Those other channels tell you to make your main character a charming, genius battle commander. Here, we tell you to make your main character a bloodthirsty killing machine. We have a much more sophisticated approach to bannerlord. Can't argue with that! You just got a new sub
Love it! Let's grab our twohanded axes, dash some brains out, then we'll talk strategy after the enemy is mangled before our feet lol (and welcome aboard)
Good to know that i am not the only one playing long campaigns. My wife (Ira) popped out 7 children, my brothers wife 6 with a twin. I also do alot of roleplaying. It makes the game so much fun. I dont want to go in long detail, but i made an imperial character, who's clan was betrayed and most were murdered by the Empire, i ended up on a battanian farm with my brother, cold, hungry and full of dispair. The farmers wife gave us shelter and food and set up a meeting with Caladog. Now the Empire is dead, i am the wealthiest and most influential clan in the kingdom. Epicrotea is also my capital i also own Lageta, Rhotea, Arogon, Omor in Sturgia and 2 other imperial cities with some of the castles surrounding them. And they are a major income. I also have conquered Calradia with my own kingdom. I just always come back to this game. I play on ps5 so unfortunally i dont have any fun mods. I tried the cheats in a Khuzait campaign, but with cheats the game was not really fun. Keep up the good content.
If you run RBM, download a mod called Better Pikes…it makes troops with spears actually good. One of my favorite tactics is to put one thin infantry line in shield wall to slow down the cav charge followed by a line of spear men to chew the horsemen to bits.
The next time I run and narrate a huge RBM battle, I'll do so. Hopefully I get a few practice tries in so I actually know what I am talking about, but you're like the fifth guy to rave about this mod. I love the tactical insight too, you'd be surprised how many tactics I've picked up just from you guys out there commenting. Danke!
@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions I dislike the RBM combat module and run Warbandlord for the combat damage aspect. It also allows you to run other mods normally w/o having to patch everything for RBM or not be able to play with mods that do not have an RBM patch. But I consider the RBM AI module, Warbandlord, and Better Pikes to be essential mods I wouldn’t want to play without.
guess this can be called a series of strategy. Theres only a couple of channels where i like the videos before i watch them. this channel is one of them, because i know i will be entertained
You honor me friend, thank you! This series can indeed be seen as a strategy series but it's comprehensive. For newer players, I recommend the ENTIRE playlist of 10 videos because I think there is a wide array of information necessary to really crush it at everything from campaign strategy, logistics, companion build and loadout, city management and so much more.
Dude PLEASE keep making the videos they are super interesting. I would love to see you take on some recreated historic battles, think that would be a fun video to watch. Hope it keeps being fun for you
On one of my campaigns I made all of my clans wives heavy cav. The transition was pretty easy since most nobles have at least 100 riding. They were so much more valuable then I expected them to be! On my current campaign all of the companions and wives are archers, similar to fians, while the sons are skirmishers.
I love it - and this is what I usually end up doing as well. Almost ALL companions have some value, as long as they are specialized, even with women with 100 riding, once put into nice armor and given a strong horse are level 25+ in a few years just by trampling and spearing guys in battle. You know me too - I PREFER archers and skirmishers to cav, maybe because it's more visceral combat on the ground, but also because I think they are more versatile for a wider variety of situations.
Have you noticed a difference giving your companion cavalry units swinging polearms vs lances? I tend to want to do this since I kill so many more enemies with a swinging polearm, but I'm not sure if that applies to the AI.
Generally I like them to have swingable polearms, yes, but there's also some decent kills by them with spears. I've never done deep testing(in the future I may), but I know with the RIGHT length polearm(and 250+ skill), they become quite lethal...
I love this stuff and would pore over all this info to improve my own companions. I recently respect my own companions to make more effective commanders. It took time, effort, pen and paper and a lot of pondering and beer... maybe a whisky or two, too. I loved every long-winded minute, and I think they boost their troops' stats and the armies' overall lethality. All the kids and wives are squires on horses with polearms, lances, etc. Doviding Company flags/banners is still being worked out.
