This was BY FAR the most ambitious project I have taken on thus far. I've clocked in over 100 hours in the making of this video (no playing included in that, literally just editing, scripting, etc.) and I'm not entirely sure how well received it will be. Please let me know what you liked, didn't like and what can be improved because it was really difficult for me to organize this one and I feel like I need some help from you all in making videos like these better in the future. Thank you for hanging in here, we are finally done and can MOVE ON! WOOHOO :D
I've been watching since episode one and have seen every video you've posted since. From the consistency of your content and the amount of effort you put into Bannerlord is beyond impressive. With this first speedrun done, take a well deserved break man! Don't let yt and Bannerlord get in the way of your health.
It is an impressive video and I'm staggered just imagining how much work you had to put in it to reach such a high production value. Especially the part after minute 14, with all the animations and sounds to put on the map. I can't speak for all your community, but I felt that was a bit too much nonetheless : past a certain point, you can't hide the fact that bannerlord battles get very repetitive especially when it's killing another 800 army miraculously spawned from a 0 fief faction. But I don't know how you could improve that, except by using a lot of moding which is unfortunately not on point yet in bannerlord.
I can't think of anything substantial, aka, things other than personal preference. (Like changing some sounds, or mixing them differently, and who knows if changes I personally would make on that front would be an improvement for anyone other than myself? I don't. )
I think you should work on developing a reusable framework that will work for all of your videos to reduce time commitment and increase output. I like the animations, and you did a great job with them.
Every now and then, I come back to this guide, while I don't follow it step by step, I often use it as a solid base for a lot of my runs. Thanks for your hard work Strat! :)
@@Strat-Guides looking forward to it! There were several perk changes up to this time, and would love to see a bit more in-depth insight just for perks only. Also would love to see a guide for campaign, since main quest changes things a bit, and also in a campaign with birth and death enabled!
Thank you! Actually it's funny you mentioned that - That's what the next series will be :D I'm adding quite a few extra rules to make it a bit harder, but we will be using the same start as Halcylion's. We won't be able to buy anything though, so no getting an early horse for cheap and all the food has to be from raiding/killing. We will be more restrictive to which troops we can use - nothing that can be recruited from notables (so no regular troops of any kind) which means bandits mostly, some mercenaries and also minor faction units. It should be fun!!
@@Strat-Guides OH YES, thats gonne be awesome. But make sure its not too hard, im really struggling getting enought money in my bandit campaign atm. :)
I've done quite a bit of testing already for it and It's certainly possible as described, but you don't have to follow such harsh rules :) I think the biggest thing is to either not slow down with fighting OR keep your troops low enough level to not need to fight all the time. Once you get a full party of tier 4 and 5 units, you pretty much have to feed the beast several times per day, which can really be a mental drain lol
@@Strat-Guides Yea im playing with similar rules and im getting stuck money wise. Ive got a party of ~120 dudes with 1,5k in wages and the only real money maker is caravan raiding wich gets a bit boring for me. oh and im having a hard time selling all the loot im getting, i sometimes sell it to caravans but when i defeat them, i get most/ all of it back. :D So im thinking about allowing me to make peace (only if i get money for it) and sell the loot in towns and attack once im done. But its alot of fun overall, i almost cant emagine me playing the "normal" way again anny time soon. :D I hope my english is good enought to understand btw. :D
Yeah I ran into that same issue as well! The most important perk for me was 275 steward for wage reduction. It's so much easier to finance the army now because they are less than half cost AND they use less food :)
I think that finishing the game in 16 years requires too much dedication... imagine you plug in the game you wife is pregnant, you plug out your son now is 15...
I only promote companions as I have killed a lot of the noble clans and that made my relation with everyone to -100. Companions are much better as they have 99 loyalty to begin with whe I give them a castle. Castles do not rebel and I find giving them to companions work best.
Hahaha you savage! :D Isn't this supposed to be a time of chivalry on the battlefield?! Do your companions lose relations when you execute others as well? Yeah castles are great to donate away!
@@jhakassindians8565 Ah well that makes sense. When I was working on one of the guides, I had a hard time finding people with the merciful trait. It seems pretty rare, not sure if that's your experience as well?
Seeing how close bannerlord is close to being fully completed, alot of people will come back and your channel is going to a very frequented channel, you really deserve at the very least 100k subs by the end of this year
Yeah I think once we hit full release there will be a lot more people coming back :) I'm really hoping so! I really appreciate all the support from everyone, especially the regulars like yourself! Thank you so much :D
I really hope it's complete soon. I really want the steam workshop (also to figure out how the cheats work and to somehow get the graphics to be better)
Thank you! It's certainly satisfying to see the map painting :) As an EU4 player it was cool to see something similar for Bannerlord. I'm going to try to implement this into other campaigns as well, but maybe break it up so that it's not just 10 minutes straight of map changing lol
This was an extremely well-edited video. I rarely comment on videos, but this was a hell of an experience and you deserve full props. If you keep this kind of work up, you'll definitely grow to be one of the biggest youtube channels in this genre with the likes of ItalianSpartacus and such. Keep up the good work
Thank you! I spent way too much time on this one to be honest lol but I think it was worth it in the end. I really appreciate you helping with the algorithm, especially with a video like this that will not get the same attention as the guides (but took 4x the time/work to produce lol). I'm really hoping so!! It's only been 7 months but we are catching up quickly :D
Thank you! I appreciate the feedback and I'm glad this one didn't disappoint! I probably spent way too much time on it, but I learned a lot so I consider it an investment in my education :)
Thank you for watching! T feel like it was more challenging to make and edit this video lol I think the gameplay was about 60 hours or so? And the editing took 100! :P
Thank you for sticking with it!! I'm so thankful for all the support from everyone, it's nice to see people watching the non-guide content as well since they are a bit more fun for me to make :D
The amount of time spent on that high-quality editing just shows how much you care about your community. This video, with the battlefield tactics videos definitely helped a lot of people with their own campaigns. Good job strat!
Thank you! I did this one as a "thank you" to everyone who watched the full series :) It definitely wasn't worth it from a channel growth point of view since I could have made 2 or 3 guides in the same amount of time, but I really appreciate everyone's support and I wanted to show it
For anyone who wants to know the combination of choices to get the build at 1:15, it is: Urban merchants your way with people caring for horses. rode with the scouts. you treated people well.
Thank you! Yeah it took me about 25 hours in total to figure out how to do it, take screen shots, stitch them together, get the name tags up and color in the starting lands. I think I'm going to redo it though, I would like to see more defined borders for each fief so I don't have to manually do it each time. It will take more time, but in the long run it's just a matter of changing color for that layer rather than drawing them manually. I'll probably do a more zoomed in map too, this was was about 4 screenshots tall and 2 or 3 wide if I recall? I would like to get more detail for those campaigns that aren't WC and most of the action will be from a zoomed in perspective.
@@Strat-Guides have you looked into the mod tools? Maybe you can open the map there. I'm on Linux and while game compatbility via wine/proton is steadily getting better, especially for Steam, mod tools and the like often don't work as well. So, I can't give any pointers, other than 'it might give you a fully viewable, clean, map'
Interesting, that's a good idea and I didn't consider that. I've used it a couple times to make custom maps for the tactics guide but I didn't think about looking at the main campaign map. Thanks, I'll look into it!!
So I ended up accidentally conquering the world in about 11 years. Basically I reached clan level 3 after doing only blacksmithing and selling from the first single year and had infinite money to recruit Vlandian Champions and Battanian Fian's. Then I ran up to sturgia and conquered a castle and just kinda took like 30 1v1's until their entire Empire was in prison. From there I took every sturgian city with my 160 army stack. I had maxed out my charm so when I became a independent kingdom there was nothing left to do besides recruit all of the sturgian nobles to my side.... Idk what really happened next to be honest. My faction just kinda steam rolled Vlandia and I recruited their nobles as well. The remaining half of the game I coulda been afk because having those 2 factions nobles on my side made the game incredibly balanced in my favor. every battle from there was just a wash
Personally I wait for cities to rebel, of course after being able to gain a party of 120+ troops, then buy all their food supplies take out the largest of their rebel vassal or even the leader and instantly siege them. If you're a known warmonger and have executed Raganvad or any other leader or high power noble or vassal the rest of the rebels will be too scared to invade your siege camp even when they out number you. So now with you excess of food and the cities lack of it starve them out, wait till the garrison starves/abandons and boom a weak militia of no more than usually 150 is left. That's mostly recruits and peasants as well, if your troops are decent enough it's honestly better to send them without you, you'll get far less casualties if they're at least level 3 or higher. Also you can force cities to rebel with enough money. Go to a city that's been captured by someone else, IE Sturgian owned Jalmarys. Buy all their food, leave and wait a day. Go back in repeat. Drop food on ground to keep inventory space free, continue buying out the food it'll instantly be low numbers upon the first restock so long as a caravan doesn't plow in. Even so just buy all that food too, keep doing this for a little around a week to two weeks in game and the city will rebel. Everyone needs food. This is how I'm slowly conquering the Storymode without anymore wars asides when the odd city rebels. A bit nightmarish to maintain 7 cities without any armies but also not too ad when you're not at war with anyone. Trying to get a rogue clan victory or as close to one as I can get!
