THE Bannerlord Armor Guide
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- Опубликовано: 19 июн 2024
- Mount and Blade 2 Bannerlord has thousands of options when it comes to gear selection. In this guide, we're going to pick the best armor sets from each culture for the early, middle and late game stages as well as 3 bonus armor sets at the end!
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0:00 - Intro
0:10 - HELP FLESSON19
0:49 - Overview
1:13 - Early Game Aserai
2:16 - Early Game Battania
3:04 - Early Game Empire
3:46 - Early Game Khuzait
4:28 - Early Game Sturgia
5:09 - Early Game Vlandia
5:54 - EARLY GAME RECAP
7:10 - Mid Game Aserai
8:23 - Mid Game Battania
9:12 - Mid Game Empire
9:58 - Mid Game Khuzait
10:43 - Mid Game Sturgia
11:27 - Mid Game Vlandia
12:10 - MID GAME RECAP
13:43 - Late Game Aserai
14:52 - Late Game Battania
15:49 - Late Game Empire
16:52 - Late Game Khuzait
17:49 - Late Game Sturgia
18:41 - Late Game Vlandia
19:33 - LATE GAME RECAP
20:39 - Final Thoughts
22:08 - Bonus Build: Civilian Set
23:15 - Bonus Build: Light Weight + Good Armor
24:41 - Bonus Build: Best Armor On The Market
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armour is a svana reference
Okqay ... what are these 'private issues' exactly?
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for helping people buuuut ... there's A LOT off stuff people tend to do that forbids any help to be received
@@Oroberus Strat's child has been sick for a while I guess, as he posted in his community tab.
@@Oroberus yeah I know what to mean, I lot of shady stuff out there. I'm not sure what to say because I don't want to put his personal stuff out there. He didn't ask for this, I did this on my own so I guess it's possible he made it up but I really don't think that's the case because he wouldn't have anything to gain from it?
@@Strat-Guides Fair enough :)
My favorite set is the "completely mismatched cobbled together looted scrap suit." Terrible on the eyes but you can't beat the price!
Haha I avoid that altogether by running around naked :P
I personally prefer the "mismatched tournament prize set", that includes Sturgian helmet, Vlandian armor and Batanian shoulder pieces and together makes you look like a rugby player.
Because I often run a build that's not just great for tournaments, I found in the early days of this game that that was PRECISELY my best option. Rusty chainmail chausses ftw.
If I'm "being real," it might also bear mentioning that I kinda suck at parrying and chamber blocks so. But I can run in a circle and bash with a two hander with the best, and my horse archer skillz aren't too bad compared to most people I see.
@@iamdanieloliveira THIS i always get my early and mid game armor from tournaments lol
@@Strat-Guidescan’t have ugly mismatched armor if you don’t wear any
Vlandia has such cool armors that their troops don’t wear, imagine banner knights with actual shoulder armor, that would look so much more intimidating than a green cape. Or how the voulgiers only have a scarf
I think most of the shoulder armor looks kinda goofy, it just kinda floats there with no way of being attached to the body
@@ginnpiss it’s actually absurd how bad the shoulder armors look like on women
I hate the way almost all the shoulder armor looks. I'll wear the reinforced mail shoulders a shawl or nothing
@@JoshuaJames604 I’m in the same boat, though I don’t mind some of the imperial harnesses.
Vlandian armour is way too sloppy.
22:43 Strat Gaming: "It's difficult to fight while outnumbered."
Also Strat Gaming in previous videos: "This is me killing 20 gang members on day #1 while naked!"
Lol I had to make it look like a tough fight ;)
@@Strat-Guides Thts alot thou 😹Teach us how while naked 😉....Meow
Heavy Scale Armor over Mail Hauberk outperforms the Mastercrafted Southern armor. It has 5 less leg armor, but has 6 more body armor. It also weighs 18.2 as opposed to the Southern armor's 23.8.
Edit: Also, it's significantly cheaper. 133529 vs 210686.
True.. I was about to say that until I saw your post..
