Let's Build a Medieval Army - Manor Lords Gameplay 

Invicta actually used to be a Total War channel before we switched to focus on documentaries. I still play in my free time and miss being able to share some of the fun. While the plan is still to focus on docuentaries, I figured you all would appreciate some history themed gameplay every once in a while. In this case, covering Manor Lords is very much warranted : )

You're making me feel old here 😅. I still remember the days when this was - exclusively - a gaming channel. Feels like ages ago. A nice throwback though 😉

Crazy that one guy developed this (outsourcing some aspects) over 7 years or something.

I could imagine some big game mod in this game where you besiege a castle or some city. In essence, the siege did not last one attack as in TW, but several months or even years. During that time, a literal city of invaders could often be built around the castle. Just imagine if you started classically on the map. They began to acquire raw materials, gradually expanding across the map. Surround the city, cut off supplies. Build small fortifications. Skirmish. Build siege machines and dotho be in time pressure before the enemy army comes. Definitely a mod I'd like to play.

This just shows how much, all of us would love to throw money at creative assembly if only they could give us something. It's crazy, there is a real market niche, such a demand and no supply. Manor lords proves it, do a good job and look.. you don't even need marketing, people are happy to do it for you.

I've watched a few youtubers play this game, and almost all of them struggle against the larger enemy forces in the beginning. They failed to go after the bandit camps earlier to make gold to hire mercs, and by the time they realize it, the enemy lord have already wiped all the bandits out. But give this game to someone enthusiastic about medieval history and warfare and you immediately dominate the map, lmao!

I do love the medievalness of how they march a large host into your lands without an open war declared, just out for a heavily armed stroll

I honestly wasnt sure how ready this game would be but im so impressed with what i have seen so far and what is yet to come... there have been many let downs but this looks very, very good. Sure there may be slight bugs etc here and there and there may not be a huge ammount of content on release but its already far surpassed some others and i can only applaud the dev for his endless work. Actually excited about a game for the first time in a long time!

When the modding community can do continent spanning campaigns in different historical eras, this mod might actually be the total war killer. I'm also curious how the finished product will handle the late game campaign when you're focusing on kingdom wide issues and large cities/royal armies etc. It's looking amazing so far.

If Kingdom Deliverance were an RTS game, Manor Lords would be it!

Invicta all up in here using his platform to get early access. All the power to ya 😂

I first saw this game as a preorder on epic games while loading up assassin creed odyssey. Then at like 2am while feeding my newborn I saw legends of total war doing an 8 hour stream. Too long for me. Now I see your most more reasonable length video and I’m blown away. Thank you for doing this. You’ve sealed my interest on this game. I’ll be doing more research on it and will be looking forward to its release.

The video we have all been waiting for

People need to stop comparing this game to Total War. This feels like a modern-day Settlers game more than anything.

I hope to see more of Manor Lords from you! A documentary of life in the medieval period! Love this channel ever since Total War Rome 2!

Happy to see some classic Invicta game footage, but respect also for everything you've built in terms of documentaries! I frequently recommend your channel to friends just entering the sphere of studies of historical warfare 💯

I love you taking your time to take in the building scenes at street level, very immersive!

It's awesome to see a gaming video man! Thanks

this brings back times to the old days when you used to do total war. you know you were the reason i even played total war back then. you gotta start doing more of these videos man

So hyped for this game since I first heard of it like 3 years ago, looks so good even for a early access game and has huge potential to grow in to an amazing game. As you said its a combination between Banish (one of my all time favourite games) and Total War. Also 1 guy developed this over 7 years or something... like wtf. Props to that guy. ps, good to see you show off games again (long time subscriber)

a good throwback to the old days, great vid will be buying this game

Your channel ROCKS!

This game looks perfect for fans of this type of game. Can't wait to play it and see how it does... If the combat/strategy mix is right this will be a hit.... sorely needed in this genere

Looks like a painting in motion. Can't wait to play.

great review/tutorial! thanks

Any old timers here remember when Invicta used to do Rome Total War battles? Damn I feel it now

I cant wait to play this!

Great Video 👍🏻

im also waiting for this game, thank you for an overview!

Oh boy, Oakley HiDef back at it again with the games!

Wouldn't mind seeing more gaming stuff like this.

