kinda stupid that you lose ALL the equipment of any dudes that get killed tho, loss rate should be 50% at WORST and entirely disregarding the shit you'd be looting from fallen enemies too
Your guide was the best I've seen on UA-cam yet. I have just bought the game and I am a grandma, a gaming grandma actually. Your step-by-step explanations were really helpful was so well explained they gave me the confidence to give this game a real go. Thank you
Haha nice! I'm glad to know my title and thumbnail are officially NOT clickbait and a true gamer grandma understood the guide :D Good luck on your campaign!
I am also a grandma, i am glad to finally see other grandma gamers like me. I have played this game a few times and failed so this video is great and this game is fun to play.
@@janesaunders8001 Im a young gamer but im actually amazed that older people finally found out u can do something else than walking your dog and feeding ducks as an old person. Once more old people find out they will take over the gaming scene and destroy us young people in all games because we got limited time, a job and a family to feed. Props to you, keep up the grind
Easily one of the best and most comprehensive guides I've watched yet. I had no idea how trade worked and how necessary it was. Thought I will say, I have been claimed by the rival duke and lost before, so there is a bit of a ticking clock.
Not sure if you noticed, but my guides take literal days to produce - this one took about 30 hours to make between the testing, recording, tweaking the build order and editing. The previous guide I made also took around 30 hours to make. There's no way I could get these out at a reasonable rate if I waited until the game launched sure to how much work goes into them.
My grandma would have never been able to win Manor Lords without this guide, we was about to give up on her as a family. Now she doesn't have to be banished into the woods and I get to keep my grandma for another year. Thank you Strat Gaming!
Wow! I’ve watched a lot of other play throughs of this game and yours is so much more informative and knowledgeable. Super impressive that you were able to analyze this game so thoroughly and quickly to figure out all the specific to dos and not to dos. I’m not playing this game yet but when I do I will definitely be referring back to this video to make sure I get off to a good start. Really good job on this Sir!
Thanks for watching! Yeah I spent about 20 hours or so doing trial runs to see what aspects of the game I can cut out. There are so many options that I didn't want to overwhelm a new player, so this is mostly the bare necessities :) good luck on your run when you start!!
I haven’t read through all the comments - But what I would point out that there is only a need to place people in the berry gathering lodge when the berries are in season early in the game. However, I eventually learned - the hard way that a starting map with close food resources is very important - It becomes difficult maintaining food for a growing population if the food resources are far away, even with points in improved skill slots for food gathering.
The well is used by citizens to put out fires. From either raiders or lightning strikes. Also some of the artisans need water for their crafting it seems. Having multiple wells spaced around can definitely help
God tier guide. First time viewer here, and I want to compliment and applaud your guides. Man you put so much work into this, and I greatly appreciate this. Leagues above any other full guide on YT. Definitely subscribed, and look forward to future content. Keep up all the hard work brother.
You can move wild game around your map until it’s near your berries by placing a building on the animals and deleting it. The animals will migrate over and over until you find your favorite spot.
thank you so much for this guide! i’m very inexperienced in these types of games, but manor lord has something else, between the best graphism in its genre and very demanding in management part. thanks to that guide i now understand everything
This helped me a ton for my first campaign, trust me. This corrects so many mistakes you might make and answers questions on many issues which I ran into.
you do not want to put your logging camp close to the berries, if you do not assign a logging area away from the berries, the workers will log your berry patch and it will be gone.
@@joebenson528 not always. There is a bug where if you place the logging camp nearby, no matter where the limited area is, the bushes will eventually says “deforestation took them out”
just hats off to this amount of work and thoughtfulness, wow!!! and its not even "just a guide" its actually usefull and makes sense! the check list is super helpful for example!
Dude, I've been playing for a few days, and your video tutorial is the best! Excellent communication skills and very detail oriented. Hats off to you Sir!
Hands down the best guide video I've seen yet. I've been creating new games like crazy trying to figure out where I can improve and this video answers literally all my questions. Great stuff, liked and subbed 👍
Hi, just wanted to say thank you for an excellent tutorial. This was the best I have ever watched on Utube. It was long, but it needed to be! Again wonderful job, the pacing was perfect and your speaking voice easy to listen to for an extended period. I hope you do more!!!!❤
there is like "milion guides" but only this one one is really clear and helpfull - grandma in me sayin hallo and thanx :D ! great job duke-dude, really approciate it
Thanks for the video, man. As much as I love strategy and city builders, they can be overwhelming. Your video has been a valuable asset towards getting the most out of Manor Lords.
Haha no, thank you. I found your channel when I was playing bannerlord and binged it like crazy. Looking forward to binging some more now that I bought Manor Lords!
An outstanding tutorial. I stumbled upon this game and of the three or four walk-throughs, yours is the best. You sound like an educator by training: clean, clear use of the language makes this one of the best I've seen. Subbed, and Thanks!
