Ultimate Mount & Blade: Warband Guide! Steps to Conquer the World! Timestamps in The Description
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- Ultimate Mount and Blade: Warband Guide on how to create your character, manage your troops, build and decide where to start your kingdom, tips and tricks and everything in between. LONG video, but worth the watch!
Topic Time Stamps:
0:00 - Intro;
2:20 - Best Character Build & How to Level Up Your Character;
11:50 - Skills Discussion;
42:16 - Companions & Stable Parties;
47:02 - How to Level Up Companions;
1:00:16 - Best Troops and Troop Tree Discussions;
1:34:30 - Morale & Party Size;
1:39:40 - Damage Types & Best Weapons;
1:52:34 - How to Make Money;
1:58:40 - Becoming a Vassal;
2:02:07 - Claimant Quests;
2:06:49 - Making Your Own Faction;
2:12:26 - How to Get Vassals and Lord Personalities Explained;
2:20:38 - Fief Management;
2:27:56 - Early, Mid and Late Game: What to do;
2:34:05 - Battle Tactics, Strategies & Sieges;
2:46:07 - Difficulty Settings.
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Topic Time Stamps:
0:00 - Intro;
2:20 - Best Character Build & How to Level Up Your Character;
11:50 - Skills Discussion;
42:16 - Companions & Stable Parties;
47:02 - How to Level Up Companions;
1:00:16 - Best Troops and Troop Tree Discussions;
1:34:30 - Morale & Party Size;
1:39:40 - Damage Types & Best Weapons;
1:52:34 - How to Make Money;
1:58:40 - Becoming a Vassal;
2:02:07 - Claimant Quests;
2:06:49 - Making Your Own Faction;
2:12:26 - How to Get Vassals and Lord Personalities Explained;
2:20:38 - Fief Management;
2:27:56 - Early, Mid and Late Game: What to do;
2:34:05 - Battle Tactics, Strategies & Sieges;
2:46:07 - Difficulty Settings.
Thanks so much for this table of contents. It really makes the video usable do to its length
How do you attack a castle or city if ypu are not affiliated with another faction. I cant figure out how to attack a city or castle
@@drespeaks8607 Well, first you need to be hostile with the faction. You attack one of their lords, and get into negative relations. Then you can attack any castle/city you want.
Great video! Super informative and you did great explaining everything. Quick question: Klethi and Artimenner don't get along. You stated in the vid they did, am I doing something wrong?
On making money to start with 1. Get taxes quest, 2. Keep it and buy a productive enterprise e.g. brewery in Shirin (grain dirt cheap around there) 3. No time limit to repay
Skyrim: I can hold a lot of pots and pans in my pockets!
M&B: Hold my horse.
Horses*
Horse*
horse*
She Belongs To The Streets definitely *Horses because everyone carries 6
small tip for farming tournaments, once you get 2 kills you can "give up" the round and instantly join the 2nd round, makes it much faster
Wait. Is this a real thing?? Do you still get the bet Denars at the end??
@@Jadisage yes, when you just "give" up the round game takes it as a round simply finishing, not your defeat so if you meet the requirements to join next round it just counts as a win. it's not good to skip it if you want to be day-efficient as you will miss out on plenty of skills upgrading and maybe even some levels but imo it's better than just sit around for 3 hours doing tournaments
@@smejkal1846 bro I'm trying this when I play next. I level the most during sieges anyways. Heavy Morningstar by the ladder. You know. Lol
Smejkal Early game, doing tournaments is the best way for money and level up!
THANK YOU. The tournament grind was really, really getting to me!
havent won a single module of mount and blade, always get demoralized easily and start a new game
Just learn how to accept defeat. Accept that soldiers will die. Afterwards you will be fine. Defeat is not the end. It is simply a setback.
I dont give up i play till the very end
What helps me when that happens is instead of starting over completely just shut it off for a few days and take a break.
I was the same way during my first 3 playthroughs. Right now I only attack factions who are at war with one or two other factions. Makes things alot easier.
You get to keep your experience if you get captured in battle. I often size up the opponent and as soon as I am released, if there are only a few of them, I fight them and take back my stuff - makes you feel good!
Maybe the true best mounted archers are the friends we made along.
Buy silk from Rivacheg, sell in Suno for 2-3 times as much. Spice from Tulga to most other places. Salt is also big on profit. Once you work out a circular route, you can raise finances pretty quickly. Plus you take prisoners along the way and can enter tournaments.
yeah I had a note pad of all the places to buy cheap and sell high, and I just always bought and sold stuff along my adventures to do quests and missions, it really does begin to stack up, it made me so rich that I could easily afford the best businesses and made that transition into late game a breeze, not sure it would have been as good without trading.
