from fighting forest fires to fighting in the forest, we all grew up.

@CityPlannerPlays

Ай бұрын

The cycle of life, haha!

15:43 - "We're gonna load that corpse pit up. That's our goal today." Phil has traveled a long distance from Clearwater County

@veevoir

Ай бұрын

Local Council should take notice not to rustle his jimmies anymore. The consequences might be dire!

It's weird hearing Phil say "what an absolute blood bath" feels like I'm seeing dark mirror Bob Ross.

@jonathankenner576

Ай бұрын

Happy, bloody trees.

@RexOedipus.

Ай бұрын

Well Bob was in the chair force

Whatever the next series, battle or peaceful, I am so looking forward to more manor lords content! Loving playing it, and loving watching it.

Sending your most powerful unit in heavy armor running after archer is not a good way to fight the battle lol

@jadekohler1109

Ай бұрын

I was thinking this haha!

@BXRB

Ай бұрын

I mean it worked

@atNguyen-ky2zo

Ай бұрын

@@BXRB because he playing with bot and have a lot bigger army

The way I've been explaining the army to people is that your militia units are just regular town folk with other jobs to do. When you call them to battle, they have to leave their jobs, go home, grab their gear, then meet up at the rally point. They are craftsmen, tradesmen, laborers, etc. not a professional army, and their battlefield prowess is duly lacking because of it. Your retinue, on the other hand, IS a professional army. They do nothing other than practice fighting, they have no other jobs, they are paid to be battle ready at all times, thus out on the battlefield, their equipment is generally better, but more importantly, their capabilities are far superior. They "could" be considered elite, but in reality they are not, they are just professional soldiers. (Veterancy and elite status, I assume, is what the whole not yet implemented experience system will be for.) They are your main force in your army and should be used to replace your militia at every opportunity. The militia is your supporting force. Of course, this being a game, the cheese strategy is to build up your militia first, then your retinue, thus doubling the size or your army against what was the developer's intent... The real proper way to do battle is to park your retinue front and center to take the bulk of the initial charge since they are your real army and can withstand the brutality of the opening strikes in battle, they last longer in a fight, they are better equipped for the fight, and they won't break as easily so you want them engaged as long as possible. You don't have a lord or general on the battlefield to protect so you don't need to hold your most elite troops as a guard force, which is historically why the elite troops weren't ever committed to the front lines until late in a battle when it was clear someone was winning, or a desperate last chance to not lose. That doesn't exist in this game, so commit them to be the tip of your spear as it were. Flanking them would be any militia with a shield. All of these units should be tightly grouped along with your retinue forming a shield wall to protect themselves from arrows, (and historically) chariots, horses, elephants, or even just a blood crazed charge by their enemy even though those aren't in the game (yet, maybe?). Behind the initial lines would be your spear militia spread out. The idea being your initial melee troops occupy the enemy's attention and your spearmen stab with attacks of opportunity since they have a reaching weapon and lack a shield for self protection. You don't want them getting hacked down where they stand because they can't defend themselves. They protect your main force's back, preventing them from being outflanked. If your front line melee are losing, before they break, you can withdraw them through your spear militia who will act as a screen preventing the enemy, who should already be worn down from the fight, from giving chase. Re-establish your melee unit behind the spearmen, and once they've regrouped, you can withdraw your spearmen behind your front line forces. A feigned withdrawal like this keeps all of your troops in the battle longer, while wearing down the enemy, allowing you, if you were the weaker force, to actually win since the enemy is always running up against fresher troops. Lastly are your archers, and they do a lot of different things depending on what stage of battle is happening. Prior to combat, they actually should be lined up in front of all of your troops. Let them shoot volleys into the advancing enemy to wound and slow them with the archers set to give ground. If you have your archers staggard along the route your enemy is advancing, you can take advantage of the same feigned withdrawal talked about before to harass and slow the enemy's advance, while you keep retreating out of danger. Once the enemy gets close enough, your archers should start moving back as quickly as possible to get out of the way, and depending on your melee formations you can either have them retreat through your melee units if there's room to do so or split off to the sides and circle around behind your melee units and draw the enemy straight into the bulk of your main force. Your archers become useless for a bit once this happens since they shouldn't be firing into their own people. Once your main force is engaged and the archers are no longer being chased, the archers can take flanking positions on either side (and set them to freely fire, but not friendly fire) so they can pick off any stragglers not piled into the active scrum or actively shoot back at the enemy archers until the enemy formations break.

