Mwuahaha. It seems i got 1 of the best tips for trading that most people don't know yet. Ok i'll grace you guys with this amazing tip for trading. You can sell to caravans instead of to cities. There's a huge benefit to this because caravan prices do not adapt while in the middle of selling. Cities prices adapt while selling, villages and caravans don't. So you find a city that will buy a commodity you have a high quantity of for an extremely high price. Problem is, because the price adapts during the transaction, the price deflates pretty quickly. But caravans keep around 15k gold on them and they use the price points of the nearby city. So instead of selling in the city, you wait in the city for a caravan to come so you can sell to the caravan using the same price point of the city, but without the prices deflating. You make so much more gold this way. If you have enough of a certain commodity for emptying more than 1 caravan's gold supply, you can wait to catch the caravan as it's leaving the city as opposed to when it's on it's way in. Because if you sell while it's going in, then the prices will change after it goes in. Then just wait for another caravan. A couple of slight annoyances are: 1) that caravans are fast, so it's hard to catch unless you're coming from in front of it. 2) some cities don't have many caravans coming to them for some reason, unfortunately. Sometimes it could also come in handy to know that the caravan gold resets after entering a city. So if you have multiple commodities to sell and want to empty the same caravan twice, you can.
DO YOUR JOB AND THUMB ME 1: Have alot of different kinds of food to keep high morale in your troops 2: High morale = leadership skill up + map movement speed 3: Keep all horses and mules u dont need u can cut them up for meat 4: Warhorses are needed to upgrade troops to high teir cavalry or Cav archers 5: Warhorses are sold at citys or towns that produce horses 6: Buy workshops in towns for passive gold income per day 7: you can choose what workshop type you want but check what villages are attached to the town to see what workshop works best 8: Join a faction or form your own and start to pillage as many villages as u can for resources + Influence ( Faction currency ) 9: If you plan on doing a castle siege pillage that castles attached villages and then wait outside the castle and make sure no peasants travel to the castle 10: If you block a castles supply routes the number of defenders will drop over a few days due to starvation and leaving because its a shit place to stay 11: use as many companions as you can on caravans to never even think about money again 12: Best horse archers are the Mongol faction ( right of the map ) 13: an army of 50 good horse archers can beat an army of 150 mixed on an open plane ( they run in a dothraki circle and spam arrows ) 14: Wounded dudes in your dude army heal faster if you wait at a town 15: once you join a faction and join a party ( army group ) make sure you actually pull the finger out during a castle siege and u gain more points to keeping that castle for yourself 16: Gaining castles fast and fast and fast is a shit idea. upgrade them to full and garrison them first and they will never be raided and give you 5X the income from a fresh castle. 17: Polearms are good for horses but only for side sweeps, 2 handed weapons are great if u wanna swing from the side ( they most times 1 shot ) 18: Companions you send out on a party right now are Trash AI and will always get captured by bandits and its much better to send them on a caravan for that sweet sweet DOSH 19: Starting out try trade as much as u can to the nearest 2 or 3 city's close to you to get enough gold to buy a caravan / workshop. once you get +$ per day you dont need to trade anymore 20: Prices shown for different city items will change by the time you get there. travel in the near REMEMBER THE NAMES. 21: Away with you Vile begger 22: High level trade perks make you able to actually straight up BUY a Settlement from the owner for $$$. by this time u will have more money they sense so throw money at problems and u can make people like you. 23: Your character CAN and WILL die of old age so remember to get married and have kids so u can play as them once he kicks the bucket so its not GG 24: Side with empire makes you enemy with half the map ( you gotta stay in the middle without getting your shit kicked in ) 25: Side to Destroy the empire makes you enemy with half the map ( you gotta stay out of the middle without getting your shit kicked in ) 26: ALWAYS BUY EXCESS FOOD FOR YOUR TROOPS IN DIFFERENT SORTS 27: if you are leading a faction army you will share your food with the group ( most npc groups are starving ) so you gain a shit load of influence ( Faction currency) 28: Hi Mac! ITS HARVESTING SEASON BOYS!
Not a tip but more of a small detail: You can actually play board games at the taverns - the games won't highlight by pressing ALT, but if you pay attention you can find a man sitting in front of a board game. Just sit in front of him and talk to him to play. Another cool thing is that each culture has their own type of game
I’d recommend going to the backstreets inside the cities and attacking the thugs, gets you a lot of money and relation with merchants early in the game :)
victor geurts Yh im on realistic difficulty, best to have a few companions to help you kill the first few thugs, (if the one companion is following you ask him/her to gather the rest in the town) then you’re army will help you when they bring more to attack.
victor geurts haha yh I thought why do I only have one companion follow me when I’m in a city. So yh just talk to the companion and say gather all my followers to meet me, then just run to the backstreet and they should be all with you by the time you arrive :)
Mack you’re a legend mate 🙌🏽 I’ve been real low sometimes but generally your channel helps me so much and I’m sure others feel the same way 👊🏽 keep it going bud!!
Here is a tip for late game leadership grinding, once you are financially stable and can support some companion parties, form some parties, then you can form an army with their parties at 0 influence cost and lead them around the map gaining free leadership exp. If you are planing to do this ahead time invest some points into leadership in order to when you start leading an army boost the amount of xp you get, I used this method and I gained about 25 lvls in leadership (from 50-75) within two hours just running around the map grinding out looters, trading, and doing tournaments. Also if your army cohesion is low you can just disband a reform with your parties right away to get high cohesion back.
Tip: If you are wealthy, use the encyclopedia to find the location of the owner of a town/city/castle that you want. You can then just buy it from them! I'm doing this at the moment because I was getting a bit carried away with the executions 😅
Couch lance with X, charge head long into a crowd, does crazy damage and stuns infantry/archers, guarantees at least one kill on anything. I have not come across an enemy yet that does not immediately die from a couched lance hit.
nealsus christ it’s in the game! It’s just more rare to find a weapon that can be couched because during the time period the game is set in, couching was a new technique
Regarding trading tips for early game, here are a few: 1. Only buy when the price of the goods is 'green' (meaning its cheaper than average), you can sell when the price of the goods is 'gold' but obviously best to sell when the price of the goods is 'red' (meaning it is selling for more than average). 2. Bear in mind that if you buy food items with the intention of trading them that your party WILL consume them (this includes Beer, Wine, Olives, Dates, Fish, Grain, etc.) even if you 'lock' them in the inventory. So it's not worth buying these unless you can buy them in such bulk that it doesn't matter that your troops consume some while you are travelling to your sale destination. 3. I find Linen to the best money maker in terms of reliably being able to buy it low and sell it high. Clay and Hardwood are also pretty good. Flax you can also get quite cheaply and usually sell for more than you buy it, but it's one of those items that the price will drop very quickly as you sell it to a city... so if you have 500 Flax you might have to visit several cities to get rid of it all at profit. Basically everything other good just buy green and sell higher (with the exception of Oil explained below) and you'll have no issue. I did one anti-clockwise cycle of the map and went from 10k to 70k. 4. I'd avoid buying Oil as I can never seem to reliably find cities where I can sell it for a non-green price (you can still profit by buying it at a green price of 40 and selling at a green price of 70 but it's harder to keep track of this). 5. I find travelling anti-clockwise around the map (avoiding the Sturgian cities) to be the best for trading routes. Generally the Olives and Linen from Vlandia sell well in Aserai, and the Linen/Dates from Aserai sell well in the Khuzait Steppes/the Empire.
Here’s a couple for those horse riders out there: Some polearms are couchable, making it very easy to line up an attack run and deliver an instant kill. When purchasing a couchable weapon, it’ll tell you if it is, right next to where it says ‘one handed’ or ‘two handed’. Another great tip is to double tap and hold the w and s keys to almost instantly accelerate or stop your horse. It’s much faster than having to hold w to speed all the way up, or hold s to slow all the way back down.
Army Xp: if you wish your troops to level up faster select ‘send troops’ rather than attack. Slightly less immersive experience but helps to level up your army at a faster rate. Also hearing about the pole arm on your twitch stream Sunday made me switch to a two handed axe. Very OP!
search for a pole-arm with cut damage, not just pierce and with 200+ length for good reach. With a cav charge even a cut damage of 10 can on the weapon can do 300 damage and insta kill anything.(they are OP in this game)
Wow, I was actually on TH-cam watching these kinds of vids after buying the game earlier today after watching your vid on it and now you uploaded this!
Mack you should consider playing with VoiceAttack its insane. Google "Screamerlord" to find a profile for it. Being able to yell "Infantry, Charge" and see them do it is a game changer.