@@LovingTinha And now I'd like to see those notes =(
@@LovingTinha lemme see those notes man ;)
@@TheZammyboss you know I would but my PC died couple weeks back and it was on my desktop and never thought to back it up or save it anywhere else, so they are gone for good. Surely someone else out there has done a similar thing. Or you just got to figure it out. Just take notes on all the places, where to buy cheap and where they pay you best. And in no time you will be a professional trader.
@@LovingTinha oh I see how it is. You just don't want to give away your trade secrets.
" you cant do it *swadian knights* I have the high ground!"
"You underestimate my power!"
"Dont try it"
“AAAAAHHHHHH!!”
@@TheBarleyBug ap
You were supposed to *destroy* the Sarranids, not *join* them!!!
damn this is an absolute diamond in the rough! u have been playing mount and blade for years 700 hours on steam and i have learned so much just from this one video. thank you man this is actual gold.
daman2911 I’ll second that. This is the best and most thorough warband guide I’ve ever found
I have 1800 hours on steam and I used to play before it on CD ages ago.
And I learned a lot here too. Disagreed with some of his stuff but most of it was on point
@@georgerafa5041 what were some of the things you disagreed with
I’m just curious because I’m new?
yes I know that this comment was 10 months ago
@@mowermen1762 believe me I wonder too, just out of curiosity ofcourse
@@jojojoji7521 me too :D
No hill anti-cav strategy:
They're going to go for your infantry 99% of the time.
Ball your infantry up tight as possible, spam that "infantry, stand closer" command. The cavalry riders will squeeze in and get in each other's way. When they hit your infantry that train will come to a full stop.
Tell your infantry to charge and they will move out around the sides of the cavalry, trapping them and pulling them down.
Archers, open fire!
Cavalry is toast.
sucks that they mindlessly charge though ;/
Frosty just command them to hold position first...
@@DataSicEvolved I do, but the cavalry can sometimes do quite a bit of damage still
@@CaesarsLegion1 Really depends on how heavy the cavalry is. I've found swadian knights are pretty hard to stop, but even a slight hill can do the trick with a tight infantry formation. But a decently large mass of men will also do the trick. Knights can charge through one rank of infantry like it's not even there and barely slows down at the second rank. But a third rank stops them cold, in the middle of all those men, getting poked and slashed from all sides.
"A Rhodok spear-wall is designed to stop a Swadian charge in its tracks, and it usually does." -Lezalit
2 years later and I’m using this guide, it’s the perfect guide thank you
Same
Hello. Do you know any mod for looting all? I'm used to Bannerlord and going back to this UI is tedious af.
@@goku445that’s funny because the console version of Warband has a loot all option. But is even more tedious to sell prisoners with, if you have a big army lol
1. To prevent enemies from taking your fiefs the only thing that matters is the amount of troops in your garrison. Quality of troop doesn't matter. Simply put 200-300 recruits in your garrison and the enemy AI will most likely never attempt to siege it.
2. Easy way to win most offensive sieges in the game is get full army of Vaegir marksman , or Rhodok sharpshooter, and tell them to Hold position in front of the castle. Just let them shoot with their arrows. When they run out, hit Tab to retreat, which costs you no penalty. You can repeat this until their entire garrison is depleted and easily win the battle. Also a good idea to set your medic to run somewhere safe during this to minimize causalities. When their archers are dead, you can stand on the ladder and just get constant easy headshots, the AI will never leave their castle and just stand there. On higher difficulty settings (Normal damage) its almost worthless to even bother with infantry during sieges because enemy arrows do so much damage. The ranged method is just way better and safer.
my top 2 tips i dont think were mentioned in this vid, thanks!
Really here I am giving em top tier
If your number 1 is right, I'm about to make bank!
Thank you so much bro
true just weak them until defeat
Number 1 is literally 'Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak ' lol
I used my swadian character to build myself up until I essentially was harlouse best man and could roughly hold 250-300 men in my party, I held about four cities and too many castle's to count as well as villages. I wanted my own knightly kingdom so once I essentially was the best vassal around I left the faction and took my fiefs. We had all the fiefs the green grass touched and I named it the German empire. I kept working at it and only accepted swadian and rhodok lords into my kingdom then made piece. There's no more swadia but rather the German empire and we hold the main lands, the nords are nagging at us but due to the fact we hold completely knights we dominated them mad hard. We didn't take everything they had as what I had in mind was world piece and to build up an army in the mean time so if they tried to attack we can crush them. I'm on day 2000 or so and it's been hard to maintain but it's working.
German Empire for 1000 year.
How did you get your army to 250-300men
@@Lux-_-115 A LOT OF MERCENARY WORK AND GRINDING TOURNAMENTS.
just got married and successfully sieged my first castle for the Nordly cause. Game is picking up a lot now haha
Edit: Was not expecting a wedding cutscene at all. Finally got this grumbling father to give me his blessing.
