Battania Only World Conquest Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord Guide 

“To me she’s priceless, but to him she’s worth 52000 denars” 💀😂

F for each brave companion who fell in battle. The Great Battan will not forget you!

5:51 it is indeed possible to know how strong a kingdom is, its in the encyclopedia in the kingdoms tab but not on one specific kingdom, then you sort for strength and now you know how much total garrison and army strength the enemy has without the kingdom tab.

God, that companion attrition rate was insane!!! I don’t think even a fraction that many died in your previous vid

Watched this and subbed because you have a wonderful pacing in your narrative, you speak clearly, concisely and in an educated manner. Also I too played as Battania and equipped the long bow not realizing that it could not be fired from horseback without the perk I thought it was broken for far longer than you appear to though I did not realize it until I had traveled all the way to Aserai lands it was very embarrassing.

3:20 "To me she's priceless, but to him she's worth 52k denars" 😅🤣

Also, the fact that it takes lesser to conquer Calradia than it takes your children to come to age its incredible.

1.2's new kingdom destruction mechanic should make these easier to to do

Your bow didnt bug out, itsa longbow, cant use on horseback, you need riding 200 for the trait. Also, elite units spawn only in castle villages, so frewuent them for replenishment, or use Improved Garrison mod, which you can set up to recruit what you want as garrison forces into your towns and castles, Once you have that, you can just return to your place, grab the recruited forces, and it will start recruiting the same again.

Damn, can't believe I missed this in my feed. Time to be glued to my computer for the next 40 or so minutes.

This is literally how I roleplay everytime lol. I suck too so not doing it for the fun of a challenge 😂

2:24 Ever since I started naming my main characters Breadan I see Battanian npcs with that name everywhere; now I see they're even showing up in other peoples games! Thank you Taleworlds I guess...

been waiting for this video since the last one. Great video and keep it up!

I know this is an older video of yours, but I can’t stop coming back to this series! You have such a wonderful narrating ability with consistent pacing, yet still deliver every moment concisely. You have so much talent lurking here in this channel, I can only imagine how big you’d grow if Bannerlord had a bigger audience. Regardless mate, keep it up, and I’ll keep rewatching all your videos in the meantime :)

Man I love these! I'm pleasantly surprised at the lack of rebellions you faced with same culture-only vassals so that was super cool to see! I think next time, focusing on getting your wife to be a party leader instead of 4 companions will be a good idea, since so many are low-level with a focus on charm and intelligence, although that still depends on who you can manage to marry. Did you manage to get immortal charm? I find that having that perk is huge for setting up and maintaining control but I still found myself having to "joker strat" my own vassals (good natured and fire brand are huge for this) as I can drain my vassals of just enough influence to have them keep their war plans to themselves but still field parties. I look forward to the next installment, I saw Khuzait are in the que and I think that start should be pretty easy since they are weak in sieges as AI. Your clan member death count was insane, I don't think I've ever seen so many going down in a run. Godspeed for the next run may you ride with the Khan's Guard to victory!

Honestly I’d love to see this over a longer period of time, multiple episodes dedicated to your decisions and seeing your thought process throughout. I also believe it would be easier on you for editing, instead of cramming 20+ hours of gameplay into 30 minutes.

Such a cool way you make this, good job! Imagine how many time u spend o this

Needs more views bro this is amazing

Btw, once you have the -100% prisoner escape chance you can simply capture one town and just wait for them to send wave after wave of armies to recapture it. Then, you just defeat them and capture them. Once they are down to a handful of lords you can just steamroll through their fiefs np

I love your style man! Doing a Battanian only playthrough on my channel right now too!

Ayyy this is the content i was always searching for :D using ONLY faction based things

Usually after I wipe a kingdom out I go around and donate all lord prisoners to my vassals before I make peace for big relation gains and sweet sweet influence, again, great vid

Amazing video, felt like I was watching a movie.

Fun fact: Battanian Fian Champion are the best archers in bannerlord 2, due to their high power, good armour and weapons and they have the most arrows and range in the game (if you don't count crossbowmen)

How did the other neighbouring kingdoms not declare war on you in a dogpile? When I've tried going independent kingdoms such as Khuzait will declare war and travel across the entire continent to take a piece of me.

Great video, well edited and good commentary

That's why I don't play with companion death on. They drop like flies, but take so long to level...

28:11 xD "princess turns eleven and as a present we declare war on the northern empire" hahahaha

This man lost companions quicker than I lost hope for Vlandia.

14:34 you probably know this but you can also use "tribesman throwing daggers." they give the same as "Pugio" just 1 more iron instead of crude iron

Amazing video again Bim

I was confused why you equipped that bow, glad you realized why you couldn't use it; I had the same experience but with a crossbow. Battania isn't bad unless the computer is playing them, they're just surrounded and since they aren't in Warband, I'm guessing that's intentional. I'm also doing Battania but I'm using Valandian cavalry because holy shit does Battania have terrible cavalry. I'm also executing all the men from any faction that isn't from the north because then they have to marry my clan to survive.

