Best Siege Defense Tactic! - Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord (1.0.0)
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- How to win any Siege Battle in Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord!
For this Medieval Siege Battle we have 100 Battanian Defenders VS 1000 Aserai with 4 Trebuchets, 2 Siege towers, and a Battering Ram. Under any normal Lord or King a 1:10 Siege Battle would be completely hopeless and lead to your troops surrendering or total defeat. So for this video I will be teaching you guys how to win any siege defense battle against overwhelming numbers by using a few simple steps in order to completely confuse the enemy!
I hope you guys enjoy the video and let me know if this tactic works for your playthrough!
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If Skynet ever unleashes an army of Terminators to kill us all, you'll be our John Connor.
Sounds good
lets hope skynet has equally shitty ai coding
Well, if the Terminators use the same AI as developed by the geniuses at TaleWorlds, I don't think humanity has much to worry about, lol.
1. he better have good cardio
Skynet sends terminators*
Archers ready!
Open the gate!
Still works, Just had to defend Diathma against 1400 to about 350, A little wonky to figure out the positioning of the gates. But literally saved my first city. Thanks Spartan Gaming!
Omg, this is very helpful! I got an army of 200 defending 1000+ army, and they get obliterate easily! Kudos for sharing, you deserve a follow/subscription and a like!
For this tactic you will want to use no more than 50 Infantry inside the gate since the AI will bug out if you place to many. If you have over 50 infantry make a group of your strongest shield infantry and place them in the gate then you can place your other units either slightly further away from the gate in a square formation or keep them in reserve to throw javelins. You can also use 2-handed warriors to charge in and out while the enemy blobs up.
Is there a way to ensure all onagers fire at the ram???
@@ReedyD1953 That's been my issue in a castle defense. I even went up and manually aimed it at the ram and my troops swapped back to their other target instead.
@venerablev4835 it drives me crazy!!!!! I'm like "the ram is there!!!! Fire at it" and they keep aiming at other useless targets
Can you make a console version of this tactic. It's been a while I played since launch on Xbox because it was trash horses flying everywhere, the world going dark, and the loading screens the anti christ of gaming puts skyrim to shame. Ever since then I kept to warband.
It seems like you cheated with the spectator mode where you manually moved your archers because they were close. 5:04
Could be pc specific for all I know and anyone could press the command to move back instead. Which is all the more the reaaon a vanilla console version would be appreciated.
No mods. No keyboards. No blue tooth or controller plug in on a pc.
Then test all the versions and settings. For example, setting it to 300 size for the game and mess with difficulty.
Sadly almost this exact situation happened to me earlier. Joined Empire fo main quest & took a castle.... ended up defending 200 vs 800 and most of their army was heavily armored troops.
TLDR: Lost all 200, but they lost 710.
Well hopefully next time you can use one of my Siege Defense tactics to get revenge
@@SpartanIsGaming Looking forward to it, earned a sub & appreciate your knowledge!
I used this countless times in a previous play through when this video first came out I just picked the game back up and forgot about it until now when I was outnumbered 1200 to 400 and thank god it still works 😂
You can pretty much afk until the battle is over it’s insane
@@calebbolyard8679 did you try the Realist Battle Mod with this strat? there was an ai overhaul in the mod, but im not sure if siege ai was improved
@@8bit-ascii I only play on console bro not cool enough to be part of the PC master race
Ngl, the ground in and outside that killbox looks damn satisfying with all those dead dudes
I done something similar by pulling everyone off the wall and putting infantry units in front off the inner gate, then used archers to shoot over them, beat an army off 1200 with 300 soldiers with only 56 injured.
So you place your archers where? In between the two gates? Or?
@@Cowboys777 soilders in between the two gates in square formation.
Archers facing the inner gate from the courtyard.
This way the enemy focus on the gates and you can shoot them in the back or off the walls.
I got about just over 200 with over 900 attacking me I'm close only been playing a few days this might help lol
Siege defense is ridiculously easy in Bannerlord. The hard part is getting an enemy to actually besiege and attack.
The ai armies decide what castle to attack based off of garrison strength. So if you were to take out all of your garrison, put all battanian milita or tier 1-3 archers in low numbers, and wait outside the castle. You could provoke the enemy to attack then jump into the castle right before the siege begins. I’ve done that a lot for campaigns where I want to collect all the enemies lords fast.