Wish I knew about "N" on my first save. Finding anyone is such a ball ache without it. Loving the game though! Would recommend it for new players. Can't wait for the full release if this is the early access. Tip: I've found influence to be the most difficult resource to get lots of. Especially if the faction you are with has certain kingdom policies. However if you are at war, sometimes donating lords and troops that you have taken prisoner to an ally dungeon can give you up to 100 influence a time in my experience. It does differ though and I am messing around with it now to try and find out why but it's a great way to gain hefty amounts in one go. I'm not sure if donating troops to the garrison is similar but it's worth a try.
@PJ when you join an army and the other forces dont have food which happens in overextended conquests, you can gain influence by feeding thhe whole army. You can get 100 influence ez but your 300 grain stock will get depleted in a week.
Tips: --If you hover on the green value of the item, it tells you by how much it is cheaper based on the average price of what you have found so far, not the average of what all the cities offer. --Prices change and scam you, that is why they are named "Rumors", some of them are false rumors and unless you approximately know the true average price it could make you lose a lot of money.(there is a perk to reduce these rumors and caravans and workshops give accurate information, and are colored brighter then the faded ones(rumors)) --looters do blunt damage so they never kill your troops(just wound) in auto-resolve, use them to level up your weak troops, money and farming renown(approx 1 renown each fair battle) --try to have the requirements of the main quest finished soon because when you finish it, it automatically makes you at peace with everyone if you are at war,(talk to the quest finisher right after you start your own kingdom since when you start your kingdom you auto declare war to every one). --use cav only army to move very fast on the map and you can catch even caravans. :) --use all heros to smith/smelt/etc.. your weapons.(clicking on the portrait allows you to choose which hero should do it) --When commanding a siege, let the ram destroy the main gate before ordering a charge else they will all go to the ladders into a meat grinder. --do not let one kingdom be too powerful, there are ways to slow down such empire, be their vassal, take the land they take, create army and grab some of their vassals away from where they need them. Push for a stalemate or a loss. Snowballing effect still not fixed yet, the player has to stop it if he wants to stand a chance of establishing his own kingdom and survive it. --killing forest bandits roaming outside their hideout before attacking the hideout reduces their numbers and makes it a lot easier.
Talk to the bar lady intaverns, accept the drink she offers, talk her again, now you can order drinks for all your men for morale boost. Also taverns have different merc units in them, worth checking out.
Another tip that helped me stop losing so many archers after big battles. Instead of charging, advance your forces with f4. Charging with archers makes them switch to melee combat within range. Advancing them allows them to fall back and continue with arrows.
Something I stumbled on U can us a javelin that has a throwing and One hander option. Throw the stacks until u get to 1 left then press X and us it as a spear
this is also true for some two handed swords that can be used one-handed. There might be other weapons too, but like TheSkiingJeep said, check the stat card. You will need to click on each option on the stat card, as the stats will change depending on how you're using the weapon.
Some multiplayer tips from a warband MP veteran. Most of these are warband tips that carry over to Bannerlord 1. Do not run at people with your attack already chambered, not only do you run slower but it leaves you open to getting countered, which brings me to my next tip 2. Learn to target swap, or turn fighting as we sometimes call it. This skill is invaluable and i often find it easier to get kills when im fighting multiple opponents because they get reckless and leave themselves open for a turn swing. The idea is that you you change your target at the last minute to catch the other guy off guard. 3. If getting charged by a horse and you dont have enough time to avoid entirely, try to position yourself directly in front of the horse as it is very hard for the rider to swing and/or stab u there and u will most likely just get knocked over. 4. Learn.To.Feint. 5. Unless youre sure that there are no enemies nearby always walk with your shield up. A good archer only needs a second to land a headshot on someone not paying attention. 6. The 3rd person archer view seams to shoot a little high in the alpha, go into first person for more accurate shots, or aim a little low. 7. If youre feeling confident you can often get a swing in on an opponent that is charging u with a chambered attack. Simple move forward and swing and you will usually get your swing off first and get a free hit. I call it countering. This is risky 8. The top thrust on spears seems to be way more effective and reliable against infantry and cavalry. Thrusts are kinda janky in general right now in bannerlord tho. 9. If you are an archer and your being approached by a melee with a shield, hold your shot until the last minute and you can usually nail then when they drop their shield to swing their weapon. This is very satisfying. 10. If you are being approached by a melee player, sometimes you can aim for the foot and get a cheeky shot in under their guard. Alternatively, if they are using a small shield and the low guard, you can usually get a headshot. 11. If you have an axe then be as aggressive as you can against shielded players, they are very strong against shields. Newer players will usually be overwhelmed if you keep swinging at them non stop. Veteran players will know that they can almost always get a swing in after they block an attack, so be careful 12. If youre an archer always shoot and move, even if you arent being shot at. Get into the habit of sidestepping after every shot. This will make you significantly harder to hit. 13. A melee on melee fight can often fall into a rhythm of attack > block > attack. You can throw this rhythm off by occasionally holding your swing for a fraction of a second longer, and it will usually result in the enemy dropping their shield for their attack netting u a free swing. We simply call this holding.
@@RyTrapp0 Havent used shield bash much. In order for kick to rele work you have to be pretty confident that its gonna hit. If you dont swing immediately after kicking they are gonna be able to block. I mean immediately after, like no hesitation or waiting to see if the kick hit. Not much use outside of dueling imo. Unless you get a rele predictable opponent
Workshop Location: When you setup a workshop, find a city that sells very cheap raw materials (has a village nearby producing it) and at the same time very expensive "end product" of the same type. For example I found that Orc Hall, had veeeeery cheap clay... and Pottery was super expensive there, I placed a pottery shop and it makes me the most cash out of any other shop so far for me.
Thanks for the tips Mac after your review I decided to buy this and when I got stuck in I got overwhelmed due to this being my first run at it in the series keep up the great work
Thank you Mack! Just picked up the game on Greenman because of your review. You're the only guy I trust and I love your style. Looking forward to playing the game. Keep up the great work! Ding ding!! Toot toot!!
Here are some tips: 1. When in a faction if you join an active army you will get experience in whatever they do. Are they sieging a town or castle? You get points in engineering. Are they raiding a village? You get points in rougery. You also don't lose affiliation with the influencial people in those towns the army is raiding. At least if you aren't the leader of the army. 2. Is the army you are in going to be attacked by another army? Leave the army and join the battle by yourself after they've already engaged. The AI makes dumb decisions and gives stupid commands. Its better to have full control over your soldiers during combat. I've seen a friendly army lose even if they outnumber 2 to 1 because of how stupid they are at commanding. 3. Do tournaments early on whenever you go into a city. They give you a lot of good gear. In one campaign I received a tier 5 helmet as a reward and after a while I received a second one that I sold for a profit of 5k gold. Bonus: Now with the new patch you get points during tournaments. 4. This is more towards mid - late game. When you have a level 3 clan you can have 3 personnal armies. Yours and 2 companions. You can create a big army with the other 2 giving you an edge in battle against other factions. 5. If you make your companions lead their own personal armies and leave them alone, when you're in a faction they will hunt bandits and you will receive rep with villages of that faction. Very easy way to rank up and get more / better troops. 6. Unless you really don't want to do a manual battle, never send your troops alone on anything other than looters. Even your most expensive units have a chance of dying to a lousy mountain bandit. And finally, I don't know if this actually works or I just had a stroke of luck 3 times in a row, but: After you join a faction if you want a castle or town really easily the best way to do it is to siege one by yourself, don't form an army with anyone, and capture it. Most of the time when they start voting the lords of the faction will vote almost unanimously to give you the newly acquired land
I've found that Smithing is the key to making a ton of money. Fine steel sells for around 500/unit on average, and you can refine a lot of the stuff by farming Sea Raiders.
The feature that collects bartering data is GREAT since it wasn't in the previous game. I HATED recording that down on paper/my phone - and that hypes me more to get this soon. Thx mack for mentioning that. I'll use your gmg link when I get the time to buy it.
theres also a perk where your caravans will collect the data for any city they go to. this helps give you much more up to date info from an even wider sample of cities - very useful
- Careful not have too many horses or mules. if you exceed the amount your current party size can ride you will get a "herd" debuff to your party speed. keep war horses over regular horses, just in case you want to upgrade some troops to higher tier mounted units. - Work shops can gain you good profits in the early game to help you support caravans later. When buying a Workshop have a look at the villages around the city, and make the Workshop correspond to what supply is closest. For example, Clay producing villages will give you good profits if you build a pottery Workshop. - Find a lance that you can "Couch". During battle on a mount, as you speed up a spear icon will appear above your health bar. Press X on the keyboard, and this will hold your lance like you are jousting. All you need to now is run down a enemy, does massive damage, kills enemies and mounts in one hit, but make sure your mount and you are well armoured because the damage multipliers are physics based, so the faster you are the more damage you can inflict. Same goes for the damage you take, so if you are charging a enemy at full gallop and he decides to throw a javelin at your chest, well you'll be flat on your back.
