I extensively used my own formations in Warband to split my troops up for different roles and the fact this game wont even remember my formations if I reload my save is infuriating
@@GooberLoofer420 i tried splitting up shield infantry and dps infantry into two groups after every load but just got tired of doing it even though it was much more effective than having all the infantry in 1 group.
What I am doing right now is I’m not playing bannerlord and wait for the full release, I put 100 hours into it and now it is wait time. By the time it comes out it will be a much superior game and good mods will be available.
@@danielhunter3197 There's an answer for that... RTS Camera mod. You can give units specific commands as to what enemy formation to attack. Since enemy ranged units are usually their own unit, you can order your cavalry to charge enemy archers.
The "Parthian tactics" when you "Advance" with horse archers is amazing. They charge, get in range, shoot, then turn and keep shooting backwards. Really great for luring the cavalry away from the infantry
This was very informative. I was watching your video day before yesterday again for combat tactics and I understood out how to do feints! The idea that the things you mentioned like your troops mirror you or they do a certain thing is like wow. Did not know there was so many small details. I cant wait to finish sculpting and getting on the game later on in the evening! Thanks again! AR
One important command that author did not mention but is really useful is F1, F6? Command that gives the unit under control of sergeants. In my experience it is particulary usefull for archers since they will get in the range to shoot enemy, but as enemy approaches they will skimirish and stay out of fight. Great video!
Really good point! I just wanted to drill down on the nuance of Charge, Follow me, and ADvance. I should have definitely put that if this is overwhelming, please by all means, use F6 to get a feel for these commands before executing them! :D
Thank you for explaining the diff between Advance and Charge. Since I was watching my horse archers and archers both, I couldnt figure out why they kept acting diff. Love those camera views
Actually useful. You are not like others making dough with a lot of information, but actually telling the important ones of them. Good work, man, good work
Appreciate your tips man. Mount and Blade, coming into it with the second game to start, I had no idea how this game worked at all Being able to see your vids, and a couple others that give explanations, give help, and honestly showing how you can just boss through battles and eventually knowing how to do everything, is really helpful Really appreciate what you do
Holy crap i never even used the advance command looks like the best way to do things. I tend to play on foot with a Mostly infantry line save my cav to chase of enemy cav or horse archers then to chace fleeing troops dpwm amd horse archers are on AI controle right away I never use them. But as a opener to the battle they are perfect. Love it!
This is an absolute must watch video for Bannerlord players. You cover how the Charge, Advance and Follow commands affect formations 1 through 4. Any chance you can do the same for formations 5 through 8?
I actually rarely use them, but I think I might be able to find an application to talk about them in my brother :) I'll see what I can do. Thank you so much for watching!!
Fantastic video. I had been struggling in larger battles and commanding horse archers. I had no idea about the difference between charge and advance, and had been using charge all the time. This video provides such a great explanation between the two and how to use them effectively. Thanks.
I need more time in battles I start setting everything up with commands but then see the enemy is almost within engaging distance and it ruins strategy sometimes
@@congra5580 I have just started to try modding my game and the Cinematic War Atmosphere SlowMotion On Orders Menu (www.nexusmods.com/mountandblade2bannerlord/mods/1467) sounds exactly like what u are looking for. It's designed to just slow down time when you issue commands but you can configure it to nearly stop time entirely.
@@michaelhartwick2292 oh man i need to do a playthrough with Battania is the only faction that i am missing. Is a downer that is kind of hard to get battanian archers. But i imagine a shieldwall full of wildings! thats awesome man!
@@davidr9972 If you do the extortion by deserters quest for the battanians you can get the highborn archers as prisoners if you manage to not wound them rather than kill them.
This was something I hadn't realized, but wow! I thought "Charge = Attack Nearest, Advance = Advance towards nearest enemy formation (even if it means turning around constantly), Follow Me = Follows Party Leader" and when you died they just went to the AI taking command and running the battle automatically, not using the charge command. So, if I eliminate an enemy lord, their troops should just be using the charge command as you said here and will follow that, rather than the AI running it entirely? Though in my experience, you still need to babysit the troops to some degree. There was one particularly awesome battle that I had as Vlandia against the Battanians on that forested map - not the one with the giant hill, the one with the ridge by one of the spawn points. We had the ridge; so I took my crossbows and put them on the ridge to shoot the enemy while most of my troops were just behind due to the Fians present. Battanians advanced, I moved my on infantry up front while my crossbows kept shooting. I used a LOT of hold position to move the troops back and forth with the occasional charge once the melee began, but mostly I just kept the positions, then as the enemy started to lose ground I kept moving the infantry forward via a Hold Position command to make sure they did not lose the momentum and would run down the archers rather than bog themselves down. It was one hell of a crushing defeat for Caladog. Of course, that took a lot of focus on my end, but it still shows how even the simple commands used effectively can make a huge difference. Though as to community wish list? Don't know what's on it, but I'd like a little more choices regarding our starting clan - as it is, I just am not fond of the 'start as an entirely unskilled 25 year old (better than a 30 year old at least...) with a brother that just vanishes'. At the very least, if our characters are going to start middle aged, they should have the skills to match rather than being worse than even the young 18 year old lordlings that need to be tutored by quests. Heck, give us a full on character creator of the Crusader Kings 2 Ruler Designer style! That'd be perfect. But 'till then, there's always the dev console to at least change the main hero's age to something more reasonable to their skill level.
I use similar but slightly different tactics. When I have a typical mixed army, it usually goes like this... -Horse Archers, advance. I haven't really noticed what you did about them, they still seem to circle and shoot from what I've seen. This messes up the enemy formation. -Archers advance. By the time they get there, a lot of the enemy won't be facing them because the HA already disrupted their formation. -After giving the archers a head start, Infantry charge. They'll be charging into a mess, so have an advantage. I wish there was an "advance slowly in formation" command. -Heavy Cav, follow me, Companions (set to their own numbers) follow me. I circle around the left side of their formation, hitting any enemy Cav on the way, until I am behind the enemy. -Heavy Cav charge. They charge into the rear of the formation while the infantry hits the front. I keep my Companions with me and just try to sow discord wherever seems useful. I try not to die because as soon as I do my soldiers start trying to see if they can fight holding spears with their butt and they all get killed. -Once they enemy is down to half, or I see more than a couple of recruits fleeing, All Charge. This makes the enemy rout in full, and makes my guys (except the infantry, lazy bastards) hunt the people fleeing. One companion I have on a separate number from the rest, If I'm pretty hurt I'll charge the rest and keep the single one as a bodyguard and just move off to safety. Like you, I think Infantry seems to be the least important piece of that puzzle. My current playthrough I pushed leadership hard so I could get disciplinarian, now I try to collect Forest Bandits to make into an all Fion army. I have two companions running parties and formed an army with them (not sure if you covered this, this is THE way to work leadership), I gave one all my Heavy Cav and the other all my Horse Archers, while I just run with Bandits and Fions. Can't trust the companions to level my bandits, they keep promoting them to the crappy regular Batt troops instead of raising them to full Forest Bandit and promoting to Fion.
