I just realized this game dropped, then wondered where is my partyelite video giving me the rundown...then notification drops. Partyelite: I got yo back fam.
Pro tip when replenishing armies use the replenish all instead of doing them infividually even if it means waiting. This can reduce the amount of population spend from 8 to 1.
Armies are not limited to Marshals. Other types of knights can gain the ability to lead armies through the call to arms ability found in various secondary skills
Yes, but why limit it to 8 knights and 1 king to lead armies? And why are the armies so small? If you achieve emperor ship and try to take over the world, you are really limited by how many generals you can command. I get around that a little by hiring every mercenary I can, but you can’t control them.
Did not realize at all that this game was coming out today xD Thanks for the reminder and the great tips! Excited to play a medieval kingdom building game again.
Thank you for gte video! The first game is one of my all time favourites and quite underappreciated in my opinion, so I'm glad the second one is being talked about. I don't know if you plan on playing it on the channel but it will definitely be also to watch you show a higher level of play.
Impressed by the sensible way decisions to appoint and upgrade knights, make and upgrade buildings, plays out. This rewards thinking and planning. With all the dimensions to manage and the wider world unfolding the game rewards the savvy and shrewd monarch. Executing expansion plans adds the strategic, tactical layer and tests army management. The game has it all in a nice package. How can people not like that?
Essential tip: wait till you have to armies, bait enemy in sieging your city then snipe him, after that go take his undefended provinces. Rinse and repeat till map completely painted over. Great strategy game this, really complicated and hard :))
I would recommend any 2 melee infantry, 2 cav, and many archers. Control these right and focus all your archers and marshal on the enemy leader in battle when he starts to charge in then you'll mostly likely win. The cav, just use them to either stall or chase down enemy annoying archers and you'll be winning most battles. I mainly do that to get all of their experience to level 3 since it is annoying to keep losing troops but after a while, you won't need to control it no more and let it auto. I don't recommend auto against 2 enemy army.
Glad to see your advise vid on it, I dew plan on getting the game though was wondering if you going to dew an overview vid on the quality of the game and if the price point is far
I think the devs did a good job, cant wait to pick this one up. And best part is, they didnt cut content before release to use as day 1 dlc, so they got a buy from me
I have a question regarding armies... in Royal Armory there is upgrades which gives NOTHING, it is written that some are required for recruiting ELITE UNITS, but max what i can recruit is heavy units, no ELITES, so wtf ? :D
I still have the OG installed on my laptop and playing it occasionally. I hope in this sequel they also provide cheat console. Because playing the game (OG) without it is a nightmare. I'm talking about offline mode ofc.
How do I manage kingdom stability and the opinions of the five peoples near the top left? Those two mechanics are throwing me for such a massive loop and it’s so frustrating trying to manage them but I see NOBODY talk about them. I’m completely left in the dark on how to bring them up. It’s especially frustrating because wanting to go to war gives such a massive decrease in both that war just doesn’t feel worth it at all.
If your army is stronger let’s say you have an army of pure knights and armored archer if there little stronger your knights will stand strong as long as the cap points remain and there lord is there the King gives a a unbreakable morale buff specially when deafing cheap soldiers will break but when my max out king charges in to close a gap or reforce there morale will go up however if you fighting rebels and your soldiers will laughter them even with 4000 vs 10000 your get a massive debuff of outnumber… I litterly saw my army of veterans of 5 wars run away when I tried to fight the battle myself worse part is my 2 knights almost killed the emery lord and killed 2 squards themselves but broke…. home core terrory will boost morale but sometimes it might be best to let them raid you while you wait for them to attack the city.
Just finished your review of KOH2. i read some of the reviews on Steam. There seems to be a question of diplomacy resolution. There doesn't seem to be a marriage/divorce option in this game. Am I missing something there PE? I see at least one other person has asked if you planning to do a play through in the near future. I would like also to see at least one play through .Take care,
You can marry folks for sure! You have to select the target realm, click the 'audience' button, and then 'offer' a 'royal marriage'. Naturally you need to have progeny of the right age, and you can check which foreign realms have marriage-potential using the minimap (there's a map mode that highlights princesses and princes available for marriage). As for a playthrough - I'm not 100% sure just yet - there's a few other things on the docket too, and I'll see what folks are interested in most as well as what I'm enjoying most!