Hint - I’m planning on betraying the Nords. King Ragnar has a nasty habit of keeping multiple fiefs for himself. Just captured a castle for him after countless battles for the kingdom and good rep and he didn’t give it to me. ;)
I named my Character Ragnar on the first fucking playthrough without knowing that there is actually a Character in Game with this name.. now i have to kill him to be the only ragnar that exists
you had me in the first half of the sentence, not gonna lie
In one game Ragnar gave me like 10 fiefs because I was friendly with him and then he refused to give me a city I captured single handedly because he wanted it for himself. So I said nah fam and took like, a quarter of his kingdom with the snap of my fingers.
Last time I did a playthrough for the Nords, King Ragnar and I were the only lords in the kingdom. He just kept indicting other lords and throwing fiefs at me left and right. Sadly, this have me no chance to rebel.
Every AI king does that. They'll keep 5-6 scattered fiefs at random and then suddenly give 4-5 in a row to their martials or other favorite vassals (so if you want territories, do a ton of quests for the king). And when they do give territories to you as a vassal, your land will be scattered so far apart that you don't have a prayer of ever defending it all. That's one thing I seriously hope will be fixed in the final build of Bannerlord. It's probably the single biggest reason why many players would rather BE the king than serve the king. Warband really needed a better tactical user interface and NPC AI. But it's encouraging to see that the latest builds of Bannerlord have tried to fix the old AI problems, so maybe they'll be able to address this at last.
Idk why i kept getting addicted to this game. Sometimes I want to stop playing but got distracted by battles, quests or unexpected events. Such a great game
Indeed. It definetly has that one more turn, one more battle effect like other games do. If you want something similar but set in space, check out Starsector.
I do things almost entirely different than you, but that is that makes M&B great, there is a lot of different ways to play the game.
Indeed!
Small Improvement: pick Revenge as reason for adventuring
over Loss, because Surgery (et al) is better than Ironflesh according to this guide.
Fair enough. Thank you :D
just find Jeremus and you won't need that surgery
@@spatch7414 if the leader specializes in surgery it adds to the party surgeon. So you can have an even higher surgery skill
@@floridamancode_e2673 Really, it stacks? Knew about Trainer skill stacking, but thought other party skils don't stack. Is it just surgery or others too?
@@tlotredits surgery doesn't stack but if the leader gets over a certain amount he can grant bonuses to the party memeber with the same skill.
For a game with as many fans as warband, there is a surprisingly little amount of theory crafting vids on it. This is probably the best resource for warband native. Thanks for compiling all the information
This may be a only useful for me but the chest with the katana is a useful place to store items it has about 50 slots and never disappears i like to keep extra armour in case i get rekt lol
Good plan. Forgot about it.
Extra armor doesnt do shit....
Keep expensive items that u can sell there. Velvets and expensive stuff, in case shit hits the fan and u need money
Where is the chest?
@@Shukovsky dont need it...
I’ve just started playing this game like a couple days ago and this appeared in my feed (thank you FBI agent) and helped me so much
Its called an algorithm..
@@victorbell6893 its called a joke...
And if it was a physical person, youre not cool enough for it to be law enforcement, its just some telemarketer from India
2h speaking about the game, calmly without rush thats what we want! Thank you for that and to share your experience with us!
3h
As a complete newbie to the M&B franchise, thanks so much for this! It seriously has helped me understand the game better than any other resource I could find online. Been constantly rewatching parts of this and it's been invaluable :)
For real, the best vid ive seen yet
Me: wondering how to defeat swadian knight, the most powerful and broken mounted army in this game
Flavian: you can't
Him: i'm sorry Flavian but it's very simple
Me: he is got to be kidding me
Him: you just post your soldiers on a hill and let them come to you
Me: i need to use my brain more
except finding hills is boring, the only way to destroy a swadian charge is with tenfold more swadian knights in your army. as a matter of fact, there is no other unit you should have in the field other than the swadian knight. literally any other unit ever in warband outside of a siege is less efficient then a swadian knight, as most of the landscape of calradia is flatland, and is easy to lure enemies to flatlands anyway, much easier then luring them into mountain landscapes... there are only two units that matter in warband, and thats unfortunately sad: the swadian knight and the rhodok sharpshooter. you DO. NOT. NEED any other unit ever, only these two and their inbetweeners.
Secret if you put your troops at map border you can cheese the AI and they will dismount
@@dfghj241 That is boring though, playing Swadia had no satisfaction of using any tactics, not to mention those butter eating bastards are hard and expensive to train.
Most cost effective units that I found to be are Rhodok Sergeants and Sharpshooters. Tell your sergeants to stand closer, wait for them to easily absorb the silly Swadian charge, while the Sharpshooters rain murder down from a higher position, and your Sergeants cut swadian knights like butter.
Majority of Swadian troops that make up the AI armies are lightly armoured, they won't hold any fiefs for long.
