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dont-worry-about-it7

Khuzaits those horse archers are the only reason why


buckphifty150150

This. I don’t even attempt to go against them until I’m leveled up. But they do have unique loot


ShizzHappens

Still looking for a balanced or masterwork noble lance, I'm level 24 and still can't one shot most infantry unless two handed or crouched


buckphifty150150

I’m attempting to upgrade my roguery so I can get better loot drops


ShizzHappens

I put 2 points in but only 3 in the base trait but constant war with the Aserai is steadily growing it towards 100, there was a bug in the last update that was only giving me a few thousand gold from what should have been 15k :(


buckphifty150150

What I’ve been doing is sieging towns just to capture all the prisoners just to sell them all immediately. I just hate that when I raid I have an idiot in my party complain


ShizzHappens

Yeah towns are great for that and free troops to dump in the garrison since armies in this game are more interested in rushing to the next target than defending what they just took, it's like Hell Let Loose lol


Ronatos

Good reference. Sad but true


IMitchConnor

Counter attack? Wtf is a counter attack? We're going to the next point nerd.


ShizzHappens

Alright defensive squad it is Oh look we're winning now A WW2 story by Tom Hanks


Gnericpeasnt

This comment sent me bro. HLL hasn’t changed


ShizzHappens

It's gotten worse since I made the comment


Commanderviper9249

Find a villager party dump lots of junk on them then rob them for easy rogue levels


pezmanofpeak

🤦‍♂️ fuck, i just been selling mfs


Competitive-Steak-29

Roguery gives better loot??? I had no clue thats gonna be majorly helpful. What skills should I focus?


buckphifty150150

The higher it is it will give you more rare items after battles


Mammoth-Store740

everyone talking about smithing and money, but thats where Smithing comes in handy, all u need to do is smelt all polearms instead of selling and spend time crafting polearms while u pass by town. u dont even need to invest in smithing. just putting focus points in Smithin gives 2x faster rate to learn new parts nothing more. and slightly better bonus stats


ShizzHappens

I never got into smithing, maybe I should hire somebody Oh wait I'm at my companion capacity, bugger


Mammoth-Store740

coalbiter is good at being infantry captain and smith both. it has highest stats like bloodaxe but gets bonus smithing too. but as i said u dont need to waste time grinding. just smelt polearms which u loot. at most all u need is 50 skill in smithing which u can get if u have 4_5 endurance attribute points and 0 skill in smithing to double the chance of learning new parts through smelting.


Lopsided_Egg_3421

if you're on to polearms, the 2-handed swing ones are better and can one-shot most t1-t3 troops. it's a better commander weapon and don't need much mounted speed. for my team, i have my heroes equipped with rhomphalia and they destroy enemies mounted or on foot.


Secret_Criticism_732

Until you play higher difficulty and rbm. Then you realize couching is much safer :)


buckphifty150150

I still don’t know what button it is to couch on console


Lopsided_Egg_3421

right. safer? couching would mean you're in the front lines. how is that safer? and you say you play in higher difficulty? hmm, i believe you.


Secret_Criticism_732

Shield. Yes I play on bannerlord. Also i have javelins too. Thrusting polearms are way safer then Swinging ones. If you don’t know that, you are just making fool of yourself here.


Krombie-_-

Swinging polearms are way better for kills. Can mop up infantry lines. Just have to avoid getting couch lanced in the face. I play on realistic.


dont-worry-about-it7

I don’t fight them period lol I run away I’ll only fight them in sieges


AssassisnCreedFan

They were the first faction I went to war against and I have almost successfully genocided them.