Amazing gameplay brother, thanks for all the hardwork, I have 1300 hours in-game and undestand all the concepts you talk about in your videos buts ive also learned so much. Thanks again, great content and very entertaining. =)
As an avid crusader kings player who's all about nice and clean borders, that map painting montage was absolutely glorious and satisfying to watch! Amazing job dude, have my sub
This video is quite old by now, so some things might be outdated and more game knowledge be existing already but I'll give some of my observations for a faster run. The most important thing is having big fight wins (both in scale and "cleanness" in terms of losses. And to do this you need the optimal army . So no matter what culture you pick you go at Battanian's area, start working on relations with the fian villages and recruit exclusively fians. Until 100-150 units having exclusively fians is the best, afterwards you start adding some elite cavalry from recruiting prisoners or troops after fight. Donate to fiefs or simply throw away every other unit. Make yourself the main INT guy in your party you need high medicine as fast as possible and thats the fastest way to do it. Later on you can reach 275 medicine as well which is game changer and I saw that you failed to do it with companions. To make myself clear here, with this kind of gameplay your losses must be lower than 1 dead unit per 100 kills or so. Any balance fight should have 0 losses (couple injuries are fine, Im talking about deaths). I'd accept a death toll of 5-10 in fights 3 to 1 where I'd get 150+ renown. This minimal losses strat can extend to sieges as well. Break their catapults before going in but dont create any melee siege weapons. Make all your range units stand below the walls in loose formation and they will dismantle most of the enemy troops with 0 losses again. If they end up without ammo too soon, pull back and attack again. If for some reason you are forced to siege while they still have catapults, make your archers stand below their siege weapon so they are all out of range. Never let your army use the default positions they suck. If you execute well all these, its a failproof strat. Even when you are locked in a siege and you see many enemy parties surrounding you it isnt an issue as the AI cant make proper estimate of your real strength and they will attack when they arent strong enough. Well if a huge army with 800+ units come to fight your 150, just run then, not worth trying these odds. For reference I was clan tier 4 with multiple fiefs in a year, as tier 4 I had some 280~ renown fights and my best one was a 430 renown city siege, but I was already tier 6 by then. In other aspects of the game now, Smithing: I'll eventually get my character high enough to get attribute points, but its not worth making him the main smith. Any low level companion with a bit of focus on endurance will do, I used a "the Hawk" who also got to 250 bow, 300 riding 250 athletics by the end of my run, with 9 Endurance. Don't try to force smithing early and specifically avoid crafting, its too slow. Start investing time on it after having at least 5-6 units that can smith (you spouse and companions). Start by smelting the spoils of war from the fight you are doing anyway, by looking at their tier. For each weapon category smelt weapons of a higher tier than what you are trying to unlock, for example smelt tier 3 when you are unlocking the tier 1-2, and save the tier 4+ to smelt them later on. For most weapon categories there are some breakthrough unlocks, that after getting them you can accelerate the procedure by crafting and smelting the specific weapon. Thats the time when its worth to start crafting, and you can literally unlock everything within a couple days of rest then. I find Javs the easier one to focus first, followed by polearms (both for smith exp and easy money). 2H swords takes longer because there are more to unlock. Macro early strategy: Recruit fians, beat looters and do random quests and try to get a riding horse for every unit of yours for the footmen on horses bonus. If you are battanian it makes hunting parties much much faster around forests. With scouting 75 perk you have 0 speed penalty in them. When you reach clan tier 1 go and join the side who is currently fighting against the side you are interested in having as allies/yours later on. Improve relations with them while you grow stronger. Tiers 1->2 and 2->3 are extremely fast if you learn to fight properly. When you are working towards 4 it's about the time to start planning for your first fiefs. They should have the same culture as you first of all. There are many ways to go at it, the simpler one is to become a vasal, take them one after they other and because you previously had 0 fiefs and they are your culture you are guarantee to get them basically. After getting so many fiefs that they stop suggesting you for anymore, you can either chill a bit and stabilize your position or if you are ready just leave the kingdom already. Some mid game cheese: After creating your kingdom recruit the 2 best families you have already worked your relationships with. With just 2 you can keep getting the new fiefs you like. When you get the third family they will start splitting between them, but if you really want something, you can take back a fief and then give it to yourself as the family who just lost it cant take it again right away. Past that point you can go full throttle and recruit one family after the other... Keep the family heads prisoners while leaving the other members for relationships and focus on taking all the fiefs that a family has before trying to recruit them. Its cheaper and they wont deny you. When the timing is appropriate, make peace with everyone, kick every family from your kingdom, and break it. If you need some time you can stabilize your position again, or create a new kingdom right away because the policies are important. So you take all the fiefs in your name again and you reset wars and kingdom aggression. This is long enough already I guess. There are many more details for each of the aforementioned category of course but these cover the basics I think. After that point is about doing more of the same at the best of your ability.
Subbed less than 5 minutes in. The amount of concise information that was accurately and cleanly presented as well as the great editing earned my like, sub and comment :) keep it up!! I’ll be taking a lot of this into account for my newest run
Making another attempt to get Calradia conquered by a faction of my choice. Tried being a vassal under all factions now going for a different approach which so far is going well. I am an Imperial mercenary who helps the Imperial factions retain their Imperial territory against the non-imperial factions. I started with Northern Empire but have not worked for them since. Mostly work with Western Empire but signed up with the Southern Empire to defend Amprela against a Sturgian Army which was a success. Plan is to help the Imperial factions out until someone wins the civil war then join them to conquer what is still not in Imperial hands. By the looks of it unsurprisingly that is going to be the Southern Empire. They have taken the majority of the Khanate and have two extra clans thanks to rebellions. They surround the Khuzait now only a matter of time before they take it all. Currently focusing on keeping Vlandia contained in the West but want to take back Epicrotia after the vassal there defected to Sturgia. At least Dey Rothad joined the Western Empire. We forced them back into Vlandia earlier and now fighting to keep it that way. If everything goes to shit was planning on rallying a new kingdom myself with other Imperial clans but that definitely won't happen.
Great video!! I have been playing Bannerlord like crazy on the console I am on my 3rd full playthrough and have put in probably 250 hours of gameplay. It is such an addicting game. Part of the fun for me is building relationships with the nobles. It is so satisfying to hear them say "What are you saying exactly?" lol but on this current playthrough, I am definitely going to promote my companions right away after creating my kingdom, since I haven't tried that before. I usually just give them their own castle at the end of the game after I have conquered everything, haha.
Thank you! I just spent 20+ hours updating the map to make it even better lol The video I'm editing right now uses it extensively and I think I have a better format for using it. It should be ready by tomorrow morning! Thanks for watching
@14:09 I was ready to be mad that we didn't get to see the details of the world conquest, only to be DELIGHTED that you've got a whole playlist of it! Love your work so far (I'm 8 episodes into the playlist), your hard work shows!
Hehe that was the part that took the longest, I couldn't leave that out :) I'm going to try to integrate the story/tips in with the map next time so it's easier to follow. Thank you for watching this series! All the support really helps since these get a lot less views than the guides, but they are much more fun to put together for me :P
One of the greatest videos on the youtube. Just 1 problem though. Arabic Desert Kingdom Aserai declares war for the first time. Ottoman Empire songs starts playing. This triggered me more than calling yoghurt greek. Adding one.more thing: Khergit city and town names literally 1 or 2 letter diffrent then modern turkey city names. Why the mongol singing lol. Clarification: Just being funny. Really don't care. Loved the video dude. Legit the best MB bannerlord video
Thank you! Haha yeah I know it's not a perfect match as the Ottomans are from the Steppes originally and certainly not Arabic, probably much more similar to the Mongols. I think most players associate Khuzait with the Mongols though which left Ceddin Ceden for the Aserai. It's such a great song so I'm just happy to put it in! That's interesting, I didn't realize the Turkish city names were that close to the Khuzait spelling! Very cool, I need to do some research on it. Haha it's all good, I really appreciate you watching and leaving a comment :)
Great recap! I'm glad I stuck around and watched the entire playthrough, it was very enjoyable. The map painting part's simply incredible, I'm very impressed by your effort. I wonder how different/difficult would the speedrun become if you had death enabled.
Thank you! I'm glad you stuck with it too :) It was a fun one for sure. For the next series I plan on integrating the map editing from the start, so it should be easier to follow along each episode. It's easy to get lost when you're zoomed in and watching a highly editing play through! I was thinking about this as well - starting at age 50 would not have worked out but I think maybe 30 or 40 would be fine. There were a lot of extra attribute and focus points that were spent on irrelevant categories so I think the build would have been the same in the end (just a little slower to get there). My biggest concern is companions dying in battle since we used them for all intelligence skills. I rarely play with death disabled so it was a little strange getting used to not seeing dead nobles after battle lol
I try taking a random castle or city always 5 random nobles show up with 300 troops. If I try and join as a vassal they run around like headless chickens with 2-3 aimless 400 troop armies getting stomped by sallying cities. Sometimes I think the game heavily rolls against the player to try to "even" the odds.
Yeah it does seem that way. I've seen the AI lock onto me from across the kingdom and chase for days on end, ignoring other AI parties attacking them. It's a bit maddening to be honest lol
It really depends on the difficulty you are playing on. On easy mode, you just need strategy and auto-resolve battles, kill all nobles and get the whole map in your name in 5 years. On maximum-difficulty, this becomes exponentially difficult with lords just not wanting to be a part of your kingdom and you having to rely on your 1500 troops most of the time
Yeah for sure. I was trying to keep this one clean with no exploits and no executions (it's a bit cheesy in my opinion, which I have nothing against for other people to do it but I don't find it fun personally). This campaign was played out on Bannerlord difficulty.
I don't usually comment, but this video was marvelous to watch. They all are, but this one touched a really special place in my heart, in particular with the Kingdom Come: Deliverance music. Thank you for your efforts to the bannerlord community. We love you!
Thank you, I really appreciate it! I know this one wasn't worth it from a channel growth point of view (I could have done 3 guides in the same time that get 2x the views each lol), but I really wanted to do something special for everyone that stuck with the series as a thank you.
Thank you! Yeah this one was crazy to put together, but I think it turned out okay in the end :) There were a few mistakes, but just like the post review on the campaign, I took notes for how to edit the next one better!
Hahaha and at some point later in the campaign, Derthert came in said, "I gotta have more cowbell, baby". ruclips.net/video/cVsQLlk-T0s/видео.html&ab_channel=SaturdayNightLive These would make excellent memes!