Great video! I love the story!

For a new player I have no idea what you said and I watched you video 7 times

1:10 the game wasn't glitched it was working as intended, long bows cant be used on horse back unless you have a perk to do so (saying it before watching the rest of the video, now I saw it haha) (⁠^⁠～⁠^⁠;⁠)⁠ゞ

holy moly. you made this video so damn good!! i am at minute 8 and hyped for the rest haha

Battania only actually works really well, Fian champions are arguably the best unit in the game

I have found that you can actually combat warmongering clans by doing what I like to call "Shadow Ruling", while using the 175 charm perk "Good Natured" (you get 100% of the influence back you spent on a kingdom decision if it fails). Basically you "Abdicate" the throne and then blow through the other lords' influence by repeatedly making proposals they oppose (they will spend max influence every time). Once they have wasted all of their influence you can make whatever kingdom decisions you want bc they will not have influence to oppose you, allowing you to "rule from the shadows". (You do need to wear down their influence fairly regularly, however).

Bro how'd you reach trade 125? w/ only 1 focus point? how many attribute points did you put on?

How is it possible to win so many battles outnumbed, would really like to know (i struggle with things like sieges all the time)

After seeing how you misclicked on disguise yourself to enter the castle button instead of besieging it, I really think talewords should make an improvement here on the UI and perhaps either move that option further apart or add a secondary pop up when you choose it, asking you if you are sure or not. I would simply abandon the run if that happened to me.

Amazing video lad!

This is my second ever real go at content creating so please do let me know what you think! (Because I actually have no idea what I’m doing) This isn’t what I do full-time and it takes me a very long time to make so if you want to be part of the discord community and stay up to date between videos please do join us and say hello! discord.gg/4gABdj2YQ8 Thanks for watching everyone!

Wow, I'm surprised you've never before realized that longbows couldn't be used horseback. Heavy crossbows and pikes are similarly restricted, and originally so were the really big shields (though I haven't noticed that lately, which could be due to playing with RBM). I guess you just aren't used to checking your equipment properties. Still waiting on a perk that lets you use pikes on horseback, since they're now the only type of equipment that doesn't have one ... but considering I can make a polearm with over 300 reach and that's nearly as long as the biggest pikes in the base game, it's not too much of a problem. If you struggle to raise scouting levels quickly, you should consider running around solo or with a small, fast party while at war with a major faction. Armies will zero in on you but can never catch you, so you can lead them around in circles for days getting tons of scouting xp while they waste time until their armies collapse and in some cases start to starve. TONS of xp to level on that even an untrained scout can pick up, and potentially easy noble kills if they aren't smart enough to resupply. Another tip for culture-only runs, every bandit unit in the base game except for looters can become either the normal or noble units of a faction (looters only act as standard recruits, as they have no bandit upgrades). Forest bandits become Fians, Sea Raiders Druzhnikk, etc. Get yourself 150 in roguery, leadership, and steward (to donate gear for xp) and you can recruit hundreds of top tier noble units very quickly, from a wider area than you can recruit troops directly for that faction. Btw, if you haven't seen Strat Gaming's channels, you may want to check him out. Some of the best bannerlord tactics guides I've ever seen, with a lot of testing to find out what works. He has a favorite tactic for whittling down an enemy kingdom in the beginning of a war. He'll conquer a castle and leave it with a weak or nonexistent garrison, relying on free militia to defend it, and keeping his forces nearby, but not inside. The weak garrison will attract every enemy lord in the war, which he can run around picking off one by one to hold forever, or if they arrive in armies, he'll let them siege until their army is weaker (since autocalc sieges are always skewed toward the defenders) and then hit them before they can finish the siege. My personal take on this tactic is that you should set up one city as a fortress with a large garrison and a skilled governor, ideally with the prisoner perks from Riding, Roguery, and Engineering (totally 90% less prisoner escape) and some defensive perks, including anything that cuts the cost of garrisons and extends food stockpiles during a siege as the AI seems to love starving out garrisons. That should be your main base where you can dump prisoners and loot/troops beyond what you need so that you can stay mobile. The castle should be governed by someone with as many +militia and +loyalty perks as possible, and then you can pull them out before a siege begins, or give them some defensive perks as well and let them try to hold it. Then you can hold all nobles in your personal party to guarantee they stay until the war is basically done, and dump them into your stronghold once it's basically over. Use only your own clan parties to form armies and let any recruited nobles seek out and destroy any rising lords from fallen factions, making sure to give them concentrated territory so they won't have divided attention. And if you want to do more of these culture-only runs and are okay with mods, I would highly recommend the mod Distinguished Service, which allows normal units that do well in battle to be upgraded into companions with appropriate skills and gear. This mod also gives two chances to pick additional training for these new companions, which can net you an instant medic, engineer, scout, or quartermaster, or give a head-start on training a party leader or governor. EZ-mode, pick the same training in both menus and you can end up with skills over 300 (I once got lucky with an engineer at 400 skill, which is the max level I set in XPtweaks), or you can only divide training choices to limit yourself.

