Absolutely agree, it is so nice to have someone making to the point high quality videos about these things. So often when I try to look up a video guide for something I find someone who mumbles into their bad microphone and takes absolutely ages to get to the point
@@italianspartacus hey sparty have you done a top ways to spend your money vid? Alot are obvious but im interested if theres any ways to spend money i missed great content and ill see you on the next stream PS broke a million in less then 5 hours thanks for the smelting tips
This may or may not be an exploit: when you find a city with a good price for your goods, don't sell to the city. Wait for the next caravan and sell to them. You'll get the same price but the price doesn't drop as you sell more, like in a village, but they have 10-20k to work with. This saves a ton of time as well as money.
Don't forget to buy out every single item of that good in the city before you go out to meet the caravan. This will raise the price just a little for your sell off to the caravan. As long as the city doesn't have much supply, it will end up a net gain.
Also if they don't have enough money to buy all your goods you can just sell them whatever they can afford, then drop out of the dialog and talk to them again right away, which refreshes their cash.
Just drag over the stack, instead of click, and it will "lock in" the price for the entire stack. No need to do this trick. You can sell entire Stacks for the prize of the first item, if you just drag the Stack over.
if u REALLY wanna earn monney from black smithing just save up ALOT of iron, steel so on.. and then buy a smithy in one town and then dump ALL your ore into that town.. and watch the 100's of K's just flowing in :P u will need to refill it eventually :P earned 1.5 Million from 1 town doing this :')
i think the patches have really adjusted lots of this, i was earning 12k a day and now im on 800 just after the last couple of patches, its kind of annoying as its so limiting in the early and mid game, especially with the new limitations on betting in tournaments and now a lower quality of rewards it seems
i think the patches have really adjusted lots of this, i was earning 12k a day and now im on 800 just after the last couple of patches, its kind of annoying as its so limiting in the early and mid game, especially with the new limitations on betting in tournaments and now a lower quality of rewards it seems
i think the patches have really adjusted lots of this, i was earning 12k a day and now im on 800 just after the last couple of patches, its kind of annoying as its so limiting in the early and mid game, especially with the new limitations on betting in tournaments and now a lower quality of rewards it seems
If you are here just for fast cash: join a kingdom with several wars, start raiding enemy caravans. After an hour you can buy the best equipment. Problem solved ;p Take a lot of horses to be fast while hunting them and avoiding real armies. You can loot the horses from them :) Also: sell your stuff to villages, not towns. Their prices do not decrease and are often higher (though each has only 1000 gold).
You can make so much money by trading the first 1-3 hours of your time when starting a campaign. After around five hours I had 300k~ ducats, my clan was tier 4 and I had full workshops and four Caravans set up. I have no castle or town, never been in a war, and have a fully upgraded group of 90 units by just smacking bandits. Around 4k daily income. Goes without saying but I'll say it anyways: Sell stuff where you get a good profit. Like at least 150% of the price payed. 1. Buy Desert Horses, Mules and Aserai(?) war horses in Askar and the surrounding villages. Also buy Dates and beers from the desert. 2. Run to the northern empire(red dudes) and buy cheap Olives and Hogs. 3. Run to the mountain people(green dudes) and buy furs, clay and hardwood. 4. Run back to the desert trough the purple dudes and sell in their towns. Rince repeat. 40-60k per run, takes around 20-30 mins depending on bandits etc. A bit longer if you actually fight the bandits. Got to 200 trading in around six hours. The max price I buy stuff for, this obviously fluctuates though: Aserai (War horse) < 500 Desert Horse < 100 Mule < 75 Date < 30 Beer < 30 Olive < 15 Fur < 80 Clay < 12 Hardwood < 14 Iron ore < 35 Pottery < 50 Cheese < 30 Wool < 25 Cotton < 35 Wine < 35 Oil < 35 Hogs < 35 Sheep < 70 Potteries in Marunath, Quyaz and Hubyar have made me the most money so far, been trying out a lot of them. Around 350-500/day. Doesn't really seem to matter where you put your caravans unless I've missed something. Profits on those varies from 300-1000/day for me. Probably being a dick here buy I made a video explaining this on my channel. But trading is by far the best way to make LOADS of cash.
@@dledman I'm actually trying workshops right now. A tannery in Sanala seems like a good option. Could get it to 400-450. Issue being that you sometimes have to refill hides there. Not often, but it's not self sustaining. Brewery in Marunath is fluctuating between 200-300 so that's also a decent option. Haven't really found any other one that goes above 200 (yet). edit: Caravans are sadly getting really rekt right now and I haven't found a "safe" spot to set them up (yet).
@@dledman I prefer beer and wine. So settlements with grain and grape villages. Pottery is also another one but i haven't had a steady stream of income compared to beer and wine.
Another tip. I walked around in a city, spoke to all the random townsfolk, at some point, someone told me that this guy was making a lot of making from his workshop. So I just bought that workshop and I made a lot of Denars from that. Was pretty cool and easy. Also, my Workshops are making a huge killing now. Smithy at Makeb - 1030 Denars, Smithy at Marunath - 1300. After the Patch, the AI sells more armor and stuff, looks like the Smithies benefit from this. Also, remember, someone in Reddit pointed out that you can actually gear your Caravan with your own troops, your companion will be in the Keep waiting as soon as you created the Caravan. So then you talk to your companion, transfer all your Horse units and take out all the foot solders. So now you have 30 Cavalry units in the Cavaran which will run at 7.2+ speed. Also as soon as he runs out of the City, talk to it immediately and then give it like extra Mules and carry horses, also I bought about 400 olives and then trade it to my Caravan. They made 2k a day from the next day. My Caravan has been running around for about 100+ ingame days and it has not been attacked once.
Just an extra thing. I have added 80 more Mules to my Caravan and it is generating 5k Denars, not sure if it is because of the economy or it now can carry more items to sell. It is making a killing here
Reivelt since the western empire’s constantly at war with the Battanians, you’re gonna see the town change its owner and its surrounding villages raided all the time.
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how to make 2m/minute : 1. search faction leader 2. make war with them 3. retreat, then click i want discuss something 4. click let's have a peace 5. drag their denars to max 6. repeat
You can play with no soldiers and do practice fights in the arena to get gold and level up your combat skills. This is a good way to level up early on so that you don't get beaten down eay in the tournament. Any abilities you gain or armor you buy carriers over to the tournament, but weapons don't. You don't make much money this way but it's enough to get started, and as a bonus, resting levels up your medical skill.
Honestly I did not even think about smelting to sell off the resources. That is an awesome tip for early-game. I also had no idea that companions can smelt, i thought only you, the player, can! Thanks for the tips, earned a sub from me!
Another really early game tips is to play table games at the tavern, specially in imperial cities, tablut is really easy if you choose the defender side and each city you go is 500 denars that you win. Going to the practice arena is good too for wining some money and getting levels , specially if you want to be a crossbow man you need to in the current status of the game in Vlandia
Wait, Wood Workshops are buying Hardwood and then selling products made out of it like for example shields. So wouldn't be low Hardwood prices be an advantage?
It is. The hard wood in the city next to lyracon sells at 15~20 and the shop after it spools up pays nearly 200 gold a turn. if you pump more wood into lyracon and drop the price to 11, the workshop can turn a profit of over 350 gold per turn(very wide fluxuations), well supporting a young army and then some off a single shop. Add another shop or two in other cities where the product to produce is very cheap, and you will be making more money than you know what to do with very shortly. HOWEVER; If you create a workshop in a city where there is no direct production, the price of those goods will go up very high. Meaning that you can make money just transporting goods to your workshop, ontop of making money with the shop itself.
@@cyberiankorninger1025 I find it is better to build workshops based on the towns that are connected to the city, for instance a pottery workshop works best in Pen Cannoc, because all three villages connected to it produce clay, making clay incredibly cheap there.
@@MrGamer-fw4hc as long as pottery is being bought for a good value. Its best to look for cheap materials and good prices on the finished materials to get max profit. But yeah the villages nearby will usually be a good indicator of what raw materials should be pretty cheap but not always.
Nice video man. I'm 60 hours deep into the game and still pick up the odd thing or two from watching your streams. Happy I stumbled across your channel! :)
So I think you missed one that I don't see alot of people talking about. That's creating your own part(ies). I noticed you had a party you created. When the party becomes big enough it will start generated excess gold as they go around the map and attack looters, bandits, help warring armies etc. You have to at least start your army off with good troops and occassionally you will have to go find your companion if they are captured. I get around +1000 per turn excess AND the create army collects renown for you. I'm almost 3000 renown and 2/3 have been farmed by my parties which I have 3 now. I'd use a companion in a party first before caravan. And later you can create armies and call your party armies for free (no influence cost). You can also steal troops from them after they've leveled them up alot. You can really make a video just about this topic to me since it's adds so many benefits (money, renown, free troops, free armies to help when needed).
