This was the CRAZIEST siege defense - Bannerlord Siege Tactics 

when you take out the enemy nobles, the troops sometimes get stuck at their last "command". if that command was charge, you fight. if it was hold, then they just sit there...

Have to say, your decision to consolidate channels seems to be paying off. Not only is the content coming thick and fast, but its diverse and entertaining too. Great work buddy

I had one of 284 vs 2750 and I won with 4 men left in castle, Was the roughest battle I ever fought. But I destroyed valandia at the end of it

I had kind of a similar scenario once where the enemy didn't want to use their siege tower. Fortunately I had a high damage axe on me and demolished the tower by hand. Then they decided to try the gate.

Recently I had around 600 troops defend against roughly 2200 troops. It took over an hour and I thought I was going to lose multiple times. Was really fun

I always loved Siege in Bannerlord. Even when they were totally busted

I’m glad you decided to post more content on this channel, I am really enjoying all the new uploads :) can’t wait for more from you

I love siege defences, like the ones you can actually participate in! This one was a great one too! There was a sincere lack of shields and it kept me in the edge of my seat! You truely are a master tactician

I think this is the first time that I see the enemy stalling like that.. usually they overrun the castle/city in few minutes 😂 funny to watch and as always awesome content

God I wish there was one of these daily, so interesting, keep up the great work

Every few months I return to this video. It reminds me that with enough practice in the tactical commands I can defend any fief. The auto-deploy function is the enemy in seige defence.

There should be seige time limits like in total war. Just so if the AI gets stuck the player doesnt get trapped. Both sides can reset from a base point in the next battle so its fair

Use the catapult yourself and destroy 400 vs 3000 xd Your videos really makes me wanna play bannerlord all day man

You’re amazing at the game. Legend

Man once I saw that little kill box inside with all your archers on the buildings I really wanted the enemy to charge in and die but was sad when they got bugged. When you created a landslide of bodies outside redeemed the siege. awesome video

Ah yes, the out of early access fully functional game. Bugs aside, good stuff as usual man

Man, I hope we see 10 hours bannerlord live streams someday again. Loved the first ones.

You should use the ambush system to destroy their siege engines. Then they can only use the ladders, you can even drop down firebombs onto big stacks of enemy infantry and butcher them

I don't even need to watch the video, when you see Khalid Bin Waleed you feel sorry for the opposing force no matter how large

Damn I thought those siege tower bugs were finally fixed, I haven’t noticed them in recent playthroughs - loved those strats though, btw if you want a better view from up on the battlements I noticed you can pick up a rock and throw it at one of the merlons to break it and get a better line of sight

Great video, I love to watch this game and get your opinion on the strategies you can put to use. 👏

This reminds me of a Total War streamer who shows how to play or helps saves and about 75% of the time for siege defense it's abandon the walls and form a small tight defense near the inner area. Too bad we don't have a fatigue mechanic that's part of that reasoning too in Bannerlord.

Beautiful siege defence!

I played an outnumbered siege defence in Husn Falq recently and I fell back to the inner walls (basically defending 2 open archways in front of the keep). Limited places for archers to make a kill zone but my melee troops survived the first wave and thereafter they only had trash units. Edit, my bad it was at Hubyar not Husn Fulq.

As always thank you for the effort that you put to your videos. And i got a confess to make, i watch your joker experience video once a while cuz it's a masterpiece, i wish more people see that video. Have a great day :).

The other day I managed to win a siege defense with around 300 mid tier troops vs a bit over 3000 mid/high tier troops. The two catapults that I had built in time and the type of castled helped a lot.

Perfect example of tactics and game play

That was fun to watch. So many of these sieges just turn into tower defense like games where it all about archer positioning and mazing lol

I tuned into this stream exactly as this seige started, how lucky I was!

In 500hrs still haven't managed to persevere with a no cheat/retreatsploit play through, you put me on the edge of my seat

Insane you are so good!

They’re just standing there…menacingly!

With your advice in the past I've been able to hold off 4x1 on siege defense usually at lageta or some city near it. I've never done anything with moving my unit groups around the interior but it looks like you can get pretty crazy with it. I've never engaged the enemy outside the walls and typically do this with a heavy modlist with RBM and De Rei Militae skewed heavily toward ranged troops like the fian champion.