@@BalthazarB2 against the AI on medium difficulty the Sargent's would have no issue. But you will get casualties either way. On hard difficulty things get so weirld I just don't see how is it possible to win any battle with no top tier units. Of which you will have few off because footsoldiers will keep dying. Also I've tried horsefucker Lancers. They do very well against anything without horses and they cost 2/3 the butter Bois. Provided you have 150 of them of course. I don't see anything beating sharpies though. And I don't see any point ever fighting in hills either. Mount e Blade is not a highly strategical game at all. Let's hope bannerlors fixes this. They need to lower the gap between low tier and high tier units by alot before they get regularly used by the player like the AI does.
Also the beauty of swadians troops is that you defend sieges on the field directly instead on the walls. 1000 men are sieging dhirim? Get the 100 knights and end this joke easy.
@@dfghj241 No point in fighting in hills? Man, have you ever fought against cavalry? Hills are absolute disaster for them, and nobody takes a hill from a Rhodok Sharpshooter.
I like to put lots into archery because one-handed flies up during battles. I like to choose university student at the beginning to get an expensive book to sell.
Best guide I’ve seen for this game. Good job.
I planned to watch some of the topics, ended up watching the whole Video...
Helped me as much as the PoP tutorial one, (a lot) :)
Made a spreadsheet for my future self if I play the game on a later date :)
Thank you!
While you farm sea raiders, rivacheg sells raw silk for around 300 and you can sell at wercheg for 500-600
Or Veluca for 700-800!
@JayKee
I know where Veluca is. You stock up on silk while farming sea raiders. When you have a few rolls saved up, you make the trip. Easy money.
@JayKee
LOL, farming sea raiders IS early game.
@JayKee
Early game is finding your companions, doing arena fights for xp, cash, and weapon proficiencies, farming sea raiders for gear and sellable loot, trading, establishing first enterprises.
Mid game is tournaments, establishing relationships through quests with lords, kings, towns, villages, and ladies, building more enterprises, tournaments, working as a merc, tournaments, establishing your base. At this point, I'm done farming bandits and selling loot. This stage is about renown, honor, right to rule, etc.
Late game is conquering.
LOL, I fucking love it!
I've been playing M&B since it came out, OG M&B, before Warband M&B, and I get some kid telling me I'm doing it wrong because silk is worth more in a town it takes all of an extra 2 seconds to get to, tells me I should be doing level 10 shit at level 25, and accusing me of lying about having completed the game that I've completed (and kept playing beyond) more than most people that touch this game.
Jeez-o-peet.
I cannot thank you enough for this video dude. I had no clue how to even approach the game, so this has helped immensely. You have my gratitude.
Good guide, though I hope you don't mind if I add in a few points:
You mentioned two ways to start your own faction but there is a third option available to female characters: marry into a faction and convince your husband to join you in rebellion. This is similar to a normal rebellion, except that you instead of waiting for the king to refuse you a fief you're trying to convince a lord to turn traitor which is a different set of difficulties. The upside is that in addition to taking your current holdings with you like a normal rebellion, you're also taking a lord with you to help you out. The wiki also mentions a fourth one but I've never tried it so I don't know if it works as advertised: start a claimant's quest, but convince the claimant to abandon the rebellion before completing it. This allegedly starts you as a new faction with everything you conquered in the claimant's name.
Also, on starting locations I think it's worth mentioning that Tulga can be a very frustrating place to start for a new player, especially if you plan to run the Merchant's quest right away. Steppe bandits roam that area and will start harassing you pretty quickly if you stick around, and they're fast enough to catch a starting player and their handful of recruits quite easily. So unless one is comfortable soloing mounted archers with starting gear + stats (in which case one is probably beyond needing a guide like this) it's best to avoid starting there.
Thank you for the good pointers :D
Thank you for how you broke this up into chapters. Makes it so easy to get the info you need. Thanks again.
Excellent guide! Seriously, one of the best game guides I have ever seen. I took notes. Now, off to play with my new knowledge by my side! I will also check out the rest of your channel. Specifically, if you've posted any M&B playthroughs, I will definitely check them out.
What a great guide! I always just played casually but could tell there was a lot of room for strategy and planning. Can't wait to get sucked back into this game! Thank you!
Great tutorial for a game it is much needed for. Voice was tolerable for the full two and a half hours, all points made were concise and articulated perfectly. Thanks a ton.
Thank you for making this video, it's a great help. You have a great personality, there's not a lot of people who could keep a topic so interesting for almost 3 hours. Cheers.
Just bought this game on PlayStation for $6 and I’ve been playing it non stop 😂
I only can have 61 soldiers can you help me
you are the friggin man. this is the most comprehensive game guide ive ever seen!