The enemy 9/10 charges straight away with cav if they have it - always on my left flank. I meet these with my horse archers following me and they wheel round I get my cav to charge. Then it's horse archers stinging their infantry until they charge. Pull horse archers around and behind them to deal with enemy archers. Once the 2 lines of infantry meet, cav and infantry charge. The only variation on this is if I'm outnumbered 3 to 1 or 30-40% of their force is cav. When out numbered I follow the same routine for their charging cav, and the pull everyone back into position. I've got top tier infantry so I try and funnel their cav into my front line where Sturgian shock troops make short work o f them. Then it's charge, engage, when the enemy retreats, take positions again. It has been successful, but the last update has seen me lose a couple of battles against a superior force.
The basics: Start of battle with a big enemy army larger than you in power: Frantically look around for advantegeous location to place own army Put archers highest if possible, then infantry underneath While they're running: Press 1 then F3 and F2, press 3 then F3 and F2 (infantry and cavalry shields up) Also press 2 and F3 and F3 (archers loose formation) Put cav aside infantry, put cav archers aside other side of infantry but if possible set cav archers higher Then go stand on high up with army because the enemy cav will come to harass us This is not Warband, do not go pulling the enemy to you, you will probably die when making one mistake When the enemy is charging en mass: press F6 and try to stay alive while fighting! O7 During the battle I will decide which commands I deem necessary but only when needed. Charge I never use except in special occasions like bandit lairs close combat when shieldwall is too slow for my own protection while drawing enemies to me.
Destroy enemy cav in two easy steps. F1-2 (Follow me). When your cav collides with the enemy cav then select F1-3 (Charge). They will go melee and destroy the enemy cav. Once the enemy cav is finished switch them back to follow me and then release them on the remains of the enemy infantry and archers. In large battles I also use shield wall to position my infantry about 100 meters from the enemy infantry. The enemy will charge your shield wall (Even on defense). This allows you to bring your cav into the back or flank of the enemy infantry which cuts losses of your cav and demoralizes the enemy infantry. When the enemy breaks I release my infantry with the charge command and they will tear through the enemy archers as they and the cav chases down the broken infantry that has fled. Most time the broken infantry will run directly back towards their archers which minimizes leakage to the left and right and maintains some cohesion of your troops.
imagine if at 20:55 you could just order your horseman to attack that group of cavalry with a button instead of having to focus all your efforts on dragging them around? Then you could happily engage enemy units and not have to micro so much.
I find archers are more effecient when ordered to scatter. As a safer alternative to guiding cavalry with the follow command. get a position with a good view of the fight, then order them to move here and attack. Order them to move away and repeat (good for organising flank attacks). Battles can get so big you don't want to be in the chaos and blind to what is happening else where. Great guide I shall use the advance option much more!
since the first game i've done a ton of practice on cycle charging as well as the hammer anvil tactic. the biggest thing is troops only get a "charge bonus" when actually having momentum when they strike
another thing i see no one go over is charge your units do not care about keeping formation but in advance they prioritize staying in formation over most. thats why i find advance doesnt work great for horse archers because its better that they split up and cause enemies to chase at all sorts of angles
Try and mimic drawing a bow. then turn to your upper body to the left, your range of motion allows you to aim behind yourself. then try to do the same thing to the right. This is why horse archers wanna circle counter clock wise. super cool that this is a feature.
Party is usually 60-70% melee cav, to 40-30% archer cav. Buy merc cav to fill in until i can replace with proper heavy cav. Then only keep merc to fill in for the dead after i have my desired lineup. Then i get some dime-a-dozen steppe nomads and train in mass. After one level up im good to go. With 100-130 troops i can face 300-360, or up to 430 if they are mostly tier 1. All follow until resonably close then let archer cav break off and attack on their own. Melee cav i try to keep a much close eye on. When the enemy lines their archers up (and that line extends beyond infantry cluster) i direct melee cav to a point past the line, so that they ride through the archers but not the infantry. I then have them break off, get some distance and wait for the lines to reform. Then repeat. Only after the infantry try to charge, retreat (do to archers dieing and thus low moral) or have broken up somehow, do my melee cav get let loose with no further orders needed, though sometimes i break them off and give them some distance so they can have one last proper charge on those fleeing. Also sometimes preffer two handed axes for occasional double kills because they can swing through mutiple enemies where as 2h swords cannot.
Whenever I tell my archers to advance, they actually run away. At first I thought they might be backing up to get to max range, but they back up and just stand there, not shooting their bows. I've found that telling your archers to charge is the way to go if you want to go aggressive, or place them somewhere where they have a clear LoS and high ground if you can manage it. The biggest difference I've noticed between charge and advance is that if you tell a unit to charge, they will charge, obviously, and they will chase fleeing enemies. If you tell a unit to advance, they will charge and fight until they've won, but they won't chase fleeing enemies. I just wanted to put my experience out there in case anyone else noticed the same thing. The idea of the unit numbers (1-8) being AI profiles is cool but I don't think it's implemented yet. I have my heavy Infantry set to group one and my light infantry/skirmisher set to group two because they spawn front and center and those are the two units I want to set up first. I actually have my archers set to group four (horse archers) so they spawn out wide and have a good angle to shoot from although I have moved them from group to group to find the best spawn point for them and I have yet to see the group number have any effect on how they act/fight. Same goes for the rest of my units as well. It would be super cool if they implement the AI profile thing you talked about.
I think you may be somewhat off with the charge command. When I charge infantry with throwing weapons, they throw the weapons first. They don't just use their melee weapons.
They'll use their ranged weapon AS they close. Similar AI to the archers. They won't stop, shoot all of their javelins, and close in, they'll launch em en route. Or at least that's the intention :) like I said, if something closes range, they'll forget throwing and charge in buck wild!
@@italianspartacus Okay, so maybe you just made a mistake in the video, because you didn't say that. You said they would draw swords and run at the enemy. Overall, a good video. I'm just trying to help you out. Thanks for the videos.
Hi Italian sparticus i love watching your guides video! And also thanks for confirming that i've been using the commands right. But one thing that still gets me is how to use the commands to play defensively to get myself out of a sticky situation. Would love a video of how to do it please :)
Great guide, I love you work, but is there any way we can find out more information on how the various formations/groups behave? It's all well and good to say 'these are specific AI profiles', and that *is* helpful, but being able to know what the profiles consist of/do would be game-changing.