All the parties I’ve made have run off and died immediately to bandits or enemy lords, then I am the one that has to travel the map to get them back which just isn’t worth the time. Instead I’ve sent all of my companions to make trade caravans and make several thousand from them. Workshops are great early-midish game to counter the troop wages
@@tinylegofiend8605 Lol if they are getting killed by bandits then surely their party is too small right? Get them big enough that bandits wont even try to attack them. Caravans seem to be safe by running with ~50 units. Try giving your roving companion party at least 50 units and see how that goes
important to note for those in early game: The more money your workshop makes the more it's capital is worth. You can sell it if you think the town is going to war soon and move on to a safer town. Workshops typically have about a 3-4 day waiting period before you make money off them, caravans it takes about 2 weeks before it makes as much as a workshop. (The caravan will make more the next week though) There's 3 main things you want with a passive caravan: Equip the companion with a mount before you send it off on the caravan, it helps even if only a little. Have about 3500-4K saved to pay the initial fees before it starts having a surplus if its your first passive income. The two family names "The Swift" or "Spicetrader" are the best ones for caravans, as they come with baseline trading levels. Late game you'll have the ability to split your companions to do raiding parties which can tons of money to pay for anything, don't invest heavy into currency skills.
Enjoying this. Found it today you're clear and nice to watch. Would be great to have a How to Mod video with Steam Bannerlord 2... im always struggling
Steam workshop support is JUST on the horizon, but I've done two videos of how to do it and it has changed already since. It's frustrating. I'm so sorry man. Let me see if I can make a quick video for you :) Thanks so much for watching bro
Interesting, I generally mostly trade in grain, fish, clay, hardwood, flax, etc. I find it too much of a hassle to trade in the low volume stuff, although it will obviously be very good if you lack capacity in the early game. Buying up 1000 grain for less than 10 each and then selling it for 20+ is easy 10k. In the end though it's just way easier to go defeating a few lords.
Fight bandits/trade and sell gear. Keep some upgrades low and upgrade your archers first. Sell loot, trade for higher prices when you can. Tougher bandits will net you better loot sales. Once you get 20,000, GET THAT FOLLOWER go to a town deep in some territory and build a caravan. While caravan is working for the week before profits, kill all looters and bandits. When the caravan starts making profit, kill more bandits until youre back to 20,000. Get another caravan. Max out caravans and workshops QUICK. Easy money. Currently got 4-5 Caravans brining in 300-1800 a day each, 4 workshops bringing in 200-400 a day each, sitting on 1.5 million and 3k-7k PER day in passive income.
Just a small addition to selling the ore, if you can find villages buying it at a good price the actual price doesn't drop as you sell it, downside is the villages only carry 1000 gold but you can barter the iron for their trade goods to sell for better profits too
Great vid cheers. If you are manual trading you will eventually recognise what a cheap buy price is and as long as you always grab things when they are cheap, you will eventually find somewhere to sell them at a great profit. Its probably the best easy way to get your first 10k.
Some of those Steward perks only apply if you are a governor (hence the "(Governor)"). As a clan/party leader you should prioritise the 'Personal' steward perks. The Governor perks are useful for your governors though (if you have any).
Very important is that if you dont have a faction and set up a shop, or later you join a faction other than where your shop is in and they go to war with each other, you lose that shop... For instance if your faction vlandia is at peace at a certain point, and you set up a workshop in a city of sturgia, they go to war, which sturgia is quite good in, you lose that shop.
I did not loose my shop even though we went to war, BUT when the town changed faction I lost it. But my other 2 shops, stayed even when they changed faction.. or maybe they just joined the faction so nothing really changed ownership, I did not notice. So I dont know if there is a chance, instead of an always. But a tip is to have the money ready for when you start going to war, so you can get your own shop in your own cities.
A quick and easy $1500 - $2500 you can get is by doing the village mission for defeating the deserters extorting the village. The reward is $900. But you get better equipment drops than looters since these are deserters and if you use blunt weapons you can guarantee prisoners. These prisoners ransom a lot higher than looters too. The quest only takes a couple game hours to complete, which is insignificant. One thing to be careful about is that they are much stronger than looters. But I find that as long as you outnumber them, they will retreat from the battle very quickly. Even if your troops are crap, they give up almost immediately. Just run them down with blunt weapons and you win. I think they might start the battle with 1 morale or something, maybe bugged?
Hi I really enjoy your videos, but atm I'm playing beta 1.4.3 and workshops (really all of them, I tried them all in different cities) make between 5 and 50 a day max. And yes it doesn't go up after time, it goes down. What I found most effective atm is just running tournaments, the deserter extortion and the train troops quest for the first few hours. The tournaments are all around good, the deserter extortion quest gives you a good amount and quality of prisoners which you can recruit and/or sell. And the train troops quest is absolutely broken as you get 2400 for training the 5 (later 8 and more) recruits. The kicker for the quest is that I never failed it as you still get the 2400 even if only 3 of them survive. And with the recruited prisoners from the noble line you get a really hard hitting army cheap and very quickly. After becoming a rank 1 clan you can raid caravans and with clan rank 2 your army limit should be high enough to kill enemy vassels. Like that i make 10-20k every battle with little losses.
I should spend some time watching this before starting. Really struggled with money early game I grinded tournaments, chasing bandits, and do petty missions just to barely make ends meet. Now I know there's a lot of easy ways to earn. Thanks a lot!
Pottery shops are much worth it in almost all cities since the margin of clay and pottery is so large. Danustica clay is ~7-10 and the manufactured good is ~120.
i´m on version 1.5.9. you can get dirtcheap carrying capacity by talking to villagers. If you stand outside of Jalmarys you can get them for around 10-20 gold each and they have the same carrying capacity as mules. if you don´t need more capacity you can slaughter them and get 3 unit of meat each. if you don´t want to buy the goods they carry with them just wait till they come back out of the city and approach them there.
as of right now, the easiest and quickest way to make money (denars) at the beginning of the game is to catch villagers as they are leaving a city after selling their products. they will sell you their old workhorses for anywhere from 5-10 denars each. then butcher them for meat. each horse butchers for 2 meat. then go back to the city and sell the meat.so if you buy 10 horses at 10 denar each = 100 denars= 20 meat. meats sell anywhere from 20-70 denars per. so that 100 you just spent at an avg of 30 per sells for 600 making you 500 in moments. can turn your 1000 starting denars into 10k in a matter of minutes from starting the game. rinse/repeat
Idk how effective adding extra parties are now, since they don't spawn with new units. I was always scared of being immediately annihilated starting a faction in warband. I am in Bannerlord. So I'm trying to help vlandia beat Southern Empire, Aserai, and Khuzaits. Trying to learn more. The only other factions stronger than my party. Eventually I'll try making my own. In fact right now I'll make a split save. In one I'll try to form my own, I was about to give it to vlandia. If you are interested I'll report on how each endeavor turns out. I've made a save, I'm going vlandia. Current strength 11268. I'll keep going but also try another save of making my own kingdom and allying to take them down. If people are interested I'll post updates on what learn. Depends on if people are interested
I had problems making money at the start did all the tricks tournaments, trade. If you have a good army of veterans around the 45-55 mark. Pick a fight with a kingdom, fight armies around the same mark. Easily make 100k or more in hour. Each army was giving in avg 15k.
A good way to make mad stacks in the very very early game is to buy whatever the villages are producing. Some villages that produce horses etc sell them for cheap as fuck. They also have obscene amounts of the items. When I have about 10k at the start of the game, I go from village to village and buy all the horses and mules then go to vlandia and turn 10k into like 30k-ish in a couple weeks. Same can be done for everything villages produce.
Damn, awesome job dude, never knew the smelting swap; its helped so much. For money I usually just use my 10k weight to buy items like furs and other rarities from the Battanians to sell to the Vlandians. I get around a 10k profit each time which is nice.
For smithing not sure does this go random every time you start game but best prices for like iron ores are found at north of starting area Lycaron there just buy cheap swords like cleaver and smelt and sell oress that shoud give lot of money there. Not sure about other places but places like Ocs Hall are also good place to sell ores
I kinda disagree on your workshop theory, profit on workshops is derived by a mix of supply and demand. Supply is the price of the raw material which means the more there are the lower the price, and demand is the selling price. It's hard to control the demand part but supply is easily done by choosing a town with adjoining farms that make the product. You can see this by flooding the town with the raw material for example if you sell a ton of grain your brewery profit will increase. So by getting a city with villages already supplying the material you can get 1-200 profit consistently. Conversely, you can build a workshop that has scarce resources. That will increase the price of the raw material in the city and you can then earn money selling that raw material. Example there is no hardwood producer in the city and you make a wood workshop. That will jack up the selling price of hardwood and you can then make a ton of profit selling wood to that city. After you flood the wood supply your workshop will then make a lot of profit and burn through the wood supply, thats the time you sell wood again. It makes more profit than manipulating the supply side but it also requires more effort cuz you need to keep buying lots of the material and selling it back to the city.
I'm going to check into what you mentioned. Used blacksmithing where I can make between 40-100k about per settlement gone to for trading, however, with a bigger amount of fiefs I didn't know about taxing Thus...with garrisons, and many armies, getting about 17k in debt per day, I'm going to see if your methods work
ive made like 5 or so caravans and every single time theyve given me like 200-300 gold one time then they get attacked by bandits and slaughtered. ive lost a lot of money every time
I think in the 1.1.0 patch (beta) smelted materials are worth less than the actual weapons, which is how it should be, blacksmith hammers and items like that are still worth smithing though.
You only need 1 hint until the developers change it, craft upper level swords which takes all of about 30 minutes to an hour depending on how lucky you get with unlocking crafting items. You will very quickly be making swords that sell for 6 digits. Don’t worry about selling them all, just keep a few on your person. If you have enough they can be used to bribe attackers into letting you go free too.