DUDE what an insane guide ty! I’ve started quite a few times and start to upgrade but always with the feeling that I don’t quite know how to manage and sustain everything so THANK YOU for this
Thanks for watching! I've got a ton of notion database for Manor Lords already posted - production Numbers are out and I'm working on farming outputs, plowing and harvesting times etc.
Man this is a great tutorial...detailed..great great work!! I like this! And the numbers behind it..i think is the best tutorial on Manor Lords so far...Thank you!
Thank you so much for this guide. I generally suck at these types of games and you've made this super easy for a grandpa to get going. You got a new sub here.
I just picked this up a few days ago. I am loving it so far, but there is a lot of nuance with this game that I was not aware of when making my first few towns. The last saved game file I had to turn off the aggressiveness of the other faction so I don't get steamrolled. For 50% of that game I was making my burgage plots as small as possible to conserve space for farms on fertile soil. I didn't realize that half of the stuff I needed for mid to late game production was only available if those burgage plots had enough room for a backyard and the size of that back yard really mattered. So now I am looking through your videos on this to help me optimize my town, because the other lord will absolutely start taking over the map before you even get the ability to.
Really enjoying your guide. I watched a few people talk about it before release. This guide was very informative and fun to watch. You got a new sub. :) Thanks.
This is a brilliant guide btw; really intelligent and well thought-out points to focus on. New players will save hours and hours using this, and be a way better player in a short time span.
Finally a game with curved roads and what do we do...? Make strait roads ;) Very good video btw. About the sawpit I think you can set up a construction reserve.
Thanks for this, after watching a few guides on here this is by far the best out there, clear concise no waffle or fillers easy to follow, Great job man keep it up. Subbed.
I find as I watch you build up this village into a town, I get a lot of visual crossover to how towns function in Kingdom Come Deliverance - as a background aesthetic sorta way. In that game, your experiencing a story narrative within the villages/towns. With the Manor Lords perspective, you're building up the town and making your own village story along the way.
Excellent video. Thank you for making this content and teaching me how to play. I’ve been excited for manorlords for a while, yet this type of game is not my usual genre and I’m totally lost. This has helped me massively.
Dude, Best guide I've seen yet, and I love the checklist. And if my grandma was around she would have kicked my ass in Manor Lords with this guide!!..lol
Thank you, so much for this. I probably would have stopped playing due to frustration if it weren't for all your work on this. The dev should include a link to this video wherever and whenever it would be appropriate. Seriously. Again, thank you.
I checked out several guides, and this one was by far the most helpful. Not just because it has the most information, but how the information is presented and explained. Video title couldn't be more accurate!
Thanks, I appreciate that! I spent well over 10 hours doing his run myself and taking out as much as I could to simplify things and this was the end result. It's also the first time I've used a checklist to go along with it, not sure if that as helpful or not? Thanks again for watching!
@@Strat-Guides The checklist is really nice! Definitely would recommend any new player to start here and follow the checklist at least once. Would have made learning the game a lot easier if I saw it sooner. This game is pretty different from anything else I've played. In a lot of ways it's exactly what I've always wanted from a strategy/city game. But some things about it are kind of weird and hard to get to grips with. And of course some things are probably just unfinished. The only thing I don't really like is how the markets work. I wish that when we built a marketplace, we could choose how many of each stall it has, and which families run the stalls out of which building. I just don't really understand it. I've had a family in the sawpit running a food stall, and had no idea why they were doing that. I thought they had to be working in a building that held food in order to run a food stall! 🤯
@@neofromthewarnerbrothersic145 I'm still not 100% why they get to start stalls either but it's pretty easy to boot them lol you can just go to the sawpit people tab and reassign them to the storehouse or granary with the reassign button. Thanks for the kind words!
Lots of really great information in here! Definitely helped me with some major aspects of the game that are not otherwise very well explained (or not explained at all). Thank you good sir!
I played 7hrs yesterday without watching any video tutorials. I absolutely loved the game, game tutorials is minimal but still highly enjoyable! I’m actually looking forward to starting all over again now I have a better understanding of placements and upgrades as such, thank you ❤
Good luck on your next run! A couple things have changed since I made this, but most of it is still relevant. The biggest difference IMO is trade - things are a bit more expensive now, just FYI
Yep I’ve learned the hard way with importing 😂 esp with ale! I seem to spawn where barley is hard to grow or any crop actually so I’ve been importing…those level 3 homes are thirsty!!!! Yep I restarted already 3x with 30+hrs playtime, each time I’m learning where I’ve gone wrong 😅
Strat, you have a really strong command in instructional speaking. I used to TA for programming during covid, and I would do take after take after take for just one assignment video with all the um's and stutters I do. Thanks for this video!
Thanks. That was very well done. Lots of useful info and tactics. If I get in the mood to make videos on this game I will be certain to refer my viewers to you for excellent advice.
