Decided to play a little Bannerlord. I’ve played a bit of it and Warband before, but I really don’t know much about the mechanics or progression of the game. I just build as big an army as I can and rely on the old “select all, Charge” to defeat my enemies, until eventually I run into a situation like I am in now, where my total lack of tactical knowledge will lead to my destruction.
So I’ve got an army of 73, working as mercenaries for the Southern Empire, who are currently at war with the Northern Empire. Most of my troops, ~40 or so, are infantry. Then maybe 15 archers, 5 horse archers, and 5 cavalry. I got boxed in by two armies, one with 120 troops, the other with 87. They are also a lot of infantry, but combined they’ve got about 30 regular cavalry and 40 horse archers.
Now I am playing on the easiest difficulty, so I can win lopsided battles. But I think when I boot up the save again tomorrow I’m going to be overmatched on this one. I know some players are good enough at the combat that they can take one enormous armies all by their lonesome, but I’m terrible at it. Right now I’m a one-handed-sword+spear+shield cavalry. But not one of those polearms that has slashing attacks , just a low and high stab, (I think there are also lances in the game? I don’t have one of those either, if they do exist) and it’s just hard to time that attack while also riding full tilt on a horse. I might land 5 or 6 blows in any given battle that don’t get blocked, and of those maybe one outright kills a guy.
Hearing and reading libs says shit like “See, Dick Cheney knows that Trump is even worse than he was, that’s why we have to vote blue” is infuriating. How can’t they see what’s really happening here?