@@italianspartacus OK. I appreciate the reply, thank you kindly. One thing I was just trying today was to simply watch what happens in various scenarios, using different commands... which is basically what you're doing here in this video. Putting all of that info together would be a huge undertaking, and any effort put into it would always be under constant threat of being rendered completely obsolete, because of the 'rolling patch' style of release that TaleWorlds uses for Bannerlord. Anyway, I'm a subscriber, and I'll be watching out for any updates, so please do keep us up to speed as best you can :) Many thanks again.
If you like prolonged battles and tactics, try a battle of over 1k on each side but limiting the battlefield to 400-500 total. Heres what ive noticed with these settings: Reinforcements changes the complexity of the engagement. Horse archers and archers loses alot of its early advantage because ammo becomes a factor. Mass rout is hardly a factor. Attacks and counter attacks numerous times throughout an engagement. Ive had battles last over 30 minutes, and ive noticed the AI is at its best where you are not guaranteed a win on an even matchup. I dont recommend this setting on large sieges though. Just a friendly warning, even if you win you will be shocked at your losses.
The map was a valley, F1,F2 Follow me. I look back, I see all the horse archers that spawned on top of the mountain jumping off the rocks of its slide into the ground, some of them dieing, most of them taking damage. Had to resort to the special command Alt F4. I mean, I was mad, but also laughing a lot.
With 1.4.1 making auto resolve battles vs bandits more forgiving, and my current plan you replace my army with all bandit I’ve not been been commanding my army as much as normal, however this will give me an opportunity to try out all the horse archers I captured after a bandit mission in the east.
I think they should add an animation for bracing with spears/pikes if you’re stationary and have a pike/spear wall formation for use against cavalry charges
With cavalry charges a wedge formation would probably be the best formation to use to plunge them into the enemy footmen atleast that's how the tactic was mostly used by alot of real world generals
I have been enjoying success with these commands however I usually have a front line of infantry. With higher tier shielded infantry they can form a solid shield wall and still throw their ranged weapons. With the amount of archers the AI currently uses these short breaks in the shield wall don't seem to hurt too much.
The problem i had with the Advance command, is always the targets that my units chose. For example, when the enemy infantries r about to come into contact with mine, while mine was staying in shield wall. Then I chose advance, assuming my infantries will target theirs. But my units started to turn around and chase after their cavs instead, straight up ignoring the enemies in front of them.
What about if you put HA into F6 ,infantry to advance ,foot archers F6 and lancers are under your command always like follow me?Well i hoped it work but kuzait infantry can't even hold looters back,HA will circle into infantry line and get rekt,Lancers i haven't even seen them couch on charge.
I often get frustrated with archers using the "advance" command on anything other than open terrain. My infantry will be fighting and dying, while the archers have positioned themselves behind a hill, unable to see the enemy.
I saw in one of your videos that you recommended not being on horseback but leveling up the athletics and move in with the infantry. I'm curious, how would you do these orders based on that? For instance, with the Cav, would you set them to advance as well? Would they work to go around the Infantry to attack the cavalry? If that's the case, should I want my Cav set to have them focus on the enemy Cav? How does the infantry work when set to follow?
for speed ive noticed my horse runs faster then one following which becomes hard to charge at the same time.. i try to slow down but then they get slower and slower and charging in and getting back into another charge becomes harder.
So in open ground large battles the Follow Me command makes the troops who are following you switch to the same weapon type if needed. BUT what if you are raiding a Bandit Camp? I usually go in hoping I get all archers beside me but I use a one handed Mace and a Shield to protect my troops from Arrows and hopefully knock future prisoners unconcious. They luckily do not seem to try to switch to melee weapons in that case! What about Sieges?
Cantabrian* Circle People from Cantabria Also, FWIW, not really a Cantabrian Circle. That would involve the entire formation being in a circle, with each horseman chasing the one in front, and the entire formation drifts around like a tornado of horses. As opposed to just running around the enemy.
I find that having my archer line in the Advance stance isn't great. I need to carefully position my forces in order to effectively take on the much larger forces I'm constantly fighting. I find I can get maximum effect from my archers simply by positioning them well and leaving them there to shoot. Advance sends them out of position where my infantry can't properly protect them, and they can't continuously shoot into the hordes I face. I will experiment more with the use of Advance on Infantry and Cavalry though. Thanks!
I cannot stress how important it is to have both horse archers and foot archers. The AI tends to get stuck targeting one or the other (priority target) and the other group shoots the armies in the back. I was running with a high percent of horse archers but my foot archers were getting more kills. Not sure if the AI was targeting the biggest group (40% horse archers) and ignoring the smaller group (30% foot archers) or if it was because horse archers are a higher priority. I've seen 200+ kills with 0 deaths as the AI runs around in circles chasing horse archers. My Foot archers had over 120 kills.
@@flyingdutchman9053 fians are great. I'm just Imperial scum. The ability to decide between palatine Guards and Bucellarii at the end of the leveling makes it too easy. Usually I don't even bother with Palantine guards unless a big fight is coming my way, instead leaving the archers ready to level when I get warhorses. Warhorses are annoying to get enough of. I've probably upgraded 350 Bucellarii this playthrough and about 200 of those were traded to companions for new trainees.
Sorry if you covered this but what happens if horse archers are told to advance? Do they just kite? If I press f4, f1, f3 with horse archers will they melee charge :)?
Thank god you post videos like this. This game offers so much but it does a terrible job on explaining it. You mention about the beta tester you have contacts with. However, have you considered becoming one yourself? Is that even possible? Because I am very positive that the developers gain so much from your videos. Having exclusive content would boost this channel even more and in return help devs reaching out new players.
I haven't! Honestly.. I love being on this end with you guys.. Knowing "too much" can sort of tarnish the game a bit.. Especially if you aren't allowed to talk about things! I love being able to just go wild with all of you and share in my enthusiasm :)
Unfortunately in massive battle things is just too chaotic to control, the first minute yea set everything down but after that all gone out off window. It just chaos and anarchy.
@@italianspartacus Seriously though. Very informative vid. And mad props for engaging with a random commenter on a year-old video. That's some serious dedication to your audience. Good on ya, mate. I have M&B wishlisted and I'm working my way through your catalogue on the game before making a decision.
No problem brother! :) I honestly feel like the game is in an AMAZING place if you've not touched it once. If you're like me and have played the shit out of it? I'd hold out. You're in a great position to benefit from the last 18 or so months of improvements. You'll have a great time!
