With the new changes to the villages bound to castles this can change. Here is the video explaining the changes. ua-cam.com/video/3V9bwRwV2-c/v-deo.html
I'm a big fan of the Imperial border towns to be honest. Amprela gets a nice 6 bound castle villages with ample food and smithing goods. Epicrotea can also get the silver if you acquire the western Empire castle to the Southwest of it. The battle maps there also feature lots of rivers making it highly defensible. Orytisa als has lots of excellent bound villages. The benefit of the corners of the empire is that the trade is very lucrative even if the risk of war is higher.
Do not become KING, when rebels take a town, attack it and take it from the rebels as long as you are not king other kingdoms wont attack your new town or castle. at very start of the game you want to focus only on being a mercinary to land huge cash and gear very fast. do not become king until you have at least 8 children and a decked out castle/town
@@motionprimeaep only if you smith, but you need some renown as well so a few quests and managing caravans and workshops can make the game more interesting.
One of the best things about Danustica is that all, or nearly all, of its buildings start fully constructed. It's already operating at good efficiency and all you have to do is decide what daily task you want.
If you ever played main archer Battanians Fian, Epicrotea would be the best town to defend. Attacking or defeding around it makes it so easy for archers. Entering the map, there is only 1 bridge for infantries and calvaries to charge, you can easily set up your melee troops to fill the bridge and your archers will rain down the arrows into the enemies whild they getting stuck in the middle of the bridge.
This is a very helpful video for me. Not only does it show where the better towns to take towns are but it has made me think more about the relationship between the town, villages, castles and the goods they produce and receive. Thank you for this.
Keep in mind though from "prosperity" that you talk about. That haveing surplus food boost that "fast" to put it that way. Example Seonon if you get it and make it "secure" - haveing 4 villages all give +18 food alone + all the goods etc that it will have, means that it can easy have 7+ prosperity per day. Until it get into that high numbers where the bonuses evens out etc. There is one downside to the tows with 4 villages though you can sometime have crazy amounts of negative modifiers for security. The worst was haveing a hideout -2, and I had each town haveing 1 quest that also tanked security(clear bandits, Extortion etc). But this isnt a big issue, you can just go clear them etc, get policy modifiers, Governor with good security and so on. Ai on the other hand sometimes been struggling with this though.
Hey sorry for commenting and asking a question so long after the video was posted. Thanks for the video, the summary is excellent. One question, what are your thoughts on Ortysia for the Western Empire? Location wise its a hotspot no doubt, but it has 8-9 villages (3 bound villages and 5-6 Castle villages) which I think is potentially the highest in the game. Again thanks for the excellent videos
Vland - I agree but.... Galand/Pravand - long term I hate them (and most of vland) with a passion.... all because of the bandit camps... You go to war, come back to 5-10 bandit hideouts near your towns... again and again...
Question: What's the best town from an ingame siege defense perspective? At the endgame with essentially too much money, so only consideration is defense and not prosperity
Tyal at the right side of sturgia I've found has really good defence Two siege engines at the middle close together with really good sight lines They shread most armies
I don't know if its the best but Saneopa has always treated me well, was my first fief and even after declaring a kingdom, never lost it. All the projects were finished (i got the achievement shortly after conquering it) and the prosperity was extremely high. The troops in the garrison leveled up so fast that I had roughly 450 legionaires in the garrison and was still making crazy good money. Everytime I went there to sell smithed weapons, they would have roughly 150k in the bank to buy it. Never seen a higher amount just chilling in a town
I remember getting my first 2 towns after helping Valiens take Britannia down; and I expected it to be like Warband where I’m set for life basically on passive income; but nope they poor as shiz lol.
@@Flesson19 I learned that after a bit; but I was just getting by on selling all the enemies armies equipment and lord ransoms; so I was so excited for a huge boon only to have nothing and a bunch of greedy vlandian knights.
