Same! And I didn't even want the throne, but they insisted. Gladly I had a recent backup save from 2 days earlier and this time Dethret didn't do the kickerino bucketino
Same thing happened to me with Britannia, first thing I did was pass Devine majesty and then set my kingdom on the defensive. Now I just capture and fight lords of small armies and donate them to garrisons for influence. With that I can over ride all my vassals when necessary and force my enemies to pay large tributes for peace. Just remember if War isn’t profitable to you, your doing it wrong. Lol
It cannot be understated how much of a chore it is to chase down enemy lords for recruitment. Promoting from your own ranks is an extremely welcome improvement.
I have been late to the party but I once conquered whole Empire then promoted 25 companions into Lords to govern the realm's castles. They may be weak but with around 50 parties... Number matters.
Wow thank you so much for supporting the channel! I hope this guide does help. I put an ungodly amount of time into this one lol It started off as 6 hours of recordings that I tried to edit down to 20 minutes but fell short quite a bit :)
Important: If you have high relations with a clan, if you marry someone from that clan you can make them pay you instead, sometimes crazy amounts like 70k
If you have enough denars (or handcrafted swords) and the 300 trade perk, the easiest strategy is to interact with nobles, buy their fiefs, then recruit them to your kingdom. As they will have no land, they are highly likely to join. The fun internal synergy here is that in your trade you will improve relations already and when you pay them to come to your side, you can actually hand them back their fiefs. You won't make a profit, but it's still fairly cheap.
@@Strat-Guides Honestly, it was so incredibly rare to recruit anyone while they had their fief, that I assumed it was impossible - so my approach got streamlined to buying their fiefs before buying their vassalage and I never bothered to check. The issue was likely that I would generally run around with few denars and many swords instead of the other way around, and since you explained that your current bankroll is integral to their wish to change allegiance, I was missing out. Besides, I always felt that making swords worth millions was a lot easier than liquidating your armory.
@@DrZaius3141 yeah they seem to prefer good swords in bargains than denars. 1 good sword can hugely sway a noble. It's easy to make them but hard to pawn
Started my campaign as a ghost kingdom. I preyed on rebellions until I owned 10 towns, without declaring a kingdom, or joining any. I played Switzerland like that, improving my towns, saving up bank/influence, until I was very wealthy and established. Then, I had to decide which corner of my undeclared kingdom I would defend once I declared it. Having reaped all of my fiefs from rebels meant they were spread out. I chose 3 towns of the same culture that were close to each other and went from there. Wars came and went, as I suspected the fiefs far away that I could not defend were eventually captured. Didn't matter, I had 15m denars and 25.5k influence when I created a kingdom and good relations with all of the lord's around me. I started crushing the map, which was almost entirely owned by the western empire and valandians by the. After conquest, peace, player death and one of my kids becoming my heir... I made a new campaign. Damn good game.
@@Jakenatorr You are immune from being DOWed by the AI if you are independent but don't declare yourself a kingdom (yet you can also attack other kingdoms unprovoked). It's the stupidest diplomatic feature that Taleworlds came up with for BL, followed by the tribute system. In Warband, if you were independent and held land, you by default were a king/queen.
I think I founded only one kingdom in my 600+ hours. I like wandering around the map with a warband, much more than conquering and governing. Thanks for the great video, Strat!
Yeah it can be a real chore to get locked into one location and be forced to defend. I feel like it limits the options/creativity once you establish a kingdom. It's a lot of fun still, but I know where you're coming from.
@@Strat-Guides True but my ending point always is, when my empire gets big and it starts to steam roll, even from vanilla warband I never get around to finishing then, I mean I know I can win but I cannot be bothered, I think its time to play on harder difficulties and also higher death chance so I can do the succession to make things more interesting.
@@Strat-Guides I got so royally hosed when I founded mine after what I can assume killing off twice the population of the continent in the never ending wars. I got pissed and started a new game for whatever reason the other lords all had some sort of pact to only attack me about half way through I just started taking heads too see if that would help. It did not they bred faster then I could kill them.
@@MusMasi This is the problem with a lot of games like this. Same in Crusader Kings. There is a point where you know with 100% certainty that you CAN conquer the world... but by that point it just doesn't feel fulfilling. CK3 helped with this a bit by making it harder to build up an unstoppable empire.
Something worth noting is a kingdom that's leader and clan leaders all love you is pretty unlikely to declare war on you. So if you have somewhere you want to set up your kingdom work as a mercenary for your future neighbors and donate noble prisoners to holdings of the powerful clans this will quickly raise relations with them.
Your guides are heads and shoulders above any other youtuber. I watched a vid titled "this is why your workshops aren't making money" and literally the only reason the guy stated the entire 6min video is "because economy" - fucking thanks einstein. You produce the most informative, detailed, and factual content on this game, on the internet. Was excited to see you post on this topic.
Thank you!! I really appreciate that. My first priority when making any of my guides is to present the best information I can, which usually involves 1 - 2 days worth of testing and data collection, so it's nice to hear that showing through and being noticed :) It's sad, but I could probably record a "guide" in 1 hour by just talking about what I know and still get the same views without providing anything to back up the claims. I'm hoping the trend in RUclips is to move away from "lazy" content :)
I think I know what vid your talking about. Does he spend the first half of the video complaining about people not understanding, the proceeds to give a crap explanation on how it varies for each play through?
The best way to improve relations with a kingdom is to go to war with them or join as a mercenary with another kingdom that is at war with them as well. Defeat and release every single lord you capture and in no time, you'll be +100 relation with everyone, then just un-war with them :) It's also the best way to get charm skill and to achieve the "Mercy" trait!!!
My favorite starting town is Argoron because the only way to attack is through crossing the bridge. You can safely protect both the town and one village by just guarding that bridge.
One way I like to build up an independent kingdom is to first declare war against a target faction to take a few fiefs before peacing out but don't found a kingdom. Since you're still not officially a kingdom, AI cannot declare war against you so you get to decide who do you want to fight next. Use that opportunity to build up garrisons and strengthen the army before founding a kingdom. Main downside is that you can't enact policies so loyalty issues from different culture is going to hit you hard especially in cities so better to target fiefs of your own culture. If done right (and rather tedious) especially as Empire culture, it's possible to own all Empire fiefs under your clan before going after other cultures.
if you declare war on a faction while not being a kingdom yet, how do you even make peace? i thought you had to be a kingdom to have the peace option. if you dont, may i ask, how do you make peace?
Would you consider making a separate "Guide - How to become a King of an existing faction"? Thanks for all of your very informative, well produced and, overall, high quality videos!
That's a good idea! It would be a pretty short video because I can only think of a few off the top of my head but it would be nice to take over an already established kingdom.
@@lewmano7367 yes it is. I just became king of Vlandia last night after derthert kicked the bucket randomly. Took roughly 15 years or so of being in Vlandia. I've read people got it within a few days to many years. Totally random I suppose.
Thank you so much! I was just going about my business as a vassal. As I thought we had just signed peace with Sturgia, but I hadn't noticed we almost immediately went back to war with them. Then I see a message 'Pendraic Castle is under siege'. I'm like... What?! So I rush there with my 180 guys: Its a thousand guys at my doorstep. This wasn't the first time, but the time before there was a friendly army nearby of 800 strong. This time, nobody! But it gets worse, ANOTHER army of a thousand enters the siege! So I remember your tip: Auto resolve is heavily skewed towards the defenders of castles. I had also followed your guide on fiefs, so I had 350 militia and 79 high level troops in garisson. I enter my castle, lose a few guys. I 'send troops', the battle begins... I see the kills raking up on my side and oh my... I wish I could show you the screenshot. I killed all 1999 of them, and had 141 guys remaining. I gained 180!!! renown from the battle. I had captured 16 of their nobles and 1300 soldiers. I then traveled to my castle with an anti escape governor to throw all the nobles in, when suddenly a message pops up.... "Vote on the next ruler of Vlandia"... what?! I click on it, 100% me. Pog, I am king. I guess Derthert got a heart attack when I defeated the entire Sturgian faction in one siege. > So, now I've come back to this video to learn the ways of the King. And then I realized it was in this video I learned the auto-resolve trick! Again, thank you so much!
I would love to see a lord Farquaad campaign, maybe like he tries to become emperor of the empire uniting the three rebel factions under his greatness or something. Either way great vid.
1) Doing charm check for marriages gives no charm 2) caravans make more profit as time passes, terrible at at the start but great around day 500 and beyond 3) remember to strip companions before making the a clan as the game gives them OP gear, also there is a bug right now, when you promote a clan, culture "Doesn't" matter. The game considers the clan as a culture of the fief you give them even though their culture is different, bugged but they don't lose -3 loyalty right now 4) Another bug, if you fight with your towns, garrison or militia on your side and they capture the lord, the lord will go into your dungeon but right now you have no access to take them into your party.
Thank you for watching! This was a tough one for me, I tried my best to keep the flow moving quickly without rushing the info. I'm happy to hear it was entertaining :D
@@Strat-Guides Choice of characters was hilarious, about the guide tho, i like to starve a city (for my first 1 before i make the kingdom), make it rebel and then take it, process takes some time but easy enough. But my playthroughs are lengthy ..
