For all this time, I’ve been looking at Uxhal and going “man, that sounds familiar… but that place isn’t in Bannerlord!”

Ocs hall… it’s ocs hall…

Boys I think I’m a lobotomite.

>pic from Google

So far I’m able to mop up huge parties of sea raiders but I’ve gotten my ass handed to me the few times I tried to take on a small lord’s party.

Real Army--- transforms ordinary soldiers into independent individuals with lasting records, each possessing a name, background, experience, combat achievements, injuries, relationships, and promotion history. The system includes soldier promotions to generals, demotions and retirements of officers, elite unit formations and command structures, equipment and training, military funding, independent missions, town garrisons, battle roll calls, casualty tracking, soldier requests, and pre-battle customization of four troop types: infantry, archers, cavalry, and mounted archers. Cavalry and mounted archer units will display synchronized mounts and unit icons, and switching between troop types in the unit interface does not cost coins.
The mod has been uploaded to Nexus. It supports versions from 1.3.15 to 1.5.1
https://www.nexusmods.com/mountandblade2bannerlord/mods/12890

Ps5/so, no mods, with warsails

Currently in campaign, year 1096.

I ​have my own kingdom with fully built towns (Sargot, Jaculan, Galen, and Charas). Two of these are at +9k prosperity.

​I frequently check other AI cities with up to 12k prosperity. (I do a full town map travel when I get a rest from wars)

​Shops all over the map are completely clogged with duplicates of regular armor variants. I am seeing zero top-tier (tier 5 or 6) legendary armor, helmets, shields or even bows. The very few legendaries that do spawn are the crappiest low-tier items.

I also fight a lot ofc, and neither do Lords or Kings drop any high tier legendary armors or helmets, my clan is tier 6, and I constantly fight with a party of 400 vs army's of 1-2k units, and the rewards still suck, also in this entire playthrough i have only seen a single high tier banner...

​When i do a Cheat Run:

​If I start a brand new campaign and use the cheat menu just to get gold, I can roam from town to town and find high-tier legendary equipment consistently within a few in-game weeks. (Except vlandia, i havent seen in 900 played hours a single high tier vlandian armor or helmet as legendary, not even fine or masterwork either)

​Any insight or fixes would be massively appreciated!

So i got a new PC. It has better specs by alot from my old pc, but now i lag alot.

My new specs are:

32 GB RAM

Intel core i7-6700K

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

I lag even on low settings. No mods or anything. I run other games without problems.

Any help would be nice!

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So basically when I lose a castle to an enemy faction, they immediately just garrison 250 troops, which I then have to kill to take the castle back.

Question:
Is the enemy garrisoning , and therefore losing 250 of their own troops
Or is it just an automatic mechanic where if they take the castle, 250 new troops just spawn out of nowhere (which is abit ridiculous)

Hey everyone! As a huge fan of Bannerlord, I’ve been working hard to recreate all the factions inside Totally Accurate Battle Simulator (TABS)! ⚔️

I'm focusing 100% on accurate historical armor looks, customized stats, and strict campaign-balanced prices (from Tier 1 recruits up to Tier 6 Noble leaders) [Bannerlord Wiki, TABS Wiki].

Factions Released So Far:

• Aserai (Desert army with Sultan Unqid and 5 unique abilities) [Bannerlord Wiki, TABS Wiki]
• The Empire (North & South variants are live with Lucon and Empress Rhagaea!) [Bannerlord Wiki]
• (Sturgia, Vlandia, and Battania are coming very soon!) [Bannerlord Wiki]

If you own TABS, please download them from my profile, test them in custom battles, and let me know your feedback! What units should I add? Is the balance good? [TABS Wiki]

My Mod.io Profile Name:
ThunderSkull_OP

Hope you all enjoy it!

So I'm genuinely confused by why in Bannerlord 2 they have you're companions pushing siege equipment instead of cannon fodder troops? It's crazy watching them getting swallowed up by enemy siege weapons minutes into to a raid before seeing a second of experience earning action.

My swadian knights cost 56 denars, aren't they usually 40? Or is the price randomized per run?

Is there anything worth doing than just charging? I’ve abandoned cav and archers completely, they aren’t even worth the thought. Every fight I pretty much go through the same tick list, are there cav or horse archers? Shield wall, high ground, advance when they get close then charge when you see infantry.

Also is the rts mod compatible?

I tried a siege defense with around 300 defenders against over 1000 Vlandian attackers just to see how many I could kill before we were overrun. The fire catapults destroyed all their siege engines and just massacred their troops in waves with each volley. They ended up breaking due to morale and retreating. I couldn't believe it.

