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Hi, thanks so much! I understand... It is an attempt to cover more ground per episode and also to save my viewers from having to watch so much of the boring parts of battle. All of my early videos are at regular speed if you want to check those out. I will be playing battles at regular speed after this series too. Thanks for watching. Sorry for the long wait between episodes. I'm working on the next one. It's gonna be big.

Haha, I hope you enjoy it.

He's the best! I'm glad you liked my video. I hope my sword didn't disappoint.

Thank you! I really appreciate your support.

That is awesome! I love to hear it.

Yes, but if one of those two people block... you kill 0 people in one swing. With this you can kill people even when they block you. That's very strong.

My favorite weapon for clan members is this axe in the long variation. It's long enough that the AI has a reasonable chance to land their shots, even on horseback. It's fast enough that they can get their attacks in between blocks and the two handed axe cleave effect means that they'll be reasonably effective even when outnumbered. If you want them to use a one-handed weapon and shield I recommend my long sword. Opinions do vary however. I've heard it said that the best weapon for them is a crafted short version of the romphia. What I've personally found to be the best is this axe, 2 quivers and a noble long bow on horseback (with the perk of course). Watch any of the episodes of my Black Lion Campaign to see how effective that can be.

Yeah... I don't get that. I've tried the 300 length lance and I don't see the advantage really. I like this one because it's capable of doing more than one thing.

@@angrygoldfish9607 you can use it as an effective cavalry spear with high polearm skill that outtrades all the shorter spears and take out ground units with spears which is super useful

Thanks, good tip.

So true how people are stingy with info about a single-player game.

I'm glad to serve as a distraction.

Yeah that's a win for your finances. Plus it's, maybe the best way to level their roguery.

If the seller is your companion he turn profit to your pocket.

If this video was too choppy for you, I don't recommend you watch any of my other videos. On the other hand, I just rewatched this video and I think maybe the choppiness might be an issue on your end. This video might be the smoothest I've made. Anyway, thanks for watching and I'm sorry that my lack of state of the art machinery offends you.

@@angrygoldfish9607 Open bannerlord and check your FPS

@@angrygoldfish9607 Check your FPS whilst in a big battle

@@angrygoldfish9607 You REALLY can't take criticism, even when it's constructive, can you?

​@@plaguedoct0rit doesn't really seem to be that bad to me. Maybe a small amount but nothing too egregious.

Yeah, I've tried axes like that and they seem really bad. Not just for the reasons you mention but because they are so short they often don't have the reach to take advantage of the fact that axes can cleave. This axe has enough speed to keep them blocking, which helps to keep you safe, and enough length to keep you far enough away from the enemy that you aren't automatically taking every attack they think about sending your way and it has enough reach to hit more than one target. When you are packed tight in a scrum an overhand attack will usually hit with most any weapon that is meant to be used in melee, that is if it isn't blocked. Without the reach, you're better served to use a 2h sword. You can make a falx blade that is silly short with 116 speed. My favorite weapon to use in a scrum is actually my halberd. It has a base damage if 201 and can kill with crush through damage even when blocked. It has a length of 120 but I can spam those overhand attacks and make enough space for my boys to take the upper hand. Anyway, that's my take on short weapons. I'm glad you found something you like that works for you. Thanks for watching.

@angrygoldfish9607 the cleave works because it's not a tightly packed area, it's just me on my own on one of the sides vs a horde of enemy units usually (usually I have archer support). And you don't need to block if you just kill them first. Even if I do get hit by the guys I didn't kill, my attacks buffer trough so I don't lose any moment of attacking. And since I have amazing armor and almost 200 hp, losing 70-80 hp to pushback a gate breach is worth it

As I said, I'm glad you found something that works for you.

@@angrygoldfish9607 I will be trying out the really short two handed tho. Need to figure out if its better than my regular short axe

That's great. I'm glad you found something you enjoy so well. Thanks for the tip.