I thought TW made the adjustment to see but havent checked yet, I normally do track them but if a town has cheap prices and another town close by has really expensive prices those villagers could go to the other town which is why castle bound villages are so inconsistent to count on for goods
Batt (once again month ago)... all there towns are horrible "starting" locations, in my opinion. With enough time to ramp-up, my picks would be: Best= Seonon - after years it was always my top pros for Batt. It had 3 castle feeders, I remember Rhemtoil being a wierd one, as both bound villages went to Seonon (one being grain) 2nd = Dunglanys - 2 castle feeds. Had 2 grain feeders so beer store was great. Also, 2nd in my Batt pros
Personally I like holding Varcheg and Omor, it's easy to hold after you get set up and you got plenty food, best of all its one of the most important areas you need to hold imo
Month ago: Sanala had 3 castle feeders, cant remember the names but: 1) your screen shot has Der Hawa (silver village) which is bound to the castle off to the left (name?); 2) Uqba Castle - has ubqa feeding it; 3) Medeni village also feeds Sanala (think that's Medeni castle). Sanala has 4 bound villages and 3 feeder villages (3 grain - great for beer, 2 date fruit - more pros, 1 silver and fish). Edit: 100% the best town in the game. Highest pros out of any town, I like the location - only 1 bandit camp and mid Aserai territory so you only really worry about aserai.
I play under the banner of Sturgia since a while. They attacked Baltakhand and won before I was part of them. Like a year later, they rebelled. However, Sturgia got the town back and gifted it to me, because I haven‘t had any castles/towns yet. The fun part is, I looked for a wife (lol) and I wanted to marry Svana. I won over 60 tournaments and had over 120,000 denars at that point. Of all people out there her father won the battle for Baltakhand, so I got the town and after that, for around 29,000 denars, his daughter 😂
Is it actually beneficial to have 2 of the same workshops in a town? You mentioned having 2 wool weavers near the end and id always figured a non-compete strategy was what was best. Is that good to have multiple for the base game or the workshop mod? Excellent work as always thanks for your analysis!
Yes if u uave enough material they can easily maintain production and wool weavery are different than most, in natlalhand I've had 3 But for most you need to but the finished good like beer to make good money so it's not worth it
@@captainkielbasa5471Do caravans use whatever town you make them as sort of a base? I never knew it mattered. But if they always make their way back to where they were made that would be a huge help to town supplies
@@Flesson19 nah seriously though I have a plan to someday own all the towns myself and give only a single castle to other clans! It's quite hard without mods because of the fief voting system
@@mortache I do that and give castles to companion clans, of u don't get town then take it away, I give them a castle next to pick relation back up, little hard to explain not in a video but easily doable
once you learn all the exploits in this game it becomes boring way too easy, this game after 4 days of playing nonestop is boring now im rich as fuck i own almost whole map and all the lords of every kingdom are best friends with me i attack murder and release keep repeating till your status is 100 with each lord then make peace, but the most important thing if you want power is to be a mercinary
couple ways, rare but wait for a rebellion. Join as a vassal whoever they are at war with, in 05% of the cases the first fief taken is yours so immediately get an army and take it, if another fief gets taken first and given to you just give that fief away so you have none and get Galens when you take it. This was you also have a kingdom to back you up till you get safe
@@Flesson19 well I sold okohn today back to monchug for 1.5 million also I was in the stream yesterday I still can't kill a king or queen for the kingslayer trophy I know you're busy but if you can ever get a video together that'd be cool I'm slowly losing my mind over this trophy
@@1stimemoments996 it's all about dmg, doing the highest smg on the kill shot is they key, I use a high dmg glance and there are 2 perks for polearm, speed bonus and headset that allow me to do 300-600 dmg
@@Flesson19 yea I do over 400 damage with my polearms and two handed axe I spent 6hrs trying to kill rhagea I spent a whole day couch lancing monchug off a horse even tried sniping a rebel clan leader with a bow even though they're not even a king lol and now I'm trying to kill derthert deaths are on my qst wife died in battle before she even had our 1st kid also my brother was killed in battle but I for whatever reason can't get the kill only knockouts even put my lowest level medic so I'm not stopping them from dying I'm losing it man lol
I've taken Sanala when the opportunity was ripe, as my first town. I haven't declared myself a kingdom yet, still planning on taking a couple castles or another nearby town if it becomes available, before I make a bid for kingdomhood. I'm playing on the Seperatism mod, and while almost everyone else has shattered into warring factions, the thing that keeps me up at night is that the Sultanate of Bani Qilid or w/e, has almost all of the OG Aserai lands, and is by far the largest kingdom on the map right now.