@Skaldzerker

Ай бұрын

Game systems as they are, would you consider the spear militia's damage reflection to be an argument for them to be in front when the enemy charges? I haven't seen any numbers for what they reflect beyond the "10" listed in game, whatever that means. Not sure if it's a percent or an absolute number. If it's decent, I'd put them out front, halt the enemy's charge, then immediately charge the retinue into the melee. Depending on the enemy force, I'd pull the spears back to rest and be ready to reinforce a failing line or apply force to a developing advantage.

I think you're spreading your formations out far too widely, and that's why the enemy is able to get to your archers. You've stationed the formations miles apart, you want to station the archers just a little behind your primary force, that way if the enemy tries to sneak around and flank to get the archers, your melee units are right there and can quickly reposition to block them.

@iain.sm.c

Ай бұрын

I was thinking that too. Most of my knowledge on rts games like this one comes from all of Many A True Nerd's Total War series haha. Infantry in the front grouped together, archers placed closely behind, and spearmen guarding the flanks. I don't envy Phil learning a a completely new type of game in front of hundreds of thousands of people, but I'd say he's still doing a great job!

@NightKnight347

Ай бұрын

Archers should be skirmishing in front until the battle picks up, at which point they retreat behind the melee units and either engage enemy skirmishers over top of the melee, or use their mobility to flank the enemy and deal damage from a new direction.

@jaredmccain7555

Ай бұрын

@@NightKnight347 does archers hitting from the flanks count as more damage in manor lords?

@NightKnight347

Ай бұрын

@@jaredmccain7555 It's just the right thing to do for the sake of small unit tactics. Given that units seem to take a massive morale hit when flanked, I would guess so. I do not know how the dev coded the game, though. I have seen people confirm that friendly fire is a thing though, and that in itself would be good reason to not fire from behind your own units.

@CorwinAlexander

29 күн бұрын

And spread out the infantry so the archers aren't flanked so easily.

Would love to see you dive into historical town and village layouts!

@davidcampbell2143

Ай бұрын

I second this.

The sheer glee as Phil talks about killing all his enemies is a real trip after watching him build cities for the last few years :D

You can select multiple units (or groups of units) and hit Ctrl-SomeNumber to assign them to number keys (hitting SomeNumber to select them again). Each unit can also be in different groups. Just a quick tip :)

@jnrmodding6468

Ай бұрын

that's advanced stuff, I was just begging for him to realize he can just right-click the enemy units to send his own to attack and chase those archers indefinitely instead of giving regular movement commands over and over

A peaceful playthrough, or a playthrough focused mostly on city building, would be really cool. But honestly any more manor lords content would be awesome

The battles do feel a lot like Total War, so if you want to learn how to run a battle, try one of those games. I do hope that at some point you get to add horses to your retinue so knightly cavalry can be a thing!

More! Unique, big city. Please.

I actually love seeing the brute force approach to military tactics 😅😂

Please keep playing Manor Lords! However you want to do it -I am there!

I am obsessed with this series, Phil! Please don’t stop… I’m playing Manor Lords through you as I don’t have a gaming PC (yet)! I love your building style as well. Keep up the amazing content!

Hey Phil! I’ve been loving the Manor Lords series. I think it would be cool if you settled each region and each settlement was specialized, similarly to how Imenreuth was a farming town. Walbrand can remain a roof tile powerhouse if you wish too🤣

This was a fun series. RimWorld would be another good one to try.

I did not expect to enjoy the battle aspect as much as I did. This whole series was fun!

@MsEgwene

24 күн бұрын

Definitely here for more Manor Lords content, btw!

Oh the Monty Python quotes running through my head watching these battles! lol

More series on village building in Manor Lords would be super great!

If only your enemy could be Phillip with two Ls

It could be an opportunity for you to delve into the history of European planning and medieval city building. Maybe a series devoted to exploring this history would be cool

Yes! Perfect way to start a Friday after work.

I saw this 10 minutes after it was posted and it already had 1000 views. Well done Phil! You are an avatar of the new age of competence and kindness that is coming.

This have seriously been one of my favorite playthroughs of your channel so far... Please do more. x

Just discovered this channel and watched this series this week. I'd love a "grow a settlement into as large of a city as possible" series!

If you right click an enemy army, then your army will directly attack that army. I noticed that you only dragged with your mouse making the army change formation. This will not make them attack, they will instead stand in their formation until an enemy army attacks them. One more tip. All your armies will get higher effectiveness if you keep them close together, what you did is you made everyone stand in a row. The best formation is almost a perfect square.