That armor is around 280'000 in my current playthrough
have my whole family dripped out in that😂
Where is it
Just wanted to say thank you for being not just a great content creator/tester but an empathetic human being who went out of his way to start a positive chain reaction. I'm new to all of this and am allergic to technology (it embarrassingly took me forever to find out where to go to begin typing this dang comment) - but when I went to the gofundme page to contribute, I was stunned to see it already completed. Tying in the community like that just goes to show how much of an impact creators like you and Flesson have on other peoples' lives even if it's just to share our love/hobby for games. I wish you all the best and I hope you pull through these rough times, that this positivity vastly outweighs the negative. Support, no matter the form, will always go a long long way. Thoroughly tried and tested xD. I wish everybody happy holidays and a happy new year, may 2023 hitch off to a lovely start to forget a bummer end... And cheers to more fantastic content/games!
TLDR; cheesy AF, ya'll are fucking amazing people.
I appreciate you leaving the feedback on this! I know a lot of people feel the same way as you, but it's always nice to hear it out loud (or read it, you know what I mean lol). The Bannerlord community really pulled this one off and the timing was perfect, he got the funds well before the holidays and I imagine was a huge stress-relief for him. Thank you for the kind words! Yeah the end of this year has been a disaster for me lol I have posted 2 videos since November 1st and my channel tanked a bit, but I'm glad it had enough steam to help Flesson out. 2023 is going to be huge I think, I've got some really big changes in store :)
Finally an armour guide that actually helps that isn't 2yrs old
Yeah they've actually added quite a bit in patches of the last couple years!
Step 1: Marry Svana
Step 2: That's it, you have overpowered armour.
bro legit my female character is named Svana
@@emilianorios1939 damn you must hate my guts then -15 relationship 🤣
@@nickb365 it's because you keep giving everyone towns and castles but me, i'm your wife yet you always neglect me, why my husband.
Thank you for all you’ve done for us Flesson!
Thanks for the video, and thanks for shouting out Flesson. It's always nice to see people helping people.
For sure, I hope we can get enough people to chip in :)
As disappointing as the 2 second difference in the armor weight race, it could be that mobility armor sets affect acceleration and maneuverability in combat much more than maximum speed, which is arguably more important in a fight.
That's a good point, maybe when I do those speed tests I could analyze top speed difference and off-the-line speeds? I had not considered that before.
Perhaps they might have made it some kind of curve, making it matter more early on then less and less with more armor. To prevent players from going 0 speed and writing angry post on forum.
@@Strat-Guides Yeah make the race 10 times shorter and see what happens. Precise measurement is the tricky part here, might need a mod or something to help
It is true but not at the same time, perhaps the speed was limited but, in real history the armor generally did not impede my mobility, for example the medieval plate armor was A work of art mechanically, totally Maneuverable, the Romans for example, the loriga segmentata, and their arm guards were articulated..for which, the armor adds weight and limits your speed, but not so much your mobility, maybe vision (full helmet) anyway, Greetings
Another great well constructed video. I will keep this all in mind in my playthroughs
I am a sucker for the t6 sturgian and khuzait helmet. They look sick af.
The best body armor is actually the Empire's Heavy Scale Armor Over Mail Hauberk (57/20/16) and Empire's Lamellar wih Scale Skirt as a very close second (52/23/16) but arguably more sick.
The best horse I feel is the Asaligat (63/82/245). Wadar Hotblood (68/78/230)is amazing but only beats the Asaligat in speed.
Man, I just simply love your content. Awrsome work as usual.
Wow what an amazing collaboration! I really want to encourage people to donate- seriously think of how many thousands of hours Flesson put into helping us all out with info! Even 2$ is helpful bc it really adds up! Let's smash 1500$!!!
Agreed, he's a really good guy and deserves a bit of help from us all :D
Props for extensively covering Flesson19 and his contribution to Bannerlord community. Not a lot of people are willing to credit others.
truly a Great video of 2 great RUclips presenters , thank you for the amount of work you both have contributed to this video...Flesson19 and Strat ..... its amazing when this level of harmony can produce this type combined ..........
Thanks! We both put a couple weeks worth of work into this one and I think it turned out well :)
Thank to Flesson and yourself. Love the video 😊
Been waiting for a video for awhile, thanks strat👍
I absolutely lov the fact that you're showing all of your tests and only then explaining what enactable conclusions you came to.
You guys effort is truly appreciated! Thanks for teaching me how to play this awesome but confusing ass game.
Your attention to detail is unmatched and your thorough analysis is the best. I don’t know any better RUclipsr
Thank you!! :D
Hey, glad to see you're back!
