Serve as a Soldier is one of my favorite mods, turns you into just one of the rabble in any lords army. You get outfitted with state-issued weapons and gear, and follow the lord around in their warparty. You can even earn enough honor to have fiefs deemed to you.
oh another tip k likr is catipults gave a limited amml supply so you could always pull back troops out of effective range and then send looters in loose formation till they exhaust there rock supply
@@wf1675 I mean they do have limited ammo supply in the siege battles but you're probably referring to world map ammo supply and sending troops via world map
Started my first playthrough a few days ago. Didn’t know how to increase army cap so had 5 T5 imperial archers and 15 veteran legionaries, a good sword, a good companion and some good gear and money. Fought some mountain bandits but their friends came to help and I still initiated combat. 45 vs 20 and I got it down to 7 vs 3 but then I was knocked out. Everyone died and I was captured. I lost my remaining money on a board game and now I’m destitute and wandering as a vagrant looking to gain back my glory. Gun game but I have lots to learn.
This sounds like how my first playthrough will probably go lol. I bought the game a couple days ago and haven't even really played much, just watching videos. I feel like there's so much to learn lmao
Aside from my tip about area practice the next most important thing I would say to a new player is to avoid looking into exploits, I was glad to see this video deliberately avoided them. If you don't know about them most won't be things you stumble into during the first several hours of playing. But a lot of them once you learn about it can be hard not to use them and they will trivialize the game. Honestly unless you're struggling with a mechanic I would say don't even look into any of the background things that go into it or you'll quickly begin to exploit the game without explicitly being shown how. The scope of this game meant the team had to choose between robust systems or functional systems and they did a really good job if you're just looking to have a fun RP experiance.
Few comments about the Archers Unit Micro section. 1. If you have a big group of archers (100+) often times loose formation would be too big for all your archers to fit, especially in a foresty/bumpy terrain. 2. If you're archers have the highground, putting them behind your infantry could work. Think about the line of sight. If the archers are firing above and behind your infantry, your good. Also, that line of sight could also apply to what formation you have for archers as well. You can make line-formation with archers work as long as they have adequate spacing between.
Great tips! Just started on Ps4 a couple days ago and I am in love with this game!! Definitely struggled to get my bearings in the game but I am moving along nicely now! Thanks for the tips!!
I went to be a vassal of Vlandia and got assigned lots of fiefs, and then couldn’t defend any of them. I keep losing all my troops no matter what and can’t afford to defend my fiefdoms.
I haven't played it for more than year, and I must admit it is great, much better than I expected. Like when you issuing command time slow down. Thats insane. Currently I am trying to join kingdom and after I have good town I will start rebelion.
My first play through is rough. I didn’t realize everyone would declare war on my in the first week of my new kingdom (spent a lot of time cutting off heads from a kingdom that imprisoned me a lot.) and so I made a giant army with my companions (700+ units) and that took some figuring out, but when I go to take my first city I only had 100 troops on the field. It was really upsetting and idk how to fix my troop deployment. That’s how I ended up on this video.
I have 100 hours in the game this is the best video tips i’ve seen for the game. Good job! Could you do more ? Even for settings. For ex what is the correct camera distance from the character
It's alot more enjoyable now and not as frustrating but it's missing lots of things .no camp no downtime activities. No feasts .lots of stuff thts missing .they could add hunting In during camp screen
I mean, you can go sit in any city that is close by with your spouse and make heirs instead of building a camp for no good reason. Also, sending your companions on missions is a downtime activity
@@kylelinder5353 there is many reasons u would want a camp .to just check out your army talk to them in downtime to talk to your followers,to make a defencive structure like a wagon fort,etc and go on a hunt for deer etc .there was many reasons why camp was good.sspecially the mods tht came out with warband
@@robertstevens7682 feasts and camp were main thing I liked. There was so many mods tht added so much more like adding defensive structure for camp adding hunting
1 huge tip I would give to new players or returning players is to do practice arena fights. They have 0 risk, will let you use a wide variety of weapons, get you some gold, and will let you level up several early combat skills. Just about any time I take a break from the game I'll run a few just to get the handle on combat again. Solo or small skirmishes is definitely better for xp and loot but you can lose if you're new or rusty. Practice arena battles don't even take in game time so you don't have to worry if you keep dying. Just click the go again option and you're right back into it.
I like going to empire towns and practice fighting in the arena. Theres a place to hide in the arena and you can just kill one guy, get his shield, hide away and kill the last guy. Boom, easy 250 denars. Very nice if just starting out.
One easy tip ive noticed for leveling up tactics without much risk. Find very full bandit hideouts of any kind. Bring skirmishers with your crew , set them in a line get them to follow and set them to open fire. No idea why but like every 2nd bandit killed by the skirmishers throwing weapons increases your tactics. Unintentionally discovered it in my newest game where i got my tactics skill up to like 40 in the first weeks from just clearing hideouts.
I started the game THIS week. And I’ve been getting captured A LOT. It’s been a rough start, but today I joined a random kingdom! Started off good until I started doing quests. Then I was right back to square one.
Mine is going excellent. I am beginning to get much better. My plan is to increase relation with the Vlandian leader as much as possible, and then influence the vote for the new one.
got about 26 hours in. I knew about the food variety bonus for party morale but I didn't know it increased steward stat. Haven't got far enough in the game for siege battles yet so it's good to know that tip when I do.
