A sneaky thing you can do if you have enough money is buy all of the food in a town before you siege it. The game takes that into account and it causes them to starve much faster.
Better yet, stay neutral, buy all the food, wait until they starve, then sell it back for profit. Or, keep them starved until they rebel then take it without having to fight a war.
I have like 300 hours in this game and didn't know you could just put your siege equipment into reserves and deploy them all at once. Learning something new every day, trebuchet superiority here I come.
Quick tip: dont make a kingdom right away. "KINGDOMS CAN ONLY DECLARE WAR ON KINGDOMS". If you get a town from rebellion, just sit on it and dont make a kingdom right away and watch as no one will ever declare war on you. But this doesnt let you become a mercenary anymore as mercenaries cant have fiefs. You can pledge as a vassal or just focus on building infrastructure and get rich first before making a kingdom to sue for peace with 2-3 other kingdoms while you focus on 1 specific weaker kingdom. Then you start snowballing this and go for world conquest.
Seiges are easily one of my favorite things about this game. I just love the chaos and desperation of defending a castle with 300 troops against 900 or more.
The castle you say not to take was the first one I took white meca an epicrotea 4 factions went to war with me an I been defending since the last castle to stand is the one you tell us no to get😂
Seen a few others, but PRO tip, you can take any at any amount of defenders. Militia are basically looters, buy foods first to starve out the garrison to 0. Wait and attack the first lord/troops that leave to declare war and keep him as prisoner so he can't attack you during siege. Build 4 trebuchets, moving them in reserve as complete, deploy all 4 at once. Attack. And done. Have almost half the map from this so far.
One important thing to note the daily activity is only done if your town is not currently doing a project. If you're doing a project the activity won't happen and you'll still lose loyalty if you're depending on the festival to keep your loyalty up
@@prwillard2 same with me I only found out cause I was gone for a long time and I noticed a +2.5 loyalty. The ideal strategy is to build until you get negative building progress then spend a couple days building loyalty back then start building again
With strong armour and a bow you can solo a town or castle, Just attack as soon as possible then get your army to retreat, The infantry comes out to attack you, draw them away from the castle and then ride quickly inside and close the gates, climb the nearest tower and kill any archers there, At the top will be a barrel of arrows for infinite refills and then start taking everyone down.
@@DIEGhostfish You have to build the camp but you don't need the ram or anything else, And they wont use the ladders, Sometimes a couple of infantry get stuck inside the castle and leave later and open the gates so keep an eye for a short time when you close yourself inside.
My method.. work as a merc. Attack target and take it for the faction that hired me. Then quit that faction and attack the weakened target. This way i am behind lines of a faction that is hostile to the faction i attacked.
Just a PSA for everybody skip the ram, ballista, and catapult. Build 4 trebs and then let it rain on them until the walls are gone. Your troops will annihilate the garrison because they can just walk through crumbled walls vs being funneled through the gate or single file ladders
@@jamiehughes5573 I'm okay with that. When I knock the walls down I can just go from city to city because I don't lose men in the seiges. They might take some back but I'm doing a lot more damage than I'm taking. When the AI seiges even against a low garrison they take a lot of casualties. Being in the battle yourself makes a big difference, when I auto resolve those same crushing victories I end up taking heavy casualties
@@jamiehughes5573 my go to for taking castles is assault right away with ladders, ride horse to ladder and be the first up the wall to hold it for your men. Same story, if your troops are good enough you'll lose almost none of them. That just never seems to work out with cities because the walls are taller and usually the garrison is a lot better so they can hold back my first wave
This is basically the only true thing said in this video or the comments, it’s all about trebs… and taking a fief is easy, keeping it is hard. End of story
Great video,well explained and made simple.....tip:at 4:50 ....insted of manualy add the money for the negotiation for "peace whit Vlandia" you can clck on the round "shake hands" icon on the top at that window....the game will then add the right sum of money for you.....also you dont need to have enough money....items in your inventory can be used as well....like horses,armor,weapons and so on.
Fun tip, based on this particular siege scenario. Before attacking, you could have taken the time to build multiple trebuchets and not only destroy the enemies siege weapons, but their walls as well. This way less troops are killed on the ladders and from enemy siege fire, as well as making the battering ram redundant.
This is great advice when taking the rebelling towns, as in the 2nd example. If you do this however I would suggest creating a regiment and manually getting the AI to follow you through the opening in the wall.... otherwise they do some wired things that often result in death.
Yes! But beware enemy armies, should watch hundreds/thousand of them. If they are close to you while siege, just run for your life or they will got you. Idk in easy difficulties, but in high difficulty you can't just fight them with 100 soldiers.