@@SpartanIsGaming Takes too much time though. You could run three sieges in that time and capture way more enemy lords. Also makes no sense from a strategic point of view. Instead of a garrison and an army you just have an army setting a trap.
@@Tinylittledansonman it doesn't even take that much time bruh you entice the enemy by having a weak garrison and when they siege it they will go straight in for the attack, sometimes without even building a ram because the ai sees the defender numbers as nothing, after that you break into your settlement and capture alot of enemy lords in easily
I mean, historically it's not that inaccurate.
Castles are force multipliers. A lady (her husband was away), her chambermaids and fewer than 30 guards were able to repel an army of 17,000 Frenchmen due to their castles defences during, if I remember correctly, the Hundred Years war.
@@TechnoMinarchist are you actually talking about Corfe castle during English Parliamentary wars? It was against like 500-600 troops with 80 defenders, they suffered TWO casualties while dealing over a hundred. The castle only fell because someone on the inside betrayed them and opened the back door
This is exactly the kind of creative strategy I was looking for. 👍🏻
I am currently Trying to figure out how to play Vlandia. My sharpshooters will be amazing with this defense!
I notice on the latest version, it's bugged you will fight a big battle, the enemy will only have a few men left, but the ai will just start another battle, and then another. Trouble is you don't get the loot or the experience for your men, only for the last battle where they might only have ten men left. I guess the AI keep's retreating losing men.
In addition it's weird when you are besieging a town or castle with another allied army, the AI will just attack you, not the other army, if you try the same thing you have to fight all the besieging forces, dosn't seem realistic or fair.
Yeah I get mad at this alot because ill level up a bunch of fresh tier 2,3 troops and then they retreat and I get no loot or xp, thats why I just auto resolve most of my battles ik I can win
@@nidatahir9216 I don't know much about medieval battles, but I am sure that when you rout a army, and go into pursuit mode, that army is not coming back. So why the diminishing battles, who thought that was a good idea. If you win then it's over. Give us the loot and the XP.
@@thomasmain5986 you have to go to game options...you have it set for siege battles that the enemy comes in waves of 3. The setting is waves of 3/5/or infinite, and in infinite means in every battle you must fight continuous spawns of enemies until the entire army is diminished to 0. The longer you play the game the longer these battles are drawn out because armies only get bigger
@@meldonsleep5298 Ok thanks I'll do that.
I tried it dosn't work, but they appear to have fixed the XP and Influence and Loot issue.
@@meldonsleep5298 This isn't what they're talking about, I have or had mine set to infinite, it doesn't stop the enemies from routing and if enough route you have to fight them again in a completely separate battle
HOLD UP, I put this on for background sound while in a siege battle while I’m defending and I have about 100 BATANIANS and I’m attacked by about 1000 ASERI how did this man know? HOW
Thank you all for the helping suggestions...putting the units in line formation instead of scatter helped a lot. The problem in MARUNATH is the inside space but eventually came out ahead after several tries.👍🖖
1:36 what did you call me 😂😂
Funny enough I actually had a video recently demonetized for saying Onagers. So now I have to call them catapults instead lol
Bro watching those poor aserai attempting to reach the shield wall but getting brutally perforated by the Fians made me giggle
How do you get catapults to focus fire on the ram?
catapults will always focus the ram first
@@Theqmortismine always focus on the siege tower first
@@kingt0295 I think it depends if the mangonel can actually hit the ram, I've defended castles and shit with weird ground elevation, meaning even on the shortest range setting the mangonel would just overshoot the ram and so the men manning the mangonels (dayum), would focus something else they can shoot at actually. A lot of times a grouped infantry.
People often wonder about medieval battles and how powerful and deadly full plate knights are, and yet, if you actually know how these things work....The humble and hated archer is your most prolific killer on the battlefields. Far higher body counts per capita with each engagement.
I tried this with the empire forces and it works super well
Edit: the crossbowmen itself is enough to hold the castle alone
Nice video. Thanks for sharing your experience!
