I better pre-face this video that the first TWENTY minutes of this episode is a RANT ALL ABOUT how WEAK Heavy Cavalry is, and we show with extensive examples how bad heavy cavalry is in Bannerlord. If you want to skip to tactical demonstrations of how to use cavalry offensively, go to: 20:00.
The cav problem is one of the reason I run Xorberx’s Legacy mod with deadly horse charges. It calculates the weight and speed of your horse against the trampled troop and the unit’s armor. It makes cavalry dangerous again but not to the point of over-correcting RBM does.
@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions Xorberx's is hardcore, friendly fire + cut through is a powerful combination for deadly carnage on both sides. I have had ironman campaigns end because of friendly lances missing targets and instead going into the commander's head while fighting on the ground within the melee.
@@berenhamilton3321 That cut through can get bonkers when you get behind a formation and they aren't blocking your direction. A high damage 2 handed axe or a 2 handed falx blade just scythes through them so much that the damage/kill notification that pops up right above the character blocks my entire view of what's going on. I love that mod.
@@tatersandwhiskey6543 It can even be a life saver when getting into tricky 1vX situations. It is magical to watch several opponents try to surround you then all or most get dropped by one quick sword accel through their necks.
I think cavalry in this game should have a knockdown effect when they are charging into the footman and deal a lot of damage, especially when the cav charges into the back of them. It's like being hit by a full speed motorcycle in real life.
yeah i find the best way to use cav is just dismounting them and using them as infantry a lot of the time their horses are just increased party speed and tools to get them in and out of position quicker. Their higher tier equipment since a lot of them are noble units actually makes them more effective on foot despite their lowish athletics. shield and shock (thank you) is also a favorite due to their horses being pretty good meat shields.
Faris and Druznik champions are among my favorite to use on foot due to their 90 and 100 athletics but cataphracts and banner knights are really good on foot too. Horse raiders are an honorable mention since they’re the only sturgian skirmisher
Oh and also dealing with horse archers (khuzait mainly) I use my cav to come in behind them before they fallback and smash in and take a few kills since they’re one of the top enemies i have in my aserai campaign. I hold husn fulq and razif so they’re right on my border.
Yep one of the right circumstances too I'll put a bunch of cows in a thick two or three deep shield wall blocking the retreat of the enemy horse archers and as long as you have a good amount of archers it causes a devastating effect when they retreat..
@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions that’s smart i’ll have to try that i’m using a more cav dominant army than usual with only aserai and mercenary units so the series is much appreciated right now
My favorite parts of these videos are you pointing out the bad parts of the AI. My biggest criticism of the AI is that they don't split their archer and infantry units into multiple formations. Even when the enemy is fighting defensively it's so easy to flank because they have one big traunch of units once you take out the Cav.
Yep, and I continue to seek better options(and will use RBM from time to time), but ultimately the AI *is* decent, it's just not dynamic and rarely 'good'. (and thank you!)
My method to correct cavalry is simple, I went into the files and started fiddling, added a flat 20+ to the charge of all horses, gave them the good lances, played with the stats a bit, changed some equipment then *booooom,* cav is truly devastating when used correctly . I don’t know why more people don’t do this it is not remotely difficult. I noticed that, even in unedited gameplay, charge cav do extremely well if the enemy is in loose formation or moving, especially moving towards you. Once they stop in a firm formation, they really have issues, which I’m fine with but it must be combined with a robust morale shock system. Bannerlord simply doesn’t simulate morale shocks well, and morale shocks were *essential* to heavy cav tactics.
Yep, you've nailed it. Cavalry was more intimidation than actually annihilation. Same thing with early firearms. You speak of editing the files easily, well pretend I'm a golden retriever or little child and explain in simple terms how to 'add some charge' damage to my cav. Does this require coding skill? I'd love to just boost *slightly* cavalry in my vanilla Bannerlord.
@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Mount & Blade II Bannerlord\Modules\SandBoxCore\ModuleData\items - File location, File name - Horse and Others, ctrl F to find charge_damage and change values to your liking. Remember to save
Yup spaming cav for the main part of ur army makes battles take so long cuz even if u beat the enemy it will take 3 times as long for the cav to actually kill the units vs if u have mostly heavy infr that will slay them in a hot minute. Now i use no more than 20-30% of my army as cav as just so they can bog down enemy cav units while my meele and archers actually win the battle.
