I Used Alexander the Great's Tactics To Dominate The Battlefield!

At the battle of Gaugamela, Alexander the Great used a tactic called the "false gap" to win a great victory! In this video we'll fight two battles in Mount and Blade 2 Bannerlord and try to recreate this genius tactic to win!

Most of the complicated tactics and formations cannot be done in the base game - these battles are fought using the RBM mod. Units need to live long enough to maneuver, which just doesn't happen in the base game.

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[sotgmeg]

It makes you realize how great the real commander was since they didn’t command on an helicopter with radio communication.

[Sviatoslav_The_Brave]

Imagine the stories these 8 surviving dudes will tell in taverns for some free booze.

[Awesomewithaz]

Once you realize real tactics work in this game changes the whole game. I used to hit "0" and then "F6" and let them do work while I fight . Being a tactical commander instead of frontline commander seemed boring but winning with no casaulties is way more rewarding feeling.

[brandonchristen]

Imagine being an archer and getting orders to go to the front line with 9 other archers between two groups of shield bearing soldiers. 😅

[MrDarklord]

That last group of infantry in the end of that final battle would have to have nerves of steel. To group together and hold out knowing that some of them would die each pass only to help ensure the others would get even a chance of victory. To see something like that in a real battle would create legends.

[bentankard]

dont forget to use terrain, in that second battle you should have moved your troops back towards those large rocks, it will give the cavalry less escape routes, and potentially stop a couple of them for easy slaughter

[gamechanger]

Once you learn what it's like to play games like this, Total War, Age of Empires. You realize how Alexander the Great was a brilliant general because of how he was able to keep an organized network of communication, and keeping his formations in check with a strategic formation like this and the hammer and anvill. And how he was able to keep minimal casualties even when ge was outnumbered from 4 to 1.

[ashershalqoir]

The 10 archers: *”dont put me in the dark, boss, i’s afraid of the dark”*

[Chaos]

Alexander used his troops to create a gap in Darius' lines, not the other way around. The point being he got his Companion Cavalry to charge directly into Darius position. Forcing Darius to flee when he was almost killed, leaving his army leaderless. It was a really genius move on Alexanders part. The false gap is a good tactic though if you can make it work like in your first few instances.

[MikeDindu]

Wow. This is one of the few occasions when someone from the strategy game community gave a proper breakdown of a dynamic battlefield. Usually I hear people who have a decent, but very limited military vocabulary. This was a really first rate overview of a useful but insanely bold tactic that is deceptively complex, especially in just 5 minutes. There's absolutely nothing wrong with being an armchair general if you're learned and not trying to show off. I'm taking notes and everything, very impressive.

[dfghj]

i remember in warband that with just 20 swadian knights you could basically win ANY battle of ANY size. outnumbered 10 to 1? well, 30 swadian knights will win this battle for you. i'm glad to see bannerlord is different from this. the whole campaing in warband amounted to getting strong enough trainer skill and companions to raise hundreds of swadian knights in a week. (and rhodok sharpies)

[iamdanieloliveira]

On the second battle it seemed the right shield wall was doing nothing for most of the battle. It could've charged the archers or gone into square formation to protect the left shield wall's back from cavalry charges.

[saarthel]

I'd love to see you work with a the special Zulu formation. I think it was call the Bullhorn or something

[commissarkordoshky]

I don't know many real life ancient tactics but one I would suggest to try out is "oblique order".

Pulled from wikipedia "The oblique order (also known as the 'declined flank')[1] is *a military tactic whereby an attacking army focuses its forces to attack a single enemy flank.* The force commander concentrates the majority of their strength on one flank and uses the remainder to fix the enemy line. This allows a commander with weaker or equal forces to achieve a local superiority in numbers. The commander can then try to defeat the enemy in detail. It has been used by numerous successful generals. Oblique order required disciplined troops able to execute complex maneuvers in varied circumstances."

[ianstroup]

Well done, also really happy you are still doing Bannerlord videos.

[Hamza]

Would love to see the classic double envelopment or pincher maneuver, usually done with cavalry because of their mobility

[arrynroyce]

Awesome display! I wonder if it would have been better to put the infantry groups into square formation after the bulk of the enemy infantry was dealt with to counter the cavalry. Hindsight is always 20/20 though and there was a lot to manage in that second fight. Thanks for sharing this!

Edit: Once again I commented before the video was finished and I see that you did change to square formation lol. Sorry! ><

[iRsemple]

This is awesome!! Love the way you approach showing us viewers how it all looks from a top down perspective.

[sebastianchantre]

1, 2 million views! Contrast man I'm very happy to see your hard work paying off. Been here for a while so its fun to see the growth.

[mjcarlsbad]

If you learned how to program this all these kinds of formation logics into the game you'd have the greatest Mount & Blade mod to ever exist