#MOUNT AND BLADE HORSES HOW TO#

This allows your archers to shoot opponents much closer to your infantry, which is usually when they're most vulnerable. Keep your archers on high ground and your infantry on low ground. Archers can deal tons of damage, but only if they're allowed to shoot. They should almost never be in front of your infantry line at the start of combat, and you should direct your heavy cav with an eye to chasing off enemy cavalry that might harass your archers.

#MOUNT AND BLADE HORSES HOW TO#

If you must shoot at shielded enemies, shoot them in the back.ДЄrcher Unit Tactics Or, how to get the most out of your arrow lads: All shields will block arrows in a small radius around them, and it's not worth your ammo to try to snipe an opponent over their shield. When in doubt, avoid shooting at shields. They're also wearing almost no armor and have no shields, so they drop quickly. Those guys are dangerous in groups, and can serve to choke your line while enemy cav or heavy infantry do damage, but their morale is poor and you can make it worse by shooting them. Your tertiary targets are enemy light infantry - chaff mobs of recruits and peasants. Those guys will butcher line infantry, but they've got nothing to block arrows. Sturgian line breakers, Asrai mamluk guards, falxmen, units like that. Your secondary targets are enemy heavy two-handed melee troops. That usually means you win, as they will break on your infantry line. Killing all the enemy lords will remove the AI's ability to 'control' their units, and they will then all just charge or revert to their default behaviors. Your priority target is ALWAYS the enemy lord, if one wanders into your sight picture. Like a foot archer, take the heaviest armor you can that still allows you to keep up with the infantry. This limits your opportunity to reload, since you won't have as much opportunity to scavenge from the field. You have to be more careful of your ammunition as a crossbowman, because most of your opponents will not be shooting crossbow bolts at you. You're not going to manage the same volume of fire as a bow, but you don't have to use your ability to aim for as long as you like to line up your shot, and only shoot when you're sure of a hit. If you can't keep up with the infantry, you're too slow.Д¬rossbowmen work just like foot archers, except you should be taking headshots from the word go. You're going to need mobility, but you won't be taking a shield, so your armor is your life. Take the heaviest armor you can that doesn't slow you down too much, and get a good helmet. Use your bow for cav, and shoot the horses. The point of your melee weapon is to deal with infantry that charge you, not to try to engage cavalry. Your loadout is a longbow or noble bow, two stacks of arrows, and a two-handed weapon like a greatsword or battleaxe. If at all possible, try to occupy a position higher than your infantry, so you can shoot over their shoulders. Following an infantry line as close support works well, as does flanking an enemy line. Your job is to snipe enemy units as they charge the infantry, harass entrenched units, and pick off retreating units before they can re-form a line. If you leave the company of your friends, you're going to die cav will get you, enemy infantry will charge you, or enemy archers will focus on you. Take heavy armor, your horse won't notice.ДЇoot archers need to stay near friends, preferably friends with shields, spears, and swords. Your horse should be a desert horse or Asrai war horse they are fast, and fast is what you're going for. For loadout, take the best bow you can find, two stacks of arrows, and a slashing pole arm or lance. Your job is to harass enemy units, draw off heavy cavalry, counter enemy horse archers, and snipe lords. And don't bother aiming at individual units, you're better off aiming at clumps (unless you're trying to snipe an enemy lord). You should at no point charge into the enemy you want them over there where you can shoot them, not in your face. If you stop, you will start to take damage as enemy archers find the range or enemy cav charges you. Speed is your friend and your main defense. Horse archers should stay moving at all times. Crossbowmen can't reload from horseback until you're high level, and you don't get as much reload time reduction as you level, but you're going to do a lot of damage with every shot and you can hold aim indefinitely. Foot archers are footmen and therefore slower and less mobile, but you can take the longbow for range and you'll fire quickly. Horse archers are highly mobile, but vulnerable because you're a big target, and you generally won't be as accurate because you're shooting from a moving platform. Here are some notes to help you pincushion enemies on the battle map:ДЄre you a horse archer, foot archer, or crossbowman? Each has strengths and weaknesses. After about 600 hours in Bannerlord, here are some tips and strategies I've picked up for archers - playing an archer, archer tactics, and strategy considerations.

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