Bannerlord - The ARCHER ONLY EXPERIENCE | Mount and Blade 

*STAYA WAY* More segment challenges coming soon - I've been dying to cover more games and more ground all year - I'll be doing Rimworld (possibly a SeaBlock), made up religions in CK3, and another Factorio Death World of some sort soon - tell me what you'd most want to see! *Winners of the Kenshi keys have been replied to from the last video - though there will be another giveaway for Kenshi soon :)

Alternate Title: playing Bannerlord the way you eventually end up playing it every single time.

“Like that annoying kid that hid behind a car during tag” the range of this man’s philosophical rambles is LIMITLESS

Ambiguousamphibian's house motto should be "Don't touch me, or I'll scream."

Those faces... I want them to stay as far away from my dreams as possible.

Ahhh yes we used rocks, then smelted metal for swords, and finally used those shiny metal swords to sharpen sticks into pointy polearms. I remember seeing the great wooly mammoth hunt pictures in school. The brave cave man and their bastard swords and kite shields

Archer only experience sounds an awful lot like the “4 hours into my first play through” experience.

This guy could play that google browser dinosaur game and I'd still watch.

"Horse Archery OP nerf plz" - Theodosius II, probably.

"What're you doing Stappe Bandit?"

15:26 "we're also rich" (11k gold) clearly you've never sold crafted javelins

A few tips for archer only challenges: Use Battanian Fian Champions, scan the battlefield for hills to place your troops on, spread your troops out to increase the area covered by arrows, and keep infantry units behind ranged units until enemies are close.

For a sec, I thought I was about to rewatch the legend of Hobin Rood.

I love this man's voice and the why he talks

Hey buddy! Unfortunately you can’t take a castle until you’re actually a vassal of a kingdom, which requires clan tier 3, once you hit that then talk to the queen and offer your vassalage, you’ll get a high chance of a castle then since they try to even out the fiefs. Keep it up!

hey man.. love your work, but i kinda miss the continuous series.. the sea ice series in rim world is possibly one of my favorite contents here on youtube

"Oh my God, my parents... They're awful." -Me at therapy

I love Mount & Blade. You playing this is right in line imo. Keep it up!

0:44 _"Therefore, today, we undertake a strategy that will make you say, 'No one will ever touch me.' Of course, I mean, everyone in our warband wields a bow."_ Joke's on you, I've already mastered the art of being completely untouchable, and it involves zero bows, and a whole lot of collecting and displaying sexy anime figurines all over my room.

I’m sure any army would BOW down to yours, Archery Army 🏹

"I need a voice that can intimidate" It startled my cat so it worked lol.

Love your videos on mount and blade. It's very nice that you uploaded another one.

For a minute I zoned out and went - huh not a single joke about tea, Spiffing Brit has changed :D

"Warfare has always involved hitting people." Words of the most wise one.

Love mount and blade with AA's narration style. Makes for great content every time. You're great bro keep it coming

Great videos as always, id definitely watch more of this gameplay. Keep up the great content!

Awesome to see more of this game!! Would love to see more challenges like this or maybe another cool weird Rimworld save. Thanks for the great content AA!

How about a merchant playthrough? Going from city to city finding the most profitable items and becoming the richest man in the world?

Just started rewatching Mount and Blade playthroughs randomly again too, great timing

Mount and Blade is a surprisingly nice game to watch I wouldn't mind a more long-form playthrough, either with a challenge aspect or just a normal (or modded) playthrough Though challenge series are also super fun too!

God I've been missing Mount and Blade Bannerlord content. I'm happy you picked it back up, it's awesome!

I just started playing this and I can say without a doubt it’s easier to be an archer on a horse than to be literally anything else. Awful for hideout raids but ultimately worth it 🤷🏻‍♀️

To get a castle in Bannerlord you need to be a vassal of a Kingdom not a mercenary and then you will be able to participate in voting on who get a castle, most likely you will win because you dont have any.

13:03 You missed a perfect opportunity to say "I have the high ground."

I love how you say hello at the start of every video

This is one of the strats I used in Warband. Everyone would be in the same archer crew, with the exception of companions who were mounted. A few melee guys mixed in with the archers, but not more than 10%. Just a few mixed melee units, particularly spears. Battle starts: archers moved to best high ground they can get to and remain on in time. If cavalry are coming at us, stand closer. If not, maybe stand apart. Depends on enemy charge. After that: cavalry follows me. We wait for our archers to start unloading on them, then we just sweep by them in the front of the line, causing a portion to chase us. We drag them to the right or left of our front line, within archer fire. After that: cavalry, charge. Make sure they don't get clumped up, let them charge when they're in the open, otherwise they just get themselves hurt. Once we've cleaned up most of battlefield, archers are free to charge and shoot down fleeing opponents.

in the original, im pretty sure you had to swear allegiance to the ruler in order to hold property for that empire, you would be given a Ummm "starter town", looking forward to these, I was wondering how this game was coming along

We love you, you magnificent Amphibian of Ambiguity!

I really enjoy your episodic videos, so please don't abandon that format!

Amazing video, amazing editing, love it.

“What are you doing Stepp-bandit?”

Vlandian sharpshooters only...... seeing 250 of them mow down a group of horse archers is one of life's simple pleasures.

