How to Take ANY CASTLE in Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord! 

skull for the skull thronne !!!!

KHORNE FOR THE KHORNE FLAKES

Heretics!!!

VLARGA FOR THE VLARGANS

I smell Heresy...

I cut out the parts covering siege preparations and tactics for time, for ballistas you’ll want to build 2-4 onagers and a trebuchet and store them one by one until you have everything built and place the trebuchet first to tank enemy ballista or onager shots then place your onagers to destroy their siege defenses. After you destroy the last one you can attack right away then use this tactic. I believe tier 2 and tier 3 castles have slits in the wall. So if the enemy has archers in their walls it shouldn’t make a difference. Your infantry may be exposed to 2 archer slits but you could use a bow or spear and take them out as they pop out to shoot at your men at the gate. If they have a tier 3 castle with many archers in the walls you can hide your archers until the gate is destroyed and your men form a shield wall in front. The shield wall in front will absorb most arrows for the archers. Most of the time the enemy ai doesn’t use more than 20% of their wall slits to fire.

If yours are up for long enough, they will destroy the defender's siege equipment. Two problems remain though: enemy archers on the walls can still be a pain, and if you're operating a small army, those 1500 will usually be in the field rather than the castle, and coming for you. It's good to see that it's actually possible to prevent your guys putting up ladders now. A generic useful way to take castles/towns at more even numbers is to just immediately run all of your guys to one pair of ladders, where enemy archers manning the other side can't shoot at you. They have height advantage, but you have 2-3x as many shooters for that part of the wall.

I tested that as well, works best if you have a siege tower and can focus everyone on that one side and lure their infantry to the siege tower. You however can’t drag them down the siege towers so will only be able to shoot at their shield wall. Love to see some more tactics being used! Nice find!

@@SpartanIsGaming What I am suggesting is way less effective vs larger garrisons, you definitely need to be more on par with the defenders in unit count and be archer heavy. The main upside is that you can just go immediately after camp though. I think what you're showing in the video can be done w/o offensive siege equipment too by just luring enemies into side-positioned archer fire. Will probably require a lot of retreat/restart siege assaults to get more ammo though, so better for smaller garrison. The killer for me with these tactics so far is when garrison has ~100-200 archers shooting at your guys in a way where the shields aren't reliable. Either I also have a ton of ranged, I have time to make siege equipment, or it's impractical/too many guys get cut to ribbons by militia archers.

Easier tactic is breaking walls down, placing archers relatively close to the walls, destroy archers first, bait infantry out of opening in the wall later. Only used that strat in my Battanian playthrough and it's one of the most broken strategies out there. I'd argue even more broken, than horse archer F1+F3, lmao. Because there always are less archers on the walls than in your party (if you have at least up to 70-100 active archers in the simulation)? so it feels like you're just mowing them down. All arrows they throw at you is simply more arrows for your party to use, lmao. Plus when you retreat (if you get low on arrows) walls doesn't regenerate. Garrison never seems to sally out for some reason, even if they could wreck player party down. Maybe it only works if you have higher tier archers and game has no way to tell that those are archers and would be easily killed by infantry with shields, so it keeps infantry in. ah, BTW, in world map spam onagers first (fire onagers specifically), as soon as they spawn, move them to reserve, then replace them with trebuchet's (again, as soon as they spawn - move them to reserve), when last trebuchet spawns, place all of trebuchets, let them do their thing. If one breaks down, replace with onager. When wall are broken down, along with enemy's siege engines, move all remaining trebuchets to reserve and all of reserve onagers in their place (trebuchets are shit in simulations), and then attack Once you get that strat down, sieges become a joke. It's the main reason why i lost interest in my battanian playthrough and ditched it. Not losing even 1 troop to totally demolishing anything enemy has can become a chore after a while. Though it's incredibly fun at first.

Yeah, it’s quite obvious he cheated Health too

Thanks, i was really needed this shortcut

Thank you

I just tried this and found out that when you park your troops infront of the openings but not let them go in, you can go in solo and the AI won't focus on you. I single handedly slaughtered 500 troops 😂

but thats not fun @@timspiker

@@Ibrahim.l20 How is that not fun? I'm literally the hero king that goes into castles alone and comes out like "hey lads I got them all, I spared your lives" and the empire every time they see me showing up at their castle is like "NO it's that guy again, we're doomed!" I now let armies capture fiefs so that they enter and I can slaughter 1400 troops instantly wiping out their entire force without taking losses. It is most effective against the conspiracy quest. There was no other way to beat 3 empires at once and I single handedly saved my playthrough. Besides I don't have to kill them all. I can walk archers up to the wall and throw it tribuchet at them which wipes out most a good half of them. Every time you run out of ammo, retreat and attack again. It's a lot of fun.