Thank you for watching! Yeah it's really hard to tell exactly what's going on in the edited videos, so I think I'll try to integrate the map earlier on in the next play through. It's hard to get perspective when I'm bouncing around everywhere quickly lol
Your "Friedrich der Große" was actually pretty good and quite sneaky choosing Poverty And Famine by Jan and Adam and even The Hu for your conquest phase *g*
That land bridge between Ortysia/Garontor castle and Quyaz/Tubilis castle being captured without any back and forth brings joy to me. In my own campaign, it has been hotspot over 3 years now and I am too stubborn to quit on it.
Yeah I was a little surprised they didn't go after it very hard! Usually they swarm it hard but I guess they were busy elsewhere? It's such a good land bridge to hold. Once an enemy army crosses, there is no way back home :D
Did they get rid of weapon bonus stats on throwing weapons? I should mention I play on console so idk if it’s different, but I have been creating and destroying weapons for probably about 100 hours and still have not finished all my throwing knife pieces or my dagger pieces for that matter - but I focused on throwing knives first. Everything else is done, and went significantly faster because you could make most classes of items up to level 6. Also, in the past when I was making hewing javelins and harpoons to sell in the early game- (this was long after they changed some of the early money making hacks - and they were most profitable per supply item until I got the narrow and regular menavlion heads with the throwing pine shaft in pole arm) - and I was getting buffs and rebuffs for a long time. Fast forward, and I hadn’t made any in a while to use or sell because I now had better items that cost less and sell for more. So since I had been crafting for so long, I didn’t realize that I would get my two siblings without using a companion slot, so I hadn’t gotten that quest finished yet. I finished it, and I’m crafting them weapons and stocking up for my next companions, and I realized that no matter how many throwing weapons I craft, none of them have buffs or debuffs. My main crafter is 301 smithing and 2 more over 250, so they shouldn’t be getting debuffs, but I’ve done well over 1,000 throwing knives, (6/10 of my saved previous crafted menu each time), at least 100 javelins just this time around, and I’m going to do throwing axes tonight but I noticed during crafting orders they had no bonuses. Everything else is still giving buffs, but they seem to be less frequent than it was before. I’m wondering if they ran a patch I’m not aware of. Also, I’d love it if they would add tier 5 items for all weapon pieces in all classes instead of limiting some to 3 or 4. (Throwing knives can’t get above 3 for blades for example). If you read this long, I have a question too - Can you create tier 6 weapons for all types for the most part? I’ve done it with swords/2h swords, pole arms, 2h maces, javelins, 2h axes. Although I have very good 1h axes, throwing axes~, and pretty good 1h maces, I have yet to get above tier 5 with those and still haven’t unlocked all dagger or throwing knives. I don’t make many pikes from the pike menu but I imagine those will be tier 5 max as well. (The best moneymakers I’ve found are menavlion with t5 long fanion, throwing shaft - short pine shaft I think, and a cheap iron spear brace for the bottom nets 30k. Narrow menavlion with the same nets about half that, 15.8k or so, but only costs 2 iron and a hardwood instead of a 1 wood, 1 steel, 1 iron). I can get some other weapons worth slightly more, around 35-40k with 1h swords, other 2h pole arms, but they all cost fine steel or Thanaskene steel, and take a lot more pieces of steel to make. I’ll go through all my weapons once I unlock the rest and see what the best moneymakers I can find in the current patch are). There also seems to be a major bug still going on, where every time you load/start up your game, all the buffs on previously crafted weapons disappear. This is good for low level chars trying to sell weapons because it eliminates debuffs too, but it makes crafting suck compared to what it should be - there’s virtually no point in trying to make unique weapons right now and I haven’t heard any indication this is known about much less being worked on.
I love using your guides for my MULTIPLE rerolls, but I am always so frustrated cause I still cannot master the: 1v100 with no clothes and a cheap two hander/bow!! 🤣 You are 100% the best so keep making whatever kinds of bannerlord vids you want they are always awesome, educational, and inspiring!
Hahaha the ole naked horse archery technique :) It takes a bit of getting used to because those rock throwing looters are so accurate! Thank you so much, I appreciate it!
in my current season i used first 1½ year on smithing, then the next 3 years time i have quonqered 1 third of the map as a vassal for Valandia and i am a battanian. battania have less than 2,5k army size and the same with western empire and sturgia . this game is so addicting. we have a strong army of 12k whille the closest is aserai with 6,4k and khuzaits with 6,2k. i feel like valandia is insanely good at making war decisions compared to all other factions.
I loved the time-lapse of the world conquest ! It's so interesting to see the events pan out like that, you have better understanding of how the wars happened, at times precise and calculated but sometimes utter chaos haha~ Well done ! Here's hoping we get some other playthrough like this one in the future. :-)
That's a great description! At times it was surgical strikes, taking out exactly which fief I wanted to and getting out before they retaliated. But other times it was like being in a moshpit lol Thank you! I'm working on the next playthrough already, but I want to get a few episodes recorded and edited before I start releasing them because I'm moving soon and won't have time to do anything for a week or two so I'm hoping to space those out to help bridge the gap :) Thank you so much for watching this series! I really appreciate the support.
The Sheperd Perk doesnt work correctly but just adds a handicap of 50%. Also the Looters don't charge anymore when you give the command. Where do I report this? Cant find anything in the forums.
this really did a great job of condensing the information provided in the full world conquest series while also adding your thoughts on the project as a whole. I'm sure this won't be the last time I'll see this. Great stuff, man
Thank you! I'm glad it wasn't a drag lol I know watching a full let's play can get bogged down towards the end since it's very repetitive so I did my best to make it less grind-y. I appreciate your support!
9:48 Am I the only on who is to stupid to defeat so many enemies at my own? My earlygame is always a pain because I can't get many kills especially with the shitty weapons and no armor. And then some random arrows defeat me... With that I also waste a lot of money on troops and it takes forever to reach like 20'000. Your balance after one year absolutely threw me off my chair. Damn I'm bad at this game The painting the map section is very well made but that also looks very repetitive to play
Its nice seeing that they gave some sandbox settings to the campaign what with the ability to turn off death, as well as death mid game from any general source...though personally I dont mind having death enabled so long as its not from battles...last thing I want is stupid looters or bandits getting a good or lucky rock chuck right into my face and insta-killing me. Shits happened once before (minus the death) and its annoying early game that rocks are more efficient and effective than arrows...and the accuracy of said rocks is ridiculous. Generally though the settings they gave are nice. Though early game I play on generally easy settings starting off (cause of the above but also rusty pitchforks piercing all your armor like its a joke)
Frederick the great was one of the few historical figures that is claimed by the gay community that actually was, pretty obviously, gay. This is based off of looking into the question a few years ago. Most of these sorts of claims are flagrant character assassinations of historical figures, but Frederick is the exception to that rule.
So much work needs to be done the game becomes so unfun later on. You can have 100 characters with armies running around and only you will try to defend settlements or take new ones. The game has such promise but near impossible grind fest of angering boredom trying to win a map. I usually don't even do sieges I start them so my army doesn't suicide itself then I mute the game and watch RUclips videos till it's over.
I enjoyed the video, but I have to be honest. I don't like the abuse of the broken game-mechanic of Smithing to amass enormous amounts of money. I was hoping to see a real "How To" - But using that "mechanic", you might as well use cheats to get money, IMO.
Thank you for watching! Yeah I know what you mean, the next series is the polar opposite! I'm starting with nothing and the only income source allowed is loot (and being at war with everyone on the map means it's harder to sell stuff).
@@Strat-Guides Thanks for the reply! I've subbed and hit the bell, since that sounds like a really cool and awesome challenge! Looking forward to watching it! 😁
Nice, thanks! There are a few more rules that make it interesting - no buying items allows (must loot everything, even food), at war with all clans on the map except rebellions when they happen and only able to use non-recruitable units like bandits, minor faction units, mercenaries, peasants, etc.
I was trading basically the entire inventory that the town had, so at those volumes it's possible to breeze through to 125. You need to have a ton of pack animals, the riding perk and a ton of money already though so it's not a good starting strategy.
I also suggest to siege tyal first because in my opinion its the most strategic location of all like no one can attack from behind and at the side there's only 1 way to enter the fief
This video looks great. Perhaps I’m a bit too new to the game and the trading/smithing goes a bit too fast in this video. Do you have a more detailed tutorial here?
I never played Bannerlord nor did I have any curiosity in doing so but your channel has made me a fan of the game and now I play everyday! Ty for the infos your provide.
@@Strat-Guides To be honest didn’t actually think you were going to reply because of the amount of comments. I’m just starting to watch the playlist for this playtrough to understand more about the game. And you have the understanding and editing knowledge to be a great gaming channel!
Sorry for taking so long, it's been a crazy week for me. I appreciate the support and once I finish moving next month I will have tons of time to get back to putting 2 - 3 videos out per week :)
idk if im stupid or not, but i believe with the "prisoner 100% no escape" its actually one of them is 50% not escaping your party and the other is 50% chance of not escaping a governed settlement. So i dont think its 100% chance of not escaping. Correct me if im wrong.
It's definitely 100% escape chance from your party as I've built entire campaigns around this perk combo. There are other perks that work for governors as well, but I'm not sure they actually work because I couldn't see any difference when using them
You are telling me I can just walk over to an enemy and pay a one time payment and thats it? I always paid tributes and it ruined me, TALEWORLD WHAT THE HELL ARE YOUR MECHANIIIIIIIICS
If you're part of a kingdom (your own included) then you have to go through the diplomacy screen. If you're solo, then you can do 1-time payments. It's more expensive now though, they patched it a bit since then. Expect to spend 300k+ for peace
This video was done quite a while ago (I think 2 years ago?) so the version has changed since then. Not sure why they went with that numbering system lol typical TW maths
How are you finding bandit parties that big, the most i see is like maybe 30 for looters and its so rare its making farming influence take so long because i cant find enough to kill and its been 2 years since you made this so i doubt you'll see this if you do i would greatly appreciate some help
Part of this is luck arrive they spawn all over the map randomly. The other part is which patch you're on - in not sure if they made bandits smaller now in the early game or not?
