I have just finally published my newest playthrough video where my troops and I can ONLY use throwing! ruclips.net/video/aIqaxMZFklo/видео.html The sequel where I CONQUER Calradia with companions & family! - ruclips.net/video/gi7EbCO9CgE/видео.html Check out the guide for this on my discord - discord.gg/G4J2feNKVV Have any questions? I challenge each one of y'all to do one such playthrough for yourself! I just started a new one, it's fun but still super hard at the start! Truth be told, the only time I needed to use troops was to fulfill the requirement of having 20 troops for the first quest, but I haven't used them in fights.
hi! im trying to do this, but i cant understand why my party (just me and 3 companions) is super slow, speed 3. we all have horses and no extra burden, i cant even chase 6 looters How is it possible?
@@enduria3478 if you mouse over the summary widget at bottom right (where you see your party size, health, food etc - you may need to expand it for a full view), you will see the various effects on your party speed. You might have too many animals in the party, maybe lame animals, but I am just guessing, and you should find it out for yourself.
Is this modless? This seems like a lot of fun and I’m on Xbox so I’ve been disappointed before with some seemingly modless challenges Edit: I rewatched and realized I missed the line that said “no mods” im blind
@@enduria3478 Hover over the party speed icon on the campain map. It should tell you why it's slow. Maybe you have too many horses or animals in your inventory which gives a punishing "herd" negative party speed effect.
So, kinda like Giustinani's Condotierri in Constantinople? About 20 armored men per gate standing ground to the hundreeds of Ottoman jenizzaries assaulting after each bombardment seems like a close comparison.
imagine nowadays history class: "The lands were torn apart by constant wars between the lords. The legend says that the man by the name of Godfrey came and united the realm with his party of 19. Of course its a myth, there is no world where a party of 20 could ever do it, but it is what the records of those times say"
I've done this type of campaign once and seeing this video made me want to try it again. It was really fun and I grew very attached to the whole party, so it killed me inside when my save got corrupted and I lost pretty much everything.
Im doing this challange like 100 hours and its really amazing. Im still not bored because game does not enter the same loop after u declare your kingdom. Having like 25 soldiers is not easy so u have to make your decisions well. U cannot just gather an army and conquerer lands like u do in previous campaigns. But i need to say that it takes so much effort and patience for the first 10 years. Killing looters and raiding villages over and over and over again is a bit too boring. But after ur companions and family members reach 200+ at bow and riding everything starts to get fun. If u bored of playing same playthrough like me i definitely recommend this challange.
Haha looks like fun. Imagine the freaking FAME your clan would have! They would be legendary and all of your companions are the stuff of myth. Technically every kingdom would be sending you piles of gold and fiefs to get your loyalty in hopes you could swing wars in their favor
As much as I admire this... I can't believe you dedicated the time and energy into this. I wish I could enjoy Bannerlord on that level- I did with Warband. Excellent work my man.
This is legit. I have do the same playthru. This video edit out the part of all the grinding. So we didn't see the part where he was grinding in arena fights just to gain 250 gold per win and only a tiny amount of xp gained from it. Also grinding up the companions by fighting looters take ages.
I just started Bannerlord and even while using advantageous mods I still have difficulties in the game, seeing your video, what you've done is amazing.
I also only use companions for my army, I actually have 160 of them. It's really cool being able to equip and upgrade them as I want to form a really unique army of veterans, the only thing missing is the ability to put the companion in the units I want but apparently the 1.1.0 Beta is on the path to let the player choose it so it's a good thing. That combined with mods that let you change your companions's names and appearance and that's all I needed to enjoy this game !
@@warthoggoulags1679 With the cheat "campaign.conceive_child" you can get hundreds of familymembers even without a mod, as it bypass the cap. Even 90 year old women gets pregnant with that cheatcommand. Mods will speed it up however, like a mod to switch clanleader so you can use the command to make every woman in the clan pregnant, as the command only works on the clanleader.
This is very similar to my current playthrough (console), I wish I saw these videos before they are edited well and very informative. I currently only have a clan army/ parties but my 700 or so can decimate any faction even when outnumbered. Just wish I chose campaign instead of sandbox. Keep up the good work bruh
I did this kind of campaign on Warband. 1 of the most fun I ever had because the start was super hard. But at some point its like a switch was flipped and we just started wrecking people. Same kinda set up. I had Bow/arrow/arrow/Heavy morningstar for each of them and they could do it all. Was so much fun to just watch the kill feed every time.
I have done this in the past, one of the most fun playthroughs IMO, in the end game you can make them lords and castles etc but destroying armies with just a handful of troops that upgrade over time is the most fun element.
