WHOA!!! The Bannerlord War Sails DLC looks F((KING AMAZIING!! Showcase #2 – a HUGE Sea Brawl
Peggy 16. All right, friends. Welcome back again to another episode of Tactical Enlightenment. And indeed, another gameplay showcase here from War Sales. They just released this today. I’m just sitting down with some caffeine. And we look like we have a nighttime battle here. Another battle at sea. The anticipation for war sales is gathering just like the storm here. The effects are just incredible. This actually reminds me a lot or is maybe even better than the realistic weather mod. And man, these graphics, I just feel like I’m getting soaked. I’ve got some It looks like he’s got like a bear cloak or something like that. Some really cool armor. And we are playing with the Kazate. And what do we have here? This looks like a looks like a firepot loaded at the front of our ship. How gnarly is that? Uh, and again, we continue to talk about the DLC as they show these showcases, as they show little previews and blogs. It’s a week away, fellas. I hope you guys are as excited as me. We will be live streaming within a day or two of the game’s release. And of course, we will have guides as soon as we understand what the heck we’re doing here. Now, those are our ships, aren’t they? I guess he’s just looking at his ships, man. The thunder is clasping and it looks like he’s firing fire catapults or fire pots from the ballista. Maybe they’re fire ballistas. Oh [ __ ] And the sails and the masts are catching fire. How amazing is this? Very historically accurate as well because ships were mainly propelled by by orders, but in you know in the correct weather conditions they would use the sails well not when they’re on fire. As a firefighter, I would say that is at least the the uh incipient stage working its way towards flashover. Oh, the the troops are abandoning ship cuz their their entire ship is on fire. That is amazing. Survivors from the burning ship are swimming. So, they’re he decides they’re legitimate targets. How amazing is this? The troops are swimming from the ship that just caught fire to other ships. And you want to talk about dynamism, right? Can you ram these troops in in the water? Obviously, you could shoot them. You could fire pot them. It looks like he’s aligning uh a ramming attempt. I mean, he’s got him dead center. Might as well light them on fire here before you ram. Now, it’s interesting. He’s firing the the ballista from the helm. So, it’s sort of like you’re in two places at once. I guess that’s necessary in order to command the ship. And he’s ramming the boat again. Oh, it’s on fire. And that is very close to combat, medieval combat porn. The ship is on fire. Troops went flying. There’s troops practically on fire jumping onto our boat. And I mean, are you kidding me? This is absolutely orgasmic. Now, this is a development a developmental build that obviously they’re still fine-tuning things. We’re a week away from final release. And I mean, incredible, right? What what can you say? He’s just raking the other ships with broadfires from his fire catapult. He goes for the smaller ship as a target. Our channel, of course, will be focused early on in war sails. On the tactical side, I’ve been studying up on medieval uh and ancient ship history, right? We’ve been learning all about drummonds and and rams and stuff like that. There’s some historical elements that aren’t perfectly accurate with horse sales, but who gives a [ __ ] when it’s this fun, right? Just like we don’t want to get sepsis and die from every battle wound. Uh I think they they’re probably going to to meld historical like that that little ramp there just appeared in front of them. You know, historical stuff with with a little bit of arcade fun, right? Because if it was truly realistic down to the tea, it wouldn’t be nearly as fun. Uh and we got some gnarly fighting here. And I just realized this is our first our first visions here, our first previews, live previews of the Nords. the Nords, hearts guard and shieldbearers, warp proven. We know some of the names of the troops, of course, the Berserker, uh the Alphandin, the Alphandar, the polearm wielding wolf dudes, and there’s ballista shots flying firing all over our ship. This is just I mean I’m like staggered by the amount of beautiful chaos here. Now, the ships are rafted up, right? In other words, the ships were pulled together. They threw grappling hooks. And so tactically, what we’re looking at here is basically a sprawling battlefield that sort of resembles the chaos of an interior defense of a city, a city siege defense, something to that nature. There’s going to be plentiful opportunity for skirmishers, probably blockading entrances to your ship with squares. He’s doing all kinds of moving of the ship here. And you, it’s great because you can see the troops running around on the deck while he moves the ship around. It looks like there’s three or four north ships in the middle. If you look at the power bar here, we’re in trouble. An enemy ship has started to sink. There’s an intense amount of stuff going on. There’s ships sinking. There’s fighting on other ships. We’re tearing some limbs with our blunt object here. Smashing some limbs. And this guy’s by himself. You need some help, dude. Call your troops. He’s fighting like three guys. Oh, he’s listening to me. Follow me, he says. This guy’s obviously capable. He knows what he’s doing. Uh but get some help, man. Call your troops. Get some skirmishers lined up. Now, it’s curious. We get our first view also of the Norse here. And I see uh you know, they sort of look like sturgeon archers. Maybe uh you know, with a few armored flourishes and obviously they have the black gray color of the Nords. We’ve been running our preview series focused on trying to show tactics on how to defeat the Nords. And so far, a lot of this is sort of is sort of uh coming out the same. Now, there’s lightning. It It would be hard for there to be more chaos occurring right now. And the dynamism is amazing, right? Already we’ve seen a ship catch fire, troops abandoned, a a fire ship, a ship was rammed and sunk. I swear I hear troops drowning. One of the enemy ships cut off connection, leaving our troops standing on the other side. Oh [ __ ] Now this ship is just running alongside us here, smashing up all our ores and our shields. And that was historically accurate. The Drummond, in fact, the purpose of the Drummond, the ancient design was to destroy ores. you would disable enemy ship orus. Uh, so this is there’s all sorts of destructible [ __ ] on the rigs from the the the sails, the masts catching flames to running over the ores and the shields. There’s all kinds of potential customizability. So, we’re going to be able to what? He looks like he’s getting surrounded here. Maybe I missed something. It looks like he’s getting hemmed in here. He’s got a bunch of infantry. Since we can’t use the ores, unfurling the sails is our only chance to escape. Sails look unfurled. One save. One brave soldier runs to the front. What’s he doing there? He’s going to grab the ballista or is he going to cut the ship loose? Oh, he’s like point blank blasting the enemy with the ballista. One of his troops ran to the front. And again, we see the little teleport action there. It’s sort of necessary. It basically you can you can jump right up to the the mast or the the bow of the ship and fire. uh fire that catapult. Of course, for those on the channel who know, I’m a full-time firefighter and I was in the United States Coast Guard for six years. So, you know, shipboard uh fighting, I guess, is familiar to me. You could say I, you know, I had a 9 mm. Does that count on it? Fortunately, we didn’t have to kill storming Nord troops. And they’re starting to storm on his ship. And looking at the power bar here, this guy’s in trouble. It looks like the Nords are pouring onto his ship. And we have like a final stand here with the lightning crashing. The artwork on the shields of the Nords is gorgeous. I I don’t know if I could say more good [ __ ] about the game. His body gets slumped over the banister here in defeat. And what can you say? I mean, this was absolutely incredible. That wraps it up. Defeat. I wish we were there with you, Ned. We would have pulled it out with you fighting alongside you. So, you know, there’s more to come. Uh, we’re very, very excited for this next week, fellas. Hope to see you all there. Man, this is going to be [ __ ] great.
We get a second look at LIVE gameplay and another massive ocean battle in Bannerlord’s new DLC, War Sails, coming NEXT WEEK. This looks and FEELS fantastic. Well done, Taleworlds…
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