@Flesson19 that's true enough. Trouble is, once you declare, it's a very fast time before someone declares war on you and it becomes a defensive war where you desperately try to hold that feif against the entirety of the enemy kingdom's army. At least that's how it's been the last half dozen times I've tried on my Celtiberian Confederation kingdom
@@alexanderrahl7034 I take a close by castle fast. As the enemy comes to siege it, normally with a smaller than 1k army since its an easy target I attack them right when they siege and with 100 reduced escape chance for prisoners. It's only a matter of time before I hold most or all heir lords captive
Do you know why marunath(for me at least) gets negative food supply after a while? I find myself having to sell food there so it won't start negatively impacting the city
one of 3 things, villages burned which supply food, too many in the garrison that eat food or prosperity is too high as people eat food. Check the tool tip to see what is being consumed and what you have coming in
@@theforce5191 in 1.8 there is a bug, with high relation they wont raid your villages, but marunath and a couple others the game still thinks the original owner has them so no matter your relation rhwybwill get raided
@@theforce5191 in 1.8 there is a bug, with high relation they wont raid your villages, but marunath and a couple others the game still thinks the original owner has them so no matter your relation rhwybwill get raided
With the new changes to the villages bound to castles this can change. Here is the video explaining the changes. ua-cam.com/video/3V9bwRwV2-c/v-deo.html
I'm a big fan of the Imperial border towns to be honest. Amprela gets a nice 6 bound castle villages with ample food and smithing goods. Epicrotea can also get the silver if you acquire the western Empire castle to the Southwest of it. The battle maps there also feature lots of rivers making it highly defensible. Orytisa als has lots of excellent bound villages.
The benefit of the corners of the empire is that the trade is very lucrative even if the risk of war is higher.
Do not become KING, when rebels take a town, attack it and take it from the rebels as long as you are not king other kingdoms wont attack your new town or castle. at very start of the game you want to focus only on being a mercinary to land huge cash and gear very fast. do not become king until you have at least 8 children and a decked out castle/town
Why 8 children? How much money and do you make it by smiting? And also all the bad towns for some reason rebel
@@motionprimeaep I managed to get 4 kids and 20 million at the age of 25, using the smithing methods
@@Cozonac3000 it's very repetitive thoooo
@@motionprimeaep only if you smith, but you need some renown as well so a few quests and managing caravans and workshops can make the game more interesting.
@@Cozonac3000 ah I'm just gonna do influence glitch, assassinate the king as a vassal so I don't need as much money to start
One of the best things about Danustica is that all, or nearly all, of its buildings start fully constructed. It's already operating at good efficiency and all you have to do is decide what daily task you want.
Wow I didn't realize that
Nice vid - never looked at the production of each city - I always go for secluded cities for my first - my fave is Odokh!
If you ever played main archer Battanians Fian, Epicrotea would be the best town to defend. Attacking or defeding around it makes it so easy for archers. Entering the map, there is only 1 bridge for infantries and calvaries to charge, you can easily set up your melee troops to fill the bridge and your archers will rain down the arrows into the enemies whild they getting stuck in the middle of the bridge.
This is a very helpful video for me. Not only does it show where the better towns to take towns are but it has made me think more about the relationship between the town, villages, castles and the goods they produce and receive. Thank you for this.
thank you for watching
@@Flesson19 New to channel. Like what you do. Subscribed.
@@Skott62 Thank you so much, just let me know if you have any questions, I got a ton of guides if you need something
@@Flesson19 will do
Right?! I need this level of info on every town! Lol
Keep in mind though from "prosperity" that you talk about.
