I have just finally published my newest playthrough video where my troops and I can ONLY use throwing! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aIqaxMZFklo.html The sequel where I CONQUER Calradia with companions & family! - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gi7EbCO9CgE.html Check out the guide for this on my discord - discord.gg/G4J2feNKVV Have any questions? I challenge each one of y'all to do one such playthrough for yourself! I just started a new one, it's fun but still super hard at the start! Truth be told, the only time I needed to use troops was to fulfill the requirement of having 20 troops for the first quest, but I haven't used them in fights.
hi! im trying to do this, but i cant understand why my party (just me and 3 companions) is super slow, speed 3. we all have horses and no extra burden, i cant even chase 6 looters How is it possible?
@@enduria3478 if you mouse over the summary widget at bottom right (where you see your party size, health, food etc - you may need to expand it for a full view), you will see the various effects on your party speed. You might have too many animals in the party, maybe lame animals, but I am just guessing, and you should find it out for yourself.
Is this modless? This seems like a lot of fun and I’m on Xbox so I’ve been disappointed before with some seemingly modless challenges Edit: I rewatched and realized I missed the line that said “no mods” im blind
@@enduria3478 Hover over the party speed icon on the campain map. It should tell you why it's slow. Maybe you have too many horses or animals in your inventory which gives a punishing "herd" negative party speed effect.
So, kinda like Giustinani's Condotierri in Constantinople? About 20 armored men per gate standing ground to the hundreeds of Ottoman jenizzaries assaulting after each bombardment seems like a close comparison.
I've done this type of campaign once and seeing this video made me want to try it again. It was really fun and I grew very attached to the whole party, so it killed me inside when my save got corrupted and I lost pretty much everything.
Im doing this challange like 100 hours and its really amazing. Im still not bored because game does not enter the same loop after u declare your kingdom. Having like 25 soldiers is not easy so u have to make your decisions well. U cannot just gather an army and conquerer lands like u do in previous campaigns. But i need to say that it takes so much effort and patience for the first 10 years. Killing looters and raiding villages over and over and over again is a bit too boring. But after ur companions and family members reach 200+ at bow and riding everything starts to get fun. If u bored of playing same playthrough like me i definitely recommend this challange.
@@ChristopherHoover-g9o FR I straight up don't get companions until I have atleast 20K, then I bling them up with mid tier gear so they don't die to forest bandits or caravan guards in the early game. In warband I just brought them, they came in a neatly packaged set with skills according to the weapons they had and I let them fight as is. Can't do that with bannerlord because all companions suffer the Jeremus disease of being unconscious unless you give them mid tier armor
I just started Bannerlord and even while using advantageous mods I still have difficulties in the game, seeing your video, what you've done is amazing.
I did this the last time I played, but in a sandbox with no family. Also using the trick of recruiting reset women from the mission of the lost daughter (I don't know if it still works). It's really entertaining, I dedicated myself to transforming them into Fians, I went in to help my allies in sieges and my 10 companions and I killed half of the defending army, I ordered them to charge using their two-handed swords and a terrifying carnage began, literally, Because they had the two-handed sword terror perk, you have an idea of the morale damage caused by 11 characters with that ability, killing unstoppably. If you want a different and entertaining starting suggestion, once played as a mercenary "drill sergeant". I would recruit low-level soldiers, train them, and then donate them to the armies my faction created. I trained sturgia infantry and donated them to the southern empire, it was fun to see my old soldiers win battles for their new masters.
@@omareshaaq3913 Hi Omar, unfortunately in the last patch they corrected it. But if you play the previous patches it will work without problems, search the TW forum "Glitch to get female companions" there I explain the step by step to get female companions, young and with undistributed talents and attributes.
I did this kind of campaign on Warband. 1 of the most fun I ever had because the start was super hard. But at some point its like a switch was flipped and we just started wrecking people. Same kinda set up. I had Bow/arrow/arrow/Heavy morningstar for each of them and they could do it all. Was so much fun to just watch the kill feed every time.
I have done this in the past, one of the most fun playthroughs IMO, in the end game you can make them lords and castles etc but destroying armies with just a handful of troops that upgrade over time is the most fun element.
Awesome. I remember when this game was new, it was sloooow to level up companions. Good to know this has changed; the way you play has been my preferred way too. Looks like I need to reinstall!
I did a Lord of the rings companion only challenge where I was Gimli and I could only have Legolas and Aragorn. I gave them all elite skills and equipment. My goal was to help the "Men of the west" (Vlandia) win lol
Man I am giving this a go, and 3 years into the campaign i have 4 sons and 3 nephews - my sister hasn't even aged up yet! I went straight for a marriage to Abbagai and used the Long Glaive and my Chad ass wife to free my family within the first few months of the game. Its really easy to get the persuasion if you have high atheletics and get Having Going first. Then after you get your brother back, you often get a marriage proposal right after - just accept it, because its so early in the game it will take a million years to afford a wife. Then (although its really painful) just wait till they're both pregnant. I missed out on some juicy raiding for this, but i think its worth it. Now I think im going to kill my brothers wife by having her charge sea raiders naked and get a new one - those noble chicks sure do got nice gear!