Honestly the best way to make money is roll back to 1.0.0 and just take advantage of wood working shops being seriously broken... on your steam library right click on the game MNB2, go to properties, click on the "beta" tab and click the drop down and click on 1.0.0 now start a new game (because you can't load a game that's been started on a later patch) and make your 15k denars buy wood workshop (Osira is a really good one for some reason) and just go kill looters and pass by time and a few in game days later... well you'll see... then when you feel you have enough money just go update your patch back to current the same way and have fun :D
That Aserai horse trade is all you need early game. All that travelling will naturally boost stewardship and leadership (fighting random looters along the way) and of course trading. Buy Aserai horse at ~800 and sell for as much as 1900. Then flip cows from ~120 to ~300 in Aserai cities... it's so profitable. It will likely get nerfed... but not before that smithing which is also ridiculous way to make money.
what I like to do with trading is try to memorise the prices of product, I know there's data sheets and mods already to help but it fucks with my immersion bro :c
My best experience trading was exploiting minute fluctuations in the price of flax and fish, these to materials are cheap to buy in bulk, and have high demand. selling 100 units for a profit of 5 each per town is a great profit.
The real way to make money is to kick some ass. Get recruits, auto against looters (huge experience against looters, nobody ever dies, you will have a high level army in a week of game play), join armies as a mercenary, keep all your loot, sell it all when it gets full, then go out and kick some more ass. Then buy all the shops you can and get max caravans going. Take castles for yourself and garrison with 100 good troops, so it won’t get taken. You will be making more money than you spend. Soon, you won’t have to keep loot, the money you get from beating lords is plenty.
wait a fucking min you mean i'v been useing only one person to do all the BS and i could have been switching companions to do all the rudimentary stuff. FML. and i love you for showing me this. Subscribed
Hahahaha dude I'd be lying to you if I said i didn't figure that out a day or two before making this video and become the driving force behind making it in the first place
What I've found is a somewhat stable short distance trade route is buying Silver in Lycaron and selling in Phycaon, despite being that short to one another the price difference seems to remain the same almost all the time. Probably AI caravans don't have time to do the trade themselves so you can make a steady income there if you wanted to. Do you also by any chance know if the racial stat modifier for trade penalty reduction is for player caravans or player's own trades? If so that would basically make that a mandatory for anyone wanting to do manual player trade.
Not sure if someone has mentioned this, but if you get the spicetrader companion really early on and set her to quartermaster you can pretty much double your starting party. I went from 21 to like 44 from just this and you can take on bigger parties earlier. Only issue i had was the wages early on for a bigger army you HAVE to stay raiding/killing bandits
how to level (requiers clan tier 3 atleast) trade leadership steward tactic your combat skills charm and engeniering creat army add your companions so you don't have to pay influence (or take otheres dosen't rly matter)(leadership, steward) siege a city destroy the enmy lords armys by placing your archers on the highground and don't tkae lords a s prisoner (tactic, combat skills, charm and engeniering) after the siege sell some food to your new city they pay alot for food and recources after a siege my record was grain for 37, beer for 120 and hardwood for 87
Just a tip on smelting and selling of you metall, first of just get a few hardwood to get the first coal after that if its a town that have access to a village that makes hardwood its usaly cheaper to buy wood hammers and pitchforks to smelt down for hardwood. Second is never ever sell the ore and metall in a town becaus of diminishing returns, wait outside for a caravan and sell the metall to them. No they dont have nearly as much money as a town, but they have a fixed price. And if you exit the trade with the caravan and immediately talk to them again there gold is replenished. Same if you are trying out trading, dont buy from towns buy from villages becaus they have a fixed price and sell to the caravans
I did the math and it isn't necessarily cheaper to buy wood hammers and smelt them down for hardwood. When you counter in the fact you need to use charcoal in to smelt down the wood hammers into wood, then it is possible to make a loss per unit - this is even if you have the 3 wood -> 2 charcoal perk. So if, for example, wood is being sold for 30d and wooden hammers are for 65d then you'd made a loss as you would need to one of the 3 woods gained in order to make the charcoal to spelt the wooden hammer. Hence it would be cheaper to buy 2 wood at 30d piece than to spend 65d on the hammer. The other thing to factor in is you are wasting 10 energy in smelting the wood hammers into wood when you could be smelting a weapon into a piece of wood plus some metal component. While buying and smelting wooden hammers might be cheaper, it isn't always. I've managed to find wood as cheap as 20d while the wooden hammers are significantly more than 40d to buy.
You have to make sure that the city you buy a workshop in is getting supplied with the raw material it uses. You cannot just choose a workshop that makes a really expensive item. You cant just make money off of a silver Smith because the products it makes are expensive. You have to make sure that city is being supplied with silver ore. This is the same for all resources/workshops.
Also regarding trading caravans you should not that if they get defeated/captured on the campaign map then that's it, 15,000 gold down the drain... so you better hope that your caravan pays for itself before it gets destroyed because once it's destroyed that initial investment is gone and your companion won't automatically try to rebuild the caravan (you have to go pay another 15k and reassign them to it).
Which is a bit bullshit and I hope they change this in patches so that defeated caravans will reform themselves. Same is true of workshops btw if you are hostile with a city in which you have a workshop you will lose that workshop and have to repurchase it.
@@gaiusthejurist8445 My caravan didnt get destroyed when captured, after they escaped she just continued after gathering some men again. Dunno how or anything, she did it herself I did not help her. So there might be more to it.
I just went town to town playing that imperial board game defensively, betting and winning 500 every game. Got pretty wealthy to go into better things.
I did hardly any of this, and still had 100K constantly. How? I farmed Looters/criminals, fought in Tournaments, and fought in wars. In fact, WARS are the most profitable venture for me, in that I bought tons of horses and mules to increase my capacity, then proceeded to unleash hell on the denizens of Calradia - stocking up on loot and selling it off in neutral cities. I discovered caravans very late, and am using them now, which has reduced my operating costs to 0. Now, I am just focusing on amassing grand armies to continue the wars.
I have kingdom but iam a Tributary state of aserai , The Aserai is so strong and I am so weak just have 1 city and 4 castle. Please help my kingdom, sometime my money negative(0) and sometime positif but just 200 - 500 . 😌
Money is confusing to me. I have tons of it and have never been short on it... Chasing looters and taking on hideouts nets a large profit early game. I am now in the mid-late game and as long as I take out a caravan and/or lord about every week, it doesn't matter I am losing 2000 gold a day. What do I do with all my money?
I have seen many guides and methods explaining on how to make money. However, I think I have may have found a really good (no glitches) if not best way to make money in the relative early stages of the game. I will explain myself further. If you don’t want to read the whole story please scroll down where you’ll find a TL;DR As you know there are plenty of ways to make money early on for example: killing looters, doing village/city quests or tournaments. I did this for a while and it got pretty boring. So, I decided to try something out. At this current time my Clan level was 2 and I had 3 shops (I’m not a fan of caravans don't judge me). I have an income of about 500 denars a day. Now, I know that many people discourage you from having a bigger party than around 25, but I do not, if you act smart! My army consisted of about 60 well trained men; around 25 Imperial Legionaries, 25 Imperial Palantine Guard and 10 Imperial Heavy Horseman. I was able to pay this because I had 1. 3 shops which almost always covered my wages 2. I partook in every tournament I came across so I had a buffer of around 20k. It will take a while time your troops to level up because looters don’t give you much xp, that was why I decided to declare war on all of the minor factions the Southern Empire was at war with (I wanted to join Empress Rhagaea). What I did turned out very well but I would suggest declaring war on only one of them until you are strong enough to face more of them and confident, they won’t catch you off-guard and defeat you. Each time I defeated a member of a minor factions usually with 0 casualties I let them go, to increase relations, charisma and get them on the map again so I can farm them again, also ransoming said person usually gives me only 600 denars (leader goes for 900 I think not sure) so it is not worth keeping them. By doing this a while you gain the following: • A small but elite army able to take on an army of 120 with relative ease • Tons of xp, money, loot, renown, prisoners and horses (I keep almost all the horses I get because they increase your speed and give you MEGA storage. Also, you need warhorses to get heavy cavalry! I have around 2000 horses in my inventory) • Good relations with the faction and person you are fighting (if you let them go) • Increased Charisma skill and an overall good reputation At this time I was making good money but also spending it not too wisely on gear for my companions because I wanted them all to look the same like epic kings guard. I decided to join my favorite faction, the Southern Empire, but they wouldn’t let me because I was at war with a faction they weren’t. It was Battania.. This must have been a bug because I had done no harm to any of them whatsoever. A Battanian Lord caught me off-guard when I was raiding a minor factions party with his 120 headstrong army. We slaughtered every single one of them with only 2 casualties, it was glorious. You can guess what I did next: I tried finding every Battanian party and hunted them like pigs. It went so well that I had to get back to a town after almost each battle selling all the loot and prisoners and releasing the Lord. Resulting in an even better and bigger army, relations, renown, charisma and most importantly money. I could've gone on and on for days but there would be no fun in that. Seeing as I hunted down about every Lord except the big armies. They were at war with Vlandia and the Aserai and were very weakened and reduced to only 3 towns. I want to cleanse them myself one day so I made peace. After the dust of battle cleared I joined the Southern Empire. We are currently rooting out the last of the Imperial traitors. Marking a new age for a stronger, reformed Empire. And lastly, I plan to marry Ira, heir to the Imperial throne of Calradia! They have a good relationship and my character needs to ask for her hand. TL;DR My steps to becoming a rich and feared Bannerlord. I will divide it into three sections 1. Starting out 2. Creating your army 3. Money and Glory 1. Starting out • Get enough money to buy your first 3 workshops by doing village/town quests > doing as much tournaments as you can > buying your first workshop > rinse and repeat until you have 3 • Pick your companions early on in the game, this is not needed to get a lot of money but will help out later in the game. Besides who doesn't want companions? • Gather recruits along the way and level them when you see fit (and if you have enough money) don't forget recruiting the cavalry units, you'll get horses along the way to level them up 2. Creating your army • Try doing as much tournaments as possible while your workshops are being set up so you have some extra cash • By now your recruits should be leveled into low-tier troops, it is time to take on big bandit parties so you can level all your troops to mid-tier • Make sure you have enough food to feed your army and horses for speed and capacity. 3. Minor factions and big money! • Now it’s time to attack a minor faction. I recommend declaring war on only one faction until you are strong enough to take on all minor factions in your preferred area • After each battle pick up all the loot and prisoners, you can sell these for big money at the nearest town but keep all horses as you will need them to upgrade your cavalry. Release the person you fought against after the battle, you'll get higher charisma (used for persuading), higher reputation, relations with said person and their faction • By doing this a while you should now have a strong army of around 60 troops consisting of around 25 elite infantry, 25 elite archers and 10 mid-tier cavalries Now you are ready to take on a faction! Pick a weak faction and attack a vassal, repeat the steps I explained before and search for your next victim. The only thing you need to worry about is evading big armies. You should be making a minimum of 12k per battle (selling loot and prisoners included). Increase your army so you can take on bigger parties, rinse and repeat until you've had enough and simply pay 8k to make peace. And last but not least, learn to master the F1-F6 command! I hope this was helpful, thank you for reading ;)
Love your videos, but wanted to add something! I put a Pottery Shop in Pen Cannoc. The 3 fiefs all produce clay. My shop is producing 488Gold You mentioned supply and demand, this seems to go against that? maybe?