Hammer and anvil is sht in my experience. Good way to get your mobile cav quagmired in the much and attacked from all sides. If youre going to do it just dismount your cav and have them attack from behind on foot.
it’s a vanilla roguery perk that makes bandits always offer to join, so you are able to quickly recruit hundreds of light cavalry and light horse archers for free. it feels like it should be an overpowered strategy, but I am facing a pretty difficult time getting good use out of them. I figured with your experience and the weak army series, you’d have the know how to best extract value from this recruiting technique on the campaign. Maybe it would be open up different tactics, because these units are kind of unique by virtue of being free and easily replaceable at scale.
@@vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv Well In my campaigns I have done SOME bandit recruiting(with that perk), but often times they end up in garrisons, except Sea Raiders and Veteran Foresters. I'm going to do a LOT more bandit work in my next campaign but right now I haven't had the experience with them to feel authoritative enough to suggest how others should use 'em. Sometimes a guy needs to be smart enough to know what he DOESN'T know...
The problem with the Fian Champs is the go to pull their sword out and then pull their bow back out.. when shit hits the fan like this I tell them to “Hold Fire” and they become berserkers killing everything in sight 🥹 23:42
Pre 20:00 I can see why now why you use your cavalry the way you do. I will prioritise Shield walls and circle defence only unless the situation favours or needs an immediate charge. There are always some Games mechanic problems in any game but boy, this goes against the tactical grain.
@@Warhead-haggis Archers too strong. Infantry just right. Cav way too weak. RBM helps some but pushes it too far to cav side. We'll see if there are future adjustments - I certainly don't flatter myself that TW's listens to me LOL
Algorithm comment again. I know I say this on every video, but keep it up. I’ve become a wayyyy better bannerlord player from your videos. I’m just glad I found them early in my bannerlord career and not three years in!
Charges have become more powerful in vanilla over time, but spear cav in particular (as you have exhaustively demonstrated) are just terrible offensively. Add to this how terrible spears are generally (the speed requirements for effective spear thrusts are stupid) and there's a lot of fixing to do. More powerful cav would require more anti-cav abilities from troops (like stakes, or even just proper spear bracing) and suddenly you have a long list of fixes and additions to add to the long list of fixes and additions this bare-bones game desperately needs. The devs just expect modders to fix the game at this point. Let's be real: there will never be a satisfactory finished version of vanilla Bannerlord. Still, people like you, with fresh takes and imaginative ways of playing, keep this game alive. So kudos and thanks.
I guess I figure if the game is an 8.5 out of 10, the modders make it nearly a 10 and it has a tremendous amount of variation to the tactical side of battle. I appreciate the kind words and your insight is helpful. We'll see how the future goes, if they have significant updates or not...
@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions Ah man, "we'll see what the future holds," is a thread-bare phrase with Mount and Blade OGs like myself. I've been waiting for a good decade, and some . . . Still, I'm here playing it, so it's got something. Just give me proper diplomacy, sea travel and troop customisation and I'm a happy gamer! They only really need to get it up to par with their previous titles. And keep your positive perspectives coming (even the rants are informative), games like this need creators like you.
15 minutes in and im feeling less like its my fault that my cav heavy imperial army struggled so much. Coming from warband I was really struggling with cav. Now I mostly use my cav as counter cav but seeing this is making me question if i even need cav at all
Next week I'll have together a 'defensive tactics' guide to cavalry and you'll want those cavalry you disbanded this afternoon. They have their place, but it's not very historically accurate(or profound).
@@JEDIMIKETTV I run vanilla bannerlord but I'd be tempted to try one of the combat mods like RBM. Whatever you do, I'd keep the same one for your entire campaign otherwise it may be confusing...
Never actually an easy question to answer. The mods I usually list in my video description are the ones that I would probably recommend things like the immersive battlefield mod the RTS mod the death for all campaign mod for more realistic death of nobles. There are a whole host of mods that affect gameplay in the campaign level that I need to explore a bit more in future campaigns before I can give them a thumbs up or thumbs down. I think most people like the diplomacy mod
Yep, and very sad. This isn't a complicated test either, anyone can do this and I am confident, no matter the number of total cavalry and archers, as long as they are equal and the same 'tier' of quality, the archers will win most if not ALL of the time, and obviously that's just wrong...
While it is true that cavalry is very weak compared to irl, it needs to be weaker because its also much easier to get than irl. You would need to make them so much more expensive and harder to get overall to match irl standards. Otherwise it becomes op, especially with the map move speed advantage.
