The Strengths and Weaknesses of Battania in Mount And Blade 2 Bannerlord! (beginners guide)

hey guys and welcome back to another episode of mountain blade to banner lord now today we're going to be looking at the strengths and weaknesses of the battanian kingdom so king kaladog and his britannian forces all of his laws they live in quite a uh a horrible position within the world of car radio and i'm sure most of you noticed throughout your own playthroughs that betania usually gets picked on and beaten up quite badly now that is because they are situated in the middle of enemies on all sides now it's always every single time i've had it at least velandia just kicks their ass they will always take maranath and sean on i've always always have this they uh sometimes they take pen cannock and don glanis but most of the time it's this side um sturgeon is usually at war with botania as well and they end up capturing a lot of their lands sometimes with tania makes a decent push against the western empire and might take some of their lands um but it's it's quite rare to be honest um but this is one of the main weaknesses of betania so if it's if you don't reinforce it like if you don't join their faction and fight alongside them they will just get beaten around the map and usually just succumb to these kind of three settlements left and yeah so if you join them you can help them go so far and they're and i'm absolutely amazing faction it's just they're in a terrible position they've got enemies on all sides they're literally in a circle and have enemies coming down from every angle on them um so they don't really get a chance to make a push outwards but as far as the actual faction itself the lords the troops um the actual settlements themselves everything about this faction is absolutely amazing um and they have the best archer in the whole entire game and we'll see if we can jump in here and see if they got one they do so the highborne youths which eventually down their entire tree will eventually become the battalion fian champions now these guys are fierce opponents they carry a woodland longbow as you can see here very high damage um very fast missile speed and it's incredibly accurate i know you can't quite see it there but also carry two stacks of bodkin arrows so obviously very accurate and very high damage with those and that they carry a two-handed sword so these guys are not bad in a melee fight either these guys can handle themselves they've got incredible armor too um look at that body armor of 48 which is absolutely brilliant for an archer at least um yeah these guys these guys kick ass they are absolutely phenomenal archers they you know they always hit their targets okay well i mean that's not true um but they're pretty damn accurate if you know what i mean they're really really really good and also they have a lot of ammo on them as well and like i said they're just incredible at melee combat as well with their two-handed sword they can really really kick ass and they're without a doubt they're the best archers within the game if not the best ranged unit i'd even argue to be honest um they're longbow they've got more or less a similar range to a crossbow and they're damaged in their speed they're just absolutely brilliant troops you couldn't you literally cannot get better archers than these guys and they're phenomenal now if we have a look at the um the rest of the tree so one of the besides the best archers being a very strong strong thing going for the battanians another thing they've got going for them is their flexibility with weaponry so these guys are amazing infantry the only thing they don't have going towards them is their lack of armor for their actual footmen um but what they do have like i said is very flexible weaponry so these guys are all round really really good and quite fearsome infantry all together now you've got your just standard swordsman shields you work through the battalion clown warrior um one thing i should mention before we get through this these guys are absolutely amazing at anti-cavalry um as you can see just like valentia most of them carry pole arms um especially when you get down the forksman their specialty is killing cavalry they have this amazingly long pike thing it doesn't quite show it there but it's absolutely amazing it's brilliant it's bloody long it does some serious damage and they carry two lots of throwing axes as well so these guys will shred cavalry and i really try i just try and avoid using cavalry against the smithsonian's if ever i fight them because they just die straight away you just it's not worth it you cannot pierce through their formations when they've got these guys going for them um most of their units if not all of their units have javelins so i've looked here um yeah there oh sword have javelins we've got the forksman two sets of throne axes and their wildlings which also carry another very high long fine spear with a javelin so and i mean these guys as well another spear so all of their infantry um britannia enforcements they've just got a one-handed sword in fact that's probably the only unit okay in these guys there's only these two units i think that don't carry some kind of spear but he's got a giant axe um sorry these two units i think he's got an axe as well doesn't quite sure how long it is but i'm pretty sure these guys do quite a bit damage and they've got um harpoons as well so they've got javelins as well so they're still good anti-cavalry either way i didn't realize that these guys only had the one sword so battalion foxmans aren't that good but once you get them up to a veteran forksman they can really start kicking ass um as far as cavalry these guys don't obviously don't have the best cavalry in the world but they they're still pretty damn good um you got to give them that they don't carry any javelins on their cavalry but they do have very long lances or spears i suppose that yeah spear um yeah they have really good spears they've got very good armor their horses also have very good armor and they just generally have quite good horses too um and the mounted skirmishers as well now these guys carry javelins i think these guys are probably actually better than the horsemen um because they carry their javelins they have about the same weaponry without the spear but they can get real up close to the enemy do a lot of damage and probably better with their sword and shield with the um than the patented horsemans with their spears but it's their javelins that make these guys so good you get a little group of petanian mounted skirmishes together and you can send them around to flank the enemy and they can get so many kills in just one quick volley of javelins and same if they're going up against enemy cavalry these guys just shred them they're absolutely brilliant um but yeah so these guys are just fantastic at anti-cavalry uh just like the vladimir's as well they're quite good in sieges especially siege defense with these guys and their titanium earth swarm these guys are pretty damn good they're not as good as legionaries but they're still pretty good they're obviously very flexible with a lot of different kinds of weaponry they've got their broad sword um javelins and we've got some two-handed guys in here as well which not a lot of actions don't really put much of an emphasis on but there's these guys um if you do any tournaments in the tania you usually find that most of the weapons they use are two-handed so these guys are quite focused on their two-handed weapons and pole arms and i think even there yeah there are battalion volunteers use sledgehammers as well so they're very much focused on it whoever we know is that so the battalion wildlings again these guys carry javelins long spear they're not too dissimilar from the oh swan to be honest they are very very alike in many ways i'd say the ice won't probably have heavier armor where you've got 53 there um no about the same actually i think in fact are they yeah they're about the same um these i think these