I have over 1k hours and this was awesome sir I always wanted to do this but didnt want the stress I thank you believe me when I say I get how hard this was
then I destroyed the southern empire. Landless Rhagaea was pissed and was constantly raiding the villages of my town and castle that used to belong to her. I got frustrating with constantly having to defend those villages that I just gave the fiefs away, and conquered and took a couple of sturgian towns. Then I gave the dragon banner to N. Empire, everyone was attacking them, then I became a mercenary. N.empire got completely destoryed while my newly founded kingdom conquered their very last town. I was indeed 200 moves ahead to destroy what remained of the Empire from within.
This is very similar to my current playthrough (console), I wish I saw these videos before they are edited well and very informative. I currently only have a clan army/ parties but my 700 or so can decimate any faction even when outnumbered. Just wish I chose campaign instead of sandbox. Keep up the good work bruh
Man I remember doing this in vanilla warband but without children obviously and just companions fully geared this seems way more fun and much harder (vanilla warband can be super easy)
it was a lot easier in Warband. I've played warband for thousands of hours and 90% of the time it was just me and the companions. even companion only playthroughs are not that hard, just a bit more time consuming, but also super rewarding. I never cared much about arena (not that it gave items in WB), I was just gathering the guys fighting looters on the way. by the time I got all of them, I was ready to take out out small parties of sea raiders. all you need to do is farm them over and over again until you get everyone in good chainmails and helmets. of course, all horse archers + 2 handed, except Rolf with throwing and Bonduk with crossbow (just for the sake of variety). after that, it's all about leveling up and making money for better and better weapons and horses. once you start beating lords, you farm top tier armor pieces, keeping the best for yourself and passing the restm over. sieging is also way easier in Warband as you can get 50+ kills with the bow yourself and if the rest get another 50, the garrison is already withered down. all it remains is to go to the choke point and maul everyone as you would do in every single siege (you can literally win a castle by yourself, so much easier than in Bannerlord). holding the captured castles is the hard part, especially once you have lots of them, as you can get attacked in multiple places all at once but all you need to do is to ensure you're behind the wall when the big army attacks, tediously kill everyone at the choke point and then, when the enemy is weak, try to capture more castles than you lose.
THX for this Video and all that love in this. Building a big family is much fun with them. 1 Question: Why did u decide to use gleve and not that longer polearms with 200+ range? (may cause to long for close combat?)
I prioritized swing speed. Swing damage wasn't that much lower with a shorter custom glaive. Longer glaives are generally worse on foot, but also harder to get hits while enemy cavalry is stuck right next to your companions/family
the best bow for horse cav is the Noble Bow, not the Noble Long Bow. the difference is that the NB is more accurate, shorter range, faster firing, less damage. at high skill you fire fast with good accuracy and enough damage to 1 shot most people even with lesser damage. you do not need the perk for it either, so you can get +3 per quiver (so 6 with 2) which will more than make up for the lesser damage output. using smithing you can get better glaives, or even go with long axes/swords/maces which can work well on horse back and also do well in a siege on foot. you should try the same thing with smithed legendary weapons and the noble bow instead, they will be even better.
As shown in the video, I did smith custom glaives and swords. Also did axes, but they weren't as good as the custom falx. The damage difference was enough to choose the noble long bow over the noble bow. The noble bow mostly can't one shot targets from decent range, unless they have practically no armor or it was a headshot, while the noble long bow with perks has a higher chance to do so. Besides, i had a few masterwork and balanced noble long bows which buffs not only their damage, but the speed and accuracy, whereas the accuracy on the noble bow is already maxed so a masterwork noble bow wouldn't be as buffed as the masterwork noble long bow. The overall differences between the effectiveness of bow bows are small but the decent damage boost on the noble long bow is what made me choose them, after all, the lower accuracy difference and missile speed wasn't that lower. The main drawback was the speed, which the perks offset that drawback. Oh, and having that perk instead of the extra arrows one was a slight drawback too, but I found my companions being beaten in battle a bit more times than actually running out of arrows, where the noble long bow is more efficient at making each arrow do more damage so it wasn't really a drawback after all.