Very true - but given their serious handicap in crowded battlefields or choke points AND their weakness is siege, it still doesn't make sense for them to be butchered in the open by archers. I'd love to see them do double or triple 'charge damage' against archers, or something to that effect, but obviously you're right - and RBM shows how when they are the same PRICE as infantry and archers but totally crush them in battle, most RBM battles start to favor heavily the side with the most cavalry.
@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions as a curiosity, do these tests change a lot if you use banner knights instead of elite cataphracts (and their respective tier 5 unit). From my experience heavy cav in bannelord is more to buy time for my archers to shred them rather than the actual damage themselves. But cataphracts feel so weak compared to banner knights
@@alex2005z Yeah I actually use Bannerknights in the tests here(against Fian Champs) and they get shredded. My experience is that Banner Knights do a little better in cycle charging and elite cataphracts are better in hand to hand melee slugging it out.
This is a well deserved verbal bashing of lancer cavalry. It's unfortunate how embarrassingly bad they are. I'll admit, I had fallen behind in watching your episodes. I've been trying to watch less RUclips in general lately. I'm all caught up now though. I couldn't find the video you mentioned when you commented on my episode 28. Did I somehow miss it? If so please leave a link, I was looking forward to liking and commenting. Keep up the great work Bro.
@@angrygoldfish9607 I've made so many episodes lately I can't remember which! It doesn't matter though, it won't be the last time I mention your horseman skills.
I want to downgrade my game to previous version, before they broke the AI and cav. I like new missions, weather and that sieges doesn't last forever. Also that enemy can ran away instead of fight to death. But broken AI is just atrocious, i cant watch it. When my units going past their enemies, ignoring them, while being killed from behind. When cav cant charge, they all running with shields up instead of their spears. When infantry instead of going towards the enemy in shield wall starting to make weird dances, exposing their backs to projectiles. Its just sad.
As dumb as it is heavy high ranked cavalry is an early game unit. You want speed to chase down bandits and run away from armies and hit units of peasants without a single casualty to you and raid and stuff. Heavy, high ranked, most expensive unit in the game, takes a war horse to upgrade them is an early game unit...
Nah man. More history, more rhetoric, maybe even some... duh duh duh... POLITICS. I mean these arent "Top 5 Machine Guns in COD History That Gave Me AIDS" shorts. Even though these are video game videos, I think your audience is the type to appreciate it.
You're probably right but we're also heading into an intensely divisive election period in the US and it's going to be ugly. Last thing I want is to drag that rotten corpse onto the table that we're all having snacks and discussing tactics on... I appreciate the encouragement though - thank you!
So you hate fighting at night.. me too. So the guy who made the Mod “ immersive battlefields” makes other mods.. 2 being “Fire Arrows” and “Raise your Torch” looks great and helps you see better at night.. plus when shields catch arrows they stay on Fire while stuck in the shield. 🫶
I better pre-face this video that the first TWENTY minutes of this episode is a RANT ALL ABOUT how WEAK Heavy Cavalry is, and we show with extensive examples how bad heavy cavalry is in Bannerlord.
If you want to skip to tactical demonstrations of how to use cavalry offensively, go to: 20:00.
The cav problem is one of the reason I run Xorberx’s Legacy mod with deadly horse charges. It calculates the weight and speed of your horse against the trampled troop and the unit’s armor. It makes cavalry dangerous again but not to the point of over-correcting RBM does.
THIS sounds like what I want... Next campaign I think for I value your opinion very highly Joel...
@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions Xorberx's is hardcore, friendly fire + cut through is a powerful combination for deadly carnage on both sides. I have had ironman campaigns end because of friendly lances missing targets and instead going into the commander's head while fighting on the ground within the melee.
@@berenhamilton3321 That cut through can get bonkers when you get behind a formation and they aren't blocking your direction. A high damage 2 handed axe or a 2 handed falx blade just scythes through them so much that the damage/kill notification that pops up right above the character blocks my entire view of what's going on. I love that mod.
@@tatersandwhiskey6543 It can even be a life saver when getting into tricky 1vX situations. It is magical to watch several opponents try to surround you then all or most get dropped by one quick sword accel through their necks.
The Kingdom of Heaven music goes so hard. Great choice
Thanks - seems to fit perfectly with Aserai cav charging.
I think cavalry in this game should have a knockdown effect when they are charging into the footman and deal a lot of damage, especially when the cav charges into the back of them. It's like being hit by a full speed motorcycle in real life.
