Check this video out if you want to see this policy guide in action - th-cam.com/video/crrnXxsK3hA/w-d-xo.html We take only the bad policies to bring down a kingdom from within as The Joker!
I have to disagree heavily with you placing the party size policies any lower than Triple-S Tier. In fact, it makes me wonder if something is wrong with your brain. Has it been damaged? Did you huff too much as a teen or something?
I mean what's the point of having these policies if some of them just genuinely do not work? Casual players who never look them up will literally never know they don't work lmao
I suspect a lot of these policies were meant to be place holders and were intentionally left like this until they overhaul all of them. They are supposed to launch soon so we will see!
Guess you just started playing recently lol earlier in the early access basically nothing did what it said including all character perks even though they were there.
I'm not sure what I like best about this channel: the exhaustive testing that goes into each video, the deadpan delivery that makes me think I'm doing something productive when I watch, or the sneaky dry wit that always catches me off guard. Bravo, sir. Subscribed.
I appreciate the kind words! I'm still working on deliver and balance because I'm more of a troll IRL than a "funny guy" so it's been a challenge for me. Thanks Peter!! :)
@@Strat-Guides I think it's better to stay close to your natural style. Maybe I'm just old but I can't stand that "forced enthusiasm" so many video game youtubers put out, love that you don't have that delivery (plus you actually put insanely detailed content that's useful to my favorite game)
@@NAR106 yeah for sure, I don't think I could ever do the teenage playing Minecraft streamer stuff lol it's just obnoxious to me so that shouldn't be an issue :)
Incredible how such easy to fix features (just a matter of few numbers) are still completely broken more than 2 year later... wonder how the Taleworld job application looks like : Are you good with communication toward the game community ? No Are you at ease with maths ? No Are you able to deliver the work in time ? Definitely no bro Perfefect welcome in the team ! Anyway mega job as always !
Haha I like that interview process! My guess is this topic is pretty low on their priority list and are probably saving it until near the end just before release. Fingers crossed anyways, releasing with these policies would be a pretty bad look!
@@monsieurfuch7882 At this point it's more of a meme than a legit complaint because I think we are all resigned to the idea of it taking longer than expected and having more bugs than we would like. That said, it's still a fun game and I'm happy to support it :)
If you can get at least those 2 policies that boost loyalty to +3 they pretty much won't ever revolt. I used those 2 in my WC campaign and didn't have a single rebellion :) Loyalty policies are OP!
@@Strat-Guides Despite not having great approval, not everyone always votes for the laws, it can be very easy to get them included even if you are not the governor.
As of 4/20/2024 they have fixed the "No Negatives, Not Working" part of the Citizenship policy. It now correctly applies a negative loyalty for non owner's culture in a fief.
I love how there's a solid reason to vote for bad policies if it's not *your* kingdom. Playing like a Warband dishonourable lord and joining every kingdom so you can plant absolutely awful policies like currency debasement - it's marvelous. It feels so real that everyone would vote to enrich themselves at the cost of destroying the kingdom's foundation with loyalty debuffs if you're influential and persuasive enough, and you can make it happen! Meanwhile, when your kingdom is just your clan, you can vote in all the king-friendly policies like Sacred Majesty with nobody to contest it. Policy abuse is fun.
Yeah that's one of my favorite ways to play :) I did a video recently called the Joker Experience where I did exactly this (plus some other shenanigans lol) and it was so much fun!
Thank John! Welcome back to Bannerlord :) 1.7.2 and 1.8 were both really good patches so you picked an ideal time to return. I think we will hit full release before the end of the year, so I'm really looking forward to some stability for the modders to do their thing.
1) I take hunting rights, food is always an issue and loyalty for me never is so I do like it. 2) 100% agree on sacred majesty, its my first pick. 3) With the defection issues right now Precarial Land Tenure is a must 4) Geessh once again TW math ™
My biggest complaint about hunting rights was the number. If they multiply by 5 or 10 then I think it has a much different ranking on my list! I saw your update video, you still have not noticed any difference with defections after the recent hotfix?
@@Strat-Guides it seems just a tiny bit better, they said they adjusted numbers, so they are still there pretty bad, just a slight adjustment was made, Lessers mod is still 100% needed
I kept forgetting about this topic, it was my list burier near the bottom! I only remembered because I was working on the full kingdom guide and needed this data first :) Glad to hear it was useful!
Yeah that can be frustrating. The best thing you can do it save up a big chunk of influence and then keep voting it over and over until they give up and it can pass. Most of time they give up after 3 - 4 votes lol Make sure you don't add influence to the vote until you're 100% sure it will pass. The AI spends their influence regardless of if you support or abstain.
Your State Monopolies rundown reminded me of a recent development in my game. I took to the habit of buying workshops in towns I would then take over. I bought a workshop in a town I was going to take over and the ruler then mysteriously chose to have a pretty big army in the area despite being in the middle of a two front war. I cannot overstate how much I hate Derthert, lol. He put a 1,000 man death stack right in the area and ruined my plan for regional conquest. I don't even know how or where he got them from, because everything that made sense suggested he would be busier elsewhere. Top it off, he starts the war with my kingdom shortly after instead of the other way around. Absolute madness.
I don't think they have really touched policies since the beginning (They tweaked one or two several patches ago, but overall left it alone) so I think they were just saving it until the end. I'm sure they are aware that the majority of them don't work. They seem like placeholders like how the perks were when it launched. I guess we'll find out before the end of the year lol!
They seriously need to hire you if they want to release this game in the next six months. Great videos strat! Can't wait for the Timur campaign to continue I love your historical play throughs.
They get my services free of charge, all I ask is that they bring more people in to view the videos once the game goes to full release :) Yeah I need to finish the Timur campaign soon, it's been dragging on too long. I think once I finish the kingdom guide I will work on the next couple episodes for that. The biggest issue is that those take 30 - 50 hours per episode and the views are 1/2 of what I get on a guide so I need to figure out an alternative after this one finishes up. I really enjoy doing them, but from a channel and business perspective it doesn't really make sense to keep doing them unless I cut back on the time investment (less editing).
@@Strat-Guides that's a shame they don't get the same views man, probly more to do with how good the guides are more than the play throughs not being popular. sometimes play through series are longer investments and get noticed by the algorithm later on and then people will go back and watch from the start. As much as I love the little story's at the beginning, if it takes you five hours to edit and film a 2 minute bit for sure cut back on that for a while. Either way great content and a super under appreciated channel, as soon as bannerlord is released your views should go up tenfold!
@@Strat-Guides allll right, put a link to the Timur campaign and I (& maybe others???) will take a look :). I wonder about historical maps, play thru's of A of Macedon, winning, and loosing, and some what after, "what if's." I know , wait for the mods.
one thing to keep in mind for things that give influence, it gives it to the AI to do stupid things, so the more you enact policies that give them influence the more you will need to override them, and that could also strain your relationship with them. basically influence gain if it gives it too freely to people in your kingdom is a bad thing and not a good thing.
I completely agree with this! In a lot of my campaigns I intentionally take negative influence policies because it's much cheaper to burn their influence that way than opposing votes (policy drain is 1:1 ratio their influence to burn yours) whereas voting you need anywhere to 1:3 up to 1:5 which can get very expensive!