I freaking LOVE this game ! It is literally like they made it specifically for me down to the smallest things. I love history, warfare, diplomacy, government, etc. Even the fact that the markets in the game actually matter & are useful. In so many games today the markets are redundant & serve really no purpose.
I think its wild, how auto resolve will have you barely surviving a fight you would stomp the enemy in by giving the engage command. Like what the heck? Oh yea, you outnumber and outpower that army? Still lose 30 to 40 soldiers somehow.
SoonTM. Love your channel btw. Hands down most informative and well-researched Bannerlord videos on youtube and it's good to see that people can appreciate how much work you put into those.
1st playthrough is going ok, except a few things I think I've missed out on marriage and creating heirs character is 48 now, I'm not always happy about the time limit involved in quests especially the main quest, but I don't like time limits in general in games
just got into my first playthrough, despite knowing zero about how to do things my king has gifted me 3 fiefs for some reason and I have been warring with the desert kingdom for a week now. made 150k and have enough influence to do whatever I want. the game really is easy.
Same here, just become a mercenary for a bit and then ask the king if u can become a lord of that empire and when the kingdom goes to war just start beating up other lords and soon you'll have a couple of fiefs and then boom you'll have 100k gold easily. Only problem I have is keeping my fiefs in high loyalty, any suggestions?
I need a guide that holds my hand man, I'm right at the beginning after your sibling bails. No clue what to do. Looks like fun game but got so frustrated, didn't pick it back up
First playthrough is going great! Joined the Battanians, married Caladog's daughter (with only 1 save scum lol) and was awarded the first castle I helped siege! Only thing is, the available wanderers are not very skilled (only 1 with 60 medicine, for example) Do more wanderers become available as time goes on? Or am I stuck with 1 scout and 1 medic the whole playthrough?
Got some of them seasoned wolf's onto the wall it was so epic watching them eventually get killed 1by1 but they slaughter the low tier troops beautifully
All great tips with the caveat that I love when people start off or have the opinion that the game is too easy but if you suck enough that you need to do anything other than win, do what is in this video. Would have subscribed and gave more props u til I realized your statement about how easy the game is even on highest difficulty instantly changed that thought.
My first play through died quickly. 2nd one too. 3rd one is going strong, I'm serving the Battanians currently and I might pledge the dragon banner to them. I have 1 city and 4 castles, Caladog won't let me have anything else though.
Im a sturgian that has been approached by vlandia early on to become a merc then i joined up with them and have 2 castles and a city under my control however i cant wait to become independent and then just start executing every general that i capture, only one thing im terrible at siege defence was hoping you would help me with that but you didnt touch the subject.
I finally worked my way up to a meager 40k denars and a band of 78 fighters. Won a siege i decided to help and was granted the castle and two lands as my first fief after becoming a vassal for southern empire. All of a sudden my daily upkeep fee went to 1,800 denars and i got caught joining a Rhaegas siege on the next castle by the enemy troops. Their 2000 against my 80 so i surrendered, and got carted around the bottom of the map until i had 0 denars left😂😭😭
See my wall of text on how to get started in these comments, that will get you started properly. To win you need to be efficient. When I beat the game 6 months ago only 1.7% of players had done that, so yeah, its very hard and takes weeks to beat this game.
For me this game is a changer right up there with skyrim which turned me away from shooters nearly permanently. I can't believe I've not played bannerlords sooner then 2024. Seriously dropped the ball with this one it's a absolute classic
I still remember the first time I tried Mount and Blade 1, I was like, what a piece of sh...! Until I pass the learning curve. Now, for me, Mount and Blade series is one of the greatest ever created.
I been captured at least 50 times in 3 days. Every time i start building a decent party my faction starts a war with half the kingdoms and im stuck behind enemy territory and eventually bump into a bigger army and get captured. Then i build my party up and create an army to try and take castles but while i siege the castle a stronger army shows up and i get destroyed. So for now i just avoid conflict and raid villages were at war with. Yet somehow i cant stop playing this game.
Try to stick in the borders or just outside of the borders of your kingdom, use your party to take out enemy parties or small armies that are doing incursions on your land. This way you can build your party experience, get better loot (or sell it for cash), and weaken the enemy army. Always take enemies prisoners, you can either donate them to friendly dungeons or execute them, that is your will.
@@bonk5316 thanks man. I somehow just started doing just what u said last week and i just fought everyone that was near me. My troops leveled up so much that I hardly take casualties now. I randomly looked at my money and influence and I literally grabbed my glasses to check if i saw it right lol. I went from 40k to 600k in gold and my influence from 100 to 2600 just by staying near my towns and fiefs and just fighting enemies that cane too close. Too bad I miscalculated and left the valandians to start my own kingdom and been a rough couple of days and now im probably gonna have to abdicate. Im poor and my town is starving and i can’t protect ny 2 villages lol
Khan's guard is not only the best horse archer, it is THE best troop in the game. I completely gave up on archers, as they are so much harder to manage.
@@interherbasse6902 im sorry i gave you a wrong information The button says "disable battle death" so we cant stop the aging on our character But it will take a really long time before death by old age will become a problem for your character
@@interherbasse6902 you cannot disable character aging on consoles. "because of technical reasons" according to taleworlds, which makes no sense. But it's really not a big problem. Takes a long time to age and die, usually have conquered the whole map. And if not, if you play campaign you have siblings, if not you can get wife and children. You can level their skills up before you play them, so when you do they will be as good as your own character.