What I find funny is that historically, a 3-to-1 attackers to defenders ratio was pretty much required for a siege. Defensive fortifications and pre-prepared anti-siege constructions/plans meant trying to siege with less than that was just an exercise in futility xD

Sieges are the most interesting type of battle by far in this game, whether you're attacking or defending

Amazing move by the enemy! Baiting you out so they can pummel you with arrows!

Loving how his character is named khalid ibn al walid after my favorite general

I was in a similar scenario as Aserai, I had just taken over a city with 300 soldiers (my side) and not even a week later the enemy came to besiege it with a army of 1000+. Was able to defend the city for over a few ingame months before being forced to surrender.

That catapult had a direct shot too that blob.....

im proud that you and everyone know the best strategic commander khalid bin walid

If you happen to have catapults, it is worth sometimes going for kills and not ram/towers. The thing is AI loses a lot of morale during sieges and you can damage it even more by causing large casualties. They just run away. Repeat until there's no more. Worked fine for me (I say that as a person who wiped the whole map several times)

That was very fun to watch. :)

hey, it wasn't that kind of a crazy siege but I got plenty of crazy new info from you. thanks a lot :)

They had game of thrones' white walker army vibes. All just standing there still

Awesome siege.

cool and entertaining. great content

Using ambush before battle starts gives you an instant win

Most of those kills from the archers are probably the trebuchet, since any unit will man it

during sieges, I always use the main gate as choke point and shield wall all my melee infantry there. once blocked, I throw all the catapult's stones above them or outside the gate if they're too many. careful not to hit the ram as they don't take damage if the ram was hit. really satisfying if you get the fire vases as its doing a lot more damage than regular stones

Awesome siege! One thing: can you explain what you meant by you don't run out of ammunition? (11:20) Do defending troops in a siege have unlimited arrows and such?

This is why I usually take control of one of the siege equipment on defense so I can get what I want down first and after a few times you get a good idea about the range and aim so long as the soldiers don't get stuck reloading it, I then proceed to manually throw the fire pots if it's a fire catapult into the ladder section as there is huge clusters there, sadly they just run away and get everyone back in seconds as that was before siege got deadly. Never seen them bug out like that before, normally they get onto the wall and seem to wait for something for me but just keep piling on more and more on that wall.

Craziest battle I ever had was 3800 troops attacking me in the far east britainnian town. Held just over 300 troops. Had a lot of wildlings and brit elite archers with line breakers and legionaries split with my wildlings before they got the javs. Had to replay the battle 3 times and on the last shot I killed over 1000 being very careful not to die. I think that was the hardest part. Random arrow takes a chunk, random jav. Stressful as hell but holy shit that was a fun battle.

yeah yeah its satisfying to see that you too get better every time. I like games. Some of them are very....educational in some ways... somehow....

I play on console and sieges tend to be hard to as the controls for commanding are a bit tricky however I had 1 battle in the same city an attack and defend, I tried to overun the walls but my troops were too scattered so I charged the main gate and fought the entire battle through the streets. On the defense we destroyed the towers and I managed to position some archers at the gate, some got stuck lol, but I had the whole infantry cycle charge the enemy at the gate it was 2 of the bloodiest battles I have ever played around 4,000 dead across oth sieges. I wish I could use your tactics more as I enjoy watching them, sadly console battle don't really let you be too clever Great video Strat

This was so entertaining hahaha

Don't you love how not only the enemy is against you, but the game itself is against you as well 🙃

Throwing the onager ammo/rocks on the top of enemy blobs from the edge of the wall dose SOOOOO MUCH DAMAGE

Others have said it, but destroying their tower or picking up a bow and killing archers usually does the trick for me. Without commanders, you have to give the enemy AI a hard reset somehow 🤣

If it ever seems interesting please do a video on how to cause a revolt passively to a town!!!

Done it. With fewer men the trick is to make sure the break the gate but dont manage to go over the walls. So if you personally destroy the seige towers it goes much smoother. Since the invading army comes in smaller numbers by holding the gate you can really fuck them up. Then when moat of their numbers are wounded hit them in the field before they recoupe or a new army showes up.

Derthert: What is Husn Fulq worth? Saladin Strat: Nothing! Also Saladin Strat: All of your precious butter!!!!