Thank you for this. I was really trying to avoid guides for this game but after my fourth failed playthrough this really shed some light on some of the things I was doing wrong.
No shame in it - it took me about 30 hours to get to the point at the end of this guide, but still had another 100+ hours to learn everything so it just cuts the worst part of the learning curve and opens up SO many more things to explore still :)
Wow your the man! I just watched the entire video and am super stoked for the game now, you definitely deserve a sub like and this comment. You must have spent days getting this one ready pre release. Thanks, and looking forward to more content on this in the future!
One thing I found interesting in this guide - why no Manor built early? It allows you to have specialized unit that does not take from worker pool (so can be constantly raised).. just taking one raider camp to personal tresury and you will have enough to buy few more of them. Then just park the unit in the middle of the map and take out any raider camps that spawn. No militia needed, they are freaking tanks.
The main reason is that's more of an advanced strategy to pull off. They are amazing units, but not always easy to get the cash to afford them. Going the militia route made the most sense because you get the weapons for free and ties in nicely with the population growth (20 men at 10 plots).
A manor requires 2 families as well as servants. Early game you might not be able to lose 2 families I agree though the retinue is much more efficient than the militia for cleaning bandit camps
Another grandma gamer here (13 grands including the bonus kids). This game has intimidated me a bit to be honest. I have started a village but looking at this video, I need to start over as I made so many mistakes. I thought about playing it on my YT channel but was afraid I would constantly say "I'm not sure" or "I don't know". This video gave me confidence. Thanks for the clear organized instructions. I LOVE your check lists! What a great idea!
I'm happy to hear this video has helped! It's a lot more complex than it seems (or at least for me it was). Even after 300+ hours, I'm still figuring out how some of the mechanics work. Good luck on your next campaign!
@@Strat-Guides I admit that I have combat turned off. I don't like combat in any game and I'm definitely not ready with this one. I do have 176 villagers and 57 homes, no one is going hungry. So that's something I suppose. I chose double berries for one of my perks(?) and that let me make trade money. But your choices seem to make better sense. Today's challenge has been to get my sawpit rebuilt because I need planks to do my bee aviary. I moved the pit made it highest priority and it's sat for 6 months without being built. I even turned off construction on everything else and they are still ignoring it. I assume there are some bugs like that that will get ironed out evening. I loved playing Banished and this reminds me of that but with much better graphics.
By the way you have a great voice and for someone with so many subs you're very active with comments and replies. Very well done sir. (This game is a dream for adhd and or mild autism like me haha)
Thank you, I appreciate that! When I first started making videos, I used to think "how could people listen to me, I sound so annoying" lol I've gotten a little more used to it, but I guess it's normal to not like your own voice at first. Haha yeah, same for OCD too! Everything can fit nice and neatly :)
@@Strat-Guides I was thinking you might have some form of diagnosis (that's one of my special abilities. I can tell things like that) I prefer people on the spectrum or people with a nuero diverse brain for sure. I like the structured way you went through everything. I'm a former youtuber myself. I hated my voice at first
Brilliant! You have an absolutely fantastic guide and really showed some aspects to gameplay. I watched a few other beginner guides and some explained concepts but your explanations told many why's to your actions and that was much appreciated. I got much more content from watching this video. I highly recommend it to starting players.
@@Strat-Guides definitely will! It's on my wishlist (and on several million other people). Think you will get a lot of views on this video after Friday! By the way, that checklist in the video, is that from the game or one you made yourself? 😄 Looked very useful as a "recipe" for growing your town
@@Ruberg89 I made the checklist myself through a program I use all the time called notion. You'll see another video from me soon using notion where I tested the production rates for all buildings, extensions and farming fertility.
Something I've found to be very useful later in the game is that you can build extra storage houses and limit their storage to one single kind of produce. That way, those storehouse workers will focus on that specific trade good alone.
I may be wrong but I belive the market has a far more reach than that. Its all bout keeping it stocked. The houses closer will get the stock first, and if you run low the houses further out get nothing. Great guide btw.
You're 100% right - I made a video about that recently actually and corrected the mistake I made in this one :) it's not a big deal for this beginner town, but if you want to get to 50 plots or higher then it could become an issue. Thanks for watching!!
I've done multiple attempts and restarts with each thing I learn in this game. From what you pointed out, I think my storage was getting too clogged up and stretched too thin. The market stall tip was very useful. 9 years in and a large town and it felt like all the work slowed to a stop in certain industries. I think I now know why. Was going to start a new game which I'll do eventually but first I think I'll take everybody off their jobs and try your trick to reasign the market stalls. Very helpful guide.
Yeah lack of storage is killed! Try to get large storehouse and granary as you fill up and it will make a huge difference. Storehouse only needs planks and timber, granary also needs stone, but granary is always last to fill up anyways so it's not as much of a rush.