You can actually take down the walls to make sieging easier if you let your trebuchet and catapults attack the walls after dealing with their catapults
Actually, you should make trebuchets and move them to reserve until they're all built. Then, deploy them all at once. They will destroy all the enemy siege weapons. Optionally, you can destroy the walls. This will make the settlement really easy to take.
As a solo clan, wait for a rebellion in a town, and go attack it. I took marunath with 115 troops against almost 400. It was close but I took it and since I haven't made my kingdom yet, I was able take the town and not have anyone wanting to war with me because they cant yet. Just catch a rebel party, attack it and wipe them out, then attack the town. It gave me ample time as well to build up my engineering skill since no rebel party was big enough to stop me. I now have Seonon as well with barely tier 3 clan. Way easier than being in a faction
I feel like the 'get a castle/town' stage could be alleviated if every mercenary clan start off with a castle, a town, and their assortment of villages somewhere nestled in among the rest. Not only does it display a bit of cultural/structural divide within the factions, it'd also give a player a springboard to take their own castle or town to build a kingdom from there, and easier access to the mercenary clan troops, while still allowing that mercenary clan to exist like they do now without any fiefs (plus you'd be able to wage war against them specifically without waging war against whichever faction they are working for )
Most of the time minor factions are at war directly and/or as mercenary of a kingdom. So once the player would be strong enough for a siege, the minor factions fiefs would've likely already been captured by established factions. Exacerbated by the fact that nearly all minor faction troop types (since the nerf to them circa version ~1.3) are very weak compared to their 'regular' counterparts. If having trouble with the transition to your own kingdom, I can recommend a mod like 'Party AI Overhaul and Commands (rebuilt)' which among other things enables you to order your clan parties to follow you, making your first siege(s) much easier.
@@MrF00tie the problem early kingdom is not having enough vassals to help form an army because as soon as you declare a kingdom everyone and their mother is chomping at the bits to take you out
This is unfortunately one of the cut concepts that didn't survive development. Notables like 'Gang Leaders' would level up and become their own mercenary forces/clans, this would create division within the factions and allow them to break up (like the Empire does before the game starts), with new leaders rising from towns/villages.
@Wuxia Games Central not trying to be that guy, just an interesting tidbit I learned a few months ago, the phrase as actually champing at the bit. What it means idk, but it's an equestrian term.
When you go to make peace, In the trade screen, you can click the hand shake in the middle, and it'll give the amount of money needed to make them accept
You could easily take the town with 450 defenders, just go there with a ton of food and starve them, as its a rebellion you wont get anyone attacking, so you can sit there for weeks, ive done this and reduced their defenders to less than a 5th it was before
1 year on and this advice is very sound from a clearly experienced player. My first attempt was Sibir. I unfortunately lost this very quickly, due to where it is located and had to ultimately leave my Kingdom, due to the amount of tribute payments to neighbouring Kingdoms. My second attempt at taking a settlement was kicking out the rebels at Tyal. Although Tyal isn't the best placed settlement. It is slightly tucked away in the hills. I had plenty of peace periods, allowing influence to slowly build-up. The Asarai declared war on a few occasions but didn't even bother to turn up to my settlement in Tyal and it eventually ended in peace after 31 days at war with no tribute payments. Sturgia also tried to declare on a few occasions, the same happened after 31 days. The only real threat, was the Khuzait's. They did turn up, but I just about managed to defend and even attack their settlements to eventually get them to pay my Kingdom tribute payments. Great advice for beginners to siege settlements in remote locations.
Amazing video! Ive played when it was in early access, and never was able to take a castle. Your video was amazing and so cinematic! Loved the siege! I have to reinstall and start grinding again, it looks amazing!
So far,this is the only gaming youtuber,who just gets the point.Its amazing.He honestly just explains things,simply,without adding unnecessary fluff.What a God!
@Johnson Howard He is a God,as long as there are those that believe he is.The existence of any God is purely based on whether or not people still hold belief in their existence.
@@jeffdroog If God's existence is objectively true, it's objectively true outside of what we believe and ourselves. AkA, me believing Biden isn't real doesn't change the objective reality of his existence. People aren't 'Gods', worship the creator not the creation
After 70ish hours playing Bannerlord, I think Aserai castles and towns are the most difficult to take, but easier to defend. I'm gonna conquer Aserai in my next playthrough. You can win by defending it with 250 troops against 800+ troops, in highest difficulty.
@@DziaduSwierznowski I will brother, I've been playing more than 1000+ hrs in warband. It will be the same story with bannerlord, I just bought the game 3 weeks ago.
As I mentioned in a previous comment, I came across your channel a few weeks ago. I appreciate how you make things clear for players new to Bannerlord. Greetings from Canada.
As someone who plays Vlandia a lot. I usually take Rovalt and Ostican in the top left of the map as well as Tirby castle. It's an incredibly well defendable area of the map.