Not only marshal can lead army! Priest in pagon religion can, and have 8 slots for unit. AND even merchant, diplomat ar spy can lead army if they have leadership skill! - but they have only 4 slots for units.
I need more info on how unique units work. Recruitable by “province” sometimes and other times just by being “you” but its really hidden info how it works?
I haven't paid much attention yet to how it works in this game, but it might be similar to Knights of Honor 1, where there were "kingdom special units" and "local special units". Kingdom special units, like maybe "men at arms" (a common one for the first game) would be available in any province your kingdom controls. Local special units, like "Normans" might only be available in one or a few provinces, since the unit is historically linked to that specific region/province. (Normans from Normandry, for example). In the first game, I believe some units that were traditionally local, could also be on a kingdom's special units list. KoH2 likely has a similar system.
Seems I'm too stupid for this game. I loved the first one but can't seem to understand how this one works. My biggest problem is that I'm always weaker than enemy armies. I need atleast two Marshals to capture a City and then I need to go back because I had heavy losses. In the mean time the enemy attacks and while my armies cap at around 2600 soldiers, their armies usually have around 3000 sometimes even up to almost 5000 soldiers. I'm also baffled that they can build armies so fast. I have always money trouble and not enough people to recruit. So it takes usually somet time to replenish my armies. And I'm playing on easy. I feel like an idiot.
How does more population in each province affect its growth as far as gold or food production? I keep building market places or crop fields but barely making a difference in income or production of food.
@@jornzwaagstra1150 thanks! I had to abandon my first playthrough. I had too much rebellious population and rebellion are showing up all over the map due to my aggressive expansion.
How can I change the population loyalty? I play as Serbia and Byzantiym always manages to turn loyalty to one of my cities and make them 100% Byzantium. How to change that?
what i didn't like is that at certain point i needed a resource that none of my trade partners, neither i had and my development stopped. Very slow progression and many events repeat over and over and over again....
Is it possible to give armies to not marshalls? If yes, then how? I red so many times that you can, but idk if its about 1 game or something i cant see.
I dont understand they give us countdown when choose “i’ll lead” mode, is it means we should attack our the enemy as soon as possible ? And the mechanic is suck when charge the enemy suddenly the army run away even we have more army and morale than the enemy 😂
Actually any knight can be called to arms when a desperate defense is needed or you need a another leader, I called a spy to arms because I had rebels as I was crushing Muslims nations in the south I think spy at least. Been playing for 2 days as Georgia 🇬🇪 but know it’s says call to arms (description call lord to arms in a desperate defense… I think any class can but they don’t boost military by much as there skills not suited for that task.. so any army there leading will be really weak, only used if your broke or need another leader.
the biggest issue I’m having is I’m force to retreat to castles or cities even though I’m mega rich and own some of turky chimera all the way to Oman but I can’t get a death stack where rebels can bring over 5000 but my King only able to bring 4890 And my knights 4200. im playing as Georgia 🇬🇪…. Can’t figure out why I’m so… I get 1000g faith 98 books 56 levies of 78 can minors not get over 5K
guys, i play as bohemia, my province has changed loyalty/culture to german. I am spending years with my cleric to convert it back (I have 15% ratio) but german loyalty is still 100%. can I do something with that ? (I have culture tradition and cleric as governor). so my question is, is it changeable or german culture is just so strong that I cant do anything about it (I am not a vassal anymore)
i have problem that ruin game exp for me i would play and everthing goes smooth but someone deklear war on me and attack me with huge army but i have only pesants militia small in numbers how to i get strong army fast to defend myself plz help me people i love this game wanna play but how when i can't rage wars
I haven't played KHII yet, but i played KH 2004 a lot. Some aspects at the beginning of the game can make your campain easier or harder. The potencial of your villages (farms, mines, monasteries) and the number of members of the royal family can slower or fast your development. And this are random. I always bet on merchants at the beginning of the game in order to increase gold and thus develop buildings faster. To defend myself i had to play in aticipation. Look for armys at war on you or rebels and intercept them far way from you castle. Let the battle rage on and before your marshall get killed retreat and quickly went to the castle and recruit more peasants and try to intercept the agressor army again outside the castle. Everytime your marshall went to a battle his experience increases. When you can choose a skill, in 2004 i chose "tactics" the skill to build a temporary fort. With this skill you were unstopple. :)
Is there a way to not get 11 girls in a row, then a boy, a girl, another boy, then 8 girls in a row again, messing up 4 out of 5 inheritances on my first playthrough? This is just sad..