You can hide trebuchets? Wow. I mean it was obvious there’s something wrong about this entire mechanic. But I didn’t actually expect it works properly if you know how it works 😂 They should probably hide by default, having to press pause to get these few sec to hide is nuts
Gotta say I was expecting not to learn anything, but I didn't know you could pull siege weapons in reserve like that I thought you had to 1 at a time. Thanks for the video. Thumbs up
under a minute in and you got a sub - the player balances this game, it's just a matter of working with or against the various systems and mechanics. What I wouldn't give for a JSawyer-style mod that didn't slant the game so much towards what the devs think we want and gave us a straight sandbox that didn't treat us like the chosen one or give us 6 consecutive towns as the new kid on the block. Getting virtually everything handed to us makes for little relative sense of achievement albeit the hacky, slashy, pokey parts are incredibly fun still.. The Ai is, quite literally, the complete opposite of what it implies - it's really, *really* dumb. In a variety of places too; the battlefield, the minds of the rulers and Nobles alike.. 'One more turn' - it is highly likely that anyone playing this game with lose track of time, It's bloody good fun, if imperfect.
My play trough is kinda annoying I got granted one castle in the vlandian faction but have captured 4 more settlements sinds (2 on my own) but the king keeps giving it to other people
@@TheYellowFlyingFish i get that actually but auto-resolve is something else. it's meant to bypass gameplay, gameplay that happens to be the centerpiece of this game. you have to go way out of your way to level tactics to a point where it's too strong. sorry but i don't think it's a problem at all.
How to get started and how to beat the game. I beat the game twice so far. The first time I beat it about 6 months ago an achievement like notice popped up and said only 1.7% of all players had conquered the entire map. The second time I beat it there was no update to that stat so I have no idea how many had done it by then. It took a few weeks both times. I am on my third world conquest now. Keep in mind I don't just win it right off, I get my ass kicked and have to start over - a few times. I have never beat it with the Empire, only with Khuzaits. I got very far with Aeseri - the desert people but I was up against 3 empire and the game turned into a loss. What is cool about this game is that there are so many things you need to do RIGHT to beat it and sometimes you just need luck too. I always sign up to serve a king first and when I beat the game my original character is dead and my relative is now the main character, it takes 2-3 generations to conquer the entire map. You can do things right and still LOSE. You need to do things right but you also need to do the right things to win this game. Even then, it can just screw you. You need to be efficient, always keep your party size only to what you need. Especially early on. If you use a party of 18 to take on parties of 25-40 bandits you will make a lot more money and waste a lot less money on wages. Don't run around with party of 50 early on because you will just lose gold. Do the tournaments, you get great gear and you can win horses that sell of a lot of gold. Gather companions at Taverns and use the tournaments to gear them up. Companions are your best troops. Some companions at the Inns are weak or have shitty personalities. Use them until you find a better one then simply go outside of town and tell then to hit the road and go in and pick up the better companion until you have a good crew. There is one good strategy game at the Inns that you can play - I think its at the Empire Inns - its really easy to beat it on defense and you can make money like that. Other Inn games suck. Smithing sucked. I found it to be a complete waste of time. Tournaments and buying weapons is much easier and better. So here is how you get started. Dont hire the shitty troops - go to all nearby towns and pick up like 10 of the 50 gold troops do not hire the shitty 20 gold cheapies. Using those 10 good guys kill every bandit party of 20 or less you can find. Once you kill a few groups of bandits go to the nearest city and cash out by selling loot. After you have a couple of thousand gold you can get your party up to 18 or 20 of the better troops and that is the time to start doing tournaments and games at the Inn because you can bet a lot of gold. Now you get this groove on. Take the easy quests to take out bandits or bandit camps and just kill bandits. Once you are loaded with loot go to the city, cash out, do the tournament and bet, do the Inn game and bet. Rinse and repeat. When you cash out before you SELL use the best loot to gear up yourself and your companions then sell the excess crap. Also you can gear up the hired help by paying gold for upgrades. Put the dragon banner together and follow that quest line. But always make sure you keep your party size low and that you dont waste money on buying gear you can win at tournaments or find on bodies. Be efficient. Save money. That is how you get started right. There is a LOT more to know to beat the map. But efficiency is always important. I would say that once you make your first 30,000 gold go to a town in the country of your chosen people - the ones you intend to support - that is far from the front lines and buy a trade there. Pick a trade that is EASY to support like making beer or tanning hides or pottery. Do not waste time with silver or iron because it's too hard to find. Every time you get another 50K gold buy another trade. You can then go to the warehouse in that town and stock it and select a requirement for them to use warehouse stocks. You can select them to leave 25% of their goods in the warehouse. Then you just pick up those supplies and drop them at the warehouse periodically and pick up finished goods to make money. Also, sell them in another city, they usually sell for more in a city that doesn't have the trade. Don't sell pottery in a city that makes pottery. My preferred build is a 2 handed axe with a bow and a polearm. Late in the game you ca get a cool polearm called a Rhombius or something like that, its a sword on a stick and you can ride and slice people where they cant even hit you back. The 2 hand axe is also good for that but you need to get in close and can be hit easier. I NEVER use siege weapons, NEVER. Just ladders. Survey the walls before you attack and pick the best side where the catapults cant hit you and where they have less walls to shoot you from, find the weak spot and run there to set up ladders. When you get both ladders up you need to take your bow out and kill the fools at the top of the wall that try to push your ladders down. Once you kill them and have 3 or so people on each ladder they cant push the ladders down. Once you get people on top join them and unite them to form a bridgehead on top of the walls. I use F1/F2 to say follow me and F1/F3 to say charge to gather my troops to me then set them on the enemy. If they have a lot of weak militia and few regulars in the castle you can beat them with a 1.25 your people to 1 theirs ratio. When they have many regulars or just a LOT of people you will want 2 to 1 ratio to win. More troops for you is always better but more is also wasteful. There is a LOT more to know about how to strategically attack the enemies, how to lead the army in combat, how to engage the map properly, how to win favor cheaply, how to gear up your crew. A LOT more. So if have any questions or need tips just respond to this post and I'll answer any questions you have that I can. I have been gaming for over 35 years. This is the BEST strategy game I have ever played. It's also the hardest one to beat and has the best gameplay. Cossacks, Age of Empires, Medieval Total War are all great strategy games too but none of them are as challenging and as complicated as this game.