I just bought MAB2 bannerlord on ps5, thank you for your tips it's really a big help since I don't know what to do since the info on tutorial was so vague 😂
Btw the red eyes bug can be overcomed if you safe game and then in performance options change the texture streaming budget to very high value and save it. After that exit the game and load it again . If It ever happens again do the same aproach. Ussually it happens when the settings get reset to default after error pops up.
if you have enough money you can make extra parties so you can attack with more men .. (let's say you have about 60 men in your party at top you make nogand a party + 60 is 120 + every family member plus spouse of your brother.. and Varec + Alda + companions.. give very fast 200+ army..)!
I've found that building the catapults and a siege tower or two is better than the ram. Sure the walls are a tight spot to fight in like the gate, but there are fewer places for archers to rain arrows on your men and for rocks to be thrown at them as well.
You made it seem so easy and then it was lol i led 116 to take a castle of 300, oddly enough i was beefing with the asari since i started the game, which was probably a solid 6-7 in game years, i attacked their armies and caravans but i never took hostages, a day after i took my first castle they pulled up 650+ troops deep but made peace with me for literally nothing, they were surprisingly chill about my near decade of degeneracy towards their kingdom 😂
I just got my first town, it was a rebellion town so I just kept murdering all the armies coming in and out of it, as well as executing the lord's, and starved them out. Eventually after 30 days of seige I stopped to go get food and all the defenders left, I walked through and took my pick.
I was waiting with my wife if you know what I mean, and ragnvad and the boys just gave me 2 castles across the map while I wasn't even actually playing.
The best siege method is slow sieges... build 4 trebs, move em to reserve, build 2 SIEGE TOWERS, wait until garrison died, when militia alone stands put trebs to fire ( build speed depends on how many troops are actively defending it ) and when all defenders siege equip are destroyed wait and keep bombarding the town so walls get weaker... here you have 2 options: A: full archers ( either fians or palatine guarda ) or B: full infantry (either imperial or sturgian ) W option A you will weaken their walls BUT DO NOT DESTROY THEM, keep em w as low hp as possible, weak walls have no cover, which means defenders get exposed to archer fire, then you must set MANUALLY archer groups in front of the town w good angle and distance from tje walls... after you do this choose 1 of the 2 siege towers and climb it yourself ( go w a 2 handed long polearm, preferably the rhomphaia and a big shield ) open the bridge between tower and wall and FALL BACK to the ladders, some infantry will follow you and your archers will shot em down, then go up and bait em till no one else is there, go down the siege tower and repeat on the other side, when the walls are free select everyone and put sergeants on command and you should win w almost if not 0 casualties... Now option B for gigachads you do not build siege towers, build the battering ram and 4 trebs but this time destroy the walls and siege equip from defenders. After doing this assault and when you start the battle select all your troops, order them to follow you and go to one of the breached walls, take on account infantry divides itself on 3 groups so bringing all your troops to 1 sector most of the time gives you victory there, after that clear the gates and then the other sector and boom. Done. This is what 1k hs of bannerlord campaigns look like. Glory to the Empire!
I got my first castle when I had around 250 troops and made sure it was one that was against a losing kingdom and that was one that had just been liberated (battania is a good one)
FYI this was recorded on: - Friendly Troops Received Damage: Realistic - Combat AI difficulty: Veteran (hardest) - Player Received Damage reduced by 50% (easy, since i enjoy being a raid boss) It has mainly to do with the tier troops you have. Often it can be more beneficial to auto resolve instead of watch the AI try to navigate the walls vs some cities.
@@ESOdanny this is good to know I tended to use mediocre units because I needed just a ton like 200 men and it was financially destroying me at the time.
Bide your time, level your clan working as a merc and as soon as you see a rebellion pop up in a city head there after ending your contract. Youll probably need around 150 high level troops. You could prob do it with less but have them all highly leveled. Fight with the rebels patrolling around the city then treb until the garrison is highly weakened or gone and the walls are crumbled. Then just march in there and take it and boom your an independant city state. I got lucky and ended up with pen canoc as a battanian character. Getting my ass kicked by a never ending imperial war now but it started great lol, I'm up to like 18 cities and 26 castles I think
And if you didn't know you can store seige equipment so it doesn't get shot by the defenders while you're building them. I like to have at least 3 before I start trebbing. The reason this works so great is you don't have to worry about anyone stopping you because you're only at war with a single rebel faction
To get more men and a bigger army you should hire companions and turn them into party leaders. Of course you will need the finances beforehand so be a mercenary, set up caravans, workshops, or whatever. Your brother in the game can have a large army with his high stewardship skill
i think the better thing is bulit 4 trebuchets and hide them, then putting them all at once while preparing the siege equpipments while they destroy their catapults cause they are op af
dam this game is so fucking good and fun, i discover yesterday your channel, subscribe instant, your content is really good and help me .. tks for speak that slowly and crealy english ✌🏾
Hey guys. I’m trying to find the correct Twitch channel for ESO. The one in the comments is over a year old with nothing new posted to it. Is there another one and if so (no offence) it may need to be added. Also thanks 🙏 for another insightful video. These guilds really help out us newbies and players that haven’t played since the betas 👍
15:25 «My dear wife, I know you just gave a birth to our child in the siege camp yesterday, but today we are going to clear out this wrecked castle, and I want you to be nearby, to contemplate this moment together. Our first permanent home» Man, what a hard life you had to live in medieval times, couldn't even afford an apartment without declaring war to rebels to finally get a place to live. Almost like nowadays, but more romantic.