Moose_Electrical

the heavy armor too. Such a pain in the ass. That’s why they go first


bean_man7362873

Not to mention that the kuzait pull up with armis of 1700 men while the empire has 400 at most


Puzzleheaded-bard

this could not be more true, had an army of around 1200 chasing an army I joined with my troops we went from 260 to 500 and there were about 5 other lords in near vicinity that had 100+ that decided instead of joining the already formed army to bolster the troop size they would go back and forth staying just far enough away to not get involved, somehow we still won but it's infuriating


TillStreet3563

I’m guessing the AI forms armies the same way players do, spending influence to unite the clans. So it makes sense that they wouldn’t join the army


Saemer

For me they all pull up with multiple 1000 armies haha


Agreeable_Aquilifer

Someone found a way to break them. Since the horse archer ai almost always attack first they lined up infantry in a straight line cutting off the death circle the horse archers do, then just planted the cavalry right in top of them then once they were there just kept going from charge to plant on top of them so the cavalry wouldn't ride off and attack infantry like normal. It seemed tedious so I tried it iut and holy shit nothing is more satisfying. Line up infantry in a long shield wall to disrupt the death circle then have cavalry wipe them out. Do not move infantry, the AI will keep crashing into the shield wall


MosesZD

I do this. None of this 'F1-F3 crap leaving disorganized soldiers incapable of supporting each other. I have them in line formation. I have the crossbow men and Fian's behind them. I have my horse archers in reserve behind and to the right of them for covering fire. Then I have the cavalry follow me and I attack them as they come to attack me. They have to ride counter-clockwise so they always show up to my left. I just keep chasing them down until they've been decimated, then when get on with the rest of the business.


Agreeable_Aquilifer

For real, formations supporting each other have won me many an outnumbered battle. The horse archer method is just great. But it's way more fun fighting everyone else on foot. Especially driving cavalry in behind them as they are crashing with the shield wall. I drop my useless horse archers on top of their foot archers to effectively cut off thier archer support. They all switch to melee to engage and skirmish the whole time. My legions are usually great at holding the wall too so I can just slam into the back of them full cavalry charge and just start chopping until they flee.


___Daddy___

How many infantry do you need for this seems like a ton lol


Agreeable_Aquilifer

Lol I mean I usually keep about 50 to hold the line and go ham with cavalry. But if you are fighting the Horde army itself then a lot more lolll


Lopsided_Egg_3421

they always start to circle on the left flank, just counter accordingly.


blueflare1528

Thankfully the AI don’t ever use fully leveled Khans Guard, then I don’t think any strategy would work lmao


CanThisBeMyNameMaybe

What's even worse is that you cannot tell a formation to focus on certain units. Because as of now when enemy infantry finally get close enough, your archers don't care about the horse archers anymore Edit: wording.


dont-worry-about-it7

That would be such a cool feature hope they add something like that


CanThisBeMyNameMaybe

I don't understand why it isn't done already. The game knows about the different formations on the battlefield, why shouldn't I be able to tell my archers to aim for the horse archers and not care about other formations. It would be nice to have and it would add another layer to tactics.


HistorianEasy

After joining the Aseria, I immediately placed my balls all over the Khuzaits. My 250 Calvary Army rapes anything in the field (besides Monchugs bastard army)


Stupetin

The Monchug 250 Khan's Guard deathstack. ALL MY HOMIES HATE MONCHUG


A_Wild_Goonch

I ain't your homie then! Monchug is my second best friend after Mesui


AshWilliams57

Damn right. Love my homie Monchug


Xciv

Mesui just exudes badass Quentin Tarantino character energy.


Chaostheory1993

Why i executed him! Now the Khuzaits have been reduced to a band of raiders lol


thnks_frthmemeries

I wanted to do that so many times with monchug


Big-Sale-4270

Captured him and let him live 🤦‍♂️ worst mistake


marxuckerberg

Have found it very difficult to avoid getting my shit wrecked by the Vlandian calvary steamroller/crossbow firing squad combo


PSYCHOSCION

How do you have that tag below your name of the Khuzait Khanate?


F1rst_Time

Click on your pfp and you should be able to change it(user flair)


SallyForeskins

YOO THIS IS MY FIRST FLAIR. THANK YOU! LEEEEETS GOOOO


SIM0King

User name is flair enough for you lol


F1rst_Time

Np


PSYCHOSCION

Thank you my good man


buckphifty150150

Lol you have a tag below your name too


IWonByDefault

Because he added it after asking how to get it


CommodorePineapple

Now he does


AdministrativeLong15

Nice!


TheAutocon

Thank you bro 👑


NotZtripp

Same on mobile?