guys are actually faster they and they have more of a focus so they've got an axe i think because they're wildlings they're kind of their job is to be a skirmisher so they run and use their javelins more so um the javelins are definitely better um but honestly they're about the same to be honest there's not much difference between them um yeah these guys have an axe but like i said that's kind of like the flexible weaponry being shown there so you've got your infantry with sword shield spear javelin and then you've got your obtaining wildlings who are just as good as the top tier infantry so you have two choices but these guys carry a giant axe a giant spear a shield and javelins and then obviously you've got your pikeman your forksman and just all round very very good well-trained infantry and as you can see on the main troop tree there's not actually any ranged because most these guys carry javelins um but the reason there's no range is because they have the best archer in the game that's why you can't get them but that is also as much as it is a strength it is also a downfall now generally i find it quite easy to find the highborne arches and you'll spot them very easily when you're in recruitment because they'll always be the only archers you can get and so if you ever see any archers it is the noble troop of betania and they are definitely worth getting but obviously you might have to improve a lot of relationships with people before you get them so they're not the easiest to get but they are bloody good but that is probably a strength and a weakness of betania is the fact that they don't really have any range that you can get easily it's quite a bit of a work to get them but um what you do have working for you in ranged is the fact that most of them carry javelins but obviously that's a lot shorter range um but these guys because their armor isn't weak but it's lighter it means they're a lot faster moving on the battlefield than most other factions so you've got to kind of use that you've got to change up your tactics than what you would use with most other factions and um really use an emphasis on your rfg if you're going to be part of this faction you mostly just have to have your infantry and you've got to move quick and you've got to know how to flank out your enemy and make sure to avoid their range because you have none of your own so if you're going to play these guys you've got to play it aggressively and just try and move as fast as possible against your enemy um but if these guys get into close cause of combat you should come away quite victorious they're absolutely fantastic in um in melee combat very very formidable um so yeah moving on i think that's the um the major points that we can cover there about the um the infantry of the battanians and like i said biggest biggest weakness easily is their strategic location it's just it's awful they get absolutely annihilated i think this is something that they are looking at changing and making it so wars with britannia aren't so frequent um because they do usually just get dominated very quickly and early on but like i said if you join them it's a brilliant faction to go ahead with and you can really start pushing their borders quite quickly just using their troops and so yeah they're absolutely fantastic in that and also i think it has changed now but a very good place to trade in as well if you get your workshops built up in betania in um certain settlements obviously not the ones that usually get taken over but um you can get things like pottery shops here and they generally do yield quite a fair bit of money every day to be honest usually within 200 to 300 not the best um but pretty damn good and there's a lot of other things you can get here as well that work quite well um but yeah that's probably another strength is if you are looking for recruiting troops their villages are very tightly packed together as you can see one two three four five and then you've got your two towns so if you'd just been defeated or if you needed more troops you could literally just very very quickly and briefly just head across here and then head down and that's what six places seven places visited straight away and then you just gotta go over here and they're very tightly packed together very nice and easy to get to unlike somewhere i mean there's not much of a difference in it but you've got your three here and then one here and they're just a little bit a little bit more sparse a little bit more time consuming to get to and whereas here yeah they're right next to each other very tight tightly packed so very easy to get new recruits and your infantry together especially if you own one of these places and you want to boost the garrison you do not have to travel far to get those men at all so that's also a very nice benefit of this um but yeah one thing i would suggest if you do play with betania and you want to use them then you should focus on taking out valentia first because if you can secure one side then this faction is unstoppable if you can just secure a flank for this faction they will take them up easily easily done um because their troops are just so so good but they just can't handle being at wars with so many other factions um most their lords fight on foot as well as you'll see as they move around the map you'll see them on here and most of them will be walking not on horseback as well and because a lot of their if not all of their lords actually do fight on horseback this does make them a little bit slower than most other factions on the field because they're very much more footman based so they will move a lot slower i'll see if we can find yeah there's one up there i don't know if you saw it patron he is yeah walking on foot there we go so like i said they're a little bit slower on the field and this does end end up in them getting caught out quite a lot and with other factions especially when armies start coming down because the enemy armies can even be faster than the single parties running around that does happen quite a lot actually because i think they're under siege by sturgeon as well so they're being attacked from both ends it's really not going well for them and the western empires are all over them yeah never guessed um but yeah so i think that's most the strengths and weaknesses for this faction really i don't know as much else i can cover for these guys um yeah i think that is everything really so like i said what they are best at is their arches absolutely phenomenal archers the infantry are very good and infantry absolutely brilliant at anti-cavalry one place where they fall down is their lack of options for ranged and obviously when you do get them absolutely brilliant but they are a little bit harder to get and their cavalry not the best in the game it really isn't their horsemen aren't worth it but their mounted skirmishes do bring it back up just a little bit because they are quite good um quite good horsemen very very very very good with their javelins um but there are definitely better cavalry that you can get and if you can pop over to valendia you can get some very good heavy cavalry for yourself as well but you'll probably be at war with them if you join in britannia so i wouldn't risk it too much um but otherwise guys yeah i hope you enjoyed this so this has answered some of your questions about the tanya or giving you some ideas about them and if you're thinking of doing a play through them i hope this helps a little bit let me know what you think and let me go know if you agree or disagree with anything i've said in there and uh yeah if you've got any comments or suggestions tips anything that make sure to leave them down in the comments below and make sure also to go and join the discord the link is in the description down below and uh yeah i'll see you in the next episode guys oh yeah make sure you subscribe as well if you 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Length: 15min 3sec (903 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 23 2021