I know you were speaking English but it may aswell have been Chinese because I have no clue what you were saying, I wanted to get into this but there's too much going on in this game for my brain to handle.
If it helps, this game is a much more accessible grand strategy game compared to other options. This sequel has more depth than the original, but it's fairly easy to jump in. Most everything you need to start playing is right in front of you. I'd recommend starting with a few provinces (3~5), as starting with less can be challenging. The neighboring AI can often be aggressive, so you'll want to form non aggression pacts quickly with those that are larger/stronger than you. A lot of what's happening in this game doesn't require you to be aware of it, or to tinker with it. You'll also get to start easily and learn the rest as you go.
@@eclipset.9683 thanks. Think I messed up by starting as Wallachia, thought I'd be a vassal like in Crusader Kings but guess that's not a thing here and I was not very popular with Byzantium and Pechenegs.
@@mikeclarke3990 A new update just came out today to help ease some of the issues people have been having with how aggressive the AI can be. (Should be easier on easier difficulties now). There are vassals in this game, and some kingdoms start out as vassals of others. It just might be different from other games.
i like strategy games, when i try this game and follow some instructions, i think this game is too complicated and complex for me, so i just uninstall it 😵💫😄
@@moodyharvest Are you talking about the Holy Roman Empire? There were many kingdoms/empires that were bigger or as big as biggest modern European states, Muscovy/Russia, Ottoman Empire, Spain, France, Polish-Lihuanian Union, Hungary, Sweden, Denmark-Norway for example. And colonies in foreign continents even.
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I just realized this game dropped, then wondered where is my partyelite video giving me the rundown...then notification drops. Partyelite: I got yo back fam.
Haha you know it 🙏
Pro tip when replenishing armies use the replenish all instead of doing them infividually even if it means waiting. This can reduce the amount of population spend from 8 to 1.
Do you mean if you have enough levies? It'll only use 1 pop? (Peasent pop?
I was doing them individually :_D
merge them first and replenish the lowest one this way you use only 1 pop and fix 3-4 units
Armies are not limited to Marshals.
Other types of knights can gain the ability to lead armies through the call to arms ability found in various secondary skills
Thanks. Good to know.
also pagan priests by default
Yes, but why limit it to 8 knights and 1 king to lead armies? And why are the armies so small? If you achieve emperor ship and try to take over the world, you are really limited by how many generals you can command. I get around that a little by hiring every mercenary I can, but you can’t control them.
Great explanation, tons of valuable information in a very short timespan - this is something I miss in 99% of all YT tutorials
Did not realize at all that this game was coming out today xD
Thanks for the reminder and the great tips! Excited to play a medieval kingdom building game again.
Great video, thanks! I am interested by the mechanics of the castles and the options for defence of the smaller settlements.
Thank you for gte video! The first game is one of my all time favourites and quite underappreciated in my opinion, so I'm glad the second one is being talked about. I don't know if you plan on playing it on the channel but it will definitely be also to watch you show a higher level of play.
Impressed by the sensible way decisions to appoint and upgrade knights, make and upgrade buildings, plays out. This rewards thinking and planning. With all the dimensions to manage and the wider world unfolding the game rewards the savvy and shrewd monarch. Executing expansion plans adds the strategic, tactical layer and tests army management. The game has it all in a nice package. How can people not like that?
I am a total noob in the game and your video helped me a lot. Thank you so much for it!
I was hoping Party Elite would drop a video today on KOH2!
I'd love to see a lets play of that game! cheers, thx for the tips!
Great! your explanation is easy to understand, thanks i could play properly now
THANK YOU SOOO MUCH YOU BASICALLY SOLVED ALL OF MY PROBLEMS 🎉🙏🙏❤
Thank you for the informative video. Realized I needed somethjnf like this before I start a real game.
Very educational video, with good presentation and explanation. I like.