I forgot to sub. I subbed and liked now sir. You helped me start combat. I'm still treating my current run as a mess about. I'm gonna start another new one tomorrow
I recently bought this and was a little confused, especially with the trade. You did an excellent job with this tutorial. I watched the whole video very closely and now I will play with the video running alongside me so I can get started correctly. Thanks
Quick Tip RE returning units - Once they return to your territory, disband them and then immediately form the unit back up as this lets you place them back in the centre of town and you don't have to wait for them to walk back.
Bro you are goated. The main thing I was struggling with was food I had literally everything else down but I just could not figure food out. Will give your guide a try in this next playthrough.
Thanks for watching! Just be away, they did change the egg production rate since I published this, so instead of 5 you might need a couple more. Everything else should be fine :)
The developer should include this in the game as a learning material. ) Thank you for your work! It helped me to understand why I was loosing all the times.
My grandma always tells me to mind my manors.
I laughed out loud at this one lol that was good!
*golf clap*
Manned?
Nice! Double finger guns.
Good one!!!😂😂
"Don't worry about losing people, worry more about losing equipment, it's expensive"
Spoken like a true medieval lord 😂
Hahaha Role Playing to the max :D
kinda stupid that you lose ALL the equipment of any dudes that get killed tho, loss rate should be 50% at WORST and entirely disregarding the shit you'd be looting from fallen enemies too
emergent convergence.
talking like a proper officer lol
or like a russian leader 😂
There is another video called "Ultimate guide" out there and its 14 min long. This is what i needed, the real thing.
Your guide was the best I've seen on UA-cam yet. I have just bought the game and I am a grandma, a gaming grandma actually. Your step-by-step explanations were really helpful was so well explained they gave me the confidence to give this game a real go. Thank you
Haha nice! I'm glad to know my title and thumbnail are officially NOT clickbait and a true gamer grandma understood the guide :D Good luck on your campaign!
I’m a Grandma too . I’m not too bad on the city building but I need a lot of advice for fighting the bandits so this has been helpful
I am also a grandma, i am glad to finally see other grandma gamers like me. I have played this game a few times and failed so this video is great and this game is fun to play.
I’m a Grandpa. You showed me how the game goes, so I bought it and am about to try it out.
@@janesaunders8001 Im a young gamer but im actually amazed that older people finally found out u can do something else than walking your dog and feeding ducks as an old person. Once more old people find out they will take over the gaming scene and destroy us young people in all games because we got limited time, a job and a family to feed. Props to you, keep up the grind
Easily one of the best and most comprehensive guides I've watched yet. I had no idea how trade worked and how necessary it was. Thought I will say, I have been claimed by the rival duke and lost before, so there is a bit of a ticking clock.
This is crazy the games not even out yet and this dude has a 2 hour long guide...
Not sure if you noticed, but my guides take literal days to produce - this one took about 30 hours to make between the testing, recording, tweaking the build order and editing. The previous guide I made also took around 30 hours to make. There's no way I could get these out at a reasonable rate if I waited until the game launched sure to how much work goes into them.
@@Strat-Guides thank you for you work man
That is because he ruins his fun to make sure people like you could feel accomplished.
@@Strat-Guides thanks, you're the man !
It has early access...
My grandma would have never been able to win Manor Lords without this guide, we was about to give up on her as a family.
Now she doesn't have to be banished into the woods and I get to keep my grandma for another year.
Thank you Strat Gaming!
This was tbh one of the best and most comprehensive guides I’ve seen yet, well done!
Thank you! I appreciate the kind words :)
You are awesome! Thanks so much for taking the time to explain everything so well! 💯
Thank you for the support!! I really appreciate that :D
Wow! I’ve watched a lot of other play throughs of this game and yours is so much more informative and knowledgeable. Super impressive that you were able to analyze this game so thoroughly and quickly to figure out all the specific to dos and not to dos. I’m not playing this game yet but when I do I will definitely be referring back to this video to make sure I get off to a good start. Really good job on this Sir!
Thanks for watching! Yeah I spent about 20 hours or so doing trial runs to see what aspects of the game I can cut out. There are so many options that I didn't want to overwhelm a new player, so this is mostly the bare necessities :) good luck on your run when you start!!
Thanks for the comprehensive guide. My settlement is up and running and my villagers made it thru the first year without too much trouble. Thanks!
Nice job!! Good luck on the rest of your campaign :)
I haven’t read through all the comments - But what I would point out that there is only a need to place people in the berry gathering lodge when the berries are in season early in the game. However, I eventually learned - the hard way that a starting map with close food resources is very important - It becomes difficult maintaining food for a growing population if the food resources are far away, even with points in improved skill slots for food gathering.
The well is used by citizens to put out fires. From either raiders or lightning strikes. Also some of the artisans need water for their crafting it seems. Having multiple wells spaced around can definitely help
Yeah that's a great point! They are pretty much free buildings too at a single timber, so it's a no-brainer to put several.
