Bannerlord Tactics: Epic Siege Destruction! Volume II: Savage Siege Crossfire
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- It's Epic Siege Saturday! Each Saturday, I'll try and publish our latest(or an older but amazing) Epic Siege!
Welcome to our Epic Siege series: These videos feature some of the most massive, chaotic and sprawling siege defenses in Bannerlord ever shown on youtube. Our hardy group of seasoned warriors will join the militia forces of various cities and castles across Calradia as we try and beat back the hordes of enemies storming the gates and scaling the walls in what should be awesome, chaotic and extremely difficult siege defenses. I have started saving a select handful of the most intense sieges from my various campaigns and side series for this series and I think they'll be entertaining as hell as we try advanced tactics and use our brains AND our brawn to thwart our enemies. Subscribe if you want to see more. My goal is to share at least one per month, but probably every Saturday for most or all of the Summer.
Sit back(or strap in), get a tasty beverage, prepare for some stress and enjoy!
We head East for episode 2.
Please comment, like and subscribe if you're interested in more of my ultra-late-game campaign, that may end up ending in utter despair, but that's the challenge of it. Any challenge where success is assured is no challenge at all.
My campaign is an extremely late-game campaign where I am resolved to give no peace to these scum Kingdoms attacking me - seven of the eight have been at war for years, with only Sturgia at a neutral stance. My family of warriors is now large though and with what remaining strength and valor we can must, we stand against the map of Calradia.
Join me on this adventure if you like huge battles, the use of advanced tactical maneuvers and intense Bannerlord gameplay, and subscribe to my channel if you want to follow along. This campaign is very lightly modded:
I use five to eight mods:
Reinforcement System Mod(highlighted in this video):
www.nexusmods....
Time Pass Mod: Realistic Lighting for battles and town scenes(the time CHANGES):
www.nexusmods....
RTS Mod(for better unit flag colors/overhead view and using other characters in battle):
www.nexusmods....
Immersive Battlefields:
A great mod that adds battle cries, roaring troops and more:
www.nexusmods....
Lord Retinue Uptier(Makes the enemy forces stronger, much less peasants and lower ranked troops)
www.nexusmods....
Improved AI Troops(Also makes enemy lords and their armies tougher by giving them a higher daily xp rate. This means you'll routinely face armies with HUGE numbers of the highest tier units, sometimes four or five times the normal amount in vanilla Bannerlord): www.nexusmods....
Death for all: This mod allows you to set the rate at which nobles die more often. I want both a harder challenging late-game but also a more realistic game. If you're cut down with a massive aserai two-handed axe, you shouldn't just be injured 99.9% of the time. It's a very customizable mod so you can just a little more death or set the death rate so high you get several deaths every battle. The number I often like is '10', some deaths but not a massacre of nobles...
www.nexusmods....
I also use the Dismemberment Plus Mod: It's highly customizable and works seamlessly with the new beta(and versions back to 1.28). I thoroughly recommend it if you enjoy carnage!:
steamcommunity...
I've also used Realistic Battle Mod in the past and highly recommend it for Ai and battle realism BUT I find the pace too slow for my taste and the AI is actually rather predictable after a half dozen battles. Still I wanted to put a plug in for it here, it's a GREAT mod and highly configurable. www.nexusmods....
Much of the music and inspiration for this and other videos in the channel are inspired by Epic History TV - probably THE best channel on youtube(and the internet for that matter) covering the Napoleonic wars. With amazing work Epic History TV takes you through the dramatic and incredibly story of Napoleon covering all of his most famous battles. I HIGHLY recommend it.
Epic History TV:
/ @epichistorytv
#bannerlord #war #medieval #bannerlordgameplay #bannerlordmod
This castle I discovered, or 're-discovered' with this episode and it's one of the best for defending in the entire game. Enjoy the carnage fellas!
In this episode, Zuvan defends his castle with nothing but his wits, the power of friendship, and a pile of high explosives someone left laying around.
Haha, no doubt! It does seem like they were just left their explosives absent-mindedly.
I'm straight up addicted to your videos. This channel should have 10x the amount of subs it has.
Very high praise - I appreciate that. Hopefully people here spread the word so we can grow our enthusiastic tactical base. It's a niche audience, but a VERY intelligent and enthusiastic bunch. I *wouldn't* want to fight us in battle, if you know what I mean.
That voice is addicted too...
