I Used Robert The Bruce's Tactics To Dominate The Battlefield!

the shiltron a tightly packed formation that cannot be flanked it's particularly strong against Cavalry this tactic was used by Robert the Bruce at the Battle of Bannockburn where he defeated an English army that outnumbered him three to one let's jump right into the battle we're going four ranks deep with the Vanguard the right flank is going to be three ranks deep then with the Left Flank and of course the rear guard whatever is left one and a half we're gonna put our wrench units in the center and we're gonna protect them let's put them on Hulk Fire Let's also put them in Shield law formation we can use them to help reinforce either flank let's go ahead and start with the left and right flanks and if we need to we can always move them to the rear but this would be a good starting position so the main benefit of having a shield run is there's no flank so Cavalry excel at attacking you from the flight if you have no flank you have no weakness and we'll see if we can dominate these guys as you can see they start off with a massive contingent of Calvary they're going to split those into two groups most likely an attack from both flanks and then charge straight on with their infantry let's see how it goes and we gotta jump our guys to get in because that is a really really densely packed Shield wall like the shield wall is approaching they are going to hit us at a bit of a corner we're starting to get blank from two sides this is the power right here look at this just an Unstoppable Shield wall now there's going to be a few that get through you can see a few of them streaking through right here not a problem you can't stop everybody but we should be able to stop the vast majority of them look at that there's just horses everywhere there's no getting at our archers not today boys all right this side looks like it's loading up a bit more than than the right side we could shift some people let's just kind of let things play out yeah look at that they're just getting devastated now we're doing really well against the Cav my biggest concern here is against their infantry let's see how we're holding up against the Infantry it looks like we're holding our ground we're not really losing ground but we aren't necessarily gaining it so let's deal with their cavalry yeah look at that we probably need to step in and stab a few horses here now what we could do is let's reposition this side seems to be struggling a bit more let's go ahead and get let's move both of our crossbows they do have the pavis which is really really good against cab they're not going to do really much damage we'll move them back in hopefully that helps Shore up that that side of the shield Tron just Devastation everywhere there's horses everywhere there are a few people that do get in the middle but they don't uh they get mopped up fairly quickly and like I said oh that hurt yeah we could we can help a little bit from time to time now I've I've purposefully used a very low level character so we're gonna get destroyed if we try and get into too much combat so we'll pretty much ignore that but like I said you can see this formation is incredibly incredibly effective they very infrequently penetrated and when they did it was only with one or two units at a time but they weren't able to really do much damage with it now they do seem to be loading up mostly on this left side our right side isn't really taking too much damage and I'm looking around for Calvary we absolutely devastated their Calvary they don't really have much left so let's do this let's go and move our Shield Trend a little bit so left blank let's go and move them into a position here so we're going to advance them slightly group two I want them to take out these guys on the flanks and then we're gonna try and go after their archers and the rear guard did exactly what they're supposed to do let's get them moved up to the flank we're gonna go live formation with our crossbows let's go ahead and get them shooting back at these guys we'll put some damage out so five's gonna stay in our left group six is gonna stay on our right flank our group two cleared this side out perfect let's go into line formation so they can run a little bit faster when we're gonna need to catch that uh that massive group of archers here so let's go ahead and move these guys up group three is on that flank in position let's move them up as well yep group three is going oh group three my bad my bad not group three group four supposed to go group three is already engaged and we're gonna give actually line charge with our main group they seem to be holding up quite well here so we'll we'll take advantage of it oh look at that beautiful both blanks of The Shield Tron are now engaged get him boys so group two and three we're going to select them both give them the charge order and they should be able to handle a lot of those those ranged units now these if I wasn't such an idiot I would have taken them off of hold fire so now they can actually shoot back instead of just sitting there with their thumb and their bum my bad oh well it's not perfect but you know we'll make do right so they are retreating oh perfect perfect let's get let's get group three in position to intercept these guys we don't want them retreating the more people they have getting out the more we have to fight the back rows we really don't want that now this is group two let's go ahead and hold position here we need to maybe take a hill or something yeah they just ran right through information but we I believe we picked off the decent amount of them so we did okay all right so group one let's keep group one right here now that they don't have infantry that like they did before I think we can probably use a different formation here what we'll do is let's consolidate so group three and four are gonna move to group two so now we have a 150 and a 190 that's fine group one is the smaller group group two is going to be on the right here and we still have our crossbowmen in the back only one casualty out of those guys so they've they've held up incredibly well archers do a bit more damage but I find the crossbow men to be a bit more resilient in combat now they do have a little bit of Cavalry really not much though I'm not concerned at all about them now they're electing to keep one big group which allow us to maneuver a bit better let's actually get our group two into a wider flanking position I would rather have them Consolidated a bit more a little bit more like a square we can move and then we can reposition them as we see fit what I'd like to do is get them to come down off this hill not fight on the hill but maybe fight right at the base of the hill so that they don't really have a height Advantage but our crossbows will have good shots on them as they Crest I believe the technical term is silhouetting once they silhouette on that hill then we'll be able to get some easy shots so let's reposition our crossbows a little bit here and group six will move up slightly let's actually move these infantry over here we'll give the charge command out of the cavern contacted now they're splitting some of their group their troops over here so this is perfect they have group one we're gonna go Shield wall they should be able to take the brunt of that we're gonna we're gonna sweep their flanks with our our right flank these inventories should be able to roll up their archers pretty easily they'll hold