Don't know if it's a bug, but the new ambush mechanic will always result in the AI launching an assault immediately after, even if you destroyed all their siege equipment in the raid. So all you have to do is let them build a ram, quickly destroy it in an ambush and then they're forced to attack you with only ladders. You can then just mass your archers behind the walls and watch them mow down the enemy as they come up single file. They'll usually retreat instead of fighting to the end, wait for their wounded to heal and attack again, but just repeat this tactic of letting them build a ram/destroy it/force them into attacking with no siege until either they're weak enough to defeat in a sally-out or until allied reinforcements arrive to help you.

i had a similar scenario the other day, around 1300 v my 500 half were militas. spent like 2 weeks ingame defending as we slowly chopped their numbers down with each battle but they kept retreating and recovering their wounded and attacking. After a couple dozen battles my own faction finally decided to reinforce when they had 300 to my 200.

We gota push the upper limits of how many can be reppeled from assault I hope sieges ingame eventually take inspiration from irl ones, would be quite interesting

I would've tried to manually destroy the siege tower from the wall. Would take a while, but that would probably get that mass of troops unstuck. Hate when sieges get bugged. At least this time it was the enemy and not your troops standing still while archers slowly pick them off.

The guy constantly changes decisions make up your mind bro. Though you really do good strategy and know the game well

I once ambushed the siege camp and after some time I got knocked out and both my army and the enemy army didn't push, after 20 minutes or so in sped up time, my 14 archers from the walls got 250+ kills. Siege AI's are sometimes bugged and can be broken for the player.

8:05 that was a beautiful shot

I once had to defend a castle with 300 troops under my order, while the enemy had something like 800 elite troops ready to murder the poor militians guarding the walls with me. I don't know how but by abusing the catapult I managed to reduce both of our numbers by half until the king I was serving somehow managed to sign a peace treaty.

Using a polearm type of weapon such as a Glave is perfect for siege defence. You can swap and murder away all the enemy soldiers climbing up the ladders.

Now that you can ambush enemy siege engines, making the enemy AI attack immediately, you can literally take out their siege engines, camp by your fire catapult, and get 60 kills by throwing fire pots at the enemies on ladders

My experience with siege defenses using only 50 companions: 1) always take out the ram at any cost other than your own life. Once the ram is taken out, the AI will default into "Rush gate" mode. In this mode, the AI will not go after your troops and focus on opening the gate. You can then place archers in strategic positions to keep shooting the enemy without having to worry about the enemy coming after them. 2) do not position archers on the walls. It is a death sentence for them since the enemy archers have aim bot and they mostly outnumber you. 3) position archers around where the enemy is going to go up the walls. If they are in rush gate mode, they will b-line to it and ignore the archers unless they are too close to them. Usually, positions that are of the same or higher elevation than the wall are perfect. If there a no obstructions, its even bettet.

man im from brazil and i love yours videos, i dont play banelord because my pc dont run the game but i love you content

If that siege was with RBM enabled it might be the issue why that happened.

likes me manual control of a ballista...seeya to 2+ bad dudes in a shot

You should always try to take command of your siege engines. A catapult should be enough to take down 2 siege towers. Then you can focus on the battering ram since they are very slow. If you can destroy all 3 siege engines it's a cake walk since you can slaughter then while they going up the ladders. You can even use your catapult to 1 shot reinforcement waves too

you should have manually launch that cat shot into them

It's always so amazing to me how utterly useless the walls are for your own archers in these siege videos.

The amount of time and effort you put into these videos AND work AND have a family life I'm starting to think you're either Multiple Man or you are Chat GPT and you just havent admitted it yet.

You should do a Bannerlord historical tactic video on “The Horns of The Buffalo” used by the Zulu Empire to beat the British

4:30 your guy sounds like the Gordan Ramsay of Bannerlord

I had a siege that looked really bad, outnumbering me 5 to 1, they attacked, then i realised they are all t1 and t2. Long story short, i took my t5 infantry, opened the front gate, led them through the gate and slaughtered the enemies infront of the walls. Ist was epic

I feel like it's really easy to hold the walls in sieges now. infantry, in line formation, manually positioned slightly back for the ladder, will rush anyone who climbs up and then stand back from enemy archer fire again. If you personally control a catapult and destroy the ram there's nothing the enemy can do. I've recently got back into the game and have been grinding a companion only run and quickly found the best way to level is by destroying 3000 strong armies with a 400 man garrison and companions. The annoying thing is that siege armies always run away now, just to fight when their injured are healed. Husn Fulk was the first siege I did this with and I played it about 20 times in a row, until the enemy army ran out of food/prestige and disbanded. This video triggered me; it took me hours! You get nothing in terms of loot, but massive XP gain.