I'm a loot goblin who doesn't like to spend money on gear (hardly ever), so I just equip the best of whatever the enemies drop (high Roguery ftw). I play on easier difficulties anyway so personal protection is less of an issue. not the most useful video for me personally, but I appreciate the work that went into it. definitely interesting to see someone test the effects of armor firsthand though.
also yes, let's give Flesson a hand. thanks for setting up the fundraiser.
Thanks! It's been a long time it feels like.
Lol I know the feeling, my last campaign was 90% looted gear too. It's a lot of fun trying to collect a good set that way :)
For sure, he really does deserve it.
Thanks for your hard work gentlemen!
Flesson is a legend
YAY! lifesign! i started to get concerned for you when there was no vid after a month now! i will watch tomorrow when i have time but felt to need to comment, mate! good to hear you recovered from your nasty cold.
amazing video as always, i love you
Unrelated but the way you introduced flesson as the big bro in another video for some reason thought he was a bigger youtuber or something, randomly checked yalls subs and saw the difference, youre a good guy strat 🥂 showin love to smaller channels
Great video I really enjoyed it! I’d love to see a 4th segment with best theoretical armor from each culture as well
Thank you! I'm going to do a follow up to this one in the future and go heavy into damage testing. I can use the min/max armor pieces for the late game damage testing then :)
This help so much. Thank you
Love the bloopers at the end!
STRAT I MISSED YOUR VIDEOS
Flesson is that dude! Hope all is well 🙏🏾
Great eye opener...my set its mixed...great job Strat!
Interesting guide. Thank you! I just wanted to add that early and late game sets should be compared by damage absorption for different type of damage. Since the pierce damage ignores some of the armor and blunt damage ignores a lot of the armor, the cut damage is absorbed heavily by armor. Take it into account.
In my experience, big armor values are more worth it than the tests here would make it seem, since the player would most often be fighting troops that are tier 2-4, outfitted with weaker ranged weapons and mainly cut-damage melee weapons, like swords and axes. The diminishing returns would only show themselves when fighting rarer tier 5, 6 troops or enemy nobles.
I definitely tend to choose form over function with armor and love all the mail hauberks, especially the Sturgian ones with the golden/bronze rings and lamellar covering the torso. It's just the right amount of real-looking protection and lavish style that would befit a warlord. All the Vlandian helmets work perfect for this end, with their mail and face masks.
Happy to donate! Helpful rule of thumb for French words like cervelliere (from French cervelière), generally they last letter of the word is not pronounced! Exceptions exist of course but it's generally a trustworthy rule. In this case the word is pronounced like: sir - vel - ee(like bee) - yair
If the last letter is a vowel other than e, it will be pronounced.
If it is an r or a t, preceded by an e, it will not be pronounced as the sound created by the e t or e r combination is essentially the same as the e with an accent on it.
If the last letter is n, preceded by an o or a u, it will also not be pronounced, as again, it is a sound created from the combination of letter.
There are other rules involved in french, such as the t preceded by an o as the last two letters, where the t is silent, despite not creating a "combination" sound.
@@kevg1617 Absolutely right, I over simplified on purpose though. My rule covers most words English speakers encounter
@@UnlimitedDiarrhea got it. Always find it funny to hear English speakers who have no knowledge of French pronounce French words that end in silent letters. That said it's also funny to hear French speakers pronounce English words, so I have a good time in general, living in Quebec as I do and all
It's not dimishing returns AT all in term of survivability : if you lose 5 less hp out of a 20 hp hit, that means you took 33% less damage. Adding the fact you have at most 200 hp it means you die in 14 hits rather than 10 (again around 33% more). But a lot of shots are grazing you going form 3 to 1 hp or better 6 to 1 : in thoses cases the increase is huge. Of course if you take couching damages your a gonner anyway because thoses lances are deadly (rightfully so).
Good to have you back
Thanks Marksman! This one took a really long time to make too lol I should have started with something smaller so it wouldn't take 2 - 3 weeks :P
Great upload
Thank you!
Boom with the 👍 👌 👍 love the effort you put in
Yo this video is so detailed. I need this. Ty🙌💯
Amazing test, as always.
One thing though: i find aserai leather strips over padded robe to be quite a bit better civilian armor than the imperial one.
nice work
worth mentioning "Lordly" pieces of armor. I have some mail boots and gloves that each have 30 armor value. One was battle loot, other from a shop. No mods, about day 300
Lordly version of the good pieces are always way better than the normal version
Its +8 to each armor value that the armor represents.