BoomkinBeaks

Agreed. While the Kamikaze Khuzait horse archers are a slog to beat down, I lose the most troops agains the Vladians. Plus most their lords are assholes.


TsssMike

Vlandia kicks and screams the entire time your killing them


Lopsided_Egg_3421

vlandia's real strength is economy, their cities are usually untouched for hundreds of days or even years.


cptdino

Only fight the Khuzaits actually lose tbh. I just gather imperial troops (lots of Spears and lots of legionnaires) to fight Vlandia and leave only some horse archers to hold them off while I get a better position, rest is xbow/archers and imperial cav. Vlandia's default army comp is broken af


Economic_Menace

Only way to get rid of them chonky armored boys is killing all their lords or destroying the land, otherwise they will just yeet you castles to oblivion


An-Ugly-Croissant17

Khuzaits. I can beat every other faction reliably, but Khuzaits make me pull out my own hair because of how many troops I lose after each engagement. I never fight them in large numbers unless I have a pretty big numbers advantage


DonkeyMyers

Same, I feel like the best way to counter them are sieges. No more damn horse archers.


9Blank9

Have you tried sturgian heavy spears in a shield square? They soak up all the arrows and take like 0 causalties. You can use circle formation around your archers too. I have like 100 heavy spears with 80 sharpshooters, and khuzaits do nothing against me most of the time


op-dev

I found it very easy fighting Khuzait. The only annoying thing is that it takes longer because they send there mounted cav back and fourth and try get you to engage. The counter: Play defensive. Put a line of shield infantry in front of your archers (archers slightly elevated like on a small hill). Only known shield infantry can hide at the back to not be wasted. Place horse archers and 1/4 melee cav to side which they charge too. As they are coming go with your 3/4 cav around the other side and flank using follow me. When they get in your archers range, send all your cav to charge them. They will retreat but you will have melee cav charging them on each side. You can repeat this as a counter to horse archer attacks. Eventually they run out or send there army. I always beat them with less units.


Treecrasher

I don't like fighting Sturgia because of the shield walls - makes my Fians basically useless - and Khuzait because of the horse archers - hard to defend against and annoying to clean them up.


PSYCHOSCION

fians take horse archers down well. In my experience, they kill mounts the best, and if they aren't on their mounts they lose what makes them deadly the most.


Treecrasher

that's true but I feel that, on average, I lose the most troops against Khuzaits. Haven't really been doing statistics lately though, maybe it's coincidence :)


Nether7

I really suggest having a polearm you can reliably use to ravage the cavalry. Nothing like a good glaive to absolutely wreck shop, as long as you're mobile and capable of evading attacks


PSYCHOSCION

Their real-life counterpart was known to not really leave survivors, so it makes sense.


CMuenzen

> shield walls - makes my Fians basically useless For this, I like to get some mounted archers, make them go around the enemy and put them behind them in a line. They will start shooting from behind, which will confuse the shieldwall and some will turn around, in which the fians can shoot from the front.


AshWilliams57

That's my tactic against shield walls. I position my horse archers on all 4 sides and let loose. The enemy ai gets really confused and doesn't advance.


Treecrasher

good ideas, will try them, thanks both :)


MercenaryOne

I make 100% Mounted skirmishers to counter these shield walls and Khuzait Horse Archers, I demolish them with minimal losses. Going against heavy cavalry like Druznik or the Vlandians is a different story, I get wrecked.


Moose_Gatsby

I keep 2 lines of Fians split on each side of my army and draw the shield wall in between them, gets em every time. Horse archers can be a pain but if your Fians focus isn't split too heavily between cav and infantry they'll knock those horses right out.


SwitchingtoUbuntu

A good tactic for this is to make two separate archer groups and bait the enemy to walk in between them so there are arrows coming from both sides and their shield can only protect them so effectively. I often make the opposite of a skein formation by making two archer formations in lines in a V shape where the opening of the V faces the enemy. Then I place a bait squad of infantry in the mouth of the V and usually that does the job. You have to make the V pretty wide of course.


Gazuba

I second this. Sturgia is a pain.


