6 Ways to Improve Your Next Campaign in Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord 

Hahaha if you have a job, then you should especially take your time.. Don't rush to the grind bby ;)

Take your time.. 1 year in stugia is dead 2 years in khuzait owns the whole damn map And i just made tier 3 after grinding looters and family fued quests for an hour.

Yep if they want the player to take their time then they must deal with the snowballing. Probably the best method would be to implement the rebellion mechanics that related to settlement loyalty - give the player and dead factions a method of breaking up a snowballing faction. Otherwise once a single faction can field multiple 1000+ armies at a time then the kingdom building part of the game is over.

@@italianspartacus no, we all install an XP mod, makes the pacing and progression so much more fun. The level cap is 250 for God's sake, it still takes 50 hours or more to get there even with 2x XP. Game gets boring when you get your own kingdom anyway, since you can control more armies at once like a grand strategy game and so you just maintain your borders over and over again with no time to do anything else

@@wile123456 Sounds like a personal problem.

This comment is gold

Yup. Then they'll patch kids to also cost part of daily income.

brah he said this I looked over at my wife and shook my head lmao

​@@gdbalck just wait your wife will take you for half once you own 5 or more fiefs

Wife needs to do less talking and more raiding

Empire background should help kingdom phase immensely, while Khuzait/Battanian backgrounds both let you choose your battles more effectively. By the time you get to Kingdom phase, you'd definitely wish you chose Vlandians or Empire over Aserai anyway, as the benefit of Aserai is definitely an earlygame bonus (which is easy enough already). Considering kingdom phase is the more difficult portion of the game at the moment, it's better to go for buffs to your kingdom phase.

Hahaha I said in my experience!! But touche :)

Khuzait for me are the best faction. You try and beat a full mounted archery force. Not a chance unless its a siege

*brick* *flys*

@Drinker_Of_ Milk You just had to drag politics into what was a clearly worded comment about fictional races in a fiction world. But then again, thats what a milk drinker would do

Will some troops die and how many?

@@j.i.709 Troops don't die if you send them to do quests with a companion. I've never had a failed quest so far in 3 different runs. The only issue you might face is that in order to send a companion on a quest, they need to have certain skills depending on the quest (might require high charm or high tactics or something else). Which means you need to be very strategic about which companions you choose. I usually go with one medic, one engineer, one one with high tactics, one with high tracking and the rest based on what I need for that specific game.

Y T same goes for me its better to have companions with different skills. Thanks for the info👍🏼 i really never tried that option, i looked at it as being kinda like the simulation battles and loosing men based on rng

I avoid sending my companions in some quests. They bug out of the map as in disappear. Happened to me twice and iirc it was the find the daughter quest

Lorenzo Fajardo they normally need some days to solve the quest, it will show how many days remain till they return back to you. They do kinda like disappear as u dont see them being there at all. No party showing up. What i did after sending them i left for another town to do some shit there and looked on the quest tab for the remaining days till my troops come back. I expected them to travel back to me like a normal party but my troop number on the bottom just suddenly went to full army size and back they were. Or i just didnt see them coming, there was alot of traffic by the town i was. @Y T as my troops are mostly all elite tier already i cant really tell, but do the troops which u send along with the companion actually gain experience?

It's weird because in my first playthrough when the game just get released. I played as a Khuzait and the whole kingdom disapear in less than 10 years... Now on my second playthrough, I grow up with the Battania, and I just look to the Khuzait (arround 12 years after the start), they have more than 30k power (the best of all kingdom) and almost killed the South Empire... Like wtf! They was so weak at the start...

@@XxKidnoffxX Khuzait tend to have massive cav armies after few successful battles and in auto resolve they have more advantages than infantry

@@leilagorrilla4842 But on the field, the best to beat Cav Archer, is with heavy cav? I started my kingdom and try to recruit vassals and mercenary from Khuzait to make them weaker lol

@@XxKidnoffxX Khuzait have a very strong heavy cav and horse archer super early (level 3) so they are able to defend themselves

In my campaign its my vlandia fighting the khuzait in a 50/50 war of attrition with the aseri looking on in horror. Im going to find and kill monchug.

Hahahaha I'll give you that one

Optimist are we?

1 year later the game is still no where near complete

Javelins... 114k sell price, at a cost of 1 wrought iron, 1 wood and 1 charcoal. It breaks the game, you can just go round the map and take every penny from every settlement for near nothing. Im less than a year in and over 10 million in the bank,

@@hillbill79 for anyone that sees this now, javelins are nerfed use either 2 handed polearms or swords

@@lessthanonegaming Cheers buddy, when i revisit the game i will bear that in mind.

Not to mention that you can get up to 10k gold just for defeating them, on top of the loot and prisoners :)

@@fanbuoy9234 True that! You also get a good amount of renowned and influence. I find a good tactic is to visit enemy cities, see if there are any vassals inside then ambush them as they leave. >:D

Or just keep your workshops in your factions land.

Or grind smithing for loads of money and just buy new workshops in your kingdom

Now you can, wars are more logical...