A note on horses that I didn't see in the comments yet: Sumpter Horses do not count towards your speed bonus, they will instead give you more inventory space similar to mules and camels, if you find you're reaching the herd status trade the sumpters for other horses. Once you've got a decent army size consider taking livestock with you for sieges. They don't add weight to your inventory, meaning more loot or tradegoods, and they can be slaughtered when you start running low on food.
Smelting weapons and selling the scrap pays more and levels up smithing. Assign yourself as quartermaster in the clan menu to level up steward skill. You can win helmets worth 7k in tournaments.
There are a lot of weapons in the game that have secondary uses. Pressing X will switch it's use. When using a lance on a horse get up to full speed and you will see an icon in the bottom right, press X to couch the lance.... It does up to 600 damage per hit!!! Pressing left alt will show you any points/persons of interest in a city. Pressing left shift will allow you to zoom in. Most useful when using a bow/crossbow. If you cannot create your own kingdom revert your game to v 1.0.4 in the steam beta tab and it'll work.n Just remember to change it back again as the snowballing in that version is out of control. Double tapping W/S will instantly speed your horse up/ slow it down. To gain reputation with a certain faction you can kill the thugs that hang around the back alleys in cities. This has been the most effective way to gain reputation.
Great tips. I knew about the trade list showing up in the trade window, but didn't realize the I could save my eyes by looking at the color to see if it was a good price
just started playing this as the proper release has full pad support, I am absolutely LOVING IT!!! WHAT A GAME!! Doesn't need amazing graphics or xray vision or a bright colour palate, just great mechanics and a well thought out world.
Something to note: if you have too many live animals in your party they will no longer give you a speed boost and will start to actively slow you down. Mouse over the speed icon in the right hand corner and you will see "herd" as a negative modifier. Sumpter horses and camels are better pack animals than mules, they are faster. By level 10 or so I was basically travelling around with like 150 horses minimum, and I wondered why I wasn't going as fast as I used to: that's why.
Yep army size of 20 is good when starting out, just be careful not to upgrade your troops too quickly before you can afford it! I almost bankrupted myself by upgrading my Sturgian Recruits before I was really capable of generating enough income to pay for their upkeep at higher tiers. I'd say you're better off keeping units as Recruits when you first start out, and then doing some trading/farming looters to earn enough money to buy: (1) enough Sumpter Horses to have a decent inventory capacity (10,000+ capacity); (2) enough regular horses in your inventory to boost your speed to around 6 (so you can catch almost any looter party); and (3) at least 1 workshop and/or caravan for a more stable income (to offset your troop wages). Then go nuts farming looters to rank up your troops and push them to tier 6 as fast as you can.
Regarding workshops I find Pottery workshops to be the most profitable (Marunath one does well), but I also got decent returns from a Tannery in Odokh.
Thing I've found for leveling up troops is level them all up at the same time (because XP is measured by unit type so you gain it faster the more of the particular unit you have.) also attacking looters and autoresolving almost allways results in your men only being wounded so if you can find them 60 stacks of looters are a great way to level troops up to the point they have a sheild and are able to survive enemy archers.
press X to crouch lance - massive damage it needs to be a lance not a spear and have the crouch lance tag if you hover over on the item and this may seem like one everybody should know E to kick - gives you some distance the thing was I didn't know this for a while pressing E with block will deliver a shield bash
Ooh ooh i got one When smelting and you get a part for a dagger/one handed sword/2 handed sword, select it and switch to the two of the 3 it wasnt for and it'll unlock that part for the others if theyre in the same location. Most often it works w dagger->oh and 2h->1h parts but also have gotten dagger and 2 hander parts from 1 hander parts. And no, that's not how its supposed to work they remain locked on the other pages unless i select them and switch. Blades and handles have the most compatibility. Smelting also raises your smithing but muuuch slower than any other way. Finally, smelting high tier weapons (provide thamaskian steel) have about a 33% chance with the curious smelter perk to provide a new part, mid-high tiers aka 3 or more regular steels have about a 20% and less than 3 steel its about 15% and the stuff that only gives iron it's less than 10%. If you dont have the perk its half that and the rest i find negligible other than for selling the materials to buy the good weapons. Sadly theres no way that i know of to get specific parts i have tons of dagger stuff but only 2 super lame guards for swords despite smelting approximately 1000 swords
Tip. If you want your own kingdom, keep the banner. Otherwise, if you decide to go under another kingdom and in future decide to leave it, there are no way to found your own kingdom anymore. You can conquer towns and castles, but that's it - no kingdom menu and no options available, at least for now. Tried different ways, even executed every ruler.
Macketh! I hope you are well buddy during the plague, hope all of the guys guys are doing well, staying in, playing games and watching re-runs of Emmerdale Farm while trying to find places for a cheeky w**k when the missis is doing the ironing or brushing her teeth.
I got a tip, when in a war with a faction, defeat an enemy army and make sure to keep their commander imprisoned. Destroy enough armies and imprison their commanders and the enemy faction isn't able to make anymore armies.
I noticed if you have too many animals (horses, mules etc.) you get a negative to map speed called something like "pack animals" (can't remember exactly now). It seems there is a sweet spot based on party size for the number of horses etc. you can have so it's best to check and sell some of them off. Also, not only polearms are great, but also proper lances on horseback - look for ones that say couch weapon, like a Vlandian Lance. You can ride at speed and couch the lance (hit x when the icon shows above your health bar that it can be couched) and you will do a load of damage with it - 500+. Also, pay attention to the length of your secondary weapon. It may seem cool to wield a giant tier 5 broadsword but not if you can't swing it. I have come to prefer short swords and maces for sieges as they're much easier to use in tight spaces.
If you see a bandit camp don't go to it. Go to the nearby villages and check to see if there is a quest to clear it out. Also never duel the bandit leader. If you do the 4 guys behind him will be on the map and they'll be fast so it's hard to catch them. They'll go back to the camp spot and remake it. If you choose not to duel you kill those 4 guys with the boss and they don't spawn back on the map.
Great tips. I could have used some of these for faster starts. My tip is: have fun with this game for about 25 hours. Enjoy the combat engine and early game buildup. Then uninstall and wait another 6 months. The world/character mechanics and balance are not close to being finished and it gradually kills the fun.
Mid/Late: When you are besieging a castle , you can save the siege weapons within the reserve, clicking on the corresponding icon, in this way the Ballistas from the castle won't destroy them. Early tip: Always Check the speed of your target before facing them or you will waste time in an infinite pursuit.
Discovering the encyclopedia for me was my big turning point in figuring out the game. They really should include it in the tutorial if they aren't going to provide a button on the GUI for it.
You can significantly increase the amount of money you can get from trash mobs by using the smithy to break down equipment. Go to where Hardwood is cheap and turn it into charcoal. Most weapons will give you 1 hardwood back (from the handle), so you can easily make a net profit from selling the iron to towns, and often more than tier 1 equipment would sell for.
In outnumbered battles use the charge order conservatively. Keep the shield wall in place and your cav together or else the cav might end up chasing the fleeing infantry (which scattered from the initial charge) while your front line still needs help with the rest of the remaining enemies. Also in these outnumbered battles it is essential, that your initial charge is straight into the enemy infantry to break their morale asap therefore the enemy missile troops will have free reign at the start which again is why you don't want the cav to scatter to the winds chasing fleeing enemies when there is still job to do.
Early in the game and through out your game, go to any arena and play in practice matches. Just spam them and play match after match. Not only do you earn a small amount of gold but you level up all your skills depending on weapons your using plus, your honing your player skill with how each weapon plays in battle. You can build up strategies on how to use your weapons against other weapon types due to strength and weaknesses. It’s great fun!
I think there's an exploit where you can also buy swords, smelt them and make more money selling the raw materials than the actual cost of the sword. 'The Spiffing Brit' did a video on it.