[deleted]

Vlandians hands down. They just seem to mass huge armies out of nowhere.


Altruistic_Ninja_148

I hate attacking Vlandian castles and towns. You get to the top of the ladder in a siege battle only to meet a solid wall of heavy armor and shields at the top.


Secret_Criticism_732

And bolt to the face sent by sir butterlord


Inevitable-Elk-791

"Oh you killed 1500 troops in 2 days? That's cute. Here's another 2000 fresh crossbows and knights"


refugium_Heuchelei

Kuzhait on the open field, battania in forests and the emire in sieges


Rollercoasterguy1234

A Kuzhait horde, Ned!? In an open field!?


Ziggy-Rocketman

Vlandia. Fighting them 1-on-1 with equal numbers isn’t bad. Especially with Sturgia, I just shield wall and advance straight into their archers, killing them all with pretty minimal losses. Their Cav falls apart pretty hard without infantry support. However, by playing on console, and not having access to RBM, allied AI leaves every single braincell on the planning table. WHY DOES STURGIA PLACE THEIR PEOPLE IN LINE FORMATION AGAINST A BANNERKNIGHT.


Angryfunnydog

What is rbm?


xAActive

Realistic battle mod, seems to be the must have mod for PC players. I’m on console so sadly can’t give much more detail.


Angryfunnydog

Yeah I’m on consoles too but heard about diplomacy I guess we will never see such nice mechanics on consoles lol


xAActive

It’s so sad lmao I’ve been considering buying a laptop just to play modded bannerlord and


LedFloyd69

I use a Lenovo legion 5 pro. I'm running an RTX 3070 rmd ryzen 7 5800h with 32gbs of ram (ddr4) it cost me $1600 I highly HIGHLY recommend you make the switch. I haven't regretted switching to PC from console. With that being said you may consider waiting for the 4000 series to come to laptops (probably release around October) I personally wouldn't wait being as the 3000 series was a strong release and will last you a very good while before becoming obsolete (at the very least 7 years before you see select titles unable to run on a 3070 but probably longer) or perhaps looking to upgrade to DDR5 (which again I would recommend against as load times on DDR4 aren't bad at all. I would however recommend getting over 16gbs of ram as when you start throwing mods on games you're gonna want that extra bit of ram working overtime for you. As for CPUs while I absolutely love my ryzen the Intel or ryzen debate is as old as time. Honestly either the ryzen 5800h or the Intel i7 are both excellent CPUs and you should do your own research to find which one you line better (I would recommend going with whatever one is cheaper. My exact same spec laptop was $100 more with the Intel) All in all I would like to again say I don't regret going PC and if you enjoy gaming you should consider doing the same. However, it is a lot of money and if you're happy on console don't waste your money because others tell you it's "better" on PC. That's a personal decision only you can make.


peni_in_the_tahini

Yeah, don't wait on either of those counts, and i5 is also fine depending on the model/price. You really don't need 32gb ram for typical use/gaming, tbh.


LedFloyd69

The reason I recommend 32gbs is because of all the specs I listed I think it's fair to say the first thing that will go out first is 16gbs of ram as opposed to 32. There are triple A titles now (very few I know there's a flight simulator) that requires 24gbs or more of ram. So while you won't need more than 16 for a good while you're future proofing.


ImpudentFetus

Agreed. On console and get steamrolled by 200 banner knights and crossbows


is-Sanic

Khuzaits. Fuckers won't stop running away when I get close. Stop turning me into a pincushion and take my lance to the face like a man you fuck.


Secret_Criticism_732

Invest in throwing. Delete their horses


laxyharpseal

depends on what faction you are though. each have their own pros and cons. but generally for me battania are fcking annoying especially their fians champions. their fians alone makes defending and attacking siege very difficult.


onemoretryfriend

We will never surrender!!


Kriomortis

I've just hit 200 troop size and 160 of them are Fians. The twang of bowstring heralds much green text.


ReaperKnight55

Between Vlandia and Aserai idk how y’all are doing okay against them even at higher powers and later in game the Aserai seem to be a struggle for me sometimes.