Awesome. I remember when this game was new, it was sloooow to level up companions. Good to know this has changed; the way you play has been my preferred way too. Looks like I need to reinstall!
Did something similar in one campaign. All characters used mace, shield, braceable and swingable polearm and 1 set of javelins. High level perk for throwing let them penetrate shields. Fun when multiple companions have it and I skirmish high tier melee frontline that are approaching slow with shields up!
I'm glad you like it so much! I'm currently in the middle of another clan members only playthrough, where I'm conquering Calradia. This video will hopefully will be up next week!
Nah after watching this I need to try this playthrough, man I have a 1000 hours on bannerlord and still haven't tried something similar to this. For sure going to do this
I have over 1k hours and this was awesome sir I always wanted to do this but didnt want the stress I thank you believe me when I say I get how hard this was
Insane man! I only used soldiers in the garrison, which was to prevent rebels. I have 900 hours of playing time and I have never played so eagerly and enjoyably. So many mods in vain this real fun. By the way, there was only one mod I used "Marry Anyone" and you know what I'm doing.
Nice video!!!!! Can I ask you about your party composition (Quartermaster, Scout, Surgeon, Engineer)? How did you prioritize that? Did your main character got all 4 roles? How did you level the main skills? Thank you very much!
At the start my brother was quartermaster since he starts with high leadership. Everyone was surgeon to get them the top medicine perk at lvl 25 as that makes them regain 30% more hp after each battle. Later on, when I was in a faction I can command armies, so I was the quartermaster for leadership exp. For engineer, I didn't prioritize that at all, but one of my family members was the engineer, for scout, another one of my family members was the scout (I didn't do scouting at all on my main). To level the character in the general level sense, I just got a bunch of kills swinging my custom smithed weapons or shooting my bow. At the end as shown in the video, I think i was about lvl 50 which was insanely hard to achieve, and i personally probably got at least 4,000 kills
I did this the last time I played, but in a sandbox with no family. Also using the trick of recruiting reset women from the mission of the lost daughter (I don't know if it still works). It's really entertaining, I dedicated myself to transforming them into Fians, I went in to help my allies in sieges and my 10 companions and I killed half of the defending army, I ordered them to charge using their two-handed swords and a terrifying carnage began, literally, Because they had the two-handed sword terror perk, you have an idea of the morale damage caused by 11 characters with that ability, killing unstoppably. If you want a different and entertaining starting suggestion, once played as a mercenary "drill sergeant". I would recruit low-level soldiers, train them, and then donate them to the armies my faction created. I trained sturgia infantry and donated them to the southern empire, it was fun to see my old soldiers win battles for their new masters.
@@omareshaaq3913 Hi Omar, unfortunately in the last patch they corrected it. But if you play the previous patches it will work without problems, search the TW forum "Glitch to get female companions" there I explain the step by step to get female companions, young and with undistributed talents and attributes.
Hi, I'm doing something similar to this (no horses, we are all on foot with bows & 2 handed swords) but my companions' movement speed is very low. Almost all of them have 200+ athletics, our armor weights are close to each other but I'm running like 2x faster than them. They are even slower than regular troops. Is there something I'm missing? Also do companions benefit from combat related captain and party leader bonuses?
Hey man that was a very fun video to watch! How did you get your party to have 20 companions? Ive only recently started to play Bannerlord, and have 55h.
I have just finally published my newest playthrough video where my troops and I can ONLY use throwing! ruclips.net/video/aIqaxMZFklo/видео.html
The sequel where I CONQUER Calradia with companions & family! - ruclips.net/video/gi7EbCO9CgE/видео.html
Check out the guide for this on my discord - discord.gg/G4J2feNKVV
Have any questions? I challenge each one of y'all to do one such playthrough for yourself!
I just started a new one, it's fun but still super hard at the start!
Truth be told, the only time I needed to use troops was to fulfill the requirement of having 20 troops for the first quest, but I haven't used them in fights.
insane bro
hi! im trying to do this, but i cant understand why my party (just me and 3 companions) is super slow, speed 3. we all have horses and no extra burden, i cant even chase 6 looters
How is it possible?
@@enduria3478 if you mouse over the summary widget at bottom right (where you see your party size, health, food etc - you may need to expand it for a full view), you will see the various effects on your party speed. You might have too many animals in the party, maybe lame animals, but I am just guessing, and you should find it out for yourself.
