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How do you deal with 800 men armies outnumbered 8 to 1?
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vemerce
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If you've joined a faction, go into the Kingdom menu, click on the "Armies" tab and build your own.
If you've not joined a faction, you're going to need to get your troops as strong as possible and use the terrain and tactics to wipe out the enemy. It's hard, but it can be done. I regularly wipe out armies of 1000+ with my own party of 316 troops.
It helps that once you beat a lord or lady once, they typically return with a 95% peasant army that your experienced soldiers can just melt.
If you've not joined a faction, you're going to need to get your troops as strong as possible and use the terrain and tactics to wipe out the enemy. It's hard, but it can be done. I regularly wipe out armies of 1000+ with my own party of 316 troops.
It helps that once you beat a lord or lady once, they typically return with a 95% peasant army that your experienced soldiers can just melt.
It gets easier when the war drags on and most of the AI lords have armies mainly comprised of recruits that they don't bother to feed. Then you can kill a quarter of them and the majority will rout.
MabEagLe
Recruit
there is many factor on ur party size
first u can use ur infelunce point to put policy "noble retinue" which increase ur party by 50
second u can find companion with high "steward" skill and make him quartermaster
third if u have ur own kingdom by using this policy "royal gaurd" which increase ur party by 80
my own party now is 325
have fun
first u can use ur infelunce point to put policy "noble retinue" which increase ur party by 50
second u can find companion with high "steward" skill and make him quartermaster
third if u have ur own kingdom by using this policy "royal gaurd" which increase ur party by 80
my own party now is 325
have fun
Zilego
Recruit
I'm managing with a line of archers with a shield wall in front of them. Have the shield wall engage once they hit it. Having more experienced troops helps too. You can also fully retreat and still go back to the engagement screen to fight again (to save battle progress and refill arrows). I run with a giant glaive on a horse, so I can take out anyone I need to. I've been running on realistic difficulty, so this strategy should work for you. Also when you start your own kingdom, there's a policy edict you can do they makes the kingdom leader able to hold a much larger army. Grab that.
Well assuming you have good heavy shield infantry and decent archers, that's all you need.
Having pikemen or spearmen, and cav is a huge bonus tho.
I'll tell my front line to face at a angle / to the enemy and constantly keep moving them so they engage in the middle of the formation, and lure them away to the left or right.
Then i flank wide with archers and watch them all die. it happens pretty fast.. If you place your archers directly behind the front line, they'll only attack cav above the battle formation (If you want to focus down the cav...) They are also going to be attack by the cav once they charge in..
It also heavily depends who you are facing... If you are vs a cav heavy army.. well. I hope you have some pikemen or spearmen... get in a box, flank with archers and cav and prey. (Kill leader asap).
If you are vs mass mounted archers... find a way to have them waste all their ammo without taking too much damage. DO NOT CHASE THEM. It's a trap. They will pick off your army if you try to chase.
In the other mount and blades, I had my full infantry army camp the edge of the map and watch their mounted archers "crash" into the wall, and then get surrounded my angry axe people.
If you have cav or the micro skill to command them, have them attack their archers after the front clashes.
Try to find their commander ASAP and KILL HIM/HER personal like. But I don't usally join in the fight at the large of battle. I't better to command.
Once you have everything in place, then you can jump in the fun.
That's how I do.
Having pikemen or spearmen, and cav is a huge bonus tho.
I'll tell my front line to face at a angle / to the enemy and constantly keep moving them so they engage in the middle of the formation, and lure them away to the left or right.
Then i flank wide with archers and watch them all die. it happens pretty fast.. If you place your archers directly behind the front line, they'll only attack cav above the battle formation (If you want to focus down the cav...) They are also going to be attack by the cav once they charge in..
It also heavily depends who you are facing... If you are vs a cav heavy army.. well. I hope you have some pikemen or spearmen... get in a box, flank with archers and cav and prey. (Kill leader asap).
If you are vs mass mounted archers... find a way to have them waste all their ammo without taking too much damage. DO NOT CHASE THEM. It's a trap. They will pick off your army if you try to chase.
In the other mount and blades, I had my full infantry army camp the edge of the map and watch their mounted archers "crash" into the wall, and then get surrounded my angry axe people.
If you have cav or the micro skill to command them, have them attack their archers after the front clashes.
Try to find their commander ASAP and KILL HIM/HER personal like. But I don't usally join in the fight at the large of battle. I't better to command.