God tier guide. First time viewer here, and I want to compliment and applaud your guides. Man you put so much work into this, and I greatly appreciate this. Leagues above any other full guide on YT. Definitely subscribed, and look forward to future content. Keep up all the hard work brother.
Thank you, I appreciate that!
You can move wild game around your map until it’s near your berries by placing a building on the animals and deleting it. The animals will migrate over and over until you find your favorite spot.
I just tested it, and this is an awesome hint. :)
The building I love to use to force the move is the Corpse Pit. It costs nothing and is tiny so it can be removed easily once it's not needed.
Sounds like Medieval Cheese.
Thanks for the tips...Just started playing few days ago & this is one of most valuable tips I found so far...
@@Sleepin-N-Snoozn nice one..thank you too
I'm already feeling the urge to knit and fall asleep on city buses.
Lol!
Off the bat, the amount of effort is really appreciated. Liked and (already) subbed
He does good work hey
Thank you for noticing! Hopefully this is helpful in a few days :)
This was extremely useful. I have been playing the game trying to learn, and this gives tons of useful info. Thank you for the effort in making this.
Glad it was helpful! I'm working on another big video covering all the topics I've done testing and experiments on coming soon for more advanced stuff
Thank you, kind sir! I have enjoyed having you as a mentor. The video was put together really well.
Glad it was helpful!
The best guide. Thank you ! Every other guide ive seen they just talk to you as if you already know it all.
Thanks for watching! I'm glad this was helpful :D
I have to say bro, WHAT A FANTASTIC WALKTROUGH!! Best video out here!!
Thank you, I'm glad this was helpful!
thank you so much for this guide! i’m very inexperienced in these types of games, but manor lord has something else, between the best graphism in its genre and very demanding in management part. thanks to that guide i now understand everything
Glad I could help!
This helped me a ton for my first campaign, trust me. This corrects so many mistakes you might make and answers questions on many issues which I ran into.
Thanks Flesson! I appreciate your help with editing as well :)
how are you guys playing this game its not even out yet
@@serelithmodeus3373 they gave earlier access to content creators and media. Much cheaper than paying for advertisement
@@Flesson19 Love your Bannerlord guides Flesson. Hopefully you will have some Manor Lords guides.
@@jeffreypellet5918 already have 1 guide and 1 if you should buy manor lords video up
lol another one of grandmas gems, good work man!
Thanks! Grandma loves hee reading materials so I decided to add the text to go with this one - hopefully that helps a bit more
you do not want to put your logging camp close to the berries, if you do not assign a logging area away from the berries, the workers will log your berry patch and it will be gone.
Limiting the work area will fix that. I use the logging camp to clear the way for fertile land.
@@joebenson528 not always. There is a bug where if you place the logging camp nearby, no matter where the limited area is, the bushes will eventually says “deforestation took them out”
just hats off to this amount of work and thoughtfulness, wow!!! and its not even "just a guide" its actually usefull and makes sense! the check list is super helpful for example!
Dude, I've been playing for a few days, and your video tutorial is the best! Excellent communication skills and very detail oriented. Hats off to you Sir!
This is such a thorough guide, I love how much effort you put into this
Hands down the best guide video I've seen yet. I've been creating new games like crazy trying to figure out where I can improve and this video answers literally all my questions. Great stuff, liked and subbed 👍
Glad to hear this was helpful!
This is the best clearly explained guide I've seen for this game. I learned things I didn't even think of.
Glad I could help!
Hi, just wanted to say thank you for an excellent tutorial. This was the best I have ever watched on Utube. It was long, but it needed to be! Again wonderful job, the pacing was perfect and your speaking voice easy to listen to for an extended period. I hope you do more!!!!❤
Glad it was helpful!
there is like "milion guides" but only this one one is really clear and helpfull - grandma in me sayin hallo and thanx :D ! great job duke-dude, really approciate it
Thanks for the video, man. As much as I love strategy and city builders, they can be overwhelming. Your video has been a valuable asset towards getting the most out of Manor Lords.
Glad it was helpful!
Damn dude you're such an underrated channel. Wish I had whatever gene gives you that drive. Kudos dude
Thanks!! I think it's called being too dumb to know better lol I work too much :p
Haha no, thank you. I found your channel when I was playing bannerlord and binged it like crazy. Looking forward to binging some more now that I bought Manor Lords!
Most comprehensive tutorial I’ve seen. Good Stuff!
This guide is just another level above anything else out there. Grandma would be proud.
She would reward me with salt water taffy candy for my efforts :D
Can't wait for the game to release! And feels like i found a great channel for guides! Great stuff as usual!
Thanks! I've got a few more huge guides coming soon
this guy makes THE BEST guides i've seen. people learn differently but the way he provides information seems to absorb into my brain wrinkles nicely.