Some products are in high demand is a city is "prosperous." Look at their prosperity rating, if it's high, it increases the demand for pottery and jewelry! :) so it is one of those rare middle grounds where... You're taking advantage of the villages which also meet a demand for pottery, since it's a byproduct of clay. Same thing with Beer in Zeonica. Two grain villages but they produce beer which is in high demand :)
If you want top tier armor, the best way to get it is to marry someone, take them to your party, and then steal their armor. Also if you don't want to use it it usually sells for a few hundred thousand
I would not say it's a broken system. You would pay more for the raw materials then a worn axe or sword. Especially if your town needs the iron or tools. I think this is the economy at play.
Would recommend to not focus on trading as much once you get a decent army formed. Selling all the looted equipment from fighting other lords makes you bank. I like warring with other factions, and always seem to have upwards of 10k weight in loot that sells for about 40-50k.
Go full cav, hunt down caravans and weak lords, you can get very rich very fast. Although it won’t be much at all compared to some of the cheese methods.
Re: Tip #3 I find that Pottery Workshops are the best in most cities. I had one in Marunath getting anywhere between +300 and +600 daily, and another in Omor which was also getting similar returns. The price of the finish good doesn't really matter match, proof is Ortysia. Ortysia has a village that produce silver ore, so silver ore is quite cheap in Ortysia, but Jewellery is still quite expensive there... however a silversmith workshop there will only make like 100-200 profit max. So yeah I've had the most luck with Pottery workshops. A Tanner in Odokh or Akkalat will do okay too though (250-400 on a good day, but average closer to 200).
literally find a castle with low population, then attack it. you can leave your men behind and attack it on your own, use a spear. you can farm kill every enemy while on the ladder due to distance. you can farm higher population castles this way as well, but the issue is that it takes longer. also make sure it's a european castle, it's harder anywhere else due to positioning of where archers can shoot from. otherwise you can just spend 20-30 mins and have a castle.
I never get the option to attack a city or castle if I didnt join another kingdom, what am I doing wrong ? when I enter them there is no option to siege, because I'm friendly with every faction.
trading is easy to level up, that is if youre aware of the price you bought the goods for, the amount of xp is based on the profit you make from the trade times you multiplier.
For trading to go up you need to make profit, my way is to stockpile resources when I see them being cheap and then sell them at a higher price. For example if I see linen cheaper then 40, I will buy and if I see it sells more than 80 I will sell.
@@jonaskuula5218 Insane, I noticed I get 1 XP pr dinar I earn(and only from selling while item has a red number), and even at 1.4 million I'm still only at lvl 98. And you got over 5 million dinars in 4 hours. Any tricks ? Since my trade rumors never seems to stick.
@@gullev3321 the way i ended up trading after reaching 100 was buying fish for around 9-10 denars, and then selling 50-100 in each town i went to, it also works for grain or flax, but fish is easier to exploit since any town without sea access will bu it for around 20. i never used trade rumors for anything other than seeing what it usually buys for and what i can sell it for, remember to stock op on mules/pack animals if you wanna trade in bulk. also the later levels are few inbetween, so its more a question of persistence. (i got to 150 with 5 focus points in trade and 5 att in social BTW)
Good vid. One comment though, in my experience you are nowhere near end-game (based on your comment/pic). When you start spending 10hr rl constantly fighting and defending, then you are early end-game - yesterday and last night was so intense!!! And I know there's still more to come, as I'm nowhere near clearing out the other factions. It's awesome!!!!
It's true I meant more that if you aren't strictly going after money, some of these might be really late game developments! :D but you are totally on point with that
1. now and then you'll come across peasants that you have just freed from looters, of course you can use them as and addition to your troops but donating these peasants to one of your villages will make the existing peasant group to better defend themselves. 2. if you think that your garrison upkeep is to high, you can transfer all of your garrisoned troops in to town militia garrison. at one click you'll get *free upkeep garrison*
You need horses with at least 40+ speed (so no Sumpter, old work, mules, etc) You ideally want the same # of horses that you do foot soldiers. Plus if you have cavalry it will speed you up also. Down in the bottom right is a breakdown of what's affecting your speed.
Good video but yea i just got my first castle and i have around 70k. I would say its just those first few hours of the game that its hard to make gold.
Kinda fucked up and built my entire economy on war in the late game. I have cities and castles, but none are making enough money to keep up with my expenses.
Honestly dude you’re my favorite Total War/ Mount and Blade TH-camr... you get straight to the point, you speak clearly, and you have loads of info.
Thanks man.. I really appreciate it. Your last name.. Looks pretty.. ITALIAN, my fratrello!!
Absolutely agree, it is so nice to have someone making to the point high quality videos about these things. So often when I try to look up a video guide for something I find someone who mumbles into their bad microphone and takes absolutely ages to get to the point
ItalianSpartacus haha yes sir... gotta love those vowels 🍝
@@italianspartacus hey sparty have you done a top ways to spend your money vid? Alot are obvious but im interested if theres any ways to spend money i missed
great content and ill see you on the next stream
PS broke a million in less then 5 hours thanks for the smelting tips
This may or may not be an exploit: when you find a city with a good price for your goods, don't sell to the city. Wait for the next caravan and sell to them. You'll get the same price but the price doesn't drop as you sell more, like in a village, but they have 10-20k to work with.
This saves a ton of time as well as money.
Damn that's a great tip man thanks
Don't forget to buy out every single item of that good in the city before you go out to meet the caravan. This will raise the price just a little for your sell off to the caravan. As long as the city doesn't have much supply, it will end up a net gain.
Also if they don't have enough money to buy all your goods you can just sell them whatever they can afford, then drop out of the dialog and talk to them again right away, which refreshes their cash.
Next caravan coming in or out of the city? Or does it matter?
Just drag over the stack, instead of click, and it will "lock in" the price for the entire stack. No need to do this trick. You can sell entire Stacks for the prize of the first item, if you just drag the Stack over.
I had NO Idea that other characters could smelt. WOW wonder how much time I wasted waiting.
if u REALLY wanna earn monney from black smithing just save up ALOT of iron, steel so on.. and then buy a smithy in one town and then dump ALL your ore into that town.. and watch the 100's of K's just flowing in :P u will need to refill it eventually :P earned 1.5 Million from 1 town doing this :')
HAHAHA holy shit that's genius
Huh, might need to try this. I'm dragging around a couple thousand units of metal from all the smelting I do...
i think the patches have really adjusted lots of this, i was earning 12k a day and now im on 800 just after the last couple of patches, its kind of annoying as its so limiting in the early and mid game, especially with the new limitations on betting in tournaments and now a lower quality of rewards it seems
i think the patches have really adjusted lots of this, i was earning 12k a day and now im on 800 just after the last couple of patches, its kind of annoying as its so limiting in the early and mid game, especially with the new limitations on betting in tournaments and now a lower quality of rewards it seems
i think the patches have really adjusted lots of this, i was earning 12k a day and now im on 800 just after the last couple of patches, its kind of annoying as its so limiting in the early and mid game, especially with the new limitations on betting in tournaments and now a lower quality of rewards it seems
If you are here just for fast cash: join a kingdom with several wars, start raiding enemy caravans. After an hour you can buy the best equipment.