Can tale world hire this guy for the love of god he worth all you QA and QC department if you hire him and followed his vision you have every right for not doing any sale on the game
If it makes you feel better, I have 3500+ hours and I loaded up some old saves to look - sure enough I have some of these broken policies on my kingdom LOL woops :P
Hi, i'm still going through my first playthrough and just got my first kingdom then somehow am still surviving after four kingdoms declared war on me (currently still with 2) but I hope you know your videos helped so much. Thank you Professor :D
I always wonder if TW knows how to do percentages and decimals work. Maybe someone really thinks 50% increase means x2 rather than x1.5 since 50% is 1/2 and they just go with a 2. Great information as always. Definitely looking forward to more kingdom related items.
Hahaha yeah it seems like they also struggle with additive and multiplicative modifiers :P Kingdom guide started today and I'm hoping to have it ready by Friday next week! It's going to be a big one so hopefully I can finish it in time.
I think I know what’s going on with the tax policies that don’t seem to work. It’s that meddling village on the coast, where Asterix and Obelix live. They are ambushing the tax wagons
Thank you Joe!! That really means a lot to me. I've been working so hard to keep improving. My strongest skills were always with the data and testing, but I suck at entertaining lol so I've been doing my best to get better :)
658 views and 37 comments. Engagement is nuts! The work you put into your videos shows and we appreciate the thoroughness. Random question. Do you know if the weight stat of crafted weapons affects the performance in anyway? It appears to be linked to handling but unsure.
I'm a little surprised actually lol I didn't think this would be a popular topic! The only reason I did this video is because I needed it to complete the full kingdom guide for next week. So I have not done extensive testing on that, but I do believe so. I tested same attack speed weapons in the same category before and the swing speed was a little different so I think there is an equation in there somewhere that effects swing speed based on the weight. I would have to do actual data collection to confirm it though. Maybe that would be an interesting short video!
@@Strat-Guides To their credit TW does put emphasis on swing , thrust, motion physics, so all parts of the weapon with all dimensions could be needed to understand each other factors influence
I actually forgot about testing these lol I was working on the full kingdom guide when I realized I wasn't even sure if the policies I was recommending worked properly!
@@Strat-Guides Good call to double back on it! This is very useful to anyone trying to run an actual kingdom. I haven't been doin the kingdom thing on my current run but I remember endless confusion and frustration trying to figure out what the fuck was up with policies on previous plays..
@@Strat-Guides Looking forward to another one. Also, I noticed that in my CA Eagle Rising game there were some new policies (pretty cool ones too). Maybe you can cover them if you make a new video, but not sure how many people use this mod so might not be worth the time.
I want to say a profound thank you for making this game semi-bearable for me! First time playing a Mount & Blade title, and I've really enjoyed everything up to 'owning a fief' stage because loyalty has just been a pain in the ass. This video single handedly made owning fiefs bearable, provided I can survive as a kingdom (so far so good). I hope your channel continues to grow, and if you need to add other games as content I'll probably tune in just because your vids are so in depth and high quality. Edit: Also curious is there a database/wiki or video somewhere that mentions which of these got 'fixed' after release? Knowing this developer company probably not lol
Thank you! It amazes me how little information is out there on Bannerlord, so I figured I would run some tests and find out as much as I could. If you check out the discord link in the description, there is a "useful guide info" section that has all of my databases posted there. Thanks for watching!
@@Strat-Guides Also just so you know, just tested out 'Citizenship' and it works as intended now. -0.5 loyalty to your fiefs of wrong culture, +0.5 to fiefs of correct cutlure. Probably B or C tier policy now considering loyalty for same-culture fiefs isn't that needed.
In all fairness, they have changed a lot of things from when they first went into early access - most things for the better I think. They still have a few months before "full release" so let's cross our fingers and pray to the RNGEEESUS lol
Hey Stat, massive fan. Thank you for posting numbers with your opinions allowing us to judge for ourselves what works taking into account a players personal preferences. Can't believe that simply stats are still not implemented (you would think it would be a simple fix). My question is do you plan on posting updated videos when(if) bannerlord full releases as many perks and similar number buffs/debuff werent working when the video was made? Not necessarily on this topic both on previous videos.
I was real hesitant to make this video a tier list, but I figured I have not made one yet and wanted to see how the video does. I feel like tier list type videos always do better than non-tier lists. My biggest issue is that you can make 10 different lists depending on what the goals of the campaign are. For example, a tier list for king, one for a vassal, one for the Joker build, they are all very different! I'm happy to hear the videos are helpful! I spend a ton of time making these so it's nice to hear that :)
i was gonna suggest u make a vid about policies in your discord today then saw that there is a new vid and what do u know its about policies.... thanks so much for the work u put on your videos, even though i know nothing about content creation, its obvious that u put in so much effort. keep it up
Haha nice, perfect timing! I appreciate the kind words :) Yeah I put a lot of time into these but it's great to hear everyone getting some use out of it. I'll redo this again once they fix them (probably full release?). I'm working on the full kingdom guide now and should have it ready by Friday!
I think it depends on playing for example if you didn't want to manage castles you can still get by just trading in cities and make bank so that way you may focus on conquering
hearth bonuses cap out, but until then it is critical to raise it as quickly as possible as it is the most important stat for a village (higher garrison, income, production, food bonus to attached castle/town, patrol size, villager convoy size, and i think it affects recruitment as well). so eventually the hit to hearth growth doesn't matter, and if you have a big clan and can keep your people from sacking villages before you take them then the expansion could have maxed out villages that don't need hearth growth later in the game. this is very situational, either it is a policy that costs nothing or its cost is huge.
In all fairness, if you're taking fiefs at that pace then hearth growth is pointless because you're making so much money even if fiefs are making 0 denars. I think it's incredibly important for people who want a slower-paced game or maybe they want to play as a vassal (since the AI rarely conquers anything). But until you get to 600, you're right that it's very important to have. In my governor build guide I made a companion specifically to get the 3x +20% hearth growth perks just for this :)
@@Strat-Guides it is more the production, food bonus and recruitment, the income is the least beneficial thing about hearth bonuses. more production means better stuff in the market, which can help with feeding the town as well as helping to get you the highest tier stuff in the game. more food means more troops in the garrison, and thus less times running off to save your town (castles are not defensible due to prosperity eating your food). more and better recruitment means it is easier for you and your faction to replace troop losses. aside from income the other bonuses help fend off looters and bandits, leaving you free to conquer more territory, but if they had to be babysat no matter what one would probably let them die and go off anyway, so it is more of a nice thing than a serious benefit.
Land tax policy brings you around 700 000 denars a day if your empire covers 90% of the map. With high loyalty and security ofc. Still, money become a problem of “where do I put them into, maybe just burn?” type.
we need an update to see what changed with the release of the game, maybe some of them have been fixed? i know perks have been almost entirely fixed so i wouldn't be surprised
@@Strat-Guidesyeah, i noticed citizenship was fixed but no clue for anything else well, i know testing everything would take a lot of work, so take your time!
They only fixed 1 since I made this lol It's the policy that gives loyalty if the culture matches the ruler's culture and negative loyalty if it doesn't. Everything else is the exact same.
You should be getting paid by Taleworld for the amount and quality of analysis that you do. I genuinely wonder if you know more than some of the devs about this game. Great stuff.