I haven't tried it myself but if you are seceding from a faction it might be better to stay as a rebel instead of immediately turning into a kingdom. You can't get declared on by other kingdoms and can just focus on the one faction you're rebelling from. While you can't get vassals you can still get a big army with your companion armies.
The part where you suggest to save millions before starting a kingdom is SO important to me at this stage of the game. I have been playing this off and on for a year and last night was the first time I got a vassal. I'm pathetic. But I always have jumped into having a kingdom WAY too soon. I loaded some of my old save files, and it is pretty sad how clueless I was. I was a vassal for Vlandia, and I had 10 or 15 Sturgian vassals in my prisoner pile. My only friend was my wife, which I am shocked I was smart enough to find a wife. Now, my party is strong. My brother and I both have 2 children. I have good people I have built up to be caravan runners. My 210 man army is full of Fians and the Kuhzait horse archers with other solid infantry and cavalry. We stomp everyone. I have 3 towns that I took in rebellions. I have beat down the minor clans over and over and have a bunch of friends. I have 2.4 million moneys. The next step is really scary, so I plan on just stacking money. I have played this long, and getting into kingdom policies is scary. All of that and making peace with clans I have fought with is completely foreign to me. I think I will watch this video about 10 or 100 times. Thank you for your very detailed work.
A good trick is to make alot of Javelins with max size on the highest tier parts, then you can sell them for 18k a piece, and for even more if you use the trade - lvl 25 perk. The only problem is that you bankrupt every town near you :/ So you have to go to new towns to sell more... (Rich people problems)
I was mastering my Vlandian guys art of smithing in Epicrotea, when Western Empire started an war campaign against Sturgia. I got caught in the middle of it, because of a mercenary contract i signed with Sturgians because i didn't know any better. I lost all the hard earned crafting materials and a lot of time being dragged around by Western Empire. I was left rotting in jail till a truce was signed. From today, i'll lay down my apron and my hammer, as my days as a blacksmith are over. I will see to that Western Empire will be razed to the ground and erased from the history. Rip and tear till it's done TLDR; good guide bro thx
I genuinely tried to defeat the Western Empire by executing every single noble but that just ended up making everyone else mad at me because they're all inbred and peace would have been even more expensive because unlike prisoners, executions don't factor into the power comparison. So I'd leave the extermination plans until you can take on every kingdom at once.
@12:10 it is mentioned that you don't really get to choose where your fiefs are, while true to an extent what you can actually do is take a gamble which often pays off by giving away one of your fiefs once you successfully capture a new one before you open the vote tab. This often puts you in the top three and you effectively can push them together. Depending on what type of game you want to play feel free to save before and try various different approaches as they seam to differ often. The last and least immersive debatably is to control your kingdoms forces in a army and waiting for a enemy to raid the fief you like which would be on the boarder and close to the ones you started adding too and then raiding it after using the before mentioned tactic to slowly grow your empire. This worked for me in September and October of 2022.
Thanks Ben! You're not alone lol that's the main reason I started a channel - it's a fun game but there's almost no help from the game to explain anything!
Yeah I hope they get to a stable build soon so we can have longer campaigns with mods. Thanks Alexander! Hopefully we get to full release before the end of the year so I can see your beautiful face here more often haha :D
That was a good good video however one thing that I think you missed out on is that other kingdoms are MUCH less likely to declare war on your kingdom if you only own castles once you take over a city the other kingdoms start targeting you. At least that’s what I’ve found in my experience it could be that I was just extremely lucky
Interesting, I had not tested that before actually. I usually just avoid being in a kingdom if I'm trying to build up a base since nobody can physically declare war on me in that instance :) If that is true, that would probably change things a bit! I'll have to give it a try this weekend. I appreciate the tip!
Why youtube recommended me your videos?Okay i started with one and now i watch them more and more, can't stop they're so good....AND I DON'T EVEN HAVE BANNERLORD
Thank you! Yeah It's going to be a process going back through to see what's changed and what needs to be updated. I suspect a lot of guides will have to be updated though.
One thing about fief choices that should be mentioned is the trade-off between access and security. A border town will have the highest access to a diversity of troops, but be susceptible to multiple kingdoms trying to claim it. A town in the middle of one faction will be easier to defend, but only give you one faction's worth of units, which could put you at a disadvantage later on.
My personal favorite play is to take the rebel towns and buy cities from nobles without declaring a kingdom. I've been trying to buy all of Calradia in one lifetime, without having a kingdom one entire continent without a kingdom.
Hahaha I think you would also profit by learning how to implement TaleWorlds Mathematics into your kingdom as well :) Nothing quite like illogical math to steer things in your favor my liege!
12:00 Just want to add an additional tip to this part here because I discovered it through playing myself, if you want to get a few free fiefs right next to one another just join the faction that you aim to use to capture the fief you want; and any time they give you a fief you don’t want just give it away. This will ensure that when you finally capture the fief you want you will have a almost guaranteed chance to get it I did this with Sargot, usanc castle, and talivel castle. I just waited for someone to declare war on vlandia (my chosen culture.) which happened to be the aesari and when that happened I immediately joined unquid as a vassal and assisted them in taking those three previously mentioned fiefs which are all next to each other and then I left the aesari. Kept the holdings and joined vlandia.
Hey Strat! I finally got my first vassal through giving him quite a bit of gold but hes not being very active? and his party size is too small to recruit for wars. I also gave him a fief before his relations reached 100 already. I cant even enter his fief (on my territory) without getting guard checked? Any options to alteast make his castle open for me ? D: I tried giving him clan influence even though its been 100. Merry Christmas to you and your family!
Dude. I am sitting here dead serious figuring out how to properly start a kingdom. but that Lord Farquad character caught me offguard 🤣 you just earned a sub
I've got 1200 hours on Bannerlord and have been opening chat dialogs with my companion party leaders to find prisoners. Mind blown about the Alt+hover trick.
I'm so glad they added the button to access their troops right from the first pop up! I really hated having to go through the dialogue each time. Thanks for watching!
Another renown farming method is sitting in a castle/town after rebelling and using a ton of archers (archers gain a large bonus while defending in a siege battle with auto-resolve) to kill the armies that attack your fief with train militia on so you get more militia recruitment
All the math and data you do is crazy. Appreciate the work, I probably won't play any game this efficiently in my life, but the sheer amount of work you put into all the data, funny editing, and general tips make it worth watching alone.
By the time I became tier 4 I owned 13 fiefs. I basically had 1000+ influence and one I had around 5-6 fiefs I realized that their was a curruptipn debuff for having to many fiefs and eventually I would run out of influence. So I spent the last of my 1000 influence and capturing until it ran out (I won three elections as well) and now I have 13 fiefs. 6 towns I think.
Unless they've changed it, corruption actually comes from low loyalty or low security. Do your fiefs have either of those? Might be something to look into.
I tried to get more shots of the green-faced Derthert but it's pretty hard to get the moving characters masked out like that! I was able to do it with the "who wears the panties" scene pretty well though! I just need to improve my editing skills a bit more to handle that level :)
hey I just wanted to point out a sidestep to the tier 4 requirement for a kingdom, though it won't necessarily be "your own" kingdom. as a tier 3 vassal of Sturgia, when Raganvad died in battle I actually got elected new ruler of Sturgia, and suddenly had a whole ready built nation. this was random strangeness but a charisma build with the right tactics could maneuver a hostile takeover like this and plan a terrible accident to befall the current ruler.
Yeah that's a good point! It seems the default vote will always go to the player, no matter what. I tested it once by doing it day 1 with cheats - no money, no troops, clan tier 0 and I killed off the king but they still wanted me as king lol. It's like they thought I was John Snow or something.
I ran a Vlandia campaign recently and went fiefless for a while to build up money. Derthert ended up giving me basically the entirety of Sturgia because I was the only noble in proximity and when he died I was elected King with 6 towns to my name . It was fun but me and my companions basically had to solo protect the north against the Khuzaits and Western Empire. Very overwhelming business for a beginner player
Yeah I was fixated on holding the first fief for a long time - then when I did the bandit campaign (Amir Timur) it dawned on me that I don't need to hold it, just own it for a split second to declare the kingdom and then it doesn't matter after that!
So I applied this method of yours, it works incredibly well. I waited for rebels to take over a town in Aserai Vlandia or Khuzait, in the meantime I was a vassal for the empire, gathering resources and money. I ended up taking Galend which is in the corner and I am also Vlandian, nothing attacked me there, and can easily conquer Vlandia without getting closer to other kingdoms. Until now I used the smithing method to make money (20 million so far) I also ended up with 4 boys (I was so lucky in this playthrough). I upgraded at maximum all my troops and then I used the hit and run tactic, got Hongard and Drapand castles and Pravend, now I made peace with the Vladians (I lost 24 troops in total somehow) 😂.
About luring noble factions into your kingdom. There used to be a bug where if you convince them to join you during peace time they will come stripped of their fiefs, only during a war they could keep fiefs joining you. Is it still the same or they fixed it? Also a small hint - since paying them to join you is considered a barter, you can swap the fiefs they own if you have “fief trading” perk unlocked in trading tree. I.e. you can give them a fief of appropriate culture from your own and take their fief, or you can just pay them in form of city or a few castles instead of mil of dinars. You also used to get a huge amount of trading exp for that, but dunno if it’s still the same. Btw there are some more additions to the luring equation. I.e. if their kingdom do not have any fiefs at all and they are one of the last 3-5 remaining clans in the kingdom - they will never leave, looks like there is some limit to minimal amount of clans AI kingdom must have, maybe it’s done so that they will be able to gather an army large enough to capture a single city in any case. Anyway - great video as always, keep up the good work!