@@Mr.Chicken i saw that you eventually got around to smithing, though i would recommend starting with smithing as it is a cash cow, especially with companions that you can use their stamina, and it helps to level them up and gets them top notch weapons sooner. 2 handed axes cleave, though it isn't labeled anywhere and it isn't very consistent. falxs are hard to pass up though as the extra damage and length versus axes make them much better for cavalry use, and the extra speed makes them pretty good on foot as well. custom glaives tend to be better cav weapons, especially for the AI, which also makes axes and maces less good comparatively, though maces can be good against high armor opponents, especially on foot. with companions you can keep a stack of weapons and swap them out before battle based on the situation, most of the time you should stick with falx, but a castle full of militia might be better with 2 handed axes on some and 1 handers (or bastard swords) with shields on others. if you are playing a mod that upscales the armor then maces become more important if going against heavily armored infantry. that is a good point with the bows, though the ammo issue is probably due to how you use them as horse archers. early on having them stay in place and shoot is by far better than shooting while circling the enemy. later on it becomes a trade off of damage output versus survivability. since the AI sucks you need to tell them to follow you, then circle the enemy, keeping enough distance to keep them from getting attacked while riding as fast as the slowest companion can ride. this keeps them from getting shot, while also shooting, and the enemy cav will come out to meet you but be unable to catch you, so they turn back getting shot in the back as they do so. this wastes a ton of arrows, hence why more arrows and better accuracy is important. the range isn't super important since you will be at optimal range or closer most of the time anyway. only after you run out of arrows should you tell them to do their own thing, though you could retreat and come back with more arrows. if the enemy has no ranged troops or much cav then splitting into two parties as you stated works wonders, but be sure to have the closer group on hold fire, switching between the two of them as you pull them back to alternate who the enemy charges. overall with super cav it doesn't make a huge difference for optimizing them, it is like the Swadian Knight strategy in M&B1.
Hi, I'm doing something similar to this (no horses, we are all on foot with bows & 2 handed swords) but my companions' movement speed is very low. Almost all of them have 200+ athletics, our armor weights are close to each other but I'm running like 2x faster than them. They are even slower than regular troops. Is there something I'm missing? Also do companions benefit from combat related captain and party leader bonuses?
i'm doing it too, but using mod to marriage and game for kids. I married all "lordy" lord/nobel and take them using marriage to my "family". Now i have all good noble from carein until zuad with total 67 member. Now i'm planing to start my own kingdom with my great great great grandson lol. And my character is 30 yo tho. too op but it's sooo fuun. I beat garios's 357 army troops with my 47 beloved little op family.
Ok so this inspired me to do this but I need more tips honestly I got the gist of it but what I'm struggling with is not knowing exactly what percs made ur men the way they are could u possibly go more into detail about it and give a perc tree show what percs to get in athletics exactly and what polearm skills to grab please ouh and archer tree cause I'm not sure if I even picked the right choice for the first perc
This video inspired me to try this campaign myself, put in 80 hours over the last week. By far the most fun i've had with Mount And Blade. However there was a couple things that really sucked for me. I specked all my focus points and and attributes into medicine and intelligence with the goal of going for the Minister Of Health Perk. That perk gives your troops up to 65 bonus hp when capped out. However to my misfortune the perk doesn't work with companions which i found out when i was already 40ish hours in when i hit 275 medicine. In fact, every perk that gives stats to "troops" doesn't effect companions. To me thats just retarded and I think tale worlds should definitely change that. Another thing, theres a bug in the 1.1.10 where crafted weapons seem to double their weight everytime you load a save. I have to keep recrafting all my weapons every couple days so my guys aren't slow as **** on foot.
Well it would be incredible difficulty. Did my first companions & family only video without the respec mod. I conquered Vlandia & most of battania, but I stopped there.
The video linked in description has almost 2 hours worth of battles, but i couldn't have a video with all battles because that would've taken up more storage than my PC had (at the time at least) and it would've taken days to upload a terabyte of footage let alone render a video with all of them.
Thanks for sharing. Is it worth grinding Smithing to 225 for companions too in order to get the free focus&attribute points from perks, or did you level up smithing on your main only?
Its not worth it to waste focus points and attribute points on smithing on your main character, hire a companion that already has around 80 smithing. It's worth grinding smithing to 275 for the legendary smith perk, so that your custom smithed weapons will have even more swing speed and swing damage which is what you are looking for (length too but perk doesn't buff that) Maybe in the very late game you might want to train your other clan members in smithing for those free non-smithing perks like the free focus and attribute points. It's best to do this in the late game as you have a lot of money where you can easily buy weapons your companions can smelt for EXP. You can also smith custom weapons from your master smither, but i think bought expensive weapons offer more exp per smelt.
@@Mr.Chicken Gotcha, though it seems in Beta 1.10 they've knocked down Ill-starred Smithing skill, and they've also taken away the bonus Throwing focus point from Strong Arms perk, bit sad about that
i tried this as well i had like 17 op companions and one day ... one SAD day.... i open my game and my save is ..... no more.... BUT i did a new one and it's pretty funny you should really try this guys but really takes a long time to make them op really really big long time
Interesting bow choice I gotta say I prefer the noble bow still simply because of the better accuracy and speed, but this again is just my personal preference. I take it you looked for more damage instead?