during a siege i stay on the horse, jump over the guys who have just knocked down the main gate, and teh defenders, and cause chaos in the backfield. Works a treat
To all you saying treb the walls down your wrong if your BUILDING A KINGDOM then you definitely would want your first castle to have walls intact having intact walls is worth a few lives
The easiest way to take a city without joining anyone or being hostile with another faction. Do merchant guard and poacher missions at different cities to build your reputation and gather troops. Then, wait for a city to rebel, then swoop in and claim it before a faction can. Free city no hostile relations
Man, these purple clan guys are quite well equiped, Ive captured many castles yet they get me eventually with a 100 kill dif and my other army chill to take random castles instead of freeing me 😂, so done, their leaser is dead now, i showed him mercy 2 times, this is it
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A sneaky thing you can do if you have enough money is buy all of the food in a town before you siege it. The game takes that into account and it causes them to starve much faster.
LOL
That’s evil af…I’m def going to do that 😂
Oddly enough I figured this out by myself and it proved useful. 180 vs 370. EZ
Better yet, stay neutral, buy all the food, wait until they starve, then sell it back for profit. Or, keep them starved until they rebel then take it without having to fight a war.
Word? Holy crap that's awesome, definitely going to be ransacking their traders before my next siege
I have like 300 hours in this game and didn't know you could just put your siege equipment into reserves and deploy them all at once. Learning something new every day, trebuchet superiority here I come.
Exactly lmao. This actually changes a lot for me
Quick tip: dont make a kingdom right away. "KINGDOMS CAN ONLY DECLARE WAR ON KINGDOMS". If you get a town from rebellion, just sit on it and dont make a kingdom right away and watch as no one will ever declare war on you. But this doesnt let you become a mercenary anymore as mercenaries cant have fiefs. You can pledge as a vassal or just focus on building infrastructure and get rich first before making a kingdom to sue for peace with 2-3 other kingdoms while you focus on 1 specific weaker kingdom. Then you start snowballing this and go for world conquest.
This is the best tip I have seen yet!
How i can make Peace with other Kingdoms ? How IT works ?
an awesome tip!!! Great comment
Is becoming a vassal worth it? And will i be punished for leaving?
@@NeneTheToad you lost all
Seiges are easily one of my favorite things about this game. I just love the chaos and desperation of defending a castle with 300 troops against 900 or more.
The castle you say not to take was the first one I took white meca an epicrotea 4 factions went to war with me an I been defending since the last castle to stand is the one you tell us no to get😂
Seen a few others, but PRO tip, you can take any at any amount of defenders. Militia are basically looters, buy foods first to starve out the garrison to 0. Wait and attack the first lord/troops that leave to declare war and keep him as prisoner so he can't attack you during siege. Build 4 trebuchets, moving them in reserve as complete, deploy all 4 at once. Attack. And done. Have almost half the map from this so far.
One important thing to note the daily activity is only done if your town is not currently doing a project. If you're doing a project the activity won't happen and you'll still lose loyalty if you're depending on the festival to keep your loyalty up
Holy smokes I never knew this. Great to know! I've always been pissed because the +3 loyalty from bread and circuses never worked.
@@prwillard2 same with me I only found out cause I was gone for a long time and I noticed a +2.5 loyalty. The ideal strategy is to build until you get negative building progress then spend a couple days building loyalty back then start building again
Oh my god my eyes have been opened i didn't know this
With strong armour and a bow you can solo a town or castle, Just attack as soon as possible then get your army to retreat, The infantry comes out to attack you, draw them away from the castle and then ride quickly inside and close the gates, climb the nearest tower and kill any archers there, At the top will be a barrel of arrows for infinite refills and then start taking everyone down.
Attack before you even have a sige camp? So they can't use your own ladders to get in?
@@DIEGhostfish You have to build the camp but you don't need the ram or anything else, And they wont use the ladders, Sometimes a couple of infantry get stuck inside the castle and leave later and open the gates so keep an eye for a short time when you close yourself inside.
tnx to this..I will try this with my strongest 2H sword with my most expensive armors
Cheese
Thats some loony toons sht lmao.