New subscriber but watched loads of your bannerlord videos and been loving it! You and ‘Doms round table’ are both amazing! I struggle to understand some of your guides though but that’s on me I’m dumb as 😂 love the channel though❤
Thanks Jordan! Yeah Dom is an amazing guy - he's really killing it with the Elden Ring coverage. I can't believe how fast his channel blew up! Couldn't have happened to a more deserving guy too :)
Citizenship is weird, it actually reduces loyalty for any settlement owned by a lord that has a different culture than the king, so if the king is Battanian and a Vlandian lord owns Sargot then Sargot will lose loyalty, but if the Vlandian town is owned by a Battanian lord it will gain loyalty, this means if you have any lords that are not the same culture as you, then all their fiefs will lose loyalty no matter if the town they own matches their culture. If you take citizenship try to keep your lords the same culture as you.
Thanks Abbott! This one was a bit mind numbing lol so many broken policies but I think they just had them as placeholders. It reminded me of the testing for perks back before they started to fix those. Hopefully they get them fixed before full release :)
food for a castle is the most important thing since you can only raise it indirectly, and only so much. an extra 2 food is (if i remember correctly) an extra 40 troops, and if you are the king with other policies that raise influence for you then you should have plenty of influence to spare while small enough to have to actually hold castles (once you can take towns you should stop holding castles and give them to the AI). it isn't a bad policy while you are just starting as a kingdom and don't have many if any nobles under you, though you might just skip owning castles and then this policy is worthless. i haven't tested if you need to own the castle itself alongside the town for the Vlandian buff (castle village production) or if the owner of the castle simply needs to be Vlandian, but that might be the only reason to hold castles later in the game, and this policy can be good for holding castles, though i am unsure how useful the extra 40 troops will be later on when it sits well away from the front lines (an extra 40 troops just means that the enemy bring an extra 80-120 troops to siege it). though anything that buffs owning castles ends up kinda shitty later on in the game since castles suck for the player to own.
I would be much happier if TW tweaked some of these policies so that they have different effects for different fiefs. For example, maybe give 5 food to a castle and 15 to a town would be appropriate. 2 food is just too small for me to recommend and my main goal here (since I know TW watches my videos and patches stuff that get a lot of negative feedback on lol) is to get them a bit more balanced. They could even split them into Town only policies and Castle only policies if they wanted to do that?
With some of these policies plus 250 steward and super high leadership I got a party size of 416 that sill moves at 5.5. Just murder everyone with max cav until I can switch out and then go infantry/archer mix to siege LOL.
I have been working on a plan for getting the time to less than 10 years, which I think is very doable! It might not be that fun to watch lol but I think it's doable. This would be no smithing, no cheese, etc.
@@Strat-Guides “How to conquer Calriada in 10 years or less” is still a good title though! Most important tips and links to subsequent videos to achieve the same is the dream!
Are you planning on doing an updated version of this video, or at least a link to a cheat sheet, now that the game has been updated a few times? This is an incredibly useful resource, as are the overwhelming majority of your videos.
Last I checked only citizenship changed but yeah I need to retest them again to see if the last psych changed anything. Release patch only changed the one.
Yeah that's very true. And to pass 1 good policy it won't just cost 100 for the vote, it will take 2000 to keep voting it until the others run out of influence lol
Castle charter deserves its own tier since it only provides benefits with no drawback. a meme of a perk, I have no idea why TW even put the perk without any downsides. (Yes, citizenship has a bug where debuffs don't work, but the text does say it has a debuff..)
I don't think they meant for the bonus to apply to towns as well. If it's just for castles, I can understand it a little more but you're right, nothing to offset it like all the other policies! Makes you wonder how many people wrote these and if they were working off the same list of guidelines lol
@@Strat-Guides It would be kinda interesting to see what debuff they would add. My logical debuff to that would be slightly decreased militia for castles, Realistically, how that perk would work is you would use militia troop as cheap labor without insurance benefits. >:) Then again, the perk would theoretically become useless if all castle/town fiefs are maxed out i.e. construction cost buff doesnt matter, but debuff still applies - which would make the perk down to an F tier. Edit: Perhaps it could also be loyalty debuff to the castle since it will most likely be using your peasants from bound village as cheap labor.
Interesting to see what works and which effects don't. Other than that 2 of my personal S-tier are listed E and F for you, strat. Alright try to guess which policies I mean first.... or just read on for the reasoning behind it. The policies I'm talking about are: 1 Road tolls 2 war tax 3 crown duty Yes, this is not a joke but the more negative Prosperity per day, the better. Why? Hmmm. I'll explain The game has a ... uh... certain prosperity-food-garrison problem starving garrisons when prosperity rises also leaving the fief vulnerable while the grannery is empty...... uh yeah, that sucks. These 3 policies ( and cheat mode activation just to demolish this damn aqueduct) reduce the prosperity gain. 1 food surplus production equals to 0.1 prosperity gain per day. 20 troops in the garrison eat 1 food per day. Also these policies allow fiefs to stay stable, as prosperity will stop rising at a certain point and therefore not increase food costs while still having a surplus food production (up to 22 daily food surplus without a garrison) Talking about garrison, it's exactly as you think. This enables stable 400 troop garrisons (which especially those of you using improved garrison mod will like) 2.2 negative equals 22 food equals 440 troops, leaving a tiny bit of it to keep foodstocks very slowly rising once prosperity comes to a standstill. Also grazing rights is total poop to me as it decreases hearths growth, which is just about the worst thing to do in the long run. Hearths in villages grant militia production, militia numbers at some point make it impossible for parties to raid villages as the party leaders respect the numbers at some point to not raid and armies do never raid villages. Therefore villages are sooner safe income sources. This grazing right malus becomes more significant the higher the hearths are as the base production decreases with number. Modifiers are not affected. Edit: I also forgot to mention the re recruiting cost of auto replenishing garrisons whenever they starve out and recover again. For the okayer this isn't significant but for the AI it is. These policies also help the AI stabilize their garrisons (especially since they never hit 400 garrisons anyway) and will always have a positive food production.
Interesting, it's a good point! You can artificially lower the prosperity by putting a larger garrison than you plan to use as well. The whole equilibrium point for prosperity and food is an odd one since it's a "feature" that fiefs will starve once they reach the EQ point. I feel like they should have had some sort of offset so that being at EQ doesn't feel like a punishment. It's a very strange system, seemingly made by someone proficient with math and programming but not aware of how it would be perceived IRL lol. I mean, starvation is technically a valid approach to population control, however I'm not sure that's what their intention was.
Oh, so that's where the sweating meme comes from ... With the recent update launching, will we be seeing what works there? Or is the next few episodes will be the usual business?
Haha yeah it's a really funny skit by Key and Peele. It's a conversation between a guy and his GF about his kinks, the full thing is hilarious! Yeah once we hit full release I'll be retesting everything again - perks, policies, skills, etc.
Awesome like always! :D But, in the last part of your video you said "click this video to see wich polices take to start a kingdom" and it doesnt show =( Thank you for your hard work! :D
Yeah I have to make the video like that because TH-cam won't let me add it after the fact :( the kingdom guide is the video that's coming out this week! I'm almost onto the editing portion, it's a huge guide packed with a ton of info. * Forgot to add - I'll link the video as soon as it's published!
This needs to be updated I think they have fixed most of them.Just tried Citizenship and as Vlandian ruler all my fiefs are in the Aserai territory and they got -0.5 loyalty as they should.
Hey buddy, I suggest you definetly able to sum up all of the info sheets those have been filled for governor and companions overall, and make guide for best suitable levelling for every nickname of wanderers, dont ya?
I'm not sure I fully understand the question, but if you have not seen my series on companions then you might find the answer there! I covered the best ways to level up companions for every skill in the game and another video on which companions are the best for different governor builds.