I'm not worried anymore about A.I. outsmarting us anytime soon 😂
You save my marriage with correin 😂
work in 2024. thanks so much! i win battle 500 agains 1k1
More exploits and tactics are on their way Spartans! Let me know if you try this Siege Defense Tactic for yourself and how it goes! I want to see you Spartans defending castles with 300 Spartans against 1000s!
If you have any questions join the discord and ask me directly: discord.gg/5ejEEmd2de
It was intriguing
i think my favorite part about bannerlord is the meta game. perfect example is your tactic of opening and closing the gate in order to manipulate the enemy army
@@caseykeller4713 It's so satisfying finding ways to exploit the AI like that too
So I just started playing on console, so I can't mod it and I'm stuck with a ≈400 v 1200. The castle is rather narrow, and I can't put my archers very far away. Additionally, all I've got are four ballista, and I've yet to see them successfully take down a single siege engine. Any tips? Pretty stuck.
@@CubeFrog Ballista's can't take out Rams so if the enemy destroys your gate this strategy won't work. I have another backup tactic video for your exact situation coming in a few days.
I defended Sargot from an army of roughly 6000 with only 200 troops using the strategy
Alternate title: Bannerlord Baloon Tower Defence 5
Bannerlord balloon tower defense, I Iike it!
got into a less drastic but similar situation (700 vs 500) last night. since its my first city defense i got nervous, saved, and went to bed. now im going to try this and see if i can survive
Well? You make it out alive?
@The Ganjacologist my city layout was much different, didnt have enough space directly behind the gate. got absolutely destroyed
@@benjaminsantos1014 lmfao, same happened to me
So now you are back in bed? 😂
I wish I knew this before conceding Varcheg to the Kuzaits & paying peace tributes to the Aserai for Lageta
Me to ffs
Used a similar strategy but I put all my Infantryman in the door way with a set of my Archers on the walls and a set behind the Infantryman
Sounds like a good idea to try
I’m gonna use this tactic now
nice content. I wish they fix this exploit and also ladder camping. It would make the game more interresting.
If the archers looked to the ladders ladder camping would be mostly fixed. Everything else is probably going to take years till one modder fixes it
My god i was waiting for that video
Well since he didn’t mention it I will. If your castle is being seized and they have towers and the ram, you already screwed up. There’s an option called “ambush” this will allow you to sally out your castle with a handful of troops (mounted if you have them) with the objective of destroying their siege machines. If you are successful in destroying them, the enemy will almost always launch their attack right after. Which means they have to scale ladders and if they don’t have heavily armored troops, they won’t stand a chance.
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I'm new to bannerlord and started doing this in sandbox mode and everytime the ram makes it to the gate. How do I get the catapults to target the ram?
This worked for me only problem I had was my guys didn’t target the battering ram
Watching this video as owner of a fresh kingdom with 200 soldiers with 1200 army siegieng my only castle :D
Good Luck on your Siege Defense Spartan!
@@SpartanIsGaming Realm of The First Men will stand strong
It freaking worked :D
However i had to open the gates and swiftly destroy the ram by hand :D
Wow that was cool!
I won a castle, then a army of 4k came behind me and attacked the same castle i just conquered, it was 200 vs 4000, and still won
The only thing I did was make the troops follow the sergeants, I had 23 wounded and 4 deaths
@@fire_eliteyt how. I have an army of 700 vs an army 3000 trying to escape this one 😢
Subbed. GG, Nice Tactics
how do you tell what your onagers to shoot at?
Had no idea you can place troops like that I just say archers stand here at the battle prep
Can you go into that bird's eye view troop command on console? Or is that a computer only feature?
Its a mod. "RTS Camera" on Nexus
Love the idea!
My archers didn't feel like staying where I told them to
Make sure you change them into shield wall and they will start listening to you. If you don’t change their formation they will run to the walls and ai will take over
So how do I make sure the onagers focus down the battering ram?
You can take direct control of the rock onagers (only takes 3-5 hits) and if it isn’t destroyed then you can through boulders at the ram once it’s close.
I use RTS camera and it allows me to tell my soldiers what formation to attack so I can just tell my men to all attack the ram but it does make anyone not on a catapult run against the walls.