I'd love to see you play Tropico. All hail The Glorious Builder!

Helpful tip that I discovered by accident going from New Cycle to Manor Lords and trying to hit 1 to change the game speed: hold control in the army panel to select multiple units then hold control and press 1, 2, 3… to set a control group. Then you can use that hot key to make one big spear shield line set to hold your ground so you get the stationary impale bonus, can have your archer group start in front to get more volleys off then pull them back (though their melee is stronger than their arrows due to over nerf lol) Can have your pole arms anti armor and retinue in a group to flank while using your shield guys to set the anvil line Or whatever tactics you want to use. Hope this helps, love your channel

Super fun! Can't wait to see more of your cities thriving!!

absolutely loved this series and your gameplay!! new to your content and loving it! would love to see you dive deeper into this game once there’s more to offer

Phil was able to save money in Manor Lords because they don't have fire departments. Not that matters much to him in CS and CS2 🧑‍🚒🔥

@nickmhc

Ай бұрын

There is a fire hazard view in Mansory Lords that says “work in progress” lol

@unconventionalideas5683

Ай бұрын

@@nickmhc Sometimes there are fires, but they are sporadic and everyone just drops what they're doing to extinguish the fires.

I feel so happy for you that the Manor Lords series is popular. Being a niche channel kinda sucks, so its incredible when your community gets down with you exploring new things

I really enjoyed this series a lot and I would really love to see another series of this game! A peacefull series sounds nice to me.

This game is much more interesting to watch than stuff like Tropico and Anno for me, even though it has a lot of the same mechanics you have a lot more freedom to build interesting places. Would be excited to see how it develops in the future!

Would love to see more of this from a city-building angle! Also, Anno let’s gooooo!

I want to see big specialized villages in each region now!

Honestly loved this series of gameplay, really hope you do more on manor lords

I recommend Foundation - it's more cartoony and casual but it allows for detailing and more customisation, especially if you download some mods.

Hell yeah, Phils back with another manor lord video baby

I'd love to see you do another series with Manor Lords. Amazing game!

Great series! I'd love to see a peaceful series of Manor Lords where you build as grand a hamlet as you can!

Loved this series! I would love to watch another. I’m definitely more interested in the city building aspect than the combat.

The first EP of this series showed up on my recommended and I have zero experience or interest in this genre of games..with that said - I binged the whole playlist in one day and want more!! Absolutely love listening to you and the game looks so cosy (maybe it's the setting for me, being a fantasy fan?)! Hope there will be more of this soon 😍

oh my, episodes only 2 days apart? you truly spoil us, Phil!

I absolutely loved this series, would love to see you continue to play manor lords on the channel! I’ve been watching since the beginning of Verde Beach and I think this was my favorite series yet! Thanks for the great videos as always👍🏼

Would love an Anno playthrough. Plenty of end points to choose, so the series can be as long/short as needed.

Love your videos! I always try to make appealing cities when I play city building games but somehow always fail lol. You make it look so easy which inspires me to keep trying!

Would love to see you do another series of this, particularly the peaceful sprawling city :) would be cool to look into medieval city design (I saw another comment suggested this!)

Loved this series! Definitely want to see more! I love games that have both city-building and battle mechanics. Hoping as the game becomes more polished/finished that each map acts like a region, and there’s a mode that allows you to conquer/develop more than one region in the same game, on your way to increasing your title.

found your channel not too long ago, love your playtroughs! This series is an absolute beauty, hope you will continue making vids on this game! Keep on keeping on, brother!!

You should keep your archers more directly behind the infantry protecting them, and force your enemy to actually go through said that infantry to get to your archers. Put the infantry in wider ranks than the archers, and make sure to send archers with your retinue as well.

Great series! Keep bringing Manor Lords content . I just hope they bring parking lots to the game. And landscaping. And pipes to put underneath the roads😂 Cheers!

As a constant player of large scale war games it was painful to watch this 😅 but still love the content man!

Please do more manor lords, especially once all the features have been released! Would be really great to have a proper ML series that goes on for dozens of episodes!

I am loving this series, especially watching you learn the battle strategies. Please keep this going!