Fantastic😮

I get rekt by the Scandinavian muddy tuckers everytime

Such a good video

I really like the idea of this video, great content bro.

also, as a king let's say, i'd love for us to be able to tell other armies where to go, just give us some way to control them so they arent completely useless :/

Can't wait until Bannerlord gets a Pendor-like mod(if not PoP itself). The potential!

Princess MoJiwa was my favourite... 😂

Great video again

love the vid man

make sure to grab the tribesman daggers those can come in like 40 stacks pretty often

Do the Empire next

25:08 "british man captured in eastern territory disguised as a local despite being obviously white" walking in the footsteps of lawrence of arabia

Princess has turned 11 and as a present we declare war on the northern empire 😅 lmao

I do think you should try a bandit only playthrough at some point there fun :3

great work!

Love to see a Khuzait one next!

I like using plugins for smithing, but I found that eastern highland daggers are better considering they are basically the same, but come in larger quantities.

This was my first playthrough, fian spam, our arrows blocked out the sun.

I know this video is older, but what is your build? I heard some of it, but it would be great to see it all in one place.

Do you have vids on how to controle and manage town/castles/empires? Thats usually where I struggle a lot. Good video! Enjoyed it :)

I want to follow the equipment rule in this, is there any easy way to tell where equipment is from? Some are obvious but surely if I see something I like, I don't have to go mouse over every item in every troop in the tree to check right????

Whenever I play and take a castle/town all the enemies declare war. Then multiple armies come. Usually beat first but can’t beat them all. How do you make it that all the enemies do not attack you?

Nice Video. Do you have a character creation guide for this playthrough? There's not much too see in your short pics from your build. Looking forward to your answer. Have a nice day.

10/10!

Great video! Thank you for the entertainment

Fun video. Shout-out to Oros.

Oh hey. Remember that Bannerlord was a game?

Question, how do you prevent rebels from taking over settlements? Im pretty new to the game and after taking a Southern Sturgian town it fell to rebels and I got absolutely wiped by the Sturgians who declared war soon after. (My imperial overlords were stuck dying in Aserai, yay.)

Author are companions really dead or is that you showed mercy once you captured town? As I have seen similar thing happen to me when my cruel companion left when I decided not to pillage or devastate the city

This is awesome dude, nice job

Dude. You are awesome. Inspired!

Good vid man! Good narrating and story

Imagine being the guard who got paid just short of half a million to release you. Honestly, if it were me i'd just take that money, buy an island and fuck off for the rest of history, living in wealth and peace.

Ive losed my saved game and i had 115 with castle and had 60k with 3 companions and married vlandian daughter but now i losed it how to get it back i tried everything

cool

Battanians are the ultimate fantasy race for a West Virginian

07:00, I wish I could see taking over castle with 2x defenders... lol

Ah yes, Taleworlds math working as intended I see. I mean, it's only been 3 years since the Early Access and 1 year since the full release, you can't possibly expect them to patch janky AI nonsense like paying 10000 denars a day for a peace deal with a kingdom that has 0 holdings, nowhere near your combat strength and has been losing handily the entire time. Or such genius tactical decisions as lords incessantly pushing for waging 5 wars at once with enemies that don't have anything left but troops.

this is a good video :D love the pacing, how long did it take gameplay wise?

At 0:46, a long bow can not be used on horse back

I got one for you, mercenary units only, Vlandia as background.

why not execute not battanian nobles instead of taking them as prisoners?

26:42 💀💀 happens to the best of us

Top Tip. You can't use a longbow on a horse.

My issue with Battania was they are so central, any teritory gained one direction gets eaten up in the other direction

I was kinda hyped to get Bannerlord at some point soon, and while I still will, this kinda gives me no hope of achieving victory. Is there a way to permanently remove the other factions so they can't come back or will they always return eventually? I'm kinda hoping that you were just ignoring the last remnants of them to focus on conquering the map.

This was mental!

YES BROTHER

you can use the ecyclopidia to see power of king doms

how can i get to know all heros in the encyklopedia

You only have 5 videos and 1200 subs. That is insane for the production quality! Are you a streamer or something? Is this a second channel?

i need to know some tips to winning fights with way less troops

how do you do 100v500 battles with only 15 casualties? must be insane cheese, probably why you film no combat

The game is not bugged, you can only use longbows with the perk for it in the bow skill tree at bow level 225

How do you keep your cities from rebelling

Wildings wildings and more wildings with some Fian championships to top it off