I tried to include some of the hidden features about a number of more well known aspects in the game. What do you guys think about it? Was there any that you didn’t know?
Would be nice to include timestamps of the 5 things you present. What can I say, I have become a very impatient viewer :) Edit: it was worth watching immediately, because I never knew I have to manually build siege equipment. I don't usually siege, but now maybe I will do more of that :)
Ahh, the prison break, also known as the Calradian divorce ;-). Prison break missions are actually the only mission in the game where a companion/lord going down during the fight means they will be 100% dead, even if you do manage to kill the remaining guards and escape unscathed yourself. So if you want to have some more kids to build your future clan of rulers, but your wife is getting a little too old to have children, having her captured by an enemy and then heroically trying to "rescue" her is the way to do it. (Just remember to save your game before a prison break if you actually do care about the person you are trying to free).
@@gregorysilas6329 You need to sneak into the enemy city (just approach the city and then pick the "sneak in" option instead of parley or besiege. You need quite a high roguery skill to have a solid chance, the success percentage is displayed before you try. If you fail the sneak check, you get imprisoned yourself, so save your game before you try. If you succeed to get in, you can then proceed to bribe a guard to get into prison and then get to the breakout fight as normal. Last I checked, this only works with cities, you can't sneak into hostile castles. But NPC parties tend to dump their prisoners in the dungeon of the next settlement they visit, so getting her imprisoned in a city is not that difficult, just have her in your party, go near an enemy city and then found a new party with her as the leader and a few horseless recruits to slow her down.
If the enemy doesnt have any onagers this is very rarely an issue, if the enemy has tons of onagers and/or ballistas, you can change your infantry into loose formation so that while probability of a troop being hit is higher, they will only get hit one at a time as opposed to losing 4-8 men in one swoop.
Ladders are all you need. Have your ppl run to the wall at cover from their siege equipment. Infantry at the foot of the walls, archers right behind them. High quality archers will take out 50 odd of theirs without even assaulting the walls. If out of arrows, retreat and attack again until you have taken out most of theirs. Then, order the assault with the ladders (they won't have enough ppl left to hold a proper defence). Just like in the good old Warband days ^^ And the best part is, at worst, you will loose about 15 ppl.
A “Major” one that you did forget is you can actually taunt during battle. Similarly to how your troops go ballistic after a victory, you can do the same and even mid-fight. And it increases morale for your troops on the battlefield. The catch is, you leave yourself open and early game it’s a death sentence… For consoles you just use the D-pad.
another one is you can use your companions when smithing. Just click on your own players icon in the smithing screen and then select a companion. Or one i just figured out today is W and S will change the range of your Siege engines when youre controlling them
I’ve been playing the game over a year and made a new run and barely found out yesterday about swapping members for smithing. So many wasted game days just gathering materials when I could’ve also been making more weapons to sell.
Best way to win a war is to raid a lot, best way to raid quickly if the war is going the wrong way is to first force the village to either hand over supplies or recruits, then the raid will be automatically 80% completed and you can just burn the rest, takes about a day, then move on to the next one. It'll give you a lot less resources, but it'll count massively towards your war score. I use it a lot in early game to force a peace and have the enemy pay me, even though I'm not a kingdom or a mercenary. Just make sure you bargain with a noble that has a lot of cash, since they pay you from their own purse.
I wish this wasn't a built in war score mechanic and instead it would actually affect the economy of the game and force peace indirectly through a real economy being crippled. If there was a real economy in bannerlord it would be so much more interesting. But instead it's kind of just a pseudo-economy, and towns will always make money regardless of whether they're actually getting resources or not. There's a lower and upper limit to their production essentially, meaning you could entirely cut off a town from all supplies by stopping anyone from going in or out and the town would continue to function forever if you could somehow siege it forever. Imagine being able to somehow set up blockades on borders to stop caravans from making it through? Or even to just attack a lot of caravans to cripple the economy of a faction to force them to peace. I think this is what they were originally going for, but it wasn't long after or maybe even before the beta came out that all the devs passion for this game died, and they decided to essentially release an engine and hope modders did all the work for them (which they can't even do because it's so hard for mods to be made compatible).
Just found a hermit in the mountains, let’s you become a hermit, which you then have to select an heir because your character becomes unplayable, if you have no heir it ends your game, thought was pretty cool
@@drunkgopnik6705 Now you know this - have you fast tracked to releasing your brother and then immediately gone hermit? 30 minutes into the game and we can play as him, with his skills. Respec him and ta-daa - the most OP available character. A little cheeki breeki but handy for when you don't wanna spend time levelling up.
Siege equipment is totally cheesed. Build 4 trebs, once one is built, pause the instant it's done, put it in storage. Do that with all 4 and wait for the settlement food to run out. Then all the towns upper tier troops will leave. Pause, re-enable trebs, unpause and they'll wipe out all of the towns siege equipment. Just wait until it knocks holes in the wall and assault. Town capture made easy. Also in tournaments, if your companions are in a match, watch the match. If you Skip watching you'll miss out on them building perks and leveling in a safe environment. Also also, when you fight them, single them out to be the last survivor, block with a shield while walking backwards until they break it. It works on leveling up their athletic and whatever weapons abilities they happen to be using.
I do this and the game is still a grind building up their skills. Check out the XP Tweaks mod which is fantastic. I went to 1.4 Beta and XP Tweaks hasn't been updated yet. Such is life.
why wait until the settlement runs out of food? you can just deploy all 4 when you finish building them and take out their siege equipment and destroy their walls while their food ran out
@@ernestogastelum9123 well if there is 110 milita and 200 garrison of multiple ranks, you're facing 310 troops. By waiting for the food to run out, morale drops down to zero and the garrison slowly abandons the settlement. Now the milita still slowly grows but they're low tier trash so you stand to only face 110 to 120 low tier milita that will get wiped fast with your assumingly better tier troops. Easy win.
also didn't know about saving the siege engines to deploy them all at once. I was building them one by one and they were getting destroyed instantly so I gave up on siege equipment. I go max bow skill with high damage expensive bows and arrows, get elite archers, place them near the enemy walls so they don't get hammered by wall siege equipment and just farm the enemy from outside the walls. then when they're low enough on numbers, I order archers to ladder up
Not only companions participate in the tournaments, but the npc you have married with also. It's so hilarious when my favorite waifu, Siga, while being pregnant, knocks my character out with a two-handed axe.