I love this! I myself just started one of these, sorta. I became a smithing cult where all my companions and I are in complete uniform. I haven’t set the RP goal yet tho. But yeah the 100k+ thing is definitely a challenge to overcome

I see. well idk if they will wind up using your crafted weapons and they will only cost that much if you make master work out of the higher weapon tier parts. to get that and the ore's will take a lot of time and money to do it. and I had seen the lot being used as area prizes for tournaments. though idk if that will help you or the economy long term by having a lot of those crafted weapons floating around like that? I mean would that make it to the troops themselves or where at? and as of now you can't make shields, bows (including crossbows and there ammo types.) and all armors :( cause if and when we can get to making that well things will be quite interesting indeed. :) and side note I use the wemod program to truly let lose on what one can do with a power level character and I do say the cheese is fun with that. :)

It gets easier to trade for gear in the cities, rather than money, both so they can afford it, and to get those better crafting materials.

Nice! I had an awesome Viking Conquest play-through as the Highlander -- it was epic! You might be able to sell your expensive crafted weapons to lords (they often have tons of cash). :)

you can sell your expensive weapons to nobles via bartering

Open in game encyclopedia, press n, select kingdoms, choose one, scroll down to bottom of page, shows who they are at war with.

Glad it was helpful! :)

yeah man, slow playing the game has been such a treat for me and i have so many hours into this game. i just love it

hahah well hey, i'm over 300 hours and i'm STILL starting new saves and learning :) this will just make your next one even better

Absolutely!! But this is all set to change come the next patch

Freak

Yeah, early game feels very quick atm. I'd like to see more player driven story generation go into actually being able to recruit people in the first place. Like straight off the bat I can recruit "recruits" which will "evolve" into elite troops given experience. Imo it would be better to hire "hands" for more "normal" behaviour like looting, farm work, workshop labour etc, that you can then use to form a small band and lease out your services to whoever can pay for them. E.g a recently raided village is short on farm hands, or requires some extra man power for reconstruction. The party members would then gain experience allowing them to upgrade into what job they're performing e.g hunting would be bows, logging two hander, smithing one hander, farming polearm etc. Then as you level up you can learn skills to begin to more directly train your party members, perhaps becoming more military oriented (or perhaps not, using "civilian troop lines" to more effectively complete your civilian tasks, i.e. more consistent denar generation). The longer a "troop" has been in your employ for, the greater the loyalty generation, which may act as a prerequisite for bodyguard troops, whilst also keeping them around for longer when party morale is low. Denars also come very quickly in the early game, for tournaments you should need a sponsor, that you can only gain through a combination of renown, relations level, and proven combat record (I.e fighting with someone independent/reputable around, e.g. tavern brawl, helping a lord, helping a village etc). Something similar should go for selling smithed weapons, you need to build up your reputation first. Realistically who would spend 110k denars on a weapon produced by an unknown Smith? Cultivate the "lucky break" by helping out merchants or lords, who may then give you a chance or recommend you as dependable to their contacts. Maybe you have to work under a more experienced Smith first, smithing in their name before branching out on your own, creating a whole new aspect of the character arc to do with craftsmen and their reputation/contacts. Maybe this is too much to expect for the base game, but hopefully some mods will do something similar. Rather than "win" the game, I get much more enjoyment from roleplaying and forging my own story.

no you're the champ Mitch!!

Free to enter as well

It's a shame you get so little money for winning, but not having to wait for a feast is really nice. Plus the free gear is such a help.

Shield bash is extremely useful if you can't dance around the enemies in the tournaments.

@@RickFoxChicken little money? Just bet max everytime

@@italianwaffle5592 I bet 150.. and get 180 in the first round.. so i get round about 100+ if I win the final or I will loose 800- gold if I lose in the finals. Thats bad betting my friend.

You have to go specifically to the kings but I've yet to test it myself.. Keep in mind the internal tester is on a different build so it might be something we've yet to get

Yeah went to all the kings and leaders. Good point about the build though! Keep up the great work!

Idk howb long you guys play this game but I've usually taken over enough territory that then other factions don't stand a chance and get snowballed before the second year in game.

AHOY!! So what you really need to focus on is your leadership/steward. Getting +5 or even +6 food variety at the START is going to be huge by the time you reach mid-game. Also, switch from whatever weapon combo you're using, to a different one. you won't be as effective, but you'll start to get more levels. The key here is that if your steward/leadership gets really high, you can field 150-200 man armies on you OWN, and then, send your companions off to become parties of their own accord. If you do this, you'll be able to rally a 300-400 (depending on the skills of your companion) man army, with just your own men. It won't cost you ANY influence, and it's a great way to at least patrol the kingdom and take over castles that have recently just been captured. You can also add a lot of aid with an army of that size to another one of your allied armies that is sieging/fighting. i hope this helps man. the mid game is a very sticky spot, and once we get some more patches/content, it will unfortunately always be a stalling point. BUT WORRY NOT! They said in their dev letter that they're addressing the leveling issues :)

