Hey lads! Ya boy just launched a Patreon page: www.patreon.com/halcylion You don't have to pitch in, but if you can spare 1 denar per month, you'd help me overcome the "Tyranny of the Algorithm"™
I made a promise that I will give Balon's story a proper ending, and I never break a promise. Although, I may be putting the series on hold until I finish just a little project I've been wanting to do for a long time.
Smooth indeed it was; great episodes as usual. You really help me get my head around all these mechanics. Keep on the good work. Just wish this series got more visibility. Thanks for continuing.
You are progressing from video to video in editing, it's really cool :) Thank you very much for this episode ! In the same way that you committed yourself to finishing this series despite the unfairly low number of views for the quality and the work done, I make a point of watching each episode in its entirety (not forgetting the like or even the share if I have a friend in the area :D)
Came back to this series after forgetting about it for a year and watched all of it in one night. Really glad you're deciding to finish it. Truly the series of all time, it feels almost like a DND series with the amount of quality storytelling in it
The memes are too good in this one lol. I tried to play your rock-bottom Challenge once and it was super fun. It is probably already too late but if anyone wants to start it I would have few tips for the beginning. The Aserai desert wastes is the best place where to begin your adventure. It is filled with desert bandits, hideouts, almost no lords ever go that far and all nearby villages sell cheap horses to keep your party speed high. The desert bandits are great for recruiting as you can turn them into cavalery later. And the next tip would be to always raid hideouts. The loot is great for beginning's standards, you lose very few men in the process and usually get lots of prisoners and troops at the end. If you believe yourself always duel the bandit boss because then you get all of the troops that would fight at the end as bonus prisoners. Hope it Helps!
Just finished the Playlist in 2 days, honestly I don't comment specially in yt but bro, I enjoyed watching/listening to ur series. I hope this comment can help with the algorithm. And btw, I'll be waiting for the next episode. Doesn't matter how long it'll take. I like quality over quantity. Bless
I know the views and likes arent doing well but im enjoying those videos and i know others also do! Please keep going making it or i will have nothing to watch!
The likes are actually going very well, proportional to the number of views... 20% of my viewers take their time to press that button, that's a larger percentage than most youtubers. Seriously, if you go to any other channel, Bannerlord or not, take the number of likes, divide them by the number of views and multiply by 100. I guarantee the result will be under 20%. If I were to guess, I'd say it's 5-15% on average, with very rare exceptions here and there. But despite the best efforts of our little community, the algorithm just doesn't give a damn. Fortunately, I make videos for people, not a soulless algorithm.
I think I remember you saying you don't like playing with mods, since everyone else making videos is doing it. But I think if you did it, with your unique way of creating narratives in the videos, it would actually be different from others still. I think with some overhaul mods, it would bring a more interesting world setting and some more interesting characters. Anyways, just a thought, and I love your videos regardless.
The main reason I'm not playing with mods is because I want to keep up with the latest version of the game as soon as it arrives. Once the game goes stable and steam workshop is enabled, I'll go crazy with mods, especially after they get fleshed out all good and proper. :)
I'm sure there's plenty of Aserai campaigns on youtube that are better than whatever I can make. For the foreseeable future, I will not be doing other playthroughs after this one, I'll try to find another video format, or even another game to cover. :)
For now, I'll be setting my sights on other projects, but once mods get real good, I might be coming back to Bannerlord for another playthrough.... However, if I do another playthrough, I promise that I will NOT keep it going it unless the episodes get enough views to justify the time investment. If I followed this principle with Bandit's Ballads, I'd have ended it after episode 5, as I say in the video, only returning to the series when episode 5 got the views it needed. Either that, or I could do regular "Let's Plays" like other youtubers: minimal effort, maximum frequency. I don't need to impose any requirements on those, since I can just spam the channel with them.
