Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord

Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord

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Best troops & formation in the game
this is like my 7th campaign and I've found the absolute best formation & troops possible to win literally any battle no matter the army size or faction.
First I can hold 494 troops right now but if you can hold 400 this still works.
Second I have my settings set to 1000 troop battles which, without this this would not work.

okay so here is my troops.
208 Battanian Fian champions
125 khuzait khan's guard (this number is overkill 70 would be fine)
82 Sturgian heavy axeman (Ik theirs better troops but these guys have the biggest shields
and they are way better than aserai veteran infantry hit point wise)
79 elite cataphracts

Now my formation is loose for the archers
For horse archers I make them loose and put them behind the fian champions
For my infantry I put them in square formation and place them around 40 meters away
Horse swordsman at the very back.

Now when I do this strategy my archers absolutely destroy all cavalry even if 130 are charging me.
Against the khuzait faction this works best believe it or not because they don't have shields and fian champions are significantly superior to khuzait khan guard. First reason is the fian champion bow skill is 2x of the khan guards and the fian champions hold 2x more arrows and their bows do 14 more pierce dmg.

Every time the enemy infantry focused on my infantry but since they are in square formation they are protected on all sides and the infantry encircle my infantry so they have their backs to my archers.

The khuzait and elite cataphracts are useless except for campaign march speed and the end when I need to kill the retreating solders because replacing them with fian champions would be way better except I need cav to finish the retreating enemys off.

I will literally go up against armys with 1150 troops and come off with like 8 deaths and 18 knock outs while I kill 900 enemy troops and knock the rest out.

This method does seem way to op, the khuzaits cause more casualties but they get mowed down way faster since they don't have shields and I never have to call for support from any clan or party members since I destroy every single army and my settings are on max difficulty. the enemy infantry encircle my infantry and cause almost no deaths because my infantry is in square formation and i don't give them the command to charge or attack back.

anyone else have a go to formation? This formation does seem way to op but I rarely need to purchase and upgrade more troops but it does kinda take the fun out of the game since I never lose any battles no matter the enemy size, and this only works with 1000 troop battles if you had the default 300 and went up against a enemy with 1150 troops you wouldn't have enough on the battlefield and you'd get mowed down.

Ik there is better infantry but the purpose of them is meat shields they aren't meant to do any damage and their shields are the 2nd best and wider than veteran infantry from aserai which is the best in 100v100 combat.
Date Posted: Mar 5 @ 7:22pm
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