Essential tip: wait till you have to armies, bait enemy in sieging your city then snipe him, after that go take his undefended provinces. Rinse and repeat till map completely painted over. Great strategy game this, really complicated and hard :))
Really loved the first ome back in the days.
Thanks for the video. Could you do in depth videos of particular gameplay: how to best improve economy; army raising/movement/combat, etc?
I would recommend any 2 melee infantry, 2 cav, and many archers. Control these right and focus all your archers and marshal on the enemy leader in battle when he starts to charge in then you'll mostly likely win. The cav, just use them to either stall or chase down enemy annoying archers and you'll be winning most battles. I mainly do that to get all of their experience to level 3 since it is annoying to keep losing troops but after a while, you won't need to control it no more and let it auto. I don't recommend auto against 2 enemy army.
Glad to see your advise vid on it, I dew plan on getting the game though was wondering if you going to dew an overview vid on the quality of the game and if the price point is far
Good job. Covered a lot in a short time.
Nope! A certain skill can make the merchant “call to arms” button appear. I tried this myself, it’s great when one desperately need an army. @2:12
I think the devs did a good job, cant wait to pick this one up. And best part is, they didnt cut content before release to use as day 1 dlc, so they got a buy from me
The new release has up to 18 building slots options during the campaign set up.
Bout to jump in!! Loved the first one back in the day.
Speechless! Great job done.
I have a question regarding armies... in Royal Armory there is upgrades which gives NOTHING, it is written that some are required for recruiting ELITE UNITS, but max what i can recruit is heavy units, no ELITES, so wtf ? :D
Same question
I still have the OG installed on my laptop and playing it occasionally.
I hope in this sequel they also provide cheat console. Because playing the game (OG) without it is a nightmare. I'm talking about offline mode ofc.
This was fantastic.., THANK YOU!
How about a video here on ships, transportation, international movement and attacking?
great video! thanks.
How do I manage kingdom stability and the opinions of the five peoples near the top left? Those two mechanics are throwing me for such a massive loop and it’s so frustrating trying to manage them but I see NOBODY talk about them. I’m completely left in the dark on how to bring them up. It’s especially frustrating because wanting to go to war gives such a massive decrease in both that war just doesn’t feel worth it at all.
How does the numerical size of the army translate to the RTS battles/units if at all?
If your army is stronger let’s say you have an army of pure knights and armored archer if there little stronger your knights will stand strong as long as the cap points remain and there lord is there the King gives a a unbreakable morale buff specially when deafing
cheap soldiers will break but when my max out king charges in to close a gap or reforce there morale will go up
however if you fighting rebels and your soldiers will laughter them even with 4000 vs 10000 your get a massive debuff of outnumber…
I litterly saw my army of veterans of 5 wars run away when I tried to fight the battle myself
worse part is my 2 knights almost killed the emery lord and killed 2 squards themselves but broke….
home core terrory will boost morale but sometimes it might be best to let them raid you while you wait for them to attack the city.
Each unit you hire to your army will be represented in battle. You can only bring two armies to each battle though.
You can lead armies with other advisors if you choose those abilities. Though they can't lead as much units as the Marshalls.
Just finished your review of KOH2. i read some of the reviews on Steam. There seems to be a question of diplomacy resolution. There doesn't seem to be a marriage/divorce option in this game. Am I missing something there PE? I see at least one other person has asked if you planning to do a play through in the near future. I would like also to see at least one play through .Take care,
You can marry folks for sure! You have to select the target realm, click the 'audience' button, and then 'offer' a 'royal marriage'. Naturally you need to have progeny of the right age, and you can check which foreign realms have marriage-potential using the minimap (there's a map mode that highlights princesses and princes available for marriage).
As for a playthrough - I'm not 100% sure just yet - there's a few other things on the docket too, and I'll see what folks are interested in most as well as what I'm enjoying most!
Best tutorial so far.
Not only marshal can lead army! Priest in pagon religion can, and have 8 slots for unit. AND even merchant, diplomat ar spy can lead army if they have leadership skill! - but they have only 4 slots for units.
Is there a quicker way to remove disloyalty? I think I'm missing something on that one
You can use a cleric to streghten culture this worked wonders for me after upgrading him as many culture traits as i could find
What do you do when you have more provinces than knights?
