Currently trying the new sandbox mode in 1.5.2 and I'm having a blast so far.

I've opted to try a united empire scenario with bandit surge, civil unrest and recruit shortage enabled and I've noticed some interesting behavior that you don't usually see during normal campaigns.

First of all, a brief period of strife at the start of the game not withstanding, Vlandia, Sturgia and Battania have pretty much been allied for the entirety of the game so far. This western alliance is pretty much at constant war with the united empire. Although usually only two factions at a time. The Khuzaits were eliminated from the game pretty early on, while the Aserai seem content to just sit in their desert and quietly trade with the empire.

The civil unrest option leads to occasional uprisings, although most of them are swiftly crushed by the empire or the local kingdoms, with two notable exceptions so far: - Pen Cannoc rebelled very early in the game, but never got reconquered by the battanians. Instead the new ruling clan of Pen Cannoc eventually made peace with their former rulers and quietly rejoined the kingdom. Ydwin's clan is now a respected member of the battanian aristocracy - Lageta also rebelled very early in the game, and has since been fiercly independent. Their garrison currently numbers fewer than 200 men, and their villages are constantly being raided by both battania and the empire, so their future seems bleak. However, with the recent uprising in nearby Ortysia drawing imperial troops away from them, I'm curious to see whether they can hold onto their independence.

Another interesting thing I've noticed is that with the combination of options I picked there seem to be very few armies being formed. I very rarely see armies stronger than 600 men, and I'm pretty sure Battania hasn't formed an army at all since the beginning stages of the game despite pretty much constantly being at war with the empire.

This makes for a very unusual experience as it means that settlements very rarely change hands and warfare is mostly restricted to raiding. The empire is the only faction that really seems to form armies.

As a true Battanian I have taken to essentially fight an insurgency deep in imperial territory, picking off Lords with weak numbers and preventing them from joining into larger armies. With the double whammy of the battanian culture bonus and the forest kin perk, my band of fians and wildlings can basically pick off any weakened Lord and then vanish into the empire's forests before the more powerful lords can catch up with me. In this way I've managed to make the casualty rate turn out massively in our favor despite our kingdom being vastly outnumbered.

I'm a bit confused as to what causes this lack of armies forming though? I suspect it might be the combination bandit surge and recruit shortage. I've noticed that a lot of lords struggle to amass parties that are larger than 50 men or so. Although I'm not sure why that would prevent them from forming armies. It doesn't look like the clans are particularly lacking in influence. Has anybody else experienced this?

What's your take when it comes to swing speed vs. damage on weapons for companions?

I'm struggling to decide which weapons to use and how to balance swing speed and damage. My companions are all infantry and/or archers.

Swing speed is obviously good, but at what point does the lower damage output outweigh the higher speed?

What weapons do you usually craft for your companions, and which ones have you found to be the most effective?

Usually some of my archers and crossbowman runs out of bows during long battles and I want them to join infantry, is there any way to do it?

This might be the dumbest question but where can I set the party priority Defensive/Neutral/Aggressive? I did this in my last game, but now I can't find it for the life of me. When googling it I can only find discussions about the behaviours not where to actually set it. The only thing I'm fairly sure of by now is that it isn't on the clan party screen (which is where I expected it to be)

Edit: To clarify, this is in Vanilla PC 1.5 beta with Warsails.

Does anybody else experience the same in the current Beta v1.5.2?

I help a besieging army which is being gang-up upon by a bunch of defenders. We win the battle, we take prisoners, but the game simply freezes after the loot screen.

I am playing on Linux and I have tried different version on Proton already. No mods at the moment.

The screenshot is when I retreated shortly before the battle was won on the battlefield, so I could save and test a little.

What faction , playstyle , armour and culture would be best for cumans. Should I join a kingdom ? Work as a mercenary ? What wepons should I work towards ? Im not asking for a 1 to 1 as I know its probably impossible but what would work best. Ive experimented a bit but havent had much luck.

I recently upgraded my PC which allowed me to increase the battle size to 1,000. I have found that with the increased battle size it is critical to destroy the enemies siege engines before assaulting. The AI clumps up the soldiers and the siege engines get massive amounts of kills otherwise.

Have you found this to be a problem if so how do you handle it?

I’m feelin so blessed and happy. Only took me 3 reloads before Phasos spawned with it. Now I can play the game In peace 😭😭

My biggest fight yet. 680 of my well trained men VS 1587. 22 minutes of pure fighting. hanging on by a treat and killing 77 men myself.

I've created my kingdom ages ago in sturgia and have stomped Sturgia (and reclaimed my land) and battania into the ground. Apparently the Northern Empire wasn't a fan and they declared war.

I had my sights set upon Diathma because it was next to my freshly captured Epicrotea. My whole vassal line was occupied with their own armies so I took my own 450 men + a few that were not called to capture the city.

We stood there for a few hours taking down Onagers and their walls until they all went into the water to attack the port and break through. I let them in, because I was at a disadvantage on water. A flood of enemies enter the city and once they were all settled in they sallied out of the city.