Hey MAN Cool video and to say I kind of useing same tactics but on binging battle I will put horse archers on F6 to lure opponent in my infantry archers wall then send them to attack. And one more thing if you ever talk to developers my be one small suggestion , as you know we have Barack’s and training buildings in our cities and castles but militia units are crap hope in future that buildings will provide training and give good amount of militia veteran units, so my question is if you ever talk to them to ask them if this will be implemented in a game or we are all DOOMED lol. Wish you all the best thanks ....
if u still play the game then please advice.. the game changed the category thingy in the party page. now i cant set people on if they are heavy infantry or regular.. or put my companions riding horse with archers..
Your contact's ;army build info seems to be a bit off. Kuzait, Aseri, and Vlandians have 30-50 percent horses almost every battle. They tend to thrash the Empire because of it.
I thought i was gona love this game,,, do love warband,,, but this one absolutely fuckn sux! I can be completely surround on all sides by enemies and no matter what attack i use in whatever direction i JUS CANNOT hit any enemies
I thought Charge, Advance, and Follow Me were just for beginners. I used them during my first two weeks of play and haven't touched them since. I feel like positioning your troops, setting their formations, then issuing the "follow your sergeants" to individual groups at the appropriate times is most effective.
Thanks for demystifying these commands. Bizarre that they are TaleWorlds has done so little to explain them to the player. Looks great, but feels a bit unwieldly. As if trying to hide complexity from the user, but ultimately just making it difficult to achieve a sophisticated strategy on the battle map.
Just says this is no more working as said in the video. Currently it's always better to use charge for all unit except archer (better to positioning manually). If using advance units will just advance and idle in front on enemy. You can use advance for moving army but always call charge when getting on contact.
The best tactic of all is to not use any of these commands whatsoever on your infantry and make them do a shield wall right where they spawn and order archers to stand apart some distance behind melee shield wall. The reinforcement mechanic in this game is so stupid that if you can crush the first initial wave, the rest of their army will span in batches of 15 (or is it 20) on the other side of the map and literally trickle to your side while your reinforcements will be spawned right there. The AI simply cannot win.
for me personally f1-f3 sometimes is just far too powerful, that learning any of the best way to learn the tactics is kinda redundant. it even worse because most people hunting/killing looter/bandit even when they already early mid-level
You seem to place way to much emphasis on explaining everything with 100% scientific clarity, at the expense of flow and style. I am 8 minutes in and everything you've said so far could be summarized into about 10 sentences. I love your videos but this one not so much
I'm actually saying CAV-AL-RY. It just sounds like "Calvary" because of how fast I speak and the fact that my rhotic speech tends to blur that "L." When I say it very slow, and deliberately, it's quite clearly "Cavalry" but when I say it in my standard, conversational tone, it has that effect. I've been covering Total War games for years and this is a comment I field just about every time I use the world "Cavalry, hence why i typically say "Cav" to avoid the confusion. Sorry for any discomfort that put you through, i KNOW it's something I try to really focus on over-pronouncing just make sure people know I'm not referring to the location :)
You can set companions with additional parties and gather them into an army lead by you. That increase the number of soldiers you can comand. You can also use money to improve your fiefs faster.
@@Lopsinho They used to have a perk that allow you to buy fiefs but its pretty nerfed right now. What you can do for example is buying influence. Recruit troops and donate them to your faction castle and cities gives you good relationships and influence. You can also buy food and stuff and share them due to barter with the armies, giving you the same. But when you got a lot of money, it becomes really useless, they need yo revamp the economy tbh.
the most important thing this game needs is to save your formations so you don't have to reset them every time you log in and out of the game.
I extensively used my own formations in Warband to split my troops up for different roles and the fact this game wont even remember my formations if I reload my save is infuriating
@@GooberLoofer420 i tried splitting up shield infantry and dps infantry into two groups after every load but just got tired of doing it even though it was much more effective than having all the infantry in 1 group.
@@teapotdome Yeah I split off my Battanians and heavy infantry from group 1 and send them around the flanks
What I am doing right now is I’m not playing bannerlord and wait for the full release, I put 100 hours into it and now it is wait time. By the time it comes out it will be a much superior game and good mods will be available.
@@rvanzo925 i have 3 sep saves at various stages in the game that i test after each patch... but am mostly playing other games at the moment too.
Biggest thing missing is being able to tell your archers what to target
Also when you tell your celery to attack from a flank side they sometime prioritise other carvery and ignore the fact that archers are unprotected.
@@danielhunter3197 There's an answer for that... RTS Camera mod. You can give units specific commands as to what enemy formation to attack. Since enemy ranged units are usually their own unit, you can order your cavalry to charge enemy archers.
this is beautiful. my mind sees horses with Honda Vtec badges, a big wang and archers on them shooting celerysticks
@@danielhunter3197 ahh yes the mighty celery of the khuzaits 😂😂
The "Parthian tactics" when you "Advance" with horse archers is amazing. They charge, get in range, shoot, then turn and keep shooting backwards. Really great for luring the cavalry away from the infantry
This was very informative. I was watching your video day before yesterday again for combat tactics and I understood out how to do feints! The idea that the things you mentioned like your troops mirror you or they do a certain thing is like wow. Did not know there was so many small details. I cant wait to finish sculpting and getting on the game later on in the evening! Thanks again!
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One important command that author did not mention but is really useful is F1, F6? Command that gives the unit under control of sergeants. In my experience it is particulary usefull for archers since they will get in the range to shoot enemy, but as enemy approaches they will skimirish and stay out of fight.
Great video!
Really good point! I just wanted to drill down on the nuance of Charge, Follow me, and ADvance. I should have definitely put that if this is overwhelming, please by all means, use F6 to get a feel for these commands before executing them! :D
Thank you for explaining the diff between Advance and Charge. Since I was watching my horse archers and archers both, I couldnt figure out why they kept acting diff. Love those camera views
Actually useful. You are not like others making dough with a lot of information, but actually telling the important ones of them. Good work, man, good work
Appreciate your tips man. Mount and Blade, coming into it with the second game to start, I had no idea how this game worked at all
Being able to see your vids, and a couple others that give explanations, give help, and honestly showing how you can just boss through battles and eventually knowing how to do everything, is really helpful
Really appreciate what you do
Holy crap i never even used the advance command looks like the best way to do things. I tend to play on foot with a Mostly infantry line save my cav to chase of enemy cav or horse archers then to chace fleeing troops dpwm amd horse archers are on AI controle right away I never use them. But as a opener to the battle they are perfect. Love it!
I've seen some of your other videos, but this teaching style is fantastic. Very well done!
This is an absolute must watch video for Bannerlord players.