Glad you decided to start sharing your experience and making vids as they are great entertainment as well as informative. Only thing I would recommend is a better mic or fidling some more with the gains etc. if you already got one. Sometimes like in this one its very static and it does sound like one of those headset mics. Pretty much the only thing to really make your vids stellar since you often mentioned you already got that beast rig of a PC. Keep up the great work, already looking forward to these even though I only just discovered your channel a few days ago.
Thank you for the encouragement and the suggestions! I am still using a headset Mike and it is actually a few hundred dollars upgrade from my previous poor quality one. I'm hoping I can configure The voice meter to smooth it out enough that it produces good quality audio in the future. If not we'll see, though I don't plan on spending a huge amount of money on equipment for the channel especially since I'm not monetized or sponsored. I hope also you, like others check out some of the previous content I've been at work pretty hard the last 6 months though it is a labor of love.
@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions That is very understandable. In case you use OBS for recording, you generally wan't the peak of your voice to be in the yellow and not higher, but you are already at a good level here it sounds like. This I imagine would probably apply to most recording programs. There are some good mics out there not costing a fortune like those mostly mentioned by TH-camrs, streamers etc. I am absolutely trucking through your videos as they are really good and you narrate them very well and as a fellow history buff, I appreciate how you sprinkle historic battles, tactics etc. into the videos from time to time and as your inspiration like the "Peasant Revolt" series. Don't push yourself to hard on pumping out videos all the time, as it shines through how much you enjoy the game, which could be lost if you burn yourself out. Nice steady pace of enjoyment. :) Anyways, its all positive from here, just figured I would mention the mic, as its the only drawback. Also its only on some of the videos it goes static, most are fine. 👍
@@ragnarok6521 I appreciate ALL of this feedback - I'm a brand new youtuber of course, and an old dog to boot, so it's old dog/new trick stuff, but I listen readily, know when I am wrong or making mistakes and try to fix them. I'll take a peek at mics, but do you have any suggestions for a quality, reasonably priced mic? The stream of the videos will slow soon as I get outside more for Summer, but I have a nice cache built up, some 15-20 videos just waiting to be published, but I appreciate the sentiment...(me burning out, and the warning)
I did some challenges for myself as only playing on foot, but this proof to be way harder game then being mounted where you can do something about cavalary. Btw. if you put the Jareeds one more up in the Weapon slot for your Charakter you can compare it with the one you got in your Backpack or Town Trademenu.
Thanks for the tip - and NO question one of the most important reasons to be on horse is to deal with the enemy horseman, ESPECIALLY if you're badly outnumbered, you kinda have to do some work or your troops are going to take a beating. Similarly, it would be nice if enemy horsemen were more lethal, aka horse archers who don't attack with melee unless they are out of ammo, etc.
@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions Tbh I googled that as I was curious but quite apt I feel. I also renamed my kin. Clan banner is a green background with a horizontal black thumbnail/crescent moon which reminds me of an eclipse. This strongly influenced the names given with references to Game of Thrones (book nerd) Echai Eye of the moon ( white scarred eye) Tosuii Dark sister Urdrusiii Thunder hoof Sandoriv Dark sun Mesuv Furiosa Belwasix Black moon Daughter in laws Gunefer,Idruna and Deasore are all Sand sisters. Huuktu ruler of the khuzaits was totally made up but when I Googled that the closest reference is Hutukhtu...a Lamanist dignitary believed to be an incarnation of buddha,specifically the spiritual ruler of Mongolia. True story and spookily coincidental. Those that know GOT will get the references and if you can spot how i remember in what order they were born I salute you.
@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions No mod..on xbox unfortunately.. If you go to the clan page and members there should be a feather beside the name,a quill i guess..click on that and rename there.