“We are living in modern times throughout the world and yet are dominated by medieval minds.” ― Eqbal Ahmad,

It would be so cool to eventually upgrade the village into a town and start bulding intricate fortifications to defend it in case of an attack

LET'S GO!! Mordhau character model been used once again!

Thanks for the video I've never played this game before

"The Enemy Is In Sight - Into Battle Men!! Follow The Snail!!" 🐌 ...not too fast lads, I'm right behind you, slow and steady, it'll take me a few days to get there... 😁👍

At first I dismissed it at "before you buy channel." Now you got me interested. Since i love medieval anime

God this game looks so amazing I just cannot wait for this

Looks really fun

Hope they will develop it further ! Looks good

I never expected combat to get to this level by release. Another impressive feat for the developer.

This game looks incredible.

I'm glad he took the time he needed instead of releasing this early and it be incomplete and buggy. I thought I was the only one looking forward to this city builder.

I cannot wait for this game to be fully released, it looks so damn good

War is the gateway to prosperity!?

Do an series of this game! This sounds very interesting 🤔

9:14 That guy in the grey chainmail has got that BDE.

Can't wait when we get a Magics and Dragons Mod for this. From a realistic Medieval game to an indepth DnD City Management game. But rather than being the Adventurers receiving quests. We'll be the ones giving out quests.

So it similarities of a realistic Age of Empires, less Total War. So excited!

Incredible Vibe of an Ingenious Simple Game I Love The Love and Detailing in this What a Great Tact Game Good Art Just a few Changes could Immensely Improve Combat I Say The Endgame should Be about a City State Potentially Independent ofcourse Seem’s Pretty Doable Nice Playthrough

A hugely important part of medieval towns, villages, cities, forts and fortresses of all sizes was waste disposal!!! Where is the midden or waste pit building?! This could effect disease going down with adequate waste disposal (add a rat catcher or something) It could be built up to large drainage ditches or aqueducts eventually or a fire pit or something?!

Thanks

tbh i wish there was a tool system - i.e. your town needs tools to cut limber, shape the logs, plow the fields, etc. which would be expensive. if your tools break, you need new ones. maybe that would be a bit too complicated of a supply system. an in-depth blacksmithing system would be nice too, starting with just a single anvil and a moderate fire to make nails, etc, and having to upgrade the forge or whatever else. but i think a mining system would be required first

🙏❤️ Love from Scotland ❤️🙏

Reminds me of old Invicta

Man Creative Assembly really hit the ball out of the park on this one..

Woa, gameplay? It's been a loong while

Is there any way to play the combat in slow motion in the game, like in Medieval 2?

Miss your rome 2 videos!

This looks like it scratches that Dwarf Fortress / Settlers Vikings itch that I never knew I had

I seen you can go into third person mode. Can you fight alongside you troops?

Cavalryunit is a must

cool

You should totally make this a playthrough! Some different content from this channel would be awsome (not that the content isnt already awsome)

Have you played any Paradox game? like eu4? Imperator, Ck2/3 or Hoi4? if yes which one do you play the most?

I don't know if it's just me thinking it, but isn't Manor Lords strongly similar to Imperium Civitas/Glory of the Roman Empire? It has the same blend of city builder and rts, with very similar mechanics. I don't know if I'm having a Mandela Effect about it but it feels strongly inspired by it

Mmmoooaaaarrrr!!!!

Lord InvictaHistory!

seen this a city simulator will not be enough.

Are you limited to 1 tower? Or can you build many?