Keep having two Braveheart PTSD flashbacks. One where I’m on a horse with a pole arm racing towards another rider all on my own and the other where I laugh like a crazy Irish man as arrows rain down on my men and my shield
Another quick tip. You can smelt all the enemy weapons into raw materials, and you can sell the materials for a lot more than you can with just the weapon.
best thing i have learned the past 40hours of gameplay is to recruit khuzait nomads, as soon as they pas their first level (you need a steppe or desert horse though) they are practically unbeatable when you command them well. they use bow and arrow and strafe their enemy. I have beaten lords with this while they fastly outnumber me. (does not work well against other horse orientated factions - or desert bandits) basically bow and arrow on a horse is very strong
Kingdom is a fully first person game, this is part strategy part first person. There's a lot more repetition Bannerlords where all instances are special in Kingdom
It’s good to have a lot of horses, but if you check movement speed, it shows your bonus for soldiers on horseback, but also shows the negative effect from having too big of a herd. Try to balance the amount of horse where you have close to 0 on the herd penalty, and close to 1 on the soldiers on horseback. I also noticed that my troops seem to level up more frequently if you auto-resolve fights? Not entirely sure if this is true but certainly seems that way. Not exactly a huge fan of not taking part in battles but it can help when rebuilding a bigger army
Great tips mack.. also being a vassal or joining a faction gives a 100 cut to your daily expenses and if you join a army you experience huuuge battles and get renown quickly. If you siege a castle too early, you get sieged by 500 enemy units versus your 50-100 and you will get rekt son!
Thanks for the tips bro. It will help me great deal, I have no idea what I am doing in this game at the moment but with these tips I will be unstoppable.
Was on the fence for this game and after watching your video yesterday I bought it instantly, just finished downloading as i was heading to bed then 8 hours later I still wasnt sleeping! lol so addictive.
Hit X To Couch Lances, Smelt down weapons for components, Also use Alt for a battlefield overlay and get used to troop commands by doing some skirmishes. Also Try sending companions to Bandit camps instead of going there yourself.
Every town you visit you should check to see if a tournament is going on. Team fights make it easier to advance to the next round and 1v1 fights are doable if you are hyper aggressive and dont allow them to respond. You can also circle strafe cheese them with a little bit of speed. If you arent confident about winning simply dont bet, but you should make the attempt every time anyway to level the combat skills you dont often use. Those skill trees have perks that can still benefit you. On the other hand i dont recommend asking for tournaments and chasing them around. Contrary to what the arena master says, you got about a 50/50 chance of getting to the town before the tournament is over. In my game i only check towns that are extremely nearby or that i visit naturally, more often then not it has a tournament going on. If you really want to farm tournaments i really think its faster to just pick a city and wait there every day to check. This seems a little ridiculous so it will probably be patched.
The is one of the first games that have piqued my interest a bit in awhile. Not even Doom eternal did it for me, and i was a huge Doom/Quake fan/player
Ye I grew up on Doom/Quake and blizzard strats, haven't played anything from Id or Blizzard in years though, I watched the Id interview on Rogan and Joe was like "you should do a doom VR theme park" and the dude literally said "Nah we're just gonna keep doing the same things as we have for the last 30 years" I was like, ye and that's why i don't buy your games anymore.
One tip that i use all the time is to so smelt the weapons you want to sell. That way you level up your smithing and you can sell the metalls for a higher price.
If you take lots of Family Feud quests (where you gain a ‘temporary’ follower to take to another village) and then deliberately not complete it, you end up with a free Companion that is only level 1 forever but can still form caravans, parties, go on simple missions, etc etc. I have about 6! Haha
TIP!!!!! When you get prisoners from lords after a battle sell the ones with less experience. What I do is keep all of the top tier troops as prisoners. After a while, they are willing to join my army, ill just keep them to replenish my troops to cover the lost men after other battles. This means you have on hand recruitment whenever you need it and they are free and on hand. P.S. If you want you can sell them, but for late and mid-game the money is not that hard to come by and experienced leveled up men are.
When upgrading troops or buying stuff if you dont want to pay for them just click on a different menu that makes the game pop up saying do you want to apply these changes you click accept and it wont charge you for upgrading nor buying items pretty cool tip
Here's a good tip level up leadership until you can recruit prisoners, now if your a mercenary or a vassal fighting in a war when ever you win a siege or battle you can replenish your troops with the high tier units you captured and sell off all the chaff ones
Great tips Mack thank you for your video! I have been playing it now for a few hours and like you, I am not enjoying the quests that much besides the main story. But I am having fun just roaming around and making my own stories.
Do tournaments for easy starting money in the early game. Use that money to buy mules and trade goods. Trade until you have 14K and buy a workshop. Workshop funds your army, trade and fight until your army grows and you have another 15K for the caravan. repeat until you own all of calradia
If you want to make a crossbow character, be sure to give some skill while creating your character. Min crossbow skill required is 20. You can create an army and join your companions to that army for free influence. (kingdom page) You can create additional parties with your companions and they will do quests and stuff for you improving your relation and earning you gold. (Earning you gold part may be bugged). Marry and get children ASAP. They're slot-free companions so you can use them to everything, governing fiefs, caravans, additional parties. Do not execute people too much. I have become -2 Honor because I've wiped out two clans (was very satisfying- they attacked my caravans ffs). And not imprisoning people is not helping with my honor, idk why And I love you Mac
@@matthewvorndran6931 Invite her to your party. I still dont have kids too and some people have kids when they're away from home which is suspicious both about legitimacy and game's logic
*Tip number 69* - auto-resolve fights with looters, they cant kill anything above peasant (only injure) which means you can get high tier army very fast
With trading, you can also mouse over the price in the tooltip which will pop up another tooltip to tell you, as a percentage, how much cheaper or more expensive that item is.
Tip 11: Do smithing. Refine wood into coal, smelt down weapons instead of selling. Sell what you smelted them down into. Gets more exp for levels and gets more money.
My main tip is having troops advance rather than charge as this way ranged units will always try and stay in range of enemies instead of rushing in and getting slaughtered
Some really good tips in the comments, great job guys.
check mine mate its for early / mid / late game also
here is another one - if you want better click-through rate on your videos, don't pick even number of tips in a title.
TIP FOR YOU:
Press R in character creating menu, and you will be able to play as Kid.
You will run faster and easy to defend yourself with shield.
Mwuahaha. It seems i got 1 of the best tips for trading that most people don't know yet. Ok i'll grace you guys with this amazing tip for trading. You can sell to caravans instead of to cities. There's a huge benefit to this because caravan prices do not adapt while in the middle of selling. Cities prices adapt while selling, villages and caravans don't. So you find a city that will buy a commodity you have a high quantity of for an extremely high price. Problem is, because the price adapts during the transaction, the price deflates pretty quickly. But caravans keep around 15k gold on them and they use the price points of the nearby city. So instead of selling in the city, you wait in the city for a caravan to come so you can sell to the caravan using the same price point of the city, but without the prices deflating. You make so much more gold this way.
If you have enough of a certain commodity for emptying more than 1 caravan's gold supply, you can wait to catch the caravan as it's leaving the city as opposed to when it's on it's way in. Because if you sell while it's going in, then the prices will change after it goes in. Then just wait for another caravan. A couple of slight annoyances are: 1) that caravans are fast, so it's hard to catch unless you're coming from in front of it. 2) some cities don't have many caravans coming to them for some reason, unfortunately.
Sometimes it could also come in handy to know that the caravan gold resets after entering a city. So if you have multiple commodities to sell and want to empty the same caravan twice, you can.
I'm not sure about this one, Mack, learning is part of the fun
I like how you just cut straight to the tips; no long BS intro to extend the video. This is why I love you man.
Yes, they always drag on about other bullshit just to get to the 10 minute mark.
DO YOUR JOB AND THUMB ME
1: Have alot of different kinds of food to keep high morale in your troops
2: High morale = leadership skill up + map movement speed
3: Keep all horses and mules u dont need u can cut them up for meat
4: Warhorses are needed to upgrade troops to high teir cavalry or Cav archers
5: Warhorses are sold at citys or towns that produce horses
6: Buy workshops in towns for passive gold income per day
7: you can choose what workshop type you want but check what villages are attached to the town to see what workshop works best
8: Join a faction or form your own and start to pillage as many villages as u can for resources + Influence ( Faction currency )
9: If you plan on doing a castle siege pillage that castles attached villages and then wait outside the castle and make sure no peasants travel to the castle
10: If you block a castles supply routes the number of defenders will drop over a few days due to starvation and leaving because its a shit place to stay
11: use as many companions as you can on caravans to never even think about money again
12: Best horse archers are the Mongol faction ( right of the map )
13: an army of 50 good horse archers can beat an army of 150 mixed on an open plane ( they run in a dothraki circle and spam arrows )
14: Wounded dudes in your dude army heal faster if you wait at a town
15: once you join a faction and join a party ( army group ) make sure you actually pull the finger out during a castle siege and u gain more points to keeping that castle for yourself
16: Gaining castles fast and fast and fast is a shit idea. upgrade them to full and garrison them first and they will never be raided and give you 5X the income from a fresh castle.