@angrygoldfish9607 although I made a small change in my glaive recipe so that I can actually craft legendary versions of it. Same with the fast axe I used, just changed 1 part to T5 so that I can make legendary. Because as you probably know, in order to be able to craft masterwork and/or legendary weapons, the average tier of parts must meet a minimum threshold (4.5 for legen and 3.5 for masterwork). I only recently learned this after it looked it up 😂 my character in game makes great use of these weapons, he is a literal killing machine.

Doesn't it make you kinda sad when you watch people play this game and they're not even trying to optimize their combat experience? They're like "I'm gonna put all my attribute points in social instead" and I'm thinking, well for one it's great that the game accommodates all kinds of players but... they'll never know the joy that is being a devastatingly destructive force on their battlefields. I'm glad you're optimizing and enjoying the game for all it has to offer.

@@angrygoldfish9607 in my first playthrough, my character was focused around having high social, intelligence and bow skills. I saw myself struggling in combat a bit at that time. This time, my character is way too overpowered with all of these combat skills. Because I had this mod (XP.tweaks) and raised cap to 500, my guy has 260 one handed, 320 two handed, 460 polearm (lol), 500 riding, 300 throwing, 260 bow 180 crossbow, 330 smith... Because these skills are so high, my battle influence is also crazy high. One thing I can tell with these high skills is that the riding becomes very overpowered. The "way of the saddle" perk increases charge damage with skill level so that means with 500 riding, I do +75 damage with rams

I know, if you've watched my video "how to optimize your character in Bannerlord" you'll know you can get 450 riding without the use of mods. Riding, for me, is the least fun of the over levelable skills because it is kinda broken. I don't like using mods because they rarely balance the game. I like dominating a battlefield but I like to feel like I earned it. I did the same in my first playthrough. I leveled social and bow skill thanks to the advice of well meaning TH-camrs. That's a lot of the reason why I started making my own videos.

Yes, the extra focus points you get from the blacksmithing perk will take you over the cap of 5 focus points and allow you to level up your skills farther. No, your attribute points cap at 10 and will go no further. I did test for this. I always get just 8 attribute points in endurance, vigor and control and get the last 2 attribute points, in each from athletics and blacksmithing perks. I do either control or vigor perks but do them both together so I have 10 attribute points. Then I'll cap out my skill level for those skills. Then I'll go to the arena master and respec athletics and blacksmithing and cap out the other set of skills.

@angrygoldfish9607 that's very nice. Will use it in my current run after maxing out the endurance skills

I'm sure if you continued to watch the other videos in this series you now know that I hunt armies with my warband of 80+ companions. The largest army I defeated with my warband was 2300+. When you are traveling that fast and able to kill armies, you get a lot of gear farming done.

Thanks for the input. I'm aware of flessons tactics to level roguery through contrived prison breaks. It's time consuming and inefficient IMO and in my experience your character dies of old age before your character ever reaches 330 roguery. I've perfected roguery leveling since this video. Maybe I'll make a guide for it in the future.

Thanks for taking a look man. Blacksmithing is too good to ignore. Great weapons, over leveling weapon skills and three extra attribute points? I don't know how anyone turns their nose to that.

@@angrygoldfish9607 Mostly the time taken. Three hours? Six? I cannot remember how long it took me, and maybe it was inefficient, as I was an amateur, but it was painfully slow to me the first time I did it... Maybe you can change my mind and I'll add it to the campaign...

Haha, I know it doesn't have any wild exaggerated stats but the fact that it's only weakness is its length and that can be compensated for by the player... It's pretty darn great.

F6 is basically the same as F1 F3 in my experience. I do use F1 F3 while doing the " fish barrel" if my enemy manages to reach the horse archer line and I need to buy a few seconds so I can direct them to reform the circle in a better location. As a whole though F6 or F1 F3 for horse archers, in my opinion, is trash. They are not accurate while in motion (sure they'll get some kills but nothing like if they were static). It's just a great way to burn through their quivers for not much. While at the same time putting them in danger of running into trees, getting congested on dismounted horse, landmarks or invisible walls (making them easy pickings for enemy foot archers and infantry) also they are much more in danger of enemy cavalry while in motion. It's just bad. The difference between F1 F4 and F1 F5 comes into play when your units reach the edge of the map. With F1 F4 they will awkwardly try to run through the enemy lines and then try and kite the enemy from the other side. This isn't good and should be watched out for. When you F1 F5, when your units reach the edge of the map, they will retreat out of the battle. So pick your poison there. For the purposes of performing the "easy kill box" either will work as what you want them to do is run and gun and both commands will accomplish that.