@@Strat-Guides I used to lure small fiefs-less clans into my kingdom by giving them small castles on the borders. Each castle is roughly 300-400k, so usually you don’t need to pay them anything more than that. And once you have like 4-6 clans in your kingdom - they will gather army themselves and be able to defend an incoming siege army or even maybe capture a city. This way you can have 2 active armies almost all the time at very early stages. Later in the game, around 15-20 clans in the kingdom, you will have a bunch of armies constantly, like 3 not counting yours, a self sustaining force that will conquer entire map for you if loyalty is high enough. It’s a peaceful time, you can just sit back and watch your legions march across the map. Also afair, enlisting all the nobles available in the kingdom spanned across the continent - largest army I was able to maintain was around 22k or something. Larger one kept disassembling after each cohesion tick. Still a force comparable to what Genghis Khan had while building his empire :-)
Wanna know something hilarious: my first kingdom playthrough my first fief was in that EXACT spot you highlighted. Pulled it off though but yeah was a little rough.
Got made Khan came back to this video on the same day. I inherited a massive Khanate from Monchug that spans all of Eastern Calradia my main enemies the Western Empire and Vlandians have started fighting each other finally and I am thinking about taking out the Aserai.
I know this is an old video, but when you’re clearing bandit hideouts, as well as labourers and captured by bandits you should always pick up clear bands of brigands, because the bandit parties inside the bases are individual groups. So if there’s 3 parties in the hideout you would get 3 groups cleared towards the hunt brigands quest :) Edit: Make sure to get oratory as well for +1 renown per quest. Can always swap it later if your main focus is tourneys
Who knew Lord Farquaad had to work so hard to remove fairy tale creatures from Calradia. Also I agree, defense first and then offense. Less armies to come after me, when I go around besieging fiefs
@@Strat-Guides oh No! That's one of the very best quotes from that movie that speaks to anyways that those Empower me look at others. No doubt there will be future opportunities for us insertions.
Thank you! I've been working on the intros lately :) It's hard to balance between "wasting someone's time" to having something boring, short but effective.
@@Strat-Guides Must say, I feel weird about joke when he married taller woman in video, since im short too, im afraid that something like that (laughs) will happened to me.
Great wedding gift! I need the same as I bought into the idea of smaller body = smaller amount of hits from weapons in the air. Hey, have you tested this? So this is timely for me, I took Danustica and Car B. from rebels. Good thing Aserai are eating Southern Empire up. Car Banseth had no stash so I may just give it up when declaring kingdom & try to work out of the place you used as an example NOT to . I wonder how to make the most of this situation without starting a new playthrough....Now to build relations, fight minors and looters, and build those millions you spoke of. I hear a Strat pun arising, "TW grow some facial hair...Must stash." If only I had the threat force of Princess Fiona. Perhaps obey or "I will have Strat sit on you." He who tries TW math and exposes it. Good job sir. Even with the ongoing pun-ish-ment. your channel is the best. It would be nice if giving up ones sister to be married they could make better relations with the other clan. The best outcome I have seen is give her to an older lord with no kids, he dies, and she is a close vassal, but still I lose a valued clan member. I want to "gain a son in law." Perhaps a female playthrough it best in the paternalistic world? More angles for the Stratocaster to play with .
Hehe the stool should help poor Farquaad out some :) Yeah it's a smaller hitbox but you have less access to getting headshots on the enemy because of the height difference. As a ranged character, height is best because you can shoot over the top of your shield wall.
@@Strat-Guides thanks for the information. I'll do my shooting from horseback and TW seems to have like my chosen body habitus and all our wives are saying "My, all the men in your family have small, um, hitboxes." I noticed we are not having a lot of children. On the other hand I would think a larger size should at least give more range with contact weapons. Have you tested for possible longer reach with increased body height?
I was holding off on doing it because I knew how painful it would be to produce LOL I was not wrong :) I'm glad it's done and I feel like it turned out okay. Thanks for watching!
For the money making part in smithing, I find glaives cheap but expensive to sell at 2000-8000 for iron/wrought iron tier 2, 10k-18k with tier 4 and 20k-35k with tier 5 using only 3 fine steel which you can get easy by smelting tribe throwing daggers. I usually visit every town and get all their money so fast. also glaives are also very easy to unlock because it only has 118 parts and you can get them much easier with the perk. One time I got a legendary tier 5 one and oh boy I deal 230-480 damage per swing which is op.
My method was to siege a settlement, take it, then go for peace and pay a tribute. I ended up broke and hated by everyone pretty quickly until I started blacksmithing.
Lol It's better to be feared than loved anyhow :) It seems that's one of the only ways to survive in the early game, unless you have a great starting position and can weather the storm for a bit. Thanks for watching Liam!
One thing to say about promoting companions that is REALLY important, if you promote a companion thats lets say a khuzait and you give them an empire fief, their clan culture is empire despite being khuzait, the only thing different is that the 2 other clan members they get are khuzait
Yeah, just watch out if you have policy's that decrease loyalty and this companions culture is not compatible with the settlement you give them because although their clan culture is fine, their governor's culture is different and will decrease loyalty which I say makes it just as easy to rebel.
But back in my 2nd campaign where I tried to conquer the world and it worked but it took a while obviously, this was an older version so because I was the king and any settlements conquered I get and then its voted on who gets it next, I knew they'd give it to the wrong clan culture because that's what they do, so I always had a companion on deck in my party so I could promote them and their culture was good. Unlike my first campaign, I never had to deal with rebellion after rebellion after rebellion. It also helps I forced policy's that increase loyalty for like 4k influence.
i have like 50hours on this game and this video convinced me I dont k ow, what this game is about. I never heard of any of this things. Iam just faiting there or trying to win rournaments and do nothing even when i have like 2m and few cities and castles
About that smithing - I'm using two-handed swords. There's a combination of tier 4 components with a tier 3 handle that uses ONLY wrought iron and iron (yes, no steel or fine steel, which are standard for tier 3/4 components) and which sells for 14400. You can literally buy shit weapons from the market for less than 500 gold that, when smelted, give you more than enough iron and wrought iron for this sword. If you need charcoal, simply pick the perk that allows you to produce 3 charcoal from 2 hardwood and buy a bunch of wooden hammers (smelt into 3 hardwood each) and pitchforks (smelt into 3 wood and 1 crude iron each). With the charcoal perk, smelting 2 wooden hammers takes 2 charcoal and produces 6 wood which you can refine into 9 charcoal. Most cities have a stockpile of ~40 or more wooden hammers and/or pitchforks each. With the method above and assuming you have the 2H sword tier 4 elements necessary unlocked, you can literally walk up to almost any big settlement in the game with 500 gold and a single unit of charcoal and, through only buying cheap weapons in the market and smelting them, generate enough materials to produce a stack of swords worth hundreds of thousands of gold. I use this to level up armies of fresh recruits. I get a full party of volunteers, go to a city, buy cheap weapons, smelt them, refine hardwood from wooden hammers, then use those materials to forge those 14,4k gold swords. Then I exchange 400k+ gold worth of those swords on the market for literally all of the armor available in the city, which I then dump in several batches using the Steward perk that allows you to get XP from discarded armor. This allows me to almost instantly get an army that's mostly tier 3-4 out of a bunch of tier 1 junk.
My character got elected as new queen of Battania and I had over 10k influence 4kk denars saved with clan tier 6 but only had 1 town.. now a few ingame days later my clan owns all of the Battanian culture fiefs and most of Vlandia. The kingdom overall owns about halve the map while and the Khuzait the other halve. Its a large scale war between both kingdoms where most battles get decided based on which army has more nobles Fian or Khans Guard. The other kingdoms are still around too but with like 1 town or are castle and act more like bandits cause they cant get that much units going. Its brutal to fight the Khuzait on open fields even with alot of Fian. My Character lost 2 sons and 1 daughter in the war so far. Its crazy fun to roleplay the story of my character.
Last time when I played, Derthert died and I was elected as king. This time I want to start my own kingdom from 0. 1) As a Vlandian, should I join Vlandia or Khuzait in order to get a fief in Aserai? (I am trying to avoid conflict as much as possible in the beginning) 2) Shoud my first fief be a town or a castle? 3) How much money and influence do you recommend approximately before starting a kingdom?
It's always a good idea to get your first fief as a vassal since it will be much easier than doing it solo. If you can handle doing it solo then it's not a bad option as well, just harder. Always get towns - if they give you a castle, give it back OR clear the garrison, make money from it and then give it away: 1) before the enemy takes it in a sieges or 2) right before taking a town (so you're more likely to show up on the vote for the town). Last one is a tough question - I like to have a couple million denars in the bank but it's possible with less if you're good at fighting while outnumbered. Influence will reset once you leave the kingdom to start your own, so you'll have to start from 0. Hope this helps!
