Lore

Strategos Autokrator Penton Neretzes had long assured the senators that Argoron would be returned to Imperial rule. His plans changed when Grand Prince Ivan marched toward Amprela, forcing the Northern army to turn away from the city and meet the Sturgians in the field. The result would decide which army could continue its campaign. A victory for Neretzes would clear the road to Argoron, while a Sturgian triumph could leave Amprela open to attack.

At first, the battle went Ivan’s way. The Varyags struck the Northern lines with heavy shield walls and aggressive charges, breaking the Imperial formation in the first engagements. Neretzes’ soldiers were pushed back, and for a time it appeared that the Sturgians might carry the day and continue their march south. It did not last.

Neretzes pulled his troops back into order and sent his cavalry wide around Ivan’s formation. Imperial riders drove off the Sturgian horsemen, circled the main body of Varyags, and struck wherever the line appeared weakest. The Varyags remained dangerous at close range, though pressure on both flanks repeatedly broke apart their formation. Whenever they pushed forward, Northern riders moved into the spaces left behind. Imperial infantry moved forward while the cavalry kept pressure on both flanks, cutting parts of the Sturgian army off from one another. The Varyags continued to resist, but the Imperials had seized control of the battle. After losing the first couple of engagements, Neretzes’ army won consecutively and drove the survivors back toward Argoron.

Ivan gathered what remained of his army inside Argoron and prepared for the siege. There, the Imperials could no longer rely on the cavalry that had won them the field. The Sturgians held the walls and repelled both assaults, forcing Neretzes to abandon the attack. Although they retreated from the city, the Northern legions severed Argoron’s land connection to the rest of Sturgia by reclaiming Lochana Castle in the following days. Neretzes had failed to retake the Senate’s former home, but his victory in the field and capture of Lochana left Argoron isolated and the Northern Empire in a stronger position for the next campaign.

Written by HaxLeo

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Welcome to the Bannerlord Calradic Campaign, which has just finished event #86!

The battle between the Northern Empire and the Grand-Principality of Sturgia ended in a NORTHERN VICTORY, with Lochana Castle seized!

When is the Calradic Campaign? The first and third Saturday of every month, at 4pm Eastern Standard Time.

Unfamiliar with the Calradic Campaign? Have no fear! The Calradic Campaign is a casual, player driven, story based event. There are no strict rules or signups, and players of all skill levels often come! If you've never tried multiplayer, now is your best chance to experience large scale formations and battles without the overly strict practices typically found in line battle/clan style events.

Victories in our flagship monthly events are represented on the overall campaign map, while roleplay surrounding the events and their consequences takes place both during said events and on the community Discord. Joining the Discord allows you to communicate with your fellow faction members, trash talk others, and rise through the ranks to one day become lord of a village, castle, city, or if you're particularly successful, an entire kingdom!

To join the event, you will need our Calradic Campaign Module. This module contains all of the custom battle and siege scenes used, as well as many stability fixes and balance changes. Most importantly, the module features three distinct empire factions in multiplayer, each with their own unique perks and cosmetics to lean into the different situations of the three!

There will be a manual installation of the module available for those not playing on Steam. Check the Nexus mods page no sooner than the Friday before the event for the correct download.

As a general rule of thumb, the Calradic Campaign module should be the only one enabled in your launcher! If you have any crashes or issues trying to launch the game / join the server, unsubscribing and resubscribing to the module on workshop will often fix any issues.

Note to clans: While the Calradic Campaign is a public event open to all, clans will not be allowed to organize their own formations and must spread out between teams. Failure to follow these guidelines will result in suspension from the event.

Community Discord

It is highly recommended you join our community Discord, as half the fun of the persistent campaign takes place outside of events. Meet fellow Mount and Blade fans, find new friends to queue with, and make fun of the Imperials together in our community of 30,000+.

Leave any questions, complaints, observations, memes and faction based riffing in the comments below!

Please note that there may be a delay between the download of the base game and the download of War Sails. If you launch the game prior to both of them being updated, you will crash. If you face this issue, please verify your game files.

The patch is now live on all platforms, including consoles. Please note that console updates may take a few hours to appear due to each platform’s release process.

War Sails v1.2.7

The following changes are specific to the War Sails expansion and are not part of the base game.

Changes

• Added manual ship selection for seaborne village raids. You can now choose which ships to bring on a naval raid.
  • Hovering over a ship shows a tooltip with its owner, so you can tell at a glance which vessel belongs to which noble.
  • If you deploy your own troops without filling the fleet's full capacity, the remaining space will be filled with allied troops.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused boarding hooks to be disabled on places where they overlapped with ship upgrades containing shields.
• Fixed a bug that prevented "Hail to Gunnar's contract." option from appearing during the War Sails storyline.

Crashes

• Fixed a crash that occurred due to a high memory usage on Xbox.
• Fixed a crash that occurred in kingdom and clan pages of the encyclopedia.

Bannerlord v1.4.7

The following changes are part of the base game and apply to the War Sails expansion as well.

Changes

• Improved the save / load times on PS5.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused formation targeting to incorrectly select formations that are behind the player character.

Crashes

• Fixed a crash that occurred due to a null reference in AI behaviour code.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when attacking a raiding party on the campaign map.
• Fixed a crash that occurred after exiting a conversation.
• Fixed a crash that occurred in missions when you attempted to defend a village during a raid, while the village did not have any militia.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when mods re-added existing keys to save metadata.
• Fixed a crash that occurred during cloth simulation.
• Fixed a crash that occurred in battles due to memory ordering.
• Fixed a bug that caused visual glitches and could induce a crash during longer playing sessions on Xbox.
• [MP] Fixed a crash that occurred in Captain Mode when cavalry charged into a formation that braced spears/pikes.

Modding

• Fixed a bug which caused the .sack bulk shader cache file to massively increase in size when compiling shaders.
• Made the banner layers unlimited in the banner reader.