17: Polearms are good for horses but only for side sweeps, 2 handed weapons are great if u wanna swing from the side ( they most times 1 shot )
18: Companions you send out on a party right now are Trash AI and will always get captured by bandits and its much better to send them on a caravan for that sweet sweet DOSH
19: Starting out try trade as much as u can to the nearest 2 or 3 city's close to you to get enough gold to buy a caravan / workshop. once you get +$ per day you dont need to trade anymore
20: Prices shown for different city items will change by the time you get there. travel in the near REMEMBER THE NAMES.
21: Away with you Vile begger
22: High level trade perks make you able to actually straight up BUY a Settlement from the owner for $$$. by this time u will have more money they sense so throw money at problems and u can make people like you.
23: Your character CAN and WILL die of old age so remember to get married and have kids so u can play as them once he kicks the bucket so its not GG
24: Side with empire makes you enemy with half the map ( you gotta stay in the middle without getting your shit kicked in )
25: Side to Destroy the empire makes you enemy with half the map ( you gotta stay out of the middle without getting your shit kicked in )
26: ALWAYS BUY EXCESS FOOD FOR YOUR TROOPS IN DIFFERENT SORTS
27: if you are leading a faction army you will share your food with the group ( most npc groups are starving ) so you gain a shit load of influence ( Faction currency)
28: Hi Mac!
ITS HARVESTING SEASON BOYS!
Are you sure about the horse archers? Heard bucellari are the best. I recruited imperial and khuzait units. Gonna see how they do
23:.... - WAIT! WHAT!!!!???
@@gmlviper the moment you realize you are old and cant get any children lmao
Also if you want to level your troops faster simulate the battle with a companion with high tactics any companion named lucky will be a tactician
Can you explain why pillaging the villages around a castle is useful? Do they supply it with food which is how you starve them out? Confused
Not a tip but more of a small detail: You can actually play board games at the taverns - the games won't highlight by pressing ALT, but if you pay attention you can find a man sitting in front of a board game. Just sit in front of him and talk to him to play. Another cool thing is that each culture has their own type of game
I saw that yesterday and that's so cool and immersive
only had played the Khuzait one so far but its surprisingly well implemented. won myself 500 denears playing it.
I got destroyed again and again at one of these games for like an hour :''''''(
I’d recommend going to the backstreets inside the cities and attacking the thugs, gets you a lot of money and relation with merchants early in the game :)
on realistic difficulty?
victor geurts Yh im on realistic difficulty, best to have a few companions to help you kill the first few thugs, (if the one companion is following you ask him/her to gather the rest in the town) then you’re army will help you when they bring more to attack.
@@ryanmitchell7339 oh I see ty haha only 1 followed me before
victor geurts haha yh I thought why do I only have one companion follow me when I’m in a city. So yh just talk to the companion and say gather all my followers to meet me, then just run to the backstreet and they should be all with you by the time you arrive :)
Wow is there anythings in the cities ? 50 hours played time first time heard it lol
Mack you’re a legend mate 🙌🏽 I’ve been real low sometimes but generally your channel helps me so much and I’m sure others feel the same way 👊🏽 keep it going bud!!
100% in the same boat man. Hope you’re doing well dude.
Here is a tip for late game leadership grinding, once you are financially stable and can support some companion parties, form some parties, then you can form an army with their parties at 0 influence cost and lead them around the map gaining free leadership exp. If you are planing to do this ahead time invest some points into leadership in order to when you start leading an army boost the amount of xp you get, I used this method and I gained about 25 lvls in leadership (from 50-75) within two hours just running around the map grinding out looters, trading, and doing tournaments. Also if your army cohesion is low you can just disband a reform with your parties right away to get high cohesion back.
Tip: If you are wealthy, use the encyclopedia to find the location of the owner of a town/city/castle that you want. You can then just buy it from them!
I'm doing this at the moment because I was getting a bit carried away with the executions 😅
lol great tip
Don't you need like 125 or so trade skill to do that though?
How do you buy it from them? Do you have to be part of their faction?
wow.. wish i knew that earlier today, i started over from scratch.. killed too many nobles... had 2.2mil
you can buy them for literally 1 denar lol
Couch lance with X, charge head long into a crowd, does crazy damage and stuns infantry/archers, guarantees at least one kill on anything. I have not come across an enemy yet that does not immediately die from a couched lance hit.
One it everything and everyone. Shish kebab everything. Horses with high maneuver stats are better. The faster you run the higher the damage.
Lmao exactly what I do...works amazingly
Couch lances are my favorite
I was wondering what happened to couching i swear in warband it would do it when you got going fast enough
nealsus christ it’s in the game! It’s just more rare to find a weapon that can be couched because during the time period the game is set in, couching was a new technique
Regarding trading tips for early game, here are a few:
1. Only buy when the price of the goods is 'green' (meaning its cheaper than average), you can sell when the price of the goods is 'gold' but obviously best to sell when the price of the goods is 'red' (meaning it is selling for more than average).
2. Bear in mind that if you buy food items with the intention of trading them that your party WILL consume them (this includes Beer, Wine, Olives, Dates, Fish, Grain, etc.) even if you 'lock' them in the inventory. So it's not worth buying these unless you can buy them in such bulk that it doesn't matter that your troops consume some while you are travelling to your sale destination.
3. I find Linen to the best money maker in terms of reliably being able to buy it low and sell it high. Clay and Hardwood are also pretty good. Flax you can also get quite cheaply and usually sell for more than you buy it, but it's one of those items that the price will drop very quickly as you sell it to a city... so if you have 500 Flax you might have to visit several cities to get rid of it all at profit. Basically everything other good just buy green and sell higher (with the exception of Oil explained below) and you'll have no issue. I did one anti-clockwise cycle of the map and went from 10k to 70k.
4. I'd avoid buying Oil as I can never seem to reliably find cities where I can sell it for a non-green price (you can still profit by buying it at a green price of 40 and selling at a green price of 70 but it's harder to keep track of this).
5. I find travelling anti-clockwise around the map (avoiding the Sturgian cities) to be the best for trading routes. Generally the Olives and Linen from Vlandia sell well in Aserai, and the Linen/Dates from Aserai sell well in the Khuzait Steppes/the Empire.
Here’s a couple for those horse riders out there:
Some polearms are couchable, making it very easy to line up an attack run and deliver an instant kill. When purchasing a couchable weapon, it’ll tell you if it is, right next to where it says ‘one handed’ or ‘two handed’.
Another great tip is to double tap and hold the w and s keys to almost instantly accelerate or stop your horse. It’s much faster than having to hold w to speed all the way up, or hold s to slow all the way back down.
You know Mack likes a game when he makes a video announcing the review, a review, and a tips video.
Army Xp: if you wish your troops to level up faster select ‘send troops’ rather than attack. Slightly less immersive experience but helps to level up your army at a faster rate.
Also hearing about the pole arm on your twitch stream Sunday made me switch to a two handed axe. Very OP!
It also levels up your Tactics skill.
search for a pole-arm with cut damage, not just pierce and with 200+ length for good reach. With a cav charge even a cut damage of 10 can on the weapon can do 300 damage and insta kill anything.(they are OP in this game)
Press and hold alt to know where the enemy is coming from
@ Deceitful +1
Wow, I was actually on TH-cam watching these kinds of vids after buying the game earlier today after watching your vid on it and now you uploaded this!
Any good?
Me too! Exact same situation!
It's awesome. Ive played everyday since it's release.
Mack you should consider playing with VoiceAttack its insane. Google "Screamerlord" to find a profile for it. Being able to yell "Infantry, Charge" and see them do it is a game changer.
I used it for Elite, never thought about it for this, gonna download it again
@@WorthABuyreviews Please upload gameplay when ya do should be a laugh.
Seems very annoying though that your character yells if afterwards like an echo
I've only ever used that for GTA V lspdfr.
Might be cool for this too
Wish I knew about "N" on my first save. Finding anyone is such a ball ache without it.
Loving the game though! Would recommend it for new players.
Can't wait for the full release if this is the early access.
Tip: I've found influence to be the most difficult resource to get lots of. Especially if the faction you are with has certain kingdom policies. However if you are at war, sometimes donating lords and troops that you have taken prisoner to an ally dungeon can give you up to 100 influence a time in my experience. It does differ though and I am messing around with it now to try and find out why but it's a great way to gain hefty amounts in one go. I'm not sure if donating troops to the garrison is similar but it's worth a try.
Whoops, I thought he said "M". Thanks for saving me there...
@PJ you can get influence from some perks
@PJ when you join an army and the other forces dont have food which happens in overextended conquests, you can gain influence by feeding thhe whole army. You can get 100 influence ez but your 300 grain stock will get depleted in a week.
I just wish there were more type of companions. We still need trader, steward and leader companions.
same here man! it took me back to playing skyrim the first time and being too stupid to realise that there was a fast travel function
Tips:
--If you hover on the green value of the item, it tells you by how much it is cheaper based on the average price of what you have found so far, not the average of what all the cities offer.