Can you or Flesson19 do tests on how things are altered/effected when a party is in an army? Like... Do other party leaders have their own scouting and earn xp? Or the whole food and quartermaster thing. If I am feeding 2000 troops in my entire army do I get the full xp? How about the movement speeds from different perks and even the perks that change disorganized state duration, how does that work for other parties? What about sacrificing troops with tactics skills and the lvl125 perk? Does the Army leader decide for themselves or does each individual party contribute by their own? What about morale, siege engine building speed, etc?
So everyone earns their own XP for the party they lead (like steward, scouting, etc.) while in an army but not leading the army. As far as donating food I'm almost positive you only get influence and nothing else from that exchange. I'm not sure about the rest of those questions, very interesting stuff though! I had not thought about that.
@@Strat-Guides I was also curious about Forest Kin, Nomadic Traditions etc perks for companion party leaders in my army. Especially since I will be holding most of the horses in my own inventory
Haha I know what you mean! They've been making good progress this year though so I do have faith they will get it done. Full release should be late October from what a lot of people are saying.
Love the videos! Just started using them for help recently and you can see even from videos posted around a year ago, you’re skill has improved tremendously at TH-cam, congrats. Do you know if it’s a good thing to have your vassals gaining influence?
Thank you! I actually made my first video a year ago this month and I have 0 prior experience making any sort of content so it was a bruising and challenging 12 months to get here, but I survived lol I prefer them to not gain influence. The only benefit is they are able to create armies, but honestly they are idiots and you're better off doing that yourself and letting them swarm attackers on defense.
Yeah that's the problem with Tier lists is they tend to be a bit linear, but with a complex game like Bannerlord there are many ways to approach it. Thanks for watching!
It's insane how many bugs this game has in skills/perks/policies etc, despite it being out for 2 year in EA and being pretty much a clone of the old game. I wonder what the hell the devs have been doing in that time. These bugs are not hard to find and fix. I guess that is what you get with a 1 man dev team :P
Good to know, but at clan tier 3 and owning a town I wonder how far the playthrough can go as an independent without policies. With the broken ones in the players favor, when fixed, would be nice if TW allows us to re pick and not be stuck with a result of their programming. I'm impressed with your videos and how many things you answer with real input. I have only one complete playthrough, and a few partials due to "broken game" syndrome. Hopefully 1.8 will be better.
The nice thing about being independent is that nobody will bother you and you can sue for peace quickly. Thank you! I always put the most emphasis on the data and analysis so hopefully these can be useful :) 1.8 has been pretty good! Although I think they are gearing up for full release later this year so I'm really looking forward to seeing what they have in store.
"Stinky Vlandian town" A fellow Vlandian hater,a cultured man indeed! But are you,my good sir,a true legend? Is Khuzait a blight upon bannerkind or not?
Found banner lords a few months back and really love your guides on this game and watching some of your old steams as well :) One Question did TW fix Citizenship yet?
What an odd feature. I hope they will expand it someday so we will be able to develop our kingdom for years, instead of having all policies in a few months :D
I wonder if they really will be patched. Have any been patched yet? Having policies not work may be unintentionally realistic, since policies in real life don't always play out as expected.
Check this video out if you want to see this policy guide in action - th-cam.com/video/crrnXxsK3hA/w-d-xo.html
We take only the bad policies to bring down a kingdom from within as The Joker!
I like what you've done with your hair :)
@@arlobickerstaff144 Lol Thanks! It's so hard to maintain all those curls :P
Thanks for the great guide! Can you make a video about conspiracy if possible?
@@Plsiujm4579 Yeah I can, it's on my list now! Thanks for watching :)
I have to disagree heavily with you placing the party size policies any lower than Triple-S Tier. In fact, it makes me wonder if something is wrong with your brain. Has it been damaged? Did you huff too much as a teen or something?
I mean what's the point of having these policies if some of them just genuinely do not work? Casual players who never look them up will literally never know they don't work lmao
I suspect a lot of these policies were meant to be place holders and were intentionally left like this until they overhaul all of them. They are supposed to launch soon so we will see!
Guess you just started playing recently lol earlier in the early access basically nothing did what it said including all character perks even though they were there.
@@saltiney8578 yeah they did the same thing with the perks in the beginning but they've slowly fixed most of them over time
@@saltiney8578 Do you not know what the word Beta means?
@@fidel4023 did you mean to reply to me? because I basically said the same thing to the OP do you know what reading comprehension means?
I'm not sure what I like best about this channel: the exhaustive testing that goes into each video, the deadpan delivery that makes me think I'm doing something productive when I watch, or the sneaky dry wit that always catches me off guard. Bravo, sir. Subscribed.
I appreciate the kind words! I'm still working on deliver and balance because I'm more of a troll IRL than a "funny guy" so it's been a challenge for me. Thanks Peter!! :)
@@Strat-Guides I think it's better to stay close to your natural style. Maybe I'm just old but I can't stand that "forced enthusiasm" so many video game youtubers put out, love that you don't have that delivery (plus you actually put insanely detailed content that's useful to my favorite game)
@@NAR106 yeah for sure, I don't think I could ever do the teenage playing Minecraft streamer stuff lol it's just obnoxious to me so that shouldn't be an issue :)
@@Strat-Guides taleworld owes you some QA paychecks imo...
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Incredible how such easy to fix features (just a matter of few numbers) are still completely broken more than 2 year later... wonder how the Taleworld job application looks like :
Are you good with communication toward the game community ? No
Are you at ease with maths ? No
Are you able to deliver the work in time ? Definitely no bro
Perfefect welcome in the team !
Anyway mega job as always !
Haha I like that interview process!
My guess is this topic is pretty low on their priority list and are probably saving it until near the end just before release. Fingers crossed anyways, releasing with these policies would be a pretty bad look!
@@Strat-Guides yeah i'm a bit harsh on them lol i agree 100% that its not that important compared with other issues !
@@monsieurfuch7882 At this point it's more of a meme than a legit complaint because I think we are all resigned to the idea of it taking longer than expected and having more bugs than we would like. That said, it's still a fun game and I'm happy to support it :)
Considering where Tale Worlds is located I guess they hired bunch of Turkeys :)
@@histhoryk2648never new they were in the Levant cool
With revolts, I think all policies that increase loyalty are S tier. Militia policies are good when you first start your first fief
If you can get at least those 2 policies that boost loyalty to +3 they pretty much won't ever revolt. I used those 2 in my WC campaign and didn't have a single rebellion :) Loyalty policies are OP!
@@Strat-Guides Despite not having great approval, not everyone always votes for the laws, it can be very easy to get them included even if you are not the governor.
As of 4/20/2024 they have fixed the "No Negatives, Not Working" part of the Citizenship policy. It now correctly applies a negative loyalty for non owner's culture in a fief.
Thank you my guy🙏
I love how there's a solid reason to vote for bad policies if it's not *your* kingdom.
Playing like a Warband dishonourable lord and joining every kingdom so you can plant absolutely awful policies like currency debasement - it's marvelous. It feels so real that everyone would vote to enrich themselves at the cost of destroying the kingdom's foundation with loyalty debuffs if you're influential and persuasive enough, and you can make it happen!
Meanwhile, when your kingdom is just your clan, you can vote in all the king-friendly policies like Sacred Majesty with nobody to contest it. Policy abuse is fun.
