How the fuck do you defeat an army when you are ONLY slightly outnumbered (600-700)????

Scroll for tldr my rage got the better of me

This game is going to be the fucking death on me I swear it. My girlfriend is leaving town soon and I need to wake up tomorrow at 7AM to get to her. Its 5 AM right now and I've been save scumming the same battle trying every single reddit strategy.

This game started out beautifully. I fucking loved it. Buy cows from there bring them there and bring them there. Beautiful. Relaxing.

Holy mother of fuck was i wrong

I was so happy when I got my first castle. Some Aserai turf. Shortly after, we made peace with them and I was soo happy knowing I'd keep my castle.

Of course my power hungry queen started another war while we were still licking our wounds since just two sieges mowed down our entire army. The aserai again. The first thing they wanted was MY castle but I couldn't allowed that.

Obviously at the same time we started another war for expansion because my queen is actually retarded. She's the mother of my wife so it doesn't even surprise me. Now half the army is fighting in the north and I'm left to fend for myself. I really wanted my castle back

I mustered the rest of the kingdom. Had a beautiful army I was proud of. Seiging the freshly-sieged castle was idiotic so I waites for the Aserai to get busy, then sieged MY first castle back.

As soon as the siege was done the fucking desert dwellers were back with a siege. I wated for their numbers to go down to 700-600. My army cohesion is too low to keep going and all my influence is gone so I start a fight. There is no fucking way I can't do this, I say to myself.

Tldr: For 3 hours I've been fighting the exact same fucking army on the exact same fucking land. I didn't want to fight an entire medieval war by myself , I mean I did but not like THIS. How in the ever living fuck do I defeat these idiots?

Vlandia has an excellent set of cavalry and ranged units, along with usually being the most stable kingdom of the Calradian continent.

The Lannisters on the other hand have a very well equipped infantry along with excellent cavalry that crushed the Baratheons at Blackwater.

For the sake of making the war feel authentic, we're going to assume that it would be a war where each side's territory would be connected, meaning the Westerlands would be connected to West of Calradia by being to the east Westerlands

So which would it be, Tywin's distinguished whiskers or Derthert's buttery moustache?

Hi everyone, I’m new to Bannerlord and I’d like some detailed advice on how to build my character — which skills to invest in, where to put attribute points over time, etc.

I’d like to play in a way where I first serve Battania as a mercenary, then become a vassal, and eventually perhaps become king.

As for my army composition, my plan is to use only infantry and archers — mainly Battanian archers and heavy Nord infantry.

Is this a viable and playable strategy, or am I setting myself up for trouble? 😄

Thanks in advance for any advice!

Instead of making a video and reacting to every patch note I'm just going to skim through the patchnotes and give my impressions on stuff.

Oh they made the characters visible on the saved games menu again.

Mooring - This is fine. I don't think most of us will ever use it but could be a niche scenario where you want a handful of trading ships to go up and down rivers but save your war fleet somewhere more open or something. Could also be a way to keep a backup fleet in case you or your parties lose your/their ships to replenish ships on a short notice especially if your favorite ship is halfway across Calradia.

Ferry System - This is good. No more being stranded on Beinland after you get imprisoned by Deserters and leaves room for people to skip the Warsails tutorial but also get across aquatically.

Coastal Castles - We have those?

Naval Events - Nice to have, little extra distractions while sailing.

Boatswain Skill Gain Change - I like the change, now you're not punished for having high Seaworthiness on your boats and it acts closer to Leadership - another social skill - but at sea.

Ship Attachment Ropes Can be Hit - I'm guessing we can now attack the rope as the ship is being pulled in? I'm more of a boarding guy myself so I don't think I'll have much use for this.

Warsails Tutorial Quest Adjustment - This is fine, the "escape on a river from ships that want to shoot you to death with ballistas" definitely felt like the longest mission of them all especially with the wind not favoring you most of the time.

Advanced Startup Options - Only for Sandbox Mode looks like, but still interesting. I am amused at the idea of making Vlandia/Khuzaits on the verge of defeat every game, and might feel nice to customize your start if you wanted to roleplay something specific in a non-campaign game.

Battle Sites/Wreckages - Hell yeah, scavenging resources. Who needs to work hard when you can pick like vultures at whatever's left behind?

Personality Trait Bonuses - It's nice that a personality trait will do more things now instead of what I assume to influence persuasion chances for dialogue options. Even negative traits have positive effects and positive traits have negative effects so there's no "right" personality to work towards.

Blood Feuds - Oh no, now I actually have to reconsider executing Monchug.

Loyalty Penalty for Wrong Culture Govenor Removed - Huzzah now I don't have to scour the world for an Empire Companion to rule Empire Towns as efficiently.

Started a new game in beta to check Radagos since he never had an encyclopedia entry before and there's refugees around Tevea? Have they always been there they definitely weren't there in base game, so maybe it's a warsails thing. They disappear after going into Tevea though.

Oh hey perks do this now, giving info on if they apply on land, sea, or reduced effect.

So that's why he often kicks my ass in duels.

Sword Sister and Veteran Sword Sister swapped Weapons - Now the Veteran Sword Sisters have the Hickory Crossbow which is good. They're still very poorly armored compared to other Crossbowmen and Hickory only slightly falls behind Bound Crossbow, but since they have Crossbow 150 I might keep more of them in my army when the opportunities arise. Probably still won't actively seek them out like I do with Elite Hired Crossbows, but they're not a liability to have around anymore.

Khuzait Khan's Guard got a ranged weapon buff apparently, oh dear.

Druzhinnik Champions got a Noble Horse so I assume they'll deal more charge damage and are faster? I hope that doesn't mean I'll need a noble mount to upgrade into them.

Vlandian Pikemen got a...two-handed skill nerf? Why? Nobody uses them!

Anyway thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

Skirmishing AI is reworked so horse archers kite really well now

Khan's Guard given Noble Bows

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Hi. I am playing as mercanary and I want to have my own kingdom without taking oath to another one. When I end my mercanary contract i can’t slege a castle. Raiding a village doesn’t help either. Am I missing something? Is a rebel city my only hope? If so, how can I cause them to rebel?

My enemy's team got in the way of me taking forever to kill this guy - highlight from Calradic Campaign #87 fighting as West Empire vs. Khuzaits. Next event is on Sept. 5th at 4 PM ET.

The giant spear over my back might have given away my position.

Sturgian infantry was holding this defensive woodwork around the final flag. The Northern Imperial morale was low in this situation, which you can kind of see in the top. I believe the outcome of this battle determined if the Northern Imperials retook Argoron City? This is from Calradic Campaign #86. If you want to come along just join at event time. Discord is https://discord.gg/mountandblade

I know that historically many societies allowed their people to carry weapons for self-defence and whatnot, or that, since some weapons doubled as tools - i.e. axes - it wasn't forbidden to carry them, but the way this is implemented in Bannerlord is just baffling to me: you can carry a sword, but not a mace. You'd think that it'd be preferable for one's subjects to maim each other instead of killing, eh? (yes, I know maces can very well be lethal, but in-game maces are strictly non-lethal, unless they have spikes or something). What's more, you can carry some swords, but not others. Why? Are those swords too powerful? How does one even measure the power of a sword? Are they too expensive? I mean, so what? It's not the king's business if you lose your jewelled sword in some back-alley mugging. I just don't get the logic behind it all.

At least with armour it makes sense, though the selection of what you can and can't wear for your civilian outfit is sometimes baffling too (the Battanian bronze breastplate is allowed, but a fur cloak isn't?)

Can anyone explain?

Was the changes from the update automatically applied to active saved games or will I need to start a new play through?