The horse is a wadar hot blood and I run the nimble mount perk not the full speed perk. I like speed and maneuverability over charge damage too. Most of your charge damage comes from your riding skill level. If you really want to do charge damage I recommend you watch my "How To Optimize Your Character" video.

​@@angrygoldfish9607the short two-handed axes are the perfect weapon for sieges especially. You can cause some absolute carnage with a fast swinging axe like the one you made or that bearded axe (I have one but only a normal one. Still is great for this purpose)

I'm glad you like it. I did mention it is best used when flanking large groups of infantry. Which, yes, you'll find in sieges. Thanks for watching.

​@@angrygoldfish9607I have now unlocked all of the parts although I made a slightly different axe with the axe head before the one you used (min size) and a different handle. Got a 100 length axe with 99 speed and 102 damage (quality) which is amazing. I am still yet to get a more refined version just yet but these super fast two-handed axes are lethal. Also just got a glaive, very nice weapon to slaughter

That axe sounds amazing! You should make a video on how to make that. At the very least can you name the specific parts you used? Unless you have all the parts unlocked the order could be jumbled. I'm glad you're enjoying two-handed axes. They're one of my favorite weapons.

I don't think so. Either way I prefer to be able to thrust as sometimes it's the only way to land a hit. Like when you're on the battlements of a fief fighting cheek by jowl with enemies and friendlies alike. Or in crammed quarters like in a prison break.

The fact that the smithing perk can take you to 370 in one and two handed skill levels, for me, seems like proof that the game is just function as intended and I love it. This game was never meant to be played and dropped without enjoying the benefits that come from raising a horde of clan members. Did you watch to the end and see the bit where I proved the existence of "geniuses" in the game?

@@angrygoldfish9607 What? No, I watched it all, do you mean the legendary level 62 you mentioned?

No I mean that some clan members are born with an extra attribute point. I call them geniuses. Your first main character of a campaign's first born is always a genius.

@@angrygoldfish9607 Ahh, yep, got that part. So it's an interesting concept, basically a series of 'fortunate' rolls, where they may end up with more than 5 focus points... Is there any way to train them without these save reloads or is it purely random?

@@angrygoldfish9607 Well, good, because in this Aserai campaign, that's going to be the protagonist - Wazu Bahn( Was Zuvan haha). So they get an extra attribute pt, already assigned? I've never noticed this(or paid attention)

Well, I can't recommend leveling athletics to 330 enough. It nets you 80 extra health just in the final perk alone, 160 if you raise a clan member right and make them your new main character. Especially if you are already spending the attribute points in endurance to level riding. I've been playing this campaign for more than 100 game years at this point. Saving all t5 and t6 swords I get and smelting them. At my peak I had a clan of 86 clan members, every one of them having at least 250 blacksmithing. What makes you think I wasn't encumbered? I keep all of my crafting materials in the same city. When I'm done smithing I put them in my city stash. Good questions and thanks for watching.

@@angrygoldfish9607 thanks for the tips, i'm doing a horse archer/polearm build,so I havent gotten around to it yet, but I'll need to for when I start sieging I'm sure lol. and that's wild, youre a machine😂

With 330, 370 or 490 one-handed skill my short sword doesn't have any trouble one shoting enemies with its 98 base cut damage, as you see after the smithing portion. It one shot an elite cataphract from foot. With 97 swing speed to boot and the ability to use it in gang alley fights and prison breaks and with the shield breaker modifier... I feel justly proud of this sword. As always, thank you for watching and I appreciate your comments.