Yeah that's one of my favorite ways to play :) I did a video recently called the Joker Experience where I did exactly this (plus some other shenanigans lol) and it was so much fun!
I forgot to spend my influence in the southern empire before I left.
That sounds alot like america nowadays
@@privateuser3726nothing ever changed yk
Your testing, analysis, and video editing skills are next level...been addicted to your page since getting back into 1.8 :)
Thank John! Welcome back to Bannerlord :) 1.7.2 and 1.8 were both really good patches so you picked an ideal time to return. I think we will hit full release before the end of the year, so I'm really looking forward to some stability for the modders to do their thing.
1) I take hunting rights, food is always an issue and loyalty for me never is so I do like it.
2) 100% agree on sacred majesty, its my first pick.
3) With the defection issues right now Precarial Land Tenure is a must
4) Geessh once again TW math ™
My biggest complaint about hunting rights was the number. If they multiply by 5 or 10 then I think it has a much different ranking on my list!
I saw your update video, you still have not noticed any difference with defections after the recent hotfix?
@@Strat-Guides it seems just a tiny bit better, they said they adjusted numbers, so they are still there pretty bad, just a slight adjustment was made, Lessers mod is still 100% needed
I enjoy every policy that increases my party size. I think with having a 300 Steward quartermaster I had a party size of like 290
Yeah it's so nice have all that space for more troops :)
THIS is the guide I never thought we'd get!!! Perfect Friday just got off work present thanks
I kept forgetting about this topic, it was my list burier near the bottom! I only remembered because I was working on the full kingdom guide and needed this data first :) Glad to hear it was useful!
forgiveness of debts is so good but every single faction doesn't want to vote for it, it kinda makes me angy
They are roleplaying Fall of Rome scenario but on global scale
Yeah that can be frustrating. The best thing you can do it save up a big chunk of influence and then keep voting it over and over until they give up and it can pass. Most of time they give up after 3 - 4 votes lol Make sure you don't add influence to the vote until you're 100% sure it will pass. The AI spends their influence regardless of if you support or abstain.
Interesting. I hadn't realized some of the polices weren't actually working.
Yeah me too! I was pretty shocked with how many were either not working or didn't act as described.
Your State Monopolies rundown reminded me of a recent development in my game. I took to the habit of buying workshops in towns I would then take over. I bought a workshop in a town I was going to take over and the ruler then mysteriously chose to have a pretty big army in the area despite being in the middle of a two front war. I cannot overstate how much I hate Derthert, lol. He put a 1,000 man death stack right in the area and ruined my plan for regional conquest. I don't even know how or where he got them from, because everything that made sense suggested he would be busier elsewhere. Top it off, he starts the war with my kingdom shortly after instead of the other way around. Absolute madness.
You've found your stride with editing. Entertaining and informative!
Thank you! It certainly feels that way :)
I wish TW would hire you to bug fix. Having even one major thing that doesn't work makes your question if anything else works properly
I don't think they have really touched policies since the beginning (They tweaked one or two several patches ago, but overall left it alone) so I think they were just saving it until the end. I'm sure they are aware that the majority of them don't work. They seem like placeholders like how the perks were when it launched. I guess we'll find out before the end of the year lol!
@@Strat-Guides that makes it worse. Just don't have policies then. If I had never seen your videos I would have trusted TW. Now I know better
He would go nuts.
They seriously need to hire you if they want to release this game in the next six months. Great videos strat! Can't wait for the Timur campaign to continue I love your historical play throughs.
They get my services free of charge, all I ask is that they bring more people in to view the videos once the game goes to full release :)
Yeah I need to finish the Timur campaign soon, it's been dragging on too long. I think once I finish the kingdom guide I will work on the next couple episodes for that. The biggest issue is that those take 30 - 50 hours per episode and the views are 1/2 of what I get on a guide so I need to figure out an alternative after this one finishes up. I really enjoy doing them, but from a channel and business perspective it doesn't really make sense to keep doing them unless I cut back on the time investment (less editing).
@@Strat-Guides that's a shame they don't get the same views man, probly more to do with how good the guides are more than the play throughs not being popular. sometimes play through series are longer investments and get noticed by the algorithm later on and then people will go back and watch from the start. As much as I love the little story's at the beginning, if it takes you five hours to edit and film a 2 minute bit for sure cut back on that for a while. Either way great content and a super under appreciated channel, as soon as bannerlord is released your views should go up tenfold!
@@Strat-Guides allll right, put a link to the Timur campaign and I (& maybe others???) will take a look :). I wonder about historical maps, play thru's of A of Macedon, winning, and loosing, and some what after, "what if's." I know , wait for the mods.
one thing to keep in mind for things that give influence, it gives it to the AI to do stupid things, so the more you enact policies that give them influence the more you will need to override them, and that could also strain your relationship with them. basically influence gain if it gives it too freely to people in your kingdom is a bad thing and not a good thing.
I completely agree with this! In a lot of my campaigns I intentionally take negative influence policies because it's much cheaper to burn their influence that way than opposing votes (policy drain is 1:1 ratio their influence to burn yours) whereas voting you need anywhere to 1:3 up to 1:5 which can get very expensive!
Can tale world hire this guy for the love of god he worth all you QA and QC department if you hire him and followed his vision you have every right for not doing any sale on the game
Amazing video! I don’t know how the average player like myself would have noticed a lot of this stuff not working properly.
If it makes you feel better, I have 3500+ hours and I loaded up some old saves to look - sure enough I have some of these broken policies on my kingdom LOL woops :P
Hi, i'm still going through my first playthrough and just got my first kingdom then somehow am still surviving after four kingdoms declared war on me (currently still with 2) but I hope you know your videos helped so much. Thank you Professor :D
Just love how much effort this guy put into his video I'm talking all his video are so in depth and I love it smart ass dude
I always wonder if TW knows how to do percentages and decimals work. Maybe someone really thinks 50% increase means x2 rather than x1.5 since 50% is 1/2 and they just go with a 2.
Great information as always. Definitely looking forward to more kingdom related items.
Hahaha yeah it seems like they also struggle with additive and multiplicative modifiers :P
Kingdom guide started today and I'm hoping to have it ready by Friday next week! It's going to be a big one so hopefully I can finish it in time.
I am so excited that this has finally come out 😁
I've got the full kingdom guide in the works this weekend and next week as well :D
Thanks! I was looking for this exact info on policies.
I'm happy it helps! I'll redo this guide again if they fix the policies in the upcoming patch.
Easily the best bannerlord channel.
I appreciate that :D
Holy crap, I didn’t know so many policy still not working after all these time
I think I know what’s going on with the tax policies that don’t seem to work.
It’s that meddling village on the coast, where Asterix and Obelix live. They are ambushing the tax wagons
Lol!! That's really old school, great reference!
The amount of work on this video is insane. Liked and subbed 😉
Thank you for watching! Yeah it took a while lol
It is fun to see how good your editing has gotten! Always had good content but a little bit more flash and comedy now. Good work !
Thank you Joe!! That really means a lot to me. I've been working so hard to keep improving. My strongest skills were always with the data and testing, but I suck at entertaining lol so I've been doing my best to get better :)
Citizenship has been fixed, unfortunately.
thanks
658 views and 37 comments. Engagement is nuts!
The work you put into your videos shows and we appreciate the thoroughness.
Random question. Do you know if the weight stat of crafted weapons affects the performance in anyway? It appears to be linked to handling but unsure.