My sturgian character hasn't won a single victory not even against looters. With 20 sturgian recruits I can't take on 5-10 looters. They steam roll over them. Idk if I got a broken version of the game
Honest question just got it on ps4 when it came out everything works but marriage I can pass all speech checks but when I go talk to the dad it won't let me barter I can just barter in general but the moment I go to barter for the marriage I'm stuck the bar won't feel it won't give me any option to even attempt to make a deal thinning is bugged but not the first clue to fix any ideas I've don't searched the web an nothing been posting this around hoping for some answers need to marry an have a kid before my dude dies of old age an no heir
With mods does anyone know if it works if you don’t buy the game from steam? I’ve got bannerlord from game pass so just wondering if the mods from steam will work?
I’d love to know how to actually make a success out of a workshop business! For some reason I still can’t figure out why my breweries make no product or money!
It depends on the products that are made in nearby towns. U should lookup the best workshop per city on google and they will tell you which workshops make the best money.
Wtf. I didn't know about putting siege weapons in reserve. Surely it would have been a more intuitive design if they let us build them out of range of the defenders siege weapons by default. Why did they make it this way? I wouldn't be surprised if a few people on the dev team missed this trick.
Serve as a Soldier is one of my favorite mods, turns you into just one of the rabble in any lords army. You get outfitted with state-issued weapons and gear, and follow the lord around in their warparty. You can even earn enough honor to have fiefs deemed to you.
does it work even after the full release?
@@snowman3029 not for me if you manage to make It work make me know
A mod? You didnt need a mod in Warband
@@jamesschaller753yah exactly u can be a solider if u get clan tier 1
Can you still become king of the kingdom?or will u always be a mercenary ?
The siege engines in reserve is an essential tip, you can lose a lot of troops if you try to overtake your enemy with ranged siege.
oh another tip k likr is catipults gave a limited amml supply so you could always pull back troops out of effective range and then send looters in loose formation till they exhaust there rock supply
@@wf1675 I mean they do have limited ammo supply in the siege battles but you're probably referring to world map ammo supply and sending troops via world map
I've got over 200hrs of play and never even thought to do that 😢
And get One shot by one, happened to me on an easy winnable siege I thought.
I don't want to discuss how many times I fought with one piece of siege equipment at a time. :(
900 hours in and I had no idea about putting siege engines in reserve when sorting, great guide!
It hasn't even been out 900 hours lol
@@matthewfox1561 dude this games been out for a year and a half
@@matthewfox1561 Its been in early access for two years
@@dogegaming9036 I meant playable though
@@therealbfunke console
Started my first playthrough a few days ago. Didn’t know how to increase army cap so had 5 T5 imperial archers and 15 veteran legionaries, a good sword, a good companion and some good gear and money.
Fought some mountain bandits but their friends came to help and I still initiated combat. 45 vs 20 and I got it down to 7 vs 3 but then I was knocked out. Everyone died and I was captured. I lost my remaining money on a board game and now I’m destitute and wandering as a vagrant looking to gain back my glory.
Gun game but I have lots to learn.
This sounds like so many of my play throughs. 😂
Yes, it's easy after a couple hundred of hours of training and knowhow
This sounds like how my first playthrough will probably go lol. I bought the game a couple days ago and haven't even really played much, just watching videos. I feel like there's so much to learn lmao
Your story is what made me confirm my purchase in the PS store lmao that sounded so immersive yet amateur I was like I gotta go do it 🤣
@@John-mf6ky do you still play lol. There is so much in this game but it still gets borring quick couse there is no coop
Aside from my tip about area practice the next most important thing I would say to a new player is to avoid looking into exploits, I was glad to see this video deliberately avoided them. If you don't know about them most won't be things you stumble into during the first several hours of playing. But a lot of them once you learn about it can be hard not to use them and they will trivialize the game. Honestly unless you're struggling with a mechanic I would say don't even look into any of the background things that go into it or you'll quickly begin to exploit the game without explicitly being shown how. The scope of this game meant the team had to choose between robust systems or functional systems and they did a really good job if you're just looking to have a fun RP experiance.
Few comments about the Archers Unit Micro section.
1. If you have a big group of archers (100+) often times loose formation would be too big for all your archers to fit, especially in a foresty/bumpy terrain.
2. If you're archers have the highground, putting them behind your infantry could work. Think about the line of sight. If the archers are firing above and behind your infantry, your good.
Also, that line of sight could also apply to what formation you have for archers as well. You can make line-formation with archers work as long as they have adequate spacing between.
I wondered why the castles kept destroying my siege weapons! Good catch and explanation. Would be good for the game to mention that to new players.