--Prices change and scam you, that is why they are named "Rumors", some of them are false rumors and unless you approximately know the true average price it could make you lose a lot of money.(there is a perk to reduce these rumors and caravans and workshops give accurate information, and are colored brighter then the faded ones(rumors))
--looters do blunt damage so they never kill your troops(just wound) in auto-resolve, use them to level up your weak troops, money and farming renown(approx 1 renown each fair battle)
--try to have the requirements of the main quest finished soon because when you finish it, it automatically makes you at peace with everyone if you are at war,(talk to the quest finisher right after you start your own kingdom since when you start your kingdom you auto declare war to every one).
--use cav only army to move very fast on the map and you can catch even caravans. :)
--use all heros to smith/smelt/etc.. your weapons.(clicking on the portrait allows you to choose which hero should do it)
--When commanding a siege, let the ram destroy the main gate before ordering a charge else they will all go to the ladders into a meat grinder.
--do not let one kingdom be too powerful, there are ways to slow down such empire, be their vassal, take the land they take, create army and grab some of their vassals away from where they need them. Push for a stalemate or a loss. Snowballing effect still not fixed yet, the player has to stop it if he wants to stand a chance of establishing his own kingdom and survive it.
--killing forest bandits roaming outside their hideout before attacking the hideout reduces their numbers and makes it a lot easier.
Double click on the world map and fast forward automatically
Talk to the bar lady intaverns, accept the drink she offers, talk her again, now you can order drinks for all your men for morale boost. Also taverns have different merc units in them, worth checking out.
When using the encyclopaedia to search for someone, it updates where they are every time you go to a settlement. Helped me a lot
I believe it also updates whenever you talk to a noble.
If it does not, they have been captured and you have to wait a few days for them to respawn.
It also updates every day sometimes.
When you enter a settlement like just in the main menu or hop in and tab out?
Bandit just entering any settlement on the world map screen will update encyclopaedia. You don’t have to physically enter settlement.
Another tip that helped me stop losing so many archers after big battles. Instead of charging, advance your forces with f4. Charging with archers makes them switch to melee combat within range. Advancing them allows them to fall back and continue with arrows.
You can use the practice fights in the arena for leveling up skills (brought back with the latest patch).
Something I stumbled on
U can us a javelin that has a throwing and One hander option. Throw the stacks until u get to 1 left then press X and us it as a spear
Depends on the weapon. Some can, some can't. It'll be shown in their stat card if they can or cant.
this is also true for some two handed swords that can be used one-handed. There might be other weapons too, but like TheSkiingJeep said, check the stat card. You will need to click on each option on the stat card, as the stats will change depending on how you're using the weapon.
@@monarchco same goes for throwing axes.
And some spears, you can press x to switch from stabbing to swinging (and couched lance when on horse)
@@user-wq9mw2xz3j again. Just look at the Stat card.
It was in warband as well
Some multiplayer tips from a warband MP veteran. Most of these are warband tips that carry over to Bannerlord
1. Do not run at people with your attack already chambered, not only do you run slower but it leaves you open to getting countered, which brings me to my next tip
2. Learn to target swap, or turn fighting as we sometimes call it. This skill is invaluable and i often find it easier to get kills when im fighting multiple opponents because they get reckless and leave themselves open for a turn swing. The idea is that you you change your target at the last minute to catch the other guy off guard.
3. If getting charged by a horse and you dont have enough time to avoid entirely, try to position yourself directly in front of the horse as it is very hard for the rider to swing and/or stab u there and u will most likely just get knocked over.
4. Learn.To.Feint.
5. Unless youre sure that there are no enemies nearby always walk with your shield up. A good archer only needs a second to land a headshot on someone not paying attention.
6. The 3rd person archer view seams to shoot a little high in the alpha, go into first person for more accurate shots, or aim a little low.
7. If youre feeling confident you can often get a swing in on an opponent that is charging u with a chambered attack. Simple move forward and swing and you will usually get your swing off first and get a free hit. I call it countering. This is risky
8. The top thrust on spears seems to be way more effective and reliable against infantry and cavalry. Thrusts are kinda janky in general right now in bannerlord tho.
9. If you are an archer and your being approached by a melee with a shield, hold your shot until the last minute and you can usually nail then when they drop their shield to swing their weapon. This is very satisfying.
10. If you are being approached by a melee player, sometimes you can aim for the foot and get a cheeky shot in under their guard. Alternatively, if they are using a small shield and the low guard, you can usually get a headshot.
11. If you have an axe then be as aggressive as you can against shielded players, they are very strong against shields. Newer players will usually be overwhelmed if you keep swinging at them non stop. Veteran players will know that they can almost always get a swing in after they block an attack, so be careful
12. If youre an archer always shoot and move, even if you arent being shot at. Get into the habit of sidestepping after every shot. This will make you significantly harder to hit.
13. A melee on melee fight can often fall into a rhythm of attack > block > attack. You can throw this rhythm off by occasionally holding your swing for a fraction of a second longer, and it will usually result in the enemy dropping their shield for their attack netting u a free swing. We simply call this holding.
Any luck integrating the kick/shield hit in combat? Whenever I attempt to slip it in to create an opening, the timing of it just falls apart on me.
@@RyTrapp0 Havent used shield bash much. In order for kick to rele work you have to be pretty confident that its gonna hit. If you dont swing immediately after kicking they are gonna be able to block. I mean immediately after, like no hesitation or waiting to see if the kick hit. Not much use outside of dueling imo. Unless you get a rele predictable opponent
Workshop Location: When you setup a workshop, find a city that sells very cheap raw materials (has a village nearby producing it) and at the same time very expensive "end product" of the same type. For example I found that Orc Hall, had veeeeery cheap clay... and Pottery was super expensive there, I placed a pottery shop and it makes me the most cash out of any other shop so far for me.
Thanks for the tips Mac after your review I decided to buy this and when I got stuck in I got overwhelmed due to this being my first run at it in the series keep up the great work
Thank you Mack! Just picked up the game on Greenman because of your review. You're the only guy I trust and I love your style. Looking forward to playing the game. Keep up the great work! Ding ding!! Toot toot!!
Hello Mack. Love your videos. Specially during this damned isolation. Thank you and keep up the good work!!!
OMG Thank you this is my first M&B game and its overwhelming in many aspects! this has made my day!!!
small tip: when you on horse double press W to speed up quickly, double press S to stop quickly.
how about a play-through ?
Here are some tips:
1. When in a faction if you join an active army you will get experience in whatever they do. Are they sieging a town or castle? You get points in engineering. Are they raiding a village? You get points in rougery. You also don't lose affiliation with the influencial people in those towns the army is raiding. At least if you aren't the leader of the army.
2. Is the army you are in going to be attacked by another army? Leave the army and join the battle by yourself after they've already engaged. The AI makes dumb decisions and gives stupid commands. Its better to have full control over your soldiers during combat. I've seen a friendly army lose even if they outnumber 2 to 1 because of how stupid they are at commanding.
3. Do tournaments early on whenever you go into a city. They give you a lot of good gear. In one campaign I received a tier 5 helmet as a reward and after a while I received a second one that I sold for a profit of 5k gold. Bonus: Now with the new patch you get points during tournaments.
4. This is more towards mid - late game. When you have a level 3 clan you can have 3 personnal armies. Yours and 2 companions. You can create a big army with the other 2 giving you an edge in battle against other factions.
5. If you make your companions lead their own personal armies and leave them alone, when you're in a faction they will hunt bandits and you will receive rep with villages of that faction. Very easy way to rank up and get more / better troops.
6. Unless you really don't want to do a manual battle, never send your troops alone on anything other than looters. Even your most expensive units have a chance of dying to a lousy mountain bandit.
And finally, I don't know if this actually works or I just had a stroke of luck 3 times in a row, but:
After you join a faction if you want a castle or town really easily the best way to do it is to siege one by yourself, don't form an army with anyone, and capture it. Most of the time when they start voting the lords of the faction will vote almost unanimously to give you the newly acquired land
I've found that Smithing is the key to making a ton of money. Fine steel sells for around 500/unit on average, and you can refine a lot of the stuff by farming Sea Raiders.
The feature that collects bartering data is GREAT since it wasn't in the previous game. I HATED recording that down on paper/my phone - and that hypes me more to get this soon. Thx mack for mentioning that. I'll use your gmg link when I get the time to buy it.
theres also a perk where your caravans will collect the data for any city they go to. this helps give you much more up to date info from an even wider sample of cities - very useful
- Careful not have too many horses or mules. if you exceed the amount your current party size can ride you will get a "herd" debuff to your party speed. keep war horses over regular horses, just in case you want to upgrade some troops to higher tier mounted units.