Thanks for the feedback. I am learning that both youtube AND the owner of the music I play in the backround will advertise on my videos even without my permission, so we'll see... I may 'partner' up with youtube eventually since I don't need a giant trillion dollar company making all the pennies from each watch.
That's just the charge for everyone command. There are people who joke and others who are SERIOUS that it's the best thing for your army to do... (No it's not lol)
Can you give us a video just walk8ng through your companions. I know you said you didn't want to. This is where a lot of my questions are. Why one handed an not turn all your troops into two handers. Or why have your companions use spears at all. Equip them with swingable polearms. One more two handed swords, or axes. I'm probably over thinking.
@HeadlessHorsemanProductions I've got my companions firing on all cylinders now. I thought that swingable polearms were superior to spears in all regards. I was wrong. I put some good spears on my cav fam or comp. An there kills doubled an tripled. I think watching your companions in the arena, gives major boost to lvls. Also you can judge there agressivness. I think it's majorly beneficial. I got rid of a couple companions for being to cautious. Now I have a barrechest,a loud, the prince,shieldmaiden, a she wolf, the hawk,. I got rid of all my worker companions. As I have specialized family members to do the job. Now it combat focus. I keep hoping to get my companions getting kills like yours. Do you have a mod that makes your companions better at combat. Or adjust there aggressiveness.?
@@swampstyle Nope, not adjust companions behaviors. May be a REAL hard mod to make. I DO agree that CAVALRY companions with spears is fine, they'll rack up some kills but I don't use foot companions and spears. I still like a few governors, especially women since they often lack combat skills, but you do you, mate.
@HeadlessHorsemanProductions That's exactly what I did, with the cav. Spears on cav only. Roger on that. As my kids an grandkids are reaching maturity. I modeled them after your companions loadouts. An so far they don't disappoint. I reckon they gotta bake some more.
You honor me pretty greatly with that comment but I am curious why would you pay for something that's free right now? I understand people subscribing so they see new content but I still don't understand the monetization process. All that said I may start a new campaign this fall and if I do it will probably be streamed somehow someway
I have save scummed this campaign im on countless times trying to kill the wives of my brothers. The 2nd generation of the shitstainian clan is going to have more than 20 members coming in hot, and im making them all shield infantry with double stacks of javelins. Four out of the 20+ will be the scout , engineer , steward , and i’ll be the medic so eventually my troops can have higher hitpoints. The forst generation shield wall is going to be so devistating. Imagine the 3rd generation! IM STOKED!
I LOVE IT brother, very much like my style and nothing like having a huge harem of wives that you can use in battle or as stewards... plus some are nice to look at :) :)
Those other channels tell you to make your main character a charming, genius battle commander. Here, we tell you to make your main character a bloodthirsty killing machine. We have a much more sophisticated approach to bannerlord.
Can't argue with that! You just got a new sub
Love it! Let's grab our twohanded axes, dash some brains out, then we'll talk strategy after the enemy is mangled before our feet lol (and welcome aboard)
Good to know that i am not the only one playing long campaigns. My wife (Ira) popped out 7 children, my brothers wife 6 with a twin. I also do alot of roleplaying. It makes the game so much fun. I dont want to go in long detail, but i made an imperial character, who's clan was betrayed and most were murdered by the Empire, i ended up on a battanian farm with my brother, cold, hungry and full of dispair. The farmers wife gave us shelter and food and set up a meeting with Caladog. Now the Empire is dead, i am the wealthiest and most influential clan in the kingdom. Epicrotea is also my capital i also own Lageta, Rhotea, Arogon, Omor in Sturgia and 2 other imperial cities with some of the castles surrounding them. And they are a major income. I also have conquered Calradia with my own kingdom. I just always come back to this game. I play on ps5 so unfortunally i dont have any fun mods. I tried the cheats in a Khuzait campaign, but with cheats the game was not really fun. Keep up the good content.
If you run RBM, download a mod called Better Pikes…it makes troops with spears actually good. One of my favorite tactics is to put one thin infantry line in shield wall to slow down the cav charge followed by a line of spear men to chew the horsemen to bits.