For point 1... I think probably zero people didn't know that... The game literally flashes the icons at you in bright blue in the same menu that you launch the assault in. Also, anybody that's been a merc and joined an assault will have seen your allies build in those places. Not exactly rocket science, and the game telegraphs them just fine.
Yes, I think there even is a tutorial popup for that when you first enter the siege. However, the game DOESN'T tell you, that you can move built siege engines into reserve to keep them from beeing attack and then putting them out all at once. I played a very long time without finding this out, because it isn't telegraphed in any way that clicking on a ready built siege engine would do anything, since they attack fully automatically once they are ready.
@@chrisrudolf9839it's shmucks like you that give people like us reason to bully you. You wanna be a twat? Cool..then you get nasty remarks made to you. If you don't have anything nice to say, go fck your mom
I have a lot of hours in banner lord but the putting siege weapons in reserve was a game changer for me. One I only just found out recently. but yeah I mostly just bum rush with ladders. Also starving out ppl in sieges is also a thing. I'm gonna use it more early game.
I feel like people sleep on the most OP thing in the game, which is waiting for an enemy army to besiege a castle/city then, when the attack starts just break into the fief and click "Send Troops". This will instantly win you the battle 95% of the time. It's by far the best way to get money, prisoners and renown since you're technically killing 6-15 people per troop that you have. A good example for this would be having a party with 120 men, breaking into a city with around 100 milita defending it against an army worth 800 people. You're probably gonna win that since the auto resolve is busted lmao.
I keep the garrison of one of my towns stocked with low quality foot troops for this reason- once I see an army on the move, I swap my forces out with the cannon fodder to break in and auto resolve for a win. Saves the settlement without sacrificing any of my valuable elite troops.
Welcome lol game doesn't need to be perfect, doesn't need to be hardcore - it can just be fun. We may be 'the chosen one' in this but if you fancy a more sandbox experience and "not being special", then the OG "Mount & Blade: Warband" is still fun, even today. Janky but fun and there's actual DLC that's hugely fun too. Even think the multiplayer is still active.
Yo man, I’m 100% subscribing and liking your videos from now on, these top fives have quite literally saved my saves I just started getting into the game and even though some of the stuff seems obvious you’re really saving me hours of pain with these awesome vids
Dude, hitting pause and putting my trebuchet into reserve so I could deploy them all at once in seriously a big brain move. I never thought of that, I know what I'm trying after work Update, it works perfectly. Thank you bud, I was just setting all 4 to build one at a time and watching them get destroyed because they take a while to build. Beyond helpful
You should also include that if you break in to help defenders when the enemy sieges your town or allied town, even if you lose troops, it still gives you the funniest gameplay. Defending a town is awesome. You can take boiling pots and instead of using baristas, you can throw them down on the enemies. Its super fun and gives you a lot of kills.
Companions also gain skill points in tournaments. Even if you are not fighting in the round your companions are participating in, you can watch the round and they will gain skill points if they are successful. You have to watch the round, you cant skip it.
I actually ended up conquering calradia caveman style before I notice you can build battering rams. To this day I ended up never bothered to making siege engine because the dungeon will always be full of prisoners so replenishing troops is never a problem.
@@gaminghedgehog6364 unless you are taking a city (that is your culture) from a different cultures lords, then you will be able to recruit a whole bunch of troops of your culture! Sell the foreign ones for roguery and cash!
Smh... "move to reserves" "reset companion skills"... wtf.. I didn't even think of any of this. Glad I just recently started playing BL. Thank you guy!
With tournaments, I don't even fight them myself anymore. I just check what the reward is and depending on that, I'll either join or watch. Even if you watch a tournament, the companions are still joining and can win the tournament for you and you still get the item. You can even directly leave and it'll auto resolve the tournament winner and give you the item. free stuff ftw.
4240,9 hrs according to Steam. In fairness I may have gone a little mad before launch but I'm open to your best shot The companion tournament thing is kind of a cool side game - grab some companions, give them some good kit and travel the world entering tourneys, then leave them immediately - it'll finish having played out and if your companion won, then it took you under 30s to get that horse. I find it handy for when I just wanna play Caravaneer, it keeps them alive and builds up their skills a little while I'm getting that Trade skill maxed.
I already knew about all of these, but just wanted to point out that companions will also participate in tournaments if you just watch instead of participate yourself. Also, any companions left in either the keep or taver ln of a town will automatically compete in tournaments without you even needing to be there. I don't think you get the prize this way, but you do get renown.
> in no way does the game even hint you have to build siege equipment > shows huge siege equipment slots flickering on the map Are you taking us for total idiots?
Ranged siege weapons reload ammunition on retreat the same way as bows. Which means if you square up your melee and mass archers in 1 big group on 1 side, you can take a 1000 defender town or castle with sub 10 casualties or even none by targetting the melee with ranged siege and leaving the rest to your massed archers. More effective if you destroy the walls before hand and they mass behind the breach in a nice big ball.
Tip 6: The best way to be a kingdom, is to not be one at first. Step 1: Be a mercenary, and do not sell your lord prisoners, donate them to large city dungeons for influence, but more importantly, charm and relationship bonus with that whole clan! Step 2: Build up a large (20 million+) treasury while being a mercenary, then stop being a mercenary and either with 300 trade(easy enough) buy a city from someone, or find one that rebels and take it. You now have a city but as you are not a kingdom, no one will declare war on you or attack you. Step 3: Keep buying cities and castles(dump the garrisons and stop auto recruitment, you don't need them right now) from lords who like you until you have a decent number of them, using trade and your income from your cities this will help supplement your income. Step 4: Now become a kingdom and either sway lords to join you, or pick your(hopefully well leveled) companions to become new lords by granting them a castle or town. Your companions will suddenly have 2-4 additional lords join them as a clan so you can get a decent sized kingdom just using them as well. Step 5: Dominate! (and remember to turn back on auto recruitment for your cities and castles, adjust wages as needed)
Got this on game pass a few week ago & I can't put it down, that first tip was great, I've been concentrating on towers & rams as they don't get targeted & then building a trebuchet & as soon as it was build I'd attack in hops it would take the heat off the catapults while I charge my melee soldiers to the ladders 😂 cheers for that one!