the place they're outnumbered but they should be able to hold their ground and then like I said with the crossbows taking shots we should be in in pretty good shape here and what we're going to do since we heavily outnumber them right here we're just going to move straight past these guys they should be able to get kills as they walk past I just don't want to delay this anymore their archers are pretty deadly so let's get set up right in their formation we'll give the charge command once we get close and we are going to get shot here so let's back out okay they're leaving some guys in the dust that's not a problem oh yeah we'll get some two-handed ax hits oh we hit pretend damage not very strong all right well that's all right really the prize here is is these archers and they're falling back strategically which is fine we'll just keep moving through them yeah you can see we're taking heavy losses from these archers we really need to close the gap whoa and we're far enough away from the main group we can give the charge command and they should oh some of them are turning back see the probability charge command is sometimes they get confused it looks like they're going the right direction at least that's good all right let's go check in on our troops there's not a whole lot we can do there we gave them the command how are we holding up here we're still slightly in the lead here it looks like our crossbows are evening it out for us and what we should probably do is get these guys in a better position let's get them over here without running straight through and we'll do the same with with group six let's get them on the flank oh boy they got reinforcements we decimated their archers looks like but they've got reinforcement so we need we do need to pull back let's pull these guys back yeah that's one thing about fighting these big battles you got to be really careful because it's real easy to get tunnel vision and then run into a disaster like that so good thing we caught it [Music] all right there we go we're pouring crossover bolts right into their back now oddly enough they're reinforcing from our rear I don't know why that is that's kind of strange uh what we're gonna do is we're gonna Shield ball we'll hold fire and we'll see if they can hold their ground now group two is going to form the ridge right here all right group one is completely done with that battle let's go ahead and get them into line formation again so they can move a little faster if we can flank these guys we need to deal with this first and then we can get back into position and deal with these guys now these crossbowmen are free to run now it looks like all right we're gonna go and give the charge command I think we're in a good enough shape here we can afford to do it and let's get these crossbows into a good position they're just kind of sitting there for now let's get them through this this little Gap we'll set him up on a ridge here and maybe exchange some shots with these they are heavily outnumbered so that might be a tough one we do have Avis Shields we will have some decent defense against them you know what we can do we don't need to Skirmish with them we can just get some bolts right into the rear into the rear flank of these infantry all right they're taking aim already as they move so this is perfect yeah they're just gonna pour it on thick yeah we're taking heavy fire not much we can do about it all right group one is free group six yeah they took heavy casualties let's actually keep them in reserve they're gonna get just you know absolutely destroyed here all right we pretty much cleared out everybody from here so what we're gonna do is let's set up two lines all right inventory gonna form two lines we got one crossbow group right here another crossbow right here on the right flank and we're just gonna I think we'll Skirmish with them a little bit we have a significant quality Advantage now the first one or two waves are always going to be their best troops and we've dealt with them quite effectively we still have our Force intact so now I think we can afford to play a bit more defensive and just let them come to us now they do have a decent amount of cab alive still so what we're going to do let's actually pull back let's break off 20 troops we'll pull group three back here these are going to be just a handful of our spear guys let's see what they got chill ball let's get them in line formation so they can move back here boys we're gonna try and secure the flank yeah see we got they're lining up for another charge so if we can get these guys up here in time that would be absolutely lovely oh they're gonna charge into the rear of our infantry that's I guess better than yeah here we go we got him just in time so they're gonna leave they're gonna leave our archers alone our crossbowmen all right these guys are on fire uh hold the fire let's go and fire them at will again I don't know why I keep doing that now we pretty much devastated their their Cavalry we're okay to move a little bit let's get these guys into a better position and what we're going to do is we're going to peel off a few more here let's peel off maybe 30 more and we're going to do the same with group two let's peel off maybe 50. we're gonna go live formation we're gonna put them on the right flank all right group crease left blank group four is right flank we're gonna push them over there and we're gonna we're gonna try and hit their archers from two sides they're exchanging quite effectively with our range units and we don't want that but let's go ahead and get back there and disrupt the line I can get in there group four should be over oh we just got shot in the face oh no there goes our well there goes our tactics we can't really control at this point it's just whatever happens happens what I was trying to do is exactly like this but on both sides looks like that's not going to happen it doesn't matter this side the right their Left Flank our right flank it looks like it's free fall at this point actually both sides are in free fall but there's they're not going to be fight back effectively at this point so let's go ahead and speed this battle up let's see what the uh the final outcome ends up being so you can see we have almost half of our troops oh no okay well history has changed Robert the Bruce died at the Battle of Bannockburn it is what it is huh I have a mod that increases the death rate of all Nobles and companions in the game and it looks like we struck out on this one we got shot in the face let's compare these results to the famed Sun Tzu tactic F1 F3 charge command the AI rushes in blindly cutting down the enemy but also sustaining heavy losses wave after wave are sent in stacking on losses that are not sustainable another big issue the AI has is dealing with ranged units rather than maneuver to a better position they charge straight in and take shots from the flanks in the end it's a total loss for Robert the Bruce a huge difference from the 50 casualties sustained using the shiltron formation the shiltron is extremely effective when fighting against Cavalry and when fighting outnumbered but is vulnerable against range units next week we'll be looking at the inverted Crescent formation used by Hannibal at the Battle of Kenai thanks to all the channel members and patreon supporters we don't take any sponsorship money so your support makes this channel stay afloat

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Published: Sat Feb 25 2023