My method.. work as a merc. Attack target and take it for the faction that hired me. Then quit that faction and attack the weakened target. This way i am behind lines of a faction that is hostile to the faction i attacked.
Just a PSA for everybody skip the ram, ballista, and catapult. Build 4 trebs and then let it rain on them until the walls are gone. Your troops will annihilate the garrison because they can just walk through crumbled walls vs being funneled through the gate or single file ladders
You don't want to damage the walls, otherwise your spending gold and time rebuilding them
@@jamiehughes5573 I'm okay with that. When I knock the walls down I can just go from city to city because I don't lose men in the seiges. They might take some back but I'm doing a lot more damage than I'm taking. When the AI seiges even against a low garrison they take a lot of casualties. Being in the battle yourself makes a big difference, when I auto resolve those same crushing victories I end up taking heavy casualties
@@jamiehughes5573 my go to for taking castles is assault right away with ladders, ride horse to ladder and be the first up the wall to hold it for your men. Same story, if your troops are good enough you'll lose almost none of them. That just never seems to work out with cities because the walls are taller and usually the garrison is a lot better so they can hold back my first wave
This is basically the only true thing said in this video or the comments, it’s all about trebs… and taking a fief is easy, keeping it is hard. End of story
It's still good to starve them a bit and 4 trebs. Less men and easy access to the defender's assets
Great video,well explained and made simple.....tip:at 4:50 ....insted of manualy add the money for the negotiation for "peace whit Vlandia" you can clck on the round "shake hands" icon on the top at that window....the game will then add the right sum of money for you.....also you dont need to have enough money....items in your inventory can be used as well....like horses,armor,weapons and so on.
Fun tip, based on this particular siege scenario. Before attacking, you could have taken the time to build multiple trebuchets and not only destroy the enemies siege weapons, but their walls as well. This way less troops are killed on the ladders and from enemy siege fire, as well as making the battering ram redundant.
Exactly what I was about to comment. If you are not in a rush, you may as well just wither it down with the catapults for easy assault access.
This is great advice when taking the rebelling towns, as in the 2nd example. If you do this however I would suggest creating a regiment and manually getting the AI to follow you through the opening in the wall.... otherwise they do some wired things that often result in death.
Yes!
But beware enemy armies, should watch hundreds/thousand of them. If they are close to you while siege, just run for your life or they will got you. Idk in easy difficulties, but in high difficulty you can't just fight them with 100 soldiers.
The only downside would be that u have to rebuild the walls if you break them down
Sadly you have to rebuild the walls if you wreck them. Unsure if that is in the game or not at this stage.
You can actually take down the walls to make sieging easier if you let your trebuchet and catapults attack the walls after dealing with their catapults
tho, the town will be starved, i prefer not to
@@sultanhamzah8974 you can sell your food for profit afterwards it's a win win
Actually, you should make trebuchets and move them to reserve until they're all built. Then, deploy them all at once. They will destroy all the enemy siege weapons. Optionally, you can destroy the walls. This will make the settlement really easy to take.
also makes it really easy for a huge army to come by and take it back from you
@@daytimerocker3808 Yup. But it's safe it is a rebellious town.
As a solo clan, wait for a rebellion in a town, and go attack it. I took marunath with 115 troops against almost 400. It was close but I took it and since I haven't made my kingdom yet, I was able take the town and not have anyone wanting to war with me because they cant yet.
Just catch a rebel party, attack it and wipe them out, then attack the town. It gave me ample time as well to build up my engineering skill since no rebel party was big enough to stop me. I now have Seonon as well with barely tier 3 clan.
Way easier than being in a faction
Lol I love how Svana is fighting the people of the settlement in which she was born pretty funny and hilarious at the same time
I feel like the 'get a castle/town' stage could be alleviated if every mercenary clan start off with a castle, a town, and their assortment of villages somewhere nestled in among the rest. Not only does it display a bit of cultural/structural divide within the factions, it'd also give a player a springboard to take their own castle or town to build a kingdom from there, and easier access to the mercenary clan troops, while still allowing that mercenary clan to exist like they do now without any fiefs (plus you'd be able to wage war against them specifically without waging war against whichever faction they are working for )
Most of the time minor factions are at war directly and/or as mercenary of a kingdom. So once the player would be strong enough for a siege, the minor factions fiefs would've likely already been captured by established factions. Exacerbated by the fact that nearly all minor faction troop types (since the nerf to them circa version ~1.3) are very weak compared to their 'regular' counterparts.
If having trouble with the transition to your own kingdom, I can recommend a mod like 'Party AI Overhaul and Commands (rebuilt)' which among other things enables you to order your clan parties to follow you, making your first siege(s) much easier.