@@Strat-Guides it helps, especially the part where I should give the castle (if I get one) back after I clean the garrison. Thank you. Well I like doing quests, tournaments and crafting weapons, I have aleardy 100k at 21 years old. In a few years I can start my own kingdom I think. :D
26:36 I have a question. Im a vassal in the late game, ive conquered 90% of vlandia just to have Rhagea give all the fiefs to one person just to have that clan defect to Vlandia. This has happened three times. I cant imagine they were poor? They had a huge list of vlandian fiefs. What gives haha.
@michaelsanders7484 usually defection had to do with a couple things - lack of money, bad relations, or a bug lol. Supposedly they fixed the issue before, but there seems to be an issue with people who get the previous rules capital. If i recall, sargot is the problem fief in vlandia.
@@Strat-Guides Im going to check these factors, i can help with the money but i cant force them to like Rhagea. Its just so annyoing, Ive conquered Vlandia three times, just to have a lord defect and virutally give them back all their land lol
@@Strat-Guides I’ve been doing that actually haha, I’ve avoided executing empire lords on principle but traitors get no mercy. It happened again today haha this is the 4th time. I give up. Vlandia is unconquerable. I’m going to just sit and wait until I become king and then I can ensure the fiefs stay within the empire. So dumb.
Also I found out something that I don't know if it's base game but with the right perks (I've only tried this with no other parties except for my own clan's parties) you can have an army that requires 0 influence to increase the cohesion of so you could infinitely maintain a small army for early expansion/defense
While this does work, simply becoming a renowned warlord is equally good. I was paid a dowry of $170k to marry my wife. I was given multiple fiefs by Gario, and was OP as anything by the time I reached clan tier 4. Full tier 7 gear on all relatives and companions. About 200 in each combat skill, party size over 200. Just able to solo towns and castles with my gang of fians and legionaries.
Yeah that seems to be the case. I'm not sure if personal wealth can override that if it's big enough? I've never actually had a noble defect but always keep 10M denars or more on hand so I'm not sure if that helped or not. It's such a convoluted system, even with tons of testing it's hard to say what it is exactly lol
Joined brit, helped take over all of their kingdom and they gave me half their kingdom, so when I took over was fighting everyone but the south, the best part is as I have no clue hoe to destroy a kingdom the rats of vland kept attacking and gave me plenty of relationship boosts by assisting or saving allies, took over and made all my comps lords and just made them rich after learning they were poor, the only issue is they never keep folks in garrisons so if I could figure that out
also I know in warband TW put a soft cap on how many fiefs you can own with tax inefficiencies, IIRC the same kind of soft cap exists in bannerlord as well though
About lords recruiting. They reject any offer if the cost they would ask of player to pay for defection exceeds player's money divided by 3 OR 2 mil gold - whichever is less. So yes, having at least 6 mil gold helps to maximise the chances on player's side, but otherwise it's important to lower the price they would demand for defection. And by far the biggest part of that price comes from the owned settlements, if they can't take those with them (you literally have to pay for those, and they usually cost several millions each). That's why it's important either to recruit a fiefless clans, or to recruit a clan while at war with their current kingdom, thus allowing them to change the sides while keeping all the lands.
I got amazing luck with fiefs as a vassal for vlandia, I have half of the asirei fiefs and the western empire town closet the the asirei and vlandia so all my fiefs are connected, it's almost like king derthert wants me to start a new kingdom. Also I married his daughter
Can promoted companions really leave the kingdom? At 26:00 I can see that you have a lot of cities, don't the companions claim them by taking the 3 slots, blocking you from having them and promoting even more? thanks :)
I think so, but I'm not positive on that. I personally have never had it happen before, but I think I read from others that it can happen. So my personal strategy in the early stages of the game is to give away all fiefs - I save up all the cash to help fund the growth, You don't need fiefs as the king with 5M in the bank :) That way, I show up on every single vote and can promote a new companion with each fief that is taken.
I'll do some testing. I know there are a couple patterns but I don't know the math behind them - taking a fief makes them less likely to want peace (more expensive peace deal). The longer the war goes, the more likely they are to take a cheaper deal or even pay you. If they take a fief from you, they are more likely to pay you for peace. Aside from that, it doesn't seem like much else plays a role but I'll see what I can find!
@@ashutoshtripathi. Counterintuitive how ? Considering that the main strategic goal of the AI is to take (and keep) fiefs, it makes sense. If your train of though is that someone taking one of your cities must have a strong army, that's not always true, as a badly defended city can be taken with relatively few troops, or the siege could cost him a lot of troops. And anyway relative army strenght is certainly accounted for when calculating the price for making peace.
@19:25: I had a civil war with the khuzaits and my former co beg refused to join my kingdom. So I targeted and sieged all his fiefs until he had nothing left, and released his family members after each battle so I'd have a higher relations with him. And that's how I forced him into submission lol.
I joined Vlandia and 2-3 months later i was elected king because Derthert kicked the bucket, was surprising to say the least.
Lol nice! That's so cool when it happens :) Although it ain't easy controlling all those clans who keep voting for stupid crap.
Exact same thing happened to me
Same! And I didn't even want the throne, but they insisted. Gladly I had a recent backup save from 2 days earlier and this time Dethret didn't do the kickerino bucketino
Same thing happened to me with Britannia, first thing I did was pass Devine majesty and then set my kingdom on the defensive. Now I just capture and fight lords of small armies and donate them to garrisons for influence. With that I can over ride all my vassals when necessary and force my enemies to pay large tributes for peace. Just remember if War isn’t profitable to you, your doing it wrong. Lol
He just died in my campaign as well a year in lol.
It cannot be understated how much of a chore it is to chase down enemy lords for recruitment. Promoting from your own ranks is an extremely welcome improvement.
100% agree! It's so annoying trying to find them, then half the time they are in an army...
I have been late to the party but I once conquered whole Empire then promoted 25 companions into Lords to govern the realm's castles. They may be weak but with around 50 parties... Number matters.
Yeah but for 500 influence?! Wtf by then all my fiefs will have been sieged and taken by monchungs army of 2000
@@Truef1ame Well, I hit back with 4k troops. That's what vassals are for.
@@chengkuoklee5734 I wish I had those numbers 😢
Another excellent video. I tried 2 times already to have a Kingdom and failed, after work I am going to used your advice. Thanks again
Wow thank you so much for supporting the channel! I hope this guide does help. I put an ungodly amount of time into this one lol It started off as 6 hours of recordings that I tried to edit down to 20 minutes but fell short quite a bit :)
24 seconds in I Smashed that like button cause that is most realistic looking Lord Farquaad I have ever seen :D
@@dalimillazan2877 Hahaha thank you! I spent a long time working on him - it's not easy recreating that much ugly :P
Let's go Brandon Norwood Sneed
50 bucks? For a gaming turtorial?? I teach people how to animate and nobody pays me
Important: If you have high relations with a clan, if you marry someone from that clan you can make them pay you instead, sometimes crazy amounts like 70k
Lol that's nuts! They pay you and you get to sell 200k worth of their gear :D
If you have enough denars (or handcrafted swords) and the 300 trade perk, the easiest strategy is to interact with nobles, buy their fiefs, then recruit them to your kingdom. As they will have no land, they are highly likely to join.
The fun internal synergy here is that in your trade you will improve relations already and when you pay them to come to your side, you can actually hand them back their fiefs. You won't make a profit, but it's still fairly cheap.
That's a good idea! I wonder how the math shakes out? Do you still end up recruiting them for cheaper than if you did it without buying their fief?
@@Strat-Guides Honestly, it was so incredibly rare to recruit anyone while they had their fief, that I assumed it was impossible - so my approach got streamlined to buying their fiefs before buying their vassalage and I never bothered to check. The issue was likely that I would generally run around with few denars and many swords instead of the other way around, and since you explained that your current bankroll is integral to their wish to change allegiance, I was missing out. Besides, I always felt that making swords worth millions was a lot easier than liquidating your armory.
@@DrZaius3141 yeah they seem to prefer good swords in bargains than denars. 1 good sword can hugely sway a noble. It's easy to make them but hard to pawn
Can you buy fief when you are still have no faction? I'm still grinding my trade as it take quite a lot of time so I can't test it yet.
@@illmaster yeah you can! And the best part is nobody will attack you. Add soon as you join a kingdom or start your own, they will start to attack
Started my campaign as a ghost kingdom. I preyed on rebellions until I owned 10 towns, without declaring a kingdom, or joining any.
I played Switzerland like that, improving my towns, saving up bank/influence, until I was very wealthy and established.
Then, I had to decide which corner of my undeclared kingdom I would defend once I declared it. Having reaped all of my fiefs from rebels meant they were spread out. I chose 3 towns of the same culture that were close to each other and went from there. Wars came and went, as I suspected the fiefs far away that I could not defend were eventually captured.
Didn't matter, I had 15m denars and 25.5k influence when I created a kingdom and good relations with all of the lord's around me. I started crushing the map, which was almost entirely owned by the western empire and valandians by the.
After conquest, peace, player death and one of my kids becoming my heir... I made a new campaign.
Damn good game.
So you can avoid war by not declaring?
@@Jakenatorr You are immune from being DOWed by the AI if you are independent but don't declare yourself a kingdom (yet you can also attack other kingdoms unprovoked). It's the stupidest diplomatic feature that Taleworlds came up with for BL, followed by the tribute system.
In Warband, if you were independent and held land, you by default were a king/queen.