No, as you see in the very beginning of the video, if you are careful while raising your clan members and you purposefully stack focus points in one-handed, bow or riding skill, you can get a maximum of 8 focus points in one of those skills (7 in athletics). You can also get a 9th and 6th focus point in one-handed and two-handed skills respectively, by leveling your blacksmithing skill and choosing the perk that gives you an extra focus point in those skills. You will of course need 10 attribute points for these skills if you're going to max out any skill but the levels come from the extra focus points either from carefully raising your clan members and or the blacksmithing perk. Thank you for asking this question. I was afraid I wasn't clear enough in the video on how this was done so I'm glad to have the chance to write it out for you. I hope this is more clear. Thank you for watching.

Yes I got the point. Thank you. I remember that somehow I manage to have more than 5 focus points but was scarry that its useless to go above 5. I will test athletics with 5+2 skills could be reasonable OP.

Sometimes I have a really hard time trying to discern what you're trying to say. I think I illustrated pretty well that each over leveled skill is anything but useless. Anyway, I think you'll likely enjoy having over leveled athletics. Thanks for watching.

Thank you! It was interesting trying to get the timing just right and I had to figure out how to have two pictures up at the same time too. So that's a new skill for the old tool bag.

Haha you're welcome.

No, it's just really cold here so I was wearing two different hoods with my headset while recording. That might account for the difference.

This is all vanilla only.

​@@angrygoldfish9607yeah, in my campaign the smithing is also vanilla (I tried to add a mod but it didn't work) other than a small mod to recover stamina when moving on the map. I can't seem to get my hands on good two-handed axe parts, have the first 3 heads as of now and a few handles but I can't make useful weapons with them so I adapted to two-handed swords that are also really powerful, made a couple iterations and gave the other ones to my companions. I am running a companion-heavy campaign, don't have enough companions to rely on yet and I am making them like mounted fian champs 😂 I would like to get them swingable polearms like glaives which is my current goal for this campaign

That's very true but it's better to drop it because putting it on your back takes time. Having a shield also weighs you down even if it's on your back. It's much better to be able to move more quickly so you can stay out ahead of your enemies landing shots through their blocks. There is the rare occasion that I will hang onto my shield. If I'm facing a ton of archers for instance. But even then, the battlefield is littered with shields usually and you can just pick up a new one or just keep the enemy melee between you and their archers. They act as a pretty good shield themselves. Anyway, thanks for watching the video.

Thank you! I'm glad people are still looking for cool things in this game. Thanks for watching.

Gotta love a game that lets people play it the way they like. Thanks for watching.

If you watch episode 14 of the Black Lion Origins Campaign it should help you get the parts.

I always seem to find myself going back to it, there really isnt that many warfare games with the same amount of personal customization Mount & Blade provides. I always eventually get bored after a long playthrough, and yet I always find myself going back to it. Despite it's rough states, its really a great game when you plan everything out

Haha I've been stuck on this game for the last year, with no end in sight. It's a beautiful thing.

@@angrygoldfish9607 There are better Warband mods out there then this joke of a game lol.

Well thanks for watching.

@@rogerhill9559 I agree while there are some great warband mods like Prophesy of Pendor or Perisno, I think Bannerlord improved upon somethings graphically and immersion-wise, they also improved the quality of life for some features that were in Warband unfortunately they also took out other things like the feast feature and stuff

There are, several of them. I chose this haft to keep the weapon short while keeping the tier of the part high enough that the item could be legendary. I wanted it short so that it would be a viable weapon to use on foot.

You bet! I'd love to hear what you think of it.

Thank you! I'd love to hear what you think of it.

Thanks, yeah this one is mostly meant to be used on foot but with some practice it's great on horseback too. What is the swing speed of your long version?

@@angrygoldfish9607 idk but it swings like 2 times per 3s

Very nice

Oh yeah! You gotta smith with all your characters. I'll show you why in my next video.