New to Mount and Blade as of earlier this week. Been looking up tips and tricks to figure out how the game works, but this is nice to come across. Especially with the pinned comment with time stamps in it. Thanks for this, HPIG
Hope you enjoy the game
Wow! This is a really good guide--and I love that it's current! So many of the guides out there are from 2013, or many years ago. Great content man! I subbed just for this vid.
when i managed to wipe out the first kingdom i had a king join my kingdom xD most effective patrol :D anyone that still plays try out Native Expansion. its like vanilla but improved alot. got 800 hours on that mod
One of the best QOL mods there is.
I started playing on console about a month ago. I wanted to recruit all the kings...eventually I learned you couldnt do that
@@356z
Sadly so. What I do on Xbox is leave them one castle and start doing quests for them to build relations. They stop declaring war on me that way. They'll go to war with each other, loot and burn each other's one village, then call a truce. Otherwise, they're patrolling their area for bandits.
oh dude native expansion is fucking brilliant
Watched the whole video and found it both entertaining & informative. Will definitely return at a later date (once I make it pass early game lol). Made an Excel sheet throughout the video because why not. Thank you for your work!
Thank you so much for this. In my first play through a couple years ago I just looted and pillaged everything and made my own rather slapdash khanate. I can’t wait to start a more sophisticated run!
The best guide I've ever seen. I found everything I needed to know! Thank you wise sir.
this is the most informative guide on M&B i have seen. thanks for this, it has helped a lot.
This video is great! I just got into this game again after a few years, love ur casual way of explaining things.
2:07:06 There are more than 2 ways, i will list them all here including the ones you mentioned
1. Be a vassal, ask for fiefs until liege denies, then rebel
2. Be independent, conquer a fief
3. Start a claimant quest, abandon the rebellion by telling the claimant it's hopeless and take over the faction for yourself (Beware this comes at a high honor cost). This is best done near the end once you have the original faction down to a single castle as you can use the claimant (who has more right to rule than you) to recruit as many lords as possible before ditching them
4. As a female vassal married to a fellow male vassal, tell them "I am the rightful queen of Calradia!" and with enough right to rule your husband will rebel along with you.
5. Same as 4, but instead say that your husband should be king. While your husband is technically king, he'll still let you make decisions as if you were queen. This path sucks though, being queen is way better
6. Be independent, convince a lord with a castle or town to pledge allegiance to you. This is difficult but can give you a big head start with a fully garrisoned fief and a lord on your side
I'm currently doing a playthrough, and I'm very thankful for this because this will only be my second time conquering calradia. Also, you put it into perspective to use both crossbows and archers.
Edit: Another good counter to swadian knights is having your infantry really close together. Usually they will charge with lances but all the lances will do is break the infantry's shields. The horses will be stuck in your square of guys and they'll be cut down.
Would like to point out in the beginning that some starting choices may give you skills towards your desired build. For example I enjoy choosing all the steppe choices available as they give you skill points into riding, that you would otherwise have to spend, regardless of what your agility is. Meaning you get 4 riding with the starting agility of 8, which I think is worth it.
Absolutely loved watching through this guide. I had a good concept of the basics on how to make money and combat but I always struggled with how to build up towards the late game. Time to start up a new playthrough and take charge round Calradia :)
I’ve been playing this game for a long time and I felt like this video helped with a lot of questions I had for it. Thank you my man 🙏
Have over 180 hours in this game but only recently started my first kingdom. Really helpful part about the lord's I didn't know, since I'm stuck with a bunch of bad lord's I didn't realise were dicks. Great vid
I've played this game over 300 hours and I thought I knew everything, but your guide kept showing me how noobish I really was. Lol but it's a good thing, I learned a lot and I'm totally going to start a new file! :) Thank you for your hard work!
Also, you're very talented and pleasant to listen to. I usually get bored after 45 or so minutes with guides, but I listened to the entire thing in one sitting! Definitely earned a fan!
Thank you! I'm glad you liked it.
@@HitPointInnGaming A question for you good sir! Some of the companions you recommend obviously will dislike each other, Artimenner dislikes Klethi, Deshavi doesn't like Rolf, etc. How do you combat this? I also want to be sure, gather all the companions, send them to gain right to rule, then have like Nizar leave, Ymira, Marnid etc?
@@EliteWraith
300 hours in any game really isn’t much. 1,000 hours isn’t all that much but it’ll give you definitely more time to figure things out....but not as much as ppl think
1:20:39 baiting swadian knights into a ravine or a river also works very well because horses get bogged down in water and going both uphill and downhill. Or better yet, lure the enemy army near the mountains or forests before the battle begins so the game generates one of those ridiculous mountain maps with extremely steep slopes
Dude this guide has helped me so much!!! I keep referencing back to it while I'm playing and I always find the answer I'm looking for! Thanks for doing this guide!