@@MrF00tie the problem early kingdom is not having enough vassals to help form an army because as soon as you declare a kingdom everyone and their mother is chomping at the bits to take you out
This is unfortunately one of the cut concepts that didn't survive development.
Notables like 'Gang Leaders' would level up and become their own mercenary forces/clans, this would create division within the factions and allow them to break up (like the Empire does before the game starts), with new leaders rising from towns/villages.
@@wuxiagamescentral poor bits, always getting chomped on.
@Wuxia Games Central not trying to be that guy, just an interesting tidbit I learned a few months ago, the phrase as actually champing at the bit. What it means idk, but it's an equestrian term.
Respect to you for doing all this legitimately and not in developer mode with cheats, like many other Bannerlord youtubers.
Even though I knew the way to take stuff early, I did NOT know about pausing as soon as things were built to save it. I learned something!
Upload it three minutes ago this is the fastest video I’ve ever clicked of yours. keep up the good work, I’m loving the continent❤
When you go to make peace, In the trade screen, you can click the hand shake in the middle, and it'll give the amount of money needed to make them accept
You could easily take the town with 450 defenders, just go there with a ton of food and starve them, as its a rebellion you wont get anyone attacking, so you can sit there for weeks, ive done this and reduced their defenders to less than a 5th it was before
But you deny your men the glory of climbing the walls and putting those 450 defenders to the sword
Thank you so much, you just got a new subscriber and your sound is so smooth its like listening to a very good teacher. thanks for the tips.
1 year on and this advice is very sound from a clearly experienced player. My first attempt was Sibir. I unfortunately lost this very quickly, due to where it is located and had to ultimately leave my Kingdom, due to the amount of tribute payments to neighbouring Kingdoms. My second attempt at taking a settlement was kicking out the rebels at Tyal. Although Tyal isn't the best placed settlement. It is slightly tucked away in the hills. I had plenty of peace periods, allowing influence to slowly build-up. The Asarai declared war on a few occasions but didn't even bother to turn up to my settlement in Tyal and it eventually ended in peace after 31 days at war with no tribute payments. Sturgia also tried to declare on a few occasions, the same happened after 31 days. The only real threat, was the Khuzait's. They did turn up, but I just about managed to defend and even attack their settlements to eventually get them to pay my Kingdom tribute payments. Great advice for beginners to siege settlements in remote locations.
Amazing video! Ive played when it was in early access, and never was able to take a castle.
Your video was amazing and so cinematic! Loved the siege! I have to reinstall and start grinding again, it looks amazing!
So far,this is the only gaming youtuber,who just gets the point.Its amazing.He honestly just explains things,simply,without adding unnecessary fluff.What a God!
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@Johnson Howard He is a God,as long as there are those that believe he is.The existence of any God is purely based on whether or not people still hold belief in their existence.
@@jeffdroog If God's existence is objectively true, it's objectively true outside of what we believe and ourselves. AkA, me believing Biden isn't real doesn't change the objective reality of his existence. People aren't 'Gods', worship the creator not the creation
After 70ish hours playing Bannerlord, I think Aserai castles and towns are the most difficult to take, but easier to defend.
I'm gonna conquer Aserai in my next playthrough. You can win by defending it with 250 troops against 800+ troops, in highest difficulty.
With all respect for you, my Bannerlord brother, most of US did 1000+ hours and more. Please keep on playing until you hit four digit number
@@DziaduSwierznowski I will brother, I've been playing more than 1000+ hrs in warband. It will be the same story with bannerlord, I just bought the game 3 weeks ago.
As I mentioned in a previous comment, I came across your channel a few weeks ago. I appreciate how you make things clear for players new to Bannerlord. Greetings from Canada.
He made his wife fight in the castle the week she had birth...
As someone who plays Vlandia a lot. I usually take Rovalt and Ostican in the top left of the map as well as Tirby castle. It's an incredibly well defendable area of the map.
I have always loved the why Tyal looks. When make a new kingdom I make it my capital.
Yessss I love that y’all are making videos on banner lord!!!!!!!
I just bought MAB2 bannerlord on ps5, thank you for your tips it's really a big help since I don't know what to do since the info on tutorial was so vague 😂
9:08 No need to reserve rams and siege towers, they don't get attacked by defender siege engines.
Btw the red eyes bug can be overcomed if you safe game and then in performance options change the texture streaming budget to very high value and save it. After that exit the game and load it again . If It ever happens again do the same aproach. Ussually it happens when the settings get reset to default after error pops up.
if you have enough money you can make extra parties so you can attack with more men .. (let's say you have about 60 men in your party at top you make nogand a party + 60 is 120 + every family member plus spouse of your brother.. and Varec + Alda + companions.. give very fast 200+ army..)!