Have you ever tried making a video about the old mount and blade? Or even playing it? It's vanilla version is worse than bannerlord for the most part. Except that fighting with a 2-H spear or lance is way more fun and practical than bannerlord. It also doesn't have perks, so less attention has to be but on character builds. But, a lot of it's mods are better. Tournaments in particular in any of the major war-band mods is way better than tournaments in bannerlord. more variety. More choices. And in the early game, you could actually choose the weapon you take into normal arena battles. The Sengoku mod was amazing, set in japan with samurai, archers, and early guns. Brittainwalda was also really amazing and was set in a divided britain after the fall of rome. With vikings, welsh, saxons, angles, former romans, and druids all arround. It had a really big focus on infantry combat with shield walls, and rarer horses. Which gave it a really interesting but difficult feel. And also a vaguely arthuric vibe in some cases as well. Although, it seems you mostly do vanilla stuff for bannerlord. So, maybe those wouldn't appeal to you? I do really appreciate all the depth of the perk system and additional content for realm management for the late game in bannerlord though.
@@Halcylion you were talking about viewer dropping ... That's why I suggested... You can marge this campaign with game of thrones one by taking ballad back to his land to claim the Iron Throne
@@deathtotheEmperor viewership is dropping not because of the lack of interest, but because for some unknown reason, the videos don't get shoved into people's recommendations. I'll have to talk about this in a quick video.
@@Halcylion in every long series viewership across all the youtube channels drops.. There is some text posts that youtube allows which helps a ton..... You should try that and yeah keep up the good work. And make some related templates...Most of the episode doesn't feel connected by the template.
@@Halcylion thanks for the reply. This series is genius, thank you. Wonder if you have any appetite for the opposite sort of campaign by picking a faction to try and humbly serve till they win?
Hey lads! Ya boy just launched a Patreon page: www.patreon.com/halcylion
You don't have to pitch in, but if you can spare 1 denar per month, you'd help me overcome the "Tyranny of the Algorithm"™
A Interaction for the Interaction God, a Comment for the Comment Throne, for the Almighty Algorithm
How should I play bannerlord
Your timing is impeccable, currently playing bannerlord myself, a campaign purely inspired by you. Love you and your content man!
Good luck in your campaigns and may you be blessed with plenty'o'loot!
How should I play bannerlord
Bro has been waiting for 9 months for an answer
Love your storytelling and this series. Glad you're deciding to see it through despite the lack of views
I made a promise that I will give Balon's story a proper ending, and I never break a promise. Although, I may be putting the series on hold until I finish just a little project I've been wanting to do for a long time.
True, the narration is excellent
I'm glad that you're still continuing with this series, it's still very entertaining!
im writing this comment just so the algorithm favors this video so more people get to apreciate the work put in this series!
Algo probably won't care, but I thank you nonetheless! :)
Robber knight? those two words together give me Warband mod PTSD
Pretty sure my character is giving the people of Calradia PTSD... those who survive, anyway.
This series deserves so much more love the editing I can't even imagine how much time each episode takes
So glad you're continuing with the series!
love these vids man thanks for keeping the series going
This series is incredibly informative and entertaining-got me back into bannerlord after a year hiatus! Please keep it up man great stuff
Entertainment is not my primary focus, but I try very hard to keep it informative.
Smooth indeed it was; great episodes as usual. You really help me get my head around all these mechanics. Keep on the good work. Just wish this series got more visibility. Thanks for continuing.
One of my goals is to make the series informative for people who might want to follow along. :)
You are progressing from video to video in editing, it's really cool :)
Thank you very much for this episode ! In the same way that you committed yourself to finishing this series despite the unfairly low number of views for the quality and the work done, I make a point of watching each episode in its entirety (not forgetting the like or even the share if I have a friend in the area :D)
You have my thanks, kind sir!
Omg let’s go I was actually waiting for this 😁👍🏾
I enjoy this Series very much
O my god so smooth the editing is insanely good
Came back to this series after forgetting about it for a year and watched all of it in one night. Really glad you're deciding to finish it. Truly the series of all time, it feels almost like a DND series with the amount of quality storytelling in it
Really hope that the algorithm gives you some more well deserved attention. Amazing series
Taleworlds should pay you for this type of content......
Thank you very much for the episode.
Honestly this is and always will be one of my favorite series on all of TH-cam !!!
I love it, please keep up the amazing work !
Looove this series never stop posting it
Gotta drop a comment so youtube recommends this good stuff to more folks
Sure hope it'll work. :)
I’ve been watching this whole series as I start my own bannerlord adventure. Sad it’s almost over 😢
Finaly! I was hoping indeed to see the next episode for months!