@crabby7000 they changed it a little - put a companion or family member as the governor of any fief you own. Then talk to them and you'll see the chat option to start your own kingdom.
Hey DireW! It's actually from a game called Kingdom Come Deliverance which is based in 15th century Bohemia so it's your ancestor's music :D It's a REALLY good game and if you have not seen it before I recommend checking it out at least on RUclips :)
@@Strat-Guides hey, thanks for info. Actually, I know the game and even I have it probably at Epic Games, but haven't played yet😂 And it's not my ancestor's music, because I am just living in CZ, but come from Ukraine. Thanks for response!🙂
@@direwghost7257 Oooh gotcha, I assumed you were from there. My bad! They will probably release the game out of early access before the end of the year so maybe when they do that it will be worth a try :) Very cool, I have some ancestry from Ukraine as well! They were from the western parts in a small village near the border of Poland. I don't recall the name of the village... But apparently my great great grandfather was a Cossack!
@@Strat-Guides You are probably from Lvivska oblast (region). Some of my relatives live there, but originally we are from Sumska oblast (region), it lies in the east. It's possible, I'm also from the cossack village :) If you are interested in these parts and played Warband With fire and sword, I recommend you also the book With fire and sword, I'm reading it right now and it's excellent! :)
@@direwghost7257 Wow that's so cool! I'll have to look up the region, you're probably right. Thank you for the book recommendation! I'll check it out :D
When you started a war with Aserai you played the Ottoman battle march song “Mehter Marşı” at 16:44 but Ottoman Empire is a Turkic Empire not an Arabic one and Aserai is inspired by real life Arabic kingdoms. If we have to align one kingdom from the game to a real Turkic state it would be the Khuzaits. Great video though.
Yeah I agree, it would have been more appropriate for the Khuzaits, but I already had a song for them and was looking for an excuse to put this fantastic military march in :) I'm a huge fan of Ottoman marches!
It still don't know how you managed to recruit Apys who owned Garontor and Ortysia, and took them with him. was he your wifes father? my current playthrough, not once would someone that owned anything, even talk to me. 302 charm, millions in the bank.. I hate to say it, with all that work... you should have put up a timeline for the conquest. Draining your allies influence. dumb wars. versus letting them have influence to form armies. this is a tough one. I'm not sure which really is best. mid-early world conquest was questioning your choice to drain their influence. I did think letting them fight, and attack/defend was more effective. but, late world conquest.. suddenly they start demanding 6 wars at once, and with so many vassels, it takes 1-2k to tell them no. but then its back to, do we let them? let them be dumb, the A.I is real bad at actually taking castles/towns. maybe its ok to let them be dumb, and personally take towns ourselves.
Yeah that was an odd one. I think it has to do with half of his kingdom being gobbled up and I suspect they were having financial troubles as a whole. Normally they don't defect like that unless they are on their last legs (which they kind of were). I know lol I was thinking the same thing! I spent several hours rewatching each episode and taking notes, but when I got to the editing for the map portion I realized I didn't take down what the date was :*( I just didn't have it in me to go back and rewatch it again haha I'm actually okay with them not forming armies because they can still be placed on defensive mode and swarm enemies that siege. My biggest concern is them going on the offense, which rarely works out well. The AI is really bad lol but it was probably like that IRL too, greedy nobles only want to self advance and don't care about the kingdom as a whole. Thank you for watching this one, I appreciate it :)
I'd like to say- Great video, but I have a suggestion. I feel like you could've made the video more entertaining by simply talking more, I feel like showing the conquering of the world in silence was a slightly wasted opportunity because I think you could've given a lot of entertaining commentary over that. Obviously, it's up to you to choose how you make your videos, and I still loved the video, but if I were to pick a reference for what I'd imagine it'd AmbiguousAmphibian. Ambiguous is a very *special* case for a youtuber, so I don't mean to be exactly like him, but I more so would be referencing how he commentates on the stories of what happens in his playthroughs of games, and I feel like in his videos it does end up giving him a lot of opportunities to make the video more entertaining. Even if you don't go for comedy like he does, I think commentating throughout the recap could add something more to the video/videos. Great job and good luck on growing your channel, hope to see you in the millions someday!
Thank you for watching! I 100% agree with out and it's something I struggled with when I was making the video. I had already spend roughly 100 hours making it and had to move onto other projects. I think I will approach it differently next time so that I can still get a good video out, but perhaps spend less time on the parts that took FOREVER lol :) I've watched some of his videos, he's very good! I know what you mean though. I appreciate the feedback and I will definitely keep working on things moving forward!
I love this and its made my bannerlord experience much better. I just got the game 2 weeks ago and ive logged 120 hours so far. I havent not been able to beat the game. I found i dont like easy as much as i like realistic bannerlord. I dont like that as a mercenary or vassal you cant "kill" a faction off and they continue to raid the villages around is that not an issue for you? And would you do an updated video on this again ? :o id watch it 😊
I'm glad to hear my videos are helpful! So the only way to deal with a landless faction is to kill off all the nobles by execution. If you don't want the negative relations hit with everyone, then just let them raid. You should be making more than enough denars through war to survive without fief income. I'm going to be making another WC video in the next month or so!
This was BY FAR the most ambitious project I have taken on thus far. I've clocked in over 100 hours in the making of this video (no playing included in that, literally just editing, scripting, etc.) and I'm not entirely sure how well received it will be. Please let me know what you liked, didn't like and what can be improved because it was really difficult for me to organize this one and I feel like I need some help from you all in making videos like these better in the future. Thank you for hanging in here, we are finally done and can MOVE ON! WOOHOO :D
I've been watching since episode one and have seen every video you've posted since. From the consistency of your content and the amount of effort you put into Bannerlord is beyond impressive. With this first speedrun done, take a well deserved break man! Don't let yt and Bannerlord get in the way of your health.
It is an impressive video and I'm staggered just imagining how much work you had to put in it to reach such a high production value. Especially the part after minute 14, with all the animations and sounds to put on the map.
I can't speak for all your community, but I felt that was a bit too much nonetheless : past a certain point, you can't hide the fact that bannerlord battles get very repetitive especially when it's killing another 800 army miraculously spawned from a 0 fief faction. But I don't know how you could improve that, except by using a lot of moding which is unfortunately not on point yet in bannerlord.
I can't think of anything substantial, aka, things other than personal preference.
(Like changing some sounds, or mixing them differently, and who knows if changes I personally would make on that front would be an improvement for anyone other than myself? I don't. )
I think that it has been quite well recieved judging from the comments here.
Don't be too hard on yourself and take a break if needed.
I think you should work on developing a reusable framework that will work for all of your videos to reduce time commitment and increase output. I like the animations, and you did a great job with them.
Every now and then, I come back to this guide, while I don't follow it step by step, I often use it as a solid base for a lot of my runs. Thanks for your hard work Strat! :)
Glad it is helpful! I'm planning on updating a few things on this one soon :)
@@Strat-Guides looking forward to it! There were several perk changes up to this time, and would love to see a bit more in-depth insight just for perks only. Also would love to see a guide for campaign, since main quest changes things a bit, and also in a campaign with birth and death enabled!
Supreme editing! Ty for the tutorial ^^
Thanks for watching!
19:28 nice song pick. You should look up the lyrics 😂😂😂
10/10 video ❤️
Great video and series! Id love to see an playthrough as an outlaw king from you, kinda like Halcylion does. :)
Thank you! Actually it's funny you mentioned that - That's what the next series will be :D I'm adding quite a few extra rules to make it a bit harder, but we will be using the same start as Halcylion's. We won't be able to buy anything though, so no getting an early horse for cheap and all the food has to be from raiding/killing. We will be more restrictive to which troops we can use - nothing that can be recruited from notables (so no regular troops of any kind) which means bandits mostly, some mercenaries and also minor faction units. It should be fun!!
@@Strat-Guides OH YES, thats gonne be awesome. But make sure its not too hard, im really struggling getting enought money in my bandit campaign atm. :)
I've done quite a bit of testing already for it and It's certainly possible as described, but you don't have to follow such harsh rules :) I think the biggest thing is to either not slow down with fighting OR keep your troops low enough level to not need to fight all the time. Once you get a full party of tier 4 and 5 units, you pretty much have to feed the beast several times per day, which can really be a mental drain lol
@@Strat-Guides Yea im playing with similar rules and im getting stuck money wise. Ive got a party of ~120 dudes with 1,5k in wages and the only real money maker is caravan raiding wich gets a bit boring for me. oh and im having a hard time selling all the loot im getting, i sometimes sell it to caravans but when i defeat them, i get most/ all of it back. :D So im thinking about allowing me to make peace (only if i get money for it) and sell the loot in towns and attack once im done. But its alot of fun overall, i almost cant emagine me playing the "normal" way again anny time soon. :D I hope my english is good enought to understand btw. :D
Yeah I ran into that same issue as well! The most important perk for me was 275 steward for wage reduction. It's so much easier to finance the army now because they are less than half cost AND they use less food :)
I think that finishing the game in 16 years requires too much dedication... imagine you plug in the game you wife is pregnant, you plug out your son now is 15...
Haha yeah if this actually took 16 years IRL to do, I would be in school as a kid when it started :D Thank you for watching!!
I don't even have a PC to play the game but i enjoy your vids ✌✌
Thank you so much! Soon Bannerlord will be on console so hopefully that will help :)
Good job dude
Thank you! :D
@@Strat-Guides Just what is the kossack song called?
Bro completed the game
At long last! lol
I think you have done a wonderful job! What beta did you play on?