Great tips! Just started on Ps4 a couple days ago and I am in love with this game!! Definitely struggled to get my bearings in the game but I am moving along nicely now! Thanks for the tips!!
Siege weapons should immediately go into reserve by default, I thought building them was useless cause they would die so quickly
That siege one was very helpful! Always thought the only useful way to siege was to start the battle as soon as I built a trebuchet
Reserving the siege engines tip was awesome 👍 I had no idea thank you.
"Being successful in Bannerlord is 100% about taking the fights you want, and avoiding the fights you don't want."
Works for life as well.
As wise king once said " A king should not seek for war but must be ready for "
I just started to travel around to the tournaments they’re surprisingly easy and you’ll be rewarded well!
You helped me a ton with mordhau, good to see you’re still helping people out
Bannerlord is easy until you start a kingdom
This ! Dude fr, It’s real endgame shit, I learned to wait until I’m ready to start conquering
Yeah when all the empire and kingdom became you're enemy hahahaha
Get rid of a couple factions before you start a kingdom
Bro no lie
I went to be a vassal of Vlandia and got assigned lots of fiefs, and then couldn’t defend any of them. I keep losing all my troops no matter what and can’t afford to defend my fiefdoms.
I haven't played it for more than year, and I must admit it is great, much better than I expected. Like when you issuing command time slow down. Thats insane. Currently I am trying to join kingdom and after I have good town I will start rebelion.
My first play through is rough. I didn’t realize everyone would declare war on my in the first week of my new kingdom (spent a lot of time cutting off heads from a kingdom that imprisoned me a lot.) and so I made a giant army with my companions (700+ units) and that took some figuring out, but when I go to take my first city I only had 100 troops on the field. It was really upsetting and idk how to fix my troop deployment. That’s how I ended up on this video.
This is probably the best and most practical beginning guide I've seen.
yup i love guides like this, i hate the ones that just describe basic functions. the latter is like 90% of youtube channels.
I have 100 hours in the game this is the best video tips i’ve seen for the game. Good job! Could you do more ? Even for settings. For ex what is the correct camera distance from the character
Wow the seige engines in reserve is a massive game changer.
The siege weapon trick was worth a sub alone.
It's alot more enjoyable now and not as frustrating but it's missing lots of things .no camp no downtime activities. No feasts .lots of stuff thts missing .they could add hunting In during camp screen
I mean, you can go sit in any city that is close by with your spouse and make heirs instead of building a camp for no good reason. Also, sending your companions on missions is a downtime activity
There’s down time stuff you can go to taverns or keeps and play different board games
Missing feasts
@@kylelinder5353 there is many reasons u would want a camp .to just check out your army talk to them in downtime to talk to your followers,to make a defencive structure like a wagon fort,etc and go on a hunt for deer etc .there was many reasons why camp was good.sspecially the mods tht came out with warband
@@robertstevens7682 feasts and camp were main thing I liked. There was so many mods tht added so much more like adding defensive structure for camp adding hunting
What a wonderful approach to exposing and including some newbie like me into the game!
1 huge tip I would give to new players or returning players is to do practice arena fights.
They have 0 risk, will let you use a wide variety of weapons, get you some gold, and will let you level up several early combat skills.
Just about any time I take a break from the game I'll run a few just to get the handle on combat again. Solo or small skirmishes is definitely better for xp and loot but you can lose if you're new or rusty.
Practice arena battles don't even take in game time so you don't have to worry if you keep dying. Just click the go again option and you're right back into it.
I like going to empire towns and practice fighting in the arena. Theres a place to hide in the arena and you can just kill one guy, get his shield, hide away and kill the last guy. Boom, easy 250 denars. Very nice if just starting out.
Hundreds of hours in this game and i did not know about this. jeez 4:35
One easy tip ive noticed for leveling up tactics without much risk. Find very full bandit hideouts of any kind. Bring skirmishers with your crew , set them in a line get them to follow and set them to open fire.
No idea why but like every 2nd bandit killed by the skirmishers throwing weapons increases your tactics. Unintentionally discovered it in my newest game where i got my tactics skill up to like 40 in the first weeks from just clearing hideouts.
good vid have subbed and pressed the bell about to start a new play through since its fully released hello from Scotland
What is considered food, the icon will tell you! Some items you think are food-related is not counting towards variety.
Tournaments help you to get armor. It might be harder if you only have weak armor sturgia gives the best helmet try it
I started the game THIS week. And I’ve been getting captured A LOT. It’s been a rough start, but today I joined a random kingdom! Started off good until I started doing quests. Then I was right back to square one.
Mine is going excellent. I am beginning to get much better. My plan is to increase relation with the Vlandian leader as much as possible, and then influence the vote for the new one.
English with austrian accents sounds always great and professional. Like Novritsch you are doing a fantastic job in your Genre.
got about 26 hours in. I knew about the food variety bonus for party morale but I didn't know it increased steward stat. Haven't got far enough in the game for siege battles yet so it's good to know that tip when I do.
Beginner’s guide but I didn’t know a lot of these tips after 100+ hours playing early access 😅 good video dude!
I definitely did not know about the reserve option for sieges and I’ve been playing this game for a long time
I freaking LOVE this game !
It is literally like they made it specifically for me down to the smallest things.
I love history, warfare, diplomacy, government, etc. Even the fact that the markets in the game actually matter & are useful.
In so many games today the markets are redundant & serve really no purpose.
