BRAND NEW VIDEO! 20 MORE TIPS: th-cam.com/video/4C2f_plOdOE/w-d-xo.html Timestamps in the description, hope you enjoy :D Sorry for the delay in this video. Busy week and weekend, accompanied with some technical difficulties and unsure-ness of what new video to make. (if you have any ideas related to Warband/Bannerlord, let me know)
it really depends as every game is different, however I generally find attacking a Sarranid castle is usually the easiest. But it's apples and apples because it depends on what units you currently have and what you want to go for in the long run. But in general I take a Sarranid castle, but may take whatever I can find that is easy to take. When starting a kingdom just try to find an easily defendable location, both on the campaign map and in the battle screen as when you first start many factions will almost undoubtedly declare war on you.
You shouldn't be embarrassed about not seing the "show on map button" untill 80 hours into the game. I have almost 3000 hours, and learned about it just now through this video...
Yo for reals. I got sent to a town and I was like, "Well based on the name, it doesn't sound like a Nord town... Must be Swadian.... Wait that's not it either" lmao
A bit of trading advice: 1) Alt + LMB is useful to quickly sell a lot of loot/goods in one clicks instead of clicking and dragging. Another useful trading tip - you can sell merchandise to all vendors (arms, horse, armor) for the same price, there is no price penalty. 2) If you happen to have more loot/goods than all money the vendors have, just wait 1 day and they all get around +500-1000 denars. Don't need to ride to another town. 3) If you see a huge amount of 1 particular product in the shop (for example, loads of iron) - always buy it first and then press the option to access the market to find out where to sell it. If you do the other way around, chances are all arriving caravans and villagers will buy out all this stock while you were waiting and the price will be high again and few products will remain. 4) Have 1-2 sumpter horses in your inventory if you are moving loads of goods around. It will spread the weigh and you'll be able to move on a world map faster instead of crawling like a turtle overloaded with merchandise. It doesn't affect your speed if you don't have goods in your inventory though. 5) When you access the local market only pay attention to the potential income starting from 80 denars/item and higher or so. Lower than that is not even worth your troubles. Buying a bunch of high cost items with low equity could lead to zero income or even a loss. 6) If you can't sell everything at once, sell all the goods first and items last. Items don't hinder your world map speed, and goods do! 7) It's a good idea to ride solo in the beginning and moving goods from town to town saving your wealth for the future, avoiding the tough fights. That way you will fly like a wind, you won't have to worry about the hunger or wages or army losses. Actually I was so carried away playing solo, I found myself fighting 40 forest bandits all alone and feeling confident.
Ride a horse. The AI sucks at leading targets, so if you ride in large circles around the bandits, they rarely score a hit on you. They'll eventually run out, leaving you to pick them off. Plus their bows usually suck, so higher tier armor shrugs off their damage entirely.
Very nice advices but i don`t agree with potential income starting from 80 dennars especially at the beggining of the game where it is a good idea to start trading with ... grain which can be bought very cheap at Swadia (villages near Dhirim wants sth like 10 denars) and can be sold at price of 30 - 40 dennars which gives you income of x3-4. And I would add tip that it is nice to give companions points in training because they do stack. And if sieging cities/castles think about brining mainly archer/footmen force, prepare 2 row`s first footmen to make shield-wall and second with archers it can sometimes win battle even without fighting for wall.
One piece of invaluable advice is to ensure that during times of peace you gain do quests for villages. Having a high affinity with a village makes recruiting troops much easier. When having 20+ affinity there are changes you can get 10-20 troops looking to join at a single time.
Another 2 things I missed during my first 100 hours: 1) Clicking Ctrl (or Shift) + LMB will assign an item from either left or right to the other side in the Trade interface. (Not too sure its ctrl or shift but it definitely works) 2) You can issue commands like 'Hold this position' from afar by holding F1 button. I used to personally travel to such location and issue the command -_-
There is... a "Show Location" button?????? (O_O) SERIOUSLY?! GOD F***KING DAMN IT! YEARS! I've been MANUALLY finding locations for YEARS! Not game years, ACTUAL YEARS!
I wish there was a player faction troop designer and that when you managed to found your own kingdom and have a certain amount of right to rule you will be visited by a legendary smith who will commission a special armour and weapon set of your choosing, complete with a crowned helmet.
Check out Prophecy of Pendor mod, it features something similar to what you described (Custom knight order, crowned helmet when founding a kingdom) as well as lots and lots of other amazing stuff, it's a really good mod, albeit pretty hard from the beginning
Adam Baker many mods have managing features from the diplomacy mod. They allow you have a better feel of your kingdom. Check out Perisno it’s my personal favorite mod
Something I just found after thousands of hours in this game: you can use shift + numbers to give orders to multiple groups in combat. So you can e.g. tell only your infantry and archers to advance while keeping the cavalry following you, or order infantry and cavalry to charge while archers hold position, without having to issue orders to each group individually
Tip for sieges: Do not charge in in the beginning. Position your infantry in a line outside the castle and archers right behind them and snipe all the crossbowmen/archers. Then charge infantry first and have archers follow you to a good vantage point while your infantry does the heavy fighting.
I'm 300hours into the game and didnt knew the control + space would speed up my game.. I remember clicking to a certain spot somewhere across the whole map and then getting myself food out of the kitchen, while my party's still marching xD You summed it up pretty well, I dont know what you could have done any better possibly (:
Yupp took about 40 hours for me before I realized how to speed up travel. I’d build my army up and travel across the map meanwhile making a sandwich for the 5+ minute journey
Rhodoks specialise in spearmen, glaivemen and heavy crossbowmen. Nords specialise in strong infantry with high damage short weapons. Swadians specialise mostly in knights, but also have a good infantry. Vaegirs have quick archers and strong infantry. Also mediocore cavalry. Kheregits specialise in horse archers, but they also have strong lancers. Sarranids have strong heavy and light cavalry, but are also sufficient as infantry.