I'm a little surprised actually lol I didn't think this would be a popular topic! The only reason I did this video is because I needed it to complete the full kingdom guide for next week.
So I have not done extensive testing on that, but I do believe so. I tested same attack speed weapons in the same category before and the swing speed was a little different so I think there is an equation in there somewhere that effects swing speed based on the weight. I would have to do actual data collection to confirm it though. Maybe that would be an interesting short video!
@@Strat-Guides To their credit TW does put emphasis on swing , thrust, motion physics, so all parts of the weapon with all dimensions could be needed to understand each other factors influence
Strat, you absolute mad lad... you've done it again
I actually forgot about testing these lol I was working on the full kingdom guide when I realized I wasn't even sure if the policies I was recommending worked properly!
@@Strat-Guides Good call to double back on it!
This is very useful to anyone trying to run an actual kingdom. I haven't been doin the kingdom thing on my current run but I remember endless confusion and frustration trying to figure out what the fuck was up with policies on previous plays..
Amazing detail as always. Thank you for this - I've been struggling with policies and this helps so much.
I'm glad this was helpful! I'm sure they will patch these up soon so I'll redo this video when it happens. Thanks for watching!
@@Strat-Guides Looking forward to another one. Also, I noticed that in my CA Eagle Rising game there were some new policies (pretty cool ones too). Maybe you can cover them if you make a new video, but not sure how many people use this mod so might not be worth the time.
@@Ivan-ou1pk Good to know, I do actually have that mod on my radar :)
@@Strat-Guides nice :) i’ll put the campaign on pause until you release a video on it hahaha
I want to say a profound thank you for making this game semi-bearable for me! First time playing a Mount & Blade title, and I've really enjoyed everything up to 'owning a fief' stage because loyalty has just been a pain in the ass. This video single handedly made owning fiefs bearable, provided I can survive as a kingdom (so far so good). I hope your channel continues to grow, and if you need to add other games as content I'll probably tune in just because your vids are so in depth and high quality.
Edit: Also curious is there a database/wiki or video somewhere that mentions which of these got 'fixed' after release? Knowing this developer company probably not lol
Thank you! It amazes me how little information is out there on Bannerlord, so I figured I would run some tests and find out as much as I could. If you check out the discord link in the description, there is a "useful guide info" section that has all of my databases posted there. Thanks for watching!
@@Strat-Guides Wow, it's great! So many resources, thanks!
@@Strat-Guides Also just so you know, just tested out 'Citizenship' and it works as intended now. -0.5 loyalty to your fiefs of wrong culture, +0.5 to fiefs of correct cutlure. Probably B or C tier policy now considering loyalty for same-culture fiefs isn't that needed.
Great video, Strat! Saved me a lot of time too, because I wanted to make a tier list for myself.
Oh good, hopefully they don't patch this up too soon then lol I have a feeling they will though :P
Can we get an updated video?? Many updates since last year
@Strat Gaming Guides, can you make a new Policy Tier List with the new changes?
I tend to run more unitary states, so the ruler bonuses are pretty sweet.
A very good video once again
Well done strat gaming 👏
Thank you! I suspect I'll be remaking this one in a month or two lol oh well, hopefully it's helpful until then.
Just about to click start rebellion on my vlandia campaign through diplomacy. Timely video!
Nice, perfect timing!!
I think land tax is a really good policy tho cuz I'm getting 1.3k from it everyday
Another terrific video. Love your content. Makes playing Bannerlord so much better.
Thank you!! I'm glad to hear the videos are proving to be useful :)
Yeah this game is close to a release state
In all fairness, they have changed a lot of things from when they first went into early access - most things for the better I think. They still have a few months before "full release" so let's cross our fingers and pray to the RNGEEESUS lol
Hey Stat, massive fan. Thank you for posting numbers with your opinions allowing us to judge for ourselves what works taking into account a players personal preferences. Can't believe that simply stats are still not implemented (you would think it would be a simple fix). My question is do you plan on posting updated videos when(if) bannerlord full releases as many perks and similar number buffs/debuff werent working when the video was made? Not necessarily on this topic both on previous videos.
I was real hesitant to make this video a tier list, but I figured I have not made one yet and wanted to see how the video does. I feel like tier list type videos always do better than non-tier lists. My biggest issue is that you can make 10 different lists depending on what the goals of the campaign are. For example, a tier list for king, one for a vassal, one for the Joker build, they are all very different!
I'm happy to hear the videos are helpful! I spend a ton of time making these so it's nice to hear that :)
i was gonna suggest u make a vid about policies in your discord today then saw that there is a new vid and what do u know its about policies.... thanks so much for the work u put on your videos, even though i know nothing about content creation, its obvious that u put in so much effort. keep it up
Haha nice, perfect timing! I appreciate the kind words :) Yeah I put a lot of time into these but it's great to hear everyone getting some use out of it. I'll redo this again once they fix them (probably full release?). I'm working on the full kingdom guide now and should have it ready by Friday!
I think it depends on playing for example if you didn't want to manage castles you can still get by just trading in cities and make bank so that way you may focus on conquering
I'd love a revisit on this guide for the 1.2 beta
Thanks for the hard work and great vid once again!
Thanks for watching! Kingdom guide is in the works this week and hopefully i'll have it done by Friday :)
Didn't even know that some of the policies were not working, wasted some influence in all my playthroughs lmao
Yeah I looked back at some of my old saves and I have a couple of the broken ones lol woops!
This man is basically my training montage for the inevitable PS5 release.
I'm really looking forward to the console release! It should bring a lot of fresh eyes to the game :D
hearth bonuses cap out, but until then it is critical to raise it as quickly as possible as it is the most important stat for a village (higher garrison, income, production, food bonus to attached castle/town, patrol size, villager convoy size, and i think it affects recruitment as well). so eventually the hit to hearth growth doesn't matter, and if you have a big clan and can keep your people from sacking villages before you take them then the expansion could have maxed out villages that don't need hearth growth later in the game. this is very situational, either it is a policy that costs nothing or its cost is huge.
In all fairness, if you're taking fiefs at that pace then hearth growth is pointless because you're making so much money even if fiefs are making 0 denars. I think it's incredibly important for people who want a slower-paced game or maybe they want to play as a vassal (since the AI rarely conquers anything). But until you get to 600, you're right that it's very important to have. In my governor build guide I made a companion specifically to get the 3x +20% hearth growth perks just for this :)
@@Strat-Guides it is more the production, food bonus and recruitment, the income is the least beneficial thing about hearth bonuses. more production means better stuff in the market, which can help with feeding the town as well as helping to get you the highest tier stuff in the game. more food means more troops in the garrison, and thus less times running off to save your town (castles are not defensible due to prosperity eating your food). more and better recruitment means it is easier for you and your faction to replace troop losses. aside from income the other bonuses help fend off looters and bandits, leaving you free to conquer more territory, but if they had to be babysat no matter what one would probably let them die and go off anyway, so it is more of a nice thing than a serious benefit.
Land tax policy brings you around 700 000 denars a day if your empire covers 90% of the map. With high loyalty and security ofc. Still, money become a problem of “where do I put them into, maybe just burn?” type.
Haha wow that's a lot of cash! Yeah at a certain point, there isn't much to do with all the denars :)
we need an update to see what changed with the release of the game, maybe some of them have been fixed? i know perks have been almost entirely fixed so i wouldn't be surprised
Yeah I need to retest this one. From what I can tell, a lot of them are still busted but at least one was fixed.