Problem solved ;p
Take a lot of horses to be fast while hunting them and avoiding real armies. You can loot the horses from them :)
Also: sell your stuff to villages, not towns. Their prices do not decrease and are often higher (though each has only 1000 gold).
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You can make so much money by trading the first 1-3 hours of your time when starting a campaign. After around five hours I had 300k~ ducats, my clan was tier 4 and I had full workshops and four Caravans set up. I have no castle or town, never been in a war, and have a fully upgraded group of 90 units by just smacking bandits. Around 4k daily income.
Goes without saying but I'll say it anyways: Sell stuff where you get a good profit. Like at least 150% of the price payed.
1. Buy Desert Horses, Mules and Aserai(?) war horses in Askar and the
surrounding villages. Also buy Dates and beers from the desert.
2. Run to the northern empire(red dudes) and buy cheap Olives and Hogs.
3. Run to the mountain people(green dudes) and buy furs, clay and hardwood.
4. Run back to the desert trough the purple dudes and sell in their towns. Rince repeat.
40-60k
per run, takes around 20-30 mins depending on bandits etc. A bit longer
if you actually fight the bandits. Got to 200 trading in around six
hours.
The max price I buy stuff for, this obviously fluctuates though:
Aserai (War horse) < 500
Desert Horse < 100
Mule < 75
Date < 30
Beer < 30
Olive < 15
Fur < 80
Clay < 12
Hardwood < 14
Iron ore < 35
Pottery < 50
Cheese < 30
Wool < 25
Cotton < 35
Wine < 35
Oil < 35
Hogs < 35
Sheep < 70
Potteries in Marunath, Quyaz and Hubyar have made me the most money so far, been trying out a lot of them. Around 350-500/day.
Doesn't really seem to matter where you put your caravans unless I've missed
something. Profits on those varies from 300-1000/day for me.
Probably being a dick here buy I made a video explaining this on my channel. But trading is by far the best way to make LOADS of cash.
Great info: sadly latest patched nerfed pottery shops so their profitability is now less than half of what it once was.
What's the next best workshop?
@@dledman I'm actually trying workshops right now. A tannery in Sanala seems like a good option. Could get it to 400-450. Issue being that you sometimes have to refill hides there. Not often, but it's not self sustaining. Brewery in Marunath is fluctuating between 200-300 so that's also a decent option. Haven't really found any other one that goes above 200 (yet).
edit: Caravans are sadly getting really rekt right now and I haven't found a "safe" spot to set them up (yet).
@@dledman I prefer beer and wine. So settlements with grain and grape villages. Pottery is also another one but i haven't had a steady stream of income compared to beer and wine.
This looks dope, ima give it a try and see how it goes. Thanks!
Another tip. I walked around in a city, spoke to all the random townsfolk, at some point, someone told me that this guy was making a lot of making from his workshop. So I just bought that workshop and I made a lot of Denars from that. Was pretty cool and easy.
Also, my Workshops are making a huge killing now. Smithy at Makeb - 1030 Denars, Smithy at Marunath - 1300. After the Patch, the AI sells more armor and stuff, looks like the Smithies benefit from this.
Also, remember, someone in Reddit pointed out that you can actually gear your Caravan with your own troops, your companion will be in the Keep waiting as soon as you created the Caravan. So then you talk to your companion, transfer all your Horse units and take out all the foot solders. So now you have 30 Cavalry units in the Cavaran which will run at 7.2+ speed. Also as soon as he runs out of the City, talk to it immediately and then give it like extra Mules and carry horses, also I bought about 400 olives and then trade it to my Caravan. They made 2k a day from the next day.
My Caravan has been running around for about 100+ ingame days and it has not been attacked once.
Just an extra thing. I have added 80 more Mules to my Caravan and it is generating 5k Denars, not sure if it is because of the economy or it now can carry more items to sell. It is making a killing here
Thanks, pretty useful! :3
was this new thing for 1.3?
workshop tip: Building brewery in rhotae or surrounding town is a really good choice because of cheap grain available in there and high beer cost
Reivelt since the western empire’s constantly at war with the Battanians, you’re gonna see the town change its owner and its surrounding villages raided all the time.
I just recently started mount and blade and the fact that one of my most trusted and favorite total war you tubers had content made me feel ready to give it a real shot. Thank you for everything you do!
how to make 2m/minute :
1. search faction leader
2. make war with them
3. retreat, then click i want discuss something
4. click let's have a peace
5. drag their denars to max
6. repeat
You can play with no soldiers and do practice fights in the arena to get gold and level up your combat skills. This is a good way to level up early on so that you don't get beaten down eay in the tournament. Any abilities you gain or armor you buy carriers over to the tournament, but weapons don't. You don't make much money this way but it's enough to get started, and as a bonus, resting levels up your medical skill.
Honestly I did not even think about smelting to sell off the resources. That is an awesome tip for early-game. I also had no idea that companions can smelt, i thought only you, the player, can! Thanks for the tips, earned a sub from me!
Welcome to the family brother :)
Another really early game tips is to play table games at the tavern, specially in imperial cities, tablut is really easy if you choose the defender side and each city you go is 500 denars that you win. Going to the practice arena is good too for wining some money and getting levels , specially if you want to be a crossbow man you need to in the current status of the game in Vlandia
Wait, Wood Workshops are buying Hardwood and then selling products made out of it like for example shields.
So wouldn't be low Hardwood prices be an advantage?
It is. The hard wood in the city next to lyracon sells at 15~20 and the shop after it spools up pays nearly 200 gold a turn. if you pump more wood into lyracon and drop the price to 11, the workshop can turn a profit of over 350 gold per turn(very wide fluxuations), well supporting a young army and then some off a single shop. Add another shop or two in other cities where the product to produce is very cheap, and you will be making more money than you know what to do with very shortly.
HOWEVER; If you create a workshop in a city where there is no direct production, the price of those goods will go up very high. Meaning that you can make money just transporting goods to your workshop, ontop of making money with the shop itself.
@@AtomiskZabaleta This!
Best imho is use smithing workshops everywhere to increase iron prices and thereby increase money made from refining/smelting
@@cyberiankorninger1025 I find it is better to build workshops based on the towns that are connected to the city, for instance a pottery workshop works best in Pen Cannoc, because all three villages connected to it produce clay, making clay incredibly cheap there.
@@MrGamer-fw4hc as long as pottery is being bought for a good value. Its best to look for cheap materials and good prices on the finished materials to get max profit. But yeah the villages nearby will usually be a good indicator of what raw materials should be pretty cheap but not always.
Nice video man. I'm 60 hours deep into the game and still pick up the odd thing or two from watching your streams. Happy I stumbled across your channel! :)
When you siege a town, once you capture it sell them food. They will pay a ton of money for it.
Yeah literally grain and fishes for 70 denars, but it drops quickly.
So I think you missed one that I don't see alot of people talking about. That's creating your own part(ies). I noticed you had a party you created. When the party becomes big enough it will start generated excess gold as they go around the map and attack looters, bandits, help warring armies etc. You have to at least start your army off with good troops and occassionally you will have to go find your companion if they are captured. I get around +1000 per turn excess AND the create army collects renown for you. I'm almost 3000 renown and 2/3 have been farmed by my parties which I have 3 now. I'd use a companion in a party first before caravan. And later you can create armies and call your party armies for free (no influence cost). You can also steal troops from them after they've leveled them up alot. You can really make a video just about this topic to me since it's adds so many benefits (money, renown, free troops, free armies to help when needed).
All the parties I’ve made have run off and died immediately to bandits or enemy lords, then I am the one that has to travel the map to get them back which just isn’t worth the time. Instead I’ve sent all of my companions to make trade caravans and make several thousand from them. Workshops are great early-midish game to counter the troop wages
@@tinylegofiend8605 Lol if they are getting killed by bandits then surely their party is too small right? Get them big enough that bandits wont even try to attack them. Caravans seem to be safe by running with ~50 units. Try giving your roving companion party at least 50 units and see how that goes
important to note for those in early game:
The more money your workshop makes the more it's capital is worth. You can sell it if you think the town is going to war soon and move on to a safer town.
Workshops typically have about a 3-4 day waiting period before you make money off them, caravans it takes about 2 weeks before it makes as much as a workshop. (The caravan will make more the next week though)
There's 3 main things you want with a passive caravan:
Equip the companion with a mount before you send it off on the caravan, it helps even if only a little.
Have about 3500-4K saved to pay the initial fees before it starts having a surplus if its your first passive income.
The two family names "The Swift" or "Spicetrader" are the best ones for caravans, as they come with baseline trading levels.
Late game you'll have the ability to split your companions to do raiding parties which can tons of money to pay for anything, don't invest heavy into currency skills.
Enjoying this. Found it today you're clear and nice to watch. Would be great to have a How to Mod video with Steam Bannerlord 2... im always struggling
Steam workshop support is JUST on the horizon, but I've done two videos of how to do it and it has changed already since. It's frustrating. I'm so sorry man. Let me see if I can make a quick video for you :)
Thanks so much for watching bro
Trade goods that can give the highest profit per unit are generally the more expensive ones: Cows(can find for
Interesting, I generally mostly trade in grain, fish, clay, hardwood, flax, etc. I find it too much of a hassle to trade in the low volume stuff, although it will obviously be very good if you lack capacity in the early game.