My tips: If you can't defeat deserters, pay them! They only want a portion of the money you have. If you hhve little, they'll request even less. Don't use companions as your main combat medics. Use yourself and have a backup medic at most. Companions stop being wounded at 2x as much HP as you do and whoever is wounded, deactivates his party skills till they have enough hp to become unwounded. So not only companions are more prone to getting wounded, they're wounded for longer too. Also, from some level onwards you receive bonuses to company stats that you have the highest. At 4 it's +1, 6 +2, 8 +3 and 10 +4. Very useful for the most important party skills. In fact, wound treatment, first aid and path-finding should be your three party skills. I don't recommend you to spend points on surgery though. It may sound nice that your soldiers get wounded instead of dying, but too high surgery means you're going to have a lot of wounded soldiers. The problem with wounded soldiers is, they take a long time before they're usable again. Until then they waste a slot in your army. Nobody is going to be afraid of an army of 160, of which only 30 are combat capable. Not to mention, they'll still slow you down and eat your food just as if they were well. So it's much better for them to die. Nobody is going to be afraid of an army of 30 either, but this army of 30 can at least have more speed to run away from enemy campaign. Tactics are terrible for the player. Even with 10 tactics you're going to suffer ridiculous casualties if you order your troops to attack without you. Get a long weapon asap. Preferably lance. Even a bad lance is better than an one-handed sword. Don't start as Rhodoks. They're the most difficult nation to play offensively. You need to master combat in various terrains and especially difficult terrain before you can use Rhodoks well. Don't start as Khergits or Sarranids either - the bandits have horses and even a lance. With flat terrain that's a bad combination. Swadians are a good choice, although Vaegirs are the easiest starter nation: 1. They have Rivacheg. Dyeworks in Rivacheg produce 1000 denars a week, profits no other enterprise can match. 10 grand aren't the easiest to gather, but once you buy the dyeworks, it makes money management much easier. 2. Their troops are easy to train. With training skill 5 you can promote all vaegir recruits after midnight. This makes training vaegir knights so easy they're pretty much disposable, although disposing of them is harder than it looks as they're quite strong too. The only other race that has this are Khergits and khergit lancers are so easy to train it's ridiculous. Swadia has powerful knights, but not only they are rather expensive, they're also difficult to train. 3. They have easy access to sea raiders, the best bandits for training units and for farming cash (as well as the most accessible way of getting a decent beginning armor). They take some practice and favorable terrain to defeat, but in flat terrain and with a lance they soon become a joke. Just make sure to keep your distance in youe initial combats with them, they have bows and throwing arrows. Keep your distance and circle around them to make them deplete their ammo. Do not underestimate board shields and shields on back. My first successful run's inventory consisted of morningstar, great lance, board shield and huscarl shield. You can't use board shield from horseback, but it will still keep you safe from archery fire into your back. And if you have it above your smaller shield, the board shield gets picked when on foot, the small shield gets picked on horseback. No need to switch the shields in combat. Troops get chosen into battle from top to bottom. If you need to train or get rid of troops (Hello, sword sisters in army of Nords), put them at the top. If you need to conserve a companion's health, put them to the bottom. Leadership helps a lot with morale, I recommend getting it to 3 asap. Have a couple of villages that are happy with you. The happier they are, the better troops you can recruit. Do NOT become a marshal! Marshal gains controversy everytime the kingdom loses. If you reach enough controversy, nobody is going to grant you a fief even if you have enough renown. Also, you're going to have to defend every castle you conquer, because nobody is going to do that... and the enemy will gladly lay siege to it. It's much better to pick a vassal or two and conquer a castle together. You'll still have to defend it, but you won't gain any controversy if you lose it. Or if your villages get looted, because nobody is defending your homelands (which happens quite easily, when everyone is your friend due to you having 90 honor).
Unfortunately, friend, I have learned these tips and tricks through experience, but if I seen the video before I learned, I would have been so damn appreciative. Good job nonetheless.
I have something like 300 hours in this game. This video taught me about both the Accompany option and the Show on Map button. Thanks for helping me not be so stupid.
Here's another tip that might help in the long run: When you get mounts that you don't use, don't sell them. Keep up to 6 in your inventory. This increases your speed on the map slightly.
@@jaydenraleigh9347 I always make sure my companions have the next best gear after my own. Everything else I sell. That's usually because they all have the group skills and I don't want them to lose too much health. I think there's a percentage where you stop receiving the group skill benefits
if you have very little right to rule, factions will declare war on you very early on. i've tried it and nearly all factions declared war on me stimultaniously
Actually it doesn't affect it. It's a common mistake that people think it does affect it, but it actually doesn't. "Note that Right to Rule has no impact on whether or not other factions declare war on you in Warband. It is a common mistaken belief that it does. However the internal script that decides to declare war does not check this variable."
If you don't have enough right to rule they consider you a rebel not a kingdom and they will attack you, so I don't know where did you get that Hej Hej
@@bertholdtohoover446 instal Diplomacy mod ! or just play Perisno (it will blow your mind !) 2nd edit : played Nova Aetas yet ? - build your own farm , castle (and become a kingdom that way) discover the new world , fight the Aztecs, conquer their many cities and castles, loot ancient lost cities , build your own enterprises in cities , become a priest in your own Cathedral / Mosque / Synagogue, or be a smith and craft parlour, or just saw clothes ... , join the Crusade / Jihad, recruit AND equip you own kingdom troops as you like, advance in technology to discover new guns and armour, own properties in cities , palaces, houses, settle colonies to import sugar , silver, gold, etc, ( 15 ? types of colonial goods) build your colony with almost a hundred different buildings, houses , workshops, etc etc etc ... once you play Nova Aetas 5.0, m&b-w will never be the same ...
My first village has an 88 loyalty to me. I've hired 40 tribesmen at once, and another time I got 20 rhodok crossbowman at 10 denars each. So get your village loyalty up ASAP
I didn't even see the "show map" button in the video. Had to go back and re-watch to see where you even clicked. Tons of great info and I love that you timestamped in the comments!
I think most of these are true for Native. If you do quests for villages, especially the "Train peasants" one, they will provide better soldiers when recruiting volunteers. This is very useful later on, if your army gets destroyed - you can recruit decent units to start off again, instead of going through peasants. If you ever want to play multiplayer, set the blocking settings to "Mouse movement". Nearly all multiplayer servers for all mods use this kind of blocking, referred to as "manual blocking." Plus, it's far more satisfying. Arguably, the three most important kinds of companions you need in Native (the base game) are the medic (to prevent high unit losses in battles), the trainer (to train units faster in order to avoid leading peasants and militias in the first battles), and the engineer (to make sieges much faster, because they often take too long otherwise). These are respectively Jeremus, Firentis and Artimenner. Mercenaries recruitable from taverns may seem to be a very good investment at first, due to the fact that they instantly come with decent equipment and training. However, don't be fooled. They are far more expensive to maintain than regular units of the same level and often perform worse than comparable faction units.
Only major problem here is Jeremiah and artimenner hate each other, so it may be wise to recruit a different companion and train them up to be a engineer.
wow i have over 400 hours in warband and just learned about the accompany button. thanks its gonna save me a lot of time trying to follow them manually
Joshua Wakeley I bet you never read a dictionary in your life. Get one, and probably learn to read International Phonetic Alphabet before you look up the word.
@@joshuawakeley217 It really is, Josh. It's a medieval French word brought over to England by the Normans after 1066 a.d. 'To pay a fee' is an abbreviation in modern usage, and we don't say to pay a fye, or fie, do we? Fife is a county in Scotland, also called Fifeshire, pronounced Fifesher. I think us Brits have half a clue about how to say our own words. Just like Leicester is 'Lester' and Worcester is 'Wooster'. The problem is that the US uses phonetic spelling, which is why they always fuck up Shakespeare and old English so badly in general, they pronounce words as they're spelled, not said. It's only a matter of time until the US spells 'mother tongue' 'mutha tung'.
In classic pronunciations yes, the same way 'pristine' is pronounced like 'wine', but language changes and for hundreds of years in England it has been pronounced 'fife', probably by popular misinformation.
@@Timby ok, I just redownloaded it after drifting away for a while, because my by far best playthrough's army got crippled and every time I try to raise another army it gets demolished by groups of 50 bandits. Is their an option to lower bandit army sizes?
@@danieloleary4686 Ah that sucks, sorry. I don't think so, unless you use mods. The bandit sizes get larger as the game goes on, so your best shot may be starting a new game if you can't take them on.
With the new band Lord game is out and watching my friend getting nuts over this I decided to give it a try before playing the new one , thank you for the quick guide .
When I discovered the Backspace key in this game I went from Scrubbicus McMassacre to Alexander and Hannibal's lovechild. Holy crap that changed everything.
I notice this recently. When you fight long battles or with a lot of units on the party interface. what units order you place them in will spawn from top to bottom. For example: if you have archers and warriors in the first 2 slots and cavalry in the 3rd one but you have to many warriors there will be no calvary and they will end up being the reinforcemnts.