Is this modless? This seems like a lot of fun and I’m on Xbox so I’ve been disappointed before with some seemingly modless challenges
Edit: I rewatched and realized I missed the line that said “no mods” im blind
@@enduria3478 Hover over the party speed icon on the campain map. It should tell you why it's slow. Maybe you have too many horses or animals in your inventory which gives a punishing "herd" negative party speed effect.
Imagine seeing 20 of the most heavily armored knights roll up to your castle and absolutely wrecking you
"My lord, the enemy has arrived!"
"How many are they? Hundreds? Thousands?"
"Just... twenty sir."
"God have mercy on us all..."
All he needs are twenty good men
So, kinda like Giustinani's Condotierri in Constantinople?
About 20 armored men per gate standing ground to the hundreeds of Ottoman jenizzaries assaulting after each bombardment seems like a close comparison.
sounds like warhammer total war. 19 single entity doom stacks but in calradia. i love this so much.
People that time must have hated them so much and call it a witchcraft, a sorcery of some sort
imagine nowadays history class:
"The lands were torn apart by constant wars between the lords. The legend says that the man by the name of Godfrey came and united the realm with his party of 19. Of course its a myth, there is no world where a party of 20 could ever do it, but it is what the records of those times say"
So rare to see someone of my name hahaha
@@furyofgod3838you mate got a Sweet ass name
@@furyofgod3838
Fury of God
God fury
Godfrey
You're clever
I've done this type of campaign once and seeing this video made me want to try it again. It was really fun and I grew very attached to the whole party, so it killed me inside when my save got corrupted and I lost pretty much everything.
That sucks bro, I always have backups from my games, maybe try having a backup or two as well?
@@Mr.Chicken Words of wisdom to live by. And a lesson I learned the hard way multiple times.
@Mr.Chicken Bannerlord He's probably on console. Console has a bug where your game will crash and it will corrupt all our your saved data
How can you make backups?
@@THEKING-zc1ed Hit escape, then click "save as" this makes a new save file.
This'd be hilarious imagining the guys in the army with you.
Other Lord: I brought 200 men. How about you?
"12"
'You see my old friend, i bought more soliders than you "
rolling up like the mf custodes up in here "how many reinforcements did our emperor send for us to beat back these heretics." "One."
accurate feudal levies
Other Lord: HAHA, Get enough of this peasant.
Then you roll out with the best equiped knights the realm has ever seen
- I brought two hundred men. How about you?
- Twelve.
- Twelve hundred, we will be unstoppable.
- We will be unstoppable, indeed. But that's twelve.
Im doing this challange like 100 hours and its really amazing. Im still not bored because game does not enter the same loop after u declare your kingdom. Having like 25 soldiers is not easy so u have to make your decisions well. U cannot just gather an army and conquerer lands like u do in previous campaigns. But i need to say that it takes so much effort and patience for the first 10 years. Killing looters and raiding villages over and over and over again is a bit too boring. But after ur companions and family members reach 200+ at bow and riding everything starts to get fun. If u bored of playing same playthrough like me i definitely recommend this challange.
The time and effort into this is impressive, I kinda wanna try a companion only playthrough now good job!
Haha looks like fun. Imagine the freaking FAME your clan would have! They would be legendary and all of your companions are the stuff of myth. Technically every kingdom would be sending you piles of gold and fiefs to get your loyalty in hopes you could swing wars in their favor
This is such an awesome challenge. I think I'm gonna try it too!
I've been playing since around Christmas when it was on sale. This playthrough looks like so much fun. Definitely going to try this. Thanks!
Been looking for something to get me to start a fresh playthrough. This is awesome, thanks!
Bro this seems so fun!
And your editing is fantastic!
I wish your channel got more views, hell I wish more people play bannerlord in general
As much as I admire this... I can't believe you dedicated the time and energy into this. I wish I could enjoy Bannerlord on that level- I did with Warband. Excellent work my man.
This is legit. I have do the same playthru. This video edit out the part of all the grinding. So we didn't see the part where he was grinding in arena fights just to gain 250 gold per win and only a tiny amount of xp gained from it. Also grinding up the companions by fighting looters take ages.
I did include some full battles in a video that's almost 2 hours long, link in description. Although this was only like 3% of the battles
@@sirluis4972 I am fully aware. The guy sat in front of his PC and grinded out over 150 hours vs AI.
That looks like an epic adventure, thank you for the video!
Fine, I'll buy Bannerlord. You convinced me
Wow great idea, looks like it's time for another playthrough
I miss caring about your companions like with Warband. This may bring it back!
I cared less in warband I gave Jeremus a two handed axe and that was it
I just started Bannerlord and even while using advantageous mods I still have difficulties in the game, seeing your video, what you've done is amazing.