You cover how the Charge, Advance and Follow commands affect formations 1 through 4.
Any chance you can do the same for formations 5 through 8?
I actually rarely use them, but I think I might be able to find an application to talk about them in my brother :) I'll see what I can do. Thank you so much for watching!!
Fantastic video. I had been struggling in larger battles and commanding horse archers. I had no idea about the difference between charge and advance, and had been using charge all the time. This video provides such a great explanation between the two and how to use them effectively. Thanks.
not a problem man ! so happy to help out :)
I need more time in battles I start setting everything up with commands but then see the enemy is almost within engaging distance and it ruins strategy sometimes
I feel you, once the perk that let's you pre place your troops works this will be less of any issue hopefully.
Same for me, i wait for them to implement the one step ahead perk to fix that problem before i start my next campaign.
Guys try the community patch mod it fixes the perks that don't work including one step ahead :)
I want to be able to pause and issue commands like in total war. That would be great
@@congra5580 I have just started to try modding my game and the Cinematic War Atmosphere SlowMotion On Orders Menu (www.nexusmods.com/mountandblade2bannerlord/mods/1467) sounds exactly like what u are looking for.
It's designed to just slow down time when you issue commands but you can configure it to nearly stop time entirely.
Wanna spice things up? Try leading an infantry only army. It becomes a true war of attrition against cavalry specialized factions.
pr1vate lime on youtube is doing a playthrough with sturgia infantry only! its freaking hard man!
@@davidr9972 That's awesome. I'm struggling with a Battanian infantry only campaign.. Wildlings is the only kind of troop keeping it together.
@@michaelhartwick2292 oh man i need to do a playthrough with Battania is the only faction that i am missing. Is a downer that is kind of hard to get battanian archers. But i imagine a shieldwall full of wildings! thats awesome man!
I'm streaming my infantry only playthrough with two handed on realistic, I LOVE IT :)
@@davidr9972 If you do the extortion by deserters quest for the battanians you can get the highborn archers as prisoners if you manage to not wound them rather than kill them.
This was something I hadn't realized, but wow! I thought "Charge = Attack Nearest, Advance = Advance towards nearest enemy formation (even if it means turning around constantly), Follow Me = Follows Party Leader" and when you died they just went to the AI taking command and running the battle automatically, not using the charge command. So, if I eliminate an enemy lord, their troops should just be using the charge command as you said here and will follow that, rather than the AI running it entirely?
Though in my experience, you still need to babysit the troops to some degree. There was one particularly awesome battle that I had as Vlandia against the Battanians on that forested map - not the one with the giant hill, the one with the ridge by one of the spawn points. We had the ridge; so I took my crossbows and put them on the ridge to shoot the enemy while most of my troops were just behind due to the Fians present. Battanians advanced, I moved my on infantry up front while my crossbows kept shooting. I used a LOT of hold position to move the troops back and forth with the occasional charge once the melee began, but mostly I just kept the positions, then as the enemy started to lose ground I kept moving the infantry forward via a Hold Position command to make sure they did not lose the momentum and would run down the archers rather than bog themselves down. It was one hell of a crushing defeat for Caladog. Of course, that took a lot of focus on my end, but it still shows how even the simple commands used effectively can make a huge difference.
Though as to community wish list? Don't know what's on it, but I'd like a little more choices regarding our starting clan - as it is, I just am not fond of the 'start as an entirely unskilled 25 year old (better than a 30 year old at least...) with a brother that just vanishes'. At the very least, if our characters are going to start middle aged, they should have the skills to match rather than being worse than even the young 18 year old lordlings that need to be tutored by quests. Heck, give us a full on character creator of the Crusader Kings 2 Ruler Designer style! That'd be perfect.
But 'till then, there's always the dev console to at least change the main hero's age to something more reasonable to their skill level.
I use similar but slightly different tactics. When I have a typical mixed army, it usually goes like this...
-Horse Archers, advance. I haven't really noticed what you did about them, they still seem to circle and shoot from what I've seen. This messes up the enemy formation.
-Archers advance. By the time they get there, a lot of the enemy won't be facing them because the HA already disrupted their formation.
-After giving the archers a head start, Infantry charge. They'll be charging into a mess, so have an advantage. I wish there was an "advance slowly in formation" command.
-Heavy Cav, follow me, Companions (set to their own numbers) follow me. I circle around the left side of their formation, hitting any enemy Cav on the way, until I am behind the enemy.
-Heavy Cav charge. They charge into the rear of the formation while the infantry hits the front. I keep my Companions with me and just try to sow discord wherever seems useful. I try not to die because as soon as I do my soldiers start trying to see if they can fight holding spears with their butt and they all get killed.
-Once they enemy is down to half, or I see more than a couple of recruits fleeing, All Charge. This makes the enemy rout in full, and makes my guys (except the infantry, lazy bastards) hunt the people fleeing. One companion I have on a separate number from the rest, If I'm pretty hurt I'll charge the rest and keep the single one as a bodyguard and just move off to safety.
Like you, I think Infantry seems to be the least important piece of that puzzle. My current playthrough I pushed leadership hard so I could get disciplinarian, now I try to collect Forest Bandits to make into an all Fion army. I have two companions running parties and formed an army with them (not sure if you covered this, this is THE way to work leadership), I gave one all my Heavy Cav and the other all my Horse Archers, while I just run with Bandits and Fions. Can't trust the companions to level my bandits, they keep promoting them to the crappy regular Batt troops instead of raising them to full Forest Bandit and promoting to Fion.
The enemy 9/10 charges straight away with cav if they have it - always on my left flank. I meet these with my horse archers following me and they wheel round I get my cav to charge.
Then it's horse archers stinging their infantry until they charge. Pull horse archers around and behind them to deal with enemy archers.
Once the 2 lines of infantry meet, cav and infantry charge.
The only variation on this is if I'm outnumbered 3 to 1 or 30-40% of their force is cav.
When out numbered I follow the same routine for their charging cav, and the pull everyone back into position. I've got top tier infantry so I try and funnel their cav into my front line where Sturgian shock troops make short work o f them. Then it's charge, engage, when the enemy retreats, take positions again. It has been successful, but the last update has seen me lose a couple of battles against a superior force.
The basics:
Start of battle with a big enemy army larger than you in power:
Frantically look around for advantegeous location to place own army
Put archers highest if possible, then infantry underneath
While they're running: Press 1 then F3 and F2, press 3 then F3 and F2 (infantry and cavalry shields up)
Also press 2 and F3 and F3 (archers loose formation)
Put cav aside infantry, put cav archers aside other side of infantry but if possible set cav archers higher
Then go stand on high up with army because the enemy cav will come to harass us
This is not Warband, do not go pulling the enemy to you, you will probably die when making one mistake
When the enemy is charging en mass: press F6 and try to stay alive while fighting! O7
During the battle I will decide which commands I deem necessary but only when needed.