@@michaelh2282 ok, thank you
Did you play with the dragon banner ?
@@Belishaur No I let the quest expire.
I think I founded only one kingdom in my 600+ hours. I like wandering around the map with a warband, much more than conquering and governing. Thanks for the great video, Strat!
Yeah it can be a real chore to get locked into one location and be forced to defend. I feel like it limits the options/creativity once you establish a kingdom. It's a lot of fun still, but I know where you're coming from.
@@Strat-Guides True but my ending point always is, when my empire gets big and it starts to steam roll, even from vanilla warband I never get around to finishing then, I mean I know I can win but I cannot be bothered, I think its time to play on harder difficulties and also higher death chance so I can do the succession to make things more interesting.
@@Strat-Guides I got so royally hosed when I founded mine after what I can assume killing off twice the population of the continent in the never ending wars. I got pissed and started a new game for whatever reason the other lords all had some sort of pact to only attack me about half way through I just started taking heads too see if that would help. It did not they bred faster then I could kill them.
@@MusMasi This is the problem with a lot of games like this. Same in Crusader Kings. There is a point where you know with 100% certainty that you CAN conquer the world... but by that point it just doesn't feel fulfilling. CK3 helped with this a bit by making it harder to build up an unstoppable empire.
"It's more fun when you are not doing it alone." Agreed. Doing it alone is like immitation meat. It's good, but it's not the same.
Haha I have no further comment :P
Something worth noting is a kingdom that's leader and clan leaders all love you is pretty unlikely to declare war on you. So if you have somewhere you want to set up your kingdom work as a mercenary for your future neighbors and donate noble prisoners to holdings of the powerful clans this will quickly raise relations with them.
Your guides are heads and shoulders above any other youtuber. I watched a vid titled "this is why your workshops aren't making money" and literally the only reason the guy stated the entire 6min video is "because economy" - fucking thanks einstein.
You produce the most informative, detailed, and factual content on this game, on the internet. Was excited to see you post on this topic.
Thank you!! I really appreciate that. My first priority when making any of my guides is to present the best information I can, which usually involves 1 - 2 days worth of testing and data collection, so it's nice to hear that showing through and being noticed :) It's sad, but I could probably record a "guide" in 1 hour by just talking about what I know and still get the same views without providing anything to back up the claims. I'm hoping the trend in RUclips is to move away from "lazy" content :)
I think I know what vid your talking about. Does he spend the first half of the video complaining about people not understanding, the proceeds to give a crap explanation on how it varies for each play through?
@@bladfadsfblaadsfsadf900 lol I can neither confirm nor deny anything!
The best way to improve relations with a kingdom is to go to war with them or join as a mercenary with another kingdom that is at war with them as well. Defeat and release every single lord you capture and in no time, you'll be +100 relation with everyone, then just un-war with them :)
It's also the best way to get charm skill and to achieve the "Mercy" trait!!!
My favorite starting town is Argoron because the only way to attack is through crossing the bridge. You can safely protect both the town and one village by just guarding that bridge.
One way I like to build up an independent kingdom is to first declare war against a target faction to take a few fiefs before peacing out but don't found a kingdom. Since you're still not officially a kingdom, AI cannot declare war against you so you get to decide who do you want to fight next. Use that opportunity to build up garrisons and strengthen the army before founding a kingdom. Main downside is that you can't enact policies so loyalty issues from different culture is going to hit you hard especially in cities so better to target fiefs of your own culture. If done right (and rather tedious) especially as Empire culture, it's possible to own all Empire fiefs under your clan before going after other cultures.
if you declare war on a faction while not being a kingdom yet, how do you even make peace? i thought you had to be a kingdom to have the peace option. if you dont, may i ask, how do you make peace?
@@Destroymaster100 you can simply pay for peace if you interact with any lord. It will take between 60k-200k
@@m3tro_mx355 yee, found out the other day, thanks
@@m3tro_mx355 huh, so functionally you are buying that fief without actually having trade 300, very interesting
That bandut base quest chain is actually my preferred route. Usually the same town requests manual laborers so I mark villages that ask
Ah damn that's a really good idea lol using the village markers to remember where the good quests are. I'm going to try to remember that one!
@Not an Alpha Legionary I've actually never tried that before, I'll have to test it out!
Would you consider making a separate "Guide - How to become a King of an existing faction"?
Thanks for all of your very informative, well produced and, overall, high quality videos!
That's a good idea! It would be a pretty short video because I can only think of a few off the top of my head but it would be nice to take over an already established kingdom.
Wait is this even possible?
@@lewmano7367 yes it is. I just became king of Vlandia last night after derthert kicked the bucket randomly. Took roughly 15 years or so of being in Vlandia. I've read people got it within a few days to many years. Totally random I suppose.
Thank you so much!
I was just going about my business as a vassal. As I thought we had just signed peace with Sturgia, but I hadn't noticed we almost immediately went back to war with them.
Then I see a message 'Pendraic Castle is under siege'. I'm like... What?! So I rush there with my 180 guys: Its a thousand guys at my doorstep.
This wasn't the first time, but the time before there was a friendly army nearby of 800 strong. This time, nobody!
But it gets worse, ANOTHER army of a thousand enters the siege!
So I remember your tip: Auto resolve is heavily skewed towards the defenders of castles. I had also followed your guide on fiefs, so I had 350 militia and 79 high level troops in garisson.
I enter my castle, lose a few guys. I 'send troops', the battle begins... I see the kills raking up on my side and oh my... I wish I could show you the screenshot.
I killed all 1999 of them, and had 141 guys remaining. I gained 180!!! renown from the battle. I had captured 16 of their nobles and 1300 soldiers.
I then traveled to my castle with an anti escape governor to throw all the nobles in, when suddenly a message pops up.... "Vote on the next ruler of Vlandia"... what?!
I click on it, 100% me. Pog, I am king. I guess Derthert got a heart attack when I defeated the entire Sturgian faction in one siege.
> So, now I've come back to this video to learn the ways of the King. And then I realized it was in this video I learned the auto-resolve trick!
Again, thank you so much!
I would love to see a lord Farquaad campaign, maybe like he tries to become emperor of the empire uniting the three rebel factions under his greatness or something. Either way great vid.
Oooh that's a good idea!
I pledge myself and my clan to you Lord Farquad! May your kingdom prosper and extend to the farthest reaches of Calradia.
Lord Farquaad accepts your fealty - now out of his sight peasant! He must get back to staring in the mirror now...
Thanks for watching! :D
1) Doing charm check for marriages gives no charm 2) caravans make more profit as time passes, terrible at at the start but great around day 500 and beyond 3) remember to strip companions before making the a clan as the game gives them OP gear, also there is a bug right now, when you promote a clan, culture "Doesn't" matter. The game considers the clan as a culture of the fief you give them even though their culture is different, bugged but they don't lose -3 loyalty right now 4) Another bug, if you fight with your towns, garrison or militia on your side and they capture the lord, the lord will go into your dungeon but right now you have no access to take them into your party.
I didn't know that about companions equipment, good to know! I always learn something new from Flesson, never fails!
makes me feel stupid outfitting companions to be vassals
@@MusMasi I use their gear for the next companion I hire, since when you promote one it frees up a slot for another
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This video is exactly why i love this channel, a 27 minutes long in depth guide and i know most of this anyways, wasn't bored for 1 sec.
Thank you for watching! This was a tough one for me, I tried my best to keep the flow moving quickly without rushing the info. I'm happy to hear it was entertaining :D
@@Strat-Guides Choice of characters was hilarious, about the guide tho, i like to starve a city (for my first 1 before i make the kingdom), make it rebel and then take it, process takes some time but easy enough.
But my playthroughs are lengthy ..
Thank you so much for this guide, it's exactly what I need to get my current run on the right track
To be honest I was dreading making it because I knew how long it would take lol it was pretty rough but I'm glad it's done! Hopefully it's helpful
the editing, the storytelling, gags on point, I had no other option but to subscribe
I appreciate that :D
I haven't tried it myself but if you are seceding from a faction it might be better to stay as a rebel instead of immediately turning into a kingdom. You can't get declared on by other kingdoms and can just focus on the one faction you're rebelling from. While you can't get vassals you can still get a big army with your companion armies.
Yeah I agree! It's not a bad way to start off.
The part where you suggest to save millions before starting a kingdom is SO important to me at this stage of the game. I have been playing this off and on for a year and last night was the first time I got a vassal. I'm pathetic. But I always have jumped into having a kingdom WAY too soon. I loaded some of my old save files, and it is pretty sad how clueless I was. I was a vassal for Vlandia, and I had 10 or 15 Sturgian vassals in my prisoner pile. My only friend was my wife, which I am shocked I was smart enough to find a wife. Now, my party is strong. My brother and I both have 2 children. I have good people I have built up to be caravan runners. My 210 man army is full of Fians and the Kuhzait horse archers with other solid infantry and cavalry. We stomp everyone. I have 3 towns that I took in rebellions. I have beat down the minor clans over and over and have a bunch of friends. I have 2.4 million moneys. The next step is really scary, so I plan on just stacking money. I have played this long, and getting into kingdom policies is scary. All of that and making peace with clans I have fought with is completely foreign to me. I think I will watch this video about 10 or 100 times. Thank you for your very detailed work.