@@rockybalboa5611 Whaaat? I've barely played 8000 hours, I'm not addicted.... lol
@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions I mean your voice. You should sell your voice in radio or TV.
@@rockybalboa5611 TH-cam IS the new TV/Radio. Not sure where my channel will eventually go and what will evolve here, but I'm glad to know there's potentially an audience.
Cheers!
Then there’s me just raw dogging every battle with chargers 😅
New day new video. No cencor, lets go brother. We love you uncensored!
Fuck yeah, no censoring. More vids tomorrow :)
You crack me up, bro. Love watching these.
Glad to have you with and laughing, cheers!
Dismemberment mod is always a great addition to the chaotic experience of Bannerlord xD highly recommend
100% agree
Like your laugh bro you like a real like war general....😂
If I'm a king of a kingdom I'll hire you for a continuous victories in battle.
LOL, never thought about that. I'm happy to fight for you, Your Highness, but I'm VERY expensive to Merc out.
@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions haha!
Then you shall marry my daughter and have you as my hand and give you richness that is beyond VERY*
@@IanAlfred-dt9nn LOL, good stuff. Hope your daughter is hot.
@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions sure, I have 5 daughters, the older one is just 25yrs old 😆 LOL. You can have 2 or take it all.
@@IanAlfred-dt9nn lmao... polygamy WAS a thing for generals of high competence. Cheers!
Honestly, this was super fun to watch!
Love it - hopefully you check out some of the other epic sieges on the channel. One every Saturday :)
Man your videos are just so good. what an absolute slaughter
Thank you brother, I appreciate that. An yes indeed, a complete slaughter, one of the worst I've ever been apart of!
Ooh, you had a near-perfect setup of attacker siege equipment. If you had focussed down the tower on your left wall, you could have funneled them into 2 choke points (one of which was ladders), which the AI doesn't handle very well (the number of times I have seen a huge blob idling at the bottom of a single set of ladders because I blew up their siege tower...then, you just lob flaming pots into them and rack up the kills...)
That works very well too but sometimes for siege if I do that, it gets so ugly that it's not watchable for you folks lol
Sent them back to the Minor Leagues with an embarrasing sweep despite the betting odds
lol, yeah demoted to AA ball because they couldn't handle big league stuff.
There was at least one! I am satisfied.
I mention this almost every episode. Heck, I mention it to the widow of the guy(s) that eat my javelins after the battle is won...
Absolutely loving these videos man thank the TH-cam gods for recommending your vids to me one day🙏
Mighty kind words, bud, and I'm happy it's sending enthusiasts this way. Enjoy!
@HeadlessHorsemanProductions hell yeah man keep up the great vids🙏
@@gus1239 You know I will bud.
From time to time you should bring the archers to pick up arrows in front of the main gate.
In defense? You get unlimited arrows, unless I misunderstood your meaning...
bannerlord battles and sieges could be so epic if all of the troops could be rendered at once. just imagine 3000 savages in legions standing before your dorstep....
Yeah, if only the system could handle it. I do sieges sometimes with the battle size mod which allows up to 2000 enemies, but it's often unstable...
@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions what would you need for it? 256gb of ram and a threatripper cpu? xD
whens the calender comming out
Calendar?
Hey absolutely amazing video, but I have a question. Do you know when you change the formation of your troops and the troops show up as bright green orbs, on my game they show up as full flags, I just want to know how to get the orbs like is it a mod or something?
This is the RTS mod that illuminates the color brighter. VERY helpful mod.
How do you get the AI to create such large armies? Once I get to late game and get a party over 300 I never get to do defensive sieges (which is annoying, since they are fun to do), since if I break in to help they run away all the time
Very-late game campaign. Usually though you should see armies well over 1000 by the mid-game.
Sweet! Good job! That castle is a defender's wet dream. Quick question: How did you spend the time for the 50+ years before you declared a kingdom, or was there an initial attempt that ebbed and flowed over time, or did you merc for a long time to build some cash, or just let the game skip forward for a while? just curious.
Sure - I actually PLANNED an ultra-late game campaign from the get-go, so by the time my main character was level 25 or so, through smithing and merc'ing, we became a vassal for Sturgia, married into the family and started to work in the bedroom on future heirs. Then, frankly, I admit, we stalled. I had barely any army, basically fighting occasional tournaments, but often just 'waiting' in towns until the wife was pregnant, then doing the occaisonal quest and fighting tournaments, piling up loot, cash, renown and other assets.