Once you have everything in place, then you can jump in the fun.
That's how I do.
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Zilego
Recruit
Dang so many people replied at the same time. But a few times I've had a battle come down to just me alone and 80 other enemy troops. Horse and glaive really shine here (longer the better). If the enemy doesn't have archers, you can do it. If they do have archers, kill them first. Run circles around the enemy and swipe at them with the glaive. It should 1-shot just about everyone. Once your done with archers (or they run out of arrows). Run circles around the enemy and just keep swiping while staying out of reach. The glaive should be longer than their spears. If they don't have spears, then it's easy mode.
Zilego
Recruit
Also keep in mind when doing huge battles, not all the troops enter the battlefield at once. More will come as the battle progresses. I just managed to win a battle against an 800 man horde with archers on a hill at the back of my spawn, and a frontline engaging when they get close. As you kill more, the enemies will join scattered. After the initial waves, a large archer retinue can really mess up a trickling number coming at you
You may need to retreat once to refill arrows though.
You may need to retreat once to refill arrows though.
I don't think I ever had to retreat to refill on arrows. I just micro-ed hold fire and waited until the right moments so I can get a killbox going. No point having 100 archers on fire at will if there are a few scattered enemy troops running at your - very angry, ready-to-taste-blood front-line-manly-men.
I also have two groups of archer formations, and two groups of infantry formations (One shield heavy armor, one smaller pike formation). and then I mix all of my cav together. Once you realize that cav charges are not too dangerous with some pike right behind your angry beefy men, then you can focus on microing archers and cav mostly
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What difficult are you playing on and what faction? I don't see how thats possible, your infantry will just get swamped and be hit from all sides.
LordKay
Recruit
Archer line at back, infantry with shields upfront, equip 2x shields. Tell infantry to hold in front of archers, get small group of heavy cavalry (who have decent shields) to follow you. Run circles around enemy mid-field with your cavalry, and let archers thin the herd. Infantry cuts down any enemies that get too close to archers.
Play a XVI-XVII c dragoon unit.
A titular and thematic cousins of previous Mount and Blades:
With Fire and Sword followed by The Deluge and The Fire in the Steppe all circle around this type of unit.
it can act as a scout and picket - you keep tabs on the 800 unit group, kill anyone trying to join or leave them (disbandments are your harvest season, if you catch an army disbanding while you have a 100 strong stack, you will fill your prisoner quota with majority NPCs and get a nice 20-50 infl bounce in no time. And those engagements can be as fun as many a siege.
If you don't mind the loss to local rep, and need to buy time, looting a village with a small group acts like a magnet for biger ones, just offload all herd animals and prisoners so you can escape. If you pull 3 groups like this, typically at least one of them you can take for a plump influence and loot.
A titular and thematic cousins of previous Mount and Blades:
With Fire and Sword followed by The Deluge and The Fire in the Steppe all circle around this type of unit.
it can act as a scout and picket - you keep tabs on the 800 unit group, kill anyone trying to join or leave them (disbandments are your harvest season, if you catch an army disbanding while you have a 100 strong stack, you will fill your prisoner quota with majority NPCs and get a nice 20-50 infl bounce in no time. And those engagements can be as fun as many a siege.
If you don't mind the loss to local rep, and need to buy time, looting a village with a small group acts like a magnet for biger ones, just offload all herd animals and prisoners so you can escape. If you pull 3 groups like this, typically at least one of them you can take for a plump influence and loot.
Can't tell for OP, but I'm playing on realistic, and if I haul ass to flank, with minimal input for infantry (just send them to a corner before making them follow), by the time they catch up to me, cavalrly should already have started rolling the enemy lines. If my infantry is not stabbing someones back or side, I feel I have failed them. My precious castle-takers
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vemerce
Regular
The realistic one. I just put all of my archers on the biggest hill I can find, and I roll with a very limited infantry. Most of my troops are mounted units that are max tier at this point. We all just ride around swinging our polearms and hacking the enemy infantry to pieces before they can even reach the archers. The ones that do reach the archers, I have a small number of max tier infantry and horse archers waiting up there too, who make short work of them.
As I said, I'm running maxed out units for the most part, plus companions, and the enemy lords are coming at me with 1000 peasants. I wipe out their armies, then they go and come back a couple days later with whatever they could recruit from the local villages.
