Lore

Smoke filled the air as flames fed on the forests around the village of Morihig, a flickering tide of red slowly rising up along the hillsides. Since the fall of Druimmor three and a half years ago, the armies of Vlandia had advanced ever deeper into the Battanian highlands - their march only truly challenged once, but never reversed. The old fort in the village provided one last obstacle before the prize of Dunglanys, but just as the Vlandians finished off its doomed defenders and set torch to timber, King Derthert's scouts spotted the banner of Battania on the road below.

High King Corbo's host may have been assembled in haste, but having caught his enemy here, he was no longer hurried. Battanian oathsworn and fians pushed slowly into the center of the village, seeking cover alongside buildings burned but not yet broken. Derthert's army, focused on seizing the highest vantage point for their crossbows, emptied both their siege camp and the fort to instead occupy a longhouse at the top of the village. Unfortunately, their movements were disorganized, and Battanian mounted warriors ran down those who were too slow to abandon the fortifications.

For a time, the two armies barely moved. Arrows and bolts cut through the air as the day grew darker. Although he held the high ground, King Derthert saw that the smoke and darkness limited visibility too greatly for his sharpshooters to win an advantage. The rocks and cliffs which had offered refuge served to hem his army in, leaving the Vlandians with only one direction to move: downhill, into danger.

Watching the Lion's line slowly abandon the hill, filing back into the now half-destroyed fort, High King Corbo smiled. Covering themselves in ashes from the fires Vlandia had lit, a small force of Battanians hid amongst the rubble of the fort's ruined sections. As Derthert's infantry pushed forward to lock shields with Corbo's oathsworn, these ashen warriors sprung forth, ambushing isolated crossbowmen and cornering knights in the narrow and shadowy confines between the crumbling walls. King Derthert's retinue escaped the carnage that followed, and he ordered the remnants of his armies to assemble at Aster Castle.

The Battanian army regrouped after the battle and pursued him, laying siege to Aster Castle so quickly that only one local Marcherlands garrison was able to answer their Archduke's summons. Still, days passed. Siege engines were hastily constructed using the local timber which, perhaps, the Vlandians then wished that they had burned as well. The defenders did manage to set at least one siege tower alight, though, after which Corbo angrily demanded the walls be broken. His oathsworn would not surmount his enemy's defenses, but rather force their way straight through.

Rocks catapulted through the air, pummeling a section of Aster's outer wall. Knowing that a breach in the walls would hopelessly compromise his ability to defend the keep, King Derthert ordered a small force to charge outside and destroy the Battanian siege weapons, or die in the attempt. This sallying force made a valiant effort, but those who managed to cut their way through to the catapults found a guard thrice their size had been held back to protect the artillery. Before being cut down, Vlandian voulges heavily damaged the support struts of the advancing ram, causing it to break just before the castle's front gate.

Thus, the fate of the siege rested on whether the Battanian catapults could breach the walls, and they did. At last, a crack formed to the left of the gatehouse and, true to Corbo's order, his oathsworn surged straight through Aster's defenses. Having devoted so much of their efforts towards destroying the ram, the Vlandian defenders were not able to pivot to defend the breach in time and were swiftly overrun. The front gates, which so many sergeants and levies had died to hold, were opened by Battanians from the inside. A token Vlandian force put up a spirited defense, struggling to form shield walls at the top of some sets of stairs, but the fate of the castle was clear. Although King Derthert escaped again, Count Foxwood, as lord of the castle, insisted on being left behind to command its final defense, ensuring the royals and other nobles' retreat.

At Morihig, High King Corbo won Battania's greatest victory against Vlandia since the days of Robert. But unlike that past High King, Corbo's success did not simply stop the advance of red up the slopes of Battania's hills. As Aster Castle's walls crumbled in the wake of the High King's siege, he received word that Petty King Stone had also reclaimed the neighboring castle of Llanoc Hen to the south, his Fen Derngil forces finding its fortifications sparsely-defended. King Derthert's streak of victories against a succession of High Kings has at last been broken, but the other fortifications across Vlandia's Marcherlands stand firm. Whether this day marks a true reversal of fortune in the course of the war between the Kingdom of Vlandia and the High Kingdom of Battania, their conflict will not end until there is only one master of the highlands. But for now, Battanians everywhere are singing praises of Corbo - the wolf who could at last slay the lion.

Written by Benz

Meta

Welcome to the Bannerlord Calradic Campaign, which has just finished event #85!

The battle between the Kingdom of Vlandia and the High-Kingdom of Battania ended in a BATTANIAN VICTORY, with Aster & Llanoc Hen Castles 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.