The start is always hard no matter what you do, but it gets easier the more you play.
Holy Moly this was awesome i like your content a lot, great job
I had this idea. I forgot there was a cap to the number you could have and it's still so satisfying with just 19.
Thanks for the content
Is thé cap on family membres or just the one you recruit because i'm thinking of doing a playthrough like that
There's a cap on clan members, this will include family but its around 50-60@@slimboarder.o7
I also only use companions for my army, I actually have 160 of them.
It's really cool being able to equip and upgrade them as I want to form a really unique army of veterans, the only thing missing is the ability to put the companion in the units I want but apparently the 1.1.0 Beta is on the path to let the player choose it so it's a good thing.
That combined with mods that let you change your companions's names and appearance and that's all I needed to enjoy this game !
160 ? You must be using a mod
@@warthoggoulags1679 Yes the UnlimitedCap mod
@@warthoggoulags1679 With the cheat "campaign.conceive_child" you can get hundreds of familymembers even without a mod, as it bypass the cap. Even 90 year old women gets pregnant with that cheatcommand. Mods will speed it up however, like a mod to switch clanleader so you can use the command to make every woman in the clan pregnant, as the command only works on the clanleader.
Great video! Enjoyed watching it.
Amazing!
Good luck to your companions and your patience!!💪
Thanks for the super chat! Good luck in your playthrough too!
Seems like a really fun challenge!
just lovely watching it, now hands on doing this
I so want to try this! Thanks for sharing!
This is very similar to my current playthrough (console), I wish I saw these videos before they are edited well and very informative. I currently only have a clan army/ parties but my 700 or so can decimate any faction even when outnumbered. Just wish I chose campaign instead of sandbox. Keep up the good work bruh
Nice! Make it into series of episodes. It will be fun to watch the journey unfold :)
I did this kind of campaign on Warband. 1 of the most fun I ever had because the start was super hard. But at some point its like a switch was flipped and we just started wrecking people. Same kinda set up. I had Bow/arrow/arrow/Heavy morningstar for each of them and they could do it all. Was so much fun to just watch the kill feed every time.
Such a fantastic and good edit.
I have done this in the past, one of the most fun playthroughs IMO, in the end game you can make them lords and castles etc but destroying armies with just a handful of troops that upgrade over time is the most fun element.
Awesome. I remember when this game was new, it was sloooow to level up companions. Good to know this has changed; the way you play has been my preferred way too. Looks like I need to reinstall!
This is a really cool idea, I think I will try it too!
That was an interesting experiment! Gonna try it out by myself someday.
I saw the thumbnail and thought it was lame but seeing the vid… ngl “godfrey and the 20” sounds pretty feckin epic
This was a very entertaining video, definitely got me to try out this challenge. Good stuff mate, subbed
It looks great, now I wanna try this on my own
That was awesome man
This was my favourite way to play the Warband earlygame. So much lordly sea raider loot...
The best video from Bannerlord I've seen
Did something similar in one campaign. All characters used mace, shield, braceable and swingable polearm and 1 set of javelins. High level perk for throwing let them penetrate shields. Fun when multiple companions have it and I skirmish high tier melee frontline that are approaching slow with shields up!
That 30% health return perk is OP. Love it.
One of my favorite bannerlord vids overall
I'm glad you like it so much! I'm currently in the middle of another clan members only playthrough, where I'm conquering Calradia. This video will hopefully will be up next week!
@@Mr.Chicken you're truly up for a challenge. I can't wait to see it!
because of videos like this i can never stay away from the game.
awesomest playthrough!
Awesome campaign! Gotta try this myself
great video 🔥🔥
I miss my mongolian archer rider horde... Was such a fun playthrough having like 120 or so horse archers.
Amazing stuff
Looks super fun but challenging. Gotta try it myself!
Man... you are awesome I need try this
Nah after watching this I need to try this playthrough, man I have a 1000 hours on bannerlord and still haven't tried something similar to this. For sure going to do this
this is a good video. would be cool if there was a video with full battles linked somewhere though
Are you ok? He stated that the full battles are already linked multiple times lmao. Check the description the link is literally there.
Watching this again after I rewatched the last kingdom, inspired me to retry this in banner lords
I have over 1k hours and this was awesome sir I always wanted to do this but didnt want the stress I thank you believe me when I say I get how hard this was
Insane man! I only used soldiers in the garrison, which was to prevent rebels. I have 900 hours of playing time and I have never played so eagerly and enjoyably. So many mods in vain this real fun. By the way, there was only one mod I used "Marry Anyone" and you know what I'm doing.