That haveing surplus food boost that "fast" to put it that way.
Example Seonon if you get it and make it "secure" - haveing 4 villages all give +18 food alone + all the goods etc that it will have, means that it can easy have 7+ prosperity per day. Until it get into that high numbers where the bonuses evens out etc.
There is one downside to the tows with 4 villages though you can sometime have crazy amounts of negative modifiers for security.
The worst was haveing a hideout -2, and I had each town haveing 1 quest that also tanked security(clear bandits, Extortion etc).
But this isnt a big issue, you can just go clear them etc, get policy modifiers, Governor with good security and so on.
Ai on the other hand sometimes been struggling with this though.
Yeah definitely a balancing act
I remember Seonon being really good for me but I can't remember if it was already a great town or if I developed it to be
really most battanian are good
Poros so good
Hey sorry for commenting and asking a question so long after the video was posted.
Thanks for the video, the summary is excellent. One question, what are your thoughts on Ortysia for the Western Empire? Location wise its a hotspot no doubt, but it has 8-9 villages (3 bound villages and 5-6 Castle villages) which I think is potentially the highest in the game.
Again thanks for the excellent videos
Vland - I agree but.... Galand/Pravand - long term I hate them (and most of vland) with a passion.... all because of the bandit camps... You go to war, come back to 5-10 bandit hideouts near your towns... again and again...
I didnt include it, but if u mod, the simulate bandit camp mod is great
Question: What's the best town from an ingame siege defense perspective? At the endgame with essentially too much money, so only consideration is defense and not prosperity
Im sure there will be debate, but I had real good luck with Omar
I'm telling u that town next to poros that starts with a v is the best
Tyal at the right side of sturgia I've found has really good defence
Two siege engines at the middle close together with really good sight lines
They shread most armies
I don't know if its the best but Saneopa has always treated me well, was my first fief and even after declaring a kingdom, never lost it. All the projects were finished (i got the achievement shortly after conquering it) and the prosperity was extremely high. The troops in the garrison leveled up so fast that I had roughly 450 legionaires in the garrison and was still making crazy good money. Everytime I went there to sell smithed weapons, they would have roughly 150k in the bank to buy it. Never seen a higher amount just chilling in a town
I did like it, also the battle map was ok
I remember getting my first 2 towns after helping Valiens take Britannia down; and I expected it to be like Warband where I’m set for life basically on passive income; but nope they poor as shiz lol.
prosperity matter a lot, and a good governor can help
@@Flesson19 I learned that after a bit; but I was just getting by on selling all the enemies armies equipment and lord ransoms; so I was so excited for a huge boon only to have nothing and a bunch of greedy vlandian knights.
Do you have a list of which castle bound villages all towns have? Do you just track villagers in game to see where they take their goods?
I thought TW made the adjustment to see but havent checked yet, I normally do track them but if a town has cheap prices and another town close by has really expensive prices those villagers could go to the other town which is why castle bound villages are so inconsistent to count on for goods
Diathma is best
I don't think I ever started from there before.
amazing video man. thanks a lot!
Your welcome
Batt (once again month ago)... all there towns are horrible "starting" locations, in my opinion.
With enough time to ramp-up, my picks would be:
Best= Seonon - after years it was always my top pros for Batt. It had 3 castle feeders, I remember Rhemtoil being a wierd one, as both bound villages went to Seonon (one being grain)
2nd = Dunglanys - 2 castle feeds. Had 2 grain feeders so beer store was great. Also, 2nd in my Batt pros
Personally I like holding Varcheg and Omor, it's easy to hold after you get set up and you got plenty food, best of all its one of the most important areas you need to hold imo
Month ago: Sanala had 3 castle feeders, cant remember the names but: 1) your screen shot has Der Hawa (silver village) which is bound to the castle off to the left (name?); 2) Uqba Castle - has ubqa feeding it; 3) Medeni village also feeds Sanala (think that's Medeni castle). Sanala has 4 bound villages and 3 feeder villages (3 grain - great for beer, 2 date fruit - more pros, 1 silver and fish).