Finally dove back in bannerlord after getting discouraged playing it first time cause I had no idea what the fuck to do and im completely obsessed after figuring out everything and this video will make my experience better thanks bro!
You can manipulate turnament prizes with companions, 8 combat companions ( wifuu included) and you will get the best rewards since they are counted as lords, at that point tournaments start droping end game helmets each worht 50k + depending on your trade, its another way of geting rich in early game, i combine this with dualist perk from onehanded and self promoter perk from social, every tournament nets 9 renown and 50k+ denarii it is broken.
I literaly started playing it 3 days ago because i saw some memes that i thought were funny. I then started to watch a couple videos about it and instantly bought the game. I'm at 30h already :,)
In due fairness I never noticed it cause it was always spring and it was flashing a similar color scheme. I had to look up a guide to finally realize it was there. This game is fun but lots of stuff you need to look up guides to get an idea.
Never build two seige towers!!! They are very easy to destroy with catapults. Only build one tower so you have ladders as a back up. When defending build catapults closest to the gate first; you can take the ammo and drop them on the ram.
30 minutes ago I captured The ruler of Sturgia (Think I spelled it wrong but you get it)And then peace was declared so he was let go only for war to get declared soon after between Battania (Mercenary for them and) and Strugia even thought they stopped the war!
One of my favorite thing is when you command your horse archer to follow, and you go around encircling the enemy, they will harass your enemy from afar delivering rain of arrows
So after 8 months I have gone to building a lot of ballistas, stowing them, then setting them up at at once unless I build faster than what I'm sieging. Then towers. If I'm out numbered I will just build fire catapults then during the battle hold back my troops until I expend all ammo.
i was just saying on another bannerlord video i hit 12000 hours the other day and on that same day i finally noticed there were multiple breeds of camel, this game is so freakin impressive
I was hoping for some secrets, but I'm a 1,000 hour+ veteran, and the last secret i found was the mountain retreat where you can retire and become your heir hahahaha. Half the time i build siege ram and they push it all the way to the outta gate, break it down, then they run off to the siege towers and climb the wall anyway XD
bring a 1k army and blow up the walls. The more troops you bring, the siege equipment builds faster. You can easily break the walls with trebuches and casually walk in and kill everyone.
Knew all except tip 4 which is huge. Cheers, really great tips overall aside from maybe the Siege one, I'm fairly sure everyone notices those icons on the floor and click them. Also you'd notice other lords setting them up when you're part of their army.
The cheesiest way to beat a siege, is to make Catapults, tell your people to shield wall in the back, and just have all the catapults fire until their ammunition is spent, back out, lead the assault once again and repeat until you’re in a comfortable enough position to actually begin the siege.
Starve your enemies out to lower their moral make sure you have more food then the city or castle. Lowest enemy moral is 18.5 I have seen Besiege the city till 18.5 moral Besiege the city till the garrisons+noble troops are 0 Only need to take out the levys Tier 1 troops 200-400 tier 1 with 18.5 moral Only 18.5 troop need to fall in battle for them to break. 400-(400/18.5) 22 troops before breaking with out their leaders command bonuses of the governor+noble go on a hunt might be on wall or gate 1/3 location, 2/3 locations to win
Can also build seige engines and pause the game then put in reserves and continue that until you can quick build all of em, instanly destroys there keeps seige stuff
Honestly these are awesome tips. 500 hours here and i think 2 of these i didnt know. The respec was definitely one i had no idea of Will say, one thing to add to the recruiting nobles part, recruiting by marriage. If you have many children, as the game in the 2.0 version allows, as i have about 10 children between me and my brothers character, those kids, once raised, will make joining as allies a LOT easier Not to mention, thanks to 2.0 you also gain members you marry into your clan. At least thus far female members married to your male clan members. You can then use those female clan members both for their high spec armor, if you marry a high level clan, their high levels in skills, as well as as battle companions Extreme benefits come through the marriage ability
@@JacksonOwex ah...gotcha. Makes things interesting. For instance currently I'm maxed out in vigor and endurance. Giving me massive amounts of hitpoints and super strong blows But...as im at like level 330 for those. I could respec and max medicine, charm, leadership, and steward, to become the ultimate leader/troops never die
didn''t know that you can still get rewards after they beated you so bad, I give them heavy armors and so tough to beat. Soldiers take 3-5 hits while Companions with heavy armors take 5 - 8 hits.
I used to rush ladders to the walls as fast as possible, but I stopped doing that. At first, ladders couldn't be knocked down if there were people on them. However, this was changed in an update, and I found out the hard way that they can push ladders even with people on them. And I was already near the top of the ladder when I noticed it moving. Couldn't hit the guy at the top fast enough, so down I went.
I had no idea I could move assault weapons to reserve I will now become unstoppable and I will lead my kingdom to victory against the hordes of the 3 kingdoms
There's a lock in feature that I feel helps when you're doing 1v1s, not sure if you prefer not using it or don't know about it, but I never lose the 1v1s once I figured that out
I've never used this feature because I just do a hit and run on the enemy. Creates more opportunity to get a hit in because you can bait their swing. I'm too lazy to block, shield bash or kick afterall. Lol
All great info again Winds.been using a few of these tips .you prefer sandbox or campaign. I have adhd and can't make my mind up.havent done a complete play through yet either.i get too tier 5 and start over lol
Because they still have a chance to get hit technically. As soon as one completes, immediately pause the game to store it. Trebs are best for breaking walls and breaking the enemy siege equipment. Cats are good for large enemy clusters on walls. Bilista are good for when the walls are broken during the foot siege and you can use it yourself to rack up hundreds of kilos yourself.
