The War in the North - Nords vs Sturgia - Bannerlord Immersion Project (Mod)

Do you kids know what time it is? It's time to god damn die, that's what time it is.
In the interest of not presenting myself as a flawless being with a record of nothing but perfect tactical performances, here's a video of me getting my ass kicked. Disabling realistic battle really does a number on the usefulness of spears, lemme tell ya. I blame that. Anyway, they don't say "better to die with honor than live with shame" for no reason.
Also, before you pedantically inclined people start going off about me dissolving the shieldwall every time the enemy closes, do me a favor and go into the game, set up two equal sides, one with a shieldwall formation and one without it and tell me who wins. If you want your boys to not just sit there with their shields up and get gradually slapped to death, you need to think of something else. Anyway, don't mean to go off on a tangent but I'm hoping to minimize the whinging. But as we all know, no one reads this anyway so let's all lay back and count the shieldwall comments like they're sheep in a summery meadow. Ahhh... peaceful.
BIP has a ModDB page! Check it out here and most of your questions should be answered (if not, ask there):
www.moddb.com/...
This channel also has a discord server! Check it out for both BIP and channel stuff:
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I also have a patreon where you can support me. But only if you really want to and have no regard for your money:
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And as the question keeps coming up, here are the mods that are featured in this video:
- RTS Camera.
- My own custom mod that will be called "The Bannerlord Immersion Project" that's as yet unreleased for all the units, any custom factions/cultures and most weapons. If it interests you, you can subscribe as I'll be posting about it when it as I develop it further.
- POC Color Randomizer, to enable the banner and color variations for clans on the campaign.
Also, my specs are of immense interest to a lot of people apparently so here they are:
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I'll be in Valhalla, peace,
AO

[@danielshilling2058]

It’s so refreshing to see that the AI can actually beat the player. In vanilla, once you leveled enough troops up to a certain point, you were basically unbeatable. It gets so boring. It was cool to see how the AI cavalry kept charging your flanks and rear. One of the most entertaining battles yet! Good work

[@jon_watson3740]

Problem with cavalry AI, especially without RTS Camera mod, is they just can't stick together as a unit/formation. Other thing is their lack of willingness to actually make use of their weapons.

[@YourFalseDogma]

Its amazing how practical and useful the unit outline highlight is when selecting a group to see quickly where your allied troops are around you, I remember always hitting the big flag button in medieval total war 2 just to see where my unit lines were quickly.

[@tychokort]

Guys, I think this is very important so I will get straight to the point: AO said the release date is

[@AlphaOmegaMan]

Yes exactly on the , the mod comes out

[@Astraben]

1:03 is probably the coolest thing I´ve ever seen in Mount and Blade

[@Astraben]

One of the biggest problems I have with Mount and Blade is that you really can't afford to risk your troops. People always gravitate towards the cheesiest tactics and I think that's the reason. Why would you engage in massive infantry clashes when it's far safer to specialise in archery or cavalry, max out their level and just go around destroying everything or cheesing the retreat mechanic? I hope your mod will try to remedy this in some capacity, making low tier units far more useful or something along those lines, in order to avoid doomstacking and such. Or maybe it's just a problem with the game's core gameplay loop. Anyway, sorry for the long post, great video as always!

[@Caesar_Himself]

Holy moly. THIS is what I hoped Bannerlord would be like. Outstanding! Looks it finally, really will be harvesting season.

[@McNastyxx95]

This is one of the best videos I’ve seen from this game, First 3-1/2 part your basically dominating and just at the end you flip odds and still put in so much work and try to fight em off and to show how every battle is not glory and history is awesome.

[@bang9782]

Alpha, can you make a tutorial explaining how can you config the POC Color Mod?

[@MegaTranquilla]

4:35 where does that hate for horses come from? Is there a certain degree of envy for the development of a specific part of their body?

[@TheMissing8]

AO hates horses, they stung him as a child.

[@otaviopontes3630]

I think the kick was for the horse run away, and end up not dying in the middle of the battle

[@e.m.p.3394]

I know your Mod DB page has a good amount of lore. But maybe eventually will you have a dedicated place for it? Also, will you be adding more towns/castles and villages and expanding the map? Because the size of the map as it is doesn't seem big enough for all of these factions.

