How Good is CAVALRY ONLY In Mount and Blade II: Bannerlord?

cavalry is good when you using horse archers supported by constant charge, retreat, charge, retreat. If you want to be extremely efficient, literally use mongol tactics

if you were to do a cav only you should be splitting them into 2 or 3 units and charging from multiple sides, you also need to micro it.

Just recently I had 75 banner nights in a normal campaign and iversed an army of 700 versus my 260 Max difficulty and it was incredible. It came down to the wire. My '75 bannonites killed 300 troops. The army had pretty much no cavalry and a s*** ton of range. So I snuck my cavalry behind their main lines pretty far away so they couldn't get shot. Can my archers on the right side to Target the shields and sent my infantry in shield mode? Just waiting. I ended up winning by myself at the end. My archers killed pretty much I killed just shy of 100 and my infantry picked up the rest. Incredible

You fucking suck at commanding cavalry units stop doing fucking hit and runs and yes I know this is a 3 year old video but this guy pisses me off too much

Welp, as someone who runs with nothing but cavalry, it's the best! It's like: Finally, game developers who recognize that cavalry dominated the battlefield!

So, according to me, this game deserves more appreciation!

I managed to get an 300 man army of imperial elite cataphracts. I am literally unstoppable. You cant even run from me. Pro-tip if you do this dont bother attacking, you loose less men just sending yhe troops.

Ask for tightest formation ask follow and lead them 15-20 meters and give charge command for them to couch enemies. Give follow me command behind enemy lines but better retreat them lateraly command. Rinse and repeat , try also to couch together with them, take a couch lance. Try to flank them when they are many, go direct charge if they arent spearmen...

I used realistic battle mod with bannerlord difficulty

By using a combo of vlandia’s best horses, best imperial horses and the best horse archers…
Pretty much never lost… Rarely even had troops get knocked out

i think that if the caverly is more together and is player conntrolled they may be able to do more damage.

Cavs are broke nowadays 😂 I run first 2 rounds as cav only and some 3rd rounds massacre 450 troops losing at most 20 then come back in endless wave homogeneous troops setting after enemies cavs dead and wipe easily 2000 man army's out with 800 on realistic with minor management, just don't assume you can just click charge and let them go

The cavalry AI is so poorly designed, that having cavalry is actually detrimental to your army because you have to micromanage them the entire battle for them to be even slightly effective. The only reason you want have cavalry, is to distract enemy cavalry. But even horse archers are more suited for that job. All cavalry in bannerlord are just…. Terrible.

It slaughters... if you f2 only. You control the charge... not letting them do it is better

Cavalry is actually balanced in Bannerlord?

In Warband you can take down armies 3x your size if your entire army is cavalry.

9/10 times the enemy just charges at you with no strategy and your 30 horses can just run over them.

And that one time they make a line of infantry with crossbow men behind. The crossbow men will shoot at you 3 times before you close in on them and run over the infantry.

First time they shoot they will miss
2nd time they will do like 7 damage to a horse and the third time will be point blank shots.

The thick and fasts are coming in thick and fast :p

Man a lot has changed in two years for the console release. My calv have much better AI now that actually tend to couch, they form decent lines and will sort of regroup to charge again though that's not perfect by any means. Also, they represent themselves much better on foot now, as they should, so if I charge into a tight formation and they stop us up, I just dismount them and they tend to start wrecking everyone. Mainly Banner Knights, occasionally Elite Cataphract.

Holding them on loose and follow increases their chance to actually hit and not get stuck in eachother and you can pull them out more easily

I'd love an updated answer :) I'm sure a lot's changed since!

I use around 40-50 cav , 100 ranged and about 60 infantry. Pretty good balance except for seiges.

just a thing here cause it seems no one have notices how to use calvary properly , theres 2 ways really efective to use them one of them is to spread them to make a line of 2 (one on front one on the back) no more than 2 otherwise you will have a ball of calvary and their attack range will go to the same place doing 30% of their total number damage , other way is making 2 groups of calvary , 1 to the left spread out , other to the right spread out too , first make one of them charge and when the enemy turn to the side of that calvary their practically giving you the back , now make the second calvary also charge and you will get many crits for backstabs , also never start a war with a frontal calvary assault , better use a mix of spearman with swordmans , your swordmans will keep the enemy busy and the spearman will keep pushing the enemy back with their spears, your basically making a wall there , hope someone new to the series of M&B get this tips useful and dont be shy and try new formations you will be surprised how creative you can use formations :D

I just make my Cav follow me as I lead them from the flank. I would leap over spearmen to make sure I don't get stopped in my tracks. Easier this way than constantly pin pointing marks

You have to hit and run. Charge them, let them run through command them behind the enemy and let them regroup. Then charge again, over and over.

The only time you can really counter an overwhelming force is with ranged units... Not horses. 90 looters vs 30 xbows is nothing. But 90 looters and 30 banner knights and I guarantee ya there will be losses.