People may know a lot of things on the list. I kind of aimed to go more in depth with some of the well known mechanics in the game, showing some features that exist that I didn’t even know about (like moving the siege equipment to reserve). I also tried to include some strategies you guys could use to take advantage of some of these things. You should try the game out man!
Understandable. If you haven't ever played the game, you wouldn't believe how horribly bad the almost non-existing tutorial is and how unintuitive and hidden even quite basic features are that a decent game should explain within your first hour of game play during a tutorial (or lead you to it by having an obvious menu option for it and flashing a tool tip at you when you click it). Bannerlord is a great game, I enjoy it a lord, but the quality of the tutorial is infuriating - especially for a complex strategy game.
I conquered the whole continent without using siege equipment, I found it to be more of a hindrance. I use 1 of 2 strategies to take a city or castle. 1) I already have the superior force and we are going to bum rush that wall with the ladders, my player will be one of the first few guys up there and I will quickly get behind the enemy and start hacking away with my battle axe into the back of the enemies trying to fight my soldiers. 2) I can't take it with brute force so I raid the towns and try to draw out any lords hiding in the city/castle, but the real goal is to destroy the food supply so I can lay siege and starve out the garrison. Once it's only the militia left I go back to strategy 1.
i love bannerlord, and i love medieval games, and i love watching people play bannerlord. but when other people play bannerlord, they somehow end up with a 300 stack of elite units and 2k people in AI commanders assisting them, and i always end up with 100 peasants and my nation starting a 5th war in a row while my cities are always in the frontline of the battle. AND THE DAMN ARMIES THAN GO NOWHERE NEAR MY CITIES WHILE ALL OF THE ENEMIES, HELL EVEN PEOPLE NOT IN WAR WITH ME GO TO SIEGE MY SHIT
it is a bit grindy in early game, my tactics for early game is participating in arena to get bunch of armor and weapons, if I feel I'm ready to take on bandits I hire recruits, took down some bandits and sell the loots, repeats and participate in arena again but this time I sell the prize like horse (Just like he mention it worth 12 grand)
I will say im surprised people did not know how to get siege equipment I will add though for new players, be careful about building two siege towers with the reason being, if you do not break in with your ram and both siege towers are destroyed your troops will surrender Whilst its unlikely both siege towers will be destroyed if the enemy has no siege defenses, keep in mind, if you do only do one siege tower you will have ladders still left on the ground allowing you to keep battling in any scenario
I tried to include some of the hidden features about a number of more well known aspects in the game.
What do you guys think about it? Was there any that you didn’t know?
It was good. Thanks.
I didn't know you could respect your characters and your companion's skills or prison breaks, good to know. Thanks and good job on the video.
Would be nice to include timestamps of the 5 things you present. What can I say, I have become a very impatient viewer :)
Edit: it was worth watching immediately, because I never knew I have to manually build siege equipment. I don't usually siege, but now maybe I will do more of that :)
nice video, and nicely edited too. i didnt know about the tournament master trick, so thank you;)
Is there mod or now game allow us to edit character, I am too lazy to start out fresh, because gaining money & training experience is too long
Ahh, the prison break, also known as the Calradian divorce ;-). Prison break missions are actually the only mission in the game where a companion/lord going down during the fight means they will be 100% dead, even if you do manage to kill the remaining guards and escape unscathed yourself. So if you want to have some more kids to build your future clan of rulers, but your wife is getting a little too old to have children, having her captured by an enemy and then heroically trying to "rescue" her is the way to do it. (Just remember to save your game before a prison break if you actually do care about the person you are trying to free).
How do you do a prison break for your wife? Don’t you have to be at war with the other kingdom? How do you get into the city?
@@gregorysilas6329 You need to sneak into the enemy city (just approach the city and then pick the "sneak in" option instead of parley or besiege. You need quite a high roguery skill to have a solid chance, the success percentage is displayed before you try. If you fail the sneak check, you get imprisoned yourself, so save your game before you try. If you succeed to get in, you can then proceed to bribe a guard to get into prison and then get to the breakout fight as normal. Last I checked, this only works with cities, you can't sneak into hostile castles. But NPC parties tend to dump their prisoners in the dungeon of the next settlement they visit, so getting her imprisoned in a city is not that difficult, just have her in your party, go near an enemy city and then found a new party with her as the leader and a few horseless recruits to slow her down.
@@gregorysilas6329 you can sneak in. if you click on the city there'll be 3 options. One is siege the city other is try to sneak in and last is leave.
@@gregorysilas6329have high roguery
Calradian Divorce 😂
Im good with building catapults and such but I'm not a fan of towers and rams, it clumps your troops in a nice "wreck my formation" clump
If the enemy doesnt have any onagers this is very rarely an issue, if the enemy has tons of onagers and/or ballistas, you can change your infantry into loose formation so that while probability of a troop being hit is higher, they will only get hit one at a time as opposed to losing 4-8 men in one swoop.
@@nadawiib unfortunately the case has been flaming pots being chucked at me, I don't know why lol
I always build 4 trebuchets with the reserve thing and break the enemy walls. Then there’s no reason for the slow moving towers and ram
Ladders are all you need. Have your ppl run to the wall at cover from their siege equipment. Infantry at the foot of the walls, archers right behind them. High quality archers will take out 50 odd of theirs without even assaulting the walls. If out of arrows, retreat and attack again until you have taken out most of theirs. Then, order the assault with the ladders (they won't have enough ppl left to hold a proper defence). Just like in the good old Warband days ^^
And the best part is, at worst, you will loose about 15 ppl.
@@jeromelacey4067 200 champion battanian archers do a hell of a number on castles
I was today years old when i learned about re-specing my skills thank you
Flys under the radar that one!
A “Major” one that you did forget is you can actually taunt during battle.
Similarly to how your troops go ballistic after a victory, you can do the same and even mid-fight. And it increases morale for your troops on the battlefield.
The catch is, you leave yourself open and early game it’s a death sentence…
For consoles you just use the D-pad.
How do you do it on pc?