- Work shops can gain you good profits in the early game to help you support caravans later. When buying a Workshop have a look at the villages around the city, and make the Workshop correspond to what supply is closest. For example, Clay producing villages will give you good profits if you build a pottery Workshop.
- Find a lance that you can "Couch". During battle on a mount, as you speed up a spear icon will appear above your health bar. Press X on the keyboard, and this will hold your lance like you are jousting. All you need to now is run down a enemy, does massive damage, kills enemies and mounts in one hit, but make sure your mount and you are well armoured because the damage multipliers are physics based, so the faster you are the more damage you can inflict. Same goes for the damage you take, so if you are charging a enemy at full gallop and he decides to throw a javelin at your chest, well you'll be flat on your back.
A note on horses that I didn't see in the comments yet: Sumpter Horses do not count towards your speed bonus, they will instead give you more inventory space similar to mules and camels, if you find you're reaching the herd status trade the sumpters for other horses.
Once you've got a decent army size consider taking livestock with you for sieges. They don't add weight to your inventory, meaning more loot or tradegoods, and they can be slaughtered when you start running low on food.
Smelting weapons and selling the scrap pays more and levels up smithing.
Assign yourself as quartermaster in the clan menu to level up steward skill.
You can win helmets worth 7k in tournaments.
There are a lot of weapons in the game that have secondary uses. Pressing X will switch it's use. When using a lance on a horse get up to full speed and you will see an icon in the bottom right, press X to couch the lance.... It does up to 600 damage per hit!!!
Pressing left alt will show you any points/persons of interest in a city.
Pressing left shift will allow you to zoom in. Most useful when using a bow/crossbow.
If you cannot create your own kingdom revert your game to v 1.0.4 in the steam beta tab and it'll work.n Just remember to change it back again as the snowballing in that version is out of control.
Double tapping W/S will instantly speed your horse up/ slow it down.
To gain reputation with a certain faction you can kill the thugs that hang around the back alleys in cities. This has been the most effective way to gain reputation.
Great tips. I knew about the trade list showing up in the trade window, but didn't realize the I could save my eyes by looking at the color to see if it was a good price
just started playing this as the proper release has full pad support, I am absolutely LOVING IT!!! WHAT A GAME!! Doesn't need amazing graphics or xray vision or a bright colour palate, just great mechanics and a well thought out world.
Something to note: if you have too many live animals in your party they will no longer give you a speed boost and will start to actively slow you down. Mouse over the speed icon in the right hand corner and you will see "herd" as a negative modifier.
Sumpter horses and camels are better pack animals than mules, they are faster. By level 10 or so I was basically travelling around with like 150 horses minimum, and I wondered why I wasn't going as fast as I used to: that's why.
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Cheers Mac, about 20 hours in and still didn’t know half of these haha! Especially the horses just been flogging them off!
Yep army size of 20 is good when starting out, just be careful not to upgrade your troops too quickly before you can afford it! I almost bankrupted myself by upgrading my Sturgian Recruits before I was really capable of generating enough income to pay for their upkeep at higher tiers. I'd say you're better off keeping units as Recruits when you first start out, and then doing some trading/farming looters to earn enough money to buy: (1) enough Sumpter Horses to have a decent inventory capacity (10,000+ capacity); (2) enough regular horses in your inventory to boost your speed to around 6 (so you can catch almost any looter party); and (3) at least 1 workshop and/or caravan for a more stable income (to offset your troop wages). Then go nuts farming looters to rank up your troops and push them to tier 6 as fast as you can.
Regarding workshops I find Pottery workshops to be the most profitable (Marunath one does well), but I also got decent returns from a Tannery in Odokh.
Thing I've found for leveling up troops is level them all up at the same time (because XP is measured by unit type so you gain it faster the more of the particular unit you have.) also attacking looters and autoresolving almost allways results in your men only being wounded so if you can find them 60 stacks of looters are a great way to level troops up to the point they have a sheild and are able to survive enemy archers.
Man, this game was a huge surprise for me. Never played a M&B game before and I'm loving it so far. Just started my first kingdom.
press X to crouch lance - massive damage
it needs to be a lance not a spear and have the crouch lance tag if you hover over on the item
and this may seem like one everybody should know E to kick - gives you some distance
the thing was I didn't know this for a while pressing E with block will deliver a shield bash
Pressing E with a twohander in block will do a pommel strike.
polearm will do a cross check
As a canadian, I'm a huge fan of the cross check in multiplayer lol
I literally just use Menav and block and cross check till i see and opening and then 1 shot people, so satisfying learning to juggle people like that.
Ooh ooh i got one
When smelting and you get a part for a dagger/one handed sword/2 handed sword, select it and switch to the two of the 3 it wasnt for and it'll unlock that part for the others if theyre in the same location. Most often it works w dagger->oh and 2h->1h parts but also have gotten dagger and 2 hander parts from 1 hander parts. And no, that's not how its supposed to work they remain locked on the other pages unless i select them and switch. Blades and handles have the most compatibility. Smelting also raises your smithing but muuuch slower than any other way.
Finally, smelting high tier weapons (provide thamaskian steel) have about a 33% chance with the curious smelter perk to provide a new part, mid-high tiers aka 3 or more regular steels have about a 20% and less than 3 steel its about 15% and the stuff that only gives iron it's less than 10%. If you dont have the perk its half that and the rest i find negligible other than for selling the materials to buy the good weapons. Sadly theres no way that i know of to get specific parts i have tons of dagger stuff but only 2 super lame guards for swords despite smelting approximately 1000 swords
I played some M&B casually back in the day but looking to get really invested in this one. Saved the video, short and helpful. Great stuff Mack!
New to the M&B scene. Thank you so much for this, cheers!
Tip. If you want your own kingdom, keep the banner. Otherwise, if you decide to go under another kingdom and in future decide to leave it, there are no way to found your own kingdom anymore. You can conquer towns and castles, but that's it - no kingdom menu and no options available, at least for now. Tried different ways, even executed every ruler.
Macketh! I hope you are well buddy during the plague, hope all of the guys guys are doing well, staying in, playing games and watching re-runs of Emmerdale Farm while trying to find places for a cheeky w**k when the missis is doing the ironing or brushing her teeth.
I got a tip, when in a war with a faction, defeat an enemy army and make sure to keep their commander imprisoned. Destroy enough armies and imprison their commanders and the enemy faction isn't able to make anymore armies.
I just execute them as soon as I capture them.
I noticed if you have too many animals (horses, mules etc.) you get a negative to map speed called something like "pack animals" (can't remember exactly now). It seems there is a sweet spot based on party size for the number of horses etc. you can have so it's best to check and sell some of them off.
Also, not only polearms are great, but also proper lances on horseback - look for ones that say couch weapon, like a Vlandian Lance. You can ride at speed and couch the lance (hit x when the icon shows above your health bar that it can be couched) and you will do a load of damage with it - 500+. Also, pay attention to the length of your secondary weapon. It may seem cool to wield a giant tier 5 broadsword but not if you can't swing it. I have come to prefer short swords and maces for sieges as they're much easier to use in tight spaces.
If you see a bandit camp don't go to it. Go to the nearby villages and check to see if there is a quest to clear it out. Also never duel the bandit leader. If you do the 4 guys behind him will be on the map and they'll be fast so it's hard to catch them. They'll go back to the camp spot and remake it. If you choose not to duel you kill those 4 guys with the boss and they don't spawn back on the map.
Great tips. I could have used some of these for faster starts. My tip is: have fun with this game for about 25 hours. Enjoy the combat engine and early game buildup. Then uninstall and wait another 6 months. The world/character mechanics and balance are not close to being finished and it gradually kills the fun.
Mid/Late: When you are besieging a castle , you can save the siege weapons within the reserve, clicking on the corresponding icon, in this way the Ballistas from the castle won't destroy them.
Early tip: Always Check the speed of your target before facing them or you will waste time in an infinite pursuit.
Discovering the encyclopedia for me was my big turning point in figuring out the game. They really should include it in the tutorial if they aren't going to provide a button on the GUI for it.
You can significantly increase the amount of money you can get from trash mobs by using the smithy to break down equipment.
Go to where Hardwood is cheap and turn it into charcoal. Most weapons will give you 1 hardwood back (from the handle), so you can easily make a net profit from selling the iron to towns, and often more than tier 1 equipment would sell for.