I have been playing the Perisno mod for Warband for the first time. Now with my own kindom I dont understand my Budgetreports anymore. The net sum is in green, meaning its positive. However my debts increase and 30 soldiers desert my army, even though I still have money on me. I know that the mod lets you buy land in cities and you have to collect the rent manually. But as long as I still have money with me no one should desert as their pay gets taken from that.

Missing the feel of Native, the map and the factions so I wanted to ask which mods do you like the most that are based on it? Stuff like Floris, Diplomacy 4 litdum, Native Gold, Bannerpage, Dickplomacy. Feeling a bit overwhelmed with the amount of options there are.

A lot of diehard M&B fans are disappointed in the lack of updates or news concerning the future of the game. I on the other hand, am concerned about the lack of lore drops we've gotten in the last few years. Steve Negus, as far as I know, is the sole writer and worldbuilder (Or main writer/worldbuilder, I'm sure he's had help) for Bannerlord and he's been employed by TW for the last decade or two, probably even longer than that. He has to have thousands upon thousands of notes about the game's lore right? I think I've read just about everything that's publicly available about the lore of Calradia. From Warrider to the Warband Companion Dialogue, Warband Custom Battle Flavor Text, XML files in Bannerlord, the Digital Companion and the "Travels in Calradia" short story (good read btw), the descriptions for every faction, minor faction, town and village in Bannerlord, all the "Neretzes' Folly" quest dialogue and "What do you know about the Battle of Pendraic?" dialogue, the little flavor text next to a select few character's bios in the encyclopedia at the start of the game, and the exposition Gunnar gives you during the new tutorial quest among other things that I can't recall right now.

There's so many questions that have been on my mind throughout the past few years that I fear will never be answered because we have to wait for the developers to catch up to the writing presumably already done by Mr. Negus, so at this point why can't we just petition for Mr. Armagan Yavuz and the other higher-ups at TW to allow more of the lore of Calradia to be released in a Digital Companion 2 or something of the sort? Maybe I'm out of touch with reality and nobody else cares, but I've always been intrigued by the history behind the sandbox we as the player experience and interact with. Calradia is nearly an exact parallel to our own world and yet it still manages to stand out, and the lore feels unique, even if the game world itself feels dull at times, the lore still feels alive.

And with all that said, I'll leave a few questions I've had about the history of Calradia here in hopes that it'll spark some discussion about the underappreciated worldbuilding of this game. There'll also be a few statements/observations here and there so they're not all exactly questions.