@@timspiker true

Thanks spartan!

Thanks Spartan!

You’ll have to turn off designate command before the battle so F3, F5 (Toggle then transfer after selecting a group 1-9)

RTS command and camera for flying around and more options of attack. Dividing troops and attacking the gate is base game

@@SpartanIsGaming I see, thank you!

RTS Camera in Nexus mods or steam workshop

You can run up to the gate and manually tell your soldiers to attack or use RTS command

@@SpartanIsGaming I know I can do it manually but I don't know how to do it with RTS command

F3 F5 after selecting a group to split them up I believe. RTS camera for the flying camera

I have an even better exploit for exactly that. Destroying a wall takes time and will leave the castle/city weakened until you fix it. But if you do destroy a section of the wall you can actually drag the enemy army out and get them stuck outside the walls for your archers and onagers to shoot if you use the exact steps in this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KmxN9pgG3fc.htmlsi=fwIzS-OpqdiODQWU

They are custom gladiators from my own mod. I have a full series on them!

Troop placement at beginning is in the base game. May not be on console. RTS Camera 1.0.2 is the version I’m using. it’s on steam community and nexus

@@SpartanIsGaming thanks

Ok but fr I made my character be I think an empire and I named him lord farquad

As soon as you finish building a catapult recall it back and do that with each catapault until you have 4 in reserve. Then you can put them all out at the same time and begin the siege, or let them destroy the enemy siege equipment first.

Yeah if you hold LB and then press B they are all in that menu

Thicc SPartan will be back, the devs just have to un break the game version the campaign was on.

Ladders are the worst thing in a siege either use the siege towers or nothing at all , and if you have enough food and time break the walls with onagers and catapults

Bro build siege Towers

Select the unit (1-9) then left click while looking at gate when you get the sword icon.

I Delegate command off then re-place my soldiers down on the battlefield before the battle begins.

The enemy army sallys out if they have 5x the power balance of your army. For this siege battle I originally had around 400 soldiers when I started the siege and disbanded 300 of them when we were ready to attack to make it as hard as possible.

@@SpartanIsGaming maybe this changed because enemy sallies out every time i attack if i dont have at least close to their number of troops

RTS Camera

RTS Camera, RTS Command, Fire Arrows, Eagle Rising, Raise Your Banner, and Improved Garrisons. Turn off “designate command” before battle and shield wall then line formation of they still don’t listen.

1. Technically yes however very difficult to actually hold them 2. No, some repeat designs and layouts 3. Don't know what this is means but you do not start out with anything unless in sandbox mode 4. If you own one then again technically yes however they do not provide much. towns are better 5. Every castle and town has a siege layout and a lord hall, towns have a city layout that you can walk through.

@@teddybeargoalie5135 thanks for replying dude btw what I meant for the 3rd was that like RDR where we have to eat drink sleep etc. In this game do these features exist?

@@ayaanmughal7002 Yeah so you have to buy rations for your army which you can get from villages and towns, sleep isn't a thing. You don't have to own the village or town to buy from it. The only time you really need to wait in a town is if you are married and want to have a kid or if you just want to pass some time.

@@teddybeargoalie5135 does the design of castles towns change with respect to climate and faction?

@Ayaan Mughal They do change depending on culture and season, with snow being added if it's winter in those areas. However, they don't change culture if you conquer it while being different from the current one.

The ruling clan usually will give castles and cities to the most powerful vassals to keep them happy and strong. The ruling clans will either rarely or never give castles or cities to mercenaries.

Switch your units into shield wall then back to line formation. If they are running to the ladders make sure to select all your units and turn off “delegate command” before the battle starts.

Thanks for the fast response. Oh think I didn't make my question clearer, what I meant is: how to set grouping again while in battle? Eg. Splitting grp#1 into 2 smaller groups etc

F3, F5 (Toggle then transfer after selecting a group 1-9)

The Skull Banners/Shields are added in by the Eagle Rising Mod. They are found being used by Dryatia.

lol

RTS Camera on steam or nexus mods

Village? Or town? Villages don't have walls.