An outstanding tutorial. I stumbled upon this game and of the three or four walk-throughs, yours is the best. You sound like an educator by training: clean, clear use of the language makes this one of the best I've seen. Subbed, and Thanks!
This is glorious best tutorial on UA-cam watched this over multiple times helped me a ton to understand the systems better thank you!
I'm happy to hear that! Thanks for watching :)
DUDE what an insane guide ty! I’ve started quite a few times and start to upgrade but always with the feeling that I don’t quite know how to manage and sustain everything so THANK YOU for this
Man you are a genius. I've seen lots of guides, none explain like you do. Keep it up man .
Thanks! Glad this was helpful
You're the best! I've been following your Bannerlord guides and now I'm getting into this! Excellent work as usual!
Glad you like them!
Great job man!! Awesome content as always! Looking forward to growing my town.
Came for the content and got bonus Notion template. You are too kind good sir! ❤
Thanks for watching! I've got a ton of notion database for Manor Lords already posted - production Numbers are out and I'm working on farming outputs, plowing and harvesting times etc.
Man this is a great tutorial...detailed..great great work!! I like this! And the numbers behind it..i think is the best tutorial on Manor Lords so far...Thank you!
Thanks for watching!
This is absolutely the best tutorial i have watched on Manor Lords ... thanks!!!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much for this guide. I generally suck at these types of games and you've made this super easy for a grandpa to get going. You got a new sub here.
I'm happy to hear the video was helpful!! Hope you're enjoying the game so far :)
super helpful for dummies like me. I looked through a ton pf videos that were super complicated and frustrating thank you for this
I just picked this up a few days ago. I am loving it so far, but there is a lot of nuance with this game that I was not aware of when making my first few towns. The last saved game file I had to turn off the aggressiveness of the other faction so I don't get steamrolled. For 50% of that game I was making my burgage plots as small as possible to conserve space for farms on fertile soil. I didn't realize that half of the stuff I needed for mid to late game production was only available if those burgage plots had enough room for a backyard and the size of that back yard really mattered.
So now I am looking through your videos on this to help me optimize my town, because the other lord will absolutely start taking over the map before you even get the ability to.
Really enjoying your guide. I watched a few people talk about it before release. This guide was very informative and fun to watch. You got a new sub. :) Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is a brilliant guide btw; really intelligent and well thought-out points to focus on. New players will save hours and hours using this, and be a way better player in a short time span.
Finally a game with curved roads and what do we do...? Make strait roads ;) Very good video btw.
About the sawpit I think you can set up a construction reserve.
Nah, my town is all curvy and I made the houses do a circle around the market stalls and water supply, it worked out great.
Dont forget the housing lots. Let's make those as tight and square as possible 😁
Excellent giude. Truely exemplary. Methodical, detailed but/and concise, and the additional checklist makes it 110%. Thank you!!
Thanks for this, after watching a few guides on here this is by far the best out there, clear concise no waffle or fillers easy to follow,
Great job man keep it up. Subbed.
awesome channel brother! this is exactly what i needed, no nonsense BS tutorial. Im now ready to play! thank you
I find as I watch you build up this village into a town, I get a lot of visual crossover to how towns function in Kingdom Come Deliverance - as a background aesthetic sorta way. In that game, your experiencing a story narrative within the villages/towns. With the Manor Lords perspective, you're building up the town and making your own village story along the way.
I know the guide is good, when I see notion TODO lists. Keep it up!
Yes!! Notion is such an amazing tool :D
Excellent video. Thank you for making this content and teaching me how to play. I’ve been excited for manorlords for a while, yet this type of game is not my usual genre and I’m totally lost. This has helped me massively.
Glad to hear that! Hope you're enjoying it so far :)
Im a grandma and i feel very well educated from this video. 👵🏻
I'm glad to hear that! Thanks for watching :)
Hey, Nana.
Me too
Thanks!
Thank you so much for the support! I appreciate that :) I'm glad this was helpful
@@Strat-Guides The notion checklist was CLUTCH, I was STRUGGLING to say the least!
This video and the checklist is amazing! Thank you very much.
Dude, Best guide I've seen yet, and I love the checklist. And if my grandma was around she would have kicked my ass in Manor Lords with this guide!!..lol
Thank you, so much for this. I probably would have stopped playing due to frustration if it weren't for all your work on this. The dev should include a link to this video wherever and whenever it would be appropriate. Seriously. Again, thank you.
I checked out several guides, and this one was by far the most helpful. Not just because it has the most information, but how the information is presented and explained. Video title couldn't be more accurate!
Thanks, I appreciate that! I spent well over 10 hours doing his run myself and taking out as much as I could to simplify things and this was the end result. It's also the first time I've used a checklist to go along with it, not sure if that as helpful or not? Thanks again for watching!