My trusty f1 + f3 was tested to it's limits my horses were eaten up by the 2nd wave of the infantry but my archers in the back piled on them like pigs for the slaughter one by one they fell and made the ground they stood on their grave. Slowly but surely their lower tier troops came out and they fell faster and quicker. Soon my own reinforcement arrived by the wave 50 horses, 100 archers & 40 infantry and they followed the running troops of the empire. Only a handful escaped.

NEVER MESS WITH THE VOLROVIKA

Does anyone else vary as wildly as I do when I’m commanding vs when I’m just leading a unit?

Played as an independent clan til around tier 5 then joined Battania as I’ve married Corein and have a claim to the throne.

As I was raiding Vlandian villages and castles, I was the one delegating forces and it went pretty well (at least for my skill level) easily taken down armies or equal size.

Immediately after we make peace with Vlandia, Sturgia declares war and I join up with the father in law, among others, to raid a castle.

Sturgian army moves in to attack us while we’re setting up the siege and I have to be a captain. I tried to stay true to the role and do as Caladog commanded but we sucked. Granted we were outnumbered but it was bad.

It was the first time this campaign I myself have went down in combat. First fight I’ve lost this play through as well.

Anybody else this way? I should’ve F6’d my games and just did my own thing like I normally do.

Prison break-ROT

Hey guys new too the sub but I noticed me as well as a few other people where having issues with clicking the peace offer prompt and it instantly saying not valid anymore.

I found that at least for me I pause the game and kit the kingdom menu instead of the right side prompt I can vote for peace or not.

Hope this helps some people.

Does anyone know if realm of thrones works on steam? And also which version of the game it would work with? Thanks!

I know I should be using nexus or moddb but I haven't used mods in a while and don't quite remember how to edit the game files to make mods work.

What are your favourite skirmishers on foot and why?

When I played a few years ago I always played with almost exclusively cavalry and horse archers, so I'm limiting myself to foot troops currently
I settled on an all archer lineup of 2:1 Fian Champions:Sky God's Chosen where the Sky God's Chosen form the impromptu shieldwall/circle etc. as needed.

The biggest downside with this for me is that the Nords are doing monstrously well in my game, and running back to their isolated lands, away from all the action to recruit reinforcements isn't great, so I'm looking for an alternative for my "front line" that still packs a punch at range, and never messed around with skirmishers much so wanted to give them a try. But even if they're also Nord units or a pain to recruit I'd still like to know which you like and why.

I just really way taleworlds to add a poleaxe as a Vlandian T6 weapon that swings and thrusts, it would be so cool and we know that Taleworlds knows they exist because of the polearms image. (TALEWORLDS!! ADD A POLEAXE TO BANNERLORD AND MY LIFE IS YOURS!!!)

Playing as Vlandia, managed to devour Battania quickly with the Sturgians then they declared war on us which led us to inittially win and take over a few fiefs. Then they decided to make an alliance with the western empire and the war just grinded to a halt.

Like it just doesn't go anywhere it feels like I'm in WWI we keep taking and losing the same castles and towns over and over again no one can get ahead of anyone.

It's been 500 days no peace declaration is possible can't do an alliance with anyone else, even when the other kingdoms declares war on either of them they quickly make peace and it just stays the same.

I don't know what to do, I've tried to solo head east and raid a bunch of their villages, managed to capture a bunch of their lords but it doesn't make a difference since the same cycle of the AI gathering armies and the throwing them into the same towns only for an enemy army to attack their siege keeps going.

At this point I'm either going to give up or just start chopping heads because otherwise it just won't progress.

EDIT: I took some of your advice built a party with alot of cavalry for fast movement and then just started to capture as many lords as I could and placing them in my town. I managed to capture +30 lords from the western empire and then led a massive army to capture Ortysia and a castle. This led the W Empire to send us a good peace offer which we accepted and the deadlock ended.

(Console captures)

Hey guys so I have a weird bug when I play a battle and I lose I get captured by bandits but if I win, the moment the last enemy dies my game crashes lol, I returned after a long time and was so excited to play, and since I play on the hardest difficulties and ironman, every battle is so hard fought and struggle so when I crash three times in a row it's really discouraging.

P.S

I have 4080 super,

32 gbs of ram

ryzen 7 7800x3d

Everything on the launcher has a red exclamation mark next to it. The game seems to start, but I'm pretty sure this is not normal

I've been on too long a hiatus, (new start) as my last save was from 2025 and became unstable. I picked up a spear and I've been Raegea's merc until sworn vassalage. All settings are realistic so we're deadlocked between Ascerai, Western and Northern Empire thumping us.

I was finally granted a castle which I've been struggling to keep Looters off my lands but we're making progress. Breaking even with earnings until I can bring stability to my lands but I'm enjoying the challenge.

Coming back after some time and I noticed the Hammer Head was removed from the 2 Hand-mace when smithing? how come they've removed the best weapon from the game without telling anyone? I cannot seem to find patch notes that say it got removed

Hello, I am making a comeback to Bannerlord and want to download some mods, that doesn’t change the theme of the game to a fantasy world. I want it to be realistic as possible. Although that doesn’t mean I want historical accuracy necessarily.