I watched it twice, first as a fan of Flesson19 and Strat Gaming videos. 12/10 :)
Second time paying attention to details, like why does the best armor not give us more protection against missiles. I got some good armor and cant even lower my shield, to shout out orders to my troops, without risking that I take a shot for 40+ damage through my superhero helmet.
I am now on the lookout for a Lordly helmet that would give me +8 armor. With such a super rare helmet I might only take 39 damage :)
For people wondering, Lordly gives +8 to each stat on an armor piece.
well strat, this is nice - but Id like to see a best armour by appearance choices too. Embrace the Fashion lord!
As you say the difference between super high and mid tier values is minimal in terms of protection, so - may as well concentrate on being dapper as hell.
There are some really nice cross culture armour sets that look like they were meant to be worn together.
EG: scale armour from batania + aserai work wonderfully.
Hey, thank you for the video it really helped me when I was taking alleys I would love a updated video I found the bronze breastplate in battania is civilian capable 😀
I have loved Vikings all my life and have studied them for a long time so when I picked this game up you know I immediately fell in love with the Sturgians. They are more of a older middle aged Russian faction with all the armor showing that but I enjoy it so much
A Strat upload always make my day better.
Thanks for watching!
thank you for this interesting and time intensiv video with the other bannerlord youtube god flessorn19.
once i wandered around calradia i watched out for the best looking armor and i realized some parts are very rare. at least i now know that it depends on the armor and weapon smith but what happens if you have in every city a weapon and armor smith? you know, buying 2 workshops, changig the production and selling them again and so on.
my suggestion: the price for iron will get a massive boost and not every shop will be producing. '
so what is the most effective way to get those super rare tier 6 armor pieces?
I’d be curious to see the difference in damage from the first set of bow attacks on the late game armour. Running headlong into Fian Champions is always a bad idea, but it would be interesting to see how much damage you can absorb from low tier troops
Yo Strat! I personally love to match the heavy lamellar pauldron with the late game armour, it just looks way better and fitting
Something I noticed about the Khuzait and Aserai is that a lot of their leg and arm armours are technically from other factions and so don't show up in shops, but their troops regularly wear them (Various mail and splint armours come to mind)
with no aditional modifiers, the best armor (heavy one) is warlord helmet 54 and brigandine over hauberk from sturgia 94, battania scaled boots and gloves at 26 each and for shoulders either vlandian or aserai ones at 32 total. With a high enough roguery skill you can grind for the lordly ones but it`s not that much better than the standard ones. With these stats no one enemy can kill you, you`ll even survive couch lance attacks
The problem i have with the leather harnesses of the empire is that they are sooo heavy compared to the armor they give and their look (like the one you showed in lategame, 14 weight!).
The vlandian one weight less than 1/4 of the harness for a similar armor + looks better.
Anyway nice video again !
Man I love this game. I can’t wait for a 3rd
I like the go fund me idea. I don’t tend to buy merch or sign up for patron so this way I get to chip in 👍
Thank you so much for helping out! I'm sure he's going to be over the moon :) I agree, I thought about doing a sponsorship and just donate the proceeds but I felt like it would mean more to him to have the backing of the community he cares so much about so I went this route instead. Thanks again :)
Man this video was sick, the Bannerlord community is great, will only continue to get better too with the likes of Strat and Flesson leading the way, good job fellas:)
Thank you! Agreed, I've been around a lot of gaming communities and not many are like this one :)
The best headpiece I've had was 56 armor. The scaled arm/leg armor also has an improved version, noble or something. I wish they added master weaponsmith and master armorsmith branches so that we could craft full gear.
I have one of 57 in my current playthrough, lordly closed mail goggled helmet, but ye the lordly does that I think
Strat makes so good guides. I love these. I dont even own bannerlord.
Thank you panda! I appreciate that :)
arrows use piercing, which means the armor is only half as effective. the slashing weapons is where the armor really shines. blunt now doesn't fully ignore armor, but armor is negligible. this is why most weapons with slashing, piercing, and blunt has the damage values that they do. basically low damage blunt weapons are really good against armored opponents, slashing weapons are for low armor opponents, and piercing splits the difference.
