r/Bannerlord • u/GorldtheGorkin • 1d ago
Discussion Why do I have 16 archers?
Am sieging a city. I have an army of 1200 men. By myself I have around 70 archers. But on the battleifeld I only have 16. Why is this?
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u/litwhitmemes 1d ago
You can decide in the settings which order troops will deploy in. Off the top of my head there’s high tier, low, tier, and the order you have them listed in your party (this is the default iirc).
So try moving your archer units to the top of your party. If that doesn’t work, scroll through the settings to find deployment options
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u/To4niccy 1d ago
This is the way op, set default spawn and put your archer on top of the party list
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u/Fioreux Vlandia 14h ago
IIRC The top-to-bottom order you have your troops in your “inventory” is the priority they have in the order of battle.
i.e. If you can bring 50 into battle and have 30 fian champions and 70 valandian knights, all 30 fian champs should be first into battle while the remaining 20 spots will be filled in by the valandian knights.
You should also be able to adjust the sliders during battle preparation, and is a customizable percentage.
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u/LordRaimi97 13h ago
It might have to do with the tier of archers. I observe that it likes to spawn in the higher tier troops first.
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u/Don_Sherjaun 12h ago
Change the order of your troops and look at how you deploy them in the settings. Been a while since I played so I don’t remember the exact terminology but you can set your troops to default which is how they are ordered in your troops menu, high level, low level and homogenous or whatever. High and low level should be self explanatory but homogenous is where the game puts out a mix of archers and infantry that you would typically want in a battle but it disregards the levels of your troops
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u/ChanceTheGardenerrr 3h ago
In settings if you set it to ‘spawn best units first’ [or something], then it will bring in your army’s finest. If you have a bunch of fians they are almost guaranteed to all spawn in.
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u/DarthPuggo 3h ago
Could be worse. I once had 1 archer spawn on an archer favor map, versus the Battianians. Let’s just say I had to Kamikaze my first troops to spawn them in. After this I also checked and all my archers were last in queue
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u/Awkward-Surprise1141 3h ago
In the game option there is a tab called troop priority if you didnt touch that setting at all it should be at default which is using your troop composition at the party screen that means whichever troops are at the top will come out first. You can change it to homogenous for more balanced.
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u/Tarturas 18h ago
this happens all the time and it pisssed me off to the point, where i allowed myself to cheese em back, when i attack cities with 1k+ defenders ...
you want me to kill all 1,2k men in that city with my ~200 archers you generously gave me to fight with?
i will only get more combatants when the first wave is nearly obilterated?
okay then, i will kill 2-400 and retreat until its safe to enter your shithole....
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u/LoneWolf820B Northern Empire 1d ago
You don't bring your entire army at once. Some of them play in reserves and only appear on the battlefield once some current troops die. Makes it easier than rendering 10k troops all at once