Cav in Bannerlord is not the same as in Warband. This time foot troops actually do something. And having mixed arms army is a stable way to go. I mean Vlandian Champion charged rectruits and mostly tier 1/2 troops and got what 3-4 kills on that first charge.

I role with a full horseback Imperial army. Half are Horse Archers, and the other half are Cav

i prefer the empire horsemen, since they use their swords far more often, i use them for pursuit, and for attacking the enemies behind when they are charging my archers, of course i personally lead them, since they drop like flies when i don't. 200 archers, 50 horsemen, works great,

To see how effective it is look at Khuzait on campaign map. They are beating up raging war in parallel with Sturgians and all sort of Empire.

I have found when using like 200 cav, if you puts some like knights into a custom group, and champions or something in just cavalry section, you can command them more tactically, and it's much more effective.

So Empire Menavilions, Vlandian Pikemans, and Other Speary Bois will absolutely Destroy Cavalry if Using Shield Wall and Facing the Enemies direction.

In a Real Battle, Im pretty sure the Stampede will Do it for the Peeps, But in Bannerlorrd, Pretty sure it'll Kill atleast a Guaranteed 100+ If Most enemies are Peasants With Spears.


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Cavalry is getting less effective with raising enemy morale, which makes the romans their worst nightmare, and vlandians are no shock cavalry, what you did is a job for cataphractii, while knights are good engaging in a battle allready going

updated info just did a custom battle 500 banner knights vs 500 pikemen in shieldwall and square formations and they barely lost 20 against 500 sargents they won without casualties. massed pikemen are supposed to counter cavalry its why the sqare formation was invented and used untill the cavalry became tanks.

Aserai vanguard faris are pretty good, try them out

is this on lowest difficulty?

this video is pointless now. cav has gotten even worse

Cavalrymen shouldnt be used like charge in Face. Its should be used to Flanking. And charging from Back or side.

This why Only Cavalry didnt work gr8. Combine this with some Bat Champions and some ez to get infantry. Like Empire Legioner and This type of armys can beet enemy 1 to 10 ez

The cav ai is stupid but honestly in this eras warfare, infantry was the backbone. If cav just charges in on shield wall the casualties to horse and rider from spearmen would be devastating. Alot of times infantry would march towards one another, archers would take shots from both sides at range until their own men were at risk of being hit and when the infantry first clash, casualties were usually low. Literally just shield walls where the opposing infantry tries to poke at each other to make some kind of hole. Where cav was used most successfully was trying to flank the opposing shield wall and making it collapse so that their infantry can push forward. Also if a gap was made during the clash of infantry vs infantry, calvary could push through and cause havoc behind the opposing line. If an army was able to successfully do either of these it usually meant victory. An all calvary army would just not be successful in a head on clash with infantry. If push came to shove the infantry would just put itself into a circular formation with their spears braced behind their shields and a melee cav couldn't approach without loss of horse. Calvary realistically would be used to flank an opposing army bearing down on yours, chasing after routed armies or performing short range charges and fallbacks on the edges of the enemy army.

You have to cheat to get this many squires, right? It can't be possible to find all these squires the normal way.

well not play it yeat but,i remember a round when i was play warband,i got team almost full of nord veteran archer and few huscarl,encountered twice as much force as mine，i let my army get closed to deal with cavalry and i almost fail,in the most hardest diffculty,i want to say if infanty unit were close and in good level,cavalry still have possibility got roast.

“They’re kinda perched up on the hill but I don’t think it’ll help that much”

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To be fair, you are also using the cavalry a bit wrong. They are shock troops, you use them to cycle charge. When they are all bunched up in the enemy group they not only loose their biggest advantage, they also start blocking each other. You should regroup them immediately after the first wave hits to keep their momentum going.

mounted archer is better. no need cavalries. the attack speed and attacking amount is much more on footmen. while cavalries are just charging and hit a bunch which half of them landing on shields. you just need a squat for charge on archers and micro them on battle. this is most effective. i tried every combination. i lose more men on cavalry only squads. best destructive force is footmen + archer combination.

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I have mostly cavalry only, but I mix Vlandians with Khuzan and I have a little infantry force acting like a little tank in the square formation, so my cavalry gets to attack behind the enemy more easily.

If you used charge pull back charge pull back you fuck up the enemy no matter what

Medieval battles in a nutshell were just cavalry lmao

I haven’t played bannerlord yet (warband only) but I have never used calvary in a mass like that. Calvary always charges in a single line, whether in reality or in warband.

Back 9 months later banner knights and champions get a sick new helmet and cavalry are pretty good now, they’re insane at breaking up a solid line, in preparation for a infantry charge

What if you combine them with Archer Cavalary? Like, Well... The Hunns of Attila/Dschingis Khan?

Imperial Cavalry is better because they're the tankiest, still tho, I'd recommend using them to charge into their range units after you've finished their range you can charge their infantry from behind so that your infantry makes it impossible for them to use their spears.

the armor in this game is also worthless.