Life Of A Legionary - Mount & Blade II Bannerlord #1

Hello, how are you guys doing? My name is Jackie Fish and welcome back to more

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s and swords for Bannerlord. Today we dive into a new campaign focused mainly on the freelance mafia that will basically allow us to join any lord or lady in the world. campaign map and fight in its ranks advancing from the lowest levels up to level five, so it should be a lot of fun, however that's not the only mod I'm using. I'll leave a link below in my discord description that will have all the links to all the mods I'm using as well as my load order right there.

Please note that I am playing on 1.9, so not only will you make sure, but you should also make sure that you are also playing on 1.9, you will have to make sure that you download the correct 1.9 versions of said mods, so that it works without any problems, but not only am I using the standalone mod, I am also using the operator. expanded kingdoms and carradia so you should see it and we have to start loading the campaign you guys should see the campaign map is completely different now that we have a much bigger campaign map there are a lot more really cool I don't HE.

I like this aesthetic, everything around looks great and the kingdoms themselves have been divided, so the empire instead of three factions is now four and many of them have different cultures because the lights have been divided into three factions, the sturgeons in two viva landianos. in a couple, I think the Azeris are in three different factions, so there are now many more smaller kingdoms around the campaign map. I also have the Rising Eagle Mob which has a compatibility patch with the Expanded Carrier Kingdoms so the bottom two factions of the empire will actually be Romans and that is what we will be joining as it will be a

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time of legionnaire.

I have realistic battle mods that will make low level units not as good as tea units, really difficult for us in the early game, but hopefully we can get around it and level up fast enough until we get some good ones. weapons which should be a lot of fun but yeah basically that mob makes 1v1s extremely difficult and also goes ahead and makes armor really really valuable if you're an elite soldier you're not going to go ahead and shoot your horse. I'm also using a bunch of other mods that I'm sure I'll mention that you know about throughout this campaign or you can just check them out by clicking the link in the description, so don't worry now.

It takes a couple of minutes and I'll cut it in a second, but the game takes a couple of minutes to load them all. The mods I'm using basically have to build the campaign mapping and all the different things, so you just give it about five minutes and come back to it and everything should be fine and you should be able to dive right in. but while this is happening, I want to mention that this will be a broadcast campaign tomorrow at 3 p.m. GMT. I will continue to stream this campaign, which should be a lot of fun, so be sure to tune in if you can make it.

Hey, they come to have some influence on what we do, who we join and all that wonderful stuff, so it should be a lot of fun. However, don't worry if you can't attend, if you're working, you have school. I'm just busy, no need to worry. I'll also leave a link below in the playlist description that will have all the bodies from the live streams after I've done them so you can watch them as if they were normal. episode which is really nice because you can watch them on your own time, catch up and see what I'm getting off to and you can also watch them at double speed which is always nice and boom, there we go, I didn't have to cut. right there I was too busy rambling, so as you can see we have a lot of new cultural groups in the country, mod expanded kingdoms, uh, we can enter the republic players who will be in the south, you can see they have separate.

There are also bonuses, you know, bonus to morale, less trade penalty, and a minor increase in building speed. If you go to the vanilla empire, you can see how much bigger it is there, so the team here has a big reduction in their forest penalties. and snow like a mix of sturgeon and botanium which is great, the nordings loot much faster which will be very interesting. The campaign map the kergeites have, unless morale and your party are unsure if this is for them or the people they are fighting, they get a big boost to their cavalry speed and also a bit of a boost in its build speed, which is, yeah, quite interesting, the rolex goes ahead and gets a boost to support the rider and also more experience and here more experience and then build too, kind of like the best of both worlds, some cultures interesting.

I like that we're getting some of these customs here because I think they create some interesting setups. We're going to go ahead and be a Republican guy, so we're going to go ahead and click on that and I have a pretty good idea of ​​exactly how I want to build my character. I want to make him quite lanky. I'm sorry. that's his weight, don't do it, no, I want to make him quite thin and I also want to make him quite tall. I don't want to make it super super high, but yeah, so that's okay. I think um and everything else is relatively.

I mean, I think I know he's the default character, but he doesn't look very good. I'm trying to randomize his face a little until he gets the one I want. Yes, and you. I'll see it as soon as I go ahead and name my character, many of you will know exactly what I'm doing now. I'd be surprised if some of you could guess exactly what kind of character I'm building. uh so I think he needs to be clean shaven and this is actually a good haircut, it's a little messy for a military man but it's probably okay anyway yeah it's okay cool it's perfect and it was quick, I thought.

