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

Very entertaining, thanks for sharing! I may have to boot up the game again

its more effective to have the shock calv gain some momentum after going through the gap, then charge, pull back and charge again rinse repeat. whenever deciding which flank to take with ranged units, then always pich the left, shielded units carry the shield on the left side of their body, when you attack their right side the arrows are more effective.

I did exactly this, and even that my trash horseman just suck the enemy

What game is this,where can i get it?

He was The Great because his line was actually broken and his army didnt ran or collide. Its not a screen, the battlefield. There are people horribly dying. So he was great because the army trusted him and maneured exactly like he told them. Organisation - the Great. Not a frictional physics of 2000 meshes doing math on HP.

Mod’s name ?

The false gap works very good with rifleman in the center in games like total war

so how do I play mount and blade like total war the way he is doing it?

Dont look like you dominated anything looking at how many you lost.

I went on a date once and discovered... a false gap...

Wait you can play this game like an rts?

a game like this but it's pvp 1 versus 1 matches, IT BE AMAZING to play

what game is that

I love games where real life tactics work great. Another example could be the U-Boat game. I used to attack convoys when approaching them from the side, which gave mixed results. Then I've read real U-Boot tactic to wait in front of the convoy, let it pass so you're in the very middle of it, and then unleash a barrage of torpedoes. During nights it's even possible to gun them down with a deck gun, before the escorts show up. I went from sinking half the convoys in 2-3 approaches, to sinking all transports in a single attack.
Granted IRL U-Boots would hunt in groups, but still that tactic worked much better than my player instinct.

Alexanders tactics, or khalid ibn al walids tactic?

What game is this?

Are u using a MOD for that battle overview?

I didn't know you could do battle like this in Mount and Blade 2

Is this a mod? Or what button do I press ???

Man imagine an alien watching this, it'd be so confused

How did you use that iverhead view was it a mod

interesting

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.

liked the Khalid ibn Alwaleed detail

How did you put shield soldiers in a group and shock in a other group ?

Could you imagine going to war, 1000 vs 1000, and you win, but only 8 of you are left...

What game?

8 left?? a pyrrhic victory if i've ever seen one lol nice vid tho

2 of my favorite large battles that I still remember and have videos of were where I used a lot of real tactics. Both we were outnumbered heavily one, and on one fight, I used a large circle formation in a mountain valley with archers in the center to fight against a horde of Khuzait horsemen and spearmen. We held well and slowly dropped their numbers, cutting off calvary that managed to get through and then couldn't get back. The other was when I did a similar tactic to this and split 2 heavy infantry groups on either side of a large boulder and tried to bottleneck the enemy and sandwich them together. Then we regrouped before their reinforcements could flank us and did one massive shield wall push to victory. It was glorious

any mod needed to control army like this? As i remember, this is so boring to control army movement in MB2

You are going really fast, slow down a little

Best way to defeat this formation is to attack the sides, and plug the center without advancing deeper in. No envelopment is possible unless the wings bend in, but a similar principle would apply to them, leaving a small reserve to prevent that.

For cavalry charges, I found best when placing infantries next to a wall or boulder. Since the strength of mount unit is mobility, it's gonna put troops and mounts more on equal grounds

honestly if the troop/formations management is better, i would love to be more tactical, but until then. I prefer to just use the old tactic of softening them with ranged attacks for as long as possible while me the OP lord harass the shite out of them. then send the cavalry + infantry to clean the rest lol

Khalid ibn walid 👍

How do you control battle "total war style"? I.e. how come you're not in the field with the rest of your army?

It took me about 5 minutes and 15 seconds to realize this was ATG and NOT Hannibal and Carthage 🤦

ww3 gonna break out and this man will become the next Napoleon

Good classic use of false gap with a relatively small force. Alexander often did it on a larger scale, shifting the front line in a few spots then closing it after. Now trapped behind the first phalanx engaged with the second ranks, the rear of the first line could assist in quickly disposing the enemy.

Get to forest areas for troop safety vs Cav charge. slows the horses down for some extra hits..

How can you command in that pov?

ı used this tactic a 150 vs 200+ men battle and i win thank you man

How did you do that to the camera

Can some of Alexander's tactic work in a modern warfare?

I make use of a variation of that tactic in Total War games. I'll send my tankiest columns to the front to absorb the charge and hold two or more columns, then as my column gets engulfed I'll charge in troops specialized for dealing damage, or even cavalry if they aren't occupied.

To deal with ranged units I'll send some bruiser-type columns to chase them and entangle whoever is defending them, and have my cavalry tackle the ranged units once the opportunity presents itself.

For stuff like this, positioning is everything, so to facilitate my flanks and reduce the length of my front line so my flankers and backline tacklers don't have to travel as much, I'll angle my frontline into chevrons.

That also makes it much safer for my javelin troops (my preferred ranged units) to throw into the flanks of the enemy frontline, drastically reducing friendly fire while also keeping my javy's safe.

How did you get in that command view in the sky??

Is this using all the RBM modules or only the AI one and not the armor?

Regarding your Infantry v Cavalry fight at the end; when I'm stuck in scenarios like that, I tend to look for structures in the landscape that I can exploit to break up cavalry charges. Massive rock formations or dense clusters of trees go a long way in reducing the strength of enemy charges and help give infantries a fighting chance against mounted enemies. There was a huge rock formation you could have used to that effect to help devastate the enemy cavalry.