[@Kadbros]

Giving Bannerlord a Warvand Mod. Also, i see myself as more of a cavalryman

[@modernraider5124]

I m so waiting for the release!

[@vergil8833]

Won't bannerlord add the nords in for real some time? They do appear in the side tab list over clans along with some others who are not in the game yet.

[@bengaming3649]

Couldn't really get a good look at those Sturgian troops but I so hope your going to split them off and make them 100% based on the Kievan Rus instead of some horrible mix of Viking and Kievan Rus like Taleworlds did. I can trace my ancestors back to those Eastern Salvic nations and so, so want a pure Eastern Salvic Troop Tree based on medieval Hungarian/Western Russia cultures.

[@AlphaOmegaMan]

None of our factions are 100% based on any real world equivalent, even though they may have a main inspiration. What we've done is we've made the Sturgians less slavic and less nordic and more sort of average medieval kingdom looking. They will still have slavic and nordic elements, just far less than they used to. If you're interested in the most gopnik of our factions then check out the Vezhigirs. They're the closest.

[@victusmortem]

Russia in 1000-1200 y? Don't make me laugh, Kiev rus' it's Ukraine and don't have anything close to russia. Different language and culture, russia it's Tataro-mongol, russia not slavic nation, it's asia *facepalm, Slavic it's Belorus, Polaks, Ukraine, Slovakia and etc

[@AlphaOmegaMan]

@@victusmortem Relax nerd, no one asked you.

[@victusmortem]

@@AlphaOmegaMan hate uneducated people

[@AlphaOmegaMan]

@@victusmortem everyone is uneducated about something, including you. Take a breath and count to ten and be nice.

[@secretjules9466]

Hyped for this one. Let‘s goooooooo

[@DNH17]

How did you managed to create this variety of looks of the troops, these darken colors without bright fluo effects? This is top taste, amazing stuff for me, very immersive. I wish this was the taste of Europe Project too... way too bright colors have been used there and it results in colors that POC picks automatically for me that are way too shiny\fluorescent.

[@Putaspellonyou]

You let the enemy cross back and reform after every failed attack. You deserved that defeat.

[@calbanar]

Great video, your mod just keeps on getting better and better. Great job! On another note, while watching the different waves of reinforcements, I came up with an idea: multi- phase battles (for battles between armies only). Basically, no reinforcement waves, only single wave clashes, but at the end of each clash, morale/cohesion modifiers are applied (if you lose many men, you get a big cohesion and morale drop, especially if the enemy doesn’t lose as much and vice versa). If one of the armies loses too much cohesion, it dissolves, the main battle is over and your army can then attack the individual fleeing parties (which would need to be unable to reinforce each other, otherwise there would be no point). This could make big battles much more interesting tactically, and bring more importance to morale and cohesion. It would also make running down fleeing ennemies much more important, as it prevents them from fighting again, whilst further decreasing the enemy morale. And while I’m on the topic of morale, I don’t know if individual party morale is taken into account in armies, but if it is, this means there could even be defecting lords! (Granted they, for example, have bad relations with leader...) The obvious potential exploit is horse archers, but an easy fix would be to have timer of a few minutes locking the retreat option, giving enough time to engage them instead of having them run away unscathed. Anyway, what do you think?

[@manxhu6610]

OMG why do you dissolve the shield wall all the time???? J/K, i read your comment. :)

[@leetlc441]

I hope the devs fix shieldwall functionality to be more useful and accurate tbh. The A.i. should still be able to stab out from behind the shields. I am assuming people commenting "why dissolve the shieldwall" don't know the A.i doesn't really attack much with it active

[@thechangamire3495]

This is just the Ironborn invasion of the North isn't it

[@AlphaOmegaMan]

I dont watch vikings because I am a classy bitch, don't worry.

[@AlphaOmegaMan]

Also I have now realized after about 2 days that that was a Game of Thrones reference which I'm very familiar with. Well done me.

[@Ch-ew9tm]

A shame that shield wall sucks in meele.