Good thing RUclips recommended me this 3 days after
I did miss an armor/weigh best ratio set, to be as light as possible but still with acceptable armor so we can run faster. For example, suede boots, leather vambraces and the padded coif are good for that. Some waxed or fine versions of starting armors are even good enough too.
>Chapters will be added in a couple days, until then please watch the whole video :D
it's been a few days and I see you leave me no choice hmpf hmpf
0:00 - Intro
0:10 - HELP FLESSON19
0:49 - Overview
1:13 - Aserai
2:16 - Battania
3:04 - Empire
3:46 - Khuzait
4:28 - Sturgia
5:09 - Vlandia
5:54 - EARLY GAME RECAP
7:10 - Aserai
8:23 - Battania
9:12 - Empire
9:58 - Khuzait
10:43 - Sturgia
11:27 - Vlandia
12:10 - MID GAME RECAP
13:43 - Aserai
14:52 - Battania
15:49 - Empire
16:52 - Khuzait
17:49 - Sturgia
18:41 - Vlandia
19:33 - LATE GAME RECAP
20:39 - Final Thoughts
22:08 - Bonus Build: Wimp Civilian Set
23:15 - Bonus Build: Daddy's Performance Set
24:41 - Bonus Build: Sigma Grindset Set (GetReal™Edition)
Sorry bro, family stuff and holidays are a bit crazy. I appreciate that, I'll add this to the description!
@@Strat-Guides Heya man, hope you're spending the holidays well with your family. And while we are here, I want to thank you for all these videos, it's been real fun to have some spreadsheet gaming and 𝓶𝓪𝓹 𝓹𝓸𝓻𝓷 videos to go along with my 4th playthrough :)
@@cavemann_ thanks man, I appreciate that :) yeah it's mostly been watching the kids and helping out parents while they recover from that RSV crap that we were dealing with last month. But we're all doing much better so can't complain.
The potential armor value if these have the lordly modifier is insane, but you couldn't really acquire the best in slot armors with the lordly tag, cycling towns is a crapshoot at best, even items that are usually in high supply (say 20-40 at most towns that sell them) it can take forever to intentionally find even 1 upgraded variant, let alone a lordly one. The most reliable way to get Lordly items is through the roguery skill, because in after battle loot, item modifiers are seen much more consistently, but that brings me back to the first point, many of the top tier armors are not worn by any units, like the "reinforced ornate pauldrons over scale" I dont believe are worn by anything, so they could never drop as battle loot, but some second best in slots do drop, and the lordly versions 2nd best items would still be far stronger than the best items default stats.
I found it very hard to find the lordly gear I wanted, led me to believe certain pieces can't even roll as lordly and nothing I could search online gave me any info on it at all... getting the best gear takes a bit of luck, getting the pieces to roll lordly is effectively impossible without min maxing your chances and grinding for hours. If it's even possible.
My favorite armour set is "highest stats on everything except bear hat and armoured bearskin." I cant get over how nice the bear hat and skin looks. Wolf works too for when im broke.
Lordly Lamellar Pauldrons weigh 5.0 body armor 24, arm armor 14. I'm also surprised for civilian the Fine Thick Brigandine Vest wt 4.5, BA39, AA13, LA 7, in Amprela for 5743 denar. Maybe later than you pulled data for this video. Funny I never find the Wadar Hotblood in the village of Wadar. Looking forward to some day when we can make or repair armor in the forge.
Cavalry with full coverage helms (which were most often worn visor up until the very end of a charge) is indeed a bit later, though so were the components that allowed a lance to be couched to best effect (the Grapper/Arrêt de Lance, and the much later Lance Rest on a cuirass).
Honorable mention to the "thick brigandine vest" for non-civilian use. It's pretty good chest armor for its cost/tier/weight, though it totally lacks arm armor.
Okay gotcha, yeah I figured that was the case. So they didn't have much need for it without the ability to couch? Seems like armor at the time was meant to deflect the lance away, but you don't see those elements in the armor present in Bannerlord. I guess it makes sense now :)
@@Strat-Guides It's more that full helms and even visor down are actually a relatively niche option as far as helmets go and "middle of a cavalry charge right before contact with the enemy" is on the short list of things they're good at. Humans still very much needed to breath and see.
Ngl sturgian and vladian armors together or mixed is pretty awesome
He's baaaack
Just want to say from personal experience though, in mid game(around 100days), tournaments give me quite a lot of roundkettle(34 head armor),some variety of shoulder guard, and usually a few of white tabard over mail hauberk(34,12,12)(the one vladian use alot, never fight much tournamets at vladian though lol)
He's back!