Would love to see you delv into Old Realms... thats a fun one great video btw
It's so sad that there aren't any territories on the islands of the map, including the in-lake/in-sea islands. Those would be SO MUCH FUN to own! 🤩😭
Thank you. You explained a lot and we're actually enjoyable to watch
14:48 LOOL. Nice one, m8.
I really appreciate these videos they are carrying my first run on banerlord and teaching me alot for my next run
He puts way more effort in to defeating hideouts then I do, usually just let my maxed lv men charge then duel the boss
Solo hideouts is great for levelling athletics and combat skills, but that's the only reason to not let your troops clear it
It’s exactly the same mecanichs of total war and that’s why i love this game😍
0:12 absolutely based
I've found that building the catapults and a siege tower or two is better than the ram. Sure the walls are a tight spot to fight in like the gate, but there are fewer places for archers to rain arrows on your men and for rocks to be thrown at them as well.
You made it seem so easy and then it was lol i led 116 to take a castle of 300, oddly enough i was beefing with the asari since i started the game, which was probably a solid 6-7 in game years, i attacked their armies and caravans but i never took hostages, a day after i took my first castle they pulled up 650+ troops deep but made peace with me for literally nothing, they were surprisingly chill about my near decade of degeneracy towards their kingdom 😂
I just got my first town, it was a rebellion town so I just kept murdering all the armies coming in and out of it, as well as executing the lord's, and starved them out. Eventually after 30 days of seige I stopped to go get food and all the defenders left, I walked through and took my pick.
I’m so happy he’s playing bannerlord now
Also the kraken lord with depth gaurd units with his corsairs such a epic looking charge that would be
Intrigued by this game. Looks quite gud. Cheers Danny.
More videos with tips please! Loved this one
Hello ESO, fancy seeing you here
Loving the content Battle Brother!
@19:59 "BUY ALL THE FISH!" *Clicks the arrow for every buy*
🤨🙄 Me: *Clicks and drags the the entire stack to my inventory* 🎉🏆
0:54 “the northern empire to the south” checks out😂
9:58 Congratulations bro, you are now grateful father
You make my life better by making great videos, let me repay you with making your life better:
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There is plenty of good tips and thanks 🙏
Really underrated channel u should play some popular games u with get rich
I was waiting with my wife if you know what I mean, and ragnvad and the boys just gave me 2 castles across the map while I wasn't even actually playing.
Your videos are great they help me out so much
The best siege method is slow sieges... build 4 trebs, move em to reserve, build 2 SIEGE TOWERS, wait until garrison died, when militia alone stands put trebs to fire ( build speed depends on how many troops are actively defending it ) and when all defenders siege equip are destroyed wait and keep bombarding the town so walls get weaker... here you have 2 options: A: full archers ( either fians or palatine guarda ) or B: full infantry (either imperial or sturgian )
W option A you will weaken their walls BUT DO NOT DESTROY THEM, keep em w as low hp as possible, weak walls have no cover, which means defenders get exposed to archer fire, then you must set MANUALLY archer groups in front of the town w good angle and distance from tje walls... after you do this choose 1 of the 2 siege towers and climb it yourself ( go w a 2 handed long polearm, preferably the rhomphaia and a big shield ) open the bridge between tower and wall and FALL BACK to the ladders, some infantry will follow you and your archers will shot em down, then go up and bait em till no one else is there, go down the siege tower and repeat on the other side, when the walls are free select everyone and put sergeants on command and you should win w almost if not 0 casualties...
Now option B for gigachads you do not build siege towers, build the battering ram and 4 trebs but this time destroy the walls and siege equip from defenders. After doing this assault and when you start the battle select all your troops, order them to follow you and go to one of the breached walls, take on account infantry divides itself on 3 groups so bringing all your troops to 1 sector most of the time gives you victory there, after that clear the gates and then the other sector and boom. Done.
This is what 1k hs of bannerlord campaigns look like.
Glory to the Empire!
I got my first castle when I had around 250 troops and made sure it was one that was against a losing kingdom and that was one that had just been liberated (battania is a good one)
Same I take Aster Castle in Battania while working with Vlandians making 100K in the process but you only need like 100 troops 250 is pretty overkill
Thank you for all the great videos!
Thanks this was really helpful!
Excellent guide !
I swear on realistic difficulty its borderline impossible you need to almost wait till a castle gets captured to even have a chance at taking one.
hahah realistic mode (early on) is complete horror.
most enjoyable way to do it though 😅
FYI this was recorded on:
- Friendly Troops Received Damage: Realistic
- Combat AI difficulty: Veteran (hardest)
- Player Received Damage reduced by 50% (easy, since i enjoy being a raid boss)
It has mainly to do with the tier troops you have. Often it can be more beneficial to auto resolve instead of watch the AI try to navigate the walls vs some cities.