Hey, having a village loyal to you will also allow you to recruit troops (quality and quantity included) from it even when your faction is at war with their faction.
yeah my relationship with a village is 100
and i got 27recruit or 10 footman or 3 skimisher, (sarranid)
This is gold! Evertyhing i need to know explained perfectly! TY BROTHER!
I've come back to this video several times since first playing MBW, and I've learned something new each time. Great content! Thank you!
(For console)You can assign cavalry to a different group name in the party menu, name one left and the other right.
now when you go into a field battle you can press the left directional pad choose cavalry choose movement formation which will automatically be on (hold this position) hold left directional pad and you’ll see a banner to place you troops with out moving your self, choose left group and place on the left then right and place right now you can have your cavalry attack from both flanks of the enemies
Im glad to see people still playing this game, thank you for your service
just bought it for like 2,5€ on steam two weeks ago.
Great game!
One can put together a pretty good-sized contingent of Slaver Chiefs fairly quickly. Much of the early/mid-game fights are against bandits; often these guys run around with Manhunters as prisoners, sometimes quite a few of them (10+). Keep an eye out on the main map for bandit groups with Manhunter captives, and liberate/hire all the Manhunters you can. The MHs themselves aren't great, but they level up pretty fast. Aside from being good (ok..not "best") heavy cavalry, my favorite part about this unit group is their non-factionality; they don't suffer a morale hit regardless of who you're fighting. I think Slaver Chief is a great complement to an otherwise all-Nord or all-Rhodok army. Their cost doesn't seem too terrible either, compared to the Caravan/Mercenary group.
Picked this game up for free on PlayStation and your guide has helped me so much!
1:40:11 The most efficient way to get cheap food in bulk (not caring about morale) is to go to Dhirim and its surrounding villages (including the nearby castle villages) to buy bread and grain for very cheap, im talking single digit prices. That area is the breadbasket of Calradia. Later on when youre rich you won't have to be as picky with food prices and can buy out the entire food stock of entire towns but this can be useful in the early game
16:51 the highest masterwork bow takes 8 power draw I believe (masterwork war bow) so you will actually need 24 str to use all the weapons in the game
The BEST Warband Guide on Internet..... respect..... and tnx...
Excellent work! relied on this frequently on my Queen of Calradia playthrough. hopefully there'll be an Ultimate Bannerlord guide in the future.
Genuinely interesting and well thought out guide, watched all the way through and subscribed!
Haven't played the game for years until I saw this video... now I'm addicted again! Quick question, of many I have, are improvements to villages worth it and do they get destroyed completely if the village is looted?
They get damaged if the village is looted. They can be repaired afterwards. Improvements increase profit and relations with the village.
Same here man!
One slight note: If you want to equip the very best bow; which is the warbow with the I think "masterful" it's called modifier; that has a power draw requirement of 7; thus you need 21 strength as well. So yes, if you are like me and want to strive for the best of the best and want to potentially equip EVERY single item, you would need 21 strength.
Also on the matter of money I would like to add one thing; the thing that single-handedly gives you the most cash reliably, by FAR, is raiding villages. If you raid a village of a nation you are at war with; the only downside is that certain companions dislike it and I suppose for roleplay reasons if you want to be the "good guy". You do not lose honor if you are at war with the nation you are raiding against; only if you do it at peace time! I have tried it with a few villages and each time the loot sold for at least 4000 to 5000, I think once close to 8000 gold. Because this tiny village apparently had spices, velvet, seven units of dyes and it goes on and on with other stuff.
Winning tournaments with the standard "odds against you" and betting max gold every time gives you close to 4000, but you need to find a tournament. Another thing, keep enemy lords as prisoner for as long as possible during war; I got a ransom offer for 1700 gold once, and another one for 7000. Yup, that's right, 7k right there. It's very RNG heavy; the lord might escape or you might not get an offer until the war ends, so it's not reliable. I am not the biggest fan of selling prisoners, since you would need to put many points into prisoner management. I tend to put two points or so, just to keep lords. Win against sea raiders (or weaker bandits before that), take everything that's worth 100 gold or more, leave the rest and repeat. If you don't take out the sea raider landing, there will be bands of them around all the time; I literally never saw the area around the landing free of them, no matter how often I killed them over and over again. With the inventory full off 100+ gold items, go to a city and sell it off, then repeat. You make enough to completely drain the merchant's money, which should be around 8000 fairly quickly; then you move on.
Thank you for the extra tips :D
@@HitPointInnGaming Masterwork war bow has a power draw requirement of 8. An arrow in the torso one shots any odd archer at close to medium range.
I got a ransom on Sanjar Khan 2 times so far, one for 64k and one for 60k
2:09:28 Low right to rule causing kingdoms to declare war on you is a disproven myth. The M&B wiki states "Right to rule has no impact on whether or not other factions declare war on you in Warband." The one thing right to rule does is make it possible to recruit lords to your faction (they will outright reject if it is too low) and beyond that point makes the "I should be ruler because of my claim" argument stronger.