I agree and this would both properly balance things and make us all properly fearful of a big heavy cavalry charge
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yeah i find the best way to use cav is just dismounting them and using them as infantry a lot of the time their horses are just increased party speed and tools to get them in and out of position quicker. Their higher tier equipment since a lot of them are noble units actually makes them more effective on foot despite their lowish athletics. shield and shock (thank you) is also a favorite due to their horses being pretty good meat shields.
Faris and Druznik champions are among my favorite to use on foot due to their 90 and 100 athletics but cataphracts and banner knights are really good on foot too. Horse raiders are an honorable mention since they’re the only sturgian skirmisher
Oh and also dealing with horse archers (khuzait mainly) I use my cav to come in behind them before they fallback and smash in and take a few kills since they’re one of the top enemies i have in my aserai campaign. I hold husn fulq and razif so they’re right on my border.
Yep as you can imagine we have an entire episode coming on the defensive and alternative uses of cavalry.
Yep one of the right circumstances too I'll put a bunch of cows in a thick two or three deep shield wall blocking the retreat of the enemy horse archers and as long as you have a good amount of archers it causes a devastating effect when they retreat..
@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions that’s smart i’ll have to try that i’m using a more cav dominant army than usual with only aserai and mercenary units so the series is much appreciated right now
Ty so much…been wanting to use more calv lately
My favorite battle
Battle of Agincourt .
I have a historical analogue of this battle although it's hard to reproduce with Bannerlord.
ruclips.net/video/zYogeh6_4so/видео.html
My favorite parts of these videos are you pointing out the bad parts of the AI. My biggest criticism of the AI is that they don't split their archer and infantry units into multiple formations. Even when the enemy is fighting defensively it's so easy to flank because they have one big traunch of units once you take out the Cav.
Yep, and I continue to seek better options(and will use RBM from time to time), but ultimately the AI *is* decent, it's just not dynamic and rarely 'good'. (and thank you!)
I dont know if it will change much but i heard that the speed up option in the rts mod will increase the bonus from speed damage.
I don't think this is the case but I'll test it a few times and if it DOES increase damage(which would be dumb), then I'll report back to ya...
@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions I tested it myself. There wasn't a difference, at least on the playable character.
My method to correct cavalry is simple, I went into the files and started fiddling, added a flat 20+ to the charge of all horses, gave them the good lances, played with the stats a bit, changed some equipment then *booooom,* cav is truly devastating when used correctly . I don’t know why more people don’t do this it is not remotely difficult.
I noticed that, even in unedited gameplay, charge cav do extremely well if the enemy is in loose formation or moving, especially moving towards you. Once they stop in a firm formation, they really have issues, which I’m fine with but it must be combined with a robust morale shock system. Bannerlord simply doesn’t simulate morale shocks well, and morale shocks were *essential* to heavy cav tactics.
Yep, you've nailed it. Cavalry was more intimidation than actually annihilation. Same thing with early firearms. You speak of editing the files easily, well pretend I'm a golden retriever or little child and explain in simple terms how to 'add some charge' damage to my cav. Does this require coding skill? I'd love to just boost *slightly* cavalry in my vanilla Bannerlord.
Can u share more of ur wisdom in simple steps like which files etc ?
@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Mount & Blade II Bannerlord\Modules\SandBoxCore\ModuleData\items - File location, File name - Horse and Others, ctrl F to find charge_damage and change values to your liking. Remember to save
50 minute video? Strapping in
Had a siege last week that was.... 80 minutes! Haha, hope it's worth your time, I think it shows a lot of glaring and important points.
Yup spaming cav for the main part of ur army makes battles take so long cuz even if u beat the enemy it will take 3 times as long for the cav to actually kill the units vs if u have mostly heavy infr that will slay them in a hot minute.
Now i use no more than 20-30% of my army as cav as just so they can bog down enemy cav units while my meele and archers actually win the battle.
Yep precisely the same conclusion I've come to as well. Hence my use of defensive cavalry which is my next episode on cavalry units
Hammer and anvil is sht in my experience. Good way to get your mobile cav quagmired in the much and attacked from all sides. If youre going to do it just dismount your cav and have them attack from behind on foot.
I concure, though it has occasional use, especially on archers that are being chased down.
Any tips for players that use “Partners in Crime” to recruit loads of Mounted Ransackers and Mounted Pillagers?