Charge I never use except in special occasions like bandit lairs close combat when shieldwall is too slow for my own protection while drawing enemies to me.
Destroy enemy cav in two easy steps. F1-2 (Follow me). When your cav collides with the enemy cav then select F1-3 (Charge). They will go melee and destroy the enemy cav. Once the enemy cav is finished switch them back to follow me and then release them on the remains of the enemy infantry and archers. In large battles I also use shield wall to position my infantry about 100 meters from the enemy infantry. The enemy will charge your shield wall (Even on defense). This allows you to bring your cav into the back or flank of the enemy infantry which cuts losses of your cav and demoralizes the enemy infantry. When the enemy breaks I release my infantry with the charge command and they will tear through the enemy archers as they and the cav chases down the broken infantry that has fled. Most time the broken infantry will run directly back towards their archers which minimizes leakage to the left and right and maintains some cohesion of your troops.
This + having your archers set up on a hill or flanking the infantry is the best non-horse archer spam strategy I've found so far.
Just got the game a few days ago. This content really helps. Thanks
that's very useful info. thank you. the only thing left is replace my generic banner with a proper one... like an emblem of the 20th Legion.
We are Alpharius!
imagine if at 20:55 you could just order your horseman to attack that group of cavalry with a button instead of having to focus all your efforts on dragging them around? Then you could happily engage enemy units and not have to micro so much.
I find archers are more effecient when ordered to scatter.
As a safer alternative to guiding cavalry with the follow command. get a position with a good view of the fight, then order them to move here and attack. Order them to move away and repeat (good for organising flank attacks).
Battles can get so big you don't want to be in the chaos and blind to what is happening else where. Great guide I shall use the advance option much more!
I would really like it more, if you could make tactical decisions before battle begins :-/
set formation, attack direction, flank the enemy etc
but no
That's a perk in the tactics line that just hasn't been activated just yet :)
This was the exact thing I was looking for, thank you man.
since the first game i've done a ton of practice on cycle charging as well as the hammer anvil tactic. the biggest thing is troops only get a "charge bonus" when actually having momentum when they strike
another thing i see no one go over is charge your units do not care about keeping formation but in advance they prioritize staying in formation over most. thats why i find advance doesnt work great for horse archers because its better that they split up and cause enemies to chase at all sorts of angles
Try and mimic drawing a bow. then turn to your upper body to the left, your range of motion allows you to aim behind yourself. then try to do the same thing to the right. This is why horse archers wanna circle counter clock wise. super cool that this is a feature.
Party is usually 60-70% melee cav, to 40-30% archer cav. Buy merc cav to fill in until i can replace with proper heavy cav. Then only keep merc to fill in for the dead after i have my desired lineup. Then i get some dime-a-dozen steppe nomads and train in mass. After one level up im good to go.
With 100-130 troops i can face 300-360, or up to 430 if they are mostly tier 1.
All follow until resonably close then let archer cav break off and attack on their own. Melee cav i try to keep a much close eye on. When the enemy lines their archers up (and that line extends beyond infantry cluster) i direct melee cav to a point past the line, so that they ride through the archers but not the infantry. I then have them break off, get some distance and wait for the lines to reform. Then repeat.
Only after the infantry try to charge, retreat (do to archers dieing and thus low moral) or have broken up somehow, do my melee cav get let loose with no further orders needed, though sometimes i break them off and give them some distance so they can have one last proper charge on those fleeing.
Also sometimes preffer two handed axes for occasional double kills because they can swing through mutiple enemies where as 2h swords cannot.
still super jelly over that White Scars icon. I could never get it quite right.
Whenever I tell my archers to advance, they actually run away. At first I thought they might be backing up to get to max range, but they back up and just stand there, not shooting their bows. I've found that telling your archers to charge is the way to go if you want to go aggressive, or place them somewhere where they have a clear LoS and high ground if you can manage it. The biggest difference I've noticed between charge and advance is that if you tell a unit to charge, they will charge, obviously, and they will chase fleeing enemies. If you tell a unit to advance, they will charge and fight until they've won, but they won't chase fleeing enemies. I just wanted to put my experience out there in case anyone else noticed the same thing. The idea of the unit numbers (1-8) being AI profiles is cool but I don't think it's implemented yet. I have my heavy Infantry set to group one and my light infantry/skirmisher set to group two because they spawn front and center and those are the two units I want to set up first. I actually have my archers set to group four (horse archers) so they spawn out wide and have a good angle to shoot from although I have moved them from group to group to find the best spawn point for them and I have yet to see the group number have any effect on how they act/fight. Same goes for the rest of my units as well. It would be super cool if they implement the AI profile thing you talked about.
I think you may be somewhat off with the charge command. When I charge infantry with throwing weapons, they throw the weapons first. They don't just use their melee weapons.
They'll use their ranged weapon AS they close. Similar AI to the archers. They won't stop, shoot all of their javelins, and close in, they'll launch em en route. Or at least that's the intention :) like I said, if something closes range, they'll forget throwing and charge in buck wild!
@@italianspartacus Okay, so maybe you just made a mistake in the video, because you didn't say that. You said they would draw swords and run at the enemy. Overall, a good video. I'm just trying to help you out. Thanks for the videos.
Oh shit! My bad man hahahah apologies for the misinformation. I think I explained infantry with javelins in ADVANCE and forgot to do charge
Hi Italian sparticus i love watching your guides video! And also thanks for confirming that i've been using the commands right. But one thing that still gets me is how to use the commands to play defensively to get myself out of a sticky situation. Would love a video of how to do it please :)
Great guide, I love you work, but is there any way we can find out more information on how the various formations/groups behave? It's all well and good to say 'these are specific AI profiles', and that *is* helpful, but being able to know what the profiles consist of/do would be game-changing.
Honestly nothing in game tells you :( I wish I could even find out myself. I'll see if I can get some sort of answer for you
@@italianspartacus OK. I appreciate the reply, thank you kindly. One thing I was just trying today was to simply watch what happens in various scenarios, using different commands... which is basically what you're doing here in this video. Putting all of that info together would be a huge undertaking, and any effort put into it would always be under constant threat of being rendered completely obsolete, because of the 'rolling patch' style of release that TaleWorlds uses for Bannerlord.
Anyway, I'm a subscriber, and I'll be watching out for any updates, so please do keep us up to speed as best you can :) Many thanks again.