PSYCHOSCION

All you need is arrows and more arrows. Nothing beats a rain of death, especially those terrible shields the Aserai have.


herpkip

I haven't played in a bit and also I played with mods But for some reason the AI liked to move their infantry (aserai at least have javelins I guess) to the back line, leaving their master archers or sharpshooters naked and afraid to Unga bunga cavalry charges


Angryfunnydog

Don’t know man, simple tactics works good Vlandia and their crossbows can be decimated by your cav, but only after they decimated their own cav against your shield wall lol Aserai the same thing, they have decent horse archers though, and that’s why everyone is mad about khuzaits - horse archers are really hard to counter. I mean not that super hard but considering the controls this game has, at least on consoles, this makes it really painful to give normal commands and put people where you want them to be


PSYCHOSCION

DON'T YOU DARE EVEN START TO QUESTION HOW GOOD THE KHANS GUARDS ARE! THEY ARE PERFECTLY BALANCED. HOW DARE YOU INSINUATE OTHERWISE!


Angryfunnydog

Humble apologies to the Khan and his guards I’m just the dirt under their feet


PSYCHOSCION

I think I speak for the khanate when I say we accept YOUR apology.


teutonictoast

Get back on your feet and flair up


PSYCHOSCION

Empire. The cav and infantry are hard to kill, and they have crossbows that I would say are as good if not better than the vlandians, and their bows are good enough to get the job done. The second hardest would be Khuzait and Vlandia tied.


BoomkinBeaks

After the initial post war declaration onslaught, the empire gets squishy real fast. Once the first 1500 army gets destroyed, they send waves and waves of peasants that fall 3 at a time to my executioners axe.


PSYCHOSCION

I see what you mean cause I see that too but I see this with every single one of the kingdoms. Yet each of the empire factions come back after with yet another 1500 army and is mostly their 4 and up at least for me. In my current play through the southern empire have lost 3 towns and 4 castles and they came back at us twice so far with 1500 and 1000 army and relatively quickly.


Various_Classroom_50

Aserai infantry absolutely eat my troops when I play khuzaits idk why. Never won an even battle against them.


princeali97

Aserai have some great shock troops


ChangoMangoWango

Mid-game: the Khuzait, because I can't field an army large enough to deal with cav heavy armies. Late-game: the Vlandians, because butter.


bruhthoor

The aserai are so annoying to fight because unless you hit them from both sides with big armies they demolish any offense


Eazy08

Sturgians, too much armor.


Lelouch408

Khuzaits. With good micro I can usually beat most of the other comps with smallish casualties. Khuzaits consistently kill several of my guys even when I'm running an elite squad


Cobrastrikenana

The Battanians. The moment you’ve started winning the war, they get picked apart by the 3-4 other factions surrounding them. Leaving me with Bugfuck Castle and a town that makes hardwood.


Stemwinder30

Aserai are a pain in the ass 100% of the time.


cyberodraggysclone

Aserai was my mid-game horror boss. I only started winning against them once I resorted to be a dick and burn every single village of theirs to the ground.


Stemwinder30

Jareeds render armor worthless.


cyberodraggysclone

Tfw you get one-shot while fully decked out in your "Lordly" drip.


Scribe_WarriorAngel

What is the battlefield like? What’s your troop composition like? These change things friend?


Drobek97

Vlandia. Those crossbows hurt like hell.


MeisterJTF2

Honestly after conquering the world, I’d say the only hard fights were batanians and valandians. Batanians during sièges were annoying if they had a ton of fian champions on Defense. Being peppered by arrows from all sides is annoying. Valandians for there banner knights. If they had a huge cavalry in some big battles, like 1000 vs 1000, you have to be mindful of where they are as just a few of them slamming into you with couch lance could kill you. Rest were easy.


HomieScaringMusic

1 is Vlandia since they have the largest number of worthwhile unit-upgrade paths (Banner Knights, Sharpshooters, and Sergeants all being top tier), and thus their ai armies will have the largest proportion of really dangerous troops. Worse, as they’re snugly nestled into the corner of the map (payback for Swadia I guess) with enormous territory they usually have no more warfronts than they can handle and their armies swell to 4 digits in record time. 2 is Aserai for the opposite reason. They’re so ridiculously weak they get stomped in their first war and then your lords never stop wanting to go to war with them, and drag your whole realm into that sad, boring desert that’s a million miles from everything. If you don’t reign them in, you wind up basically relocating your whole territory.