In the code, the reasons for kingdoms declaring war are: personal emnity (low relation/honor), reclaiming old lands, suffering a provocation, curbing power of the strongest kingdom, and the strongest kingdom declaring war on one of their neighbors in a bid to conquer all of Calradia. 3 (emnity, reclamation, provocation) are blocked if the kingdom is weaker than the target kingdom. Often new player kingdoms are declared war upon simply because they are weak, not because of the low right to rule
Thank you so very very much for this wonderful guide, you are a legend for sharing all this knowledge. Keep up the good work.
Veluca oil press is the way to go, got one to and brings a sweet 400 plus gold weekly 😁
Grate guide. I love that u explaine everything in detaile
Brilliant insight ,I'm relatively new to warband but have put many hours in on my current game ,having watched this video I'm about to start from scratch all over again as it seems I've been doing alot wrong especially with leader and companion skill points ,great video mate ,very helpful 👍
I'm glad it helped.
Really insightful and informative guide, thank you for making such a great guide!
Just wanna say, when I face kerhgits (forgot how to spell their name) I end up going to the very back border wall and they’ll smack right into it trying to circle you, if you have any decent cavalry they can kinda just cut them down a little quicker but it’s still a nuisance
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Edit: and Veluca
Hi all, am new to M&B and watched this video as I was struggling, my biggest downfall is the fact I cannot mix faction troops, genuinely frustrates me seeing different factions in my squad, I enjoyed the video though and feel it's helped alot (I play on PS4)
You can assign them to group one through 6 if you go to the screen you level them up and go to the tab that says what class they are Cavalry, infantry, archer etc.
I have been playing this game since i live on this big rock. This is not even the best MB guide i have found, it is probably even the best game guide ever! Very very detailed, very accurates! I have watched it to the end and i can say, that every minute was worth it.
Btw thank you so much for telling me these things i didn't know yet:
- How to properly level your vassals
- Make the bad guys Prisoners
- From now i will always wear shoes with steel caps when going to the groceries to make sure that i stay concious
Farewell, you really didn't miss any part of the game, you brought everything to the table that i could imagine.
This is definetly a sub by me, even tho i don't really care about your other content, but this guide is legendary.
Peace Out!
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1:50:13 When on horseback, left/right swings with crush through weapons can also crush through. Very neat especially with something like the morningstar or great hammer
I just bought this a week ago on ps store. Great game and great guide. I think I might try to go for the platinum.
GL... it has MP trophies which makes it difficult with all the trolls in ps4
1v1 duel me on multiplayer noob Siludagamer
Dude, you have an amazing voice. You'd be a fantastic radio personality.
What a great video.I watched it few times already,you presented it beautifully,from start to finish. Thank you!
I started playing pop again thanks to u i said that one time but it wont hurt to thank u again !
Dhrim is the best City to start your faction with
Right in the middle
No matter where I start, Dhirim ends up being my capital because of its central location.
The Titan Krono But realistically it’d be the number one target for an invading army.
Does it get attacked a lot? In my second character every time I went by it, a lot, it was either under siege or under new management.
@@The_Lone_Outlaw it is normally but if you build up it's Garrison no one will mess with it. Plus getting the castles near it. and then stationing units, lords in them . It basically makes a heavily guarded area scaring of any potential attackers. Something like that it's been a while since I've played
also Dhirim is richest town
This guy knows the game back to front
Great breakdown of the game. I plan on playing though again using your advice
Best guide simple and straightforward. Thanx to you now i wont waste hours being lost.
Another great tip would be to pick a faction to hate on, basically a faction you know you won't join or side with; also make sure you don't care to recruit from their troop tree for the entire playthrough.
Then go ham on them; loot their villages, steal cattle, ambush lords etc. This way you don't have to worry about bad relations and can grow much faster by milking them as a cash cow. I suggest kingdoms like the Swadians because of their horrible central positioning which makes them an easy target.
Good advice :D
Just got this for PS4 and I’ve been running around like a chicken with my head cut off this should help a lot:)
Major Metamorphosis haha it does take a while but once you know what you're doing its easy! I have a massive army and always more then 100k, i Have 8 of the best Captains/Generals in the game aswell. Its hard to get party members to get along
1:36:33 To avoid the morale penalty from using troops to fight against their own homeland you can stick them in a castle/town garrison (morale penalty doesnt apply to garrison troops and they still help contribute to the defense) and wait a while for it to go down, or you can keep them there until you make peace and fight with someone else
Thanks man I don’t usually like these types of games but this game is sick and you’ve helped a bunch 🙏🏽
Been getting more into this recently playing on console, its been tough sledding but this guide has been useful
Playing on consoles is harder and we don't even have mods, I've been enjoying though.