If you like prolonged battles and tactics, try a battle of over 1k on each side but limiting the battlefield to 400-500 total. Heres what ive noticed with these settings: Reinforcements changes the complexity of the engagement. Horse archers and archers loses alot of its early advantage because ammo becomes a factor. Mass rout is hardly a factor. Attacks and counter attacks numerous times throughout an engagement. Ive had battles last over 30 minutes, and ive noticed the AI is at its best where you are not guaranteed a win on an even matchup. I dont recommend this setting on large sieges though. Just a friendly warning, even if you win you will be shocked at your losses.
Very in depths tips for a beginner like me thanks.
Thanks for the Video didn't know that about charge vs advance
The map was a valley, F1,F2 Follow me. I look back, I see all the horse archers that spawned on top of the mountain jumping off the rocks of its slide into the ground, some of them dieing, most of them taking damage.
Had to resort to the special command Alt F4.
I mean, I was mad, but also laughing a lot.
Thanks, it was a very good video. Learned alot. I'm defintly going to change my tactics.
With 1.4.1 making auto resolve battles vs bandits more forgiving, and my current plan you replace my army with all bandit I’ve not been been commanding my army as much as normal, however this will give me an opportunity to try out all the horse archers I captured after a bandit mission in the east.
Thanks for the tips, they made a lot more sense than what I've been trying to do
I think they should add an animation for bracing with spears/pikes if you’re stationary and have a pike/spear wall formation for use against cavalry charges
With cavalry charges a wedge formation would probably be the best formation to use to plunge them into the enemy footmen atleast that's how the tactic was mostly used by alot of real world generals
I have been enjoying success with these commands however I usually have a front line of infantry. With higher tier shielded infantry they can form a solid shield wall and still throw their ranged weapons.
With the amount of archers the AI currently uses these short breaks in the shield wall don't seem to hurt too much.
I want to know the set of control. like how do you complete stop your horse. or how you pause the battle while adjusting formation.
The problem i had with the Advance command, is always the targets that my units chose.
For example, when the enemy infantries r about to come into contact with mine, while mine was staying in shield wall.
Then I chose advance, assuming my infantries will target theirs.
But my units started to turn around and chase after their cavs instead, straight up ignoring the enemies in front of them.
What about if you put HA into F6 ,infantry to advance ,foot archers F6 and lancers are under your command always like follow me?Well i hoped it work but kuzait infantry can't even hold looters back,HA will circle into infantry line and get rekt,Lancers i haven't even seen them couch on charge.
How did you zoom out of the battlefield... Is there a command? Is this available in campaign
It's a mod! the Photomod I believe
You earned a subscribe from this. Great video!
Welcome to the family brother :)
How did you get that awesome reticle for your bow?
That's from the 2016 Gamescon footage :(
could you put say sturgian skirmish cav into the horse archer slot and still rely on the charge command for them to use their missiles?
I often get frustrated with archers using the "advance" command on anything other than open terrain. My infantry will be fighting and dying, while the archers have positioned themselves behind a hill, unable to see the enemy.
Yeah there is definitely an issue with large objects that they don't see properly :(
Glad someone else notices this, I've kinda just come to terms that I need to always keep an eye on their position. They gotta be baby sat.
I saw in one of your videos that you recommended not being on horseback but leveling up the athletics and move in with the infantry. I'm curious, how would you do these orders based on that? For instance, with the Cav, would you set them to advance as well? Would they work to go around the Infantry to attack the cavalry? If that's the case, should I want my Cav set to have them focus on the enemy Cav? How does the infantry work when set to follow?
Yes! I'd probably move them far to the left them have them advance!
Great video. How do you pause to give formation commands like that?
for speed ive noticed my horse runs faster then one following which becomes hard to charge at the same time.. i try to slow down but then they get slower and slower and charging in and getting back into another charge becomes harder.
So in open ground large battles the Follow Me command makes the troops who are following you switch to the same weapon type if needed.
BUT what if you are raiding a Bandit Camp? I usually go in hoping I get all archers beside me but I use a one handed Mace and a Shield to protect my troops from Arrows and hopefully knock future prisoners unconcious. They luckily do not seem to try to switch to melee weapons in that case!
What about Sieges?
I love your channal bro. Especially mount and blade 2 videos
If you or a troop has their shield on their back does it still offer protection? Stop arrows or melee attacks coming from behind?
I never knew equipment order would have such impact. Thank you for the great video! Also, can I have the name of the map you used to demonstrate?
map_plains_i i believe?! :D thank you so much for watching
@@italianspartacus No thank you! Can't wait for more videos on Bannerlord and TW Warhammer 2 in the future!
Cantabrian* Circle
People from Cantabria
Also, FWIW, not really a Cantabrian Circle. That would involve the entire formation being in a circle, with each horseman chasing the one in front, and the entire formation drifts around like a tornado of horses. As opposed to just running around the enemy.
My god. And I thought the AI was just dumb. Turns out I was the dumb one.
This is great work. I wonder if AI has any major differences nowadays.
Every battle:
Everyone -> Follow me.
Sneaky sneaky behind a high ground hill 100m from enemy.
Everyone -> F6
I find that having my archer line in the Advance stance isn't great. I need to carefully position my forces in order to effectively take on the much larger forces I'm constantly fighting. I find I can get maximum effect from my archers simply by positioning them well and leaving them there to shoot. Advance sends them out of position where my infantry can't properly protect them, and they can't continuously shoot into the hordes I face. I will experiment more with the use of Advance on Infantry and Cavalry though. Thanks!
I cannot stress how important it is to have both horse archers and foot archers. The AI tends to get stuck targeting one or the other (priority target) and the other group shoots the armies in the back. I was running with a high percent of horse archers but my foot archers were getting more kills. Not sure if the AI was targeting the biggest group (40% horse archers) and ignoring the smaller group (30% foot archers) or if it was because horse archers are a higher priority.
I've seen 200+ kills with 0 deaths as the AI runs around in circles chasing horse archers. My Foot archers had over 120 kills.
Kishandreth just get fians you can kill armies twice the size and win without losses
@@flyingdutchman9053 fians are great. I'm just Imperial scum. The ability to decide between palatine Guards and Bucellarii at the end of the leveling makes it too easy. Usually I don't even bother with Palantine guards unless a big fight is coming my way, instead leaving the archers ready to level when I get warhorses. Warhorses are annoying to get enough of. I've probably upgraded 350 Bucellarii this playthrough and about 200 of those were traded to companions for new trainees.
thank you for the video. made me realize i had no idea what i was doing :P
Sorry if you covered this but what happens if horse archers are told to advance? Do they just kite?
If I press f4, f1, f3 with horse archers will they melee charge :)?
