Bannerlord | Best Troops For Each Class In 2023

Battanian fians, just them, nothing else. Get two hundred or so and you can beat most other armies that are worth double your number. They are good against cavalry because of heir long two handed weapons, and also great in melee. The biggest advantage they have is that they will blacken the sky with arrows before you can reach them with anything else, and horses don't have shields, so they are pretty defenseless against them, even the best mounted archers will be completely screwed when going against them.

Sturgian Shield Wall charge💀☠

Fun fact sturgian line breakers have a special trait that lets them deflect arrows

In KG's defense they are the only passable dismounted unit Khuzaits get for seiges, apart from hiring other factions or cashing in mercs.

Idk if it’s the newer update but I find cross bows are GREAT, vlandian sharpshooters seem to mulch enemies, I used 100 of them being supported by 100 spearman, we had to fight 300 legionaries and we pulled out on top, a shield wall front backed by the crossbows who then can also enter melee fairly well is great

Yo, can a high knowledge individual answer this for me? I hear most everyone say Imperial Cats are the best elite melee cav.
This is despite the fact that they get consistently and decisively out performed by both Druz Champs and Banner Guys in auto-resolve and irl post battle stats?
Whats the deal? What are the Bannerlord professors looking at that I am missing?

Does this stuff apply to console?

If you got ohans guard and fian champions those are your shock troops

Banner knights are better with all cav more hp, more charge damage. Hp makes up for armor. With cav u charge pull back charge again……. Ez imperial cat are so bad at charges

As a starting player, I have a question. Is there an easier way to split up your infantry squads when commanding? Or will I always have to manually transfer the troops into different squads? That would seem to be(and is having to do that already when assaulting bandit hideouts) a huge time dump. More so than actually playing the game.

I’m asking as a new Xbox player trying to enjoy the single player side of the game too.

Favourite troop: khan's guard.

They're too multifunctional in terms of roles they can fill well on the battlefield, but also on the campaign map. More notably. They profit from mounted and ranged perks reducing their upkeep and increasing the security they provide as a garrison. The only drawback is their recruitment might be a bit hard. Considering you need to go over to khuzait lands

Best foot troops, the Fian Champions are the best. No questions asked, these troops are good archers and good infantry! A group of 40 will do some real damage that even Sturgian infantry will struggle to match

crossbows are supposed to be good against heavy armored units. I dont know if they actually perform better in this situatuation. pls test

the best way to balamce the khans guard in my opinion:
Make the AI better with thrustable polearms. That way the other cavalary have a chance against them.

I think the versatility of the druzhinnik champion is a little missed here. They have incredible Athletics and one handed skills (because of that sacrifice to the Polearm skill) and makes it incredibly fun to use them as dragoons for the purpose of eliminating or even just tying down enemy archers, or making a break in the back of infantry formations

Battanian Fian - Archers

Imperial Legionary - Shields Infantry

Imperial Elite Menavilation - Shock Troops


Imperial Elite Catahaphract - Horse Melee

Crusade Khan’s Guard - Horse Archer

my friend who suggested bannerlord to me said "khans guard are essentially medieval navy seals"

Ok this was cool but what about the realm of thrones mod? I’m kidding that would take hours.😂

The ranking is fair for what is "best" in a literal sense. But wage efficiency as well as paying for upgrades is another factor that can play into what is best. Fians are by far the most expensive archer army to maintain, and there's a video showcasing that forest bandits are far better than Fians if both comparisons use the same amount of wage.

a hundred battanian fian champions are unfair to every kind of army, especially in siege, so, kin em' for late game.

P.S. Battania Forever

Bro i wiped Caladog's whole army with just Khans guard couple of line breakers and my wife

KHANS GUARD Also the top kuzait melee unit forgot what its called but they are better than I expected and love using them

My opinion
Best infantry: darkhans
best horse archers: heavy horse archers
best archers: batanian fian champions
best cavalary: imperial elite katafrakht.

Its sad, how imperial is always good.