Genius , love it
Awesome video I'm deff trying this today lol 😂
That's really helpful. Thanks
I can easily defeat 4-5x armies while defending using battanians. Last night I defeated 1.8k western emipire army while only having my 130 trops and around 300 militia. I split my archers in 5 or 6 formations, and 2 or 3 infantry groups,depends on how many ways they are attacking(ram,siege tower and ladders). My archers always take balistas,or oranghers. I always use balista and harrass them while they are walking towards us. When they start to push really hard I jump towards my infantry and block them on ladders or siege towers. They always retreat, because they loose more than half army trying to get to the walls. Archers easily kill more than 300 trops alone and infantry does the rest. I use fians as archers and wildings as infantry. I play on bannerlord settings so pretty much this tactic works on every setting. I havent lost single siege with it
A army with 4 trebuchet and a castle with 4 onagers can’t happen normally in Bannerlord because of how the siege building works.both sides fire the whole time
yeah it sucks you don’t have any control over your own fiefs when your stuck inside them during a siege but at least when your the offensive force you can move the siege engines into the reserves as soon as their built so they don’t get shot at then move all 4 engines up at the same time while your siege towers or ram are being buikt
you can if you put them to reserve
right click on the siege engine when it is completed.
but yes not while defending because AI doesn't do it
Your probably on PS5/Xbox x. I apologies in advance, the UI is god awful. If you haven’t realized yet, all party members can smith and to craft other weapons (non one hand sword) you have to click on free build. I loved warband/ bannerlord on console but sometimes playing a non modded version is a nightmare.
@@user-wq9mw2xz3j holy shit...
This is so good thank this is my exact situation
Thank you soo much I destroyed battania with this tactic
Legendary. Thank you
It's funny to watch :P but I don't like the idea of making them run backwards agan by opening the outer gate. The storming of the gate from the inside on the other hand does seem realistic.
Every time I try this, my soldiers just close the gate on me. I don’t even order them to, they just do it anyway. I have to fight my way back into my walls. It’s really stupid
You have to make sure none of your troops are near your gate or assigned to guard the gate or they’ll close it
siege ai is back to square 1 with full release. i’ve been able to conquor like 7 castles and 4 towns with nothing but my own party. i’m not even in a kingdom. i’m a random clan who happens to own 5-10% of the map. kingdoms can’t declare war on me unless i allow it and when i sue for peace it’s typically a 1 time payment of 100-300k. fyi i haven’t taken any stergian lands but all my feifs are imperial and i’ve conquored them all with no more than 200 tier 3-5 stergian infantry. i don’t use archers for sieges anymore unless i’m defending the walls.
edit: i forgot to add that i don’t use siege engines either. i have my party bum rush the least defensible wall with ladders and just kinda micro manage them as the defenders throw themselves onto my nordic phalanx
Suffered a defeat in defense of hakkun castle, right as i claimed it. I was outnumbered 6 To 1
Thanks for reaching me this tactic. I am going To have vengeance on those khuzeit horse molesters.
Wow, that was so cool :D
I had the game for a week, all I can say, it’s a cheesin time.
It’s perfectly balanced
This video was really helpful.. only thing is I have some cavalry and horse archers, should I just put them in a different castle for every siege or is there any way I can use them during the siege???
Thanks if you answer me! Love the video!
I would use everyone you have to defend your castle. Horse archers and cavalry can still be useful in a siege defense. Just be cautious not to lose too many. For attacking castles leave your horse units behind.
Do I just dismount them ans use them as archers and infantry?
Also on what did you use the 2 other archer divisions?
Cavalry is automatically dismounted for siege battles.
The 2 other archer divisions were assigned to the left and right flanks to cover the enemy going over the walls.
This reminds me of watching Skyrim guides on 2012...
So I tried this but what do I do about the ram? My castle usually makes ballistas instead of catapults so the ram never gets damaged or destroyed. Also a part of my troops don’t listen to my orders to hold positions and still hit the walls, what do to stop that? Sorry I’m new 😅 thanks in advance
I’ll have a new tactic video out soon for if you can not destroy the ram. It’ll completely freeze the enemy in place
Does anybody know how to command Hero's on PS4?? Or like how to command specific soldiers to which positions. For example if I have some Valandian Spearmen and I have a bunch of cavalry coming at me how to I make it so those Valandian Spearmen get to the front of the line in a shield wall?