Buying up 1000 grain for less than 10 each and then selling it for 20+ is easy 10k. In the end though it's just way easier to go defeating a few lords.
Fight bandits/trade and sell gear. Keep some upgrades low and upgrade your archers first.
Sell loot, trade for higher prices when you can. Tougher bandits will net you better loot sales.
Once you get 20,000, GET THAT FOLLOWER go to a town deep in some territory and build a caravan.
While caravan is working for the week before profits, kill all looters and bandits.
When the caravan starts making profit, kill more bandits until youre back to 20,000.
Get another caravan. Max out caravans and workshops QUICK.
Easy money.
Currently got 4-5 Caravans brining in 300-1800 a day each, 4 workshops bringing in 200-400 a day each, sitting on 1.5 million and 3k-7k PER day in passive income.
Thanks so much man.. I love how you explain everything and get straight to the facts you jus got a new subscriber!
yayyy! :) welcome to the family and thank you so much
Just a small addition to selling the ore, if you can find villages buying it at a good price the actual price doesn't drop as you sell it, downside is the villages only carry 1000 gold but you can barter the iron for their trade goods to sell for better profits too
Finally, now I know where to check stamina. Thank you :) All the best!
Great vid cheers. If you are manual trading you will eventually recognise what a cheap buy price is and as long as you always grab things when they are cheap, you will eventually find somewhere to sell them at a great profit. Its probably the best easy way to get your first 10k.
Some of those Steward perks only apply if you are a governor (hence the "(Governor)"). As a clan/party leader you should prioritise the 'Personal' steward perks. The Governor perks are useful for your governors though (if you have any).
A lot of the perks doesnt work.
I took the passive with caravanes costing less, but they cost the same as normal even though they should be 30% off.
Very important is that if you dont have a faction and set up a shop, or later you join a faction other than where your shop is in and they go to war with each other, you lose that shop... For instance if your faction vlandia is at peace at a certain point, and you set up a workshop in a city of sturgia, they go to war, which sturgia is quite good in, you lose that shop.
I did not loose my shop even though we went to war, BUT when the town changed faction I lost it. But my other 2 shops, stayed even when they changed faction.. or maybe they just joined the faction so nothing really changed ownership, I did not notice. So I dont know if there is a chance, instead of an always.
But a tip is to have the money ready for when you start going to war, so you can get your own shop in your own cities.
@@gullev3321 hmm maybe it only changes if the city is taken by a siege it stops you from being the owner.
You’re right my shops disappeared as soon as my kingdom went to war with the kingdom in which my shops were at.
A quick and easy $1500 - $2500 you can get is by doing the village mission for defeating the deserters extorting the village.
The reward is $900. But you get better equipment drops than looters since these are deserters and if you use blunt weapons you can guarantee prisoners. These prisoners ransom a lot higher than looters too. The quest only takes a couple game hours to complete, which is insignificant.
One thing to be careful about is that they are much stronger than looters. But I find that as long as you outnumber them, they will retreat from the battle very quickly. Even if your troops are crap, they give up almost immediately. Just run them down with blunt weapons and you win. I think they might start the battle with 1 morale or something, maybe bugged?
Hi I really enjoy your videos, but atm I'm playing beta 1.4.3 and workshops (really all of them, I tried them all in different cities) make between 5 and 50 a day max. And yes it doesn't go up after time, it goes down. What I found most effective atm is just running tournaments, the deserter extortion and the train troops quest for the first few hours. The tournaments are all around good, the deserter extortion quest gives you a good amount and quality of prisoners which you can recruit and/or sell. And the train troops quest is absolutely broken as you get 2400 for training the 5 (later 8 and more) recruits. The kicker for the quest is that I never failed it as you still get the 2400 even if only 3 of them survive. And with the recruited prisoners from the noble line you get a really hard hitting army cheap and very quickly. After becoming a rank 1 clan you can raid caravans and with clan rank 2 your army limit should be high enough to kill enemy vassels. Like that i make 10-20k every battle with little losses.
I should spend some time watching this before starting. Really struggled with money early game I grinded tournaments, chasing bandits, and do petty missions just to barely make ends meet. Now I know there's a lot of easy ways to earn. Thanks a lot!
There are exceptions to everything, I always put a Pottery in Danustica, makes 500~700 and has a clay supply.
Pottery shops are much worth it in almost all cities since the margin of clay and pottery is so large. Danustica clay is ~7-10 and the manufactured good is ~120.
i´m on version 1.5.9. you can get dirtcheap carrying capacity by talking to villagers. If you stand outside of Jalmarys you can get them for around 10-20 gold each and they have the same carrying capacity as mules. if you don´t need more capacity you can slaughter them and get 3 unit of meat each. if you don´t want to buy the goods they carry with them just wait till they come back out of the city and approach them there.
as of right now, the easiest and quickest way to make money (denars) at the beginning of the game is to catch villagers as they are leaving a city after selling their products. they will sell you their old workhorses for anywhere from 5-10 denars each. then butcher them for meat. each horse butchers for 2 meat. then go back to the city and sell the meat.so if you buy 10 horses at 10 denar each = 100 denars= 20 meat. meats sell anywhere from 20-70 denars per. so that 100 you just spent at an avg of 30 per sells for 600 making you 500 in moments. can turn your 1000 starting denars into 10k in a matter of minutes from starting the game. rinse/repeat
Idk how effective adding extra parties are now, since they don't spawn with new units. I was always scared of being immediately annihilated starting a faction in warband. I am in Bannerlord. So I'm trying to help vlandia beat Southern Empire, Aserai, and Khuzaits. Trying to learn more. The only other factions stronger than my party. Eventually I'll try making my own. In fact right now I'll make a split save. In one I'll try to form my own, I was about to give it to vlandia. If you are interested I'll report on how each endeavor turns out. I've made a save, I'm going vlandia. Current strength 11268. I'll keep going but also try another save of making my own kingdom and allying to take them down. If people are interested I'll post updates on what learn. Depends on if people are interested
I had problems making money at the start did all the tricks tournaments, trade. If you have a good army of veterans around the 45-55 mark. Pick a fight with a kingdom, fight armies around the same mark. Easily make 100k or more in hour. Each army was giving in avg 15k.
okay, the Smithy Tricks are nice, didnt notice that and sat at the town like a pleb
If you click the name of the weapon in the upper right, you can select a different weapon to craft :)_
It seems that the smelting has been nerfed in the beta. Metal got really cheap in 1.1.0
A good way to make mad stacks in the very very early game is to buy whatever the villages are producing. Some villages that produce horses etc sell them for cheap as fuck. They also have obscene amounts of the items. When I have about 10k at the start of the game, I go from village to village and buy all the horses and mules then go to vlandia and turn 10k into like 30k-ish in a couple weeks. Same can be done for everything villages produce.
Damn, awesome job dude, never knew the smelting swap; its helped so much. For money I usually just use my 10k weight to buy items like furs and other rarities from the Battanians to sell to the Vlandians. I get around a 10k profit each time which is nice.
Thankyou so much just got bnrlord2 on sale and love your guides
For smithing not sure does this go random every time you start game but best prices for like iron ores are found at north of starting area Lycaron there just buy cheap swords like cleaver and smelt and sell oress that shoud give lot of money there. Not sure about other places but places like Ocs Hall are also good place to sell ores
Thanks for the video bud! appreciate your effort!
Thank you sir!
I kinda disagree on your workshop theory, profit on workshops is derived by a mix of supply and demand. Supply is the price of the raw material which means the more there are the lower the price, and demand is the selling price. It's hard to control the demand part but supply is easily done by choosing a town with adjoining farms that make the product. You can see this by flooding the town with the raw material for example if you sell a ton of grain your brewery profit will increase. So by getting a city with villages already supplying the material you can get 1-200 profit consistently.
Conversely, you can build a workshop that has scarce resources. That will increase the price of the raw material in the city and you can then earn money selling that raw material. Example there is no hardwood producer in the city and you make a wood workshop. That will jack up the selling price of hardwood and you can then make a ton of profit selling wood to that city. After you flood the wood supply your workshop will then make a lot of profit and burn through the wood supply, thats the time you sell wood again. It makes more profit than manipulating the supply side but it also requires more effort cuz you need to keep buying lots of the material and selling it back to the city.
I'm going to check into what you mentioned. Used blacksmithing where I can make between 40-100k about per settlement gone to for trading, however, with a bigger amount of fiefs I didn't know about taxing
Thus...with garrisons, and many armies, getting about 17k in debt per day, I'm going to see if your methods work
ive made like 5 or so caravans and every single time theyve given me like 200-300 gold one time then they get attacked by bandits and slaughtered. ive lost a lot of money every time
Dont elite Caravans exist? Better units n shit. Also can you assign companion parties to protect em?
I think in the 1.1.0 patch (beta) smelted materials are worth less than the actual weapons, which is how it should be, blacksmith hammers and items like that are still worth smithing though.