Edit: 100% the best town in the game.
Highest pros out of any town, I like the location - only 1 bandit camp and mid Aserai territory so you only really worry about aserai.
If there was only one capital in all of Calradia, which would you choose?
Pen cannoc, close castles, great villages for.food and shops
First😎
I play under the banner of Sturgia since a while. They attacked Baltakhand and won before I was part of them. Like a year later, they rebelled. However, Sturgia got the town back and gifted it to me, because I haven‘t had any castles/towns yet.
The fun part is, I looked for a wife (lol) and I wanted to marry Svana. I won over 60 tournaments and had over 120,000 denars at that point.
Of all people out there her father won the battle for Baltakhand, so I got the town and after that, for around 29,000 denars, his daughter 😂
Come to think of it, is there an overall top 5 towns?
I'd say maybe Sanala, Pravend,, Mauranath, Epicrotea belong on that list.
The best towns to own? All of them at once
I'd love to see what the worst cities are. But Sanala is EASILY #1. Well worth taking even if you aren't Aserai.
there are a few that only have 2 villages and a couple produce no food, ouch
As much as i like Tyal in sturgia for its look, the low starting Prosperity really makes it difficult to actually function as a home base.
baltakhand you mention 6 Catles are bound .. is that possible ? . if 6 as mentioned which ?
I meant 6 castle bound villages that deliver goods, but if you hover over a village it will tell you what town its bound to
@@Flesson19 ok.. ty
Can you provide or create a list of the top 10 cities? (Regardless of the countries)"?
I have a couple I love like Ortysia, Rhotae, Marunath, Pen Cannoc, Sanala. Those are my favorites
@@Flesson19 Thanks a lot for the info and the videos. I love you
@@terrificlife1576 no, thank you for the support
Is it actually beneficial to have 2 of the same workshops in a town? You mentioned having 2 wool weavers near the end and id always figured a non-compete strategy was what was best. Is that good to have multiple for the base game or the workshop mod? Excellent work as always thanks for your analysis!
Yes if u uave enough material they can easily maintain production and wool weavery are different than most, in natlalhand I've had 3
But for most you need to but the finished good like beer to make good money so it's not worth it
You just need enough inputs per day. Establishing caravans there can help bring in materials and export goods
@@captainkielbasa5471Do caravans use whatever town you make them as sort of a base? I never knew it mattered. But if they always make their way back to where they were made that would be a huge help to town supplies
@jefferyblake4346 yes they will periodically always return to the town at which they were established
I'm here trying to figure out why Dunlangys always has over 10,000 prosperity in the late game.
they are one of the safest towns and their prosperity grows fast. Some towns like Ortysia, Sanala start with 4k-5k prosperity already
Everything else I agree with or have a similar opinion. Great vid 🙂
Thank you so much
Best town to own? ALL OF THEM 🤣
Game, set, match
@@Flesson19 nah seriously though I have a plan to someday own all the towns myself and give only a single castle to other clans! It's quite hard without mods because of the fief voting system
@@mortache I do that and give castles to companion clans, of u don't get town then take it away, I give them a castle next to pick relation back up, little hard to explain not in a video but easily doable
@@Flesson19 if I revoke or conquer a town, often my name is not on the vote especially when those clans own fiefs nearby!
@@mortache I'll try to figure out how I did it
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once you learn all the exploits in this game it becomes boring way too easy, this game after 4 days of playing nonestop is boring now im rich as fuck i own almost whole map and all the lords of every kingdom are best friends with me i attack murder and release keep repeating till your status is 100 with each lord then make peace, but the most important thing if you want power is to be a mercinary
I try not to use exploits or even smithing to make it a little more challenging.
So if I could choose any town, which is the best for prosperity?