I've got a question please!
How can you increase the troops levy capacity?
Any tips on how to improve the pesants faction opinion?
Is there a naval aspect?
If so can you review it?
how do you increase the % in "from levies in (a province)".
I need more info on how unique units work. Recruitable by “province” sometimes and other times just by being “you” but its really hidden info how it works?
I haven't paid much attention yet to how it works in this game, but it might be similar to Knights of Honor 1, where there were "kingdom special units" and "local special units". Kingdom special units, like maybe "men at arms" (a common one for the first game) would be available in any province your kingdom controls. Local special units, like "Normans" might only be available in one or a few provinces, since the unit is historically linked to that specific region/province. (Normans from Normandry, for example). In the first game, I believe some units that were traditionally local, could also be on a kingdom's special units list.
KoH2 likely has a similar system.
Seems I'm too stupid for this game. I loved the first one but can't seem to understand how this one works. My biggest problem is that I'm always weaker than enemy armies. I need atleast two Marshals to capture a City and then I need to go back because I had heavy losses. In the mean time the enemy attacks and while my armies cap at around 2600 soldiers, their armies usually have around 3000 sometimes even up to almost 5000 soldiers. I'm also baffled that they can build armies so fast. I have always money trouble and not enough people to recruit. So it takes usually somet time to replenish my armies. And I'm playing on easy. I feel like an idiot.
Great video! I'd personally like to see an indepth video on vassals and how they work with any tips or suggestions on how to use them.
How does more population in each province affect its growth as far as gold or food production? I keep building market places or crop fields but barely making a difference in income or production of food.
Gold yes, but taxes are a minor source of income, food no
@@jornzwaagstra1150 thanks! I had to abandon my first playthrough. I had too much rebellious population and rebellion are showing up all over the map due to my aggressive expansion.
Good Stuff !
was there a thing about making vassals
How can I change the population loyalty? I play as Serbia and Byzantiym always manages to turn loyalty to one of my cities and make them 100% Byzantium. How to change that?
what i didn't like is that at certain point i needed a resource that none of my trade partners, neither i had and my development stopped. Very slow progression and many events repeat over and over and over again....
Good info!
Is it possible to give armies to not marshalls? If yes, then how? I red so many times that you can, but idk if its about 1 game or something i cant see.
You can. Choose military abilities on your advisor and can call them to battle. Just make sure they are not doing something else.
I am unable to hire the hire as a merchant night. he is of age and a merchant. what is messing?
I dont understand they give us countdown when choose “i’ll lead” mode, is it means we should attack our the enemy as soon as possible ? And the mechanic is suck when charge the enemy suddenly the army run away even we have more army and morale than the enemy 😂
is this game worth getting?
Actually any knight can be called to arms when a desperate defense is needed or you need a another leader, I called a spy to arms because I had rebels as I was crushing Muslims nations in the south I think spy at least.
Been playing for 2 days as Georgia 🇬🇪 but know it’s says call to arms (description call lord to arms in a desperate defense… I think any class can but they don’t boost military by much as there skills not suited for that task.. so any army there leading will be really weak, only used if your broke or need another leader.
they have to have marshal trait that will allow them to call for arms
How do I convert a populations culture?
is there Moldova present as a faction in any of the start dates?
Yes
Nice tips.
the biggest issue I’m having is I’m force to retreat to castles or cities even though I’m mega rich and own some of turky chimera all the way to Oman but I can’t get a death stack where rebels can bring over 5000 but my King only able to bring 4890
And my knights 4200.
im playing as Georgia 🇬🇪…. Can’t figure out why I’m so…
I get 1000g faith 98 books 56 levies of 78
can minors not get over 5K
guys, i play as bohemia, my province has changed loyalty/culture to german. I am spending years with my cleric to convert it back (I have 15% ratio) but german loyalty is still 100%. can I do something with that ? (I have culture tradition and cleric as governor). so my question is, is it changeable or german culture is just so strong that I cant do anything about it (I am not a vassal anymore)
Best tutorial 👍
i have problem that ruin game exp for me i would play and everthing goes smooth but someone deklear war on me and attack me with huge army but i have only pesants militia small in numbers how to i get strong army fast to defend myself plz help me people i love this game wanna play but how when i can't rage wars
I haven't played KHII yet, but i played KH 2004 a lot. Some aspects at the beginning of the game can make your campain easier or harder. The potencial of your villages (farms, mines, monasteries) and the number of members of the royal family can slower or fast your development. And this are random. I always bet on merchants at the beginning of the game in order to increase gold and thus develop buildings faster.