The next time I run and narrate a huge RBM battle, I'll do so. Hopefully I get a few practice tries in so I actually know what I am talking about, but you're like the fifth guy to rave about this mod. I love the tactical insight too, you'd be surprised how many tactics I've picked up just from you guys out there commenting. Danke!
@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions I dislike the RBM combat module and run Warbandlord for the combat damage aspect. It also allows you to run other mods normally w/o having to patch everything for RBM or not be able to play with mods that do not have an RBM patch. But I consider the RBM AI module, Warbandlord, and Better Pikes to be essential mods I wouldn’t want to play without.
guess this can be called a series of strategy. Theres only a couple of channels where i like the videos before i watch them. this channel is one of them, because i know i will be entertained
You honor me friend, thank you! This series can indeed be seen as a strategy series but it's comprehensive. For newer players, I recommend the ENTIRE playlist of 10 videos because I think there is a wide array of information necessary to really crush it at everything from campaign strategy, logistics, companion build and loadout, city management and so much more.
Fully agree.,consistently great content,commentary and soundtrack.
@@wetworks8 Thanks brothers for the support.
Dude PLEASE keep making the videos they are super interesting. I would love to see you take on some recreated historic battles, think that would be a fun video to watch. Hope it keeps being fun for you
You got it bud. I have some 200 videos on Bannerlord on the channel so don't be afraid to wander and see what you might want...
On one of my campaigns I made all of my clans wives heavy cav. The transition was pretty easy since most nobles have at least 100 riding. They were so much more valuable then I expected them to be! On my current campaign all of the companions and wives are archers, similar to fians, while the sons are skirmishers.
I love it - and this is what I usually end up doing as well. Almost ALL companions have some value, as long as they are specialized, even with women with 100 riding, once put into nice armor and given a strong horse are level 25+ in a few years just by trampling and spearing guys in battle. You know me too - I PREFER archers and skirmishers to cav, maybe because it's more visceral combat on the ground, but also because I think they are more versatile for a wider variety of situations.
Have you noticed a difference giving your companion cavalry units swinging polearms vs lances? I tend to want to do this since I kill so many more enemies with a swinging polearm, but I'm not sure if that applies to the AI.
Generally I like them to have swingable polearms, yes, but there's also some decent kills by them with spears. I've never done deep testing(in the future I may), but I know with the RIGHT length polearm(and 250+ skill), they become quite lethal...
@@HeadlessHorsemanProductionswhat length would you recommend for polearms in companions?
I figured out if you watch your companions compete in the arena the gain a lot of skills.
I love this stuff and would pore over all this info to improve my own companions. I recently respect my own companions to make more effective commanders. It took time, effort, pen and paper and a lot of pondering and beer... maybe a whisky or two, too. I loved every long-winded minute, and I think they boost their troops' stats and the armies' overall lethality. All the kids and wives are squires on horses with polearms, lances, etc. Doviding Company flags/banners is still being worked out.
It's at the heart of the game. The character development, the army strategy, the tactics that put a bow on it.
Glad you decided to start sharing your experience and making vids as they are great entertainment as well as informative. Only thing I would recommend is a better mic or fidling some more with the gains etc. if you already got one. Sometimes like in this one its very static and it does sound like one of those headset mics. Pretty much the only thing to really make your vids stellar since you often mentioned you already got that beast rig of a PC.
Keep up the great work, already looking forward to these even though I only just discovered your channel a few days ago.
Thank you for the encouragement and the suggestions! I am still using a headset Mike and it is actually a few hundred dollars upgrade from my previous poor quality one. I'm hoping I can configure The voice meter to smooth it out enough that it produces good quality audio in the future. If not we'll see, though I don't plan on spending a huge amount of money on equipment for the channel especially since I'm not monetized or sponsored. I hope also you, like others check out some of the previous content I've been at work pretty hard the last 6 months though it is a labor of love.