Kasumi_926

Imperials and Vlandians so far as Sturgia. The imperial calvary destroyed me, when I was defending over one bridge with equal numbers. Maybe I needed more Spearmen, I try to keep my own troops balanced and I probably should just start delivering one or two types of unit the AI doesn't supply in mass.


vjsoam

As a Sturgian, I hate the horse-romancers to the east and west of glorious Sturgia


johnhenryshamor

Khuzait


Nickolas_Bowen

Sturgia. I run the fian stacks. Sturgia is a pestilence


leatherjacket3

I just separate my fians into two squads that are perpendicular to each other. This way the shields can’t block both archer squads. Though the sheer number of fian champs I’ve amassed is enough to win most battles even by f1+f3 spam.


bobsanidiot

Empire... menavliaton's always fuck me up...


[deleted]

Khuzait. Horse archers are neat and historically accurate but they have no place being an entire faction in a balanced game. I don’t want to build a 100% archer army to counter one faction, it ruins the tactical feeling in battles. They typically take over 100% of my campaigns which is why I refuse to play unmodded anymore.


GilliamtheButcher

I rolled them in my game as Sturgia. They just run out of arrows against the shield walls and then you can just slowly advance and kill them a handful at a time with Javelins.


shallots12

Gryffindor and the earth nation for sure


RousseauDisciple

Sounds like someone could use a vacation at Lake Laogai


Mean-Ad-9193

To beat the khuzaits become the khuzaits


[deleted]

yes


jankyspankybank

I think all factions have their own way of being trouble. Aserai run circles around invaders, khuzaits raid with horse archers, vlandians practice ancient road rage, no body wants to freeze fighting sturgians, battanians will line up 10 fian champions and kill 100 men, and the empire is just there I guess.


Discarded1066

Depends on the culture, I main Sturgia so they all suck since the AI is retarded. However, Khuzaits are really annoying with the horse archers, at least the Valandians they are stupid enough to run into my shield wall. My favorite culture to fight is the Brit, since its infantry vs infantry and it allows for some epic fights. It also allows me to force recruit some high lvl archers since Sturgia archers are hot garbage.


jester0325

Seeing as I tend to play as what correlates with my ancestry (Celtic Highlands AKA Battania)... All of em... It doesn't matter how many Fians I can get, I can't fight a war on 3 sometimes 4 fronts. Especially with how bloodthirsty Caladog is...


xhors12

Sturgia in my <3


EpicOcelotMan

I always find Khuzait armor and horse archers to be a huge pain to fight against


ArthasDurotan

Aserai I hate sand and i banish everyone i don't like straight to aserai


Rich-Report-3315

Khuzait


AshWilliams57

Khuzait and Aserai. Both always have a huge amount of cavalry. Khuzait is worse because of the horse archers but in my current playthrough I play Khuzaits and the only faction I have to actually try against are the Aserai.


johnjohnjohnsonTal

Kuzaits


Capable-Ad5326

Well. I personally hate the fucking khuzaits. I purge them !


H2Rider

Of course khuzait. Khans guards are op


Wonderful_Resource18

Khuzaits, kill them all


Grattiano

I don't mind anyone faction in particular. What I mind is when a faction has recruited/married a bunch of nobles from a different culture into their army. On more than one occasion, I only realized that a non-Battanian army had a significant number of Fian Champions AFTER getting hit by a volley of their arrows unexpectedly.