@@Strat-Guides The checklist is really nice! Definitely would recommend any new player to start here and follow the checklist at least once. Would have made learning the game a lot easier if I saw it sooner.
This game is pretty different from anything else I've played. In a lot of ways it's exactly what I've always wanted from a strategy/city game. But some things about it are kind of weird and hard to get to grips with. And of course some things are probably just unfinished. The only thing I don't really like is how the markets work. I wish that when we built a marketplace, we could choose how many of each stall it has, and which families run the stalls out of which building. I just don't really understand it. I've had a family in the sawpit running a food stall, and had no idea why they were doing that. I thought they had to be working in a building that held food in order to run a food stall! 🤯
@@neofromthewarnerbrothersic145 I'm still not 100% why they get to start stalls either but it's pretty easy to boot them lol you can just go to the sawpit people tab and reassign them to the storehouse or granary with the reassign button.
Thanks for the kind words!
My grandma would understand but have a heart attack like half an hour in.
Oh no! I should have put a disclaimer that I'm not responsible for cardiac arrest during the guide :P
Lots of really great information in here! Definitely helped me with some major aspects of the game that are not otherwise very well explained (or not explained at all). Thank you good sir!
Glad I could help!
I played 7hrs yesterday without watching any video tutorials.
I absolutely loved the game, game tutorials is minimal but still highly enjoyable!
I’m actually looking forward to starting all over again now I have a better understanding of placements and upgrades as such, thank you ❤
Good luck on your next run! A couple things have changed since I made this, but most of it is still relevant. The biggest difference IMO is trade - things are a bit more expensive now, just FYI
Yep I’ve learned the hard way with importing 😂 esp with ale!
I seem to spawn where barley is hard to grow or any crop actually so I’ve been importing…those level 3 homes are thirsty!!!!
Yep I restarted already 3x with 30+hrs playtime, each time I’m learning where I’ve gone wrong 😅
Strat, you have a really strong command in instructional speaking. I used to TA for programming during covid, and I would do take after take after take for just one assignment video with all the um's and stutters I do. Thanks for this video!
Thanks. That was very well done. Lots of useful info and tactics. If I get in the mood to make videos on this game I will be certain to refer my viewers to you for excellent advice.
Thanks for this man. Im not a huge gamer so this step by step helps sooo much. Glad to sub!
You made playing BL2 so much more fun, I'm going to really enjoy what you do for Manor Lords.
Thank you for this. I was really trying to avoid guides for this game but after my fourth failed playthrough this really shed some light on some of the things I was doing wrong.
No shame in it - it took me about 30 hours to get to the point at the end of this guide, but still had another 100+ hours to learn everything so it just cuts the worst part of the learning curve and opens up SO many more things to explore still :)
Wow your the man! I just watched the entire video and am super stoked for the game now, you definitely deserve a sub like and this comment. You must have spent days getting this one ready pre release. Thanks, and looking forward to more content on this in the future!
One thing I found interesting in this guide - why no Manor built early? It allows you to have specialized unit that does not take from worker pool (so can be constantly raised).. just taking one raider camp to personal tresury and you will have enough to buy few more of them. Then just park the unit in the middle of the map and take out any raider camps that spawn. No militia needed, they are freaking tanks.
The main reason is that's more of an advanced strategy to pull off. They are amazing units, but not always easy to get the cash to afford them. Going the militia route made the most sense because you get the weapons for free and ties in nicely with the population growth (20 men at 10 plots).
A manor requires 2 families as well as servants. Early game you might not be able to lose 2 families
I agree though the retinue is much more efficient than the militia for cleaning bandit camps
Another grandma gamer here (13 grands including the bonus kids). This game has intimidated me a bit to be honest. I have started a village but looking at this video, I need to start over as I made so many mistakes. I thought about playing it on my YT channel but was afraid I would constantly say "I'm not sure" or "I don't know". This video gave me confidence. Thanks for the clear organized instructions. I LOVE your check lists! What a great idea!
I'm happy to hear this video has helped! It's a lot more complex than it seems (or at least for me it was). Even after 300+ hours, I'm still figuring out how some of the mechanics work. Good luck on your next campaign!
@@Strat-Guides I admit that I have combat turned off. I don't like combat in any game and I'm definitely not ready with this one. I do have 176 villagers and 57 homes, no one is going hungry. So that's something I suppose. I chose double berries for one of my perks(?) and that let me make trade money. But your choices seem to make better sense. Today's challenge has been to get my sawpit rebuilt because I need planks to do my bee aviary. I moved the pit made it highest priority and it's sat for 6 months without being built. I even turned off construction on everything else and they are still ignoring it. I assume there are some bugs like that that will get ironed out evening. I loved playing Banished and this reminds me of that but with much better graphics.
This is pure gold. What a detailed video. Really helped me with this game.
By the way you have a great voice and for someone with so many subs you're very active with comments and replies. Very well done sir.