Yes, and sometimes i also got the masterwork noble long bow which then i believe gives 100 accuracy or close, while the damage is a lot more than the regular noble bow.
Tried it today can't carry any loot coz you have to ditch all the mules etc for speed and when you siege something it takes forever to prepare the sieging equips and you get constantly attacked by parties coz your number of troops is low. How do you deal with that?
The carry capacity thing was only a bother in the early game as you basically have no companions or family, then when you get more you can have more mules. You could always take all loot and travel slowly to the nearest town to sell it, and if a big enemy party is following you and is faster, then just ditch the loot. The siege time thing was very annoying. But pretty much every time a lord sees you, he will attempt to solo you, and if you can win a siege fight you should be able to win a lord fight. This only really becomes a problem if a huge army comes to you, which then you simply abandon siege. You can try to more tactically attack castles and towns that are further away from their other fiefs and armies, like if vlandia was at war with aserai you might be able to get away with sieging a northern vlandian fief or a eastern aserai fief without a huge army closing in on you.
On foot would it have not been better to have everyone wield custom two handed axes for the cleave since you are always out numbered? Also what was your companions weapon composition, were they all wielding the same or did you split up sometimes?
I found that the custom falx is generally better than than two handed axes on foot. Custom glaives can still be good, especially with that perk that gives you 3x headshot damage, which should one shot everything if it's a headshot. Since most battles were on the field, custom glaives generally performed better than custom two handed weapons as glaives have better length and do many headshots while mounted
But for sieges, custom two handed weapons were better, especially with the perk that gives I think 20% extra two handed melee damage if HP is below 50%. I did train all my clan members in all three melee types to get all perks, where some actually gave perks that benefits them outside that melee class. This is why you will see some of my companions with shields, as I was training their one handed.
@@Mr.Chicken wow, I appreciate your response and testing of the weapons. Throughout the last few years the ai changes what its better with and I've lost track. Thinking about getting into playing BL again doing the all companions run.
@@Mr.Chicken so I need to invest more into endurance. That can be a problem with companions though, since they come with weird stats placement. Thanks for replying and congratulations on your content. Really impressive stuff.
@@Mr.Chicken, thank you. I guess you know about this trick: you can get a "reseted" companion with unallocated attributes and skills, do that: Drop a companion from your party and after few game hours another companion is generated, catch the new companion before the morning and voila :) (you don't need the mod for respec).
Increase clan tier and there are a couple perks like the one in charm that increases limit by 1. But the main way you get more clan members is by family members.
@@Alex-em6dz min value is 1. You start with more than 1 based on the options you choose when you start your character. For this playthrough i didnt use the respec mod, but for the conquering calradia with only companions one i did, where in that video some attributes were 0 since i reset them.
I love bannerlord but I wish you could do ambushes, sneak attacks, raids, missions to sabotage enemies, where having a party like this of 20 extremely well trained soilders would be extremely effective. Making them able to hide easier and ambush and hit and run and sneak into camps and poison food supplies. Imagine real game mechanics where you could destroy an army of 2000 with 20 men by constantly raiding and sabotage. Even like a terror gauge for enemies would be cool lol after you've done enough they get debuffs. It's asking for a lot but I can dream.
Dang I got the gear but & the same concept that the khazits have great weapons but the skills for my companions has been kinda geared for governor types but for some I've saved some points for each to put into other things maybe I got a chance to get them Overpowered like your companions well almost but I'm on Xbox series X I can't use the mod to respec them let me know if there's a way to do that on console tho..
If you have money you can go to the Arena master and ask him about training. There you can reset skills of each class for about 3 to 4 grand a pop. For yourself and party members.
Haha looks like fun. Imagine the freaking FAME your clan would have! They would be legendary and all of your companions are the stuff of myth. Technically every kingdom would be sending you piles of gold and fiefs to get your loyalty in hopes you could swing wars in their favor
imagine nowadays history class: "The lands were torn apart by constant wars between the lords. The legend says that the man by the name of Godfrey came and united the realm with his party of 19. Of course its a myth, there is no world where a party of 20 could ever do it, but it is what the records of those times say"
As much as I admire this... I can't believe you dedicated the time and energy into this. I wish I could enjoy Bannerlord on that level- I did with Warband. Excellent work my man.
This is legit. I have do the same playthru. This video edit out the part of all the grinding. So we didn't see the part where he was grinding in arena fights just to gain 250 gold per win and only a tiny amount of xp gained from it. Also grinding up the companions by fighting looters take ages.