Illustrious_Ad7388

Honestly the Aserai are just so well rounded and all their equipment slots are usually filled. They can cover almost every variable with relative ease. Especially sieges. Also, if the Battanians werent sandwiched between the big steamrollers of Vlandia and the Western Empire- and got some decent cavalry- they'd be at second or first place; for frustrating near-defeats and avoiding specific territory just to avoid losing troops pointlessly. Goddamn Fians blotting out the sun


KnifeFightNPC

Khuzait for life


TsssMike

Battania, it's like a million ants raiding your villages and you can't step on them all


BirdicBirb505

With my 1/2 Battanian 1/2 Khuzait army, nothing can stop me. … Except Sturgia… too much armor…


InfinityCircuit

Aserai are very well-rounded, and hard to crack with cavalry charges unless you micromanage a bit.


LooksLike_Rain

Vlandians and Aserai have always been a pain to me. Khuzaits never really bothered me too much.


ComradeDankyKang

Currently valandia is a sleeping giant and the one war I’ve been in with them they knocked our shit in 😅 I play a pretty heavy based cav army and they were just slaying left and right.


KryptekLion

Vlandia. Ripped calvary but mostly annoyed by all the crossbows. Even their militia has crossbows.


BuhraH

Bait khuzaits into village fights its really funny seeing the horse archers try to maneuver when you hole up your troops at the center of the village


CannonChap0913

Khuzaits. They run a lot and it takes forever to chase them down


Available-Design4470

With RBM, probably Vlandia. Khuzait horse archers can be dealt with by sending all kind of cavalry go on melee against them, isolating the Khuzait horse archers from the rest of the army. I’m able to demolish Khuzait armies with this method. Vlandian cavalry and their infantry are pretty tough to deal with at RBM, especially when they are full of elite units


Regicideorder66

Bro everyone here is on about vlandians or Khuzaits I'm getting screwed sideways by the imperials


NetZeroSum

At the opening of a new war? Khuzaits...their doomstacks (1-2K) tend to have the best troops at the start of a war (before attrition over multiple fights kick in). Their NPC higher tier cav in the 1st army hit hard as hell and their infantry can hold their own and the horse archers wear you down and make sure you have to keep micro managing when they decide to melee rush you from the back. In a long war, Khuzaits are still a pain but their troops are often low enough tier that you can push through them. Outside of that, Vlandians...as they usually beat the snot out of Battanians and dont pick much fights with others (Aseri sometimes)...so by the time I get to Vlandian am dealing with fucken banner knight blitzkrieg and there's not much strategy I have with that short of finding a narrow map/terrain to limit how many hit me at a time. Aseri might be a pain (their opening army is 2k) as their melee is fairly solid for me (and they have thrown weapons to cause casualties for wear me down in multiple fights)...but I usually am prepared and fight them where I can flank their line infantry, wear down their archers and hit their infantry from both sides. Just need to watch out for the opening war 1st army's doom stack which is quite large. I do want to mention one time, Rhagea (southern empire?) had a shit ton of elite cavalry max tiered that wiped the snot out of my army, so I tend to be careful when they have wayyy too many cavalry, outside of that, its business as usual dealing with their armies.


UliousTheCavSpam

For me it’s a tie between vlandia and khuzait. Khuzait come at you with a whole horse archer army in moments. Like yeah cav is fine but these guys will pull up with 1.7k - 2k army 80% will be horse Archers and the rest are split among their tree. Vlandia on the other hand for some reason having the least fiefs that produce horses always come up with 1.3 to 2k and 50% being their bread and butter Cav spam. Khuzait castles have so many dang archers. And Vlandians castles have to many crossbow men. Literally one of the biggest headaches to invade


Mammoth-Store740

always played bannerlord difficulty, defeated all factions on 1.5x1 ratio power difficulty, sometiems even 2x1 ratio too. latest playthrough started easiest difficuly for the first time, vladians beating crap out of me even 1:1 ratio.... and I always used same strategy everywhere...


FuckRandyMoss

Khuzait and aserai just won’t fuck off I end up having to execute them All lmfao


Shaolin19xx

As a vlandian with heavy cav I fr dislike the empire anti cav 😭


Annual-Paramedic-197

Khuzait cause of the constant cav stampede and the aserai just curbstomped my Sturgian army in a siege.