@@ESOdanny this is good to know I tended to use mediocre units because I needed just a ton like 200 men and it was financially destroying me at the time.
Bide your time, level your clan working as a merc and as soon as you see a rebellion pop up in a city head there after ending your contract. Youll probably need around 150 high level troops. You could prob do it with less but have them all highly leveled. Fight with the rebels patrolling around the city then treb until the garrison is highly weakened or gone and the walls are crumbled. Then just march in there and take it and boom your an independant city state. I got lucky and ended up with pen canoc as a battanian character. Getting my ass kicked by a never ending imperial war now but it started great lol, I'm up to like 18 cities and 26 castles I think
And if you didn't know you can store seige equipment so it doesn't get shot by the defenders while you're building them. I like to have at least 3 before I start trebbing. The reason this works so great is you don't have to worry about anyone stopping you because you're only at war with a single rebel faction
Was just watching Skyrim but ig I’m here now 😂
Awesome video thank you 🙏
To get more men and a bigger army you should hire companions and turn them into party leaders. Of course you will need the finances beforehand so be a mercenary, set up caravans, workshops, or whatever. Your brother in the game can have a large army with his high stewardship skill
You cannot create an army until your a kingdom or a vassal unfortunately.
@@ESOdanny oh dang I didn’t know that thanks for the tip
Use your brother as a governor his cost is waaaay to high
hey eso i never expected you to play this game its super underrated
Im not at the owning my own castle or town stage yet, but really enjoyable video.
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I love how he does the voices, lel. Makes the video for me
excellent ....best teacher
Thanks for your hard work.i really enjoy the game hopefully Santa will send me a PC I play it to cheers mate
Lets just honor that he has 50 party speed and 30 party seeing distance
30 speed would've been so much better )
i think the better thing is bulit 4 trebuchets and hide them, then putting them all at once while preparing the siege equpipments while they destroy their catapults cause they are op af
Are you gonna put up your live today's live stream. I didn't have a chance to catch it. I dnt see it.
Thanks!
Thankyou so much for the support Battle BROTHER!
dam this game is so fucking good and fun, i discover yesterday your channel, subscribe instant, your content is really good and help me .. tks for speak that slowly and crealy english ✌🏾
Hey guys. I’m trying to find the correct Twitch channel for ESO. The one in the comments is over a year old with nothing new posted to it. Is there another one and if so (no offence) it may need to be added. Also thanks 🙏 for another insightful video. These guilds really help out us newbies and players that haven’t played since the betas 👍
Don't auto resolve when sieging, delegate comande or f1f3 is much better in this case, because defenders get advantage...
14:51 my man just tripped
You could aways buy a rebel city's entire food supply then then the defenders numbers will go down as you seige them for a couple days
15:25 «My dear wife, I know you just gave a birth to our child in the siege camp yesterday, but today we are going to clear out this wrecked castle, and I want you to be nearby, to contemplate this moment together. Our first permanent home»
Man, what a hard life you had to live in medieval times, couldn't even afford an apartment without declaring war to rebels to finally get a place to live. Almost like nowadays, but more romantic.
during a siege i stay on the horse, jump over the guys who have just knocked down the main gate, and teh defenders, and cause chaos in the backfield. Works a treat
Quick Tip: Turn of DLSS and the ghost shadow's on the map will vanish.
You can also just defend the castle to the point where they pay you to declare peace (always defend castles with auto resolve)
hey man im really enjoying your videos on bannerlord do you think you'll do a modded play through
The northern empire to the south really threw me off there for a sec.
To all you saying treb the walls down your wrong if your BUILDING A KINGDOM then you definitely would want your first castle to have walls intact having intact walls is worth a few lives
😎😎great vid
I'll be honest with you I wasn't war with all the factions of the same time without following the main quest line man that sucked when I was beginning
The easiest way to take a city without joining anyone or being hostile with another faction. Do merchant guard and poacher missions at different cities to build your reputation and gather troops. Then, wait for a city to rebel, then swoop in and claim it before a faction can. Free city no hostile relations
Castles don't rebel btw, it's why when you do have other clans with you, give them to your vassals, as they are horrible at kingdom management.
Thanks for sharing all the loyalty content so useful battle brother I was wondering how to help that in my play through
Man, these purple clan guys are quite well equiped, Ive captured many castles yet they get me eventually with a 100 kill dif and my other army chill to take random castles instead of freeing me 😂, so done, their leaser is dead now, i showed him mercy 2 times, this is it
Great video but with TBI this is just way to overwhelming / too much for me to manage and keep up with. Fun to watch though.
your wife giving birth while you're sieging her original home...
You can just chill there durring the seige and starve them out until there are barley any defenders at all
Is it to much to ask for the ability to form an army? Would save me a lot of headaches
19:10 give the city to your companion + you get 3 lords