Thank you!! This one started off on 1.6.5 if I recall and ended in 1.7.1.
@@Strat-Guides nice! Keep up the vids, I love them!
@@Strat-Guides I know it’s crazy difficult and takes an insane amount of time, but this is an editing, content, and helpfulness gem. Thank you.
@@etdraco8551 Thank you! It's okay, it was a great learning experience for me as well so it should help me moving forward with making better videos :)
I only promote companions as I have killed a lot of the noble clans and that made my relation with everyone to -100. Companions are much better as they have 99 loyalty to begin with whe I give them a castle. Castles do not rebel and I find giving them to companions work best.
Hahaha you savage! :D Isn't this supposed to be a time of chivalry on the battlefield?!
Do your companions lose relations when you execute others as well? Yeah castles are great to donate away!
@@Strat-Guides relations decrease only if they a merciful perk. But i just support them by giving influence and it comes back up.
Also, chivalry makes them come back with stronger and larger armies. I tend to nip the problems in the bud 🤣🤣🤣
@@jhakassindians8565 Ah well that makes sense. When I was working on one of the guides, I had a hard time finding people with the merciful trait. It seems pretty rare, not sure if that's your experience as well?
@@jhakassindians8565 Lol very true! The AI doesn't play by the same rules when it comes to troop recruitment so I'm all for lopping off a few heads :)
Seeing how close bannerlord is close to being fully completed, alot of people will come back and your channel is going to a very frequented channel, you really deserve at the very least 100k subs by the end of this year
Yeah I think once we hit full release there will be a lot more people coming back :) I'm really hoping so! I really appreciate all the support from everyone, especially the regulars like yourself! Thank you so much :D
Bannerlord is far from finished unfortunately
has there been any change since first release? The game looks exactly the same.
@@WoofyMcDoodle not really any big changes tbh
I really hope it's complete soon. I really want the steam workshop (also to figure out how the cheats work and to somehow get the graphics to be better)
The map-painting section was an absolute joy to watch, kudos on the editing work.
Thank you! That means a lot coming from the dinosaur from the google page :D
I really appreciate your support!
Its like Crusader Kings but less frantic.
it would be nice to see a mod with a map like this.
@@ville8590 YES PLEASE
There was something so nice about seeing the offensive seige animation and then watching the map turn white. This was a great series to follow.
Thank you! It's certainly satisfying to see the map painting :) As an EU4 player it was cool to see something similar for Bannerlord. I'm going to try to implement this into other campaigns as well, but maybe break it up so that it's not just 10 minutes straight of map changing lol
Hey you! You're me! Or i'm you!
This was an extremely well-edited video. I rarely comment on videos, but this was a hell of an experience and you deserve full props. If you keep this kind of work up, you'll definitely grow to be one of the biggest youtube channels in this genre with the likes of ItalianSpartacus and such. Keep up the good work
Thank you! I spent way too much time on this one to be honest lol but I think it was worth it in the end. I really appreciate you helping with the algorithm, especially with a video like this that will not get the same attention as the guides (but took 4x the time/work to produce lol). I'm really hoping so!! It's only been 7 months but we are catching up quickly :D
You take the word rarely quite serious
Amazing editing quality, really a lot of effort, and so enjoyable to watch. Well done man. Thank you so much and please keep it up!!!!
Thank you! I appreciate the feedback and I'm glad this one didn't disappoint! I probably spent way too much time on it, but I learned a lot so I consider it an investment in my education :)
Months of hard work represented in half an hour. He's on another level!
Thank you for watching! T feel like it was more challenging to make and edit this video lol I think the gameplay was about 60 hours or so? And the editing took 100! :P
This is a great guide. I enjoyed the whole series. Great work on the paint the map animation. The lessons learned at the end was especially helpful.
Thank you for sticking with it!! I'm so thankful for all the support from everyone, it's nice to see people watching the non-guide content as well since they are a bit more fun for me to make :D
@@Strat-Guides how did you beat bannerlord in 16 years when it's only out for 2 years
That painting the map segment is fantastic. I would love a mod that calculates that automatically for each playthrough!
Thank you! Oh man, I would love a mod to do that for me as well LOL it takes forever to do :D
The amount of time spent on that high-quality editing just shows how much you care about your community. This video, with the battlefield tactics videos definitely helped a lot of people with their own campaigns. Good job strat!
Thank you! I did this one as a "thank you" to everyone who watched the full series :) It definitely wasn't worth it from a channel growth point of view since I could have made 2 or 3 guides in the same amount of time, but I really appreciate everyone's support and I wanted to show it
Perk Selection:
Two Handed - 2:15
Bow - 2:48
Riding - 3:15
Athletics: - 3:41
Smithing - 4:12
Scouting - 4:46
Tactics - 5:17
Roguery - 5:28
Charm - 5:41
Leadership - 6:28
Trade - 7:30
Steward - 7:55
Medicine - 8:20
Engineering - 8:39
For anyone who wants to know the combination of choices to get the build at 1:15, it is:
Urban merchants
your way with people
caring for horses.
rode with the scouts.
you treated people well.
Thank you
Dude, that map was amazing. I can see where all the time went. Top tier stuff man!
Thank you! Yeah it took me about 25 hours in total to figure out how to do it, take screen shots, stitch them together, get the name tags up and color in the starting lands. I think I'm going to redo it though, I would like to see more defined borders for each fief so I don't have to manually do it each time. It will take more time, but in the long run it's just a matter of changing color for that layer rather than drawing them manually. I'll probably do a more zoomed in map too, this was was about 4 screenshots tall and 2 or 3 wide if I recall? I would like to get more detail for those campaigns that aren't WC and most of the action will be from a zoomed in perspective.
@@Strat-Guides have you looked into the mod tools?
Maybe you can open the map there. I'm on Linux and while game compatbility via wine/proton is steadily getting better, especially for Steam, mod tools and the like often don't work as well. So, I can't give any pointers, other than 'it might give you a fully viewable, clean, map'
Interesting, that's a good idea and I didn't consider that. I've used it a couple times to make custom maps for the tactics guide but I didn't think about looking at the main campaign map. Thanks, I'll look into it!!
So I ended up accidentally conquering the world in about 11 years. Basically I reached clan level 3 after doing only blacksmithing and selling from the first single year and had infinite money to recruit Vlandian Champions and Battanian Fian's. Then I ran up to sturgia and conquered a castle and just kinda took like 30 1v1's until their entire Empire was in prison. From there I took every sturgian city with my 160 army stack. I had maxed out my charm so when I became a independent kingdom there was nothing left to do besides recruit all of the sturgian nobles to my side.... Idk what really happened next to be honest. My faction just kinda steam rolled Vlandia and I recruited their nobles as well. The remaining half of the game I coulda been afk because having those 2 factions nobles on my side made the game incredibly balanced in my favor. every battle from there was just a wash
This is the best compilation of Bannerlord strategy tips and tricks I've ever seen. You've outdone yourself sir. Excellent work!
Wow, thank you!! I certainly put a lot of work into this one so I appreciate the words :)
OTTOMAN MUSIC MAKES ME SO PROUD ❤❤
I know it's not accurate for the Aserai but I was waiting for an opportunity to put it in :)
@@Strat-Guides wow ı respect you my friend
I'm a direct descendant of him
Personally I wait for cities to rebel, of course after being able to gain a party of 120+ troops, then buy all their food supplies take out the largest of their rebel vassal or even the leader and instantly siege them. If you're a known warmonger and have executed Raganvad or any other leader or high power noble or vassal the rest of the rebels will be too scared to invade your siege camp even when they out number you. So now with you excess of food and the cities lack of it starve them out, wait till the garrison starves/abandons and boom a weak militia of no more than usually 150 is left. That's mostly recruits and peasants as well, if your troops are decent enough it's honestly better to send them without you, you'll get far less casualties if they're at least level 3 or higher. Also you can force cities to rebel with enough money. Go to a city that's been captured by someone else, IE Sturgian owned Jalmarys. Buy all their food, leave and wait a day. Go back in repeat. Drop food on ground to keep inventory space free, continue buying out the food it'll instantly be low numbers upon the first restock so long as a caravan doesn't plow in. Even so just buy all that food too, keep doing this for a little around a week to two weeks in game and the city will rebel. Everyone needs food. This is how I'm slowly conquering the Storymode without anymore wars asides when the odd city rebels. A bit nightmarish to maintain 7 cities without any armies but also not too ad when you're not at war with anyone. Trying to get a rogue clan victory or as close to one as I can get!
Damn, I wasn't expecting Ceddin Deden
Amazing gameplay brother, thanks for all the hardwork, I have 1300 hours in-game and undestand all the concepts you talk about in your videos buts ive also learned so much. Thanks again, great content and very entertaining. =)
1. Be Napoleon
As an avid crusader kings player who's all about nice and clean borders, that map painting montage was absolutely glorious and satisfying to watch! Amazing job dude, have my sub
Thank you Mo! I came from EU4 before this so I am right there with you lol clean borders are a must :P
holy cow!, this is the best bannerlord walktrhrough yet.
Thank you so much! I appreciate your support :D
This video is quite old by now, so some things might be outdated and more game knowledge be existing already but I'll give some of my observations for a faster run.