I think you could put spearmen in their own unit and do it that way. I’m on console too and it seems like it’s way too clunky and it seems much clunkier than PC for giving specific commands.
This works very well, but try to do that on talivel castle (i found out that by a hard way)
My only question to this tactic is, the archers will not eventually run out of ammo ? 🤔
In a siege defense your archers have unlimited arrows
Don't they need to refill on the barrels aß we do? All the barrels i know of are on the walls
@@hanneswurstbrot6902 I believe only the player needs to use those
Your tactics are amazing bro. But how you do that with the camera?
I use a mod called RTS Camera
Does it costa lot of money. And is for play too or?
How do you order your catapults to aim for the ram only? Do you need the RTS camera mod for that? In the battle itself the only thing i can see is my charakter in the gate house. No need to say you cant order your troops properly while stayin inside.
Another great video
Glad you liked it!
Ive read too if you stack like 3-400 hogh tier u its in the castles and towns they are pretty much inoregnable once upgraded.
Ok I'm literally going through this problem now, I currently just took Varcheg, and the Vlandians are on my ass. They keep coming with well over 1200 soldiers and I'm currently at War with the Battanians also. I keep getting wiped, I really don't know all the controls that well and I'm on console so I can't use the free Camara mode you have either. Please help.
I’d recommend using my first siege defense tactic. It’s the most simple- ruclips.net/video/I9ITDr3rQ-Y/видео.html
hahahahahah you turned bannerlord into bloons tower defense very epic
Makes me wonder if it's possible to take all units to a castle siege, ie if you are able to control at least one castle from one of the main factions, you can be able to use all existing units to attack a castle
I will remember this
Ty master!!
i love and hate how effective this is; sometimes Bannerlord got it's AI acting so goofy and buggy it kinda of takes the feeling of a last stand or epic battle
I'm currently defending a castle and can't win with 1000 heavily armored units attacking my 800 units, I myself manage to kill around 150 but the problem is when I'm almost done with finishing attackers, all the time they're getting a 600+ additional recruits during siege т_т
The recruits at the end should be the easy part since they have low morale and are weak to archers. Are you using the tactic in this video or another?
@@SpartanIsGaming unfortunately I can't use the tactic from this video since I'm on another castle, I tried different stuff but I just realized that it's literally impossible to win this fight since they're getting additional help during the fight when my defender are all almost dead. And I don't know why (probably because there's not much space) but half of my archers are just standing inside towers not shooting at all and just waiting before the others archers die and only after that they come out. Also the thing is, most of attackers army is high level units while half of my defence is built on sons of farmers using rusty pitchforks as weapons xD
We’ll play never thought about that
Does anyone know how to operate Siege equipment in PS5/4??? A video on that would be great!
Interesting Bug Abuse. But somehow the game becomes less and less interesting for me the more I see how the mechanics can be exploited.
This is cool and all and I get that it's a single player game so have fun how you like, but is there an effective way to defend a castle if you don't want to use exploits? So far in every test I've tried the castles wind up getting at the very best ~~1.5 KDR (without literally using Fians vs Peasants etc).
The perk that gives you an attack DMG bonus in simulations (when you choose send troops instead of joining the fight yourself)
Helps immensely for siege defense for the exact reason it advertises for.
The only way I get my Archers to stay i position is to put them in shield wall, then they don't fire. Any suggestions?
Spread them out while in shield wall so there’s only 1 line. If you have to long of a line split the group and put the extra somewhere else.
Thank you! How do you get the onager's to focus the ram? Also do I need to assign people to man them?
How do you know who the commander is ? Great video
Even better: Open the config file and set the binary "cheat codes" = 1. Then you can kill people at your leisure or all at once with F4 or ATL + F4. you can also teleport across the map, look at and take all units and items in the game to your party.