(This game is a dream for adhd and or mild autism like me haha)
Thank you, I appreciate that! When I first started making videos, I used to think "how could people listen to me, I sound so annoying" lol I've gotten a little more used to it, but I guess it's normal to not like your own voice at first.
Haha yeah, same for OCD too! Everything can fit nice and neatly :)
@@Strat-Guides I was thinking you might have some form of diagnosis (that's one of my special abilities. I can tell things like that)
I prefer people on the spectrum or people with a nuero diverse brain for sure.
I like the structured way you went through everything.
I'm a former youtuber myself. I hated my voice at first
Brilliant! You have an absolutely fantastic guide and really showed some aspects to gameplay. I watched a few other beginner guides and some explained concepts but your explanations told many why's to your actions and that was much appreciated. I got much more content from watching this video. I highly recommend it to starting players.
Great guide and the Notion checklist really helps me scaffold my progress - I need something like this for Cities Skylines 2!
Amazing amount of details as always.
It is incredible the amount of test-work you put into these videos
Thanks for your content once again :)
Thanks! Yeah this one took me a while to get out, but hopefully it will help come Friday
@@Strat-Guides definitely will!
It's on my wishlist (and on several million other people).
Think you will get a lot of views on this video after Friday!
By the way, that checklist in the video, is that from the game or one you made yourself? 😄
Looked very useful as a "recipe" for growing your town
@@Ruberg89 I made the checklist myself through a program I use all the time called notion. You'll see another video from me soon using notion where I tested the production rates for all buildings, extensions and farming fertility.
Something I've found to be very useful later in the game is that you can build extra storage houses and limit their storage to one single kind of produce. That way, those storehouse workers will focus on that specific trade good alone.
I may be wrong but I belive the market has a far more reach than that. Its all bout keeping it stocked. The houses closer will get the stock first, and if you run low the houses further out get nothing. Great guide btw.
You're 100% right - I made a video about that recently actually and corrected the mistake I made in this one :) it's not a big deal for this beginner town, but if you want to get to 50 plots or higher then it could become an issue. Thanks for watching!!
@Strat-Guides awesome thanks Strat. I just saw that vid pop up in my feed so will check it out. You have earned my subscription. I love these guides.
I've done multiple attempts and restarts with each thing I learn in this game. From what you pointed out, I think my storage was getting too clogged up and stretched too thin. The market stall tip was very useful. 9 years in and a large town and it felt like all the work slowed to a stop in certain industries. I think I now know why. Was going to start a new game which I'll do eventually but first I think I'll take everybody off their jobs and try your trick to reasign the market stalls. Very helpful guide.
Yeah lack of storage is killed! Try to get large storehouse and granary as you fill up and it will make a huge difference. Storehouse only needs planks and timber, granary also needs stone, but granary is always last to fill up anyways so it's not as much of a rush.
This is fantastic; I especially appreciate the checklist.
Really enjoying the game so far - I know it is still early days, but I do hope they add larger maps and larger resource deposits
This is an awesome Guide and the checklist is superb. Great Work Bro!
I forgot to sub. I subbed and liked now sir. You helped me start combat. I'm still treating my current run as a mess about. I'm gonna start another new one tomorrow
Glad to hear that! Good luck with your real run :D
this is the best guide, i watched this while playing then stop for a while then continue watching now i really understand the game
I'm glad to hear that!!
I recently bought this and was a little confused, especially with the trade. You did an excellent job with this tutorial. I watched the whole video very closely and now I will play with the video running alongside me so I can get started correctly. Thanks
Great video. I've seen so many ML videos I don't think I even need to play it at this point.
whether its banners or manors, strat is the lord to show us the way.
thanks for this - just got the game yesterday its so fun but I was lost, this helped so much. GL & HF - GG to all 🤝
Ironicaly, grandmas know a lot more of this world. 😁
Quick Tip RE returning units - Once they return to your territory, disband them and then immediately form the unit back up as this lets you place them back in the centre of town and you don't have to wait for them to walk back.
Bro you are goated. The main thing I was struggling with was food I had literally everything else down but I just could not figure food out. Will give your guide a try in this next playthrough.
Thanks for watching! Just be away, they did change the egg production rate since I published this, so instead of 5 you might need a couple more. Everything else should be fine :)
Great guide!! I know content like this takes so much time so you earned my subscription. Really loving the game!! Keep these coming 👍🏽
he is a lucky boy! did you do the paid or just sub so his videos pop up more often? You must be very special
Good to see u branching out ❤
The developer should include this in the game as a learning material. )
Thank you for your work! It helped me to understand why I was loosing all the times.
Glad I could help!
The bst Manor Lords video I have seen so far. Thank you
Thanks for watching! I've got more advanced guides coming soon :)
This is so helpful! I made one giant market in the middle of the city and was so confused why I was having problems lol