You only need 1 hint until the developers change it, craft upper level swords which takes all of about 30 minutes to an hour depending on how lucky you get with unlocking crafting items. You will very quickly be making swords that sell for 6 digits. Don’t worry about selling them all, just keep a few on your person. If you have enough they can be used to bribe attackers into letting you go free too.
Honestly the best way to make money is roll back to 1.0.0 and just take advantage of wood working shops being seriously broken... on your steam library right click on the game MNB2, go to properties, click on the "beta" tab and click the drop down and click on 1.0.0 now start a new game (because you can't load a game that's been started on a later patch) and make your 15k denars buy wood workshop (Osira is a really good one for some reason) and just go kill looters and pass by time and a few in game days later... well you'll see... then when you feel you have enough money just go update your patch back to current the same way and have fun :D
That Aserai horse trade is all you need early game. All that travelling will naturally boost stewardship and leadership (fighting random looters along the way) and of course trading. Buy Aserai horse at ~800 and sell for as much as 1900. Then flip cows from ~120 to ~300 in Aserai cities... it's so profitable. It will likely get nerfed... but not before that smithing which is also ridiculous way to make money.
what I like to do with trading is try to memorise the prices of product, I know there's data sheets and mods already to help but it fucks with my immersion bro :c
My best experience trading was exploiting minute fluctuations in the price of flax and fish, these to materials are cheap to buy in bulk, and have high demand. selling 100 units for a profit of 5 each per town is a great profit.
Great video sir, keep it up!
Nicely done brother
This was a great guide, thank you!
You're very welcome! Some things have changed like smelting not netting AS much these days, but it's all very much a work in progress :D
brilliant such depth can't wait to immerse again SLPASH!
The real way to make money is to kick some ass. Get recruits, auto against looters (huge experience against looters, nobody ever dies, you will have a high level army in a week of game play), join armies as a mercenary, keep all your loot, sell it all when it gets full, then go out and kick some more ass. Then buy all the shops you can and get max caravans going. Take castles for yourself and garrison with 100 good troops, so it won’t get taken. You will be making more money than you spend. Soon, you won’t have to keep loot, the money you get from beating lords is plenty.
wait a fucking min you mean i'v been useing only one person to do all the BS and i could have been switching companions to do all the rudimentary stuff. FML. and i love you for showing me this. Subscribed
Hahahaha dude I'd be lying to you if I said i didn't figure that out a day or two before making this video and become the driving force behind making it in the first place
What I've found is a somewhat stable short distance trade route is buying Silver in Lycaron and selling in Phycaon, despite being that short to one another the price difference seems to remain the same almost all the time. Probably AI caravans don't have time to do the trade themselves so you can make a steady income there if you wanted to.
Do you also by any chance know if the racial stat modifier for trade penalty reduction is for player caravans or player's own trades? If so that would basically make that a mandatory for anyone wanting to do manual player trade.
Not sure if someone has mentioned this, but if you get the spicetrader companion really early on and set her to quartermaster you can pretty much double your starting party. I went from 21 to like 44 from just this and you can take on bigger parties earlier. Only issue i had was the wages early on for a bigger army you HAVE to stay raiding/killing bandits
Honestly I found most of the time fur can be bought very cheap and you can sell quite a lot too.
how to level (requiers clan tier 3 atleast)
trade
leadership
steward
tactic
your combat skills
charm and engeniering
creat army
add your companions so you don't have to pay influence (or take otheres dosen't rly matter)(leadership, steward)
siege a city destroy the enmy lords armys by placing your archers on the highground and don't tkae lords a s prisoner (tactic, combat skills, charm and engeniering)
after the siege sell some food to your new city they pay alot for food and recources after a siege my record was grain for 37, beer for 120 and hardwood for 87
while the smithys have been nerfed, working in the smithy boosts your character & companions xp & renown quickly
Just a tip on smelting and selling of you metall, first of just get a few hardwood to get the first coal after that if its a town that have access to a village that makes hardwood its usaly cheaper to buy wood hammers and pitchforks to smelt down for hardwood. Second is never ever sell the ore and metall in a town becaus of diminishing returns, wait outside for a caravan and sell the metall to them. No they dont have nearly as much money as a town, but they have a fixed price. And if you exit the trade with the caravan and immediately talk to them again there gold is replenished. Same if you are trying out trading, dont buy from towns buy from villages becaus they have a fixed price and sell to the caravans
I did the math and it isn't necessarily cheaper to buy wood hammers and smelt them down for hardwood. When you counter in the fact you need to use charcoal in to smelt down the wood hammers into wood, then it is possible to make a loss per unit - this is even if you have the 3 wood -> 2 charcoal perk. So if, for example, wood is being sold for 30d and wooden hammers are for 65d then you'd made a loss as you would need to one of the 3 woods gained in order to make the charcoal to spelt the wooden hammer. Hence it would be cheaper to buy 2 wood at 30d piece than to spend 65d on the hammer.
The other thing to factor in is you are wasting 10 energy in smelting the wood hammers into wood when you could be smelting a weapon into a piece of wood plus some metal component.
While buying and smelting wooden hammers might be cheaper, it isn't always. I've managed to find wood as cheap as 20d while the wooden hammers are significantly more than 40d to buy.
@@Embetebe Thats a fair point dident think about that, thanks for the heads up =)
You have to make sure that the city you buy a workshop in is getting supplied with the raw material it uses. You cannot just choose a workshop that makes a really expensive item. You cant just make money off of a silver Smith because the products it makes are expensive. You have to make sure that city is being supplied with silver ore. This is the same for all resources/workshops.
Awesome video, learned a few things here.
Also regarding trading caravans you should not that if they get defeated/captured on the campaign map then that's it, 15,000 gold down the drain... so you better hope that your caravan pays for itself before it gets destroyed because once it's destroyed that initial investment is gone and your companion won't automatically try to rebuild the caravan (you have to go pay another 15k and reassign them to it).
Which is a bit bullshit and I hope they change this in patches so that defeated caravans will reform themselves. Same is true of workshops btw if you are hostile with a city in which you have a workshop you will lose that workshop and have to repurchase it.
@@gaiusthejurist8445 My caravan didnt get destroyed when captured, after they escaped she just continued after gathering some men again. Dunno how or anything, she did it herself I did not help her. So there might be more to it.
Have never have it happen where One of my caravans get destroyed.
I just went town to town playing that imperial board game defensively, betting and winning 500 every game. Got pretty wealthy to go into better things.
Realy... "Ridged Tip" Is that a sword or a condom?
I did hardly any of this, and still had 100K constantly. How? I farmed Looters/criminals, fought in Tournaments, and fought in wars. In fact, WARS are the most profitable venture for me, in that I bought tons of horses and mules to increase my capacity, then proceeded to unleash hell on the denizens of Calradia - stocking up on loot and selling it off in neutral cities. I discovered caravans very late, and am using them now, which has reduced my operating costs to 0. Now, I am just focusing on amassing grand armies to continue the wars.
Anyone know how to stop snowball affect??? Almost every playthrough Valandians/KHUZAIT DOMINATE??
Com Tass fr, battania always gets steamrolled by them and 3/4 of my games they’ve gone extinct
Regarding workshops if you wanted the town to be producer of weapons and armor, shouldn't Smithy, Tannery and Wood Workshop be the best choices?
I have kingdom but iam a Tributary state of aserai , The Aserai is so strong and I am so weak just have 1 city and 4 castle. Please help my kingdom, sometime my money negative(0) and sometime positif but just 200 - 500 . 😌
Money is confusing to me. I have tons of it and have never been short on it... Chasing looters and taking on hideouts nets a large profit early game. I am now in the mid-late game and as long as I take out a caravan and/or lord about every week, it doesn't matter I am losing 2000 gold a day. What do I do with all my money?
When you play on realistic tournaments is a bad idea to start with.
No downside though and it'll really hone your skill.
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I have seen many guides and methods explaining on how to make money. However, I think I have may have found a really good (no glitches) if not best way to make money in the relative early stages of the game. I will explain myself further. If you don’t want to read the whole story please scroll down where you’ll find a TL;DR
As you know there are plenty of ways to make money early on for example: killing looters, doing village/city quests or tournaments. I did this for a while and it got pretty boring. So, I decided to try something out. At this current time my Clan level was 2 and I had 3 shops (I’m not a fan of caravans don't judge me). I have an income of about 500 denars a day. Now, I know that many people discourage you from having a bigger party than around 25, but I do not, if you act smart!
My army consisted of about 60 well trained men; around 25 Imperial Legionaries, 25 Imperial Palantine Guard and 10 Imperial Heavy Horseman. I was able to pay this because I had 1. 3 shops which almost always covered my wages 2. I partook in every tournament I came across so I had a buffer of around 20k. It will take a while time your troops to level up because looters don’t give you much xp, that was why I decided to declare war on all of the minor factions the Southern Empire was at war with (I wanted to join Empress Rhagaea). What I did turned out very well but I would suggest declaring war on only one of them until you are strong enough to face more of them and confident, they won’t catch you off-guard and defeat you.