A good trick is to make alot of Javelins with max size on the highest tier parts, then you can sell them for 18k a piece, and for even more if you use the trade - lvl 25 perk. The only problem is that you bankrupt every town near you :/ So you have to go to new towns to sell more... (Rich people problems)
I was mastering my Vlandian guys art of smithing in Epicrotea, when Western Empire started an war campaign against Sturgia. I got caught in the middle of it, because of a mercenary contract i signed with Sturgians because i didn't know any better. I lost all the hard earned crafting materials and a lot of time being dragged around by Western Empire. I was left rotting in jail till a truce was signed.
From today, i'll lay down my apron and my hammer, as my days as a blacksmith are over. I will see to that Western Empire will be razed to the ground and erased from the history. Rip and tear till it's done
TLDR; good guide bro thx
How's it going?
I genuinely tried to defeat the Western Empire by executing every single noble but that just ended up making everyone else mad at me because they're all inbred and peace would have been even more expensive because unlike prisoners, executions don't factor into the power comparison. So I'd leave the extermination plans until you can take on every kingdom at once.
@12:10 it is mentioned that you don't really get to choose where your fiefs are, while true to an extent what you can actually do is take a gamble which often pays off by giving away one of your fiefs once you successfully capture a new one before you open the vote tab. This often puts you in the top three and you effectively can push them together. Depending on what type of game you want to play feel free to save before and try various different approaches as they seam to differ often. The last and least immersive debatably is to control your kingdoms forces in a army and waiting for a enemy to raid the fief you like which would be on the boarder and close to the ones you started adding too and then raiding it after using the before mentioned tactic to slowly grow your empire.
This worked for me in September and October of 2022.
That's a good point, as long as you don't have a lot of fiefs you should be at the top of the list because there is a big bonus for being the player.
Great Bannerlord content - Love the game but can't say I fully understand it - learning more and more with each video. Much appreciated
Thanks Ben! You're not alone lol that's the main reason I started a channel - it's a fun game but there's almost no help from the game to explain anything!
It's how you guys were able to create a custom character that looks a lot like Farqhuad from Shrek. That is some serious customization skill!
Honestly been waiting on some mods to update to 1.8 but I still been learning some new things from your videos everytime you upload, keep it up bro
Yeah I hope they get to a stable build soon so we can have longer campaigns with mods.
Thanks Alexander! Hopefully we get to full release before the end of the year so I can see your beautiful face here more often haha :D
The "Flesson Special" is the best name, I love it! Also love the humor you put into these videos :D
Thanks! Yeah I found out about that combo while watching one of his streams and he never named it so I did it for him :)
Continue doing your great work. If Bannerlord's Oct release is a success, you'll be a huge reason for that!
Thanks!! I'm really hoping so, it's a fun game and I think a lot of people would enjoy it.
That was a good good video however one thing that I think you missed out on is that other kingdoms are MUCH less likely to declare war on your kingdom if you only own castles once you take over a city the other kingdoms start targeting you. At least that’s what I’ve found in my experience it could be that I was just extremely lucky
Interesting, I had not tested that before actually. I usually just avoid being in a kingdom if I'm trying to build up a base since nobody can physically declare war on me in that instance :) If that is true, that would probably change things a bit! I'll have to give it a try this weekend. I appreciate the tip!
Why youtube recommended me your videos?Okay i started with one and now i watch them more and more, can't stop they're so good....AND I DON'T EVEN HAVE BANNERLORD
LOL! Thanks for watching, I appreciate it 😀
Thanks for the help strat, the content is good as always, can’t wait for the next vid
No problem! Next video is going to be a complete guide to workshops and will feature a fun storyline as well :) Elon Musk Vs. Jeff Bezos lol
11:15 Fiona on the throne looking down on Farquaad, like he's a child... lol Even the look on her face is priceless... :)
Haha she kept doing the "side eye's" thing at him too, it was hilarious!
farquaad down horrendous
Your vids are the best!
Can't wait till release so we get finalized guides that won't change
Thank you! Yeah It's going to be a process going back through to see what's changed and what needs to be updated. I suspect a lot of guides will have to be updated though.
High quality script and commentary. Love this vid bro
Thank you! I have a lot of fun with this one :)
One thing about fief choices that should be mentioned is the trade-off between access and security.
A border town will have the highest access to a diversity of troops, but be susceptible to multiple kingdoms trying to claim it.
A town in the middle of one faction will be easier to defend, but only give you one faction's worth of units, which could put you at a disadvantage later on.
My personal favorite play is to take the rebel towns and buy cities from nobles without declaring a kingdom.
I've been trying to buy all of Calradia in one lifetime, without having a kingdom one entire continent without a kingdom.
I would have been glad having a kingdom guide in my time.
Hahaha I think you would also profit by learning how to implement TaleWorlds Mathematics into your kingdom as well :) Nothing quite like illogical math to steer things in your favor my liege!
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Just want to add an additional tip to this part here because I discovered it through playing myself, if you want to get a few free fiefs right next to one another just join the faction that you aim to use to capture the fief you want; and any time they give you a fief you don’t want just give it away. This will ensure that when you finally capture the fief you want you will have a almost guaranteed chance to get it I did this with Sargot, usanc castle, and talivel castle. I just waited for someone to declare war on vlandia (my chosen culture.) which happened to be the aesari and when that happened I immediately joined unquid as a vassal and assisted them in taking those three previously mentioned fiefs which are all next to each other and then I left the aesari. Kept the holdings and joined vlandia.
Thanks
Thanks Ruben!! That's awesome :D I appreciate the support.
One of my favorites that I HAD to rewatch over and over lol
Hey Strat! I finally got my first vassal through giving him quite a bit of gold but hes not being very active? and his party size is too small to recruit for wars. I also gave him a fief before his relations reached 100 already. I cant even enter his fief (on my territory) without getting guard checked? Any options to alteast make his castle open for me ? D: I tried giving him clan influence even though its been 100. Merry Christmas to you and your family!
Dude. I am sitting here dead serious figuring out how to properly start a kingdom. but that Lord Farquad character caught me offguard 🤣 you just earned a sub
I've got 1200 hours on Bannerlord and have been opening chat dialogs with my companion party leaders to find prisoners. Mind blown about the Alt+hover trick.
I'm so glad they added the button to access their troops right from the first pop up! I really hated having to go through the dialogue each time. Thanks for watching!
Another renown farming method is sitting in a castle/town after rebelling and using a ton of archers (archers gain a large bonus while defending in a siege battle with auto-resolve) to kill the armies that attack your fief with train militia on so you get more militia recruitment
This was a lot and it was very useful information. Much deeper than the videos I made. Impressive!
Thank you roffels! I appreciate that. I spend about 50 - 60 hours making this one in total so i'm glad to hear it paid off :)
All the math and data you do is crazy. Appreciate the work, I probably won't play any game this efficiently in my life, but the sheer amount of work you put into all the data, funny editing, and general tips make it worth watching alone.
Thank you, I appreciate you taking notice :)
By the time I became tier 4 I owned 13 fiefs. I basically had 1000+ influence and one I had around 5-6 fiefs I realized that their was a curruptipn debuff for having to many fiefs and eventually I would run out of influence. So I spent the last of my 1000 influence and capturing until it ran out (I won three elections as well) and now I have 13 fiefs. 6 towns I think.
Unless they've changed it, corruption actually comes from low loyalty or low security. Do your fiefs have either of those? Might be something to look into.
I'm glad I found this channel. great video I do really appreciate it. Now it's time to restore the empire and teach the barbarian their place.
Thank you for always making such helpfull videos cause they have really helped me
I'm glad to hear that! My first focus is to help, second is to entertain (although I have a long way to go on the second part)
I was expecting to see Shrek and donkey in this video Faarquad was so accurately depicted. Also the power of friendship in bannerlord? no moe than 5%
I tried to get more shots of the green-faced Derthert but it's pretty hard to get the moving characters masked out like that! I was able to do it with the "who wears the panties" scene pretty well though! I just need to improve my editing skills a bit more to handle that level :)
lmao the nerve on the guy that received 206m denars from you and said "All right, then."
FINALLY A NEW STRAT VIDEO!!!
I'm trying to post every Friday morning and if it's not a huge guide (like the last 3 were) then I'll get one during the week as well :)
@@Strat-Guides much appreciated
hey I just wanted to point out a sidestep to the tier 4 requirement for a kingdom, though it won't necessarily be "your own" kingdom. as a tier 3 vassal of Sturgia, when Raganvad died in battle I actually got elected new ruler of Sturgia, and suddenly had a whole ready built nation. this was random strangeness but a charisma build with the right tactics could maneuver a hostile takeover like this and plan a terrible accident to befall the current ruler.
I had the same thing happen when one of the Empire nobles 'mysteriously' died to a friendly javelin to the skull...
Yeah that's a good point! It seems the default vote will always go to the player, no matter what. I tested it once by doing it day 1 with cheats - no money, no troops, clan tier 0 and I killed off the king but they still wanted me as king lol. It's like they thought I was John Snow or something.
Lol savage!