The most important thing is having big fight wins (both in scale and "cleanness" in terms of losses. And to do this you need the optimal army . So no matter what culture you pick you go at Battanian's area, start working on relations with the fian villages and recruit exclusively fians. Until 100-150 units having exclusively fians is the best, afterwards you start adding some elite cavalry from recruiting prisoners or troops after fight. Donate to fiefs or simply throw away every other unit. Make yourself the main INT guy in your party you need high medicine as fast as possible and thats the fastest way to do it. Later on you can reach 275 medicine as well which is game changer and I saw that you failed to do it with companions. To make myself clear here, with this kind of gameplay your losses must be lower than 1 dead unit per 100 kills or so. Any balance fight should have 0 losses (couple injuries are fine, Im talking about deaths). I'd accept a death toll of 5-10 in fights 3 to 1 where I'd get 150+ renown. This minimal losses strat can extend to sieges as well. Break their catapults before going in but dont create any melee siege weapons. Make all your range units stand below the walls in loose formation and they will dismantle most of the enemy troops with 0 losses again. If they end up without ammo too soon, pull back and attack again. If for some reason you are forced to siege while they still have catapults, make your archers stand below their siege weapon so they are all out of range. Never let your army use the default positions they suck. If you execute well all these, its a failproof strat. Even when you are locked in a siege and you see many enemy parties surrounding you it isnt an issue as the AI cant make proper estimate of your real strength and they will attack when they arent strong enough. Well if a huge army with 800+ units come to fight your 150, just run then, not worth trying these odds.
For reference I was clan tier 4 with multiple fiefs in a year, as tier 4 I had some 280~ renown fights and my best one was a 430 renown city siege, but I was already tier 6 by then.
In other aspects of the game now,
Smithing: I'll eventually get my character high enough to get attribute points, but its not worth making him the main smith. Any low level companion with a bit of focus on endurance will do, I used a "the Hawk" who also got to 250 bow, 300 riding 250 athletics by the end of my run, with 9 Endurance. Don't try to force smithing early and specifically avoid crafting, its too slow. Start investing time on it after having at least 5-6 units that can smith (you spouse and companions). Start by smelting the spoils of war from the fight you are doing anyway, by looking at their tier. For each weapon category smelt weapons of a higher tier than what you are trying to unlock, for example smelt tier 3 when you are unlocking the tier 1-2, and save the tier 4+ to smelt them later on. For most weapon categories there are some breakthrough unlocks, that after getting them you can accelerate the procedure by crafting and smelting the specific weapon. Thats the time when its worth to start crafting, and you can literally unlock everything within a couple days of rest then. I find Javs the easier one to focus first, followed by polearms (both for smith exp and easy money). 2H swords takes longer because there are more to unlock.
Macro early strategy: Recruit fians, beat looters and do random quests and try to get a riding horse for every unit of yours for the footmen on horses bonus. If you are battanian it makes hunting parties much much faster around forests. With scouting 75 perk you have 0 speed penalty in them. When you reach clan tier 1 go and join the side who is currently fighting against the side you are interested in having as allies/yours later on. Improve relations with them while you grow stronger. Tiers 1->2 and 2->3 are extremely fast if you learn to fight properly. When you are working towards 4 it's about the time to start planning for your first fiefs. They should have the same culture as you first of all. There are many ways to go at it, the simpler one is to become a vasal, take them one after they other and because you previously had 0 fiefs and they are your culture you are guarantee to get them basically. After getting so many fiefs that they stop suggesting you for anymore, you can either chill a bit and stabilize your position or if you are ready just leave the kingdom already.
Some mid game cheese: After creating your kingdom recruit the 2 best families you have already worked your relationships with. With just 2 you can keep getting the new fiefs you like. When you get the third family they will start splitting between them, but if you really want something, you can take back a fief and then give it to yourself as the family who just lost it cant take it again right away. Past that point you can go full throttle and recruit one family after the other... Keep the family heads prisoners while leaving the other members for relationships and focus on taking all the fiefs that a family has before trying to recruit them. Its cheaper and they wont deny you. When the timing is appropriate, make peace with everyone, kick every family from your kingdom, and break it. If you need some time you can stabilize your position again, or create a new kingdom right away because the policies are important. So you take all the fiefs in your name again and you reset wars and kingdom aggression.
This is long enough already I guess. There are many more details for each of the aforementioned category of course but these cover the basics I think. After that point is about doing more of the same at the best of your ability.
Subbed less than 5 minutes in. The amount of concise information that was accurately and cleanly presented as well as the great editing earned my like, sub and comment :) keep it up!! I’ll be taking a lot of this into account for my newest run
Making another attempt to get Calradia conquered by a faction of my choice. Tried being a vassal under all factions now going for a different approach which so far is going well. I am an Imperial mercenary who helps the Imperial factions retain their Imperial territory against the non-imperial factions. I started with Northern Empire but have not worked for them since. Mostly work with Western Empire but signed up with the Southern Empire to defend Amprela against a Sturgian Army which was a success. Plan is to help the Imperial factions out until someone wins the civil war then join them to conquer what is still not in Imperial hands. By the looks of it unsurprisingly that is going to be the Southern Empire. They have taken the majority of the Khanate and have two extra clans thanks to rebellions. They surround the Khuzait now only a matter of time before they take it all. Currently focusing on keeping Vlandia contained in the West but want to take back Epicrotia after the vassal there defected to Sturgia. At least Dey Rothad joined the Western Empire. We forced them back into Vlandia earlier and now fighting to keep it that way. If everything goes to shit was planning on rallying a new kingdom myself with other Imperial clans but that definitely won't happen.
Great video!! I have been playing Bannerlord like crazy on the console I am on my 3rd full playthrough and have put in probably 250 hours of gameplay. It is such an addicting game. Part of the fun for me is building relationships with the nobles. It is so satisfying to hear them say "What are you saying exactly?" lol but on this current playthrough, I am definitely going to promote my companions right away after creating my kingdom, since I haven't tried that before. I usually just give them their own castle at the end of the game after I have conquered everything, haha.
Idk how it works, but with -95% prisons escape governor my prisoners still managed to get freedom. Every 1-2 days 1-3 prisoners out of 50 escapes
If I had to guess, it's probably TW Maths :(
Subbed just for the effort alone. Very interesting stuff!
The map thing could be a video in itself. 😅
Thank you! I just spent 20+ hours updating the map to make it even better lol The video I'm editing right now uses it extensively and I think I have a better format for using it. It should be ready by tomorrow morning! Thanks for watching
You easily make one of the best bannerlord contents out here, and really make a great job telling a story. Keep up!
16:45 love the Ottoman Empire song you started to play ❤❤❤
@14:09 I was ready to be mad that we didn't get to see the details of the world conquest, only to be DELIGHTED that you've got a whole playlist of it!
Love your work so far (I'm 8 episodes into the playlist), your hard work shows!
Hehe that was the part that took the longest, I couldn't leave that out :) I'm going to try to integrate the story/tips in with the map next time so it's easier to follow.
Thank you for watching this series! All the support really helps since these get a lot less views than the guides, but they are much more fun to put together for me :P
One of the greatest videos on the youtube.
Just 1 problem though.
Arabic Desert Kingdom Aserai declares war for the first time.
Ottoman Empire songs starts playing.
This triggered me more than calling yoghurt greek.
Adding one.more thing: Khergit city and town names literally 1 or 2 letter diffrent then modern turkey city names. Why the mongol singing lol.
Clarification: Just being funny. Really don't care. Loved the video dude. Legit the best MB bannerlord video
Thank you!
Haha yeah I know it's not a perfect match as the Ottomans are from the Steppes originally and certainly not Arabic, probably much more similar to the Mongols. I think most players associate Khuzait with the Mongols though which left Ceddin Ceden for the Aserai. It's such a great song so I'm just happy to put it in!
That's interesting, I didn't realize the Turkish city names were that close to the Khuzait spelling! Very cool, I need to do some research on it.
Haha it's all good, I really appreciate you watching and leaving a comment :)
Great recap! I'm glad I stuck around and watched the entire playthrough, it was very enjoyable. The map painting part's simply incredible, I'm very impressed by your effort. I wonder how different/difficult would the speedrun become if you had death enabled.
Thank you! I'm glad you stuck with it too :) It was a fun one for sure. For the next series I plan on integrating the map editing from the start, so it should be easier to follow along each episode. It's easy to get lost when you're zoomed in and watching a highly editing play through!
I was thinking about this as well - starting at age 50 would not have worked out but I think maybe 30 or 40 would be fine. There were a lot of extra attribute and focus points that were spent on irrelevant categories so I think the build would have been the same in the end (just a little slower to get there). My biggest concern is companions dying in battle since we used them for all intelligence skills. I rarely play with death disabled so it was a little strange getting used to not seeing dead nobles after battle lol
I try taking a random castle or city always 5 random nobles show up with 300 troops. If I try and join as a vassal they run around like headless chickens with 2-3 aimless 400 troop armies getting stomped by sallying cities. Sometimes I think the game heavily rolls against the player to try to "even" the odds.
Yeah it does seem that way. I've seen the AI lock onto me from across the kingdom and chase for days on end, ignoring other AI parties attacking them. It's a bit maddening to be honest lol
Really great content. I'm sure some has changed since launch, but still very useful for a new player. Great work on bringing this together!
Didn't anyone see my Cameo??? I was the guy that shot him with the ballista in the face at 12:10 give me a thumbs up for best supporting actor 👍
Lol hell of a shot that was! Took the head clean off the shoulders, but nothing my surgeon can't fix apparently :D
@@Strat-Guides I was honored you asked, I can't wait to spar again
@@Flesson19 Lol time to change your name from Flesson to Vlad the Impaler!
Love both of your guys’ vids, thanks for the content
@@themarketgardener rhank you
It really depends on the difficulty you are playing on. On easy mode, you just need strategy and auto-resolve battles, kill all nobles and get the whole map in your name in 5 years. On maximum-difficulty, this becomes exponentially difficult with lords just not wanting to be a part of your kingdom and you having to rely on your 1500 troops most of the time
Yeah for sure. I was trying to keep this one clean with no exploits and no executions (it's a bit cheesy in my opinion, which I have nothing against for other people to do it but I don't find it fun personally). This campaign was played out on Bannerlord difficulty.