Finally! :)
I think leather strips over padded (Aserai) is the best civi body armour. I've been playing RBM for a while so I may have forgotten.
Yes, it squeaks by with 36B / 7A / 6L
I'd like to see more testing with different weapons. Just to see if different damage values/types have different impact on higher armor.
I think pierce already does better against armor than cut? Maybe cut weapons get reduces more by higher armor, also higher damage weapons losing more of their impact?
Agreed, that will be the topic for the next armor video! This one was already approaching 30 minutes so I decided to cut the testing off. I think cut weapons will do much worse against late game armor, but I am curious to see how blunt weapons do compared to early game armor.
Fantastic video, and what an amazing thing to do, that GoFundme.
I am gonna share this with my community
Recently in my playthrough I found the Reinforced ornate pauldrons over scale in shop, but the stats are totally different now. It has almost 14 weight value and and the armor value is also much lower, 13 body armor, 12 arm armor. I guess this is because of the recent patch, in Wich they added more armors
Can’t wait for the review for the silvered yeti armor
If im remembering right actual cataphrat helms only used chainmail like covers for the face so the neck cover would be about right. I believe full face coverings for calv came later on in european cultures. Though I could be wrong.
Great guide esp since I was planning to do a playthrough where my character and companions are only allowed to equip armors of their own culture.
For some reason (Taleworlds math maybe), the Mastercrafted Southern Scale over Chain Hauberk is really overpriced compared to the best armor in other cultures. My personal favorite is the Light Lamellar Armor worn by Aserai Veteran Infantry. It's not the best armor but you get a whooping 48 body armor for just ~38k denars at the cost of 0 leg armor.
The mastercrafted southern scale has a significantly higher armor value than the best armor of some of the other cultures. It makes sense that a piece of armor granting 50+ body armor is going to be more expensive than a piece that is only granting 40.
Also, if you just look at the price of raw materials, iron and other smithing materials tend to be more expensive and more rare in Aeseri territory than say Sturgia. It makes sense then that skilled blacksmiths are harder to find and get more of a premium for their goods.
Last one is awesome 🎉
I would like to see you test how important each type of armor is in a real battle, like for example if leg armor matters if your doing foot combat.
Don't want to advertise another Bannerlord channel (hopefully SG don't mind) but LyonExodus is doing really good job and deep analysis on armor. Basically for foot troops only body and head armor is relevant. For cavalry, leg is somewhat important aswell but again - most blows, arrows and hits will go to body + head.
@@Aldilus I see. I was wondering if arm armor is important in melee but seems like it isnt, thanks.
Random "Hitler Mussolini" from Brazil mentioned in profile picture
so in nutshell armor is more of a dressing game than a meta topic - i like it.
Actually, the light Vlandian getup looks pretty cool, you can definitely see the fantasy aspect.
I was a little surprised you didn't cover the prefix that can be added on drops from combat. Lordly vs Fine etc.
In the next one i'll be covering that. I wanted to use only the regular armor pieces so it would be easier to compare them and see which ones were better without being modified.
@@Strat-Guides well that's a very Lordly reply. Thank you!
A fine reply indeed.
Don't forget that rogue perk giving +10 chest armor to civilian armor making Thick Brigandine provide 44 chest armor for 4.5 weight and wearable in town.
Strat i just got into bannerlord and i have to say, your videos are a big help. I do have two questions for you though.
1. how do i use that overhead camera you use in your formation videos; is it just a custom battle thing, a mod, or did I just miss a setting?
2. If I get into a massive fight and I lose a bunch of my high level troops, how do I replace them? Do i have to go around grabbing recruits from villages all over again? I haven't gotten to late game yet, and haven't really touched settlements at all, is it something in there?
Hi Tyler! The overhead camera is a mod called RTS Camera mod. Generally high level troops shouldn't be dying too much - maybe at most 20 - 30% of the ones that go down will die and even less if you have a good surgeon. Best way to get more is to take them from a garrison. Next best it to recruit prisoners and only keep higher tier ones. Otherwise, just going around and leveling them up. If you're crashing your army into equal battles where high losses are expected, you might want to rethink you engagements a bit more. It's good to fight a few close battles from time to time, but generally you want to take easy fights to preserve your ranks.