@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions That is very understandable. In case you use OBS for recording, you generally wan't the peak of your voice to be in the yellow and not higher, but you are already at a good level here it sounds like. This I imagine would probably apply to most recording programs.
There are some good mics out there not costing a fortune like those mostly mentioned by TH-camrs, streamers etc.
I am absolutely trucking through your videos as they are really good and you narrate them very well and as a fellow history buff, I appreciate how you sprinkle historic battles, tactics etc. into the videos from time to time and as your inspiration like the "Peasant Revolt" series.
Don't push yourself to hard on pumping out videos all the time, as it shines through how much you enjoy the game, which could be lost if you burn yourself out. Nice steady pace of enjoyment. :)
Anyways, its all positive from here, just figured I would mention the mic, as its the only drawback. Also its only on some of the videos it goes static, most are fine. 👍
@@ragnarok6521 I appreciate ALL of this feedback - I'm a brand new youtuber of course, and an old dog to boot, so it's old dog/new trick stuff, but I listen readily, know when I am wrong or making mistakes and try to fix them. I'll take a peek at mics, but do you have any suggestions for a quality, reasonably priced mic?
The stream of the videos will slow soon as I get outside more for Summer, but I have a nice cache built up, some 15-20 videos just waiting to be published, but I appreciate the sentiment...(me burning out, and the warning)
@@ragnarok6521 AND I'm flattered and thrilled guys like you are out there with such an appreciation for my craft, it's been fun sharing it!
Thank you brother, needed this
Very glad to help and I appreciate the comments and support.
If you have time can you make a video with character creation advise and campaign start. Thank you for all your videos...excellent job!
Try this series hoss: th-cam.com/video/lgt_S5cfK_8/w-d-xo.html That's the first episode.
I did some challenges for myself as only playing on foot, but this proof to be way harder game then being mounted where you can do something about cavalary.
Btw. if you put the Jareeds one more up in the Weapon slot for your Charakter you can compare it with the one you got in your Backpack or Town Trademenu.
Thanks for the tip - and NO question one of the most important reasons to be on horse is to deal with the enemy horseman, ESPECIALLY if you're badly outnumbered, you kinda have to do some work or your troops are going to take a beating. Similarly, it would be nice if enemy horsemen were more lethal, aka horse archers who don't attack with melee unless they are out of ammo, etc.
great video per usual
Thanks again!
How do you get you're companion's skills so high? I realized that's a pretty generic question but it's incredible to see skills that high.
MASSIVE amounts of battles. Literally 100x most campaigns.
When should you start leveling smithing?
Then is entirely to taste. Early is fine, you can make huge money and elite weapons with it, but you can also skip it haha
Great video
Thank you for your support, mate.
Really liked this video,particulary the character break down.
Dis you know Zuvan is the ancient Iranian God of time and fate?
I do now! That's awesome, I'll have to consider how to reference that in battles and the peasants revolt :) (and thanks!)
@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions Tbh I googled that as I was curious but quite apt I feel.
I also renamed my kin.
Clan banner is a green background with a horizontal black thumbnail/crescent moon which reminds me of an eclipse.
This strongly influenced the names given with references to Game of Thrones (book nerd)
Echai Eye of the moon ( white scarred eye)
Tosuii Dark sister
Urdrusiii Thunder hoof
Sandoriv Dark sun
Mesuv Furiosa
Belwasix Black moon
Daughter in laws Gunefer,Idruna and Deasore are all Sand sisters.
Huuktu ruler of the khuzaits was totally made up but when I Googled that the closest reference is Hutukhtu...a Lamanist dignitary believed to be an incarnation of buddha,specifically the spiritual ruler of Mongolia.
True story and spookily coincidental.
Those that know GOT will get the references and if you can spot how i remember in what order they were born I salute you.
@@wetworks8 How do you name your children? Is there a mod?
Your banner sounds sick and love the RP'ing you're doing...