In outnumbered battles use the charge order conservatively. Keep the shield wall in place and your cav together or else the cav might end up chasing the fleeing infantry (which scattered from the initial charge) while your front line still needs help with the rest of the remaining enemies. Also in these outnumbered battles it is essential, that your initial charge is straight into the enemy infantry to break their morale asap therefore the enemy missile troops will have free reign at the start which again is why you don't want the cav to scatter to the winds chasing fleeing enemies when there is still job to do.
Early in the game and through out your game, go to any arena and play in practice matches. Just spam them and play match after match. Not only do you earn a small amount of gold but you level up all your skills depending on weapons your using plus, your honing your player skill with how each weapon plays in battle. You can build up strategies on how to use your weapons against other weapon types due to strength and weaknesses. It’s great fun!
i like smelting down the spare weapons, selling the iron, wrought iron, steel and such for nice prices
@SweenerButtz It's possible with all weapons but you have to make charcoal from wood i believe
I think there's an exploit where you can also buy swords, smelt them and make more money selling the raw materials than the actual cost of the sword. 'The Spiffing Brit' did a video on it.
Increases the smithing skill as well, it has to be one of the best moneymakers in the early game.
Get Pottery Shops. Especially in Ocs Hall and Pen Cannoc (Ocs Hall is better, even though the clay prices are higher there than in Pen)
Really good advice, been really trying to watch a lot of these videos to get the hang of it but the video has so much advice I'd not heard before.
Great vid. No fluff; just the nitty gritty. Subscribed - many thanks.
Keep having two Braveheart PTSD flashbacks. One where I’m on a horse with a pole arm racing towards another rider all on my own and the other where I laugh like a crazy Irish man as arrows rain down on my men and my shield
Another quick tip. You can smelt all the enemy weapons into raw materials, and you can sell the materials for a lot more than you can with just the weapon.
I've got a tip: pull a Henry V by composing your army mainly of archers, with infantry as support troops and Agincourt the enemy's behinds.
best thing i have learned the past 40hours of gameplay is to recruit khuzait nomads, as soon as they pas their first level (you need a steppe or desert horse though) they are practically unbeatable when you command them well. they use bow and arrow and strafe their enemy. I have beaten lords with this while they fastly outnumber me. (does not work well against other horse orientated factions - or desert bandits) basically bow and arrow on a horse is very strong
Good review, thank you! May I ask to compare this game vs Kingdom come deliverance? To me they have a lot in common, aren’t they?
Kingdom is a fully first person game, this is part strategy part first person. There's a lot more repetition Bannerlords where all instances are special in Kingdom
It’s good to have a lot of horses, but if you check movement speed, it shows your bonus for soldiers on horseback, but also shows the negative effect from having too big of a herd.
Try to balance the amount of horse where you have close to 0 on the herd penalty, and close to 1 on the soldiers on horseback.
I also noticed that my troops seem to level up more frequently if you auto-resolve fights? Not entirely sure if this is true but certainly seems that way. Not exactly a huge fan of not taking part in battles but it can help when rebuilding a bigger army
Great tips mack.. also being a vassal or joining a faction gives a 100 cut to your daily expenses and if you join a army you experience huuuge battles and get renown quickly.
If you siege a castle too early, you get sieged by 500 enemy units versus your 50-100 and you will get rekt son!
Thanks for the tips bro. It will help me great deal, I have no idea what I am doing in this game at the moment but with these tips I will be unstoppable.
Was on the fence for this game and after watching your video yesterday I bought it instantly, just finished downloading as i was heading to bed then 8 hours later I still wasnt sleeping! lol so addictive.
Hit X To Couch Lances, Smelt down weapons for components, Also use Alt for a battlefield overlay and get used to troop commands by doing some skirmishes.
Also Try sending companions to Bandit camps instead of going there yourself.
This is great! I've been playing Mount and Blade Warband for like two years but I've been struggling in bannerlord...
Excellent tips; I didn’t even know about the bleeding encyclopedia!
Every town you visit you should check to see if a tournament is going on. Team fights make it easier to advance to the next round and 1v1 fights are doable if you are hyper aggressive and dont allow them to respond. You can also circle strafe cheese them with a little bit of speed. If you arent confident about winning simply dont bet, but you should make the attempt every time anyway to level the combat skills you dont often use. Those skill trees have perks that can still benefit you.
On the other hand i dont recommend asking for tournaments and chasing them around. Contrary to what the arena master says, you got about a 50/50 chance of getting to the town before the tournament is over. In my game i only check towns that are extremely nearby or that i visit naturally, more often then not it has a tournament going on.
If you really want to farm tournaments i really think its faster to just pick a city and wait there every day to check. This seems a little ridiculous so it will probably be patched.
The is one of the first games that have piqued my interest a bit in awhile. Not even Doom eternal did it for me, and i was a huge Doom/Quake fan/player
Ye I grew up on Doom/Quake and blizzard strats, haven't played anything from Id or Blizzard in years though, I watched the Id interview on Rogan and Joe was like "you should do a doom VR theme park" and the dude literally said "Nah we're just gonna keep doing the same things as we have for the last 30 years" I was like, ye and that's why i don't buy your games anymore.
@@generalchAOS Damn shame that sounds like it would've been a cool idea
One tip that i use all the time is to so smelt the weapons you want to sell. That way you level up your smithing and you can sell the metalls for a higher price.
If you take lots of Family Feud quests (where you gain a ‘temporary’ follower to take to another village) and then deliberately not complete it, you end up with a free Companion that is only level 1 forever but can still form caravans, parties, go on simple missions, etc etc. I have about 6! Haha
TIP!!!!!
When you get prisoners from lords after a battle sell the ones with less experience. What I do is keep all of the top tier troops as prisoners. After a while, they are willing to join my army, ill just keep them to replenish my troops to cover the lost men after other battles. This means you have on hand recruitment whenever you need it and they are free and on hand.
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If you want you can sell them, but for late and mid-game the money is not that hard to come by and experienced leveled up men are.
When upgrading troops or buying stuff if you dont want to pay for them just click on a different menu that makes the game pop up saying do you want to apply these changes you click accept and it wont charge you for upgrading nor buying items pretty cool tip
Here's a good tip level up leadership until you can recruit prisoners, now if your a mercenary or a vassal fighting in a war when ever you win a siege or battle you can replenish your troops with the high tier units you captured and sell off all the chaff ones
Pro tip. Raid villages in war. Prevents enemy from regrouping troops quickly and you get lots of loot.
Great tips Mack thank you for your video! I have been playing it now for a few hours and like you, I am not enjoying the quests that much besides the main story. But I am having fun just roaming around and making my own stories.
Do tournaments for easy starting money in the early game. Use that money to buy mules and trade goods. Trade until you have 14K and buy a workshop. Workshop funds your army, trade and fight until your army grows and you have another 15K for the caravan. repeat until you own all of calradia
More of this please Mack, tips from a proper gamer!
Great video as always Mac 😁 keep it up hope you are staying safe throughout all of this!
If you want to make a crossbow character, be sure to give some skill while creating your character. Min crossbow skill required is 20.
You can create an army and join your companions to that army for free influence. (kingdom page)
You can create additional parties with your companions and they will do quests and stuff for you improving your relation and earning you gold. (Earning you gold part may be bugged).
Marry and get children ASAP. They're slot-free companions so you can use them to everything, governing fiefs, caravans, additional parties.
Do not execute people too much. I have become -2 Honor because I've wiped out two clans (was very satisfying- they attacked my caravans ffs). And not imprisoning people is not helping with my honor, idk why
And I love you Mac
MrJeredriq how do you have kids? I married a lady lord and it doesn’t give me the option to have kids with her😭😭
@@matthewvorndran6931 maybe someone stabbed your balls in a battle?
Matthew Vorndran literally just spend time around her and y’all will get the freaky deaky
@@matthewvorndran6931 Invite her to your party. I still dont have kids too and some people have kids when they're away from home which is suspicious both about legitimacy and game's logic
*Tip number 69* - auto-resolve fights with looters, they cant kill anything above peasant (only injure) which means you can get high tier army very fast
With trading, you can also mouse over the price in the tooltip which will pop up another tooltip to tell you, as a percentage, how much cheaper or more expensive that item is.
Tip 11: Do smithing. Refine wood into coal, smelt down weapons instead of selling. Sell what you smelted them down into. Gets more exp for levels and gets more money.
My main tip is having troops advance rather than charge as this way ranged units will always try and stay in range of enemies instead of rushing in and getting slaughtered
I want to hear the tale of Lord Bloodsplatter! Great videos Mac keep up the awesome content!
Excellent, been playing this great game thanks to you!
When I play trader I play as a caravan, I don't necessarily use the rumours, I just go to each town buying green and selling red as I explore.
Somebody is so excited that he did 3 videos of the same game :D
You can also hover over the price itself so it can give you a percentage relative to the average cost.