Story Background - You rode off on a fast horse: +10 Skill Level and 1 Focus Point to Riding and Scouting.

Young Adulthood - You defeated an enemy in battle: +10 Skill Level and 1 Focus Point to One-Handed weapons and Two-Handed weapons. Youth - Trained with the infantry: +10 Skill Level and 1 Focus Point to Polearm and One-Handed weapons. 1 Attribute Point to Endurance.Īdolescence - Caring for horses: +10 Skill Level and 1 Focus Point to Riding and Steward. 1 Attribute Point to Social.Įarly Childhood - Your skill with horses: +10 Skill Level and 1 Focus Point to Riding and Medicine. If you want to focus on creating a polearm build, you will benefit from selecting the following background skills during character creation (for a full breakdown of background skills, see Defining Background Skills):įamily - A Baron’s Retainers: +10 Skill Level and 1 Focus Point to Riding and Polearm. You can also increase the base morale of your army by 15%. In addition to basic damage and speed increases, the polearm perk tree provides the ability to knock multiple enemies back, interrupting their attack animations. This is particularly effective against groups of archers, which would otherwise be protected by multiple lines of infantry or enemy cavalry. To couch your polearm means that you will be piercing enemies head-on, but you can also choose to swing a polearm against multiple units as you ride behind the ranks of an enemy army.

The polearm perk tree also provides advantages for horseback combat such as increased damage to other horses, improved couched damage in general, and reduced cooldown before you can couch your polearm again. Although you can use one-handed or two-handed weapons while mounted, you won’t be able to couch them and you will need to ride much closer to enemy lines to ensure a hit. They provide much greater reach than one-handed or two-handed weapons, and can be couched to inflict devastating damage on one or more opponents as you ride by them at high speed. The main reason to specialise in polearms in Mount & Blade: Bannerlord is to use them while mounted on horseback.

Mount and blade starting guide