How to conquer the world in 16 years. Begins the video tutorial. Lerrrrrrrrrrooooooyyyyyyy Jenkins
Haha Frederick the Chad :D
I don't usually comment, but this video was marvelous to watch. They all are, but this one touched a really special place in my heart, in particular with the Kingdom Come: Deliverance music. Thank you for your efforts to the bannerlord community. We love you!
Thank you, I really appreciate it! I know this one wasn't worth it from a channel growth point of view (I could have done 3 guides in the same time that get 2x the views each lol), but I really wanted to do something special for everyone that stuck with the series as a thank you.
Can you explain how at least 95k people (at the time of this comment) watched this video, and did not subscribe?
Lol I appreciate the enthusiasm!
Amazing effort put into this! Love the editing, and it's obvious the time put into making this a very well done video. Good stuff!
Thank you! Yeah this one was crazy to put together, but I think it turned out okay in the end :) There were a few mistakes, but just like the post review on the campaign, I took notes for how to edit the next one better!
Imagine seeing this character be born.He knows he was born to conquer
Lol it probably went a little something like this: ruclips.net/video/ddNMQGcg0-w/видео.html&ab_channel=SaturdayNightLive
@@Strat-Guides lmao waaaah waaah I’m hungry for land
Waaah waaah
What are you hungry
No I need 6m denars
Hahaha and at some point later in the campaign, Derthert came in said, "I gotta have more cowbell, baby".
ruclips.net/video/cVsQLlk-T0s/видео.html&ab_channel=SaturdayNightLive
These would make excellent memes!
After watching everything unfold video by video, it was great to see that conquering map. Thanks for the fun ride
Thank you for watching! Yeah it's really hard to tell exactly what's going on in the edited videos, so I think I'll try to integrate the map earlier on in the next play through. It's hard to get perspective when I'm bouncing around everywhere quickly lol
Your "Friedrich der Große" was actually pretty good and quite sneaky choosing Poverty And Famine by Jan and Adam and even The Hu for your conquest phase *g*
That land bridge between Ortysia/Garontor castle and Quyaz/Tubilis castle being captured without any back and forth brings joy to me. In my own campaign, it has been hotspot over 3 years now and I am too stubborn to quit on it.
Yeah I was a little surprised they didn't go after it very hard! Usually they swarm it hard but I guess they were busy elsewhere? It's such a good land bridge to hold. Once an enemy army crosses, there is no way back home :D
anyone noticed? once the Mehter kicked in how easy it was to conquer
Haha exactly! Love that Ottoman music :)
Please never stop producing Bannerlord videos so we have a high-quality Bannerlord guide ready whenever we need to.
I still have a lengthy list of topics to cover, so you're stuck with me for a while longer at least :)
Thank you, mentor. However, it is saddening to know that the Empire will fall after 173 years.
Warband remake would become legit. ❤
If only it was this easy in real life.
Lol that would be a lot of territory to cover in 16 years!
Did they get rid of weapon bonus stats on throwing weapons? I should mention I play on console so idk if it’s different, but I have been creating and destroying weapons for probably about 100 hours and still have not finished all my throwing knife pieces or my dagger pieces for that matter - but I focused on throwing knives first. Everything else is done, and went significantly faster because you could make most classes of items up to level 6. Also, in the past when I was making hewing javelins and harpoons to sell in the early game-
(this was long after they changed some of the early money making hacks - and they were most profitable per supply item until I got the narrow and regular menavlion heads with the throwing pine shaft in pole arm)
- and I was getting buffs and rebuffs for a long time.
Fast forward, and I hadn’t made any in a while to use or sell because I now had better items that cost less and sell for more. So since I had been crafting for so long, I didn’t realize that I would get my two siblings without using a companion slot, so I hadn’t gotten that quest finished yet. I finished it, and I’m crafting them weapons and stocking up for my next companions, and I realized that no matter how many throwing weapons I craft, none of them have buffs or debuffs. My main crafter is 301 smithing and 2 more over 250, so they shouldn’t be getting debuffs, but I’ve done well over 1,000 throwing knives, (6/10 of my saved previous crafted menu each time), at least 100 javelins just this time around, and I’m going to do throwing axes tonight but I noticed during crafting orders they had no bonuses. Everything else is still giving buffs, but they seem to be less frequent than it was before. I’m wondering if they ran a patch I’m not aware of. Also, I’d love it if they would add tier 5 items for all weapon pieces in all classes instead of limiting some to 3 or 4. (Throwing knives can’t get above 3 for blades for example).
If you read this long, I have a question too - Can you create tier 6 weapons for all types for the most part? I’ve done it with swords/2h swords, pole arms, 2h maces, javelins, 2h axes. Although I have very good 1h axes, throwing axes~, and pretty good 1h maces, I have yet to get above tier 5 with those and still haven’t unlocked all dagger or throwing knives. I don’t make many pikes from the pike menu but I imagine those will be tier 5 max as well.
(The best moneymakers I’ve found are menavlion with t5 long fanion, throwing shaft - short pine shaft I think, and a cheap iron spear brace for the bottom nets 30k. Narrow menavlion with the same nets about half that, 15.8k or so, but only costs 2 iron and a hardwood instead of a 1 wood, 1 steel, 1 iron). I can get some other weapons worth slightly more, around 35-40k with 1h swords, other 2h pole arms, but they all cost fine steel or Thanaskene steel, and take a lot more pieces of steel to make. I’ll go through all my weapons once I unlock the rest and see what the best moneymakers I can find in the current patch are). There also seems to be a major bug still going on, where every time you load/start up your game, all the buffs on previously crafted weapons disappear. This is good for low level chars trying to sell weapons because it eliminates debuffs too, but it makes crafting suck compared to what it should be - there’s virtually no point in trying to make unique weapons right now and I haven’t heard any indication this is known about much less being worked on.
I love using your guides for my MULTIPLE rerolls, but I am always so frustrated cause I still cannot master the: 1v100 with no clothes and a cheap two hander/bow!! 🤣
You are 100% the best so keep making whatever kinds of bannerlord vids you want they are always awesome, educational, and inspiring!
Hahaha the ole naked horse archery technique :) It takes a bit of getting used to because those rock throwing looters are so accurate!
Thank you so much, I appreciate it!
in my current season i used first 1½ year on smithing, then the next 3 years time i have quonqered 1 third of the map as a vassal for Valandia and i am a battanian. battania have less than 2,5k army size and the same with western empire and sturgia . this game is so addicting. we have a strong army of 12k whille the closest is aserai with 6,4k and khuzaits with 6,2k. i feel like valandia is insanely good at making war decisions compared to all other factions.
I loved the time-lapse of the world conquest ! It's so interesting to see the events pan out like that, you have better understanding of how the wars happened, at times precise and calculated but sometimes utter chaos haha~ Well done ! Here's hoping we get some other playthrough like this one in the future. :-)
That's a great description! At times it was surgical strikes, taking out exactly which fief I wanted to and getting out before they retaliated. But other times it was like being in a moshpit lol
Thank you! I'm working on the next playthrough already, but I want to get a few episodes recorded and edited before I start releasing them because I'm moving soon and won't have time to do anything for a week or two so I'm hoping to space those out to help bridge the gap :)
Thank you so much for watching this series! I really appreciate the support.
The Sheperd Perk doesnt work correctly but just adds a handicap of 50%. Also the Looters don't charge anymore when you give the command. Where do I report this? Cant find anything in the forums.
this really did a great job of condensing the information provided in the full world conquest series while also adding your thoughts on the project as a whole. I'm sure this won't be the last time I'll see this.
Great stuff, man
Thank you! I'm glad it wasn't a drag lol I know watching a full let's play can get bogged down towards the end since it's very repetitive so I did my best to make it less grind-y. I appreciate your support!
9:48 Am I the only on who is to stupid to defeat so many enemies at my own? My earlygame is always a pain because I can't get many kills especially with the shitty weapons and no armor. And then some random arrows defeat me... With that I also waste a lot of money on troops and it takes forever to reach like 20'000. Your balance after one year absolutely threw me off my chair. Damn I'm bad at this game
The painting the map section is very well made but that also looks very repetitive to play
Its nice seeing that they gave some sandbox settings to the campaign what with the ability to turn off death, as well as death mid game from any general source...though personally I dont mind having death enabled so long as its not from battles...last thing I want is stupid looters or bandits getting a good or lucky rock chuck right into my face and insta-killing me. Shits happened once before (minus the death) and its annoying early game that rocks are more efficient and effective than arrows...and the accuracy of said rocks is ridiculous.
Generally though the settings they gave are nice. Though early game I play on generally easy settings starting off (cause of the above but also rusty pitchforks piercing all your armor like its a joke)
Frederick the great was one of the few historical figures that is claimed by the gay community that actually was, pretty obviously, gay.
This is based off of looking into the question a few years ago. Most of these sorts of claims are flagrant character assassinations of historical figures, but Frederick is the exception to that rule.
So much work needs to be done the game becomes so unfun later on. You can have 100 characters with armies running around and only you will try to defend settlements or take new ones. The game has such promise but near impossible grind fest of angering boredom trying to win a map. I usually don't even do sieges I start them so my army doesn't suicide itself then I mute the game and watch RUclips videos till it's over.
I was very surprised to hear the Kingdom Come: Deliverance music
The music in that game was soooo good! :)
Haha dirt bag Derthert. Yeah, I grew a disdain towards that king on every play through, including the one where I was a Vlandian vassal.
I enjoyed the video, but I have to be honest. I don't like the abuse of the broken game-mechanic of Smithing to amass enormous amounts of money. I was hoping to see a real "How To" - But using that "mechanic", you might as well use cheats to get money, IMO.
Thank you for watching! Yeah I know what you mean, the next series is the polar opposite! I'm starting with nothing and the only income source allowed is loot (and being at war with everyone on the map means it's harder to sell stuff).