Me: on console still trying to figure out how to command troops into formations lol. Just started yesterday and haven’t slept since. It’s been such a cool experience to have this game and be able to play And command troops while fighting. Been looking for something like this since I was like 6 and ten years later finally have it. Definitely going to be a keeper for years
I don't normally do this but i'm currently making a Mount & Blade Warband Native gameplay on my channel, I would be really appreciated if you check it out :)
Thanks for the video. The 'show on map' and 'right click to accompany' features were missed/unknown by me and will now be very useful (I've played about 200 hours).
is there a way to turn of the message of lord getting kicked out of a faction? if you go in a save thats like 800 days long then it spam you to death lol..
I've had about 60 hours in this game and I learned so much, I didn't you know can command different types of units specifically or than when companions fight, it affects the morale, once again, thank you so.much !!
Well spoken and concise; very helpful video. I've been chugging along on console and just got my first castle(Jelbegi), I'm ~120 hours in and I'm starting to get a little overwhelmed. There are some features you mentioned that I'm not sure are available to console players or I'm unsure how to activate such as the accompanying function ):
this game is honestly one of the best games ever created and one of my all time favorites. also, YOU CAN FIND THE PLACE ON THE MAP! AND SPEED UP TIME! thanks so much dude! I've been wanting these options!
OHHHH thank you! I died so many times and suffered humiliating defeats to mud covered troglodytes, but this game teaches that total failure is a chance for a new beginning.
Omg i had no idea about the accompany button, or right clicking in world map for that matter. I thought the right button was only to change your camera view.
New player, accrued about 30 hours back in 2011 and I'm revisiting it now a la Diplomacy.litdum! Very enjoyable thusfar and thank you for putting these tips together, bro.
Many years on and I came back to this game. And once again I watched this video to give me a refresher. Helped out alot to remind me of the gameplay mechanics
I appreciate the feedback, thank you! This was definitely one of my older videos--if you're interested I made a follow-up to this video with 20 additional more advanced tips, I think I've gotten better in my newer videos, but let me know so I can continue to improve! th-cam.com/video/4C2f_plOdOE/w-d-xo.html
New player here. Bought the game yesterday this guide was veryyy helpfukl so thanks sooo much and I hope u the best in the game and on TH-cam. Hit that 10K subs now *thumbs up*
I conquered my first kingdom between 2 warring factions where I started the fight! They both hate me know and with my small elite force I am trying to hold the fort while gathering allies. This game is awesome.
Persuasion 3 is generally enough to convince all 16 companions to stay with you, despite their quarrels. I bumped it up to Persuasion 4 just for good measure. We 17 slaughter all.
One time i searched one Village for half and hour and just in and out until i found the nervous Man that also took half an hour just to get my ass handed back to me by him. I immediately alt f4d
While I do know all of these things, it is heartening to know that other people went through the same 100 or so hours of cluelessness before discovering them lol
Thank you so much for this video, it really helped a lot. I had been getting pretty frustrated before when I accepted a quest and then realized I had to go to a place on the opposite side of the map to complete which takes a very long time. The speeding up time function will definitely come in handy.
7:15 This is wrong. Skills in M&B are the highest in the party + your own skill. So if Jeremus has 8 trainer, and you have 1, your party gets 9 effectively. Edit: Only trainer stacks at 100% the rate. I did not realize this and thought everything stacked perfectly, like trainer. Taking party skills on YOUR character (but not on other characters) gives the following bonuses at these levels: 1 : +0 2-4: +1 5-7: +2 8-9: +3 10: +4
You are wrong too. Skills in M&B are the highest in the party + 1/2 of your own skill. So if Firentis has 4 trade, and you have 2, your party gets 5 effectively.
@@maplesyrup8070 You are correct that I am wrong but it's not 1/2 either. I made a mistake because I was basing this on my experience with Trainer. Trainer as it turns out stacks at 100% the value, but - for some reason - it's the only skill to do so. The actual rates for (most) party stacking bonus are worse than 1/2 and are quite arbitrary: 1 : +0 2-4: +1 5-7: +2 8-9: +3 10: +4 I didn't actually know it was that poor of a return on stacking until now, thanks for making me look it up. Correcting my post now.
I'm not sure, as I've never played Warband on consoles, sorry :( Try experimenting with the different buttons on the controller when hovering/selecting a lord or check the keymapping in the options to see if it says anything there
As a newbie I have a question for veterans. Isn't it more indicated to play until you can conquer a weaker castle and only after that to swear allegiance to a king? You know, to have a castle to store prisioners and stuff while serving that king....
I know this video was like 5 years ago but I remember playing this game around 2019 or 2020 and I just started playing again and your tips have greatly help this returning player thanks so much I'll definitely be watching your other guide videos
Here is a tip. If you find a Feast Stey there and fight in tournaments win Eesy money. After you have won go back to castle. Speak to lady and give the honor of the fight. What will give you friend ship whit this lady and you can keep going whit that until the Feast ends. here is the total of money what you can get until Feast ends. 24,000 or more.
yea, thats true, avoid joining faction at all, do not start as noble, just drive from town to town fighting in tournaments to gain money, i was so rich that i had 20 swadian knights before i joined faction, i didnt had to worry about money or wars because i was rich with skilled bodyguards and was a pretty good warrior
SoleNero21 bro I play normal level and I have 7 towns 100 swadian knights, 100 swadian sergeant and 100 swadian sharpshooter in each town. 1909 renown in 1000 days is that good enough or trash?
good video for new players. I am experienced player but didnt know about ctrl + spacebar :D Bro you just saved me a lot of time waiting to go across the whole map.
Best video out here to get started. Only thing I would add is I always start at khergit or sarranid because having horse units is really helpful early in the game. A small party of sarranid mamlukes will be fast and effective for either hunting bandits or trade around the map, pile up cash and then buy enterprises to make money before becoming vassal. Horse units and a good pathfinding level and you will be able to hunt any desert bandit or steppe bandit even with a party of 30-40. Also keep a couple horses 3-6 in your inventory, it will prevent from slowing you down when inventory is full
I just bought this game yesterday. I don't have that great of a pc but I can play it at full spec and it runs great. Love the game. Thanks for the tips!
Cheers for the tips lad! I've spent hours goofing about on Napoleonic Wars' multiplayer, but I only got into the native module's campaign recently, and I must say your video's been quite helpful. Good stuff
@@tom02061997 It isn't hard mechanicly, but conquering all the map is a challenge, specialy cause all enemy lords go against my property like hungry hounds all the time, so laying siege is risky.
I have 1800 hours on M&B Warband and the facts about renown and honour came as a surprise to me as i thought they did not affect things like becoming marshall and holding feasts etc so ty 😂
Don’t feel bad guys. Not only am I 100 hours deep not knowing about the show on map button. I didn’t even realize you could see how many enemies have been killed vs still alive while still fighting a battle until today. I also played the first 40 hours not knowing how to speed up travel between locations...