Great tip on the seige weapons, thanks
This guide is good for new players to mount and blade completely and returning players from warband like myself
Love the video! Thank you for making this!
You don't need to be assigned quartermaster, all unassigned roles default to party leader
Just dropped on game pass! Can't wait to start, thanks for the tips!
There were some really helpful tips here, Cheers!
I think its wild, how auto resolve will have you barely surviving a fight you would stomp the enemy in by giving the engage command. Like what the heck? Oh yea, you outnumber and outpower that army? Still lose 30 to 40 soldiers somehow.
Peasant army world conquest when?!
SoonTM. Love your channel btw. Hands down most informative and well-researched Bannerlord videos on youtube and it's good to see that people can appreciate how much work you put into those.
@@KingLouie111 no but seriously i highly doubt you can win with a peasant army
This is definitely not for Beginers more like intermediate , i have no idea about 80% of what youre talking about
that siege engine tip… thank you.
I’ve got over 700 hours and I found this video refreshing and I did not know about the companion list or the reserve siege engines.
thank you for these informations. great video.
Great video, mate, Big Thanks!!
1st playthrough is going ok, except a few things I think I've missed out on marriage and creating heirs character is 48 now, I'm not always happy about the time limit involved in quests especially the main quest, but I don't like time limits in general in games
just got into my first playthrough, despite knowing zero about how to do things my king has gifted me 3 fiefs for some reason and I have been warring with the desert kingdom for a week now. made 150k and have enough influence to do whatever I want. the game really is easy.
Same here, just become a mercenary for a bit and then ask the king if u can become a lord of that empire and when the kingdom goes to war just start beating up other lords and soon you'll have a couple of fiefs and then boom you'll have 100k gold easily.
Only problem I have is keeping my fiefs in high loyalty, any suggestions?
@@sweetnightmare1191 honestly mine don't seem to care, I have the production going up and the parties going. Makes them happy and loyal
I need a guide that holds my hand man, I'm right at the beginning after your sibling bails. No clue what to do. Looks like fun game but got so frustrated, didn't pick it back up
First playthrough is going great! Joined the Battanians, married Caladog's daughter (with only 1 save scum lol) and was awarded the first castle I helped siege! Only thing is, the available wanderers are not very skilled (only 1 with 60 medicine, for example) Do more wanderers become available as time goes on? Or am I stuck with 1 scout and 1 medic the whole playthrough?
You gotta go around the map visiting different taverns, they usually move around, but there’s plenty to choose from.
I'm on my I think 4th playthrough, I have the realistic battle mod installed and it's really fun
Got some of them seasoned wolf's onto the wall it was so epic watching them eventually get killed 1by1 but they slaughter the low tier troops beautifully
All great tips with the caveat that I love when people start off or have the opinion that the game is too easy but if you suck enough that you need to do anything other than win, do what is in this video.
Would have subscribed and gave more props u til I realized your statement about how easy the game is even on highest difficulty instantly changed that thought.
This is a great video as a fresh player to learn from. A clarifies some aspects that other videos don't specify like how to create siege weapons
My first play through died quickly. 2nd one too. 3rd one is going strong, I'm serving the Battanians currently and I might pledge the dragon banner to them. I have 1 city and 4 castles, Caladog won't let me have anything else though.
Im a sturgian that has been approached by vlandia early on to become a merc then i joined up with them and have 2 castles and a city under my control however i cant wait to become independent and then just start executing every general that i capture, only one thing im terrible at siege defence was hoping you would help me with that but you didnt touch the subject.
thank you, great tips!
Great Video !
Great video. I've played about 500+ hrs, altho I'll have to restart alltogether since the new version broke all my saves...
wich button for the cheat menu? and someone knows a money cheat?
Idk if it works in bannerlord but once cheats are enabled ctrl+click on map to teleport
I finally worked my way up to a meager 40k denars and a band of 78 fighters. Won a siege i decided to help and was granted the castle and two lands as my first fief after becoming a vassal for southern empire. All of a sudden my daily upkeep fee went to 1,800 denars and i got caught joining a Rhaegas siege on the next castle by the enemy troops. Their 2000 against my 80 so i surrendered, and got carted around the bottom of the map until i had 0 denars left😂😭😭
See my wall of text on how to get started in these comments, that will get you started properly. To win you need to be efficient. When I beat the game 6 months ago only 1.7% of players had done that, so yeah, its very hard and takes weeks to beat this game.
How do you put siege weapons in reserve on console?
Just press a on the siege machine and a tab to move it reserve will pop up press a on that
For me this game is a changer right up there with skyrim which turned me away from shooters nearly permanently. I can't believe I've not played bannerlords sooner then 2024. Seriously dropped the ball with this one it's a absolute classic
I still remember the first time I tried Mount and Blade 1, I was like, what a piece of sh...! Until I pass the learning curve. Now, for me, Mount and Blade series is one of the greatest ever created.
Right on, its very hard and that makes it great.
Will you be able to do a video of realms forgotten bannerlord plz
I been captured at least 50 times in 3 days. Every time i start building a decent party my faction starts a war with half the kingdoms and im stuck behind enemy territory and eventually bump into a bigger army and get captured. Then i build my party up and create an army to try and take castles but while i siege the castle a stronger army shows up and i get destroyed. So for now i just avoid conflict and raid villages were at war with. Yet somehow i cant stop playing this game.