just started on console, super addicting and interesting seeing ways to manage formations with just the arrow pad ;-;
the only thing new players need to keep in mind is that constantly recruiting new soldiers is the most important thing you can do when you own a fief with a garrison. it has nothing to do with defending your fief, it has to do with expanding your conquest. you need to have so many tier i recruits sitting in your garrisons to prevent lords from taking your fiefs it is insanity. after a while you will be best pals with your king, thats your chance to amass big city fiefs for you to defect later with some loot. because your king is your big pal, he'll give you anything you want, as long as you are not a marshall filled with controversy i suppose. because the most efficient way to conquer is to get yourself a bunch of rhodok sharpshooters and about 50 swadian knights to protect them, you will be needing a ton of recruits of your own to garrison EVERY FIEF YOU CONQUER. it is much easier to do this when you are a king, but suit yourself.
also the easiest way to defend your fief when it is being attacked by a large army is to have a full party of swadian knights. go to the field and destroy all of them there with minimal losses. it is much easier and faster then defending a siege, and actually it is safer too, as you will only lose a max of a couple swadian knights. also use your brain: this outcome wont really happen if the enemy has 2000 and you only have 100, even with level 15 tactics that won't really work well. so first, try to wait for the night, try to lure some of them way, divide and conquer. also helps to constatly destroy their parties, never letting them regrow. but again i've been on a year long war with the khergit and the sarranids so i had plenty of time to run them down sufficiently as it is a cake walk with swadians.
Thank you so much I know I am little, well really late but thank you for this I now went from there have no idea what I am doing to beast I defeated 400+ nords with 82 men in my army I almost cried when I saw that army and they were catching up to me but once I got there I realized I thought of what you said and I sat far away and put my cav far away and let my arrows do the work and I freaked out when I did that because I defeated like 5 to 6 powerful lords but unfortunately I didnt capture any lords because my prison train was full and I was pissed and happy at the same time. Thank you so much 😊
That's the most usefull video about m&b of all time. Thank you :)
This guide is pretty "Gosh Darn Good", thanks
Look Innman , everything the Red touches is Your Kingdom. HAHA XDDDD Nice easter egg man :D
Hakuna matata
I'd really love a written guide of your walk through you are so knowledgeable about this subject matter.
Greateat M&B guide ever made, I believe. I will be trying it out today 😁 the big mistake i've been making is to keep a "clean" army, so only one faction. But it didn't work.
Lol i love how annoyed you got about the food. I feel you bud. I think this guide is for people who have 20-30 hrs in game and are trying to figure out how to get to late game. If you ever decide to do another one of these, do it off stream i think.
Well, people on stream tend to remind me on interesting stuff that I would forget to mention when offline. I much more prefer to do the guides online.
To new players this guide is pretty accurate although it's long, if your interested in this game, this guy is just foaming from the mouth of information in wining this game with minimal effort but with maximum time " in my opinion". BUT if this seems a little to much to take in and your just trying to chill and play with minimal brain damage my best advice in a super basic terms is NORDS ARE THE BEST. So your best bet is just join the NORDS as a mercenary enough time to make friends and hit right to rule gets to desired amount "mine was 37" then just start hitting the swads like there some bastard step child with good nord troops until they are basically wrecked then start taking there lands for your self and when there wiped for the map start taking there lands from the original start and go from there. This has personally worked for me no prob in 200 days on this game so I'm guessing like 8 hours of actual game play maybe 10.
Good luck out there sire.
Or king.
What ever tf you are.
I just got the game & I didn't really have much success during my first 3 playthroughs so I started over very early in the game. My 4th & current playthrough I immediately brought Lezalit on board, filled my army with Nords(Infantry only), Swadians(Calvary/Knights) & Rhodoks(Sharpshooters/Sargents) & invested my points & Lezalit points into the training skill. Won a ton of tournaments also. By the time I started my own kingdom my rtr was around 27, had around 28k denards & my troop limit was 88. I was a mercenary for the Rhodoks, ended my contract & attacked the Swadians since they were at war with the Rhodoks, Nords & Vaegirs. I had to move quickly because the Rhodoks took Praven & Viyncourd castle. Vaegirs took Dhrim & the Nords took 2 castle's near their territory. Swadians were easy because they were at war with so many factions but after that, things got a bit difficult for me.
Learning the game over time I usually reference this guide and just use the time stamp.
I was doing ok without the guide, but I did learn something very important I didn't know how to use, and that was to use missile troops in a siege attack, then retreat and do it over and over again, it makes conquering towns and castles so easy and smooth. I was taking so many casualties before learning this. Was a big game changer for me. SImply because I didn't realize you could do that with minimal negative impact. I thought you would take a massive morale hit, but it's the opposite, you actually gain morale because you are getting more kills than casualties.
Thank you for this, I only recently bought the game ans this has cleared alot up!
very good guide! sums up all there is to know about this AMAZING game!