So many people pronounce Swadia as "Swaddia" but it sounds so much better when you pronounce it as "Swedia". Am I right fellows? :) As for further tips; this is the strategic way I ALWAYS use. At the gender option: - Male or Female does not matter, however it would be funnier as a female. Choosing your background: First of all, choose wisely for most intelligence. My selects: Father was a merchant Early years as assistant Adult hood as a student Reason for adventure; Either forced out, or for money. Now you are set for the character skill selection. this is simple, you put every attribute point to intelligence, if you have reached a upgrade number for example 6, 9, 12. and you have one left, it'll be wise to put it on charisma. then with the skill points you upgrade atleast; Tactics to the max of your intelligence. Surgery to the max of your intelligence. Wound treatment to the max of your intelligence. Training perhaps, as it upgrades your troops faster. Looting is optionable, as well as pathfinding. this surely would be useful in gaining money faster, or running from the enemy. Now this is what you have to do; You build up a small army, train them as much as you can. Once you put them to battle, you'll notice, they would fight fairly good at just the starting gameplay of the game. try to upgrade tactics and surgery as much as you can throughout the whole game and you are usually bound to win. Penalties; Lack of strength. Gaining less renown throughout battles. Hope this helps some of you out, but I would certainly try this out if I were you ! :)
It is alright, my friend. I am respecting every way of pronouncing. especially when Swadia has actually no right way to pronounce, its not like a word or something. :P but everytime someone pronounces it as Swaddia then, its hard to explain why, but a cringy feeling gets into my head. :P
These were all pretty basic tips. The most advanced ones I have in my own repertoire: - Trainer and Surgery are the best abilities in the whole game. I always strife for high intelligence after having enough strength and riding skill to wield whatever items I wish. - Surgery makes your army pretty much unkillable IF you survive the battle. Comboing it with a high wound treatment from a companion means that even if you lost all but 20 men in your 300 men army, you'll likely still have almost 300 veterans back in a day with no additional cost at all! Trainer skill on the other side stacks since every companion gives the xp individually to all characters and troops that have a lower level. It allows you to have top tier level units without having to grind battles and lose troops. Similar to enterprises time alone makes your army better here! Level your companions first until they're decent fighters since trainer only affects troops that have a lower level than the person training them. Then max them out in intelligence and you can raise whole armies of elite warriors in days which is especially good when you're a king! Since experience is distributed amongst all troops of one type, wait until upgrading to the last tier until all soldiers are ready to do so, this way everybody still gains xp: If you e.g. have 100 nord veterans you want to raise to nord huscarls, train until all 100 are ready to upgrade. Not only is this cheaper, it's also multiple times quicker than upgrading them individually since at the end still all 100 veterans will gain exp per level and trainer for their whole stack. Note though that troops experience is reset if they get garissoned, so if you give a town a bunch of units that are ready to upgrade it's a waste since they'll all become unupgradeable.
I have played this game for a while and i didn't know you could accompany lords. I also didn't know that you have the "show on map" button so, thanks :)
This video made me happy becoas i didnt know how experienced veteran in mound and blade i am becoas i learned all of these my self long time ago, this made me proud for the first time in my life :D
BRAND NEW VIDEO! 20 MORE TIPS: th-cam.com/video/4C2f_plOdOE/w-d-xo.html
Timestamps in the description, hope you enjoy :D
Sorry for the delay in this video. Busy week and weekend, accompanied with some technical difficulties and unsure-ness of what new video to make. (if you have any ideas related to Warband/Bannerlord, let me know)
what is the best place to start your own kingdom timby ?
it really depends as every game is different, however I generally find attacking a Sarranid castle is usually the easiest. But it's apples and apples because it depends on what units you currently have and what you want to go for in the long run. But in general I take a Sarranid castle, but may take whatever I can find that is easy to take. When starting a kingdom just try to find an easily defendable location, both on the campaign map and in the battle screen as when you first start many factions will almost undoubtedly declare war on you.
You shouldn't be embarrassed about not seing the "show on map button" untill 80 hours into the game. I have almost 3000 hours, and learned about it just now through this video...
Hah wow, glad I'm not the only one who didn't think it was obvious XD
I figured it out in my first hour XD
ya me too Aidan
I never realized I could do that I could hold the number keys to move the banner for movement orders, though.
Or at least, I didn't until I was 300 hours in.
>Jeremus knocked unconscious by Looter
Name the things that CANNOT knock Jeremus unconcious.
@@JimmyRaven grass.
Hmm....I don't know, the grass in the Kingdoms of Vaegirs and Nords looks kinda mean.
Hmm, yeah, that is some mean grass
as in weed? pretty sure it can knock him out
I laughed at things this guy didn't know but then when i saw that there is show on map feature i wanted to cry.
Comedy Guy Your comment stands by your name. I like it
i just started to play this game i learn about it within the hour or else i would go mad from frustration looking for lords to deliver messages
What does this mean?
I spent hours looking for the locations.. I feel like a noob 😫😂
Yo for reals. I got sent to a town and I was like, "Well based on the name, it doesn't sound like a Nord town... Must be Swadian.... Wait that's not it either" lmao
A bit of trading advice:
1) Alt + LMB is useful to quickly sell a lot of loot/goods in one clicks instead of clicking and dragging.
Another useful trading tip - you can sell merchandise to all vendors (arms, horse, armor) for the same price, there is no price penalty.
2) If you happen to have more loot/goods than all money the vendors have, just wait 1 day and they all get around +500-1000 denars. Don't need to ride to another town.
3) If you see a huge amount of 1 particular product in the shop (for example, loads of iron) - always buy it first and then press the option to access the market to find out where to sell it. If you do the other way around, chances are all arriving caravans and villagers will buy out all this stock while you were waiting and the price will be high again and few products will remain.
4) Have 1-2 sumpter horses in your inventory if you are moving loads of goods around. It will spread the weigh and you'll be able to move on a world map faster instead of crawling like a turtle overloaded with merchandise. It doesn't affect your speed if you don't have goods in your inventory though.
5) When you access the local market only pay attention to the potential income starting from 80 denars/item and higher or so.
Lower than that is not even worth your troubles. Buying a bunch of high cost items with low equity could lead to zero income or even a loss.
6) If you can't sell everything at once, sell all the goods first and items last. Items don't hinder your world map speed, and goods do!
7) It's a good idea to ride solo in the beginning and moving goods from town to town saving your wealth for the future, avoiding the tough fights. That way you will fly like a wind, you won't have to worry about the hunger or wages or army losses.
Actually I was so carried away playing solo, I found myself fighting 40 forest bandits all alone and feeling confident.
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But... But how? Wouldnt you just get arrow spammed?
Ride a horse. The AI sucks at leading targets, so if you ride in large circles around the bandits, they rarely score a hit on you. They'll eventually run out, leaving you to pick them off.
Plus their bows usually suck, so higher tier armor shrugs off their damage entirely.
4) It's actually capped at 6 horses. Having mostly mounted units increases your overland speed as well.
Very nice advices but i don`t agree with potential income starting from 80 dennars especially at the beggining of the game where it is a good idea to start trading with ... grain which can be bought very cheap at Swadia (villages near Dhirim wants sth like 10 denars) and can be sold at price of 30 - 40 dennars which gives you income of x3-4.
And I would add tip that it is nice to give companions points in training because they do stack.
And if sieging cities/castles think about brining mainly archer/footmen force, prepare 2 row`s first footmen to make shield-wall and second with archers it can sometimes win battle even without fighting for wall.
One piece of invaluable advice is to ensure that during times of peace you gain do quests for villages. Having a high affinity with a village makes recruiting troops much easier. When having 20+ affinity there are changes you can get 10-20 troops looking to join at a single time.
Another 2 things I missed during my first 100 hours:
1) Clicking Ctrl (or Shift) + LMB will assign an item from either left or right to the other side in the Trade interface. (Not too sure its ctrl or shift but it definitely works)
2) You can issue commands like 'Hold this position' from afar by holding F1 button. I used to personally travel to such location and issue the command -_-
Ahh yes I remember learning those too xD wish I included those.
something like holding ctrl while upgrading troops would also be helpfull to know for newcomers
2) lmao what?! I have easily over 100 hours into this game and I was always climbing mountains myself just to tell my archers to go there fml hahaha
me too :D
Hahahahahhaha
There is... a "Show Location" button?????? (O_O)
SERIOUSLY?! GOD F***KING DAMN IT!