@@gustavgrundell8224hold the O key
@@gustavgrundell8224”O”
another one is you can use your companions when smithing. Just click on your own players icon in the smithing screen and then select a companion. Or one i just figured out today is W and S will change the range of your Siege engines when youre controlling them
Bro I felt so dumb when I realized you could use companions for smithing
They do be helping the smithing machine go brrrr
I’ve been playing the game over a year and made a new run and barely found out yesterday about swapping members for smithing. So many wasted game days just gathering materials when I could’ve also been making more weapons to sell.
Best way to win a war is to raid a lot, best way to raid quickly if the war is going the wrong way is to first force the village to either hand over supplies or recruits, then the raid will be automatically 80% completed and you can just burn the rest, takes about a day, then move on to the next one. It'll give you a lot less resources, but it'll count massively towards your war score.
I use it a lot in early game to force a peace and have the enemy pay me, even though I'm not a kingdom or a mercenary. Just make sure you bargain with a noble that has a lot of cash, since they pay you from their own purse.
This equals = evil play through
I wish this wasn't a built in war score mechanic and instead it would actually affect the economy of the game and force peace indirectly through a real economy being crippled.
If there was a real economy in bannerlord it would be so much more interesting. But instead it's kind of just a pseudo-economy, and towns will always make money regardless of whether they're actually getting resources or not. There's a lower and upper limit to their production essentially, meaning you could entirely cut off a town from all supplies by stopping anyone from going in or out and the town would continue to function forever if you could somehow siege it forever. Imagine being able to somehow set up blockades on borders to stop caravans from making it through? Or even to just attack a lot of caravans to cripple the economy of a faction to force them to peace.
I think this is what they were originally going for, but it wasn't long after or maybe even before the beta came out that all the devs passion for this game died, and they decided to essentially release an engine and hope modders did all the work for them (which they can't even do because it's so hard for mods to be made compatible).
Just found a hermit in the mountains, let’s you become a hermit, which you then have to select an heir because your character becomes unplayable, if you have no heir it ends your game, thought was pretty cool
found this yesterday, quite cool
@@drunkgopnik6705 Now you know this - have you fast tracked to releasing your brother and then immediately gone hermit? 30 minutes into the game and we can play as him, with his skills. Respec him and ta-daa - the most OP available character. A little cheeki breeki but handy for when you don't wanna spend time levelling up.
A cople hundred hours in and I find out now I can put seige equipment in reserve. Wish I knew that sooner.
Me and you both bro... me and you both
Just this alone makes sieges a cake walk.
Siege equipment is totally cheesed. Build 4 trebs, once one is built, pause the instant it's done, put it in storage. Do that with all 4 and wait for the settlement food to run out. Then all the towns upper tier troops will leave. Pause, re-enable trebs, unpause and they'll wipe out all of the towns siege equipment. Just wait until it knocks holes in the wall and assault. Town capture made easy.
Also in tournaments, if your companions are in a match, watch the match. If you Skip watching you'll miss out on them building perks and leveling in a safe environment. Also also, when you fight them, single them out to be the last survivor, block with a shield while walking backwards until they break it. It works on leveling up their athletic and whatever weapons abilities they happen to be using.
100%!!!!
I do this and the game is still a grind building up their skills. Check out the XP Tweaks mod which is fantastic.
I went to 1.4 Beta and XP Tweaks hasn't been updated yet. Such is life.
why wait until the settlement runs out of food? you can just deploy all 4 when you finish building them and take out their siege equipment and destroy their walls while their food ran out
@@ernestogastelum9123 well if there is 110 milita and 200 garrison of multiple ranks, you're facing 310 troops. By waiting for the food to run out, morale drops down to zero and the garrison slowly abandons the settlement. Now the milita still slowly grows but they're low tier trash so you stand to only face 110 to 120 low tier milita that will get wiped fast with your assumingly better tier troops. Easy win.
@@ernestogastelum9123 plus if the settlement attacks your siege equipment you lose troops. Holding off saves losing troop numbers.
also didn't know about saving the siege engines to deploy them all at once. I was building them one by one and they were getting destroyed instantly so I gave up on siege equipment. I go max bow skill with high damage expensive bows and arrows, get elite archers, place them near the enemy walls so they don't get hammered by wall siege equipment and just farm the enemy from outside the walls. then when they're low enough on numbers, I order archers to ladder up
Not only companions participate in the tournaments, but the npc you have married with also.
It's so hilarious when my favorite waifu, Siga, while being pregnant, knocks my character out with a two-handed axe.
Hahahahh so good man
Siga best choice
For point 1... I think probably zero people didn't know that... The game literally flashes the icons at you in bright blue in the same menu that you launch the assault in. Also, anybody that's been a merc and joined an assault will have seen your allies build in those places. Not exactly rocket science, and the game telegraphs them just fine.
Yes, I think there even is a tutorial popup for that when you first enter the siege. However, the game DOESN'T tell you, that you can move built siege engines into reserve to keep them from beeing attack and then putting them out all at once. I played a very long time without finding this out, because it isn't telegraphed in any way that clicking on a ready built siege engine would do anything, since they attack fully automatically once they are ready.
I didnt know
i didnt know,firet time i played bannerlord the tutorial didnt even show up i was playing fully blind
Ok mr.perfect...stfu. way to rain on someone else's parade. You're a fkn twt
@@chrisrudolf9839it's shmucks like you that give people like us reason to bully you. You wanna be a twat? Cool..then you get nasty remarks made to you. If you don't have anything nice to say, go fck your mom
I have a lot of hours in banner lord but the putting siege weapons in reserve was a game changer for me.
One I only just found out recently.
but yeah I mostly just bum rush with ladders.
Also starving out ppl in sieges is also a thing.
I'm gonna use it more early game.
If you have a lot of influence you can buy out the food economy for a town you want to take and then start your war and they'll be destitute.
I feel like people sleep on the most OP thing in the game, which is waiting for an enemy army to besiege a castle/city then, when the attack starts just break into the fief and click "Send Troops". This will instantly win you the battle 95% of the time. It's by far the best way to get money, prisoners and renown since you're technically killing 6-15 people per troop that you have.