Try to stick in the borders or just outside of the borders of your kingdom, use your party to take out enemy parties or small armies that are doing incursions on your land. This way you can build your party experience, get better loot (or sell it for cash), and weaken the enemy army. Always take enemies prisoners, you can either donate them to friendly dungeons or execute them, that is your will.
@@bonk5316 thanks man. I somehow just started doing just what u said last week and i just fought everyone that was near me. My troops leveled up so much that I hardly take casualties now. I randomly looked at my money and influence and I literally grabbed my glasses to check if i saw it right lol. I went from 40k to 600k in gold and my influence from 100 to 2600 just by staying near my towns and fiefs and just fighting enemies that cane too close. Too bad I miscalculated and left the valandians to start my own kingdom and been a rough couple of days and now im probably gonna have to abdicate. Im poor and my town is starving and i can’t protect ny 2 villages lol
You level tactics by giving commands during battles, not just by auto-resolving
I didnt know Bannerlord now had mods on the steam workshop. Nice little tip there!
Khan's guard is not only the best horse archer, it is THE best troop in the game. I completely gave up on archers, as they are so much harder to manage.
Can we stop the character from aging i dont want him to die (ps5)
Disable death for the player character
Its near the button to activate ironman mode after character customization
@@thewhitestormtrooper5697 i didnt see the option when i created my character but thanks
@@interherbasse6902 im sorry i gave you a wrong information
The button says "disable battle death" so we cant stop the aging on our character
But it will take a really long time before death by old age will become a problem for your character
@@thewhitestormtrooper5697 i think i disabled it but my character keep aging
@@interherbasse6902 you cannot disable character aging on consoles. "because of technical reasons" according to taleworlds, which makes no sense.
But it's really not a big problem. Takes a long time to age and die, usually have conquered the whole map. And if not, if you play campaign you have siblings, if not you can get wife and children. You can level their skills up before you play them, so when you do they will be as good as your own character.
Man.. I knew about taking the siege weapons away.. but I'm just to dumb to figure that one out.. ouch. BUT Thank you!
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I only have an Xbox one. Is it even worth it to buy the game though? Will the performance and processing power on an Xbox one even be sufficient?
You can hide trebuchets? Wow.
I mean it was obvious there’s something wrong about this entire mechanic. But I didn’t actually expect it works properly if you know how it works 😂 They should probably hide by default, having to press pause to get these few sec to hide is nuts
Gotta say I was expecting not to learn anything, but I didn't know you could pull siege weapons in reserve like that I thought you had to 1 at a time. Thanks for the video. Thumbs up
I strongly disagree on the strongest melee cavalry units. In this patch it's definitely the Druzhinik champions
The best carvery is imperial maxed out.
Looks like getting this in PS5 was a bad idea lol I hope access to these options and menus will be at least somewhat accessible on controller...
My question is how do you recruit the triarri, hastati, or principes?
under a minute in and you got a sub - the player balances this game, it's just a matter of working with or against the various systems and mechanics. What I wouldn't give for a JSawyer-style mod that didn't slant the game so much towards what the devs think we want and gave us a straight sandbox that didn't treat us like the chosen one or give us 6 consecutive towns as the new kid on the block. Getting virtually everything handed to us makes for little relative sense of achievement albeit the hacky, slashy, pokey parts are incredibly fun still.. The Ai is, quite literally, the complete opposite of what it implies - it's really, *really* dumb. In a variety of places too; the battlefield, the minds of the rulers and Nobles alike.. 'One more turn' - it is highly likely that anyone playing this game with lose track of time, It's bloody good fun, if imperfect.
My play trough is kinda annoying I got granted one castle in the vlandian faction but have captured 4 more settlements sinds (2 on my own) but the king keeps giving it to other people
Autoresolve is too strong I think. With a bit of tactics you lose fewer troops than actually fighting the battle which kinda kills fun
don't use autoresolve? or don't put any focus into tactics?
@@jp-sn6si personally intentionally avoiding core game mechanics to have a balanced experience puts me off, can't explain it too well sorry
@@TheYellowFlyingFish i get that actually but auto-resolve is something else. it's meant to bypass gameplay, gameplay that happens to be the centerpiece of this game.
you have to go way out of your way to level tactics to a point where it's too strong. sorry but i don't think it's a problem at all.
Bro where and how do you get the helmet with the jewels in it? It’s so Fucking Dope lol
Is there a way to turn off character death in sandbox mode after game is started?
How to get started and how to beat the game. I beat the game twice so far. The first time I beat it about 6 months ago an achievement like notice popped up and said only 1.7% of all players had conquered the entire map. The second time I beat it there was no update to that stat so I have no idea how many had done it by then. It took a few weeks both times. I am on my third world conquest now. Keep in mind I don't just win it right off, I get my ass kicked and have to start over - a few times. I have never beat it with the Empire, only with Khuzaits. I got very far with Aeseri - the desert people but I was up against 3 empire and the game turned into a loss. What is cool about this game is that there are so many things you need to do RIGHT to beat it and sometimes you just need luck too. I always sign up to serve a king first and when I beat the game my original character is dead and my relative is now the main character, it takes 2-3 generations to conquer the entire map. You can do things right and still LOSE. You need to do things right but you also need to do the right things to win this game. Even then, it can just screw you.
You need to be efficient, always keep your party size only to what you need. Especially early on. If you use a party of 18 to take on parties of 25-40 bandits you will make a lot more money and waste a lot less money on wages. Don't run around with party of 50 early on because you will just lose gold.