@@Strat-Guidesyeah, i noticed citizenship was fixed but no clue for anything else
well, i know testing everything would take a lot of work, so take your time!
How up to date is this now
They only fixed 1 since I made this lol It's the policy that gives loyalty if the culture matches the ruler's culture and negative loyalty if it doesn't. Everything else is the exact same.
Royal Guard is the first policy I get when I start my kingdom, But I see why it's kind of bad if you're not the king.
Yeah it's hard to make a universal list since one policy can be amazing for one campaign but horrible for another.
I just became king of vlandia so I think this will help a lot, thanks
Thanks for watching!
You should be getting paid by Taleworld for the amount and quality of analysis that you do. I genuinely wonder if you know more than some of the devs about this game. Great stuff.
Lol consider me the unpaid intern! :D
New subscriber but watched loads of your bannerlord videos and been loving it! You and ‘Doms round table’ are both amazing! I struggle to understand some of your guides though but that’s on me I’m dumb as 😂 love the channel though❤
Thanks Jordan! Yeah Dom is an amazing guy - he's really killing it with the Elden Ring coverage. I can't believe how fast his channel blew up! Couldn't have happened to a more deserving guy too :)
very helpful, thanks a bunch for making this video
Thanks!!
9:19 State monopolies
“We can also own workshops in another kingdom who doesn’t have the policy “
Apple, nike and other big companies agrees
Hahaha I can just imagine Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckkerberg in a conference room having a good belly laugh at this one :D
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Citizenship is weird, it actually reduces loyalty for any settlement owned by a lord that has a different culture than the king, so if the king is Battanian and a Vlandian lord owns Sargot then Sargot will lose loyalty, but if the Vlandian town is owned by a Battanian lord it will gain loyalty, this means if you have any lords that are not the same culture as you, then all their fiefs will lose loyalty no matter if the town they own matches their culture.
If you take citizenship try to keep your lords the same culture as you.
yeah i noticed that, i took citizenship and it worked great until i ran into that problem.
Outstanding video!
Thanks Abbott! This one was a bit mind numbing lol so many broken policies but I think they just had them as placeholders. It reminded me of the testing for perks back before they started to fix those. Hopefully they get them fixed before full release :)
Thanks, this is very-very useful
Thank you for watching! I'm 100% certain they will patch this again by full release so I'll redo it again at that point :)
food for a castle is the most important thing since you can only raise it indirectly, and only so much. an extra 2 food is (if i remember correctly) an extra 40 troops, and if you are the king with other policies that raise influence for you then you should have plenty of influence to spare while small enough to have to actually hold castles (once you can take towns you should stop holding castles and give them to the AI). it isn't a bad policy while you are just starting as a kingdom and don't have many if any nobles under you, though you might just skip owning castles and then this policy is worthless. i haven't tested if you need to own the castle itself alongside the town for the Vlandian buff (castle village production) or if the owner of the castle simply needs to be Vlandian, but that might be the only reason to hold castles later in the game, and this policy can be good for holding castles, though i am unsure how useful the extra 40 troops will be later on when it sits well away from the front lines (an extra 40 troops just means that the enemy bring an extra 80-120 troops to siege it). though anything that buffs owning castles ends up kinda shitty later on in the game since castles suck for the player to own.
I would be much happier if TW tweaked some of these policies so that they have different effects for different fiefs. For example, maybe give 5 food to a castle and 15 to a town would be appropriate. 2 food is just too small for me to recommend and my main goal here (since I know TW watches my videos and patches stuff that get a lot of negative feedback on lol) is to get them a bit more balanced. They could even split them into Town only policies and Castle only policies if they wanted to do that?
Thanks for the info. Game is looking good!
Hey I recognize your profile pic from the forum! I love the sarcasm :D
With some of these policies plus 250 steward and super high leadership I got a party size of 416 that sill moves at 5.5. Just murder everyone with max cav until I can switch out and then go infantry/archer mix to siege LOL.
Would love to see a new speed run on 1.8. In such case, single video format would probably be preferred.
I have been working on a plan for getting the time to less than 10 years, which I think is very doable! It might not be that fun to watch lol but I think it's doable. This would be no smithing, no cheese, etc.
@@Strat-Guides “How to conquer Calriada in 10 years or less” is still a good title though! Most important tips and links to subsequent videos to achieve the same is the dream!
Awesome videos as usual dude.
Thank you! I should have done this one a long time ago but I kept forgetting. I needed this info for the upcoming full kingdom guide.
Are you planning on doing an updated version of this video, or at least a link to a cheat sheet, now that the game has been updated a few times?
This is an incredibly useful resource, as are the overwhelming majority of your videos.
Last I checked only citizenship changed but yeah I need to retest them again to see if the last psych changed anything. Release patch only changed the one.
I think tribunes of the people is goated
WHYYY ARENT WE KILLING YET?!
Lol I blame the bad policies! :P
Amazing job as usual.
Thank you!! :D
You're the best man... Period
Lol TW would like to have a word with you... Thanks!! :D
This reminds me why I hate being a vassel for kingdoms, the majority favor stupid policies over logical ones.
Yeah that's very true. And to pass 1 good policy it won't just cost 100 for the vote, it will take 2000 to keep voting it until the others run out of influence lol
Castle charter deserves its own tier since it only provides benefits with no drawback. a meme of a perk, I have no idea why TW even put the perk without any downsides.
(Yes, citizenship has a bug where debuffs don't work, but the text does say it has a debuff..)
I don't think they meant for the bonus to apply to towns as well. If it's just for castles, I can understand it a little more but you're right, nothing to offset it like all the other policies! Makes you wonder how many people wrote these and if they were working off the same list of guidelines lol
@@Strat-Guides It would be kinda interesting to see what debuff they would add. My logical debuff to that would be slightly decreased militia for castles, Realistically, how that perk would work is you would use militia troop as cheap labor without insurance benefits. >:)
Then again, the perk would theoretically become useless if all castle/town fiefs are maxed out i.e. construction cost buff doesnt matter, but debuff still applies - which would make the perk down to an F tier.
Edit: Perhaps it could also be loyalty debuff to the castle since it will most likely be using your peasants from bound village as cheap labor.
Interesting to see what works and which effects don't. Other than that 2 of my personal S-tier are listed E and F for you, strat. Alright try to guess which policies I mean first.... or just read on for the reasoning behind it.
The policies I'm talking about are:
1 Road tolls
2 war tax
3 crown duty
Yes, this is not a joke but the more negative Prosperity per day, the better. Why? Hmmm. I'll explain
The game has a ... uh... certain prosperity-food-garrison problem starving garrisons when prosperity rises also leaving the fief vulnerable while the grannery is empty...... uh yeah, that sucks.
These 3 policies ( and cheat mode activation just to demolish this damn aqueduct) reduce the prosperity gain.
1 food surplus production equals to 0.1 prosperity gain per day. 20 troops in the garrison eat 1 food per day. Also these policies allow fiefs to stay stable, as prosperity will stop rising at a certain point and therefore not increase food costs while still having a surplus food production (up to 22 daily food surplus without a garrison)
Talking about garrison, it's exactly as you think. This enables stable 400 troop garrisons (which especially those of you using improved garrison mod will like) 2.2 negative equals 22 food equals 440 troops, leaving a tiny bit of it to keep foodstocks very slowly rising once prosperity comes to a standstill.