Thank god you post videos like this. This game offers so much but it does a terrible job on explaining it.
You mention about the beta tester you have contacts with. However, have you considered becoming one yourself? Is that even possible?
Because I am very positive that the developers gain so much from your videos. Having exclusive content would boost this channel even more and in return help devs reaching out new players.
I haven't! Honestly.. I love being on this end with you guys.. Knowing "too much" can sort of tarnish the game a bit.. Especially if you aren't allowed to talk about things! I love being able to just go wild with all of you and share in my enthusiasm :)
ItalianSpartacus true, that’s a fair answer. Well then, keep up with the good work cuz we’re along for the ride 💪🏻
Unfortunately in massive battle things is just too chaotic to control, the first minute yea set everything down but after that all gone out off window. It just chaos and anarchy.
I enjoyed this video, as best I could.
I'll take it
@@italianspartacus Seriously though. Very informative vid. And mad props for engaging with a random commenter on a year-old video. That's some serious dedication to your audience. Good on ya, mate.
I have M&B wishlisted and I'm working my way through your catalogue on the game before making a decision.
No problem brother! :) I honestly feel like the game is in an AMAZING place if you've not touched it once. If you're like me and have played the shit out of it? I'd hold out. You're in a great position to benefit from the last 18 or so months of improvements. You'll have a great time!
Has anyone figured out how to make the cav couch lances to charge? I've yet to have most of them charge couched
"F1 F3" -Sun Tsu
Hey MAN Cool video and to say I kind of useing same tactics but on binging battle I will put horse archers on F6 to lure opponent in my infantry archers wall then send them to attack. And one more thing if you ever talk to developers my be one small suggestion , as you know we have Barack’s and training buildings in our cities and castles but militia units are crap hope in future that buildings will provide training and give good amount of militia veteran units, so my question is if you ever talk to them to ask them if this will be implemented in a game or we are all DOOMED lol. Wish you all the best thanks ....
I'll be covering that in the community wish list video! :)
if u still play the game then please advice.. the game changed the category thingy in the party page. now i cant set people on if they are heavy infantry or regular.. or put my companions riding horse with archers..
is the F6 even work? few versions befor when i did F6 on my cav the guard the left and right flank automaticly, now when i do F6 they just charge
Your contact's ;army build info seems to be a bit off.
Kuzait, Aseri, and Vlandians have 30-50 percent horses almost every battle. They tend to thrash the Empire because of it.
Need more vids like this.
I thought i was gona love this game,,, do love warband,,, but this one absolutely fuckn sux! I can be completely surround on all sides by enemies and no matter what attack i use in whatever direction i JUS CANNOT hit any enemies
I thought Charge, Advance, and Follow Me were just for beginners. I used them during my first two weeks of play and haven't touched them since. I feel like positioning your troops, setting their formations, then issuing the "follow your sergeants" to individual groups at the appropriate times is most effective.
And here i am using Move ,Charge ,Lose and Shield wall well into the late game XD
This is amazing!
I like to put my Surgeon with my archers to set up a casualty collection point....😁
Thanks for demystifying these commands. Bizarre that they are TaleWorlds has done so little to explain them to the player. Looks great, but feels a bit unwieldly. As if trying to hide complexity from the user, but ultimately just making it difficult to achieve a sophisticated strategy on the battle map.
Hmm can't wait for vassal loyalty to be fixed. Fed up killing lords!
Just says this is no more working as said in the video. Currently it's always better to use charge for all unit except archer (better to positioning manually). If using advance units will just advance and idle in front on enemy. You can use advance for moving army but always call charge when getting on contact.
The best tactic of all is to not use any of these commands whatsoever on your infantry and make them do a shield wall right where they spawn and order archers to stand apart some distance behind melee shield wall. The reinforcement mechanic in this game is so stupid that if you can crush the first initial wave, the rest of their army will span in batches of 15 (or is it 20) on the other side of the map and literally trickle to your side while your reinforcements will be spawned right there. The AI simply cannot win.
I've been looking on the forms to see about controller support can't find anything on there about it can you help me out
There is unfortunately no controller support :(
Well thank God for Steam because it let me configure my PS4 controller works pretty well in combat
Anyone ever tried ring formation? it should be good if your infantry is far outnumbered.. never tried this tho
I prefer square over ring just because it leaves less room for them to get charged "Through" and surrounded! :)
honestly i have always used charge now i understand why my archers die a lot... lol
i didnt know about this stuff. ty
Strategy. press f6 and decimate their horse archers and then seek their general for one on one combat
for me personally f1-f3 sometimes is just far too powerful, that learning any of the best way to learn the tactics is kinda redundant. it even worse because most people hunting/killing looter/bandit even when they already early mid-level
archd3v11 You lose less troops by using tactics. Your poor cavalry are charging into spears lol
0 will select all troops.
Can you make timesteps please? Everything else, nice!
For all of the suggestions? I put one up for the wish list!
F1 F3 done
THE TRUTH
Strategy???? Laughs in Khanguard
So your whole "follow me" bit at the start of the battle did... nothing
You seem to place way to much emphasis on explaining everything with 100% scientific clarity, at the expense of flow and style. I am 8 minutes in and everything you've said so far could be summarized into about 10 sentences.
I love your videos but this one not so much
the command for all soldiers is 0
I'm terribly sorry, but...
CAV - AL - RY. Not cal-va-ry. That's a place in the Bible.
Really great video otherwise! It just had me wince a few times.
I'm actually saying CAV-AL-RY. It just sounds like "Calvary" because of how fast I speak and the fact that my rhotic speech tends to blur that "L." When I say it very slow, and deliberately, it's quite clearly "Cavalry" but when I say it in my standard, conversational tone, it has that effect. I've been covering Total War games for years and this is a comment I field just about every time I use the world "Cavalry, hence why i typically say "Cav" to avoid the confusion. Sorry for any discomfort that put you through, i KNOW it's something I try to really focus on over-pronouncing just make sure people know I'm not referring to the location :)
I am rich as hell now with 500k, what do I do with that? I want to be stronger and not get more money through caravans and workshops
You can set companions with additional parties and gather them into an army lead by you. That increase the number of soldiers you can comand. You can also use money to improve your fiefs faster.
@@jamie_d0g978 yeah I figured that out now I have army of 550 idk if I can buy fiefs if I am a vassal?
@@Lopsinho They used to have a perk that allow you to buy fiefs but its pretty nerfed right now. What you can do for example is buying influence. Recruit troops and donate them to your faction castle and cities gives you good relationships and influence. You can also buy food and stuff and share them due to barter with the armies, giving you the same. But when you got a lot of money, it becomes really useless, they need yo revamp the economy tbh.
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