They need to add something so the Sturgians actually have an advantage over something, they are supposed to be the vikings of bannerlord yet they are pretty weak in every category.

Nice vid it helped thanks

fian champion is so op. i killed all the lords and their rebels with 200 fian champions and 250 oathsworns :D

My list:

Archers:
- Battanian Fian Champion
- Aserai Master Archer
- Imperial Palatine Guard

Shield infantry:
- (Dismounted) Sturgian Druzhinnik Champion
- Aserai Veteran Infantry
- Imperial Legionary

Shock infantry
- Sturgian Heroic Line Breaker
- Imperial Elite Menavliaton
- Aserai Mameluke Palace Guard

Cavalry
- Vlandian Banner Knight
- Imperial Elite Cataphract
- Aserai Vanguard Faris


Not including Horse Archers and Crossbowmen because we know who they are and they have no competition

whgy does everyone do the best of the best warrriors. no one keeps an army filled with top tier guys.. you can't sustain it at all without going broke.

So basically Imperials and Khuzaits are just overall the strongest factions.

I exclusively get units that turn into kharn guard they just so OP the "circle thing" has gotten me through some tough ones! omw to 300 but my party capacity is only 250 atm and they keep dying, 10 every few battles takes its toll but even in small numbers their KDR is 5 to 1.
They need war horses to upgrade past tier II which is pricey but still makin bank so its all g.

I think it's not quite fair that khan guards where included outside of thier category, while other cavalry didn't, druzhinik champions would be no.1 front line infantry

I once did a Khuzait campaign recruiting ONLY Khan's gaurds... was the easiest campaign I ever did they are just so good at every important role you need filled

Sturgia infantry axe men are awesome I have 350 troops and can win a fight against 950 troops

best strategy was made by me the first day , and its very simple
delete game , warband is better , this one is made and balanced by kids who cant wipe their own ass and would suck anyone's cock to get sales.

My problem is money.

Aserai Vanguard Faris got an upgrade regarding their armors an using their javelins they are VERY versatile and a strong overall unit nowadays imo

TW has absolutely no empire/khuzait biases i swear

Yea I love the video and (kinda) super agree with these rankings, though I wished you had considered the option of dismounting Druzinniks to be used as infantry, with them having the highest skills when compared to other infantry and the highest athletics when compared to other cavalry and I would have at least liked to hear why they aren’t very good as infantry if that was the case

IMO- fians, sturgian heavy spear, cataphract, Kahn’s guard

Excellent work! Keep it up!

"do not need the best troop to win..." what a joke hahaha

You missed skirmisher cavalry category

You should have tested the archers in melee too 👍

They are the best... by stats only. Not in practice.

Good story for why I recommend a few Banner Knights in your personal retinue if you’re not on foot. I just started playing last week and one of my first big army battles was joining a Vlandian crusade against the Aesari, their 1300 or so outnumbered our 1000, among which around 100 were mine.

I’d noticed my personal forces were joining the battle in a trickle, so held them back to build up while I rode ahead to fight with the rest of the Vlandians, who as expected were worn down until they routed. Meanwhile I’d set up my guys on an excellent position on a hill, good diversity of infantry, archers, and cavalry, and we fought so long and cut that 1300 down to a few hundred maybe, and maybe if I tried again I could have done it.

Then there was a point I noticed they just kept coming and coming and everyone else was dead or running. All my companions dead, and what was left of my mostly top tier force. All but 4 Banner Knights riding to the death by my side like something out of a legend after everyone else ran, continuing to get kills in this big swarm of enemy units, and so I kept going with them for a good 10 minutes after, fighting cavalry as their infantry kept reforming and trying to chase us down, until archers finally wore my health and downed me. The knights were still going, still fighting.

Vladian for win

Such a good explanation of shield infantry!
Also, Elite Cataphracts are an absolute menace. If you're fighting again an empire faction, you have to have some kind of dedicated shock troop to deal with how tanky the cataphracts are. I've had some fights where almost 1/2 of the enemy force was cataphracts.

banner knights have better skills and higher health

bullshit empire has best calvary