I was going to spend a lot of time doing that, uh again, one of the problems also is that I have a cool character in mind for what I want to name, but a lot of this stuff doesn't fit him, you know, like his father did. a slave, he joined the military when he was 16 or younger, um, so it wasn't really like that, you know, this doesn't hold water, but I'm going to go ahead and choose a free owner because you know it's still working with the farmers, you know, you're not really doing it, it's not a very rich experience I should say, and it also gives us a point in endurance and also athletics, which is actually really good, since we'll be on the ground most of the time. part of the time. so getting up early again would be good, I think my character would be good at leadership, you know who I'm trying to build again, I'm not going to spoil it until I name it because I'll see if any of you Guys, guess it down below in the description , uh, when we were younger, what did we want to do?

I guess this wouldn't be bad, get some medication, none of these really fit my character, uh, at all, so I guess I'll do it. herding the sheep because I say an extra point in stamina, which is good uh here, I guess we'll train with the infantry because that's how my character joined the army very, very early and fought with the infantry. so I guess that's what we'll choose and then here again, I mean, he somehow defeated an enemy in battle, uh, you know, famous escapade, he did that too, I guess I'll choose this, but no I don't want to make him an amazing fighter, that's just not who he is, he's more of a scheming type of guy, more than anything else, this wouldn't be bad in a five minute getaway or we even go down here and treat people.

Well, I think he's a good guy, so he treats people kindly. I'll take it and look at the age of the picker. He's obviously a very young kid, so we're going to go ahead and pick him at 20 20. He doesn't look bad at 20. His face gets a lot longer as we go, uh, but yeah, let's go ahead and pick this, let's do that and then for our name, I'll call him Quintinius Lucinius Cato from the Simon Scarole books Eagle Rise, because you know. Gotta love Kato, big thanks to anyone who read those books. I'm actually really behind on those books, but that's still what we're going to call our character.

I guess I should leave this as my last name and just call. he quintinius lincilius and obviously we will play on realistic difficulty in all of them. I like the recruiting difficulty or easy simply because it's still not the easiest but it gives you a couple extra men and it's like a boring part of the game just having to re-recruit soldiers and also the movement speed too only on easy okay it's realistic very easy we have something like in the middle there everything else, although we will be very hard, very hard uh, obviously we will allow birth and death and we will also assign our own characters.

One of the reasons I really want to allow birth and death is that I have a modern system that allows me to raise soldiers from the ranks, obviously at the beginning of the game. game, personally we're not going to do much in the way of forming our own army, uh, whatever it is, we also have a cool banner, obviously I have legio2, we're a uh, you know, we're a kid and we have to represent. our original legion right there, but yeah, we're not going to do much in the way of leading in the early game because we'll just join someone else's army and level up that way, but obviously as you get deeper and deeper into this campaign could become a possibility and we can use distinguished service where if characters kill a little or pitiful units in general get a lot of kills in battles then we can make them companions which is great. uh in fact we can even do a macro or a catering when we ascend to legatus uh so yeah as you can see the campaign map of this little section is very very different and this is obviously due to the additions of the mod expanded from Carradia. a lot of cool little things, like you know, like real little details, a lot of roads and stuff like that, also like these kind of river crossings, where you can go in a boat and cross too if you're also going to a port city, you can go ahead and just warp to any other port city on the map as well for a price which is really cool and if you take a look, if we zoom out completely, you can also see the state of the campaign map, now there is much smaller kingdoms spread out and they all have their own different cultural groups, so for example these two northern ones won't be rising troops of the eagle, these two northern kingdoms are their own kind. of custom culture group, as you can see here, they are kind of an empire, but they have been, you know, they have had additions and these are the imperial legionnaires that look amazing, honestly, they look very, very good, so yeah, all.

The faction has a different kind of semi-unitary unit, some may share cultures to some extent but for the most part they are very different and then with the rising eagle compatibility patch we actually have the bottom two factions, the from the blue and red empire, they are actually Roman soldiers, which is going to be really cool, in fact, I think here in the west, the bee guys will be the Gauls. I think so, they look like gogols, which will be cool. I'm not sure if the blue ones will be Dacian or No, I had a little trouble getting that to work because it's more of a recent addition.