Never used that mod, sorry! You're recruiting from prisoners though so basically you just track them down over and over, no?
it’s a vanilla roguery perk that makes bandits always offer to join, so you are able to quickly recruit hundreds of light cavalry and light horse archers for free.
it feels like it should be an overpowered strategy, but I am facing a pretty difficult time getting good use out of them. I figured with your experience and the weak army series, you’d have the know how to best extract value from this recruiting technique on the campaign.
Maybe it would be open up different tactics, because these units are kind of unique by virtue of being free and easily replaceable at scale.
@@vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv Well In my campaigns I have done SOME bandit recruiting(with that perk), but often times they end up in garrisons, except Sea Raiders and Veteran Foresters. I'm going to do a LOT more bandit work in my next campaign but right now I haven't had the experience with them to feel authoritative enough to suggest how others should use 'em.
Sometimes a guy needs to be smart enough to know what he DOESN'T know...
What’s your favorite javcav unit?
The problem with the Fian Champs is the go to pull their sword out and then pull their bow back out.. when shit hits the fan like this I tell them to “Hold Fire” and they become berserkers killing everything in sight 🥹 23:42
Nailed it. MUCH better if in a bad spot to just hit F4(hold fire) and F1-F3 for a 15-20 second period...
Pre 20:00
I can see why now why you use your cavalry the way you do. I will prioritise Shield walls and circle defence only unless the situation favours or needs an immediate charge. There are always some Games mechanic problems in any game but boy, this goes against the tactical grain.
Yep, basically I've adapted to the game but I wish the mechanics favored spear cavalry a lot more...
@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions it's a bit like playing rock paper scissors with only rock.
@@Warhead-haggis Archers too strong. Infantry just right. Cav way too weak. RBM helps some but pushes it too far to cav side. We'll see if there are future adjustments - I certainly don't flatter myself that TW's listens to me LOL
Algorithm comment again. I know I say this on every video, but keep it up. I’ve become a wayyyy better bannerlord player from your videos. I’m just glad I found them early in my bannerlord career and not three years in!
Love hearing my watchers getting better - I imagine guys out there just ripping it, then watching another video and ripping it even harder next time.
Charges have become more powerful in vanilla over time, but spear cav in particular (as you have exhaustively demonstrated) are just terrible offensively. Add to this how terrible spears are generally (the speed requirements for effective spear thrusts are stupid) and there's a lot of fixing to do. More powerful cav would require more anti-cav abilities from troops (like stakes, or even just proper spear bracing) and suddenly you have a long list of fixes and additions to add to the long list of fixes and additions this bare-bones game desperately needs.
The devs just expect modders to fix the game at this point. Let's be real: there will never be a satisfactory finished version of vanilla Bannerlord.
Still, people like you, with fresh takes and imaginative ways of playing, keep this game alive. So kudos and thanks.
I guess I figure if the game is an 8.5 out of 10, the modders make it nearly a 10 and it has a tremendous amount of variation to the tactical side of battle.
I appreciate the kind words and your insight is helpful. We'll see how the future goes, if they have significant updates or not...
@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions Ah man, "we'll see what the future holds," is a thread-bare phrase with Mount and Blade OGs like myself. I've been waiting for a good decade, and some . . . Still, I'm here playing it, so it's got something. Just give me proper diplomacy, sea travel and troop customisation and I'm a happy gamer! They only really need to get it up to par with their previous titles.
And keep your positive perspectives coming (even the rants are informative), games like this need creators like you.
@@kurremkarmerruk8718 Yep, we sit tight and enjoy what we have and hope for an even more enjoyable/fulfilled future. Cheers(and thank you!)
15 minutes in and im feeling less like its my fault that my cav heavy imperial army struggled so much. Coming from warband I was really struggling with cav. Now I mostly use my cav as counter cav but seeing this is making me question if i even need cav at all
Next week I'll have together a 'defensive tactics' guide to cavalry and you'll want those cavalry you disbanded this afternoon. They have their place, but it's not very historically accurate(or profound).
Love this style of video! Did you have Realistic Battle Mod turned on? and what are your thoughts on battle using that mod
I think if you want to use cavalry like it was use historically, then yes, yse RBM, if you want more balance, don't use it. I did NOT use RBM here.
@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions what do you prefer for your playthroughs? I’m about to start a new campaign
@@JEDIMIKETTV I run vanilla bannerlord but I'd be tempted to try one of the combat mods like RBM. Whatever you do, I'd keep the same one for your entire campaign otherwise it may be confusing...
What mods would you recommend using?