@@jaymorrison2419 forensics determined death was by natural causes I suppose
@@jaymorrison2419 man you are brutal ahahahah
I ran a Vlandia campaign recently and went fiefless for a while to build up money. Derthert ended up giving me basically the entirety of Sturgia because I was the only noble in proximity and when he died I was elected King with 6 towns to my name . It was fun but me and my companions basically had to solo protect the north against the Khuzaits and Western Empire. Very overwhelming business for a beginner player
Yeah that sounds like a handful! Baptism by fire lol
Thanks. I never would have thought of leaving the town!
Yeah I was fixated on holding the first fief for a long time - then when I did the bandit campaign (Amir Timur) it dawned on me that I don't need to hold it, just own it for a split second to declare the kingdom and then it doesn't matter after that!
So I applied this method of yours, it works incredibly well. I waited for rebels to take over a town in Aserai Vlandia or Khuzait, in the meantime I was a vassal for the empire, gathering resources and money. I ended up taking Galend which is in the corner and I am also Vlandian, nothing attacked me there, and can easily conquer Vlandia without getting closer to other kingdoms. Until now I used the smithing method to make money (20 million so far) I also ended up with 4 boys (I was so lucky in this playthrough). I upgraded at maximum all my troops and then I used the hit and run tactic, got Hongard and Drapand castles and Pravend, now I made peace with the Vladians (I lost 24 troops in total somehow) 😂.
Your Farquaad avatar is... [chef's kiss] _perfect_.
Lol thank you! I think I spent over an hour trying to tweak Farquaad and Fiona. I just suck at artistic stuff like that so it takes me a whole :)
About luring noble factions into your kingdom. There used to be a bug where if you convince them to join you during peace time they will come stripped of their fiefs, only during a war they could keep fiefs joining you. Is it still the same or they fixed it?
Also a small hint - since paying them to join you is considered a barter, you can swap the fiefs they own if you have “fief trading” perk unlocked in trading tree. I.e. you can give them a fief of appropriate culture from your own and take their fief, or you can just pay them in form of city or a few castles instead of mil of dinars. You also used to get a huge amount of trading exp for that, but dunno if it’s still the same.
Btw there are some more additions to the luring equation. I.e. if their kingdom do not have any fiefs at all and they are one of the last 3-5 remaining clans in the kingdom - they will never leave, looks like there is some limit to minimal amount of clans AI kingdom must have, maybe it’s done so that they will be able to gather an army large enough to capture a single city in any case.
Anyway - great video as always, keep up the good work!
Yeah they do bring the fief with them now, but at a much higher cost!
@@Strat-Guides I used to lure small fiefs-less clans into my kingdom by giving them small castles on the borders. Each castle is roughly 300-400k, so usually you don’t need to pay them anything more than that. And once you have like 4-6 clans in your kingdom - they will gather army themselves and be able to defend an incoming siege army or even maybe capture a city. This way you can have 2 active armies almost all the time at very early stages. Later in the game, around 15-20 clans in the kingdom, you will have a bunch of armies constantly, like 3 not counting yours, a self sustaining force that will conquer entire map for you if loyalty is high enough. It’s a peaceful time, you can just sit back and watch your legions march across the map.
Also afair, enlisting all the nobles available in the kingdom spanned across the continent - largest army I was able to maintain was around 22k or something. Larger one kept disassembling after each cohesion tick. Still a force comparable to what Genghis Khan had while building his empire :-)
Wanna know something hilarious: my first kingdom playthrough my first fief was in that EXACT spot you highlighted. Pulled it off though but yeah was a little rough.
Nice! It's a good spot for sure. Although sometimes you don't really get a say in things and you gotta take what you can get
Got made Khan came back to this video on the same day. I inherited a massive Khanate from Monchug that spans all of Eastern Calradia my main enemies the Western Empire and Vlandians have started fighting each other finally and I am thinking about taking out the Aserai.
Nice, go get some of that date fruit land :D
I know this is an old video, but when you’re clearing bandit hideouts, as well as labourers and captured by bandits you should always pick up clear bands of brigands, because the bandit parties inside the bases are individual groups.
So if there’s 3 parties in the hideout you would get 3 groups cleared towards the hunt brigands quest :)
Edit: Make sure to get oratory as well for +1 renown per quest. Can always swap it later if your main focus is tourneys
Who knew Lord Farquaad had to work so hard to remove fairy tale creatures from Calradia.
Also I agree, defense first and then offense. Less armies to come after me, when I go around besieging fiefs
Yes, they are rudely being alive when "nobody " wants the to be.
Lol Derthert is still in his Vlandian swamp...
I had that clip edited too!! But I couldn't find a good spot for it so I scrapped it sadly.
@@Strat-Guides oh No! That's one of the very best quotes from that movie that speaks to anyways that those Empower me look at others. No doubt there will be future opportunities for us insertions.
Yes basic math. Use Force multipliers
I love the intros to your videos each one is different but creative
Thank you! I've been working on the intros lately :) It's hard to balance between "wasting someone's time" to having something boring, short but effective.
@@Strat-Guides Must say, I feel weird about joke when he married taller woman in video, since im short too, im afraid that something like that (laughs) will happened to me.
Great wedding gift! I need the same as I bought into the idea of smaller body = smaller amount of hits from weapons in the air. Hey, have you tested this? So this is timely for me, I took Danustica and Car B. from rebels. Good thing Aserai are eating Southern Empire up. Car Banseth had no stash so I may just give it up when declaring kingdom & try to work out of the place you used as an example NOT to .
I wonder how to make the most of this situation without starting a new playthrough....Now to build relations, fight minors and looters, and build those millions you spoke of. I hear a Strat pun arising, "TW grow some facial hair...Must stash." If only I had the threat force of Princess Fiona. Perhaps obey or "I will have Strat sit on you." He who tries TW math and exposes it. Good job sir. Even with the ongoing pun-ish-ment. your channel is the best.
It would be nice if giving up ones sister to be married they could make better relations with the other clan. The best outcome I have seen is give her to an older lord with no kids, he dies, and she is a close vassal, but still I lose a valued clan member. I want to "gain a son in law." Perhaps a female playthrough it best in the paternalistic world? More angles for the Stratocaster to play with .
Hehe the stool should help poor Farquaad out some :) Yeah it's a smaller hitbox but you have less access to getting headshots on the enemy because of the height difference. As a ranged character, height is best because you can shoot over the top of your shield wall.
@@Strat-Guides thanks for the information. I'll do my shooting from horseback and TW seems to have like my chosen body habitus and all our wives are saying "My, all the men in your family have small, um, hitboxes." I noticed we are not having a lot of children.
On the other hand I would think a larger size should at least give more range with contact weapons. Have you tested for possible longer reach with increased body height?
One of your best, and most informative videos.
Was really missing this video thanks!
I was holding off on doing it because I knew how painful it would be to produce LOL I was not wrong :) I'm glad it's done and I feel like it turned out okay. Thanks for watching!
I won't lie I was looking for tutorials and I saw this video and I just about died laughing from all the shrek references You've earned a subscribe
Lol thanks! Hopefully the guide part was useful too :)
the best 30 min of the day - thx.
Thanks for watching 😀
For the money making part in smithing, I find glaives cheap but expensive to sell at 2000-8000 for iron/wrought iron tier 2, 10k-18k with tier 4 and 20k-35k with tier 5 using only 3 fine steel which you can get easy by smelting tribe throwing daggers. I usually visit every town and get all their money so fast. also glaives are also very easy to unlock because it only has 118 parts and you can get them much easier with the perk. One time I got a legendary tier 5 one and oh boy I deal 230-480 damage per swing which is op.
My method was to siege a settlement, take it, then go for peace and pay a tribute. I ended up broke and hated by everyone pretty quickly until I started blacksmithing.
Lol It's better to be feared than loved anyhow :) It seems that's one of the only ways to survive in the early game, unless you have a great starting position and can weather the storm for a bit. Thanks for watching Liam!
One thing to say about promoting companions that is REALLY important, if you promote a companion thats lets say a khuzait and you give them an empire fief, their clan culture is empire despite being khuzait, the only thing different is that the 2 other clan members they get are khuzait
Interesting, I didn't know that! So the culture can never be the wrong one for promoting companions?
Yeah, just watch out if you have policy's that decrease loyalty and this companions culture is not compatible with the settlement you give them because although their clan culture is fine, their governor's culture is different and will decrease loyalty which I say makes it just as easy to rebel.
But back in my 2nd campaign where I tried to conquer the world and it worked but it took a while obviously, this was an older version so because I was the king and any settlements conquered I get and then its voted on who gets it next, I knew they'd give it to the wrong clan culture because that's what they do, so I always had a companion on deck in my party so I could promote them and their culture was good. Unlike my first campaign, I never had to deal with rebellion after rebellion after rebellion. It also helps I forced policy's that increase loyalty for like 4k influence.
@@shmowpow5401 Oh gotcha, yeah that makes sense.
i have like 50hours on this game and this video convinced me I dont k ow, what this game is about. I never heard of any of this things. Iam just faiting there or trying to win rournaments and do nothing even when i have like 2m and few cities and castles
The most impressive about this guide is you playing this entire run with Farquad as an avatar and not starting over.