The reds will have their own completely different personalized culture. For example, what faction is this? So this is the realist of the Velandians, I think so. some of them look like very strange armor and they are in this armor, but the troops they are recruiting should be very different. You can also edit the hero here. I'm not sure what it is about me that does that, but I'll take it. That might be fun with my companions later, but yeah, if we go to the encyclopedia, we go to the units and we go to the realists, we should be here somewhere where they are, maybe they're just Valentino, yes, you can see their unit .

The tree is very different here than normal Valentines are. I think it's these guys. These are the units that will recruit again if you go down to different factions like here. You can see that they are like a nomad. Kind of like barbarians, I guess they like more of a mix between Sturgia and Porqueites, which again are a pretty scary faction, probably two of the strongest factions on the campaign map, so yeah, there should be a lot of factors with those of us who can play and get our way. but for now our journey is to get south and I could honestly recruit some soldiers on my way south.

You might also see if there is a tournament going on. Actually, it might be a bad idea to just show up to a tournament here and I might as well show you the realistic battle mode I'm in.which is for me. Yes, headshots are definitely. They'll be our damage creators boom, nice, broke his guard there too. He only has a little bit of HP left now boom, oh my god, that's so much easier than my other tournaments. Damn, 600 gold, I'll take it. We have some. Good armor too, unfortunately we won't be able to use this armor every time we join it, uh, again, but I'll take it, I'll put it on now in case you get into some raider or something, uh boom boom, yeah. gives us good armor at least I'll accept it um yeah, well, we also charge our poems ability.

Well, I'll take it to increase your poem damage, which is pretty cool, and just increase infantry damage, that's nice. good,

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ed units um, I mean, are we joining the cavalry? That's probably not right, let's go ahead and just take boobies. I think we will improve our infantry in the late game. A lot of these things we're doing, I have nine days to get back. My party is fine, is it back again? He joined? I guess I can look this way because I'd be more than happy to join her as soon as she's ready. The last time they saw her was there, so yes, I believe she is still being held in prison.

Does she say if she has been held prisoner? I think so, I mean, unless she's blind. Yes, a moment ago I found out that I have a new owner. Yes, no, I can't, I can't say that I don't want to continue. Playing 100 gold each time, um, so I guess we'll go there or maybe recruit some of my own men, maybe go kill some raiders while we wait, go and approach them and then just go find some losers we still have. Nine days to find her, which is good, we'll definitely avoid the hunter parties. We definitely don't have the equipment to deal with them, as we ran into some forest bandits again.

The torn bandage shouldn't be the worst thing in the world because I'm on horseback, but the arrows are going to hurt, do it anywhere we can hide, yeah, let's hide back here and then we'll charge them when it gets too close, I mean, it goes though to be very scary, now you have good armor, yes, we. I'll hide here, I guess so, so let's let them get really close. I mean, maybe I'll try to shoot one as soon as I cross here because then the bows will just shoot at me. I'm getting closer, even though they can't.

Look at me still, we can't see them either. I wanted to get one of them out here. No, oh God, oh God, oh God, oh God, yes, keep hiding, being perfect, yes, let them keep coming these mounds for our advantage. Bordering the clothes, be very careful, it's a lot of fun having to be so careful in the campaign until they get close enough and we can charge them, damn it, let's do that and continue our way like this now, hopefully focusing on me, no, We're already, uh, yeah, we just don't stand a chance, oh my god, okay, so after being a prisoner for a while. while we finally managed to escape and let's see now let's spend 100 gold, I mean, she She hasn't arrived yet, I think she might still be a prisoner, let's see, let's see if we can join her, so I would like to rejoin your army. the one I want to enter your service presents that your service is actually becoming a mercenary, yes, so he must still be because entering your service is a mercenary thing, right, so he must still be in prison somewhere, unfortunately , which again sucks for us. but you know that's okay, oh that was close, that was close, let's get out of there for now and just that, yeah, sitting here, heal up again and I think that's where we're going to end the episode, I mean, it was absolutely episode atrocious, we barely did anything and, uh, we only managed to get free kills and not very well at all, but we leveled up our stats, hopefully we can meet the empress or I might meet someone else at some point too.

There are no quests or anything, so maybe I'll see what happens if we join someone else's army, if we lose the relationship with them or something, maybe I'll save it and try it, but yeah, I'll stream this again tomorrow, like this make sure. Tune in, don't worry if you can't tune in like I said. I'll leave all the other vods from the live streams in a playlist below so you can watch at your own pace and I'll see you around. guys in the next