The only thing i truly hate about this game, is the way that every NPC just NEVER stop going after you in combat scenarios. They're always right in your face, never leaving pockets of air.
Yeah I usually save up 5M denars or so, so I can pay them off for a couple years while I expand through 1 - 2 of the weaker kingdoms.
Cool video, lots of work, thank you. I dunno about these parameters though. Wouldn't it change from game to game based on what loot caravans move around? (Not sure about Lords) I'm pretty sure that i've found a complete cataphract set in the Empire lands by lategame.
Cataphracts are Empire troops, so why wouldn't those armors be available in Empire lands?
Thanks for watching! So the armor sets are made at towns when they have enough materials to do so. If they have a smithy it's even more likely to be made, but even a town without one can do it, but they still need to materials (iron, leather, hardwood). So in this case, when we bought everything from the towns, they didn't have it in stock which means it was either consumed by the town (prosperity consumes goods including gear) or it wasn't made due to lack of resources.
@@Strat-Guides Ah, i see. Thanks for clarifying!
Idk if is new but the battanian high tier helmet should be the warlord helmet... that one look awesome btw
So the Scale Boots are basically the best boots in the game Protection/Weight ratio...yes? As always great job...Thanks!
Yeah I think so, boot and arm armor is a very small list of options :(
I convinced myself a few less armor points is well worth the trade off to be lighter
Thanks for the video Strat! Greatly appreciated! Quick question tho: why do you prefer and rank higher the Mastercrafted Southhern Scale Over Chain Hauberk and not Heavy Scale Armor Over Mail Hauberk? The HSAOMH has a higer body and leg rating to the MSSOCH ( 57/16/20 vs 51/25/16)
Great question! So we put these sets together based on what was available so it's not a true min/max guide but more a realistic representation of what a campaign can look like. We didn't play 500 days but just used 200x speed to get there so it's not 100% accurate I guess, but we didn't want to just open up the cheat menu and dress people up :) It's a good point you bring up though and I agree with you.
@@Strat-Guides Awesome! Thanks for the clarification! :)
Just wanted to know if there's a hidden quirk somewhere cause I go for the HSAOMH 100% of my playthroughs.
Thanks again for the useful video and keep up the good work!
Just look out for Lordly Armor. Boots can go to 34 Armor, Arm to 32 Armor, Head to 57 Armor, Chest 24/22 and Body is like 52/22/26. Except Body and Head which are at 100-200k each. The Rest is mostly under 10k. The best I had was 57 Head 76 Body 76 Arm 60 Leg I felt like I had Damage Reduction on had to double Check after battle. I was on realistic... Arm and Leg is actually avaible at Day 200 already, just gotta be lucky. My favourite is still looted Bandit Gear that make u look like a mix of Searaider and Mountain Bandit.
Now do that for RBM. It will be soooo much more meaningful, because armor does a lot in RBM as you know
I just pick whatever looks good and fits culturally, big RP.
The only thing I'm missing is a the Vlandian Crown. I've heard it say one can get it in prosperous towns, but AI can't make prosperous towns so unsure what to do.
I've got the Battanian one because I married a Batannian.
But right now I've got the 'white' tabard over chainmail, chainmail boots and mittens, the heavy cloak and then the same sword and spear the tier 5 Vlandian cav uses.
As well as chainmail for my horse.
And of course I have a Destrier as that's what my cav uses too!
One issue - u used piercing damage to test DMG absorbtion (the one which od designated to not depend on armor). Using cut DMG would show much more difference.
Nice review. Only thing more I could ask is which armor pieces interact best with the armor perks. What's the best setup for the tankiest of tanky builds?
Good question - so the 2 perks that come to mind are the one that reduces armor weight and the 250 that increases armor by 10%. In that case, taking the highest armor rating is probably the best because it won't be quite as heavy and you'll get the most armor bonus from it!
You can also get perks from riding towards the horse hit points and armor, just to get the feel of a Swadian Butterlord.
The Heavy Scale Armor over Mail Hauberk has a higher total armor than the Mastercrafted Southern Scale over Chain Hauberk, has higher body armor, and weighs less.
Also, the leopard skin outclasses the heavy cloak by a landslide for civilian gear.
On the late game battania armour there is a warlord helmet that looks a lot better and may actually be the other part for the set