OHHH that's actually a pretty nifty idea.. Re: minor clans, they will always cycle in and out of contracts.. In my experience, there's usually two that are out of contract at any given time.. But that's not necessarily a hard rule because sometimes they just.. All. Jump on one Hahah.. But I'd have to really explore that.. That's a really cool idea

@@italianspartacus Appreciate the reply! But yeah man I'm on like 100 days and I've started campaigns from scratch once or twice after realizing I've intialy allocated my skills poorly as per your tips ;). Just to elaborate about things I wonder about as a new player in terms of the time line specifically is like: how does the economy change over time? When has enough time past that doing certain activities is either more difficult or losing some benefit that you could have gotten; for things like minor factions, trade, marriage, vassal, mercenary and war. Overall how the game changes as more time passes in the campaign basically. Again thanks for the content! Keep up the good work!

@@italianspartacus Oh by the way. A specific question for you now. How long does it take you to take over the map if that's your obj?

Thanks man.. I really appreciate it. I try to spread the information as best I can!! :)

Very true but that's definitely not a start of the game situation Hehehehe :) although... That'd be a cool option.. To start as a governor

I try.. gotta pump it!!!

For the conspiracy quest, it's because you chose to go anti imperial rather than anti native. It should only be imperial cultures that are trying to attack you. For me I waited until it got to 2000, then when they all declared war I spent the influence I had saved to make peace with all but one. I'm just going round the map starting wars and making peace, chipping away at each faction individually. Once the conspiracy quest completes, and they start war on you, then you can finish the "war quests" by giving each faction a good thrashing.

I'd say that 100 point skill threshold is when it starts to really slow down, but that doesn't mean it's a crawl, it just means you really need to stack trying to gain it quickly.. like high food variety for steward for example! :) I've heard that "high charm skill" break point is 70 something, but I've yet to test it myself i'm afraid :( also! GREAT TIPS BROTHER! :)

Extortion by deserters is best way I've found to get fians early game without exploit. I wander Battania looking for this quest.

For now, yes, but they said mod tools are coming soon and that coild mean full workshop support. I'd suggest using the Vortex Downloader, you can immediately update through there

Phaea ftw

Do I have to marry a woman? Lol

@@teslagoth9401 you do not have to do anything, because we all know girls do not play video games

Yeah its a really nice little flavor thing that I really enjoy

Hey I totally appreciate and value your opinion on the matter and there are amazing alternatives to what I said.. Thank you so much for posting this :)

Yes! Ideally you want one companion who is the crafter and one who is the refiner and one who is the smelter :)

Exactly thats the case and with more companions, u can stock on alot of material and if necessary let them craft some weapons aswell Basically always leave the highest tier for yourself to craft and use up all the stamina of all party members, including u :)

With the fact that so many tournaments are ALWAYS going one i understand putting serious limitations on the XP you gain from them and the practice fights, which can be done ALL THE TIME.

@@JacksonOwex The only alternative is fighting battles which you can do all the time as well. The problem with those is you normally don't get that much of an opportunity in there to properly level up the different weapon skill lines, so they would all advance at a nice pace. The battles are over way too fast and your troops kill almost all of the enemies. At least in training fights you are being fed a consistent stream of direct opponents to earn xp. But 6% XP means a lvl 14 skill levels once and that's it, despite you killing literally dozens of opponents with a particular weapon type. There is simply no progression at all there. Which is no balance at all, if you ask me. The figure (94%) reminds me of Destiny 2 throttling XP up to 95%. Now that was because of selling lootboxes, a totally different setting, just the amount of XP reduction and the exact number never being revealed (as far as I know) reminds me of it.

Sure thing my guy! :) here you go: www.bannerlordperks.com/perk

Honestly.. I'm not sure.. Hopefully we get a change for the system because the reserves can really punish the gameplay of a fight

@@italianspartacus Thanks for the response! It's good to know content creators are aware of this issue. I've been seeing snippets on reddit but issues like this need the exposure only you guys can give. Hopefully the dev team sees the comments and fixes things haha. Cheers!

Ohh ho ya.. I'd wait for the next patch this week though as they're going to add even MORE. They've done a ton since release

Yeah, I hire a surgeon and a scout, but steward and leadership are some of the best skills to increase party size etc.

Agreed, my first character was max medicine from start and it's only 36 at day 430. There needs to be some balancing on how these points are earned so they somewhat match the investment you put in them.

@@Spagghetii medicine only goes up if you wait in a settlement with injured troops, or during a battle when death versus injury chance is rolled. As such it means it is hard to level of you don't get a lot of injured troops. My new 1.4.2 campaign I am trying to level it, but it's simpler to just hire someone.

@@devmgrdad5801 Yeah it was kind of my fault, I have a billion horses and only stop to trade. Its funny that to level medicine you have to let your troops get beaten up all the time, you prolly grind it buy just sending waves of recruits into the grinder.

@@devmgrdad5801 No it doesn't! I have gained, or seen companions gain, points in Medicine in many battles!!!

try switching to a beta branch. latest one is much more stable for me. also try completely removing mods, don't just disable. hope this helps.