This Is What A REAL RBM Battle Looks Like

Reinforcements walking in from the edge of the map is so much better, they actually seem like reinforcements rather teleporting robots

I remember getting caught by an army with 400 vs my army of 200, and leaving with only like 4 healthy soldiers, and everyone else either dead or wounded. I literally saw soldiers do a kneeling animation in sheer exhaustion

Absolute Bannerlord Pro: "I can't tell who's who!" Imagine a real historical battle now lmfao

My largest battle was roughly 4000 vs 6000. There was a bug that caused Ortysia to have about 400,000 wheat stockpiled. That caused the population to explode. And with a massive population (100,000 citizens) they had a massive garrison of 6000. Due to the obvious financial advantage of owning that city, I gathered ALL of the parties in my entire kingdom, using up almost all of my influence, and then attacked after destroying the wall first. What ensued was a slaughter of proportions that no battle you’ve seen in this game can compare to. Once we breached the walls, I stood my troops on top of the spawn point for the defenders. So every time they spawned, my elite troops just hacked them all to death. This lasted for an hour maybe. Which is a very long battle. In the end we killed 6000 and lost maybe 1000. Eventually the bug was fixed. So the food supply collapsed. The population of the city then collapsed from 100,000k down to 10,000k. My empire controls half the map. But we are constantly at war and so I can’t expand further.

Imagine. You’re in the largest battle of your life, your leader goes down behind enemy lines. You ride off mourning your general as he is surely dead, and some time later you notice the other side is now retreating… towards your front line. Your commander defiantly returns through them returning on horse back to lead the army.

I love these kinds of battles. Not too long ago I had an army of 1900 Khuzaits and Sturgians vs 2300 Vlandians and we cleaned house, but it was a super intense battle. I lost count of how many times the balance of power shifted. At least three times I thought I was going to lose the battle, but we pulled through and still had 1000 men standing with 400 wounded. The Battle of Omor will stand out as one of the biggest/most bloody battles my army has faced in this campaign so far. Next up, "liberate" the Battanians from the Vlandians...

We are just starting. In a few years we might see light siege engines on battles, field fortifications for defending side, even camps of armies on the opposing edges of maps so capturing it may give loot. We might even see feigned retreats like mongols did in history, ambushes by hiding archers (so they do not appear until they decide to shoot) and etc. All of them thanks to modding masters. This game has huge potential.

"they're pushing into Fian's... that's not a winning strategy" are some of the most understated words I've ever heard xD

This is great, I just got the mod yesterday and am already having fun perpetuating more set-piece battles rather than posturing and waiting for the inevitable melee scramble that you usually see in vanilla Bannerlord. The handle-hit mechanic and the armor changes were kind of a shock but I'm really liking it now

My biggest battle was around 1800 vs my 880… I fought with my infantry and kicked my horse away with no intention of fleeing the bloodshed. The battle lasted so long I found myself trying to break past my own ranks just to get a break from battle and save my last bit of HP. So many men yellling and swords clashing that it formed this symphony. Pair it with the dust being kicked up by all the men and horses and the bodies dropping just awesome man. We were completely eliminated, but fought to the very end.

I think I've been playing Bannerlord wrong - this was incredible. Watching this completely changed my way of approaching the game, so thank you for that; having the archers sit behind and up from the infantry, using the cavalry to break up archers and assist when needed, skirmishing the horse archers around. I usually either delegate command or send troops into battles where I outmatch my opponent, but this makes me want to methodically play through each battle. You just exposed a whole new aspect and play style of this game to me - keep it up, I enjoyed every minute! Edit: If you see this, do you have any content on offensive and defensive sieges? Would love to see what strategies you may have, and how this would defer from field combat.

Bravo! Nice battle, from the strategy to the tactics, down to the individual fighting and especially the commentary. Only a few movie battles come to my mind that were as intriguing to watch as this 25 minutes of pure entertainment. Thanks and keep up the good work!

1:13 Bro took down Liena, my respect for Strat 📈📈

Damn that was intense. Following the Hardrada campaign religiously and loving every minute of it, but this battle was next level. Keep up the awesome work Strat!

Brooooo this was an absolute banger of a battle. Well done!!!

I struggle with my band of 66 in eagle rising. The fact you can command this many troops is awesome. Well done.

That bit when you were going to push the scattered enemy line with your jnfantry, then saw the enemy reinforcement line charging your flank.. so harrowing

I always try to place the archers on the incline of the hill, not at the very top, to get them optimal lines of fire. Ideally, the archers in the front line of the formation should be able to shoot over the head of the infantry shield wall.

Amazing battle and your explanations of what you see going on on the battle, said in that calm manner definitely gets my like. Awesome vid!

I find using my horse archers as flanking archers a better use than simply having them circle around. Using infantry as an anchor, you can shoot the enemy from behind. You can also use your melee cavalry as a way to deal with enemy archers, you can even dismount them once they are in the midst of the archers to more effectively clean them up.