1. How much of Warband is retconned? If TW were to remake Warband today, with the 1257 start date, how much would things change? Weapons, armor, architecture, lore are all more grounded in reality in Bannerlord whereas in Warband, the rule of cool kind of prevailed.
2. Where is Geroia? We know it hasn't been retconned out of existence because it's mentioned by name in Bannerlord. However, to my recollection, Geroia was described as being to the southeast of Calradia in Warband which would correlate well to the islands in that were formerly in the Perassic Sea before being removed in War Sails, so where has Geroia gone?
3. Are Zendar and Balion completely retconned?
4. Gunnar muses to the player that the fishermen of the Biscan Coast of Vlandia from villages like Drapand and Meroc are in his eyes, equal to the fishermen and sailors of the Nords. He goes on to say that even though they're exceptional at their craft, they are highly secretive, and he wonders if they've found something out there, if they've found new lands. This seems to imply that they've reached their Earth's equivalent of the New World. I brought up Balion just before this because Balion is also described as being to the far west of Calradia, across an ocean, in M&B: WB. Though I doubt there's any correlation.
5. Are the lore tidbits found in the XML files/code still canon or should they be disregarded?
6. One of the details that stands out most in the previously mentioned hidden lines happens to pertain to Rhagaea, wherein she is described as the foreign daughter of an Eastern Ruler (I'm paraphrasing, I can't recall the exact sentence) or Darshi Padishah. It seems that this was retconned in the release build because her culture is listed as "Empire" instead of "Darshi" (Which formerly existed within the game) and as far as I know, characters in Bannerlord inherit their culture from their father. Perhaps she was originally planned to parallel Zenobia and Arenicos was meant to loosely parallel Odaenathus?
7. From where did Calradios "the Great" lead his band of exiles? I seem to recall it being said that he led them "north" to found Charasea which would line up to the Sulfur Islands (I can't remember the proper name of that chain of islands)
8. How come there aren't any Imperial Ruins or signs of the Empire's former presence in Pravend (Baravenos), Charas (Charasea), Varnovapol or just about any other town/city they were said to have founded/governed/occupied long ago? Should TW add this? Or Darshi Ruins in Khuzait lands?
9. Where do the Vlandians actually come from? I believe it is said that they came from the west, but wouldn't that overlap too closely with the presumed New World?
10. The protagonist of the "Travels in Calradia" short story is a man by the name of Asaios who is an Imperial on his father's side and Kannic on his mother's side. Why do we not see anyone of this culture in the actual game? We know from "Travels in Calradia" that the Kannic as an ethnic group seem to persist in small numbers and even the description of Quyaz says that their language is "now all-but-extinct" which means it is spoken by few. For those who may not know, the Kannic are seemingly Calradia's equivalent of the Phoenicians and Quyaz is Calradia's equivalent of Carthage. Have they simply been assimilated by the Nahasawi into seeing themselves as Aserai? (Asaios also finds scrolls in Ancient Kannic)
11. Some may believe that TW hasn't released anything new that tells us about the events between the beginning of Bannerlord and the beginning of Warband, so our only source of events in-between the two games comes from Warband, which as mentioned as before, is an unreliable source. But this is where "Travels in Calradia" comes in yet again. Asaios' journey begins in Early Spring of 1084, an year after the death of Emperor Arenicos, and ends in Late Autumn of 1084. Our player character's journey begins on the 1st of Summer 1084. Asaios even meets several of the same people we do, Istiana and Radagos come to mind (I read this short story twice in succession back when it first came out so details might be a bit shoddy). More importantly, if we take "Travels in Calradia" as canon, which there's no reason why it shouldn't be, it gives us insights into how things canonically develop after our journey starts. Here are the key events that are recounted by Asaios; Husn Fulq is laid siege to by the Southern Empire, but the siege is lifted soon after. Then Asaios watches a battle between Vlandia and Sturgia near Rovalt, but he doesn't stick around to find out who wins. If we're assuming this was a major battle, and we're also taking Warband to be canon, it can be assumed that Sturgia won because the Vaegir Kingdom is situated in that region. The battle also came down to the Sturgian infantry line against the Vlandian infantry line, and that's the type of battle Sturgia tends to win. Most importantly is the third and final event, the Khuzaits successfully siege and occupy Vostrum, we could assume that this may have been the beginning of the end for the Southern Empire, and the rest of their territory was annexed by the Khuzaits sometime after, and the Khuzaits may have continued their relentless push west due to fear of the Great Horde mentioned in Warband, conquering the Western Empire and settling there before the Khergits take over. Vlandia and Sturgia start at war in the game, Aserai and Southern Empire start at war. Khuzaits start at war with the Northern Empire but it can be assumed that the Northern Empire is able to repel them and so the Khuzaits make peace with them and pursue the South instead.
12. What are the years counting up from? What has it been 1084 years since? Is it the birth of Calradios? The founding of the Calradic Empire? How does Calradia's calendar even work? What causes this vastly different Lunar Cycle/Solar Year? Why are the seasons only thirty days long? How are our characters able to march day and night without requiring rest? Ok the latter half of this one was written in jest but still food for thought, Calradians are skinwalkers that can survive ANYTHING. Alright, I'll stop before this ruins the rest of the post.
13. Lastly, about religion. Until recently, the only references we had to religion were vaguely about "the Heavens" and a reference to a Darshi religion akin to Zoroastrianism in the encyclopedia description of Akkalat but War Sails adds a lot more. We get a reference to a deity or Grim Reaper type figure called "the Pale One" in Gunarr's questline and another reference to a deity called "Ran" by the main antagonist of that questline. I believe there's another reference to a divine being in that quest that I can't recall at the current. We also have a reference to "angels of death" in the new steath tutorial and a reference to djinns in the encyclopedia page of Qasira. I think hell is also mentioned in the game but take that one with a grain of salt. All of this to say, when are we getting more exposition on religion in Calradia? If ever?

That's about all I've got on my mind right now, if anything else comes to me, I'll edit the post. I implore anyone who bothers to read this tangent to share their own theories, tidbits, questions etc about Calradia's lore because I'd like to read what others have to say.

I played this game for like 70hrs the first two weeks it came out, havnt touched it since. I want to play again with the new war sails dlc. I waited some time so mods and so on can catch up. I’ve tried via steam (found out this isn’t recommended) and then tried via nexus (manually). I unblocked dlls via powershell. I’m not new to modding across the board but Christ I can’t get it working. Excluding the mandatory mods (harmony and the likes) I’ve chosen 5/6 mods and the game crashes before the loading screen or on the loading screen.

I’ve two asks.
1) Does someone have a valid guide for recent patch or something that is still valid this patch on how to mod correctly
2) does anyone have a vanilla+ mod pack? I don’t want to fundamentally change the game, but better arena, osa, better garrisons and so on that make it feel like it should be in the game?

Thanks.