A good example for this would be having a party with 120 men, breaking into a city with around 100 milita defending it against an army worth 800 people. You're probably gonna win that since the auto resolve is busted lmao.
Auto resolves are pretty broken
I keep the garrison of one of my towns stocked with low quality foot troops for this reason- once I see an army on the move, I swap my forces out with the cannon fodder to break in and auto resolve for a win. Saves the settlement without sacrificing any of my valuable elite troops.
Busted but defending in siege battles are actually my favorite battles so I refuse to do send troops
Stop talking about it or they will patch it
@@Tom-oj7si StratGaming already made a video (his world conquest speedran) where he used the method lmao
I bought the Game like 5 days ago and already have 75 hours in it HELP
Welcome lol game doesn't need to be perfect, doesn't need to be hardcore - it can just be fun. We may be 'the chosen one' in this but if you fancy a more sandbox experience and "not being special", then the OG "Mount & Blade: Warband" is still fun, even today. Janky but fun and there's actual DLC that's hugely fun too. Even think the multiplayer is still active.
My brother i am in the same phase now
Yo man, I’m 100% subscribing and liking your videos from now on, these top fives have quite literally saved my saves I just started getting into the game and even though some of the stuff seems obvious you’re really saving me hours of pain with these awesome vids
Glad to have you onboard man!!
Dude, hitting pause and putting my trebuchet into reserve so I could deploy them all at once in seriously a big brain move. I never thought of that, I know what I'm trying after work
Update, it works perfectly. Thank you bud, I was just setting all 4 to build one at a time and watching them get destroyed because they take a while to build. Beyond helpful
Your editing is so good dude and I didn’t know most of these. Very happy I subscribed
Glad I could help man, I appreciate it!
You should also include that if you break in to help defenders when the enemy sieges your town or allied town, even if you lose troops, it still gives you the funniest gameplay. Defending a town is awesome. You can take boiling pots and instead of using baristas, you can throw them down on the enemies. Its super fun and gives you a lot of kills.
A perfectly balanced game with no exploits? Spiffing Brit probably has something to say about that.
Companions also gain skill points in tournaments. Even if you are not fighting in the round your companions are participating in, you can watch the round and they will gain skill points if they are successful. You have to watch the round, you cant skip it.
I actually ended up conquering calradia caveman style before I notice you can build battering rams.
To this day I ended up never bothered to making siege engine because the dungeon will always be full of prisoners so replenishing troops is never a problem.
Hahaha that makes two of us man 😂
But the dungeon has foreign culture troops
@@gaminghedgehog6364 unless you are taking a city (that is your culture) from a different cultures lords, then you will be able to recruit a whole bunch of troops of your culture!
Sell the foreign ones for roguery and cash!
Smh... "move to reserves" "reset companion skills"... wtf.. I didn't even think of any of this. Glad I just recently started playing BL. Thank you guy!
With tournaments, I don't even fight them myself anymore. I just check what the reward is and depending on that, I'll either join or watch. Even if you watch a tournament, the companions are still joining and can win the tournament for you and you still get the item.
You can even directly leave and it'll auto resolve the tournament winner and give you the item. free stuff ftw.
4240,9 hrs according to Steam. In fairness I may have gone a little mad before launch but I'm open to your best shot The companion tournament thing is kind of a cool side game - grab some companions, give them some good kit and travel the world entering tourneys, then leave them immediately - it'll finish having played out and if your companion won, then it took you under 30s to get that horse. I find it handy for when I just wanna play Caravaneer, it keeps them alive and builds up their skills a little while I'm getting that Trade skill maxed.
Thanks to this video I'm actually confident in starting my own kingdom now. Charm-max build, here I come!
Glad to hear it!!
You can also just don't do tournaments and receive the prize, just make sure you have all the companions needed and "watch" the tournament
no glory tho
I already knew about all of these, but just wanted to point out that companions will also participate in tournaments if you just watch instead of participate yourself. Also, any companions left in either the keep or taver ln of a town will automatically compete in tournaments without you even needing to be there. I don't think you get the prize this way, but you do get renown.
Brilliant .Just bought it on ps5 .Haven't played it yet and these tips will save me time I'm sure .Cheers
> in no way does the game even hint you have to build siege equipment
> shows huge siege equipment slots flickering on the map
Are you taking us for total idiots?
Ranged siege weapons reload ammunition on retreat the same way as bows. Which means if you square up your melee and mass archers in 1 big group on 1 side, you can take a 1000 defender town or castle with sub 10 casualties or even none by targetting the melee with ranged siege and leaving the rest to your massed archers. More effective if you destroy the walls before hand and they mass behind the breach in a nice big ball.
I have had this game since it came out, I've run several successful campaigns and still never knew you could do this stuff.
Glad it helped out!
Tip 6: The best way to be a kingdom, is to not be one at first.
Step 1: Be a mercenary, and do not sell your lord prisoners, donate them to large city dungeons for influence, but more importantly, charm and relationship bonus with that whole clan!
Step 2: Build up a large (20 million+) treasury while being a mercenary, then stop being a mercenary and either with 300 trade(easy enough) buy a city from someone, or find one that rebels and take it. You now have a city but as you are not a kingdom, no one will declare war on you or attack you.
Step 3: Keep buying cities and castles(dump the garrisons and stop auto recruitment, you don't need them right now) from lords who like you until you have a decent number of them, using trade and your income from your cities this will help supplement your income.
Step 4: Now become a kingdom and either sway lords to join you, or pick your(hopefully well leveled) companions to become new lords by granting them a castle or town. Your companions will suddenly have 2-4 additional lords join them as a clan so you can get a decent sized kingdom just using them as well.
Step 5: Dominate! (and remember to turn back on auto recruitment for your cities and castles, adjust wages as needed)
Man you made laugh so hard when you said the Logan part, just earned a new subscriber just with that HAHAHAHA
Awesome video man! Keep it up!
Got this on game pass a few week ago & I can't put it down, that first tip was great, I've been concentrating on towers & rams as they don't get targeted & then building a trebuchet & as soon as it was build I'd attack in hops it would take the heat off the catapults while I charge my melee soldiers to the ladders 😂 cheers for that one!