YEARS! I've been MANUALLY finding locations for YEARS! Not game years, ACTUAL YEARS!
Me too
exactly!
Life is harsh
735 hours never noticed show on map. Goddammit.
2,500 hours and didn't learn anything
Solanum Caput i noticed it yesterday I've been playing for years
Lol
not a truck where is it?
I wish there was a player faction troop designer and that when you managed to found your own kingdom and have a certain amount of right to rule you will be visited by a legendary smith who will commission a special armour and weapon set of your choosing, complete with a crowned helmet.
Check out Prophecy of Pendor mod, it features something similar to what you described (Custom knight order, crowned helmet when founding a kingdom) as well as lots and lots of other amazing stuff, it's a really good mod, albeit pretty hard from the beginning
Adam Baker many mods have managing features from the diplomacy mod. They allow you have a better feel of your kingdom. Check out Perisno it’s my personal favorite mod
@@lordsothii5617 the latest Perisno 0.99 is awesome !
Almost 500 hours And there Is company option? All the time clicking And following lords for nothing?
Vilém Zahradník yeah same.
*plays "curb your enthusiasm" theme*
Lol seriously XD
I found out in my first playthrough that you can accompany lords.
@@mayonnaise1271 You must be a Rick&Morty fan
Something I just found after thousands of hours in this game: you can use shift + numbers to give orders to multiple groups in combat. So you can e.g. tell only your infantry and archers to advance while keeping the cavalry following you, or order infantry and cavalry to charge while archers hold position, without having to issue orders to each group individually
Omg
Tip for sieges: Do not charge in in the beginning. Position your infantry in a line outside the castle and archers right behind them and snipe all the crossbowmen/archers. Then charge infantry first and have archers follow you to a good vantage point while your infantry does the heavy fighting.
I'm 300hours into the game and didnt knew the control + space would speed up my game.. I remember clicking to a certain spot somewhere across the whole map and then getting myself food out of the kitchen, while my party's still marching xD You summed it up pretty well, I dont know what you could have done any better possibly (:
hah wow XD Thank you :D
Now that is just torture
Yupp took about 40 hours for me before I realized how to speed up travel. I’d build my army up and travel across the map meanwhile making a sandwich for the 5+ minute journey
@@PBnJTACO Facts I have almost 60 hours and thank heavens for this video man
@@Timby when i press ctrl + space game i stop but time speed up pls HELP
Rhodoks specialise in spearmen, glaivemen and heavy crossbowmen.
Nords specialise in strong infantry with high damage short weapons.
Swadians specialise mostly in knights, but also have a good infantry.
Vaegirs have quick archers and strong infantry. Also mediocore cavalry.
Kheregits specialise in horse archers, but they also have strong lancers.
Sarranids have strong heavy and light cavalry, but are also sufficient as infantry.
Btw, today I have reached 777 hours of gameplay(this is my favorite game!)
Erlend Stang I would say Vaegirs have mediocre infantry
Sarranids have the 2nd best archer unit. their infantry is poop.
What about the Sarranid guard?
Meep Meep Any top tier unit can kill a looter. What you want is for them to reliably kill everything.
Also you can reduce morale loss by having all your troops be from the same faction
but viraty is always better. Just dont get troops from 2 warring factions. Like nord infantry and rohdok crossbowmen.
I assume mercenaries don't affect this?
they dont
@@williamhammann3170 Pretty sure mercenaries don't have more thing altogether
I’ve been playing for a little while. I love the game but find myself constantly restarting. These tips proved so helpful! Thanks man :)
My tips:
If you can't defeat deserters, pay them! They only want a portion of the money you have. If you hhve little, they'll request even less.
Don't use companions as your main combat medics. Use yourself and have a backup medic at most. Companions stop being wounded at 2x as much HP as you do and whoever is wounded, deactivates his party skills till they have enough hp to become unwounded. So not only companions are more prone to getting wounded, they're wounded for longer too. Also, from some level onwards you receive bonuses to company stats that you have the highest. At 4 it's +1, 6 +2, 8 +3 and 10 +4. Very useful for the most important party skills. In fact, wound treatment, first aid and path-finding should be your three party skills.
I don't recommend you to spend points on surgery though. It may sound nice that your soldiers get wounded instead of dying, but too high surgery means you're going to have a lot of wounded soldiers. The problem with wounded soldiers is, they take a long time before they're usable again. Until then they waste a slot in your army. Nobody is going to be afraid of an army of 160, of which only 30 are combat capable. Not to mention, they'll still slow you down and eat your food just as if they were well. So it's much better for them to die. Nobody is going to be afraid of an army of 30 either, but this army of 30 can at least have more speed to run away from enemy campaign.
Tactics are terrible for the player. Even with 10 tactics you're going to suffer ridiculous casualties if you order your troops to attack without you.
Get a long weapon asap. Preferably lance. Even a bad lance is better than an one-handed sword.
Don't start as Rhodoks. They're the most difficult nation to play offensively. You need to master combat in various terrains and especially difficult terrain before you can use Rhodoks well. Don't start as Khergits or Sarranids either - the bandits have horses and even a lance. With flat terrain that's a bad combination. Swadians are a good choice, although Vaegirs are the easiest starter nation:
1. They have Rivacheg. Dyeworks in Rivacheg produce 1000 denars a week, profits no other enterprise can match. 10 grand aren't the easiest to gather, but once you buy the dyeworks, it makes money management much easier.
2. Their troops are easy to train. With training skill 5 you can promote all vaegir recruits after midnight. This makes training vaegir knights so easy they're pretty much disposable, although disposing of them is harder than it looks as they're quite strong too. The only other race that has this are Khergits and khergit lancers are so easy to train it's ridiculous. Swadia has powerful knights, but not only they are rather expensive, they're also difficult to train.
3. They have easy access to sea raiders, the best bandits for training units and for farming cash (as well as the most accessible way of getting a decent beginning armor). They take some practice and favorable terrain to defeat, but in flat terrain and with a lance they soon become a joke. Just make sure to keep your distance in youe initial combats with them, they have bows and throwing arrows. Keep your distance and circle around them to make them deplete their ammo.
Do not underestimate board shields and shields on back. My first successful run's inventory consisted of morningstar, great lance, board shield and huscarl shield. You can't use board shield from horseback, but it will still keep you safe from archery fire into your back. And if you have it above your smaller shield, the board shield gets picked when on foot, the small shield gets picked on horseback. No need to switch the shields in combat.
Troops get chosen into battle from top to bottom. If you need to train or get rid of troops (Hello, sword sisters in army of Nords), put them at the top. If you need to conserve a companion's health, put them to the bottom.
Leadership helps a lot with morale, I recommend getting it to 3 asap.
Have a couple of villages that are happy with you. The happier they are, the better troops you can recruit.
Do NOT become a marshal! Marshal gains controversy everytime the kingdom loses. If you reach enough controversy, nobody is going to grant you a fief even if you have enough renown. Also, you're going to have to defend every castle you conquer, because nobody is going to do that... and the enemy will gladly lay siege to it. It's much better to pick a vassal or two and conquer a castle together. You'll still have to defend it, but you won't gain any controversy if you lose it. Or if your villages get looted, because nobody is defending your homelands (which happens quite easily, when everyone is your friend due to you having 90 honor).
Reading this 3 years later is great, thanks bro
Unfortunately, friend, I have learned these tips and tricks through experience, but if I seen the video before I learned, I would have been so damn appreciative. Good job nonetheless.
I have something like 300 hours in this game. This video taught me about both the Accompany option and the Show on Map button. Thanks for helping me not be so stupid.