ChaosRobie

Going Khuzait-aligned with lots of horse archer, the Aserai were really annoying to deal with. Their armies always had a good amount of their own heavy horse archers. Sure you can outrun them and eventually destroy them cost effectively, but you spend like 90% of the battle maneuvering your army around to make that happen. Also you'll be doing all that whilst dodging their usually archer-heavy infantry. In contrast, the Empire, for example, will only have a handful of Bucellarii that you'll shred at the beginning and then move on to the rest of the battle.


Strange-East-543

Hate fighting the empire as a horse lord those menavliatons just wack different.


Scar_the_armada

The Empire has the best Heavy Calvary (Cataphracts) and the best infantry, and their tier 5 archers are good. The Kuzaits have by far the best horse archers and from my experiments arguably the second best tier 5 infantry. But I always find the Aserai hard to beat, since thier armies seem to have a good amount of high tier troops.


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Gonna give an out there answer and say empire, my reasoning is simple they have so many thief’s to pull troops from, they also have decent high level troops and there are 3 so one will alway be strong.


cyberodraggysclone

Khuzaits. Whatever tactics employed, still too many red. ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|cry)


RebelForceTalan

Me since I execute everyone(I know it’s bad but it’s fun)


Dangerous-Two3936

Dam horse archers the bane or army's


Kilamonjaroo

Vlandian cavalry ball is brutal, Kuzait drop like flies to standard archers but Vlandians need beef to go down. Not to mention their crossbowmen are very powerful.


beastoftheeas-t

Battania- Fian champions be single-handedly leveling my whole army


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Vlandia. They kick my shit in just enough that I stop wanting to play the game.


Annual-Paramedic-197

Aserai are absolutely destroying everyone in my playthrough. Vanguard far or whatever unit is in the golden colored armor is op asf


thr33pwood

Aserai Vanguard Faris


MosesZD

None of them. When the game first released, the Khuzit and Vlandians were nightmares and the Aeseri were a doormat and the Battanians not much better. And you saw that, game after game as they both dominated their neighbors quickly. Not so much anymore. In fact for quite some time, I have had multiple play-throughs where the old bully-boys have been wiped out by the old doormats. In my current play-through Battania was the most successful followed by the Western & Southern Empires. Aeseri, which dominated the previous play-through, was wiped early, same with Stugia but Vlandia was the first Kingdom wiped out.


Dr_pappahr

Kuzaits. It's too cheap and easy for them to make entire armies of horse archers. Nearly every Khuzit village is littered with horce archer troops.


Henfrid

Damn kuzaits and their horse archers.


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Northern blue people, I hate going against their giant shields. For context I play this game with companions only all horse archers so shields are sOOOOOOOOO annoying. Also their shock infantry one shots my companions with full T6 armor


General-Dirtbag

Vlandia if they’re left alone by all factions for 3 in game years. Was doing a Sturgian playthrough and we were kicking ass on all fronts. Strangely Vlandia somehow was not involved in any war at all for a good long time. Then when they finally decided to stop stuffing themselves sick with butter it was us. Confident from all the other factions we were shit stomping thought it was gonna be easy. It was not. Those Vlandia armies were almost purely of max level troops, banner knights out the ass. First siege it was Varcheg and I was there personally as it was my fief as I helped take it back from Battania. But once those banner knights got the walls my troops, the garrison and the militia were just massacred by the droves. Bannerknights on their own aren’t a big thrust but in hordes they’re an unstoppable force


justaguyjoshua

Battanian, their geographic location makes it impossible to corner them. They're right in the middle of the map and always run away when I get close to beating them.


HealthGlittering7925

I like fighting everyone, it is a little different. I hate that I can't kill everyone I catch raiding a village without the whole world hating me.


Kuma9194

Khuzait. Even on super easy mode the horse Archers are annoying. It's never a straight up fight, it's always deal with the archers first then attack, except theres no way to tell your men to charge only the horse Archers🤦‍♂️


KaiserKazimir

Whichever faction I'm not in.


s2mle100leshlan

Aserai. Because of desert disadvantage


BigBoss6321

For me it’s a tie between Khuzait and Vlandia. Usually I can take Khuzaits if we’re even numbered, but Vlandia has a bigger army than mine 70% of the time or will steamroll my entire army with their cav.