One for console users is the RB button whether mounted or on foot. Also when shooting arrows and you need to reset your shot hit the block button.
3/5 for mount and blade veteran thats pretty damn good .Great job .
Who doesn’t know how to do this stuff after maybe 3 hours of playing
Finally dove back in bannerlord after getting discouraged playing it first time cause I had no idea what the fuck to do and im completely obsessed after figuring out everything and this video will make my experience better thanks bro!
Hell yeah man, I’m glad I could help!!
You can manipulate turnament prizes with companions, 8 combat companions ( wifuu included) and you will get the best rewards since they are counted as lords, at that point tournaments start droping end game helmets each worht 50k + depending on your trade, its another way of geting rich in early game, i combine this with dualist perk from onehanded and self promoter perk from social, every tournament nets 9 renown and 50k+ denarii it is broken.
I DID NOT KNEW about the respecting mechanic! Had no idea! Thanks!
I literaly started playing it 3 days ago because i saw some memes that i thought were funny. I then started to watch a couple videos about it and instantly bought the game.
I'm at 30h already :,)
Anyone that has started at least 1 siege and doesn't quickly realize how siege equipment works should stick to fruit ninja.
In due fairness I never noticed it cause it was always spring and it was flashing a similar color scheme. I had to look up a guide to finally realize it was there. This game is fun but lots of stuff you need to look up guides to get an idea.
MOVE TO RESERVE!?! YOU CAN DO THAT!?! I'm going go scream into a pillow. Please excuse me.
WOAHAHAHHHH I NEVER NEW YOU HAD TO BUILD SEIGE EQUIPMENT WHOAAAAAAAAAAA CRAZY STUFF MAN
About 700 hours into this game on console I just figured out you can drag your units
next thing you probably didnt know about bannerlord: You can actually initiate a battle by clicking on the enemy and chasing them!
Never build two seige towers!!!
They are very easy to destroy with catapults. Only build one tower so you have ladders as a back up.
When defending build catapults closest to the gate first; you can take the ammo and drop them on the ram.
30 minutes ago I captured The ruler of Sturgia (Think I spelled it wrong but you get it)And then peace was declared so he was let go only for war to get declared soon after between Battania (Mercenary for them and) and Strugia even thought they stopped the war!
One of my favorite thing is when you command your horse archer to follow, and you go around encircling the enemy, they will harass your enemy from afar delivering rain of arrows
So after 8 months I have gone to building a lot of ballistas, stowing them, then setting them up at at once unless I build faster than what I'm sieging. Then towers.
If I'm out numbered I will just build fire catapults then during the battle hold back my troops until I expend all ammo.
i was just saying on another bannerlord video i hit 12000 hours the other day and on that same day i finally noticed there were multiple breeds of camel, this game is so freakin impressive
"A perfectly balanced game" man TheSpiffingBrit will be happy to hear 😂
I was hoping for some secrets, but I'm a 1,000 hour+ veteran, and the last secret i found was the mountain retreat where you can retire and become your heir hahahaha. Half the time i build siege ram and they push it all the way to the outta gate, break it down, then they run off to the siege towers and climb the wall anyway XD
bring a 1k army and blow up the walls. The more troops you bring, the siege equipment builds faster. You can easily break the walls with trebuches and casually walk in and kill everyone.
The prison break was a good tip.. all the others were pretty ehh...
"probably didn't know"
"No where does the game tell you this or even hint at it"
Minus ofc the engineering skill or the pulsating siege engine options when you start a siege
imperial crossbowman always makes it to the finals in a tournament
Knew all except tip 4 which is huge. Cheers, really great tips overall aside from maybe the Siege one, I'm fairly sure everyone notices those icons on the floor and click them. Also you'd notice other lords setting them up when you're part of their army.
You mean there are people out there who saw the ram and catapult shaped buttons on the siege interface and decided not to click any of it?
you lost me at: you didn't knew that you'll need to manually build siege equipment....
The cheesiest way to beat a siege, is to make Catapults, tell your people to shield wall in the back, and just have all the catapults fire until their ammunition is spent, back out, lead the assault once again and repeat until you’re in a comfortable enough position to actually begin the siege.
"If you only take a bit of time before the seige..." Opposing army twice your size shows up to defend.
What are some other things you didn’t know about Bannerlord?
Btw when's the next video of the "last true britannia " Coming. I can't wait anymore. I have already all parts many times. They are so good.😊
I Wish i could reset the relations. Unfortunately i executed around 50 Lords and cant join a faction. Not even the two i never die any harm to.
Yep, just keep executing I say 😂
Starve your enemies out to lower their moral make sure you have more food then the city or castle.
Lowest enemy moral is 18.5 I have seen
Besiege the city till 18.5 moral
Besiege the city till the
garrisons+noble troops are 0
Only need to take out the levys
Tier 1 troops
200-400 tier 1 with 18.5 moral
Only 18.5 troop need to fall in battle for them to break.
400-(400/18.5)
22 troops before breaking with out their leaders command bonuses of the governor+noble go on a hunt might be on wall or gate
1/3 location, 2/3 locations to win
Loving points 3 and 4
Can also build seige engines and pause the game then put in reserves and continue that until you can quick build all of em, instanly destroys there keeps seige stuff
Honestly these are awesome tips. 500 hours here and i think 2 of these i didnt know. The respec was definitely one i had no idea of
Will say, one thing to add to the recruiting nobles part, recruiting by marriage. If you have many children, as the game in the 2.0 version allows, as i have about 10 children between me and my brothers character, those kids, once raised, will make joining as allies a LOT easier
Not to mention, thanks to 2.0 you also gain members you marry into your clan. At least thus far female members married to your male clan members.
You can then use those female clan members both for their high spec armor, if you marry a high level clan, their high levels in skills, as well as as battle companions
Extreme benefits come through the marriage ability
I am like 90% sure the respec one is newish.