Here's another tip that might help in the long run:
When you get mounts that you don't use, don't sell them. Keep up to 6 in your inventory.
This increases your speed on the map slightly.
I'm about 70 hours into the the game and should I give some armour and weapons to my companions or sell them if they are valuable
@@jaydenraleigh9347 I always make sure my companions have the next best gear after my own. Everything else I sell. That's usually because they all have the group skills and I don't want them to lose too much health. I think there's a percentage where you stop receiving the group skill benefits
@@jaydenraleigh9347 just give them good gear to make sure they dont die especially the medic
@@Randomboi863 make most your intelligence and agility characters archers so they don't get injured.
Also dont start a faction if you dont have enough right to rule, as everyone will declare war on you
Right To Rule actually doesn't affect how many people declare war on you.
if you have very little right to rule, factions will declare war on you very early on. i've tried it and nearly all factions declared war on me stimultaniously
Actually it doesn't affect it. It's a common mistake that people think it does affect it, but it actually doesn't.
"Note that Right to Rule has no impact on whether or not other factions declare war on you in Warband. It is a common mistaken belief that it does. However the internal script that decides to declare war does not check this variable."
Not Important How, whenever they attack my castle, they have shield or swords to block my attack or their archers kill me
If you don't have enough right to rule they consider you a rebel not a kingdom and they will attack you, so I don't know where did you get that Hej Hej
This is really great for beginners. I also have a couple hundred hours on M&B and yet I still found this very helpful, Great video.
thank you :D
I have one tip: modify the cow's behavior.
That is all
i just deny missions about bringing cows for supplies
You can MBtweak that
@@ianrahl7456 how
@@bertholdtohoover446 instal Diplomacy mod ! or just play Perisno (it will blow your mind !)
2nd edit : played Nova Aetas yet ?
- build your own farm , castle (and become a kingdom that way) discover the new world , fight the Aztecs, conquer their many cities and castles, loot ancient lost cities , build your own enterprises in cities , become a priest in your own Cathedral / Mosque / Synagogue, or be a smith and craft parlour, or just saw clothes ... , join the Crusade / Jihad, recruit AND equip you own kingdom troops as you like, advance in technology to discover new guns and armour, own properties in cities , palaces, houses, settle colonies to import sugar , silver, gold, etc, ( 15 ? types of colonial goods) build your colony with almost a hundred different buildings, houses , workshops, etc etc etc ... once you play Nova Aetas 5.0, m&b-w will never be the same ...
Fuck the cattle man, I lost 8 early on and had to buy another 8
My first village has an 88 loyalty to me. I've hired 40 tribesmen at once, and another time I got 20 rhodok crossbowman at 10 denars each. So get your village loyalty up ASAP
Ben The Ghost Writer yeah it’s awesome to have high relationship with villages but it’s annoying as shot to raise them that high
lol wtf, i have a village at 41 loyalty and honestly they barely give me anything (then again i check like less than once per month).
My 99 villages usually give me middle fingers regardless
How to increase loyalty?
Wait is this for real? What in the damn hell??
accompanying lords was added not so long ago
Really?
Bullshit I was doing it in 2012
@@limitedoversight I was doing it 2007 who does this guy think he fools
I've been doing it since 1231
@@limitedoversight i only have "move here" and "notes" why is that?
I didn't even see the "show map" button in the video. Had to go back and re-watch to see where you even clicked. Tons of great info and I love that you timestamped in the comments!
I think most of these are true for Native.
If you do quests for villages, especially the "Train peasants" one, they will provide better soldiers when recruiting volunteers. This is very useful later on, if your army gets destroyed - you can recruit decent units to start off again, instead of going through peasants.
If you ever want to play multiplayer, set the blocking settings to "Mouse movement". Nearly all multiplayer servers for all mods use this kind of blocking, referred to as "manual blocking." Plus, it's far more satisfying.
Arguably, the three most important kinds of companions you need in Native (the base game) are the medic (to prevent high unit losses in battles), the trainer (to train units faster in order to avoid leading peasants and militias in the first battles), and the engineer (to make sieges much faster, because they often take too long otherwise). These are respectively Jeremus, Firentis and Artimenner.
Mercenaries recruitable from taverns may seem to be a very good investment at first, due to the fact that they instantly come with decent equipment and training. However, don't be fooled. They are far more expensive to maintain than regular units of the same level and often perform worse than comparable faction units.
Only major problem here is Jeremiah and artimenner hate each other, so it may be wise to recruit a different companion and train them up to be a engineer.
wow i have over 400 hours in warband and just learned about the accompany button. thanks its gonna save me a lot of time trying to follow them manually
Fief is pronounced “feef”.
Trololol, it really isn't
Joshua Wakeley I bet you never read a dictionary in your life. Get one, and probably learn to read International Phonetic Alphabet before you look up the word.
@@joshuawakeley217 It really is, Josh. It's a medieval French word brought over to England by the Normans after 1066 a.d. 'To pay a fee' is an abbreviation in modern usage, and we don't say to pay a fye, or fie, do we? Fife is a county in Scotland, also called Fifeshire, pronounced Fifesher.
I think us Brits have half a clue about how to say our own words. Just like Leicester is 'Lester' and Worcester is 'Wooster'. The problem is that the US uses phonetic spelling, which is why they always fuck up Shakespeare and old English so badly in general, they pronounce words as they're spelled, not said. It's only a matter of time until the US spells 'mother tongue' 'mutha tung'.
In classic pronunciations yes, the same way 'pristine' is pronounced like 'wine', but language changes and for hundreds of years in England it has been pronounced 'fife', probably by popular misinformation.
@@felisasininus1784 You're right I have never read a dictionary, I had a friend who did from cover to cover he was kind of weird though...
4:00 I know this video is pretty old but does anyone know a way you can accompany a lord on console? I could really use it if their is
Hover over the party you want to accompany and press (X on xbox or Square on playstation) and use the dpad to scroll down to "accompany" and press X/A
@@Timby Oh my God thanks so much that was a fast reply!
@@danieloleary4686 No problem! lemme know if that works, I don't have it on console so I can't test it myself.
@@Timby ok, I just redownloaded it after drifting away for a while, because my by far best playthrough's army got crippled and every time I try to raise another army it gets demolished by groups of 50 bandits. Is their an option to lower bandit army sizes?
@@danieloleary4686 Ah that sucks, sorry. I don't think so, unless you use mods. The bandit sizes get larger as the game goes on, so your best shot may be starting a new game if you can't take them on.
Very professional video, surprised you don't have more subs/views
Roll Tide!
With the new band Lord game is out and watching my friend getting nuts over this I decided to give it a try before playing the new one , thank you for the quick guide .
When I discovered the Backspace key in this game I went from Scrubbicus McMassacre to Alexander and Hannibal's lovechild.
Holy crap that changed everything.
I have 90 hours in the game and I just found out about the show on map button. Thank you so much.
I notice this recently. When you fight long battles or with a lot of units on the party interface. what units order you place them in will spawn from top to bottom. For example: if you have archers and warriors in the first 2 slots and cavalry in the 3rd one but you have to many warriors there will be no calvary and they will end up being the reinforcemnts.
The same thing happened to me with the "show on map" option. Than you, Timby, many of your tips have been useful to me!
Me: on console still trying to figure out how to command troops into formations lol. Just started yesterday and haven’t slept since. It’s been such a cool experience to have this game and be able to play And command troops while fighting. Been looking for something like this since I was like 6 and ten years later finally have it. Definitely going to be a keeper for years
Me a week ago was in your shoes, I've spent many sleepless nights defeating the odds, and getting ass fucked in sieges
Right d pad
I've played for about 20 hours and didn't know a lot of things you've mentioned. Thanks.