Now i dont recommend this if you are a new player. I just have 600 hours in the game and Im sick of starting from scratch when I try new mods. This gets you up to speed pretty quick
... missing info here X) how to focus ram, how to move camera liek u do just two of em xD
RTS Camera and select the unit that is on the onager and middle click the enemy formation controlling the ram. You'll make all onagers target the ram but will make your troops not on the onagers run in place. You can also take control of an onager to help out. (Should only take 4-6 rock onager shots)
I have some problems performing this tactic that my archers just automatically go to the walls and dir during this
Select all your archers and command them f3+ face the enemy and then place them. They wont reinforce the walls anymore
1. Yes that type of strategy works just fine.
2. No they not send their high tiers in first, that's your game settings preferring high level spawn order, which is also something to make this easier as high tier infantry in the gatehouse literally never takes damage against lower tiers where the higher tiers spawning first got peppered by arrows into their backs.
3. Battle size 600, things would look a little diffrent with a 1000 as far more troops try to push in at once and arrows take less of them down.
4. It doesn't work with crossbows as they don't refill their ammo ever and usually have less damage and projectiles late game.
5. It does with archers for any battle size if you sometimes manually run them to arrow barrels as archers actually do replenish their ammo close to arrows on the ground and quivers and barrels.
6. Well a captain with tactics and or leadership because of the perks for morale damage among the archers can inprove this a lot and their morale breaks very. Very. Very often that almost half of the enemies actually run away.
7. Lower battle sizes work better with this as defenders no matter the total numbers and reinforcements always try to make up 50% of the battle size troops on siege If their numbers are sufficient. If not the remaining get filled by enemies.
8. You cannot pick the siege engines that get built in defense in a campaign so good luck trying it with ballistas unless you
9. Save scum right before siege camp preparations of the enemy until your city or castle builds onagers. You won't really destroy a ram by Sally out if one third of enemy infantry is close by to defend it
10. Don't try that with realistic battle mod. Only one third of enemy infantry will try to open the gate the remaining will search for targets to attack
The big question is, how to know where is going to siege the enemy, cause always for me at least the siege has started and i need to lose a few units to get the gates and help defenders... Haha
They attack the weakest castle/city that’s along the border of both factions.
Played for 3 months and I only just notice I could drag troop in formation
Can you do a Defense of MARUNATH I keep getting stomped by 1600 Vlandians vs 600 Defenders mixed Sturgians and Battanians
Awsome job bro
Thanks man!
Hey man do you have similar video about the attacter side?
I do : ruclips.net/video/KmxN9pgG3fc/видео.html
@@SpartanIsGaming thank you👏🏻
"Sadly" they fixed it partly. The AI won't freak out and run back and forth to the gate, but they still ignore the archers/ballistics and run directly to the gate.
The AI glitches out and runs back and fourth once you open and close the gate when they are almost to the gate. It’s even more likely to break them if they have a siege tower they climb.
@@SpartanIsGaming They didn't went back to the start, when I opened the front gate.
классный ролик, старая тактика, но прятать воинов между первыми и вторыми воротами умно))
If I needed to handle that id hope i have at least 30 champs, and 50 wildlings. Otherwise that would be a pain in the ass with me holding a seige tower side until I broke it and have maybe 10 wildlings there to help cut men down. Then rotate to the other though id hope the catas would kill one of them or the ram. If not, thats gonna be a long day of work.
Trying this strategy out rn in a siege of Syronea, 1600 Imperial army vs my 800 Sturgian defending army. It's going well, up until the point where my second melee force decides to slowly whittle themselves down by running forward to man the catapults and whatnot behind the enemy. Rather frustrating to see a 50+ man group become 5 in the spawn of a few minutes
Any way to avoid that and make them stay put? I've been ordering them and they just don't listen
You dont need to do this tactic with 800 soldiers. You dont even need tactics to defend a 1600 man against 800.
Hi could you plz explain how to access strategy view?
RTS Camera mod, you can activate it on steam or through downloading on nexus mods
How do you freecam to position your troops? Also how do you do the formation dragging to tell them exactly where to go?
RTS Camera and RTS Command
I assume those are mods?
@@Shaqtapus yes they are in the steam workshop or nexus mods
WTF this AI?
Great video btw ;d
my army just doesnt stay in formation. The archers will immediately go to the wall and get killed, same with the infantry. Can anyone help?
Tell them to change formation, like go into line formation and then command them to go to a point and they will start listening to you