The memes are too good in this one lol. I tried to play your rock-bottom Challenge once and it was super fun. It is probably already too late but if anyone wants to start it I would have few tips for the beginning. The Aserai desert wastes is the best place where to begin your adventure. It is filled with desert bandits, hideouts, almost no lords ever go that far and all nearby villages sell cheap horses to keep your party speed high. The desert bandits are great for recruiting as you can turn them into cavalery later. And the next tip would be to always raid hideouts. The loot is great for beginning's standards, you lose very few men in the process and usually get lots of prisoners and troops at the end. If you believe yourself always duel the bandit boss because then you get all of the troops that would fight at the end as bonus prisoners. Hope it Helps!
Love the series man. I very much appreciate your story telling, and the time you have spent on the series. Thankyou for the good content.
love these videos, been waiting for this one and haven't been dissapointed
A Interaction for the Interaction God, a Comment for the Comment Throne, for the Almighty Algorithm
And he returns to give us a masterpiece.
Hell Yes!!! Loving this series!!!!
The man, the myth
This series is so good bro
Gus Fring never died he just took over this boys body and now he plays bannerlord.
Love you man
Hope you ar having a good time
The time I am having is... acceptable. As Gus Fring would put it.
and keep this great series going
Series will keep going until we reach a satisfactory ending for Balon. :)
The surprise ending to this series should be Ironside IS the guard in skyrim who took an arrow to the knee.. and these are his stories.
I really hope you never stop this series.
You and I both know that everything must have an end. :)
Bannerlord needs an "ambush" option, where you lie in wait for enemies and then surprise attack them.
Amazing as usual! Keep em coming :) the commentary is awesome!
I love this series.
Great series, been binging it all day!
The man, the myth, the dedication
glad you are a man of your word and balls
Balon the Impaler is my new favorite folk hero.
Best Bannerlord series
comment showing my joy for the series and hopefully helping with the algorithim ;)
This is a great series to watch and i think im going to have to go try my own hand at banditry now.
Just finished the Playlist in 2 days, honestly I don't comment specially in yt but bro, I enjoyed watching/listening to ur series. I hope this comment can help with the algorithm. And btw, I'll be waiting for the next episode. Doesn't matter how long it'll take. I like quality over quantity. Bless
It's already recorded and written. Editing will take another ~5 days, but I probably won't be working until the 2nd or 3rd of January.
Anotha one les gooo
yay i waited so long i love it :D
Waiting for another episode. I hope you finally get your first city and claim a new kingdom 😀
I know the views and likes arent doing well but im enjoying those videos and i know others also do! Please keep going making it or i will have nothing to watch!
The likes are actually going very well, proportional to the number of views... 20% of my viewers take their time to press that button, that's a larger percentage than most youtubers. Seriously, if you go to any other channel, Bannerlord or not, take the number of likes, divide them by the number of views and multiply by 100. I guarantee the result will be under 20%. If I were to guess, I'd say it's 5-15% on average, with very rare exceptions here and there.
But despite the best efforts of our little community, the algorithm just doesn't give a damn. Fortunately, I make videos for people, not a soulless algorithm.
@@Halcylion Good to hear.
Good to see you Hal!
This series is the best
Line about eggs and the word! respect)
let's gooo
This has been very enjoyable.
For the bloody algorithm
A Interaction for the Interaction God, a Comment for the Comment Throne, for the Almighty Algorithm
Such a goated series
I love you halcylion
Commenting so this man gets the attention he deserved
I missed Baelon's adventures
Love this series!
Love this series
i love this series
Love your content dude.
Liked and comment...YT gods heed this man
This deserve more views!
Nice! I didn't know you have to sell some loot to caravan first and then take it back to get roguery skill.
Valleay of Death I see. Watched it you did
I've listened to it again, again, again, again!
Noiiiiiiiice
you are a LEDEND i reeeely look forward to conquring a city
Standard procedure for caravan raids
Or
SP4CR
Fuck I missed it when it first uploaded Dam. Welp it’s only a day late for me to watch I guess
watched all 11 episodes in one day.
Loved it keep on doing this :)
Great vdieo.
I think I remember you saying you don't like playing with mods, since everyone else making videos is doing it. But I think if you did it, with your unique way of creating narratives in the videos, it would actually be different from others still. I think with some overhaul mods, it would bring a more interesting world setting and some more interesting characters. Anyways, just a thought, and I love your videos regardless.