Finally about 35 years into the game with a family of 6, we declared a kingdom, and went from there. After conquering 1/4 of the map and it was obvious it was going to snowball the rest, I declared war on everyone except Sturgia and now we've been beaten down to about 3 castles and 2 cities... The Net result of all this is LOTS of grandchildren, lots of wives of grandchildren, VERY high level companions and also very high level/mature enemy lords and kingdoms... I'm continuing the campaign again soon, and it's getting nasty, but I love the challenge. (Phew), hope that works for you :)
@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions Thanks, that's exactly the answer I was looking for. Keep up the good work. Always enjoy the content.
how do you drag the forms like that
If you're on a console, I'll need someone to pipe in here to help!
What are your PC Specs?
This is the easiest way to show ya:
www.bestbuy.com/site/msi-aegis-r-gaming-desktop-intel-core-i7-13700f-16gb-memory-nvidia-geforce-rtx-4070-1tb-ssd-black/6538872.p?skuId=6538872
Can you plz teach me
I will. I suggest BOTH of these playlists. One if the pre-battle setup, the other covers tactics, advancing to more and more advanced:
th-cam.com/video/lgt_S5cfK_8/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/Ny3xuio1VZQ/w-d-xo.html
@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions thx
@@Pengu-ts4ec Report back when you're crushing it! :)
@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions copy that
Fighting off 5000 men and only having 9 defenders killed is crazy work. Hella impressive man! 🔥
I blame(and credit) the castle builders! Though, yes, it all came together savagely in this battle... :)
Best bannerlord channel ever! I love your jokes.
Very high praise to be sure, some might say hyperbole, but I appreciate it mate. Thanks and I'll keep on keepin' on.
@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions the thing I love about your channel is not the info you give about Bannerlord. Of course you are the master of it but I love your reactions, talk and jokes. Your charachter is what makes your videos good. For you to keep going what you do, I mean uploading videos you need more subs and I'm pretty sure you gonna get it soon.
@@skytpe6096 Thank you mate, I appreciate that and it gives me notions that I'll be able to keep making content long after Bannerlord is stale. Cheers!
That may be the single most brutal ass whoopin' I've ever seen in a war game of any type. You do make your sieges epic!
Great praise, and it's one of the most lopsided massacres I can remember as well. Thanks for the kind words mate!
“Hey, how’s the death factory doing?” ….. “Cousin, business is booming” Great defense! Keep up the good work!
Business is great, we're KILLING it. lol
@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions hell yeah
I want to ask : what can I do to make my clan leaders stronger? I give them troups and money ant in 5 minutes they become prisoners.
Don't give up after a few losses. Early on, you'll certainly have times where your clan leaders are captured. Keep leveling up their steward/leadership/etc and as they gain experience, focus on 2-3 of these leaders, give them good troops, set them to DEFENSIVE in the party screen menu and let them level up on enemy raiders. Goodluck!
Commenting for the algorithm
Hope it helps people find this awesome carnage. Cheers!
Just found your channel via this video and it was awesome! Nice chokepoints. The axe you're using, is this a crafted one with maxed out swingspeed?
Welcome to the channel brother glad to have you! It sounds again like I need to do another weapon loadout video as these seem to be the most prominent questions. I have about 10 two-handed crafted axes left from my grandfather the Smith in the campaign so yes a lot of the axes you see us wielding are custom axes. I have learned to love a shorter faster to handed Acts both for DPS but also to always have the initiative on my opponent. Something in the range of 100 length and 95 speed is my preference although I have access that have 99, 100 and I think 102 speed those end up being too short a lot of times to be effective.
poor poor siege fodder.
Last night I fought my first 7 Brigade (Division), would have been 8 but I didn't think 5 bow cavalry were enough to keep separate so I combined them into the 7th cavalry. Combined 2 shield-skirmish Infantry, 1 shock Infantry, 3 archery (one of which are vlandian shielded crossbows) and one troop of mongral cavalry. Outnumbered 3 to 1. Using your reverse slope peek-a-boo tactic. We lost 5 men. Mid fight I swapped out my spent archers with the third reserve. The enemy routed. It was glorious! Thank you for tge tutorials. Now I need to figure out how to increase my number of companions above 9 on an xbox. 😂
Niiice! Not much like the feeling of having a complex plan, being bold enough to put it into action and then having it succeed, no? It sounds like an amalgamation of some of the tactics here and your own strategies which is just what I imagine guys doing. Making their own chili, with some seasoning from the channel. Enjoy brother, and have a blast out there!