[@ModulusOrbis]

i like it! i always turn off damage stats and banners over heads well is very hard to distinguish enemies in this specific battle btw u should add this mod on nexus, moddb is a perfect for warband but outdated for bannerlord

[@tylerskane9899]

love this! what game version are you running this on?

[@Vsevolod2002]

Nords: fyrir Óðinn! Sturgians: Na słońce!

[@TiredMoonWitchTrit]

how do you get the different design/color shields?

[@godknows2632]

well that was intense till the end 🥵

[@rubengarcianunez6510]

would be possible to put it on steam workshop?

[@bigalmou2261]

STURGIA STRONK; REMOVE SMOKED FISH

[@carlosdelsol76]

what are your specs? im buying a laptop to play bannerlord and i would love to compare, sorry my friend i saw it in the description, thank you. it helps a lot in order to buy a pc since bannerlord is very niche and is hard to find information

[@sid.h]

A 1660Ti Max-P with a 4 core processor will let you play 1500 men battles on high to max settings in 1440p at a reasonable framerate. Anything better than that and you'll have a pretty much flawless experience. 16GB of RAM is needed in my experience though.

[@carlosdelsol76]

@@sid.h i bouught a 1650 and im having trouble at 400 men battles, problem is my ram is 8 gb. do you think it may be the ram? i have a good processor too

[@jebbush2527]

Why would you buy a laptop to game

[@charbelchwairi3758]

Who won Sturgia or the vikings

[@faletuimanu6274]

Dope battle lol

[@Bellamy59]

man why does it look so much better than the original game... btw on which version can you run these mods ?

[@nicholasbachand4568]

All the custom units you see are from the "The Bannerlord Immersion Project" which is a mod Alpha Omega Man is working on and is, as of now, unreleased. Although, the "RTS Camera" mod is available for e.1.5.8.

[@Bellamy59]

@@nicholasbachand4568 alright thanks, can't wait for this mod to come out it looks amazing !

[@oldschoolturkishrockmetal]

3:35 :d

[@anubis9265]

horse live matters

[@BestMods168]

Them shield designs.

[@Lanval_de_Lai]

Hey I always read your strange descriptions :/

[@AlphaOmegaMan]

This is why you're a darn tootin' legend

[@Lanval_de_Lai]

@@AlphaOmegaMan Haha your work is awesome, your team is also legend of the modding!

[@alonsodeagustin32]

Wich is the name of the music un minute 5:00?

[@Minmuaddib]

i love your viking videos

[@elmRHCP]

How many troops are you using?

[@carlosdelsol76]

have you modified the AI and how??

[@elmRHCP]

are you using some A.I. mod?

[@gallowglass3764]

How were the "usefulness of spears" affected?

[@AlphaOmegaMan]

In vanilla, the AI doesn't know how to deal with enemies closing in when they're using spears. They'll stand basically as close as they can and try to thrust but fail to deliver any damage since the thrust can't be properly followed through. Realistic Battle addresses that by opening up the window in which spears can do damage quite a bit but I wasn't running it for this battle.

[@Fulcrox]

@@AlphaOmegaMan when You give them a secondary weapon they also discard the Spears all the time on their backs

[@AlphaOmegaMan]

@@Fulcrox That too. Basically, the take away is that vanilla Bannerlord is ass and tragic.

[@Tee-et8cn]

Vikings raiding England game play???

[@bartoszdera8308]

When mod will be avible to downolad?

[@secretjules9466]

Can‘t believe i‘ve missed it :/ anyways, now i can rewatch it in detail lol... Your mod is awesome! Defo under my top 3 bannerlord mods i‘ve seen so far! Can‘t wait to play it! Did you made any changes to the AI? It seems a lot better then in native bannerlord.. much luv

[@AlphaOmegaMan]

No AI changes from us so far, no. Usually for these videos I direct the AI on both sides to some extent but not for this one.

[@user-sp7oi6jp4q]

Seem’s like Last kingdom

[@fingall8821]

Glory to Sturgia!

[@wolfmensch-productions1097]

Your money or Your mod

[@faviansatya8319]

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[@dannydanny851]

Co to za gra??

[@linker1193]

Hola nuevo sub

[@E7MAMOSTA]

hhhh naic