The main reason I'm not playing with mods is because I want to keep up with the latest version of the game as soon as it arrives. Once the game goes stable and steam workshop is enabled, I'll go crazy with mods, especially after they get fleshed out all good and proper. :)
@@Halcylion ah I understand, in that case, I'm looking forward to that while enjoying whatever you put out until then.
When raiding a caravan try not to take any prisoners and let them go free I don’t know if they spawn back in like they used to
thx for vid :) always good
I pressed the button!
Halcylion could you do an Aserai campaign?
I'm sure there's plenty of Aserai campaigns on youtube that are better than whatever I can make. For the foreseeable future, I will not be doing other playthroughs after this one, I'll try to find another video format, or even another game to cover. :)
@@Halcylion Okay 👍 Understood, but In my opinion tho you're one of the best bannerlord players we have on YT.
@@Halcylion A Interaction for the Interaction God, a Comment for the Comment Throne, for the Almighty Algorithm
You're lucky skill-o rhymes with hero
Retroactive truth XD
to help the algorithm
when are you going to make epesode 12
Here’s a comment
Here's a reply.
would you do another bannerlord bandit playthrough with mods or will you move on to other projects
For now, I'll be setting my sights on other projects, but once mods get real good, I might be coming back to Bannerlord for another playthrough.... However, if I do another playthrough, I promise that I will NOT keep it going it unless the episodes get enough views to justify the time investment.
If I followed this principle with Bandit's Ballads, I'd have ended it after episode 5, as I say in the video, only returning to the series when episode 5 got the views it needed.
Either that, or I could do regular "Let's Plays" like other youtubers: minimal effort, maximum frequency. I don't need to impose any requirements on those, since I can just spam the channel with them.
What is the final goal of this series?
Valar Morghulis!
How should I play bannerlord
insp, 20:52
(ignore this, I waws inspired by it)
SMOOOOOOTH xD
Somebody tell me how to play bannerlord
Have you ever tried making a video about the old mount and blade? Or even playing it?
It's vanilla version is worse than bannerlord for the most part. Except that fighting with a 2-H spear or lance is way more fun and practical than bannerlord. It also doesn't have perks, so less attention has to be but on character builds. But, a lot of it's mods are better. Tournaments in particular in any of the major war-band mods is way better than tournaments in bannerlord. more variety. More choices. And in the early game, you could actually choose the weapon you take into normal arena battles.
The Sengoku mod was amazing, set in japan with samurai, archers, and early guns.
Brittainwalda was also really amazing and was set in a divided britain after the fall of rome. With vikings, welsh, saxons, angles, former romans, and druids all arround. It had a really big focus on infantry combat with shield walls, and rarer horses. Which gave it a really interesting but difficult feel. And also a vaguely arthuric vibe in some cases as well.
Although, it seems you mostly do vanilla stuff for bannerlord. So, maybe those wouldn't appeal to you?
I do really appreciate all the depth of the perk system and additional content for realm management for the late game in bannerlord though.
Hey halcylion can't you just retreat from a fight to make sure not all of the caravan members are killed?
If I do, the battle loot (weapons, armor, horses) is forfeit.
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Heck.
You should play the trend and play a game of thrones mod
Won't play any new campaigns until this one is done.
@@Halcylion you were talking about viewer dropping ... That's why I suggested... You can marge this campaign with game of thrones one by taking ballad back to his land to claim the Iron Throne
@@deathtotheEmperor viewership is dropping not because of the lack of interest, but because for some unknown reason, the videos don't get shoved into people's recommendations. I'll have to talk about this in a quick video.
@@Halcylion in every long series viewership across all the youtube channels drops.. There is some text posts that youtube allows which helps a ton..... You should try that and yeah keep up the good work.
And make some related templates...Most of the episode doesn't feel connected by the template.
Is there a list of any mods which you may be using?
My very extensive and overwhelming list of mods includes, but is not limited to: nothing. This is a pure vanilla playthrough. :)
@@Halcylion thanks for the reply. This series is genius, thank you.
Wonder if you have any appetite for the opposite sort of campaign by picking a faction to try and humbly serve till they win?
@@Idleness76 I've never played as a vassal, but I wouldn't completely rule it out.
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