@@JacksonOwex ah...gotcha. Makes things interesting. For instance currently I'm maxed out in vigor and endurance. Giving me massive amounts of hitpoints and super strong blows
But...as im at like level 330 for those. I could respec and max medicine, charm, leadership, and steward, to become the ultimate leader/troops never die
didn''t know that you can still get rewards after they beated you so bad, I give them heavy armors and so tough to beat. Soldiers take 3-5 hits while Companions with heavy armors take 5 - 8 hits.
Yeah they can be crazy Tanky
Is it just me or is this more of a "beginner's guide video" than a "things you probably didn't know" video
Wow that respec was new to me. Thanks a lot.
Thanks for another helpful video!
8:38 Your companions and family members can also win while you’re in the city map while you’re waiting. My wife won a tourney and I got a horse.
I used to rush ladders to the walls as fast as possible, but I stopped doing that. At first, ladders couldn't be knocked down if there were people on them. However, this was changed in an update, and I found out the hard way that they can push ladders even with people on them. And I was already near the top of the ladder when I noticed it moving. Couldn't hit the guy at the top fast enough, so down I went.
Did someone miss the glowing blue icons on the siege map?
I finally be came king of northern empire 💪🏼 now I’m trying to take over the map … hardest thing ever
Also when you click on the map, you go to the place you clicked.
good video, about to get back into Bannerlord and this was a good refresher!
Glad you enjoyed man! Welcome back to the best/worst thing in your life!
I had no idea I could move assault weapons to reserve I will now become unstoppable and I will lead my kingdom to victory against the hordes of the 3 kingdoms
did homie just say bannerlord has been out for 3 years...?
It was out in beta for 2 years 🫢
I pissed myself laughing at "either get better, or..." lmfaooo
😅😂
300 hours of gameplay and i feel like i just bought the game...
didn't know that companions join you in turnaments in Vanilla, I thought that it was RBM giving me that function :D
Nope, all vanilla baby 🙌🏼
I had no idea you could respec yourself and your companions
There's a lock in feature that I feel helps when you're doing 1v1s, not sure if you prefer not using it or don't know about it, but I never lose the 1v1s once I figured that out
I've never used this feature because I just do a hit and run on the enemy. Creates more opportunity to get a hit in because you can bait their swing. I'm too lazy to block, shield bash or kick afterall. Lol
All great info again Winds.been using a few of these tips .you prefer sandbox or campaign. I have adhd and can't make my mind up.havent done a complete play through yet either.i get too tier 5 and start over lol
I prefer sandbox just so I dont have to do the annoying ass quest but campaign is great due to having family members and a general sense of purpose
I would say sandbox because it can be your own entire story, but the campaign is great
My trebuchets and catapults still get destroyed after pulling them into reserves.
Because they still have a chance to get hit technically. As soon as one completes, immediately pause the game to store it. Trebs are best for breaking walls and breaking the enemy siege equipment. Cats are good for large enemy clusters on walls. Bilista are good for when the walls are broken during the foot siege and you can use it yourself to rack up hundreds of kilos yourself.
Me who hasn't even played the game ever: "people didn't know that" Lol
People may know a lot of things on the list. I kind of aimed to go more in depth with some of the well known mechanics in the game, showing some features that exist that I didn’t even know about (like moving the siege equipment to reserve). I also tried to include some strategies you guys could use to take advantage of some of these things.
You should try the game out man!
Understandable. If you haven't ever played the game, you wouldn't believe how horribly bad the almost non-existing tutorial is and how unintuitive and hidden even quite basic features are that a decent game should explain within your first hour of game play during a tutorial (or lead you to it by having an obvious menu option for it and flashing a tool tip at you when you click it). Bannerlord is a great game, I enjoy it a lord, but the quality of the tutorial is infuriating - especially for a complex strategy game.
ohk@@chrisrudolf9839
build siege equipment? nah i just starve out the defenders like a chad
So you mean i kept resetting my perks instead of upgrading them when i go to the tournament master…
Also if you have a beefed out companion and hes in your party you can go to a tournament and click watch if one of em win you get the price lol
i have 328.5 hours in this game and never knew about the paying for new skills bit
That makes two of us my friend
I conquered the whole continent without using siege equipment, I found it to be more of a hindrance. I use 1 of 2 strategies to take a city or castle. 1) I already have the superior force and we are going to bum rush that wall with the ladders, my player will be one of the first few guys up there and I will quickly get behind the enemy and start hacking away with my battle axe into the back of the enemies trying to fight my soldiers. 2) I can't take it with brute force so I raid the towns and try to draw out any lords hiding in the city/castle, but the real goal is to destroy the food supply so I can lay siege and starve out the garrison. Once it's only the militia left I go back to strategy 1.
Strat 3, play on easiest difficulty
idk why there wasnt a mini 2 second cut screen when your clan levels up i always noticed i leveled it up like an hour later lmao
Good quality as usual!
I try 🥹
i love bannerlord, and i love medieval games, and i love watching people play bannerlord. but when other people play bannerlord, they somehow end up with a 300 stack of elite units and 2k people in AI commanders assisting them, and i always end up with 100 peasants and my nation starting a 5th war in a row while my cities are always in the frontline of the battle. AND THE DAMN ARMIES THAN GO NOWHERE NEAR MY CITIES WHILE ALL OF THE ENEMIES, HELL EVEN PEOPLE NOT IN WAR WITH ME GO TO SIEGE MY SHIT
wow you have cities
it is a bit grindy in early game, my tactics for early game is participating in arena to get bunch of armor and weapons, if I feel I'm ready to take on bandits I hire recruits, took down some bandits and sell the loots, repeats and participate in arena again but this time I sell the prize like horse (Just like he mention it worth 12 grand)
Your edits are too funny 🤣🤣
Thanks man!!
I will say im surprised people did not know how to get siege equipment
I will add though for new players, be careful about building two siege towers with the reason being, if you do not break in with your ram and both siege towers are destroyed your troops will surrender
Whilst its unlikely both siege towers will be destroyed if the enemy has no siege defenses, keep in mind, if you do only do one siege tower you will have ladders still left on the ground allowing you to keep battling in any scenario