Each time I defeated a member of a minor factions usually with 0 casualties I let them go, to increase relations, charisma and get them on the map again so I can farm them again, also ransoming said person usually gives me only 600 denars (leader goes for 900 I think not sure) so it is not worth keeping them. By doing this a while you gain the following:
• A small but elite army able to take on an army of 120 with relative ease
• Tons of xp, money, loot, renown, prisoners and horses (I keep almost all the horses I get because they increase your speed and give you MEGA storage. Also, you need warhorses to get heavy cavalry! I have around 2000 horses in my inventory)
• Good relations with the faction and person you are fighting (if you let them go)
• Increased Charisma skill and an overall good reputation
At this time I was making good money but also spending it not too wisely on gear for my companions because I wanted them all to look the same like epic kings guard. I decided to join my favorite faction, the Southern Empire, but they wouldn’t let me because I was at war with a faction they weren’t. It was Battania.. This must have been a bug because I had done no harm to any of them whatsoever.
A Battanian Lord caught me off-guard when I was raiding a minor factions party with his 120 headstrong army. We slaughtered every single one of them with only 2 casualties, it was glorious. You can guess what I did next: I tried finding every Battanian party and hunted them like pigs. It went so well that I had to get back to a town after almost each battle selling all the loot and prisoners and releasing the Lord. Resulting in an even better and bigger army, relations, renown, charisma and most importantly money.
I could've gone on and on for days but there would be no fun in that. Seeing as I hunted down about every Lord except the big armies. They were at war with Vlandia and the Aserai and were very weakened and reduced to only 3 towns. I want to cleanse them myself one day so I made peace.
After the dust of battle cleared I joined the Southern Empire. We are currently rooting out the last of the Imperial traitors. Marking a new age for a stronger, reformed Empire. And lastly, I plan to marry Ira, heir to the Imperial throne of Calradia! They have a good relationship and my character needs to ask for her hand.
TL;DR
My steps to becoming a rich and feared Bannerlord. I will divide it into three sections
1. Starting out
2. Creating your army
3. Money and Glory
1. Starting out
• Get enough money to buy your first 3 workshops by doing village/town quests > doing as much tournaments as you can > buying your first workshop > rinse and repeat until you have 3
• Pick your companions early on in the game, this is not needed to get a lot of money but will help out later in the game. Besides who doesn't want companions?
• Gather recruits along the way and level them when you see fit (and if you have enough money) don't forget recruiting the cavalry units, you'll get horses along the way to level them up
2. Creating your army
• Try doing as much tournaments as possible while your workshops are being set up so you have some extra cash
• By now your recruits should be leveled into low-tier troops, it is time to take on big bandit parties so you can level all your troops to mid-tier
• Make sure you have enough food to feed your army and horses for speed and capacity.
3. Minor factions and big money!
• Now it’s time to attack a minor faction. I recommend declaring war on only one faction until you are strong enough to take on all minor factions in your preferred area
• After each battle pick up all the loot and prisoners, you can sell these for big money at the nearest town but keep all horses as you will need them to upgrade your cavalry. Release the person you fought against after the battle, you'll get higher charisma (used for persuading), higher reputation, relations with said person and their faction
• By doing this a while you should now have a strong army of around 60 troops consisting of around 25 elite infantry, 25 elite archers and 10 mid-tier cavalries
Now you are ready to take on a faction! Pick a weak faction and attack a vassal, repeat the steps I explained before and search for your next victim. The only thing you need to worry about is evading big armies. You should be making a minimum of 12k per battle (selling loot and prisoners included).
Increase your army so you can take on bigger parties, rinse and repeat until you've had enough and simply pay 8k to make peace.
And last but not least, learn to master the F1-F6 command!
I hope this was helpful, thank you for reading ;)
Love your videos, but wanted to add something!
I put a Pottery Shop in Pen Cannoc. The 3 fiefs all produce clay. My shop is producing 488Gold
You mentioned supply and demand, this seems to go against that? maybe?
Some products are in high demand is a city is "prosperous." Look at their prosperity rating, if it's high, it increases the demand for pottery and jewelry! :) so it is one of those rare middle grounds where... You're taking advantage of the villages which also meet a demand for pottery, since it's a byproduct of clay. Same thing with Beer in Zeonica. Two grain villages but they produce beer which is in high demand :)
Should you monitor and protect your caravans from the robbers or enemies from other factions?
Buy fish at Revly for 6 denars and sell for 24-25 inland
If you want top tier armor, the best way to get it is to marry someone, take them to your party, and then steal their armor. Also if you don't want to use it it usually sells for a few hundred thousand
Thank you
Making money smelting weapons is patched out in the beta 1.1.0 version.
I’m always struggling with money 💰
I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. Maybe I need to travel to cities outside the one cultural region?
I have the hardest time getting any amount of money. Bandits are either way too overpowered or the early game quests are too difficult.
I would not say it's a broken system. You would pay more for the raw materials then a worn axe or sword. Especially if your town needs the iron or tools. I think this is the economy at play.
I find that pottery workshops in high prosperity cities tend to net me 400+ each day
Yep, seems to be the only failsaife workshop in my experience
Pottery iss Nr . 1
Would recommend to not focus on trading as much once you get a decent army formed. Selling all the looted equipment from fighting other lords makes you bank. I like warring with other factions, and always seem to have upwards of 10k weight in loot that sells for about 40-50k.
workshop is the most important IMO
Go full cav, hunt down caravans and weak lords, you can get very rich very fast. Although it won’t be much at all compared to some of the cheese methods.
Do you have any ideea how to solve the conspiracy quest?
Re: Tip #3 I find that Pottery Workshops are the best in most cities. I had one in Marunath getting anywhere between +300 and +600 daily, and another in Omor which was also getting similar returns. The price of the finish good doesn't really matter match, proof is Ortysia. Ortysia has a village that produce silver ore, so silver ore is quite cheap in Ortysia, but Jewellery is still quite expensive there... however a silversmith workshop there will only make like 100-200 profit max. So yeah I've had the most luck with Pottery workshops. A Tanner in Odokh or Akkalat will do okay too though (250-400 on a good day, but average closer to 200).
my best profit was an average of 400+ a day, with a brewer in akkalat. brewers also work almost anywhere since every town has grain.
literally find a castle with low population, then attack it. you can leave your men behind and attack it on your own, use a spear. you can farm kill every enemy while on the ladder due to distance. you can farm higher population castles this way as well, but the issue is that it takes longer. also make sure it's a european castle, it's harder anywhere else due to positioning of where archers can shoot from. otherwise you can just spend 20-30 mins and have a castle.
I never get the option to attack a city or castle if I didnt join another kingdom, what am I doing wrong ? when I enter them there is no option to siege, because I'm friendly with every faction.
@@gullev3321 just attack some peasants in this faction first
@@gullev3321 it's easy. you have to raid a settlement and then attack the castle you want
A companion with high roguery will make better money leading an independent warband than other companions.
Can you do one for skills? My engineering and trading never seem to be going up. Neither are so many others, is it really a big grind?
trading is easy to level up, that is if youre aware of the price you bought the goods for, the amount of xp is based on the profit you make from the trade times you multiplier.
For trading to go up you need to make profit, my way is to stockpile resources when I see them being cheap and then sell them at a higher price. For example if I see linen cheaper then 40, I will buy and if I see it sells more than 80 I will sell.
i got to 150 in around 4 hours but i wasnt being efficient.
@@jonaskuula5218 Insane, I noticed I get 1 XP pr dinar I earn(and only from selling while item has a red number), and even at 1.4 million I'm still only at lvl 98. And you got over 5 million dinars in 4 hours. Any tricks ? Since my trade rumors never seems to stick.
@@gullev3321 the way i ended up trading after reaching 100 was buying fish for around 9-10 denars, and then selling 50-100 in each town i went to, it also works for grain or flax, but fish is easier to exploit since any town without sea access will bu it for around 20.
i never used trade rumors for anything other than seeing what it usually buys for and what i can sell it for, remember to stock op on mules/pack animals if you wanna trade in bulk.
also the later levels are few inbetween, so its more a question of persistence.
(i got to 150 with 5 focus points in trade and 5 att in social BTW)
Good vid. One comment though, in my experience you are nowhere near end-game (based on your comment/pic). When you start spending 10hr rl constantly fighting and defending, then you are early end-game - yesterday and last night was so intense!!! And I know there's still more to come, as I'm nowhere near clearing out the other factions. It's awesome!!!!
It's true I meant more that if you aren't strictly going after money, some of these might be really late game developments! :D but you are totally on point with that
1. now and then you'll come across peasants that you have just freed from looters, of course you can use them as and addition to your troops but donating these peasants to one of your villages will make the existing peasant group to better defend themselves.
2. if you think that your garrison upkeep is to high, you can transfer all of your garrisoned troops in to town militia garrison. at one click you'll get *free upkeep garrison*
How do you make your troups move faster to catch bandits and looters?
You need horses with at least 40+ speed (so no Sumpter, old work, mules, etc)
You ideally want the same # of horses that you do foot soldiers. Plus if you have cavalry it will speed you up also.
Down in the bottom right is a breakdown of what's affecting your speed.
Nice, thank you
I am here for that quick dough
glad you recovered from the virus
Good video but yea i just got my first castle and i have around 70k. I would say its just those first few hours of the game that its hard to make gold.
Definitely agree
Kinda fucked up and built my entire economy on war in the late game. I have cities and castles, but none are making enough money to keep up with my expenses.
So, you're the United States now? Worse things happen at sea. 😁✌🏼
I havent seen anyone do a video on late to end game play for MB II. Pls add. I'm so confused in my game.