Still adamant you should be able to refill javelins at arrow barrels.

hello Strat. How is it with the WC Livestreams? When are they and do you have any Scedules where i can look up your next streams? :)

Honestly for siege defense I’ve found that Ambush is OP. I let an attacking army make a battering ram and a siege tower. I did an Ambush and after destroying both their tower and their battering ram it ended in a victory for us and forced them into a siege. Now we had defensive siege weapons and working walls while they had nothing, they all just funneled into 1 ladder and my troops decimated them. Next time I’m considering allowing them to keep a battering ram, so that my siege weapons have easy, slow targets.

This happens all the time for me, I take the time to set up and awesome formation and defense and the AI just sits on the other side of the battlefield and doesn't move.

Idk how you resisted the temptation to jump on that catapult and get to work on those archers lol

Okay, tbh. They need to deal with this somehow. Like, there should be a capture point near the castle gates, so that the player could not hold a single closed point behind the walls. Like, historically even if there was resistance inside the city/castle walls but the main fortification was taken it was the end unless it was recaptured.

ohh shiz I didn’t realize I was part of the 0 hour gang

I would be playing with the catapults while they are standing around

I can't believe they haven't fixed that bug yet!!! The soldiers are waiting outside omg!

3:28 How do you do that? Select multiple squads and combine them.

Try my tactic and it always works during siege defense on castle or town no matter how much troop the besieger have. Works on campaign and sandbox. Which troop can be vary. Requirement. 1. Have around 50-70 high tier infantry in your party as a main defense 2. Another 30-50 infantry for reinforcement 3. Archers divided into 5 group, each 20-30 First scenario. If you already in castle/town which besieged, DONT wait until they launch full scale. Wait until besieger built ram. After they just freshly built that, AMBUSH it. (Took some precise timing) Destroy their ram and go back. 2nd scenario (my best tactic). Wait until they finished siege tower. Then do the same. AMBUSH it. Atm, they will have a ram and siege tower(s). What you gonna need to do is destroy their ram and left ONLY 1 BADLY DAMAGED siege tower. Then retreat to your castle/town After you succesfully ambush it. ATTACK. Battle formatiom. 1. Make a group of 50 high tier infantry (2nd scenario) or 2 groups of 40 each. 2. Place them ON THE WALL where LADDER(s) will be manned (need some times to look where the ladder spawn each castle/town). 2nd scenario will only have 1 ladder. 3. Assign shied wall to them and strecth them to cover all the climbing area 4. IMPORTANT. Assign them STOP command. They wont move. (F1 - f6) 5. Put archers on each tower, and onager 6. Let the carnage begin Scenario 1 will start with 2 point of ladder, which they will try to scale it down. scenario 2, with only 1 ladder point, your catapult will destroy their badly damage siege tower. There will be 2 choke point or 1 choke point, according which scenario youll be using. each point will have 2 ladder and each ladder climb 1 soldier. Basically, they will climb to their death, 1 by 1 each ladder. I lost only 10-30 with mixed infantry. Mine was vanilla 1.1.3 version.

U prob could have destroyed the second siege tower since thats where all of the troops were bugged. Once it was destroyed they would have flood into the gate.

amazing battle

I used to retreat when they reached the wall

I believe that AI got a bit broken in the recent patch. It's so passive, even as an attacker in the field battles. If their forces are not massively stronger, they will just wait and stare at the enemy, especially if you have allies in battle. I had to recently kite and skirmish for 30 minutes to compel the enemy to engage. It's so frustrating.

As an eternal M&B newbie, how do you restock on troops after a destructive battle like this? I always dread these large engagements since I know I'll lose good troops I've invested time and resources in.

Issue is attacking archers without ammo will just stay in skirmishing positions, rather than charging or atleast taking the walls, which is unfortunate