@@Strat-Guides Thanks for the reply! I've subbed and hit the bell, since that sounds like a really cool and awesome challenge! Looking forward to watching it! 😁
Nice, thanks! There are a few more rules that make it interesting - no buying items allows (must loot everything, even food), at war with all clans on the map except rebellions when they happen and only able to use non-recruitable units like bandits, minor faction units, mercenaries, peasants, etc.
I'm wondering about 10:38 how did you manage to get lvl 125 in 3 town visits?? I always get one or two levels per town visit
I was trading basically the entire inventory that the town had, so at those volumes it's possible to breeze through to 125. You need to have a ton of pack animals, the riding perk and a ton of money already though so it's not a good starting strategy.
@@Strat-Guides thanks for telling me
I also suggest to siege tyal first because in my opinion its the most strategic location of all like no one can attack from behind and at the side there's only 1 way to enter the fief
This video looks great. Perhaps I’m a bit too new to the game and the trading/smithing goes a bit too fast in this video. Do you have a more detailed tutorial here?
I've got a trade guide, but some of it's outdated by now. I have several smithing guides and the latest one is still accurate!
19:30 real music starts playing great video ofc but this thing hits different for the czech fans
world conquest with othoman anthem in the background is just too epic😂😂😂😂
Dude used a kingdom come song, I see you are man with culture, great game! Good video too
Just become the king of an already existing empire and grow then make your kid the king
I never played Bannerlord nor did I have any curiosity in doing so but your channel has made me a fan of the game and now I play everyday! Ty for the infos your provide.
Hopefully it's been a good experience! I appreciate the support :)
@@Strat-Guides To be honest didn’t actually think you were going to reply because of the amount of comments. I’m just starting to watch the playlist for this playtrough to understand more about the game. And you have the understanding and editing knowledge to be a great gaming channel!
I love bannerlord when I first started I hated it bc it was so different and hard to figure out the controls
If you have time to siege build 4 trebushet and fire with 4 its much more effective than use 1
As a turk, i lost it when the janisarry music entered with aserai war LMAO, such a great effort and awesome video as always tho !
Haha I've been wanting to include Ceddin Deden in a video for a long time and I figured this made a little bit of sense at least :D I love that song!
@@Strat-Guides You’re one of my fav Bannerlord youtubers, thanks for the great quality of content !
Sorry for taking so long, it's been a crazy week for me. I appreciate the support and once I finish moving next month I will have tons of time to get back to putting 2 - 3 videos out per week :)
13:58 this should in itself be a mod, this would be so useful
That would be really cool to see! This animation and map took me almost a week straight to make lol
How did it take you 16 years… I can do it in 30 hours
Lol nice! 30 hours is pretty fast, I have to go back and look but I think this one took me about 45 - 50 hours? Nice work :D
Dudes like the king of mount & blade campaign🤯😭 he knows his stats
Great video but hearing "Stewart" instead of steward made my teeth hurt lmao
idk if im stupid or not, but i believe with the "prisoner 100% no escape" its actually one of them is 50% not escaping your party and the other is 50% chance of not escaping a governed settlement. So i dont think its 100% chance of not escaping. Correct me if im wrong.
It's definitely 100% escape chance from your party as I've built entire campaigns around this perk combo. There are other perks that work for governors as well, but I'm not sure they actually work because I couldn't see any difference when using them
Well can confirm that killing deset bandits early game is highly difficult
You are telling me I can just walk over to an enemy and pay a one time payment and thats it? I always paid tributes and it ruined me, TALEWORLD WHAT THE HELL ARE YOUR MECHANIIIIIIIICS
If you're part of a kingdom (your own included) then you have to go through the diplomacy screen. If you're solo, then you can do 1-time payments. It's more expensive now though, they patched it a bit since then. Expect to spend 300k+ for peace
You said 1.7 for game version but I logged in and I'm on 1.2.9? Everything is up to date so I'm confused.
This video was done quite a while ago (I think 2 years ago?) so the version has changed since then. Not sure why they went with that numbering system lol typical TW maths
How are you finding bandit parties that big, the most i see is like maybe 30 for looters and its so rare its making farming influence take so long because i cant find enough to kill and its been 2 years since you made this so i doubt you'll see this if you do i would greatly appreciate some help
Part of this is luck arrive they spawn all over the map randomly. The other part is which patch you're on - in not sure if they made bandits smaller now in the early game or not?
@@Strat-Guides maybe but I’m on like year 5 now and the party sizes are abosmal, I’m kinda now looking at mods because they’re so small
@@Strat-Guides I cant fiigure out how to start my own kingdom, im teir 4 i just cant find the button could you help me out a little
@@Strat-Guides And i have a city taken
@crabby7000 they changed it a little - put a companion or family member as the governor of any fief you own. Then talk to them and you'll see the chat option to start your own kingdom.
How did you select your music? Because at 19:29 is czech music, which I've never heard😂
Nice video anyway, sending regards from Czech Republic
Hey DireW! It's actually from a game called Kingdom Come Deliverance which is based in 15th century Bohemia so it's your ancestor's music :D It's a REALLY good game and if you have not seen it before I recommend checking it out at least on RUclips :)
@@Strat-Guides hey, thanks for info. Actually, I know the game and even I have it probably at Epic Games, but haven't played yet😂
And it's not my ancestor's music, because I am just living in CZ, but come from Ukraine. Thanks for response!🙂
@@direwghost7257 Oooh gotcha, I assumed you were from there. My bad! They will probably release the game out of early access before the end of the year so maybe when they do that it will be worth a try :) Very cool, I have some ancestry from Ukraine as well! They were from the western parts in a small village near the border of Poland. I don't recall the name of the village... But apparently my great great grandfather was a Cossack!
@@Strat-Guides You are probably from Lvivska oblast (region). Some of my relatives live there, but originally we are from Sumska oblast (region), it lies in the east.
It's possible, I'm also from the cossack village :) If you are interested in these parts and played Warband With fire and sword, I recommend you also the book With fire and sword, I'm reading it right now and it's excellent! :)
@@direwghost7257 Wow that's so cool! I'll have to look up the region, you're probably right.
Thank you for the book recommendation! I'll check it out :D
When you started a war with Aserai you played the Ottoman battle march song “Mehter Marşı” at 16:44 but Ottoman Empire is a Turkic Empire not an Arabic one and Aserai is inspired by real life Arabic kingdoms. If we have to align one kingdom from the game to a real Turkic state it would be the Khuzaits. Great video though.
Yeah I agree, it would have been more appropriate for the Khuzaits, but I already had a song for them and was looking for an excuse to put this fantastic military march in :) I'm a huge fan of Ottoman marches!
"Dirt Bag Derthert Took Verecsand Castle!" 😂😂😂
It still don't know how you managed to recruit Apys who owned Garontor and Ortysia, and took them with him. was he your wifes father? my current playthrough, not once would someone that owned anything, even talk to me. 302 charm, millions in the bank..
I hate to say it, with all that work... you should have put up a timeline for the conquest.
Draining your allies influence. dumb wars. versus letting them have influence to form armies. this is a tough one. I'm not sure which really is best. mid-early world conquest was questioning your choice to drain their influence. I did think letting them fight, and attack/defend was more effective. but, late world conquest.. suddenly they start demanding 6 wars at once, and with so many vassels, it takes 1-2k to tell them no. but then its back to, do we let them? let them be dumb, the A.I is real bad at actually taking castles/towns. maybe its ok to let them be dumb, and personally take towns ourselves.
Yeah that was an odd one. I think it has to do with half of his kingdom being gobbled up and I suspect they were having financial troubles as a whole. Normally they don't defect like that unless they are on their last legs (which they kind of were).
I know lol I was thinking the same thing! I spent several hours rewatching each episode and taking notes, but when I got to the editing for the map portion I realized I didn't take down what the date was :*( I just didn't have it in me to go back and rewatch it again haha
I'm actually okay with them not forming armies because they can still be placed on defensive mode and swarm enemies that siege. My biggest concern is them going on the offense, which rarely works out well.
The AI is really bad lol but it was probably like that IRL too, greedy nobles only want to self advance and don't care about the kingdom as a whole.
Thank you for watching this one, I appreciate it :)
Instructions unclear, currently leading a 500 man army across Canada
I'd like to say- Great video, but I have a suggestion. I feel like you could've made the video more entertaining by simply talking more, I feel like showing the conquering of the world in silence was a slightly wasted opportunity because I think you could've given a lot of entertaining commentary over that. Obviously, it's up to you to choose how you make your videos, and I still loved the video, but if I were to pick a reference for what I'd imagine it'd AmbiguousAmphibian. Ambiguous is a very *special* case for a youtuber, so I don't mean to be exactly like him, but I more so would be referencing how he commentates on the stories of what happens in his playthroughs of games, and I feel like in his videos it does end up giving him a lot of opportunities to make the video more entertaining. Even if you don't go for comedy like he does, I think commentating throughout the recap could add something more to the video/videos.
Great job and good luck on growing your channel, hope to see you in the millions someday!
Thank you for watching! I 100% agree with out and it's something I struggled with when I was making the video. I had already spend roughly 100 hours making it and had to move onto other projects. I think I will approach it differently next time so that I can still get a good video out, but perhaps spend less time on the parts that took FOREVER lol :)
I've watched some of his videos, he's very good! I know what you mean though. I appreciate the feedback and I will definitely keep working on things moving forward!
I love this and its made my bannerlord experience much better. I just got the game 2 weeks ago and ive logged 120 hours so far. I havent not been able to beat the game. I found i dont like easy as much as i like realistic bannerlord. I dont like that as a mercenary or vassal you cant "kill" a faction off and they continue to raid the villages around is that not an issue for you? And would you do an updated video on this again ? :o id watch it 😊
I'm glad to hear my videos are helpful! So the only way to deal with a landless faction is to kill off all the nobles by execution. If you don't want the negative relations hit with everyone, then just let them raid. You should be making more than enough denars through war to survive without fief income.
I'm going to be making another WC video in the next month or so!