2 Strong Arms. Strong Arms is a great perk if you use throwing weapons, and it even increases the throwing skill for your troops. It's not as useful as some of the other perks in the Athletics skill tree, but its counterpart, Strong Legs, is even more useless. Strong Legs reduce your fall damage and increase your kick damage, both niche effects. Instead of using X to drag from one side to the other Square will quickly place the item from one side to the next. Circle Button: Waiting-. If you want to wait on the map and have some time pass you can hold down Circle and that will pass some time. Touch Pad: Navigation in the menu-. Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord is a Riding, with a bit of armor and combat skill, pretty much turns the player into a one-man army, able to run circles around the enemy and pick them off one by one. Walkthrough: A detailed guide of the game's main story. Skills: Explore all the individual active skills for the different characters. Controls: Covers the details of the basic layout of the controller for all platforms. Combat: Provides information on the basic and advanced combat system of Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord. The key to mounted spear combat is timing the "thrust" in conjunction with moving away to keep out of range of your target's melee weapons. And, to help with that, a longer spear makes this much easier. Tips: 1) Go train. There's a Mounted Melee course in the Training Area. This combat blows. I'm not willing to accept such sluggish, unresponsive controls. Fighting is the central axis of this game, its how you progress. The combat should be tight, impactful, and responsive. Not this delayed, stiff, goofy crap. I'm uninstalling. Good riddance. How fast people move in combat. Increasing the speed is effectively like giving everyone in combat an athletics and riding buff, so melee combat will come fast, and you'll have less time to set up and use archers. I'm pretty sure it also affects AI reaction speed, so when it's lower it's easier to land a kick or feint. Well, what I can say is that it's different from warband. Ususally in warband you just move your screen in a direction and it hits down if you're on a horse. In this game you have to actually look down with your hit if you want to hit anything on the ground. I found a pretty badass axe that I've used on horseback. Mount and Blade really lacs in more strategy resources to use in battles: better formations comands, more complex formations, more complex orders to troops and, most important: a much better AI. AI always tend to cluster everyone in a single spot, they always go in a straight line to enemies. AslandusTheLaster. It is hard, because you start super bad at combat. The only way to not suck in combat is to max out for example athletics and 2h, so u will be relevant later. And all stats that atm matter are speed (obvious) and max HP, because all armors can be pierced with a fork. Played 10h on a save and had one handed on 100 and archery on 80, riding on 80 F4UadK.