It doesn't seem like it'd be difficult to do age of empires combat. Unit walks up to a building - swings a torch at it, and it does damage to the building. Same goes for fighting an enemy unit. The stats would just be numbers interacting with each other. Armies are at most in the hundreds like in age of empires, rather than thousands like in total war, so it seems... simple. No need for the kind of abstraction this game seems to deal in. Pathing is complicated in any RTS, but I think roads kind of solve a lot of that - armies usually travel on roads. They could slow down and stall up or get confused off road, which would be fine - because roads are everywhere and lead into other lands. Off road could be accounted for to some extent to allow ambushing and skirmishing, and that sort of thing. That way, small unit groupings would move better off road, but other units could go to sleep if they're left alone too long, so as to simplify the number of moving parts. I wouldn't call total war style battles "crunchy", but diverse. Crunchy is more like age of empires, where the way individual soldiers interact is a lot cleaner. Diversity seems to be something that a total war style engine allows, though it doesn't necessarily pull off each individual thing well - it tends to glue something like a forest ambush into the UI and get it abstracted out for the sake of being part of the UI; rather than having the player more intuitively click at some trees with his selected soldier. Eg. The ambush would need to be next to a road along a specific axis, otherwise they can't do the ambush or they stall up or something total-war ish - much like trying to cross a bridge in shogun 2... in fact, the pathing was so bad in that game, that they couldn't possibly consider showing actual rice paddies in ancient japan, even though there would have been rice paddies everywhere... they needed to justify having wide open terrain (and then forests were just sight blockers, while hills would also slow a unit down). If it were intuitive though, the soldier could ambush from anywhere, so long as he's next to a tree, and say it were one tree per soldier you can hide (or he's in tall grass or something). Flanking in total war (or at least shogun 2) appeared to be a 1:1 thing, where if 1 soldier is fighting 2 on either side of him, then he's "flanked", and the unit at large gets the "flanks exposed" morale penalty. There's no reason why flanking can't just be 1:1 unit takes more damage if flanked or something. Morale could just be "defeat half the army in a select region" and then they flee, or if they're brave boys it could be "defeat 3/4 of the army within 100 meters (or whatever distance trace of area)". That would be much easier to code in, rather than morale requiring soldiers to cement themselves to a unit, and require the player to move the entire unit in order to tell individual soldiers to do anything. It's just a constant gripe I feel I have, the feeling that devs need to make units into these rigid companies. I get the inclusion of companies, but honestly, that shouldn't require the player to control the whole thing at once. It's like if you ordered a soldier to poop, you'd have to order the whole company to poop along with him. Another benefit of single soldier selection is if you have multiple dudes, they can take on formations much like a company; and you can create ANY company you like that way, and it behaves in accordance with the soldiers in it, rather than adhering to some kind of company abstracted unit behavior. Age of Empires 2 did that, but perhaps that's complicated (for a game from 1999 which had good pathing algorithms, i guess). Terrain doesn't seem complicated in this game - the maps are wide, and not filled up by cities. There's streets to simplify pathing through cities. Also, how the hell does a single village with no distinction between peasants and serfs, conjure up enough money (taxes, whatever) to hire out an entire company? I don't understand the insistence on total war style combat - the pathing of those games was very sophisticated. The engine was proprietary. It feels like a dumb executive decision for the sake of marketing to players who don't know any better (no offense to Invicta... you know your history, but game creation isn't magic and there's a few nuances that can't simply be assumed are possible or would make for a good game).

Seems like what stronghold could’ve ended up being as far as mixing city building with battle

Cannot wait for this game to come out, looks great!

Can you play with combat disabled? (Other than bandits)

"Waging war is the best way of prosperity"

Can soldierly skills be improved through training or veterancy?

Looks and feels like Ostriv .

Huh. Didn't expect this channel to dabble in gaming too.

So beating up the other AI player = profit! That is good to know. Also good to see your play style vs cityplanner plays (i think that is his name). War player vs city player

I am a fan of some total war games. People need to temper their expectations around this game. Enjoy it for what it is, not hate it for what it is not.

I am hoping this game turns out as good as it looks.

After total wars decline I put my hopes to this game.

Imagine if someone was to create a mod, where you can form your kingdoms in different eras of time? Like in Ancient Rome, napoleonic wars, or the 1900s

Jo I remember when you played total war

Question is if blood is a paid dlc?

I wonder if disbanding your mercenaries has a chance to turn them into bandits. Wasn’t that kind of a thing, if mercenaries couldn’t find work they would just resort to banditry sometimes?

It's still early access soo I think it'll gain nice depth. Dudes already done better than most AAAs 😂

Do more please

Imagine a roman colony version of this

So the game is relesed or is this a demo?

When is this supposed to even release?

ugh id kill for it

Creative Assembly (the studio behind Total War) has been relying on their old battle algorithm and badly needing competition for a while now. I hope this can be it.

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This most reminds me of a much better version of the old Sierra city builders (Pharaoh, which just got a remake; Greece; Rome; and Emperor, the China onr) but with much better combat (and graphics but that's less important).

My question is.... are ditches involved....

RTS historicals are great.

Ah... now I feel old, its been almost 10 years from Attila now.

This game looks amazing. it has way better potential than TW games

Is ammunition a relevant factor?