I don't normally do this but i'm currently making a Mount & Blade Warband Native gameplay on my channel, I would be really appreciated if you check it out :)
Another tip, alt f4 is a secret attack.
Note, that is the shortcut for closing your window/tab.
Andrew Robinson wouldn’t it be ctrl + alt f4 then? I haven’t used cheats in years so I don’t rly remember xd
R/woosh
Bum Sack
There is no woosh here my firend
Bum Sack
nvm I just remembred what Ctrl+alt+f4 is, I guess double woosh.
Thanks for the video. The 'show on map' and 'right click to accompany' features were missed/unknown by me and will now be very useful (I've played about 200 hours).
Another great tip would be that you can turn off the killfeed so that your screen isn't being spammed.
ah that is a good tip, thanks for sharing :D
Zachary Shuhart how
It's in the settings.
is there a way to turn of the message of lord getting kicked out of a faction?
if you go in a save thats like 800 days long then it spam you to death lol..
I dont know why but i like to keep it on because i can see if im winning or losing the battle
I've had about 60 hours in this game and I learned so much, I didn't you know can command different types of units specifically or than when companions fight, it affects the morale, once again, thank you so.much !!
Well spoken and concise; very helpful video. I've been chugging along on console and just got my first castle(Jelbegi), I'm ~120 hours in and I'm starting to get a little overwhelmed. There are some features you mentioned that I'm not sure are available to console players or I'm unsure how to activate such as the accompanying function ):
this game is honestly one of the best games ever created and one of my all time favorites.
also, YOU CAN FIND THE PLACE ON THE MAP! AND SPEED UP TIME! thanks so much dude! I've been wanting these options!
OHHHH thank you!
I died so many times and suffered humiliating defeats to mud covered troglodytes, but this game teaches that total failure is a chance for a new beginning.
I've played the game a bit years ago, did decently after a difficult start, and honestly can't believe how much i didn't know. Thanks mate!
Omg i had no idea about the accompany button, or right clicking in world map for that matter. I thought the right button was only to change your camera view.
What would it be on ps4
New player, accrued about 30 hours back in 2011 and I'm revisiting it now a la Diplomacy.litdum! Very enjoyable thusfar and thank you for putting these tips together, bro.
I almost died in my first playtrough to the first enemy...
i died... i was utterly awful 2 years ago
lol
same. the same guy conquered khergs and vaegirs
I died because my character only had a crossbow and I missed the shot.
I tried to take down 7 Sea Riders by myself and dismounted on my first playtrough
Many years on and I came back to this game. And once again I watched this video to give me a refresher. Helped out alot to remind me of the gameplay mechanics
Great content. Well written. Very helpful all around. Pro video tip: Relax when you read. Don't let your script read you.
I appreciate the feedback, thank you! This was definitely one of my older videos--if you're interested I made a follow-up to this video with 20 additional more advanced tips, I think I've gotten better in my newer videos, but let me know so I can continue to improve! th-cam.com/video/4C2f_plOdOE/w-d-xo.html
@@Timby or.... just use cheats lol
250+ hours and i still didn't know there was a "find on map" tool. Even for people who've played a LOT these can be helpful! Thanks!
Glad to help! Isn't it crazy how that button should be so obvious, but it's not? xD
New player here. Bought the game yesterday this guide was veryyy helpfukl so thanks sooo much and I hope u the best in the game and on TH-cam. Hit that 10K subs now *thumbs up*
I conquered my first kingdom between 2 warring factions where I started the fight! They both hate me know and with my small elite force I am trying to hold the fort while gathering allies. This game is awesome.
Persuasion 3 is generally enough to convince all 16 companions to stay with you, despite their quarrels. I bumped it up to Persuasion 4 just for good measure. We 17 slaughter all.
One time i searched one Village for half and hour and just in and out until i found the nervous Man that also took half an hour just to get my ass handed back to me by him. I immediately alt f4d
I just pressed the install button on Steam. Haven't played in a while and I'm here for a refresher. Thanks
While I do know all of these things, it is heartening to know that other people went through the same 100 or so hours of cluelessness before discovering them lol
Thank you so much for this video, it really helped a lot. I had been getting pretty frustrated before when I accepted a quest and then realized I had to go to a place on the opposite side of the map to complete which takes a very long time. The speeding up time function will definitely come in handy.
7:15 This is wrong. Skills in M&B are the highest in the party + your own skill. So if Jeremus has 8 trainer, and you have 1, your party gets 9 effectively.
Edit: Only trainer stacks at 100% the rate. I did not realize this and thought everything stacked perfectly, like trainer. Taking party skills on YOUR character (but not on other characters) gives the following bonuses at these levels:
1 : +0
2-4: +1
5-7: +2
8-9: +3
10: +4
I replied to your other comment about this, you're partly right and thanks for pointing that out!
You are wrong too. Skills in M&B are the highest in the party + 1/2 of your own skill. So if Firentis has 4 trade, and you have 2, your party gets 5 effectively.
@@maplesyrup8070 You are correct that I am wrong but it's not 1/2 either. I made a mistake because I was basing this on my experience with Trainer. Trainer as it turns out stacks at 100% the value, but - for some reason - it's the only skill to do so.
The actual rates for (most) party stacking bonus are worse than 1/2 and are quite arbitrary:
1 : +0
2-4: +1
5-7: +2
8-9: +3
10: +4
I didn't actually know it was that poor of a return on stacking until now, thanks for making me look it up. Correcting my post now.
OMG! I have 100's of hours and didn't know that you could accompany a lord during a campaign. Thank so much!!
Holy crap timby. Your channel is growing quickly :D
:D
Timby how do u accompany a Marchal on Xbox 1?
I'm not sure, as I've never played Warband on consoles, sorry :( Try experimenting with the different buttons on the controller when hovering/selecting a lord or check the keymapping in the options to see if it says anything there
x button with your arrow over him. then follow
As a newbie I have a question for veterans. Isn't it more indicated to play until you can conquer a weaker castle and only after that to swear allegiance to a king?
You know, to have a castle to store prisioners and stuff while serving that king....
I know this video was like 5 years ago but I remember playing this game around 2019 or 2020 and I just started playing again and your tips have greatly help this returning player thanks so much I'll definitely be watching your other guide videos
Thanks kind stranger!! Glad to hear :)
Here is a tip. If you find a Feast Stey there and fight in tournaments win Eesy money. After you have won go back to castle. Speak to lady and give the honor of the fight. What will give you friend ship whit this lady and you can keep going whit that until the Feast ends. here is the total of money what you can get until Feast ends. 24,000 or more.
yea, thats true, avoid joining faction at all, do not start as noble, just drive from town to town fighting in tournaments to gain money, i was so rich that i had 20 swadian knights before i joined faction, i didnt had to worry about money or wars because i was rich with skilled bodyguards and was a pretty good warrior
@Elie S. G. how? Please teach me how
That's dumb, just raid villages and sell whatever you can gain in the cities, you'll get rich af very quickly and grow in size with the money you make
SoleNero21 bro I play normal level and I have 7 towns 100 swadian knights, 100 swadian sergeant and 100 swadian sharpshooter in each town. 1909 renown in 1000 days is that good enough or trash?
DD 01 And your point is?
good video for new players. I am experienced player but didnt know about ctrl + spacebar :D Bro you just saved me a lot of time waiting to go across the whole map.
I used to stare over my dads shoulder and watch this game so I kinda knew most of this, but it was still a really entertaining video!