I wouldn't want to break the immersion for you :D Thanks for watching!!
been on a video bing for your bannerlord guides, amazing work
Thanks for watching!! I need to update the skill and perk guides soon, was just waiting for the full release :)
@@Strat-Guides cant wait for it
About that smithing - I'm using two-handed swords. There's a combination of tier 4 components with a tier 3 handle that uses ONLY wrought iron and iron (yes, no steel or fine steel, which are standard for tier 3/4 components) and which sells for 14400. You can literally buy shit weapons from the market for less than 500 gold that, when smelted, give you more than enough iron and wrought iron for this sword. If you need charcoal, simply pick the perk that allows you to produce 3 charcoal from 2 hardwood and buy a bunch of wooden hammers (smelt into 3 hardwood each) and pitchforks (smelt into 3 wood and 1 crude iron each). With the charcoal perk, smelting 2 wooden hammers takes 2 charcoal and produces 6 wood which you can refine into 9 charcoal. Most cities have a stockpile of ~40 or more wooden hammers and/or pitchforks each.
With the method above and assuming you have the 2H sword tier 4 elements necessary unlocked, you can literally walk up to almost any big settlement in the game with 500 gold and a single unit of charcoal and, through only buying cheap weapons in the market and smelting them, generate enough materials to produce a stack of swords worth hundreds of thousands of gold.
I use this to level up armies of fresh recruits. I get a full party of volunteers, go to a city, buy cheap weapons, smelt them, refine hardwood from wooden hammers, then use those materials to forge those 14,4k gold swords. Then I exchange 400k+ gold worth of those swords on the market for literally all of the armor available in the city, which I then dump in several batches using the Steward perk that allows you to get XP from discarded armor. This allows me to almost instantly get an army that's mostly tier 3-4 out of a bunch of tier 1 junk.
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Thank you Theo! I've got a different kind of video planned for this week, I'm hoping to have it ready by tomorrow.
My character got elected as new queen of Battania and I had over 10k influence 4kk denars saved with clan tier 6 but only had 1 town.. now a few ingame days later my clan owns all of the Battanian culture fiefs and most of Vlandia. The kingdom overall owns about halve the map while and the Khuzait the other halve. Its a large scale war between both kingdoms where most battles get decided based on which army has more nobles Fian or Khans Guard. The other kingdoms are still around too but with like 1 town or are castle and act more like bandits cause they cant get that much units going. Its brutal to fight the Khuzait on open fields even with alot of Fian. My Character lost 2 sons and 1 daughter in the war so far. Its crazy fun to roleplay the story of my character.
Last time when I played, Derthert died and I was elected as king. This time I want to start my own kingdom from 0.
1) As a Vlandian, should I join Vlandia or Khuzait in order to get a fief in Aserai? (I am trying to avoid conflict as much as possible in the beginning)
2) Shoud my first fief be a town or a castle?
3) How much money and influence do you recommend approximately before starting a kingdom?
It's always a good idea to get your first fief as a vassal since it will be much easier than doing it solo. If you can handle doing it solo then it's not a bad option as well, just harder. Always get towns - if they give you a castle, give it back OR clear the garrison, make money from it and then give it away: 1) before the enemy takes it in a sieges or 2) right before taking a town (so you're more likely to show up on the vote for the town). Last one is a tough question - I like to have a couple million denars in the bank but it's possible with less if you're good at fighting while outnumbered. Influence will reset once you leave the kingdom to start your own, so you'll have to start from 0. Hope this helps!
@@Strat-Guides it helps, especially the part where I should give the castle (if I get one) back after I clean the garrison. Thank you. Well I like doing quests, tournaments and crafting weapons, I have aleardy 100k at 21 years old. In a few years I can start my own kingdom I think. :D
Incredible Vibe
Great Quality presentation
Good Work and Hilarious skits
Thank You
Now I need to make a lord Farquaad build too, though I’ve always seen him more of a crossbow user.
Lol that's true, although I dunno how he would reload? He's so short, the stirrup or windlass would be hard for him to use!
More memes in a video please, thanks for the tips how to deal with my wars, that was biggest pain for me.
Thanks polish slug!! I do meme research at least twice a week trying to find new/good ones to add so I'll keep doing that :)
The random Buffet and American Pie clips made me lul
26:36 I have a question. Im a vassal in the late game, ive conquered 90% of vlandia just to have Rhagea give all the fiefs to one person just to have that clan defect to Vlandia. This has happened three times. I cant imagine they were poor? They had a huge list of vlandian fiefs. What gives haha.
@michaelsanders7484 usually defection had to do with a couple things - lack of money, bad relations, or a bug lol. Supposedly they fixed the issue before, but there seems to be an issue with people who get the previous rules capital. If i recall, sargot is the problem fief in vlandia.
@@Strat-Guides Im going to check these factors, i can help with the money but i cant force them to like Rhagea. Its just so annyoing, Ive conquered Vlandia three times, just to have a lord defect and virutally give them back all their land lol
@michaelsanders7484 the other thing you can do is execute their lord and hope the new one isn't as liked lol
@@Strat-Guides I’ve been doing that actually haha, I’ve avoided executing empire lords on principle but traitors get no mercy.
It happened again today haha this is the 4th time. I give up. Vlandia is unconquerable. I’m going to just sit and wait until I become king and then I can ensure the fiefs stay within the empire. So dumb.
Also I found out something that I don't know if it's base game but with the right perks (I've only tried this with no other parties except for my own clan's parties) you can have an army that requires 0 influence to increase the cohesion of so you could infinitely maintain a small army for early expansion/defense
Such a detailed guide.Nice!
Thank you!! :D
While this does work, simply becoming a renowned warlord is equally good. I was paid a dowry of $170k to marry my wife. I was given multiple fiefs by Gario, and was OP as anything by the time I reached clan tier 4. Full tier 7 gear on all relatives and companions. About 200 in each combat skill, party size over 200. Just able to solo towns and castles with my gang of fians and legionaries.
Tier 7?
The greatest factor for another lord to deflect, is his own wealth. Rich clans wont betray theyr king. And poor clas will always deflect.
Yeah that seems to be the case. I'm not sure if personal wealth can override that if it's big enough? I've never actually had a noble defect but always keep 10M denars or more on hand so I'm not sure if that helped or not. It's such a convoluted system, even with tons of testing it's hard to say what it is exactly lol
Joined brit, helped take over all of their kingdom and they gave me half their kingdom, so when I took over was fighting everyone but the south, the best part is as I have no clue hoe to destroy a kingdom the rats of vland kept attacking and gave me plenty of relationship boosts by assisting or saving allies, took over and made all my comps lords and just made them rich after learning they were poor, the only issue is they never keep folks in garrisons so if I could figure that out
also I know in warband TW put a soft cap on how many fiefs you can own with tax inefficiencies, IIRC the same kind of soft cap exists in bannerlord as well though
Yeah you stop showing up on the fief votes once you own a certain amount it seems.
About lords recruiting. They reject any offer if the cost they would ask of player to pay for defection exceeds player's money divided by 3 OR 2 mil gold - whichever is less. So yes, having at least 6 mil gold helps to maximise the chances on player's side, but otherwise it's important to lower the price they would demand for defection. And by far the biggest part of that price comes from the owned settlements, if they can't take those with them (you literally have to pay for those, and they usually cost several millions each). That's why it's important either to recruit a fiefless clans, or to recruit a clan while at war with their current kingdom, thus allowing them to change the sides while keeping all the lands.
4:11 don't worry about lawyers. some are amazing at lockpicking :)
Hahaha I love watching his videos. If you ever get a chance, look up his "keynote address" sometime. He's even better in long form!
Thanks Strat!
Thanks for watching!!
I got amazing luck with fiefs as a vassal for vlandia, I have half of the asirei fiefs and the western empire town closet the the asirei and vlandia so all my fiefs are connected, it's almost like king derthert wants me to start a new kingdom. Also I married his daughter
Can promoted companions really leave the kingdom? At 26:00 I can see that you have a lot of cities, don't the companions claim them by taking the 3 slots, blocking you from having them and promoting even more? thanks :)
I think so, but I'm not positive on that. I personally have never had it happen before, but I think I read from others that it can happen. So my personal strategy in the early stages of the game is to give away all fiefs - I save up all the cash to help fund the growth, You don't need fiefs as the king with 5M in the bank :) That way, I show up on every single vote and can promote a new companion with each fief that is taken.
This is a RUclips masterpiece.
Thanks!!
Hi. Can you make a video on peace treaties. I would love to know exactly how the calculation works when it comes to tribute payment
I'll do some testing. I know there are a couple patterns but I don't know the math behind them - taking a fief makes them less likely to want peace (more expensive peace deal). The longer the war goes, the more likely they are to take a cheaper deal or even pay you. If they take a fief from you, they are more likely to pay you for peace. Aside from that, it doesn't seem like much else plays a role but I'll see what I can find!
@@Strat-Guides The thing about fiefs sounds counterintuitive doesn't it
@@ashutoshtripathi. Counterintuitive how ? Considering that the main strategic goal of the AI is to take (and keep) fiefs, it makes sense.
If your train of though is that someone taking one of your cities must have a strong army, that's not always true, as a badly defended city can be taken with relatively few troops, or the siege could cost him a lot of troops. And anyway relative army strenght is certainly accounted for when calculating the price for making peace.
@19:25: I had a civil war with the khuzaits and my former co beg refused to join my kingdom. So I targeted and sieged all his fiefs until he had nothing left, and released his family members after each battle so I'd have a higher relations with him. And that's how I forced him into submission lol.