I always love the mount and blade content!

The video structure reminds me a lot of how The Spiffing Brit structures his. Was enjoyable to watch.

No idea if you have done it but a Underrail playthrough from you with the concise editing and commentary would be amazing.

It would be cool if you did another short series of this

I absolutely love ranged and Tournaments in this game I saw the title and watched it... I soon remembered I watched it a week ago then continued to finish it. I enjoyed it again lol.

Great vid. Definitely interested in more

I did this without ever considering it a challenge run. The power of bows and crossbows are terrifying. I used to do this with the Rhodoks in warband all the time.

This is the spiffing brit if he drank coffee

Gotta see more! That was awesome

Made my night seeing you uploaded. Cheers to ya.

Just discovered your channel, getting some Sseth vibes and I can dig it. cool videos pimp

Please do more of these, of any videos, your commentary makes the videos 1000% times better like the moon walking dude lol

I have Onica Castle in my current play through. I was the buffer between the Western and Southern empire, and the Empress keeps trying to break down my door. I have defended from like 20 seiges at this point in that castle. I approve this spot for keeping the enemy away.

Hell yeah. I've never been interested in this game series, but watching you play has made me reconsider. If you wanna make more episodes, I'll watch 'em.

Definitely interested in more M&B content delivered in the amphibian's soothing voice.

Watching your videos is like speed running church 🙏🏻

Id love to see more! To get a castle you either need to be a vassal, not just a mercenary. Or you can take it bott yourself (i think)

More of this series would be great

Thanks ambiguousamphibian. Very cool

here's me 1 am in the MORNING after watching invincible good show btw

Definitely post some more mount and blade I love that

I would recommend a blacksmithing video. You can do some absurd things like making 100k plus value two handed swords at low level and making harpoons that sell for 250k+ out of wood and crappy metal. Once you have as much money as you want the high value weapons make great gifts to lords.

Well, I Never knew violence could be so entertaining.

Thank u for reminding about this game!

You get around shields by using horse archers. Just f1 f2 and give your enemy formation a wide berth. Make sure your circle counter clockwise. Retreat your forces when your boys run out of arrows. Sturgians gave me the most trouble, but I was able to destroy an army of 600 with my 120 khans guards.

1:40 COME ON I WAS SO CLOSE

This was great! Please more Mount and Blade.

"Warfare has always involved hitting people" Ah yes, indeed. I do concur indubitably.

I know it's a year old video and a lot of people probably know this already but this is actually how you cheese through the game. Get only archers and then destroy even the most organized armies even when they have cav. Get into a fight then run when they get close. I have no idea if they've patched this tactic tho since I haven't played bannerlord in such a long time. I don't even know why this is in my recommendation but it was an entertaining watch.

Staya way. Father and occasional abuser of Goa Way, the mad musket-hermit of the dark mountains

"then we got bows, the longest of all weapons" *The sling will remember this*

Absolutely love the videos!!!

You can't mooch a castle while a mercenary. You only get a free castle if you are sworn to them or if you take it without anyone while not serving anyone.

I have been binge watching your Rimworld content, now expanding to other content. Can I just say your voice and intellect are as good as your content? Of course I can say it and I do. :)

This was really entertaining. The sassy commenting mixing forced enthusiasm with roasting the game engine was gold.

to remove 1/10th of your enemies army without taking a single lost is known as decimation

"... a shield wall of peasants." About spat out my coffee lmao.

Me: Sneezes Ambiguousamphibian: 00:03:09 Me: "Thank you... oh wait."

5:10 what are you doing step bandit

love these weird challenges :)

Your videos feel like a fever dream and make me evade my actual fever dreams

"Why would you retreat into the enemy?" The Imperial Commissar would like to know your location.

More of this please. I really want more bannerlord from you.

I need more of this

While sieging a castle and using a bow, along the wall where the NPC archers spawn are large containers holding arrows (12:55 to the left of your character is this object) and if you interact with it you will resupply your arrows, and I believe it also refills spears. I think there is also some barricades outside the castle that spawn with this resupply, or you can literally pick up arrows NPC's have fired and use them, even taking them out of alive and dead NPC's. I am not even joking about this.

You don’t need to capture steppe bandits, just get regular Khuzait recruits (or aserai) and train them into horse archers. You need to buy them horses but it’s far easier in bulk than steppe bandits.

I seriously couldn't stop laughing for 16 minutes, thank you for the entertainment man. Keep it up!

This video is awesome! Have you thought about doing Bannerlord solo and seeing how far you can get?

Id like the prisoner only series to continue that one seemed like you had the most fun lol

would love to see more!

i really love the video that this man makes

This was good, I liked this. Factorio death world was also quite pleasing.

I definitely want to see more mount and blade :)

Love your videos

I always played Warband like this. Maybe not as many archers, but a lot!

This is why I go crazy on battania archers they are the best archers in the game and when you upgrade to the fian champions they don't just have high level bow skill and 2 quivers but a 2 handed sword and a high 2 handed skill making them have the ability to block out the sun with arrows but will cut down the enemy like any infantryman

5 Days is much too long a time of a wait, the feeling of an eternity between true enjoyment.

as a Turkish guy which is quaranteened for over two weeks that's exactly what i needed to get my mental health recover. THANKS 🙃