Best video out here to get started. Only thing I would add is I always start at khergit or sarranid because having horse units is really helpful early in the game. A small party of sarranid mamlukes will be fast and effective for either hunting bandits or trade around the map, pile up cash and then buy enterprises to make money before becoming vassal. Horse units and a good pathfinding level and you will be able to hunt any desert bandit or steppe bandit even with a party of 30-40. Also keep a couple horses 3-6 in your inventory, it will prevent from slowing you down when inventory is full
Also I always go with nords when joining the army because they have strong infantry and the ones with the most athletics, so the fastest moving army!
1000 subs ^^ congrats
And now 7 months later he has 3.5K
Awesome video with many great tips for me as a new player. As someone here already mentioned it, keep your honest and calm style of talking, subbed!
8:30 that voice Crack do. lol. Love your channel btw timby
I just bought this game yesterday. I don't have that great of a pc but I can play it at full spec and it runs great. Love the game. Thanks for the tips!
Fief is pronounced "Feef" but good video non the less, +1 sub :D.
Like beef? I still prefer fIef :(
I've also seen people saying bief
Ah I get it yes it's not "Faife" as he said but I don't think it is feef either
if you say it that way it's like you're talking about Phife Dog
JonatasAdoM It is pronounced "feef". I'm a Medieval Studies major. This youtuber pronounces several words wrong on his videos.
Yes, it is pronounced "feef" @jonatas
Cheers for the tips lad! I've spent hours goofing about on Napoleonic Wars' multiplayer, but I only got into the native module's campaign recently, and I must say your video's been quite helpful. Good stuff
I've got over 700hours+ and only just realised there is a take me to button...
ADudeNamed Will wait what's that lol I feel like I know what it is but I don't recognize it lol plz halp
Where is this button?
top left by checking quest
Thanks very much. I've played hundreds of hours and still learned some helpful tips. Good work!
2:55 Haha, Vaegirs get lots more sea raiders than the nords do!
LITTERLY BOUT THE GAME LIKE LAST NIGHT AND THIS HAS DEFINETLY HELPT THANKS
Focus should be on spotting and tracking while building a charecter. It helps you spot bandits and lords from afar and choose your battles.
Tracking is a useless skill, do not use it, terrible advice my good sir
The ending was so wholesome
This game is so good and addictive but it's sooooooo fucking hard
OG Chicago to each their own but its not really that hard. what is it you're struggling with?
@@tom02061997 It isn't hard mechanicly, but conquering all the map is a challenge, specialy cause all enemy lords go against my property like hungry hounds all the time, so laying siege is risky.
@@tom02061997 I struggle with basically existing in this game without dying
I have 1800 hours on M&B Warband and the facts about renown and honour came as a surprise to me as i thought they did not affect things like becoming marshall and holding feasts etc so ty 😂
9:33 how does this dude reload so fast with the crossbow
THANK YOU SO MUCH LMAO I was always scrolling around the map not knowing about the show on map button
I never went into the statistic for being male, I Just always went for it because it was much more believable being a badass warrior.
By the Kingdoms I am over 200 hours in, and THIS video taught me about the Show On Map button.... on Xbox...
500 hours. Coulda done a lot more if i'd have known about ctrl space
Don’t feel bad guys. Not only am I 100 hours deep not knowing about the show on map button. I didn’t even realize you could see how many enemies have been killed vs still alive while still fighting a battle until today. I also played the first 40 hours not knowing how to speed up travel between locations...
Mount and blade tips and tricks
Me: huh? I'm just raising 100 swadian knights and thats just work for me
Most addictive game I’ve ever played just got it on xbox X
So many people pronounce Swadia as "Swaddia" but it sounds so much better when you pronounce it as "Swedia". Am I right fellows? :)
As for further tips;
this is the strategic way I ALWAYS use.
At the gender option:
- Male or Female does not matter, however it would be funnier as a female.
Choosing your background:
First of all, choose wisely for most intelligence.
My selects:
Father was a merchant
Early years as assistant
Adult hood as a student
Reason for adventure;
Either forced out, or for money.
Now you are set for the character skill selection.
this is simple, you put every attribute point to intelligence, if you have reached a upgrade number for example 6, 9, 12. and you have one left, it'll be wise to put it on charisma.
then with the skill points you upgrade atleast;
Tactics to the max of your intelligence.
Surgery to the max of your intelligence.
Wound treatment to the max of your intelligence.
Training perhaps, as it upgrades your troops faster.
Looting is optionable, as well as pathfinding. this surely would be useful in gaining money faster, or running from the enemy.
Now this is what you have to do;
You build up a small army, train them as much as you can. Once you put them to battle, you'll notice, they would fight fairly good at just the starting gameplay of the game. try to upgrade tactics and surgery as much as you can throughout the whole game and you are usually bound to win.
Penalties;
Lack of strength.
Gaining less renown throughout battles.
Hope this helps some of you out, but I would certainly try this out if I were you ! :)
Good tips! And yeah I've heard Swadia pronounced that way too, I might try pronouncing it that way from now on XD
It is alright, my friend. I am respecting every way of pronouncing. especially when Swadia has actually no right way to pronounce, its not like a word or something. :P but everytime someone pronounces it as Swaddia then, its hard to explain why, but a cringy feeling gets into my head. :P
I always pronounce it Sway dee ah
Andy Lee same
Yeah, it's based off of the German Medieval Province of Swabia, which is also the home of the Suebi people.
Same I only discovered the show on map button by the time I had conquered half of calradia and it really helped
could you make a vid about managing your kingdom?
Like preventing Lords to cause treason.
Player with about 70 hours and this was amazing! going to be starting a playthrough tonight.
Wait, there is a.... "show on map" option....
....Am I blind?
You and 90% of the comments apparently
Me too lol, luckily I've just dive in the game for 50-80 hours.. I can't remember
Ironically I've played warband for like 2 days and I knew all of this. Also, this video is very professional.
These were all pretty basic tips. The most advanced ones I have in my own repertoire:
- Trainer and Surgery are the best abilities in the whole game. I always strife for high intelligence after having enough strength and riding skill to wield whatever items I wish.
- Surgery makes your army pretty much unkillable IF you survive the battle. Comboing it with a high wound treatment from a companion means that even if you lost all but 20 men in your 300 men army, you'll likely still have almost 300 veterans back in a day with no additional cost at all!
Trainer skill on the other side stacks since every companion gives the xp individually to all characters and troops that have a lower level.
It allows you to have top tier level units without having to grind battles and lose troops. Similar to enterprises time alone makes your army better here!
Level your companions first until they're decent fighters since trainer only affects troops that have a lower level than the person training them. Then max them out in intelligence and you can raise whole armies of elite warriors in days which is especially good when you're a king!
Since experience is distributed amongst all troops of one type, wait until upgrading to the last tier until all soldiers are ready to do so, this way everybody still gains xp:
If you e.g. have 100 nord veterans you want to raise to nord huscarls, train until all 100 are ready to upgrade. Not only is this cheaper, it's also multiple times quicker than upgrading them individually since at the end still all 100 veterans will gain exp per level and trainer for their whole stack.
Note though that troops experience is reset if they get garissoned, so if you give a town a bunch of units that are ready to upgrade it's a waste since they'll all become unupgradeable.
I have played this game for a while and i didn't know you could accompany lords. I also didn't know that you have the "show on map" button so, thanks :)
You deserve more subs boi
This video made me happy becoas i didnt know how experienced veteran in mound and blade i am becoas i learned all of these my self long time ago, this made me proud for the first time in my life :D