better if you went over every formation and when would be an appropriate time to use each formation.

[@Steve-ps6qw]

I see you have PERKS auto allocated...is that something you can expound upon?

[@jk6006]

if seen this video just now really good explaining thanks mate

[@Fruitcupper]

Thanks for the great tips ESO! Troop formations and keybinds are something I was really sketchy on in game.

[@kraiden3]

Sturgian vet warriors and have 7 warriors for every 5 forest bandits. Your bandits level quick and you need more tanks to keep them safe. You also lose more shield tanks than archers

[@maximecolby7443]

very strong basic tactics. only problem is if the enemy as a good shield wall. archers wont doo shit

[@r3xxd367]

my friend thanks to you i take on 250+ armies with 98 soldiers because of you

[@williamberne]

16:24 Danny just friendly-fired one of his own infantry :)

[@Saladon89]

this is a cool feature but then i cant use my hero anymore, this game is more like total war than a m&b game

[@davstanley1465]

Dear ESO the plural of infantry is infantry not infantries... The more you know

[@joelim5010]

Really want this game so badly. Can anyone send me one for free?