To defend myself i had to play in aticipation. Look for armys at war on you or rebels and intercept them far way from you castle. Let the battle rage on and before your marshall get killed retreat and quickly went to the castle and recruit more peasants and try to intercept the agressor army again outside the castle. Everytime your marshall went to a battle his experience increases. When you can choose a skill, in 2004 i chose "tactics" the skill to build a temporary fort. With this skill you were unstopple. :)
Just bought koh2 anyone know how to counter offer during diplomacy
my country producing 0 commerce .. is this a bug or what, i already hired a trader , and placed him to govern a city ,still nothing
Damn... was there zero marketing or what? Kind of surprised, though positively.
Thats not true all the knights can lead armies now. But they can only lead a small squad. Only marshal can lead a huge squad
I am happy to tell you that my king marshal's army has reached its capacity of 7020
Keep getting bum rushed by armies when folks declare war on me by the time I've mustered a small army it's already too late
Is there a way to not get 11 girls in a row, then a boy, a girl, another boy, then 8 girls in a row again, messing up 4 out of 5 inheritances on my first playthrough?
This is just sad..
I wish the game would not refer to public officials as Knights, totally miss leading.
Civil servants of honor hits different ngl
10+
Once you learn this game enough you can practically go infinite on any nation and its cancerfun for anyone that likes management games
I know you were speaking English but it may aswell have been Chinese because I have no clue what you were saying, I wanted to get into this but there's too much going on in this game for my brain to handle.
If it helps, this game is a much more accessible grand strategy game compared to other options. This sequel has more depth than the original, but it's fairly easy to jump in. Most everything you need to start playing is right in front of you. I'd recommend starting with a few provinces (3~5), as starting with less can be challenging. The neighboring AI can often be aggressive, so you'll want to form non aggression pacts quickly with those that are larger/stronger than you.
A lot of what's happening in this game doesn't require you to be aware of it, or to tinker with it. You'll also get to start easily and learn the rest as you go.
@@eclipset.9683 thanks. Think I messed up by starting as Wallachia, thought I'd be a vassal like in Crusader Kings but guess that's not a thing here and I was not very popular with Byzantium and Pechenegs.
@@mikeclarke3990 A new update just came out today to help ease some of the issues people have been having with how aggressive the AI can be. (Should be easier on easier difficulties now).
There are vassals in this game, and some kingdoms start out as vassals of others. It just might be different from other games.
@@eclipset.9683 ok thanks. Ultimately I refunded it, not really what I was looking for. Think I'll stick with CK3 and Total War.
what is it - repeat of a tutorial video???
Please be good 🙏🙏
i like strategy games, when i try this game and follow some instructions, i think this game is too complicated and complex for me, so i just uninstall it 😵💫😄
Planet Zoo please
Hard dislike to only 8 governors.
You have 8 super provinces, and the rest are crap. That's very unrealistic.
Corruption have been the enemy of the masses since dawn of man. EU is a good example
@@RogerCillion And the corruption is everywhere else, except your richest, most important provinces?
@@Aurinkohirvi I mean I feel the same thing as you do. But the is more or less over when you reach 5000 points
There were few if any empires in western European feudalism. But lots of small, petty kingdoms. Vassals were more important.
@@moodyharvest Are you talking about the Holy Roman Empire? There were many kingdoms/empires that were bigger or as big as biggest modern European states, Muscovy/Russia, Ottoman Empire, Spain, France, Polish-Lihuanian Union, Hungary, Sweden, Denmark-Norway for example. And colonies in foreign continents even.
culture issues are the big question.
Get a cleric with traits with culture power and just leave him on streghten culture should convert most provinces in 10-15minutes
worst computer generated voice ever
The games are getting worse with each passing moment.
12:13 this long explaining everything you learn in 5 minute of play.
First game had so much better portraits...
Great video thanks.