@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions I like a game that allows real world strategy and game mechanic strategy to work together. There are a lot of the game mechanic strategy that I would have been frustrated by without your guidance in these videos. The AI isn't great. Anyone who has played any strategy games has met this AI general before. But boy the look and the numbers are just amazing. There is a lot to offer the player here. We have come a long way from the old 1990s Talonsoft PC games or Heros Might and Magic, to name a few.
@@Warhead-haggis No question, and while it's not great AI, the overall combat is just fantastic, the graphics are terrific and the times of different and varied landscapes makes it a great experience...
i like playing mind games like starting a war that leads to a certain castle being weakend for me but the ai is stupid so it doesnt work allways
Yep, can't count on the AI for much except duncery.
great viddeo!
lots of fun....i think ill be back to bannerlord soon in my days off....hehe
cheers!
Thanks - me too! Sometimes a break refreshes everything.
Need tips on aiming catapults for sure. Can’t get elevation for the life of me
This should help!
BANG!: th-cam.com/video/11ahbln_W-E/w-d-xo.html
You must have carpel tunnel by now.
Nope lots of weight lifting, gardening and massage, haven't ever had that in my fifty years of life(or eight thousand hours of axe swinging).
@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions Whenever I fight in long sieges like this my hands and fingers get sore. But I do have a mild case of carpel tunnel from past jobs though.
@@teratokomi8731 Maybe physical therapy or weight lifting may help.
@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions There is no cure for carpel tunnel :(
how can u throwing the bomb so far, is that from the perk ?
Yes, I think from high engineering skill.
I learned a lot in this video on siege defense. Great job!
Thanks! These epic sieges are so unique in many cases, I think guys will glean new things even if they watch a dozen different episodes. Cheers!
22:34 need to play a Wilhelm Scream there
lol, had to look it up
Did you know about the mods like scatter around expanded and follow in formation (or save battle formstion, can't remember the exact name)? First one enables you to customize positions for f8 scatter order so they will behave like archers in the siege battles, and second has a toggleable follow me option for troops to follow you in exact relative positions and formations like you placed them without messing shit up. Maybe it could expand your gameplay or make some things easier
No I've never heard of this. Does the AI USE this mod too and do smarter things with their archers??
@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions unfortunately not, this is player mod
Question: Do defending archers refill from the arrow barrels when they're on castle walls?
31:30 unlimited ammo for defenders. Nice.
Yes and no. You won't see them go to the aero barrels they just have unlimited ammo essentially the computer system simulating they're going to the ammo barrels
Good thing Kuzaitis are weak in siege battles. That alone is typically why I don't hang on to too many of them
Not the greatest, I admit but still capable with so many archers. Lack of skirmishers hurts though.
@HeadlessHorsemanProductions I'd have to look at the stats again, but I think they also have the weakest shields out of all the T5 infantry
As if there is only one Acess Point, or almost none uses the second ladder, just like in good ole Warband.
Sadly didn't play the original! Glad I found the second coming though.
Bannerlord a highly skilled game?😂
You don't think so? I know for my own self, it's taken me many months to get good at bannerlord. Maybe I'm not very good at games if it's easy to others, but in my own experience this game has a huge learning curve and a lot of room for expanding skill through practice.
@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions No I don't think it is, it's easy the ai doesn't even do basic strategy so it's so easy to out smart then. They just throw waves of dudes to the meat grinder without thinking.
I like your videos. But maybe they are a little bit too long. If you keep then with a maximun of 30 min. Maybe more people would see them.
Just my opinion. Great wordk btw.
I appreciate the feedback! I'm still working on some shorter videos, but these huge battles are necessarily large/long. I do have more shorter vids coming but the 'algorithms' don't seem to find them very popular yet, at least not for me. Thanks for the kind words...
Used these tactics in a siege where I was only outnumbered 1200 to 500, but it still work flawlessly. Barely lost 50
That's what I like to hear! Yeah, no magic or cheats, it just works. Stoked to hear it dude, hope the other tactics we share work as well. Crush it!
The intro peak and gameplay peak and strategy peak the lesson peak and view’s lacking
I'm hoping more discover the channel but I'm also content with a hardened band of enthusiasts coming by regularly.
That was dope.
Thanks mate!
