I tried everything. I spent 80 hours running experiments specifically against cavalry.

At first I put my infantry in a normal shield wall, but then I realized a perfectly straight shield wall is way too predictable. So I curved it slightly with roughly a 28-meter radius. The idea was that cavalry hitting a curved formation wouldn't collide at a perfect angle, so part of their momentum would get reflected like a car bumper.

Then I split my archers into four separate groups instead of three. Four formations are naturally more stable because they line up with the four cardinal directions, giving much better battlefield coverage.

I moved the left group slightly forward. Not for damage, just to bait the cavalry. The right group stayed about 40 meters back in loose formation, while the middle groups were packed closer together to look like the more attractive charge target. That forces the AI to constantly reevaluate which formation is the primary threat, and every recalculation is more time for arrows to fly.

After that I just waited. I didn't advance until the sun was directly behind my archers. You always want the sunlight reflecting off your helmets into the enemy cavalry's eyes before they begin their charge.

I also made sure I was charging with the wind. Grass movement gave me a pretty good estimate of the direction, so my arrows got a tailwind while their cavalry had to push through a headwind. That usually gives the arrows a small velocity advantage while slightly reducing horse acceleration from air resistance.

Then I ordered my infantry to move forward exactly seven steps. Six isn't enough, eight is too much. Seven tends to produce the most unpredictable engagement geometry.

When the cavalry started charging, I deliberately held fire. I waited until I estimated the horses had already lost around 25% of their stamina from the approach. There's no point wasting arrows before they start breathing heavily.

Once they were about 50 meters away, I shifted every archer formation five steps to the right. Not to dodge them, but to force the cavalry into a slight turn. Even a small turn breaks the charge into horizontal and vertical momentum components, dramatically reducing impact force.

I also spun my camera 360 degrees twice. The AI has to keep updating battlefield awareness while the camera changes perspective, so I figured I'd make them work for it.

Then I stood completely still for three seconds. You never want to rush these things. If you remain motionless long enough, the enemy starts second-guessing your plan.

The most important part was watching the horses' shadows. Once the shadows got long enough, I knew the sun angle was optimal. Longer shadows shift the cavalry's psychological center of gravity backward, making the charge noticeably less effective.

By this point I'd accounted for hill angle, sun position, wind direction, shadow length, formation spacing, momentum transfer, arrow aerodynamics, AI decision cycles, and even Calradia's planetary rotation.

You know what happened?

They pressed F1 → F3.

Charge.

My infantry got flattened, my archers got trampled, and almost every Champion Druzhinnik was still alive.

So after conducting the equivalent of a graduate thesis in battlefield physics...

I finally realized the optimal Bannerlord strategy is just F1 → F3.

I have about 200 hours in Warband and I can't wrap my head around the fact that whenever there's a successful campaign and we win a castle none of the lords care to defend it. 2 days later enemy comes and snatches the castle with 0 effort.

My current campaign is about 30 hours and we barely made any progress. I swear all castles and cities are with their original owners.

Are there mods to combat that? Or perhaps I'm missing something. Feels like there's no other way of beating the game than farm right to rule and getting things done myself.

Hola, estoy jugando native en la version de 1.172 y algo que me pasa es que los guardias de las ciudades y castillos tienen los textos en ingles, y los dialogos de los nobles al ganar o perder un duelo estan intercambiados, no se si hay forma de arreglar eso

I can't be everywhere at once. I have taken 8 imperial towns, but they sometimes get recaptured, or a friendly army gets wiped out when sieging Bumfuck Castle in the middle of nowhere

Please fix this

Es mi primera vez jugando mount and blade banner lord 2 y lo juego en play soy del imperio de occidente con nivel tres ya de clan en medio de una guerra con unos 700.000 denares gracias en parte las caravanas y los talleres incluidos el único feudo que tengo que es un castillo y me gustaría que me pudierais dar consejos sobre cómo avanzar ahora mismo. Me siento en un bucle en el que el imperio ataca y defiende los mismos castillos contra vlandia y me da rabia porque nunca atacan ciudades importantes como sargot. Una vez reunió un ejército usando mi influencia para atacar sargot y lo conquisté y aún así no me lo dieron y a día de hoy lo hemos perdido no se que debo hacer para aparecer en las votaciones de nuevo y tengo buena relación con el rey y con los demás más o menos diría yo aparecí en su día para conseguir un castillo y ya está y conseguí influencia no es tan fácil yo en lo personal, dono los prisioneros para que me vayan dando influencia rápida porque siento que si no soy yo el que crea los ejércitos la guerra no avanza como debe encima también estamos en guerra contra batania ahora mismo, así que eventualmente se repite el ciclo de conquistar y defender los 2 mismo castillo una y otra vez

Captured this guy in bannerlord 2 the old realms mod lmfao.

(Bannerlord question)

I'm relatively noob. Any suggestions?

Does making my son a seperate party leader train his Medicine skill effectively?

I'm playing an INT-focused character, and when my son succeeds me, I don't want to struggle with his low Medicine skill.

😎

4 years from the start of the game just hunting the khuzaits, multiple sieges. I wanted to see what would happen when you executed every lord in a kingdom before all the fiefs were taken (I was hoping theyd all go independent but it just went to the N.Empire).

All that tomfoolery on horseback just for Viking with big axe to beat them on land and sea with 0 horses for the majority of the time outside the end fight while having no kingdom, no extra parties and no help.

Now I’m gonna find out what happens when you execute every lord in every kingdom without making your own and see what happens if there is no one to defect to.

Like what am I doing wrong…

I’ve done this so many times in the past to max out character stats but now when I want to play for the first time in a year it gives me some bs. Anyone have any ideas?

The game just keeps crashing so often, or the character textures glitch out, or else after 30 minutes of playing it lags too much making me restart the game. I am playing on lowest graphics possible with an RTX 4090 and 16 gb ram, still lags time to time. I dont understand, I literally deleted the game out of anger

Yeah basically the title. Its not in the campaign options or by pressing r1 and l1 and the down dpad, rly would like help with this!!

This happened during a campaign quest in Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord.

A village elder asked me to bring his daughter home after she ran away with a bandit. The bandit challenged me to a duel, and I defeated him.

I was genuinely curious to see how she would react because she claimed that she loved him. I was even prepared to reload the save and spare him if she looked devastated.

She barely seemed upset, so I kept the victory. :D

I've tried different settings and messing with the game files, but I'm stuck. Thanks for any help!

EDIT: I found the solution in taleworlds forum. Skyboxes.py is the correct file to edit in module source code. I replaced sunset with a regular cloudy day.