How would I even try to take galend without having an all out war with the vlandians? Could I somehow take it, make peace then join as a vassal?
couple ways, rare but wait for a rebellion. Join as a vassal whoever they are at war with, in 05% of the cases the first fief taken is yours so immediately get an army and take it, if another fief gets taken first and given to you just give that fief away so you have none and get Galens when you take it. This was you also have a kingdom to back you up till you get safe
Thanks man, good info!
I wonder how this will change in the Calradia Expanded map.
Lots of new cities although they haven't made new scenes.
I'm sure it will change drastically, declv mexxico and I found out making 1 small change can make massive changes all over the world
@@Flesson19 I expect that some things won't change. Overall I'd say that Sanala is probably the best realm.
Baltakhand if you want workshops.
Ortysia has the highest prosperity
Favorite thing to do is take a rebel town and sell it lol
havent done that in awhile, they still make millions?
@@Flesson19 well I sold okohn today back to monchug for 1.5 million also I was in the stream yesterday I still can't kill a king or queen for the kingslayer trophy I know you're busy but if you can ever get a video together that'd be cool I'm slowly losing my mind over this trophy
@@1stimemoments996 it's all about dmg, doing the highest smg on the kill shot is they key, I use a high dmg glance and there are 2 perks for polearm, speed bonus and headset that allow me to do 300-600 dmg
@@Flesson19 yea I do over 400 damage with my polearms and two handed axe I spent 6hrs trying to kill rhagea I spent a whole day couch lancing monchug off a horse even tried sniping a rebel clan leader with a bow even though they're not even a king lol and now I'm trying to kill derthert deaths are on my qst wife died in battle before she even had our 1st kid also my brother was killed in battle but I for whatever reason can't get the kill only knockouts even put my lowest level medic so I'm not stopping them from dying I'm losing it man lol
@@1stimemoments996 the % is just super low Hero did a video showing how to see what % chance they have to die. I would bet around 1%
I've taken Sanala when the opportunity was ripe, as my first town. I haven't declared myself a kingdom yet, still planning on taking a couple castles or another nearby town if it becomes available, before I make a bid for kingdomhood.
I'm playing on the Seperatism mod, and while almost everyone else has shattered into warring factions, the thing that keeps me up at night is that the Sultanate of Bani Qilid or w/e, has almost all of the OG Aserai lands, and is by far the largest kingdom on the map right now.
It's why I start a kingdom with 1 fief. If you take more it's harder to defend a big territory when you first make your kingdom
@Flesson19 that's true enough.
Trouble is, once you declare, it's a very fast time before someone declares war on you and it becomes a defensive war where you desperately try to hold that feif against the entirety of the enemy kingdom's army.
At least that's how it's been the last half dozen times I've tried on my Celtiberian Confederation kingdom
@@alexanderrahl7034 I take a close by castle fast. As the enemy comes to siege it, normally with a smaller than 1k army since its an easy target I attack them right when they siege and with 100 reduced escape chance for prisoners. It's only a matter of time before I hold most or all heir lords captive
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Hi bud
awwww, not my fav Ortysia? ;(
It's a good city bro 👍
this is just his opinion, no numbers to back up his claims, so this is nothing really
90% of UA-cam is opinion, and subjective
@Jordan Sherrington thank you, even though this is older I thought I did a decent job explaining it.
Do you know why marunath(for me at least) gets negative food supply after a while? I find myself having to sell food there so it won't start negatively impacting the city
one of 3 things, villages burned which supply food, too many in the garrison that eat food or prosperity is too high as people eat food. Check the tool tip to see what is being consumed and what you have coming in
@@Flesson19 thanks for your help. The villages always get raided so I think that's the problem
@@theforce5191 in 1.8 there is a bug, with high relation they wont raid your villages, but marunath and a couple others the game still thinks the original owner has them so no matter your relation rhwybwill get raided
@@theforce5191 in 1.8 there is a bug, with high relation they wont raid your villages, but marunath and a couple others the game still thinks the original owner has them so no matter your relation rhwybwill get raided
@@Flesson19 it probably won't help that I keep chopping their nobles heads off lol