I had the most fun in Warband with companions only. Never tried it in Bannerlord. I will now, though. Thanks.
That was sick af
I'm so glad to see someone else teabags after a tourney win
Very nice!
This makes me want to play bannerlord more
Nice video!
This is pretty impressive
Wow bro, it's amazing
Good video. Thx!
this is really cool, just like playing battle brothers in 3d XD
A companion only play through is honestly the hard mode bannerlord experience! But with dedication it’s one of the most fun play styles for the game
Nice edit
You are the bannerlord god!
Great vid. 0:32 is when I subscribed lmao
I really wanna try this now...might be time for another storyline playthrough
I get the same feelings when i fight an enemy with my 290 khan's main party
Seems very fun to have a few man but that are killing machine xD
Ah yes, the true embodiment of "20 good men"
I remmeber doing something similar in Warband Perisno mod. Oh the memories.
bro made Plot Armour from movies and shows a real thing
I did this with sturgian armor and had a full hero shield wall, gave them viking names too and I had my own little viking raiding party
Nice video, but for this type of playtrough you should add some mods, would add spices to the mix !
Nice video!!!!! Can I ask you about your party composition (Quartermaster, Scout, Surgeon, Engineer)? How did you prioritize that? Did your main character got all 4 roles? How did you level the main skills? Thank you very much!
At the start my brother was quartermaster since he starts with high leadership. Everyone was surgeon to get them the top medicine perk at lvl 25 as that makes them regain 30% more hp after each battle. Later on, when I was in a faction I can command armies, so I was the quartermaster for leadership exp. For engineer, I didn't prioritize that at all, but one of my family members was the engineer, for scout, another one of my family members was the scout (I didn't do scouting at all on my main).
To level the character in the general level sense, I just got a bunch of kills swinging my custom smithed weapons or shooting my bow. At the end as shown in the video, I think i was about lvl 50 which was insanely hard to achieve, and i personally probably got at least 4,000 kills
I did this the last time I played, but in a sandbox with no family. Also using the trick of recruiting reset women from the mission of the lost daughter (I don't know if it still works). It's really entertaining, I dedicated myself to transforming them into Fians, I went in to help my allies in sieges and my 10 companions and I killed half of the defending army, I ordered them to charge using their two-handed swords and a terrifying carnage began, literally, Because they had the two-handed sword terror perk, you have an idea of the morale damage caused by 11 characters with that ability, killing unstoppably.
If you want a different and entertaining starting suggestion, once played as a mercenary "drill sergeant". I would recruit low-level soldiers, train them, and then donate them to the armies my faction created. I trained sturgia infantry and donated them to the southern empire, it was fun to see my old soldiers win battles for their new masters.
Can you explain the the trick ?
@@omareshaaq3913 Hi Omar, unfortunately in the last patch they corrected it. But if you play the previous patches it will work without problems, search the TW forum "Glitch to get female companions" there I explain the step by step to get female companions, young and with undistributed talents and attributes.
There's a guy who conquered every kingdom solo in less than 30 years. You should try that next.
Wow. Having companions level 30+ is something I have never managed to accomplish
I like how he teabags the unit he killed
The entire kingdom: But you only have 19 soldiers with you!
You: COMPANIA! WHATS YOUR PROFESSION!?
“HA-OOH HA-OOH HA-OOH”
This has the same energy as a Warhammer total war doomstack
Hi, I'm doing something similar to this (no horses, we are all on foot with bows & 2 handed swords) but my companions' movement speed is very low. Almost all of them have 200+ athletics, our armor weights are close to each other but I'm running like 2x faster than them. They are even slower than regular troops. Is there something I'm missing? Also do companions benefit from combat related captain and party leader bonuses?
When you said that you made 20k from the caravans i knew from that point on what I’m doing with my campaign
Cool i wanna try it now
looks like alot of fun lol
Maybe the real war-band was the friends we made along the way
Do you mind telling me what parts you used for the pole arms ?
"I fought with honor, teabagging every defeated opponent"
This is genius. The best part is that they’re cheaper, and DONT DIE
Hey man that was a very fun video to watch!
How did you get your party to have 20 companions?
Ive only recently started to play Bannerlord, and have 55h.
epic video
Hi, what custom pole arm worked best here?
Hi! is there any vital perks in the roguery skill tree for this particular playthrough or it was just a preference of choice? Thanks!
Just preference of choice
2h, javelins and bow - all it is probably OP things in Bannerlord, so i am understand your choise. Its my too
Love this video!
7:10 Do you have to level each companion's Athletics to 275 to get the Mighty Blow perk?
Yes
Ok starting my run now