@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions No mod..on xbox unfortunately..
If you go to the clan page and members there should be a feather beside the name,a quill i guess..click on that and rename there.
Dude if you wanna start adding ads to videos people will still come to watch. Great tactics and great vids!
Thanks for the feedback. I am learning that both youtube AND the owner of the music I play in the backround will advertise on my videos even without my permission, so we'll see... I may 'partner' up with youtube eventually since I don't need a giant trillion dollar company making all the pennies from each watch.
How do you get so much companions?
Great videos❤❤
Very very long campaign, most of these companions are grandchildren of the original character(hence the amount AND the wives).
great video
Or greatest video?
Thanks!
I hope not, there have to be better than this haha!
Can you describe F1 - F3. I play in a PLAY STATION 5 console.
That's just the charge for everyone command. There are people who joke and others who are SERIOUS that it's the best thing for your army to do... (No it's not lol)
@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions Ahh yes...absolutely agree with ya'
Can you give us a video just walk8ng through your companions. I know you said you didn't want to. This is where a lot of my questions are. Why one handed an not turn all your troops into two handers. Or why have your companions use spears at all. Equip them with swingable polearms. One more two handed swords, or axes. I'm probably over thinking.
I have a few if you search for companions. I prefer a mix of one-handed+shield and two-handed guys and always a few polearms mixed in...
@HeadlessHorsemanProductions I've got my companions firing on all cylinders now. I thought that swingable polearms were superior to spears in all regards. I was wrong. I put some good spears on my cav fam or comp. An there kills doubled an tripled. I think watching your companions in the arena, gives major boost to lvls. Also you can judge there agressivness. I think it's majorly beneficial. I got rid of a couple companions for being to cautious. Now I have a barrechest,a loud, the prince,shieldmaiden, a she wolf, the hawk,. I got rid of all my worker companions. As I have specialized family members to do the job. Now it combat focus. I keep hoping to get my companions getting kills like yours. Do you have a mod that makes your companions better at combat. Or adjust there aggressiveness.?
@@swampstyle Nope, not adjust companions behaviors. May be a REAL hard mod to make. I DO agree that CAVALRY companions with spears is fine, they'll rack up some kills but I don't use foot companions and spears. I still like a few governors, especially women since they often lack combat skills, but you do you, mate.
@HeadlessHorsemanProductions That's exactly what I did, with the cav. Spears on cav only. Roger on that. As my kids an grandkids are reaching maturity. I modeled them after your companions loadouts. An so far they don't disappoint. I reckon they gotta bake some more.
I'd watch a twitch livestream of ur campaign and pay for a subscription, could be worth considering
You honor me pretty greatly with that comment but I am curious why would you pay for something that's free right now? I understand people subscribing so they see new content but I still don't understand the monetization process. All that said I may start a new campaign this fall and if I do it will probably be streamed somehow someway
On my way to make poles arms, axes for my nexts sons daughters
F**k yeah, lay waste my brother!
Just confirming we are a bunch of badasses and would Cleveland steamroll other channels
Uhh huh, I think so 😂 Hopefully some day modders of TW let's us fight 500 vs 500 PvP and we can have some GREAT tactical discussions.
@@HeadlessHorsemanProductions that would be epic
I have save scummed this campaign im on countless times trying to kill the wives of my brothers. The 2nd generation of the shitstainian clan is going to have more than 20 members coming in hot, and im making them all shield infantry with double stacks of javelins. Four out of the 20+ will be the scout , engineer , steward , and i’ll be the medic so eventually my troops can have higher hitpoints.
The forst generation shield wall is going to be so devistating. Imagine the 3rd generation! IM STOKED!
I LOVE IT brother, very much like my style and nothing like having a huge harem of wives that you can use in battle or as stewards... plus some are nice to look at :) :)
100 = 1 meter?
That could be too, though a '200' length polearm seems to swing longer than 7 feet (and SHORTER than 16 feet LOL, if it were inches).