I'd really like to see a series where you make some big(-ish) cities in this game! A castle would be awesome too, even if the game is a little limited and you arent going to actually fight anyone, lol

Very excited to see how this plays out, considering all the other battles followed a "set up, watch the bandits just walk straight around the back and attack my archers"

Loved this series! I think CPP would thrive playing any of the Stronghold franchise- especially stronghold 2

Baby wake up, Phil uploaded another manor lords video

This has been such an enjoyable series, I'd love it if you did another one! Of all the let's plays I've watched, i enjoy your play style the most. I think a peaceful run focused on creating settlements and trade could be fun, or one that's about population growth, or aesthetics.

Truly enjoyed the series bro, Thank You !!!!

Hi, thanks for the video. Not sure it's the right niche but if anyone's very much into manorial warfare and society I strongly recommend Schwerpunkt's videos series: they make an excellent historical background for such titles

Awesome video. I just united all the territories today too. Since I had no mercenaries I ended up building more manors with the garrison, had 10s of thousands in the coffers to max out the retinue.

You know, I could see a really cool DLC dropping for this called "Castles and Crenellations" where a siege aspect is brought in. Where it fleshes out the castle building and introduces siege equipment. Additionally, if modders got ahold of this, some amazing maps could certainly be built, too. Such a fun little game. Can't wait to see it expanded and finished.

I really like that you upload your gameplay in 4k.. this game is too beautiful to upload in 1080p

loved the series and am definetely looking foreward to another one!

this series makes me come to youtube every couple hours to check if you’ve posted a new episode… love it!

When the came is completed and updated, I hope you’ll revisit it! I got the current version, and I had no idea what to do till I watched your playthrough. 😂 now on to Biffa’s lessons!

loved the series felt like it ended so quickly cant wait till the game expands more! MORE VIDEOS OF MANOR LORDS! WAR!!!!

If you upgrade the manor, you can get 24 retinue, also, another great way to increase your militia size is when they are broken (retreating) you can hire more militia, and when they return to your border, the retreating units come back under your command. Ive got 11 units in one of my games doing that.

Someone should have told him that you can rightclick enemy groups to attack them, which is especially important when chasing archers. Works much better than continuously lining up you troops next to them

I know you're the city builder guy but admittedly I am liking this content even more

This was awesome. I hope you do another one of these in the future, maybe tracking development

WHY DO YOU ALWAYS LEAVE THE ARCHERS COMPLETELY UNGAURDED!?!? lol great video

"Already stressed about watching you trying to play commander?" Mate, I've been playing Total War for a decade: I'm always stressed watching city builders trying to work the combat system of this game, but it's no less entertaining xD

I would love a series making a big city!. Wanna see how big the castles can get too

Love the videos man! Please keep making more!👏👏

I would absolutely love a more build focused play-through of this. It is such a cool game it deserves that attention in my opinion.

Very much enjoyed this series!

There is a place roads button in the castle planner that lets you place roads inside your Manor, but yes other features are unavailable. I think town walls are planned for later in development.

Would love a city focused series!

Loved this! Tropico or Anno would be awesome!

Yea! Nice one :) I'm loving the game, but I'm only playing peaceful so far :)

I like the game. Played the heck out of it for a week. It’s got a great base canvas. I hope they can implement human vs human battles. That’s my biggest gripe. With AI it’s very predictable and you quickly learn step by step what you need to do, even in hard mode. In peaceful mode you quickly run out of resources when your population grows, so creating a sprawling empire, that’s functional, isn’t an option either. I do love the game and I’m anxious to see where it goes from here

Looks like the beginning of a secondary channel called City Planner Slays 😂.

Anno 1800 would be a dope playthrough

Great series. Inspired me to get the game! Thanks CPP.

You could totally make a one off mini series of your villages in modern day CS

As someone who loves managment games too, I'm very curious to see you playing Dwarf Fortress

Would love a series just for basics haha

I would love a peaceful series where you build lots of little hamlets. maybe surrounding a large city in the middle

I would love to see another manor lords series were you play on the other harder game mode.

I think my biggest critique for the way you manage your army is to make the retinue your front line troops, not your flank/reserve. They're your absolute best soldiers, they're your only professionals who are well equipped with good weapons and armor, why not put them where the action is heaviest?

Great series, Phil! :D

You can make your units go after enemies by just clicking on them. Thus, you won't have to manually chase them like you did with the retinue against the archers

This series is the reason I bought the game . . . . Good Work

Sir Phillip, Lord of the Land: "Good news villager, you've been recruited into our army for a glorious battle!" Peasant: "Oh ok, well it can't be _too_ bad. We are a rather mighty barony." Sir Phillip: "Excellent, your position will be archer. Get your equipment ready." Peasant: 💀💀💀

built the biggest town possible great series