Also grazing rights is total poop to me as it decreases hearths growth, which is just about the worst thing to do in the long run. Hearths in villages grant militia production, militia numbers at some point make it impossible for parties to raid villages as the party leaders respect the numbers at some point to not raid and armies do never raid villages. Therefore villages are sooner safe income sources. This grazing right malus becomes more significant the higher the hearths are as the base production decreases with number. Modifiers are not affected.
Edit: I also forgot to mention the re recruiting cost of auto replenishing garrisons whenever they starve out and recover again. For the okayer this isn't significant but for the AI it is. These policies also help the AI stabilize their garrisons (especially since they never hit 400 garrisons anyway) and will always have a positive food production.
Interesting, it's a good point! You can artificially lower the prosperity by putting a larger garrison than you plan to use as well. The whole equilibrium point for prosperity and food is an odd one since it's a "feature" that fiefs will starve once they reach the EQ point. I feel like they should have had some sort of offset so that being at EQ doesn't feel like a punishment. It's a very strange system, seemingly made by someone proficient with math and programming but not aware of how it would be perceived IRL lol. I mean, starvation is technically a valid approach to population control, however I'm not sure that's what their intention was.
Oh, so that's where the sweating meme comes from ...
With the recent update launching, will we be seeing what works there? Or is the next few episodes will be the usual business?
Haha yeah it's a really funny skit by Key and Peele. It's a conversation between a guy and his GF about his kinks, the full thing is hilarious!
Yeah once we hit full release I'll be retesting everything again - perks, policies, skills, etc.
Some of these policies work on 1.8. It may be because I have the diplomacy mod too
Yeah I think they might have patches that in the mod. I ran these tests on 1.8 with no mods active.
Guess it's time for a diplomacy mod policy tier list too heh
@@abseits_ger7274 I really wanted to use that one, but it kept crashing my game around the 5 - 10 year mark! :(
Awesome like always! :D But, in the last part of your video you said "click this video to see wich polices take to start a kingdom" and it doesnt show =(
Thank you for your hard work! :D
Yeah I have to make the video like that because TH-cam won't let me add it after the fact :( the kingdom guide is the video that's coming out this week! I'm almost onto the editing portion, it's a huge guide packed with a ton of info.
* Forgot to add - I'll link the video as soon as it's published!
@@Strat-Guides thank you for the quick response! I will wait for that video 💪🏻☺️
Strat with the new video!!!! 🤟
Fresh off the grill, come and get it! :D
This needs to be updated I think they have fixed most of them.Just tried Citizenship and as Vlandian ruler all my fiefs are in the Aserai territory and they got -0.5 loyalty as they should.
Hey buddy, I suggest you definetly able to sum up all of the info sheets those have been filled for governor and companions overall, and make guide for best suitable levelling for every nickname of wanderers, dont ya?
I'm not sure I fully understand the question, but if you have not seen my series on companions then you might find the answer there! I covered the best ways to level up companions for every skill in the game and another video on which companions are the best for different governor builds.
Can you or Flesson19 do tests on how things are altered/effected when a party is in an army? Like... Do other party leaders have their own scouting and earn xp? Or the whole food and quartermaster thing. If I am feeding 2000 troops in my entire army do I get the full xp? How about the movement speeds from different perks and even the perks that change disorganized state duration, how does that work for other parties? What about sacrificing troops with tactics skills and the lvl125 perk? Does the Army leader decide for themselves or does each individual party contribute by their own? What about morale, siege engine building speed, etc?
So everyone earns their own XP for the party they lead (like steward, scouting, etc.) while in an army but not leading the army. As far as donating food I'm almost positive you only get influence and nothing else from that exchange. I'm not sure about the rest of those questions, very interesting stuff though! I had not thought about that.
@@Strat-Guides I was also curious about Forest Kin, Nomadic Traditions etc perks for companion party leaders in my army. Especially since I will be holding most of the horses in my own inventory
'Fully in the near future' been 2 years. Slacking but i guess we should expect it to be fully released in another 10 years. Using taleworld math
Haha I know what you mean! They've been making good progress this year though so I do have faith they will get it done. Full release should be late October from what a lot of people are saying.
Thanks for the vid!!
Thank YOU :D
Love the videos! Just started using them for help recently and you can see even from videos posted around a year ago, you’re skill has improved tremendously at TH-cam, congrats. Do you know if it’s a good thing to have your vassals gaining influence?
Thank you! I actually made my first video a year ago this month and I have 0 prior experience making any sort of content so it was a bruising and challenging 12 months to get here, but I survived lol
I prefer them to not gain influence. The only benefit is they are able to create armies, but honestly they are idiots and you're better off doing that yourself and letting them swarm attackers on defense.
@@Strat-Guides awesome! I’ll look forward to watching you grow even more :) cheers
Lmao that intro
Lol I always enjoy a good Key and Peele skit :)
Great work
Thank you! I'll be redoing this once they patch them - I suspect it will be in October when they do the full release.
How accurate is this list in april 2024? Are those policies still broken?
You are not right at all. Debaff policies is very usable: when u start as vassal u can vote for these policy and quit kingdom))
Yeah that's the problem with Tier lists is they tend to be a bit linear, but with a complex game like Bannerlord there are many ways to approach it. Thanks for watching!
It's insane how many bugs this game has in skills/perks/policies etc, despite it being out for 2 year in EA and being pretty much a clone of the old game. I wonder what the hell the devs have been doing in that time. These bugs are not hard to find and fix. I guess that is what you get with a 1 man dev team :P
Adding shoulder pads and breaking siege engines ;)
Good to know, but at clan tier 3 and owning a town I wonder how far the playthrough can go as an independent without policies. With the broken ones in the players favor, when fixed, would be nice if TW allows us to re pick and not be stuck with a result of their programming. I'm impressed with your videos and how many things you answer with real input. I have only one complete playthrough, and a few partials due to "broken game" syndrome. Hopefully 1.8 will be better.
The nice thing about being independent is that nobody will bother you and you can sue for peace quickly. Thank you! I always put the most emphasis on the data and analysis so hopefully these can be useful :) 1.8 has been pretty good! Although I think they are gearing up for full release later this year so I'm really looking forward to seeing what they have in store.
"Stinky Vlandian town"
A fellow Vlandian hater,a cultured man indeed!
But are you,my good sir,a true legend?
Is Khuzait a blight upon bannerkind or not?
Hahaha yeah I always take jabs at Dirt Bag Derthert when I can :D
As a Battanian lover, I have to agree that Khuzait is a blight upon the lands LOL
@@Strat-Guides Exactly!!!
Screw Vlandia and Khuzait!
god tier edit lol
Lol thank you! I was trying to so hard to make this video not boring because testing 35 perks one by one was tedious!
Found banner lords a few months back and really love your guides on this game and watching some of your old steams as well :)
One Question did TW fix Citizenship yet?
Great video!
What an odd feature. I hope they will expand it someday so we will be able to develop our kingdom for years, instead of having all policies in a few months :D
I'm pretty sure they were saving this one until the end. I'll redo this video once they patch it! :)
I wonder if they really will be patched. Have any been patched yet? Having policies not work may be unintentionally realistic, since policies in real life don't always play out as expected.
16:02 title of the left column is "youtube memebers". Greetings meme bros!
Sorry I only have one video there and it's center. These pop ups kinda could be trccomandations made by TH-cam automatically
Hahaha maybe that will be the group title from now on. Welcome all the MemeBers :D