I know you’ve done some, but I’d love some more, tailored, vids. Like Calvary or infantry or archer specific vids. For example, your vid on just how good xbowmen are and how to use them in range or melee. Thanks
Do you mean this? th-cam.com/video/cpOv12eOiNs/w-d-xo.html
Gotta play on bannerlord difficulty if you want the fights to be decent
I usually show this in each battle RIGHT before we engage the enemy. In this battle it's visible(on Bannerlord difficulty) at 3:53.
This is crazy
Thanks - glad you liked it(I think LOL)
@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions I did lol it’s crazy how you micro I could never lol and it was entertaining seeing the kill feed 😂
@@ibreezy4809 You can get to this kind of micro, brother, it just takes a lot of practice. We have videos here on the channel to help! :)
You can smash up the tower with your axe and 330 2h perks with up attack
It take a little moment but it work !
Good to know - but I sometimes even LET the enemy have one tower otherwise the battle takes forever and is pretty anti-climactic.
As a Khuazit member. They suck at sieges cause all their foot troops suck compared to the rest. The best thing about Khuazit are the Cavs but without their horses they ain’t scary. Also their castles are really easy to defend. I forget the castle name but you can legit build a ballista and easily shoot the group waiting for the ladders 😂. I feel like no matter what their numbers are they always lose on sieges
I think if you fight in a similar matter to how we did here, even with the Khuzait it should work. They ARE at a disadvantage in keep defenses though I agree.
Truly crushing defense!
Indeed - good to see you - I have a handful more epic sieges that I am processing, more soon, brother!
@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions I've found a few cities in the Aseria lands that make for amazing defenses! Particularly Hubyar I think it's called.
@@brettsalisbury1527 Been there, defended that. :)
Lots more epic sieges coming as I have now searched the map for great cities and made defenses of about a quarter of the cities in the game. Maybe half of that quarter are worth sharing, and after processing/editing, so I will :)
Make more siege content . Much more enjoyable
(don't tell anyone but I now have about 15 epic siege battles that I am processing/editing for the upcoming weeks).
Can’t believe you haven’t monetised your content, been watching some of your older videos (new player so the knowledge has been invaluable) and the production quality has come on leaps and bounds. Get some ads rolling chap 👍
Well I appreciate that and have been getting some pressure from the wife(amongst others). Are you already seeing ads? I tried a few weeks ago on an unlogged in youtube account and was startled to find ads running on my channel(without my permission). Maybe youtube/google just monetizes my ass whether or not I ask for a slice...
I’ve never seen an ad on your content, I think all the viewers would agree you deserve to capitalise on your content- reap the rewards of your never ending war!
every time you defend a keep i’m in awe of how fast you “put out fires” (sorry for the joke) but dude the amount of things you keep in mind at once while killing 300 guys and commanding 8 different divisions is insane
you’re seriously my favorite channel for bannerlord like i was pretty good at the game before thanks to a good amount of trial and error and some strat gaming help with his gameplay but your videos definitely leveled me up i’m competently commanding 6 divisions, using my cav to escort my shock troops and enveloping the enemy with relative ease thanks to you
I’m gonna work on my keep defense i’ve got a save file to practice on now against 1500 vlandians
I love pretty much everything you just wrote - it makes my day when I read guys out there are adding some of the tactics I'm sharing into their mix and now mauling the enemy. The game is SO deep from a combat side, it has almost unlimited potential as long as they(or someone) improves the AI. Go rip it in your keep defense and if not, be sure to check out the entire playlist on epic siege. I think it's at like 12-15 videos now!
How did they get armys Like this?
My campaign is an extremely late-game in which all Kingdoms are mature, have lots of money and the lords are high level. 3000+ troops in a single army is not uncommon.
best tactics I ever seen !
Thank you friend!
what steward leve are you? to have all this party size only by you
My steward skills are in the 240s, but you can assign a 'captain' as your steward and I think we have a captain with 300+ steward skills. Between that, policies and leadership, it's fairly easy to have an army of 400+.
its my first time playing and i have like 430 army size, i think according the game advance u got more and more capacity
@@Zafretty This.
You're running low on food 😅
Always villagers to be relieved of their grain, especially in the dead of Winter. (lol, I'm j/k, we LOVE our villagers).
Great video enjoyed every bit and 100 percent agree with what you said about siege warfare which is a lot like putting out fire and stick to the original plan funny.... I wonder why lol
Four and a half minutes to get to the Siege that's in the title. Yeah no thanks, wont be back.
Sorry bud, I think you're missing out but I understand if you don't have the time to give. Cheers.