​@@angrygoldfish9607if you add a mod that enables stamina recovery while moving, you can almost entirely do all work yourself. You can use the help of 1 or 2 other companions as well if you want but yeah

​@@Hagurmertneeding help isn't the point.

I am sorry for the long wait. Thank you for being patient and not giving up on me.

@@angrygoldfish9607 saw you on the knightly plays channel so I knew you weren't dead

Haha, I've been busy with some irl stuff but also I've been learning cool Bannerlord stuff to share with you guys! I've got a video coming out soon (maybe today) that just might blow your mind. Then I'll be getting back to the campaign.

You may be using the wrong haft for the build. What is the length of your halberd?

It should only be 120 units long.

@@angrygoldfish9607 mine is 108 :D

That's very interesting. Which haft did you use?

The same exact one in the video

can't wait to try this!

Thanks guys. You won't be disappointed.

Thanks, and you're welcome. Thanks for watching

I've been hard at work learning new stuff to share with everyone.

I'm glad you're enjoying the series. I'm leveling companions from day one. I'm not sure what you mean. What kind of leveling are you looking for?

@@angrygoldfish9607 oh it’s just you seem to retreat them and not let fight in the battles so was wondering how you level them so well

Oh I see what you mean, thank you for clarifying for me. Well I'm not actually retreating them. It's not as though I just F1 F7 and let them leave the map. They are getting athletics and archer skills, which is exactly what I want them to get. Later when I have better armor on them, better weapons for them, higher medicine skill level for myself and real troops for them to fight next to, I won't be so precious with them. At this point though, if I used them aggressively they would spend all their time in the dirt and or dying on me. Did you know that if you level athletics, bow and riding on a companion they can get a 2.5 loyalty modifier when governing from perks? That is enough to counter all of the loyalty disadvantages of using them in a "wrong culture" fief, plus .5 to boot. It's like the game is trying to tell you how to make the best soldier companions by making those companions the best governors as well. *Edit- So I rewatched this episode a bit and I am actually retreating everyone out of the fights.

@@angrygoldfish9607 gotcha really like the way your playing your campaign it’s very different to how I play but now I think ill give your way a go on my next playthrough I’ve been a bit disappointed that so many kingdoms got wiped out early on my current one not my doing either

That's a bummer. In my main campaign 3 or 4 kingdoms have perished and it's a major bummer. I hope they will implement a system that will create new kingdoms that way you don't just end up with dead campaigns.

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I hope that helps. From what I gathered from the video you press the "touch pad" button. Maybe he means the thumb sticks? IDK I am strictly a pc gamer (a little Nintendo Switch half a decade ago).

@@angrygoldfish9607 ah yes It workes thx

That's so cool! How're you liking it so far? I don't know about the cheaper option, sorry. I bought the game prerelease and then waited till about a year ago to start playing. The more expensive option may just be the soundtrack and some unnecessary extra tidbits. I doubt you're missing out. Tell me about your campaign how's it going so far?

@@angrygoldfish9607 it should be here (the game) in like 15 hoursso I don't have it yet

Well that's really exciting! I can't wait to hear about your exploits.

@@angrygoldfish9607 My campaign is so far so good I joind an army as I was clan tier 1but I have always huge problems with the gold and can't even afford food for my army

​​@@Mr.Rios-dk3rvoh shoot, sounds to me like your warband might be too big. You don't have to have a maximum size warband if you don't want to. If you're happy with the size of your warband though, you might consider attacking villages and forcing them to give you goods instead of troops. Those goods usually come with food and you can sell the loot from those fights to pay your troops wages.

Hey sorry, I've been visiting family. Yeah I think my stuff is ok for new players. I have some tidbits of bannerlord wisdom sprinkled into all my episodes that can be hard to find elsewhere. Thanks for thinking of me. I have a couple more blacksmithing patterns up my sleeve too.

@@angrygoldfish9607 If you'd be interested in making a fairly comprehensive episode on smithing, including a 8-12 minute period covering some badass weapon builds, I'd be happy to send people your way.

How about if I catalog all the episodes in which I already cover smithing? I could put them all in a play list.