Do the tournaments, you get great gear and you can win horses that sell of a lot of gold.
Gather companions at Taverns and use the tournaments to gear them up. Companions are your best troops. Some companions at the Inns are weak or have shitty personalities. Use them until you find a better one then simply go outside of town and tell then to hit the road and go in and pick up the better companion until you have a good crew.
There is one good strategy game at the Inns that you can play - I think its at the Empire Inns - its really easy to beat it on defense and you can make money like that. Other Inn games suck.
Smithing sucked. I found it to be a complete waste of time. Tournaments and buying weapons is much easier and better.
So here is how you get started.
Dont hire the shitty troops - go to all nearby towns and pick up like 10 of the 50 gold troops do not hire the shitty 20 gold cheapies.
Using those 10 good guys kill every bandit party of 20 or less you can find.
Once you kill a few groups of bandits go to the nearest city and cash out by selling loot. After you have a couple of thousand gold you can get your party up to 18 or 20 of the better troops and that is the time to start doing tournaments and games at the Inn because you can bet a lot of gold.
Now you get this groove on. Take the easy quests to take out bandits or bandit camps and just kill bandits. Once you are loaded with loot go to the city, cash out, do the tournament and bet, do the Inn game and bet. Rinse and repeat. When you cash out before you SELL use the best loot to gear up yourself and your companions then sell the excess crap. Also you can gear up the hired help by paying gold for upgrades.
Put the dragon banner together and follow that quest line.
But always make sure you keep your party size low and that you dont waste money on buying gear you can win at tournaments or find on bodies. Be efficient. Save money.
That is how you get started right.
There is a LOT more to know to beat the map. But efficiency is always important.
I would say that once you make your first 30,000 gold go to a town in the country of your chosen people - the ones you intend to support - that is far from the front lines and buy a trade there. Pick a trade that is EASY to support like making beer or tanning hides or pottery. Do not waste time with silver or iron because it's too hard to find. Every time you get another 50K gold buy another trade. You can then go to the warehouse in that town and stock it and select a requirement for them to use warehouse stocks. You can select them to leave 25% of their goods in the warehouse. Then you just pick up those supplies and drop them at the warehouse periodically and pick up finished goods to make money. Also, sell them in another city, they usually sell for more in a city that doesn't have the trade. Don't sell pottery in a city that makes pottery.
My preferred build is a 2 handed axe with a bow and a polearm. Late in the game you ca get a cool polearm called a Rhombius or something like that, its a sword on a stick and you can ride and slice people where they cant even hit you back. The 2 hand axe is also good for that but you need to get in close and can be hit easier.
I NEVER use siege weapons, NEVER. Just ladders. Survey the walls before you attack and pick the best side where the catapults cant hit you and where they have less walls to shoot you from, find the weak spot and run there to set up ladders. When you get both ladders up you need to take your bow out and kill the fools at the top of the wall that try to push your ladders down. Once you kill them and have 3 or so people on each ladder they cant push the ladders down. Once you get people on top join them and unite them to form a bridgehead on top of the walls. I use F1/F2 to say follow me and F1/F3 to say charge to gather my troops to me then set them on the enemy. If they have a lot of weak militia and few regulars in the castle you can beat them with a 1.25 your people to 1 theirs ratio. When they have many regulars or just a LOT of people you will want 2 to 1 ratio to win. More troops for you is always better but more is also wasteful.
There is a LOT more to know about how to strategically attack the enemies, how to lead the army in combat, how to engage the map properly, how to win favor cheaply, how to gear up your crew. A LOT more. So if have any questions or need tips just respond to this post and I'll answer any questions you have that I can.
I have been gaming for over 35 years. This is the BEST strategy game I have ever played. It's also the hardest one to beat and has the best gameplay. Cossacks, Age of Empires, Medieval Total War are all great strategy games too but none of them are as challenging and as complicated as this game.
I wonder, how do you put the companions in separate group in battle view?
My sturgian character hasn't won a single victory not even against looters. With 20 sturgian recruits I can't take on 5-10 looters. They steam roll over them. Idk if I got a broken version of the game
Hello, can you tell me why they don't give me every castle that I conquer, I only have five castles
Honest question just got it on ps4 when it came out everything works but marriage I can pass all speech checks but when I go talk to the dad it won't let me barter I can just barter in general but the moment I go to barter for the marriage I'm stuck the bar won't feel it won't give me any option to even attempt to make a deal thinning is bugged but not the first clue to fix any ideas I've don't searched the web an nothing been posting this around hoping for some answers need to marry an have a kid before my dude dies of old age an no heir
I think you need renown stat to high enough. But not sure.
Hey can you help me pls, I conquered bunch of castles and towns but king doesnt give me towns and castles. How can I get that castles management ?
Is the advance command the same as engage on console?
With mods does anyone know if it works if you don’t buy the game from steam? I’ve got bannerlord from game pass so just wondering if the mods from steam will work?
I’d love to know how to actually make a success out of a workshop business! For some reason I still can’t figure out why my breweries make no product or money!
It depends on the products that are made in nearby towns. U should lookup the best workshop per city on google and they will tell you which workshops make the best money.
Can we use the cheat mode with console edition? 🤔
No
How do you do that cheat on PlayStation?
Wtf. I didn't know about putting siege weapons in reserve. Surely it would have been a more intuitive design if they let us build them out of range of the defenders siege weapons by default. Why did they make it this way? I wouldn't be surprised if a few people on the dev team missed this trick.