Never actually an easy question to answer. The mods I usually list in my video description are the ones that I would probably recommend things like the immersive battlefield mod the RTS mod the death for all campaign mod for more realistic death of nobles. There are a whole host of mods that affect gameplay in the campaign level that I need to explore a bit more in future campaigns before I can give them a thumbs up or thumbs down. I think most people like the diplomacy mod
Is cavalry still bad in de latest version of the game?
It's unbelieable that 500 cavalry just loosing to archers.
Yep, and very sad. This isn't a complicated test either, anyone can do this and I am confident, no matter the number of total cavalry and archers, as long as they are equal and the same 'tier' of quality, the archers will win most if not ALL of the time, and obviously that's just wrong...
While it is true that cavalry is very weak compared to irl, it needs to be weaker because its also much easier to get than irl. You would need to make them so much more expensive and harder to get overall to match irl standards. Otherwise it becomes op, especially with the map move speed advantage.
Very true - but given their serious handicap in crowded battlefields or choke points AND their weakness is siege, it still doesn't make sense for them to be butchered in the open by archers. I'd love to see them do double or triple 'charge damage' against archers, or something to that effect, but obviously you're right - and RBM shows how when they are the same PRICE as infantry and archers but totally crush them in battle, most RBM battles start to favor heavily the side with the most cavalry.
@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions as a curiosity, do these tests change a lot if you use banner knights instead of elite cataphracts (and their respective tier 5 unit). From my experience heavy cav in bannelord is more to buy time for my archers to shred them rather than the actual damage themselves. But cataphracts feel so weak compared to banner knights
@@alex2005z Yeah I actually use Bannerknights in the tests here(against Fian Champs) and they get shredded. My experience is that Banner Knights do a little better in cycle charging and elite cataphracts are better in hand to hand melee slugging it out.
This is a well deserved verbal bashing of lancer cavalry. It's unfortunate how embarrassingly bad they are.
I'll admit, I had fallen behind in watching your episodes. I've been trying to watch less RUclips in general lately. I'm all caught up now though. I couldn't find the video you mentioned when you commented on my episode 28. Did I somehow miss it? If so please leave a link, I was looking forward to liking and commenting.
Keep up the great work Bro.
Not sure it's published yet. Lots of work lately, both in and out of the game. Good to see you're still cruising along. Cheers!
Ok, I thought that might be the case. Gives me something to look forward to.
@@angrygoldfish9607 I've made so many episodes lately I can't remember which! It doesn't matter though, it won't be the last time I mention your horseman skills.
You flatter me Sir, thank you.
You are Forgiven 😂
lol ty
Can you make a text conclusion. The video is bit fast i coudnot followup
You can try the CC option on the bottom, it's too hard for me to type our CC's for each vid bud! I'm happy to try and help though
I want to downgrade my game to previous version, before they broke the AI and cav.
I like new missions, weather and that sieges doesn't last forever. Also that enemy can ran away instead of fight to death.
But broken AI is just atrocious, i cant watch it. When my units going past their enemies, ignoring them, while being killed from behind. When cav cant charge, they all running with shields up instead of their spears.
When infantry instead of going towards the enemy in shield wall starting to make weird dances, exposing their backs to projectiles.
Its just sad.
Can't disagree, the bottom line is that the AI is NOT great, and some parts are just flat out bad(Spear cavalry). It's what we got though.
As dumb as it is heavy high ranked cavalry is an early game unit. You want speed to chase down bandits and run away from armies and hit units of peasants without a single casualty to you and raid and stuff. Heavy, high ranked, most expensive unit in the game, takes a war horse to upgrade them is an early game unit...
Yeah cavalry is VERY useful, just not the powerhouse they were in battle in the year 1060(or whenever Bannerlord starts).
Nah man. More history, more rhetoric, maybe even some... duh duh duh... POLITICS. I mean these arent "Top 5 Machine Guns in COD History That Gave Me AIDS" shorts. Even though these are video game videos, I think your audience is the type to appreciate it.
You're probably right but we're also heading into an intensely divisive election period in the US and it's going to be ugly. Last thing I want is to drag that rotten corpse onto the table that we're all having snacks and discussing tactics on...
I appreciate the encouragement though - thank you!
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So you hate fighting at night.. me too. So the guy who made the Mod “ immersive battlefields” makes other mods.. 2 being “Fire Arrows” and “Raise your Torch” looks great and helps you see better at night.. plus when shields catch arrows they stay on Fire while stuck in the shield. 🫶
I'll be checking out both and certainly making some 'epic siege' with this fire effect...
@@HeadlessHorsemanProductionsit looks amazing