@@kjj26k and can't be taken xD

It just depends on your clan power and relations with the king

@@SpartanIsGaming thanks bro

F3 F5

@@SpartanIsGaming thanks

RTS Camera

@@SpartanIsGaming would that be what it's called in keybinds?

@@rangergreen1935 RTS camera in steam workshop or nexus mods for pc

@@SpartanIsGaming sorry for the misunderstanding I thought it was in the base game. Thanks though I was thinking the game would be way easier to command that way

Turn up your battle size limit to 1000 so you can bring all of your troops. Its based on power balance and defenders always spawn with more troops since they are lower tier typically (militia). I had a battle today in life of a gladiator that started as a 500 vs 100 since I was facing all militia with Champion gladiators.

@@SpartanIsGaming thanks brother good to know

RTS Camera

@@SpartanIsGaming mod?

Yes, It is a mod on nexus mods

My own custom gladiator mod

Should be out this week

@@SpartanIsGaming k thx

bit late, but you are supposed to destroy the siege weapons before the battle begins.

@@wyattzer Thx , dw I hadnt really played Bannerlord lately and I am gonna play now with your advice

np, btw, archers can be a pain sometimes.

yup.. but the catapults you can destroy before the fight begins

Only if they have 4-5x the power balance compared to you which is hard to do for castles since they usually have all militia. If the only way the ai can beat you is by leaving their castle walls and facing you on the field that’s a pretty good siege tactic lol.

true lol

@@SpartanIsGaming how did you have all catas and enemy had nothing but also had their walls? i tried to do this in game and all that happened was they kept building siege weapons and kept destroying mine until i just destroyed their walls? I dont understand how to get 4 catas while the enemy has none and also doesnt have broken walls

@@JohnnieKirkegaard94 its slightly cheesy but you can pause as soon as a catapult is built and move to reserve, then repeat for all 4 catapults then pause and put them all back at once and they should destroy siege engines and walls

@@oliashton92 slightly cheesy? ive been doing it not for a little while after watching this video and damn.... it makes the game multitudes easier. I would say it has been more of a cheese effect than even the retreat cheese. before i would have to build and loose at least 10+ siege engines before being able to remove the defending siege engines and even more for walls.... now i build 4 and its instant win

RTS Camera on Steam workshop or nexus mods

RTS Camera for the flying camera

I picked the most beautiful castle I could find so not the most difficult. If I were to pick the most difficult castle it would most likely be a battanian castle for its long bow militia and fian defenders.

The infantry are being covered by the archers in the back and are too close to the gate to be seen easily.

Either from the RTS camera mod or because it’s on pc.

RTS Camera, RTS Command, Fire Arrows, Eagle Rising, Raise Your Banner, and Improved Garrisons

@@SpartanIsGaming Thx

Mod list: RTS Camera, RTS Camera Command, Fire Arrows, Eagle Rising, Raise Your Banner, Improved Garrisons, and Immersive Sergeant.

Yeah just lost a feww gladiators to friendly fire

Only with RTS command which allows you to target formations or by using onagers/trebuchets yourself.

Eagle Rising mod through steam workshop or nexus mods

@@SpartanIsGaming nice thx

Mostly Eagle Rising for the Romans troops

@@SpartanIsGaming thx

Ideally the enemy in their castle would sally out so you can pick them off in the fields using formation tactics. They usually won’t sally out unless they outnumber you 5:1 in terms of power. Normal castles have 200 militia and 100 soldiers so as long as you have more than 60 tier 3 units they won’t sally out. Either way it’s a win for you.

Eagle Rising is the main mod with my own custom gladiators added on.

Castles usually have tier 1-2 walls and I destroyed their ballistas during the siege. 1 trebuchet to tank for 3 onagers and you’ll destroy any siege equipment. Put siege engines in reserve after building until you have 4.

Dryatics are from the Eagle rising Roman mod and gladiators are from my own mod. RTS camera/command is the big one for unit control.

@@SpartanIsGaming Thank you for a quick response bro, amazing that you can create your own mods, i just got into this game and i'd love to mod it, maybe you can share some tutorials with us, thank you

RTS Camera, RTS Command, Fire Arrows, Eagle Rising, Raise Your Banner, and Improved Garrisons

Figured it out go to the last tab, hold lb press b then transfer troops to a blank section or another troop to combine

Defenders are Dryatics from the Eagle Rising Roman mod and the Gladiators are from my own mod.

Eagle Rising mod mixed with my personal mod for the gladiators.